I don't own Harry Potter or any of his friends. I do wish I owned Fred though he is so funny, hanging with him would be awesome.
(A/N I don't know anything about astronomy so some of the stuff might be wrong, hell I might even make some of it up.)
Chapter 8: Dragon in the Sky
"Weasel." Draco said coming behind Ginny during breakfast Monday morning.
"Yes Draco." Ginny said turning in her seat wondering what he wanted.
"Can I talk to you for a minute?" Draco asked quietly hoping no one would hear him being polite.
"Sure, I'm done eating anyway." Ginny said getting up from her seat and following him outside to the hall.
"Listen I hear you are really good at astronomy, and I was wondering if you would help me tonight with it?" Draco said not meeting her eyes, embarrassed to be asking for help.
"Gee Draco I don't really want to help you, but I was planning to go up to the roof tonight to stare at the stars and if you happen to be up there and I happen to know the answer to a few questions I guess I can't help that." Ginny replied giving him a way out of accepting help.
"You're right Weasel, if you happen to be in my way, I can't make you move from the roof. So you are going there tonight after I help you in potions."
"I'll see you tonight at potions." Ginny said turning and walking away.
Truth was Draco didn't know whether Ginny was good at astronomy or not but he figured if he was going to ask anyone for help it would he ber.
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"Nice to see you aren't late" Draco said sarcastically.
"Sorry Draco, I got distracted." Ginny replied as she entered their potions practice room.
"Really by what?" Draco asked rudely throwing another parchment at her.
"Colin was just showing me something." Ginny said unrolling the parchment.
"Really and what did Colin have to show you?" Draco asked as he started pulling supplies out of the cabinets and placing them on the table.
"Oh nothing really, just some pictures." Ginny replied. Truth be told Colin had just shown her some new editions to her room. Two of which included Draco himself.
"Oh." Draco said lamely. "Don't be late next time."
"Why is it I call you Draco, you call Colin by his first name and you still can't manage to say Ginny?" Ginny asked looking at him expectantly.
"I don't like that name." Draco said regally as if that explained everything.
"Neither do I." Ginny added softly.
"Then why do you want me to call you by it. Ginny is a name for a five year old." Draco said looking at her.
"Of course, the only time you do say my name it isn't even to me." Ginny said annoyed.
"Well I am so sorry Virginia if I refuse to call you by some 5 year olds name." Draco said putting emphasis on Virginia.
"So Virginia, you'll call me Virginia then?" Ginny asked. "No one calls me Virginia."
"Good then I will be the only one." Draco said. "I'm too good to use the same name everyone else does anyway."
"That's ridiculous." Ginny said laughing at him. "Maybe I should call you Drake, since everyone else either calls you Draco or Malfoy."
"No Draco is fine with me, if you don't mind." Draco said haughtily.
"So does this mean you aren't going to call me Weasel anymore?" Ginny said as she chopped up some of the ingredients.
"No I'll just call your brother that." Draco said smirking at her.
"Oh how cute, you have a pet name for my brother, you must like him more than I thought." Ginny said smirking back at him.
"That's not funny." Draco said dropping his smirk.
"Oh you know it is." Ginny said throwing some of the ingredients into the cauldron. "So what are we making tonight?"
"It's a personality potion. It completely reverses your personality." Draco said stirring the mixture. "Care to try it when it's done? See what its like to be cruel and ruthless?"
"No thanks. I don't mind being nice." Ginny said pulling a book off the bookshelf.
"What are you doing?" Draco asked looking at the book.
"I told Colin I would look for a potion for him, something to do with developing pictures." Ginny said as she flipped through the book.
"You like Colin don't you?" Draco asked Ginny as he pulled a book down from the shelf.
"No." Ginny said laughing. "He's my best friend, and that's all, why do you want to know?"
"Just asking." Draco replied frowning. Why did he want to know. Why was he happy to hear that the answer was no. He couldn't like this girl could he. He couldn't possibly like this Weasley? Or Virginia as he said he would call her from now on.
They sat there in silence, Ginny looking for Colin's potion and Draco just mulling over his thoughts. Before either of them knew it the two hours were up and their potion was ready. Draco bottled up the potion and they walked out of the room together.
"So Draco should I run up to the roof and pretend to see you or can we just walk together?" Ginny asked looking into his eyes waiting.
"We can walk together. But if anyone sees us." Draco started.
"Don't worry I'll pretend you are the big bad wolf and I am little red riding hood." Ginny said starting to walk down the corridor.
"What?" Draco asked confused by her comment.
"Muggle fairy tale. Little Red Riding Hood." Ginny answered. "Remind me to tell it to you sometime. You might like it."
