Just to answer a couple questions-

Draco's opinion on muggles: Line from start of chapter- 'Draco could put up with them, they weren't pretending to be witch or wizard after all'. So basically, Draco is okay with muggles but he hates muggle-borns, or as he call them 'mudbloods'.

Why would Blaise take Ginny to London: Line from start of chapter- 'It made sense because most other students were in Hogsmeade this weekend, so he saved himself from not being seen with a Gryffindor.' Though Blaise doesn't care that she's a Gryffindor, Draco pointed out to him that he'd be outcasted from Slytherins, which Blaise most likely wouldn't be able to handle.

AN: -Sigh- I've just realized that I'm turning Ginny into one of the kinds of girls I detest most. A Damsel in Distress. She seems too unknowing and giving in too easily. I think I'll change that in the next chapter...

Ginny ran with Blaise. Well, she didn't want to. She tried to pull back, but he was holding her arm too tightly. He always seemed like a scrawny boy before, in the earlier years of school. He was a tad on the short side, and was thin. Then over the summer, that all had changed. A growth spurt, and muscles had taken place. His shoulders had gotten broader, along with his jaw line. Some days during school, he had let whisker grew on his cheeks. He was handsome, but a snake.

Not snake as in a Slytherin, but a snake as in... a snake. Snakes. Suddenly snakes slithered into her mind. Draco, a snake, but not the kind like Blaise. A snake in just simply a Slytherin. He wasn't really as horrible as everyone else made him out to be. At least to Ginny he wasn't. Come to think of it, Draco was actually slightly kind, but he hid it with teasing and sarcasm. For example, when Ginny was in her fifth year, three or four slytherin boys had swooped upon her, circling her, making whoops and cat-calling, calling her 'feisty red' and one had told her she could stop by his dorm at anytime.

That's when Draco came upon them. He knocked the one that had made the invitation to the ground, quite hard actually. Then shoved the others away, yelling at them, cursing them. They stared at him like he was crazy, but then Draco made it clear that she was 'his' and only 'his' to tease and because act like a jackass to. According to him, she was pretty much 'his property'. Draco then had laughed, and the others all joined in, nodding their heads. Then they left Draco and Ginny alone.

Ginny had not known of what to say to this. She was grateful for him coming to help, but hated him for calling her his property. She was no one's property. But maybe he only said that, not to offend Ginny, but to get the others to leave her alone... Maybe not all snakes are venomous.

Harry suddenly jumped into her mind. He was a parseltounge. He could talk to snakes, yet he could not have one conversation with Draco without throwing an insult, and them having a duel. His bright green eyes reminded her of the skin of a snake. He had rescued her from the lair of the basilisk, the Chamber of Secrets.

She had been entranced by Tom Riddle, who was a Slytherin when he went to school and also a parseltounge. Tom Riddle had actually been kind to her in their conversations through the diary. Caring and considerate. And though he tried to take all of her energy to again live, he never actually physically hurt her in anyway. He'd actually had a soft conversation with her as he was growing, and she was getting weaker. He made no nasty comments or threats then. She couldn't remember exactly what was said, but it wasn't anything terrible.

No... Not all snakes were bad. Just this one.

Ginny snapped out of her thoughts and memories as she was running over a grassy area with Blaise. Suddenly, puporsely, she fell. Blaise let go of her hand, and ran on for a few yards more, but notcing she wasn't there, quickly turned around and ran back for her.

"My ankle! It's sprained!" She cried in pain, through gritted teeth, "Or broken!"

Blaise opened and closed his mouth not knowing what to say. His eyes looked away from her, over her head. Ginny turned around to see what he was looking at. She gasped in surprise and ducked, covering her head as Harry jumped over her, knocking Blaise to the ground.

Ginny watched at Harry sat atop of Blaise. Harry's back blocked Blaise's face from view but Ginny watched as Harry raised his fist and aim it down before it too was blocked from view. Blaise was shouting swears as he knocked Harry off of him, now hitting him. Blaise's face was bloodied and filled with hatred.

Ginny watched in horror as Blaise continued hitting Harry. She slowly crawled to the left, so she could see what was going on. "Stop!" She shouted at Blaise, but he seemed unaware of her prescene. Ginny stumbled over to them, and pulled the collar of Blaise's shirt backwards, causing him to fall on the ground. He waved an arm back, pushing Ginny away from him. She tripped on her too long-legged pants but someone's arms were under hers, they caught her.

Looking over her shoulder she felt her heart jump into her throat and though Blaise and her ex-boyfriend were wrestling eachother around, she had butterflies in her stomach. She could even feel her breath quiver. His silver eyes met hers in a relieved way. "You're okay?"

"Y-Yeah." She breath, letting him still hold onto her. Since when did Draco care about catching her when she fall and if she was okay?

A smile flickered across his lips, but he tried to hide it as he looked to Blaise and Harry. Ginny also watched them, then called out "Harry!" as they were rolling on the ground, the other's blood on their hands and clothes. She tried to move for him, but Draco held her back.

"Let them settle it." He muttered into her ear. Draco had great loathing for the both of them. He hated Saint Potter, he always did ever since he first rejected Draco's offer on their first day of Hogwarts. Harry didn't even consider Draco's introductions to those he knew. He insulted them by answering in such a way so quickly. Now he too hated Blaise, for what he had done to Pansy and for kissing Ginny.

"Come on, we need to get back to Hogwarts." He breathed as he pulled Ginny quickly away from the scene.

Ginny took a last look back as a few people now turned their heads to watch. They easily slipped away from the slowly forming crowd. Thats when Ginny looked back to Draco who was walking at a very brisk place.

Her eyes fell down to her hand, which was in tightly in his. It wasn't a forceful way, but more of a leading, protecting way. A good way. They nearly jogged to the pub on the corner. The Leaky Cauldron.

She made a bold, daring move... Ginny softly squeezed his hand and to her utter delight, even though he did not look back to her, he returned it.

A.N: Well, they're holding hands... It's a start! Review! (please?)

And also, about the damzel in distress thing. In the next chapter I'll change that, but I doubt I'll change it in the way you hope. You could be thinking 'What is wrong with you, Ginny!' or something like that... which is my goal now.