Chapter 3
The detention
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Ginny woke up half an hour later to find that she was officially five minutes late for her detention that night. She gained her detention by not paying attention to her potions class that afternoon.
She hurried through the twisted and turned corridors of hogwarts and stopped in front of the potions classroom. She slowly opened the door and peeked in to find professor Snape in the front of the classroom grading some papers. He spoke as she entered,
"Good evening Ms. Weasley,"
"Oh…good evening professor Snape," Ginny greeted him awkwardly
"You will be scrubbing the floor," said Snape as he vanished all the tables and chairs with a flick of his wand, "without magic"
Ginny groaned. She knew that she should have expected scrubbing but then she thought Snape would be nice to girls so he would give easy tasks like labeling ingredients or washing tables. Not the floor. It would be impossible! It would take her the whole night to finish it!
With another flick of his wand a scrubber and a bucket of soap water appeared in front of her.
"Get to work!" Snape barked, "I am leaving to attend a important meeting, and so my top student would be supervising you tonight!"
"Who is-" before she could finish her question Snape left the room by slamming the door.
She sighed as she removed her robes and rolled up her sleeves. She got on her knees and started to scrub. After few minutes, the door opened signaling another person's presence. She turned around to see who it was and immediately wished that she hadn't. Draco Malfoy was the last person she wanted to see today.
He came in as though he measured each step he took. Somehow he always managed to dress everything in black. He wore an expensive looking robe and underneath with the same quality, he wore a silky black shirt.
"Hello Weasley," he said at the same time as he sat down on the chair he conjured up.
"Don't bother me Malfoy," was all she said still cleaning the floor.
"Oh dear! Have I been bothering you?" he mocked finding this whole situation very amusing.
Ginny kept quite and continued on with her work, if she kept on arguing with him she knew that she will never get her work done. But he just had keep taunting her,
"Still wearing the same second-hand robes aren't you? I wonder how your family manages to keep food on their table every night? Probably by selling your never ending birth of brothers..."
"Don't you dare insult my family! I would rather be poor and wear second-hand robes then have a murderous deahteater father!" shouted Ginny
Now she was confirmed that the marriage between her and Malfoy was a joke from Fred and George. If the letter were true he would have teased her about the wedding. He doesn't have a clue about it so she relaxed. But what he said to her next was very shocking that she dropped her scrubber.
"Soon you will be living with a murderous deatheater father-in-law and your husband will be exactly like him"
"What do you mean?" whispered Ginny
"Don't tell me you don't know about our wedding which is in two weeks?" smirked Draco
"You can't be serious! This is a joke right?" she shouted
"No, darling, it is a signed contract. There are no loopholes. Both our parents agreed. So… basically there is no way out of this marriage" Draco sneered
"I don't believe you! You probably sent that letter. I knew my brother's are not involved in that joke. It was you all along! I don't believe! You must have had a good laugh, didn't you?" she asked glaring at him
"Weasley, this is bloody true! You have to believe," responded Malfoy
"I won't believe you until you show me proof" she said
"I knew that I needed this tonight," sneered Malfoy as he brought an expensive looking parchment out of his robes. He rolled it open and gave it to her. She grabbed the parchment and read it:
I, Arthur Weasley,the father of, Ginevra Weasley, agree her marriage to Draco Malfoy, the son of, Lucius Malfoy. By signing this contract, my daughter Ginevra, will obey all the requests of her future husband.
Arthur WeasleyI, Lucius Malfoy, the father of, Draco Malfoy, agree his marriage to Ginevra Weasley, the daughter of, Arther Weasley.
Lucius MalfoyThis cannot be true. She did not want to be engaged to Malfoy her 'ultimate enemy!' She wanted find a right guy, fall in love and then get married. But she had no choice.
"After we are married at least you would have decent clothing instead of your brother's second-hand old clothing" he said as he eyed her clothing with disgust.
Ginny did not care that he was insulting her, all she wanted to know was that why he chose her to be his bride.
"Why would they choose a poor Weasley girl? Why not Pansy or Millicent?" she asked trying not to cry in front of Malfoy.
"Well you see Ginevra, I don't want to marry some beautiful airhead. I would like to have a wife who is a pureblood, smart, beautiful and obediant. You Ginevra, come into all four categories," explained Draco
"How are you so sure that I would come into all those four categories?" she asked sitting down in a chair.
"I have my sources" smirked Draco, "now, father wants me to talk to you, so that you clearly understand what will happen after we are married," he continued.
She just sat there saying nothing. All she was doing was glaring at him, as if he would just vanish into thin air and would never return.
"During your seventh year at hogwarts, you would not be staying at hogwarts. Father will ask Dumbledore to let you come back to the manor, after classes are finished. Since we are extremely wealthy, there is no need for you to work after you finish Hogwarts. AND you will go for further education once you finish School," he said listing all the rules for her to follow.
Ginny started crying and but still managed to threaten Malfoy, "I hate you Malfoy. I won't let you get to me after we are married. After we are married, you mind your own business and won't bother me! I will stay at hogwarts during my seventh year because that means that I won't have to see you for a whole year! I will go to medical school and become a healer, and you can't stop me!"
Ginny left the room immediately because she said what she wanted to say. She did not want to stay with him any longer.
Draco let her shout and threaten him. He will let her go until they are married then he would be the one who would be in control, not her. About her going to medical school is not going to happen either. None of the Malfoy women study further after hogwarts or work. So, he won't let Ginevra break the tradition. Her job is only to sit at home, attend ministry balls, organize parties and be a good wife.
He got up to leave. He wanted to leave the room and tell Professor Snape that Ginevra did not finish her detention. But he understood that she needed time to digest the information so he left the room sparkling clean with his wand. In two days, his mother and Mrs. Weasley will come to Hogmeade to buy Ginevra's wedding dress. His mother asked him to be there, so that he can decide on the dress with Ginevra.
He went back to head boy room and sat on the couch staring at the fire hoping that the wedding would go by quickly so that he could get back to his normal life.
Ginny ran back to the Griffindor common room and went straight to her dormitory. She fell in the bed sobbing. She didn't want this life. She couldn't believe her parents; they would just give her away? What would she do after she was married? Will he be a good husband or be like Lucius Malfoy? Will he let her visit her parents? So many thoughts raced through her mind.
She fell asleep hoping that this all was a dream she would be waking up from.
A/N: please review! I will update the next chapter soon enough. I am working on it now. So please be patient! In the next chapter, Ginny and Draco would be going to Hogsmeade to meet their mothers and then go shopping for the wedding dress. If you, want anything to happen during that time. Tell me ok! Thank you!
Meloni