The Threat of Time
Chapter 3
"Harry? What are we going to do?" Ginny's Brown eyes pleaded to Harry for the answer.
"I don't know." He looked over to the Slytherin table. The boy was still staring at him. There was something oddly familiar about him. It was almost like…. Well he had never experienced it before; maybe it was a side effect of time travels this far back.
"Well we have got to do something! I can't be stuck here, we all can't. We'll screw everything up in the future." Ginny's voice sounded desperate.
"I don't know." Harry looked over to Draco. Ginny's eyes followed. He was surrounded by a group of Ravenclaw girls. One of the bolder of the group reached out and ran her hand through his magically gelled hair. Draco looked comically taken back, but before he could react the hand that had ran it's figures through his hair was snatched back and held by the stronger hand of one Ginny Weasley. Her face was red with furry. She ripped the other girls off that sat next to Draco. The girl smirked.
"He isn't yours… is she Draco?" the girl purred. She was much like Pansy, though her being in Ravenclaw must mean that she has more intelligent than Pansy.
Draco was still to shock to say anything he just dumbly shook his head no. The girl smiled in triumph.
"See, he wanted my attentions and he is not yours." she made to sit next to Draco but…
"Jamie, watch out!" one of the other girls screeched in fear.
Ginny pulled out her wand paying no attention to the teachers coming her way, she practically grinned as she spoke the spell.
Jamie and half of the school waited to see what Ginny had done but nothing was different. Jamie, thinking that something would be wrong with her voice let out a nervous word.
"Hello?" her voice was normal. Thinking that the spell had not worked but still wary of the grinning Ginny she placed a hand on Draco's shoulder.
"You really should- Oh god!" She screeched as her hand and arm turned a deep and violent red. She snatched her hand away form Draco. Ginny smiled broadly. It had worked.
"Good job, Virginia! We knew you had it in you!" Sirius Black screamed. Remuns and James laughing too much to comment. Harry stared at James and his friends, momentarily forgetting Ginny.
"Any time that you touch him the part of you that did will turn a different color." She turned and headed out of the Great hall. "Don't worry it stays only a week or so." The girl Jamie screeched with all her furry. Ms. Spencer told Ginny that she should expect to have a detention tomorrow. Ginny smiled said she understood and left. The rest of the hall burst into uncontrollable laughter as the angry girl Jamie smacked Draco across the check and her other hand turned Purple. Draco sniggered and left the screaming girl in search of Ginny.
Harry was left once again with the entire school looking at him to see if he would do anything outrageous. He simply walked over to the Slytherin table, some of the Hufflepuffs gasped as he sat on the bench, next to but not too close to the boy who had been staring at him with such an intense look in his eyes. The face betrayed no emotion, at least none that Harry could see. The boy distracted Harry out of his thoughts. Why had Ginny done that? When he turned to Harry and asked for the salt.
"Er…. Salt… yes, um here you go." Harry said. The boy nodded his head and continued to stare at Harry. Harry could feel the blush and knew it must be as bad as Ron's when he was forced into that horrible dress robe back in their fourth year. He would have smiled at the memory but the boy had leaned closer to Harry, his black hair swinging about his face. Something was very familiar about that hair and that hooked nose and the black eyes and the… pale skin…he looked to good… maybe the time here would not be so bad after all…
"Who are you?" he blurted out. The boy sat straight and looked as if he was about to speak when…
"Hey Snivellus… you all right there?" James potter said. He was now directly behind the boy. Harry paled at the implication of the name.
"Snape!" he gasped and jumped to his feet.
Severus Snape, Potions master and the dreaded Potions Teacher at Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry, or at least he was in Harry's time turned away form his enemy Harry's dad and glanced suspiciously at him.
"Yes?" he asked.
OH god … he thought that Snape was good looking…. Oh god… Harry felt as though he were about to hyperventilate. He thought that the man who hated him and whose life plan was to make him suffer was hot. Oh god… life fucken sucked he thought just before he surrenders to the darkness.
Draco and Ginny not knowing about the commotion in the Great hall between Harry and the past kept walking. They would find the dormitories eventually. Ginny had run off not wanting to have to deal with Draco and then found herself at the Gryffindor portrait the Fat lady asking her what she wanted. Ginny had stared at the portrait. Why was she not in Gryffindor?
"Stare all you like young lady I will not let you in with out the password." The Fat lady smirked. Ginny yelled in frustration.
She had no idea why the sorting hat had done this to her… she had no idea why she had reacted the way she did in the Great hall. All she knew was that she had to get back to the right time, in one piece. Ginny kicked at the solid stonewall. Immediately she realized what a bad idea that was. Tears of pain welled up in her eyes.
