Of Missions and Destiny



When I got to Hogwarts, I decided first that I'd study her habits. I also wanted to discover little tidbits about her personal life that would help in the mission. So I set my best spies to discover information about her. I went to Snape and talked him into telling me her grades and her academic skills. After a month, I got some interesting information about her from my spies. It appeared that she was not ditzy after all. She excelled in all her classes, especially Potions, which surprised me. I didn't think any of the Gryffindors understood the art of Potion-making well enough to get good grades from Professor Snape. Even Granger only thought of Potions as a class. I also found out that my assumption that she lived in the Dream Team's shadow was false. She had a group of friends her own age. It surprised me -again- that she seemed to be the organizer of the group and not just a silent follower. From all accounts, she had backbone.



I collected all my spies' reports at the end of the second month. In one of the reports, I found that the names of her friends were Riley Lockwood, Jordan Thompson, Diane Anderson, and Carrie Yarden. All the reports mentioned a journal that Ginny kept hidden in a cabinet near her bed. She had written in it every night since she had gotten to Hogwarts. Usually from after dinner till bedtime. Webber, my most thorough and discreet spy, wrote that she slept restlessly most nights and awoke in the middle of the night about two nights every week from nightmares. Then I never would have thought that Ginny would have nightmares when she seemed so carefree in the daytime. Webber had even put a spell on to see what she was dreaming about, but he wrote she awoke too quickly for it to be successful.



When I had finished reading the reports, I owled Webber. I had wanted him to get me a copy of her diary that added the entries as she wrote them. Then I reread the reports. An hour later, the large owl returned with a big, leather-bound book that was a little tattered on the edges and a small note.



The note read as followed:



Boss:

I put a spell on this copy of her diary to make it an exact replica of the original. Also, I put a spell on the original diary that insures that no one will know that there is a copy. Expect new writing to appear around seven p.m. This note will burst into flames in five seconds.

-Webber



As I said before, very discreet. I opened the book and found that half the book's pages were already filled. I flipped to the first page of the diary and started reading. A few hours later, I had to leave my dorm for one of my classes. When I returned, I instantly dropped my things and started reading the book again.



Finally, after hours of reading those huge pages, I had read all that she'd written so far, and what she'd written had fascinated me. It was amazing that she already understood some of her potential power. Very early on too. And to think that I once thought her stupid. All my assumptions about her were incorrect. In her third year, she had discovered that she could become a fox without any preparation.



Her diary also solved the mystery of her dreams. What she'd written puzzled me. She had been having strange dreams since second year it seemed. In one entry, she had written, I walked through the Forbidden Forest and transformed into a fox. Then I found myself in a clearing. The same Swedish Short-Snout dragon was there to greet me. Then we start having a conversation in dragon. And I understood! I never remember what is said, but it's obvious that I am being taught something by the creature. But that's not even the weirdest part of the dream. At the end the dragon murmurs some words and turns into Draco Malfoy! Then, she'd written, she woke up in her fox form.



The pressing thought on my mind was, How does Ginny's subconscious know what my Animagi form is?