The winner of the contest is........... nobody!! It's nobody as in N.O.B.O.D.Y!!

But a lot of u were very sweet, funny and making me smile!! I love u ppl!! Okay I did say that I had finished a few chap but the reason that I took so long to update is that I HAVE TO TYPE THEM OUT!! Jiggling from job seeking, home keeping, and tutoring my siblings, I could hardly find time to type out the fic from hard copy to soft copy. And I cant sit in front of my pc for long cos I will have a very bad headache and a very tired eyes if I were to do so. So pls forgive me!! If u wanna blame, just blame those ppl who just dun wanna employ me!!* sigh *

Okay, I'm going to cry if I were to say more, just enjoy this chap!!

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Scene: In the hospital wing

"Psss.................. Psss................ Ginny.............. Ginny................." Harry whispered in a low voice and Ginny turned to her left to see Harry sitting up on the bed, waving his hand at her to get her attention. Ginny raised her eyebrows in amusement and was about to open her mouth to ask what it was about when Harry placed a single finger on his lips to motion to her to be silent.

"Shhh............. Don't make a noise........... She might hear", he whispered and pointed to the office where the matron was. "I want to watch Mark being sorted. I think we will still make it on time. Do you want to come along too?" Ginny nodded her head to show that she wanted to and tried to get off the bed with much difficulty as she did not seem to have much control over her limps. Harry was not managing his limps too well either. Holding their breathe; trying to make as little noise as possible so as to not attract the matron's attention, they slowly tiptoed out of the hospital wing and made their way down to the Great Hall.

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"Shah, Omar"

"Hufflepuff"

"Wang, Zax"

"Slytherin"

"Bogaraju, Lavanya "

"Hufflepuff"

"The sorting's started, we have to hurry" Ginny said anxiously to Harry and they both hurried to the Great Hall. When they reached the entrance to the Great Hall, they saw a line of children queuing up neatly from the back of the Great Hall to the front where the professors' table was, waiting to be sorted. Ginny and Harry scanned through the sea of heads, hoping to spot a raven-haired boy but as there were too many dark-haired children as well as quite a number of asian children this year, they could not make out Mark's head from them.

Harry and Ginny lowered their heads and hunched their backs trying to make themselves as small as possible as they dashed across the hall over to the Gryffindor table and squeezed themselves into a space between Ron and Hermione. Both Ron and Hermione were surprised to find Harry and Ginny joining them for the feast when they were supposed to be resting in the hospital wing.

"Harry, what on earth........."

"Shhh..............." both Harry and Ginny hissed at Ron, each placing a finger at their lips to emphasis to him to shut up which he did, obediently. Both Ginny and Harry were transfixed at watching the sorting ceremony, something very unusual of them; Ron and Hermione were eyeing them in narrow suspicious eyes.

"Ma Yin, Mynthi "

"Gryffindor"

"Evans, Mark"

Ginny nudged Harry at his ribs to get his attention and unconsciously, they held each other's hands nervously as they watched Mark walk out from the crowd of first years, towards the stool where the old, patched and dirty hat now stood. Mark suddenly looked small and scared, trembling from head to toe in the all-too-large cloak donated by Neville and the not- really- pointed hat donated by Dean, as he picked up the hat carefully by it's tip using only the first two fingers, as though afraid that the talking hat might just go bonkers and rip his hands off. He sat on the stool, his feet hardly brushing the ground and placed the dirty old hat over his head, half of his face covered by the overlarge hat.

"Gryffindor"

There was an immediate uproar from the Gryffindor table but it was louder than the usual catcalling and cheering for other new Gryffindors because Harry and Ginny were on their feet, shouting at the top of their lungs. Mark swung the hat off his head, a silly grin on his face, placed it back onto the stool and was walking towards the Gryffindor table when two people jumping up and down like a manic from the Gryffindor table caught his attention,

"HARRY! GINNY!" Mark shouted so loudly that the rest of the hall hushed and looked to their direction. Running over to them and throwing himself onto Harry, knocking the breathe out of him, the three of them hugged each other and hopped on the spot like overexcited kids, closely watched by the whole school and the professors.

