Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling!

A/N (August 10, 2004): Ok this is a really long chapter! I havn't updated this story since February, so for 1/2 a year. Wow I never realized I was so behind on it. So last night I spent like 2 hours typing and finally finished it. So I hope everyone enjoys it!

Chapter 13

Ginny was sitting at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall next to Hermione. Maggie walked in and sat down next to Ginny,

"Hi."

"Hey," said Ginny, giving her a tired smile. Ron just nodded at her, and Hermione ignored her.

"I see she's forgiven you but not me," Maggie muttered. Harry walked in and sat down next to Ron slamming his books on the table so hard that all the Gryffindors looked up from their food.

Hermione looked at Harry, "What did she do to you?" she said and glared at Maggie. "Tell you later," Harry muttered. "Why the hell does everyone keep saying that to me!?" she screamed. She grabbed her bag and stomped out of the Great Hall. "Now you've done it," Ron said to Harry and left to go after her.

There was a long silence and Harry just glared at Maggie. Ginny rolled her eyes, "Why are the two of you fighting now?" she said exasperated.

"She started it!" said Harry

"Me? Excuse me?" said Maggie

"Yes you. You start all the fights. You're screwing us all up. We were all fine before you came along. Why don't you go back where you came from? Oh yea, you can't, they all hate you there too! That's why you're here now. You screwed up there too!" He smiled smugly at her.

Maggie's face was all red. She stood up and pulled out her wand and pointed it at him, "You don't know what the fuck you're talking about! You don't know what happened, you don't know shit about me!" she yelled trying not to cry. She turned and ran out of the Hall.

Ginny frowned at Harry, "Harry, that was really uncalled for."

He turned to her looking angry, "Oh great. So you're taking her side?!"

Ginny glared at him, "I'm on nobody's side Harry! But that was really mean of you and you know it." He opened his mouth and closed it.

Maggie ran to the lake. She kept looking over her shoulder to make sure nobody was following her. Finally she got to the tree, the one where she'd met Malfoy those two times. He wasn't there of course; he was in Potions, where she was supposed to be. She plopped down under the tree and sighed. Then she remembered Ginny's plan. She pulled out her wand and pointed it at the castle. She imagined the Gryffindor Tower, and then the Common Room, the 6th year's boys dormitory, a blank old scrap of paper..

"Accio Marauders Map!" she said loud and clear.

She stood there for a minute, waiting for it to come. Nothing. She started crying and lay down on the ground, under the tree. After a few moments she felt a light plop on her head. Sitting up fast, she saw a blank dirty scrap of paper lying on the ground in front of her. "Yes!" She picked it up and starting jumping for joy. It worked!

Malfoy sat in his seat and groaned. Where was she? I hope she's not sick, I wish I could just ask Potter, he thought. Snape stood up and started taking attendance. When he got to her name he stopped.

"Potter, where's Miller?" he said glaring at Potter. Potter frowned and shrugged, "Don't know, don't care" he said. Weird, thought Malfoy.

"What was that Potter?" sneered Snape.

Potter rolled his eyes and said slowly, looking Snape in the eyes, "I don't know Sir."

"That's better," said Snape, "10 points from Gryffindor for Miss Miller's unexcused absence." He smirked at Potter who glared right back at him.

Malfoy noticed all the Slytherins looking at him expectantly, oh yea, he thought. He laughed and turned around in his seat to smirk at Potter.

Maggie woke up, from where she had fallen asleep under the tree, to the sound of footsteps. She sat up and pulled out her wand. The footsteps got louder and louder until—

"Oh, it's just you" she said, trying not to smirk at Draco Malfoy. He smiled,

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Maggie shrugged,

"Very long story."

He laughed and sat down next to her. He saw the Marauder's Map lying next to her and picked it up. "What's this?" he said.

She looked alarmed for a second and just shrugged, "Just a scrap of paper, it must have fallen out of my bag."

"Oh." She took it out of his hand and dropped it in her bag.

They sat there for a minute, awkwardly. "So, how was potions?" she asked him.

"It's kind of hard without your partner" he said watching her.

She grinned, "Sorry." He nodded. "Was there any homework?"

