(A.N: I wasn't really going to write this chapter at this point of time since I am pretty busy with my school work, but I got some time off and a truckload of ideas came into my mind and here I am, writing this chapter. Anyway I hope you all enjoy this chapter. Hopefully I will have the next one out in a few weeks time when I get some time off.)

CHAPTER 6

Harry and Hermione went back to their common room after classes were over for the day. They both had the Ginny issue on their minds.

"I don't think Ginny would go into a relation with Malfoy unless she had some good reason for it" Hermione said.

"Precisely what I think" Harry said.

"I think I will go and call Ginny to have a chat with us here now" Hermione said.

"Do you think she will agree?" Harry asked.

"I think she will." Hermione said. "She was probably afraid to speak about Malfoy in front of Ron." She added.

"Ok." said Harry. "Go and call her if you are so sure. I bet she will be in the common room right now."

"Yeah, I suppose you are right" Hermione said and walked out of their common room to call Ginny.

She was back five minutes later with a somber looking Ginny. They all sat down by some chairs before the fire.

"Are you ready to tell us what happened?" Harry asked.

"Ginny nodded silently and began her story.

FLASHBACK

One fine morning during their previous year at Hogwarts Ginny was unable to sleep. So she decided to take a walk around the castle. On the way to the great hall she saw Malfoy going in a hurry towards the Owlery. Due to his hurry two letters fell out of his pocket. He didn't seem to notice them and went on his way. Ginny however did.

(From Ginny's P.O.V)

I picked up those two letters and started reading them. The first one was a letter was Voldermort asking Draco to join his band of Death Eaters. Even more shocking was the second letter where Draco had expressed his displeasure to having to do anything with him and had also refused to join the death eaters. In that letter he had also written that he didn't want the same fate as his father and wanted to now lead a good life. Suddenly Malfoy, probably looking for the letters came back and caught me red handed. We both stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity. I wanted to run away from there but my legs seemed rooted to the ground.

We stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity. Finally it was Draco who broke the silence.

"Did you see those letters?" He asked in a voice little more than a whisper.

I nodded, unable to speak.

At that point of time he completely broke down. I stared at him, not knowing what to do and also because I was partially stunned. He recovered quickly enough though.

"I don't want anything to do with him" He said probably referring to Voldemort. "I don't want to be languishing in Azkaban like my father." He added.

I too quickly regained my composure and asked him to talk to Dumbledore about this matter. Draco agreed.

We both went to professor Dumbledore's office. Professor Dumbledore asked to not let on to Voldemort that he wasn't interested in joining the Death Eaters as he felt that Draco could be a very useful spy for our side and also to protect him from the wrath who would no doubt be angry if Draco refused to join him. Draco agreed. he also asked me not to say anything about this to anyone. He informed only the members of the order about this.

As time passed I became friends with Draco. We started spending time with one another secretly. One thing led to another and soon we were both deeply in love.

END FLASHBACK

Both Harry and Hermione were slightly stunned after hearing the story and no one spoke for a few minutes.

Then Harry asked "If Dumbledore had sworn you to secrecy then why did you tell us all this now?"

"After the incident today I saw Dumbledore today and he felt it best if you two and Ron knew about it. I was just wondering how to bring up this topic when Hermione came and asked me for my story." said Ginny.

"When do you want to tell all this to Ron?" Harry asked.

"I would rather you told it to him. I don't think I can repeat all this in front of him. he hates Malfoy. H might not even believe my story" Ginny said crying.

Harry wanted to defend Ron but stopped. H knew that what Ginny had said was perfectly true. In a way even he wasn't sure whether he could trust Malfoy or not. He knew instantly that Ron would never believe it.

"Ok" said Harry finally. "I will tell it to him but not now, later at an opportune time. I am more worried about how your parents will take this matter." Harry said.

"Dumbledore said he would inform them when the time comes" Ginny said. " he knows about us" She added on seeing Harry's look of surprise.

The three of them decided to talk more about this in the morning after they slept over the whole issue.