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A/N: Thank you for all the great reviews.... Sorry about the cliffhangers.... They were necessary in the story though.... And Romm, I like your observation about it always being Harry Potter Versus Fate in your review... I do think it always seems to go that way. I think it's part of the hero complex he has going on.... So, anyway, onward to what you were waiting for, the answers to the last cliffhanger (or not.... [cue evil laughter and scary music]).
The Least Likely Prince Charming
Chapter 10
Harry Potter Versus Fate
Once upon a time, there was a boy named Harry Potter. It could be argued that he was the luckiest or the unluckiest boy in the whole wizarding world. Those on the side arguing that he was the luckiest, would often state his miraculous survival of Voldemort's death curse on that long ago day that marked the first defeat of the Dark Lord as evidence for their case. They would also argue that Harry's triumph over "He Who Must Not Be Named" in his attempts to rise again, his survival when the Dark Lord did rise again, using Harry as an instrument, and Harry's survival the numerous other times Voldemort tried to gain power, would make him the luckiest boy. Those on the other side of the fence, the more astute ones, realized that Harry was in fact very unlucky. He lost his parents as a child, he was forever being marked for death by Voldemort and his supporters, he had been marked since infancy as someone great and special, when all he wanted to be was a normal wizard boy. Draco Malfoy fell into the latter of these categories, but not for the reasons most believed. Draco had other reasons for thinking Harry to be the luckiest boy in the world.
For Draco has always been jealous of what Harry had. All of the things that Harry had, and took for granted. Harry had an adoring group of fans among the wizarding world, a whole world that loved him since birth for merely surviving. Harry had the ability to make loyal and true friends at the drop of the hat - he had friends that would give their lives for him at any moment. (Meanwhile, Draco had "friends" who would probably eat him if there was ever a shortage of food at Hogwarts, and who would kill him on the very bidding of the Dark Lord.) Harry had a bunch of surrogate parents, who loved him as if he were their own, and who would always be there for him, no matter what. (Draco had parents who didn't even know he was there, unless it was to inquire about his age or to tell him how disappointed he was that his only son wasn't good enough to be a "Malfoy"). Most importantly, Harry had the love of a beautiful girl with spirit, courage, and passion, and kindness, who was everything that Draco ever wanted in a girl (if he had ever allowed himself to dare to dream of having someone to love, who would love him back - which he never had before realizing the extent of what he felt for Ginny.) To Draco, Harry was the luckiest git that ever lived, and Draco hated him more than ever before.
Draco was currently spending the moment shadowing the objects of his all consuming love and hate around the tiny village of Hogsmeade. He had dragged along Crabbe and Goyle, and the two lugs were really too stupid to realize that they were following Ginny, Harry, Ron and Hermione around the tiny village. They apparently just thought Draco was being impatient, as usual, as he stood tapping his foot and glaring at Crabbe, while Crabbe paid for the items he was buying. Draco was impatient, because they were already losing Harry and Ginny.
Ginny had not noticed her "shadow" that day, for she was too busy thinking. It had become apparent to her throughout the day that Harry thought he had developed a "thing" for her. It had actually become pretty obvious to her when he had tried to put his arm around her on the trip to the village. Ginny had quickly avoided his arm, but the discomfort she had felt with his attempt was a little surprising to her, as she was seriously considering starting a more than friendship relationship with Harry if he were to ask.
But Ginny wasn't entirely sure what she wanted, and the constant pressure was causing her to have a really bad day. In addition to putting up with little "hints" from Ron, and knowing smiles from Hermione as they saw her and Harry spending the day together, she had already had to break up 3 fights between Ron and Hermione. What was really irritating about those fights was that Hermione and Ron were fighting about the silliest things.
Currently, the foursome was in Zonko's browsing at the latest joke items, to see if they could give Fred and George any new ideas for their joke shop. They were only in the store for a few moments, when the fighting began for the fourth time that day.
Hermione said, "I was talking to Susan Adams this morning, and she said that she heard a rumor that Snape was going to give us a pop potions quiz on Monday."
Ron just looked at Hermione a moment before replying. "What are you worried about, you've probably already read the whole book..."
Hermione had glared back at Ron. "Why are you always making fun of me?"
"I'm not making fun of you." He defended himself. "You do have the book read up until the end, don't you?" He asked, with a smug smile on his face.
