Ginny Weasley, Harry's ex and best friend's sister, was standing there, a smirk set on her face. She had a camera in her hand, the camera that he had given her as a birthday gift in August. His breath caught up in his throat as he began to think that, maybe, Ginny was determined to use that device to hurt him. If she hadn't done that already.

He cursed himself. Couldn't he have waited until that night to kiss his boyfriend? He would have been in an impenetrable room. But no, he had to confess his undying love for Draco in that stupid office, one that anyone could have entered.

But he didn't expect this to happen.

"I knew that something was up!" Pansy shouted, " But never, for the life of me, I could have predicted this!" She pointed her finger from Draco to Harry, then back to Draco. "Potter? Really, Draco?"

Draco's face was paler than usual.

"Ginevra, what the hell did you just do?" Harry cried out. His face was becoming red in anger and the vein on his neck was beginning to throb.

"Not many days ago, when I tried to speak to you near the Room of Requirement, I had been there long enough to hear you two talk about how you had used that room for your dirty doings..."Ginny explained. "And I just thought that Parkinson could be interested in knowing this, too. I knew I'd find you here. Very unwise of you not to use the invisibility cloak, Harry." She finished, pointing at the camera in her hand.

"The hell with 'you're like a sister to me'! I'll destroy you, Malfoy! Your father WILL hear about this! We will make sure that this information will fall in the hands of Rita Skeeter!" Pansy yelled.

Draco had not said a word up to this point.

Dirty Weasley girl, he should have known that she would try to sabotage them in a way. Why couldn't she just keep her nose out of other people's business? He began to think that the only purpose of her existence was to infuriate him.

And then Pansy. Why the hell had he decided to become friends with her in the first place? She'd always had an enormous crush on him, which had made her so disgustingly attached to him.

And now there she was, threatening to end him.

"You just try and you're dead, Pansy." He finally spoke, although the thought of his father knowing this terrified him quite.

"No, your life is over! The whole school will know!" Pansy replied, eying the camera in Ginny's grip.

"Did you take a picture of us with that camera?" Harry asked, getting up to get closer to Ginny, who nodded with a smirk.

"That's what you get for ripping my heart in two." Ginny said, in a faux calm tone.

"You wouldn't dare divulge it everywhere, Ginny! What happened to that smart girl I knew? This isn't you, Gin!" Harry tried to reason with her.

"Try. Me." The redhead said. She was now in Harry's face, giving him a defiant look.

"The show is over." Said Pansy, siding by Ginny.

Draco finally got up and ran towards Ginny. He then tried to snatch her camera out of her hand, but the girl's grip was stronger than his.

Pansy took out her wand and pointed it to Draco. "Let loose, or I will curse you." She threatened.

"What the devil is going on?" Miss Sivan's voice said, echoing through the hallway. "Mr Malfoy, let go of Weasley! And Parkinson, put the wand down!" The woman rushed to the four of them, her cloak brushing the floor. "Do you all want detention?"

Draco let go of Ginny's camera, which she vanished promptly.

Pansy put her wand back in her pocket. "We were just leaving." She said to the teacher.

"Twenty points each from the four of you!" said Miss Sivan. "And go back to work, you two." She said, addressing Draco and Harry.

The two girls ran off, locking arms.

"Please, professor! We can't stay here!" Draco pleaded, trying to see where the girls were headed.

"I don't have time for your childish matters. I know you two don't like each other, but you need to finish this work, or you won't be able to pass this year, I'm afraid."

"But-" Harry tried to argue. "No buts. Get to work or I'll remove more points." Miss Sivan said sternly.

Therefore, Harry and Draco went back to their seats, helplessly. They both prayed that they'd finish their work as fast as they could, there was still a chance that they could stop the two girls from doing something unspeakable with the photo that they had just taken. If only there was a quick way to communicate with Ron or Hermione...

After an agonizing half an hour, the pair was finally done with their lesson.

They ran out the classroom as fast as they could, although they were terrified that in that period of time Ginny and Pansy had already leaked the photo throughout the whole school.

They aimed upstairs, towards the Gryffindor common room. When they saw the fat lady, Harry blurted out "Lacuna!". She tried to argue against the presence of a Slytherin, but Harry shushed her before she could protest any further.

"Guys!" Harry shouted, running towards his friends. They were both sitting on the sofa next to the fireplace and they were all cuddled up to each other.

"Harry, what... Draco can't be here!" Hermione said in a worried tone. Harry completely ignored her. "Guys we have a problem!" He said.

"What problem? Worse than you missing Quidditch practice?" Ron said in a bitter tone. But there was no time for futile grudges. "Really, Ron? Now you're gonna be all offended? Your devil of a sister found out that Draco and I were together and she had Pansy tell her that we were in Miss Sivan's office, then they went there and took an incriminating picture of us, which they're going to scatter across the whole school!" Harry said, all in one breath.

Ron's eyes widened at the realization. "Oh no, Harry, I'm the one who told her that you were there together, but I didn't think...Oh Merlin!" He put his hands in his hair in guilt and frustration.

"What? You're crazy! You know your sister is unstable lately!" Harry screamed.

"Oh I am dead, I tell you, dead!" Draco cried desperately.

