Thanks to my beta-readers: Reigh Evenstar and Sarah, for helping me sort this all out. I'm writing chapter 10 at the moment, most of it is still in my head.
Thanks to reviewers:
Isanty Malfoy: I am writing more... I don't know when this is gonna finish, : Thanks for reading, and D/G rules!!!!, Arwen Potter: Thanks for the wow! I'm so chuffed, marie: thanks for loving DMBQ!, cuti3: thanks for liking my story!, Washi: I'm sorry for being evil, my ideas stopped there at that time, Harry's gal: Thanks for liking my story!!! HeavenlyAngel: Thanks for thinking it's a great story, and thinking that I did a great job. Again, I'm so chuffed! Reigh Evenstar: You are one of my regular reviewers, sorry for that cliffhanger, thank you for your support. Snow White: Thanks for thinking the story is good, thank you for your support, d[n-n]d: Thanks for thinking it's a cool story, and thanks for that moral support bout english, burnigfire001: Thanks for loving my story, and thanks for not minding all those grammar mistakes, kneh13: Maybe this chapter will wind up in your inbox, thanks for reading, SamiJo: thanks for liking my story, and this probably will go to your inbox as well, Jennifer13: thanks for reading, Fedilia: Thanks for loving my story, and yes, Draco is a bit OOC!, KuTiExAzNxAnGeL: Thanks for loving it! Chibi Pluto: Thanks for thinking that I did a wonderful job, and here's the update!, AmericanGirl1114: Well, you have to read and find out..., Draco & Ginny forever!: I think they are cute too, and this is the update, TheSunAndTheMoon: I love D/G stories too, and that's for thinking it's great, and here more!!!!, CrystalBlue: Here's more!!! I hope you like it!, Jayjay: here is the next chapter, I hope you like it, Angelic Vampire: I love this story as much as you do, here's the latest update, Blackdragonofdeath: Thanks for loving my story, heartbroken: thanks for reading!, and to all others not mentioned here, thanks a lot for the support and the encouragement.
Chapter 9
And then...
"Harry, what are you doing in my room?" asked Ginny, because Harry just come out of the fire place.
"Damn, I was supposed to land downstairs, at the pub," Harry answered, then raising an eyebrow. "What's Malfoy doing in your room?"
"Umm..." Ginny blushed.
Draco woke up.
"Morning, Ginny..." Draco greeted, "Potter, what are you doing in Ginny's room?"
"I was supposed to arrive downstairs, but I ended up in Ginny's fireplace instead," Harry answered, suspiciously, "What are you doing here?"
"We talked last night, and you could say that both of us fell asleep..." Draco answered, "Really! Nothing happened!"
Harry cocked one eyebrow. "Oh really?"
"Yes, really, Harry," Ginny answered, "What are you doing here?"
"Your family happens to be here, Ginny, and they are probably looking for me." Harry answered.
"What?" asked Draco. "That means I'd better go..."
"I thought you said you wanted to meet the Weasley Clan," Ginny said suddenly.
"Not if they discover me in your room, and that git of a brother of yours ends up thinking something else," Draco replied, "Bye, Ginny."
"Bye," Ginny replied, and Draco gave her a peck on the cheek.
"Maybe we'll see each other in the Diagon Alley," Draco said.
"Probably," Ginny replied.
Leaky Cauldron
"Hey, Harry, where did you land?" asked Ron.
"My bedroom," Ginny answered nonchalantly.
"What?" Ron fumed.
"Ron, nothing happened! He came when I woke up, and left when I was having a bath and getting dressed," Ginny replied. "Anyway, I think Harry as my brother, and he thinks of me as his sister, remember?"
"I suppose he is," Ron answred grimly. "Harry, did you find the Malfoy git in Ginny's room?"
"No," Harry replied with a straight face.
"Hi Mom, hi Dad," Ginny greeted and hugged her parents.
"How are you my dear?" asked Mr. Weasley, who had managed to get some time off from his tight schedule as the Minister of Magic to meet his daughter.
"I'm doing good," Ginny answered.
"What is it that I heard about you and that young Draco Malfoy?" asked Mrs. Weasley.
Ginny blushed.
"C'mon, let's go shopping for your new books and your new Hogwarts uniform," Mrs. Weasley said. "Thanks to your father's promotion earlier this year, we are going to get new stuff for you and your brother."
