A/N: Yes this chapter's song is "My Bloody Valentine" by Good Charlotte. Yeah, I'm sorry it took so long to update again, I've had a lot of homework, relatives visiting, and I've been sick for like the last 2 weeks. What fun. But anyways off we trot.
Chapter 15
My Bloody Valentine
Oh, my love
Please don't cry
I'll wash my bloody hands and
We'll start a new life
Oh, I'm way into deep this time. I can't believe I'm actually scheming to break up not only my best friend's little sister, but also my friend and her boyfriend. I feel horrible. But I know Ginny can do so much better then Malfoy. I mean come one he's a Malfoy AND a Slytherin! I mean Ginny is smart, beautiful, and has a great personality, not to sound cheesy or anything but she really does, and I know she can do so much better then Draco Malfoy. It's just so crazy. I don't even believe that they went out in the first place. But, what's even worse is the fact that they're disgustingly happy together. It almost makes me sick just looking at them. In fact it's makes me sick just thinking about looking at them being disgustingly happy. It makes me cringe and shudder. Is that possible? But, that's not the matter at hand. The matter at hand being, how do Hermione and I break them up? It's not going to be easy seeing as how they're so happy. Hermione's been thinking about it for the past couple days. And yeah, what's going on with that? Not only is Hermione supposedly in love with Malfoy, she's also going to sabotage her best friend's relationship. That's really not like her, but then love does do strange things to people I suppose.
I ripped out
His throat
And called you on the telephone
To take off
My disguise Just in time to hear you cry when you
I still feel bad about what I did to Hermione. But I guess in a way she was doing the same thing to me, and she doesn't seem really upset about it. I do feel like I owe her something. I should find a way to make it up to her. Maybe I should treat her and Malfoy to dinner when they start going out or something along those lines. Yeah, that's a good idea. They can go to dinner at a restaurant somewhere in Hogsmeade. Okay, so one problem solved, now on to the next one. How do we break up Ginny and Malfoy? Maybe I should find Hermione so we can brain storm. I think she's in the library doing her homework, but then where else would she be? I'll take a little walk down there to find her and see if she's come up with anything. Merlin knows I haven't. But then, I'm not really good at breaking people up. But then I've also never tried. Whatever, I'm going to go find her now.
You mourn the death of your bloody valentine
The night he died
You mourn the death of your bloody valentine
One last time
Singin'
Just as I thought she's sitting in the back corner of the library. Oh, shit, she's with Ginny.
"Hey, Harry!" Ginny go away we can't plan with you here.
"Hey, Gin. Hey, 'Mione. What are you guys up to?"
"Homework. What else? Have you finished your essay for Snape yet?"
"We have an essay?"
"Yeah, Harry, he assigned it two days ago. It's due tomorrow."
"How come you didn't tell me about it, 'Mione?"
"Well I kind of figured you knew. Besides it's not my job to remind you anyway." You use to all the time, Hermione come on now.
"What's it on? How long does it have to be? Can I copy yours?"
"Wolf's Bane. Three and a half feet. No."
"Well I'm done my homework, so I'll leave you two to finish yours. See you later, Harry, Hermione."
"Bye, Ginny." And then she just walked out.
"Harry, I can't believe you let that essay go!"
"Take it easy, Hermione. It's done."
"Then why did you tell me it wasn't?" Well I thought that would be obvious.
"To get rid of Ginny."
"Why?"
"So we could come up with a plan."
"Oh, well I already have but I'm not sure it will work."
"What is it?"
"Well we have to make either Draco think Ginny's cheating on him or make Ginny think Draco's cheating on her." I don't know about that.
"That's not a real stable plan. How would we do it?"
"Well first we'd have to pick another person for one of them to be supposedly dating behind the other's back. To have Draco cheat with someone would be easy. We'd just say that we caught him and Pansy Parkinson making out or something. And even though it would be a complete lie and Draco would deny it, but Pansy wouldn't. Everyone knows she's wanted to go out with him since like first year."
"Yeah, but what if we want Malfoy to think Ginny's cheating?"
