Disclaimer: None of this belongs to me (except the plot), but to J K Rowling.

Prologue

Nobody understands Ginny Weasley.

All most people remember her for is her crush on Harry. Not that it was ever Harry, not really. It was the Boy Who Lived, her ideal, that she had really liked. The crush had lasted a year and a half, maybe two, but people never believe that. Not even her own brother. They all believe that she had loved Harry, that she still did. Even Harry was beginning to believe it, she could tell be the way he was looking at her.

Harry, one of the few people who remembers her for something different. He was there, at the Chamber of Secrets, he had seen her body crumpled at the foot of a statue, he had seen the life draining out of her. But that wasn't what he saw anymore. She has asked him once, what he saw when he thought of the Chamber. He told her he saw Tom Riddle, the Basilisk, Fawkes, Gryffindor's sword. Not her. Never her.

Her family, too, connected her to the Chamber of Secrets. They were all ridiculously overprotective, of course. After her first year, Mrs. Weasley had debated about whether or not to send her back to Hogwarts. She was too protective to see clearly. Dumbledore himself had to remind her that Hogwarts is the safest place in Britain, especially with him as the head, the one person Voldemort is afraid of.

Ron, however, is protective for a very different reason. No matter that she is sixteen now and old enough to make her own decisions, he still thinks of her as his baby sister. He won't let any boy touch her while he is still at Hogwarts, not even his best friend.

There was one other person though, who notices her for something other than Harry. The one person Harry hates almost as much as Voldemort. Draco Malfoy. He may not be the nicest person in the world, she muses, and he may not know her as anything other than the youngest Weasley, but that would soon change.

Ginny Weasley had a plan.

For the past six months she has been training herself to ignore Malfoy's insults. She has been doing well. She no longer flushes bright red with anger whenever she sees him. She has successfully bitten back any number of retorts. She had thought that that would be enough, but to cap it all, she can even smile at him sweetly when he has just snubbed her.

It is time to put her plan into action.