Chapter 4- The perfect man

Ginny didn't know how'd she'd managed it but after calling in a few favours from old school friends, she'd managed to find herself in the company of Prometheus. After involving him in a conversation about Muggles and being her most charming self, he'd asked her out on a date and here they were at a very expensive Restaurant. This is the life, she thought as Prometheus or Theus as he'd asked to be called ordered for them.

When the waiter walked away she spoke up, "So how did you come to invent The Electrifier?"

"Oh, don't call it that," he chuckled, "we just call it the converter, that whole Electrifier nonsense is the manufacturer's fault."

"It does sound rather silly," Ginny admitted smiling. He's pretty nice, maybe this will work out better than I thought.

"My friend Dan and I worked as Unspeakables in the Ministry, in Research and Development and we'd gone to the manor to visit my folks. A friend of Pansy's, that's my younger sister, showed up at the house one day to visit, he'd been living as a muggle for a bit and he was talking about missing watching the telly. He tried everything to hook one up, but his manor was rather old, older than ours if you'd believe that, and infused with magic and it interfered with the electricity. Anyway Dan and I had always been rather fascinated by Muggle technology and so we began playing with the idea. It was rather simple, electricity is energy and magic is a form of energy, so we decided that instead of trying to change the machinery maybe we should just find a way to convert magical energy into electricity and it worked! Now, one tap of the wand gives you up three hours of electricity, depending on the appliance of course."

"Wow," was all Ginny managed to say; she was completely fascinated by it all. "Are there any other projects that you are working on?"

"Well, Muggles have this telephone that's all the rage now, actually it has been for the past decade or so, but it's new to me." He said chuckling, "It's called a cellphone, and it's portable, actually everywhere you go you can see them with it up to their ear talking, it's a very innovative way of keeping in touch."

"That's what they're doing! I've noticed it as of late and thought they were all going quite mad talking to themselves!" She said smiling.

"Yes, well, I think that Hogwarts would do well, to make the Muggle Studies class a mandatory requirement," he said seriously, "we are sharing this planet with them and it'd do us well to learn more about them, especially as I don't believe we'll be able to keep hidden from them forever."

"That's what Hermione always says."

"Hermione Weasley? You're related to her?"

"Yes, she's my sister-in-law."

"That explains it, as she's not a red-head I always thought it was a coincidence." He said laughing. "She's done great things for the rights of House-Elves and now werewolves."

"Oh, yes, she started on House-Elf rights back at Hogwarts, called her organization S.P.E.W. which led to many arguments between her and Ron who insisted on calling it spew. Ron's her husband, and it really wasn't such a big deal that they had arguments," she said quickly hoping not to give the wrong impression of their relationship, "it was what they were known for back at Hogwarts, and even now after six years of marriage they argue all the time." Ginny said, "But Hermione isn't on the werewolf committee anymore as she's on maternity leave, not that you could tell, she pops in at the office all the time, checking up on things; it drives Ron mad."

"Six years? How can people who argue all the time have lasted that long?" Theus asked incredulously.

Ginny smiled, "they love each other, always have. The arguments don't matter much at the end of the day, because they both know the other will always be there, even if they can't agree on everything." Ginny saw a faraway look come on Theus' face. "Ron's very protective of her, he was always there to defend her and Hermione was always there to knock some sense into him." She said wistfully. "I frankly don't think either of them would have survived Hogwarts without the other, Ron probably would've flunked out and Hermione would never have left the library. Besides, the things they argue about have always been rather trivial, except of course when they were jealous, I almost thought they wouldn't survive those fights."

"Jealous?" He asked as if in a trance.

"Yeah, before they admitted to each other that they were in love with each other, well Hermione and Ron both had relationships with other people and well you didn't want to be around them at that time, they didn't speak to each other for months in fifth year, well their sixth year, because Ron was dating this girl and-" Ginny stopped abruptly seeing Theus stand, "what's wrong?"

"I'm sorry Ginny, you are a beautiful, wonderful, intelligent woman, but I just realized I'm in love with Dan," he said breathlessly his eyes somewhere far away.

"You are leaving me for a man?" Ginny asked rather loudly receiving odd glances from the people around her.

"What?" He asked distractedly, pulling out a pouch of Galleons, "No, no, didn't I mention it, her name is Danielle." He placed down a rather alarming amount of Galleons, "that should cover it, I'm sorry Ginny, but I've got to go." He said and hurried away towards the entrance.

"Well, at least it's not a man," she said to herself, when she heard a woman yell behind her, she turned around in time to see a woman stomping towards the exit, "I didn't say that!" Draco Malfoy yelled from where he stood.

Remembering a couple of weeks before when the other woman had left him at Potter's Place Ginny couldn't help but laugh, they deserved it, who'd be stupid enough to go out with Draco Malfoy? Then she remembered her mission and that he was the only other eligible bachelor, well, I guess I am. She stood up fixed her dress, grabbed her purse and walked over to his table where he sat poking a piece of bread viciously with a fork.

A/N: Next chapter might be a while, Draco as always just wants to be difficult!