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Chapter 2 -A Know-it-all in Malfoy's classroom

'Ginny c'mon we have to go or Snape with get us into detention in our first day at school!' Danny was waving at Ginny from the doorway of the Great Hall. Though Ginny was just some steps away from the door, her friend Danniella was waving like a maniac, with her blonde hair waving behind her as if the Great Hall had suddenly let in some wind.She couldn't see why her fellow girls were so happy about. They were talking and giggling about Malfoy, though some of them knew his evilness from previous years. They could only talk about how cute he was and his butt and his hair...etc, etc,etc...or as Ginny complained BLA BLA BLA STUPID FERRET BLA BLA BLA BLOODY BASTARD BLA BLA.

'I'm coming!' she muttered under her breath. She was under the weather today, well, it was not all day she had double potions and double DADA in the same day one next to the other. She glanced the big clock with the House points and she made a mentally note. 50 points, Gryffindor and 20 points,Slytherin.

She smiled sadly thinking she would be spending her next hours near a greasy git called Severus Snape who insisted on deducting points from her even if she was his best student in that year. He hated the Potters and everyone who loved them. And Ginny was one of those people. The Weasley were related to the Potter,not by blood but by a strong friendship. Her father met Harry's father in his second year at the Ministry, James was a sixteen Quittich star back then, he only started teaching five years ago. They became friends almost immediately, as Arthur had to get his out of a complicated situation that involved his Muggle department. At that time, The Weasleys had already three kids, and James was just starting to date Lily Evans. Two years later, Molly and Lily were going to Lamaze classes together and buying baby things. Molly helped Lily through her first pregnancy and though she due first, she was in the delivery room helping Lily and James through the process, leaving Arthur with little baby Ron. Molly was older than Lily but that was no problem to them, they fitted really well. They are both rigid and stubborn.

That was how Ginny knew Aunt Lily and Uncle James, as well as, Uncle Sirius and Uncle Remus.

Thinking of all this made Ginny go against someone standing in the middle of the stairs to the dungeons and fall down in her butt.

'Ouch!' she yelped.

'Weaslette! Of course, who would be so clumsy to go against a Professor. Ten points from Grynffindor for going distracted against a Professor and five for not even apologising.' Ginny was opening and closing her mouth as a golden fish. He didn't even give her a chance to apologise. She was sit on the ground and he was smirking at her. Then she realised she had just let him win.

'But sirrrr, I'm have forgotten you're a teacher... 'cause last year there was this guy, a stupid little ferret with platinum blond hair that I loved to go and smack his face but my pals didn't let me...and I say you, sirrrr, and I thought you were that stubborn ferret...and I wanted to smack your face against the floor but I slipped before I could do it properly. Next time I will not go against you,sirrr. I will smack you down. Sir.' she stood up and gave him a sweet smile and then she smirk walking pass Malfoy before he could reply, already late to Potions. If she had eyes in her back she would have seen his famous smirk turned into a deathly glare. He could not believed she just said that to a teacher, even if he was a new one and a former school mate. One thing he was sure, she was courageous, but was she as bold as he was? Is it war you want, is war you get, Misss Weaslette, he thought running to his classroom for his first class ever.

Meanwhile, Ginny was racing to get to the dungeon before Snape but she knew she was already late and with a certain detention on her first day of school.

She knocked on the door and opened it. As she predicted, Snape was already there and all her classmates were working around their cauldrons.

'Sorry, Sir. May I come in?'

'So, you start great this year, Weasley. Ten minutes late, are you? I think a detention will serve you well. Or maybe twenty five points from Grynffindor. Perhaps that's best.'

Ginny glared at him but said nothing. At least she could have her evening without Snape's detention. She started doing her potion and as usual it was perfect. Snape sneered when he reached her table. 'It's too purple, Weasley. Haven't I told you to mix the soil only when the potion was green? Ten points from Grynffindor.' with a flick of his wand he cleaned her caldron. She was really angry by now. First was Malfoy, then Snape's delay speech and now she would have a zero in her essay. No, she wouldn't! Ginny grabbed her ingredients and started over again. If he thought he would make her fail, he had a thing coming. No one played with Virginia Weasley that way!

'Time's up. Put your potions in a vial and bring it to my desk.'Snape said standing behind his desk.

They formed a line and when Ginny was going to put her vial in Snape's desk, his greasy hand caught her move in the middle.

'What do you think your doing, Miss Weasley?' he asked with a mischievous smirk on his face.

'I'm handing my essay, sir'

'I think I was clear when I cleaned your potion, Weasley. I give second chances to no one...and you included.'

He tried to grab the vial but Ginny grabbed it with her other hand.

'Then, maybe Professor Dumbledore do.'

'Watch it, Weasley!' his smirk fainted and a angry curve appear in his forehead.

'You see, sir...In the rules says,when the potions master or mistress cleans the caldron of a student it has to be 'cause the potion is completely wrong or if not, the student may do it again. So, I did'. She said matter-of-factly, she put the vial in Snape's desk and he grabbed it and with a flick of his wand it disappeared.

'Ups, clumsy me.' he mocked.