"Yes, which is better than you. You probably haven't even opened the book yet." Hermione gave Ron the glare he had begun to refer to as the "Death Glare".
Ron's face began to get red. "I did too."
"Did not." yelled Hermione.
And so it continued in that vain for a couple of minutes, until Ginny had finally gotten completely fed up with her brother and her friend.
"Silencio" she stated, with her withdrawn wand pointing at Hermione and Ron. Blissful silence greeted the crowd at Zonko's. Hermione and Ron both glared, with hands covering their voiceless mouths, as Ginny and Harry quickly slipped away.
"What is it about Zonko's?" Harry asked with a beleaguered sigh, after they had stepped out the door and headed on their way down the street.
"I don't know. What is it about the hallways, the great hall, the kitchens, the prefects bathroom, the Griffindor common room, the library....." Ginny had stated with an exasperated look on her face. "I wish they would just get a room and snog each other senseless already."
"Why don't we get a room and snog each other senseless?" Harry asked. " We could sure use it after putting up with those two." He said. He saw the slightly shocked look on Ginny's face, and quickly added, "Just kidding, Gin."
In the shadows, not far from the two students, a lone person, having left his two sidekicks in Zonko's, was eavesdropping on the couple. When the boy had asked the girl to go somewhere and snog him, the boys knuckles had turned white as they gripped a mahogany colored wand in a pale, immaculately manicured hand. The grip relaxed slightly, as he saw the look on the girl's face at the boy's remark, and heard the boy's quickly uttered denial of seriousness in his request.
A commotion on the street behind him caused the boy in the shadows to step back into the alley he was hiding in to better conceal himself. The boy and girl he was watching turned around to see the commotion, and saw the pair headed down the street.
"Darn, they have their voices back." The girl whispered to the boy.
"Well, at least they're not angry at each other anymore." Harry observed.
"What did you guys think you were doing, cursing us like that then leaving us there?" Ron yelled.
"Uh-oh, even his ears are red. That means he is REALLY ticked off." Ginny mumbled to Harry out of the side of her mouth.
Hermione was slightly calmer in her addition to Ron's tirade. "That was a horrible thing to do to your friends." She stated, as she glared at Ginny and Harry.
Ginny sighed, and spoke up. "WELL, someone had to shut you guys up. All you do anymore is fight. You were acting like children."
Ron glared at his baby sister. He never was able to take criticism from her very well, and today was no exception. "If you want me to act like a child....." Ron said, and he pulled out his wand and said a hex
At the same time, the boy in the shadow's whipped out his wand and pointed a hex at the red haired boy... As Ginny saw her brother begin to hex her, she grabbed her wand and aimed a hex at him.... Which at the same time, Hermione aimed a hex at Ginny, in an attempt to stop her from hexing Ron.....
After the bolts of light from the wands had cleared, everyone looked at each other, expecting to see Ginny and Ron in some state of mid-hex...
It wasn't until a couple of moments latter that Ron, Ginny, and Hermione turned to see Harry, laying on the ground, a messed up jumble of hexes.
"But I aimed the jelly legs hex at YOU." Ron said to Ginny in surprise.
"And I aimed the Bat Bogey hex at you, Ron. There is no possible way it could have hit Harry. Harry is beside me, and you are in front of me. " said Ginny.
"Maybe it bounced off of Hermione's hex?" Ron suggested.
"Well I sure didn't aim the Tarantallegra hex at HARRY." Hermione said.
"Then how did it hit Harry?" asked Ginny.
"I don't know." All three confused teenagers said simultaneously.
There was a pause, as the three students observed their fallen companion. After a moment of examination, Hermione mumbled something to herself, and looked at Ginny and Ron.
"And just who did the Serpensortia, anyway?" Hermione asked to the group.
Everyone gave each other puzzled looks, and shrugged their shoulders.
"Well, this is a freak accident of fate if I ever saw one." Was Ron's comment, as they used the levitation spell to carry the fallen Harry away.
The boy in the shadows watched the group, and he was surprised at the outcome. He had aimed his Serpensortia curse at Ron, not at Harry. Interestingly enough, the particular jumble of curses had an interesting effect on the "Boy Who Lived". Jelly Legs normally left a person with legs like jelly, tarantallegra made a person dance uncontrollably, the bat bogey hex caused the person's face and body to be attacked by invisible bat creatures, and serpensortia caused a large snake to attack a person. When combined, the curses left the person in a snake-like form, unable to move, twitching on the ground as he was being attacked by the bogeys underneath the scales. Draco made a mental note that he would have to remember that curse.....
