Chapter Three: Honoured

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It was the Saturday before the first Hogsmeade visit of the year. Luna Lovegood was hopelessly trying to get Draco Malfoy to ask Ginny Weasley to go to Hogsmeade with him.

"Draco, you know Ginny? She wants to go to Hogsmeade. Ask her. Don't be a fuck, because you know she likes you." Luna was twirling her butter beer cap necklace as she asked, well told Draco to take Ginny to Hogsmeade.

Draco snorted. "Now how exactly do you know this?"

Luna thought for a moment, as her eyes got all dreamy. "Umm… She told me?"

Draco rolled his eyes and smirked. "I'm sure she revealed her undyingly love to me also."

Luna smirked. "For all you know she might just have done that. Can't be too sure these days; now can you?"

"Come off it, Loony, I have places to be, now why the hell are you asking me to take Weasley to Hogsmeade?"

"Okay fine. You don't have to be so grumpy. Blaise and I are going to Hogsmeade together and I want Ginny to go with us and since you're Blaise's friend it would be perfect."

Draco's eyes widened. "You are going to Hogsmeade with Blaise? Why the fuck didn't he tell me?"

"Because it was none of your business. Not everything revolves around you."

"Well I'm happy to hear that. For a minute I thought I was king of the world. Thank you for telling me otherwise. I love to be enlightened by the loony."

"Well, I tried. But at least think about asking her, Draco."

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Now it was Sunday and Luna was still bothering Draco about asking Ginny to Hogsmeade. She had caught him as he was walking down the hallway to the Great Hall for lunch.

"Malfoy, did you ask Ginny yet?"

"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. Why should I tell you, Loony?"

"Because I asked, and you're being rude."

"Paaaaaaardooooooooon meeeeeeeeee, exscccccccuuuuse my rudeness"

"Malfoy, stop being a fuck and answer the question!"

"No, I haven't asked her, yet"

Luna's eyes got really big and she put on a silly yet dreamy grin. "Yet. You said yet. So you plan to?"

"I never said that. And you know it's really odd when you first call me a fuck then do the weird smile thing."

Luna went on talking and ignored the last part. "Yes, you did! Denying what you say isn't being truthful with yourself, and if you're not truthful you aren't complete."

"You truly are loony."

Luna put on another silly grin. "And I love every minute of it." Then she curtsied and left.

-

"... So I said that we should be allowed to have…" Hermione was going on about some educational thing, while Ron was trying to get her to shut up.

"No one cares, Hermione."

Ginny who was across the table from Harry asked him, "Harry, can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Yeah, Ron and Hermione are too busy fighting to notice... want to go outside?"

"Here's fine, I'll just whisper." Right before she said that she went under the table and sat next to him.

Ginny leaned over to Harry and whispered in his ear. "Can you cover for me tonight? I need to go out for a little while, and I don't want Hermione or Ron to see and ask me about it."

"Where are you going?"

"It doesn't matter I'll be fine."

"I suppose so, but are you sure you don't want me to come too?"

"I need to go alone. But thanks, Harry."

"Wait. I wanted to ask you if you wanted to go to Hogsmeade with me this weekend."

Harry shifted a little in his seat. "Umm… Ginny, I didn't think you liked me like that any more. I mean I'm flattered but I see you as a little sister Ginny. Plus I'm going with Padma."

"Harry, I think you misunderstood me, I didn't mean that we'd go as a couple, just as friends. But since you're going with Padma that's okay"

Harry mumbled, "I'm sorry, Ginny."

Ginny felt a big lump in her throat, she swallowed and croaked out, "No, Harry, it's fine. I'll ask someone else. Anyways I need to go meet Luna."

Ginny ran down the hall, digging the finger nails of her right hand into her left wrist, willing the tears back down her throat. She always had a big problem with talking to Harry, and making a fool out of herself. Being the only Weasley girl she was always around her brother's friends. Unlike some would think, it would make her used to doing and saying stupid things and act weird in front of people. But it didn't. Ginny always took things seriously and criticized everything she said or did. And right now, all she could think of was how stupid she sounded to Harry.

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Ginny Weasley had now reached Luna who was sitting outside the History of Magic classroom. As it was said earlier Luna loved getting to classes early and just sit outside.

From the time it took Ginny to get there she had finally stopped the tears that were desperately trying to come out. "I just made a fool out of myself in front of Harry… again." She sat down next to Luna.

Luna's head was tilted sideways as was her smile. "I wonder if we will hold hands… Blaise is so romantic. I can't believe we are going together."

Ginny waved her arms in front of Luna's face, "Luna! Don't you get that I'm TALKING TO YOU?"

"What do you want?"

"Harry is mad at me, and you don't care"

"I do care."

Ginny crossed her arms. "Prove it."

"What happened with Harry? Why do you think that you made a fool of yourself?"

"He thought we would go together to Hogsmeade, as more than friends. I didn't make myself clear. I feel so stupid. He's going with Padma, any way, so it doesn't matter. I think he will be angry when he sees me with Draco... and I don't know what to do..."Ginny sighed, "Except the problem is I did mean more then friends. It's really stupid. He'll never like me and I desperately need to get over it."

"Ginny, you really need to stop worrying about what everyone thinks of you. Especially Harry. You're waste so much time in your life with every time you think about how you acted in front of him and how he thinks of you," Luna sighed then continued, "I know it's not easy to get over someone but just try to stop thinking about him. You know he's not your soul mate."

"I know you're right. It's just hard. Anyways I'm going to go back outside tonight to try to write, hopefully I won't fall asleep."

Luna laughed, "You know you liked sleeping out there with Draco."

"Heh, the odd thing is I asked Harry to cover for me when I go outside. Like distracting Ron or Hermione because I want to go out early."