'Oh, it's alright, sir. I knew the vial would disappear somehow so I filled tons. Almost all my potion is keep save in case you let my vials disappear or slip from your hands' she handed him another vial and added 'Let me know, sir, if I have to send one vial to Professor Dumbledore.'

'Twenty points from Grynffindor and detention tomorrow night' he shouted to Ginny. Fortunately everyone else had left to their next class, DADA, so Ginny could reply 'I don't think so sir...tomorrow I have Head's duties with Professor Dumbledore. And I would hate to tell him why I can't go...'

'Well, then, today at 7 p.m.' he turned around and went to his office.

Ginny stood there. Her little blackmail didn't result. She still would have a awful grade and detention with Snape.

Somehow Snape didn't like to Dumbledore to know the things he makes to Potter,the Weasleys and Granger. Maybe because half of the staff at Hogwarts was related somehow to the Potter and the Weasleys. Snape was not one of the most loved staff member in Hogwarts.

'Great, Ginny!Now you are late to DADA as well' she muttered while racing to her classroom. Her talk with Snape had took her five minutes break and she had to run upstairs so she would be like four minutes late for her second class of the day.

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'As I said, open your books in page 20 and I want you to write an essay with at least a meter length -' she heard Malfoy order inside as she knocked on the door.

Malfoy opened the door with his wand and smirked at her 'It must be a bad habit, Miss Weasley. I heard you arrived late to Potions as well. Did you mocked into someone this time?'

'No'

'No, sir.' he replied.

'No, sir. I did not. I've been talking about an essay with Professor Snape'

'A good excuse that you'd serve those who do not know Professor Snape!' he said with a mocking voice that made all the Slytherins laugh and giggle. 'Please sit down Miss Weasley.'

Ginny sat at the only table left, right in front of Malfoy's desk.

'I do not tolerate delays from the students. Any kind of delay equals detention and extra assignments. So, Miss Weasley... First twenty points from Gryffindor for being late, then a week detentions at ten p.m. as you already know you have one at eight, or so, for both disturbing my class and by making your Professor be late to his first class ... and, yes, almost forgot...the extra assignment I want you to do is in page 35' everyone turned to page 35.' to be delivered to me by this time tomorrow. If not, your week detention will be of a month'.

Everyone opened their mouths. Ginny opened her mouth to protest but she knew she should not. 'Get going everyone, we were working before Miss Weasley interrupted us.'

Ginny started her essay muttering insults under her breath. All her girl friends were giggling as Malfoy walked around the room and winked at every good looking girl as he complimented their work. He was making his round around the Slytherins giving out points and taking points of Gryffindors,so Ginny could ask her friend Danniella about what she had missed.

'So, what did the ferret say when I was running not to be late?'

' He was really nice, he told a lovely speech about the dark arts and how we would be learning the last bits of information to go out and be useful in the real world. He said we would be part of a new generation of DADA students and so on.'

'Sounds so good!' she said sarcastically.

'If you were here, you'd find it rather interesting or aren't you the one who wants to be an auror?' Danniella elbowed her.

'Yeah, I guess while he said it was better. Not good but better...Nothing good comes from that fifhy snobbish mouth of his.' she said matter-of-factly.

They shut up as Malfoy approached their seats. He was reading some essays not far away so Ginny thought she would better get started as well.

'If I were you I would get the work done by tomorrow...I don't fancy having my nights occupied with a Weasley.' she jumped from her place when Malfoy whispered so only she could hear him. She have not seen him approach. He was examining her essay and he had that smirk on his face again. He had beautiful features but that smirk made him look rather more evil than a smile would.

'The feeling is mutual,ferret' she muttered.'I betta yah I will!'

'Miss Weasley, what is the most powerful spell you can use against the Imperious Curse?' he asked and she knew he had heard her.

'The only spell you can use to prevent such curse is Mentalis Totalus. But self-control on our minds will do much better-' she started but he interrupted.

'And are the doings of such spell?Anyone?Yes, Weasley?' he asked as only Ginny had her hand in the air.

'It allows the spell-caster to control his/her own mind being impossible to others to use Legicimacy or any type of Imperious Curse of Mind Controller, it helps to block unwelcome visitors so to speak . The side effect consist on -'

'I did not ask you for the side affects, Miss Weasley.'He snapped. Then turned to a brunette Slytherin girl and asked the side effects. The girl looked at him and opened her mouth and then closed it.

Finally she said 'The spell-caster will feel dizzy?' Malfoy winked at her the girl turned deep red. 'Almost, Miss Flinchson. Ten points for Slytherin for trying. Anyone knows?Miss Johnson, no...'

Again only Ginny had her hand in the air but she give up as she heard Malfoy ask a bunch of brainless Slytherins instead of asking her. She sighed and started to write her essay instead of looking to the Professor.

Malfoy noticed so and he called 'I see you think you are too good to listen to my explanation about the basic side-effects, so, Weasley, in light us. Side effects, besides those which usually occur, that I had just said.' Ye, that you conner her, he thought smiling inside.

