Ginny's POV-

I just collapsed, right there on the floor, next to my bed. I heard some more yelling from the common room, and then someone came up the stairs to my door.

"Ginny? Are you in there?" Hermione asked. I didn't respond, but Hermione came inside anyway.

She look really angry and had her own tears running down her face. She sat down next to me.

"That git!" She said angrily.

"But he's right. I am a minger. I don't know why anyone would want to be with me. I'm weak. I'm broken." I said, crying even more.

"No! Don't listen to him. He doesn't know what he's saying. You've been through a lot in past few days. You're going to be okay." She sounded so sure, so confident that I'll be okay. But I'll never be okay.

"But I'll never be okay, Hermione. Did they tell you what happened when I went after Harry?"

"No."

"He got in my head again. He told me to kill her. I jinxed Harry so that I could do it myself, kill her myself. I didn't hesitate, I didn't think twice about jinxing Harry. I was about to kill her when Voldemort showed up and… and…" My voice broke. I couldn't live with the pain. I was struggling against it. I was too weak. I didn't have enough to fight for. I didn't have anything to fight for. I have no reason for being, except being a burden to others.

"Don't do this to yourself. It isn't your fault. He is the second most powerful wizard in the world. You were an 11 year old girl. There wasn't anything that you could've done."

"But he was able to do it again so easily! What if he does it again? What if I seriously hurt, or even kill, someone next time? I wouldn't be able to live with myself." I said. Tears streaming down my face.

"Don't do this to yourself, Ginny. This is what he wants. He wants you to fear him. He wants you to feel weak against him. Don't give him what he wants."

We both continued to cry until we had no more tears to shed. We just sat there, on the floor. It felt like hours, yet only minutes passed.

"Thank you, Hermione, for everything." I said, finally getting up.

"No problem. I honestly needed that too. Just to let it all out. We all have our demons, Ginny, don't forget that, okay."

"Okay." I said. "I need to go shower, but I'll see you tomorrow at breakfast."

"Good night, Ginny." She said, heading towards the door and exiting.

"Good night, Hermione." After she left, I grabbed my shower bag and pajamas and headed towards the bathroom. I went to the last stall and quickly got out of my clothes.

The warm water felt nice as it ran down my hair and back. I let my mind go blank. I slowly washed my hair and body, not wanting to leave the shower.

After about an hour I got out of the shower and got dressed into my pajamas. I kept my blank as I walked back into the dorm room and went to sleep.

I was trapped in a dark room. Voldemort's voice filled the room.

So weak. So vulnerable.

No! Get out of my head! Leave me alone!

I control you, you weak pathetic little girl.

Stop!

You've lost everything. You have nothing to live for.

No!

You heard how your brothers see you, as a weak girl that needs to be protected from everything. Molly and Arthur lied to you about your past, about who you really are. Sirius, the only person that could tell you about your parents, was taken from you and you did nothing about it. Nothing to avenge his death. His killer was right in front of you, defenseless, and you did nothing.

Leave me alone!

Oh, and don't get me started about Harry Potter, the boy you love who doesn't love you back. How pathetic is that.

Shut up, you bastard!

Oh, you can't get rid of me. I'm inside of you. I control you.

I sat up so quickly I my vision went black. It passed after a minute. I looked over at the clock, which said that is was a little after 6:00 in the morning. Normally I would go back to sleep, but there was no way I was falling back to sleep after that.

I got up and grabbed a random t-shirt, sweatshirt, and leggings from my trunk. I looked over at everyone else. Everyone was still sound asleep.

I quickly changed and put on a small amount of makeup to hide the large bags under my eyes and all of the other flaws on my face. I then headed downstairs to the common room with my book to read for a bit before I had to go to breakfast.

I ended up not reading my book, I just stared at the fire, that was still going strong. If only I was still going strong.

Oh, you can't get rid of me. I'm inside of you. I control you.

That was really bothering me. The fact that he is inside of me. How could that be?

Just then Hermione came down the stairs to the common room. "Oh, hi. I honestly didn't think that anyone else would be up." She said with a small laugh. "What book are you reading?"

"It's called Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Apparently, it's really popular over there. I'm reading it for Muggle Studies. It, surprisingly, isn't that bad." I said.

"That's good. I'm re-reading one of my favorite books, Hogwarts a History." We both started to read our books. I would randomly start laughing when something funny happened in the book, and Hermione would look over my shoulder to see what I was laughing at and she would start laughing too.

So I was in a good mood, until Harry and Ron came down a little over an hour later.

"Ronald has something that he wants to say, don't you Ronald." Hermione said in a serious tone.

"Yeah, um, well, um, I, well, I didn't realize that it was, um, well, you, when I said that." Ron said nervously.

"Ron!" Hermione scolded.

"What?!" Ron asked angrily.

"Apologize! It doesn't really matter that you didn't know that it was her, you shouldn't of been saying that about anyone in the first place!" Hermione scolded.

"Hermione, don't even waste your time. You're never gonna be able to get it through his thick head." I said, heading out the portrait hole and towards the Great Hall.