Chapter 6- The Problem with Ideas

Ginny was covered in glue and nowhere near getting the wallpaper on the wall.

"So how was the date?" Hermione asked, her wallpaper neatly on the wall and she was starting to glue her second sheet.

"Great," Ginny said smiling for the first time that day.

"See, and you thought he wasn't your type!" Hermione said triumphantly.

"Theus wasn't my type," Ginny said finally giving up on the wallpaper, "he ran out on me before the first course, I joined Draco Malfoy for the rest of my date, his ran out on him too."

"Oh," Hermione said distracted and then dropped her piece of wallpaper, "Malfoy? Are you kidding me?

"No, I'm not kidding," Ginny said ignoring Hermione's stare and stirring the glue, "we had a lot of fun."

"Malfoy, really?" Hermione asked if unsure whether or not Ginny was playing some sort of a joke on her.

"Yeah, Hermione, can't I use magic?"

"No," she said adamantly, "this is how my mother did my room; this is how I'm going to do my baby's"

"Well, then why isn't your mother here?"

"She's running late, there was a walk-in just as she was about to leave and since Dad was busy she decided to take it," she said moving toward Ginny and removing the stirrer from her hand, "but you aren't getting out of telling me about Malfoy. How did you even get close enough to him to go on a date, aren't there like shields protecting him from the likes of us?"

"Actually, he was a lot different than I remembered although he did call me weasel a few times."

"What did you guys talk about?"

"Our failed romances, actually it turns out he's friends with Theus and was the inspiration behind The Electrifier."

"Inspiration?" Hermione asked surprised, "What Theus was angry at him?"

"No. He lived as a muggle for a while, he missed watching Coupling, and his company makes them actually."

"Draco Malfoy, a muggle?" Hermione was astounded by this news, "He watched Coupling?"

"Well, he didn't mention it specifically but if you're going to miss the telly, Jeff ought to be one of the reasons."

Just then a car pulled into the driveway signalling the arrival of Dr. Jane Granger and the conversation was put to rest for the time being. Hermione ran out of the room to let her mother into the house and Ginny followed her out of the room. She'd acted a lot more nonchalant about this whole wife business than she felt and she knew Hermione was going to ask questions she wasn't ready to answer to herself much less to Hermione.

She walked into the library and passed her fingers over the books reverently. It was hilarious to call this room the library when Hermione's house was so aptly named, as there were shelves full of books in every room in the house. Although she wasn't obsessed with knowledge, ever since her first year at Hogwarts Ginny had been very respectful of books. She reached the end of the corridor and turned the corner walking toward the stairs in the corner of the room.

She reached the ground and looked up. The sight was amazing, Hermione and Ron had removed the floor in the first story of the house, leaving a small ledge around the room, and it had railings all done in a magnificent mahogany wood matching the wood of the shelves and the small circular stairs that she'd just descended. The main floor had a table in the middle and a desk on the opposite corner from the stairs. She loved Ron and Hermione's home, not only because it was much better than her four room flat, but because they'd made it together.

On one of the shelves sat a broom, Ron had told her it was the oldest surviving broom belonging to a Chudley Cannons member or something of that sort. She sat down in one of the comfortable leather chairs scattered around and looked around and could see one whole wall covered in Healing books, an empty coffee cup sitting on the desk, those were the things that she loved about this library the most, the things that marked Ron's presence. To the outsider it might appear that this room was solely Hermione's because of her love of books, but anyone that knew Ron could see that this was as much his room. They blended together so well, it might not be noticeable at first; that was what she wanted in her life someone that would complete her. She just wasn't sure if what she was doing was the right thing.

It had seemed so simple a month ago when she'd first thought of it, but after meeting Theus and after really meeting Draco, she knew it wouldn't be that easy, they were people.

"Ginny!" She heard Hermione calling her, "where are you hiding? You aren't getting out the wallpapering."

"I wasn't, I was just taking a look around." She said getting up from the chair.

Hermione walked into the room and motioned for Ginny to come, then exclaimed, "Honestly!" She walked towards the desk angrily and grabbed the empty cup. "All morning your brother whines about drinking his coffee from his cup! Where did I put it, he asks me, and blames me for throwing it out and look where it is! If he were more careful with his things he wouldn't have to wonder were they are!"

Ginny stifled a laugh and walked out of the room hearing Hermione stomping behind her. "I should hide it! Make him take more care of his things!" Hermione mumbled on her way to the kitchen and Ginny made her way up the main staircase to go help Jane in the baby's room.

A/N: April 3, 2004. By the way I've never been nearer to wallpaper than wallpaper books at Home Depot, so I don't know nothing. Coupling is the best show in the world, I was so happy when they cancelled the American version, it was crap compared to the original.