Ginny Riddle, Chapter 6
Author's Note: The Final Chapter! No one in the story can believe the events of Chapter Five, and I'm sure you can't either. I hope you liked the series, and reviews are more welcome than ever. Now I've got to make that boring old disclaimer speech again.
Disclaimer: I've done this five times in this series already, I think you get the idea. But some of you won't, so here we go again. I don't own anything that J.K. Rowling owns. I must say the plot belongs to ME, since in the real books, Ginny Weasley would never love He-Who-Must-Not-Be-
Named!
Harry Potter stood in disbelief. Ginny Riddle's wand was trained right between his eyes. Harry momentarily wondered if this was the same young woman that had had a crush on him for as many years as he could remember. Maybe it was, and the fact that Harry had always loved Hermione and not her had really started to bug her. But Harry couldn't believe that Ginny, in her sound mind and own free will, would kiss Lord Voldemort like she had. That came far too close to rivaling some of Harry and Hermione's best...Harry didn't want to even think about why Ginny had done such a thing. He was about to find out.
Ginny lowered her wand suddenly, which brought a huge wave of relief over Hermione. But the wave of relief was soon to be replaced with a wave of surprise, as Ginny strode up to Voldemort, and kissed him. That time, Hermione fell into Harry's arms in a dead faint.
Voldemort sat on the floor of the chamber and pulled Ginny on to his lap. They sat there for a while, Voldemort silently twiddling his thumbs, obviously waiting for Hermione to come to.
As Hermione began to come to, Ginny and Voldemort stood up.
"I," Ginny began, "have an important announcement to make." Harry and Hermione stood silently, wondering what this announcement could possibly be. "Tom here is not evil. He never was."
This was too much for Harry to bear. He doubled over, and soon he was rolling on the floor, howling with laughter. "HUMOREUS HALTES!!" Ginny roared, and Harry stood, completely serious, on the spot where he had been cracking up seconds before.
"Like I said," Ginny continued, "Tom is just as good a man as you, Harry." Now Hermione could not stand for this anymore. She fell to the floor, shrieking with humongous waves of laughter. Harry would have laughed again, but under the influence of the Seriousness Charm, he was incapable. Ginny turned her attention to a laughing Hermione on the floor. "Humoreus Haltes," she said calmly, and Hermione stood, rooted to the spot, dead serious.
"Now that you won't laugh hysterically at me anymore, I'll continue with my point." Ginny now had the attention of everyone in the room, including the ten or so Death Eaters. "Tom is not and never was evil. You want to ask how this is possible? Well, Tom has been under the Imperius Curse for the past fifty-five years. On the day of Tom's graduation, fifty-five years ago, a short man clad entirely in black entered the Great Hall. He put Tom under the Imperius Curse and has been controlling him ever since. Now this man is becoming weaker, and Tom is becoming able to fight the curse." It was evident to Ginny that Harry and Hermione, as well as the Death Eaters did not believe a word she was saying.
Harry was the first to voice this disbelief. "Ginny," he said, "you have no way to prove this. The Ministry of Magic isn't going to believe a sixteen-year-old's story about how the most famous evil wizard in hundreds of years is not really evil at all. Good luck."
Ah, Harry," Ginny continued. "Always looking at things from the logical viewpoint. You see, I knew the truth since he trapped me in the Chamber of Secrets. He tried to fight, but all he said to me was 'Sorry, Ginny, Imperius Curse,' then he went back under its control. I had no clue what he meant then, but I do now. We will bring this man to the Ministry of Magic, where the truth will be unveiled," Ginny finished her story and strode over to Voldemort.
"Gin, I can feel him dying. We have to hurry," Tom said anxiously.
"All right," said Ginny. She raised her wand, and she, Tom, Harry, and Hermione Disapparated.
They appeared in Cornelius Fudge's office, and needless to say, he was not keen on the idea of having Lord Voldemort appear in his office uninvited. There was another man there, and Harry assumed it to be the man who had controlled Voldemort.
Fudge raised his wand and started to say something, but Harry screamed, "STOP!!! WAIT!!!" Fudge was so shocked he lowered his wand.
