Disclamer: All characters and locations of this fic belong to Jk Rowling only.
Ice-cold Roses
By: Stephix
Chapter One: Horrid Hogwarts
Dear Diary:
So far the beginning of my 6th year has been horrid. Yesterday on the train ride to Hogwarts I ruined my only new school robes by sitting near a sharp edge. I tried to get Hermione to fix it with a sewing spell but she was smooching Ron all the way here. (Another horrid thing.) I used to be so very fond of Hermione until she started dating my brother Ron; now all our conversations are quite brief and awkward. I really don't know if we will ever be close again. Anyhow, I've gone off the topic. Ah yes… getting here. Apart from stepping into a mud puddle when I got off the train (which made my white school socks gray when it dried) I took too long getting to the carriages and so, everyone had left. I ran after the last carriage and when I finally caught it and got in I saw yet another horrid thing: Pansy Parkinson's bulldog face. I had gone straight into the werewolf's mouth… I was sitting in a carriage with Pansy Dog-face Parkinson, Draco sodding Malfoy and his two idiot servants Crabbe and Goyle.
"Eww, did it start to smell in here all of a sudden?" Parkinson said.
Crabbe laughed.
I tried to control myself; I wasn't going to let anything she said get to me. I was going to be strong and not say anything until we got to Hogwarts; it was only a 10-minute ride.
I looked out the window.
"There should be a rule about not letting smelly, dirty, poor people in Hogwarts, don't you think Draco dear?" Parkinson said lifting her nose up high.
Only then I realized that I was sitting right across from Malfoy. He looked at me. My skin crawled. The only thought of his gray eyes staring at me made me quiver. I put my head down and stared at the floor.
"Draco darling? I asked you a question. Its tremendously rude of you not to answer dear."
Pansy kept her nose high and her eyes almost shut.
Draco didn't answer.
I wanted to get out of the carriage but how could I? Patience Ginny, we seem to be getting closer to Hogwarts. I told myself. And just then, it hit her… Pansy realized it; Draco was staring at me. For the first time I saw her eyes grow wide.
I wanted to laugh I really did but I knew it would just make things worst. Besides I am sure it isn't how it seemed, I mean, it's Malfoy we're taking about, he was probably just thinking of a good insult for me and that was all.
"Draco!" Pansy pulled on his robes
He slowly turned his head to the side and looked at her.
"What?" he finally said.
"Tell this carrot-head that she is ugly and poor and smelly! Right now!" she raised her voice.
Draco raised his eyebrows "why should I?"
"Because it's the truth! Now say it!" she said, this time her voice sounded hurt as if she was about to cry.
"I don't take orders from anyone Parkinson and you bloody well know that." He said calmly and with that he turned his head towards the window.
After what happened the ride to Hogwarts was very quiet. Pansy would sniffle and sob once in a while but no one seemed to notice but me.
When we got to Hogwarts I was the first to get out of the carriage. I walked as fast as I could to the main entrance and when I got inside I took a deep breath. It felt as if I had been holding my breath all along during the carriage ride.
I met up with Harry on the great hall, I told him what happened and we laughed it off eating supper. Ron and Hermione weren't anywhere in sight (I assume they were somewhere smooching) so Harry and I decided to go have a game of Magical Chess in the common room.
Just when I thought that my first day at Hogwarts wasn't going to be so bad after all Dumbledore got up and announced that we have a new assistant for our Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher… Cho bloody Chang.
Harry (of course) deiced to go say hi to Cho and our game plans where ruined.
I went up to the Gryffindor common room, just to find Ron and Hermione smooching (who would have guessed.) and so I decided to come up to my room and write to you, my dear dear diary.
I hope tomorrow will be a better day.
Good night for now.
Xoxo Gin.
The next day Ginny woke up late.
She had History of Magic 6 grade, with professor Binns. She dressed quickly, grabbed her school bag and rushed into the 3rd floor's hallway. When she arrived in class she realized that this year, they be sharing it with Slytherin's.
Everyone was quiet when she opened the doors. She saw a lot of familiar faces but all the seats were taken. She stood in the middle of the classroom not knowing what to do.
Professor Binns was staring at her (along with the rest of the class.) He cleared his throat. "Well Miss Weasley?"
"I am terribly sorry Professor" she said under her breath.
"And do you think that you being sorry is going to make up for interrupting my class on the first day of school?"
"Of course not Professor" she replied shaking her head with her eyes fixed on the ground.
Professor Binns reminded Ginny of Hermione. (that is, if Hermione was transparent) He was quite nice when you did what you were told, but if you didn't he would make a big fuss and give you a lecture of about half an hour.
"You will show up tomorrow morning half an hour before class starts and help me dust some of my books. Now have a seat and let me get on with my lecture."
Some Slytherins laughed.
"Yes Professor." Ginny sighed.
Just as professor Binns was about to speak…
"Pro-Professor?" Ginny spoke in a diminutive voice.
"YES miss Weasley?"
"There are no seats left." She dared to say.
