An: thanks for the reviews teaandagoodbook, little birdie and blauengel!
Once again I do not own anything to do with harry potter and apologize for any mistakes I make re spelling etc.
Now back to the story.
Just as harry opened his mouth to answer a short clearing of the throat was heard and they turned still in each others arms to see Ginny glaring daggers at Hermione whilst at the same time smiling sweetly at harry.
"Sweetheart, come now we must speak to the minister! He has just arrived!" Ginny demanded in her fake sweet voice and she dragged harry away from Hermione who looked apologetically to Hermione and Hermione gasped in shock when she saw Ginny wink at Dean whom smirked back.
Hermione walked back to where Draco and Luna were seated and noticed the way Draco was staring at the witch, whom was either a really good actress or didn't notice the attention the handsome wizard was giving her.
"What happened?" Luna asked dreamily and Hermione explained everything including her suspicions over Ginny's faithfulness to harry. Draco frowned and pulled her between them once more.
"we all know she's a tart… its in her nature to grab the best prospect and suck the life out of the fellow… like a black widow…. Correction like a leech… always looking for new blood but wanting to stay onto the current one whilst she sucks him dry." Draco spat and Hermione's eyes widened toward him. He had black dress pants on and a black shirt, his silver tie was loose and Hermione smiled at the ruffled up hair, he used to always care about his hair, well that was before he became acquainted with Luna whom stated his hair looked like troll saliva had sleeked it back and if he wasn't careful the dunger flies would come and eat his hair.
Draco took this as an insult against his hair and snapped back angrily that he did not have troll saliva in his hair. Hermione smiled suddenly when she remembered Luna reaching forward and messing up his hair slightly and then she said see now you look much more handsome. She blushed and Hermione believed it was the first time she had ever seen Luna blush. Draco must have agreed with Luna but kept it tidy whenever he knew he would see Luna just so she would run her fingers through his hair, Hermione suspected Draco had a crush on Luna and vice versa, both were either ignorant or too shy to act on it.
Hermione decided that she couldn't stare at the couple anymore and sat on the table infront of Luna and Draco so that she didn't have to look. She watched Luna reach out curiously and scruff up his hair some more at the back. He smiled smally as she did it, closing his eyes to the feeling. The only Slytherin friend Hermione knew that Draco had maintained had been Blaise Zabini, the handsome black wizard whom had a deep voice and a surprisingly kind heart. He had taken to Hermione and Luna quite well when draco first introduced them and for that Hermione was glad.
Blaise, as Draco put it never really was into pureblood prejudices, everyone thought he was different, but he was powerful and everyone respected him. Blaise entered the room late, as per usual due to his auror duties and nodded to harry and made his way to the three on the couch, away from the main party. Draco moved extremely close to Luna to allow his friend room, much more room than he needed but the two blondes seemed pleased with the arrangements.
Blaise smirked and turned to Hermione whom was rolling her eyes.
"Hello Hermione, may I say you look beautiful tonight."
"I would say you looked sexy but by the look on your face you already know it." It had become a tradition for them to speak like that at parties and gatherings; it helped prevent any unwanted people approaching. Blaise sighed and noticed Hermione reach for another glass of firewhisky.
"How many Hermione?" he asked looking at the glass and Hermione used her fingers to show four whilst downing the glass. Blaise frowned and his frown deepened when he looked over to the newly engaged couple.
Draco looked up and his face grew stony, Luna's dreamy eyed look faded into nothing and Hermione knew she did not want to turn around. "look at that slut… basically advertising herself to the minister for magic like that, I mean look at how she's hanging off of harry like he's a leaning post." Blaise said angrily, the three others knew that Blaise still harvested a crush on the young Weasley, and was jealous and angry whenever she would flaunt herself like she was now.
"Blaise, potter isn't going to try and talk sense into her, she's always sweet and irresistible when around him… he doesn't know better, she needs a man who knows everything… everything and will love her no matter what." Draco looked at Blaise whom nodded and Luna sighed.
"I am sorry Hermione… but they are not right for each other… the warpies are not surrounding them like they do with a destined couple." Blaise and Draco smiled at Luna's words, they had grown used to her odd ways of explaining things, even though they didn't believe in the creatures themselves it was her way of telling them how it is. Hermione adored her for it. Hermione didn't dare turn around instead she reached for another glass and Blaise shook his head floating the bottle away and Hermione sighed.
The party slowly diminished and Hermione had decided to enlarge Harry's sofa so Hermione could sit in between Blaise and Draco. She laughed when Draco and Blaise started a glare war and Luna mussed Draco's hair to settle him. This made Blaise smirk and poke his tongue out at the blonde whom simple pulled a rude hand gesture in his friend's direction whom laughed.
Soon the only people left were Harry and two of the aurors from his department and of course Ginny and her 'possy' as Draco called it. Ginny was in the middle of about five girls, consisting of Lavender Brown, Fleur Delacour now Weasley, Pavati Patil, Padma Patil and Cho Chang. Why she was friends with these girls, simple: they were either important or obsessed with harry and Ginny or both. Ginny loved the attention.
Her personality had changed shortly after the final battle and Hermione didn't like the new changes. Hermione knew Ginny wasn't a virgin… far from it when harry and Ginny got together, knowing that Ginny was his first was utterly horrible for Hermione, to whom Harry described the first time as being fun and all, but not what he expected, he expected to feel complete afterwards, not empty.
Hermione and Harry never spoke directly of his sex life ever again, she did know that he was confused and empty and always questioned Ginny's love for him. Hermione would reassure him, trying to hide her doubts.
She was brought out of her thoughts and into the conversation Blaise, Draco and Luna were having when she heard her name from the group of gossiping witches.
"It's huge Ginny, oh you lucky girl for snapping that one up! I always thought granger would snatch him!" Pavati exclaimed and Ginny laughed at the idea.
"Granger is not nearly pretty enough to gain Harry's attention let alone steal him from me. And she won't be around Harry very much when I have my way." Ginny stated a smirk on her face. The women surrounding her chuckled with her.
"Well you should better hope she doesn't get to close to your man, you don't know how much influence she has over him." Cho whispered and Ginny looked angry for a moment.
"Oh I know perfectly well the influence she has on him. They spend more time together than I spend with him… its infuriating, but now that this ring is on my finger and the moment my last name is potter he is mine and she will not take part in his life any longer." Hermione gulped and Blaise and Draco both felt her tense and they stopped talking and listened to the conversation, focusing on their drinks.
"How will you do that? They are best friends?" Padma asked and Ginny smirked, an ugly smirk that retracted from her natural beauty.
"Guilt… harry is a sucker for it…. Ill make him so guilty he won't be able to stand it and will bend to my will like a twig." Ginny said and Cho looked sceptical. Hermione felt her heart clench painfully, twigs don't bend, they snap.
"I don't know Ginny, you saw the way they are with each other, it will be hard to wedge that between them… I mean have you seen the way she looks at him?"
At that Hermione went rigid and Blaise held her hand and forced her to look at him, his hand on her face.
"Hermione, we should go to library to your house anyway." He stated and Draco nodded.
"Oh I've seen, that little mudblood tramp wont get her hands on my man."
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