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Author's Note: Thank you to all who reviewed. Please don't expect the chapters to always come this soon. The plot bunnies are actually visiting when I have some spare time (and while I am procrastinating)..... Those darn plot bunnies usually visit when I'm busy (after having procrastinated something for a few days), but I discovered that if you offer those bunnies a beer (or 2 or 3), they'll hang around for a little while...
Summary: Ginny Weasley has given up on her search for her prince charming. Fate has her own evil plans.... We enter this chapter with a studying Hermione, a tattle-telling Draco, a very scary Ginny, and a recent epidemic of freakishly "accidental" Bat Bogey Hexes striking the 6th and 7th year boys......
The Least Likely Prince Charming
Chapter 3: Charming? I Think Not.
Draco was smirking. This was not an uncommon occurrence in Hogwart's - most of the student were used to seeing the Malfoy boy walking down the hallway with a smirk on his handsome face. Every student at Hogwart's knew that they were safe when he was smirking, because it meant that the Slytherin Prefect already had someone else in mind to get in trouble with Snape. It was when he wasn't smirking that the students knew they had to be concerned, because the absence of a smirk meant that Malfoy was on the prowl for someone to get in trouble.
Draco was searching for Snape. He couldn't wait to see how pleased Snape would be when he reported that Weasley girl for hexing another student. Snape would take enough points from Gryffindor to make up for all of those points that Mudblood Granger got those Gryffindor's in Advanced Arithmancy. That would make Draco very happy, or at least as happy as Draco has ever felt. If he could only find Snape....
While Draco was searching for Snape, Ginny was continuing her reign of terror over the Hogwart's boys. She walked down the hallway of the school, glaring at any and every boy who even looked in her direction. And the boys kept looking. Word had gotten around that the pretty red head was single and dateless for the Hogsmeade weekend coming up, and a lot of the single boys wanted to ask her to go. The boys haven't quite figured out why she was hexing all those other boys, because none of the victims would say anything about what or why it had happened. So, all the boys at Hogwart's assumed that the Bat Bogey victims had said something to offend the youngest Weasley, as she was known to be one of the nicest girls in the school, and would never hex anyone without a good reason. So, bets were made among some of the boys about who would be Ginny's next boyfriend, and a lot of the boys tried to get up enough nerve to ask her to Hogsmeade. The boys didn't notice her glaring at each and every one of them if they even looked at her....
Ginny was headed to the library, where she was supposed to meet Hermione to help her study for her NEWTs. Ginny knew that Hermione was being a little bit obsessive about the NEWTs, but she didn't have the heart to refuse when she had begged Ginny to come during her free period today and quiz her on some possible NEWT questions. If only the boys in the hallway would stop looking at her as she made her way to the library. The idiots weren't even noticing the glare she gave each and every one of them whenever they looked in her direction.
If they were her brothers, they would have noticed that glare, because the Weasley boys had learned long ago that Ginny gave the "death glare" immediately before she would take out her wrath on some helpless but completely deserving brother. Like the time the twins tested one of their joke products on her.... But the average boy at Hogwart's hadn't yet learned about Ginny's evil glare, and were completely unable to believe that the girl voted "Nicest Girl" in for the Hogwart's yearbook the last year would be capable of being anything but, well, nice.
Ginny wasn't feeling very nice at the moment. In fact, at the moment, Ginny was in fact feeling anything but nice. She had been dealing with boys asking her out for the last two weeks, and she was tired of having to hex each and every one of them. And to top it off, Dean and Lavender were finally going together as an official couple (after spending the last 2 years in random snogging sessions all around Hogwart's and firmly denying any relationship) and were acting so lovey-dovey that it was sickening; Colin had started dating a Ravenclaw 5th year named Melissa, whom Ginny had never gotten along with; and Ron, Harry, and Hermione were acting very secretive about something, and were constantly kicking her out of rooms to discuss it. The only thing that could make the beginning of Ginny's sixth year worse would be if Seamus started dating someone else. As it was, Seamus was still just as single as Ginny was.