Ginny nodded.
"Hey Hermione!" Ginny greeted.
"Hi, and congratulations!" Hermione said.
"Thank you," Ginny replied, and gave Hermione a bright smile.
The Weasleys went to Gringotts, and Ginny took only a few hundred Galleons, changing some for a couple of Sickles and a couple of Knuts.
"What are you withdrawing money for, my dear?" asked Mrs. Weasley. "You know your dad and I are the ones who'll be paying for it all."
"Just in case, Mom," answered Ginny.
Outside of Gringotts, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley gave both Ron and Ginny a pouch full of Galleons, Sickles and Knuts.
"I have to go back to work, my dears," said Mr. Weasley.
"Meanwhile, I have to go home to the Burrow," said Mrs. Weasley. "All of you are now all grown up and in your seventh year, how time has flown."
"Okay," Ginny replied. "I'll just go with Hermione, Ron and Harry."
"Take care," said Mrs. Weasley.
The Weasley parents made their way to the Leaky Cauldron, after saying goodbye to the four Gryffindors.
"First stop, Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions!" Hermione declared.
Ginny agreed, while the boys groaned.
"You and Harry could go to the Quidditch shop," Hermione said to the boys. "You don't need new sets of robes."
"Okay, meet us at Flourish & Blotts!" Harry said to Hermione.
At Madam Malkin's
"Hello, Miss Teenwitch!" Madam Malkin's assistant greeted.
"Hello," Ginny greeted back.
"Are you both here for your school robes?" asked Madam Malkin, who had immediately usurped her assistant's role as soon as she heard it was Ginny entering her shop.
"Yes," Ginny answered. "And my designer robes,"
"Mr. Malfoy was just here a few minutes ago, Miss Teenwitch," Madam Malkin said. "He wanted to buy a velvet cape for a lady,"
"Oh," Ginny replied.
"A green and silver cape, it looks quite fetching if he were to give it to you," Madam Malkin continued, while measuring Ginny.
After a while, she finished.
"Okay, all your designer robes will be ready in a few moments, your measurements will ensure that all are a perfect fit. I do hope he gives the cape to you, Miss Weasley," Madam Malkin said. "It's your turn now, Miss?"
"Granger," Hermione supplied.
"Do you want designer robes too?" asked Madam Malkin. "But yours, I'm afraid, won't be free, Miss Weasley had hers as a prize."
"No," Hermione answered.
After that was done...
"Let's go shopping for books, and then, we can go to the TeenWitch office," said Ginny to Hermione.
"Go to TeenWitch office?" asked Hermione, as the two girls made their way to Flourish & Blotts.
"Uh-uh," Ginny replied. "I'm going to receive the other prizes today."
"You know... Gin... all these Miss TeenWitch stuff seems like an advertisement for TeenWitch," Hermione noted.
"It is," Ginny replied. "The Designer robes are new stuff, obviously they want to promote their product, as well as the FireBolt for Females, and the make - up."
"Yet you go along with it...?" Hermione said.
Ginny shrugged. She was going to get all the stuff for free, so why not?
"Let's go to Florean Fortescue and eat some ice cream," Hermione suggested.
"By the way, Mione, how're things between you and my brother?" asked Ginny.
Hermione was startled, but to cover it up, she in turn asked Ginny instead, "Which of the six of your brothers?"
"Ah, it's true then," Ginny said.
"Eh?" asked Hermione.
"I was under the impression that you've been snogging Ron senseless," Ginny answered.
Hermione turned red. "How do you know?" she asked.
"Sister's intuition," Ginny answered. "And lucky guess,"
"Does Malfoy know?" asked Hermione.
"Like me, he guessed it too, and I can't wait to tell him that it's true," Ginny answered.
"No! Don't tell him about me and Ron," Hermione said sternly.
"Why not?" asked Ginny. "It's a happy story, and besides, you and Ron act like a married couple sometimes, with all those quarrels of yours, your jealousy towards Fleur Delacour, and Ron's jealousy towards Viktor Krum."
Hermione shrugged. "This... relationship with Ron is shaky, Gin. Ron still thinks that I like Viktor, as in more than friends," Hermione started.
