enjoy guy! p.s. sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes but to make up for it i wrote a really long chapter! sorry xx (when i proof read my mind goes blank and blurry so i never really spot the mistakes)
Finally the holidays came around. When Ron heard that I was coming to the burrow for Christmas, he didn't seem happy about it. But he was even more annoyed when he heard I was bringing Draco along too. On the other hand all the other Weasleys were over the moon that he was coming especially Mrs. Weasley. It seems forgiveness comes quick to most Weasley's. Over the first term all my friends become friends with Draco. Harry and Draco grew closer on their ambition to be aurors, Ginny and Draco for their love for quidditch and even George became friends with Draco as they combined their prank ideas together whenever a Hogsmeade trip was made. Luna explained what nargles were and Draco had the patients to listen so Luna came to like Draco. Also he grew surprisingly close to Neville too, after Neville discovered Draco's amazingly good knowledge on plants. In fact it turns out that Draco is really clever, clever enough for the sorting hat to nearly put him in Ravenclaw. But the hat knew that he had to be in Slytherin to please his dad.
I look around at all of my friends as we all choose a carriage to invade for the train ride back. They all were laughing, joking and smiling; exactly what I love about them. Unfortunately the laughter trailed off when we discovered the only carriage available contained Ron and Lavender. Not because they didn't like them but because they knew the tension that was always there between me and Draco, and them. Ron seemed fine with it until he saw me and Draco at the end. While Lavender didn't seem fazed, Ron was shooting us both glares. I still don't understand what he's got against me or Draco.
"Ron don't you dare start a hissy fit again. They're sitting in this carriage whether you like it or not," Harry ushers us in and closes the door. I feel sorry for Harry; he constantly has to choose between me and Ron. And he tries to choose me more because he knows that Ron is wrong but he can't help it, Ron is Ron. The person he has spent most of his life with and has always been his best friend. I'm not sure whether this was on purpose or not, but everyone arranged themselves so that me and Draco had to sit furthest away from Ron.
At first the conversation was pretty much dead as the tension in the room was nearly tangible. But after about 15 minutes everyone started to loosen up a bit. The conversations started to flow and tensionless apart from the couple of times that Ron caught Draco's eye or the other way round. I ended up having a nice conversation with Ginny and Lavender which made me think that maybe Lavender didn't hate me. She was only trying to stick up for Ron, but she liked me.
Any remaining tension was thrown out the window when the woman selling the sweets and chocolates came. We pretty much bought half the trolley. We sat down with all our treats but chucked them around when we wanted something someone else had. All the treats reminded us of our childhood and our parents so we all start telling stories. Then it came to my go; everyone was looking at me waiting for a story. My childhood stories contained two characters that I didn't want to talk about. I don't know how Harry got through it all, but I guess he never knew his parents as well as I did then they died.
"Um I don't want to talk about... you know...them."
I could feel the tears threatening to fall so I run out the carriage. It was nearly time for my patrol duty anyway. I start walking up the corridor when I feel an arm wrap around my waist. He lowers his head to whisper into my ear.
"You okay?" I nod but don't say anything. Lying is my weakness; I'm just not that good at it.
"Sometimes it's okay, not to be okay." I nod again. Words weren't needed; he knew I didn't want to discuss this subject. He ran his hand through his blonde hair and nodded. We walk up and down the train in near complete silence. A couple of times we bumped into other students but we weren't in the mood to cause trouble so we just said hi and walked passed. We stop outside the prefect's carriage to see only the 5th year prefects in. I guess they still find being a prefect cool; while the rest of us got bored. It's not that I don't feel honoured to be head girl, but now it doesn't seem as fun as it did in the beginning. I was pulled out of my thoughts when I got asked a very good question.
"Why did McGonagall even pick me as head boy? I mean everyone expected it to be Harry; he did save the world." I turn around to face my very good looking boyfriend.
"Exactly everyone expected it to be Harry, so she did the unexpected. Plus look at everyone; there's so much more house unity than ever before. It's exactly what McGonagall wanted and she knew the best way was to make a Gryffindor and a Slytherin head boy and girl." He nodded at my suggestion and continued to walk.
"Well I think our duties are over, want to head back to the others?" I think about it and nod. It's the closest Ron has been to 'friendly' in ages; I don't want to lose it again. We enter the carriage at the same time as Ginny decides to spring forward at Ron. Luckily Harry was quicker and grabbed her from around the waist. At this point Ginny was shouting at the top of her voice.
"Where is it!? You told me that I must have lost it, not that you stole it." Me and Harry manage to pull her down and we squish her between us so she can't get back up again.
"What happened?" I look up at Ginny and then at Ron who was giving me the death look. I guess he did something really bad.
