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A/N: I FINALLY GOT A CHANCE TO WRITE!!! LoL. Sry I'm not posting so much anymore, but now that school's started again, I have A LOT less time!!! I hope u like! R&Rpls.

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Chapter Eight - Love Charms A - Z

It was the first day of winter break and Hermione was about to unwillingly go and spend it with her parents. If it was any other year, she probably would have been quite happy, but this year, there was Krum.

"I don't want to leave Victor!" Hermione said.

"Shut up." Ron, Harry and I said this all at once. Only when Hermione was babbling on about Krum, could I get along with Harry and Ron.

"I'm going to miss him so much!"

"Gee, thanks Hermione. What are we, chopped frog legs?" Ron said in a board tone.

For half an hour, we had to put up with Hermione's Krum chatter until finally, she had to leave, not even bothering to give a proper good-bye to us.

"Happy Christmas to you too Hermione." said Ron after she'd left. He then turned to Harry and said "Come on, lets go eat dinner" while I let out a lonely sigh and followed, always making sure I was a good distance behind Harry and Ron.

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I spent the first few days of vacation completely ignoring any problems I really should have been confronting. I felt lonely and didn't actually have anything to distract me from thinking about my bogart or Krum or anything else that should have been bugging me but somehow, I managed to ignore my problems anyway.

Most of my time was spent in the library. I figured I had nothing better to do than read anyway.

On Christmas Eve, I was walking over to my usual reading seat when I passed Krum who (surprisingly) was intensely looking for a book. I had a humongous urge to curse him. Acting on impulse, I even reached for my wand. I then realized however, that there were a few other people around and putting a curse on a teacher so openly wasn't exactly a good idea. Instead, I passed Krum, spontaneously grabbing a random book on the shelf he was looking on.

When I sat down, I read the title of the book. It was called Love Charms A - Z. I opened it, deciding to read the table of contents. Dragging my finger down the page, I read: adoring charm, break up charm, cuddling charm, down right dirty charm. until I got to O, which was "obsessing charm." Only then did I realize that Krum just might have been looking for the book that I held in my hands. For the first time since I had talked to Malfoy that night a few weeks ago, I actually put some thought into what he said. It wouldn't be so strange is Krum was putting her under a spell. if he was making Hermione love him. I was so amazed that I hadn't thought of that before, that I began talking to myself.

"Oh my gosh. Krum IS putting her under a spell!" I said stupidly, because just then he walked over to me.

"Hello Ms. Weasley. I hope your enjoying your Holiday." He said to me as I tried to hide the book. "Would you mind if I asked you to meet me in my classroom after dinner, just to go over your mistakes on the essay you handed in nearly two weeks ago?"

"Um. okay. sure." Not only did I not want to go, but I was also scared to. I couldn't say no to a teacher though. I watched Krum abruptly turn around and walk off.

No more then a minute later, Ron appeared in front of me.

"Ginny!" he said sounding very apprehensive. "Whatever you do, do not go to Krum's classroom alone!"

"Don't worry Ron! I just found this book.wait a minute! Why are you so worried about what I do? Your mad at me, remember?" I said, pretending that I was actually planning to go. "And do you know something about Krum that I don't!?" There was anger in my voice.

"N-no, it's just that. that. I don't want you to fall in love with him too."

I stared at him for a moment. "Eww!" was all I could think of to say. I then got up, holding the charms book in my hand and walked off to dinner, changing my mind about not going to Krum.

I pretended not to notice when Harry and Ron entered the great hall a few minutes after me. I ignored Ron's pleading look from across the table, begging me not to go to Krum, I was being stubborn, I knew I was, but I couldn't help it. Ron knew something that he wasn't telling me and that hurt me, because once again, I was being treated like the little girl.

I ate slowly, yet the end of dinner came much too fast. Gradually, I got up and made my way towards the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, ignoring Ron's calls.

I was about to enter the room when I heard footsteps running towards me. I turned around. It was Ron, Harry running by his side.

"Ginny, don't do this!" said Ron.

"Do what? I'm just meeting with a teacher." I smiled innocently.

"Why can't you just trust me? I'm your brother!"

"Fred and George are your brothers. Would you trust them all the time?" I loved giving Ron a hard time.

"Ginny just do what he says!" It was Harry who spoke this time.

"Oh, so you know whatever it is Ron knows and I don't? Yup.what a great reason for me to trust either of you." I said sarcastically.

"No, actually I'm not quite sure why Ron is doing this, but he must have a reason." said Harry.

"Yeah, you're right. He does have a reason." I paused, my voice was calmer. "You don't want me to live, Ron. You just want me to exist in a happy, innocent bubble for the rest of my life." Without another word, I stubbornly walked into the classroom, knowing that nothing good could be waiting for me inside.

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A/N: Ya I know. it was kinda short. SORRY!!! I was planning to make it longer but I didn't because first of all, I really was in the mood to make a cliffhanger and second of all, I want to get SOMETHING up as soon as possible! So I hoped you liked it! I'll get the next chapter up as fast as I can. I LOVE U, ALL MY REVIEWERS!!!!

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