"He's a blind git, it's obvious that you love him, and he loves you," Ginny replied. "Okay, I promise I won't tell Draco, but really, Hermione, you and Ron should tell the world, at least to your friends, how so in love the both of you are."
"A lot of my friends say that Ron's a catch, ugghh," Ginny continued, as she cannot imagine how the tall and lanky Ronald Weasley is perceived as a catch.
"He is, Ginny," Hermione defended. "I don't know what you see in Malfoy though..."
"Hermione, he's cute, and such a nice guy," Ginny defended Draco. "He came out of that shell of the horrible boy I met years ago."
They soon arrived at Florean Fortescue, where Ginny ordered a chocolate sundae, while Hermione ordered vanilla.
Hermione noticed people looking at Ginny, but she didn't see any photographers taking pictures of Ginny.
"They're not showing themselves in the open," Ginny said, as if reading Hermione's mind.
"Who are not showing themselves, Gin?" asked Hermione.
"Photographers. Wait till they see me with Draco, they'll be out in the open," Ginny answered. "You were looking for photographers just now,"
"Speak of the devil!" Hermione muttered under her breath, because very said person, i.e. the Prince of Slytherin, happened to be walking towards them.
"Hey Ginny! Good morning!" Draco greeted Ginny, and added "Morning Granger," when he saw Hermione.
"Morning, Draco," Ginny greeted back. "Shopping for your school stuff?"
Draco nodded. "Yes, I'm actually heading to Flourish & Blotts, but as I saw you here, I decided to give you this."
Draco conjured a single stemmed red rose out of nowhere and gave it to Ginny.
"Thanks," Ginny thanked and blushed. "You are going to Flourish & Blotts right?"
Draco nodded.
"Good! The three of us could go there together and get our books together. All three of us are seventh years," Hermione said.
"Hermione, I'm a sixth year," Ginny reminded.
"Oh, your parents forgot to tell you," Hermione said. "We received a parchment from Hogwarts telling us that you got 21 O.W.Ls, thereby beating me!"
"21 O.W.Ls, not bad, such a smarty pants, eh Weasley?" Draco teased.
"You are just jealous, Malfoy," Ginny teased him back.
"And so, thanks to your outstanding O.W.Ls, Professor Dumbledore, I mean all the professors in Hogwarts decided that you are entitled to skip sixth year and straight to seventh year," Hermione continued. "Thus, you'll be joining us."
"Cool!" Ginny said. "Wait till Colin hears this!"
"Oh, right, where's Colin, Ginny?" asked Hermione.
"I have no idea, he told me that he'd be vacationing with his parents, and that was last year," Ginny answered.
The three of them went to Flourish & Blotts, and that was where Hermione noticed people with cameras started to surround them.
"Gin, they are starting to surround us," Hermione whispered.
"Let's split, then, we'll go separate ways, but Draco, meet me at the TeenWitch office, if you want to join us, Hermione, go there too," Ginny replied.
TeenWitch office
"Hey, Virginia, you are here early. I suppose you came to collect your gifts?" asked Mandy Skeeter.
"Something like that, I'm avoiding photographers," Ginny answered.
"Well, since all your gifts are here, and I see young Mr. Malfoy is here as well," Mandy noted. "Why not do a photo shoot for us?"
"Another photoshoot?" asked Ginny, sighing, because she'd just done a photo shoot a few days ago.
"Then again, maybe not," Mandy answered. "Or just a photo shoot for a poster?"
"Why not do a photo shoot for TeenWizard, both of you as covers," Gary King suggested. "You haven't done a photo shoot for TeenWizard..."
"You cannot refuse on this one, Miss TeenWitch," Gary said. "Because you haven't done one for TeenWizard!"
"Okay," Ginny said, defeated.
"Should I be in it too?" asked Draco.
Flourish & Blotts
"Hermione, where's Ginny?" asked Ron, who noticed that Hermione was alone.
"Photographers. Ginny. Malfoy. TeenWitch office," Hermione said each word punctuated with a sharp intake of breath.
"WHAT?!" Ron bellowed.
Harry winced, and all the other customers in Flourish & Blotts shouted 'Shh!!!' at Ron.
Ron zoomed out from Flourish & Blotts, still holding his books that he hadn't paid for in his arms.