A series of clapping was heard coming from the professors' table echoing through the high-ceiling hall, and soon thunderous clapping could be heard as the rest of the school joined in, of course except the Slytherins and Professor Snape.

It was quite a scene watching the Boy-Who-lived squeaking and giggling like a ten year little girl, a redheaded girl who's bright hair caught the candle's light at every angle and a small and short first year, hugging each other and screaming with delight. Everyone was watching them with great interest, when suddenly, without any warning, Harry fell onto his knees on the floor clenching the side of the table, then his grip loosened and he collapsed onto the floor. Everyone 'ohhed' and 'ahhed', and scampered towards the Gryffindor table up to get a better view of what was happening when a loud thud echoed in the hall and Ginny was seen laying sprawled across Harry's chest.

"Help! Someone help!"

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Ginny opened her heavy leaded eyes feebly as the bright light in the room was blinding her, she had a splitting headache and when she moved her head, there was a part at the back of her head which hurts with every movement she made. Her whole backbone was aching badly like as though she had fallen onto the hard ground from a great height, and her limps were kind of numb, prickling and itching as if there were millions of ants scurrying on them. She tried to push herself up to a sitting position and immediately, many pairs of hands came to help her, she then realized that a roomful of people was watching her. She scanned through the crowd and spotted many familiar faces; Ron, Hermione, Luna (her only female friend, since she has only one friend, she can be counted as her best friend. Other normal girls found Ginny too weird, not at all like a girl so they usually shun her, but not that she minded, she found them weird too. They were too girlie to her likings), Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Neville, Seamus and Dean. Ginny then suddenly realised that she was in the hospital wing.

She heard a sniff coming from Ron and turned to look at him, only to find that he looked on the verse of a nervous breakdown. She also noticed that Hermione was standing behind him, her hands at his broad shoulders, kneading them gently. Ginny was about to ask them what had happened when snaps of her last waken moments flashed in her mind:

She and Harry hugging each other.........

Mark wringing their hands and beaming at them.............

She and Harry beaming at Mark then at each other like proud parents.............

Harry collapsing onto the ground without warning, he isn't moving.........

She wanted to shout for help but no voice came............

She tried to squat down to help Harry but she felt suddenly light headed herself.............

Her legs gave way and she fell...........

The back of her head hit the side of the bench, she didn't have time to register what had happened and she blacked out....................

"How's Harry?" she croaked through a patched throat and attempted to get off the bed only to be restricted by Ron and Professor Dumbledore.

"I'm fine. Though still a bit sick and weak. I think all those excitement really tired us out", came a voice at her right. She snapped her head to the source of the voice so fast that her neck gave a crack sound but she took no notice of it. She was too busy checking Harry with her eyes; he was a bit pale and peaky (she isn't looking too great herself), his right wrist was cast in thick bandage, his brows were squeezed together ( "must be the headache", she thought) but otherwise, he looked perfectly all right.

"Mr. Potter is all right but it's you who we're worried about. You have been unconscious for several hours, we were very afraid that you might be badly hurt by the knock on the head. We are glad that you are awake now. Mr Weasley here is most worried about you, he afraid that you would have damaged your brains so badly that you might be an idiot if you were to wake" Dumbledore said with a tone of amusement in his voice, his deep blue eyes twinkling like stars.

Ginny turned to look at his youngest brother who was looking away in embarrassment, and lunged herself onto him,

"I'm fine, just fine. Don't worry!" she kissed her brother on the cheek and held him at an arm's length to give him a better view of her. She looked sweetly at her brother and suddenly, faster than any weather could change, she turned serious and smacked Ron on the head.

"Aw..... what's that for? You sure she is still sane, Madam Pomfrey? You sure the knock hadn't damaged her brains?" Ron asked nervously and earned himself another smack.

"Are you suggesting that I'm not sane" Ginny said in dignity, "I need to teach you a lesson for suggesting that I might be an idiot. Clearly, that was what you wished for, isn't it?" and she pulled out her tongue playfully at Ron.

