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"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" everyone shouted.

It was Draco's seventeenth birthday so Astoria came up with the idea that all his friends would gather in his dormitory and wake him up. Pansy was unsurprisingly sour that Astoria included me.

Draco sat up faster than I have ever seen someone move. "Bloody hell!"

"Happy seventeenth birthday!" I chirped, shoving my gift under his nose.

It seemed that Pansy wanted to one-up me because she knocked my hands away and presented her gift to Draco. "Here, open mine first."

Draco met my eyes for a split second and smirked before taking Pansy's gift.

I sat on the end of Draco's bed while he unwrapped everyone's present. He remained shirtless in bed so I had to continually remind myself not to stare.

When he finally got to my gift, I became self-conscious. "If you don't like it, I can get you something else."

"No surprise there that a Weasley can't afford anything good," sneered Pansy.

Draco brushed off Pansy's snide comment. "I'm sure whatever it is will be good enough."

I waited with bated breath while he unwrapped the emerald green wrapping and pulled out the small glass ball.

"A Rememberall?" questioned Draco with a lifted eyebrow.

I grinned at his confusion. "Didn't you want one so bad that you had to steal Neville's when you were eleven?"

Draco smirked and tossed the Rememberall up and caught it. "Very clever Weasley."

"I try," I said, flipping my hair.

"Well let's go down for breakfast," said Blaise. "I'm starved."

"You're always hungry," Astoria laughed.

"I'm a growing man," he said.

I snorted and gave him a onceover. "I'm pretty sure you're done growing Zabini."

Blaise smacked my shoulder and I stuck my tongue out at him. Draco quickly dressed in his uniform and we all made our way to the great hall. I sat between Draco and Astoria and dug into a plate of bacon and eggs.

Just as I finished eating, Draco's eagle owl swooped down with the rest of the post owls and dropped a box in front of Draco.

"Is that from your mother?" asked Astoria.

"Probably," said Draco, placing the box carefully in his bag. "But I'll open it later."

I gave him a quizzical look but shrugged off his weird behavior. Instead of questioning him, I stood up and tossed my bag on my shoulder.

"Well I better go. I have Herbology first."

"See you later Weasley," said Draco, his smirk back in place.

"Don't forget your Rememberall," I said.

Blaise, Astoria and Draco all groaned at my lame joke.

"You're not cut out to be a comedian," said Blaise. "Stick to being a Quidditch player."

I stuck my tongue out at him again before prancing out of the Great Hall.

That night, I got a plate of cookies from the kitchens and brought them up to Gryffindor Tower for Evanna, Florence and I to share. Us three were going to stay up until midnight studying since we had our first OWL tomorrow morning.

"Ah, thanks Gin," said Evanna gratefully, taking a cookie.

"No problem. The house elves tried making me take a whole turkey," I laughed, settling back in an armchair. I pulled the table I had been using forward and peered down at my Charms notes.

The common room was filled with fifth years studying for their OWLs and seventh years that started their NEWTs tomorrow. Florence had already sent a bunch of third years to bed for disturbing the quiet in the common room and a seventh year had actually hexed a sixth year for laughing too loudly. To say it was a tense time in the common room was an understatement.

As we worked in quiet—occasionally munching on cookies—people started to slowly drift off to bed until it was just Evanna, Florence and I left.

I pushed my Charms notes away and stretched. "I think I'm done for tonight."

Evanna hastily followed my lead. "I'm done too."

Florence seemed to push herself to finish reading two more pages before she finally gave up. "Ah, I'm done too."

As I settled into bed that night, I couldn't fight the tight ball of dread in my stomach. I knew I could have studied more and harder but I had been so focused on helping Draco with the Vanishing Cabinet. As I drifted off into an uneasy sleep, I hoped that by helping a friend I hadn't screwed my academic career over.

I didn't get to speak to Draco at all for the two weeks while I took my OWLs. After I finished my written part of the exam in the mornings, I would hurriedly eat lunch and then cram for the practical in the afternoons.

I would have had time to see Draco in the evenings but for the two weeks of the OWLs, Evanna, Florence and I would always be bent over our books for the exam the next day. Sometimes Adrian, Luna and Nicholas would join us in the library but often we stayed up in the common room because there wasn't the distraction of watching students from other houses studying.

Our last OWL was History of Magic and that one thankfully didn't have a practical. So after I scratched out answer after answer on my exam parchment for what felt like hours while the summer sun shone down on us through the high windows, I was exuberant as Florence, Evanna and I flounced out of the castle free women after the exam.

"Now we have a couple of days left before summer holidays," said Florence, flopping down at the base of a tree offering a large amount of shade. "What are we going to do with ourselves?"