"Ron! You haven't paid for your books!" Harry shouted.
end of chapter 9 - please read and review...
Thanks to reviewers:
Isanty Malfoy: I am writing more... I don't know when this is gonna finish, : Thanks for reading, and D/G rules!!!!, Arwen Potter: Thanks for the wow! I'm so chuffed, marie: thanks for loving DMBQ!, cuti3: thanks for liking my story!, Washi: I'm sorry for being evil, my ideas stopped there at that time, Harry's gal: Thanks for liking my story!!! HeavenlyAngel: Thanks for thinking it's a great story, and thinking that I did a great job. Again, I'm so chuffed! Reigh Evenstar: You are one of my regular reviewers, sorry for that cliffhanger, thank you for your support. Snow White: Thanks for thinking the story is good, thank you for your support, d[n-n]d: Thanks for thinking it's a cool story, and thanks for that moral support bout english, burnigfire001: Thanks for loving my story, and thanks for not minding all those grammar mistakes, kneh13: Maybe this chapter will wind up in your inbox, thanks for reading, SamiJo: thanks for liking my story, and this probably will go to your inbox as well, Jennifer13: thanks for reading, Fedilia: Thanks for loving my story, and yes, Draco is a bit OOC!, KuTiExAzNxAnGeL: Thanks for loving it! Chibi Pluto: Thanks for thinking that I did a wonderful job, and here's the update!, AmericanGirl1114: Well, you have to read and find out..., Draco & Ginny forever!: I think they are cute too, and this is the update, TheSunAndTheMoon: I love D/G stories too, and that's for thinking it's great, and here more!!!!, CrystalBlue: Here's more!!! I hope you like it!, Jayjay: here is the next chapter, I hope you like it, Angelic Vampire: I love this story as much as you do, here's the latest update, Blackdragonofdeath: Thanks for loving my story, heartbroken: thanks for reading!, and to all others not mentioned here, thanks a lot for the support and the encouragement.
Chapter 9
And then...
"Harry, what are you doing in my room?" asked Ginny, because Harry just come out of the fire place.
"Damn, I was supposed to land downstairs, at the pub," Harry answered, then raising an eyebrow. "What's Malfoy doing in your room?"
"Umm..." Ginny blushed.
Draco woke up.
"Morning, Ginny..." Draco greeted, "Potter, what are you doing in Ginny's room?"
"I was supposed to arrive downstairs, but I ended up in Ginny's fireplace instead," Harry answered, suspiciously, "What are you doing here?"
"We talked last night, and you could say that both of us fell asleep..." Draco answered, "Really! Nothing happened!"
Harry cocked one eyebrow. "Oh really?"
"Yes, really, Harry," Ginny answered, "What are you doing here?"
"Your family happens to be here, Ginny, and they are probably looking for me." Harry answered.
"What?" asked Draco. "That means I'd better go..."
"I thought you said you wanted to meet the Weasley Clan," Ginny said suddenly.
"Not if they discover me in your room, and that git of a brother of yours ends up thinking something else," Draco replied, "Bye, Ginny."
"Bye," Ginny replied, and Draco gave her a peck on the cheek.
"Maybe we'll see each other in the Diagon Alley," Draco said.
"Probably," Ginny replied.
Leaky Cauldron
"Hey, Harry, where did you land?" asked Ron.
"My bedroom," Ginny answered nonchalantly.
"What?" Ron fumed.
"Ron, nothing happened! He came when I woke up, and left when I was having a bath and getting dressed," Ginny replied. "Anyway, I think Harry as my brother, and he thinks of me as his sister, remember?"
"I suppose he is," Ron answred grimly. "Harry, did you find the Malfoy git in Ginny's room?"
"No," Harry replied with a straight face.
"Hi Mom, hi Dad," Ginny greeted and hugged her parents.
"How are you my dear?" asked Mr. Weasley, who had managed to get some time off from his tight schedule as the Minister of Magic to meet his daughter.
"I'm doing good," Ginny answered.
"What is it that I heard about you and that young Draco Malfoy?" asked Mrs. Weasley.
Ginny blushed.
"C'mon, let's go shopping for your new books and your new Hogwarts uniform," Mrs. Weasley said. "Thanks to your father's promotion earlier this year, we are going to get new stuff for you and your brother."