"Well I can see a seat just behind Sophia Parkinson." Professor Binns replied with a displeased tone of voice.
Ginny stared at her teacher with wide eyes. Did he really want her to seat with the Slytherins? He couldn't be serious.
But he was.
"Yes, besides Mr.Ackroyd, quickly, quickly, we haven't got all the ruddy day!"
Ginny didn't say anything else, she went and sat besides the Slytherin boy and that was that.
Professor Binns cleared his throat once again… "As I was saying before we got abruptly interrupted; this year we are going to learn about the outstanding battles of Nesria, the beginnings of the Muggle Race, the fall of Magic King McRiverson and other crucial events in our world's history. Now, for your first assignment I would like you all to open your books to the introduction on page 4 and begin to read chapter one. I want a summary of the chapter on my desk by tomorrow morning written specifically in black ink. You may begin the assignment right now.
Ginny could not believe her luck. It was as if she was standing right underneath a black cloud and it just kept raining on her. She was not only in one of the most boring classes in Hogwarts with one of the most boring teachers but she was sitting on the Slytherin side of the room right behind Sophia Parkinson. Sophia was Pansy's cousin, they were not only cousins; they were best friends. They went around Hogwarts tormenting other girls about the way they looked or their social position outside of Hogwarts. They were (as Ginny saw it,) two insufferable little bitches. And now, Gin was sitting right behind her.
Suddenly, Ginny felt someone touch her shoulder.
"Pardon me for interrupting your inner thoughts but do you happened to have an extra quill I could borrow? I seem to have ruined mine." A firm and deep voice said.
It was the guy Ginny was told to sit beside, the Slytherin guy. Ginny hadn't paid any attention to him since she sat there. She snapped out of her thoughts only to realize that she was staring at him.
"Are you alright?" He asked
"Ah, ah, yes, yes of course am alright, what makes you think am not? And besides, what do you want one of my quills for? You just want to make fun of it for not costing ten thousand galleons like yours!" Ginny snapped at him.
He looked at her for a second. He seemed shocked.
"I beg you pardon. I didn't mean to insult you I just, well I really just wanted to see if you would lend me a quill because mine isn't working and am afraid I will get in trouble if Professor Binns doesn't see me working." The guy said looking down at his desk.
Ginny felt awful. How could she be so rude to someone that she didn't even know? The poor guy had just asked for a quill and she had practically yelled at him for it and accused him of trying to make fun of her. She looked at him.
"I am terribly sorry." She said feeling guilty. "Here, use my quill"
She handed him her quill and grabbed her bag to take out another one.
"Thank you." He said giving her a sincere smile.
Ginny had her book opened but wasn't reading it. She was only thinking about all the bad things that had happened to her so far and how they were making her really bitter. She didn't want to be rude to everyone that just made her feel awful. With that last thought she promised herself that she wasn't going to be foul to anyone ever again, no matter what bad things happened to her. It was not other people's faults and she needed to deal with it. She was going to spend more time with her friends and less time being bad mannered.
It was finally lunchtime and since Ginny had missed breakfast she was starving. All her morning classes had been hard; all her teachers had left assignments that she had to finish by the next day. She walked into the great hall and spotted her friend Luna waving at her from the Gryffindor table. Ginny gave her a smile and walked towards her.
"Hey!" Luna said with her big wide eyes open.
"How is it going?" Ginny said.
"Good, I heard about what happened in Binns' class today." Luna whispered
"Oh God, is it everywhere?"
"You bet ya. I can't believe that you are sitting with Slytherins for the whole year!"
"Don't even mention it."
"So is Ackroyd as nice as they say?" Luna asked
Ginny raised an eyebrow
"Ackroyd?"
"Yes, the hot Slytherin guy you are sitting next to in Binns' class"
"Oh, him" Ginny exclaimed thinking back on how rude she'd been to him "Is that going around too?" she wondered.
"Oh yes, all the 6th graders know about you and him. Except rumor has it that you voluntarily sat besides him because you have had a crush on him for 2 years now." Luna chuckled.
"WHAT!"
"yup."
"Oh I hate this school!" Ginny screamed storming out of the great hall.
It seemed like bad luck was still following her.
Ginny was walking up to the Gryffindor common room when the stairs she was climbing started to move.
"Great" Ginny thought sarcastically.
The stairs stopped on the 5th floor of the astronomy tower. It came to Ginny's mind that the astronomy tower would be a good place to just sit and relax by herself. What Ginny didn't know was that there would be someone up there that she didn't expect to see.
"What are you doing here Weasel?" a cold calmed voice came from the shadows.
Ginny jumped a little. She didn't think that there was going to be anyone else up there at this time a day. Everyone was most likely eating in the great hall at this time.
"Malfoy?" Ginny wondered.
She could only make out his silhouette from the shadows in which he hid himself.
"Anyone else calls you weasel?" he asked
"I should have known it was YOU." She said dragging the last word of her sentence.
Her day just kept getting better and better she thought sarcastically.
