Back in Time: Ginny Style
Started: August 2, 2007
Author's Note:
Anyway now I'm going on with French, Math, Science and Gym in school. Damn this sucks. So much homework.
I'm loving life but sadly life doesn't love me. I lost total feeling in my foot in Gym the other day, like total. My friend Veronica stomped on my foot and I didn't feel a thing! I was so freaking scary!
Hope you all enjoyed the last chapter. It was totally dedicated to you guys!
As for my reviewers, you all got a visit from Sirius and the magical broom cupboard. Straight guy reviewers (if there was any) partied it up with Ginny, while I had a little one-on-one with Remus (if only, -sigh-)
Last time on Back in Time Ginny Style! Ginny told everyone she and Harry broke up, only they didn't. Solaria admitted to making out with Sirius and on the way to DADA Ginny accepted Sirius' date. Then we see a bit of womanizer Black after Molly admitted Sirius got under her shirt once, kind of awkward for Ginny. In DADA everyone was set up for a curse class but Alice is set up against Ginny, and she doesn't look normal. Alice breaks Ginny's leg and puts a gash in her arm. And something fishy is up because while the Slytherins are smirking like seers, and on top of that, Alice suddenly can't remember what just happened!
Will we find out why Alice attacked Ginny?
Summery:Like all other back in time stories, one of the characters goes back to the Marauders' Era and meets the four boys. Only this story is if Ginny went back. Not the Golden Trio.
Disclaimer: You thought I owned the Harry Potter series? Wow what are you smoking, and can I have some?
Chapter 14
"Alice" Molly stepped forward cautiously. "It was you."
"What? How? When?" Alice said incoherently.
"You just attacked Ginny, what the hell is wrong with you?" Lily asked disgusted.
Alice's face was filled with confusion and anxiety. "I can't remember this, why can't remember this. Oh my god how did this happen!"
"You just went crazy on her, like you were possessed." Frank said.
Alice whirled around, staring at the small crowd. "This is impossible. I may be a little mad at Ginny but I would never hurt her. This is a mistake!" She collapsed onto her knees crying. "I swear I don't remember this."
Lily and Remus went to pick up Ginny, being careful of her arm and leg. "We need to get both of you to the hospital wing." Lily said looking at the crying Alice.
"Ya, for insanity potion. Crazy broads." McNair said.
"It's almost unnatural." Bellatrix said flicking her wand sending off white sparks.
Ginny glanced over at Bellatrix. Then she noticed the all-knowing expression she wore. Ginny's mind clicked as she was carried off to the hospital wing.
Alice got up and started to follow Lily and Remus but was blocked by Sirius, James and Peter. Frank stood beside them.
"Let me through, I have to see if Ginny is alright." Alice protested, tears streaming down her face.
"Yes sure, we let you through you and then you go and decapitate her. Like we'd let that happen." Sirius said coldly.
"Some Gryffindor you are. Cowardly more like." James said.
"At least Slytherins let someone know when they're going to take lethal action. Whereas you throw honour away and assault a girl two years younger than you." Sirius's wand was giving off burning sparks.
Frank still was stunned but he seemed to be kinder than the others. "Alice why were you mad at Ginny? Maybe it got to your head. Did you hit it this morning? Just sit down and stay away from Ginny. Why did you do it?" He took her by the hand and steered her over to a straight backed chair. Other Gryffindors closed in beside them. Though Peter just stood off to the side awkwardly.
Professor Cheops stood over her like a large owl. "Miss Smith, why are you mad at Miss Granger?"
"She doesn't trust me, but I swear I would never harm her! I don't know what just happened!" Alice protested. "Please just let me talk to Ginny."
"I'm sorry but until this is all sorted out, you will not be allowed to be in the same room with Miss Granger. It is for the safety of students." Professor Cheops said in her deep reassuring voice. "Now I will ask Miss Prewett and perhaps Mr. Longbottom to the Headmaster's office. You will need to explain what happened to Headmaster Dumbledore."
"Please you've got to believe me. I don't know what happened!" Alice protested as Frank took her by the hand. James glared at her with a look of icy hatred. There was no doubt among the Gryffindors that Alice Smith was a traitor: a backstabber who attacked other Gryffindors. Only Frank was apprehensive around her, hoping with all his might she was just no in her right mind.
At the same time, Remus and Lily were slowly making their way to the Hospital Wing, while supporting Ginny between them. She was heavy and Remus and Lily were trying to be careful not to touch her bleeding arm, or broken leg.
"I can't believe Alice just did that." Remus muttered in a voice which was both appalled and surprised.
Lily nodded in agreement. "She's no better than a Slytherin. I bet she hangs out with them when she's not with us." It was hard to say what was fierier, Lily's hair or anger.
Remus looked ahead at the set of stairs leading down a level. "She seemed out of her mind. What could have possessed her?" Remus asked to no one in particular.