"What is this?" Fudge asked politely. Then he bellowed, "AND WHAT IS THIS EVIL BEING DOING IN MY OFFICE??!!"
"Okay," said Ginny, retrieving a small vial of clear Veritaserum from inside her robes. "Fifty-five years ago, on Tom Riddle's graduation day, this man over here," she gestured to the man on the couch, "put Tom under the Imperius Curse. He has controlled him ever since." Just like Harry and Hermione, Cornelius Fudge didn't believe Ginny, but allowed her to continue. "We'll take this Veritaserum and get some answers."
"Okay," said Fudge, "but we'll use my Veritaserum. I can't afford to use yours, in case it is tampered with."
"Fine," replied Ginny, and Fudge pulled a vial of Veritaserum out of his desk. He walked over to the man and gave him the potion. "Fine," Fudge started, "Where do we begin? Fine, Mr...never mind, have you been controlling Tom Marvolo Riddle with the Imperius Curse?" he asked, turning on a tape recorder on his desk.
"Yes, I have," the man responded, and repeated the story that Ginny had told. As soon as he finished, he passed on, and Tom collapsed.
When he came to, the first thing he heard was the voice of Cornelius Fudge. "Tom Marvolo Riddle," he said to Tom, but also to the assembled people in the Ministry of Magic courtroom (They had moved to the courtroom while Tom was unconscious), "you are hereby cleared of all charges, and given a clean criminal record. If you really want to keep out of Azkaban, that will now be entirely possible," Fudge continued. "On a somewhat lighter note, I believe Harry Potter and Hermione Granger are here today? Yes, there they are, good. You two have a somewhat easier life now, not having to look for and kill Voldemort. This court is adjourned."
As soon as Tom and Ginny Riddle got outside the courtroom, they were met by Albus Dumbledore.
"Mr. Riddle," Dumbledore began. "We are currently looking for a new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. Would you be willing to accept that job?"
"Of course, Professor," Tom replied. "I had guessed the negative publicity for the past fifty-five years would keep people from offering me a job, but I guess not. Thank you, Professor."
"You should report to Hogwarts immediately, Professor Riddle."
"Yes, sir," said Tom as Professor Dumbledore left. Ginny pulled Tom into a hug, wondering what it would be like not only being the only married student at Hogwarts, but married to the DADA teacher, who was famed as the most evil Dark wizard in centuries. Tom and Ginny were right in their assumptions that some parents would be apprehensive about Lord Voldemort teaching their children, but that would not last forever.
Not too far away, Harry was saying to Hermione, "Hermi, it looks like we're done with this job, and we've also got a DADA teacher that's not Snape!" His mouth curled into a smile at the thought, as the distance between them closed and they kissed.
Tom and Ginny came over and they decided it was time to leave. Harry and Hermione boarded Harry's Firebolt, while Tom and Ginny boarded the Firebolt that Tom had just bought, as the four people set off back to Hogwarts.
FOUR MONTHS LATER
With Lord Voldemort now on the good side, there just wouldn't be a story without a new bad guy. This was the way Lucius and Draco Malfoy were conspiring during Easter vacation of Draco's seventh year at Hogwarts. They were planning to become the next Dark wizards, and Draco hoped to be as powerful as Lord Voldemort once was. He was especially angry at Hermione Granger. He had called her a Mudblood for seven years, hoping she would realize that he liked her. She realized it, of course, and gave him a painful slap across the face. Now she's going to marry Harry Potter, nothing could be worse.
Oh, he was mad. Harry and Hermione were to be his first targets of killing once graduation took place. Just for a little practice, he thought. No, he decided to make his father do it for him. He'd be glad to do something like that. What Draco did not know was it was to be the last thing his father ever did.
After his father's death, Draco Malfoy would gain power as Voldemort had, go through thick and thin as Voldemort had, and become the most powerful Dark wizard in the world.
THE END
Author's Note: I hope you liked it. Didn't expect it to end that way, did you? No, don't lie, you know you didn't expect it to end that way. Good reviews, please. Also, keep your eye out for my new story, Hermione's Visit, which should be up in about three or four days.
