Disclaimer: If I owned the books, you would have seen a lot more of Ginny. As she is one of my favorite character. As I don't own them, sadly she doesn't show up nearly enough.

A/N: I know I had something else here, but I lost going over the story to make minor edits... ah well. Read and enjoy!

Prologue

Riddle screamed an unearthly scream as Harry stabbed his diary multiple times, before exploding.

Harry was exhausted. He stood and staggered to where Ginny lay unmoving on the ground. He took her hand. She stirred, slowly opening her eyes, she blinked several times. Her gaze moved to their intertwined hands as she sat up slowly and carefully.

"Harry?" she asked hesitantly. She seemed to be on the verge of tears. There were already tears glistening in her eyes, looking ready to fall.

"Yes Ginny, it's me," he said as the tears started to fall freely down her face. He pulled her into a hug and let her cry freely on his shoulder. "It's okay Ginny, you're safe now. The diary is destroyed, Riddle is gone, the Basilisk is dead. They can't hurt you any more, or use you to hurt anyone else," he whispered comfortingly into her ear as she cried.

"I was so scared. I couldn't stop him. He made me do it," she said through her tears.

"I know Ginny, I know," he replied. "No one is going to blame you. Everything will be alright. You have nothing to worry about." He continued to speak soothingly in her ear, until her crying finely died away and she fell asleep in his arms. He rested his head on top of hers and closed his eyes. He drifted to sleep with her still in his arms.

There was a blinding flash of light and they were gone. All that was left inside as Fawkes flew out of the chamber was a dead and bleeding basilisk, a destroyed diary (with a fang still protruding from it), lots of blood (not only from the basilisk) and ink covering the floor, the sorting hat, and the sword of Gryffindor glinting brightly in the dark cavern.

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Just as Dumbledore returned to the castle, Fawkes flashed to being right in front of him. He knew immediately what the phoenix wanted. He grabbed a hold of Fawkes's tail and was flashed into the chamber where Ronald Weasley and Gilderoy Lockhart were trapped on one side of cave in. Lockhart was out cold, so he turned to the Weasley boy.

"Mr. Weasley, what has happened here?" asked Dumbledore.

"Harry and I overheard Professor McGonagall say that Ginny was the one taken into the Chamber. We also heard that Professor Lockhart was to go and rescue her. Earlier we found this in Hermione's hand," said Ron. He was nervous about talking to the Great Albus Dumbledore, his headmaster, for the first time that he was talking so fast that Dumbledore barely caught what he said. As he said that last line he pulled out a crumpled piece of parchment and handed it to Dumbledore.

Dumbledore took the parchment, smoothed it out, and looked it over realizing what it meant. "It's a basilisk," he stated.

"That's what Harry and I thought after looking at it. We went to tell Professor Lockhart what we found, when we found him packing and planing to make a run for it. We forced him to come with us. We were trying to decide were the chamber was located, when Harry remembered hearing about a girl dying in a bathroom last time. We decided to talk to Myrtle, because she haunts a bathroom. She told us that the last thing she remembered before dying was a pair of great big yellow eyes by one of the sinks. We looked over the sinks and found a snake carved into one of the faucets, Harry used Parsletongue and the sink moved aside to show a large pipe. Lockhart jumped down first, when he shouted it was safe Harry and I followed. We followed the tunnel for a ways and came across that skin over there," he pointed to the basilisk skin. "Lockhart tricked us and stole my wand. He tried to Obliviate Harry, but the spell backfired and hit him, as well as causing this cave in. He hasn't moved since. Harry was trapped on the other side of the cave in. He decided to continue on and rescue Ginny, while I move these rocks out of the way so they could get back through," Ron finished the story.

"Thank you Mr. Weasley," said Dumbledore in an even voice. He was greatly troubled by this news, he just didn't show it. He pulled out his and flicked it, causing the fallen rocks to make enough room for him to walk through. He strode through the archway, Ron following quickly.

They came across a doorway with snakes carved into it. It was already open, and they went through it without pause. Through the door they came across a walkway with huge great statues along the sides. At the end the end of the walkway there was a huge statue of a man, its mouth was open. At the foot of the statue was the basilisk. It was dead. Blood was gushing from the roof of its mouth and the top of its head. On the floor beside was a gleaming sword, with a ruby encrusted hilt. Its blade was covered in blood. There was a little, black diary on the ground sitting in a pool of ink, which flowed like blood from the many holes in it, around the fang protruding from it. The only other thing that was there was the Sorting Hat laying crumpled on the floor.

There was absolutely no sign what so ever of Harry or Ginny. Even their wands were missing.

-End Prologue-