Chapter one

Ginny looked from Ron's angry face to Hermione's. it had been five years since they had graduated from Hogwarts. Ron had finally asked Hermione out on graduation day and their present dispute had been going on ever since.

"SPEW is NOT stupid , Ronald!"

"yeah, sure 'Mione, the house elves really WANT to be freed"

"Of course they do!"

"Oh? Then why did that house elf at Wood's house run off screaming as soon as he realized who you were?"

"He didn't….."

Ginny sighed and looked at Harry who was polishing his new broom, the silver dragon, paying absolutely no attention to his best friends. Twelve years of listening to them bicker had made him completely SPEW resistant.

Glancing at her watch, Ginny announced "As much fun as this is, I do have a job, you know…so can we hurry up and finish choosing bridesmaid dresses?"

Lavender and Dean were sitting in a corner acting mushy. At the words "Bridesmaid dresses", Lavender leaped into action, debating between Mauve, Pink and Blue.

Ginny and Hermione joined in, comparing the merits of the three colors.

Harry grinned at Dean and said "I can't believe you're getting married, dude"

Dean laughed and said "me neither"

Ron, still a little red around the ears, laughed as well and said "well, atleast you're not the first, Seamus beat us all"

"I know! To Hannah at that!"

"I didn't see that coming"

"I don't think that Seamus did either!"

The girls passed over pink ("that would look lovely with my red hair wouldn't it?"), mauve ("I want to be the only Lavender there") and finally settled on blue.

Lavender and Dean then ran off to go find silver napkin holders, Ron and Hermione went off to do whatever then normally did together (fight) and Harry and Ginny were left looking at eachother.

"You wanna take the Knight bus back to school, Gin?"

"Sure, might as well, or we'll be pretty late"

Ginny and Harry were both teachers at Hogwarts, Harry was filling in as the DADA teacher till Dumbledore found a replacement, taking a break from auror training.

Ginny was the muggle studies teacher; having worked a short stint with her father in the ministry, she had jumped at the chance to return to Hogwarts when Dumbledore offered her the position.

All in all, Ginny reflected, she had it pretty good. Thankfully, the war had ended the summer after the trio's 7th year, Harry defeated Voldemort before there was much loss and thankfully none of the Weasley's had been victims of the bloodshed. Not that there hadn't been losses…but they weren't among the Weasley clan.

Other than having to deal with Malfoy, she thought her life was pretty perfect.

She and Harry had been dating for a year, she never thought that she would end up with "the boy who lived" but somehow it had all worked out and she was happier than she had ever been before.

The only thorn in her side? The fact that darling Draco had landed the position of potions master when Snape had retired (finally!). Growing older had only served to make Malfoy more annoying. His family name tarnished by his father's capture and eventual death, all Malfoy had left was his humungous ego, his money and his HUGE grudge against all the Weasleys. It made life very uncomfortable, especially for her nephews and nieces who often showed up at her door sobbing uncontrollably over the punishments that the 'stupid potion making ferret' inflicted upon them.

"Stupid ferret" she mumbled to herself as she ascended the steps upto her chambers on the 3rd floor, a few corridors away from the fat lady's portrait.

"Wow, Weasley, murmuring about me all the time ,huh?"

"shut up, Malfoy"

"Oh good come back,Weaselette"

"Only for you, Ferret"

"Hogwarts has really gone to the dogs, Potty as DADA teacher, Dumbledore ruling the roost and of course you, your father's mud blood loving genes cropped up, did they?"

"Yup, just like your father's creepy genes have cropped up in you"

"My father was NOT creepy!"

"Ooh…nice come back Malfoy"

"Fuck off, Weasley"

Grinning, Ginny shut the door of her chambers in his face and quickly changed and got into bed, it had been a long day.

As she drifted off she thought she heard a faint voice outside her door saying "Stupid carrot top".

"g'nite Malfoy" she called and closed her eyes.