Ginny nodded.
"Hey Hermione!" Ginny greeted.
"Hi, and congratulations!" Hermione said.
"Thank you," Ginny replied, and gave Hermione a bright smile.
The Weasleys went to Gringotts, and Ginny took only a few hundred Galleons, changing some for a couple of Sickles and a couple of Knuts.
"What are you withdrawing money for, my dear?" asked Mrs. Weasley. "You know your dad and I are the ones who'll be paying for it all."
"Just in case, Mom," answered Ginny.
Outside of Gringotts, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley gave both Ron and Ginny a pouch full of Galleons, Sickles and Knuts.
"I have to go back to work, my dears," said Mr. Weasley.
"Meanwhile, I have to go home to the Burrow," said Mrs. Weasley. "All of you are now all grown up and in your seventh year, how time has flown."
"Okay," Ginny replied. "I'll just go with Hermione, Ron and Harry."
"Take care," said Mrs. Weasley.
The Weasley parents made their way to the Leaky Cauldron, after saying goodbye to the four Gryffindors.
"First stop, Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions!" Hermione declared.
Ginny agreed, while the boys groaned.
"You and Harry could go to the Quidditch shop," Hermione said to the boys. "You don't need new sets of robes."
"Okay, meet us at Flourish & Blotts!" Harry said to Hermione.
At Madam Malkin's
"Hello, Miss Teenwitch!" Madam Malkin's assistant greeted.
"Hello," Ginny greeted back.
"Are you both here for your school robes?" asked Madam Malkin, who had immediately usurped her assistant's role as soon as she heard it was Ginny entering her shop.
"Yes," Ginny answered. "And my designer robes,"
"Mr. Malfoy was just here a few minutes ago, Miss Teenwitch," Madam Malkin said. "He wanted to buy a velvet cape for a lady,"
"Oh," Ginny replied.
"A green and silver cape, it looks quite fetching if he were to give it to you," Madam Malkin continued, while measuring Ginny.
After a while, she finished.
"Okay, all your designer robes will be ready in a few moments, your measurements will ensure that all are a perfect fit. I do hope he gives the cape to you, Miss Weasley," Madam Malkin said. "It's your turn now, Miss?"
"Granger," Hermione supplied.
"Do you want designer robes too?" asked Madam Malkin. "But yours, I'm afraid, won't be free, Miss Weasley had hers as a prize."
"No," Hermione answered.
After that was done...
"Let's go shopping for books, and then, we can go to the TeenWitch office," said Ginny to Hermione.
"Go to TeenWitch office?" asked Hermione, as the two girls made their way to Flourish & Blotts.
"Uh-uh," Ginny replied. "I'm going to receive the other prizes today."
"You know... Gin... all these Miss TeenWitch stuff seems like an advertisement for TeenWitch," Hermione noted.
"It is," Ginny replied. "The Designer robes are new stuff, obviously they want to promote their product, as well as the FireBolt for Females, and the make - up."
"Yet you go along with it...?" Hermione said.
Ginny shrugged. She was going to get all the stuff for free, so why not?
"Let's go to Florean Fortescue and eat some ice cream," Hermione suggested.
"By the way, Mione, how're things between you and my brother?" asked Ginny.
Hermione was startled, but to cover it up, she in turn asked Ginny instead, "Which of the six of your brothers?"
"Ah, it's true then," Ginny said.
"Eh?" asked Hermione.
"I was under the impression that you've been snogging Ron senseless," Ginny answered.
Hermione turned red. "How do you know?" she asked.
"Sister's intuition," Ginny answered. "And lucky guess,"
"Does Malfoy know?" asked Hermione.
"Like me, he guessed it too, and I can't wait to tell him that it's true," Ginny answered.
"No! Don't tell him about me and Ron," Hermione said sternly.
"Why not?" asked Ginny. "It's a happy story, and besides, you and Ron act like a married couple sometimes, with all those quarrels of yours, your jealousy towards Fleur Delacour, and Ron's jealousy towards Viktor Krum."
Hermione shrugged. "This... relationship with Ron is shaky, Gin. Ron still thinks that I like Viktor, as in more than friends," Hermione started.
