The first chapter was super short and I'm on vacation, so I thought I might as well write out the second one! Enjoy!

The Façade: Chapter Two

"Ginny?" Harry poked his head around the door frame. "It's time to go. Can I take your trunk?"

"Sure, there it is. Thanks, Harry. Tell my mum I'll be down in a minute." Ginny sat on her bed and put her Hogwarts robes and some other last minute things into a small bag for the train as she watched Harry heave her trunk down the stairs. She was leaving for her fifth year at Hogwarts. Thinking of school, her thoughts went back to Draco Malfoy, the man who had been haunting her dreams for the past few weeks.

No, not that kind of haunting dreams.

Ginny had been having dreams consistently every night, in which she saw Draco being frighteningly abused by his father. She wondered if they had happened in real life. Assuming they had (which sounds a little hard to believe, but she had a feeling), she had at first thought that he deserved it. However, as the dreams got more and more brutal, she started to feel that no 16-year-old boy could deserve that.

She had also heard things about a plan, something to do with Voldemort, that Draco was involved in. She hadn't said anything to her family or to Harry and Hermione while they were at the burrow for the summer, but she had decided to talk to Dumbledore when she got to school. Not that she cared that much for Draco- heavens no- just because Dumbledore should know in case the plan was real.

"GINEVRA WEASELY ARE YOU COMING WITH US OR NOT!"

Ginny was shaken out of her reverie by her mother's shrieks.

"Yes mum, I'm coming!" she yelled back as she grabbed her knapsack and ran down the steps.

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Forty-Five minutes later, she found herself on the edge of a group of hugging and kissing family and friends, near where Draco Malfoy stood with his friends. Her breath caught as she noticed that his arm was in a sling and that his pale cheek bore a long pink scar.

"What—" she began to ask before she could stop herself, wanting to confirm her suspicions. How dumb can I get? She thought immediately, It's not as if he'll answer "well, because my father spent the better part of the summer physically abusing me. And how was your vacation?"

Draco's eyes flashed for a moment, but then he sneered. "It's none of your business, little weasel, and why should you care anyway?

She could feel the instinctive answer rising in her throat- Oh, I just wanted to send whoever did that to you a nice little thank you note- but she realized that she knew who she could thank and that the thought made her slightly sick.

"Just curious, Malfoy" She said instead, "wondered if you'd fell off your broom while trying to hone your nonexistent quidditch skills."

She turned away before he had a chance to respond and followed Harry, Hermione, and her brother onto the train.

Also short, but it's all I've got time for at the moment. Tell me what you think! REVIEW!