Now How Did This Happen
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
They both arrived at the counciling room the next day, which was a Thursday only three weeks into the start of term.
"Weaslette,"he said, nodding in acknowledgement. If it hadn't been an insult it would have almost sounded polite.
"Malfoy," She nodded back. He opened the door and the both stepped inside to see professor Sinistra was already seated behind the desk.
"Hello!" She said. "This session you two will be talking. Pretend I'm not here, the only reason I am is to make sure things don't get out of hand."
Ginny nodded and took a seat on one of the plastic couches. Spending two hours talking to Draco Malfoy was not something she thought of as fun. He sat on the other couch that was parallel to hers.
"So..." she said when nothing had been said for a while. She looked over at Professor Sinistra who was reading a book.
Draco nodded for her to continue.
"How was your summer?" She asked.
"Fine," he answered, although it hadn't been. He wasn't about to tell Weasley his father had tried to force him into becoming a Death Eater. "Yours?" he asked.
"Alright," Ginny answered, there was a moment of awkward silence. "How's School?"
He scowled. "I can't believe I lost Head Boy to Potter! And Mudblood is Head Girl!"
"I was a little surprised, although not unhappy, about Harry's Head Boy position," Ginny admitted. "But how could you not expect Hermione to get Head Girl, her initials are HG, it's fate."
Draco thought about that for a moment and realized she was right. "So how are you and Potter doing?"
"Huh?"
"I thought you two would have been going out by now!" Draco said.
"I dropped my crush on Harry in like, my third year!" Ginny shrieked.
"Oh, so he rejected you," Draco said, eyes glinting as he smirked maliciously.
"No he did not!" Ginny said, and even if her had it was none of Draco Malfoy's business.
Draco smiled patronizingly, "It's okay, I understand."
"Shut up," She growled. So maybe she did have a tiny little crush on Harry. What would he care? Harry didn't.
"Fine fine," he threw his hands up in a sign of surrender.
"How are things with Pansy going Malfoy?"
"Aren't you supposed to use my first name?" Draco said, smirking.
If there hadn't been a teacher present she would have strangled him.
"So how are things going with you and Pansy, Draco?" She asked. The word sounded very strange coming out of her mouth.
"What about her?"
"Aren't you sleeping with her? After all you are the Slytherin God and she's the Slytherin slut." She asked maliciously.
"Ginevra!" Professor Sinistra said. "The least you could do is wait to ask those kind of questions until I'm not here.
Ginny blushed a red that put her hair to shame. "Sorry," she mumbled. She looked up at Draco and realized with some satisfaction that he looked as though he was going to throw up. So he wasn't sleeping with Pansy, interesting. More gossip for the common room.
The next few days passed at an excruciatingly slow pace, but finally it was Sunday.
At 7:30 in the morning she was awakened by an excited girl jumping on her bed. She looked up and saw the dreamy face of Luna Lovegood staring back at her. She silently cursed herself for giving the Ravenclaw the password to the Gryffindor common room.
"What you doing?" She asked sleepily.
"Coming to get you up?" Luna said happily.
"Why, this is my only day off from Malfoy and you get me up at 7:30, and it's a weekend for gosh sake."
"It's time for breakfast," Luna said as though she hadn't heard.
"But I want to sleep!" Ginny said.
"Sleep later, we're meeting Colin by the lake in an hour."
Oh, so that's what this is about, Ginny thought. She wondered what Colin had up his sleeve this time.
"Fine, I'm coming!" Ginny said angrily, realizing the blond haired girl was not going to quit jumping on her until she got up.
An hour later they were sitting under their tree by the lake waiting for Colin to show up. After the incident in the Ministry of Magic Luna and Ginny had become fast friends. Followed shortly by Colin Creevy. They were often known as the 6th year Trio.
About five minutes after they got there Colin came bounding up, carrying his camera. He was never spotted without his camera.
"You'll never guess what I got a picture of!" Colin practically yelled.
"What?" Luna asked.
"A crumple horned Snorack!" Colin said, pulling a picture out of his jacket pocket. Colin was a tall boy with blond hair and sea green eyes. He was easily excitable and a very avid photographer.
"Oh my gosh!" Luna shrieked, "Where?"
"It was in someone's sock basket of the 7th year Gryffindor boy's dorm!" Colin answered just as excitedly.
"I can't believe I never thought to look there!"
Ginny was trying really hard not to laugh. The last time Colin and Luna had been this excited was when Colin thought he had taken a picture of a nargle. They had both reviewed the picture and excitedly said it was real. When the handed the picture to Ginny she had realized what it actually was, a cut out of a hamster from a pet store magazine from far away.
"I knew we'd find one," Luna said dreamily, looking at the picture of the supposed Snorack.
"Can I see it?" Ginny asked. Luna handed her the picture. She had to hold her hand over her mouth to keep from laughing. Her friends really were daft sometimes. The picture was actually of Harry's socks with the snitches on it rapped around his Sneakascope. There were two red snitches on the very front that looked like eyes. Sometimes she wondered whether Colin just took these pictures to see if Luna would actually believe it. "Wonderful picture Colin," Ginny said, handing it back to Luna. She decided to humor them, and see it they would figure out what it was.
"Isn't it great!" he said smiling at it and then at Luna.
"Thank you so much!" Luna said, throwing her arms around the boy. "Daddy can put this in The Quibbler."
Ginny had to try really hard to keep from rolling her eyes.
At lunch her two friends were still talking about the picture and showing them to everyone they knew. On Monday Ginny couldn't resist bringing the it to show Draco. When she arrived he was already there, sitting on the floor. It was the first session in which they would be alone.
"Hello Weasley," He said.
"Back to last names are we?" Ginny asked.
"How was your weekend?" He ignored her comment.
"Fine," she answered. "Yours?"
"Same as normal," he said, "and completly free of me sleeping with Pansy," he added.
"I brought a picture," Ginny said.
"Of what?" he asked, looking suspicious.
"You naked and singing I'm To Sexy," she answered, wondering how her would react.
"How'd you get that picture?" he asked, looking terrified, " you didn't show it to anybody did you!"
By then Ginny was rolling on the floor. He looked at her in surprise. "What?"
"You...actuallt...sing...that...naked," she said, trying to chatch her breath.
Draco looked confused. She decided to enlighten him.
"It's actually a picture of what my friends think is a crumple horned Snorack," she said.
He turned bright red, "you better not tell anybody about that," he said dangerously.
"Don't worry, I won't," Ginny rolled her eyes. Already scheming on how to use this information to destroy him.
A.N. Hope you liked it.