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lie... Honest... I swear.... I don't own anything, J.K. Rowling does....
I'm SO SORRY I haven't updated in quite a while. A slight case of writer's block, a very busy couple of weeks, and a car wrecking into my kitchen really affected the amount of writing time that I have had. But, here it is, and hopefully it is worth the wait - Chapter 5!!!
Author's Notes: Thanks to all of you who reviewed. I appreciate it a lot. I also just wanted to ask here, how many people thought Ginny was going to hug Malfoy last chapter? Come on, admit it, most of you did... I'll be honest, even I thought Ginny would hug him for breaking her fall... until the picture of Molly Weasley hugging the poor boy instead popped into my head, and just wouldn't go away until I wrote it into this story... Couldn't you just imagine the look on Draco's face? And in front of the entire school... So much better than my original thought.....
And on to the story:
The Least Likely Prince Charming
Summary: Ginny Weasley makes a vow to give up dating, but fate keeps throwing the least likely prince charming in her path. Can a frog really be a prince in disguise?
Last time, we ended with freaky Quidditch accidents, another Ginny/Draco collision, and a Weasley/Malfoy hug....
Coming Up in this Chapter: Snape makes an appearance, Fred and George show up, and Draco and Ginny spend some quality time in detention... Let's find out what's going to happen now....
Chapter 5: "My Frog's Not Working! Can I Kiss Yours?"
Harry Potter wasn't very happy at the moment. He was, in fact, having a very bad week. It had all started with a Quidditch match. He was playing seeker the match, and had spotted the Slytherin seeker, Draco Malfoy, his mortal enemy since he was eleven years old, making a dive for the Snitch. Harry had, of course, made a dive in the same direction as fast as his broomstick would go, heading straight for his team's best chaser, Ginny Weasley, his best friends little sister. Now, Ginny was quick and smart, a real intelligent player, and started to fly out of the way of his and Draco's dives. Unfortunately, at that point she got slammed by a Bludger, and went flying out of control, taking both him and Draco with her....
Harry had landed on the field, with his ankle twisted underneath him. Which was the first bad thing to ruin his week. His best friend Ron, the team's Keeper, had flown down to check on him. Ron had helped him up, and had helped him limp with the rest of the crowd to find out about how Ginny had fared in her crash. What they had discovered was that Ginny had landed on top of Malfoy, and neither were hurt.
Then, Ron's mother, had hugged Malfoy, causing both Harry and Ron to pause in shock, and Ron's face to grow red in anger as he thought about his poor mum unknowingly hugging the Malfoy git. But then, they had gotten a glimpse at the look on Malfoy's face, and that made it all worth it to see....
Until Molly let go of Draco, and he discovered what was clutched in his hand, and showed it to the whole crowd.... The golden snitch....
But spraining his ankle and losing the Quidditch match to his worst enemy were not the worst things that happened to him that week. It was only the beginning of a downhill slide. The day after the Quidditch match, Snape had come back from whatever "personal business" he had been taking care of (Harry bet it was something for the Order and that it had something to do with what he, Ron, and Hermione were investigating in their spare time), and had come back at his slimiest git best. Points were deducted from Harry, Hermione, and Ron at an alarming rate, and Snape had given Harry a detention yesterday for blowing up a potion in the potions classroom. It hadn't been Harry's fault - that git Malfoy had added extra batwings when his back was turned - but Snape was just looking for reasons to pick on Harry.
So, after a horrible week, the only thing that was keeping Harry from being in a completely horrible mood was the knowledge that Ron's brothers, Fred and George Weasley, were coming to visit. The twins ran a profitable joke shop in Diagon Alley, and could always be counted on to make Harry laugh. Which, after that last week, Harry could really use a laugh.
Ginny Weasley was also looking forward to the arrival of her favorite older brothers. She was smiling as she walked down the hallway, thinking about the fun she was going to have when Fred and George came to visit. The pretty red head never noticed the boys looking at her smiling face with admiring (but very cautious) looks on their faces.