"We're going to sleep in, gorge ourselves on sweets from the kitchen and play Exploding Snap all day," announced Evanna grandly.

I stretched out on my stomach, relishing in the feeling of the cool grass against my fingertips. "Not to mention playing Quidditch for fun and using our new knowledge of magic for mayhem."

"You're becoming more and more like me every day," laughed Evanna, reaching forward and ruffling my hair. "I'm so proud."

"What are your plans for summer?" Florence asked Evanna and I.

"Bill and Fleur's wedding is this summer," I said, wrinkling my nose. "I'm a bridesmaid."

"You still don't like her?" asked Florence.

I shrugged. "It's not that I don't like her. It's just that I think Bill can do better than her."

"Well at least you have something to do this summer," said Evanna with a deep sigh. "Both my older brother and sister are coming to visit and we're all going to be cooped up at home."

"I know what else you're going to do this summer," I said, grinning broadly.

"And what's that?"

"Try not to send Stinksap to the Ministry again and get a summer-long grounding."

Evanna grimaced and threw a handful of grass at me while Florence and I had a good laugh at Evanna's expense.

Once I shook all the grass out of my hair, I turned to Florence. "What are your plans for summer?"

"Well you know how I've been bugging my parents to take me on a trip to Bulgaria?"

Evanna rolled her eyes. "Yeah, ever since Viktor Krum came here for the Triwizard Tournament and Hermione told you everything he told her about Bulgaria, you haven't been able to shut up about it."

"Well my parents said that we can take a trip to Bulgaria for a reward if I get at least eight OWLs."

I snorted. "You definitely got more than eight OWLs. I know you and you're brilliant."

"You don't know that," Florence shot back. "I think I didn't do so well in History of Magic."

Evanna pulled more handfuls of grass and threw them at Florence. "Do not start dissecting the exam! You know I can't stand it so just accept that you are brilliant."

Florence flushed happily and started talking about how excited she is to see this and that in Bulgaria. I tuned Florence out as I saw Draco, Astoria and Blaise all stroll out of the castle with their heads bent together like they were having a private conversation. They didn't see me as they strolled the opposite way from me which was towards the Quidditch Pitch.

"...love him," said Evanna.

I jerked back around. "Wha—, who loves who?"

"I said," Evanna drawled. "That the way you look at Draco Malfoy is weird. It's like you're in love with him or something."

I tried to fight the famous Weasley blush. "I don't love Draco Malfoy. He's a friend."

"But the way you look at him," said Florence. "It's how you used to look at Dean when everything was perfect between the two of you."

"I wouldn't date him even if he was the last guy on earth," I said, forcing the lies past my lips. "For starters, there's the fact that our families hate each other. Not to mention that his entire family is huge You-Know-Who supporters."

"But that's just surface stuff," said Evanna, waving away my arguments. "You can still love him despite that stuff."

"Well yeah but I don't love him. He may be my friend but he's still a bully, egotistical and he thinks he's a gift to the world."

"You don't seem to mind that stuff," said Florence, a slight frown creasing her brow. "You wouldn't be friends with him if that stuff bothered you."

"Look, I'm mostly friends with him because of Astoria. He's her friend and I'm friends with Astoria so of course we would be together a lot of the time."

"Astoria is kind of mean too," mused Evanna, turning back to her pursuit of tearing up grass with her fingers. "I heard that she pushed Hanna Abbott down the stairs once because she was going down the steps too slow."

I rolled my eyes. "That's false."

"You can't know that," said Florence.

"Can we just drop it," I said. "I don't love Draco Malfoy and Astoria didn't push Hanna Abbott down a flight of stairs."

"Okay, I believe that Astoria didn't push Hannah but I still believe my Draco theory. I mean, even if you don't love him, then you at least have to have a crush on him," said Evanna.

"I'd have to be crazy to like Draco Malfoy," I said, making myself sneer. "I sometimes wonder how his own mother can put up with him."

Evanna and Florence erupted into laughter as I tried to quell the burning shame deep in my stomach. I felt like a poor excuse for a human being right then as Evanna and Florence started naming all the reasons I would be crazy to like Draco while I just sat there and pretended to laugh along with them.

Things had been awkward with Harry after I had turned him down but I noticed that when we were together, he tried his hardest not to let it seem awkward. When we did talk, it was mostly stilted conversations about Quidditch or the summer holidays.

Since I didn't want my close friendship with Hermione to suffer because I felt like I couldn't talk to her if she was with Harry and Ron—which was basically always—I often forced myself to sit with her even if she was sitting with Harry and Ron. More often than not, Ron and Harry would have their own conversation together while Hermione and I talked.

So I tried not to let the awkwardness suffocate me as I approached the trio in the common room. "Hey."