"Really you think I would?" Draco asked.
"Oh yeah there is an evil wolf who eats a grandmother." Ginny replied walking up some stairs that lead to the roof.
They got to the roof and Draco pulled off his school robe and layed it on the ground. "Sit." Draco said motioning to the empty cloak beside him.
"Draco, you are offering me a seat, are you sure you didn't take some of that potion." Ginny asked sitting beside him and pulling her legs up to wrap her arms around them.
"Very funny." Draco said giving her a fake laugh.
"So what are we doing up here?" Ginny asked looking up at the stars.
Draco couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked with the moon shining down on her face, making her glow. "Um we are finding constelations." Draco said quickly collecting his thoughts.
"Oh well there is the big dipper, which means that is the little dipper." Ginny said pointing to the left of her.
"Where all I see are stars." Draco said following where she was poitning.
"Here," Ginny said putting her head besides his to get the view he was getting. "See those 4 stars then those three, thats the big dipper."
"Okay I see that so where is the little dipper?" Draco asked aware of the fact that she had never been that close to him before.
"Right there." She said not moving her head away. "And that is the dragon in the sky." She said pointing in his direction.
"That's really cool." He said smiling.
"You know Draco, I have never seen you honestly smile before." Ginny said smiling at him. "It's nice."
"Erm thanks." Draco said. Not sure of how to react to a compliment.
"Do you need to find any constellation in particular?" Ginny asked looking back into the sky.
"No, just making notes of the ones I see." Draco said moving his head a little closer to hers.
Ginny continued to point out random constellations to him as he wrote them down.
"Vriginia, how did you learn all these?" Draco asked her.
"Well when you grow up in a house hold with 6 siblings you quickly get a favorite quiet past time." Ginny said laying down the cloak. "I've been looking up at the skies since I was 7. It never gets boring."
Ginny sighed happily, her eyes roaming over the night skies. Draco carefully laid down beside her, careful to not actually touch or bother her.
"You know Draco, when you let your guard down, it's really nice to be around you." Ginny said.
"What are you doing Virginia?" Draco asked her confused by her niceness.
"What do you mean?" Ginny asked propping herself up on her elbow so that she could look at him.
"Why are you being so nice to me? I have never been anything but horrid to you and your family." Draco replied propping himself up so that he could be at eye level with her.
"People change." Ginny said looking at Draco. "You have changed. How would you like me to treat you?"
"I don't know." Draco said laying back down.
"Well when you figure it out let me know, until then I will continue treating you like I am know." Ginny said lying back down beside him.
They stared at the stars for a while more, every once and a while Ginny would point out another constellation and Draco would write it down.
"What's it like to be an only child?" Ginny asked Draco suddenly.
"I don't know quiet." Draco said. "You seek quiet, I look for noise. It can be unnerving sometimes the quiet. It feels like you are just going to be swallowed up by it, and no one would know."
"I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I didn't have so many brothers, I think it would be lonely." Ginny said leaning her head against Draco's arm.
"It is lonely, but you stop noticing. I use to play with our house elves when I was younger." Draco said smiling. "But then my father found out. He got really mad, told me that I was to good to play with such lowly creatures. They were the first friends I ever had."
"Did you know Dobby?" Ginny asked excitedly.
"Yeah, he was my favorite, dad would always tell him to do extra punishments and I would have to tell him to stop pounding his head into the floor." Draco replied.
"Come with me." Ginny said getting up unexpectedly.
"Where are we going?" Draco asked as he grabbed his school robe.
"Just come on." Ginny said pulling him along with his hand.
Ginny pulled him down stairs and corridors until they came to a tapestry of fruit in a bowl. Ginny reached up and tickled the pear, and a door slowly started to appear.
Ginny quickly pulled open the door and went in dragging Draco along behind her.
"Hello, Ms. Weasley what can I do for you today?" a little house elf asked.
"Nothing, can you watch my friend here and I'll be right back?" Ginny asked.
"Yes miss." The house elf replied.
"Where are you going?" Draco asked Ginny as she retreated into the kitchen.
Ginny didn't answer him and just continued walking. Soon she saw what she was looking for.
"Dobby," she whispered. "Do you remember a Draco Malfoy?"
"Yes, miss." Draco replied. "Twas my friend many years ago."
"Follow me Dobby." Ginny said turning to go back the way she came.
"Draco look who I have." Ginny said when she got back to the front of the kitchen.
"Dobby!" Draco said excitedly. "I didn't know you were here."
"Yes, sir, Dobby works here now." Dobby answered him.
"I'll leave you two alone." Ginny said smiling as she walked out the kitchen.
(A/N I bet you guys thought they were going to kiss up on the roof huh?)