Chapter 19: Malfoy's Mission

The next several days brought the members of Merlin house even closer together than they had been previously. The only times they seemed to be apart was when they were in classes. Draco planned to put his plan into action one Saturday morning right after breakfast, knowing that Ginny and Dean, planned to spend the morning studying by the lake. He just hoped that Harry didn't create a rainstorm like he did every time they planned to do this, which would really have unpleasant repercussions. Luckily for Draco, Harry said he wanted to spend the morning out flying, so it seemed unlikely that Harry would create a storm.

It was also working to Draco's advantage that Ginny and Dean planned to meet out by the lake, rather than walking out together, as it would ensure that he could find Dean on his own, so that when he confronted Ginny there would be no one around to hear the fight, he definitely did not want to damage her reputation any. Ginny walked out first, and Draco followed her planning to wait in the Entrance Hall for Dean. As he left he saw Harry turn and walk up the stairs to get his Firebolt, and he went back to watching for Dean. When he saw the Gryffindor coming he pushed himself off of the wall he was leaning on, and walked up to Dean, "Hey, can I talk to you for a minute?"

"No, go away, I don't know why your new Housemates trust you, but I sure don't, so bugger off."

"I come to help you out and this is how you repay me? Very well, find out for yourself," he turned away, hoping he had said enough to spark his curiosity.

"What is it then?"

"I don't think I'll tell you, now, sorry."

He heard Dean's wand come out and turned to face him, as Dean spoke, his voice coming out as a snarl. "Speak now, ferret."

Draco flicked his wrist and Dean's wand went flying, "You were saying? Very well I'll tell you but you can't let anyone know where you found out. Promise?" A sneer crossed his face, as he watched Dean mull it over.

"Yeah, alright. I promise, now spill it."

"Your girl's running around behind your back, she sleeps in Potter's room every night. Okay, I don't actually know that they are doing anything, since we all have our own rooms but…she has slept in there every night for the last two weeks."

Dean stared at him for several seconds, "You all have your own rooms? Wait, she's what! No way, you're lying to me!"

"You don't believe me ask her yourself." With a shrug he turned and walked back in the Great Hall. He sat down next to Hermione and lean over so he could talk to her without being over heard. "Phase one, complete."

The girl smiled sadly and got up to leave. The others looked at them quizzically and then went back to eating. Hermione went back up to the common room and disappeared into the library not wanting to be associated with anything that would take place that day.

At that same moment Harry found himself feeling exceptionally guilty once again, he knew what he was doing was wrong but, he had to find out if Ginny loved Dean and he couldn't think of another way. So he was curled up in her book bag as a ferret and invisible hoping to get the chance to look at her aura. He just hoped that no body ever found out about this, they would never let him live it down.

He peaked out of the bag to see if Dean was coming yet, and sure enough there he was, strange he looked pretty pissed off. He threw his bag down next to Ginny's, almost hitting Harry on the nose. "Are you fucking Potter?" he said through clenched teeth.

"What the hell! How could you even think that? Don't you trust me?" Ginny was now shouting and had turned a brilliant shade of Weasley red, however, unfortunately, for Dean it was not the result of embarrassment.

"Then why are you sleeping in his room?" Dean had now started shouting.

"I had a nightmare and I was scared! He let me stay with him because I was afraid to be alone!"

"Two weeks of nightmares? I find that really hard to believe, you little slut!"

"You son of a bitch, Harry is my friend it's not like that!"

"Sure everybody knows that he is in love with you! Of course, he let you stay, but you shouldn't have gone to stay with him! Damn it, you could have gone to your brother or Hermione, so don't tell me it is because he is just a friend!"

"Your right he's not just a friend! He's the friend that saved my life, and was nice enough to give up his bed so that I would not have to be alone! How many people do you think would have been willing to do that! I know you wouldn't!"

"That's right because I am not as good as you precious, perfect Potter! Tell me did you fuck him on the night of our anniversary? I hope he was good!"

"Dean, I swear I never had sex with Harry! And I told you I was sorry that I forgot that!"

"Yeah, you had a 'House' meeting, sure none of the Houses in the school have meetings like that!"

"We do! There are only eight of us in the House and whatever we do affects all of the others!"

"So how is it affecting your brother? Knowing his tart of a baby sister won't sleep with her boyfriend but spread her legs readily enough for his 'best friend'!"

"Really, Dean, you've known Harry long enough to know that he wouldn't do that, and you should know me well enough to know that I wouldn't either!"

"Yeah, I'm supposed to trust you? If you two being together is so innocent then why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I didn't think it was a big deal!"

"Do you love him? Do you love Potter as more than just a friend or a brother?" Ginny looked down, at the ground she couldn't answer him; she could not deny her feelings for Harry. When she didn't respond Dean continued, "You've got two choices Ginny, go to Dumbledore and ask him for a change of Houses, and never see Potter again, and stay with me, or stay in the house your in now and go back to being Potter's whore."

Before Dean even saw it coming Ginny had punched him in the nose, she yelled at him once more, "You bloody ass, I never cheated on you!" Then she kneed him in the groin, and scooped up her bag and ran back to the common room, tears streaming down her face.

The last thing Harry the ferret saw before he teleported himself back to his room, was Dean Thomas on the ground curled in to a fetal position crying. When Harry arrived back in his room he realized he was supposed to be out on the Quidditch pitch flying, he returned to his human form, grabbed his Firebolt, and disappeared.

Once he reached the pitch, he couldn't decide if he should just walk back up to the castle or if he should fly for awhile. Deciding that he didn't want to appear to return right as Ginny did, so he jumped on his broom and zoomed around the pitch.