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Ginny Weasley walked red faced back to her compartment where Luna was having a heated discussion with Neville about the existence of rumple horned snork-backs. As Ginny sat down Neville looked at her and said "Woah! Ginny you're as red as well….your hair! What's up?"
There was no way Ginny was going to tell them that she accidentally walked in on Blaise Zabini changing, and his shirt was off, and that he had some nice looking abs and- "Oh you know, those pesky nargles were following me about."
Luna nodded her head in understanding and Neville just raised an eyebrow and said "So who are the other Quidditch captains?"
"That pig head Zacharias Smith for Hufflepuff, Grant Page for Ravenclaw, and….Blaise Zabini for Slytherin." Ginny said. No matter how hard she tried not to, she blushed slightly at the last name thinking back to a couple of minutes ago. Neville noticed this and had an amused expression on his face. When it looked like he was about to say something, Ginny gave him a glare that would make the bravest of Gryffindor cower in their seat.
Ginny started telling her two friends about tactics she planned to use this year as captain. She was glad they weren't talking about Harry, Ron, and Hermione, she wasn't ready for those kind of conversations yet.
As Luna was suggesting some ridiculous idea for winning the game involving an invisible creature called an atylicogong, there was a knock on the compartment door. Standing outside the door was a timid looked Grant Page.
"Do you mind if I sit in your compartment, the others are too crowded for my liking." Ginny and Neville nodded, while Luna just looked dreamily out the window. Grant took the empty seat next to Ginny and awkwardly looked out the window.
Ginny didn't want to continue talking about Quidditch strategies with the Ravenclaw captain in here, so for a couple of minutes everyone sat in an uncomfortable silence. Eventually Luna turned back around and said "So Grant, I heard you went to Siberia this Summer, did you happen to find a purple flower that when you give it a secret password it tells you the answer to one mystery of the world?"
Grant turned towards her, with a confused expression on his face. Ginny assumed his confusion was due to the weird question he had just been asked, when instead the boy said "You mean yotinad tulips?"
Luna's eyes widened a bit and she smiled dreamily "Finally, someone knows what I'm talking about." And then they got into a conversation that Ginny and Neville had absolutely no hope of understanding. An hour and 10 chocolate frogs later, Ginny realized they were almost at the school. She got into her dress robes and got her stuff together to begin her new school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
After Ginny Weasley left Blaise Zabini's compartment, he got dressed the rest of the way and went to the compartment where his Slytherin 'friends' were located. He entered it to find Pansy Parkinson laughing obnoxiously with her two friend's. Crabbe and Goyle sat across from the girls, and they looked so…alone, without Draco Malfoy leading them.
Blaise swore under his breath when he heard Pansy shriek and squeal "Blaisykins!" Fighting the urge to tell her to 'back off', which only got intensified as Blaise heard Crabbe and Goyle's snickers. Instead of following his urge, he pulled Pansy into a kiss that would make any girl's legs turn to jello.
As much as Pansy repulsed him, he had a reputation to uphold. He was the Slytherin pimp. The boy who went through girls faster than the Weasley girl went through hexes. If Blaise was seen with Pansy, the girl Draco Malfoy had previously claimed, it would only bump up his popularity with the girls.
Having the thought of Ginny throwing hexes at boy's, brought him back to a few minutes prior when Ginny walked in on him getting into his robes. Thinking of Ginny while he was kissing another girl gave him a wild fantasy.
Blaise suddenly pictured himself kissing Ginny Weasley. This amazing fantasy didn't last very long because Goyle yelled "Oi! Get a room."
Pansy was gasping for air as she walked back to her cow friends. They all huddled their heads together and began whispering excitedly. Blaise smirked and walked over to Crabbe and Goyle.
"Hey Blaisykins!" Crabbe and Goyle said through their snickers. Blaise sometimes truly believes that those two dunces share a brain. Blaise kicked them both in the shins and said "You are just jealous of the fact that I can just walk into a room and make out with a girl, whilst you two haven't ever had girlfriends."
That put scowls on their faces for the rest of the train ride.
Ginny Weasley was struggling carrying her two suitcases, and a fluttering owl, pig, through the corridors of the train. When she heard someone yell "OW!" she turned around and had to hold back her laughter. Blaise stood behind her clutching his foot.
Ginny laughed and said "Woops, my bad." Before continuing down the corridor.
