Chapter 3

AN: Some news - BlueEyesOff has offered to translate this story into German. Wow. Cool. Anyway, I have edited the first to chapters to put more into them, so if you are coming back to read this chapter, I would recommend glancing over the first two chapters to see more stuff I have added to them.


Later that afternoon Ginny was once again in make up and the most innocent looking clothes that Will and Kate chose. Will said that Draco would be attracted to her innocence, so they had dressed her in a light green skirt with gauze and frills around the hem and one white heart embroidered above her left knee. Her top was white cotton and was scrunched up around the neck and sleeves. She felt pretty and feminine.

She walked down the corridors, trying not to make too much noise and thought about where Malfoy would be at this time of night. Students were still walking around, as it was only eight p.m., and a few exchanged greetings with Ginny as they hurried by. She got a few compliments on her clothes, and lingering glances as she made her way to the Potions classroom.

This area of the dungeons was empty, with no sign of life. The flopping of her sandals echoed oddly in the desolate corridors as she made her way to the door of the classroom, taking a deep breath before she knocked on the door.

Professor Malfoy was in the Potions classroom, as a matter of fact, thinking about his new students, and as he reviewed the days classes the image of a singularly pretty redhead popped into his head. She had looked so … innocent.

He tried to shake her from his thoughts. 'I'm definitely not into sweet little girl. I like them foxy and dressed in leather or nurses outfits, not with big blue eyes and copper ringlets that begged to be held and stroked …

"Gaahh!" He smacked his forehead and tried to think about something else.

'The first years, Gods, what a disaster!' The chattered like rabbits and were as timid. Whenever he had walked around them they squeaked and looked away.

'The soft lines of her face, the makeup that had enhanced her eyes, the dusting of freckles.'

"Ughh. Ugly!" He screwed up his face. Definitely not his type.

There was a knock on his door, and he was grateful for any distraction from his dangerous thoughts.

"Come in." he growled.

"Uh, Professor?" he looked up. Ginny was standing there in, predictably, innocent clothes. Her hair was only slightly curled now, and she looked at him with those orbs of blue that he could fall into, if he wasn't careful. But Draco Malfoy wouldn't have survived this long if he wasn't careful.

"What is it?" he growled again.

"I just wanted to see if Will, Kate and I had any homework." She said, looking down at her toes. "You didn't assign any, but we just don't want to fall behind in our work like last year." She looked up at him from under her fringe. His heartbeat quickened, but tried not to show it on the outside. 'I smell a rat.' He thought.

"If you don't want to fall behind then go and read chapters one to seven in the book, and memorise it all." he looked back down to the quiz papers that the second years had done, that he had been trying to mark for the last half hour.

"Thank you, Professor." She stood there as if waiting for him to say something. Suddenly, it dawned on him what she was trying to do.

"Weasley, if you're trying to seduce me …"

Ginny started and her face went a little pink.

"Pfft. Yeah right." Her whole attitude became different as she put on hand on her hips and let the other play with her skirt. "Like I would try to seduce you."

Malfoy raised an eyebrow and smirked. "Tell Will my tastes have changed, but he certainly hasn't. Do you know this is the fourth time he's set a girl to seduce me. It's not going to happen. Goodbye, Weasley." He looked back down at his papers, grinning inwardly at having gotten the last word. She stood there nonplussed for a moment before leaving.

After the door had closed and Malfoy knew she had gone, he leant back in his chair. He had got it for 200 galleons in Diagon Alley. There were several golden switches on the outside of the armrests, and he switched one now that enabled him to lean back, as if in a lazy-boy. He undid the first button in his shirt and sighed.

Ginny was crouching next to the door and had enchanted her sandals to walk on. She peeked through the key hole and saw Malfoy lean back in the chair and let out a moan.

"Stupid girls." she heard him mutter. He lay there for a moment, and she admired his soft blonde hair and fine, pointed features. His brow smoothed as he lay in the quiet, and Ginny had just thought he had gone to sleep when he suddenly sat up and stretched.

Even through the shirt she could see his smooth muscles dance as he raised his arms over his head and yawned. Ginny was reminded of a cat, as he moved and ran a hand through his hair.

He stood up and went through the door in the back of the classroom. It was at this time that Ginny looked at her watch in her pocket and saw that she had half an hour before she had to be back in her common room. She could spare ten minutes before she had to leave, and she just wanted to see him one more time. 'What kind of pervert am I?' she thought as she looked up and down the hallway to make sure no one was there.

After five minutes, the professor came out again, and Ginny blushed furiously as Draco, with only a pair of dark green lounging trousers had come into the classroom once again, with a towel around his shoulders. He dried his hair with one hand as he used his other to flick through the papers on his desk.

Dust flew up as he opened a drawer and he sneezed softly, like a cat. Ginny giggle.

Malfoy started and looked straight towards the door she was hiding behind and started moving towards it, taking long strides.

Ginny felt icy cold as she stood up and ran for her life down the corridor. She felt a spell zing past her and another hit her feet. Her whole body stopped moving, only her clothes were still moving as she looked wildly around, eyes darting, not able to move her head.

The professor calmly walked up to her and then circled her, looking Ginny up and down.

"What were you doing outside my office, Weasley?"

"Why should I tell you?" she snarled, surprised she could still move her lips.

"I'm a Professor, in case you haven't noticed, and I will ask you to use the proper honourifics." he hissed.

