Chapter Five: Confrontations With the Red and Brown

A/N: Major editations!!!!!!! 9/11 scene has been deleted. Forget about it!!! It never happened!!!!!! Instead Midori had a dream…suspicious…

Midori walked through the halls; Finally stopping at a portrait of a fat lady in a pink dress. She remembered Harry saying something about it. But she just couldn't place her finger on what it was. As she racked her brain, trying to remember what Harry had said there was a creak as the portrait swung open. Midori stepped back as two redheads walked out. They were hunched together, whispering about something.

"Fred! George!" She cried. Their heads snapped up in surprise. They relaxed when they recognized who it was.

"Midori, what are you doing here?" Fred asked quietly, peering down the hall to see if Filch was anywhere near. They pulled her aside and George asked,

"What are you doing out so late?"

"I could ask you the same thing." She replied. She wasn't in the mood to talk. She just wanted to go to bed, for some reason she felt horrible. As George tried to find an explanation Midori just said,

"I'm tired and I want to sleep, can you tell me the password so I can get in?" Fred looked at her curiously then told her the password was 'Tidily-Wink'. But before she stepped into the room he grabbed her wrist, stopping her, and asked,

"What's wrong." He gave her a sympathetic glance. She mustered up a smile as best as she could and replied,

"I don't know yet." She walked into the Gryffindor common room. Leaving Fred alone with George who was looking at his twin with a mischievous smile. He pressed his fingertips against his forehead and mockingly predicted,

"Fred you are going to have some very confusing love situations...involving...a certain new girl...and a certain Alicia...." Fred glared at his twin, but George just laughed. They went back to planning what they would do with all the extra money they had leftover from what Harry had given them.

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Sighing for no reason she could think of Midori started to walk towards her room when she realized she didn't know where it was. There was no one awake in the common room so she couldn't ask them. And she wasn't in the mood to inconveniently open the wrong door. She plopped down onto the plush couch near the fire and fell asleep.

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Midori awoke to the noise of a small shriek. She rubbed her eyes and pushed her hair away from her face.

"Midori?" A familiar voice whispered with surprise.

"Ginny? What time is it? Are you sure it's morning?" Midori asked groggily.

"It's...midnight I guess." Ginny replied sheepishly. Midori now fully awake asked,

"Why are you even up?" Ginny looked at her and replied,

"I was waiting for you. You didn't show up in the fourth year room and I thought maybe you were staying with the fifth years, but then Hermione said she hadn't seen you."

"Yes Midori, why aren't you in bed?" Another familiar voice called out from behind the redhead. It was Hermione.

"I didn't know where my room was and well..." Midori replied.

"Oh." Hermione answered.

"So you're staying here? In Gryffindor I mean." Ginny said.

"Kind of..." Midori replied.

"How so?" Hermione asked.

"Well I'll be in Slytherin too...next month." Midori replied. Ginny sighed at this.

Hermione shook her head with sympathy.

"Well it's not like it was your choice..." She said. Midori took a deep breath then stated,

"It was my choice." Ginny and Hermione both gasped.

"You mean, you want to be in Slytherin?!" Ginny exclaimed exasperated. Midori nodded.

"But Pansy Parkinson, Crabbe, Goyle, and Draco Malfoy are in Slytherin!" Midori just shrugged.

"Why?" Hermione asked suspiciously.

"I have my reasons." Midori said, grinning evilly. "And Professor Dumbledore said I could switch anytime I wanted." Hermione just shook her head again...this time with amusement. Ginny was just curios.

"So how long will you be in Gryffindor? And what about Quidditch, don't you want to be on a team?"

"I'll switch houses every month. And I never thought about Quidditch..." Midori replied thoughtfully. "I guess I won't be able to play."

"That's too bad, I was going to try out...I was hoping you would get on the team too." Ginny said sadly.

"Well you can try out anyways, and can we not talk about Quidditch, or the fact that Midori is in Slytherin?" Hermione said.

"Sure..." Midori replied. Then her face lit up.

"Hey you guys what time is it?"

"I told you around Midnight." Ginny said.

"Great I'll be back in a second." She raced off, but stopped and turned around.

"Ginny where is the fourth year girls' room?" Midori asked sheepishly.

"I'll show you." Ginny replied and she raced up the staircase and into the room with Midori right behind her. Midori peered around the room full of sleeping girls. There were six beds in all.

"Oh my! I'm surprised I didn't see that before." Ginny exclaimed. She raced over to a bed near the window and saw that there was no one in it. There was a trunk resting at the foot of it.

"This must be yours." She said to Midori. Midori walked toward it and peered at the trunk. It was hers.

"This is Great! Now I know where to sleep." She said loudly. Ginny held a finger to her lips, pointing towards the four sleeping girls.

"Be quiet." She whispered. Midori nodded and bent down next to her trunk. She opened it and quickly removed an object. Motioning for Ginny to follow, she raced out of the room and down the stairs.

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The three girls laughed at the small television. They were watching I Love Lucy. Midori turned of the TV when the program had ended. Ginny was staring at the blank screen in amazement.

"My father would kill for one of those..."

"How are you getting American broadcast channels Midori, and how in the world are you getting an electric item to work here?" Hermione asked suddenly curious. Midori smiled and explained.

"Mommy charmed it so that I could get them. We didn't like to miss our favourite programs, and the Professor allowed me to have it...I think mostly because he wanted to see one himself, but I'm not sure why he really let me bring it.... Anyways he charmed it for me."

"Mommy?" Ginny giggled, interrupting Midori. She smiled,

"I can call my mother whatever I feel like." Midori sighed, suddenly, for some reason, remembering her dream. She then saw Hermione looking at her strangely.

"What's wrong?" She whispered. Midori hesitated then told her about how she couldn't understand what was so important about the dream she had. Ginny listened in too and the three girls were silent. Hermione broke the silence by speaking,

"Why do you think it's such a big deal? I mean it was just a dream." Midori fidgeted, avoiding the question. She looked at Ginny and asked her if she liked Hogwarts.

"Well…" the red head started, decideing to avoid Midori's quick aversions, "I didn't exactly have the greatest experience." Ginny hesitated, then she continued, " I never told anybody this...except well Hermione knows about it, right?" Ginny asked looking up the brown haired girl. Hermione realized what she was saying and nodded, telling Ginny to go on.

"In my first year..." Ginny went on to tell Midori about how she had been exploited by Tom Riddle and realized too late who he really was. But of course Midori knew about this, and before she could think about it she said,

"Yeah...I know." Hermione sucked in a gasp.

"Harry told you?!" Ginny cried with rage. Midori realized her mistake and tried to cover it up.

"NO! no…He didn't tell me." Hermione looked at her suspiciously.

"Then how did you know?" She asked. Midori knew that she was going to have to tell them...She knew that it would be a big mistake if she did, and an even bigger one if she didn't. She sighed then told her story, why she was really at Hogwarts, why she had become Harry's neighbour, why she had become an auror, and also something that she had just realized herself, why she had decided to stay in Slytherin.

A/N: UHHHH!!! I am being very, very, very lazy, most obviously, because I keep putting off my thanks section...but maybe by some miracle I will actually do it in the next chapter. ::gasps:: I changed the chapterizations again...Sorry if this is confusing I am just never completely satisfied. ;)