LATER THAT DAY, IN GRYFFINDOR COMMON ROOM
Ginny was waiting patiently for Harry to come back from Madame Pomfrey's, and as she waited, she sat and contemplated what she would say to Harry. As bad as it was for Harry, she was glad that she had the break from him that his treatment for the curses had given her. It had given her time to really think, before making a decision what she would do about her and Harry. As she sat, she heard the portrait door open, and saw a tall boy with messy dark hair enter the room, and smile at her.
"Hi, Ginny." Harry said, and sat down next to her on the couch. Ginny sat and moved over on the couch as far away from as she could.
"Harry, we have to talk." Ginny said. "Not to sound conceited or anything, but I think that you like me as more than a friend. If you don't, then I misread the whole thing, but I've been getting signs that you do."
"I do." Harry said honestly. "You're my best friend's sister, we've known each other for years, and we get along well. And you are really pretty."
"So, will you go out with me?" Harry asked, earnestly.
"Harry, did you hear what you said?" Ginny asked. "You went over all your reasons for liking me, but none of them had anything to really do with ME."
Harry looked at Ginny for a moment, and digested what she said.
"But I really like you Ginny." Harry said.
Ginny looked back at Harry, and shook her head sadly. "You don't like me in that kind of way, Harry. I'm glad I had this time this afternoon to really think, because I came to a lot of conclusions. If you had asked me out before now, I might have said yes, but after thinking about it, I know better. We're friends, Harry." Ginny said. Then she continued "I don't feel that way about you either. I'm your friend. Some friendships turn into romantic love, and that's good for them, but it's not in the cards for us. Because I don't feel any passion for you. I want what Ron and Hermione have, that kind of passion they have that causes them to fight one and other in an attempt to deny it.... That's what I want. And I'm willing to wait for it." Ginny finished her speech, and glanced at Harry.
Harry had a sad look on his face, as he remained quiet, sitting beside Ginny. He didn't speak for a moment, as he avoided Ginny's sad brown eyes.
"I would never hurt you, Ginny." Harry said, in a last attempt to convince her.
"But you would never truly love ME Harry. You love the idea of me, your best friend's sister, pretty girl you've known your whole life, a member of a family you love very much. And you probably do love me. Heck, I love you. But it's not the right kind of love. I love you like a friend and brother, Harry. And you love me like a sister. That isn't what I want, and it probably really isn't what you really want either." Ginny said.
There was silence for a few moments, as they sat there, side by side, with sad looks on their faces.
Then Ginny looked at Harry with a sad smile. "Someday, you'll thank me for this, you know. You'll meet that girl who turns your world so upside down that you won't know whether to fight her or snog her...." Ginny said.
Harry got a serious look on his face, and looked at Ginny again, before asking, "Just out of curiosity - if I had asked you when we were at Hogsmeade today to date me, like I was planning to before the whole hex thing- what would you have said?"
"Honestly, I would have said yes. But that would have been a mistake. I'm glad I had more time to think about it, because everything I said is true. I want the kind of passion that Ron and Hermione have." She said.
Harry looked at Ginny and smiled sadly. "Well if your only criteria for your prince charming is that you fight all the time with him, then I guess Malfoy is the only candidate in the running at the moment. You two fight like cats and dogs." Harry attempted to joke, with a false laugh.
"Very funny" Ginny said sarcastically. "Are we friends? Is everything okay now?" Ginny asked, with an anxious look on her face.
"Friends." Harry said, with a smile, as he got up to leave.
Ginny was happy that the confrontation was over, and that Harry took it so well. But as she watched Harry leave, she started to think about what Harry had jokingly said about her and Malfoy. She quickly rejected the idea, --"he's a Malfoy" she thought-- but somewhere, hidden deep inside herself, she continued to contemplate the idea......
Fate was watching, and smiling.... Poor, poor Harry... But drastic times call for drastic measures, and fate is not above arranging a freak accident or two to achieve her goals...