But Draco Malfoy noticed the boys admiring the smiling girl. He felt uneasy about all the looks the girl was getting, but he was really unsure as to why he felt so strange. He could certainly understand why all the boys were looking at Ginny. She was very pretty. She was petite, yet well built, with curves in all the right places. And she had all that gorgeous red hair, which she let grow long, and it ended in waves midway down her back. All that was just the view from far away. As Draco knew from experience, the Weasley girl was just as pretty up close, with her long- lashed brown eyes, wide full lips, and creamy skin. The only thing marring that creamy skin was a trail of light freckles across her small nose, which Draco found cute. All of the sudden, Draco realized he was admiring a WEASLEY......
Malfoy then decided he just needed to find something productive to do, so that he could keep his mind off of the Weasley girl. So, Malfoy headed off to find Crabbe and Goyle for a bit of first-year torture.... But Draco really wasn't looking forward to it very much. Lately, even getting Potter in trouble with Snape was boring... And Draco really didn't know why.
Fred Weasley was excited. He and his brother George had come up with the best prank since the swamp they had created back in the Umbridge torture days. This prank was perfect, and was guaranteed to make their joke shop tons of money. And what better place to debut the newest and best joke gift ever, than on a visit to their old school, Hogwarts, where lots and lots of their customers would see the new product. And his brother George had come up with the perfect prat to show off their new product on....
Vincent Crabbe was hungry. Now, to those who knew him, this was nothing new. What was new was the bag of candies in his hand. He had been "given" these chocolates by a first year Gryffindor that him and Goyle were tormenting earlier. Unfortunately, tormenting first years wasn't as interesting without Malfoy helping out, but apparently Malfoy wasn't as interested in first year torture as he used to be. But Crabbe had this bag of chocolate candies in his hand, and Goyle had taken a couple of other sweets from the kid, so they were heading off to eat their bounty, along with their lunch, in the cafeteria.
In the cafeteria, Ginny Weasley and her fellow Gryffindor's waited patiently. Fred and George had already warned them to pay attention to the Slytherin table today, and that was what they were all doing, because every Gryffidor knew that it whatever it was would be definitely worth watching. As a group, they all watched as Malfoy sat down at his normal spot at the table. Then they watched as Pansy, Crabbe, and Goyle took there places next to him. None of the Slytherin's noticed the stares of anticipation they were getting from most of the other student's in the school...certainly not Vincent Crabbe.
Crabbe was, at this moment, oblivious to the stares, and was getting ready to eat his first one the bag of chocolate frogs he had stolen. That was, until Malfoy interrupted him.
"Aren't you going to share, Crabbe?" Malfoy stated with a smirk. Now, even Crabbe, who was by all accounts "not the brightest", knew that this was not a request for him to give out his bounty. This was a order, and of course Crabbe complied. He obediently handed out a chocolate frog to Malfoy, Pansy, Millicent, Blaise, and Goyle.
Fred and George hid in the corner, watching Crabbe hand out the frogs, and started to laugh. This was even better than they had planned.
As the 7th year Slytherin's began to munch on their chocolate frogs, Malfoy suddenly realized that something was wrong, and stopped with his hand halfway to his mouth. He suddenly remembered that he had never seen these chocolate frogs jump... And then he noticed the interested looks of most of the students in the school directed at his house's table. He thought for a split second, then decided he might as well just sit back and watch.
Goyle was the first to finish off his frog, as he always ate small things in one bite. Crabbe was next to finish, as he took 2 bites to finish the frog. Blaise was next, as he loved chocolate, and quickly wolfed down the candy. Millicent and Pansy both nibbled delicately on their chocolate, until, all of the sudden, they both dropped their frogs in shock as they began to scream at what was happening to Crabbe. He was starting to turn GREEN.....
Suddenly, chaos broke out in the cafeteria as three 17 year old boys turned into frogs, and began to jump around. One of the frogs jumped up, and landed on Pansy's head, which caused her to shriek even louder. Another frog hopped around until it ended up at the teacher's table, sitting in the middle of Snape's plate, which it promptly began to eat. The last frog, well the last frog hopped out the window.
