The Professor
Chapter 5
"I can't believe the Professors won! The Weasleys are so much better!" Matt, one of the boys in Will's dorm said. Will sighed. He was tired of hearing the entire match play by play.
"Well, the Professors had a lot more better people, whereas the Weasleys only have two really outstanding players, Ginny and Harry." Kevin, Matt's friend said.
"Oh man, she is such a hottie!" Warwick flopped backwards onto his bed.
"I vouldn't even try it." Will said.
"Why, Vill?" Matt said, smiling at his little joke.
"She's taken, not exactly dating anyvun but nonezeless taken." He sat on his bed.
"You mean, someone else has claimed her?" Kevin asked.
Will raised an eyebrow at him and gave him a cold look. "She's not a piece of luggage you know."
"Who is it?" The boys all asked at once, a little impatiently.
"I'm not saying."
"C'mon, Vill!" Warwick, a skinny little redhead, pleaded.
"No vay." Will pulled the curtains around his bed and heard the curses of the boys as they continued their discussion on Quidditch.
'If you only knew how much you really like him, Ginny,' Will thought. 'and how much he likes you.' He pulled out a book from his nightstand and by the light of his wand began to read.
Will hadn't even made it to the second page before his door was practically broken down by an angry, formerly blonde Draco Malfoy.
"Will, get your butt out here!" the assaulter yelled.
"Coming, oh patient vun!" Will jumped off the bed and opened the door.
Draco was standing, hand raised, ready to break the door down whether Will was behind it or not. His cheeks were flushed and his eyes were icy steel. 'If only Ginny could see what I see.' Will grinned.
"Change my hair back, you -!" Draco looked around the room and saw three boys staring at him in horror, two in a state of undress. Draco remembered he was a teacher and not supposed to swear in front of students.
"Will …" Draco left the sentence hanging.
"I can't do anyzing, it vill be like zat till zer dance" Will tried not to smile this time, as he knew it would earn him a few missing teeth and a night in the hospital wing. He didn't want to do that to Kate.
"Then dye it my natural colour!"
"I don't vant to," Will crossed his arms. "Call zis revenge for vat you did to me all zose years ago." Draco's face paled.
"You're still holding a grudge against me for that? That was ages ago Will, plus remember Christmas two years ago? You hooked me up with who I thought was the heir to the Montague family, but turned out to be an … an accountant." he shivered "Isn't that revenge enough?"
"No," Will said shortly. "Plus, I am razzer enjoying zis." Will closed the door and Draco descended the stairs in a huff.
During the next week, nothing much happened to Ginny, Will and Kate. They hung out with the Weasley Clan and made illegal trips to Hogsmeade.
Kate and Ginny had both bought their dresses (since they thought that they would look better in them than dress robes usually worn by Hogwarts students) and Will wouldn't show them his robes, even though they pleaded wit him again and again.
"No, I really cannot." Said Will, with a gleam in his eye. "It vould spoil zer surprise."
Ginny only really saw Professor Malfoy in the corridors when she was wandering with her friends, but neither he nor she made any attempt to make conversation.
She was walking through one corridor now with Kate and Will, she could see Professor Malfoy off in the distance when she was approached from behind.
"Oh, hey Harry." she smiled at him and he smiled back, weakly. 'he looks little green.' Ginny thought. 'Is he sick?'
"Can I talk to you for a sec, Gin. Alone?" he looked at the other two who scurried off to talk to Professor Malfoy, which they never did while Ginny was around.
"What is it?" she asked, looking over at her friends who were talking nonstop to Malfoy.
"Um, would … would, er …" he trailed off and mumbled something under his breath which sounded suspiciously like, "Harder than Cho …"
"Would, you, erm .. go to .. the … er dancewithme?" he blushed and looked down at his shoes.
Ginny thought. 'Well, I've wanted this all my life, haven't I? So why am I not fainting, or giggling or even blushing?'
"Yes." He looked up and his emerald green eyes brightened and he practically jumped for joy.
"Thanks, Gin," he smiled as he skipped off. Ginny laughed at his back, but Harry didn't hear, bluebirds were tweeting happily in his mind and all the world was a lush garden of love. He bumped into a few people and ran over a first year before he calmed down.
Ginny walked over to where Will, Kate and Professor Malfoy were talking to each other.
Malfoy was leaning against a wall with his arms crossed as he listened to the other two. It wasn't hard to see that Will and Kate liked each other. The stolen glances, shuffling of feet and the blushes. He stopped himself from crying out "For goodness sakes, just snog and get it over with!". Looking past the lovers' heads he saw a familiar red headed shape coming towards their group. He wanted to hide his hair, but he was damned if he was going to wear a hat. He never was a hat person.
"She's coming." he announced and stepped away from the wall and walked toward his classroom.
"You're so chicken, Draco." Will said.
"What makes you say that, Will?" Draco sneered.
"You've been avoiding her, don't zink I haven't seen it." Will's eyes twinkled.
"Don't think I haven't seen the way you're always sneaking glances at Kate and, for hell's sake, blushing!" Draco walked briskly away, leaving a very stunned Kate and a very red Will.
A strange blonde haired and blue-eyed young man crept along the passage and hid in the shadows. He slid along the wall until he reached the door and opening it slid inside. The room's other occupants were two incredibly famous people.
"C'mon guys, we got a lot of work to do." The strange boy said.
The night of the dance came quickly. Kate and Ginny used all of the beauty spells they knew and all the beauty potions they had as they dressed for the ball. Kate wore a powder blue dress in the romantic style; princess line and white lace trimmings. Ginny wore a deep green dress that shimmered with silver and had a split up one side. Ginny felt a bit like a house traitor wearing it, but when she had seen it in the shop, and then seen how it looked on her, she had to have it. A necklace that she bought at Diagon Alley the year before matched her dress well.
When they descended the staircase Harry was completely speechless. Ginny. In green. Slightly Slytherin-esque, but it suited her auburn hair. Kate didn't have a date and was going by herself. She exited before Harry and Ginny, as she didn't want to feel like a third wheel. Kate couldn't help feeling a little sad. This was her third ball in a row without a date. Maybe she should be more outgoing like Ginny …
Draco Malfoy watched as he saw Ginny enter the hall on the arm of that Pot-head, Potter. Potter looked smug as he led his date onto the dance floor, and when Draco saw her, he could understand why.
Ginny looked so … beautiful? Ravishing, stunning … these words and more.
He looked down at his drink, trying to forget about her and Potty. He didn't just hate Hairy Potter now, his stomach twisted with jealousy and envy and a sickening loathing of Potter. Ginny deserved better, even though you couldn't get much better than The-Boy-Who-Lived. She deserved him.