Author's Note: The Final Chapter! No one in the story can believe the events of Chapter Five, and I'm sure you can't either. I hope you liked the series, and reviews are more welcome than ever. Now I've got to make that boring old disclaimer speech again.
Disclaimer: I've done this five times in this series already, I think you get the idea. But some of you won't, so here we go again. I don't own anything that J.K. Rowling owns. I must say the plot belongs to ME, since in the real books, Ginny Weasley would never love He-Who-Must-Not-Be-
Named!
Harry Potter stood in disbelief. Ginny Riddle's wand was trained right between his eyes. Harry momentarily wondered if this was the same young woman that had had a crush on him for as many years as he could remember. Maybe it was, and the fact that Harry had always loved Hermione and not her had really started to bug her. But Harry couldn't believe that Ginny, in her sound mind and own free will, would kiss Lord Voldemort like she had. That came far too close to rivaling some of Harry and Hermione's best...Harry didn't want to even think about why Ginny had done such a thing. He was about to find out.
Ginny lowered her wand suddenly, which brought a huge wave of relief over Hermione. But the wave of relief was soon to be replaced with a wave of surprise, as Ginny strode up to Voldemort, and kissed him. That time, Hermione fell into Harry's arms in a dead faint.
Voldemort sat on the floor of the chamber and pulled Ginny on to his lap. They sat there for a while, Voldemort silently twiddling his thumbs, obviously waiting for Hermione to come to.
As Hermione began to come to, Ginny and Voldemort stood up.
"I," Ginny began, "have an important announcement to make." Harry and Hermione stood silently, wondering what this announcement could possibly be. "Tom here is not evil. He never was."
This was too much for Harry to bear. He doubled over, and soon he was rolling on the floor, howling with laughter. "HUMOREUS HALTES!!" Ginny roared, and Harry stood, completely serious, on the spot where he had been cracking up seconds before.
"Like I said," Ginny continued, "Tom is just as good a man as you, Harry." Now Hermione could not stand for this anymore. She fell to the floor, shrieking with humongous waves of laughter. Harry would have laughed again, but under the influence of the Seriousness Charm, he was incapable. Ginny turned her attention to a laughing Hermione on the floor. "Humoreus Haltes," she said calmly, and Hermione stood, rooted to the spot, dead serious.
"Now that you won't laugh hysterically at me anymore, I'll continue with my point." Ginny now had the attention of everyone in the room, including the ten or so Death Eaters. "Tom is not and never was evil. You want to ask how this is possible? Well, Tom has been under the Imperius Curse for the past fifty-five years. On the day of Tom's graduation, fifty-five years ago, a short man clad entirely in black entered the Great Hall. He put Tom under the Imperius Curse and has been controlling him ever since. Now this man is becoming weaker, and Tom is becoming able to fight the curse." It was evident to Ginny that Harry and Hermione, as well as the Death Eaters did not believe a word she was saying.
Harry was the first to voice this disbelief. "Ginny," he said, "you have no way to prove this. The Ministry of Magic isn't going to believe a sixteen-year-old's story about how the most famous evil wizard in hundreds of years is not really evil at all. Good luck."
Ah, Harry," Ginny continued. "Always looking at things from the logical viewpoint. You see, I knew the truth since he trapped me in the Chamber of Secrets. He tried to fight, but all he said to me was 'Sorry, Ginny, Imperius Curse,' then he went back under its control. I had no clue what he meant then, but I do now. We will bring this man to the Ministry of Magic, where the truth will be unveiled," Ginny finished her story and strode over to Voldemort.
"Gin, I can feel him dying. We have to hurry," Tom said anxiously.
"All right," said Ginny. She raised her wand, and she, Tom, Harry, and Hermione Disapparated.
They appeared in Cornelius Fudge's office, and needless to say, he was not keen on the idea of having Lord Voldemort appear in his office uninvited. There was another man there, and Harry assumed it to be the man who had controlled Voldemort.
Fudge raised his wand and started to say something, but Harry screamed, "STOP!!! WAIT!!!" Fudge was so shocked he lowered his wand.