As a prefect, Draco supposed he should get up and help catch the frogs, but watching the chaos was entirely too much fun. So Draco sat back and just took in the scene. That was, until Pansy started to get a greenish hue to her skin and suddenly flicked out a long tongue to catch a fly right by Draco's cheek. Then Draco pushed back his chair, knocking it over, to get away from that grotesque frog tongue. But in trying to get away, Draco tripped over the fallen chair, and ended up falling into the person behind him, who was trying to help catch one of the frogs....
Ginny Weasley was trying to help capture the frog that used to be Blaise Zambini, when someone scampering away from the Slytherin table fell into her. She landed on her back, and found herself staring into a pair of gorgeous grey eyes...
Ron Weasley couldn't believe his eyes. He looked over to see how the other students helping to try to catch the Slytherin frogs to see Malfoy lying on top of his baby sister, as they stared into each other's eyes.
Ginny Weasley realized it was Malfoy who was currently cutting of her air supply, and tried pushing the heavy git off of her.
"Ouch, that hurt, Weasel." Malfoy said as Ginny kicked his leg to try to get him to move off of her. Malfoy moved and stood up, leaving Ginny on the ground, as he looked down at her. "Well, Weasley, I must say, you sure do look good on the floor like that. Exactly where someone like you belongs." Malfoy said with his ever present smirk. Ginny just glared at Malfoy as she looked up at him, and let her Weasley temper get the best of her. The slimey git wasn't even offering to help her up, after knocking her down like that....
Malfoy never knew what hit him, Ginny moved so fast. But as soon as he felt the first Bat Bogey attack, he grabbed his wand and hexed Ginny right back. And it was then that Professor McGonigal and Professor Snape happened on the hexed pair.
"Weasley, Malfoy... I'm very disappointed in you. Two prefects hexing each other... What kind of example are you setting for the rest of the students?" Professor McGonigal said with her usual stern voice and look.
Professor Snape just looked at the hexed pair, with his ever present sneer. "Weasley, you have detention for a week." he said to the petrified girl. "Malfoy, go to the hospital wing and get that fixed" he said to his favorite student.
Professor McGonigal wasn't going to let Draco get off without punishment when her Gryffindor student had gotten detention. She said, "Malfoy, detention for a week. With Miss Weasley... Maybe then you two can learn to solve your differences without hexing each other..." Then she un- petrified Weasley, and sent Malfoy to the hospital wing.
So, that was how Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy ended up in detention together. They both thought they were going to end up with an easy assignment, like cleaning the potions supply closet or scrubbing cauldrons, or feeding Hagrid's new pets. However, Snape and McGonigal had finally come up with a much better detention task, after arguing for an hour. Ginny and Draco were required to research and come up with a solution to fixing the little frog problem created by Ginny's visiting brothers their first night in detention. They figured that Ginny would know her brother's well enough to know how to fix one of their little jokes, and it would therefore save them a lot of time and effort in breaking the frog charm...
Ginny, unfortunately, did know the way to break the charm, as Fred and George had came up with the idea for their little joke from her. But that didn't mean she had to like doing it....
Malfoy stood staring at the box of frogs that used to be his "friends" and looked at the redhead sitting at the desk calmly doing her homework. They hadn't said a word to each other for the entire detention. He had been staring at the frogs for the half-hour of the detention, trying to figure out how to break the charm. He looked at Ginny, and knew she knew the secret. He finally swallowed his pride, and decided to ask her. "So, Weasley, how do we break the darn charm?" he sneered at her.
Ginny looked up from her homework and looked at the sneering blonde git. She looked at her watch, and mentally calculated the time it would take for them to complete their task. She then decided that she had made Malfoy sweat over the task long enough, and got up to stand beside by the frog's box.
"Well, Malfoy, we have to kiss them, and it should break the charm a half hour from the time we kiss them. Like in the fairy tales, the joke is designed for someone to kiss a frog and it should turn into a prince or princess. It's a Valentine's Day joke Fred and George came up with, but it could also have other uses, like turning a bully who steals your candy and lunch money into a frog for a while", she said, while looking at the disgusting frogs in the box that she would have to help kiss.
