Chapter 18- Putting a Plan Into Motion
Ginny sat in the Gryffindor common room early Saturday morning waiting for Harry to come down from his dorm. She had been doing a lot of thinking since she woke up and thought of a plan to accomplish what Lord Voldemort wanted her to do. Today would be the day she put her plan into motion.
Harry walked sleepily down the steps and saw Ginny sitting on the couch in front of the fireplace. She hadn't noticed him yet and he wasn't sure if he wanted her to notice him. As Harry was switching the way he was standing his wand fell out of his robe and onto the floor loudly.
Ginny heard something fall and turned around to see Harry bending over to put up his wand off of the floor. "Morning Harry." Ginny said calmly.
Harry looked up at her and nodded his head. "Morning, Gin." He sighed and walked over to where she was sitting. "Look, about the other night…" Harry began, but was cut off by Ginny.
"Don't, Harry. I need to say something before you get into your explanation." She said as she crossed her legs. "Sit down."
Harry quickly took the seat beside her and waited for her to begin talking.
"I don't know what happened with you the other night, but I am willing to forgive you." She said then paused for a moment before continuing. "I shouldn't have told you the way I did that I was in love with Draco. I didn't take your feelings into consideration and I'm sorry." Ginny said faking an apology.
"I should have never snapped the way I did, but I didn't think you were in love with him. So when you told me I just lost it." He said truthfully. "I should never have kissed you and I hope this doesn't ruin our friendship, because I don't want that to happen." Harry stated.
"This is going to be easier than I thought." She thought to herself smiling. "Harry, I told you I am willing to forgive you. So that means I won't let this effect our friendship, but if I do this for you. You have to do something for me." She said looking at him sincerely.
"Anything, Gin. You name it." Harry said grinning. He couldn't believe that she had actually forgiven him. He thought that she was never going to talk to him again.
"I want you to give Draco a chance." Ginny said flatly.
"But he…" Harry started, but was yet again cut off by Ginny.
"Harry I really need you to do this for me. If we are going to be friends I need you to accept my relationship with Draco and try and be civil to him." She smiled. "Besides you never know. You and he might actually find out you have more in common than you think."
Harry sighed and nodded his head. "Alright, I'll accept him as your boyfriend and I will try and be civil with him, but he has to try and do the same for me." Harry said calmly.
"I already talked to him and he said if you agree he will." Ginny said nodding her head. "You won't regret this Harry. Thank you."
Harry nodded his head and wondered what Ron and Hermione are going to think about him accepting Ginny and Draco and about him actually trying to get along with him. "Your welcome, but what should I say to Ron and Hermione when they start hassling me about this?" He asked not knowing what to do.
"If they are your friends they should accept what you decide to do." She said truthfully because that is what a friend should do. "But then again I'm Ron's sister and look what he has done to me." She said sadly.
Harry looked around the common room to see if anyone was around to hear him then looked back at Ginny. "Look Gin, I'm going to have to say that I don't agree with how Ron is handling your relationship with Draco and your new friends in Slytherin." He sighed. "I mean I wasn't all that thrilled about it, but I wasn't about to go nag and boss you around about it. You're a big girl now and Ron should trust your judgment."
"I have to honestly say that up until the other night you are the only one out of Ron, Hermione and yourself that hasn't given me a hard time." Ginny said before uncrossing her legs then crossing them the other way.
"Hermione told me you called her a umm…a your know." Harry said quietly. "A uh, mudblood."
"Did she happen to tell you that she was trying to guilt me into feeling sorry for what happened between Ron and I. What goes on between my brother and I is none of her business and she had no right speaking to me about it." Ginny said madly. "I don't like her and I never did."
Harry wasn't exactly sure what to say to that, but felt he needed to say something. "You shouldn't have called her that though. It's very mean to call anyone that, even if you don't like them."
"I was angry and she just pushed me to far." Ginny said defending herself. "If she is so smart how come she didn't know that I can't stand her?" Ginny asked.
Harry shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. You always seemed nice to her, but then again I have seen you roll your eyes at her when she leave the room or when someone talks about her."
"Could we please not talk about her!" Ginny said with disgust. "She isn't worth a breath from my mouth."
Harry nodded his head. "Well she is my friend and so is your brother so lets try not to get into arguments over them." Harry said calmly.
"Fine, but I really think you should reevaluate your friendships with them, because lately it seems that they are always trying to get you to do things for them and they use your fame in the wizarding world for themselves." Ginny said and hoped that he would buy her last statement about them using him.
Harry thought for a second then sighed. "They don't do it that often and I'm sure they don't even realize when they do it." Harry said before leaning his head back on the couch and looking up at the ceiling. "Yes, I'm sure they don't even realize."
Ginny shrugged her shoulders. "Do they?" She said in reference to then not realizing what they are doing to him.
Harry didn't answer her he just sat their staring up at the ceiling thinking about what she had just said. "Could she be right?" He thought to herself. "No they wouldn't do that. Would they?" He fought with himself inside his head.
Just then Ron came running down stairs. "Harry! Guess what. Chudely Cannons are playing this summer." He looked over at Ginny and nodded his head to acknowledge her presence then looked back at Harry who was now staring at him. "Uh, Harry, Do you think you could maybe pull some strings and get us tickets? I've been dying to go since I read about it."