"Everyone calm down, ok? No ONE is gonna die! Stop blaming each other and crying over spilled milk! Right now all we need to do is ACT. And we must do it fast!" said Hermione, bringing some sense into all of them. Hermione truly was the brightest witch for her age.

"But we don't know where they are!" Draco whined.

"There's only one way to find out..." Hermione said, looking around the room. "Harry, where do you keep that map of yours?" she asked her friend.

Draco was puzzled when he heard the word "map". That's why Harry always knew where he was, he had a map that let him do so. "You have a map that tracks people down?" He asked, addressing his boyfriend.

"Yeah.. long story. Uh, it's in our dorm, right under my pillow." Harry explained.

"I'll go." Ron offered. He then got up and went straight to his room. He came back right away holding a piece of parchment, that he handed to Harry.

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." Harry recited and the Marauders Map appeared.

Draco was looking at it in awe.

"The Great Hall!" The four of them said in unison.

Upon reaching the Great Hall, where everyone was gathering for dinner time, they spotted Ginny and Pansy right at the center of the room.

"Ginny!" Harry called while running to her. Pansy was the one holding the camera, apparently waiting for the whole school to be in the room before acting. They had made it, they were in time. Ginny had her wand ready.

"You can't stop me, Harry!" the girl said. She was in no way seeing that she was about to make a very big mistake.

"Ginny, please! Think about what you're about to do! What do you think our mother would do if she saw you like this? This is not who you are!" Ron said, hoping to bring his sister back to her senses. Ginny seemed to consider it for a bit.

"No, Ron. I have to do this. He cheated on me with fucking Malfoy! He deserves to suffer!"

"Ginny," Harry said. "I swear to you, I never cheated on you. I got with Draco after our relationship had ended." He took her hand into his. Ginny looked at the hand and sighed.

"You still made a fool out of me."

"Pansy," Draco said, reaching for his friend. "What have I ever done to you?"

Pansy was visibly upset, it was obvious that she hadn't gotten over what she had seen just yet.

She had taken it personal. "Draco, you could have had me, but you chose to fool around with Potter, of all people!"

"Pansy, I am so, so sorry." The blond boy put his hands on her shoulders. "But it would never work between us, for I am gay. And there's nothing I can do about it."

"Ginny, I care about you," Harry said. "But we just didn't click. We're better off as friends."

"No!" Ginny shouted, then she pulled her hand out of Harry's grasp. "Pansy! Lift the camera up in the air!"

Pansy removed Draco's arm in a violent motion, then she obeyed.

"No!" Draco screamed in desperation. This was it, his life would have ended in a matter of seconds.

"I'm sorry, Harry." Ginny said and pointed her wand at the camera. She opened her mouth to pronounce the spell, but Harry disarmed her with an "Expelliarmus!". He, Ron and Hermione were now taking a hold of her in order to stop her from getting to her wand.

Ginny's wand flew in the air, but Pansy still had her wand with her.

"Pansy! You need to say 'Imprimo' while pointing at the camera!" Ginny screamed through her captors' arms.

Harry detached himself from Ginny and ran to where Pansy was, Draco tried to do the same but they were too late. Pansy had already formulated the spell.

In a matter of seconds, the whole of the Great Hall was filled with banners, much like those used in the House Cup, but, instead of a house crest, they sported a picture of Draco and Harry kissing each other.

"What is going on here?" said Headmistress McGonagall, as she had heard the 'expelliarmus' from minutes before. "Are you dueling in the Great Hall?" She was quite angry, but she stopped her scolding as soon as she saw what had just happened.

Draco's blood went cold. It felt as if his world had stopped spinning. There was nothing he could do, now. His heart was beating so fast that he couldn't hear anything else. He felt like he was going to throw up.

The Great Hall fell silent. Some students were exchanging looks, some of them were looking at Draco and Harry, but no one dared say a word. The two of them just stood there, next to each other, unable to produce a sound. Harry wasn't scared, but he was still shocked that Ginny could ever do something like this to him. Additionally, he was aware that his boyfriend was having an internal break down.

Ginny's voice broke the silence, "Screw you, Harry! An owl is on its way to the Daily Prophet, soon everyone will know."

"No, no!" Draco cried. "You!" He had the most disgusted look on his face. He was determined to hurt those two foul women, so he tried to run after Ginny but Harry grabbed him by his robe.

"Don't." he said to him. "You don't want to get in any more trouble."

"But, Harry, my father! He will know!"Draco argued. "I have nothing to lose now."

"Don't say this." Harry told him. He then turned him around in order to face him. "Draco, look at me." He cupped his face in his hands. "We are better than them. All they want us to do is either attack them or run off crying. But we won't do any of these things, ok?"

Draco nodded, but he wasn't so sure that doing nothing was the best option. In a matter of hours, his father would have heard the news and would have probably come to Hogwarts to harm him. The only thing that Lucius hated more than Mudbloods were the homosexuals.

"Dirty abominations", he would call them.

"Everyone knows now, so what? If any of them says something to you, I will make sure to deal with it. I promise you." Harry reassured him. "As long as you love me, I don't care what the world might say. I don't care if it will be the two of us against it. They can't touch us." This said, the black haired boy pressed his lips against his lover's, right there, in front of everyone.

They were going to face this, together, no matter what it took.

They were stronger than ever.