23 August 2005

A word from Starry: Hey it's me and I'm here updating chapter two of this fic! Yes, wow a very fast update for me these days! -claps- Ok so I hope you enjoy this chapter and smile because I love this fic. -smiles-

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Harry Potter.

Chapter Two: Ginny of the Day

They next day Ginny awoke with a great sense of fear, the fear that Malfoy was going to recognize her today and tell everyone at Hogwarts her secret. Looking down at her hand, she found the small watch Harry had given her in order to help her see what time it was. This helped her make sure she was in her room ten or five minutes before her transformation happened. Looking down at her watch she saw that it was 5:59 A.M. exactly one minute before her transformation into the ugly Ginny, otherwise known as Ginny of the Day.

She stayed in her bed until it was two minutes after six before getting out and going into the bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror and just frowned at her reflection. Why did this have to happen to her? Surely it could be cured right? There just had to be! If there wasn't… well let's just say it still wasn't too late to go into the Muggle world and convert herself into a nun.

"Ginny? Are you in there?"

Great, Hermione was here to ask her how last night had gone. She couldn't tell her that she had gone against their order and met up with Malfoy who called beautiful Ginny, Echo.

"Yes I'm in here Hermione, I'll be out in a minute."

"Well I was just making sure you were ok. I'll be downstairs with Ron and Harry waiting for you, alright?"

"Ok"

Feeling relieved that Hermione was now gone, Ginny turned on the water, undressed herself and hopped in to take a warm shower.

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"Hey Ginny! How was last night?" asked Ron.

'Great! What do I tell him? Oh yeah Ron, I spent it talking with Malfoy' "Oh it was ok, boring but ok."

"We're very sorry Ginny but we can't risk going outside while Malfoy is out there too. What if he finds out?" said Hermione, who was getting out a book from her book bag.

"What if he doesn't find out? He clearly didn't know it was me! He said he hadn't seen me… He thinks I'm someone else" said Ginny, clearly annoyed.

"Look, why don't we do this, for a couple weeks you stay in your room. Then we can go back outside so that you don't get bored being in your room. Is that good?" asked Harry, looking at each of them.

"I think it's a great idea Harry! Ok now let's go and eat, I'm starving!" cried Ron, leaping out from the seat and speed walking towards the portrait.

Hermione glared at his back before turning back to Ginny. "We'll try Harry's idea and if Malfoy is still out there… well we'll figure out another plan until then, alright?"

Ginny felt that if she didn't agree with them they wouldn't leave her alone for the rest of they day. Nodding at the older witch she got up and grabbed her bag. Walking behind the Trio she over heard Hermione telling Ron how mean he was because it seemed like he wanted to get out of there. Ginny bit her tongue so she wouldn't giggle.

Breakfast was the same as usual, she ate and just sat there listening to the Trio talk about how Harry was now recovering from his nightmares. She sighed and looked around the Great Hall wondering who else was sitting there just like her. She was about to give up when she spotted him.

Draco Malfoy was talking to his housemates about something and it seemed to be an interesting talk by the way he looked and how he moved his hands. Could he actually be talking about her? Well about Echo anyways. He was probably telling them how Echo was Ginny and how she goes out every night to just stare at the stars.

She had been so engrossed in staring at him that she hadn't noticed that he was now staring at her. When she finally realized this she moved her gaze to her eggs and cursed herself for being so distracted and for not being able to notice him staring back.

A few minutes passed when she heard someone talking to her.

"Ginny we're leaving, aren't you coming?"

Looking up she found Harry talking to her and looking at her intently. She felt the air around her disappear and felt the blood rush to her cheeks. Great! Why did she always have to blush easily especially when Harry talked to her?

"Oh, um yeah. Sorry I dozed off," she said, picking her bag up before following him out.

'Remember that Harry likes Parvati and not you. She is his crush and you are just Ron's sister. Besides, have you looked in the mirror lately? You're not pretty at all'

Sinking her self esteem even deeper she didn't notice that she was still following Harry around, not the Trio, just Harry. She finally came to realize this when she bumped into his stopped form a few minutes later.

"Are you ok?" he asked her with a concern look.

