This is the "ridiculous pairing because a prophecy says so" fic.  Some people suggested Harry/Ginny, but I decided that pairing wasn't stupid enough, so I made it a Draco/Ginny.

Chapter 8, in which a Prophecy is Made…….

Ginny (although these stories always seem to feel the need to call her "Virginia") Weasley was in the Great Hall for the welcoming feast at her sixth year at Hogwart's with her brother Ron and Hermione, and Harry who she had absolutely no non-platonic feelings for.  She felt a cold gaze boring into the back of her head, and she turned to see Draco Malfoy looking their way.  She hated him, because he always made fun of her family for being poor and….well, that was really it, since he wasn't very creative apparently.  But as much as she hated him, she could not help but notice that now in his seventh year he was the epitome of "tall dark and handsome", except that he was blond, but he was still tall and handsome.  Of course, she did not tell anyone this, since Harry and Ron were giving him menacing (and yet very noble) glares.  She just turned back to her meal, but she could still feel his cool, cold, frigid, icy, chilled eyes on her.

While Draco sat at the Slytherin table feeling superior to his mindless sycophant friends, he allowed his gaze to wander around the room.  He spotted Potter and Weasley and passed a few moments sneering at them.  He could not help noticing Weasley's younger sister.  Of course, he hated the Weasley family, because they were muggle-lovers.  He thought they lacked proper wizarding pride….at least, that was what he thought he thought.  But really deep deep deep deep deep deep down inside he was just misguided, and could be redeemed by true love.  He could not help noticing that the Weasley girl had gotten quite pretty over the summer.  She had really "grown up" if you know what I mean (wink wink, nudge nudge).

~~American cousin perhaps?~~

After dinner ended and Dumbledore said something deep and meaningful, as they were leaving the hall he said "Miss Weasley, Mr. Malfoy, I need to speak to you for a moment."

Dumbledore looked very grave as they approached him.  "I think you'd both better some to my office."  He said in a very grave and serious and grave voice.  Ginny looked perplexed, while Draco just sneered some more.

Once in Dumbledore's office, they sat as far away from each other as they could.

"I have brought you here to discuss a very grave matter.  There has been……a prophecy."

They gasp in unison.

"Yes, a prophecy that will affect both of you greatly."  Dumbledore nodded wisely.  He then swirled his wand in the pensieve on his desk and a shadowy, misty, foggy, vague, ephemeral figure rose out of it.  "This is the famous seer Ima Totalfraud.  She lived in isolation on top of a mountain and fasted for a month and then began seeing visions."  The figure slowly began to speak.  "Lo, the fates have spoken that it shall come to pass, that it has been foretold, that it will come to pass, that the red-haired one shall discover her heart's deepest love in the dragon of the slicked-hair.  Forsooth, they shalt be wed, and from their union will come many, many, many, many bad fanfictions."

Ginny and Draco were stunned.  "Sir, what does it mean?"  Draco asked.

"Puh-leeeze Draco, try to keep up.  It means you two have to get married.  Duh."  The wise old Headmaster replied.

"But we can't get married!"  Cried Ginny.  "We hate each other."

~~That's the only problem she sees with the situation?~~

"Look kids, sorry, but a prophecy is a prophecy."  He shrugged.  "It's been foretold, that's it, so let's start planning the wedding, shall we?  Ginny, I totally see you in Vera Wang…."

Of course, their families were outraged. 

Lucius (and maybe Narcissa if the author remembers Draco has a mother):  "What?!  You can't marry a Weasley!  They're blood-traitors, they're beneath us, and they're POOR!"  (And yet despite the fact that Lucius's political clout has been well documented in canon, he doesn't actually do anything to stop said wedding.)

Weasley Family et al: "What?!  You can't marry Malfoy!  He's a git, and a prat, and those are the only two British sounding insults we know!"

And yet, because it was foretold, the dreaded wedding went forward.

~~Note that Ginny and Draco are sixteen and seventeen respectively.  The author seems to see nothing wrong with this?~~

Of course, once they're married, they no longer go to school, but live together in some sort of grand, fancy, ornate manor house that is in Draco's family.  They mostly avoided each other, except when they fought, which they did often with very generic insults.  Mostly Draco pointed out the Ginny is poor, and Ginny pointed out that Draco was once turned into a ferret.

~~Scathing, aren't they?~~

But all along they are both had many wistful internal monologues along the lines of "I sure do totally hate him/her, but he/she sure is handsome/pretty."  Slowly Ginny learned to admire Draco's cool composure, and he came to admire her "fiery" personality (we are meant to know this because she has red hair.)

Then one night, Draco had a horrible nightmare about his tragic and abused childhood, and Ginny comforted him and told him about her tragic and abused first year of Hogwart's during which she was possessed by Voldemort.  Suddenly, in a nauseatingly described moment of breathlessness, they realized their growing attraction.

In reaction to this, they began acting very awkward around one another and fought even more.  The author is trying to build sexual tension, but it doesn't really work because all the readers just get bored.

Finally, on a dark and stormy night, they gave into their desires and (Insert painfully bad sex scene which uses really bad euphemisms.)  They realized they have been in love all along (Because it was so much more than just sex!) and they say sickening things like "How could I have been so blind my darling angel Sweetie?" and "I have loved you since the moment I laid eyes on you my little pumpkin pookie-wookie!"

Suddenly, Draco is a changed man!  He renounced his father and his Death Eater ambitions and used his wealth to buy food and medicine for sick orphans or something.  The Weasley's and Harry accepted him and they went back to being one big happy family.

The Author realizes she had actually had a plot at one point, but she has forgotten it, so she takes the easy way out and disgustingly makes them have lots of kids who will go to Hogwart's and unite Gryffindor and Slytherin into one big happy house, while they grow old together.

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Next Chapter:  Oh yes, here comes the slash!