Chapter 2
Reaching the entrance to the Gryffindor common room, hidden behind a portrait of a fat lady in a light pink, satin dress. Ginny spat the password grindylow and received a very scornful look accompanies by "now that wasn't polite" from the portrait. The fat lady picture swung forward to reveal a large hole in which you climb through to reach the cosy and warm common room. With its fire that is always alight roaring and many tables and squashy armchairs as you could fit in it. One spiralling staircase led to the dormitories, boys on the right fork girls on the left. Ginny marched right across and ascended the stairs to her dormitory were she could dream about Draco without difficult and annoying questions.
She entered her beautiful dormitory with 5, 4 poster beds and red velvet drapes. Silently she crossed her room and sat on the window sill. She threw her bag to the floor with a quite thud. Looking absent mind idly at the beautiful September grass that was rippling and the giant quid, basking lazily in the last of the years weak sun, and the dark forest casting long shadows over Hagrids hut. She sighed. "Why can't my brother just be understanding and nice he's such an idiot" she whispered steaming up the window. On the steam she wrote D.M 4 G.W 4EVA She leaned back to admire at what she wrote when the dormitory door was burst open, it was Amethyst Patil looking particularly harassed. Ginny quickly wiped the window and smiled at the other girl, "Hi Ame! Are you ok, you look rather annoyed?"
Annoyed! Ho no just plain flipping livid! Ame exclaimed
"Oh right Ginny calmly said biting her lower lip "what's made you so wound up"
"PEEVES! I was walking along the charms corridor and he jumped out from behind a suit of armour and chased me hitting me with a old broomstick, why can't he be chucked out! He's a nuisance".
Amethyst threw herself on to her bed and sighed; Ginny moved over to sit and the end of her own bed and opened her book entitled 'the galloping Thestral by Jona Corblelot.
She read late into the night and finally gave up. She learned back against her pillow and jumped suddenly realising she needed to change.
Having changed and brushed her teeth Ginny got silently into her bed careful not to disturb her sleeping friends. She lay there reflecting on her day and in the library and then she paused with the image of Draco. She checked her watch it was 11:33 she was still wide awake. She decided she was going to go to the common room. So she got up, put on her dressing gown and tip-toes across the room. She was descending the stairs when she heard some voices coming from the common room; it was Harry Potter and Hermione Granger.
"Harry my love shouldn't we tell Ron we are going to a duel, he may want to come, especially if he knew it was Malfoy" whispered Hermione in a malicious tone unlike Hermione's. "No I want it you and me for once, we never get to spend any time together,I know we have agreed to keep us a secret and that it will remain because Ron fancies you to and...oh Hermione I couldn't bear life without you" Harry snivelled in a meaningful way. "Oh Harry I'm not going anywhere" Hermione cried "shhh I know" replied Harry in a low voice
With the sound of a passionate kiss it was too much for Ginny to stomach, Ginny walked into the common room, with a false cough announced her presence.
The guilty pair broke apart and looked shocked, the couple exchanged glances and then Hermione broke the silence by stammering
"Hi Gin we were just urm...just urm..."
Ginny felt like she wanted to scream, how dare they try and lie to her? "I know perfectly well what you were doing, as Ron is still in bed I will not wake him to tell him this,but I cant be sure for the morning" hissed Ginny "I do not want to be patronised I am not a child"
"Ginny! I'm not telling you to lie but please don't tell Ron, it'll ruin us, come on Ginny as a friend" pleaded Hermione with watery eyes.
"I notice he," Ginny pointed at Harry who had become very interested in his stubby finger nails "hasn't said anything in his defence, I thought he was good at wriggling out of things, I mean all those voldemort encounters. Anyway what has Malfoy actually done to you now?" she demanded
"Nothing specific just got on Harry's nerves during break and we arranged to meet for a duel, urm are you going back to bed? It's just I, I mean we have to go now", Said Hermione.
"No I am not going to bed I am going for a walk". With that Ginny brushed past giving them scornful looks and stormed off through the portrait hole in the direction of the dungeons.
Chapter 3
On her way she met Draco emerging from behind a suit of armour dressed in black silk pyjamas and his usual Hogwarts robe,also wearing a shocked look under the impression that Ginny was a teacher.
