Chapter Three:

Hogsmede

I walked in the middle of Draco and Blaise, my two best friends, as we trudged through the snow to the Three Broomsticks.

"What do you want to drink, Gin?" he asked me. "Butterbeer, water, that weird Muggle Coke thing?"

"I'll go for the butterbeer please," I said, rubbing my hands together.

"And I'll have the same, thanks for asking," said Blaise from my side and I laughed.

"Coming up," said Draco, rolling his eyes. "Go and get a good table by the window."

Blaise and I began to walk towards the empty table by the window as Draco cued up for the drinks. We arrived at the table to be hit in the face with Harry's invisibility cloak.

"Oh look if it isn't little Ginny with her snake of a friend Zambini," snarled Harry.

"Zabini," said Blaise through gritted teeth as Hermione and Ron appeared across the table.

"Hey sister from Slytherin," said Ron. "Hey Bambino."

"Its Zabini," repeated Blaise through his teeth again.

"If I cared I'd be crying," snapped Ron.

"Oh hi Ginny, its so nice to see you TRAITOR," said Hermione loudly.

The trio had been like this since I'd made friends with Draco and Blaise, they were always on at me about how they're not my proper friends, but sometimes they were just plain nasty. The worst part was Ron. Before, Ron had been over-protective and if anyone said anything nasty to me, they'd get a black eye. Now, Ron was one of the people being nasty. He also let other Gryffindor's take the piss out of me and was nasty to Draco AND Blaise because they were Slytherin.

"Not really," taunted Ron, "we hate seeing you! Because you try to be just as important as we are."

"You know Ron?" I said. "Maybe one day you'll find a doctor that can shrink your ego."

"Yeah and Granger," said Blaise, "maybe one day you'll actually use that brain of yours for something other than being nasty. Potter, at least your friends have big things, like brains and egos, oh wait you do to, you have that cousin of yours that's the size of a killer whale, and you have his clothes don't you? They must be bigger than Weasel's self-importance and Granger's brain."

They all looked very taken aback.

"Come on Gin, we'll find somewhere else to sit."

We walked off to the other side of the room and took a seat in one of the booths. We sat down just as Draco walked past the trio's table to find us. Hermione being Hermione, threw a book at his legs and he almost fell over, but regained balance and walked over to us.

"God, they're such bitches, even Weasley and Potter," he said, rolling his eyes and sharing out the drinks and straws. I took a sip of butterbeer.

"I agree," said Blaise, "what's the point, really?"

"Anyway," said Draco, "Gin, do you wanna rob Honeydukes tonight?"

"Yeah, sure."

Before you ask, we do it all the time. Draco isn't as well off since his father got the Dementor's Kiss, because there was nothing in his will for his mother, and Blaise is an orphan so he's broke too. That's why they turned nice. Haha, just kidding. So at night, we sometimes fly into Hogsmede and rob the shops to give to people as presents for Christmas, and for the midnight feast's in Draco's room that we have nearly every week. Sometimes we nick stuff from Zonko's and the Three Broomsticks as well, but Honeydukes is our mostly targeted shop. It isn't very secure, so its easy to get into, and it's the tallest shop in Hogsmede. The shop that customers visit to purchase sweets and fizzy wizard drinks is tiny, but the stockroom is huge. Because as small as the shop is, the rest of the building is stock rooms. There are SIX floors of sweets and chocolate and two more full of the aforementioned fizzy drinks. Its heaven. As you probably already know, Draco and Blaise are on the Quidditch team so they both have Nimbus 2001's, and because Draco filled in as captain for a few weeks, one of their beaters quit, so they took away his uniform and broomstick, and I now possess his old broom. So when we steal things from this place, we always fly. There are no fingerprints to be found thanks to a spell we found in the Criminal and Illegal Getaway Spells in the Restricted Section of the library. There are loads more. I would go into detail, but I can't list them all. Maybe I'll do that for you another day.