Revisions
Chapter Four: Adjustments
LunarianPrincess
Ginny has returned to Hogwarts with one goal in her mind, escaping the self-righteous control of her brother and his friends. Reading becomes a sanctuary and she finds that her favorite author has just published a new work, with her as the heroine. She becomes focused on finding the identity of the author and is shocked when she finds out. Throughout her school year she finds out who she is, and is a new collaborator with the famous author who she can't stand and who can't stand her. What's a frustrated girl to do, why, revise the story to fit her needs.
SDA: Standard Disclaimers Apply
Last Chapter:
"Shush, for the next Ladon subject, what do you think?" he asked, Blaise turned to consider the girl and Draco noticed breakfast was almost over. "Never mind, I'll tell you about it later, lets go," he said as breakfast ended.
Now:
Ginny walked out of the Great Hall, heading to her first class of the day. She felt a distinct sense of relief once she was away from the intense scrutiny of the hot guy who had been staring at her all through breakfast. When Draco's eyes had followed her every move she had felt a queer sense of embarrassment tinged with pride and excitement. Once she had glanced up to see his alluring silver eyes focused intently on her. When she had met his gaze he had averted his eyes and bit his lip. This had drawn her attention to his sensual mouth, and she couldn't help imagining the sexy boy and his undoubtedly talented mouth doing unimaginable things to her. Just remembering breakfast recalled those illicit images. She blushed bright red and banished those thoughts from her mind, focusing instead on her plea to Dumbledore.
She walked into history of magic, grateful for the chance to think up a plan. She sat in her desk and pulled out parchment and a quill. While half-listening to Professor Binns she began to think of the way they could set up the room. She began thinking about the layout and the way all of their things could be stored in the room. She thought up many different ways their things could be organized but no matter how much she tried to focus on that her mind inevitably wandered.
One thought about Tia and she would remember how she had met her, then she would inexorably think about what had happened before she met her, then she would remember how hot Draco had been that day, which would cause her to think off how hot he was today and she would be lost in appreciation of his hotness. Then she would think about where the bed would go, which led to thinking how comfy the bed was, which led to thinking of how suitable it would be for certain things which caused her to imagine a certain Slytherin hottie doing said things to her.
She was jolted from her thoughts by the sound of her name. She was very amazed to find the insubstantial ghost staring at her. "Ms. Weasely, I just asked you if you knew who was the first witch or wizard to sanction the pleasure charms and jinxes?" she blushed, her mind returning to where it had been as she answered his inquiry.
"The first witch was Serenity Dietry, and she was supported and endorsed by her husband Kevyn, who was on the Council of Honorable Witches and Wizards at that time," the teacher was satisfied and returned to the lesson.
Ginny tried harder to concentrate on her note taking instead of the lewd imaginings brought on by rampant hormones and a really sexy guy, Damn, I just have to stop thinking that or I'm going to go spare. She nearly growled in frustration, gritting her teeth instead she focused on what the boring professor was saying.
The thought that Arithmancy was coming up raised her spirits slightly, since she was at an advanced level she had it with the 7th year Gryffindor/Slytherin class. She really enjoyed the teacher, a young witch who was always fun. She smiled as she walked to her next class alone, it gave her time to breathe and clear her mind. She walked into the class with a sense of relief and determination. It would not be hard to forget about Malfoy in this class, she enjoyed the teacher's sense of humor and appreciated the lessons taught.
However, she was seriously underestimating her teacher's sense of humor and the irresistible nature of said boy. She chose a seat next to Willow, a seventh year Gryffindor who had always been nice to her. They smiled politely at each other and focused on their individual thoughts. The petite teacher popped into the classroom, nearly vibrating with excitement, the purple highlights in her chin length black hair seemed to glow with vibrancy.
"Hi, I'm Cho Sha Cao your arithmancy teacher, you can call me Ms. Cho. Class, guess what? I just decided on a new assignment for this class, it was given to me in a class I had in school before I found out I was a witch," she told her class energetically. The few that knew her well laughed indulgently, Ginny included. "You will each be paired with another student in the class, for the entire term you and this person will do homework together, take tests together and get grades together." She let this sink in before continuing. "I want to make sure that you are working together outside of this class so I will have periodic checks with the teachers and staff about how much time you spend with your partner, all partner assignments are final and remember your grade in this class depends on your ability to work together," she finished. Then she posted the pairs, Ginny looked at the list in dread, none of her friends were in this class and all the other students were 7th years. She stood in front of the list and scanned the list, she found her name almost instantly.
"What the bloody hell?" a voice expounded next to her, she turned to stare into inscrutable silver eyes with trepidation and shock.
Okay, the whole Cho Sha Cao is a really weird inside joke. If you are in algebra or above you have doubtless heard of Soh Cah Toa, it means Sine: Opposite, Hypotenuse; Cosine: Adjacent, Hypotenuse and Tangent: Opposite, Adjacent. Well my trig teacher p.Lili, (that's what I call her) was asked in class if there was any such acronym for the Cosecant, Secant, Cotangent relationships. Well it seems that if you put them in the same relationship you get Cosecant hypotenuse opposite; Secant hypotenuse adjacent; and Cotangent opposite adjacent: Cho Sha Cao, so the credit goes to my trig teacher. Now other thank yous
hoppers: yeah I wrote the hat song by myself, I'm glad you liked it. I hope this will get easier to write because the transitions are getting rather difficult, I am very glad you enjoy it!
Sabra: thanks for reviewing, I'm glad you like the characterization, it is kind of difficult to capture their rather obscure personalities. Who doesn't love Draco, on that random note when I went to Disneyland last week there was this guy Tyler who looked exactly like Draco Malfoy with black hair, and older, he was really hot.