'If only it were a 'I fancy you' concern look…' "Yeah, sorry I wasn't looking where I was going--"

"Well if it isn't stupid Pothead and his hideous girlfriend. I do say you guys make a perfect couple, so perfect! You guys should go and audition for 'Witch Weekly's Most Horrible and Ugly Couples of the Wizarding World'"

"Why don't you just shut your stupid fat retched mouth up before I do it for you." Harry grabbed his wand and pointed it at Malfoy.

Draco glared at Harry before moving his grey eyes to Ginny who was now praying to the moons of Venus that he didn't recognize her.

"Weasley, you could meet this person I know. Perhaps she could give you tips on how to make yourself go from disgusting to at least ugly," he said spitefully.

Ginny's eyes widened and felt them brimming up with tears with a knot forming in her throat. All of her life she had been told things about the way she looked and it didn't bother her, until now. The things Malfoy had just said seemed to have finally broken the barrier she had set up a long time ago when she was a little girl because she really wanted to cry right at that instant.

Harry peered over at Ginny and noticed how she was. All color had gone out of her face and her brown eyes were now shining with the tears that were just waiting to fall.

"Want to know something else? Potter and his stupid friends know her. Yeah and I saw her--"

"Harry! We have to go to the owelery remember? I have something to tell you! Merlin's Harry hurry!"

Harry's attention to what Draco was saying got broken when Ginny yelled at him. Grabbing his hand she started pulling him towards the owelery. Ginny looked back and saw Malfoy looking at them with a loathing gaze. She continued to pull him until they arrived at the owelery. Harry surveyed around and stared at Ginny who was looking out the window across the grounds.

"Are you ok? Oh what am I asking! You're not ok. That stupid bastard hurt you really bad. I was going to punch him Ginny, I was but then you pulled me away… did you catch what he was saying about that girl?"

Ginny nodded but didn't turn to look at him. "Yeah I did. Sorry I brought you here but I didn't want you to get in trouble for some stupid thing Malfoy said. You can go now, I need to write a letter and I don't want you to be late."

"But you'll be late Ginny, look I'll--"

"Just go Harry! I—I-- Look I'm sorry but" Ginny attempted to laugh, "I-- erm… well oh I forgot, Parvati told me to tell you that she will be waiting for you. She didn't want me telling you that she told me though… um she just told me to tell you without actually telling you. So go, she's waiting…"

Even though she was not looking at him she could tell he was smiling now. She knew that at just the mention of Parvati's name Harry would forget about everything else except her. Well it sometimes worked and it looked like today was one of those 'sometimes'.

"Oh, well are you sure you'll be ok? I mean I don't--"

"I'm fine, hurry she's waiting for you."

"Um, ok. Thanks Ginny. See you later. Bye."

"Bye"

When she couldn't hear his footsteps she let the tears she had been holding in start to fall. She felt disgusted at herself for what Malfoy had said, and to make it worse Harry had just proven that when it comes to her and Parvati, Parvati is always the choice. She fell to the floor grieving for her ugliness and crumpled up feelings.

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Malfoy snorted before going back to what he had been thinking before he had bumped into Scar head and Weasley. Echo. Even mentioning her name made him feel her beauty, how could a name he made up make him feel her beauty? Was he going crazy? He probably was. Glaring at a few passerby's he turned around and walked off to his class, he couldn't wait for tonight. He was going to see her again.

The day went on and Ginny seemed to be distracted. She didn't notice when Colin Creevey was calling her or when Millicent Bulstrode yelled at her for making her drop her pen. To her everyone had disappeared at that moment and nothing mattered but to get to her room and prepare herself for her transformation.

Reaching the Fat Lady's portrait she whispered the password so low that the Fay Lady didn't hear her.

"You'll have to speak up or else you can't go inside," snorted the portrait.

"I said 'Enchantment'!" Ginny shouted.

The portrait immediately opened up and once Ginny was inside she said, "Humph! It's not my fault you have an attitude problem."

Ginny didn't care though, what mattered at the moment was getting into her bed before the clock struck eight. Looking down at her watch, she noticed that it was 7:56 and she only had four minutes to change into her pajamas and get in bed.

