I know I haven't written in a while. I have really lost the muse for this story. But, due to popular request, I am going to try to finish it. I really only have a couple more chapters left. One or two last trials to put the couple through before the happy ending. I think in the beginning I had planned on making this a three part story, with part 2 being a Ron and Hermione story and part 3 being a Harry Potter and some girl pairing, with Draco and Ginny playing secondary parts, but I don't think that will happen. But I will finish this story, now that I have found a little time (and inspiration) to finish it. And I will write an ending that will leave me slightly open to (maybe someday) picking up with the Ron and Hermione part 2 I had originally planned. I'm sorry to all of you who really loved this story. And I will finish. I promise! But as for other Harry Potter stories, I don't know. I have kind of moved on from writing for this genre, and have recently had a muse whisper to me about another genre… but maybe when the 6th book comes out, who knows! I don't know anything….

Anyway… Back to the story. We ended up with the kiss we all waited for, right? But, as everyone knows, fairy tale endings are NEVER than easy….

Welcome back to… after a very long wait… and due to popular demand….

The Least Likely Prince Charming

Chapter 15: The Attack of the Evil Stepsisters

Harry Potter was sleeping… or at least trying to. But trying to sleep in a room where Ron Weasley lay snoring in the next bed really was impossible. And since the latest detention incident, Snape had put a spell on his wand to make it "only usable for educational purposes and in emergencies where the owner's life is threatened". As Harry lay contemplating whether or not his getting enough sleep would be an "educational purpose" or if lack of sleep was "threatening his life", he heard the creak of the door opening. Being the target of so many of Voldemort's underlings, he knew to immediately grab his wand. He closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, holding his wand in readiness, an appropriate hex just waiting to be uttered. But the person did not come towards him, as he heard the footsteps heading toward his trunk, and the quiet squeak of the trunk opening. Harry opened his eyes and watched as a familiar person with bright red hair looked in his trunk.

As the girl looked in his trunk, Harry lay wondering what she needed so desperately that she would have to borrow it in the middle of the night without asking. And all conclusions he came up with were not good, given that he was just as overprotective as the Weasley brothers, and slightly jealous of her meeting a boyfriend secretly, if he were to admit the truth to himself. So, as she picked up his invisibility cloak and put it on, covering first her body, and finally making her bright red hair disappear, Harry made the decision to follow her. After she left his room, as whisper quiet as she had come in, Harry quickly got up. He went over to Ron and shook him gently. Ron, of course, just kept snoring away.

"Well, I tried the nice way" Harry whispered to himself, before grabbing his pillow and hitting Ron with it. Ron woke up sputtering.

"What was that for, Harry? You interrupted the nicest dream about me and Her… uh what was that about?" Ron asked whispering.

"Your sister just snuck in here and borrowed my invisibility cloak without asking." Harry whispered.

Ron sat, and Harry could see him thinking, and coming up to that same conclusion that Harry had.

"I'll kill whoever thinks that they are going to meet with MY sister in the middle of the night" Ron said, a little louder than he had intended.

"Quiet" whispered Harry, as he noticed that the other boys were stirring slightly. "We are going to follow her"

"But how" whispered Ron. "She's invisible."

"Remember my map, Ron?" Harry whispered back.

Ron got a smile on his face.

"Yeah, I do."

The two boys quietly put on shoes and dark robes. Then they quickly headed out of their room and out of Gryffindor, and into the hallway, being careful not the wake the Fat Lady.

After moving to a little corner in the hallway, Harry pulled the map out of his pocket, and Ron used his wand to softly light up the map.

As they looked at the map closely, the two boys watched as the name "Ginny Weasley" moved in one of the corridors.

"She's not going where I think she's going, is she?" Ron asked Harry with a perplexed look on his face.

"She can't be going there" Harry said. "Maybe we are wrong, she's just taking the long way to the kitchen or something."

As the two boys watched, the girl went into one of the doors to a tower, and of course, disappeared, as the map only shows the corridors and hallways of the castle, and not the student residences.

Harry and Ron looked at each other in shock. Then they headed toward Slytherin at a full run.

