Title: Switching Places Can Be Fun.
Summary: OotP spoilers. Ginny is sick of School when Dumbledore makes learning a bit more fun. G/D and Hr/R.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter Characters. But have fun reading my fic anyways. Mz Marauder
Chapter 3: The Switching.
The next day as the sun rose above the window, a sleepy girl through her pillow off the bed. Unfortunately she threw too hard.
"Ginny…you just through your pillow out the window." One of her roommates told her.
"Too early, come back tomorrow." She mumbled while trying to find her pillow to place over her head. "Hey where did my pillow go?" She asked the air.
All she heard was a bunch of giggling. She groaned inwardly. It was a Tuesday and she had classes in…she looked at her clock…one hour.
"Shoot" she yelled and jumped out of bed. "I'll never make it in time." She jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom…
There never was sunlight in the Slytherin tower. A tall boy stood from his bed and walked to the end of his bed. He checked his clock…it was seven. Plenty of time to get ready for another day at school, full of work instead of giving work.
He was actually glad to not teach again, he was getting sick of Snape and it was only one day's worth. He sighed as he got ready to take a shower.
His life didn't get better. He was ticking off the things that have happened just in the first few days of school. 'One, I have a crush on a Weasley. Two, I cant get rid of Pansy Parkinson. Three, Potter still gets all the women even though I'm prettier than he is. Four, I have to spend my Head boy time with Granger. Five, we may be getting new people in our house in the next week. This year is the worst by far, apart from fifth year when we had Umbridge.'
He closed the door to the bathroom, and heard three loud thumps on the door. He chuckled to himself. Every day that happens, his three roommates always get up just a little after him and forget that he is in there. They end up in a pile on the floor after each one bangs into the door. They won't get up till He is out of the shower.
As the warm water drained on his face he could only think of one thing…
…As the water drained down on her face she could only think of one thing…
…' Who was going to end up in my house?' she thought. (A/N: three guesses what Draco was thinking about J)
She finished in the bathroom and walked out to an empty room. There was a knock on the door.
"Come in" She yelled, she wished she hadn't. Harry walked in and stopped in the doorway. Ginny looked down at herself thinking she had put on the wrong clothes. And she had, but the thing was, the wrong clothes were no clothes. All Ginny was wearing was her towel.
She jumped onto her bed and closed the drapes. (A/N: I'm making it that the boys can walk up the girls stairs, it's so much more fun that way… Grins evilly )
"What's the matter Harry? Why are you up here? And why didn't you just send Hermione?" she stammered.
"I came up here to apologise. I guess I was in a bad mood, after I found out Malfoy got Head Boy. I shouldn't have taken it out on you. Will you forgive me?" he asked.
She nodded her head, then realised he couldn't see that and stuck her head out of the curtains. "Yes, I'm glad too hear that." She replied. He smiled at her and left, but before he shut the door he turned and said, "You actually look good in a towel." He gave her one more smile that would've made any other girl faint and left the room.
Draco, left the common room and started walking to the Great Hall, but ended up going to the stairs that led to the Gryffindor tower. 'My mind is way off track today' he told himself as he walked the opposite way back to the Hall. 'Maybe if I get through the day I'll skip dinner and go to bed early…No but then I'd miss out on finding out who changes houses' he decided to try to forget about any other house except his. That never happened. Every person, bar one, was talking about the house changes today. That exception was the wonderful Miss Weasley. He couldn't help but smile. She just warmed his body to the bone.
He took his seat at the very end of his table and ate in quiet. It wasn't until he realised everyone was waiting for him to look up at Dumbledore that he carefully put his book down (A/N: yes he reads Everyone gasp ) and looked up at the smiling Dumbledore.
"Tonight is a special night…We will announce the people who will change houses. This, as I may have told you earlier, will be a full year…"
People stared up at Dumbledore as he paused to let the words sink in.
"…Well it will be an exciting night now off to your first class." The whole hall stood up and started walking towards the entrance…except for a few people.
Some sixth years had free periods. Ginny was one of them. Colin Creevy walked over to her. He was still a fan of harry but was still a friend to Ginny if she needed one.
"What's happening with our transfiguration project Ginny?" he asked.
"I was thinking changing a bird into a new pillow with wings. I need one of them, my pillow needs to be able to come back if I throw it out the window." She chuckled to herself; after all it was a pretty good idea anyway. He didn't look too happy.
"Well I've got something worked out, but it's too hard for me to say. You'll have to do the incantation."
"Fine whatever." She replied as she stood up and walked to the library where she began her potion's essay, unfortunately, the library was still shut and she had nowhere else to go.
So she took the long way back, bumping into none other than Malfoy.
"I thought you had classes!" she stated.
" Why would a Weasley want to know where I was going and what I was doing?" he replied with a snarl.
"Whatever, it doesn't matter."
"And why are you not in class? As Head Boy I need to know these things." Ginny groaned. She could tell him she had a free lesson, but Hogwarts rules say that she needs to prove it and she didn't have her timetable with her.
She groaned again. This meant detention with Malfoy.