Luna sat up straight. "See! If he agreed to cover for you then he obviously doesn't think you are a strange little girl that rambles on about stuff."

"I suppose…"

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It was now eight o'clock and Harry, Ron and Hermione were sitting down in the Gryffindor common room doing homework. Well Harry and Ron weren't exactly doing homework; it was more like they were asking to copy off of Hermione. Hermione refused, and burst into a lecture on how Harry and Ron should pay attention in class instead of catching up on sleep.

"You're not my mum, Hermione. And you don't have to get all ticked off when we ask you. Can't you just be honoured that you're smarter then us and then give us the answers?"

"It doesn't work that was, Ronald. You're going to have to learn to do the work yourself instead of asking for every little answer."

"Well we wouldn't ask for every little answer if you gave us the whole paper."

Hermione got up and turned to Ron. "I can't believe you're making me the bad guy! You're never going to go anywhere in life if you don't do the work yourself."

"Now you're just being dramatic. I never made you the bad guy all I said was that if you just gave us the paper we wouldn't bother you as much. I'm looking in your best interest."

Hermione and Ron kept on fighting as Harry decided to ignore them and continue working.

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Ginny came down the Gryffindor Girls' Dormitory staircase and entered the Gryffindor common room. She walked towards Harry and sat down where Hermione, who was still fighting with Ron, was sitting.

Ginny took a deep breath and tried to think about how she didn't really like Harry and how it was just a little school girl crush, "Harry, remember earlier about the covering for me thing?" Harry nodded, "Well since Ron and Hermione are in one of their love fights I don't think I'm going to need someone to cover for me. But thanks for agreeing to." With that Ginny got up and exited the common room with her quill and Diary that she was holding.

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Luna Lovegood and Blaise Zabini were sitting outside on a balcony in Hogwarts Castle. Luna was curled up next to Blaise trying to keep warn because of the coldness, or just because she wanted to be next to him. She was rambling on about how Draco should really ask Ginny to Hogsmeade.

"Luna, I really don't get you. Draco and Ginny are nothing like each other."

"Neither are we. Unless you are saying we shouldn't be together."

"Don't jump to conclusions, we unlike Draco and Ginny can stand each other. Plus if Draco was going to date anyone in Hogwarts it would most likely be Pansy."

"Blaise, do you ever pay attention to people?"

"What do you think I'm doing right now? And what does that have to do with anything?"

Luna sighed and snuggled closer to Blaise, "I mean body language, Pansy and Draco would never date each other, again, I guess. They went out in fourth year. Pansy loves Draco like a brother. Ginny should really learn from Pansy and start to just love Harry like a brother."

"Ginny still likes Potter?"

"It's more like she's embarrassed around him, then actually liking him. But Draco would be much better for her."

"Luna, I really need to know where you came off with this idea that Draco and Ginny are soul mates."

"Well it's the way they act when they are together. Anyone can see it! Just look at their eyes when they are talking. It's true love."

"Luna, you really are loony, and I mean that in a very, very good way. Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy, true love?"

Luna crossed her arms, "I may be loony but I know true love when I see it."

Blaise smirked, "Do you see it now?"

A small smile played upon Luna's lips. She turned over and put each arm on either side of Blaise and bent down and kissed him on the lips. "What do you think?"

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Ginny Weasley was now outside the Hogwarts Castle. She only had to walk a few steps towards the tree that she was sitting under nights before, when Draco Malfoy jumped down from the tree.

Ginny turned to him and sighed. "You have to be kidding. And what do you think you are? A monkey?"

"I thought I was a ferret? Now I'm the almighty Bouncing ferret-monkey type thing. I feel so pureblooded."

Ginny snorted. "Aren't you funny…"

"If you want to talk about something funny, your friend Loony wants me to ask you to Hogsmeade."

"Is that so…"

"But I'm sorry to say Weasel that you wont be graced with my presence at Hogsmeade because I'm definitely not going to ask you."

It would be a lie to say that Ginny didn't feel at least a little bit hurt. It's not though as if she wanted Draco to ask her. It was more the way he said how he wouldn't ask her then if he had not said anything at all. Of course Ginny would never admit he hurt her a little so she just went on with the conversation and ignored the remark.

"Good, because I would have just said no. And I thought we were calling each other by first names now, Malfoy."

"Must have slipped my mind Weasley, because I do have more important things to think about, unlike you. I can imagine it now…" Draco put on a high-pitched girly voice, "Like I wonder what Harry's thinking about now? I wonder if he noticed me today? I wonder if he's missing me? I really should go back up to the Gryffindork common room and stalk him."

Ginny stuck out her tongue.

"Mature, Ginny, really mature."

"Oh so it's really mature to mock someone? So, we're back to first names again, Draco?"

"I really don't get why you make such a big deal about first names. But then again you really don't have anything else to worry about, and didn't you come out here to write?"

"But, Draco! This is so much more interesting then writing. I just love talking to you." Ginny stopped for a second and thought. "And since when do you care about if I write or not?"

"I don't…"

"That's good to know."

-

Draco and Ginny stopped talking for a while, Ginny say down and started writing, and Draco lay down near the lake and just looked up at the stars. After a while Ginny stopped writing and looked over at Draco.

I wonder what he's thinking. I mean, what do people like Draco think about? Probably something evil, like a plan to take over the world. I really should write about someone like that. Yeah, an evil seventeen year old that wants to take over the world… Wait, that sounds like Tom. No, he'll just be evil. No taking over the world.

Ginny wrote down some notes on what to write, then she went down where Draco was and laid down next to him.

"What the bloody hell do you think you're doing? First you come out here and invade my tree, now you lay down next to me like you think you own the place?"

"Draco, for once, can you just shut up and relax?"

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People said it was an honour… I begged to differ.