Malfoy just looked at Ginny like she was nuts. Then he thought of who had created the charmed frogs, and knew that she wasn't. "Darn, evil, idiotic, red-headed devil twins." He muttered as he picked up a frog and puckered his lips, with a sickened look on his face.
Ginny just gave a resigned sigh as she picked up another of the green frogs.
After they had both had kissed all the frogs, Ginny looked at Malfoy, with both of them still holding the last frog they had kissed, and put the frog in her hand towards Malfoy's face.
"Well, Malfoy, it appears my frog's not working. Can I kiss yours?" Ginny joked, as she looked at the blonde boy staring at the frog she put towards his face with a completely disgusted look on his face.
"Well Weasley, I have a list of things I would like you to kiss, but I really don't think a frog is on it." Malfoy said, with a smirk. "But I guess if you like to kiss frogs so much, go ahead" Malfoy said as he shoved the frog in his hand in her face.
"I'm having second thoughts on that offer, Malfoy." Ginny said, as she backed away from the frog. "I've kissed enough frogs. Let me know if you see a prince anywhere." Ginny said, as she put her frog back in the box, grabbed her bookbag, and started to walk out of the room.
Malfoy said, as he watched the red-head walk away, "Well, I guess that means you won't be kissing Potter anytime soon, then, because that git sure is the biggest frog I've ever met."
Ginny paused in the doorway. She looked over her shoulder at Malfoy and said, with a Malfoy-like smirk on her pretty face, "Some might say that about you, Malfoy." She then walked out the door before Malfoy could reply to her remark.
Malfoy watched her go with a small smile on his face. Weasley sure did know how to take his insults, and dish some right back at him. That Weasley girl sure did make his life more interesting that it has been in a long, long time.....
Fate took time from her busy life to watch how things were going, and liked what she saw.... Wait until Draco and Ginny see what she has planned next....
Coming Up: What does Harry want to talk to Ginny about? Why isn't Hermione studying? What's Malfoy up to now? And Neville has an accident.... Coming up in Chapter 6, "I Think Neville Broke the Slipper"
I'm SO SORRY I haven't updated in quite a while. A slight case of writer's block, a very busy couple of weeks, and a car wrecking into my kitchen really affected the amount of writing time that I have had. But, here it is, and hopefully it is worth the wait - Chapter 5!!!
Author's Notes: Thanks to all of you who reviewed. I appreciate it a lot. I also just wanted to ask here, how many people thought Ginny was going to hug Malfoy last chapter? Come on, admit it, most of you did... I'll be honest, even I thought Ginny would hug him for breaking her fall... until the picture of Molly Weasley hugging the poor boy instead popped into my head, and just wouldn't go away until I wrote it into this story... Couldn't you just imagine the look on Draco's face? And in front of the entire school... So much better than my original thought.....
And on to the story:
The Least Likely Prince Charming
Summary: Ginny Weasley makes a vow to give up dating, but fate keeps throwing the least likely prince charming in her path. Can a frog really be a prince in disguise?
Last time, we ended with freaky Quidditch accidents, another Ginny/Draco collision, and a Weasley/Malfoy hug....
Coming Up in this Chapter: Snape makes an appearance, Fred and George show up, and Draco and Ginny spend some quality time in detention... Let's find out what's going to happen now....
Chapter 5: "My Frog's Not Working! Can I Kiss Yours?"
Harry Potter wasn't very happy at the moment. He was, in fact, having a very bad week. It had all started with a Quidditch match. He was playing seeker the match, and had spotted the Slytherin seeker, Draco Malfoy, his mortal enemy since he was eleven years old, making a dive for the Snitch. Harry had, of course, made a dive in the same direction as fast as his broomstick would go, heading straight for his team's best chaser, Ginny Weasley, his best friends little sister. Now, Ginny was quick and smart, a real intelligent player, and started to fly out of the way of his and Draco's dives. Unfortunately, at that point she got slammed by a Bludger, and went flying out of control, taking both him and Draco with her....