"Weasley, I should give you a detention. However, I also need someone to give Granger this note so if you give this to her unopened, and I'll know if you don't, I'll let you off the hook." He told her.
Ginny stood there shocked, thinking 'I really need that pillow…'
"S…S…Sure" she managed to mumble out.
"Good" he told her, handed the letter over to her and walked back in the opposite direction.
"Ginny Weasley. Never leave the tower without your timetable again, you'll end up having to talk to Malfoy." She said out loud
"You know talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity." A girl's voice was heard behind her. She couldn't recognise it though. She spun around to find a picture of a woman sitting in a chair bound to the ground in chains.
The woman was the keeper to a secret room, known to no one…yet.
"Sorry, he just makes me so mad."
"But dear, have you seen it through his perspective?"
"I will never look through Malfoy's eyes!" she replied.
"Suit yourself." The woman shrugged and looked into the distance.
"Why ask me these questions if you don't care?" Ginny decided to ask the woman.
"Young girl, I am a most powerful witch. If you would like to question me do so when I am not busy."
Ginny looked puzzled. The woman was staring into space how could she be busy?
"I'm just a little troubled at the moment. You see I don't want him coming into my house. He is in Slytherin and I'm in Griffyndor." Suddenly the woman shot out of the painting. She handed Ginny a key and said.
"You opened the magic placed on that door. This room holds the needs for your every desire. (A/N: it's a bit like the room for requirements and the mirror of erised.) Thank you for your time." She announced and then disappeared in a whisp of smoke.
Ginny pocketed the key and walked back to the Griffyndor tower where she lay down in bed until dinner when the announcement of the switching would take place.
The Great Hall
Draco had left Ginny hours ago and since he had some time to himself he decided to start work on the Halloween ball.
'I wonder if Gin- I mean Weasley will come' he thought then he heard a voice say in the back of his head. 'First wonder how you're going to look if you fall weak from a Weasley' he shook his head this time saying allowed-
"Gosh I have to get over her"
"Get over who Drakey?" he knew that voice only too well, it was Parkinson and she sounded a little too curious.
"Never you mind that, what are you doing out of class. And don't tell me you don't have a class because you have already given me your schedule and I know when you're lying." He said as she pouted.
"I wanted to be with you, I have found a nice closet that is near our common room if you would meet me there in two hours I would…DRACO! You're not even listening to me. What is so important that you would stop paying attention to me?" she looked over his shoulder to see Ginny walking with Colin towards the stairs leading up to the Gryffindor Tower. "Draco Malfoy what is your obsession with the Weasel because if it is any more than what we have I will hurt your pride forever and you know it."
He turned towards her and muttered a 'huh?' She boiled up and ran from the room screaming, unfortunately her teacher heard her scream and came out to see what was the fuss and she got into even more trouble.
But enough about Pansy, Draco turned back to the table he was working at and tried to conjure a Giant 'Ghost' Pumpkin Man, only to have mix the incantation up and created a ghost of Ginny Weasley.
He automatically blushed and dismantled the wisp of smoke.
'This is getting really weird' he thought just as he heard someone yell 'Stupify'
Ginny thought she heard someone scream as she led Colin towards the secret place she had found earlier. She shrugged it off and turned the corner.
"So what are we doing here Gin?" Colin asked as she pulled the key out and found the right painting.
"I've found somewhere that we can practice and create our project without bothering anyone. Not even my brothers know where this place is." She told him. "Here it is." She exclaimed as she threw open the painting and exposed a room almost identical to the Gryffindor common room only that everything was green.
"Oh well we can always change the colour." She said, as Colin waved his wand, the room didn't change. Colin looked a little confused but Ginny dismissed the whole thing
"Ok back to business." She announced, "Have you thought of anything else for our project?"
"God Gin I already told you. We are going to do this incantation which will turn any piece of furniture into a human. The spell will only last for tops two hours if it is correctly spoken." (A/N: I couldn't think of anything else to say so yeah.)
"O…k, well lets hope I can say it well then maybe I can get a date for the next dance." She joked. Colin didn't look so happy. "Ok, ok no personal gain I get it." She answered his stare.
"Here's the spell you will have to learn this off by heart before we even try it." He handed her apiece of paper that red:
Power incantatem revolem transformatem dissapatation
Chair of Power,
Life and love
Turn this furniture into
The human of my dreams."
She sat there staring at the paper.
"Huh…seems easy enough." She said aloud. She turn around to look at the clock which happened to be there and realised that it was late and she needed to get to the great hall for dinner.
At the great hall she decided to sit beside Colin instead of with the trio. She noticed that most people were quite restless. She looked around and rolled her eyes. 'Gosh, it's just a switching of houses you will still see everyone that you hang with.' She started to smile at the people. 'I mean it's not like I'm going to be switched…. I hope'
At that moment Dumbledore stood up and the hall went quiet. He looked around before saying
"Welcome. I am sorry to announce that we will be drawing the switching after the meal, so eat because there is nothing stopping you. We will draw the name at exactly 7:00pm. Now eat up." He sat down and another loud chatter began, mostly with the girls wondering if Harry would be coming into their house.
