Disclaimer: Please if I owned Harry Potter and all the characters Draco would most definitely be naked and screaming my name ALL day long.
Who Opened the Dragon's Heart?
Chapter Seven
"Malfoy!" Crabbe called out from his normal seat as soon Draco entered the Slytherin Common Room.
"Bout bloody time you showed up," Goyle proclaimed as Draco meandered over to his chair. "Figured you'd want to rush back to normal people as soon as possible."
"Well, Goyle," Draco sneered, "I don't think there are any normal people at Hogwarts."
"Actually Goyle," Crabbe added, "he was busy thinking of all the kinky positions to get in with that red head."
"What?!" Draco exclaimed in shock while both Goyle and Crabbe nodded their oversized heads.
"Come on man, you have to admit. That youngest Weasley has a very tight arse," Goyle explained.
"And a very nice pair of knockers," Crabbe added with an evil grin.
"And those legs of hers!" Goyle continued. "She had to work out quite a bit to get those."
"Then of course--"
"Stop that!" Draco cried. "My God, the two of you are probably close to wanking! And all over a Weasley?? I'm absolutely disgusted!"
"Oh, come on Malfoy," Crabbe argued, "You know we're right. Even though she's a Weasley, she is rather fine."
"Oh shut up, both of you," Draco countered. "You're making me nauseous. I'll be in my room, not to be disturbed by anyone, including you two stupid oafs."
"All right then Malfoy," Goyle called back as Draco climbed the stairs up to his private Prefect room. "You enjoy those dreams that you have of the littlest Weasel."
"Argh!" Draco bellowed as he entered his room. Just what are those two thinking? Draco thought to himself. Ginny Weasley? A looker? Even more, someone, and a girl to boot, who can turn on Crabbe and Goyle? I can't believe that. "Gin? Having a tight arse?!" Draco questioned. "Although, now that I think about it...she does have a pretty good one. Looks firm, but not too firm. I definitely need to check to make sure." Draco started getting ready by bed, stripping down to his boxers.
"Wait a second! Why am I thinking this? This is Ginny WEASLEY I'm thinking about!" He started opening his bed curtains. "But then, those legs of hers just make you drool when you think about touching them." He proceeded to pull back his bed sheets. "NO! I refuse to find a Weasley hot! There is no way that I will classify her as a girl worthy of a sex dream!" He then climbed into bed, ready for a good night sleep. But as soon as he closed his eyes he was envisioning Ginny as she herself stripped to join him in his spacious Prefect bed. Draco's eyes flew open. "DAMN YOU CRABBE!! AND THE SAME TO YOU GOYLE!!" Draco roared.
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"Damn you, Ron!" Ginny exclaimed as Ron made his final move. "Why'd ya have to take my King?"
"Well Gin," Ron explained, "that's just how you play Wizard's Chess."
"Well yeah! But how am I ever going to learn how to play well if you don't let me last longer in the game?"
"Ginny," Harry butted in from a chair a few feet away, "I doubt you'd get any better if Ron let the game last 3 days."
At that remark all the Dream Team including Ginny started laughing.
"Tell us Ginny. How has it been going with Malfoy?" Hermione enquired after much of the laughter had died down.
"That rat bum hasn't touched you, has he?" Ron growled.
"Nah, he hasn't touched me at all Ron. Do you really expect him too? I am a Weasley after all," Ginny explained to them while chuckling. Short nods of agreement were given by the three 7th years around her, each with a smile on their face. "I am much too below the standards of the elite Malfoy," Ginny continued as she pretended to fan her face. But are you really, Ginny? A voice asked deep within Ginny. Are the two of you so unalike that you could not even share a fleeting romance? Ginny gasped as the curious question, sunk into her brain.
"Ginny?" Hermione asked with a look of concern. "Is something the matter?"
"What? Oh no," Ginny answered quickly, "nothing real serious anyway. I just remembered I had to do some research in the library."
"Not more for that stupid potion assignment I hope," grunted Ron.
