This is chapter 2 of Beatrice's Story. For details considering Sugar, We're Going Down, Look at my profile.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Ginny asked as she strolled toward Ron, Harry, and Hermione. "Haven't been having any impassioned, yet slightly pointless political arguments lately, have we?"

The three looked at each other sheepishly.

"You guys!" Ginny said as she rolled her eyes and gave an exasperated sigh, "Why can't you guys just agree to disagree?"

"We would, but we--," started Harry, but he was soon squelched by Ginny.

"Whatever, I shouldn't have brought it up," she said, "So, how have you guys been lately?"

"Oh, good. Just the usual," replied Ron, "We manage. How're Jenniferette and Sarah?"

"They're just fine. Colin's good, too."

"Colonel Creepy!...I mean...Colin Creevey?" said Hermione, embarrassedly.

"Yeah, Colin Creevey," replied Ginny, "He's grown up a lot since he followed Harry around with a camera asking for autographs."

"As I mentioned before, my client would rather not speak of those days," Ron said, authoratively.

"Ron!"

"Sorry, Harry."

Ginny gave the two a quizzical look.

"Er--yeah, um...back to business," said Ron, trying to recover from the embarrassing incident, "What was it you were saying about Harry's old buddy?"

Harry gave Ron an indignant look as Ginny continued on with what she was going to say.

"Colin Creevey--what can I say?" she said, "He's grown a lot. He's smart, creative, and sexy as all hell."

Hermione silently gagged, almost choking on her own vomit.

"Plus, I hear he has some killer moves on the dance floor," Ginny continued, unperturbed.

"Anything else you can say to ruin my day?" a despairing Ron asked.

"Uhh...oh yeah! Jenniferette said that Lavender Brown heard that he totally has the hots for me. And Padma Patil heard that he's going to ask me out in my Charms class right before lunch," then, after a short silence, Ginny added, "And Padma also said that Cho Chang is jealous. Even though, since the author chooses to keep the year at which we are attending Hogwarts up to the imagination, Cho Chang could have quite conceivably already graduated Hogwarts."

Ginny strolled off fancifully, a smile on her face and a skip in her step, leaving her brother and his two friends muttering expletives under their breath.

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