Disclaimer: Harry Potter and Co. do not belong to me though, I wouldn't mind having Draco belong to me But who wouldn't. lol! Anyways HP& Co. belong to the wonderful JK, many thanks to her for her amazing imagination and presence of mind to share it with us. We love you, JK.

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Chapter One – The Beginning

She was terrified. He could sense it, almost smell the fear radiating off her. Hiding in the shadows, he watched her, she glanced over her shoulder and he could see her eyes were wide with fright. Upon seeing the look in her eyes, he smiled a cold, chilling, sadistic smile. Patience, the opportunity will arise, just need to wait.

By the time Ginny reached the entrance to Gryffindor common room, she was slightly out of breath from running up the stairs as they were prone to changing when she was on them. She had been lucky this time, because as she stepped off they began to move. She was catching her breath and jumped when she felt a hand fall gently on her shoulder. She turned to face the owner of the hand her wand slipping into her grasp easily.

"Oh Merlin! Harry!" She exclaimed, inwardly sighing in relief, "You scared the life out of me!", she grinned at him slightly, "Warn a girl next time."

Harry returned the grin, "Oh sorry Gin, I thought you had heard me come up behind you"

"It's alright Harry, no harm done."

She looked at him, he had shot up this year, and he now reached 6ft even. Years of Quidditch had developed and toned his body, his school robes stretched across broad shoulders. His green eyes glimmered behind round framed glasses. His scar had faded to a thin white line, it was barely noticeable. His black hair still refused to stay in any type of order and stuck out every which way, but the tousled look looked good on him. When all was said and done really the only thing you could fault him for was the glasses he still wore. They weren't needed since he had finally let Madame Pomfrey fix his vision after a Quidditch accident in his sixth year. Yet he still insisted in wearing them, so that people believe his sight was his weakness, only the other members of the Trio knew that he didn't need them anymore.

Ginny snapped back to reality to find Harry waving his hand back and forth in front of her face.

"Sorry 'bout that Harry, I was thinking." She said apologetically, blushing slightly.

Harry shrugged, "I just thought we should probably go inside, the portrait is getting impatient." He pointed out.

"Oh, right." Ginny turned to the painting. "Sorry for keeping you."

"It's all right dear, Password Please." The Lady said. "Fuzzlewumps." Ginny stated clearly, the portrait swung open. Ginny stepped through and Harry followed shaking his head at her ability to just forget and retreat into her mind even though she might be in the middle of a conversation.

In the Gryffindor common room, the fire blazed merrily in the fireplace filling the common room with cheery warmth. In front of the fire, Ron and Hermione sat snuggling together. They had finally gotten together last year before the Yule Ball, Hermione finally got up the courage and just asked him out, to nobody but Hermione's surprise he agreed after turning several shades of red. Everyone knew he had a major crush on her since third year.

Ron and Hermione turned to face the entrance and smiled at the pair that came through.

"And just where have you two been!" Ron said in mock anger, before they had a chance to reply Ron laughed and said to Hermione, "They've probably been off snogging somewhere, 'ey 'Mione."

"Ron!" Two outraged female voices exclaimed at the same time.

"You nutter, I love you but you are such a bloody prat sometimes," Ginny said whilst laughing, "IF you must know I was studying for a potions exam, which since I advanced to your class this year, I assumed you should be studying also, the exam IS in a week."

"Gin, hon," Hermione began "If you'd just take a breath and look around, you would see the potions textbooks in front of you. Might I also point out that they are open and that we have been writing notes," She pointed to the coffee table in front of her.

Ginny just laughed and announced that she was going to bed, She said goodnight to every one and walked up the stairs to the girls dorms.

Harry flopped down into one of the many cushy armchairs and sighed, His hair falling into his eyes as he watched the common room slowly empty of students.

"So, Harry, Where were you?" Hermione asked curiously. "Don't tell me you were studying as well."

"I was actually." He replied casually, looking away slightly and then returning his gaze to Hermione.

"Oh, I would have thought you were with Padma." Hermione said glancing at him slyly. Rumour had it that Padma and Harry had been seeing rather a lot of each other, but nothing official. Nobody quite knew how this rumour got started, a couple of people claimed to have seen them snogging around and one even said that they had gone up to the astronomy tower for quite awhile.

He looked at her strangely, "Why would you think that?" he asked.

"No reason," She replied innocently, Obviously Harry hadn't heard the rumours, Padma hadn't been saying much about it either, and she neither denied nor agreed to the rumours flying about.

Hermione flipped her chestnut hair over one shoulder and sighed. She had finally tamed her bushy mane, her brown eyes were framed with long, dark lashes, a slight flush could be seen on her cheeks and her lips were slightly swollen and bruised looking.

No doubt from some snogging Ginny and I interrupted earlier, Harry thought with a small smile.

"Harry, what time is quidditch practice tomorrow?" Ron asked, breaking the small silence that had risen after Hermione's replied to Harry's question.

"Quidditch Practice?" Harry inquired.

"Yeah, quidditch, we have a game against Ravenclaw in two weeks, Remember?" He prompted.

"Oh, right. Umm... about 3:30 to 4:30, after classes, you've got about twenty-five minutes to get changed and get down to the pitch." Harry said, frowning slightly in thought.

"Hey, Guys?" Hermione interrupted, "I hate to interrupt this oh so very interesting conversation but it is almost 10:30 and I'm going to head off to bed, 'night Harry." She gave him a slight hug, then turned to Ron and kissed him. "'Night Ron."

"G'night 'Mione." He said. She smiled and headed off to her room, since she was Head Girl, Hermione had a room to herself, she had offered to share with Ginny, but she had preferred to stay in her dorm because all her friends were her roommates.

"Harry, 'Mione has the right idea, so I'm off, you coming?" Ron asked standing and stretching, showing that two years of playing keeper for Gryffindor had done him well. His abs were firm and well defined and there wasn't a bit of fat on him anywhere which was surprising considering how much food he consumed each day.

"Sure Ron." Harry said also standing and together they stumbled up the stairs to the boys dorms.

A/N: Well chickadee's here it is my first attempt at writing fanfic. I am of the opinion that it sucks but hey I need you people to tell me whether I should bother to continue this story. In case you say yes I will write another chapter but I have my doubts as to whether it will ever be posted.

As you might notice I have issues but screw that (lol! Just Kidding, don't worry, really I'm not insane at all o0). PLEASE please please please review and tell me what you think.

Cheers,

Kah

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