"Hello Mr Malfoy" Ginny said curtly "I was hoping to bump into you, I know you are on your way to a duel and I wont take long. I suggest you get a second as Harry Potter is accompanied by non-other than that swat Hermione Granger, sorry for taking up your time" Ginny added walking away when she heard footsteps running behind her, Draco grabbed her shoulder, Ginny slowly turned and opened her mouth to ask what he wanted when Draco frowned and whispered, "you're the girl in the library I saw earlier bellowing at Ronald Weasley,I must congratulate you standing up to him like that even though you are a Weasley your different, would you like to be my second as I don't have much time" he said with a smile
Ginny was blushing furiously in a shocking shade of magenta, then she muttered to Draco not daring to look him in the eye
"Oh what me? I'm not that experienced at duelling but ill give it a go!" She couldn't believe it her and Draco together WOW!
"Excellent!" Draco exclaimed and with that they sprinted very quietly along the corridors, Draco's clock whirling in front of Ginny as she ran barefooted on the cold flagstone floor. Finally after several staircases and numerous teacher scares they had made it to the top astronomy tower. As they climbed the final flight of stairs they heard the sounds of movement in the room above.
"Stay here Ginny", said Draco with his face unfamiliarly hard now. he pulled out his wand and gave her a brief nod" ill call if the coast is clear of teachers keep an eye out down here for snoops alright?"
"Yes Draco but please be careful" she added touching his arm "I mean I'm not very good at duelling and ill show myself up if anything happened to you" she quickly said to cover her concern for him.
After the duel was over Ginny was called to take Hermione in which she hexed Hermione with the bat bogey curse and Draco floored Harry so the result was Draco and Ginny won. On the way down the stairs Draco took her into an empty classroom and to her surprise his cold eyes beamed at her.
"Well Done! I couldn't have managed without you Ginny"
"Its ok" Ginny whispered stepping forwards," I hate them so much I could use the unforgivable curses on them, Draco I was glad you asked me" dropping her voice
Draco walked closer so much so he could see Ginny's individual freckles. "May I? He asked very curtly
"Do what?" Ginny croaked feeling nervous at being so close to Draco
"shh" Draco muttered putting a cold finger on her lips, he removed it and replaced it with his lips, he pulled away and muttered again "Your special Ginny, your fiery and intelligent not to mention beautiful.Your witty and brave like me, I think I'm falling for you and yet I hardly know you, keep this a secret polease if you want it to continue, you do don't you?" He asked quietly
"Erm yes, well, yes defiantly if you're sure I mean this is weird I have know you for five minutes and...."
"I know I feel the same" Draco cut across her "I understand" With one more quick kiss they walked out and separated to go to there own common rooms.
Chapter 5
Ginny awoke with a start the next morning. She stared around wildly looking for what awoke her. Everything was normal, all her room mates asleep except the tapping, rain she first thought, no not like that. Curiously she pulled back her hangings a little further and glanced at the window. A beautiful eagle owl was perched handsomely on the window sill frantically tapping the window pane. Ginny tiptoed across the room and opened the window to let the bird in. He hopped from the sill to the small bedside table and held out his leg. Ginny gently undid the string and freed the letter from the bird. She read it, it was addressed to her. She opened the letter and read the familiar untidy scrawl
Dear Ginny
How are you this morning? Sorry if I upset you last night,
I saw the hurt in your eyes but I think its best for us to
Cool it for the time being. Maybe I can invent a club a
Few nights a week. Sorry if the owl woke you he's my
Families, I missed him at breakfast as I wrote a letter to
You but I never managed to get back in time as I intended to.
He came just as I got back tonight from our 'chat' he brought
Me my usual sweets. I decided to use him to write to you as I
Can't stop seeing how hurt you looked every time I go to go to
Sleep or even close my eyes. please send your reply to my request
For you to accompany me to the Halloween ball in one month's time
Then I could get it at breakfast
All my love and roses
XXXXX p.s sorry if my request is a little early its just its gives you time to get a
Stunning outfit.
Ginny turned over the parchment and grabbed her friend Fern's pen and replied
Dear
Draco
Of course ill escort you to the ball ill be honoured. Yes you did upset
Me but on reflection it's for the best. I still love you soooooo much
And nothing will ever change us I promise
Yours forever
XXXXX
P.S what colour are you thinking about wearing as I only have one
Dress suitable and not enough money for a new one. My dress
Is dark purple.
She took the parchment rolled it up and securely tied it to the birds leg. with one swift movement it took flight out the window and upwards towards the owlery above. With a sigh and a dreamy smile imprinted on her face, Ginny closed the window and got back into bed. She lay there shivering for a while daydreaming of her and Draco waltzing around the great hall feeling special and looking beautiful, Draco in front of her smiling warmly.
Chapter 6
"GIN,GINNY your running late, if you don't hurry up you'll be late for class and Binns will have a fit, come on mate look on the bright side its Saturday tomorrow!"