It was Draco's turn to roll his eyes and he tried to block the sound out.
'It's like I don't hear it enough anyway.' He said to himself. If it wasn't for the switching he would have gotten up and left. He wasn't hungry anyways.
7:00pm
Again Dumbledore stood with the hush of the hall.
"It is now time, to announce who will leave their house and join their new house for just a year. There are a few things I would like to tell you though. Firstly, 7th years will not be moving. Secondly, you will not change your timetables, thus this means Gryffindor will switch with Slytherin (A/N: and I'm just making it that they do have all classes with each other) and Hufflepuff with switch with Ravenclaw." He paused to let people whisper about the first news. Once that had died down he began again.
"Ok so let the Switching Begin" he sat back down as the sorting hat was brought out.
The hall went quiet as the hat began to move.
It opened its mouth to speak to the students when it shut its mouth again. The students all breathed out the air they held inside.
Suddenly the hat called out one word "Weasley" everyone turned to look at the two remaining Weasleys, Ron looked quite frightened as he had forgotten that only 1st years to 6th could move, however Ginny was already standing and walking towards the Slytherin table.
Most of the Gryffindor table looked quite shocked to have a Weasley go over to the Gryffindor house.
The Slytherin students however took it differently, most stared at her quite meanly and she took it quite well. 'I never cared what people thought before so why start now?' she told herself as she sat down, but for the rest of the switching she didn't realise who came to sit with her, or who left the Slytherin table but she didn't care.
Draco looked confused. He wanted to know why a Weasley came into their group, but he dismissed it. He looked around the table and his eyes landed on Pansy who looked enraged. She was boiling over, but he dismissed it too. He was just happy he didn't have to change.
"Thank you for your time, and now all people who have been swapped now must follow one of their house mates to their dorms. You're things have already been moved to you new rooms." Dumbledore ended and the students began to move.
When Ginny looked up and noticed there were about 10 kids from Gryffindor, and ones that she talked to o she lightened up. Hermione came over to hug her and say goodbye, as well as Colin, Harry and Ron. She didn't realise that she would miss them till then.
As she left she felt someone staring at her but whoever it was she couldn't see them. But she shrugged it off like it wasn't anything.
Draco looked out from behind a pot plant, he wasn't actually looking at Ginny but she was there and it was better than getting stuck with Pansy again. Unfortunately for him he hadn't looked around enough and there was somebody watching him as well…
…Ginny was walking behind everyone else as they entered the corridor to the dungeons. She got a shiver and stopped. Well she stopped too soon because someone bumped into her.
"Oof." was all she got out as she tried to lift herself up.
"You think you're so good don't you weasel? You won't take my Drakey away form me. I wont let you." She spat on her as she walked away. By the time Ginny got up Pansy had already walked off. Knowing that there was no way of getting to her dorm because she didn't know the password she left and went towards where she had found her secret room.
She never made it there though, as she bumped into a certain blonde haired boy. She was about to fall again when he grabbed her. He stared into her eyes as she fainted.
"Gin, Ginny come on wake up." Ginny knew that voice but she couldn't think of whose it was. Her eyes fluttered open to see a fifth year girl from her house (Gryffindor). She was still in the clothes she had worn yesterday and she was lying on an unknown lounge.
She got up and started to wobble.
'Something's wrong' she told herself. 'I don't remember how I got into the common room.' She looked at Lucy who had woken her.
"We're going to be late for breakfast and then classes if you don't go and change into your Slytherin clothes" she said and shuddered when she mentioned Slytherin. Ginny never understood why people did that, but she had gotten used to it.
So she ran upstairs and got into her new clothes. She fixed her hair and they both ran to the Great Hall. They seated themselves just as Draco choked on his drink.
He stared at Ginny as the rest of the boys in the school did. She looked around as she felt all eyes on her.
"What happened?" she asked Lucy. Lucy looked her up and down and shrugged. Ginny didn't have many girl friends in her year and her common room in Gryffindor but she talked to Lucy about everything.
She looked down and noticed that the robes were a bit short but that didn't bother her. Most of her 'muggle' clothes were like that. But she didn't understand what was the problem.
Josh, one of the boys in the 10 Gryffindor students now in Slytherin, came up to them and told Ginny that she was Glowing.
"I mean Gin, it's like you're shining with a beauty that I've never seen before." He told her
"Well that's fine, but make them stop staring please." She asked him. He smiled at her and turned to talk to the school.
"Ok there is nothing to see here, and is you want to goggle like that then stare at something else. Gin is not to be treated like that." Ginny smiled at him. He was in her year.
'Cute' she said to herself. As she turned to look at Lucy she had a smug smile on her face. Ginny looked embarrassed as she added.
"Ok so you cousin is cute." And they both burst into laughter.
A/N: ok that is all I'm going to write on this chapter. I'm so so so so so sorry that it took so long but I made it long. Ok review if you like and if you have any ideas that you might want to see in this story tell me and I might be able to incorporate it into the story. But for now, see you.
Mz Marauder