Disclaimer: Same as last chapter.

Ginny sighed as she sunk deep into her pillow. Stretching her legs out underneath the silky crimson sheets, she prepared for the sleep that would soon take her.

"Gin."


She groaned and plastered the pillow around her ears.

"Ginny."

Can't a girl get some beauty sleep? She thought to herself.


"Virginia!"


Ginny bolted upright in bed, pieces of hair stuck to her face and a frustrated, sleepy expression dominating her features. "What in ALL hell do you want?!" She yelled, looking around for the culprit.


"It's morning, hun." Elise whispered cautiously, fearing the redhead's wrath.

Ginny stared at her friend, her lips parted into a puzzled 'O'. She checked the muggle wristwatch that Hermione had enchanted to work for her, and her eyebrows dramatically shot upward.


"Bloody hell, Elise, we'll be late!" She panicked, jumping out of bed and rushing to her trunk.


"You seem to be using that word a lot lately…" Elise mumbled under her breath, watching her friend scamper around in a tizzy, throwing outfits here and there. Finally finding her uniform, Ginny drew her hair back into a messy bun, grabbed her bag, (along with Elise by the arm) and fled to Potions.


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"Today, class," Snape began in his usual cold drawl, "we will be learning how to..."

But what they would be learning, Ginny never heard, for she had taken to gazing at a very intriguing spot on the table. Her eyes soon glazed over, and she found herself trying to make pictures out of the spot with her mind.

Suddenly, a horrified scream pierced her ears, followed by another and soon another. The shrieks mingled together speeding into every crevice of her being. Men, women, children, they were all crying out desperate pleas for salvation in the form of terrified screeches. Ginny forced her hands over her ears, squeezing her eyes shut, willing the noises to go away, but that only sent her further into an infinite blackness, enveloping in her in cries of rage, grief, pain, from which she thought it impossible to ever escape.

Stop that! STOP, IT HURTS! She wept silently to herself, until a much closer cry of agony echoed throughout the room. Her own. And as quickly as the screaming had started, it stopped, and as swiftly as she had left the Potions room, she was back and in front of the worried and scrutinizing expressions of her classmates and Snape himself.

"Miss Weasley, I do hope that my lesson isn't that boring." Snape leered, erasing any trace of pity Ginny thought he owned. "Is something actually wrong or is this another of those pathetic excuses you Gryffindors make up to skip my class?"

It took Ginny a moment to comprehend what he was saying. "Professor Snape…I…I really need to go to the…hospital wing," Ginny managed to gasp out before vomiting all over the floor.



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"Miss Weasley. Miss Weasley, wake up dear," A voice near Ginny's ear cooed.

Ginny mumbled something incoherent.

"Miss Weasley, I really do insist that you wake up."

Now this seems familiar. Why do I have to keep waking up in this fashion?

Although this time when she opened her eyes, she was met with a throbbing headache and the face of Madame Pomfrey peering down at her.

"I heard that you screamed in the middle of Potions? I suppose I can empathize, but the vomiting might be going a tad far, don't you think?" Another voice joked to her left, obviously trying to cheer Ginny up.

"Hello Elise," Ginny replied, not even bothering to turn. She didn't think she'd be capable of any movement with this sort of headache.

Madame Pomfrey used her famous "tut tut" on Elise, the cue for her to leave the nurse to work her magic on Ginny.

After administering a Pepper-up Potion and a mild pain reliever to Ginny, she left her with only instructions to take it easy for the next few days.

A few minutes later, Ginny's headache had lessened, but her confusion had not. And she feared that the dread of hearing the voices again would never subside.

Whilst deep in thought, she rounded a corner and ran straight into something solid. Very solid. She looked up and was immediately struck with a feeling of intense déjB vu.

"Watch it, Weasley." Draco growled, sauntering past her. Ginny took a moment out of her fear and confusion to glare at him.

In another daring episode that surprised even herself, she quickly retaliated.

"Bite me," she spat, her tone dripping with sarcasm.

He turned around to smirk at her. "Be careful what you wish for, Virginia," he hissed bending down to eye level with her. She gulped and he backed off, heading to whatever destination.

A/N: Woohoo! More of a plot! And thanks to Selv, Dijarmidoo, galagirl, and waterfairy-rose for reviewing! I'll get the next chapter up ASAP.