Harry gave me a small smile while Hermione grinned broadly. "Ginny! How'd your OWLs go? How do you think you did on a written and practical ratio? I know when I wrote my OWLs, I did way better on the written parts but I've seen your Bat-Bogey Hex so I know you're really good performing spells."

I grinned as I sat beside Hermione with the guys opposite us. "Calm down. Breathe."

Hermione rolled her eyes. "How do you think you did?"

"I think I did okay. I mean, I probably failed History of Magic though…"

Harry laughed, joining in on the conversation. "I failed both History of Magic and Potions so you shouldn't worry too much."

"Oh, I'm not worried. If I fail, I fail. I mean, I could barely stay awake during Professor Binns' lectures so it wasn't really a surprise when I had to make up answers during the exam."

Hermione looked down at me disapprovingly. "Please don't tell me you made up answers for your other exams."

"Relax Hermione," I laughed. "The exams are done so let's just enjoy the weather."

"We should go play Quidditch," suggested Ron.

Hermione groaned but Harry, Ron and I were all for it.

"Maybe I can ask Florence and Evanna to join us," I said, jumping up.

"The more, the merrier," said Ron.

"Ask your other friends to come to," said Harry.

For a split second, I thought he meant Draco, Astoria and Blaise but then I realized that he meant, Luna, Adrian and Nicholas.

"Yeah," I agreed. "They're probably in their common room so I'll go see if I can find a Ravenclaw to go and get them for me."

"Okay, meet us down at the pitch," said Harry.

I found Florence and Evanna gorging themselves on sweets and drinking pumpkin juice in the kitchen like they had declared they would two days ago. After some begging on my part, they agreed to Quidditch and came with me to find a Ravenclaw to go and fetch Adrian, Luna and Nicholas. We had to wait a couple of minutes for a Ravenclaw to come out of the common room but Adrian, Luna and Nicholas eventually came out and agreed to play.

We all trouped down to the pitch together and I waited patiently as the five of them picked out the brooms they wanted to use from the school's supply of brooms. Harry, Hermione and Ron were waiting for us in the middle of the pitch with the Quaffle tucked under Ron's arm.

"There's an uneven number of players," Florence pointed out.

"Oh no," groaned Hermione unconvincingly. "I guess someone will have to sit out."

"I don't mind sitting out," said Luna.

"No, you should play," Hermione said quickly. "I'll sit out and keep score."

Harry, Ron and I exchanged grins because we all knew how much Hermione hated playing Quidditch during the summer with us.

"Yeah, you go keep score," said Ron encouragingly. Hermione beamed and dashed off to return her broomstick.

"So how should we divide the teams?" asked Adrian. "Because no one else plays Quidditch except for three of you."

After some discussion, we made our teams. Since Harry was the best Quidditch player out of the three of us, he was put on a team with Nicholas, Evanna and Luna while my team was Ron, Florence and Adrian and I. We decided to play until a hundred and then we all kicked off the ground.

As we played, I realized that the teams were pretty even matched—though we weren't even close to how good a house team would play. Nicholas was a pretty decent player and Evanna liked trying to knock people off their brooms so that partially made up for the fact that Luna would often hover in mid-air to look at the clouds. Florence was excellent at passing but Adrian fumbled the Quaffle so many times that we only passed to him if we had too which he looked very thankful about.

It wasn't an intense game so it lasted about an hour. Evanna managed to score the game winning goal and she was boisterous as we made our way back up to the castle altogether.

"I told you we would beat you guys," said Evanna.

Adrian rolled his eyes. "You beat us by ten points."

"I think you all played very well," Hermione said diplomatically.

"You don't have to lie," Luna said serenely. "I know I'm not good at Quidditch."

"It's okay Luna," I said, throwing an arm around her shoulders. "Adrian isn't cut out for Quidditch either."

Adrian shoved me gently as Luna and I laughed.

The train would be coming in two days to mark the start of the summer holidays. I hadn't seen Draco at all since his birthday and when I tried to get into the Slytherin common room after exams, I learned that that password had been changed and Draco hadn't bothered to tell me. I would be lying if I said I wasn't mad but I didn't want to go home for the summer without seeing him one more time.

The days after exams had been filled with laughter and quality time with Florence, Evanna, Adrian, Luna and Nicholas and I would never trade the time I had spent with them for anything but I still would have liked to see Draco also. I didn't want to wait two months during the summer before I could see him again.

I jerked out of my thoughts as Ron made a rude joke about Professor Snape and I joined in as everyone laughed. I had two more days before the end of term and I was determined to see Draco.

The next day, I staked out the Great Hall during breakfast for Draco but he never came to breakfast. Neither did Astoria, Blaise, Zane or Theo so I couldn't ask any of the other Slytherins where they were because I wasn't on as friendly terms with them.

