What's Love?
A/N: I am soo very shocked... I was surfing ff.net today and I saw this fic where it seemed Malfoy didn't know what love was, and it seemed very interesting so I read it. I was so very shocked to discover that the first chapter was very VERY much like my first chapter for this fic. I am still in great shock. I looked at the reviews too. Hey Hplova4eva! Can't you see the similarities? O_o
Chapter 8
"What're some properties of moonstone?"
"Ask Granger," he said boredly.
"You're Snape's pet," she retorted. "Unless you're admitting Hermione does better in Potions than you--"
"I never said that!" he snapped.
"But you implied it," she said, gathering her stuff and standing up. "Couldn't hold these for me, could you?" she dumped a whole bunch of books into his arms and began organizing her homework.
"Snape told me I'm his best student in Potions himself!" he informed.
Ginny took back her books and put them in her bag.
"Yes well, I've got to run," she said, stuffing her quill and ink in her bag as well. "See you later!" and she went towards the castle.
~~~
"Where're Ron and Hermione?" Ginny asked Harry once she entered the common room.
"In their dorms," he grumbled. "They got into another fight."
Ginny sighed and sat next to him on the couch.
"What was it about this time?"
"Ron saw you and Malfoy by the lake," he replied, side-glancing her.
"Er..." she turned pink. "Well..."
"Are you really going out with him?" Harry asked with a hint of anxiety in his voice.
"Of course not!" she exclaimed. "We just...don't exactly hate each other..."
"I don't recommend that you go near him, Ginny," Harry said sincerely. "He might be planning to use you in some way."
"Yeah right," Ginny snorted. "If he tries, there'll be flying bogeys coming at him."
Harry laughed.
"Care for a game of Exploding Snap?" Ginny offered.
"Sure," he accepted.
And so they played Exploding Snap. Every time the cards exploded, Ginny squealed with laughter.
'Maybe she's not completely grown up,' Harry thought to himself. 'She has a nice smile...'
They kept on playing until midnight, they fell asleep.
~~~
Ginny yawned and opened her eyes.
"What happened?" she said to herself drowsily.
She lifted her head from someone's chest and looked around. Wait, someone's chest!???
She saw Harry sleeping, slouching in the couch. His arm was around her waist!
"Ah, Ginny!" came a voice from behind her. "What happened?"
Ginny turned around to see Ron, fully dressed, at the foot of the staircase that led to the boys' dormitories. She immediately jumped up and ran up to her dormitory to get ready for breakfast.
~~~
"So it's true then?" Malfoy said gleefully. "You're going out with Potter?"
They were, once again, by the lake under a tree.
"No," she replied scathingly, "we just fell asleep while playing a game of Exploding Snap."
"Oh, so you slept with him!" Malfoy laughed.
Ginny jumped up.
"Absolutely not!" she snapped. "Stop being so perverted, Malfoy!"
He just laughed in her face.
"I--can't--believe you--" He couldn't even finish his sentence because he was laughing so hard.
Suddenly, there were arms around his neck and pretty girl with long black hair kissed his cheek.
"Hello Draco," said Cho happily.
Ginny cocked her head curiously.
"I thought you were going out with Michael," she said.
Cho ran her eyes over Ginny with obvious dislike.
"You're that Gryffindor Seeker, aren't you? The one Harry's dating--"
"We're not dating," she informed, glaring at Malfoy, who was smirking. "I suppose darling Draco told you, huh?"
"Actually, you're brother told me," Cho replied coolly.
"Figures," Ginny muttered. "Well, just to let you know, I'm not dating Harry."
"Sure you aren't, Weasley," Malfoy smirked. "You've only been obsessing about him ever since your first year, but you don't like him," he said sarcastically.
"I told you yesterday," she snapped, "I got over him in my third year!" She then turned to Cho, "You must have some special talent if you're able to stand him." She said, referring to Malfoy before she stormed off.
"Why do you always talk to her anyway?" Cho asked, glaring at Ginny as she walked towards the castle.
"I think it's fun annoying her," he replied wrapping his arms around Cho's waist.
"Sure fooled me," she muttered.
"Whatever, Chang, whatever."
Cho glowered at him.
"My name is Cho!!! C-H-O!!! Call me Cho!!!"
"You haven't earned it yet," he smirked at her.
She pouted but began to giggle once he started kissing her.
~~~
"Guess what," Ginny said to Hermione and Harry.
"What?"
"Cho Chang is going out with Malfoy!"
Hermione shrugged but Harry gaped.
"Are you serious?" he said. "I never thought her to be one to go out with a git!"
"I think she's trying to get you jealous, Harry," Hermione said nonchalantly. "And the best way to do that is to go out with your worst enemy."
"Really?" Ginny said. "I thought she was setting a goal to go out with at least one person that's played Seeker from each house except her own."
Harry laughed at this.
"I never thought of that before!"
Hermione shook her head.
~~~
Ginny walked out to her usual spot by the like under the beech tree to finish her homework. She tried to concentrate but sounds of giggles from the branches of the tree above her kept disturbing her. She finally looked up and shouted, "Do you mind? I'm trying to do my homework!"
"We got here first Weasley," came Malfoy's drawling voice.
"Can't you two go snogging somewhere else like the Astronomy Tower where everyone else goes!???"
"We prefer to have our privacy," came a girl's voice she recognized as Cho Chang's, "but you seem to be disturbing it!"
"Why Cho Chang!" Ginny said in mock surprise. "I've never imagined you to say something like that! You really have changed since you went out with Cedric! What would he say if he saw you now?" Realizing what she said, Ginny clapped her hand to her mouth.
Cho didn't answer but silence filled the air.
"Oh, Cho! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean it--"
"Shut up, Weasley!" Malfoy snapped and jumped down from the tree. "Great, now she's crying," he whispered harshly.
"Aren't you going to comfort her?" she whispered back.
"Why bother?" he shrugged.
"Get back up there and comfort her!" Ginny snapped, though still quietly. "She's probably going to dump you if you don't!"
Malfoy was alarmed and quickly climbed up the tree.
~~~
"So, how is she?" Ginny asked the next day as Malfoy came wandering around the beech tree.
"She's still upset," he drawled, "but she's all right." He then glared at her. "She nearly dumped me because of you!"
"But she didn't, did she?" Ginny retorted. "I should go apologize to her."
She was about to go towards the castle but Malfoy stopped her.
"She doesn't want to see you and even if she did, it'd be to bite your head off."
"That bad, huh?" Ginny said uncomfortably.
Malfoy just glared at her.
"Her Ravenclaw friends are going to be on your tracks once she tells them what you said."
"You mean she hasn't told them yet?" Ginny asked apprehensively.
"She's too busy crying," he drawled.
"Well," Ginny sighed, "she is a bit stupid."
"What did you just say?" He snapped.
"All last year, she kept getting jealous because she thought Harry was playing her with Hermione."
"That doesn't make her stupid," Malfoy argued.
"Whatever," she muttered. Then a devious grin spread across her face. "Does she know about your love for cuddly little animals yet?"
Malfoy turned pink as Ginny began laughing.
A/N: Yeah yeah... The cuddly animal thing isn't working for Malfoy but can you blame him for having too much experience with giant Blast-Ended-Skrewts and hippogriffs? But this is fanFICTION, and kerry2 has the right idea!!! Anyway, yeah, I know, I'm evil for pairing him up with Cho. And now you know the thing that's going on with Harry that I mentioned earlier!!! That is, if you've been reading between the lines...hehe... My plan is to move this romance slowly. Cho gets so jealous so easily huh? But she clearly doesn't seem to think there's anything going on between the two...yet... *hint hint wink wink*