Author's note: OMG! With this chapter done, I will have 20000 words! YAY ME! Okay, this chapter, I think Ginny and Draco will actually have a small talk, just a little one...I wont get your hopes up, but it will probably be a bigger one...especially if I add this twist that is formulating in my mind as I write these words. So I will get on with the story!...:P:P...oh yeah... I will be alternating between calling him "Harry" and "Potter"...on with the story!
Chapter 7
"What is going on here!" Yelled Professor Sprout. "What happened to him?" She asked while looking at Harry's body, which was currently on the ground. When Ron and Hermione, mixed with the newly arrived Slytherins started defending their sides, the teacher told them all to be quiet. She quickly walked over to Harry and took the curse off. He woke up and started trying to blame Draco, but as soon as he started he was shushed by Sprout. "Now, I am going to ask one member from each house, and they are going to tell me exactly what happened! Only they will be permitted to speak." She quickly scanned the room and picked out the two people. "Parkinson. Longbottom. Did both of you see what happened." When the both nodded, she continued. "Okay, Mr. Longbottom, you can go first." The whole class looked at him expectantly, and he started to retell what happened in a quiet voice.
"Well, most of us were in here waiting for you to come, and then Malfoy walked in, and then well, um, Ron started making comments about him." When he said this he looked to the floor and blushed. "Then, naturally, he snapped back, and told them to bugger off or he would uh, hurt them. Then Harry said something about Malfoy's dad, and he got pissed and stunned him." He said, not daring to look up. And if he did, he would have met the bewildered stares of an entire class, the Gryffindors seemed to stunned to say anything at all and they all looked over at the golden trio, and noted Ron's fuming face and Harry's look of disbelief. And if he looked over at the Slytherins, he would have noticed the small smiles creeping up onto each and everyone of their faces.
"Very well, Miss Parkinson have you got anything to add?"
"Um...no." She said in a very surprised tone.
"Well, do you have anything to add to their statements Mr. Potter?"
"Well, uh...Why, did...He cursed me! Aren't you going to give him a punishment?" He cried.
"Not unless he tells me that he attacked you without reason. Have you got anything to add Mr. Malfoy?"
"Yeah, I would like to tell Potter and his little friends, that this is a big castle, and if he talks about my father one more time, I have plenty places to hide the bodies." He said looking right into Potter's eyes. He backed away from Malfoy in shock.
"MR. MALFOY! I will not tolerate such threats in my classroom! Five points from Slytherin, now keep your mouth shut, unless you want to join Mr. Potter for detention! Also, five points from Gryffindor from the both of you!" She said while pointing at Harry and Ron.
"He threatened to kill me and you're still not going to punish him?" Yelled Harry.
"I don't make threats, I make promises." Said a cool and collected Draco.
"I told you to keep your mouth shut. Now, do you really believe that he would actually kill you?" She asked in an impatient tone.
"YES!" He yelled, causing the entire Slytherin half of the class to burst out into laughter, even some Gryffindors laughed.
"Well then, it would do you good to shut your mouth about Malfoy Senior, now wouldn't it?" Yelled one of Draco's close "acquaintances". Blaise Zambini.
"MALFOY! Shut. Your. Mouth!" Professor Sprout yelled at him. He put his hands up in mock surrender.
"You are being completely unfair!" Yelled Ron. "He has done more than I have and he still hasn't gotten a detention! Has this world gone barkers?"
"Mr. Weasley! I will tell you what is fair and what is unfair in my classroom and right now, I see you worrying more about mine and Mr. Malfoy's affairs than yours. If you would like to meet me again for another detention to talk about this, that can be arranged. Now, seeing as how you all are not going to settle down and actually DO SOME WORK! You can all go run a muck outside before my head implodes!" The all saw the look on the normally cheerful and bubbly teacher, and even the Slytherins left without another word. As soon as they got out of hearing distance, the fight continued.
"Malfoy, you stay away from Harry or I swear I will-
"Don't worry Mudblood, I have no intention of being near that." He said while motioning towards Potter. "By the way, next time you see Longbottom, thank him for me!" He sad while walking off with the rest of the Slytherins.
----------- (A.N.This line means that I am going to be changing main characters...so now I'm back to Ginny.)
This morning Ginny had been told that Dumbledore contacted her family, so the would be able to know how she was doing. Ginny was actually really thankful of that because she wouldn't know how to put it in one of her monthly letters to mum. Unfortunately, she was really bored. She had been sitting in her bed for a little more than an hour and she was already bored out of her mind, she wished Colin could be there.
She sat in her bed with her eyes closed, hoping perhaps sleep would reclaim her until a huge owl landed right on her chest, causing her to out right scream. It wasn't a very long scream, but it was loud. Madam Pomfrey ran in full speed looking around for the culprit, until she spotted the owl on her chest. Ginny blushed in embarrassment and shooed the owl away once it dropped the rectangular box it was carrying. Madam Pomfrey looked at her sternly before leaving again.
