Hi again!
I guess this is a little late, but I recently got engrossed into the works of The Mediator By Meg Cabot. Translation: I was too busy reading The Mediator fics to care about this poor little Fanfic.
Seriana14: Yeah, that would have been funny. *sigh* What a missed opportunity ;). And, I hate it when they do that too, even if it means less romance. I'll put it in the humour section when I post this chap, I didn't know when I started it that I would do this stuff, but I read The Mudblood Exchange and I just had to do some embarrassing for Draco. Don't worry, everyone will get their turn *cackles and rubs hands evilly* especially Sirius.
And thanks to everyone for reviewing!
Well, on to the story!
"GINNY!!! WAKE UP!!!"
Ginny woke up indeed, woke up attempting to punch whoever woke her up. Her brothers had long ago taken the precaution to have a shield of some sort ready when they woke her up, so whoever woke her up was in for a surprise. She felt her fist collide with flesh, and she sat up and opened her eyes.
Hermione was clutching her arm, her eyes watering "What the hell, Ginny?!". The red head smiled sheepishly and said "Instinct.".
Hermione glared at her "People must be afraid of waking you up" She said. Ginny ignored this and remembered that Hermione had a reason for waking her up. "So, a reason why you woke me up?"
The brunette forgot her pain and remembered the problem "Ginny! I can't open the door! Classes start in an hour! Classes!!" Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Let's take a look" She said. She got up and preformed a few spells on the door. None of them worked. Ginny cast the same spell Hermione had used so they would be able to see through the door. There was a note on the other side, with the written side facing the door.
Hello Mudblood & Blood Traitor.
I have closed this door, and the likes of you will not be able to open it until after classes. Yes, Granger, after classes.
Consider this payback for hiding my wand.
By the way, I do not care about your primitive muggle expressions.
Hermione had a breakdown. Or tried to make the wall have one. She tried to take her chair and slam it against the wall, screaming "Draco Malfoy, if you do not want to die by tomorrow, you will let me out!!" She stopped beating the chair against the wall, and started pacing back and forward and firing spells at the door, still screaming. "I have not missed a class since third year and only because of a stupid plan to make a restricted pot—" She stopped in mid-rant.
Harry, Ron and Hermione never told anyone about when they made the Poly-Juice Potion to break into the Slytherin Common Room. Harry and Ron had not wanted it to be known that they had accused a fellow student of attempting to murder people, based on a schoolboy rivalry. Hermione had not wanted it to be known that she would brew an illegal potion because her friends had a hunch. Another added reason was that no third-year would be able to brew a Poly-Juice Potion, and Hermione was already revered for just being friends with the Golden Boy.
Malfoy had apparently been ignoring Hermione's furious screaming up till then, but when he heard the word 'restricted', he made the wall invisible, so that he could see Hermione.
"A restricted potion, Granger?" He asked, intrigued.
"None of you're business, Ferret!" Hermione screeched as she threw herself at the wall, trying to claw through it with her fingernails.
"Well, if you'll tell me, then I'll let you out" Malfoy sneered. Inside, he was quaking. It seemed as if Hermione would be rushing through at any moment to remove his limbs from his body and hang his head on a wall. She was that scary.
Hermione stopped her frantic beating at the wall, and froze. She seemed to be considering the offer, and made up her mind. "Ok, Malfoy. But, I'll tell it to Ginny, you let her out, and she'll tell you"
Ginny widened her eyes, she couldn't believe she would betray her friends like that. She didn't even know what they were talking about, but she knew it would get them in a heap of trouble. Then she remembered when she pretended to give up information to Umbridge, but wasn't really. She decided to play along. "Hermione, No!" She said, tugging on her arm, doing her bit.
"ABF, I need to convince Ginny to go along with this." The brunette said calmly. Malfoy was confused by the nickname, but he nodded and ended the spell nonetheless.
Hermione warded the room so if he cast any listening spells, all he would hear was her convincing Ginny to do what she asked. As soon as she did, "Ok, Hermione, what's the plan?" Ginny asked. Everybody thought that Ginny & Hermione were an unlikely pair of friends, one of them loved fun and cunning, the other loving books and only book smarts. Little did they know, that Hermione was just as cunning as Ginny, and maybe a little more, since she tried to hide it.
"I'm going to tell you the truth, and then Malfoy will let you out. He'll probably make you drink Veritaserum A/N: I know in Canon it's against the rules to use it, but its my story so I get to do what I want, cast a spell so you can't tell anyone I'm in here and leave me here. You tell him what I told you, don't worry, they won't believe him. Then you can put your memories of last night and this morning in a pensive and show it to Harry or Ron. As long as you concentrate on showing the memories because you want them to see the Amazing Bald Ferret, not so they know I'm in here, the spell shouldn't come into effect." Hermione explained quickly. Ginny's eyes widened.
"Jeez, Hermione, breathe! You can talk faster than I can!" The red head said in semi-awe, semi-annoyance.
Hermione smiled sheepishly and explained it again. "We made Draught Of Living Death, to give to Malfoy, but some cat fur got into it and I accidentally drank it. That's why I was in the hospital wing then, I grew fur and got a tail" Hermione said, once she was done explaining.
"Ok, then. Let's set this into action." Ginny said.