Ginny was turning the corner in the hallway past McGonigal's room when she saw him. Seamus was coming down the opposite end of the hallway, a tentative smile on his face as he saw Ginny. Ginny wasn't quite ready to face Seamus just yet. She had so far managed to avoid him in the house and around school, but she knew she would have to talk to him soon - but she really didn't think she was ready to talk to him like they were just friend, yet. So, Ginny did the only thing she could in a situation like this, she ducked into McGonigal's room.
Malfoy was waiting for his Advanced Transfiguration class to start. After spending most of the day searching for Snape to get that Weasley girl in trouble, he had discovered that Snape was out of school today on "personal business". So, with nothing better to do, and being unable to find Crabbe and Goyle to keep him entertained until class started, Malfoy had sat himself down in his spot in the Transfiguration classroom and began to work on an assignment he had forgotten to do for Astronomy tonight. When he heard someone coming into classroom, he didn't even look up. He thought it was probably just someone else coming in early. But then he heard a girl's voice mumbling. What she was mumbling, Draco couldn't exactly tell, but he was sure it contained quite a few words that he could get her in trouble for saying. So, Draco looked up, and saw a red haired girl standing there, glaring at him and mumbling.
Since he didn't see a wand in her hand, and since he was bored, Malfoy decided he would torture the girl. He usually waited until Crabbe and Goyle were around before he started bullying someone, but it was just the little sister of Potter's sidekick, and she didn't have her wand out, so Malfoy felt lucky.
"So, Weasley, are you tired of following around after Potter and his gang? Or are you in here looking shiny things like a niffler to pay for food to feed your 20 brothers?" Malfoy said. This wasn't one of Malfoy's best insults, but to tell the truth, he just hasn't been in the mood to torment lately. Which has made his life even more boring.....
"Oh, shut up Malfoy. I really don't have the energy to deal with your stupid insults today" Ginny said, glaring at Malfoy as she turned around and peeked into the hallway. Seamus was standing in the hallway talking to Neville, so Ginny still couldn't leave the room. Well, if I have to be stuck in a room with Malfoy, I might as well sit down, Ginny thought, as she started to walk over to sit down in the chair as far from Malfoy as she could get.
Malfoy just looked at the girl. He couldn't believe she was going to sit down and stay in the room, with him, alone. Wasn't she afraid he would hex her or something, on principle? But then Malfoy thought of Ryan in the medical ward covered with Bat Bogey's, and thought about how the girl had hexed him with that same hex back in his 5th year, and Malfoy knew that this girl wasn't scared of him at all. And this intrigued Malfoy. Most of the students at Hogwart's, except for Harry and his friends, were slightly scared of Malfoy. That aspect of fear made tormenting his fellow students a lot less fun. But now he found someone else whom he could torment, who wouldn't be scared of him. And that excited Malfoy, because he liked the idea of a worthy opponent.
Malfoy walked over and stood in front of the pretty red head, who had just sat down. She looked up at him, and grimaced. "What do you want, Malfoy? I'm warning you, I don't have a lot of patience today." Ginny said, as she looked at the blonde haired boy.
"Well, Weasley, I was just wondering if you were lost or something." Malfoy said sarcastically as he looked at Ginny. "Because, why would a muggle- lover like you want to be in a classroom alone with me?" Malfoy asked, with a smirk.
Ginny then decided that anything was better than deliberately baiting Malfoy, when she was alone in a classroom with him, so she decided to leave. She got up and started to walk around Malfoy, when it happened. She tripped over a book bag someone had left on the floor. Ginny tried to catch herself, but it was too late. She fell, knocking Malfoy down with her. And it all happened so quickly, neither one of them had anytime to stop the fall. Ginny ended up landing on top of Draco, with her lips so close to his that she could feel his breath. Silver met brown for a fraction of a second, then Ginny looked away and started to get up. Malfoy smirked at her as he watched her get up.
