Chapter 2

"Good Morning, class. My name is Draco Malfoy, and I am your new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, although most of you already knew that," Draco drawled as he looked around the room. Oh great Gryffindor and Slytherin "Now I know…" suddenly the door burst open and everyone turned in their seats to see a very flustered Ginny Weasley, who looked like she had just run a marathon.

Ginny looked to the front of the room and saw Draco standing there, and without thinking, yelled out, "What the hell are you doing here ferret boy." The class room got very quiet, and quickly Ginny began to put the pieces together. Oh dear, he's not…he can't be. But before she could finish her train of thought Draco answered her.

"I just happen to be your new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and you just happened to earn yourself a detention tonight at 8 O'clock. By the way I knew you would be late with your head girl duties, so your detention is not for that, It is for disrespecting your superiors." Draco smirked at her and turned to the rest of the classroom, "Now before we begin our lesson, let me explain why the "hell" I'm here. The headmaster needed a teacher, and since the job is cursed, not many wanted it, and it just so happens that I am quite well-versed in the Dark Arts, and how to defend against it. I have also had practical use, so I was asked to come and teach for you this year, any other questions?" Draco glared at them hoping they would not bring St. Potter into this conversation. "Good, page 495."

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Ginny and Colin ambled into the Great Hall for lunch, "Gods, he is such a prat! Argh I hate him, he actually gave me detention tonight. Surely he knows how much homework we get on the first week back!"

"Ginny, you did kind of yell at him, what did you expect?"

"Your right, but that doesn't make him any less of a prat" Ginny looked up to the front of the Hall to see the ferret himself surrounded by a group of seventh year girls, who appeared to be chatting him up. She scoffed at them he may be handsome, but he's got the demeanor of a Devil's Snare.

Draco looked up from the gaggle of girls surrounding him and saw the little Weaslette come in the hall with the freak that takes pictures. She scoffed a bit and then turned away. I can't wait until detention with her, HA, it should be fun to banter with her, and she's much smarter than that oaf of a brother of hers. I wonder if she still follows Potter around like a lost puppy. Draco's thoughts were broken by the giggling girls, who he turned back to and smirked at. "Well ladies, sorry to leave you, but I have a class to teach." Draco strutted out of the Great Hall to go to his classroom.

"Look at him strut Colin, who does he think he is?" Ginny exclaimed exasperatedly.

"Ginny, are you sure you don't like the ferret? You have done nothing but talk about him all day long." Colin said warily.

"Colin, are you nuts? Of course I don't like him. I just can't stand him, and he thinks he's hot stuff. He just infuriates me." Ginny got out of her seat and stomped out of the Great Hall

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It was 8 O'clock, and Draco was seated at his desk in his classroom with his feet up on the corner of the desk waiting for Ginny to get there. He looked around his room that he purposefully cluttered and dirtied. Ginny walked in, saw the mess, and before he said anything she cleaned it up with a wave of her wand. What? The little chit ruined his plans for her detention. "Bravo little weasel, how clever of you to keep from doing the detention I had planned."

"Oh that was my detention?" Ginny said in a fake innocence. "Whatever do you mean Professor?" Ginny inwardly sniggered at him; I wonder what he'll come up with now. "Honestly, I just thought you were a bad housekeeper, and thought I would help you," Ginny smiled sweetly.

She's more of a slytherin than I thought. "Well, have a seat Miss Weasley, there are a couple of things I need to discuss with you and then you can help me with some of the first years' in class work. Normally the headmaster oversees the first few prefect meetings, but he has asked me to do this, since his health is not quite up to par."

Oh my god! Can my day get any worse? He's everywhere arrgh "Oh, um of course Professor, well the first meeting I have scheduled is tomorrow at six O'clock." I had better try to make the best of this- no more calling him ferret…to his face.

"Okay, for detention, since you already cleaned my room, we need to look over the first years' papers on 'What are the Dark Arts?'" Draco leaned over and pulled open the bottom drawer of his desk, and pulled out a huge stack of papers. He gave half to Ginny and told her, "Read through these, and if you see anything that seems…muggle, then make a note of it so that I can cover what they need to know."

Ginny looked at him in shock for being civil to her, not badmouthing muggles. Maybe there was a reason Dumbledore hired him afterall "Yes, Sir." Ginny picked up one off the stack and scaned over it quickly and burst into giggles.

Draco looked up at her, "What is so funny?" She just kept laughing, and handed him the paper.

What are the Dark Arts

The dark arts are those ugly pictures in the museums my mummy takes me to see that are dark and scary, and are really hard to see because they are dark.

"Looks like you've really got your work cut out for you." Ferret. Ginny laughed.

"Looks like you are right Miss Weasley. I just didn't realize how stupid first years are." Draco said with a completely serious look on his face.

Ginny lost herself for a moment and yelled at him, "You can't say that! You are a professor, you are not allowed to call them stupid!"

"Sheesh Weasley calm down! I was only joking, I know that they know nothing of our world, I'm not as evil as you seem to think I am."

He actually looked kind of hurt, and Ginny felt a small pang of guilt and muttered a quick sorry at him.

"It's okay, I'm used to it." They quickly fell into an easy silence, finishing the papers. Ginny wrote down what she thought the students would need to learn and handed it to Draco.

He thanked her and dismissed her. " You are free to go Miss Weasley, I'll see you tomorrow at six O'clock." They stared at each other in an awkward silence, and then Ginny turned to go to her Head girl room.