He shook his head and laughed, "No but you lost Gryffindor ten points." She laughed

"Great..." she said sarcastically.

"So are you going back to class?" Malfoy asked her. She shook her head and then remembered something,

"But I have to go talk to someone, I'll be back."

"I won't, I'm going to class," he said.

She nodded and then on an impulse told him, "I'm not going to dinner tonight, I can't face them. I going to steel some food from the kitchens and come back here to eat it." She blushed at her boldness, "Should I get you some too?"

Malfoy grinned, "Sure. I'll see you here later then?" Maggie smiled at him and left.

She got to the Greenhouse in plenty of time and waited in front of it for Ginny. Soon Ginny came along, giggling with two other girls in her year. She waved when she saw Maggie and walked over to her. "Hey, what's up" said Maggie.

Ginny shrugged, "Not much. I heard from a certain three friends of mine that you didn't go to class today. What was that all about?"

Maggie shrugged, "I just had to get away from them. So...How do you get the Marauder's Map to work?"

Ginny thought for a minute before she answered, "Just say 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good'."

Maggie laughed, "No, seriously!"

Ginny giggled, "I am, that's what you say."

"Weird," Maggie murmured. "Oh, and make sure you say 'mischief managed' when you're done with it, so it's blank again" Ginny said. The bell rang,

"Shit, I'll see you later then," she ran into the greenhouse.

Maggie headed back to the castle. She couldn't run into any teachers, she was supposed to be in class. Time to use the Marauders Map, she thought. She pulled it out of her robe pocket and pointed her wand at it and muttered, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." There was a snap and a map of the school appeared on the paper.

"Nice" she said looking at it. Good. Filch was at the other side of the school, and all the other teachers and students were in their classrooms. She ran to the kitchens. She found the picture of the bowl of fruit and tickled the pear. She knew all about the kitchen and had been there often with Harry and Ron. Dobby greeted her cheerfully and offered her food. When she told him what she needed, Dobby and the other elves made up a basket for her filled with warm and delicious smelling food.

After staying and talking with Dobby for a while she left the castle, checking the map first. She'd barely gotten outside when the bell rang. She went back to the tree and lay down and fell asleep. She was awakened later by Malfoy.

They ate their dinner and then played a few games of wizard chess. Maggie wasn't very good and Malfoy slaughtered her. But it was getting late so told him she had to get back before curfew.

Ginny, Harry, Ron and Hermione were all in the Common Room. They all glared at her when she came in, except for Ginny who gave Harry a goodnight kiss and went up to Maggie's dorm with her. Maggie told her what had happened that day. When she was done Ginny said slyly,

"I think Malfoy likes you" she giggled.

Maggie blushed, "Really, you think?"

Ginny nodded, "And....I think you like him too."

Ginny watched Maggie turn red and stutter, "No...we're just...friends." Ginny raised her eyes. Maggie giggled, "Fine I do. But you can't tell anyone, especially not him." Ginny nodded. Maggie looked at the ground and said quietly, "He's probably just being nice to me so I'll stay quiet."

Ginny shook her head, "No!"

Maggie sighed, "Even if he did, we couldn't be together. It would be too weird, and everyone would hate me."

"You'll have decide what means more to you, him or them," Ginny said seriously, "But don't worry, I won't hate you."

Just then Hermione, Parvati, and Lavender came in. Ginny said goodnight and left. Hermione lay down in bed. Lavender asked Parvati if she'd done her homework yet. Parvati shook her head, "I don't even remember what we had."

"We had an essay for potions, but I can't remember what it was on," said Lavender and then she turned to Maggie, "Do you know?"

"She doesn't know either, she wasn't even in class today" said Parvati

Lavender thought for a second and then said excitedly, "Oh, that's right! Malfoy screwed up his potion because he was all alone. Speaking of that....where were you? I haven't seen you since lunch."

Hermione laughed sarcastically and said coldly, "Well, that makes sense.....since she didn't go to any of her afternoon classes today!" she glared at Maggie.

Parvati looked confused, "And why is that bad?"

Hermione glared at all of them, "She lost us 10 points!" she practically shouted.

