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Chapter 11: Hogsmeade

Ginny hadn't seen Draco since that night on the roof. He hadn't shown up for their Wednesday potions and it was Friday. In fact it was an hour until she was suppose to meet him. She hadn't seen him at all in fact. Not at any meals and he hadn't even shown up for potions class with Snape.

Ginny was still mad that he had just blown her off the other night. So pissed that she was contemplating not even showing up for her tutoring session. However her logical side won through. The side that pointed out that she was a whole year behind and needed to catch up. So that's why Ginny was found sitting in the room waiting for Draco to show up. She was an hour early, but she figured that way she couldn't miss him when he showed up, if he showed up.

"Nice to see you decided to show." Ginny said as Draco arrived 45 minutes later.

Draco jumped, shocked that Ginny was there already. "Why are you here so early?"

"I didn't want to miss you, if you decided to come, that is." Ginny replied.

"Well I'm sorry Weasel, but I had better things to do." Draco replied coldly.

"What is your problem?" Ginny asked hurt.

"What are you talking about?" Draco asked not looking at her.

"I thought you weren't going to call me that anymore." Ginny replied looking at him.

Draco, however, didn't meet her eyes. He shuffled from one foot to another nervously.

"What is going on?" Ginny asked him again getting out of her seat.

"Nothing is going on, this is who I am. I'm selfish, when I want to take off, I do. I'm mean, and if I want to call you Weasel I will." Draco said in his drawling voice, throwing himself into a chair. "You don't actually think you get special treatment do you?"

"Where is this coming from?" Ginny asked shock and anger flying all over her face. "What happened to the guy who told me about being friends with his house elf?"

"That guy who played with his house elf has been gone for 11 years. You don't know me." Draco said eyes flashing.

"I think the problem is that I do know you. I think you are just scared of the fact that I do indeed know you." Ginny replied her voice getting louder.

"Me scared of you? Are you kidding me. Students tremble in fear when I walk by. And I'm suppose to be scared of you." Draco replied with a laugh.

"Yes you're scared of me, and for the very fact that I'm not scared of you. I never have been." Ginny yelled at him. "I've faced fear and trust me you aren't it. You are just some pathetic copy of your father."

"I am not my father." Draco yelled back at her, his eyes flashing.

"Oh really, you could have fooled me. Is it fun for you that you scare the little first years. The fact that the minute you start to open up to someone you shut down and push away." Ginny replied grabbing her books. "You coward!"

With that last sentence she ran out the door.

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Draco fell to the floor, exhausted and emotionally drained. What had he done. He had ruined everything with her. Everything. He had totally lost it, the worst thing of all is that she thought he was scum. She thought he was his father.

"I'm not my father." Draco repeated to himself quietly. Hoping that if he said it enough it would be true.

"I hate my father." he whispered quietly. "I'm not him. I will love someone."

Draco leaned up against the wall, pulling his legs to his chest. He sat there for hours scared that if he moved he would have to face the real world. The world where he screwed everything up.

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Ginny was pissed she was more than pissed, she was so mad that she was seeing red. How dare he. She was better than that. She deserved to be treated better than that. Just as she was about to run up a flight of stairs she heard someone call her name. She stopped dead where she was and took a couple of deep breaths to calm herself.

"Yes?" Ginny asked turning around smiling.

"Hey Ginny, you know tomorrow is a Hogsmeade day." Dean Thomas mentioned to her.

"Yeah what about it?" Ginny asked losing her patience quickly.

"I was wondering if you wanted to go with me, spend the day together?" Dean asked her sheepishly.

"Um, Dean I'm not sure. I have a lot of stuff to do." Ginny answered looking at her feet.

"Oh ok," Dean replied sadly.

Ginny turned around and continued up the stairs. She couldn't wait till she could just go to sleep and forget this day ever happened.

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Draco was sitting at the Slytherin table, flirting with Pansy while eating breakfast. Every once in a while he would glance over at the Gryffindor table hoping to see Ginny.

Ginny saw his little act and then saw right through it.

"If he can play games, so can I." Ginny said quietly to herself.

She got up from her seat looked down the table. She saw who she was looking for and started to walk to the other end of the table.

"Dean?" Ginny said tapping him on the shoulder.

"Yeah?" Dean asked blushing.

"I was wondering if it were too late for me to change my mind about going to Hogsmeade with you?" Ginny asked.

"Really?" Dean asked happily.

"Yeah." Ginny replied.

"Great meet me outside by the gate." Dean said excitedly.

"Ok."

Ginny smiled at Dean, glanced over at the Slytherin table and turned to walk away.

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Draco watched Ginny walk over to Dean. He watched her tap him on the shoulder. Watched him blush, and he watched her set up a date and walk away. To him it felt like she was walking away from him.

"Get off me." Dean snarled at Pansy as she draped her arm around him.

"Look who's all touchy today. Come on babe what's wrong?" Pansy asked him pouting.

"Nothing, I'm just tired." Draco sighed. Tired of you, he thought.

"So, are we going to go to Hogsmeade?" she asked.

"Yeah sure." Draco replied uninterested.

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Ginny met Dean outside the at the gate and off they went to Hogsmeade. Ginny could feel him looking at her and it freaked her out. They went into the different stores and shopped around. When Ginny managed to forget that she was on a date with Dean she managed to have a good time. The minute however that she remembered that she was with him she would get a pit in her stomach. To top it off it seemed that every time they went in a store they would run into Draco and Pansy.

Finally however the day was over and Ginny retreated to the quiet of her room, crawling into bed and pulling the curtains around her.

What was she thinking going to Hogsmeade with Dean. All of a sudden a thought appeared to her. She ran downstairs to the common room.

"Ron can we talk?" Ginny asked him pulling him over to the side. "I just wanted to tell you that I had the best time with Dean today."

"What are you talking about?" Ron asked her, his face turning red.

"I though you knew," Ginny said smiling. "We had a date and went to Hogsmeade."

"You went where? With who?" Ron asked still not wanting to accept it.

"Hogsmeade. Dean." Ginny replied.

"I'm going to kill him." Ron roared.

"Ron whats wrong?" Ginny asked innocently.

"Ginny you can't date Dean. Do you know what kind of guy he is?" Ron asked her.

"I thought he was sweet." Ginny lied.

"Ginny no not Dean, you don't know what I know about him." Ron told her.

"What do you know?" Ginny asked him.

"He likes to just-" Ron started to say, and then abruptly stopped.

"What?"

"Nothing, just don't see him anymore." Ron asked her quietly.

"Ok Ron, I won't. But you have to tell him." Ginny said poking him in the stomach.

"Why do I feel like you wanted me to do this?" Ron asked suspiciously.

"Oh no, I'm sad. I am." Ginny said turning around and running back up the stairs.

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Draco was where he was most of the time now a days, locked in his room. He had spent the better part of the day with Pansy. Trying not to follow Ginny around but he ended up doing it anyway.

He just couldn't stand seeing Ginny with that prat of a boy. He was too normal for her. She needed someone special. Really in his opinion she needed him, he just wouldn't admit that to himself.