"Uh, no," stumbled Ginny as she hurried out of the common room. Barely finishing her explanation on her way out. "It's not for that. I have a History of Magic paper to write. Uh, 10 pages on Conspiracies of the Goblins in uhh Zanzibar."
The Trio was left staring at each other in obvious befuddlement.
"Conspiracies of the Goblins in Zanzibar?" Ron asked, greatly perplexed. "Where in the world is Zanzibar?"
"Oh honestly," Hermione sighed while rolling her eyes. "Don't you ever look at a map, Ron? Zanzibar is an island off of the coast of eastern Africa. Arab and Portuguese traders visited the region in early times and it was controlled by the Omani people in the 18th and 19th century."
Harry and Ron both looked at Hermione in great astoundment. Harry was the first to speak. "All right now Hermione, don't you think you've read one too many books? Zanzibar has nothing to do with Magic or even England. So why do you know so much about it?"
"I am really about to give up on the two of you. Let me continue. Anyhoo, in 1890 Britain established a protectorate which then became.."
"What in tarnation is a protectorate?" Ron asked.
"Really, Ron. Read a thesaurus. It's a small colony."
"Well, why didn't you say that to begin with?"
"I want to finish!" Hermione argued. "So then in 1963 it became a sultanate." Ron was about to interrupt Hermione when she continued on. "A sultanate is a country ruled by a sultan. But then in April of 1964 it joined with Tanganyika to form a new country called Tanzania."
The look on Ron and Harry's faces when Hermione had finished her explanation were absolutely priceless. After a few moments Ron turned to Harry with a smile and murmured, "Well Harry, I'm glad she's all yours and none of mine."
"Thanks for reminding me, mate," Harry muttered back. Harry then cleared his throat. "So then, Angel. Why does Ginny have to write a 10 page report on Conspiracies of the Goblins in this quite interesting place?"
"Well how should I know?" Hermione said aghast. "I didn't even know there were goblins in Zanzibar."
"Yeah, well I didn't even know there was a Zanzibar," mumbled Ron.
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"So partner!" Ginny exclaimed as she burst into the almost pristine dungeon room. Amazingly in the past few days Ginny and Draco's extra work of cleaning at turned the dreary dungeon's dankness into something somewhat suitable for living. "Are you ready to start working on the Lying Truth?"
"The Lying Truth?" Draco scoffed. "What in the hell is that?"
"It's our project, I got bored during History of Magic and made a list of names for our project. I thought it'd make it cooler if it had a cool name."
"And that's what you came up with?" jeered Draco. "Can I at least see the other choices?"
"Uhh, I guess so," Ginny mumbled as she handed him the paper.
It didn't take Draco very long to look at the list as there were only 2 names written down, The Paradox and Lying Truth.
"Ok, then, you did pick the better one I guess. But give me a chance to come up with one."
"All right, I'll give you a chance to think of something by continuing the notes."
After a few diagrams on the desk and quite a few, but not a lot, minutes later Draco was able to produce his absolutely amazing name to replace Ginny's. "How about, Mendax-veritas."
Ginny dropped her pencil and stared at Draco in mock astonishment. "Wow, Draco. I am absolutely impressed. I had no idea a person could spend that much time and come up with that much patheticness."
"How's it pathetic?" Draco questioned. "It's in Latin for Pete's sake!"
"What's it translate to?"
"The Lying Truth. I figured your name was too bad so I might as well embellish it."
"You were able to translate English into Latin in like 7 minutes?" Ginny asked in astonishment, real this time.
"Yeah, piece of cake."
"How do you do it?"
"I've been studying Latin since I was 7 Weasley."
"Are you serious?"
"Completely. For the past few years I've been able to translate small English written stories into perfect Latin."
"Wow, Draco. I must say I am quite impressed."
"Latin and Music are very important to my mother. She felt that it was her duty to educate me properly in both of those subjects. Lucky for her I'm a natural at both and I excelled quite rapidly. The bastard of course only new about the extra Latin lessons, no one had told him about the Music classes," Draco whispered. Then realizing how much he had opened up he quickly snapped out, "But what does it matter how long I've been taking Latin. I doubt your family would know what Latin even is."