Harry looked over at Ginny who had a 'I told you so' look on her face then looked back at Ron. "When did you read about this?" He asked.
Ron sat down in the chair across from him. "This morning. About 15 minutes ago." Ron answered excitedly.
Harry nodded his head. "Well I'll see what I can do."
Ron quickly jumped up from the chair. "Great! I can't wait to go." Ron said before running back up the stairs to tell the boys in his dorm room that he was going to the Quidditch match. He didn't even thank Harry.
"Still think they don't?" Ginny asked Harry before she stood up.
Harry sadly shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, Gin. I just don't know."
Ginny looked down at him. "Well I have to go meet Draco now, Harry. I'll see you later and if you see Draco and I in the hall don't be stranger. Come and say hello." Ginny said smiling.
Harry looked up at her nodding his head. "Alright, I won't. Bye, Gin."
Ginny turned her back to him and smirked. "Well that went well." She thought to herself as she walked out of the common room and headed down to Draco's room.
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"Well I've started it." Ginny said as she walked over to Draco's bed and sat down next to him.
"This morning?" Draco asked after he looked up from his book.
"Yes, and it went great." She smirked. "Harry and I are friends again and I got him questioning whether or not Ron and Hermione use him for his fame in the wizarding world."
Draco nodded his head approvingly. "Very nice. I'm sure our Lord would be pleased."
Ginny then gave him a pleading look. "But I need you to be nice to him and become friends with him over the next couple months."
Draco looked at her puzzled. "And why would I want to do that?"
"I told him that you said that you would be civil to him if he would be to you." Ginny said looking into his eyes.
"You what? You know I can't stand him." Draco said flatly.
"I know, I know, but I think it might make him break off from his group sooner if he becomes friends with you, because there is no way they would accept that and I have a feeling that would put a strain on their friendship." Ginny said explaining why she told Harry that.
Draco nodded his head. "Well now that you put it that way I will do it, but do I have to become friends with him now?"
"No, I would make it gradual. You never know, you might actually turn out to be friends with him after a while." Ginny said smiling.
"I doubt it." Draco said quickly. "But I will do what you want me to. I think it just may work. And it might not take as long as we had anticipated it to." He said as he got up from the bed and went over to his book case and took a book then went back to sit beside her.
"That is what I thought too. I think we could have him as our friend by beginning of your 7th year." Ginny said proudly.
"I think so too." He then held out a book to her. "Father wants you to read this. There has been a change of plans. I will be training you during Christmas break, not my father. He will be away on business."
She took the book from him. "Everything you need to know about the Dark Arts." She said aloud as she read the cover.
"I will teach you how to master the three unforgivable curses and a couple Dark Art rituals." He said as he watched her page through the book. "That book should give you the information you need, so that when we start you will already know about what I'm going to teach you."
"Good idea." She said as she closed the book and put it inside her bag. "I'll read it all by the time we go to your house."
"Good." He said then kissed her on the lips. "But I'm afraid you must be leaving now."
"Why?" She asked looking at him sadly.
Draco gestured over to the big stack of books on his desk. "I have to get done a paper and finish reading through those books." He sighed. "And don't look at me like that. You make me feel bad."
Ginny smiled. "You feel bad? Is that possible?" She joked with him as she stood up.
Draco stood up with her and faced her. "I guess it is." He said grinning. "I'll see you soon. If not tomorrow then Monday in class." He then kissed her deeply on the lips before walking her over to his door. "I love you. Bye, Gin."
"I love you too." Ginny said before she walked out of his room and headed back to Gryffindor Common room to find Ryan.
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Ginny walked into the common room to find Ryan sitting with Harry on the couch. "Just who I was looking for." She said as she walked over to a nearby chair and sat down.
"Me or him?" Ryan said pointing back and fourth between himself and Harry.
"You, silly." Ginny said then looked at Harry. "Sorry Harry, but I need to talk to him."
Harry nodded his head. "I'll leave you two alone then."
Ginny quickly responded to him. "No Ryan and I are leaving." She looked at Ryan. "I was hoping we could go for a walk. I need to talk to you about your father."
Ryan nodded his head. Then Harry looked at Ryan. "By the way, how is your father? I heard he was hurt at work." Harry said to Ryan concerned. Ryan had a fake father that he used instead of telling everyone he was the son of Lord Voldemort.
"He is better. Thanks for asking." Ryan said standing up.
Ginny got up and walked out of the common room with Ryan after turning back around to Harry. "See you later, Harry."
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"Harry told me you two made up." Ryan said when they were far from the common room.
"We did this morning." She said smirking.
"Very good. Father will be pleased when I tell him." Ryan said as they walked down a flight of stairs.
"So far everything is going as I planned. I have him already questioning his friendship with my moron brother and the mudblood." Ginny said quietly.
Ryan didn't answer he just nodded his head.
"And I also got him to agree to try and be civil to Draco. I want them to become friends because I know that would cause a rift in his friendship with Ron and Hermione." Ginny said proudly.
"Good idea, Gin. Very good idea." He said before they came to the library. "Well I'm heading back up to the owlery. I want to write to father about what you told me." He said before turning around and leaving.
Ginny then went inside the library and began working on her assignment for Care of Magical Creatures.
To Be Continued…
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