Ginny couldn't shake Dumbledore's parting words out of her head, so she skipped lunch and headed straight to her dorm to get the books she needed for her classes and went through her last three classes in a daze trying to decoded what Dumbledore meant.
When it was time for dinner, Ginny sat in the great hall with Lily Remus and Peter, since both Sirius and James had detention for a stunt they pulled in charms and Alice was eating further down with Frank.
Ginny was dragging her spoon through her mashed potatoes barely listening to Remus and Lily's chatter, Ginny scanned the room when the dull color of her potatoes became too much for her and her eyes landed on the blonde head rising from the Slytherin table with perfect posture. At first Ginny froze thinking that it was Draco, and that somehow she had traveled back to her own time, but instead she noticed how tall this blonde was, and how he walked with a more superior posture than Draco ever did, making her realize it was his father Lucius. Ginny noticed that as he rose a few other seventh year Slytherin's rose with him, it wouldn't have seemed odd if she hadn't noticed Lucius's quick barely there glances to a few others down the table to have them also rise leaving their dinner unfinished. Ginny quickly scanned the Slytherin table to see Regulus and Severus also pushing their plates forward with their untouched food still lining the plate as they left great hall just shortly after Lucius.
"I don't think Sirius would like you starring at his brother," Peter's whiny voice cut through Ginny's thoughts.
"Shut up Peter," Ginny replied without looking at Peter. Sometimes it was easy to blame James's and Sirius's taunts as an excuse for Peter's actions in the future, which prodded Ginny to be nice to Peter. However it was times when Peter acted like a nosey know-it-all child that caused Ginny to forget her thoughts of being nice to him.
Peter mumbled about how Sirius and James were much more fun before Ginny got here. Ginny however blocked out Peter's mumbling and let her gaze follow the backs of her two Slytherin friends out of the great hall.
"I'm starving" Sirius's voice came drifting further down the table where he and James began approaching their small group. Ginny blushed knowing that they must have just walked through the doors while Severus and Regulus were leaving, yet she was too busy watching the two of them to have noticed James and Sirius.
Lily took one look at the pair and shook her head disapproving, but she couldn't hide the small smile that appeared on her face when she thought no one was watching.
"Here are my two favourite gingers," Sirius said as he stuffed his way between Lily and Ginny on the bench.
"If I didn't know you were crazy for Dunham, I'd tell you to watch your back," James joked sitting beside Peter on the other side of the table and clapping him on the back.
"But which one is Ginevra crazy for," Peter mumbled loud enough that Ginny could hear.
"I said shut up Peter," Ginny yelled louder than she had meant to.
The joking disappeared off of James face as he looked at Ginny confused.
"Oi, what'd you mean by that Wormtail?" Sirius asked leaning towards the table to look Peter in the eye.
"Peter is finally realizing that he can't hide behind the two of you, that once he's out of Hogwarts he'll be exposed as the coward he really-"Ginny snapped cutting Peter and James off.
"Ginevra," Lily and James gasped.
"What happened?" Sirius barked.
"I saw her lo-"Peter began puffing out his chest.
"You saw nothing, I'm tired off all this," Ginny said standing up from the bench.
Ginny realized that their group had the attention of half the hall, and she didn't seem to care, all that she knew was that she was angry, angry at Sirius for not making it easy, for not loving her the way she loved him in the future, angry at her parents for not being here, angry at Dumbledore for his riddles, but most of all Ginny was angry at herself, because she knew all this anger and frustration was her own fault, and she was taking it out on the easiest target.
"Tired of what?" Remus and Lily asked together.
"I'm lost, did we miss something," James laughed, in an attempt to lighten the mood.
"This was supposed to be easy," Ginny answered fighting back her tears.
"What was?" Sirius asked.
Ginny looked at his sad and confused eyes before she shook her head, fighting back the tears and tuned and ran out of the great hall.
Ezriella, I accepted! and I think i'll try writing a future chapter to see if I can make it work, hopefully you enjoy this one (:!
paulaa90 I'm glad you like Snape, I always thought the same thing, since we know he was good deep down, i'm trying to show the side the marauder's never saw