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Chapter Fifteen

Draco Unexpected

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"What the bloody hell! Who's there?" Harry exclaimed as he searched around for his glasses on his bedside table.

It was early in the morning, the sun was just rising. A loud growling sound had just come from the other side of Harry's room and something had knocked over Hedwig's empty cage causing Harry to jump up in bed. Ginny, who was in the room next door jumped out of bed as well at the loud crashing sound and ran into Harry's room.

"Harry, what's wrong?" She asked seeing the cage and strewn droppings on the floor. "What happened in here?"

Harry found his glasses and put them on. "I have no idea; something growled and then knocked over Hedwig's cage. Someone was in here; I could feel the presence of another person."

Ginny, whose heart was beating rapidly went and sat down on Harry's bed to clam herself. "I don't know Harry but you scared the crap out of me. I thought someone was attacking you."

Harry couldn't help but smirk. "You thought someone was attacking me? What were you going to do running in here in just a t-shirt and no wand?"

Ginny looked down at her legs and realized that she was indeed pant-less and her shocking pink Weird Sisters underwear was completely exposed. She blushed several shades of red and tried to pull her shirt down without success. "Oh, shut up Harry."

Harry's fear was subsiding as he continued to smile at Ginny, he couldn't help it, she was too cute. Her hair was a mess from sleep and a large crease from her pillow rested across her cheek. She was now sitting on his bed with her shirt stretched over her knees so Harry couldn't see her funny underwear.

"Let me see your knickers Ginny?"

"I will NOT!" Ginny replied.

"Why, I seen a lot more than that the other day, come on let me see." Harry said as he started to lean over to her.

"No, you'll laugh at them, get away from me." Ginny said while leaning over as far as she could.

"I won't laugh at you, I promise." Harry wrapped his arms around her and buried his face into her neck. "Come on, I want to see them."

Ginny giggled and pushed herself out of Harry's arms and stood up in the middle of his room. She let go of her shirt that she was using to shield herself and reviled her bright pink underwear. On the front was an image of a Weird Sister's band member and the image was moving.

Just as Harry jumped up, intending to sweep Ginny up into his arms it happened again. A loud growling sound and his Firebolt was knocked to the floor. Ginny ran into Harry's arms, her heart beating fast against his bare chest.

"What is doing that?" Ginny asked.

"I was going to ask who is doing that." Harry said wrapping his left arm around Ginny and taking his wand off his night stand with his right.

"Ginny, I think someone is in here." Harry said scanning the room in hopes of seeing something unusual. "Come on, let's get out of here."

With Ginny still clinging to Harry they slowly backed out of the room and closed the door. Harry escorted Ginny to her room so she could put some clothes on and they headed down stairs. The only other person up in the House was Hermione who was staring into space while stirring a cup of tea.

"Good morning Hermione, how come you're up so early?" Ginny asked sitting down at the table opposite of Hermione.

"Good morning guys, I couldn't sleep because Ron kept making funny noises."

Harry sat down beside Ginny, "What do you mean funny noises?"

"I don't know, he kept making this growling noise, I have never heard him sound like that when he sleeps." Hermione said, yawning.

Harry shot Ginny a look then turned back to Hermione. "What type of growling noise did you hear?"

"I don't know Harry, it was odd sounding, he must be having funny dreams." Hermione said slightly aggravated at all the questions.

"I don't think that was Ron, Hermione." Ginny said quietly. "Harry and I heard the same noises upstairs in his room."

"What were you doing in Harry's room?" Hermione asked suspiciously.

Harry blushed and said, "What we were doing is not the point, the point is we heard strange growling sounds too. Whatever is making that noise kept knocking things around in my room as well."

Just then a loud crash came from one of the bedrooms that caused Harry, Hermione and Ginny all to jump. Next came the sounds of several doors crashing open and pairs of feet running down the stairs. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley made it into the kitchen first, closely followed by Ron. Each of them had frightened looks on their faces.

"What was that Harry?" Ron asked first. "It sounded like a bomb went off in the house."

"I have no idea what that was, strange things have been going on all morning, we were just sitting here talking about it." Harry replied.

Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Ron sat down at the table and tried to catch their breath from the excitement. Ginny explained to them what she and Harry heard and then what Hermione heard. Mr. Weasley shot Harry a glance when Ginny said she had been in his room but choose to ignore it for the moment.

"Ok, so something's going on around here. You don't think our attic ghoul is on a rampage do you?" Ron asked.

"I don't think so; he has never caused such a ruckus before now." Mrs. Weasley said.

They sat there in silence for several minutes, each thinking hard as to what could cause such a problem. Harry was finding it hard to think so early in the morning and his head started aching the harder he searched his brain. Hermione was obviously running down a list of things in her mind because she was counting off her fingers. Ron's forehead was wrinkling horrible as he thought. Ginny had leaned over and fell back to sleep on Harry's shoulder. Mrs. Weasley thought it would be best to think while cooking breakfast and Mr. Weasley picked up yesterday's newspaper and hid himself behind it.

Then suddenly a loud rushing wind went through the kitchen, knocking several items over in its wake. Everyone turned towards the living room to find the source of the disturbance. And to everyone's surprise, mostly Harry's, there floating in the doorway from the kitchen to the living room was the transparent form of a ghost.

Ron pushed his chair back and stood up from the table. He lifted his arm and pointed a finger at the new visitor. "Bloody hell! It's Draco Malfoy!"

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A/N: Sorry about the cliffie...counldn't help myself! The next chapter MAY be the last, not 100 sure yet. Also...if you check out my profile and go to my webpage you can see a cute doll of Ginny in her knickers!

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Edit (10-3-05): Sorry for the Delay in this story...college is getting to me ya know...anywho...the next chapie will be the last and I am almost done with it...look for it in a day or two!

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