"So who do you think I am, Weasley? Your Prince Charming or something?" Malfoy said, with his trademark smirk getting even wider.
Ginny glared at the boy, who was also pulling himself up off the floor. Then she glared at him, and said, in a cool tone of voice, "You!!! - CHARMING? I think not......" as she pushed Malfoy back down onto the floor and stalked away.
Malfoy sat on the floor for a moment, amazed at the red heads guts, before he decided he was going to go after her and get his revenge. Nobody pushes him and insults him and gets away with it, he thought. He knew a couple of good hexes that would teach that muggle-loving, red headed, poor as a mouse, Potter-loving, shrew a lesson or two. As Malfoy headed towards the door, he heard a commotion in the hallway. He never expected to see what he saw, as he stood in the doorway and took in the scene. The 7th years in Advanced Transfiguration were all in the hallway, staring at the boy on the floor and backing away from the angry looking redhead with a wand in her hand who was parting the crowd as she stalked away. The boy was on the floor, with bat bogeys coving his face and body. And a Hufflepuff girl named Hannah was heard to say, in a shocked tone of voice, "All Justin said to her was hi." , as she stood staring at the hexed boy.
Draco watched all that happened, and then something amazing happened. Something not even Draco expected. Draco smiled, and he laughed. Not a smirk and a snicker, as was the usual Malfoy response. The crowd in the hallway noticed him, and looked at him in shock. Draco Malfoy was smiling and laughing! It had never happened before in all the years he has been at Hogwart's. But Draco just kept smiling and laughing quietly as he walked into the classroom to finish his homework.
Fate watched and laughed along with the boy. She couldn't have picked a better fate for him, although they'll both fight her all the way.... But fate knows she will always win in the end......
COMING UP: Will Harry and Ron finally make an actual appearance in this story? Will Hermione continue to obsess about her NEWTs? Who will be the final victim of the Bat Bogey Epidemic? And Malfoy gets a hug.... Find out these things and more in Chapter 4, entitled "Is Fate Trying to Kill Me?", coming soon.....
Author's Note: Thank you to all who reviewed. Please don't expect the chapters to always come this soon. The plot bunnies are actually visiting when I have some spare time (and while I am procrastinating)..... Those darn plot bunnies usually visit when I'm busy (after having procrastinated something for a few days), but I discovered that if you offer those bunnies a beer (or 2 or 3), they'll hang around for a little while...
Summary: Ginny Weasley has given up on her search for her prince charming. Fate has her own evil plans.... We enter this chapter with a studying Hermione, a tattle-telling Draco, a very scary Ginny, and a recent epidemic of freakishly "accidental" Bat Bogey Hexes striking the 6th and 7th year boys......
The Least Likely Prince Charming
Chapter 3: Charming? I Think Not.
Draco was smirking. This was not an uncommon occurrence in Hogwart's - most of the student were used to seeing the Malfoy boy walking down the hallway with a smirk on his handsome face. Every student at Hogwart's knew that they were safe when he was smirking, because it meant that the Slytherin Prefect already had someone else in mind to get in trouble with Snape. It was when he wasn't smirking that the students knew they had to be concerned, because the absence of a smirk meant that Malfoy was on the prowl for someone to get in trouble.
Draco was searching for Snape. He couldn't wait to see how pleased Snape would be when he reported that Weasley girl for hexing another student. Snape would take enough points from Gryffindor to make up for all of those points that Mudblood Granger got those Gryffindor's in Advanced Arithmancy. That would make Draco very happy, or at least as happy as Draco has ever felt. If he could only find Snape....
While Draco was searching for Snape, Ginny was continuing her reign of terror over the Hogwart's boys. She walked down the hallway of the school, glaring at any and every boy who even looked in her direction. And the boys kept looking. Word had gotten around that the pretty red head was single and dateless for the Hogsmeade weekend coming up, and a lot of the single boys wanted to ask her to go. The boys haven't quite figured out why she was hexing all those other boys, because none of the victims would say anything about what or why it had happened. So, all the boys at Hogwart's assumed that the Bat Bogey victims had said something to offend the youngest Weasley, as she was known to be one of the nicest girls in the school, and would never hex anyone without a good reason. So, bets were made among some of the boys about who would be Ginny's next boyfriend, and a lot of the boys tried to get up enough nerve to ask her to Hogsmeade. The boys didn't notice her glaring at each and every one of them if they even looked at her....