So deep was he in thought, that Draco did not hear the whispered unlocking spell, the door quietly opened, and a quiet rustling of footsteps across the thick, dark green carpet.

Ginny hugged Harry's invisibility cloak tightly around her small body, as she looked at the tall body laying on the bed in the darkness. She drew a deep breath and stepped closer to the bed.

Draco closed his eyes, and pretended to sleep, as the feeling of being watched and the quiet in drawn breath reached his consciousness... And braced his body for attack as he felt the person move closer... And then he felt the feather soft feel of lips gently brushing his own, and a gentle hand moving his blonde hair away from his brow. He reached up, feeling for the cloak, and upon finding it, managed to pull down the hood...

As Draco unmasked Ginny, she found herself staring into his silver eyes, made a stormy midnight gray by the darkness in the room... And she smiled at him lovingly... "I really do love you, you know... It isn't a trick, or a joke, or revenge... And I believe that you love me too..." She whispered to him in the still of the room as she looked earnestly into his eyes...

As Draco looked back at the girl he loved, saying the words he was longing to hear, he answered in the only way he could. He put his arms around her and pulled her back down to him on the bed, and began to kiss her... Her eyebrows, her cheeks, the freckles on her nose, made invisible in the darkness, before finally finding his way to her lips... This has to be a dream, he thought to himself... But his dreams had never felt this good.

As Draco and Ginny lay kissing, enjoying the feel of each other's lips, neither one heard the commotion outside in the Slytherin common room, where two Gryffindor boys had forced there way into the tower, claiming that a Slytherin must have cast a love spell on a Gryffindor girl.

They didn't hear the commotion until the door to the room was broken down by the outraged boys, and they, and a group of Slytherin's who were woken up by the commotion, stood staring in shock at Draco Malfoy kissing Ginny Weasley passionately. A kiss which, of course, was broken up as the couple turned to look at the interruption.

"Ginny, get away from that slimy git!" Ron shouted, his wand drawn, pointed in readiness at Draco.

"Ron, why don't you just go away." Ginny yelled right back at her over protective older brother.

Harry just watched with a hurt look in his eyes. Ginny, his Ginny, and his worst enemy (well, besides Voldemorte) were sitting there, on Draco's bed, with their hair mussed and slightly dazed expressions on their faces. Dazed, passionate looks on their faces. As he watched, Harry felt his last hopes of getting together with Ginny die. Ginny had never looked at him the way she is looking, and has looked, at Draco. How could he have been so blind to it?

Ron was just furious. The slimy get must have cast some kind of spell on his baby sister, to get her here. And he was going to pay. So without paying any attention to the fact that he and Harry were outnumbered by quite a few Slytherins, Ron pointed his wand at Draco and shouted a hex, the worst hex he could think of for a guy who wanted to mess with his sister – a hex designed to make it impossible for Draco to every mess with his, or anybody else's sister every again….

And Fate, of course, had to step in. She couldn't allow "that" to happen to the leading man in her little romance. So, of course, the hex went wrong. It backfired. Dumbledore would later claim that it was a result of a strange deflection caused by all of the Slytherin curses… but Fate knew better. It was because of her that Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley became Harriet Potter and Ronaldina Weasley for a couple of days… until the hex wore off.

And Ginny did not know whether to be angry or to laugh as she saw the results of the hex, as she stared at her brother and her almost brother who were now her, well, her sisters. Laughter won out, as she looked at Draco and said "Well, I always wanted sisters."

And Draco smiled back, and laughed too. Not a sly laugh, not a mean laugh, but, well, a real laugh. As the Slytherins watched, their leader fell, at the laughter of the petite girl. And they were not happy… not happy at all, because the one thing they hated worse than Harry Potter and muggles was change…..

And Fate watched, and knew her story was not quite over yet. But she smiled too, because she knew that the happily ever after was coming soon.

And next time, on The Least Likely Prince Charming:

How will Ginny and Draco deal with Harry and Ron? How will the Slytherins try to break them up? How much longer until fate gets her Happily Ever After?

Stay tuned for Chapter 16: