...:AN: At last eh? NOT the last chapter! I think you all may hate me for this one but it's needed. Ok so I'm INSANELY sorry about the lack of updates but theres two good reasons for this:
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Ginny sat with Luna in the library, writing out their homework on Chimaera attacks in the Middle Ages. Luna was looking at the book upside down curiously, tilting her blonde head of hair to and fro as she attempted to decipher the picture.

"Book confusing you Luna?" Ginny asked with a smile as she looked up from her parchment.

"No, but the Chimaera looks kind of like Professor Snape in this picture. Especially if you look at it like this." Luna said showing her the book, Ginny laughed as she could just see an upside down hideous monster. No hooked nose, no greasy hair.

"So exams start soon, which ones are you worried about?" Ginny asked, finishing her Defense Against the Dark Arts homework and starting on her potions essay.

Luna itched at her nose a little and shrugged. "Potions and History of Magic. I'm more excited for the summer."

Ginny nodded feeling a pang of jealousy, she knew what her summer would consist of. She'd be spending it in the eerie Order of the Phoenix house cleaning and eavesdropping on conversations with Ron. She was expecting to be bored to tears. Luna, on the other hand, would be traveling around Europe with her eccentric father looking for features for his articles. She'd be visiting Italy, France and Merlin knew where else. Luna would be having an amazing summer while Ginny dusted for pixies.

But Ginny smiled as she thought that maybe she could get out once and a while. Her mind drifted to walking down Diagon Alley with Draco or maybe just visiting Hogsmeade in the summer when it wasn't so full of Hogwarts' students. Hopefully her summer wouldn't be as dismal as she had expected.

That was if they managed to get the marriage to Pansy out of the way, Ginny's eyes widened as she thought of it. She had totally forgotten, overlooked and hadn't even take that into account lately. How could she have forgotten something so crucial? Ginny groaned and let her head fall onto her textbook.

"Just because exams are on the way doesn't mean you should give yourself a concussion." she heard Luna tut beside her.

Draco leant against the cold wall in the hall outside the Great Hall. He watched the people filing out slowly and heading towards their common rooms or the library, some of them with solid frowns on their faces, others with glee filled smiles.

Letting out a held breath he looked up at the ceiling, looking at the immense ceiling. It reminded him of the tall ceilings of Muggle churches he had seen in pictures, it looked as though not even the sky could be that high despite the fact it clearly was. He was wondering how many people had touched the top of the ceiling when somebody moved beside him.

Draco looked back down and saw Pansy smiling at him broadly.

"Hello darling." She said cooly. Draco rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.

"Go away Pansy, before I decide to cut off all that hair of yours and shove it down your throat." He said quietly, watching some Ravenclaw girls go by and give him a strange look.

"Now is that any way to treat your fiancee?" she asked touching his arm possessively.

"You're not my fiancee, I didn't propose to you. Actually I doubt anybody would marry you out of free will." he snarled. Pansy narrowed her eyes and turned on her heel, flipping her long hair and smacking him in the face with it before storming off.

Draco looked at the ground furiously, cursing Pansy in his mind. But when he felt a hand gently touch his hand he felt the tension slowly leave when he looked into a pair of deep brown eyes.

"Hey, why didn't you come to dinner?" Ginny asked softly.

"I wasn't hungry, but I wanted to see you." he said giving her a small kiss.

"Well I'm glad you waited. I'm going to the library, do you have any homework you want to work on? I can wait for you to get it if you like."

"No, not really, I'll just watch you." he said taking her hand in his and walking towards the library. Ginny smiled and nudged him in the side gently.

"You mean distract me, not that I'm complaining." she laughed.

"Well either way I'm sure to enjoy myself." he smiled.

The next couple days we're relatively quiet around Hogwarts. Everyone was either studying or falling asleep in random places from late night studying. The weather was warm but with gentle rain and the Saturday came with a relief to everyone and with the last Hogsmeade trip.

Ginny and Draco were walking down the streets under a large black umbrella in the light rain. They both were able to wear the thinner cloaks they owned, tied below their necks and neither had to worry about freezing in their uniforms.

"Where do you want to go?" Ginny asked looking up at Draco's face. She waved as Harry, Hermione and Ron walked by, heading for the Three Broomsticks and giving Draco a confused look but a slightly warmer one to Ginny.

"Actually I kind of like it out here, can we keep walking for a while?" he asked. Ginny nodded as they continued walking down the tightly packed dirt road.

"The breeze does feel nice, its so warm." she smiled. Draco nodded tightening his grasp on her hand as they turned down a corner and began walking down a road that was lined with small apple trees.

"This looks like someone's orchard." Draco thought aloud.

"Well we're not hurting anything, we should be fine. Besides the apples are too small to pick anyway. Ahh wet." she grimaced and pulled her foot out of a puddle. Unfortunately the puddle was full of thick mud and kept her boot and she started to fall forwards.

With surprisingly quick reflexes Draco caught her and held her so her foot wasn't in the soggy road. Ginny laughed and used her foot to pry up her boot from the inside and slipped it back on as Draco sat her down on her feet.

"My hero." She laughed pulling on his hand to bring him closer. Draco smirked and kissed the top of her head.

"Happy to help. Oh I have something for you, close your eyes?" he said. Ginny looked at him, clearly puzzled, but did as she was asked.

Draco lately hadn't been attending many of his classes, and instead had been coming into Hogsmeade and relaxing. Of course he wouldn't tell Ginny any of this, mainly because he couldn't. However he had been allowed to miss classes because of Dumbledore telling the staff his father was excusing him. So to the grunts of annoyance of his professors Draco didn't even have to write his exams.

