Ginny was livid. She started to pace back and forth in Harry's study while fuming and running her hands through her hair and ignored all of Harry's soothing words. She refused to sit once Harry told her about the article he read in the Prophet that morning.

"Ginny," Harry pleaded towards her, "please sit down. It wont do us any good if you're pacing around the room."

"Harry. What the bloody hell does that man thinks he's doing?" she seethed.

"I'm not sure. But whatever the reason, we will find him," Harry said calmly and pulled her arm to sit down next to him. She gave in, reluctantly to his soft, but firm tug.

"We have to tell her. I don't want to – Merlin knows I don't want to – but we have to," she responded with tears in her eyes.

"I know we do. She has to know," Harry reasoned and Ginny nodded.

"We should tell her after dinner. Let her sleep on it – that is if she even sleeps," Ginny said honestly, more to herself than to Harry.

"After dinner it is," sighed Harry.

Harry and Ginny remained quiet throughout most of dinner while the kids all joked, laughed, and talked amongst each other – oblivious the adults' silence. Both had too much on their mind to be distracted. They were going over the different ways they could approach Jenni about the mans sighting gently in their mind. And, no matter how much they tried to not think about the young girls reaction, they knew it wouldn't be pretty.

Harry thought that if he were to have her read the article and then get her take on the news would be best. But then he felt she wouldn't say a word and simply be shocked by the article.

Ginny thought that telling her bluntly once James, Albus, and Lily left might not be easiest, but would certainly be quickest. However, she thought that if she told her bluntly, she'd explode and storm into her room.

Either way they looked at it, the news should not be something to take lightly. And Jenni's feedback is something they should be concerned about whichever way it goes.

Once they all finished dinner, James and Al went into Al's room to look at the pranks James gave him for Christmas. Meanwhile, Lily and Jenni helped Ginny clear the dishes. And, Harry went up to his study to think over what to say to Jenni.

Once the girls cleaned the dishes Lily ran up to Al's room to see the pranks, Jenni was about to follow, but Ginny caught her, "Jenni," Jenni turned around slowly to face her, "cold come up to Harry's study with me? There's something the three of us need to talk about."

"Oh. Sure Ginny," Jenni gave her a curious expression as she said this.

"What could they possible want to talk about?" Jenni thought, "grades? Homework? Making sure James and Fred don't blow up the school?" The topics could be about anything.

The two girls entered Harry's study, and Ginny closed the door behind Jenni, pulled out her wand and whispered "Muffliato". Jenni was beginning to get more and more curious by the second.

"Jenni, could you sit down on the couch, please?" asked Harry. Jenni nodded and sat herself down.

"Listen, Jenni," Ginny started with an unsure tone, "there's some… news you need to know about." Jenni nodded at her to continue.

"See, we weren't aware of this news until Harry here… well… read it in the news this morning. It's not good news," Ginny stated this last part more to herself, "it definitely is not good."

"But it is something you need to be aware of," Harry continued for her, and then hannded Jenni the article to read.

The air in the room seemed to be diminshing as Jenni read more of the article. When she finished, she put the paper down on her lap, her eyes wide with fear which soon narrowed, filled with anger. She bit her lip and her eyes wandered all around the room until they finally landed back on the picture of her parents' murderer on the paper. Harry and Ginny could sense that she was collecting her thoughts on this matter and waited for her to say the first words.

"Why?" Jenni choked out.

"Sorry?" Harry said quizzically.

"Why?" Jenni repeat louder with a quiver to her voice, "why! Why on earth is this… this monster back? What does he even want! Why did he kill my parents!" She shouted all this while holding back tears. Ginny and Harry looked at her compassionately.

"We don't know," Harry said truthfully.

"If we did know then we'd tell you. But this is as much of a shock for us as it is for you," Ginny said delicately as she sat next to the hurting girl, and wrapped an arm around her.

"Am I safe?" Jenni said looking up at Harry with sudden fright in her eyes.

"As long as you don't wander off here you are. And don't get me started at how safe you'll be once you're back at Hogwarts. Nothing, absolutely nothing harmful will be able to touch you as long as you're here or at Hogwarts," Harry said with such confidence that it made Jenni smile.

"Okay. Good. Okay," Jenni said nodding feverishly, "I'm getting tired, I think I'll get ready for bed."

"That's fine," Ginny said.

"Try to sleep. I'll do my best to find out as much as I can tomorrow at work," Harry explained.

Jenni got up, gave them hugs good-night, went to her room and got her pajamas on then shrank into her sheets. Her mind was whirling with thoughts about the man at the meadow, and wonders about where he is now, and thoughts about why he could possibly be so close to her. She looked over to see the time; 12:30 it read. She groaned, and after a few minutes she got up to use the loo.

She crawled back into bed – 12:50. 'Why can't i fall asleep?' she thought to herself, annoyed. After fifteen minutes of laying in her bed, and scaring herself with more alarming thoughts, she decided to get up again. Instead of walking to the loo, she walked to the end of the hall towards James' room. She fought with herself about entering his room when she knows he's sound asleep. She continued to debate with herself about going inside because she really needed someone to talk to after what she's learned from today. Her thoughts about being kind and letting her friend sleep as she was having internal issues did not sit well with her. So she knocked lightly on his door - knowing full well he wouldn't answer - so she opened the door and walked in.

"James?" she whispered as she approached the boys bed.

"James?" she said with a forcefull poke to his side, to which he bolted straight up.

"Eh? What! I swear I didn't do it Professor!" he yelled, but once his eyes adjusted to the dark and saw that it was Jenni who woke him up, he softened his face and looked more alert, "Jenni? What is it? What's wrong?"

She remained silent and crawled into his bed next to him and held onto him and began sobbing into his chest. James was taken aback by her actions, but hugged her all the same. He whispered soothing words into her ear, and stroked her hair while holding onto her tightly.

They stayed like that until 1:30 when Jenni finally pulled away from him and wiped away her tears. She was still quivering so James held her hand until any last minutes sobs came to an end and he waited for her to speak.

"I'm sor-sorry," Jenni hiccuped.

"Don't be," James encouraged her and Jenni smiled at him, "do you want to talk about it? Whatever it is?"

Jenni gave an uncertain look until she replied, "Yes. I need to get it out into the open."

So, for the next hour and a half, Jenni poured out all her thoughts, emotions, fears, hatred, and pain about her parents' muder and murderer. When she finally came to the part about learning about the monster being close by, she explained about how she felt so small. And that Harry and Ginny somehow made her feel like she was helpless. She told him how she knows she's still a child – "by age", but reasoned that she's seen things no child should ever have seen. And she described how every night she holds the picture of her parents and talks to them about her day, and that she prays that they're doing well in heaven. The last thought she tells James was about how she hopes they're looking out for her, and watching over her as her guardian angels.

"They are," James comments, reassuring her, she gives him a tearful smile and hugs him once again.

After Jenni poured her heart out to James, he senses she is still in a vulnerable state and offers up to her to stay in his room for the night so that way she's not alone with her thoughts tonight. She complies without arguing and nestled under the sheets next to her best friend. Both she and James slept soundly for the rest of the night.

A/N: A specific song inspired the meaningful scene between Jenni and James. The song is called "My Immortal" by Evanescence, and for future reference I may or may not borrow ideas from some of the lyrics and paraphrase them my own persective. I don't own "My Immortal" I was only using it for writing inspiration purposes only.