Hermione took down the wards and made the wall invisible again. "Ok, Malfoy, Ginny's coming out.". Malfoy nodded and removed the spell on the door to the hallway. Ginny came out, Malfoy ended the invisibly spell and recast the spell on the door. Hermione could now only hope and pray. It crossed her mind that most people wouldn't pray, but Hermione loved to learn.
"Well, Weaselette, drink this Veritaserum and tell me what the bookworm's hiding". Ginny obeyed. Hermione, this better work, if this is poison I'm coming back to haunt you She thought, as she drowned the potion. "Now, what is the restricted potion she's talking about?" Ginny told him. A smile grew on the ABF's face. "You Griffindors really are gullible." He said as he did exactly as Hermione predicted and cast a spell making it impossible to tell anyone that Hermione was in there against her will.
Ginny smiled as well and ran to the Potions teachers quarters. It was closer, and she wanted to get Hermione out as soon as possible. She burst into the room, but unfortunately Sirius there yet. She checked her watch, it wasn't time for classes yet, so he must still be in bed. She rolled her eyes, she had wondered if he would be able to adjust his sleep pattern to wake before midday to teach. She strode to the door marked 'Bedroom', and pushed it open. Too late she remembered that he might sleep in the buff.
Fortunately, he had the covers on, covering up any offending… bits. Ginny considered how to best wake him up without him jumping up, ready to curse any death eaters nearby and therefore exposing his nude state. At least that's what she assumed. She wasn't ready to take any chances, she really did not want to see Sirius Black naked.
She then decided on a course of action. She tightly shut her eyes and covered them with one hand, using the other one to hit him on the arm. He did what she predicted, he jumped up, wand in hand, looking around wildly. Not that Ginny saw this, she still had her eyes shut tightly, now with both hands covering her eyes and facing the wall for good measure.
"Sirius Black, if you're naked, put some god damn clothes on!" She screamed loudly. The entire school would have wondered why Ginny Weasly was screaming at the new Potions Teacher to put some clothes on, if it weren't for the Silencing Charm on his quarters.
Sirius was indeed naked, but wasn't in his usual post sleep groggy state, thanks to Ginny's ear splitting scream. He used his wand to put some random clothes on, then said "Ginny, what the hell!"
She still didn't turn around or uncover her eyes, just said, a bit more calmly now "Sirius, have you put some clothes on?"
"Yes, now why the hell are you here?" He answered, too annoyed to be embarrassed about nearly being seen naked by his Godson's girlfriend.
Ginny finally turned around and uncovered her eyes. She sighed with relief at his fully clothed state and said "Do you have a pensive? I need to show you something", concentrating very hard on showing him The Amazing Bald Ferret. Sirius nodded and accio'ed his pensive. Ginny grabbed his wand and drew her memory from her skull, putting it into the pensive. She grabbed his hand and touched her head to the silvery liquid, transporting her to the world of the pensive and Sirius along with her. They watched her memory silently, except for a torrent of laughs. When the memory ended, "That was funny, but did you have to wake me up, —" Sirius started, before the next memory started, and he fell silent. Once that one had ended, he took Ginny's hand and transported themselves out of the pensive. Ginny quickly put the memories back into her head and turned to Sirius.
He didn't ask any more questions, just strode to the door and up to the Head Dormitory. "How do you know where it is?" Ginny asked him.
"Remus was Head Boy, remember?" He answered, just as they reached the Dormitory. Ginny watched as he talked the portrait of Godric, cast a few spells, muttered a bit to himself. He asked Ginny "What's the password?".
"Malfoy, The Amazing Bouncing Ferret" She said. Sirius smiled to himself, cast one more spell, and then said the password. The portrait clicked open and a brown haired blur hurled herself at Sirius.
"Thank you, Thank you! Thank you Sirius!" Hermione said reverently, hugged him and kissed his cheek. Sirius blushed, and Ginny looked on interestedly, but Hermione paid no heed to Sirius's discomfort.
She detached herself from the ex-Marauder and said to Ginny, rapidly "What I told you was a lie". She barely understood it, but she did. Sirius didn't though, it was too fast.
She thanked Sirius and kissed him on the cheek again before she ran down the hall at the speed of light to get to classes.
Sirius looked at where Hermione had disappeared from, still blushing, and said, bemused "What just happened?"
Ginny smirked and said "That brown blur was Hermione, I think."
"Can you please explain how it is humanly possible to move that fast?"
"Easy. It's classes. If Hermione Granger is in danger of missing a class, impossible doesn't have a meaning."
This reminded Sirius of something "Shit! I have to get to class, as well!". He ran down the same path that Hermione had taken, leaving Ginny alone, just as Snape stalked down the hall, Malfoy at his side.
When they reached her, before either of them could say anything, Ginny said to Malfoy "You gave me Veritaserum about 15 minutes ago, didn't you Malfoy?"
Malfoy nodded with a smirk. "That means that I can't lie, and I'm telling you now that Hermione lied to me about what I told you to get her out of the room that you locked us in, and Professor Black can vouch for me" She said to Snape
She then turned to the ABF "Slytherins are so gullible" she said, imitating his words from earlier. "If you'll excuse me, I need to get to class. Bye!" And walked down the corridor that Hermione and Sirius had exited through.
Snape looked at his pupil and said "Draco, I'm sorry, but I have to give you a detention and take away twenty points for lying to a teacher and keeping a student against her will" regretfully, then going back the way he came. Leaving Draco standing in the corridor, alone.
He stood there for about ten minutes before remembering that he had classes as well.