Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter...yet:)
Author's note: This is for Rachel. It is not Grade six, it is Year six:P
Chapter 2
As Ginny sat through her DADA class realizing that Professor Lyn had to be one of the most boring teachers she had( other that Professor Binns), sure she taught them all they needed to know, but she lacked any enthusiasm for the job. It was as if she wanted to be here less than her students did. When Ginny thought about it, she figured that Lyn didn't really want to be here, she was probably here because Dumbledore asked her to be. Plus it is a common fact that the DADA job was jinxed and that no teacher had ever survived a whole year. First there was Quirrel, who got possessed by Voldemort and left for dead, then Lockhart who cursed himself all the way to St. Mungos, then Lupin who was a werewolf and left before the hate mail came, last and defiantly least came that cow Umbridge who got scared by the centaurs apparently. But this teacher did not look like she would make it through the whole year.
Today they were learning how to block the inestrios spell, which blinds you for a whole half an hour. "Okay class, today I will be paring you up with someone from the other house (unfortunately it was Slytherin), don't groan at me, I have orders from the headmaster trying to promote house unity. Okay I'll say your names and you will go stand with you partner. Lavender Brown and Millicent Bullstrode. Ronald Weasley and Vincent Crabbe. Harry Potter and Pansy Parkinson. Parvati Patil and Blaise Zabini. Virginia Weasley and Draco Malfoy. Gregory Goyle and Hermione Granger...etc. Now stand with your partner and chose who will be the attacker and who will be the blocker." she explained
"Well Virginia, what would you like to be?" asked Draco in a neutral tone.
"I think I would like to be casting the spell Draco." Ginny replied coolly.
"Okay then, now that we are settled down I will teach you all how to do the two spells." Professor Lyn explained. "To use the spell, simply say the incantation "nestros". To block the spell you will need to take your wand and make a half circle in front of your face and say "intrio". The blocking spell will create a shield around you that will absorb the light from the attacker. Now everyone try it out for yourselves." The class was suddenly filled with bright lights and many people had to duck as not to be blinded. Draco and Ginny were taking turns, oddly enough as it seems. Ginny would attack, and Draco would block it perfectly. Then Draco would attack and Ginny would block. By the end of the class many students were sent to the hospital wing to get there eyes fixed. Her brother included. After Professor Lyn assigned a 2 foot essay, she dismissed the rest of the class.
"Good class Weasley." Draco said while picking up his books.
"Sure, same goes to you Malfoy." Ginny said then walked out the door to the great hall. She was famished from not eating enough this morning.
When she got there, she chose a seat at the end of the table, far from everyone else. She stuffed her face in a very Weasley-ish manner. Then got up and went to the library. When she got there she was so surprised to see that it was almost completely full. It was only the first day, how could it be so pact, she wondered as she looked around for an empty table. She found one at the back and took out her quill, parchment and her textbook and started to write.
A while later she was interrupted by someone clearing their throat. She looked away from her work and saw Pansy Parkinson standing there. "Sorry to bug you, but there are no more tables and I was wondering if I could sit here?"
Ginny who was shocked that she would want to sit with her so she just said yes and went back to work. Ginny started thinking about her first day back and she realized that the three Slytherins were acting very strange. Not once had they actually been rude or make fun of her or her family, in fact Malfoy actually complemented her, sort of, in DADA.
"Weasley, could I borrow your text for a second?" Pansy asked.
"Uh, yeah sure. My name is Ginny by the way." she replied.
"Oh, okay. Well then, I'm Pansy." She said while holding out her hand for Ginny to shake it. Ginny took it right when the bell rung. "See ya Ginny." she said as she left to her next class.
Ginny suddenly realized that maybe she was too quick to judge them, maybe there was some good in them, maybe they weren't bad, and that the reason she thought they were was because of her daft brother and his friends. She walked to her Care of magical creatures class and waited with the Ravenclaws and the Gryffindors. Today Hagrid said they would be learning about Bundimuns. A Bundimun is a creature that resembles a patch of green fungus with eyes, it like to hide beneath floor boards. The Bundimun oozes a secretion which rots away the very foundation of the dwelling in which it is found. After this class, Ginny had a spare. So she shrunk all her books and put them in her pocket, then she went for a walk. She sat leaning against a tree facing the lake, it felt so calm and peaceful that she soon fell asleep.
