Chapter Ten: Hyperactive

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After a few days had gone by since Ron had asked Harry if he had a girlfriend the whole situation seemed to die down. The only problem was that Hermione and Ron had dropped it, not Harry. Harry still had to worry about meeting Pansy in private without attracting attention. Harry had come to the conclusion that lying and sneaking around was too much work.

It was now breakfast at Hogwarts and Hermione was asking for Harry to pass the eggs. Harry wasn't listening. He couldn't listen. He was gazing across the tables to where Pansy was sitting.

Pansy was still rather drowsy looking, as was Harry. Which might be expected when they spent a good part of the night… well… not sleeping.

"Harry, could you pass the eggs?" Hermione asked for the second time.

Harry however didn't move, he just sat with his fork drooping from his and, barely touching his food.

"Harry, could you pass the eggs?" Hermione asked, a little louder this time.

Still, Harry sat staring off at Pansy, who was giving him looks across the room.

Hermione was getting frustrated at being ignored, so she took her fork, and whacked it against Harry's wrist. Harry was startled out of his daydreams.

"What do you want, Hermione?" he asked a little too loudly.

"The eggs. For the fourth time," she retorted.

"Oh, yeah sorry," Harry grumbled.

Hermione looked concerned. "Are you okay?"

"Sure."

"You look tired, did you get enough sleep last night? Ron told me that you didn't get to bed last night until two. Why were you out so late? Were you with Ginny?"

"I wasn't snogging Ginny."

"I never said anything about snogging, Harry."

Harry looked up at her. "Well you implied it."

Hermione sighed. "Whatever, Harry. I just wish that you would tell Ron and me what exactly is going on with you. We are your best friends, aren't we?"

"Yes, I'm sorry, I'll tell you tonight, I promise."

Hermione studied him as if to see if he was telling the truth. "Alright, tonight in the common room."

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All during History of Magic Draco Malfoy was having an interesting conversation with himself. Actually it was much more like an argument over why was he dating a Weasley. Draco had many theories, one was that he was put under a spell when he agreed; another theory was that he really wasn't paying attention. His last theory was that he really did care about Ginny Weasley; of course that was one of the least plausible ones. Draco Malfoy couldn't care less about Ginny, who just happened to be his girlfriend. That's when it hit him, he either was very stupid or very suicidal or maybe both.

The part that really bothered him was the fact that Ginny was the one that asked, not him. Did she ask him as a joke? Maybe she was trying to get information for Potter, or did she care about him? But why, why would she? All these thoughts and emotions started to annoy Draco. But for now he pushed those out of his mind and concentrated on something pleasant, he Draco Malfoy was dating Ron Weasley's sister, and the Weasel knows nothing of it. Now that was something to smirk about.

On the other side of the classroom there sat two very confused boys, one was Ron Weasley trying to figure out just why Malfoy was smirking at him as if he knows something that he didn't. The other boy was Harry Potter who as always way trying to figure out just how he got in this mess. But was it really a mess? I mean sure, he's been 'lying' to his best friends who have always been there for him and saved his life a few times, but still, it's his life and his choice as to whether he tells his friends who he's dating… Right? Wrong, Harry knew he was dead wrong and he also knew what he had to do.

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Ginny Weasley was happy, a little too happy for her own good. She was in such a dreamy state she could barely comprehend what the teachers were saying during class. In potions she almost knocked over her caldron onto Professor Snape. She ended up getting a detention for lack of paying attention in class. Luckily for her and the safety of others the detention put a damper on her happiness- but not enough to stop her from skipping to lunch.

At lunch Ginny decided to sit next to Luna. She felt the need to get away from certain Gryffindors, for fear she'd explode and tell them everything. Although… Ginny wouldn't mind seeing the look on Ron face if she told them. Now that would be priceless.

Luna tugged knocked Ginny out of her thoughts by tugging on her sleeve. "Ginny! Pay attention. I'm trying to talk to you. But you seem to be preoccupied about something, what is it?"

Ginny looked up at Luna. "Hmm? What? Sorry, I was just thinking about telling Ron everything."

Luna sighed. "You really should. If you're really going to date Draco… That sounds odd, dating Draco. Sounds like a book. Dating Draco: Getting Beyond The Mask Of The Confused Soul."

Ginny wrinkled her nose. "Cute." She looked down to her full plate of food and sighed, she forgot all about eating. Knowing there was only about three more minutes of lunch she grabbed a piece of bread and shoved it in her mouth whilst wrapping food into her napkin and placing it into her book bag.

When lunch ended Ginny said good-bye to Luna and ran to the end of the hallway then sat down against the stone wall and waited, and waited, and waited. Then finally a tall unsuspecting blond walked down the hallway until Ginny yanked him over to her.

Draco looked down at Ginny. "Umm… hi?"

Ginny smiled. "Do you have class?"

"Nope."

