By Borgin
Interlude
Ginny's funeral was full of many friends and family members. She was rather popular in all the houses - many admired her courageous and steadfast ways. All had forgotten the fiasco of her first year - she was a greatly admired student (plus, her family name was so spread around that every student felt compelled to go. So they did.)
Draco has been expelled, due to his part in Ginny's death. Professor Snape was the one who caught him, and it made him a bit more popular in the eyes of various students.
And Rachel recovered. She was careful, though, to never find herself crawling through the walls again.
Ginny's spirit left her body, but no one has noticed that it never reached the afterlife.
And the story picks up on the Valentine's Day of the famed trio's seventh year.
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Ron, Harry, Rachel, and Hermione had found a table and were spread around it, completing their homework. The NEWTS would be taken soon - and they were already nearly exhausted, from the excessive homework that had been piled up on top of them. And it also happened that they had forgotten about Ginny's deathday - today, February 14, 1998.
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But others did not.
Draco had been nearly disowned by his father for getting himself expelled. But instead, he found himself under constant pressure to learn the dark magic that his father insisted that he learn. And he found that this chore was worse than having killed Ginny herself. Whenever he found himself being scolded for a misaim, he began to think of Ginny. Of how she was rather sweet and a good listener. She was intelligent, but knew when to keep quiet. She was a good companion to have along.
And he began to regret his first murder.
And if things went his way, it would be his second to last.
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Ginny's soul had always wandered around Hogwarts. She had attended all of her classes, and knew exactly which page in her schoolbooks she was to study. But for some reason, and she thought it an odd one, her teachers and friends ignored her. As if she wasn't there.
And someone else was missing - for some reason, she could not find Draco, the love of her life. Where had he gone?
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Rachel was a slow walker. But she got up, and found her way to Ginny's dormitory. It was nearing seven-thirty, the time Ginny died the year before. And Rachel had been around the dead long enough to know that it took exactly one year for a soul to become a ghost. If she wanted to learn what had happened to Ginny, she figured that she should at least find her. So she went into Ginny's old dormitory, which seemed to be the most likely place that Ginny could be found.
But when Ginny's body materialized, she screamed.
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The ghosts of those who die from the Avada Kedrava curse should be solid, with no imperfections. But Ginny's body was not like that.
She had a silver-stained hole leading from her heart. And then, she looked down at herself, and saw what Rachel had seen. She was translucent. She was dead.
And she fled.
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Rachel missed seeing where the ghost had gone to, as she had fainted in the middle of the room.
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Ron heard a scream. Then he saw a ghost-like shimmer fly past. But he, like Rachel, missed where it had led.
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Ginny was flying. I never knew that ghosts could fly, she mused, but I suppose they could.
So she flew.
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We don't know why visiting Draco was her first stop. Why would someone want to visit the person responsible for his or her death?
But Ginny seemed to not be able to realize that he killed her. She did notice that he was not at school. So she decided to visit him, to check up on him. Draco was the first one she had ever really cared for, so why not visit him?
She was able to find his bedroom, where she scared him. He was reviewing some of the thought processes that went along with the "Avada Kedrava" curse. It seemed very likely to the young man that he would need to be able to perform it soon, if he was to kill his father.
And he nearly rejoiced when he saw Ginny. Her hair was a pale pink, and she wore robes of a translucent gray, but he could recognize her. In the midst of their unfinished business, he forgot entirely that she was a ghost and attempted to make out with the air.
"Oh, Draco, that tickles!" she shrieked in delight.
Draco looked up. "Sorry, Gin," he told the ghost in front of him. "I kind of, you see, forgot that you were, um, well, dead."
"It's alright," she assured him. "I've only just realized it myself. After I finish with you, I'll become the second resident ghost who was killed while she was a student. At Hogwarts, I mean."
"Huh?" the boy wondered at exactly what she meant by 'finishing with him'.
"Oh, you know, Draco," she explained quietly. "I help you kill your father - the nasty and vicious thing he is - and you'll help me. You'll become a ghost, too, Draco."
But the concept of a young death scared the young man. He was a member of an evil sect, but the idea of death coming to him scared him. "Ginny, I don't know," he began.
"To stop your father from harming you," she warned, "you'll have to listen to me."
So a reluctant Draco followed the dead girl's instructions.
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The gruesome details of the deaths of Lucius and Draco Malfoy will not be relayed in this manuscript. It is said that the son challenged his father to a duel, and in the midst of the event both were killed.
So Draco did commit his second and last murder, but during the downfall of himself.
It has been rumored that the results of this battle also helped the dark lord Voldemort to be defeated as well.
But to Ginny's dismay, she learned that Draco, unlike her, did not have any unfinished business.
And Ginny spent eternity gossiping with the ghost known as Moaning Myrtle in the constantly flooded girl's toilet.
And the Hogwarts trio? Their story is a completely different tale, to be told at another time.