Everyone laughed as the two siblings bicker and shove each other around lovingly. Harry could not help but laugh along with them, these two people were the most ridiculous people he had ever met, and not to mention that they were both mental cases and yet they were the two of the most important figures in his life. Life would be so dull without their presence gracing his life. Harry's thoughts were interrupted by a deafening yell.

It was Ron. He was yelling for help and shaking Ginny who was lying limp in his arms. Harry was starting to panic too when he saw Ginny lying limp as a dead fish in Ron's freckled arms when suddenly, muffled giggling could be heard. Harry noticed that the supposing limp figure of Ginny was shaking and from Ron's murderous glare, he had noticed too.

Ginny had pretended to faint when Ron accidentally hit her on her head. Harry laughed heartily at Ron who seemed to be having an internal battle with himself, whether to take revenge on Ginny or not. Harry guessed that the little angelic Ron had won when he didn't do anything to his sister, who was now screaming with laughter, except simply stare daggers at her. Actually, Harry had got hell of a shock by Ginny's fainting act but now; he found the whole matter a hundred times funnier.

"Ginny's quite a character, both witty and sweet at the same time. One just can't not like her, can they? Nope!", Harry agreed with himself.

Slowly, everyone left the hospital wing one by one, under Madam Pomfrey's murderous stare and Professor Dumbledore, who was brave enough to withstand the terrible death stare, was the last to leave the hospital wing.

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Madam Pomfrey busied herself around Harry and Ginny, pouring out proportions of different potions into two goblets.

"Your conditions are bad enough without you two sneaking out. What are you thinking? Broken wrist, high alcohol content in blood, potion poisoning and you two were playing in the Great Hall as if it's nobody's business. You might faint every few hours, did you know?" she clicked her tongue, a gesture of irritation and annoyance.

"Tell me, what potions did you two take from yesterday till now? I need to know so as to be able to concoct the right antidote for the poisoning." She asked them.

"I had the Pepper-Up Potion last night and both of us had the same thing again this morning. My mum gave it to us." Ginny replied timidly.

"Molly? She's an excellent potion maker. Better than me, yes she is. She couldn't have made a mistake in brewing such simple potion such as the Pepper-Up Potion" Madam Pomfrey muttered under her breathe and paced around the small space between Ginny's and Harry's bed, racking her brains trying to get the answer behind the potion poisoning mystery.

Ginny had a dreamy smile plastered on her face; she was shining with pride. Her mum is an excellent potion maker; even the infamous Madam Pomfrey acknowledges that.

"Wow, that's my mum!!" Ginny was too engrossed and did not notice that Harry was also grinning silly to himself, thinking along the same line as her with the same pride in his chest.

"IT MUST BE YOU TWO TROUBLE MAKERS" Madam Pomfrey bellowed suddenly, her voice echoed through the high ceiling hospital wing. Harry and Ginny who had spaced off for a moment, had a nasty shock. Their hearts almost jumped out of their mouth and they clenched their chest as their hearts hopped frantically around. Madam Pomfrey placed her face, which was a horrible shade of red right in front of Harry's, who swallowed the lump in his throat.

"IT MUST BE YOU TWO TROUBLE MAKERS" she repeated, "WHAT ON THE SANITY OF MERLIN DID YOU TWO ATE AFTER YOU TOOK THE POTION?" she hissed like an angry cat, spraying Harry's face with spit but he dare not fidget a bit.

"I.......... I.................. We...................." Harry started but he could not form a proper sentence under the matron's livid veined eyes

"We..............We only had some snack off the trolley on the train" Ginny suddenly spoke and Madam Pomfrey immediately turned her attention away from Harry to Ginny and placed her round face horribly close hers.

"We had a bit of the Cauldron Cakes, Chocolate Frogs, Bertie Borts Every Flavour Beans, Jumping Jello, Gummy Teeth, Liquorices Wand, Mini Mint Mice............." Ginny stopped upon seeing Madam Pomfrey's face, now turning from beetroot red to purple and gulped. The angry matron took a deep breath after reaching a nasty purplish blue shade and, Harry and Ginny winced horribly.