Lavender rolled her eyes, "Relax, You'll earn them back."

Hermione looked even madder and said angrily, "Well don't blame me when we tie with Slytherin....or when they win by 5 points!"

Lavender raised her eyebrows and Parvati rolled her eyes and muttered something to Lavender that sounded very much like "poor Ron!" Hermione pretended not to hear them. She lay down in bed and snapped her curtains shut. "Wow, what's wrong with her?" said Parvati

Maggie shrugged, "What isn't wrong with her"

The next morning when Maggie came back from running, Ron, Hermione, Harry and Ginny were all standing in the common room talking. She walked over to them "Hey Gin."

"Hey Mags," said Ginny with a grin. Hermione glared at them, her face bright red. Ron noticed this and took her arm and they went to breakfast. After watching them leave Harry took Ginny's hand to go but Ginny pulled away.

"What are you doing?" Harry said frowning at her.

Ginny looked mad too, "Maggie is my friend. I'm not leaving just because she came into the room." Harry glared at Maggie and Ginny groaned.

"Harry, you have absolutely no reason to be mad at her...and neither does Hermione. Everyone has their secrets. If you were a good friend you would trust that she's not doing anything wrong!"

"But Gin," Harry whined, "It's obviously something bad since she refuses to tell us about it." Ginny folded her arms across her chest,

"Did you ever think that maybe it's just none of your business?" She grinned slyly, "Just like it's none of Ron and Hermione's buisness what we do up in the Astronomy Tower..." Harry blushed for a moment and then a realization came to him,

"I know!" he said "You're always sneaking of to meet your secret boyfriend! He must be pretty embarrassing or pretty bad." Maggies mouth just hung open for a second.

"Where would you get a crazy idea like that?" she asked him, glaring at Ginny. Ginny shrugged innocently.

"So who is he?" asked Harry

"He doesn't exist" Maggie said glaring at him, her face red. Harry gave her a look that said, yea right. Maggie sighed,

"Look Harry, I'm still mad at you but I don't want to fight. Let's just apologize, ok?" Harry nodded.

"Ok," he said "I apologize for being an ass yesterday at lunch and saying all those things."

"I'm sorry I can't tell you my secret" Maggie said. They both stood there in uncomfortable silence for a few moments and then Maggie giggled at gave Harry a hug. Ginny watched them, beaming.

"So you two are cool now?" she said happily.

"Yes. All thanks to beautiful, perfect, wonderful you" said Harry leaning in and giving her a quick kiss. Ginny was grinning and blushing.

Then they all walked down to the Great Hall, all looking very happy. Maggie and Harry were happily talking to each other, and Ginny was watching them, so happy that they were friends again. Harry and Ginny sat down across from Hermione and Ron. Maggie hesitated for a moment before sitting down next to Hermione who glared at her. Maggie ignored her and smiled at Harry,

"So what were you saying about yesterday's Potions lesson?" She asked him, grinning at the look of horror on Hermione's face. Harry laughed and answered,

"Yea. So Malfoy was making his potion, but he couldn't handle all the work alone, so he ended up putting in too much chopped liver and his potion exploded, and his cauldron too!" Maggie laughed really hard.

"You should have been there, it was so funny!" said Ron, joining in, ignoring Hermione who was now glaring at him. "And then, Snape was so embarrassed that his best student—Ouch!" Hermione had kicked him under the table. "Sorry Mione, second best but favorite. Yea, so he just stood there looking so pissed off and finally said, 'Get out of my site before I change my mind!' and Malfoy practically ran out of there!"

He and Harry laughed and she joined in and thought, Draco didn't tell me about this.

They spend the rest of the breakfast talking and laughing. Seeing that Harry wasn't mad at Maggie anymore, Ron forgave her too. Hermione sat there glaring at them all. And as if she wasn't already in a horrible mood, Crabbe came up from behind her and poured a jug of syrup on her. Everyone in the Great Hall laughed at her, especially the Slytherins. Harry, Ginny, and Maggie all had to try their hardest not to laugh, but Ron couldn't hold it in. He burst out laughing, first chocking on his eggs and then spitting them into Hermione's glass of orange juice.