Coming up: What will happen next? Will Draco admit his feelings to Ginny? Will Ginny ever admit her feelings to herself? And how much longer will Harry, Hermione, and Ron be in the dark about what the rest of the school knows? Find out in Chapter 11, "True Lies"
A/N: Thank you for all the great reviews.... Sorry about the cliffhangers.... They were necessary in the story though.... And Romm, I like your observation about it always being Harry Potter Versus Fate in your review... I do think it always seems to go that way. I think it's part of the hero complex he has going on.... So, anyway, onward to what you were waiting for, the answers to the last cliffhanger (or not.... [cue evil laughter and scary music]).
The Least Likely Prince Charming
Chapter 10
Harry Potter Versus Fate
Once upon a time, there was a boy named Harry Potter. It could be argued that he was the luckiest or the unluckiest boy in the whole wizarding world. Those on the side arguing that he was the luckiest, would often state his miraculous survival of Voldemort's death curse on that long ago day that marked the first defeat of the Dark Lord as evidence for their case. They would also argue that Harry's triumph over "He Who Must Not Be Named" in his attempts to rise again, his survival when the Dark Lord did rise again, using Harry as an instrument, and Harry's survival the numerous other times Voldemort tried to gain power, would make him the luckiest boy. Those on the other side of the fence, the more astute ones, realized that Harry was in fact very unlucky. He lost his parents as a child, he was forever being marked for death by Voldemort and his supporters, he had been marked since infancy as someone great and special, when all he wanted to be was a normal wizard boy. Draco Malfoy fell into the latter of these categories, but not for the reasons most believed. Draco had other reasons for thinking Harry to be the luckiest boy in the world.
For Draco has always been jealous of what Harry had. All of the things that Harry had, and took for granted. Harry had an adoring group of fans among the wizarding world, a whole world that loved him since birth for merely surviving. Harry had the ability to make loyal and true friends at the drop of the hat - he had friends that would give their lives for him at any moment. (Meanwhile, Draco had "friends" who would probably eat him if there was ever a shortage of food at Hogwarts, and who would kill him on the very bidding of the Dark Lord.) Harry had a bunch of surrogate parents, who loved him as if he were their own, and who would always be there for him, no matter what. (Draco had parents who didn't even know he was there, unless it was to inquire about his age or to tell him how disappointed he was that his only son wasn't good enough to be a "Malfoy"). Most importantly, Harry had the love of a beautiful girl with spirit, courage, and passion, and kindness, who was everything that Draco ever wanted in a girl (if he had ever allowed himself to dare to dream of having someone to love, who would love him back - which he never had before realizing the extent of what he felt for Ginny.) To Draco, Harry was the luckiest git that ever lived, and Draco hated him more than ever before.
Draco was currently spending the moment shadowing the objects of his all consuming love and hate around the tiny village of Hogsmeade. He had dragged along Crabbe and Goyle, and the two lugs were really too stupid to realize that they were following Ginny, Harry, Ron and Hermione around the tiny village. They apparently just thought Draco was being impatient, as usual, as he stood tapping his foot and glaring at Crabbe, while Crabbe paid for the items he was buying. Draco was impatient, because they were already losing Harry and Ginny.
Ginny had not noticed her "shadow" that day, for she was too busy thinking. It had become apparent to her throughout the day that Harry thought he had developed a "thing" for her. It had actually become pretty obvious to her when he had tried to put his arm around her on the trip to the village. Ginny had quickly avoided his arm, but the discomfort she had felt with his attempt was a little surprising to her, as she was seriously considering starting a more than friendship relationship with Harry if he were to ask.
But Ginny wasn't entirely sure what she wanted, and the constant pressure was causing her to have a really bad day. In addition to putting up with little "hints" from Ron, and knowing smiles from Hermione as they saw her and Harry spending the day together, she had already had to break up 3 fights between Ron and Hermione. What was really irritating about those fights was that Hermione and Ron were fighting about the silliest things.
Currently, the foursome was in Zonko's browsing at the latest joke items, to see if they could give Fred and George any new ideas for their joke shop. They were only in the store for a few moments, when the fighting began for the fourth time that day.
Hermione said, "I was talking to Susan Adams this morning, and she said that she heard a rumor that Snape was going to give us a pop potions quiz on Monday."
Ron just looked at Hermione a moment before replying. "What are you worried about, you've probably already read the whole book..."
Hermione had glared back at Ron. "Why are you always making fun of me?"
"I'm not making fun of you." He defended himself. "You do have the book read up until the end, don't you?" He asked, with a smug smile on his face.
