This is the part where i say... OMG I'm SOOOO Sorry for not updating. And how i tell you "My computer was in the shop..." well it was about three months ago... But thats not the point. I know that i put this off for ever. Im sorry and i wont lie, it might happen again. So for now be happy with this chapter and dont forget to review. that might make my spirits high enough to write the next chapter.

These characters weren't cooperating. So if they seem even more OOC than usual then... Blame them. Enjoy

Ch 7

"Ginny!" Ron yelled again. His wand was out and he was running toward Draco.

"Wait!" Ginny cried at him. He stumbled for a second then continued full power at Draco. "Ronald!Petrificus Totalus!" Her brother fell in the middle of the hall.

"Thanks, Ginny." Draco said. "I would have done that myself…" she just looked at him. "After I was finished being terrified. Its horrific being charged by Weasel!" He said in his defense.

She just rolled her eyes and rolled her brother onto his back. His face was still bright red. His eyes', the only thing left moveable, stared at her with a look of confusion and anger.

"Ronald. I'm going to let you up now. I want you to wait before moving an inch or I will tell mother that you assaulted one of my friends." Behind her, Draco smirked at Ron secretly pleased that he was one of Ginny's friends.

"Ready?" Ginny asked Draco. He had his wand out. Ginny said the counter curse and Ron was released. He sat up and warily eyed Draco's wand.

"Okay, Ron. Did you want something?" Ginny said calmly. Ron didn't look away from Draco and his wand.

"Why are you hanging out with this filth?" Ron spat.

"I do believe, Weasel, that you're the one who's filthy." At Ginny's wondering glance, Draco assured her with, "You're the one who's on the floor after all." Ginny let out a small breath.

"So, Ronald, what did you want?" Ginny said once again.

"Tell him to put away his wand." Ron said stubbornly.

"Not until you talk." Ginny said firmly. Draco Smirked behind her back. "No smirking Draco." She hadn't looked back and his jaw dropped.

"How…never mind." He said.

Ron threw an ugly look at Draco. Draco carefully glanced at Ginny, before allowing himself a tiny smirk.

"Why are you fraternizing with the enemy?" Ron hissed.

"Enemy? The only enemy I see here is you. Your actions toward my friend can be considered enemy-ish." Ginny struggled with the right words.

"How could you call him your friend? He isn't even worth spitting on!"

"Ronald, Ronald, Ronald… When will you realize that my lives, and therefore my relationships, are none of your business?" Upon hearing the word "Relationships" Ron's face turned beet red.

"You're not" he paused, a disgusted look on his face. "You and Malfoy aren't going out, Right?" Ron swallowed hard and closed his eyes. He was trying not to hurl at the idea of his baby sister and his 'arch Nemesis' kissing.

Ginny glanced back at Draco. She prayed to all the gods she knew that Draco wouldn't hate her for this.

"Actually," Ron's eyes snapped open so quickly that Ginny was momentarily frightened that they would pop. "Draco and I have been married for about a month now. The test confirms that I am pregnant and about to have this mans child." She smiled sweetly at her brothers pulsing veins.

"Now if you excuse us, Draco and I were on our way to have madly passionate hot sex in congratulations. Have a nice life!" She grabbed Draco's arm and pulled him as fast as physically possible away from the near-comatose Ron.

Once they were far enough away, Draco burst out in hard breath stealing laughter.

"Where… Why… Why did you do that?" The albino Ferret gasped for breath.

"I have to get fun somehow! Anyways did you see the look on his face? What I wouldn't give to have Collins camera." She too had laughed herself out of breath.

They stood for a moment catching their breaths.

"Do you always laugh at your brothers' expense?" Draco smoothed his robe collar.

She rolled her eyes.

"If you had a brother like that, wouldn't you laugh at him, too?" She brushed wrinkles from running, out of her shirt. Straightening her tie, she watched him do the same.

Draco looked up at her "I have one question. Who is Tom? I know he was the diary, but was he a real person or did someone just name the diary Tom." He knew it was a bad time for questions like that when her grin fell off her face and she froze.

"Tom Marvolo Riddle. He was a real person a lifetime ago." Her eyes turned stony. "Or maybe he's still real."