"wait!" Blaise yelled.
Ginny scowled and waited for him to start talking again. "Do you need help carrying anything?"
"Where is your stuff, did you pay Crabbe to bring it to the school?" Ginny asked mockingly.
Blaise stepped forward and put his arm on her shoulder and said "Of course I did ginger."
Ginny smirked and stomped on his already limping foot and walked off the train to go find her friends. She realized her little interaction with Zabini caused her to miss the majority of the carriages. She swore and quickly got in the first carriage she saw.
As she was sitting in the empty carriage she noticed the thestrals sitting in front of her. It still amazed her that she could see them, and that fact saddened her too because the reason she could see them was because of Sirius.
Ginny didn't realize that someone opened the carriage door and came in until she felt the now familiar arm wrap around her shoulder. "Zabini…" she growled.
"Nice to see you too, Ginger." Blaise smirked. "What were you looking at?"
Ginny pushed his arm off of her and said "The thestrals."
Blaise recognized the term, but he couldn't quite remember exactly what they were so he raised an eyebrow at Ginny.
She looked away and said "They are the invisible creatures that pull the carriages, that is, they're invisible until you witness death yourself." She continued to purposely not stare into his eyes so that he wouldn't see the pain residing in hers.
"Who did you see die?" Blaise asked in a pitying voice.
"Sirius Black." Ginny said simply.
"You were there when that murderer died?!" he shouted.
Ginny whipped her wand out faster that you can say 'hex'. "Sirius Black was not a murderer! He was one of the bravest men I ever knew!" Blaise put his hands into the air in surrender as the carriage door opened once again.
"There you are Ginny, we've been lookin- Ginny? What are you doing?" Neville Longbottom asked as he took in his surroundings. Ginny was pointing her wand at Blaise's throat and Blaise actually looked scared of the red head.
Ginny put her wand away and scooted as far away from Blaise that was physically possible. Neville still looking hesitantly at the two stepped into the carriage followed by a still talking Luna and Grant.
Besides Grant and Luna's crazy talk, the carriage was silent. Ginny really felt the urge to punch something, or more preferably someone such as Blaise Zabini. Sirius had been proven innocent! Why would he call him a murderer. Still fuming she tried her hardest to resist reaching across the seat and squeezing Zabini's throat.
On the other side of seat Zabini realized the stupidity of what he said. He forgot she was a blood traitor family. They were a part of the order of the phoenix and Blaise had forgotten that Sirius had been proven non guilty- not that it mattered because he was well….dead. Blaise could feel the anger coming off on waves on Ginny. He could tell that if he were to try and communicate with her he would most likely be a dead man.
Neville Longbottom could feel the tension between the Gryffindor and the Slytherin sitting in front of him. Blaise Zabini was obviously smarter then he looked because he was not trying to talk to Ginny at all. Neville decided to try and break the suffocating silence around them and said "So are guys excited for the New Year?"
Ginny whipped her head around and said "Oh yeah, I'm so flipping excited for this year! I mean I have no idea where my best friend, brother, and ex-boyfriend-that-i-still-love are, and the greasy potions master who killed Dumbledore is now our headmaster! Not to mention every day I worry I will never see a member of my family again. So yes, I think this year is going to be fan-fricken-tastic!"
Everyone was stunned into silence at the feisty girl's outburst. Blaise couldn't help but think of the whole ex-boyfriend-that-she-was-still-in-love-with. Blaise looked at the girl with the rough exterior and could see a fragile girl inside wanting to break down at any minute.
So being the genius that Blaise Zabini is he stupidly asked "wait, Snape killed Dumbledore?"
Neville cringed back into his seat preparing himself for the next outburst by Ginny. But it looked as if Ginny didn't have enough in her to scream and shout anymore so she brokenly said "Of course he did. Why else did he disappear when it happened? Harry wouldn't have lied about seeing Snape kill him. So now our headmaster is a murderer. And what do you now, he's a Slytherin just like you." She turned to Zabini with a sad cold glare, and then she said "Thank God, were here."
And so they were. They had finally reached the castle and Ginny got out of the carriage before anyone else could even move. Luna and Neville hurriedly followed after Ginny, with Grant tagging along behind them.
Blaise, however, walked alone to the castle thinking of the mystery that was Ginny Weasley.