"Good answer, I'm hungry and you don't have class. Perfect. Follow me."

Draco didn't really have a choice since she grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him down the hallway.

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Ronald Weasley was a confused young man. His best friend is keeping secrets and his sister has been a little too happy. He wasn't sure if the last part about his sister was good or not. He signed to himself and turned to his 'best friend' who was scribbling down notes for class. Ron shook his head and started writing down notes of his own. While writing he started to think to himself, Harry does seem to be happier then he's been in a long time. So whomever he's seeing is making him happy. So that's good, right? It's just so odd that he kept this from us- Hermione and me. I mean he trusts us, right? Why wouldn't he?

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"Ginny, are you kidnapping me?"

Ginny rolled her eyes. "No, idiot. Now shush."

Draco smirked. "Your kind words make me giggle. Now I'm kind of sad you're not kidnapping me, that would have been exciting, and a bit kinky."

"Ew. And I said shush."

"Yes, your Weaselness."

Ginny looked at him in shock. "You have to be kidding me."

Draco smiled. "What? I like it. It has a ring to it, Weaselness."

Ginny stopped walking when she reached a statue of a lion. "Erm, whatever. We're here, finally."

"Oh joy. Now are you going to say a fancy password or tap something? Then is the statue going to disappear and some stares will start forming?"

"No, we're going to sit behind it."

"You have to be kidding…"

Ginny started walking behind the lion. "Nope, sorry to spoil your fun but this is it. Look, see? We're hidden when we're behind it."

Draco followed Ginny. "Great, a weasel and a lion."

"You're dating the weasel."

Draco smiled. "I said, great."

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Classes were over for the day. Luna and Blaise were sitting outside under what Draco would call, Draco's tree, no touchy. Luna was picking petals off of a flower and Blaise was fidgeting. He kept moving around and biting his lip a lot. Finally Blaise stopped moving and said, "Luna, I have to tell you something."

Luna looked at him wide eyed. "What?"

Blaise took a deep breath. "Well you see, this summer, I well, you know umm my parents made me. They umm took me to… Aw, screw it. I'm a Death Eater. I have the Dark Mark and everything."

"I know."

"What? How?" Blaise said.

Luna scratched her head. "I saw it when you were in the infirmary."

"Oh."

Luna smiled. "Yeah. I know you don't support You Know Who. If you did I'd have to smack you. It's just a tattoo, Blaise. It doesn't mean anything. And plus, tattoos are sexy."

Blaise laughed. "And I suppose you know Draco is one too."

"Yep. Ginny and I ended up with a lovely bunch of Slytherins."

"That you did."

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I was time… time for Harry to run for his life. Or face Ron and Hermione. He was obviously going to go for the last choice because he really didn't fancy running. Harry headed inside the common room and saw Hermione and Ron sitting in two chairs in a secluded corner. They looked like they had just finished talking about something important. Harry walked up to them and sat in the unoccupied chair. He was just about to open his mouth to speak when Hermione said, "Listen, Harry, we know about you and Pansy."

Harry's jaw dropped and said the only words he could think of, "Huh?"

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Ginny skipped into the common room. She looked over to Harry, Ron and Hermione sitting the corner. Unlike usual though they didn't have their heads together whispering to each other. Today Hermione and Ron were staring blankly at Harry who looked very shocked. Ginny's curiosity got the best of her and she walked over to the trio. She stod by Harry and asked, "Are you okay?"

Harry glanced up at her. "Yeah, I think." He looked to Hermione and Ron. "How did you find out?"

Ron answered that. "Well, you kept looking over at the Slytherin table, that wasn't too weird. But you weren't staring daggers or anything. You acted like a lovesick puppy, kind of creepy. Hermione was too busy going on about the whole Ginny thing to notice."

Hermione glared at Ron. "But then I noticed Pansy slip you another note. So that answered everything."

Harry furrowed his eyebrows. "What do you mean another note?"

Ron was tracing circles on the floor with his shoes. "Oh, um, when we got your Potions book for you we sort of found a note inside of it. We weren't snooping or anything."

Harry laughed. "Sure. You guys don't seem mad, you don't care about me dating Pansy?"

Hermione sighed. "It's not that we don't care, it's just we noticed how happy you've been and we want you to be happy. We don't want you to have to sneak around anymore."

Harry smiled. "Thanks."

The trio seemed to forget that Ginny was standing right there hearing everything they were saying. She coughed to try to get their attention.

Ron looked up. "Oh, um, Ginny. Hi."

Ginny rolled her eyes and looked over at Harry. "Harry, that's wonderful you're dating someone. Slytherins do seem to be getting around. They're making people hyperactive." With that ending note Ginny smiled and headed up to her dormitory leaving three clueless Gryffindors behind.

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Before the sun went down and before he knew what's going on, a kiss storm like a meteor shower, her lips got hyperactive. Hyperactive –Kill Hannah