"I thought about that, and quite honestly as bad as it sounds I'd rather it would be Draco whose supposedly cheating, because that will get around school and Ginny has a pretty good reputation with the exception of course of dating Draco, so I don't want to do anything to harm her status. Draco already has a pretty crummy reputation, so it really won't be any surprise to anyone. Besides I really couldn't think of anyone for Ginny to be cheating with anyway."
"I don't know, 'Mione."
"What do you mean?"
"Well how would we convince Ginny?"
"I don't know yet."
"Alright. But, then how do I start going out with Ginny, and how do you start going out with Malfoy?"
"Well for you it will be easy. When Ginny's upset over her and Draco breaking up, then you go comfort her. Tell her about how he wasn't good enough for her and all the usual stuff, and casually slip in there that you love her, and there you go problem solved."
"Okay, so what about you?"
"Well, I really don't know what I'm going to do about me and Draco, but I figured I'd like corner him in a dark hallway or something and tell him I like him and ask him out or something."
"Yeah, good luck with that one." That last part was possibly the crappiest plan I've heard herd from Hermione. And that's saying a lot.
"I know, it's not the best plan, but unless we come up with a better one, then it's the only one we have so either brain storm and start working on a way we can show Ginny that Draco's cheating on her." Aparent;y she didn't catch the sarcasm.
"Alright, I'll find a way to make her think he's cheating."
"Now, I really have got homework to finish."
"Alright, I'm going to take a walk and then go back to the Common Room."
Oh, my love
Please don't cry
I'll wash my bloody hands and
We'll start a new life
I don't know much at all
I don't know wrong from right
All I know is that I love you tonight
All right so this plan isn't exactly fool proof, but what am I going to do, I can't come up with anything better. So how do I make it look like Malfoy's cheating? Pictures, maybe? But how? Malfoy hates Pansy as much as I hate her, it will be almost impossible to get an incriminating picture of the two of them. Unless maybe I digitally fix them the way muggles do. Never mind, I don't have access to any type of technology let alone a digital camera and computer. Okay new plan, ummmm, yeah this is why I usually leave the thinking to Hermione. But, what if they find out that Hermione and I set this whole thing up? Then Ginny will never speak to me and Malfoy will never speak to Hermione again. And this whole ruse will have been for nothing. Not only that, Ginny and Malfoy will get back together and probably be more in love then they are now. Then there's the possibility that I'll be exiled from the Weasley family because they will know that I intentionally broke up their daughter and her boyfriend, thus hurting her. And I would lose the only people that are like family to me. I'm not entirely sure this whole plan is worth it. Maybe I should just be happy for Ginny and Malfoy. I mean yes I do love Ginny, but I'd rather she be happy with someone else then miserable with me. Wow, this really hurts. I guess I should go find Hermione and tell her to halt her "Operation Break-up" plans. She probably won't be too happy about, but I guess we all have to learn to live with disappointment.
There was
Police and
Flashing lights
The rain came down so hard that night and the
Headlines read
A lover died
No tell-tale heart was left to find when you
Okay, so where am I? Right third floor corridor, I have to go through the Entrance Hall and down a flight of steps and then down a hallway to get to the library. Okay, off I go. Oh, great just who I needed to see walking through the Entrance Hall.
"Hey, Harry."
"Hi, Ginny, Malfoy."
"Potter."
"What are you up to, Harry?"
"Um, I was going back to the library, I was just taking a break from my essay."
"What essay, Potter?"
"The one for Snape on Wolf's Bane. Didn't you do it, Malfoy?"
"Oh, yeah that one, I finished it last night."
"Great, Draco and I were going to see if there was any desert left in the Great Hall. Do you want to come with us?"
"No, I should really get back to the library and finish that essay."
"Okay, well see you later then, Harry."
"Yeah, bye Gin. Malfoy."
"Potter."
You mourn the death of your bloody valentine
The night he died
You mourn the death of your bloody valentine
One last time
Singin'
As I walked away I could hear Ginny say, "Why don't you two ever call each other by your first names?" Haha, Gin, if you only knew. But, anyway back to business, I have to find Hermione. And just as I thought, she was still in the library.
"'Mione, we can't break up Ginny and Malfoy."
"Why, did they already do it themselves?"
"No, because it would really not turn out so good."
"How?"
