Neville couldn't come to their detention with Snape.

That she should be alone with Snape didn't worry Ginny as much as the fact why Neville couldn't come. Neville was at Hospital wing because professor Carrow used Cruciatus spell on him during the lesson of the Defence against the dark arts.

She still worried about her friend when she stopped in front of the Headmaster's office. Not only was the fact that one of their professor used the Unforgivable spell, Ginny was almost sure it was only a beginning.

It was 5:59 p.m. precisely.

There were sounds of Snape's fast steps and she saw his dark gaze on her when he let her in.

Neither of them pretended to be polite and didn't loose time to greet each other.

"Sit down, Miss Weasley," he told her coldly pointing at the black sofa facing his desk.

The Headmaster's office didn't change that much since she was there last time, it was just a little bit darker.

She obeyed and waited for him to speak.

She glanced to the portrait where Albus Dumbledore was supposed to be but the painting was empty. Ginny wondered whether Snape used some spell just to get rid of the portrait of the man he killed?

"Now, tell me Miss, where is your friend Mr Longbottom?" Snape asked her after he sat down as well.

"He is at the Hospital wing, not feeling very well after today's lesson of the Defence against the dark arts," she answers his question with catlike expression on her face and narrowed eyes.

"How did he get there?" Snape asked her, his tone no longer being cold or unfriendly... She sensed something resembling to concern in his voice. Ginny only imagined that for sure.

"Professor Carrow," she said angrily.

"Elaborate," he told her.

"He used Cruciatus curse on Neville," she explained wondering from where came the sudden interest.

Something was off, she could tell. Ginny usually saw life as a puzzle, everything coming together and forming an image she sees... With headmaster Severus Snape she was baffled and couldn't explain his actions.

"I will talk with professor Carrow about that, Miss Weasley," he assured her and she didn't know what to think about it. If it were somebody else, Ginny would presume he would be mad at professor Carrow. As it was Snape, she worried that things would get even worse for her friend Neville Longbottom.

'I will warn him,' she made mental note for herself. She planned to visit Neville at Hospital wing if he didn't come back that night.

Snape started to tell her something but she didn't listen to his words... There it was, in the glass case begin Snape's back. The Gryffindor's sword!

Ginny knew Harry needed it. She didn't really know how, she just remembered the trio talking about the sword after the visit of the former Minister of magic to her home. The minister didn't give Harry the sword. Now Ginny, with the aid of reunited DA, could get it to Harry. Somehow.

'We must get it,' was her first thought.

"Miss Weasley! Are you even listening to me?" enraged Snape asked.

She looked down as she didn't want him to state in her eyes. He mustn't know about her plan which just started to form in her head!

"I am sorry, sir" she murmured.

Snape gave her some paperwork to do. She just rewrote very boring but apparently necessary documents of Hogwarts.

It was only fifteen minutes before curefew when Snape let Ginny to leave.

"Try not cause problem with your friends... It would be unfortunate for me if I had to punish you more than this time," he warned her.

"Good bye, headmaster," she said, lips then forming thight line.
"Good bye, Miss Weasley," she heard him to say when she was at the door of Headmaster's office alredy.


Neville came back from Hospital wing already that night. He looked fine. So fine, that Ginny had suspicion Madam Pomfrey knew about the detention with Snape he should have had and tried to withdrew Neville from it.

"How was the detention?"he asked her after she entered their Common room.

She smiled at Neville and joined him at sitting near the fireplace.

"Slightly bearable as we didn't talk and I only rewrote some boring documents," she answered Neville's question.

"Are you allright?" she asked him, touching his arm with concern.

"Yes. Don't worry, Ginny, I can take more..." he answered not looking at her but in the fireplace.

Ginny wanted to tell him about her idea with the sword but was afraid that somebody would hear them.

'It can wait for tomorrow. Anyway, we have DA meeting.'

They talked and it was pleasent. Ginny was somehow popular, at least among boys but she never managed to have 'best friends' as for exemple her brother Ron had Harry and Hermione. She mostly spent her time at Hogwarts with her brothers Fred and George and when they left school she started dating various boys which preoccupied her time.

'Maybe now, she has Neville and Luna. They are new trio.'

She yawned and took it as a signal to go to bed.

"I am sleepy. Good night, Neville. See you tomorrow," she told him after a while of them chatting.

"Good night. I will also go to bed soon. Just need to finish the homework for Herbology," Neville pointed to some books in front of him.

"Right," Ginny smiled.

The sleep came soon as she was tired but was restless, full of nightmares and dark looks of Hogwart's headmaster Severus Snape.