Grunting miserably Ginny got out of bed, changed and washed with cold water in attempt to wake her self up. She walked slowly dragging her heels and yawning wildly all the way to breakfast. Reaching the Gryffindor table she flumped down on a empty seat and pulled the pot of coffee towards her.
5 minutes later the bell rang and with one last swig of her coffee Ginny got up, heaved her heavy nag onto her shoulder and set off towards history of magic. On her way there she bumped into Draco and nearly knocked her over. Once steadying herself she looked at him in the face and in a fake outraged voice said "Watch it will you, god you do you need spectacles? Can't you see? I was walking in the middle of the corridor 'tut'!"
Draco sneered but with his warm eyes glittering jokingly, he hissed "maybe weasley you should consider glasses you said yourself you were in the middle of the corridor, isn't it amazing how narrow minded people can be to think that I walked into you isn't it possible you walked into me? if It wasn't for you day dreaming it may not have happened, where were you going anyway?" he held a stare with a faint smile behind his sneer. "Well actually I'm on my way to history of magic why can't I do that now?" Ginny enquired politely "Here that people, watch you don't go down the history of magic corridor, Miss weasley is going there" Draco voiced loudly" She hasn't realised the corridors are for other students to" "Push off big mouth" sneered Ginny "Bye bye weasel see you around" Draco's voice was so quite now as he hissed it was snake like "By the way its black and you'll be late" he added a wink and stormed off with his body guards. Its black she thought, what's black, why would she be interested, then it dawned on her the ball his robes are black and that's perfect it'll go well with purple.
During the usual droning and the sound of the raindrops that cause you're mind to wander off and daydream Ginny was mentally planning hairdos. Shall she have a bun, pony tail and in ringlets or put on a top of her head and curled with two side pieces that framed her face? She couldn't decide, she asked Fern. "What are you doing with your hair on...?" "MISS WEASLEY!" professor Binns bellowed. "ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?" "Yes sir" Ginny lied "IS THAT SO? WELL YOU WILL KNOW WERE WE ARE IN THE BOOK WON'T YOU? CARRY ON PLEASE" "Right ok" Ginny scanned the page she had no-eye-dear where they were at all "WELL GINNY WE ARE WAITING" smirked Binns "DON'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE DO YOU?"
Reaching the entrance to the Gryffindor common room, hidden behind a portrait of a fat lady in a light pink, satin dress. Ginny spat the password grindylow and received a very scornful look accompanies by "now that wasn't polite" from the portrait. The fat lady picture swung forward to reveal a large hole in which you climb through to reach the cosy and warm common room. With its fire that is always alight roaring and many tables and squashy armchairs as you could fit in it. One spiralling staircase led to the dormitories, boys on the right fork girls on the left. Ginny marched right across and ascended the stairs to her dormitory were she could dream about Draco without difficult and annoying questions.
She entered her beautiful dormitory with 5, 4 poster beds and red velvet drapes. Silently she crossed her room and sat on the window sill. She threw her bag to the floor with a quite thud. Looking absent mind idly at the beautiful September grass that was rippling and the giant quid, basking lazily in the last of the years weak sun, and the dark forest casting long shadows over Hagrids hut. She sighed. "Why can't my brother just be understanding and nice he's such an idiot" she whispered steaming up the window. On the steam she wrote D.M 4 G.W 4EVA She leaned back to admire at what she wrote when the dormitory door was burst open, it was Amethyst Patil looking particularly harassed. Ginny quickly wiped the window and smiled at the other girl, "Hi Ame! Are you ok, you look rather annoyed?"
Annoyed! Ho no just plain flipping livid! Ame exclaimed
"Oh right Ginny calmly said biting her lower lip "what's made you so wound up"
"PEEVES! I was walking along the charms corridor and he jumped out from behind a suit of armour and chased me hitting me with a old broomstick, why can't he be chucked out! He's a nuisance".
Amethyst threw herself on to her bed and sighed; Ginny moved over to sit and the end of her own bed and opened her book entitled 'the galloping Thestral by Jona Corblelot.
She read late into the night and finally gave up. She learned back against her pillow and jumped suddenly realising she needed to change.
Having changed and brushed her teeth Ginny got silently into her bed careful not to disturb her sleeping friends. She lay there reflecting on her day and in the library and then she paused with the image of Draco. She checked her watch it was 11:33 she was still wide awake. She decided she was going to go to the common room. So she got up, put on her dressing gown and tip-toes across the room. She was descending the stairs when she heard some voices coming from the common room; it was Harry Potter and Hermione Granger.