Draco shifted. He'd heard that name before, though he couldn't quite remember where. "The name sounds familiar, do I know him?" Ginny's earlier smile turned mocking.

"Believe me Draco. Everyone's heard of him at some time or another." She sighed. "Come on. Its better if I show you." She grabbed at his hand and raced down the left hallway.

They raced along with Draco trailing until they reached the seventh floor. Ginny dropped his hand and ran back and forth in front of a stretch of wall. After her third time past, a door appeared. Ginny grabbed his hand again and pulled him through it.

Inside, the Room of Requirement had shaped a small library. There were comfortable chairs and pillows, large windows, and a cheery fire. Ginny didn't glance around though. She headed straight for an isle of books. Above her head, there was a sign that read 'wizard history'. She walked past books until she came to one lonely book that was all by itself on a large wood shelf.

The tome was thick and dusty. The surrounding shelf space was clean and looked newly polished. The air in this part of the room was chilly, a vast difference from the warm and comforting air that first greeted them. Draco wondered if the fire's warmth just hadn't reached that particular thought.

Ginny stared at the book, as if willing it to go away and at the same time looking at it with longing.

"All you'd ever want to know is in there." She whispered. Though the library was empty, talking would seem to somehow disturb the peace. Draco nodded and grabbed the spine of the book. "Just to warn you, there are some things you don't want to know in there also. Just be careful of reading only what you want not what you don't." Draco looked at her but she never lifted her eyes from the book and he pulled it off the shelf.

The cover of the book was written in bright red ink which contrasted neatly with the black leather. The book was called Past Wars and Battles, a simple and innocent enough title. Draco cautiously opened to the first page.

There was an Index and Draco skimmed through it.

G. Grindlewald- 1899-1923 12

Haggle Were- 1914- 1935 25

Yolanda/Yasire-1925-1943 30

Tom Marvolo Riddle 42

Riddle – 1947-1960 45

Voldemort-1960-present50

Draco shuddered. This Tom was related to Voldemort? How? And what did that have to do with Ginny? He flipped his way to the indicated page and began to read.

Tom Marvolo Riddle- Slytherin in Hogwarts, skilled wizard

Won an Award for Service to the school in his sixth year

Applied for teaching job several times, was turned down.

Tom Marvolo Riddle was an exceptional student. He got high marks and was an asset to the wizarding community. He's fast growing in knowledge.

-Headmaster P. Dippet

Skipping forward past the grades and passages by his peers, Draco saw the header that proclaimed "Change".

At the age of 20, Tom Marvolo Riddle became one of the most powerful wizards of all time. The name given by his birth mother, Tom Marvolo Riddle, can be rearranged into "I AM LORD VOLDEMORT".

Ginny saw Draco's eyes widen slightly before he managed to contain his shock.

"Riddle is Voldemort?" Draco whispered looking at her with continued shock in his bright eyes.

"Yes." She said finally turning away from Draco and the book.

"He's the one in your dreams? The one who possessed you?"

"Yes." She said. "Keep reading. It gets worse."

Following her instructions, Draco turned his attention back to the book.

Mother, Merope Gaunt, chose this name after his father, a wealthy Muggle, Tom Riddle SR.

"Voldemort, Tom Riddle was a half blood?" Draco said still in his feeling of shock.

"Yes. I told you that you probably wouldn't want to read some of the things in that book."

"For the last fifteen years, my father has been following a half breed?" Draco pinned her with a stare. "You were saying something about Tom being in your head…"

"Ah yes. Tom Marvolo Riddle," Ginny let out a sad laugh. "In my mind he's as real as life. In fact, sometimes he's not in my mind."

"What do you mean?" Draco said giving her a confused look.

She gave him a look that pulled at his tiny heart. "Sometimes, He's real."

Ok not much of a cliffy. But i did try. There was a bit of info here that kinda pushes the story towards the end. Yes there were references to Tamora Pierce books and some other things i think... If you dont understand, this is my style of writing. Its called borrowing and crediting those i borrowed from...

So off we go to review right?

All my apologies are at the top since i know that i dont always read the top..

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