Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge
Chapter: 1

Draco Malfoy is not the kind of person you want to make mad. He is the best friend anyone could have, he'll stick by you till the end. However, he's the worst enemy you can have. You make a Malfoy mad, and that Malfoy will spend his whole life trying to make yours miserable. That is how Draco was raised. You see, Lucius Malfoy had certain standards that Draco must live up to. One being: NEVER let your enemies get the best of you. Well, that's exactly what Draco did. Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Fred Weasley, and George Weasley were Draco Malfoy's enemies. They had all gotten the best off him. Apparently, if you provoke them enough, they will all shoot hexes at you all at once. Not a good mixture.

" You've picked the losing side, Potter! I warned you! I told you, you ought to choose your company more carefully, remember? When we met on the train, first day at Hogwarts? I told you not to hang around with riffraff like this!" He jerked his head at Ron and Hermione. " Too late now, Potter They'll be the first to go, now the Dark Lord's back! Mudbloods and Muggle-lovers first! Well ---- second ---- Diggory was the f ---" *

Stop! Hold it right there. Yup. Perfect. Let me point out where Draco made his first mistake. Notice how he threatened Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Second mistake, he used the word 'Mudblood'. And his third mistake is....... he insulted Cedric Diggory. Not a good thing to do, considering Harry is not yet over that incident.

After that Draco, Crabbe and Goyle got hit with the hexes. Their fathers were NOT happy with them. Especially Lucius. He was furious. Draco was locked up in his room for the whole summer. The only time he got out was to practice Quidditch. He studied, ate and slept in there. He hardly had any human contact. Well, at least that is what Lucius thought. Draco had some Floo Powder, and every now and then he would visit Diagon Alley. He quickly became a somewhat friend with Tom, the bartender at the Leaky Cauldron. Tom gave Draco an update on what was happening in the Wizarding world.

One day while Draco was eating an ice cream Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor, he saw a flash of red hair.

' Oh god no. I hope its not a Weasley. That is the last person I want to see right now.' A tall red headed girl was walking towards his table. 'Well, this cannot be a Weasley. No Weasley is this pretty.'

"Well, well, well, it is a Weasley after all," said Draco to no one in particular. Apparently, she heard him, because she shot him a glare. Then, she disappeared into a store. Draco continued eating his ice cream thinking nothing of it. After all, she is a Weasley, she didn't intimidate Draco one little bit.

That's how the rest off the rest of the summer went on for Draco. The funny thing is, it was the best summer he ever had. Lucius thought he was punishing Draco by sending him to his room for the whole summer, but really Draco was having a great time.

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Ginny Weasley was having the summer from hell. Her father was busy at work and running errands for Dumbledore. Bill and Charlie were not around, Percy was over obsessing about the Ministry, and Fred and George were working on their joke shop. They had mysteriously come up with 1,000 Galleons. Harry and Hermione came over. Ron was always with them. They were making up 'secret' plans apparently. Her mom cooked, cleaned and disappeared to who knows where every now and then. That left poor, little, defenseless Ginny Weasley all by her self. What else was new? Well, alright. There was something different about Ginny. Ginny was poor, little and defenseless when she left Hogwarts. When she got back she was anything but that, but that's later on. Right now, we are focusing on how Ginny changed.

That summer Ginny turned fourteen. She was no longer little. Yes, that summer Ginny grew up. Her birthday was nothing special. Bill got her a subscription to "Teen Witch Weekly". Charlie sent her some dragon's scales, which were very beautiful. Fred and George gave her some of their newest creations. Ron forgot, so at the last minute he gave her a card with ten galleons in it. Her parents gave her 100 Galleons! Dumbledore has been paying Mr. Weasley for running 'errands' for him. That was the only good part about the summer. Harry and Hermione did not get her anything. They never did so she didn't much. That day Ginny decided to go to Diagon Alley and use some of her money. She always got money for her birthday and other holidays. She never really used it though. Instead she secretly opened her own Gringotts vault. She had 2037 Galleons in it. Today she was going to spend most of it. She had decided she needed a change. Before she left she made sure to do a quick straightening spell on her hair and put on some make up she had gotten from Christmas. When she got to Diagon Alley, she decided to get an ice cream.

When she got to Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor she heard someone say. "Well, well, well, it is a Weasley after all." She turned around to see none other than Draco Malfoy himself. She shot him a glare and walked into the nearest shop. She hated, and I mean hated, being classified as 'just a Weasley'! How dare he? Then she noticed a beautiful green robe. She had walked into Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.

When Ginny got back, she had spent all but 137 galleons. Ginny got a new wardrobe, books on animals, a small black kitten, which she named Midnight, a Nimbus 2001 and a few books on the Dark Arts. Ginny had gone into Knockturn Alley. She wanted to learn some spells to protect herself. When she got back from her first year of Hogwarts, her parents felt bad for her so the secretly put spells on her room so she could practice magic. No one else knew about, not even her brothers. If anyone ever found out her parents would be in a lot of trouble.

Ginny practiced the spells all summer. She was getting very good and discovered she was quite powerful. One day Ginny was reading her "Teen Witch Weekly Magazine" when she saw an article on a writing contest. The prize was 1000 galleons. Ginny liked having a lot of money in her Gringotts vault and at the moment there wasn't much so she decided to enter. The essay was on what you think the best part of being a witch/wizard. So she entered and to her surprise, she won.

So there you have. Ginny Weasley was not poor, was not small and most certainly not defenseless. Tomorrow she would be returning to Hogwarts. And she was more ready than ever.

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"Come on boy! Get ready. You are going to school tomorrow. Your things have already been packed. Now go to sleep! We are leaving early," said Lucius.

"Yes father," replied Draco.