The three walked awkwardly down the stairs. Lily was struggling to support Ginny and her knees shook with both staring and anger. Lily defiantly thought Alice had gone over to the dark side.
"It wasn't her." Ginny said suddenly, as if unaware of her broken leg sticking out at its odd sickening angle. And it seemed as her arm, which slowly oozed its steady stream of blood, and her leg were both the last thing on her mind. Her two carriers looked at her like she was as out of her mind as Alice was presumed.
"Of course Alice cursed you. We all saw it. Did you hit your head when you fell down?" Lily asked in disbelief.
"She's didn't do it." Ginny insisted, shifting her weight as the three ventured down the steps towards the Hospital Wing.
"Ginny, she cast the spells, she knew exactly what she did and she did it." Lily said adamantly.
"Ginny, I think you're being rather unrealistic. Merciful but unrealistic. Are you having hallucinations? Alice did curse you and harm you badly. Do you think you broke your own leg? Alice is as guilty as Sirius was of eating my cake last night." Remus' eyes were softened and his voice honeyed like he was talking to a little child. Ginny bit her lip down as the urge to swear came over her.
"It wasn't Alice. There was something wrong with her eyes, she wasn't herself." Ginny looked over at Remus. "I think somebody put a spell on her. She just shook off my Bat-Bogey Hex and then started whipping the spells at me. I'm telling you she wasn't herself. And what about when she couldn't remember what just happened? I think she is telling the truth that she can't remember, because Alice, our Alice, didn't curse me." Ginny said determined.
Remus and Lily shook their heads sadly at her rattled brains and carried her into the Hospital Wing. They were immediately flustered by a rather young version of Madam Pomfry. She removed Ginny from Remus and Lily's arms and stuck her in a bed across from a little ten year old with large purple gills who had his head in a tank of water.
"Ate some bad Gillyweed on a dare." Madam (or Miss) Pomfry muttered when she came back with a little tub of Dittany balm, a few rags and her wand. "And how did this happen?" She asked Remus and Lily.
"Duelling in DADA." Lily said. "Alice got her."
"What Alice Smith? The sweet little pearblossom? How could she do this?" Miss Pomfy asked confused. She dabbed the blood away on Ginny's arm. "She wouldn't hurt a fly unless it ate her cat."
"Can we not get into specifics?" Ginny asked irritably. If Madam Pomfry gets her way I'll be stuck her all night.
"Anyway." Miss Pomfry continued. She was obviously offended by Ginny's impatient tone. She pointed her wand at the broken leg and injured arm muttering a spell. "That should do it." Ginny examined her whole arm with a slight pinkish line and tested her leg. "Just apply the balm to the scar and it should clear up in a week. Now scat, Humphrey needs his potion."
The three were shooed out as the Matron attended to the purple gilled first year. Lily and Remus looked towards one another and then to Ginny. They're probably wondering why Madam Pomfry didn't check my head. I know what I saw, Alice didn't do it.
"So shall we go back to class?" Remus suggested.
Lily rolled her eyes and replied coolly. "Remus I'm Head Girl. I must maintain a record, no skipping class. No matter what your friends do."
Remus shrugged and the three meandered back to class. Ginny knew they were itching to ask her questions but somehow once that all the blood was cleaned up it was a taboo subject. They opened the door and stepped into the classroom.
It was a battleground. All the Gryffindors were either hiding under desks or firing spells at the Slytherins. Lily ducked as a flash of yellow missed her face. The three flew onto the floor to find cover.
Screams and yells flew. "Tratior!" "Scum!" "Mudblood!" At the moment most remarks where between Sirius and Bellatrix. Sirius dived out of the way of a spell and landed behind the teacher's desk to land amongst the trio.
"Ginny!" Sirius exclaimed seeing her flame red hair. "You're alright!"
He was rudely interrupted by James being blasted back by a renegade spell, causing him to fly against the wall and land beside Lily.
"'Elo my Lady Lily Love." James said wiping his glasses off on his robes.
"Shut it Potter." Lily snapped. Though her voice was hinting at concern for the boy.
"Merlin's beard, what's happening in here?" Remus asked.
"That's quite simple." Sirius said ducking back down from firing a spell above the desk like a trench fighter. "Cheops took Alice to the Headmaster's office but Jamesie here was eavesdropping through the fireplace and heard someone put a spell on dear Miss Smith. Looks like it wasn't really her who tried to kill you kitten." Sirius said to Ginny, even though Remus asked the question.
"I told you!" Ginny yelled at Remus and Lily. "Her eyes were all funny and she wasn't herself."
"But that doesn't explain the battleground." Lily said.
"Well then some person declared that the Slytherins put the spell on Smith." James explained.