Harry had landed on the field, with his ankle twisted underneath him. Which was the first bad thing to ruin his week. His best friend Ron, the team's Keeper, had flown down to check on him. Ron had helped him up, and had helped him limp with the rest of the crowd to find out about how Ginny had fared in her crash. What they had discovered was that Ginny had landed on top of Malfoy, and neither were hurt.
Then, Ron's mother, had hugged Malfoy, causing both Harry and Ron to pause in shock, and Ron's face to grow red in anger as he thought about his poor mum unknowingly hugging the Malfoy git. But then, they had gotten a glimpse at the look on Malfoy's face, and that made it all worth it to see....
Until Molly let go of Draco, and he discovered what was clutched in his hand, and showed it to the whole crowd.... The golden snitch....
But spraining his ankle and losing the Quidditch match to his worst enemy were not the worst things that happened to him that week. It was only the beginning of a downhill slide. The day after the Quidditch match, Snape had come back from whatever "personal business" he had been taking care of (Harry bet it was something for the Order and that it had something to do with what he, Ron, and Hermione were investigating in their spare time), and had come back at his slimiest git best. Points were deducted from Harry, Hermione, and Ron at an alarming rate, and Snape had given Harry a detention yesterday for blowing up a potion in the potions classroom. It hadn't been Harry's fault - that git Malfoy had added extra batwings when his back was turned - but Snape was just looking for reasons to pick on Harry.
So, after a horrible week, the only thing that was keeping Harry from being in a completely horrible mood was the knowledge that Ron's brothers, Fred and George Weasley, were coming to visit. The twins ran a profitable joke shop in Diagon Alley, and could always be counted on to make Harry laugh. Which, after that last week, Harry could really use a laugh.
Ginny Weasley was also looking forward to the arrival of her favorite older brothers. She was smiling as she walked down the hallway, thinking about the fun she was going to have when Fred and George came to visit. The pretty red head never noticed the boys looking at her smiling face with admiring (but very cautious) looks on their faces.
But Draco Malfoy noticed the boys admiring the smiling girl. He felt uneasy about all the looks the girl was getting, but he was really unsure as to why he felt so strange. He could certainly understand why all the boys were looking at Ginny. She was very pretty. She was petite, yet well built, with curves in all the right places. And she had all that gorgeous red hair, which she let grow long, and it ended in waves midway down her back. All that was just the view from far away. As Draco knew from experience, the Weasley girl was just as pretty up close, with her long- lashed brown eyes, wide full lips, and creamy skin. The only thing marring that creamy skin was a trail of light freckles across her small nose, which Draco found cute. All of the sudden, Draco realized he was admiring a WEASLEY......
Malfoy then decided he just needed to find something productive to do, so that he could keep his mind off of the Weasley girl. So, Malfoy headed off to find Crabbe and Goyle for a bit of first-year torture.... But Draco really wasn't looking forward to it very much. Lately, even getting Potter in trouble with Snape was boring... And Draco really didn't know why.
Fred Weasley was excited. He and his brother George had come up with the best prank since the swamp they had created back in the Umbridge torture days. This prank was perfect, and was guaranteed to make their joke shop tons of money. And what better place to debut the newest and best joke gift ever, than on a visit to their old school, Hogwarts, where lots and lots of their customers would see the new product. And his brother George had come up with the perfect prat to show off their new product on....
Vincent Crabbe was hungry. Now, to those who knew him, this was nothing new. What was new was the bag of candies in his hand. He had been "given" these chocolates by a first year Gryffindor that him and Goyle were tormenting earlier. Unfortunately, tormenting first years wasn't as interesting without Malfoy helping out, but apparently Malfoy wasn't as interested in first year torture as he used to be. But Crabbe had this bag of chocolate candies in his hand, and Goyle had taken a couple of other sweets from the kid, so they were heading off to eat their bounty, along with their lunch, in the cafeteria.
In the cafeteria, Ginny Weasley and her fellow Gryffindor's waited patiently. Fred and George had already warned them to pay attention to the Slytherin table today, and that was what they were all doing, because every Gryffidor knew that it whatever it was would be definitely worth watching. As a group, they all watched as Malfoy sat down at his normal spot at the table. Then they watched as Pansy, Crabbe, and Goyle took there places next to him. None of the Slytherin's noticed the stares of anticipation they were getting from most of the other student's in the school...certainly not Vincent Crabbe.