"He's a blind git, it's obvious that you love him, and he loves you," Ginny replied. "Okay, I promise I won't tell Draco, but really, Hermione, you and Ron should tell the world, at least to your friends, how so in love the both of you are."
"A lot of my friends say that Ron's a catch, ugghh," Ginny continued, as she cannot imagine how the tall and lanky Ronald Weasley is perceived as a catch.
"He is, Ginny," Hermione defended. "I don't know what you see in Malfoy though..."
"Hermione, he's cute, and such a nice guy," Ginny defended Draco. "He came out of that shell of the horrible boy I met years ago."
They soon arrived at Florean Fortescue, where Ginny ordered a chocolate sundae, while Hermione ordered vanilla.
Hermione noticed people looking at Ginny, but she didn't see any photographers taking pictures of Ginny.
"They're not showing themselves in the open," Ginny said, as if reading Hermione's mind.
"Who are not showing themselves, Gin?" asked Hermione.
"Photographers. Wait till they see me with Draco, they'll be out in the open," Ginny answered. "You were looking for photographers just now,"
"Speak of the devil!" Hermione muttered under her breath, because very said person, i.e. the Prince of Slytherin, happened to be walking towards them.
"Hey Ginny! Good morning!" Draco greeted Ginny, and added "Morning Granger," when he saw Hermione.
"Morning, Draco," Ginny greeted back. "Shopping for your school stuff?"
Draco nodded. "Yes, I'm actually heading to Flourish & Blotts, but as I saw you here, I decided to give you this."
Draco conjured a single stemmed red rose out of nowhere and gave it to Ginny.
"Thanks," Ginny thanked and blushed. "You are going to Flourish & Blotts right?"
Draco nodded.
"Good! The three of us could go there together and get our books together. All three of us are seventh years," Hermione said.
"Hermione, I'm a sixth year," Ginny reminded.
"Oh, your parents forgot to tell you," Hermione said. "We received a parchment from Hogwarts telling us that you got 21 O.W.Ls, thereby beating me!"
"21 O.W.Ls, not bad, such a smarty pants, eh Weasley?" Draco teased.
"You are just jealous, Malfoy," Ginny teased him back.
"And so, thanks to your outstanding O.W.Ls, Professor Dumbledore, I mean all the professors in Hogwarts decided that you are entitled to skip sixth year and straight to seventh year," Hermione continued. "Thus, you'll be joining us."
"Cool!" Ginny said. "Wait till Colin hears this!"
"Oh, right, where's Colin, Ginny?" asked Hermione.
"I have no idea, he told me that he'd be vacationing with his parents, and that was last year," Ginny answered.
The three of them went to Flourish & Blotts, and that was where Hermione noticed people with cameras started to surround them.
"Gin, they are starting to surround us," Hermione whispered.
"Let's split, then, we'll go separate ways, but Draco, meet me at the TeenWitch office, if you want to join us, Hermione, go there too," Ginny replied.
TeenWitch office
"Hey, Virginia, you are here early. I suppose you came to collect your gifts?" asked Mandy Skeeter.
"Something like that, I'm avoiding photographers," Ginny answered.
"Well, since all your gifts are here, and I see young Mr. Malfoy is here as well," Mandy noted. "Why not do a photo shoot for us?"
"Another photoshoot?" asked Ginny, sighing, because she'd just done a photo shoot a few days ago.
"Then again, maybe not," Mandy answered. "Or just a photo shoot for a poster?"
"Why not do a photo shoot for TeenWizard, both of you as covers," Gary King suggested. "You haven't done a photo shoot for TeenWizard..."
"You cannot refuse on this one, Miss TeenWitch," Gary said. "Because you haven't done one for TeenWizard!"
"Okay," Ginny said, defeated.
"Should I be in it too?" asked Draco.
Flourish & Blotts
"Hermione, where's Ginny?" asked Ron, who noticed that Hermione was alone.
"Photographers. Ginny. Malfoy. TeenWitch office," Hermione said each word punctuated with a sharp intake of breath.
"WHAT?!" Ron bellowed.
Harry winced, and all the other customers in Flourish & Blotts shouted 'Shh!!!' at Ron.
Ron zoomed out from Flourish & Blotts, still holding his books that he hadn't paid for in his arms.
"Ron! You haven't paid for your books!" Harry shouted.
end of chapter 9 - please read and review...