Errm, yeh. Ok, kids. So, you've probably had a few questions… especially about the most obvious things.. such as.. HOW IN THE WORLD WERE THEY ABLE TO SAVE GINNY? WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS INCONSISTANCY IN YOUR STORY? FIX IT, NOW! At least, i know one person had to be thinking that.
Don't worry, all will be revealed eventually.
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Ginny closed her eyes wearily, then opened them again.
Except this time, she wasn't in the Hospital Wing any more. She was in her four-poster bed in her dormitory, staring out of the gray window in surprise. She looked down at her legs, which were incased in the pajamas she had been wearing the day before. She jumped out of the bed, running downstairs and into the common room, heading straight for Hermione, who was reading something in a chair by the fire.
"Hermione!" The bushy haired girl looked up in surprise, putting down her textbook that she had been reading so absorbedly.
"Ginny, what's wrong? What are you doing up so early?"
"Hermione, what's the date today? What's the date? Isn't it February 14th?" Hermione looked warily at Ginny, as if considering if she were joking or not.
"No, Gin. It's the day before Valentine's Day. Are you sure you're alright?" Ginny spluttered. The day before Valentine's Day? But, it wasn't even possible! It had been the day before Valentine's Day.. yesterday. Or was all of that.. just a horrible dream? It couldn't be!
"What.. you mean.. but.. Harry escaped! He kidnapped me! And took me to the Shrieking Shack! And then.. but.." Hermione stood up anxiously, giving her a motherly, appraising look. She pointed back to Ginny's dormitories.
"I think it was all just a bad dream, Ginny.. You really shouldn't be awake at five, anyway. Go back to your dormitory and get a few more hours of sleep, ok?" She sat back down, shaking her heading and picking up her book slowly, thinking. Ginny didn't move for a moment, but then a frigid blast of air crept up her leg, and she remembered she was in the dormitory in her pajamas. She paced carefully back into her dormitory, closing the door quietly behind her. Instead of going back to sleep, she got dressed, constantly running her thin fingers through her hair.
Had all of that been some crazy dream? But it had seemed so real.. Even now, she could feel the touch of Harry's hands on her bare skin. She shivered, running a brush through her hair and heading back out through the dormitory (after securing her wand into her pocket), ignoring Hermione's outburst as she ran out of the portrait hole.
She headed briskly to the Great Hall, not expecting anyone to be awake. She knew there would be food on the table, and she needed a place to think. The Great Hall at five thirty would be good enough. Once she had reached the Gryffindor table (at which only Neville Longbottom was seated) she reached for a bit of toast, settling down moodily.
If it was only the day before Valentine's day.. what would be happening? It means that she and Draco were still at each other's throats, it meant Harry was still in Dumbledore's office.. So, she couldn't run to Draco, without a threat of ruining things even more. She had been ignoring him for the past few months, any way.
So, it was only a dream. Or was this just a dream? What she was experiencing.. was this just a dream? She was chasing herself in circles.
If this was reality, what did her dream mean? What if it were something more than a dream? A premonition? A vision of sorts? What if that really did happen? What if she had to experience that.. twice..
Or if this wasn't really reality.. If it were just another dream, it meant that she really had been.. she had been raped by Harry Potter. And she was now laying in the Hospital Wing.
Where is the reality, where is the sense, in all of this?
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Hahahaha. Well, enjoy that puzzle, kiddos. I almost never write anything over the weekends, so I'm not sure if I'll get another chapter up this week.
Sorry this one's so short. I promise the next one will be longer.
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