"Yes, which is better than you. You probably haven't even opened the book yet." Hermione gave Ron the glare he had begun to refer to as the "Death Glare".
Ron's face began to get red. "I did too."
"Did not." yelled Hermione.
And so it continued in that vain for a couple of minutes, until Ginny had finally gotten completely fed up with her brother and her friend.
"Silencio" she stated, with her withdrawn wand pointing at Hermione and Ron. Blissful silence greeted the crowd at Zonko's. Hermione and Ron both glared, with hands covering their voiceless mouths, as Ginny and Harry quickly slipped away.
"What is it about Zonko's?" Harry asked with a beleaguered sigh, after they had stepped out the door and headed on their way down the street.
"I don't know. What is it about the hallways, the great hall, the kitchens, the prefects bathroom, the Griffindor common room, the library....." Ginny had stated with an exasperated look on her face. "I wish they would just get a room and snog each other senseless already."
"Why don't we get a room and snog each other senseless?" Harry asked. " We could sure use it after putting up with those two." He said. He saw the slightly shocked look on Ginny's face, and quickly added, "Just kidding, Gin."
In the shadows, not far from the two students, a lone person, having left his two sidekicks in Zonko's, was eavesdropping on the couple. When the boy had asked the girl to go somewhere and snog him, the boys knuckles had turned white as they gripped a mahogany colored wand in a pale, immaculately manicured hand. The grip relaxed slightly, as he saw the look on the girl's face at the boy's remark, and heard the boy's quickly uttered denial of seriousness in his request.
A commotion on the street behind him caused the boy in the shadows to step back into the alley he was hiding in to better conceal himself. The boy and girl he was watching turned around to see the commotion, and saw the pair headed down the street.
"Darn, they have their voices back." The girl whispered to the boy.
"Well, at least they're not angry at each other anymore." Harry observed.
"What did you guys think you were doing, cursing us like that then leaving us there?" Ron yelled.
"Uh-oh, even his ears are red. That means he is REALLY ticked off." Ginny mumbled to Harry out of the side of her mouth.
Hermione was slightly calmer in her addition to Ron's tirade. "That was a horrible thing to do to your friends." She stated, as she glared at Ginny and Harry.
Ginny sighed, and spoke up. "WELL, someone had to shut you guys up. All you do anymore is fight. You were acting like children."
Ron glared at his baby sister. He never was able to take criticism from her very well, and today was no exception. "If you want me to act like a child....." Ron said, and he pulled out his wand and said a hex
At the same time, the boy in the shadow's whipped out his wand and pointed a hex at the red haired boy... As Ginny saw her brother begin to hex her, she grabbed her wand and aimed a hex at him.... Which at the same time, Hermione aimed a hex at Ginny, in an attempt to stop her from hexing Ron.....
After the bolts of light from the wands had cleared, everyone looked at each other, expecting to see Ginny and Ron in some state of mid-hex...
It wasn't until a couple of moments latter that Ron, Ginny, and Hermione turned to see Harry, laying on the ground, a messed up jumble of hexes.
"But I aimed the jelly legs hex at YOU." Ron said to Ginny in surprise.
"And I aimed the Bat Bogey hex at you, Ron. There is no possible way it could have hit Harry. Harry is beside me, and you are in front of me. " said Ginny.
"Maybe it bounced off of Hermione's hex?" Ron suggested.
"Well I sure didn't aim the Tarantallegra hex at HARRY." Hermione said.
"Then how did it hit Harry?" asked Ginny.
"I don't know." All three confused teenagers said simultaneously.
There was a pause, as the three students observed their fallen companion. After a moment of examination, Hermione mumbled something to herself, and looked at Ginny and Ron.
"And just who did the Serpensortia, anyway?" Hermione asked to the group.
Everyone gave each other puzzled looks, and shrugged their shoulders.
"Well, this is a freak accident of fate if I ever saw one." Was Ron's comment, as they used the levitation spell to carry the fallen Harry away.
The boy in the shadows watched the group, and he was surprised at the outcome. He had aimed his Serpensortia curse at Ron, not at Harry. Interestingly enough, the particular jumble of curses had an interesting effect on the "Boy Who Lived". Jelly Legs normally left a person with legs like jelly, tarantallegra made a person dance uncontrollably, the bat bogey hex caused the person's face and body to be attacked by invisible bat creatures, and serpensortia caused a large snake to attack a person. When combined, the curses left the person in a snake-like form, unable to move, twitching on the ground as he was being attacked by the bogeys underneath the scales. Draco made a mental note that he would have to remember that curse.....