They didn't show up for lunch or dinner so I could only assume that they were nicking food from the kitchens to eat. I figured they were in the Room of Requirement or the Slytherin common room but I tried numerous times that day to get into the Room of Requirement and the door never appeared. I finally accepted that I wouldn't get in and went to keep watch on the entrance to the Slytherin common room.

I knew I was being creepy as I stood around the corner but I couldn't help it. I was frustrated that neither Draco, Astoria, Blaise, Zane or Theo came in or out of the common room the entire time I had been standing in the dungeons. With an angry sigh, I marched back up to Gryffindor common room and sat with Florence and Evanna. I hadn't realized how long I had been watching the Slytherin common room as I glanced at the dark sky through the window.

"Hey Ginny," said Hermione, coming up to me. "Come over here for a second."

I frowned at Florence and Evanna's confused expressions to show that I had no idea why Hermione was being coy either and then followed Hermione over to the armchairs by the fireplace. Ron was fidgeting in one of them but Harry was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's Harry?" I asked, gingerly perching in the armchair.

"Harry's with Professor Dumbledore," said Hermione, gripping a balled up sock in her hands. With a sinking feeling I recognized the old sock that Felix Felicis was hidden in. Did they know some was gone? Did they know it was me?

"What for?" I asked.

"That's what we have to talk to you about," said Ron, his voice hushed.

"Then tell me what's going on," I pressed.

"Harry's been watching Draco Malfoy for a little while," said Hermione, hurrying into an explanation. "At first we just thought it was because Harry has a grudge against Malfoy but then we started to believe him as he followed Malfoy more and overheard some things."

"And?" I asked. My emotions were a mess at this knowledge but I refused to look too closely into them at the moment. I had to know what Ron and Hermione knew.

"Harry thinks Malfoy is up to something and we agree with him," said Ron. "Harry and Dumbledore left the castle tonight so since Dumbledore it gone, Harry thinks that whatever Malfoy is planning will happen tonight."

I knew Draco had been planning something potentially evil with the Vanishing Cabinet but I had refused to know what it was. With a dizzy feeling that swooped through my stomach, I knew that if something happened tonight, I had enabled it to happen. If people were hurt…

"What does Harry think will happen tonight?"

Hermione unravelled the sock after glancing around and showed me the little bottle of Felix Felicis. The bottle was only half full which meant that Harry had used some and not realized that someone else had already took some of it.

"Harry doesn't know which is why he asked us three to take this potion and patrol the corridors with his Marauders Map," said Hermione.

"He wants us three to watch the corridors?" I questioned. "Does Harry realize how many corridors are in this castle?"

"He also wants us to send out a message to all the D.A members with our enchanted coins," said Ron, holding up his Galleon sized coin. "Plus, it's not really all the corridors. Just the Room of Requirement corridor and the corridors around the Slytherin common room."

"C'mon, said Hermione, standing up and gesturing to Ron and I to follow her. "Let's take this lucky potion in the privacy of the boy's dormitory and then we'll sneak out with the Marauders Map."

An idea occurred to me to go and tell Draco that people knew he was planning something but I stopped myself. If this plan of Draco's was going to happen, then no doubt people were going to get hurt. After all, the Vanishing Cabinet mission came from Voldemort and he threatened to kill Draco if he didn't succeed so it must be part of a bigger plan. If something indeed happened tonight, I had let it happen by helping Draco even though I had been stuck between what was right and helping a friend. By helping Hermione and Ron with Harry's plan, I was hoping to counteract whatever I might have helped happen.

The boy's dormitory was thankfully empty so we were able to finish off the potion free of prying eyes. For the second time in my life, I was filled with the euphoric feelings of Felix Felicis.

"Okay," said Hermione, smiling despite herself as she pulled out the Marauders Map. "Let's get to business."

"I used the coin to contact the D.A," said Ron, a dreamy expression on his face. I was sure I looked just as crazy as the other two. "I said to meet us in the Entrance Hall."

"I wonder who'll come," I said. "I mean, we haven't had a D.A meeting for a year so who would still check their coins?"

"Let's hope someone will," said Hermione, pulling out her wand. She pressed her wand tip to the parchment. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

Ink seemed to spill from the tip of Hermione's wand and spread over the parchment. Lines and dots became inked on the parchment and as I studied it, I recognized the floors and corridors of Hogwarts. I had never actually seen the Marauders Map but I had often heard stories of it from Fred and George and from the trio when they talked about their numerous escapades.

"Excellent," said Ron. He walked over to the door and held it open for us to leave. "Let's go stop Malfoy from doing whatever it is that he's doing."

I stood up and squared my shoulders. It was time to right my wrong.

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