"You're serious?" Blaise asked in astonishment. "With the baby Weasley?"

"It could be worse." Draco smirked. "I could have to look at someone truly revolting – like Pansy." He dodged Pansy's hand, which had been precisely aimed at his head.

"Arse!" Pansy smiled, looking over at the Gryffindor table. "You know, Ginny isn't so bad looking." She squinted, trying to read the lips of the older one with the bushy hair whose name she could never remember. "It seems the know-it-all is bitching about something."

"I was supposed to be Head Girl!" Hermione ranted, glaring at Ginny across the table. "I worked long and hard, and Ginny here gets it against the rules!" Tired of glaring at Ginny, she glared at her oatmeal.

"Hermione, I-" Ginny started to say.

"I don't want to hear it, Ginny. Just don't talk to me." She stared Ginny down, seeing her eyes tear slightly. She got up and hurried out of the Great Hall.

"Merlin, Hermione, why did you have to go and do that?" Ron said angrily. "It's not like she could help it." He got up to follow her.

"I'll go, Ron." Harry said, pushing Ron back down by his shoulder. "I'm done eating anyways." He exited the Hall through the same doors as Ginny had. He caught up to her in a matter of minutes, in a small obscure hallway between a suit of armor and a particularly grotesque statue of Tatiana the Ticklish.

"Gin?" He asked, grinning at her when she looked up. She thought back to when a smile like that directed at her would have made her melt. He sat down next to her. "Don't cry. I think 'Mione's just pms-ing. Give her a few days and she'll get used to it." That at least got a laugh out of her. "For the record, I think it's great."

"Thanks, Harry, I needed that." She got up to head back to the Great Hall, but he grabbed her wrist and gently pulled her back.

"Hey, Gin? Can you talk for a minute?" he asked, suddenly seeming shy. Ginny nodded, a bit confused, and sat down next to him. "Well, I was… er… I was just wondering if you were going with anyone to Hogsmeade next weekend?"

"I was going to go with Kinsey and Attie, why?"

"I was sort of wondering if you would go with me." He said, suddenly finding the floor very interesting.

Ginny sighed. She knew this would come eventually.

"Listen, Harry, you're a great guy and all, but you're about three years too late. I used to like you that way, I did, but now you're more like a brother." She studied his face, hoping she hadn't hurt him.

Something flashed across his face, something that Ginny couldn't name, but he had definitely changed.

"Let's see if we can change that." Suddenly he was on her, and his lips were pressed to hers, hard. Too hard. She tasted blood.

"Ugh! Harry! Get OFF me!" She tried to push him off, but this just made him angrier. His hand came up and delivered a rather rude and painful blow to the side of her head. She passed out almost instantly. Harry gave a sadistic grin and pulled out a dagger.

"Poor little Ginny." He said, picking up her limp wrist. Raising the knife, he pressed it to her skin. A trail of crimson followed the knife as it slid across her wrist. He dropped her arm and turned to head back to the great hall. If you had been studying his face at that moment, there would have been an almost unnoticeable change in his features. He walked back to the Gryffindor table, smiling genuinely at Ron and nodding to Hermione, before sitting down to have a second round of breakfast.

(A/N: And the plot thickens. Thanks to:

Damia – Queen of the Gypsies: I just got your review, and honestly it's what made me want to get the next chapter up tonight. Your review just made my day. . thanks a bundle. I suppose you're going to hate me for this chapter… its rather short.

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Kinz. Guess what? The door and I are eloping! Muahaha! And Taliesin is quite hot. How come it doesn't "Taliesin" as a misspelling on my computer, but it counts "Ginny"?

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