Ginny was headed to the library, where she was supposed to meet Hermione to help her study for her NEWTs. Ginny knew that Hermione was being a little bit obsessive about the NEWTs, but she didn't have the heart to refuse when she had begged Ginny to come during her free period today and quiz her on some possible NEWT questions. If only the boys in the hallway would stop looking at her as she made her way to the library. The idiots weren't even noticing the glare she gave each and every one of them whenever they looked in her direction.
If they were her brothers, they would have noticed that glare, because the Weasley boys had learned long ago that Ginny gave the "death glare" immediately before she would take out her wrath on some helpless but completely deserving brother. Like the time the twins tested one of their joke products on her.... But the average boy at Hogwart's hadn't yet learned about Ginny's evil glare, and were completely unable to believe that the girl voted "Nicest Girl" in for the Hogwart's yearbook the last year would be capable of being anything but, well, nice.
Ginny wasn't feeling very nice at the moment. In fact, at the moment, Ginny was in fact feeling anything but nice. She had been dealing with boys asking her out for the last two weeks, and she was tired of having to hex each and every one of them. And to top it off, Dean and Lavender were finally going together as an official couple (after spending the last 2 years in random snogging sessions all around Hogwart's and firmly denying any relationship) and were acting so lovey-dovey that it was sickening; Colin had started dating a Ravenclaw 5th year named Melissa, whom Ginny had never gotten along with; and Ron, Harry, and Hermione were acting very secretive about something, and were constantly kicking her out of rooms to discuss it. The only thing that could make the beginning of Ginny's sixth year worse would be if Seamus started dating someone else. As it was, Seamus was still just as single as Ginny was.
Ginny was turning the corner in the hallway past McGonigal's room when she saw him. Seamus was coming down the opposite end of the hallway, a tentative smile on his face as he saw Ginny. Ginny wasn't quite ready to face Seamus just yet. She had so far managed to avoid him in the house and around school, but she knew she would have to talk to him soon - but she really didn't think she was ready to talk to him like they were just friend, yet. So, Ginny did the only thing she could in a situation like this, she ducked into McGonigal's room.
Malfoy was waiting for his Advanced Transfiguration class to start. After spending most of the day searching for Snape to get that Weasley girl in trouble, he had discovered that Snape was out of school today on "personal business". So, with nothing better to do, and being unable to find Crabbe and Goyle to keep him entertained until class started, Malfoy had sat himself down in his spot in the Transfiguration classroom and began to work on an assignment he had forgotten to do for Astronomy tonight. When he heard someone coming into classroom, he didn't even look up. He thought it was probably just someone else coming in early. But then he heard a girl's voice mumbling. What she was mumbling, Draco couldn't exactly tell, but he was sure it contained quite a few words that he could get her in trouble for saying. So, Draco looked up, and saw a red haired girl standing there, glaring at him and mumbling.
Since he didn't see a wand in her hand, and since he was bored, Malfoy decided he would torture the girl. He usually waited until Crabbe and Goyle were around before he started bullying someone, but it was just the little sister of Potter's sidekick, and she didn't have her wand out, so Malfoy felt lucky.
"So, Weasley, are you tired of following around after Potter and his gang? Or are you in here looking shiny things like a niffler to pay for food to feed your 20 brothers?" Malfoy said. This wasn't one of Malfoy's best insults, but to tell the truth, he just hasn't been in the mood to torment lately. Which has made his life even more boring.....
