In case anyone was confused, Ron and Hermione are not only angry with Dumbledore for not telling them where the real Harry Potter is going to train, they are upset because they believe Draco really killed his parents. Dumbledore does not believe that Draco killed his parents but we will have to see if anyone else believes him….
Chapter 5: Did he really kill his parents?
The news about Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley dating had spread faster than Ginny imagined and by the time she had woken up on the train until she finally arrived in the Great Hall for the opening ceremony, it seemed like everyone had heard. Curious eyes followed her and Draco as they took their seats across from each other at the Gryffindor table. Heated stares were also thrown their way by the many of the Slytherins and those stares and disgusted looks were only rivaled by the ones they were receiving from Hermione and Ron, who Ginny just noticed had already arrived and were sitting at the end of the table. Ron and Hermione were whispering fiercely with each other but every now and then they would glance up at Ginny and Draco, glare at them, and then return to whispering and distancing themselves from almost everyone.
Ginny hadn't even noticed Dumbledore's welcoming speech since she was so distracted by everyone. She could not even imagine how Draco was feeling. While the Ministry did believe that Voldemort was back, the Ministry was still minimizing Harry and reporting the most ridiculous things about his character and the night they had all been in the Ministry of Magic. Who knows what their fellow classmates believed of Harry, but Ginny could tell that many of Gryffindors were still a little hesitant to approach "Harry" when Ginny and Draco had sat down. They only received mild greetings and an increased amount of just curious stares and hushed whispers.
As the Welcoming Feast began and the food arrived, Ginny tried to ignore everyone and had just taken a sip of her pumpkin juice when she heard someone mention the Malfoys. Looking to her left, she noticed Seamus Finnegan and Dean Thomas in a lively debate about how Draco Malfoy had killed his parents.
"I heard they were found by a house elf and that Draco had been missing for days before it happened," Dean insisted. "There is a chance that he was not their murderer. Granted his whole family is evil, but why would he kill his own family? "
"Maybe You-Know-Who just decided to get rid of the Malfoys and Draco was the first to go and that's why no one knows where he is now" piped in Lavender Brown, who had been listening to this conversation.
"I don't know. Maybe after so many generations of inbreeding to make sure their bloodlines stayed pure, maybe Draco just went insane and killed them", someone else stated.
At this statement, Ginny chanced to look at Draco and noticed that he had gotten paler and all of a sudden he eyes were fixated on his fork that was suspended mid- air. He looked like he was barely breathing and just remained completely still, looking at his fork as if willing himself to only focus on his food and to move it into his mouth instead of remembering his parents and listening to this conversation.
"I am sure it was Malfoy. Only someone who was ignorant and trusting enough would be fooled into believing that someone that evil could be capable of good" .
Ron, who had been conversing quietly with Hermione this whole time, decided to join the conversation. Knowing it would incense her, he had also taken a direct stab at Ginny, who had once been so trusting of Tom Riddle and who had been one of the only people to believe that Draco did not kill his parents when Dumbledore had first brought him to the Burrow over the summer. Ginny saw that Draco was now visibly shaking and she worried that he might blow his cover. No longer able to hide her anger from Ron, she did the first thing she could think of to piss off Ron and also to distract Draco from saying or doing something that might reveal he was not Harry Potter. She stood up so suddenly that it startled Draco out his reverie and before he or she could even process what she was about to do, Ginny reached over the table, pulled up the startled "Harry" look-a -like by his tie and planted her lips on his.