"Draco Malfoy!" Ginny snapped. "I thought we had agreed to not insult each other's family!"
"Yeah, well maybe I don't like holding back in all these Weasley insults. Thanks to you I never get to use them!"
"Fine then!" Ginny shouted back. "Use them on me right now! See if I care."
"All right then!" hollered Draco as he began to list things that were on the top of his head. "Your family is named after Weasels!! Who wants to be named after a dirty little rat?! You're also dirt poor! My house elves have more money than your family! We also have probably less house elves then people that live in that ugly little shack of yours! In the Malfoy Mansion there are only 35 house elves! And why do you have so many siblings? Hmm? Could your parents not afford birth control? Hell with the way the two of them look I'd figure there's enough birth control right there. If I had to look down at that while in the sack, I'd probably vomit! Why in the hell do you all have red hair? Red hair and FRECKLES! Freckles are probably the ugliest thing on a person! Use a damn magic charm on them or something! Just make them disappear."
"Are you finished?" Ginny interjected. Perhaps Draco should have glanced at Ginny once or twice during his tirade. At first Ginny's face had exploded in red fury, but eventually it broke down into the face of a lost soul. Even now as Draco watched tears brim Ginny's eyes he started to consider taking back all those things that he had said. But no, since saying what he had kept in he had started feeling much better. Much less stressed. "Just because my family life hasn't sucked and my father doesn't worship the Dark Lord, doesn't mean you need to take your hatefulness out on me!" hissed Ginny as she fled to the quiet shadowed corner in the work room.
The rest of the evening passed in utter silence, every now and then there would be scratching of quills writing down notes. As soon as the detention ended Ginny quickly fled the dungeon, leaving Draco to contemplate his harsh words. As he left the dungeon he had one final thought, "Way to go Drake. Great plan you had there," with this he paused and then quickly added, "God, you are such an ass!"
A/N: Wow, holy patootie. I think that might have been my fastest update ever. (BTW I did have this done on the 14th and planned on uploading it on the 15th, but I was told I'm not allowed to update for a few days because I had an author's note as a chapter, sowwy) Was that quick enough for you guys? I hope so. I was amazed at how easily it just came out. I hope my next one is just that easy. So which do you guys like Lying Truth or Mendax-veritas? I've got some great ideas planned for the next few chapters. They should be real goodies. Some drama, tears (joy or sadness though?), and well, who knows! Muah hehehehe. I shall enjoy the suspense!!
Thank you's:
Tauraman: I'm so glad you enjoy my story. I truly love your support.
Claire: I don't like Lucius as his middle name either. I really like their names too. As for Lucius making an appearance, well in a way he's always there but not. I'll try to bring him in in the next few chapters. Maybe the Christmas Break chapter.. hmmmm. I sorta took your advice on the rating. I decided to warn people of possible small R sections. If I rate all of it R it'll scare people off, and it's not that horrible to cause a permanent R rating. Let's see, how could I bring the other Weasley boys in? How about I put Ginny in a near death situation and she remains in a coma for quite a few months while her whole family lives at Hogwarts? :-) No? Didn't think you'd like that idea. ::sigh::
Feedlesteex: I took a different approach to the over-friendlyness. Hope you didn't hate it. I felt that they had become friendly way too fast causing Draco to hold back way too many WEasley comments. Add that to memories of his sucky Father and BOOM a giant rant from Draco.
Hyper-chika: A kiss??? So soon?! No no no! I'm thinking they'll finally kiss in about ohhhhh chapter 22. Does that sound good? JK!! I think you might have read my mind H-c, I might just have a truth or dare without the truth planned. Hehe.
Fezria: Hopefully this chapter will cause you to laugh too. I got it out pretty soon, so yay! Happy New Year to you too! Course I am about 14 days late in saying that. :- /
Nightlight4: Sorry for the jumps, I just feel like the detentions get so repetitive. I'll try to slow it down some. Maybe add some time in other classrooms.
Super Witch of Slytherin: Lucky for you I updated real soon!