Chapter 7.

Intoxicated

About six months later...*blushes* I am horrible, i know!! I hope you haven't all forgotten about me...and i'm going to continue this pretending book five didnt come out and ****** didn't die. Note: i was feeling a bit depressed when i wrote this...

Disclaimer: I own nothing except the plot

Harry looked around cautiously He quickly grabbed Hermione's hand, startling her as he saw no one.

"What's the matter?" Hermione asked Harry. Harry placed his hand over her mouth. Looking off into the distance, he saw some sort of large black cloud on the horizon. The only odd thing was that the thing that appeared to be a cloud was pitch black and it was a clear suny day. Harry jumped to his feet and ran into the Burrow, pulling a very confused Hermione with him. He quieted her and glanced out the parlour window. The black cloud had moved closer. It didn't look like a cloud anymore. The air was just black. Harry embraced Hermione and they say, in a corner, wondering what was going on. Hermione was racking her brain, trying to figure out what was familiar about that black cloud.

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Meanwhile, Mr and Mrs. Weasley were sitting in the kithen, discussing the latest news about Voldemort. Fred, George, Ginny and Ron were holed up in Fred and George's room, experimenting with some strange new potion. Laughter surrounded them in the room as they randomly added ingredients, hoping the potion wouldn't explode. Fred and George were discussing something. Ginny, sensing an argument(she knew, arguments and strange potion are not a good combination), dragged Ron out of the room. They walked up the stairs to Ron's room. Once they arrived there, Ron flopped on his bed.

"Ginny" He asked lazily, "how can you tell who someone likes? I was never able to figure out who Hermione liked and I tried."

Ginny smiled at her older brother. "Well, bribing them to tell you always works."

Ron doubted that was the answer and raised his eyebrows at her. She grinned. "It's just how they act, and if they act differently around some people than aorund other people. I don't know. It's hard to explain."

"I always told Harry girls made no sense. But did he listen? No, of course he didn't. Why would he, famous Harry Potter listen to me, poor, stupid Ronald Weasley? I mean, he's too good to do-"

"-Ron! He's your best friend!" Cut in Ginny "How can you say things like that about him? He doesn't want all the publicity, you know. Let me ask you something Ron. Do you think I'm a good confidante? Am I a good sister to you?"

Ron nodded his head. "Of course Ginny, you know I couldn't survive a day without you!"

"Well, Harry trusts me too. And let me tell you, from what he's said, he admires you Ron! He admires you! So don't go thinking he's too good for you! You know that's not true. Damnit Ron, you need an ego boost. You think you're not good enough for anything. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go prove that you're a good person." With that, Ginny ran downstairs and out the front door into the orchard. She didn't notice the black cloud drawing nearer and nearer to the house. Ginny climbed up into an apple tree and started looking at apples, trying to fnd the perfect example to show Ron.

Suddenly, the air around Ginny felt colder. She looked up and noticed that everything was black around her. She seemed to be in some sort of black cloud. She tried to jump out of teh tree but to no success. She got partway down and was engulfed in a stramge part of a cloud. *This smells nice,* she thought, barely aware of where she was. Ginny breathed in the odour again. This time it intoxicated her with it's poisonous scent. She closed her eyes, and everything around her went blacker than it already was.

There ya go. My first chappie in a long time. hope ya like it. And PLZ review!!!!

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