A/N: I'm sorry this took me so long to update . . . at least it felt like a long time to me. I have no excuse :/. Also I wanted to inform you all of a slight change I making: Hugo's last name is now Leighton, rather than Leonard. I just didn't really like Leonard.

This chapter is dedicated to thebigbadwolf86 thanks for voting and reading!
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"Ginny! Oi! Ginny!"

"Ginny," said Peggy Idle warningly, "Grady's coming."

Ginny looked over her shoulder, down the hallway she was walking through with Peggy and Vera. Sure enough there was the tall boy, striding confidently toward her with a smug look on his face.

"Oh no!" groaned Ginny, "Hurry! Lets pretend we didn't see him!"

As the three girls broke into a gentle jog, Vera said, "That boy is relentless in his pursuits!"

"I know! It's bloody annoying!" Ginny said.

"It might be sweet if it were anyone else," said Peggy thoughtfully, still jogging, "But he's so . . . "

"Full of himself?" suggested Ginny.

"Exactly."

The girls turned a corner and found themselves blocked by a clump of students waiting for class.

"Oh no," groaned  Ginny.

She turned in a circle, looking for a way to escape, and was just in time to see Grady turn down the same corridor. With hair as bright as hers, there was no way for Ginny to hide.

"Ginny!" said Grady, grinning broadly and striding over.

Resigned to her fate, Ginny faced the boy.

"Hello Grady," she said wearily, "Do you need something?"

"I want to walk with you to class," said Grady.

"Oh, that's nice," started Ginny, "but I already told Vera and Peggy-"

"Come on, let's go," said Grady.

He grabbed her arm, and pulled her towards the clumps of people.

"Out of our way," said Grady, shoving a first year aside.

"Grady!" cried Ginny, "Don't be so rude."

She shook his arm off hers, then turned to the alarmed looking eleven year old.

"Are you alright?" Ginny asked.

The boy nodded. Ginny turned on Grady again.

"You'll just have to wait with everyone else," Ginny snapped at him, "You can't just go shoving people around!"

Grady snorted. "The kids fine. Besides, it was either that, or wait around all day.

"I think 'all day' is a bit of an exaggeration," said Ginny. She folded her arms across her chest.

"Ginny, look. I did it for you!" said Grady.

Ginny's freckled nose wrinkled up in disgust.

"For me? I didn't want you to do anything for me! Nor will I ever want you to do something for me," said Ginny.

"But-" started Grady.

Ginny didn't wait for him to finish. The hallway was clearing , and Vera and Peggy had disappeared from sight. Ginny turned on the heel of her boot and started striding briskly down the hallway.

Grady hurried after her.

"Ginny, wait!" he called.

Ginny tried to ignore the boy as he followed at her heels. Her school bag bumped repeatedly against her leg as she continued her swift pace.

"Ginny! Oi! Ginny! I didn't mean to offend you! I was just trying to make a path for us to walk through! Are you mad at me for that? 'Cause that's stupid! Does this mean you don't want to go out with me?"

Ginny stopped in her tracks so suddenly Grady almost walked into her. She stared at him incredulously.

"Of course I don't want to go out with you!" Ginny said, "I'm twelve! I'm not old enough to date, and even if I were, I wouldn't date you!"

Ginny started walking again. Grady appeared more astounded than hurt at this rejection.

"Why not? I'm handsome, you're pretty- it's perfect!"

Ginny rolled her eyes.

"It's because you like someone else, isn't it?" accused Grady, "Isn't it?"

"No!" Ginny called over her shoulder, but she couldn't stop herself from blushing at the lie. Although even if she didn't like Harry, she most certainly wouldn't like Grady.

"Ginny! Won't you wait up!" Grady called.

He reached for her arm, but immediately drew back when Ginny spun on him, her wand out and her brown eyes sparking.

"Grady, leave me alone, or I will hex you!" Ginny threatened.

Grady raised his eyebrows. "You wouldn't hex me!"

"And why not?" demanded Ginny, her wand still aloft.

"Well, you're so small, and helpless," said Grady, "You need someone to protect you! Like me! You wouldn't curse your protecter!"

The boys words made Ginny furious. Her protector? She didn't need a protector. Who on earth did he think he was?

"Try me," said Ginny fiercely.

Grady just chuckled. "See, this is why I like you! You're so cute, pretending to be all tough-"

Ginny'd finally heard enough.

"Impetavesper Bogalysis!" She cried.

The spell hit Grady in the chest. His eyes widened in alarm as the bogey bats came flying out of his nose and began attacking his face.

Ginny's angry glower softened into an expression of surprise as she looked down at her wand. She hadn't been expecting the spell to work that well.

Ginny had been practicing the bat bogey hex all the way since she first got the idea, up until now in mid-March. Colin had sacrificed himself as victim for Ginny to practice on in an empty classroom almost everyday after school.

And it seemed to Ginny, as she watched Grady run screaming down the corridor, that all her hard work had payed off.

"Miss Weasley!"

The sound of Professor McGonagall's voice made Ginny wince. Slowly she turned to see the teacher marching toward her.

"Er, yes Professor?" said Ginny, trying to smile innocently.

McGonagall eyed her sternly.

"I'm sure you can explain why several students just informed me that you hexed a student," said Professor McGonagall.

"Well, yes, Professor," said Ginny, "It's because . . . well, because it's true Professor."