"Ron here decided to steal my Holyhead Harpies Glynnis Griffiths signed poster," uh oh, no one messed with Ginny when it came to the Holyhead harpies.
"Ron why don't you just give it back." I thought my suggestion was a good one but according to Ron's death look times two, it wasn't.
"Exactly, just give it back and no one gets hurts." Draco, who was sitting on the other side of me, starts to chuckle at Ginny's comment. I guess he's never seen Ginny at those rare moments where she's really angry.
"Yeah, about that umm...-" I look at Ron. Oh gosh please don't say "...- I sold it." I look at Ginny is now fuming. She looks like if she's debating on trying to attack Ron or not. But me and Harry would be hard to beat. She takes a deep breath and composes herself.
"Watch out, I've got the whole holidays to come up with something." I could see genuine fear in Ron's eyes and so does everyone else as we all burst out laughing.
The rest of the trip went without much happening. When we arrived at King's cross everyone said bye and separated, well Neville, Luna did, the rest of us were going to the burrow. We find Mr and Mrs Weasley after about 15 minutes of looking for them. When we did find them a question came to my mind but Harry got there first.
"How are we getting to the burrow?"
"Harry dear we're going to 'the' house and then floo powder to the burrow."
"What and where is this house?" We all look at Draco who looked confused.
"You'll see," I wink and walk over and link arms with Ginny. We all start walking to the house that Harry technically owned, dragging along our trunks and pets. At least we all were wearing muggle clothes otherwise we would look quite funny.
After Sirius died, his will got put in place, and 12 Grimmauld place was officially Harry's. But because he was never there, he hired a house elf, called Bizzy to visit once a month and tidy up. Obviously I made him pay her, but apparently he was going to do that anyway.
It's also the house where the order used to meet. Not anymore of course apart from the occasional gatherings for fun. When we arrive everyone stays back while Harry goes to open the door.
"Why is everyone standing here, can't we go forward?"
"No Draco, only Harry can get through the wards unless the door is unlocked."
"Oh right." He nervously chuckled as if it was obvious and that he should have known. It's cute when he quietly laughs because he's nervous. The house looked exactly the same as before but this time we weren't greeted by a screaming portrait of Walburga Black. In fact all the portraits had been taken down. They had been replaced with ones of James, Lily, Sirius and some other people too.
Using floo powder we all, one by one, arrive at the burrow. It had its familiar warmth and cosiness. I could smell the food being cooked in the kitchen and feel the heat escaping from the fire. Once everyone was here, we all sorted out rooms and went to unpack. I was, as usual, sharing rooms with Ginny. Ron was sharing with Harry and George offered to share with Draco.
After everything we all sat down for dinner. At first Draco seemed all tense and nervous but after a while he seemed okay. I guess you would be nervous if you were in a room of people you didn't get along with over a year ago. As always the food was great and we all ate so much. Afterwards we sat in front of the fire and talked; updating Arthur and Molly on Hogwarts and how things are so far.
The following days were great. We went shopping for presents a couple of times. Everyone else also played a lot of quidditch. I didn't really join in at that part; flying has never really been my strong point. Draco and Ginny made a really good team up against Harry and Ron. George would sometimes ref, or sometimes sit and watch with me, but never play. He still seems so hurt after Fred's death, it's really sad to watch.
However he seemed a little more George like when alongside Ginny he pulled off a prank on Ron.
He walked out his room unaware of this new appearance; his green skin or his Draco-blonde hair. He was also unaware that two of his dearest siblings had charmed his gel and cream to change his appearance. He walked lazily to the bathroom and started to brush his teeth. He heard a little giggle but chose to ignore it. He finished and lifted his head to see his face in the mirror.
"GINNY!" Ginny entered the bathroom trying not to laugh.
"Yes, my dear old brother." She had her most innocent smile on; it was a little too innocent.
"What did you do!"
"Nothing, I just charmed your gel and cream to help improve your looks. I think Lavender would love them." At the game of chase started. Ginny ran down the stairs and in the kitchen, Ron following closely behind. She ran around the table and stood on the opposite side to Ron. Ron calculated his chances of catching Ginny. They are very slim as Ginny was smaller and faster. At that moment George walked in.
"Hey Ronnie, nice look."
"No its not, Ginny here thought it was funny to charm my gel and cream."
"I know; I helped her." Ron turned around to face George and charged at him. George however, like Ginny, was also very fast and maybe even faster than Ron. Ron chased George all around the living room but didn't realise he just ran into a trap; as George tackled him and Ginny quickly sat on him.
"Get off me!"
