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"So Ginny," he said. Ready for a little shopping excursion tomorrow?"
"You want to go so soon?" Ginny asked him.

"Yes of course. Why waste any time? Can you have the potion ready or do you need me to help again?!" Draco teased.

Ginny poked her tongue out at him. "We've always got some on hand for emergencies, mainly for patients who need to escape quickly without detection. I can cast the binding spell whenever so yeah we can go tomorrow. I need to pick some stuff up anyway so it's quite handy."

"Do you have any parchment? I want to write a list of things to buy." Draco asked.

"Sure, I'll grab some for you; it's a good idea actually."

Ginny and Draco settled down at the big oak table with an assortment of food and each started writing a list. Draco noticed as he picked up his third pumpkin pasty that Ginny was peering over at his list. "Hey, stop looking over my shoulder!" he cried and twisted in his seat so she couldn't see.

"No fair, I'm finished and bored. Let me see what you're buying?" she tried to reach her head over his shoulder but he twisted away again. Ginny giggled and reached under his arm trying to snatch the paper away but he was just too quick for her, he stood up and lifted his arm above his head so she couldn't reach it. Ginny stood on her tiptoes and stretched as high as she could to no avail, she tried jumping but he was just too tall.

Draco was finding this little game quite amusing but the feeling of the flame haired girl pressing against him so tightly was a bit off-putting. Parts of her were rubbing against him as she jumped and he didn't quite know how to react as she was obviously too preoccupied trying to get the parchment to be aware of all the places she was pressing her body into him.

"C'mon, you're too tall. You have an unfair advantage." Ginny moaned and clambered on one of the wooden chairs in a desperate attempt to get to his list.

The chair rocked and she lost her balance as it tipped over. Draco managed to catch her but the force pushed him backwards. He struggled to stay upright but fell into one of the stuffed armchairs by the fireplace.

Both of their weight combined was too much for the chair and for the second time Ginny felt a chair topple under her...

It was in this state that Hermione caught them as she walked into the kitchen. Draco was flat on his back and Ginny was laying rather suggestively on top of him with her chest squashed into his face. Red and blond hair was all intermingled with the ash from the hearth.

"What on earth is going on?" Hermione screeched.

Ginny pushed herself up and burst into a fit of giggles when she saw Hermione's face. "We… I, you-" She tried, before laughing even harder. Tears of merriment started to fall down her cheeks.

Draco finally pulled himself up from the floor, casually righted the chair and brushed soot and dust from his clothes. When he deemed himself to be suitably cleaned off he drawled "Ginny threw herself at me. Don't blame her; it's my pure sexual attraction. If you stay for too long you might end up doing it too." He managed to keep perfectly straight face.

"I would never, EVER… Ginny wouldn't-" Hermione spluttered.

"Stop." gasped Ginny. "Too funny, can't breathe!" She doubled over shaking with laughter and finally sat on the floor when she could take no more. Even Draco had a smirk on his face.

Hermione calmed herself down a little and cast a spell on Ginny to stop her laughter. "Right, will you please explain what is going on here?"

"Sorry 'Mione. I fell from the chair and Draco caught me but I'm obviously a great lump or he's not bulked up enough because he couldn't hold me and we fell over. Nothing sinister is going on!"

Draco took offence at that comment. "I would have had to have been built like Hagrid to have held you. Not that you're heavy" he added quickly "You just fell pretty hard that's all. Lucky you had a soft landing or you might have hurt yourself!"

"You're not exactly soft Malfoy" Ginny said poking him in his stomach. "Muscle is not soft!"

Hermione coughed "If you're quite done. I just popped in quickly to drop these off." She handed Ginny a large envelope. "Can you hand that to Remus when he gets back from his trip please?"

"Oh 'Mione. Draco made wolfsbane so Remus won't have to go away yet after all. I mean he'll have to eventually to get more info from the other ware-"

"Ginny. Be careful what you say." Warned Hermione with a nod towards Draco.

"Oh, sorry!" Ginny blushed.

Hermione looked at Draco again. "Well... if that's true then I guess you deserve some congratulations. You achieved something that I couldn't. Anyway, I have to run. I can't stay. Ginny can I have a word please?" she dragged Ginny into the hallway and closed the door behind her. "Don't get too close to him Ginny. I still don't trust him. Please be careful? And I would suggest Remus checks out that potion in some way before he drinks it."

"It's fine Hermione. He made the potion in front of me and there was nothing that could poison Remus. I'm not being stupid but… well; I guess we're becoming friends. He's not the same person he was before. He's grown a little."

Hermione scoffed at this. "What would Harry think Ginny? Do you think he'd be happy knowing that his girl was here with a Malfoy practically making out?"

"We were NOT making out Hermione. I told you what happened. As for Harry, I'm not his girl. He gave me up remember. Do you expect me to sit here pining over him forever? I've spent too long mooning over him... If all goes well then we will see what happens but I'll not let any one dictate to me how I live my life."

"He cares for you Ginny. That's why he let you go - to keep you out of trouble."

Ginny sighed "Trouble is everywhere. Even though we would have been apart physically we could still have been together as a couple, but he wanted to end it all completely. I know he's a great guy Hermione and he's your best friend but I need a bit of space to think about it all ok?"

Hermione sighed and decided to drop the conversation for now. "OK Gin, but I still think it would be sensible for Remus to go away just for the first night to make sure the potion works… Look I've got to go. I'll see you at Bill's wedding yeah?"

Ginny brightened up a little. "Of course! I'm going to go shopping for stuff tomorrow! I'll see you there... And I'll suggest what you said to Remus although I don't think there's any need." The girls hugged and went their separate ways. Hermione back to her friends; Ginny to the kitchen and Draco.

"Warned you off me did she?" He asked as soon as the door was closed.

"Not really. More of a girly chat that's all" Ginny said. "Hey - are you reading my list?"

"Maybe!" he smirked. "Whose wedding is it you're buying all this stuff for?" Ginny snatched her list back. "My big brother's. Now you have to let me look at yours."

"Fine weasel, here you are." He held out the parchment but snatched it back when she reached for it. Ginny stamped her foot and Draco laughed and finally handed the list over.

"We need to go to lots of the same places. That's handy." She commented. "Ok, I'm going to go and get stuff ready for tomorrow. Catch you at dinner."

"I'll see you then..." Draco sat in the kitchen for a while after Ginny had left, thinking over the events of that morning. He'd learned a lot about the littlest weasel and told her a lot that he probably couldn't have said to anyone else; he was reluctantly beginning to think of her as a friend. It was a strange emotion and he found it hard to deal with.

"Never let anyone have a hold on your feelings…They will always use that against you. You need no-one but yourself..." The words that his father had told him over and over rose unbidden into his mind.

Well that settles it Draco thought. I'm going to be friends with her to prove to myself that Lucius can't tell me what to do any more...