Chapter 3: Ginny's Second Task

It is true. Dumbledore not only gave me the task of being in love with Harry. The second task was much more difficult.

FOUR YEARS AGO – Ginny's POV

"Ginevra, the next thing that I must ask you is of a greatly more difficult matter. There is a man called Lucius Malfoy who is in possession of a diary. He will be looking for someone to give it to. Secretly. Mr. Malfoy will confront Harry at some point in Diagon Alley before the start of term. You need to act every bit the part of Harry's girlfriend. Defend him, yes, and make sure to bring something along that Lucius can use to secretly give you the diary. I've not a clue what the diary is or does, but it is essential that you obtain it. Do you understand?"

I was starting to get nervous. "Yes, sir. As long as the situation presents itself, I shall do my best to get the diary." I said, with a lot more confidence than I had.

"Good girl. Report back to me within the first few days of school, alright?"

"Yes, sir." I said shortly.

"You are a brave girl Ginevra Weasley. Remember that."

He gave me one of his signature smiles and left.

My parents inquired after him and what we talked about, and I told them that he was concerned about me being the first girl in our family to attend Hogwarts. They seemed to want more, but they didn't call me back as I walked to my room to think.

One day, Harry showed up at my house. I thought I would die. Luckily it wasn't too hard to obey Dumbledore's orders.

I kept to myself and didn't say much, but I smiled and blushed a lot. Definitely on purpose….

The day that we went to Diagon Alley was when I really needed to step it up.

When we got to Flourish and Blotts, after finding Harry, Gilderoy Lockhart spotted him and brought him up front with him to take a picture after giving Harry a full collection of his books. Harry gave them to me and was then confronted by none other than Draco Malfoy.

It wasn't Lucius, but I took it as my cue all the same.

"Bet you loved that, didn't you Potter?" sneered a blond-haired boy who I assumed was a Malfoy. I was right of course.

"Famous Harry Potter" he said. "Can't even go into a bookshop without making the front page."

That set me off.

"Leave him alone, he didn't want all that!" Those were the first words that I had spoken around Harry all summer.

"Potter, you've got yourself a girlfriend!" Well, at least he bought the girlfriend thing..

I, of course, turned pink.

That was about when Mr. Malfoy came over. He put his hand on Draco's shoulder, a little harshly if you ask me.

After bickering with my father, he picked up my books out of my cauldron. Just according to plan. After insulting us some more, and being beaten up by my embarrassing father, he gave my books back.

I later realized that a diary which was not mine had found its way into my cauldron. I decided to leave it alone until I got to school.

But it was as if the diary was calling me. So I wrote in it. All about my day. And it wrote back.

PRESENT DAY – Ginny's POV

"And that was when she came to me and told me everything that had happened. The diary had told her its name. Tom Marvolo Riddle. I knew this to be Voldemort. I told Ginny to continue to write in the diary, as it was the only way to see what would happen. I was foolish, but had I not been, the diary would've never been destroyed and the basilisk would still be roaming the pipes."

"It was awful, while it lasted, but I truthfully don't remember much of it." I said, trying to ease Dumbledore's guilt.

It seemed to work. The truth was that the Tom Riddle in that diary haunted me day and night.

"Now that your past missions have been exposed, it is time for me to tell you why I have asked you both to come here."

In the midst of writing a fitting Chapter 4, so it may be a little while, but hopefully these two chapters will suffice for now! Thank you for reading!