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"You see... girls are always throwing themselves at me." he joked to the room in general.
Ginny sat in shock in her room. She was so confused about all that had happened in the last hour. Ron had been in mortal peril, Draco Malfoy had saved him and she… well she had had some unheard of transformation. Although not unheard of because as she'd said to Remus when he had questioned her, Dumbledore had known... So this was the wonderful gift he'd spoken about.

She had asked Remus a few days ago about occlumens, after hearing him mention it when they questioned Draco. He explained all about it and she had thought that maybe the gift Dumbledore wanted to train her to use was leglimency, but now she knew it was something quite different.

She sat on her bed with her legs crossed, staring into space. Remus and Tonks had first apologised profusely to Draco and then asked her so many questions that she just didn't have the answers to. She didn't have any idea how she knew that Draco had been telling the truth, nor the reason behind her extreme reaction. She had explained all that she knew from Dumbledore, but that turned out to be very little as he was to explain all when he trained her in the coming year of school. Now there was no Dumbledore and possibly no school so she had no idea how to learn to use her talent.

There was a knock on the door. Ginny opened it and saw Draco looking concerned.

"Are you ok?" he asked. Ginny moved to let him into the room. She sighed. "I have no idea... physically I feel absolutely fine but I - I'm scared Draco." Tears threatened to fall but she blinked them back.

"The Wea… Ronald will be just fine Ginny, trust me. I wasn't Snape's best student for nothing." He said, worried to see her in such a state.

"It's not that. I do trust you and I know he will be back to his obnoxious self soon enough." She gave a half smile and then became serious once more. "I'm afraid of what I have inside me. The power, it felt scary, like I was burning up. Remus said that he couldn't get near me because of the heat. What if I can't control it and I end up burning the whole place down. I understand so little and that panics me."

"You trusted Dumbledore right?" Draco asked.

"Of course I did!"

"Well, did he ever tell you that your power was dangerous or that should anything happen to him someone else would need to train you?"

Ginny shook her head. "No, he just said it was a wonderful gift but it was really rare these days. He didn't once say it had any negative points…"

"Well then, I'm sure it's not going to be a problem. If he said it was an old magic then there will be something about it in a book somewhere. If it makes you feel better then I'll read every last book in Britain!"

It did make her feel better. Just being in Draco's presence again soothed Ginny. She realised as silly as it may be she had feelings for him. "Thank you Draco. I don't know what I'd do with out you here. I don't seem to have many friends to talk to anymore." She sighed, he was a friend but she was starting to wish for more.

Draco looked into her eyes; she was saying that he was her only friend at the moment and he wasn't going to ruin that for her. He had decided to come in and reassure her and possibly see if she would like a little more than comforting, but at those words he decided finally that he just needed to be strong for her. No one had ever depended on him before but now that someone did he would make sure he didn't let them down.

All he wanted to do was hold her and tell her everything would be ok, but instead he gritted his teeth and said, "I'm here for you Ginny. As a friend. I don't want you to feel awkward about yesterday. I'm sorry I kissed you but I couldn't think of anything else to do."

Ginny's heart sank. So she was getting carried away with romantic notions of being the girl who finally helped the bad boy realise he was good and he really had no interests in her at all. "Don't be sorry, you more than likely saved us from capture. It was very quick thinking." She said morosely.

"So you're not mad at me?" Draco asked her.

"No, of course not!"

"Then why were you avoiding me all day?" He queried.

"I… I didn't really know how to act around you." She answered honestly, looking down at the floor. Draco tilted her head up with his hand and stared straight into her eyes. "If you managed to put up with me being such an insufferable git when we were at school and still be yourself then you shouldn't have any problem with it now we are friends. Be you Ginny, no acts…"

They stared at each other for a moment, not realising that they were both feeling things for each other and trying to hide them. Draco broke the gaze first. "Come on then, let's go see that great oaf of a brother of yours. Hopefully he'll wake up early so I can gloat about my potions skills." Ginny smiled and the tension was broken.

They wandered back to the medical room where Ron was still sleeping. Hermione was sat next to him stroking his arm and reading to him from a book. Ginny stifled a giggle imagining it was probably an extremely boring book about the life cycle of flobberworms, something more likely to send someone to sleep than wake them up!

She looked up at them and smiled. "He must be back to normal because he's snoring." She said. "Ginny I sent a message to your mother; your parents will be here soon. Harry managed to destroy the Horcrux without being hurt and he popped back to check Ron was ok. He couldn't stay but I'm sure he would have wanted me say hello." She looked a little embarrassed on Harry's behalf; she felt that he should really have sought out Ginny. She had a feeling that the thought of being near Malfoy was too much for him to cope with. Harry had felt a little pity for him after Dumbledore's death but he still hated him with a passion.

Ginny was a little upset that Harry hadn't bothered to come and see her. She was still meant to be his friend after all. But she didn't feel bad for long. "I'm going to see my parents." she said excitedly and clapped her hands in glee.

Draco didn't feel so good about the Weasley's coming there. After all he had spent a good amount of time ridiculing their family and as much as he hated Lucius, he was still his father as far as the Weasley's were concerned and had done a horrific thing to their only daughter. Draco was quite dreading their arrival.