Soon her face started hurting and she opened her eyes to see that an owl was pecking her face. She gave a startled scream and it fluttered away for a second then dropped a note on her lap. As soon as it dropped the note it took off towards the owlery. She slowly opened the letter. She didn't recognize the writing and there was no name. So she read on.
You do not know who this is but I am in dear need of your help, I can not say why because if this letter fell into the wrong hands I would probably be dead. You cant tell anyone of this and most certainly once you read this I will ask you to burn it. Meet me in the unused classroom near the dungeons, at 11 o'clock in three days from now
Ginny reread the letter hoping to find some kind of clue as to who would send her this. She figured she might as well figure out who sent this letter and so she burned it, like the person said. She got up and walked around to get the blood flowing back into her legs and figured that she was almost too tired to walk to the Divination tower. So she decided that her sleep was much more important than trying to guess the weather for tomorrow. She knew that her brother was in that class with Potter and would freak when they realized that she wasn't there. She gave a small laugh and imagined his face when he found out she skipped. In fact, Ron, Harry and Hermione seemed to be ignoring her since breakfast. They hadn't talked to her once and they never seemed to acknowledge her during classes. Plus for Ginny.
She walked up to the common room and said the password, "lions forever". She always thought that the passwords got stupider each year. She shook her head and walked in.
She noticed someone was sitting in the chair in front of the fire. She went to see it and was a little surprised to see Neville sitting there, apparently he didn't notice her come in and jumped a little when he saw her.
"Hey Nev!" she said.
"Hey Gin, what are you doing up here? Don't you have class?" he asked.
"Heh, yeah I do, I'm really tired and it's only divination. How 'bout you?"
"Don't worry, if I had divination, I would be skipping. Oh, I have a spare now. So I'm trying to finish up my homework for charms." he answered.
"Well nice talking to ya Nev, I think I'm going to go to my room and try to get some sleep before my brothers wrath comes." she said with a little smirk.
"Yeah I know what you're talking about. See ya later." he said with smile. She walked behind the portrait that leads to the prefect hallway. She had to take this detour because the halls had people in them and she didn't want to risk getting caught. She walked up to her door, whispered her password "fire and rain" then got in her bed and fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
She woke up and looked at her watch.(A.N. I know these wouldn't work in Hogwarts...but for the purpose of my story, they do), and saw that it was just about dinner time, so she got up and went straight to the Great hall. She walked in through the doors and saw that almost all the tables were full, she assumed it was because of the first day back. She just happened to glance at the Slytherin table and noticed that Malfoy, Zabini and Parkinson weren't there. She started to wonder why they weren't there until she shook her head and told herself to stop thinking about them. She found a seat, then saw a red faced Ron coming towards her, it looked like Harry and Hermione were trying to hold him back, but were failing miserably.
"GINNY! HOW COULD YOU SKIP CLASS? HOW COULD YOU DO IT ON YOUR FIRST DAY NONE THE LESS? DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TROUBLE YOU WILL BE IN WHEN I TELL MOM? THEY COULD GIVE YOU A DETENTION AND YOU WOULD LOSE POINTS FROM GRYFFINDOR! DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR OWN HOUSE?" He rambled on while the whole school seemed to turn towards them.
"RONALD WEASLEY! SHUTUP! I SKIPPED CLASS BECAUSE I DIDN'T FEEL WELL! DON'T GIVE ME THE LOOK-AT-ME-I'M-RONAL-WEASLY-AND-I'M-SUCH-A-SAINT-WHO-WOULD-NEVER-SKIP-CLASS-EVEN-IF-MY-LIFE-DEPENDED-ON-IT ACT, BECAUSE I CAN SEE THROUGH THAT! IF YOU TELL MOMMY, I SWEAR TO GOD THAT I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU MYSELF! WHO CARES IF I LOSE YOU A COUPLE HOUSE POINTS, YOU DIDN'T SEEM TO CARE WHEN GRANGER LOST US POINTS IN POTIONS CLASS, DID YOU? SO WHY DON'T YOU GO FUCK A GRINDYLOW AND STAY OUT OF MY FUCKING LIFE!" Ginny yelled, she left the hall even before she could grab a bit to eat. She decided she would go down to the kitchen so she could eat without being starred at.