Ginny met her teachers gaze without fear.

Professor McGonagall sighed.

"I think you've spent too much time with your brothers Miss Weasley. Did the student you hexed do anything to provoke this attack?"

"He . . . he was annoying me," said Ginny.

"As that is not a valid excuse, I'm  afraid I'll have to give you detention, Miss Weasley. You know the rules, no magic in the corridors."

"Yes, Professor," said Ginny. She hadn't expected anything less.

But despite the fact that she knew she deserved her punishment, she didn't regret what she had done. Grady needed to be put in his place.

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By lunchtime the news that Ginny Weasley had attacked Grady McLaggen with the Bat Bogey Hex in the hallway had spread through the majority of students in her year, but it had yet to reach the ears of Viola Lestrange.

Viola sat at the Slytherin table with Hugo and Ava during lunch. They were discussing the matter of Sirius Black and wondering where he had disappeared to after breaking into the castle months ago. There had yet to be anymore signs of him.

"Hey, Viola!"

Viola looked up at the sudden voice. It was a Slytherin boy in her year, David Harper. Viola didn't like the boy very much. He had been one of the students who had made her do their homework last year, but him and many other Slytherins had been spending more attention to her all of a sudden. The title "Bat Bogey Hexer" had gotten her a lot of unexpected popularity.

Draco Malfoy and his group of friends had even approached her the other day at breakfast.

"We heard you hexed the blood-traitor Weasley-girl," said Draco, with his eyebrows raised, "Is it true?"

"Yes," Viola had said.

"Well done," said Draco with a vindictive gleam in his gray eyes.

"Why don't you come sit with us," said the pug-faced girl, Pansy Parkinson, "Leave these mudbloods behind." She nodded at Ava and Hugo.

Viola had winced at the word.

"No thanks," she said, "I'm happy where I am. And please don't use that term around me."

Draco had just arched an eyebrow then he seemed to decide Viola wasn't worth his time, and he turned and walked away. His minions had followed, Pansy looking confused as to why Viola had refused.

Viola knew Malfoy and his group were popular amongst the Slytherins, but she had never wanted to be part of their group. Ever.

"What is it Harper?" asked Viola, addressing the Slytherin approaching her now.

The boy was with his friend Avery Flint like always. Both boys were smirking. Harper sat across from Viola.

"Did you hear?" he asked.

Viola glanced at Hugo and Ava. They both shrugged. They clearly had no idea what he was talking about either.

"Hear what?" Viola asked.

"You're not the only Bat Bogey Hexer in school now," said Avery with a buck-toothed grin.

Viola squinted at the boy's. "What do you mean?" she asked.

"Ginny Weasley hexed Grady McLaggen with that same curse," said Harper, with a grin.

Viola froze.

"I hear it was really good too," said Avery.

"Must be really embarrassing to be topped by a filthy blood-traitor like her!" laughed Harper.

"Oh, go talk to someone who cares," said Ava, her eyes narrowing at the boy's in a sudden spurt of daring.

Harpers smirk turned to a sneer, "I don't think I asked you."

"Leave Viola alone," said Hugo, "Viola's brilliant and doesn't need you degrading her!"

"Stupid muggleborns," said Avery, "Come on David, let's get out of here."

The two boys stood and left the table. Viola stared after them stunned.

"Viola?" said Ava cautiously.

Viola looked at her friend.

"I hate her," said Viola, suddenly and certainly, "I hate her so bloody much!"

Her brown eyes pricked with the oncoming tears of anger.

"Viola, it doesn't matter!" said Hugo, "You're still a brilliant Bat Bogey Hexer!"

Viola barely heard him. She began chopping the carrots on her plate into tiny bits savagely.

Ginny can't let me have anything, can she? thought Viola, as she mutilated her vegetables, she's determined to never let me get on top! She's determined that I always stay the misfit!

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Later that night, in the common room, Ginny was sitting in an armchair reading a magazine article on the Holly Head Harpers, when the twins approached her.  Fred and George were both wearing wide grins.

"What do you two want?" asked Ginny suspiciously.

"To congratulate you!" said Fred, throwing his hands in the air.

Ginny raised an eyebrow. "For what, exactly?"

"Getting detention of course!" cried George, he patted her on the top of her head, "Our little Gin-Gin, she's following in our foot steps, Freddie!"

Ginny rolled her eyes. They always acted like this whenever she got in trouble, even at home.

"And you know what's even better?" asked Fred.

"What?" asked Ginny suspiciously.

"Guess who's joining you for detention!" sang Fred.

Ginny's eyebrows went up. "You two are in my detention?"

"Yup,"'said Fred with a grin, "McGongall caught us trying to transform Angelina into a duck. So she figured she'd get all her ginger detentions over in one night."

"So it's gonna be one big happy family!" said George, pulling Fred and Ginny in for a group hug.

"Ouch!" Ginny cried as her head clunked into Fred's.

Their happy troublemakers celebration was brought to a halt when Percy's voice said "Ginny! Is it true that you got detention?"

The twins moved aside as Percy approached. He had his hands on his hips and was glowering at Ginny.

"Oh, give her a break Perc!" said Fred, "She's living a little! You should give it a try sometime!"

"Excuse me?" Percy blustered.

"I said 'live a little'!" Fred hollered.

Ginny shook her head, but she couldn't help grinning at her brothers.