Courage to Find Cowardice

Sometimes life throws a hard ball. There’s nothing you can do except aim and hope for the best. Well, hoping was and never shall be a part of me, and if it were, it would never be something I would be proud of doing. Hope is for the weak and vulnerable, and me… I am anything but.

Draco has been summoned - he's to come home for christmas - something he hasn't done in any holidays since his fifth year. Something's up at the manor, and he's not sure what, but the presence of one very intriguing female has him confused.

“You say that,” I advanced upon her, leaving her little room to maneuver around me, “yet I am finding it very hard to believe.”

“I was here first!” she argued, bristling and starting to go slightly red. She reminded me so much of her brothers it was almost uncanny.

We learn a little bit more about the mystery that is Malia and the beginnings of devious plots are revealed. Draco, quite that arrogant one, believes he can come to no harm in the Forbidden Forrest - how wrong he is. And who should stumble across his arctic body but none other than Ginny Weasely.