The One for Me?

For Draco Malfoy this had been one of the worst weeks ever. It was now Thursday and not once had him and Pansy been able to enter the Room of Requirement. Every night the door wouldn\'t appear. He assumed that the fiendfyre that Crabbe had set last year had officially burnt out the room. Instead of wild sexual nights he had been limited to two quick trysts in small alcoves, all the while worrying someone would come around a corner and find them. He sighed and ran his hand through his hair. He was in Transfiguration right now, so scanning the class he had come to a halt at Granger and Weasley. His eyes opened wide!





Was that his hand? Under Granger\'s skirt?!? He shook his head, he must be imagining things. Since when does Granger have a sex life? If she\'s getting more than him, well no, that\'s just not possible. Granger\'s too prudish to even think of such acts. Sighing, he knew he wouldn\'t rat them out. Even though he still loathes the sight of them, they had saved his life last year. Twice. If only he could do that to Pansy though. Damn that Room, he thought.





"MR. MALFOY!"





Huh?





"Oh sorry, yes ma\'am" Not knowing what Professor Genguire was saying at all. Now Granger and Weasley were staring at him, and his hand was away from her body.





Huffing, " I asked you to say the incantation to turn your owl into a crystal ball."





"Yes ma\'am." He repeated the incantation. His owl turned slightly into a ball, it was translucent but if you touched it you could feel soft fur.





The class resumed and ten minutes later we were all being dismissed. He was so out of it he noticed he was one of the last few to leave the class, along with .... Granger! She turned to stare back at him right after walking out the door, as if waiting for him. His eyes widened slightly. He hadn\'t realized he shouted her name out loud.





"Yes Malfoy?" She said, not bitingly but not nicely either.





"I would watch out in class if I were you Granger" He said unthinkingly.





"Excuse me? Are you..... are you threatening me?"





"What?! Merlin no Granger! I saw Weasley\'s wandering hands. You might want to watch out because someone else might see that next time." He was actually quite baffled she thought he was threatening her. Why would he threaten her? But he saw her eyes go wide and her face started blushing furiously. "Don\'t worry, I\'m not going to say anything, just don\'t let it happen again or I might." He started walking away, purposely not looking at her.





"Malfoy! Just...um, well, thanks, I guess." Hermione spoke almost whispering and looking at the ground. But Malfoy had just turned and kept on walking. Hermione looking at his back going to the Great Hall.





Hermione starting heading down to the library during her free period. She needed to research Marriage Laws. So far she had gone down to the library everyday and while she had most definitely found books on Marriage Laws, most of them were so old and archaic she didn\'t think the Ministry would have used those anymore. Sighing she pulled another book off it\'s shelf entitled \'Marriage and Me, the Laws in 1809\'. Yep, like I\'m going to find anything in here. Still, she sat down and started to read.





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Meanwhile, in the Slytherin Common room Draco sat, still not believing what he had just said to Granger. What the bloody hell is wrong with me? Never again. Something like that will never happen again. He sat on the couch rubbing his eyes when Blaise enters the room.





"Hello Draco, what seems to have gotten you in a snit?" Condescendingly adding a smirk.





"Oh I don\'t know, how about the fact that I haven\'t had a right proper shag all week, or the fact that I am to meet the woman I\'m supposed to marry in less than two days time?! Or how about the fact that I was almost nice to Granger today." He held up his hand in a dramatic flare. "Don\'t ask me why, because I refuse to tell you."





"Granger aye? I wonder who she\'s been picked to marry. Hopefully not me, ugh, she\'s going to be a frigid old witch till the day she dies. I can\'t imagine her repopulating the Wizarding world. Bunch of frizzy haired know it alls running around." He actually shook in what looked like disgust.





While Draco agreed with him out loud, inside was a different matter. Not that he would actually want to be strapped with her, but now knowing she\'s not frigid as everyone thinks, he wonders. He wonders what it would be like to give Granger the go. She doesn\'t have a bad body, it\'s just almost always covered beneath too big robes. Her face isn\'t bad either, no break outs, nice lips, deep brown eyes. But that hair, eh, when it\'s up it\'s not too bad. Lately it really hasn\'t been as frizzy anyway. Only on hot days when the air is filled with moisture does it seem to puff out a bit. Alright just STOP! Stop your train of thought right now. Sighing Draco got up to go find Pansy, maybe they can find some place to be together.







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Friday evening arrived all too soon and Hermione was really starting to worry. Right now she was in the Room of Requirement, wrapped up in Ron Weasley\'s arms for the last time. He was snoring softly next to her, but she just couldn\'t seem to sleep. Her mind was racing with so many possibilities of who her betrothed were to be. She knew Terry Boot and Michael Corner both had to be at the Ministry at the same time she did. Ugh, but she couldn\'t see herself with either of them. They were both too pompous, and while Terry was smart, she didn\'t think she could take his Holier- than-Thou attitude. Maybe it was someone not even in the school. It was possible. Not all the couples were the same age. This was based on educational views, emotions, and multiple different things that she didn\'t know how the Ministry knew. Ron was speaking now, mumbling some words here and there. She heard spider, Hermione, and......... Love? Did he love her? It obviously couldn\'t be spiders. Sighing once more she turned on her side thinking of the past week. It had truly been wonderful. Making love every night to someone who really appreciated her. Now it was all ending. Stupid stupid Ministry. She and Ron had agreed it would be best if tonight was the last night. It wouldn\'t do well to be betrothed to someone while shagging someone on the side. In less than twelve hours she would meet him. Closing her eyes, hoping to get some sleep before the happy night was over.





At about 10:50 the next morning Hermione was standing in Headmistress McGonagalls office waiting to use the floo. Some of her classmates were there as well. Corner and Boot, as well as Lavender and Milicent Bulstrode. One by one people starting flooing to the Ministry, Hermione was third in, but right before she zoomed away she saw McGonagalls office door opening once more.





"Ms. Hermione Granger? Yes yes my dear right over this way." She followed the short portly Ministry worker down the hall into a small room. Three chairs and one table. Another Ministry Rep was already sitting down. "Please have a seat ma\'am." The portly man scurried off.





The man sitting down was a skinny man, he had short black hair, and the bluest eyes Hermione had ever seen. He looked to be in his late thirties, maybe early forties. Clean shaven with a small birthmark right next to his left eye. She took the seat at one of the heads, leaving the other head open.





"Hello Miss Granger, my name is Charles LaFlemme. I am to be your Ministry Representative while you meet your betrothed. I will read the rules of the law. Really, there\'s no need to worry, there aren\'t that many and they aren\'t harsh. Just standard rules." He gave her a roguish smile.





After a small chat for another two minutes, the door creaked open and in walked the portly man once more. "Please take a seat young sir, and meet your betrothed." Their eyes met.





"No way"





"Not possible"















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Hello everyone! Hope everyone likes so far. In the next chapter you will hear the terms of the Law and even get to see if Harry and Ginny are really meant to be! It might be two days before the next Chapter comes out though, I have a big test coming up!! Thanks for all the Reviews so far!!!!