"You know, We… Ginny you really should not kick poor unsuspecting walls." Draco just had to be here to witness her making a fool of herself.
"Leave me alone, Malfoy." She hissed, more out of pain then anger.
"I think we have some things to talk about, don't you?" he asked, one eyebrow raised. Ginny gritted her teeth and replied that he could just leave and go somewhere else, though not in those words.
Draco tisked at her. "What would your mother say at such talk?" he asked. Ginny's blush brightened, if that were possible and the muttered that it was none of his business.
"Why I thought that until we are back in our time that we are each others business." He smirked. "Now are you going to tell me what spurred that show of Jealousy in the great hall." Ginny sputtered. Jealous? No way!
"I merely think that we should not fraternize with the locals. It could disrupt the future so much that we may never be born." Ginny was proud of her self, even though she really did believe that they should be careful that was not what sparked her into the famous Weasley temper. What did she…. Well she was not sure. She would have to think about that later.
"Oh really? Well silly me I thought it was Jealousy. I guess not though." He smirked and took a step closer. Ginny backed into the wall. He took another step closer. He reached out his hand and pushed a strand of her hair behind her ear. A dangerous look was in his eyes when he leaned into Ginny, she held her breath waiting, for what she did not know and closed her eyes. Draco chuckled, the sound forcing Ginny's eyes to open. His face was lit by a seemingly genuine smile.
"Come on… lets go find our new dorms." He turned away leavening Ginny with the image of his smile burned into her head.
Now they walked neither knowing exactly where the dorms were. Even though Ginny had had friends in Ravenclaw, few though there had been, she had never been to their dorms. For some reason Ravenclaws were a suspicious lot.
"It has to be here somewhere." She muttered her hand running along the stonewall.
"Well, you're the one with all the Ravenclaw friends." Draco grumbled. He was very tired of walking around the damn school; all he wanted to do was find a warm bed and sleep.
"Well if you would have just asked that portrait that was so taken with you instead of insulted her we would already be in bed." A few corridors down Draco and Ginny had run into a portrait who thought that Draco was hot and well Draco had taken offense either at being checked out by a portrait or Ginny's laughter, but he had said a few choice words at the flirting portrait and she had run off crying. Draco really had a nasty tongue when he wanted to use it.
"Indeed." He said, only slightly blushing.
Ginny laughed. For a moment the two starred at each other.
"Ginny I-"
"Hey you're the two new kids from Ravenclaw right?" a tall and very skinny black haired boy asked.
"Yes." Ginny answered slowly.
"You two put on quite a show in the Great Hall. Ravenclaw is a lot more fun then many seem to think. I'm the Ravenclaw prefect by the way." He smiled at Ginny in a flirting manner.
"Could you help us then?" she asked batting her eye lashes.
"Slut." Draco mumbled.
Ignoring the blond she asked the prefect in a soft voice how to get to the Dorm.
He smiled. "Follow me."
The three headed to another tower, where a large rounded portrait of a man huddled over a rather large stack of books was.
"Sir Campbell?" the man whose bright blue eyes shone through wire glasses looked up upon hearing his name.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Silver Lake." Sir Campbell swung open the door with an "Oh yes." Then returned to his books. The prefect smiled.
"My name is Ben Wolf by the way. If either of you have any questions you can ask me." He tuned on his heel and headed off to a pretty blond girl who was tapping her foot impatiently.
"It's just like Gryffindor. Only Blue and Black." She said.
Draco glanced around a bored expression in his face.
"It's not like Slytherin." Was all he said before walking off to where his dorm was located. When he reached the dorm that had Draco Malfoy written on it he found to his delight a note on top of a large trunk.
Dear Mr. Malfoy,
Inside the trunk is everything that you will need for the school year. All of your books and school robes along with some other clothes that will be made to fit you once you have worn them. As for the Herblogy and Potions and for any extra classes that you may take, the school will provide you with those materials as soon as you have decided which classes you wish to take.
Sincerely,
Albus Dumbledor
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Draco searched through the trunk and found to his dismay that everything in the trunk was colored wither a robin blue or kaki. God he hated to where light colors, they made his pale skin look even paler. He snorted when he noticed the muggle lemon drops. Changing into the robin blue boxers he snuggled into his warm bed. Tomorrow he would deal with everything.
Ginny found a similar package. She fell asleep as soon as her red head hit the pillow.
Harry on the other hand was lead unconscious into the Hospital wing Severus Snape, Slytherin Prefect, performing the spell. Severus stayed the night with Harry.
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