A\N:
Well, hello there, everyone! ^-^ Third chapter! I'm really surprised from the responds... you really like this awful thing, don't you?...
This chapter is dedicated to Smadar, my love, for almost killing me when I said I might stop it. |hug|
AND!!! A special "Thank You" sign for Melissa for finding the "Huff Puff"... . I SWEAR I didn't mean to click on it! At least you had a good laugh and said you loved me!! ^-^
"Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Huff puff. Ok nothing's wrong with- wait, Huff puff?"
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Meeting Old Acquaintances
Ginny followed silently behind Dumbledore, her brain not fully comprehending what happened. She was still tired and very confused. Not knowing what was going to happen, Ginny didn't have much time to figure out what to do.
Ginny didn't know where Dumbledore was leading her and she didn't know what would be done with her when she arrived there. Dumbledore seemed to be leading her toward the headmaster's office, and Ginny hoped agent's hope that's where they were going and the headmaster wasn't going to kick her out. But he would do that, would he? Ginny thought.
***
Tom went to breakfast irritated. It wasn't that hard to understand why. He spent all morning searching for that girl. He had even woke few of his friends up to help him. His search proved fruitless however, for he didn't find her anywhere.
He hoped Armando Dippet will keep her in the school, as a student. Tom needed to have the access to find her anytime he'd like, and anytime she'd like.
He smiled. He had the feeling that this year would be interesting. In more ways than one...
***
They arrived at an ugly statue. Professor Dumbledore tapped on it a couple of times, and if Ginny looked closely she could have seen some tiny sparkles which absorbed into it.
A couple of seconds later the statue moved aside and revealed a staircase. Professor Dumbledore led her down the staircase to where Professor Dippet wasn't expectantly waiting for her.
***
Tom started to feel the tiredness coming on from the hour's worth of sleep he missed that morning, but he figured he could get through the day, an hour was almost nothing.
The common room couch seemed to beckon to him, so he went over and laid down on it, just planning to rest for a minute or two, but he unconsciously drifted into the land of nod.
***
The conversation lasted at least four hours. Dippet kept repeating everything Ginny would say many times, as if trying to memorize it word for word. Dumbledore had already left a long time ago. He had his students to teach.
"So, Virginia," Dippet licked his dry lips. "What did you say about you arrival?"
In the inside, Ginny sighed. "What I remember is that I know my name is Virginia Weasley, and I'm fifteen. I'm a witch and I woke up in a corridor that had a ladder to the As – to a tower. Someone named Tom – Tom Riddle..." her voice shook slightly and she hoped he didn't notice. "He told me the direction I should go to, and there I found the Staff Room..."
The headmaster's back straightened again with hearing Tom Riddle's name, for the fiftieth time. "Riddle, huh? One of the best students here, he is. I presume that I should let you stay here for now...but you need to get sorted,"
He didn't explain what "get sorted" was. If Ginny didn't want to make herself sound suspicious, she would have to ask...
"...and to enter the school year. I assume that you know the spells and potions that kids your age should already know."
Ginny nodded. "I guess I know those things..." she said. "Umm...Sir, what did you mean by "sorted"?..."
"Ah! You don't know about the houses..." He hummed. "Well, a house is a place where a similar group of students live. They sleep together, eat together, and learn together. There are four houses here. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Hufflepuff."
Ginny nodded.
"So, to get you sorted..." The old man got up from his sit and searched for something which was on the shelves. Ginny knew exactly what he searched for, and couldn't avoid from the anxiety that her body and mind felt for the thought of being re-sorted.
***
"Voldemort..."
Tom's eyes snapped open. He never was a heavy sleeper. In front of him a boy named Osric stood, looking at him, and then when her locked eyes with Tom Osric's eyes immediately retreated to the ground.
"What did I tell you about saying that name?" Tom whispered quietly and angrily.
Osric flinched from his tone, and wondered what Tom was going to do to him for punishment. "Sorry! Sorry! There was no one here!"
Tom turned his face to the room and saw that Osric was right. There was no one there. He stood up and waited for a moment while his blood stopped rushing a returned to its regular flow. Then he grabbed Osric's shirt collar and pulled his face close to his own.
"Be careful at the things that your mouth says..." and he left him, and the common room.
***
Ginny sat in the chair she had occupied for the past five hours, this time in complete silence with the sorting hat on her head.
"Oh? What's that? You were already sorted... you cannot be sorted twice . Everything is written in your mind..."
'Please, you have to, Dumbledore sent me here...I have a mission I have to complete!' Ginny pleaded in her head.
"You need it? A task? Do not worry; I shall not say a thing."
"GRIFFINDOR!"
Ginny sighed, relieved.
"So I guess we should get you the things you need –" Ginny blushed, "—and to a bed in the room. Welcome to Hogwarts, Virginia,"
And Ginny sighed again, now calmed.
***
Tom went straight to lunch. He missed some of his classes. There he'll talk with the teachers and explain what happened. Besides, he hoped to meet her there. That was the only thing he hoped for in the last day, and he hoped that once this hope was satisfied he would be able to get back to his normal routine and without unnecessary searches.
When he arrived to the Great Hall it was full. There were always students that preferred to miss a meal or two from time to time for some reason, and it was pretty rare that every student in the school arrived together at the same time. The thing he didn't know was that the headmaster asked the teachers to tell to their students to all come.
In the start, before the food was served, Dippet stood and cleared his throat. "I would like to get everyone's attention, please."
Tom looked at him, like everyone else.
"We have a new student in the school," murmurs filled the hall. The headmaster shushed everyone before he went on. "Her name is Virginia Weasley." When Ginny herd her name she stepped up next to the headmaster as instructed. "She has already been sorted into Gryffindor. "Virginia, you may take your seat."
Ginny walked down around the staff table and took an empty seat at the Gryffindor table.
Tom stared at her. So she is in Gryffindor eh? He thought maliciously.
He gave her his full concentration and she must have noticed it because she turned her face quickly to the Slytherin Table. In the moment she saw the looker, though, she turned again immediately away from him, an almost invisible shudder passed through her body.
***
Ginny felt bad. The headmaster decided to announce about her joining into the school when all the students were present. And him. He looked at her through the whole time, a considering gaze, thinking... a gaze which she knew so well, even if she didn't feel or see it many times.
She knew him partly from his writing.
She sat back in her place, and the murmurs became stronger. A slight blush spread over her face, and she tried to hide it by lowering her head.
***
At the teachers' table Albus and Asreni sat and also looked at the new student. She tried desperately to avoid from people's looks, but Albus noticed that she tried to ignore a specific one. Tom Riddle looked at her with an intense, surprised and thoughtful gaze.
"Albus?" Asreni whispered. "Why did you lead her to Armando?"
Albus sighed. "She needed to get there."
"But you knew she wasn't a student."
Albus nodded. "She had the feeling of... hasting. She's afraid of something, but is determined to do...something, I don't know what, and she had that look in her eyes..."
"But she lied." Asreni said.
"She lied, true," he agreed, "but in that specific lie there wasn't anything dangerous. Now it depends on what she will do now she is a student."
"So you think she didn't forget the things she said were forgotten?"
"I'm not thinking," he said sadly. "I know."
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