Chapter Two:
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It was the bright sun shining in from the window that made Ginny wake up from her pleasant dreams. She moaned, sat up, and pushed her hair from her face. She glanced at the clock and cursed loudly, she was extremely late. She leapt off her bed, pulled off her pajamas and threw on some clothes. She emerged from her dormitory looking rumpled and exhausted. Her hair a mess and creases on her face from her pillow. She raced to the Great Hall hoping to get some breakfast. She reflected on the night before as she ran. She had come back to the common room after Malfoy had thrown her out and had waited until Seamus came down the stairs near midnight to walk up to her bed and go to sleep. She finally reached the Great Hall and groaned. Everyone was already gone. Ginny pulled out her schedule and her hands clenched around the paper. She had Potions first. She raced down the stairs and went crashing into someone. She closed her eyes, expecting the hard impact but instead she fell onto something soft and cushioned. She slowly opened her eyes. She had landed on Draco Malfoy. He was scowling at her.
"Oh, come on, Weasley. Get off of me." He snarled. Ginny scrambled to get up and watched as Draco stood effortlessly. She stared up at him her eyes opened wide.
"Uh…Thank you for…"
"Breaking your fall?" Draco snarled angrily. Ginny nodded dumbly. Draco smirked and crossed his arms. "That's not enough."
"Huh?"
"Don't be daft. I said that's not enough." He growled. She stared at him confusion clear on her face. He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Forget it, Weasley, you're as thick as your brother." He sneered and stormed away. Ginny's lip trembled and she bit it. She looked down at her watch and jumped. She was late!
Draco stalked up the stairs and to Professor Flitwick's class. He knew she wouldn't reprimand his tardiness but he cursed the Weasley girl anyway. She and her blasted brothers were always getting on his nerves. Most especially the girl. She was the meek little creature that let anyone step on her. He hated that. He frowned wondering at his strange thoughts. What did he care that the Weasley girl was a pushover mouse? He shrugged his right shoulder, pushing his bag up as he crossed the grounds. He must have over slept and that was why he was having these strange thoughts about a certain red-headed girl. For no one else had held his attention for more than a minute.
At lunch, Ginny rested her head on her arms. She had indeed arrived late to Snape's class and he had taken off twenty points and had given her a detention. In herbology, Ginny had managed to spill bright blue nectar from some plant onto her favourite shirt and poison the plant she was growing thus earning herself another detention. Just before lunch, Ginny had taken her Transfigurations test and failed horribly, she had forgotten to study after leaving the library. She was having a bad day, that being an understatement of a lifetime. She stood up slowly, Hagrid had asked her to make use of her free period and come help out for the class he had with the sixth years next. Walking across the Great Hall wrapped in her thoughts, she didn't hear Colin's warning shout. That's why she slipped on a goblet of spilt juice and landed flat on her rear. Ginny looked at her orange tinted hands and could have screamed. She stood up and rushed to her bedroom to change.
She sprinted across the grounds. Her little slip had cost her a whole fifteen minutes and now she was late for the sixth year Care of Magical Creatures class. She reached Hagrid's cabin and slowed, wheezing loudly. She spotted Colin and Melissa a ways off. They would help too because they needed the credits. Ginny saw Harry and walked up to him.
"Hiya, Harry." She smiled. He looked down at her and sighed, looking away uncomfortably.
"Hello Ginny." He said flatly. Her smile wavered but then she caught sight of Hagrid's giant form coming up from his cabin. He smiled at her warmly.
"Did ya bring tha notes I asked ya to?" Hagrid asked. Ginny nodded and pulled out the papers from her bag. Hermione nodded approvingly and Ron grinned.
"See what did I tell you? Old reliable." Hermione said with a contented grin. Ron smiled at her.
"Yeah, Genie's great." Melissa agreed a vacant smile on her beautiful face. Ginny felt her anger boiling up. Anger that had been growing with her increasingly awful day.
"Oh, what a sight. My favourite Gryffindors all in a line." Draco's taunting voice came. He sauntered up to them. "And the Weaslette too? What? Did you think that if you did this enough they'd pay you? You bloody well need it." This was too much for Ginny. She felt her hefty amount of patience and tolerance stretch…and snap.
"That's it!" She screamed startling everyone. "Maybe I don't want to be reliable all the time! Did anyone think of that? I'm not some doormat everyone can stomp on! Blimey, Hermione I'd think you would know not to take people for granted." She said glaring at the bushy haired girl. Then she turned to Harry who was staring at her wide-eyed. "And you Harry, I've fancied you for the past five years and don't you dare act like you haven't noticed. Or is it really such an inconvenience? You know what? I'm tired of you and your stale remarks! Obviously your heroism is just too good enough for feeble little me! Oh, and Malfoy, we are most definitely not some vermin you can insult whenever you feel the need to. Why don't you go back to your faithful groupies and bask in their sick devotion to you." Ginny snapped and started to turn away then she stopped. "Oh and Melissa? For the last time my name is GINNY!" She shouted and the stormed away.
Next to Hagrid's cabin, everyone wore shocked expressions. Even the Slytherins. Draco suddenly started to snicker, making everyone turn to look at him. Never in any of their lives had they heard Draco Malfoy laugh and this was the closest they would come to hearing it. He continued to snigger despite the shock and incomprehension on everyone's faces. He finally was able to stop his sly laughter and smirked at them all.
"Man, I never knew she had it in her." He said with satisfaction in his voice. He grinned at the golden trio. "Looks like your little mouse just opened her mouth and roared." He said, then turned and sauntered away, feeling more than content with himself. He couldn't believe he had played a part in making Ginny Weasley snap. She had startled even him, and it was a strange thing when someone managed to startle him. He would enjoy getting to know the young Gryffindor better. Maybe he would find something he didn't expect and he would so love that. He grinned and strutted into the castle. Maybe now she would see that it was better to be the dominating cat than the cowering mouse.