"What is this?" Fudge asked politely. Then he bellowed, "AND WHAT IS THIS EVIL BEING DOING IN MY OFFICE??!!"
"Okay," said Ginny, retrieving a small vial of clear Veritaserum from inside her robes. "Fifty-five years ago, on Tom Riddle's graduation day, this man over here," she gestured to the man on the couch, "put Tom under the Imperius Curse. He has controlled him ever since." Just like Harry and Hermione, Cornelius Fudge didn't believe Ginny, but allowed her to continue. "We'll take this Veritaserum and get some answers."
"Okay," said Fudge, "but we'll use my Veritaserum. I can't afford to use yours, in case it is tampered with."
"Fine," replied Ginny, and Fudge pulled a vial of Veritaserum out of his desk. He walked over to the man and gave him the potion. "Fine," Fudge started, "Where do we begin? Fine, Mr...never mind, have you been controlling Tom Marvolo Riddle with the Imperius Curse?" he asked, turning on a tape recorder on his desk.
"Yes, I have," the man responded, and repeated the story that Ginny had told. As soon as he finished, he passed on, and Tom collapsed.
When he came to, the first thing he heard was the voice of Cornelius Fudge. "Tom Marvolo Riddle," he said to Tom, but also to the assembled people in the Ministry of Magic courtroom (They had moved to the courtroom while Tom was unconscious), "you are hereby cleared of all charges, and given a clean criminal record. If you really want to keep out of Azkaban, that will now be entirely possible," Fudge continued. "On a somewhat lighter note, I believe Harry Potter and Hermione Granger are here today? Yes, there they are, good. You two have a somewhat easier life now, not having to look for and kill Voldemort. This court is adjourned."
As soon as Tom and Ginny Riddle got outside the courtroom, they were met by Albus Dumbledore.
"Mr. Riddle," Dumbledore began. "We are currently looking for a new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. Would you be willing to accept that job?"
"Of course, Professor," Tom replied. "I had guessed the negative publicity for the past fifty-five years would keep people from offering me a job, but I guess not. Thank you, Professor."
"You should report to Hogwarts immediately, Professor Riddle."
"Yes, sir," said Tom as Professor Dumbledore left. Ginny pulled Tom into a hug, wondering what it would be like not only being the only married student at Hogwarts, but married to the DADA teacher, who was famed as the most evil Dark wizard in centuries. Tom and Ginny were right in their assumptions that some parents would be apprehensive about Lord Voldemort teaching their children, but that would not last forever.
Not too far away, Harry was saying to Hermione, "Hermi, it looks like we're done with this job, and we've also got a DADA teacher that's not Snape!" His mouth curled into a smile at the thought, as the distance between them closed and they kissed.
Tom and Ginny came over and they decided it was time to leave. Harry and Hermione boarded Harry's Firebolt, while Tom and Ginny boarded the Firebolt that Tom had just bought, as the four people set off back to Hogwarts.
FOUR MONTHS LATER
With Lord Voldemort now on the good side, there just wouldn't be a story without a new bad guy. This was the way Lucius and Draco Malfoy were conspiring during Easter vacation of Draco's seventh year at Hogwarts. They were planning to become the next Dark wizards, and Draco hoped to be as powerful as Lord Voldemort once was. He was especially angry at Hermione Granger. He had called her a Mudblood for seven years, hoping she would realize that he liked her. She realized it, of course, and gave him a painful slap across the face. Now she's going to marry Harry Potter, nothing could be worse.
Oh, he was mad. Harry and Hermione were to be his first targets of killing once graduation took place. Just for a little practice, he thought. No, he decided to make his father do it for him. He'd be glad to do something like that. What Draco did not know was it was to be the last thing his father ever did.
After his father's death, Draco Malfoy would gain power as Voldemort had, go through thick and thin as Voldemort had, and become the most powerful Dark wizard in the world.
THE END
Author's Note: I hope you liked it. Didn't expect it to end that way, did you? No, don't lie, you know you didn't expect it to end that way. Good reviews, please. Also, keep your eye out for my new story, Hermione's Visit, which should be up in about three or four days.