"Harry my love shouldn't we tell Ron we are going to a duel, he may want to come, especially if he knew it was Malfoy" whispered Hermione in a malicious tone unlike Hermione's. "No I want it you and me for once, we never get to spend any time together,I know we have agreed to keep us a secret and that it will remain because Ron fancies you to and...oh Hermione I couldn't bear life without you" Harry snivelled in a meaningful way. "Oh Harry I'm not going anywhere" Hermione cried "shhh I know" replied Harry in a low voice
With the sound of a passionate kiss it was too much for Ginny to stomach, Ginny walked into the common room, with a false cough announced her presence.
The guilty pair broke apart and looked shocked, the couple exchanged glances and then Hermione broke the silence by stammering
"Hi Gin we were just urm...just urm..."
Ginny felt like she wanted to scream, how dare they try and lie to her? "I know perfectly well what you were doing, as Ron is still in bed I will not wake him to tell him this,but I cant be sure for the morning" hissed Ginny "I do not want to be patronised I am not a child"
"Ginny! I'm not telling you to lie but please don't tell Ron, it'll ruin us, come on Ginny as a friend" pleaded Hermione with watery eyes.
"I notice he," Ginny pointed at Harry who had become very interested in his stubby finger nails "hasn't said anything in his defence, I thought he was good at wriggling out of things, I mean all those voldemort encounters. Anyway what has Malfoy actually done to you now?" she demanded
"Nothing specific just got on Harry's nerves during break and we arranged to meet for a duel, urm are you going back to bed? It's just I, I mean we have to go now", Said Hermione.
"No I am not going to bed I am going for a walk". With that Ginny brushed past giving them scornful looks and stormed off through the portrait hole in the direction of the dungeons.
Chapter 3
On her way she met Draco emerging from behind a suit of armour dressed in black silk pyjamas and his usual Hogwarts robe,also wearing a shocked look under the impression that Ginny was a teacher.
"Hello Mr Malfoy" Ginny said curtly "I was hoping to bump into you, I know you are on your way to a duel and I wont take long. I suggest you get a second as Harry Potter is accompanied by non-other than that swat Hermione Granger, sorry for taking up your time" Ginny added walking away when she heard footsteps running behind her, Draco grabbed her shoulder, Ginny slowly turned and opened her mouth to ask what he wanted when Draco frowned and whispered, "you're the girl in the library I saw earlier bellowing at Ronald Weasley,I must congratulate you standing up to him like that even though you are a Weasley your different, would you like to be my second as I don't have much time" he said with a smile
Ginny was blushing furiously in a shocking shade of magenta, then she muttered to Draco not daring to look him in the eye
"Oh what me? I'm not that experienced at duelling but ill give it a go!" She couldn't believe it her and Draco together WOW!
"Excellent!" Draco exclaimed and with that they sprinted very quietly along the corridors, Draco's clock whirling in front of Ginny as she ran barefooted on the cold flagstone floor. Finally after several staircases and numerous teacher scares they had made it to the top astronomy tower. As they climbed the final flight of stairs they heard the sounds of movement in the room above.
"Stay here Ginny", said Draco with his face unfamiliarly hard now. he pulled out his wand and gave her a brief nod" ill call if the coast is clear of teachers keep an eye out down here for snoops alright?"
"Yes Draco but please be careful" she added touching his arm "I mean I'm not very good at duelling and ill show myself up if anything happened to you" she quickly said to cover her concern for him.
After the duel was over Ginny was called to take Hermione in which she hexed Hermione with the bat bogey curse and Draco floored Harry so the result was Draco and Ginny won. On the way down the stairs Draco took her into an empty classroom and to her surprise his cold eyes beamed at her.
"Well Done! I couldn't have managed without you Ginny"
"Its ok" Ginny whispered stepping forwards," I hate them so much I could use the unforgivable curses on them, Draco I was glad you asked me" dropping her voice
Draco walked closer so much so he could see Ginny's individual freckles. "May I? He asked very curtly
"Do what?" Ginny croaked feeling nervous at being so close to Draco
"shh" Draco muttered putting a cold finger on her lips, he removed it and replaced it with his lips, he pulled away and muttered again "Your special Ginny, your fiery and intelligent not to mention beautiful.Your witty and brave like me, I think I'm falling for you and yet I hardly know you, keep this a secret polease if you want it to continue, you do don't you?" He asked quietly
"Erm yes, well, yes defiantly if you're sure I mean this is weird I have know you for five minutes and...."
"I know I feel the same" Draco cut across her "I understand" With one more quick kiss they walked out and separated to go to there own common rooms.