"Shut up!" Hermione yelled at Ron. Then she ran out of the Great Hall crying. "Oops," said Ron, "What should I do now?"

Ginny rolled her eyes, "Go after her!"

"Oh, right" said Ron. And he ran out of the Great Hall.

Maggie and Harry got to Potions early and stood outside the classroom waiting. Ron was in the Common Room waiting for Hermione to get out of the shower.

They were chatting and joking when Malfoy and his cronies walked up to them. Malfoy glared at Harry, with an almost jealous look in his eyes that was only there for a second. "So Potter, I see you and your little girlfriend are back together" he sneered.

Harry and Maggie looked at each other and and burst out laughing. Harry shook his head, "She's not my girlfriend."

"But, he does have a girlfriend" said Maggie. Malfoy was about to ask who when the door opened and a glaring Snape motioned for them to all come in. Maggie said bye to Harry and sat down next to Malfoy.

"So, you and Potter, back together" Malfoy sneered.

Maggie rolled her eyes,"Now Draco, we just discussed this. I'm not Harry's girlfriend. And now that that's settled," She turned and smirked at him for a second and then frowned and said, "Are you going to tell me what the hell that was at breakfast?"

"Huh?" he said innocently.

She raised her eyebrows at him, and he sighed, "Oh that," he said looking away, "I just did it for you. You said you were mad at her." Maggie glared at him.

"SO!!!"

Malfoy frowned in a hurt way, "Sorry," he said sarcastically, "I was just trying to make you happy. I won't do it again."

Maggie sighed, "Well it didn't exactly make me happy but..." she grinned, "I appreciate the effort, and I have to admit, that was really funny." Malfoy smiled, pleased with himself.

"You really thought so?"

She smiled at him and said, "Just don't let it happen again."

Later in class when they were making their potion he asked her slyly, "So who is Potter's new girlfriend?" Maggie shook her head, "Sorry, can't tell you."

At the end of class Malfoy asked her, "So are you going, to the lake to our tree today?"

"Nah, I'm going to chill with some Gryffindors" she said. He looked disappointed but she didn't notice. The bell rang.

"See you next Potions!" she said. She left him standing there and walked to the door where Harry, Ron, and Hermione were waiting for her. Hermione glared at her. She was mad that the boys had forgiven her. She didn't want to hang around Maggie, but the boys did so she was stuck with her."

After their last class that day, the four of them went to the Common Room where Ginny was waiting for Harry. "Ready to go Harry?" Ginny asked him.

"Yea," said Harry, "I know a good place where Filch won't bother us" Ginny grinned. "I'll see you guys later" said Harry as Ginny pulled him away.

Maggie sighed as she watched them leave. "Ron, I'm going to go get my sweater and then we can go for that romantic walk" Hermione said to Ron giving Maggie a smug look. She came back a minute later and left with Ron.

"Thanks for ditching me you guys" Maggie muttered. She sighed and went up to her dorm to get started on her homework.

That night after dinner the couples disappeared again. I'm a boyfriend-less loser, Maggie thought to herself. She looked around the Common Room for her not as good friends. Fred and George were with their girlfriends Alicia and Angelina, and Parvati was off somewhere with her current boyfriend. Only Lavender was alone. Usually she would have been out with her boyfriend but she had broken up with him the day before. So tonight she had been bleaching her blond hair. Now she was sitting a couch near the fire reading a teen wizarding magazine as she waited for her hair to dry.

Maggie walked over to her and sat down next to her. "Hey" They talked for a little, mostly about guys, until Lavender's hair dried. After declining Lavender's invitation to go check out guy at the library, Maggie went up to her dorm.

Maggie was in bed writing in her diary when Hermione came in one minute before curfew. Hermione smiled smugly at her, "I love having a boyfriend!" Maggie glared at her. She wanted to say something back but she didn't. Instead she continued to write in her diary

I really hate being in this stupid fight with Hermione!

I really miss us being friends...

A/N: So that was the 13th Chapter, I hope everyone reading enjoyed it. Please leave me a review. They make me very happy, and make me motivated to update! Thanks!