"You're still a daft prat, sir." Malfoy stopped and glared at her. She felt suddenly fearful, and utterly defenceless as she stood there, one leg in the air, the other on the ground, but barely. He waved his wand and she fell forwards, luckily stopping herself from getting a broken nose by putting out her hands to stop herself from falling headfirst.

"Detention and twenty points from Gryffindor." Malfoy spun around and headed back to the classroom.

Lost in thought, Ginny wandered back to her tower. He could look so cute, and adorable one minute, then be scowling and glaring the next. She couldn't help but feel her heart quicken at the memory of the sight of him in his lounging trousers, slung low around his waist, his blonde hair, darkened with moisture and the way he had moved with a catlike grace.

She stood in front of the Fat Lady and tried to remember the password.

"Discalceate." she said and wondered what the hell discalceate meant.

"What does discalceate mean?" she asked Kate, who knew more about, well, anything than her.

"I think I heard it meant to take one's shoes off." she said, and then said goodnight to Will and Ginny as she went up to the seventh year girl's dormitory.

"Vat happened?" Will asked when Kate had gone. Ginny told him everything, except the part about seeing him half naked and chasing her down the corridor. That, she would prefer no one knew.

"He said you've tried to set girls to seduce him before." Ginny said.

"Vell, yes, I admit I have done it before," Will said. "But he didn't tell you zat he fell for zer first zree. Zen, I zink, He caught on to my evil plans. Are you falling for him?" he asked and raised a dark eyebrow.

"No way." Ginny tossed her hair behind her and crossed her arms. The memory of those pants and his face popped up.

"I zink you are, we Malfoy's are irresistible to vimmin." he winked at her. She raised an eyebrow.

"I could do things that would make you look like a tomato, Miss Weasley."

"No you couldn't." She was eager to see what these things were, she just tried not to show it.

"Oh, I could." he stood up and walked over to her, then sat next to her, his arm over the head of the sofa and leaned in. He whispered breathily into her ear and she turned scarlet.

"I told you I could make your face look like a tomato." He chuckled.

"OK, so all Malfoy are sexy as hell –"

"Damn right!" Will said.

Ginny laughed. "I'll see you tomorrow, Will. I've got to get some sleep." She ran up the staircase and into the room.

Kate looked up as Ginny entered the room. Kate was doing a cross-stitch of a two kittens and a ball of string. Sometimes, Ginny just didn't understand Kate's mind at all. Kate was a big fan of Buna Seara, a magical rock band from Eastern Europe and read all sorts of books, from magical textbooks to muggle murder mysteries and vampire fiction. Yet, Kate dressed in pretty, feminine clothes and seemed to be able to do anything she put her head to. She never stuck with one thing for too long, and Ginny was amazed that Kate done over half of the cross-stitch.

"What's up?" Kate asked, putting her cross-stitch down.

"Malfoy has convinced me that all Malfoy's are irresistible to women." she jumped on her bed and moaned.

"Which one?" Kate asked.

"Will." Ginny answered and Kate sighed.

"What is it?" Ginny asked.

"I think I kind of like Will." Kate's eyes glazed over. "I love his sense of humour, his interests are similar to mine and well, he's the nicest guy I've met for a while that I can talk to."

Ginny nodded. Kate was painfully shy, and when she was with Will, she seemed to blossom into a pretty, witty and glowing woman. Ginny had hoped Will noticed.

Kate picked up her cross-stitch again and continued to stitch.

"Good for you, Kate, you haven't been on a date in ages." Ginny smiled.

"Let's get onto another subject please?" Kate pleaded.

"Sorry, Kate."

"What happened with Professor Malfoy?"

"I saw him with his shirt off." Ginny's eyes glazed over and she started to grin stupidly.

"I'm guessing that was a good thing. You're eyes have gone all funny."

Ginny blushed. "Well. He was very cute. He sneezed and it was so adorable. I never thought I'd say that about Malfoy, but there you go."

"Did he know you were watching?"

"No, I was looking through the key hole, but then I … erm … made a sound and he heard me –-"

"What was this sound, pray?" Kate asked and Ginny blushed again.

"I giggled when he sneezed." Ginny looked down and Kate laughed. "Back to the story"

"Well, I ran away and then he froze me with a spell. I told him he was a prat and he gave me detention."

"Wow." Kate said.

"Wow, what?"

"You're going to have detention with him, at night, alone, get the picture?"

"Oh no." Ginny groaned and put her head in her hands.

"Do you want him to like you?" Kate raised an eyebrow.

"I really don't know. I think he's a hot guy, but as for him … I don't know. I've hated him all my life, since before I even knew him. He's got an awful personality and I think if I angered him enough he'd have no qualms about hexing me."

"And you'd have no qualms about giving him a bat-bogey hex, right?" Kate said, smiling.

Ginny laughed. "Right! He wouldn't know what hit him!"

Outside Will was standing behind the door and listening to the two girls talk. So, Ginny didn't like him but Kate did. He thought about how Kate hade changed now that he knew her better. She was a quiet girl, but he had found that she was becoming more open with him now. There was never a dull moment with Kate.

Will walked back to his dormitory, taking the gender-bending charm off himself that he had used to sneak around the girl's dorms.

As he lay in his bed, listening to the snores of his roommates he thought of Kate, and her beautiful brown hair and her warm green eyes. Then he thought, 'Will she like me still when I tell her who I really am? Will she hate me for lying?'. These thoughts and more kept him awake for hours before he finally fell asleep.


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