Chapter Four: Change of Appearance

I am sick of it! Just plain old sick of him! His crap, his insults, his looks, his pride, his attitude and all! I AM JUST SICK AND TIRED OF IT, ALL OF IT! This 'missing' red-head yelled mentally. Just remember, you're not supposed to be here, Ginny continued.

In her right hand Ginny held a black bottle. Slowly she poured it into another bottle and returned it to its rightful place. Smiling deviously, Ginny checked for anyone and left the area.

Ginny held her breath to the point that she almost fainted, luckily she returned to her rightful house's common room and safely.

"GENEVRA WEASLEY WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?" Hermione yelled at her, she didn't care if she had a right to or not.

"I-I-I've been-" Ginny stuttered trying to decide whether or not to lie to her friend.

"YOU DON'T NEED TO ANSWER, I KNOW!" Hermione tried to calm herself down, but she had been worried. Hermione began to continue a little bit below a yell, "Do you think I wouldn't use this?" Hermione held out the map.

"Mischief managed," Hermione muttered.

"I can explain I promise," Ginny said a bit louder now.

"Are you alright?" Hermione realized that she could have been hurt or something.

"Yes, yes. I'm fine," Ginny replied.

"Boy, I'm quite a motherly friend aren't I?" Hermione thought out loud. Ginny nodded.

"So? What happened? Just because I'm a bookworm doesn't mean I don't want to know..." Hermione asked with excitement.

"Alright, alright it started out with..."

"YOU WHAT?!" Ron screamed at his baby sister.

"Yeah you heard me," Ginny said coolly as she took another bite of her chicken at the Great Hall.

"Might I ask what the bloody hell you were thinking?" Ron asked.

"You're just jealous you didn't think of it first," Ginny smiled as Harry arrived fashionably late to the dinner table.

"Guess what she did Harry!" Ron said slowly relaxing.

"What did you do?" Harry asked.

"Well... I finally lost my patience. I was sick of it sick of it all. I was sick of him tormenting us all, sick of him thinking he's all that. I'm sick of him getting great marks in potions only because of his house," Ginny looked at Hermione and then continued. "I'm just plain sick of him so I decided to get revenge. Don't worry, its nothing harmless,"

"Two questions who exactly is him and what did you do?"

"Well, um, 'him' is Malfoy and I well... I put permanent dye in his shampoo, the spell proof kind. The colors are funny though it's the Gryffindor colors!"

"Wow I see that the twins really have had an effect on you. How did you pull that off, how did you find the password and such?" Harry inquired.

"It's not very hard to listen to other people's conversations. It took the password a lot of sneaking around, a silence and locking charm and that's it." Ginny stated proudly.

Ginny smiled imagining Fred and George saying 'Look our little sister is growing up'.

By now, Ginny's food had vanished (with no magic involved) and she suddenly became tired. She excused herself from dinner and headed upstairs to her bed.

Hermione smiled as well. Then she thought to herself, wait a second, I never got to talk to her! Hermione shook her head and a few minutes returned to her bedroom as well.