"Well, a lot of things could go wrong with your plan, or they might find out that we set the whole thing up, and if they do neither one of them will ever speak to us again and we'll be rejected from the Weasley family for hurting Ginny. It's just not a good idea."
"Well fine we'll think of a new plan."
"Hermione, no, let's just leave them alone, if they break up, they break up then we can have our chance, but if they don't then we'll just have to be happy for them."
"You're being really mature about this."
"I know it scares me too."
'But, never the less I suppose you're actually right. No plan will work, and we should just be happy for them."
"Good, then you give up too?"
"Yes I guess, but I not happy about it. This really hurts."
"I know that's what I said."
"Alright, I suppose we'll just have to sit back and watch the disgustingly happy couple be disgustingly happy together, and hope fate works our way."
"Yeah, but it probably won't, but I guess that's okay. At least they're happy."
"Stupid fate."
Oh, my love
Please don't cry
I'll wash my bloody hands and
We'll start a new life
I don't know much at all
I don't know wrong from right
All I know is that I love you tonight
Tonight
"So, what do we do now, Harry?'
"What do you mean?"
"We're in the same situation we were in before."
"Well, yes, but I'm just going to learn to live with the fact that Ginny doesn't love me, and I highly suggest you learn to live with the fact that Malfoy doesn't love you."
"Thanks a lot, Harry. That was helpful."
"I'm sorry, Hermione, but that's pretty much the way it's going to be from now on. Maybe we both need to move and find someone else."
"Maybe you're right, but I mean come on now you've been in love with Ginny for as long as I've been in love with Draco. Aren't you the least bit hurt or upset?"
"Of course, but I'd rather Ginny was happy with someone else then miserable with me. I wish I had told her before I loved her, but its too late now so I'll just have to move on."
"Harry, how can you just like that move on? I mean it has to be impossible."
"Well, what do you propose we do? They're happy and it's our fault."
"Our fault?"
"Yes, we didn't tell them so now they found each other and they're happy. It's as simple as that."
He dropped you off, I followed him home
Then I, I stood outside his bedroom window
Standing over him, he begged me not to do
What I knew I had to do cause I'm so in love with you
"Maybe, we should tell them." Merlin, I thought she was going to give this up?
"Hermione what the hell are you talking about?"
"I should tell Draco I love him and you should tell Ginny you love her! Then they'll dump each other and we'll all be happy!"
"No, Hermione, they're happy leave them alone."
"But, I love Draco."
'What about Ginny? Ginny apparently loves him too. She's your best friend, and she's actually happy with the guy she's dating. Leave her and Draco alone to be happy together."
"But, Harry, why don't our feelings matter in this?"
"Because we both had forever and a day to tell them but we didn't and now they're happy with other people unfortunately the very same people we were both in love with. Hermione, it doesn't matter how we feel because we never thought about how they felt. I know I led Ginny on for the longest time then never did anything about it, so she got sick of it and left. Now, she's happy and I'm just going to accept it. You should accept that Draco's happy with Ginny." Whoa, I just had a major revelation.
"I don't want to accept it. I never did anything to Draco to hurt him."
"Yeah, well you certainly didn't tell him you ever even liked him. You fought with him; you called him names and hexed him a few times. Yeah, if I were him I wouldn't have gone after you either."
"Harry, you don't understand."
"YES I DO UNDERSTAND! I FEEL EXACTLY LIKE YOU DO RIGHT NOW, BUT THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO!"
"You don't have to yell at me, Harry." Now she's getting testy with me. She's the one that needs to grow up and move on not me.
"Hermione, then be rational and accept Draco loves Ginny not you."
"I don't want, I don't have to, and he's not going to anymore because I'm going to tell him that I love him."
"Hermione, move on with your life. Find someone else!"
"I don't want to and I won't."
"Merlin, you're impossible."
I couldn't take it anymore I ran out of the library pushing past Pansy Parkinson standing at the next table to Hermione's and a bunch of other people I didn't know and ran out the door and back to my dorm. Sometimes Hermione is more stubborn then Ron. This whole situation is just going downhill real fast.
Oh, my love
Please don't cry
I'll wash my bloody hands and
We'll start a new life
I don't know much at all
I don't know wrong from right
All I know is that I love you tonight
Tonight