Without stopping to say hello to some of her classmates in the common room she sprinted up the stairs and into the Girl's Sixth Year Dormitories. Relief washed over her as she saw that no was in yet, she quickly ran to her bed and changed. Just as she pulled the top over her head, she looked down at her watch and observed that she only had one minute before Ginny of the night appeared.

Jumping into her bed, she closed the drapes and performed the locking spell on them. Letting out the breath she had been holding in she glanced at the watch and saw that it was now a minute after eight. Rolling her eyes she got her small mirror from under her pillow and grabbed her wand.

"Lumos!"

Her little hideaway lit up. Placing her wand down on the bed she looked into the mirror and began surveying herself in it. Tears began rushing into her eyes once more as she remembered what Malfoy had said earlier. Why did she have to live with this torturing curse?

"Ginny are you in bed yet?"

Ginny tucked the mirror back under her pillow and pulled the covers up as she lay down.

"It's me Hermione."

"I know it's you, it's just that I didn't know if anyone else was in the room" she lied.

"Oh, well don't worry. No one is in here yet. It's just us. Listen Ginny, Harry told me what happened earlier today and what Malfoy said."

'Did he also tell you how he forgot about it in the owelery because I mentioned Parvati's name?' "Oh that, it was nothing. I'm used to it. It doesn't matter to me, he's a stupid prick that needs to have his mouth punched shut."

Ginny heard Hermione giggle and clear her throat.

"Well I just wanted to make sure that you were ok. You are one strong girl Ginevra Weasley, I don't know what I'd do with, well with what you have…"

'Great even my friends! Just say it! You don't know what you would do if people were calling you ugly all the time' "It's ok Hermione, really as I said before, I'm used to it. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm really tired and I'd like to get some sleep." Ginny turned on her side and pretended to be interested in the drapes.

Hearing Hermione leave, Ginny rolled her eyes and began to mumble about how everyone in the world right now was nothing but liars and bullshitters.

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Draco sat watching the clock for it to read 10:30 P.M. so he could go out to the Quidditch field and meet up with Echo. Annoyance was rising up in him as he noted that there was still fifteen minutes left.

Sighing he laid back with his hands behind his head and began to remember the incident that had happened in the day. He had noticed that the littlest Weasley had been quiet about his insults towards her. He was going to tell Potter that he talked to Echo, but the pudgy redhead dragged him away. Why did she have to do it at that precise moment? Why couldn't she have waited until he was done telling him? Stupid little Gryffindor was probably impatient and just wanted to go and snog senseless.

He peered over at the clock and saw it was time. Without any thoughts, he jumped on his broom and flew out towards the Quidditch field. Arriving there he stopped on the same stand where he and Echo had been the night before and sat down to wait for the charming mysterious girl.

'I still think Weasley could get a lot from Echo. The poor girl is so plain that even if she stood beside Echo she'd still be repulsive! Speaking of Echo, where is she? Did I scare her?'

Little did he know that tonight Echo was in her bed crying and wishing death upon herself for being ugly.

Finally, after some hours of waiting, he got up and with disappointment he flew back to his room. Why hadn't she come? Maybe she had to do something and wasn't able to make it. Tomorrow night he was going to return and see if she was out there. He just had to see her again.

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Staring at the drapes around her bed was so much fun! Yeah right. Ginny turned on her other side and let out a sigh. It was way past midnight and here she was thinking of her missed meeting with Draco. She clenched her teeth at the thought of him and then remembered how he had been the night before.

He had actually been nice to her, no not to her, but to Echo.

'Yeah probably because she's very very gorgeous and he just wants to impress her to get into her pants. Of course I know who he really is and I won't let him! Stupid ferret! Idiot. If only he weren't so good looking then maybe I could insult him-- WHAT?'

Had she just said that Malfoy was good looking? Eww. What was happening to her? Maybe it was the Echo side of her that made her feel like this. She certainly knew that Ginny of the Day wouldn't feel like that towards someone who called her disgusting and ugly… right?

Punching her pillow she turned over and began screaming into it. She didn't need to worry about her roommates hearing because she had put a silencing charm on it. Besides, even if she hadn't they would have ignored her because she was too ugly.

Starry: Thanks to all my reviewers who reviewed the first chapter. I hope you liked this chapter and if you didn't... well that's just sad. Please review!