Ginny quickly untied the ribbon and opened the box. Inside was Ginny's favorite book of all times. Alice in Wonderland. She had always wanted to get a copy, but could never afford one, so she would frequently go to the muggle town to borrow their library copy. She was smiling so big now, that she could feel the muscles in her face tightening.
She opened the envelope that came with it and read:
Dear Gin,
Dumbledore flooed us the other night to tell us you had been injured! He said that you would have had to go to St. Mungos had they not sent medi-wizards to the school! The whole family was so worried, thankfully Dumbledore contacted us again this morning to tell us that you were going to make a full recovery. Now, me, Bill and Charlie got this book specially for you! It cost us a pretty penny that one did. It's not like the library copy you always have Gin, we got this one from a wizarding library! And all the pictures are just like wizards pictures. We even got this one with special spells on it, here is a list of some of them: No tear no wear, no fading, no crumpling, it will always remember your page and this one was made specially for you, meaning you can look at it this way, or if sometimes you feel like you want something homely like you're used to, you can spell it to look like the identical copy from the library, every little rip will be identical. Now, don't thank me, it was Bill's idea in the first place, I only found the bookshop, I hope you like it and please write me a letter you little scoundrel, I haven't got your input on my wedding! I'll have you know I am highly offended! But since you will probably be in the hospital wing bed for sometime, you have all the time in the world to write me! HA! Well tata for now my deary, cant wait to see you and Colin this Christmas!
Love your favorite bro,
Percy.
P.S. I sent this by ministry owl because I wanted you to have it as quickly as possible, Mom's and Dad's should be arriving soon along with the twins'.
Ginny couldn't help but flip through the entire book and look at each and everyone of the moving pictures. She was so happy she practically had tears in her eyes. The door to the infirmary opened and in came two students whom Ginny vaguely recognized as sixth years Ravenclaws. One of them was holding the other one up by their shoulder, the right behind them came Madam Pomfrey.
"Come on Miss Westrerm, take Mr. Realen over to that bed." She ordered.
Suddenly, Ginny remembered these two, they were prefects, Jane Westrerm and Daniel Realen, but that was about all she knew of them.
"I'm sorry Ms. Pomfrey. This is all my fault. We were in potions class you see, and we were working in pairs, and I accidentally added too much shark fang powder, and he was the one who was supposed to test it first, then me, but the extra powder is really bad for stomachs so Professor Snape told me to take him up here before I did anything else." She said quickly. Madam Pomfrey walked away muttering something like "never been this busy in my entire life." When she walked away, the two turned to Ginny.
"Hey! Your Ginny Weasley! My friend told me about you, said you caused quite a stir in your common room the other night!" She said with a big smile. "Said you stood up for the Slytherins against your brother! Man, our house was talking about that for sometime yesterday. But don't you worry, most of us agree with you completely, it's about time the Slytherins have someone else to stick up for them than themselves! Isn't that right Dan?" She asked while still holding her smile in place.
"Of course, I always did feel pretty bad for them. Oooh, hold that thought! He said while running towards the nearest garbage pale and emptying his stomach. He walked back over and sat right back down on the bed. "Heh, sorry 'bout that." He said while flashing a smile. Ginny couldn't help but laugh.
"Yeah, you know we have been trying to get some people to realize that people are the way they are because they reflect people's attitudes. Me and Daniel here, we want to be human scientists when we get older. We are going to study the way they act and everything about them. We have three other people that are going to join us if they ever get the chance." She said with a flicker of sadness.
"Oh, that sounds great, who are the other three if I might ask?" Asked Ginny.
"Um, you might know them, possibly, funny enough they are all in Slytherin. Melissa Flint, Kate Vella and Anna Bullstrode." Said Daniel, but then he ran back over to the garbage can.
They were soon silenced because Madam Pomfrey walked back in with a bottle of stomach relief potion and once she gave it to him, he felt instantly better.
"Well it was great talking to you Ginny Weasley, and I hope we can talk again soon!" Jane said with a wave as they were ushered out of the room.
"Well aren't they social?" She muttered to herself. "Hmm, Slytherins and Ravenclaws best friends? Working together? What is going on this year. I mean sure I didn't see the world as white and black, I saw it in grays. But this is like creating third and fourth dimensions. Damn, I practically started it! Oh God! I. Am. Screwed." She said while falling back onto her pillow with a little too much force and not enough aim. Unfortunately for her, the back bar of the infirmary beds are solid, metal, poles. And when you hit them with your head, your first reaction is to yell out the profanity that starts with the letter F and ends with UCK. And that is just what she did. She sat there wincing in pain, while clutching her head. For about three minutes before she decided that she would like some head ache relief potion, so she walked around the room until she reached the Medicine Cupboard and wrenched it open. She looked around and found what she needed, drank a bit, put it back on the shelf where she found it and went back to her bed. She would be feeling that in the morning. She lay back again, this time looking for the pillow and slowly putting her head onto it. She took the rest of her sleeping potion that was on her bedside table, and went off to sleep.
"Ginny?" She heard a faint voice whisper. "Ginny?" It grew louder. Then out of nowhere, the person thought it would be funny to dump a glass full of water onto her head. "Wakie, wakie!"