She walked up to the painting of the fruit bowl and tickled the pair, when the doorknob showed, she opened it and walked right in.
She was surprised when she didn't get greeted by a dozen house elves, she looked around and saw them all around a group of people that were already there. She was about to turn and leave, wanting to be left alone, until Dobby spotted her.
"AH, MS. WEEZEY! I am so glad to be seeing you! What can Dobby be getting you?" he yelled with glee. Unfortunately this caught the attention of the people in the middle of the crowd. She looked at them and realized it was the last people she wanted to see. So instead of being rational she ran like her life depended on it. She ran all the way to the passage that leads to the Astronomy tower and didn't stop running until she got there. She got there and lay down on the hard stone floor not caring. Being the real Ginny was turning out to be harder than it seemed. She barely changed, the only thing she changed was the fact that now everyone knows how much she hates her brother. She had barely scratched her surface. She stayed there thinking about her hatred for them for a bit longer until she heard a noise behind her. She knew Potter had a cloak, and she wouldn't put it past him to follow her. She waited until she was certain someone was there, then she walked to where the noise came from and grabbed, what she felt to be a cloak, out of thin air. Both people gave a startled yelp. Ginny gave a yelp because the person under the cloak was Pansy Parkinson and Pansy did because she didn't expect her to be found. "Why are you here? Have you been following me?" asked Ginny after a while.
"I'm sorry, it's just after you came into the kitchen you looked really bummed out, so I wanted to follow you to see what was wrong, until you disappeared from sight, so I went up here because I like it up here. I'm really sorry!" She said, looking as if she were about to cry.
"Um...Don't worry about it. You were actually following me because I looked sad?"
"Yeah, I felt bad, thinking that maybe you were sad that we were there..." she trailed off.
"Wow, no one has ever really cared enough to chase me through the castle. Let alone even notice if I was sad. Well I suppose I should be thanking you." Ginny said.
"Oh. Okay. So why weren't you happy in the first place. Last year you were always so happy?"
"Well I guess it is because my brother pisses the hell out of me. He thinks he is so special be cause he is friends with the Boy-who-wouldn't-die and because of that he gets treated so specially and above other people, I mean if you really think about it, the only reason he and Potter are still alive is because of bloody, blind luck! Then there is Potter who thinks I am in love with him and worship the very ground he walks on. I mean sure I liked him in my first year, but that's only because I didn't know him. Then Granger, the most annoying person you could ever meet, she is not even that smart, she just memorizes stupid books and no only does she show off in class, my God you should hear her in private. Fine maybe she is smart from reading books. But she will never have the skills when she faces real life, there are things you just can't learn from a book. Such as getting my stupid brother to notice she is part of the female race. She spends her whole time flaunting her book smarts when all a guy want to see is some cleavage to turn him on! I mean holy crap these three are the stupidest people I have ever seen! No wonder why Malfoy makes fun of them all the time! Because they deserve it!" she rated until she looked over at Pansy, who was sitting there in a fit of giggles.
"Oh my God, wow. You are no longer the little Weasley I thought you were. Oh don't worry we could all tell you hated their living guts, but man, to hear you say it like that. Wow, that was just amazing." She said through her giggles.
"Really? Wait, who is "we"?" Ginny asked concerned.
"Me, Blaise and Draco...Why?" She asked.
"Well that's is really sad if you think about it. My brother, his friends, my family and even the teachers didn't notice, and yet you three did. Well all I can say is, it's going to be a lot more fun showing everyone the truth that I expected." The last sentence, Ginny said in her head.