"No can do Bro." Ron started squirming under Ginny so for extra measure George sat on him too. After a moment Ron stopped struggling. At that moment Draco came into the room. In between laughing he expressed his opinion.
"You suit green a lot, you should have been in Slytherin! But I'm not sure about the hair. It's quite hard to pull it off, I'm just lucky that I can. " Ron went bright red.
"Never would I be a filthy Slytherin!"
"We're not that dirty, most of us have at least two showers a day." Draco gave Ron a cheeky smile and walked out the room.
"You guys did this on purpose!"
"Yup, and we won't let you go until you promise to buy me a new poster."
"Fine." Ginny and George got up.
"Thanks." Ginny hugged Ron and left the room.
"George how do I get it off?"
"I don't know," and with that he walked out the room too.
After Ron worked out how to get rid of his new look we decided to put up decorations. Me and Ginny were in charge of the tree while the boys did the rest. Ginny got a little too excited and put stuff on all over the tree while I went over it again and put it in order. At the end of it all the burrow looked like a grotto.
On Christmas eve Bill, Fluer ,baby Victoire, Charlie, Percy and his fiancé Audrey came. After about an hour of everyone cooing over Victoire, everyone sat down and talked till it was early morning on Christmas. We decided we should get some sleep and then open the presents and eat Christmas dinner.
After getting ready we all sat by the tree and sorted out which present was whose. I had five parcels sitting in my pile. I opened the biggest one first. It was a Weasley jumper from Molly. This year mine was blue. To Draco's surprise he received one too, a purple one. When he said thank you, molly pulled him in for a big hug that made Draco go red. The next biggest one was a scarf and hat from Ginny. It was really warm and woolly and the colour of emeralds.
The next one I opened was a book from Harry, an old muggle book called The hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. From Luna I got a blue bracelet that had little sliver pixies hanging of it. And the smallest was left was very small. I opened it to reveal a red velvet box and inside was a silver heart necklace with an ongoing swirl in it. And right in the middle was a small turquoise gem.
"Want me to help you put it on?" I turn to be a smiling Draco. I nod and he carefully takes the necklace and fastens it around my neck.
"It's beautiful Draco, thank you. Do you like your present?" he lifts his hand to show me that he was wearing it. It was a ring shaped like a dragon. And it fit him perfectly, I was getting worked up in the shop on whether it would fit or not.
"I love it." He smiled and kissed me on the cheek, and it was my turn to go red. He softly chuckled at my reaction and turned around to talk to Harry.
The feast was amazing. Once again Molly made awesome food, and she made my favourite pies. It was amazing. Half way through Victoire started crying so Fluer had to leave the table. And so a break on the food was commenced. We all went back into the living room. Draco started talking to Bill so I decided to talk to Ginny, George and Ron.
"Get over it Ron, it was only a joke." Ginny seemed annoyed.
"What's up guys?" they all look at me and George huffs a little.
"Ronnie here is still going on about the prank."
"Leave it Ron, it was only a joke." I smile, but I receive glares.
"You stay out of this."
"Ron forget it, it was only a bit of fun."
"I said stay up of it."
"Ron your being silly, I-"
"Shut up, you slimy mudblood!" the whole room went silent. His words felt like a slap across my face. Mudblood wasn't a word that Weasley's used, even though they are pureblooded. Ron turned the brightest shade of red he has ever turned. He looked guilty but didn't say sorry.
From across the room Draco comes over and stands next to me.
"What did you say to her?" He was shaking with anger. I remember a time when he called me a mudblood and Ron was standing up for me. Things really have changed.
"You heard what I said." From across the room I could hear Molly saying 'Ronald Weasley'. But before anyone else could do anything Draco lunged forward and made a swing for Ron, which he dodged. Draco then slammed him against the wall and punched his stomach. Ron tackled him down to the floor and went to punch his face. Draco however grabbed his hands and rolled sideways so he was on top. By this time Harry and George managed to grab Draco by the arms and pull him away. I run over and stood between them two. Draco shook away from Harry and George's grip and held onto my wrist. He pulled me out of the room and up the stairs.
"Go pack all your stuff." I nod and start to do as I was told. There was no arguing with Draco at this point. I chucked all my stuff into my trunk, which felt weird because I would usually organise it all neatly. Once I was done I went out the room and waited by the staircase for Draco. When he arrived he grabbed hold of my trunk and, what seemed effortlessly, carried them both down the stairs. I followed him all the way out of the burrow.
"Draco where are we going?"
"Just hold on." I wrap my arms around his arm. And after about 10 seconds I felt like someone was tugging at me from everyone direction. Luckily it wasn't my first time apparating so I was okay. After everything stopped and I felt steady I opened my eyes and in front of me was the Malfoy manor.
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