"Go away!" Said the groggy voice of Ginny. Then Ginny opened her eyes a crack, to see the grinning faces of Colin and Neville. "Guh, hi."
"Well aren't we a cheerful one today?" Colin said in his sing song voice.
"Guuuuuhhh!"
"Hey Gin." Said Neville.
"Hiiiiiii! What time is it?" She said, slowly sitting up. "Ah GODDAMNIT!" She yelled while instead clutching her head and falling back onto the pillow.
"Well princess, it is dinner time, and we brought you some food." Said Colin while lifting up a food tray for her to see.
"Thank God, I haven't eaten real food in, it's been so long I cant remember!" She said while putting a hand on her forehead and falling back again rather dramatically.
"So Gin, you feeling any better?" Asked a very concerned looking Neville.
"Oh Neville, I'm fine. They just want me to stay here and recover my strength. I'm really happy you guys came, you are my first visitors in two freaking days! Not even my good for all brother has visited." She said, sounding much like she didn't actually care that he hadn't been there.
"Well I definitely know that he isn't going to be coming tonight that's for sure." Colin said with a mischievous smile. Ginny looked over in confusion while Neville's face turned a deep red.
"Okay, what do you know that I don't?" She asked impatiently.
"Well your brother and Harry landed themselves a pretty nice detention, got ten points taken off our house total." Colin started, he could tell that Ginny was starting to get irritable so he figured he should start speeding things up. "Well, apparently when Malfoy walked into herbology this morning, the started bad mouthing him, then knowing Malfoy he got them back with his own. Then Harry said something about Malfoy's father and Malfoy blew it, and stunned him. Then Professor Sprout came in a started yelling and stuff and, well I'm going to have to tell you this word per word. Well first off she asked for one eye witness from each house to come up and confess what they saw happened. So she picked Pansy Parkinson and our Neville. Neville came up and told the whole story like how it happened, no sugar coating for Harry, good job for that Nev! You did good. Then when she asked Parkinson what happened, she just said that nothing else could be said. So then she asked Harry if he had anything to add and he was yelling at how he got cursed and he was the innocent victim. And Sprout practically told him to put a cork in it, then when she asked if Malfoy had anything to say, oh God, Nev I'm gonna need you to ay it like he said it." He said while waiting for Neville to continue where he left off.
"He told Harry that this is a big castle, and if he talked out his father one more time, he had many places to hide the body." He said with his head still lowered.
"Yeah, so what Sprout did was tell him to shut up and then... (A.N. He just retells everything word per word of what happened :P)
Back when Colin was in his first year with Ginny, he had an obsession with none other than Harry Potter, it was one of the things they shared, but after a few years he lost his obsession and started realizing that he really wasn't great at all. Sure he was the one that reflected the curse back when he was a baby, but that could very well have been a pineapple. Harry's mother deserves every single piece of credit he has ever been given. And in his first year, he was saved by Dumbledore who by chance had been right on time, to save his life. In second year, he would have died in minutes had the phoenix not come and cried on his wound. Third year, Snape and Lupin saved him (A.N. Remember, only Harry, Hermione, Lupin, Sirius, and Dumbledore actually knew hat happened, but Snape did have his suspicion, and in the fourth year only few knew what happened.) And in fourth year, who knows how he escaped then and in fifth year, Dumbledore saved his butt again. So Colin thought Harry was a great big pushover. And not to mention the fact that he ignored Ginny, his best friend, for four years, he would always push her away saying she was "too young" or "it's for your protection". Colin couldn't remember all the nights Ginny had spent crying over his shoulder. But the fact was, that Colin really didn't like Harry. At all. So naturally, he found this whole situation highly amusing. Of course there are times when Colin would pretend to be nice and like him, but that was only when he thought more about Ginny than himself, because Ginny still held him like a friend and he had to at least respect that!
"Colin, wipe that smirk off your face! Neville, you did a good thing! You stood up for what you thought was right and even though it went against your judgments. I'm proud Nev, you did real good. It's people like you that are going to really help the school see that we are all equal." She said beaming at him.
"Well I didn't do as much as you did, you told the whole common room that you thought they were weak and that the Slytherins were the strong ones in this school. You told the lions that you like the snakes. Now that was something! And you know what Gin? You were right, every word, you were right." Neville said.
Author's note: Sorry for making this a short chapter, but I'm really tired and I want to sleep...I don't think I'm going to be using Neville for much longer, he served his purpose. The reason Draco didn't get in trouble with Sprout, was because all the teachers had been briefed on what happened between Draco and his father, so she figured he had a right to be pissed. I know that Ginny knew what happened between Harry and Sirius, but I don't think she would have told Colin. I still love him though, so it's not like this is going to cause a hitch in their friendship...so yeah...what did I tell you, I lied about Ginny's and Draco's talk that they were going to have, because I needed to get Draco out of the hospital, and Ginny needed to stay. PLEASE REVIEW!I WROTE TWO FULL CHAPTERS IN ONE DAY!