"Oh, shut up Malfoy. I really don't have the energy to deal with your stupid insults today" Ginny said, glaring at Malfoy as she turned around and peeked into the hallway. Seamus was standing in the hallway talking to Neville, so Ginny still couldn't leave the room. Well, if I have to be stuck in a room with Malfoy, I might as well sit down, Ginny thought, as she started to walk over to sit down in the chair as far from Malfoy as she could get.
Malfoy just looked at the girl. He couldn't believe she was going to sit down and stay in the room, with him, alone. Wasn't she afraid he would hex her or something, on principle? But then Malfoy thought of Ryan in the medical ward covered with Bat Bogey's, and thought about how the girl had hexed him with that same hex back in his 5th year, and Malfoy knew that this girl wasn't scared of him at all. And this intrigued Malfoy. Most of the students at Hogwart's, except for Harry and his friends, were slightly scared of Malfoy. That aspect of fear made tormenting his fellow students a lot less fun. But now he found someone else whom he could torment, who wouldn't be scared of him. And that excited Malfoy, because he liked the idea of a worthy opponent.
Malfoy walked over and stood in front of the pretty red head, who had just sat down. She looked up at him, and grimaced. "What do you want, Malfoy? I'm warning you, I don't have a lot of patience today." Ginny said, as she looked at the blonde haired boy.
"Well, Weasley, I was just wondering if you were lost or something." Malfoy said sarcastically as he looked at Ginny. "Because, why would a muggle- lover like you want to be in a classroom alone with me?" Malfoy asked, with a smirk.
Ginny then decided that anything was better than deliberately baiting Malfoy, when she was alone in a classroom with him, so she decided to leave. She got up and started to walk around Malfoy, when it happened. She tripped over a book bag someone had left on the floor. Ginny tried to catch herself, but it was too late. She fell, knocking Malfoy down with her. And it all happened so quickly, neither one of them had anytime to stop the fall. Ginny ended up landing on top of Draco, with her lips so close to his that she could feel his breath. Silver met brown for a fraction of a second, then Ginny looked away and started to get up. Malfoy smirked at her as he watched her get up.
"So who do you think I am, Weasley? Your Prince Charming or something?" Malfoy said, with his trademark smirk getting even wider.
Ginny glared at the boy, who was also pulling himself up off the floor. Then she glared at him, and said, in a cool tone of voice, "You!!! - CHARMING? I think not......" as she pushed Malfoy back down onto the floor and stalked away.
Malfoy sat on the floor for a moment, amazed at the red heads guts, before he decided he was going to go after her and get his revenge. Nobody pushes him and insults him and gets away with it, he thought. He knew a couple of good hexes that would teach that muggle-loving, red headed, poor as a mouse, Potter-loving, shrew a lesson or two. As Malfoy headed towards the door, he heard a commotion in the hallway. He never expected to see what he saw, as he stood in the doorway and took in the scene. The 7th years in Advanced Transfiguration were all in the hallway, staring at the boy on the floor and backing away from the angry looking redhead with a wand in her hand who was parting the crowd as she stalked away. The boy was on the floor, with bat bogeys coving his face and body. And a Hufflepuff girl named Hannah was heard to say, in a shocked tone of voice, "All Justin said to her was hi." , as she stood staring at the hexed boy.
Draco watched all that happened, and then something amazing happened. Something not even Draco expected. Draco smiled, and he laughed. Not a smirk and a snicker, as was the usual Malfoy response. The crowd in the hallway noticed him, and looked at him in shock. Draco Malfoy was smiling and laughing! It had never happened before in all the years he has been at Hogwart's. But Draco just kept smiling and laughing quietly as he walked into the classroom to finish his homework.
Fate watched and laughed along with the boy. She couldn't have picked a better fate for him, although they'll both fight her all the way.... But fate knows she will always win in the end......
COMING UP: Will Harry and Ron finally make an actual appearance in this story? Will Hermione continue to obsess about her NEWTs? Who will be the final victim of the Bat Bogey Epidemic? And Malfoy gets a hug.... Find out these things and more in Chapter 4, entitled "Is Fate Trying to Kill Me?", coming soon.....