"LIQUORICE WANDS? LIQUORICE WANDS? WHERE ARE YOUR BRAINS? WHERE DID THESE YEARS OF EDUCATION GO? DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO CONSUME ANYTHING WITH ANY LEVEL OF ALCOHOLIC CONTENT AT LEAST TEN HOURS AFTER TAKING THE PEPPER-UP POTION" Madam Pomfrey roared and poked both Harry and Ginny on their heads with her thick fingers as she screamed her head off at them.

"IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE BAT SALIVA USED DURING THE POTION BREWING PROCESS. IT'S IN THE GUIDE TO SAFE POTION USAGE, VOLUME ONE BY VIDO VANDADO, PAGE 73, CHAPTER 3, THE FIRST PARAGRAPH." She yakked on in her loud voice and both Harry and Ginny plugged their ears with their fingers.

"AND YOU TWO TROUBLE MAKERS COULDN'T WAIT TILL TEN HOURS LATER BEFORE EATING THOSE HIGHLY FATTENING AND NOT TO MENTION, UNHEALTHY SNACKS. AND THE HEADMASTER ISN'T SETTING GOOD EXAMPLE TOO. OLD MEN LIKE HIM SHOULD TAKE GOOD CARE OF HIS TEETH AND THE SUGAR CONTENT IN HIS BLOOD, INSTEAD, THE HEADMASTER ALWAYS HAS A CANDY OR TWO IN HIS MOUTH.........."

"Silenco", a voice cut the matron off and she could be seen opening and closing her mouth several times but no noise came out of it. Then she suddenly realised that she wasn't shouting anymore. All three of them turned to the direction of the entrance of the hospital wing where a tall figure stood.

"I'm sorry Poppy but would you please keep your voice down? Most unfortunately, my office is right above yours and with you shouting, I could hardly get any sleep. I could cast a silence charm around my office but the students can't. They can't cast a silence charm strong enough to withhold your shouting and at this rate, you'll wake the whole castle" Professor McGonagall stepped out of the shadow into the light, in her flowery nightgown.

"If you want to continue shouting at Mr. Potter and Miss Weasley for whatever they have done this time, please cast a silence charm around the hospital wing so that the rest of the castle wouldn't be disturbed." Madam Pomfrey seemed to deflate right in front of Harry and Ginny's eyes, the redness in her face faded at an alarming rate and finally stopped at a gentle pink. She apologised profusely to Professor McGonagall and walked her out of the hospital wing. She returned a while later still pink in the face and retreated back into her office.

Harry and Ginny looked at each other shyly and quickly climbed into the comfort of the bed. Madam Pomfrey returned from her office some time later with a few more bottles of potions and poured them into the concoction she had made earlier. She shoved the goblets roughly into their hands and walked away without a backwards glance. They eyed the blood red potion with distaste and drowned them down in a single gulp without any complaint. To their horror, the potion tasted exactly like blood with the strong iron stench. As soon as the potion reached their stomach, they slumped back onto the bed unconscious; the goblet fell from their grasp onto the floor and shattered into a million pieces.

"That'll teach you to sneak off, I don't think you two will wake before noon tomorrow. Good night!" Madam Pomfrey whispered to the night as she tucked them in, then retreated to her office after extinguishing the candles on the chandelier, leaving them snoring loudly in their sleep.

She had done something Salazar Slytherin would have been proud of, lacing unsuspecting enemies' potion with strong dosage of sleeping draught. Despicable her ways might be but at least she do not have to worry about patients sneaking out until later the next day. Madam Pomfrey smiled to herself sadistically and retreated into the comfort of her office and retire for the day.

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A/N: All the names of the firsties are the names of my friends except Zax Wang, he is from a Taiwan boygroup called 5566.

Extra information: Lavanya is an Indian girl age 23 Mynthi is a Myanmar girl age 33 Omar is a Malay boy age 21 ( I'm sorry I put in your age, pals but I think my readers might want to know. Hehe...)