"That person being Peter." Sirius said firing off another round of wand blasts. "That boy has got no brains, and only a speck of bravery. He somehow stunned himself as soon as the battle began." He nudged his head over to the lump on the corner behind a table. "Then of course it became Armageddon. I've never had this much fun." Sirius yelled over the boom and din of spells.
"He's right." Lily said. "It makes sense. More anti-mugglebornism." Ginny bit her lip, I'm not actually muggleborn. But Lily raises a point, why do the Slytherins (mainly Bellatrix) want to hurt me?
"Well what are we waiting for?" Remus said pulling out his wand. "Let's knock out some Slytherins!" The three boys bounded over the table and started firing off spells like a great team. They were in wonderful sync, like brothers. Remus fired one, then James, then Sirius.
Ginny watched fascinated as the boys duelled. Molly jumped in behind the table being quickly pursued by Arthur Weasley and a sixth year Gryffindor boy.
"It's crazy out there." Molly breathed. "Why doesn't someone get Professor Cheops?"
"And miss the show?" Lily said staring at James. The others stared at her. "I mean look at Potter and Black making fools of themselves." She said hurriedly.
Molly rolled her eyes. "Sure."
The sixth year then piped up. "Why doesn't someone get Professor Cheops?"
"Too late." Arthur said pointing to the open classroom door. There was Professor Cheops and Professor Dumbledore. Cheops was glowering furiously. Behind her and her billowing robes was Frank holding a terrified Alice around the shoulders.
"What happened here?" Cassandra Cheops yelled. The fighting stopped instantaneously. A random Slytherin stopped mid-curse to stare at the large African woman. Professor Cheops waded into the makeshift barrier of chairs and tables.
"I leave to question a student about a horrendous crime and you take that as an opportunity to cause a war in my classroom. I expect better! I know you all have extreme dislikes but we are still all at Hogwarts. We should stand united, not divided. That is what will draw you to Him." Cheops yelled at the speechless students.
Silence encompassed the room. Him? Not… Professor Cheops looked deadly serious.
"Not only has a student been attacked by a member of her own house, but her attacker was bewitched to do it. This crime is a capital offence!" Cheops pointed towards the students in the centre of the room. Students like Sirius, Bellatrix, Remus, McNair, James and Rudolphus Lestrange. The Gryffindors wore blank looks while the Slytherins had expressions of contempt and loathing for the dark skinned woman.
"Cassandra holds a point." Dumbledore said. "United we stand. Only then can we rise over the emerging dark forces." Dumbledore entered the room with Frank and Alice following closely. He waved his wand, righting the furniture and reawakening the stunned students. "I expect you have all learned your lesson sufficiently. Now if you may all prepare for your next class and leave Professor Cheops alone." The headmaster waved his hand and dismissed everyone.
Outside the class the Slytherins quickly departed. They were whispering madly among themselves, looking mad at something besides each other. They were whispering furiously at McNair and Bellatrix was shoving her wand at his chest. Then they disappeared around the corner.
"Ginny, I'm SO sorry! I swear I was under a spell. Professor Dumbledore told me. He's actually going to look into it. I'm so sorry!" Alice started babbling through tears when she saw Ginny.
Ginny hugged her. "I know."
"What I'm worried about is why someone would want to hurt Ginny and make it look like a traitorous act." Frank said. Ginny stared at Frank. Earlier he had resembled Neville greatly, soft spoken and meek. Now his voice was deep and he spoke with determination. A kind of determination to figure out what was going on and stop it. It was like the attack on his girlfriend had opened up a light in his head. Maybe this is what leads him to become an auror.
"I don't know." Alice said bursting into tears again. "I'm just so sorry I did it. I should have been stronger. I should have thrown off the spell." Molly offered Alice a hankie.
"You know it's not your fault." Frank said hugging her around the shoulders.
"Don't worry, Dumbledore will figure out what happened." Lily said offering hope.
"And if he doesn't I will." Frank said darkly.
"Come on everyone!" James said brightly entering the conversation. "The Hogsmede visit is tomorrow! That's something to get excited about!"
"That's true!" Molly said with Arthur's arm around her. Ginny wholly agreed but still couldn't help feeling awkward around her dating parents.
"Well then, now that's all settled can we please part ways?" Remus said with a non-nonsense look on his face and a cheeky twinkle in his eye.
"Alright, bye." Ginny said about to walk off only to be pulled behind a curtain by Alice.
"I hope you know I'm really sorry and if I knew who did this, I would squeeze why they did it out of them. I'm so sorry." Alice said biting her lip.
"Whoever did it probably just didn't like Gryffindor." Ginny said brightly. But Alice's words left a whole bushel of unanswered questions in Ginny's mind. Is someone out to get me?
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PS. I don't' smoke
Anyway as many of you might have guessed Alice was being controlled. Not by an unforgivable otherwise there would be a HUGE deal, but it was defiantly a Slytherin who has it in for Ginny.
So see ya next time: It's Hogsmede!