DAN! I haven't written in a while. Sorry. I've been rather busy, teaching and going to Hogsmeade with Gin and Malfoy, and doing other stuff. You know. "Stuff." I'm going out with Parvati Patil. She forgave me for the Yule Ball incident and doesn't completely despise me anymore. YAY! Anyway, I've been talking with Malfoy a bit and he keeps on making these little slip-ups while he talks that he will deny afterward. Like the other day, it was my first date with Parvati and I had no idea what to wear, so I went to ask him for help. I should really stop calling him Malfoy. Were becoming almost friends. Well, I asked him for help picking out some Muggle clothing (I took Parvati to a muggle place in London) and it turned out that he was getting ready for a date too. He said it was with Millicent Bulstrode, a Slytherin from our year. He asked my opinion on his clothes. He decided to take her to a muggle place too, to get Millicent to dump him.

"So Potter, do you think that Ginny would like these clothes?"

"Did you just ask me if Ginny, as in Ginny Weasley, would like your outfit?"

"No. I asked if Pansy would."

"You're going on a date with Millicent Bulstrode. You just spent the last fifteen minutes complaining about it while you got dressed."

"Your point being...?"

"You don't give a shit if either Pansy or Millicent like your clothes. You want to know if Ginny likes your clothes. Just like you wanted to know if Ginny, not your Mum, would like your cologne and if Ginny, not your current date, would like your hairstyle. You think she's gorgeous, you want to kiss her...You want to hug her...You want to love her...You want to hug her...You want to smooch her"

"Do not."

"Do too."

"Do not."

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"What the bloody hell are you two shouting about. I could hear you in the hallway! Sorry to just burst in here Harry, but you must not have heard me knock." That was Ginny coming in.

"Hey Gin. Don't worry about it."

"Ginny."

"Harry, Professor." She said, giving Malfoy a strange look for calling her by her first name. You know the type of look. It's the 'I really want to know what the hell your thinking, but I'm too polite to ask.' look. Ginny's got it down pat. Actually, Ginny has a lot of her looks down pat. You can have a meaningful conversation with that girl where you talk and she just looks.

"We were just finishing getting dressed for our dates tonight."

"Oh, really?" she said, stepping up to Malfoys closet (we were in his room, I had just brought along a few things to wear) "Who are you guys going with?"

"Er...I'm going with Millicent Bulstrode and he's going with Parvati Patil."

"Wasn't Millicent the rather large girl who had a figure like a box?"

"Yeah."

"She was a Slytherin, right?" she asked. At our nods she continued. "Why are you wearing muggle clothes? Wasn't she all like 'I'm a Slytherin. All muggles are foul and should die'?"

"Exactly."

"What do you mean exactly?"

"I want her to dump me. My father made me go out with her and I don't want to, so I figure if she dumps me I won't get in trouble."

"Ah." She said holding up two shirts for him to wear. "That shirt doesn't match you pants. Do you like the blue one or the green one better?" she asked, passing the shirts off to me and going over to get him to remove the brown shirt.

"Green." He said, flushing (as much as a Malfoy can) at her nearness and his half-nakedness.

"Always a Slytherin." She said, smiling. Once he put the shirt on she made him tuck it in and asked if he was wearing a tie or not.

"I will."

"Okay." She said going over to his closet and grabbing a tie out of it. Standing in front of him, she motioned him to sit down so she could tie it.

"I do know how to tie my own tie."

"But would it look perfect if you did?"

"Er...no."

"Didn't think so. Okay, Harry, what did you need help with?"

"I can't decide what tie and what shoes to wear!"

"These and this." She said. (Parvati really liked the way I looked, so I guess Gin's a pretty good fashiony person.) She tied my tie too.

Next she dragged us down to the kitchens to find flowers to bring our dates. Apparently Winky is obsessed with flowers and it helped her to take her mind away from being dismissed. I picked out a lovely pale pink rose (admiration) and Malfoy got a yellow carnation (rejection).

My date with Parvati went really well and we're going out again soon. Malfoy's date went really well (in his mind, anyway) and Millicent dumped him. He told me the good news and then told Ginny at his next Spanish tutoring session.

Sorry Dan, but I'm going to stop writing now. I'm really tired and have to get up early tomorrow for Ginny's class.

HJP

AUTHOR'S NOTE: hi all. sorry it's a bit later than i said it would be but wouldn't let me log in. so, i'm back, vacation sucked, i finally have a computer, yay. school starts soon and i have tennis practice so the updates may be farther between. sorry. anyway, the spot when harry says to malfoy 'you think she's...' is from miss congeniality. (i have no clue if i spelled that right and am to lazy to look. :P) so yeah. please all read and review. thanks. adios.

extra note/request: easilyamused sent me some excellent christmas prank ideas (thanks) and i would love to see what other ideas that people have are. if there is something that you would like to see happen to draco at christmas let me know in a review and i may use your idea. thanks!

Ashen: aw shucks. thanks. i'm really glad that you liked my chapter. i'm sorry that you had to stay in a trailer with french people that didn't understand what you were saying. :( ANYWAY: here's (actually there's) a harry chapter. see? i'm granting wishes! just call me genie. tehe. well, thanks for reading and reviewing. p.s. what type of hat do you have? is it pretty? can i have it? jk.

Dorthey Star: thanks for the aww. i hope you're having a blast in school. i still have two more weeks of freedom. haha. you must get out earlier, though. we don't finish up till the end of june. of course i want to get some d/g action in during the break. they're getting closer. draco likes gin and harry is starting to realize it. wahoo. well, thanks a bunch for reading and reviewing.

DanielLover00: i'm really glad that you like the story. hope that you have fun in maine! thank you for reading and reviewing.

easilyamused: thank you much for the brillant ideas! i'll be sure to use at least some of them (it depends on whether or not other people have ideas as well). the prank ideas are quite good. i really like the bunny slipper one. that one will most certianly be used. thanks for reading and reviewing.

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