Crabbe was, at this moment, oblivious to the stares, and was getting ready to eat his first one the bag of chocolate frogs he had stolen. That was, until Malfoy interrupted him.
"Aren't you going to share, Crabbe?" Malfoy stated with a smirk. Now, even Crabbe, who was by all accounts "not the brightest", knew that this was not a request for him to give out his bounty. This was a order, and of course Crabbe complied. He obediently handed out a chocolate frog to Malfoy, Pansy, Millicent, Blaise, and Goyle.
Fred and George hid in the corner, watching Crabbe hand out the frogs, and started to laugh. This was even better than they had planned.
As the 7th year Slytherin's began to munch on their chocolate frogs, Malfoy suddenly realized that something was wrong, and stopped with his hand halfway to his mouth. He suddenly remembered that he had never seen these chocolate frogs jump... And then he noticed the interested looks of most of the students in the school directed at his house's table. He thought for a split second, then decided he might as well just sit back and watch.
Goyle was the first to finish off his frog, as he always ate small things in one bite. Crabbe was next to finish, as he took 2 bites to finish the frog. Blaise was next, as he loved chocolate, and quickly wolfed down the candy. Millicent and Pansy both nibbled delicately on their chocolate, until, all of the sudden, they both dropped their frogs in shock as they began to scream at what was happening to Crabbe. He was starting to turn GREEN.....
Suddenly, chaos broke out in the cafeteria as three 17 year old boys turned into frogs, and began to jump around. One of the frogs jumped up, and landed on Pansy's head, which caused her to shriek even louder. Another frog hopped around until it ended up at the teacher's table, sitting in the middle of Snape's plate, which it promptly began to eat. The last frog, well the last frog hopped out the window.
As a prefect, Draco supposed he should get up and help catch the frogs, but watching the chaos was entirely too much fun. So Draco sat back and just took in the scene. That was, until Pansy started to get a greenish hue to her skin and suddenly flicked out a long tongue to catch a fly right by Draco's cheek. Then Draco pushed back his chair, knocking it over, to get away from that grotesque frog tongue. But in trying to get away, Draco tripped over the fallen chair, and ended up falling into the person behind him, who was trying to help catch one of the frogs....
Ginny Weasley was trying to help capture the frog that used to be Blaise Zambini, when someone scampering away from the Slytherin table fell into her. She landed on her back, and found herself staring into a pair of gorgeous grey eyes...
Ron Weasley couldn't believe his eyes. He looked over to see how the other students helping to try to catch the Slytherin frogs to see Malfoy lying on top of his baby sister, as they stared into each other's eyes.
Ginny Weasley realized it was Malfoy who was currently cutting of her air supply, and tried pushing the heavy git off of her.
"Ouch, that hurt, Weasel." Malfoy said as Ginny kicked his leg to try to get him to move off of her. Malfoy moved and stood up, leaving Ginny on the ground, as he looked down at her. "Well, Weasley, I must say, you sure do look good on the floor like that. Exactly where someone like you belongs." Malfoy said with his ever present smirk. Ginny just glared at Malfoy as she looked up at him, and let her Weasley temper get the best of her. The slimey git wasn't even offering to help her up, after knocking her down like that....
Malfoy never knew what hit him, Ginny moved so fast. But as soon as he felt the first Bat Bogey attack, he grabbed his wand and hexed Ginny right back. And it was then that Professor McGonigal and Professor Snape happened on the hexed pair.
"Weasley, Malfoy... I'm very disappointed in you. Two prefects hexing each other... What kind of example are you setting for the rest of the students?" Professor McGonigal said with her usual stern voice and look.
Professor Snape just looked at the hexed pair, with his ever present sneer. "Weasley, you have detention for a week." he said to the petrified girl. "Malfoy, go to the hospital wing and get that fixed" he said to his favorite student.
