Silent Night

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Chapter One

It was a silent night. The stars shown brightly, and the ground sparked with freshly fallen snow. Ginny stood, looking at the peaceful sky, thinking about her horrible life. She never had anyone, not after Tom Riddle. How foolish she was, to trust a diary that could talk back. She was stupid, and almost had died, if it wasn't for Harry. Harry. He was part of the reason that she was standing there. In the cold, dark astronomy tower, sort of like her heart. Cold, lonely. Harry had saved her, and brought her back to this wretched life that she lived with no friends. Not even her dumb brother cared. He was so caught up in his own life to even notice her. Ginny climbed up on top of the side of the astronomy tower. It was quite cold, and she held her cloak tighter around her. "Well, now they don't have to care anymore. Because I won't be here to be forgotten." She said. Her voice pierced the stillness.

She looked up to the sky. "Such a lovely sky tonight. A silent witness. Well, the sky doesn't care either. I don't really know why I even bother waiting. The sooner the better I suppose. But, I would like to wait. So the cold gets to me so I won't feel the fall." Ginny seemed to be in an internal battle, as she talked to herself. "No, I shall sit and think about my horrible, pain ridden life. Such a sad life I have led." Ginny said. She stepped off of the wall, and sat on it instead. She let her feet hang over the edge, swinging dangerously, as she sat, thinking about her whole life and the empty feeling that was eating at her each day.

The redhead sighed, and once again began to talk to herself. "This is an odd habit I have, carrying on conversations with myself. Oh well, at least I can talk to myself." Ginny once again sighed and started to talk to herself about her first year. "I remember that trance I was in. I was nobody, just a body walking around, doing nothing, yet doing everything. I can't believe that I almost caused the end of Hogwarts, and most of the people here. I guess that is when I found that nobody wanted to have anything to do with me. Luna talked to me sometimes, but she really isn't much to talk to. I don't know her that well. And, besides, she was half crazy, believing most of that junk her father puts in that ridiculous magazine." Ginny smiled to herself, thinking about last year. "Then, she went off by herself, and now I have nobody. Ron, and his perfect friends, I can't even believe I liked Harry once. That was really stupid for me to do, like someone who was too caught up in himself to think anything of me. But, that was then, this is now."

Ginny slid off of the wall. She stood on the cold, smooth floor of the astronomy tower. Ginny put one leg on the low wall. She never really got the reason why the walls were so low on the astronomy tower, unless the founders of Hogwarts did that intentionally, so people had an easy way to kill themselves. Ginny put her other leg on the wall, and stood up on top of it. Her arms fell to her side, and the sleeves of her robe, which were too short, reveled long scars on her wrists, from years of cutting herself. "Goodbye world." She said. Ginny fell forward, making the long fall down to the soft, cold snow. Halfway through the fall, the cold finally got to her. Her eyes closed, as she passed out. She now felt nothing.