LATER THAT DAY, IN GRYFFINDOR COMMON ROOM
Ginny was waiting patiently for Harry to come back from Madame Pomfrey's, and as she waited, she sat and contemplated what she would say to Harry. As bad as it was for Harry, she was glad that she had the break from him that his treatment for the curses had given her. It had given her time to really think, before making a decision what she would do about her and Harry. As she sat, she heard the portrait door open, and saw a tall boy with messy dark hair enter the room, and smile at her.
"Hi, Ginny." Harry said, and sat down next to her on the couch. Ginny sat and moved over on the couch as far away from as she could.
"Harry, we have to talk." Ginny said. "Not to sound conceited or anything, but I think that you like me as more than a friend. If you don't, then I misread the whole thing, but I've been getting signs that you do."
"I do." Harry said honestly. "You're my best friend's sister, we've known each other for years, and we get along well. And you are really pretty."
"So, will you go out with me?" Harry asked, earnestly.
"Harry, did you hear what you said?" Ginny asked. "You went over all your reasons for liking me, but none of them had anything to really do with ME."
Harry looked at Ginny for a moment, and digested what she said.
"But I really like you Ginny." Harry said.
Ginny looked back at Harry, and shook her head sadly. "You don't like me in that kind of way, Harry. I'm glad I had this time this afternoon to really think, because I came to a lot of conclusions. If you had asked me out before now, I might have said yes, but after thinking about it, I know better. We're friends, Harry." Ginny said. Then she continued "I don't feel that way about you either. I'm your friend. Some friendships turn into romantic love, and that's good for them, but it's not in the cards for us. Because I don't feel any passion for you. I want what Ron and Hermione have, that kind of passion they have that causes them to fight one and other in an attempt to deny it.... That's what I want. And I'm willing to wait for it." Ginny finished her speech, and glanced at Harry.
Harry had a sad look on his face, as he remained quiet, sitting beside Ginny. He didn't speak for a moment, as he avoided Ginny's sad brown eyes.
"I would never hurt you, Ginny." Harry said, in a last attempt to convince her.
"But you would never truly love ME Harry. You love the idea of me, your best friend's sister, pretty girl you've known your whole life, a member of a family you love very much. And you probably do love me. Heck, I love you. But it's not the right kind of love. I love you like a friend and brother, Harry. And you love me like a sister. That isn't what I want, and it probably really isn't what you really want either." Ginny said.
There was silence for a few moments, as they sat there, side by side, with sad looks on their faces.
Then Ginny looked at Harry with a sad smile. "Someday, you'll thank me for this, you know. You'll meet that girl who turns your world so upside down that you won't know whether to fight her or snog her...." Ginny said.
Harry got a serious look on his face, and looked at Ginny again, before asking, "Just out of curiosity - if I had asked you when we were at Hogsmeade today to date me, like I was planning to before the whole hex thing- what would you have said?"
"Honestly, I would have said yes. But that would have been a mistake. I'm glad I had more time to think about it, because everything I said is true. I want the kind of passion that Ron and Hermione have." She said.
Harry looked at Ginny and smiled sadly. "Well if your only criteria for your prince charming is that you fight all the time with him, then I guess Malfoy is the only candidate in the running at the moment. You two fight like cats and dogs." Harry attempted to joke, with a false laugh.
"Very funny" Ginny said sarcastically. "Are we friends? Is everything okay now?" Ginny asked, with an anxious look on her face.
"Friends." Harry said, with a smile, as he got up to leave.
Ginny was happy that the confrontation was over, and that Harry took it so well. But as she watched Harry leave, she started to think about what Harry had jokingly said about her and Malfoy. She quickly rejected the idea, --"he's a Malfoy" she thought-- but somewhere, hidden deep inside herself, she continued to contemplate the idea......
Fate was watching, and smiling.... Poor, poor Harry... But drastic times call for drastic measures, and fate is not above arranging a freak accident or two to achieve her goals...
Coming up: What will happen next? Will Draco admit his feelings to Ginny? Will Ginny ever admit her feelings to herself? And how much longer will Harry, Hermione, and Ron be in the dark about what the rest of the school knows? Find out in Chapter 11, "True Lies"