Professor McGonigal wasn't going to let Draco get off without punishment when her Gryffindor student had gotten detention. She said, "Malfoy, detention for a week. With Miss Weasley... Maybe then you two can learn to solve your differences without hexing each other..." Then she un- petrified Weasley, and sent Malfoy to the hospital wing.
So, that was how Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy ended up in detention together. They both thought they were going to end up with an easy assignment, like cleaning the potions supply closet or scrubbing cauldrons, or feeding Hagrid's new pets. However, Snape and McGonigal had finally come up with a much better detention task, after arguing for an hour. Ginny and Draco were required to research and come up with a solution to fixing the little frog problem created by Ginny's visiting brothers their first night in detention. They figured that Ginny would know her brother's well enough to know how to fix one of their little jokes, and it would therefore save them a lot of time and effort in breaking the frog charm...
Ginny, unfortunately, did know the way to break the charm, as Fred and George had came up with the idea for their little joke from her. But that didn't mean she had to like doing it....
Malfoy stood staring at the box of frogs that used to be his "friends" and looked at the redhead sitting at the desk calmly doing her homework. They hadn't said a word to each other for the entire detention. He had been staring at the frogs for the half-hour of the detention, trying to figure out how to break the charm. He looked at Ginny, and knew she knew the secret. He finally swallowed his pride, and decided to ask her. "So, Weasley, how do we break the darn charm?" he sneered at her.
Ginny looked up from her homework and looked at the sneering blonde git. She looked at her watch, and mentally calculated the time it would take for them to complete their task. She then decided that she had made Malfoy sweat over the task long enough, and got up to stand beside by the frog's box.
"Well, Malfoy, we have to kiss them, and it should break the charm a half hour from the time we kiss them. Like in the fairy tales, the joke is designed for someone to kiss a frog and it should turn into a prince or princess. It's a Valentine's Day joke Fred and George came up with, but it could also have other uses, like turning a bully who steals your candy and lunch money into a frog for a while", she said, while looking at the disgusting frogs in the box that she would have to help kiss.
Malfoy just looked at Ginny like she was nuts. Then he thought of who had created the charmed frogs, and knew that she wasn't. "Darn, evil, idiotic, red-headed devil twins." He muttered as he picked up a frog and puckered his lips, with a sickened look on his face.
Ginny just gave a resigned sigh as she picked up another of the green frogs.
After they had both had kissed all the frogs, Ginny looked at Malfoy, with both of them still holding the last frog they had kissed, and put the frog in her hand towards Malfoy's face.
"Well, Malfoy, it appears my frog's not working. Can I kiss yours?" Ginny joked, as she looked at the blonde boy staring at the frog she put towards his face with a completely disgusted look on his face.
"Well Weasley, I have a list of things I would like you to kiss, but I really don't think a frog is on it." Malfoy said, with a smirk. "But I guess if you like to kiss frogs so much, go ahead" Malfoy said as he shoved the frog in his hand in her face.
"I'm having second thoughts on that offer, Malfoy." Ginny said, as she backed away from the frog. "I've kissed enough frogs. Let me know if you see a prince anywhere." Ginny said, as she put her frog back in the box, grabbed her bookbag, and started to walk out of the room.
Malfoy said, as he watched the red-head walk away, "Well, I guess that means you won't be kissing Potter anytime soon, then, because that git sure is the biggest frog I've ever met."
Ginny paused in the doorway. She looked over her shoulder at Malfoy and said, with a Malfoy-like smirk on her pretty face, "Some might say that about you, Malfoy." She then walked out the door before Malfoy could reply to her remark.
Malfoy watched her go with a small smile on his face. Weasley sure did know how to take his insults, and dish some right back at him. That Weasley girl sure did make his life more interesting that it has been in a long, long time.....
Fate took time from her busy life to watch how things were going, and liked what she saw.... Wait until Draco and Ginny see what she has planned next....
Coming Up: What does Harry want to talk to Ginny about? Why isn't Hermione studying? What's Malfoy up to now? And Neville has an accident.... Coming up in Chapter 6, "I Think Neville Broke the Slipper"