Chapter 5
Ginny awoke with a start the next morning. She stared around wildly looking for what awoke her. Everything was normal, all her room mates asleep except the tapping, rain she first thought, no not like that. Curiously she pulled back her hangings a little further and glanced at the window. A beautiful eagle owl was perched handsomely on the window sill frantically tapping the window pane. Ginny tiptoed across the room and opened the window to let the bird in. He hopped from the sill to the small bedside table and held out his leg. Ginny gently undid the string and freed the letter from the bird. She read it, it was addressed to her. She opened the letter and read the familiar untidy scrawl
Dear Ginny
How are you this morning? Sorry if I upset you last night,
I saw the hurt in your eyes but I think its best for us to
Cool it for the time being. Maybe I can invent a club a
Few nights a week. Sorry if the owl woke you he's my
Families, I missed him at breakfast as I wrote a letter to
You but I never managed to get back in time as I intended to.
He came just as I got back tonight from our 'chat' he brought
Me my usual sweets. I decided to use him to write to you as I
Can't stop seeing how hurt you looked every time I go to go to
Sleep or even close my eyes. please send your reply to my request
For you to accompany me to the Halloween ball in one month's time
Then I could get it at breakfast
All my love and roses
XXXXX p.s sorry if my request is a little early its just its gives you time to get a
Stunning outfit.
Ginny turned over the parchment and grabbed her friend Fern's pen and replied
Dear
Draco
Of course ill escort you to the ball ill be honoured. Yes you did upset
Me but on reflection it's for the best. I still love you soooooo much
And nothing will ever change us I promise
Yours forever
XXXXX
P.S what colour are you thinking about wearing as I only have one
Dress suitable and not enough money for a new one. My dress
Is dark purple.
She took the parchment rolled it up and securely tied it to the birds leg. with one swift movement it took flight out the window and upwards towards the owlery above. With a sigh and a dreamy smile imprinted on her face, Ginny closed the window and got back into bed. She lay there shivering for a while daydreaming of her and Draco waltzing around the great hall feeling special and looking beautiful, Draco in front of her smiling warmly.
Chapter 6
"GIN,GINNY your running late, if you don't hurry up you'll be late for class and Binns will have a fit, come on mate look on the bright side its Saturday tomorrow!"
Grunting miserably Ginny got out of bed, changed and washed with cold water in attempt to wake her self up. She walked slowly dragging her heels and yawning wildly all the way to breakfast. Reaching the Gryffindor table she flumped down on a empty seat and pulled the pot of coffee towards her.
5 minutes later the bell rang and with one last swig of her coffee Ginny got up, heaved her heavy nag onto her shoulder and set off towards history of magic. On her way there she bumped into Draco and nearly knocked her over. Once steadying herself she looked at him in the face and in a fake outraged voice said "Watch it will you, god you do you need spectacles? Can't you see? I was walking in the middle of the corridor 'tut'!"
Draco sneered but with his warm eyes glittering jokingly, he hissed "maybe weasley you should consider glasses you said yourself you were in the middle of the corridor, isn't it amazing how narrow minded people can be to think that I walked into you isn't it possible you walked into me? if It wasn't for you day dreaming it may not have happened, where were you going anyway?" he held a stare with a faint smile behind his sneer. "Well actually I'm on my way to history of magic why can't I do that now?" Ginny enquired politely "Here that people, watch you don't go down the history of magic corridor, Miss weasley is going there" Draco voiced loudly" She hasn't realised the corridors are for other students to" "Push off big mouth" sneered Ginny "Bye bye weasel see you around" Draco's voice was so quite now as he hissed it was snake like "By the way its black and you'll be late" he added a wink and stormed off with his body guards. Its black she thought, what's black, why would she be interested, then it dawned on her the ball his robes are black and that's perfect it'll go well with purple.
During the usual droning and the sound of the raindrops that cause you're mind to wander off and daydream Ginny was mentally planning hairdos. Shall she have a bun, pony tail and in ringlets or put on a top of her head and curled with two side pieces that framed her face? She couldn't decide, she asked Fern. "What are you doing with your hair on...?" "MISS WEASLEY!" professor Binns bellowed. "ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?" "Yes sir" Ginny lied "IS THAT SO? WELL YOU WILL KNOW WERE WE ARE IN THE BOOK WON'T YOU? CARRY ON PLEASE" "Right ok" Ginny scanned the page she had no-eye-dear where they were at all "WELL GINNY WE ARE WAITING" smirked Binns "DON'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE DO YOU?"