"Mum?!"
"What is it Ginny dear?"
"Where'd you put my school robes?"
"On your bed."
Ginny turned around to face her bed, and sure enough there were her black Gryffindor robes, folded neatly on her pillow. She quickly put them into her trunk with the rest of her clothes and possessions, then dragged it down the many steps that the burrow had.
Ginny entered the kitchen, where Harry and Ron were stuffing themselves with food and Hermione was reading a book, as per usual. She set her trunk down next to everyone else's and sat down next to them.
"Morning guys." she said cheerfully.
"Morning Gin." replied Hermione without looking up from her book.
"or'n'ing." mumbled Harry and Ron with mouths full of bacon and sausage.
"Honestly Ronald, where are your manners!" scolded Molly Weasley when she walked into the kitchen. He swallowed and grinned sheepishly. "Sorry Mum."
Ginny grabbed a plate and filled it with food before sitting down to eat. "What time are we leaving mum?"
"In ten minutes dear." replied Molly folding clothes and putting them into piles.
"What?! Ten minutes, are you serious?!"
"Yes Ginny, deadly serious, you should of gotten up earlier and packed yesterday instead of rushing around this morning."
Ron snickered into his plate and Ginny hit him around the back of the head. Hard.
"OW!"
"Oh shut up, I didn't hit you that hard, baby."
The kitchen door banged open and Fred and George came walking in grinning manically.
"Crying Ronikins?" they teased.
"No!" retorted Ron going beetroot red.
"Boys don't tease your brother, and Ginny stop hitting him!" scolded Molly.
"But Mum…!" they all whined at the same time.
"No buts now get ready, we're flooing to Kings Cross Station."
They all pulled on jackets and hoody's and grabbed their trunks, before stepping into the fireplace and flooing to Platform 9 ¾.
Ginny was last to go and stepped gracefully out of the fireplace with a small amount of soot on her shoulder. Everyone else were either picking themselves up off the floor or trying to rub soot from the faces. The twins and Ron stared at her incredulously.
"What?" she asked them.
"When did you learn to floo so well?" asked the twins.
"Luna Lovegood gave me a few tips." explained Ginny.
"What Loony Lovegood?" asked Ron.
"Don't call her Loony, she's a really nice girl!" scolded Ginny, sounding a lot like Molly Weasley.
"Okay, okay. Woah, come on, we need to get onto the train its 10:59!"
They said goodbye to their parents and ran to the train, quickly hoisting the trunks through the doors. The train jolted and started moving just as Harry jumped on. Fred and George went to find their friend Lee and Harry, Ron and Hermione went to find a compartment of their own. Ginny walked in the opposite direction towards a carpartment she said she meet her friends in. She found it and slid the door open, inside were Colin Creevey, Luna Lovegood, Rebecca Fortescue. That all jumped up to hug her when she walked and she smiled kindly and hugged them all back.
After Colin had helped her stow away her trunk she sat down next to Luna, who was staring dreamily out of the window.
"So how was your summer guys?" she asked.
"Crap, my cousin came over, I seriously felt like killing my self." moaned Colin leaning back against the seat.
"Well mine wasn't as bad as that, me and mum went to France, to see some of our french cousins. Posh snobs the lot of them. They all go to Beauxbatons, the French wizarding school."
"Wow, you guys should come to mine if your summers are that bad." joked Ginny, she turned to Luna. "What about you Luna, how was summer?"
"Exceptionally normal. I saw the dementors chasing Sirius Black across the back yard." she replied casually.
They all gasped. "You actually saw Sirius Black?!" asked Colin sitting forward.
"Oh yes, but not for long, he seemed to be a rush."
"I bet he was, if he was being chased by dementors."
"What's he look like?" asked Rebecca.
"Tall, lots of hair and striped pyjamas."
"They're prison uniforms Luna." laughed Ginny but stopped abruptly when the doors slid open and Draco Malfoy stepped in. She narrowed her eyes at him. "What do you want Malfoy?" she asked coolly.
"Nothing in particular Weaslette, just wondering what Loony was on about."
"Don't call her Loony!" spat Ginny standing up and facing him. He looked taken aback by her outburst but immediately sneered at her. "My, my the Weaslette's got a temper."
"What ever Malfoy just shove off." she replied sitting back down and crossing her arms.
"Anyone Lovegood what were you…" Malfoy was cut off by the lights flickering and the train screeching to a halt, Malfoy was thrown forward into their compartment, landing on the floor by Luna who looked down at him. "Hello Draco Malfoy. I never thought I'd be the one looking down on you."
Rebecca and Ginny giggled but stopped when the lights went out leaving them in semi darkness. The air suddenly went cold and the windows froze up with ice.
"What the hell is happening?" cursed Draco rubbing his head where he had hit it on the floor.
No one replied they were all thinking the same thing. They couldn't be there yet and even if they were, the lights wouldn't have gone out.
Ginny shivered slightly and wrapped her arms around her torso to keep warm. Suddenly screams could be heard further down the corridor and the air became colder and clammier.
Ginny's thoughts went back to last year and the chamber of secrets, as a black silhouette could be seen through the frosted glass of the compartment door.
Her vision changed from looking at the door to Tom Riddle's sneering face, she whimpered and tried to back away as he advanced and as a dementor opened the door and floated in making everyone but Ginny, who was froze in her visions, move back against the window.
The dementor looked around each of them before settling on Ginny, it glided forward, just as Riddle stepped forward. Ginny backed up against the train seat, fear etched across her face and in her eyes. The dementor leaned forward and Ginny went slowly limp as though her energy were draining out of her.
Shouting and bright light came from behind the dementor and it disappeared and the lights flickered back to life. Ginny who was now exhausted, dizzy and still reliving her nightmare slid off the seat in a dead faint.