Draco lifted Ginnys' hand and pulled out a delicate silver ring. Two small lines of silver wove across each other elegantly, with small silver flowers and leaves between them with a single diamond set into the center of each blossom.

Slowly he slid it onto her index finger and kissed her lightly.

"Okay. Open them." he whispered. Ginny opened her eyes and looked down at her finger. Her eyes widened and her lips parted slightly as they let in a shaky breath.

"Oh my.." she breathed, bringing it closer to her face. "This..this is amazing Draco. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I don't deserve this." A small tear slipped out of each of her eyes and she pressed her lips tightly together to stop them from quivering.

"I'm hoping that's a happy crying." he smiled. Ginny nodded and threw her arms around him, embracing him tightly.

"It's a touched crying." she said quietly, burying her head in his shoulder. Draco reached up and laced his fingers through her satiny hair, holding her head gently.

"Promise me something?"

"Anything." she said firmly.

"Everytime you look at that ring, I want you to think of me." he whispered. Ginny drew her head back and kissed him.

"I'm always thinking of you." she noted. "But I promise." she smiled and wiped under her eyes a little. "I love you Draco."

Draco gave one of his new genuine smiles and scooped her into his arms and kissed her. "I love you Ginny."

Ginny had just finished her potions exam the following Monday, her last exam then school would end at the end of the week. Sighing of relief as she stepped out of the potions class she heard the running of many feet. She saw Neville in the throng of people and gave him a questioning look.

"Dumbledore has called an assembly in the Great Hall. Everyone's to come immediately." Neville said quickening his pace. Ginny followed quickly searching the crowd for a bright silver-blonde head but it was too crowded and she filed into the Great Hall with everyone else.

There were black banners hanging from the ceiling, with the gold "H" on each of them. Behind the teachers table at the front of the hall hung the largest banner with a gold "D" Ginny's eyes roamed over it and as she sat down she felt a sinking feeling inside of her. It took a while for the students to settle but they all fell quiet when Dumbledore raised his arms with a grim look on his face.

"Welcome students. I am sorry to have pulled you away from your exams but a tragedy has hit our school again and it must be announced." he said. "I do not know if many if all of you know about Muggle warfare due to your families. However they have created instruments intended for one thing, and that is to kill instantly. One of these is a rifle and they are allowed into the hands of the people in the Muggle World very easily, and early this morning one of those instruments claimed the life of one of our own.

I'm afraid that one of our students snuck off grounds very late last night and visited a Muggle village. For reason's unknown to us there was a large fight between locals and our student, Draco Malfoy, was caught in the crossfire of one of the rifles and died in a Muggle Hospital."

Ginny's hearing had suddenly changed, as though everything was far away. Dumbledore, the gasps and screams of her schoolmates, all seemed to be getting further. Her vision was going fuzzy, quickly it narrowed and she fell off the bench to the floor in a dead faint.

Ginny stood with her head bowed with some of her schoolmates who attended the funeral. She was dressed in a knee length black skirt and long sleeved shirt, blending into the crowd of dark colours of mourning. She looked at the coffin suspended over the rectangular hole on the ground. It was mighty looking, a kingly dark word that was highly polished, suitable for who was inside of it.

Ginny swallowed hard as more tears streamed down her face, her legs felt like they were going to collapse under her. Thankfully Luna slipped her arm around hers and steadied her, Colin doing the same on the other side while Neville was standing quietly behind.

She bit her lip to hold back the sobbing that was about to ease its' way out of her as she watched the coffin slowly be lowered into the cold, hard earth. She didn't dare move even as people slowly filed away back on their way home. She hugged Luna, Neville and Colin lifelessly when they said they had to go and continued to stand where she was. This was the funeral for his friends, none of his family had attended. Her friends were mainly there for her, but it showed real character on their part to attend.

Ginny watched as the priest touched his wand to the covered grave and magically covered the brown earth with lush grass. Despite the people watching her Ginny moved towards the elegant grey marble headstone with Draco's name engraved on it and placed on it a small stone in the shape of a heart. She had taken it from the water's edge at their secret lake and magically made it into a heart. It was smooth and shining from being washed with gentle waves for ages and it glistened atop the tombstone.

Looking to the other side of the grave she saw a tall blonde glaring at her. It was Pansy and she taking huge strides over towards Ginny.

"You little rat." she seethed. Ginny sat up and felt her sadness evolve into anger and all she could feel was rage looking at Pansy. She was the one that was standing between her and Draco in the first place, she was the main force that would have eventually drawn them apart.

"You don't want to come any closer to me Parkinson." she said cooly. Her tone was quiet but her hatred could be heard within it. Pansy gave her a cocky look and took a step closer.

"Or what Weasley? You'll breathe on me? Or move out of my way?" She took another step and the next thing she knew she was on the ground, further away from the grave then she had been, after receiving a severely painful punch from Ginny across her jaw.

"If you thought that hurt Parkinson, you can't even imagine how much harder Draco would have wanted me to hit you." Ginny said watching Pansy look at her at in a mix of cowardly fear and anger from the ground, a trickle of blood gleaming on her lip.

Pansy got to her feet and walked off quickly. Ginny finally sank to her knees beside her grave and once she was completely alone let into her sobbing. Placing her hands on the newly covered grave she cried her heart out.

But then when she heard the rumble of a motorcycle engine and saw the dust as the dark figure rode away down the dirt road she let her entire body fall onto the ground as she cried.

AN: dodges angry people