'You mean like being trapped inside and reliving all of those traumas the spell-caster experienced so far in his/her life, until someone get the right antidote? Extreme paranoia, high fevers, convolutions, loss of blood presser, falling skin;Ahh...what else, yes...being captive of his/her mind forever; Starting to think everything is his or hers enemy; that everything is a creation of the mind ; and the least common, but that usual is the result of the thing I said, dying.'

'When and with who did it happened?' he asked surprised she knew, usually people knew only that it caused lack of sleep, lack of memory, some nightmares and some times a little paranoia.

'Kira Plow, Egipt, trying to avoid being arrested and questioned about strange events regarding several deaths of young girls, with ages between six and ten years old.'

'Any other...'

'Yes...Arnold Weasley, Scotland.Self-defence. Hubert Notts, Finland, crazy wizard that tried to put himself in the imperious curse'

Malfoy was impressed but he still wanted to conner her somehow. Maybe she wouldn't know...it was a bit darker magic than that they used to study. He would make her look stupid somehow.

'I see...you've been reading the book or maybe Granger's notebook... So tell me, Weasley. And this is not in our book... Who created the Finnigan Curse?'

'The Finnigan Curse?' Ginny face was read less. Her eyes were shining but she showed no sign of angriness or any kind of emotion. But she was paler, her face was whiter than Malfoy have ever seen.

'So, you don't know?' he asked with a smirk. Oh that smirk Ginny hated the most. She wanted to slap him hard across his face.

'No...I did not say so.' she uttered.

'So...'

'Martin Finnigan, Prime-Minister of New Zeland's Magic Ministry.'

'When?'

'1806, March, 7th' she said. Then she turned her face down but her friend Danniella could see her eyes shinning.

Everyone felt silent, even Malfoy. She knew it all. He knew she was smarter than her brother, Ron, but he never thought she was a know-it-all. So, he would make his former fellows laugh...because of it.

'I pity you, Weasellete. You're becoming a Granger know-it-all follower...five points for Gryffindor, I really pity you...and us...another insufferable know-it-all! I thought I was free of Granger but Weasley you almost are one! And look at you...you're 'most crying. It must be hard being a know it all without your pals here this year to protect you, their little baby girl'

All Slytherins laughed but the Gryffindors were angry. Malfoy had just made joke of their Gryffindor Princess. Some were muttering under their breaths when Ginny rose her face.

She still had a blank face. She gave him a little smirk.

'Is that how you feel without Crabble and Goyle? Do you feel alone without your cronies taking care of your baby butt?'

The room fell silent. Virginia Weasley had just answered to a teacher directly. Malfoy's smirk disappeared so fast and his eyes were shocked. Virginia Weasley had just stand to him.

'I demand you respect your superior, Miss Weasley.' he sneered.

'I don't see any superior here,Malfoy. Certainly you aren't. ' she replied standing up and grabbing her things.

'Then I think I will have to make you see it, Miss Weasley. Your detention is now of a month. After that we'll see what you think.'

'I don't think I will do it,sir' she walked away letting the door close with large noise behind her. After running to her room she closed the door and let the tears flow freely. She didn't know if Malfoy knew what he have just done but if yes, he had it coming. No one messed with her feelings that way.

She kept locked in her room for the rest of the day, crying. Danniella tried to talk to her but Ginny just ignored her knocks on the door. She skipped lunch because she felt more secure of herself and happier so she started her extra essay for Malfoy. She still had Transfiguration in the afternoon and she would not skip that class. No she couldn't. If she did so, Lily Potter would kill her or torture her until she told her what she had that was so bad to not go to a lesson.

So, she cleaned her face and put some make-up again. Her eyes were a bit big and reddish but she cared not.

She got her things together and run downstairs. She was going to be the first waiting outside the classroom. And that would give her time to think about things.

'Ginny!' her professor was already there as usual but Ginny had forgotten that. She sighed and then walked in the room.

'Hi, Aunt Lily' she said dropping her thing in her table to go give Lily a kiss.

'So, what do you think of your first day?'she asked smiling.

'Great' Ginny lied. She didn't want to tell her aunt about her detention with Snape and Malfoy.

'I heard you gave quiet a show in DADA' she raised her brows knowingly. She knew Ginny was lying.

'Me? That bloody ferret was getting on my nerves and then we made me talk about...' she stopped and looked down at her feet. It still hurt to think of the Finnigan Curse.

'I know...but he did not' Lily said hugging Ginny.

'How did - ?'Ginny pulled apart from the hug and asked.

'He told Snape when I was nearby'

'The bloody bastard! I turn around and he's telling everyone! I bet he and Snape had a good laugh about it!-'

'Actually he looked rather disturbed.'

Their conversation stopped here as other students entered the room. But that put Ginny to think. Why was Malfoy so disturbed by what happened? And why had he asked her about the Finnigan curse?Well, all those and more doubts would be strained up in her detention that night.

Oh, she was rather looking forward to it. Not Snape's but Malfoy's. She wanted to see his face when he see her essay finished and perfect before due time. Only one thing consumed her...she had yet to see the Great Hall's clock. She wondered how many points Gryffindors had so far...

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