Disclaimer: Thanks to my friend Stacy (mysterywriter) I got this idea. So,
hopefully, it isn't too hard to follow. It all belongs to J. K. Rowling,
except the part me and Stacy thought up.
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Chapter 12: The Battle from Hell
Ginny sat at the kitchen table, looking very nervous as she bit her nails.
"What's the matter?" Draco asked, entering the room with a concerned look on his face.
"I'm just... worried, I guess." Ginny said, shrugging a little. Draco pulled up a chair next to her.
"Don't worry about the attack tonight. You said it yourself, it's going to be easy." Draco said with a little smile.
Ginny had told all of the Death Eaters, days earlier, that they should move in and attack Hogwarts. It was where the Ministry met, knowing that they would be easily found in the Ministry of Magic building. So, she told them, the whole army should go down and ambush them. They won't know what hit them, and it will be an easy win. Attacking the head of the wizarding community was exactly what the Death Eaters were waiting for. And Ginny knew that, so that's why she decided to make up the fake plan.
In reality, the Ministry knew that every Death Eater was going to go to Hogwarts that night and attack. So they'd be ready and, hopefully, all of the Death Eaters would be captured. The reason Ginny picked Hogwarts as the spot for an attack was because you can't Apparate out of there, meaning that no one can escape once they are inside, and will be, sooner or later, captured. Trapping them was going to be the easy part.
Ginny gave Draco a weak smile. He got up and hugged her from behind, whispering in her ear, "Everything's going to be okay, don't worry."
"How can you be so sure?" Ginny asked as Draco kissed her on the forehead.
"Because I believe in you." Draco said simply with his arms wrapped tightly around Ginny.
"I don't know what I'd do without you here." Ginny whispered, closing her eyes and smiling. She meant every word, and Draco could hear it in her voice.
"You don't have to know, cause that'll never happen. I'll always be right here, waiting for you." Draco whispered, his voice muffled by his lips being pressed so tightly on her neck. Ginny smiled, but she was really crying inside. His words were too honest for her to handle.
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Since they couldn't Apparate to Hogwarts, all of the Death Eaters, including Ginny and Draco, used floo powder to get there. Wands raised, each Death Eater walk quietly out of the fireplace in the kitchen. It was too risky to use the fireplaces in the common rooms. School was in session, and some children might still be awake. So, stepping carefully over sleeping house elves that were sprawled over the floor, everyone proceeded down the corridors with Ginny in the lead.
Ginny stopped in front of a stone gargoyle that marked the entrance of Dumbledore's office.
"The Ministry of Magic is meeting in here." Ginny said, signaling toward the gargoyle. "All we need is the password... quick, someone name candy."
As each Death Eater named off as many candies as they could, Ginny waited patiently. She already knew the password; Fudge had told her. But she didn't want to make it seem obvious, so she acted stumped for a few moments.
After a minute or two, Ginny finally acted as if a light bulb went off inside of her head.
"Butterscotch." She said to the gargoyle, who jumped aside, revealing a spiral staircase. Everyone got on, wands still at the ready. Ginny kept on glancing at Draco, biting her lip, and then looking away. She hated that he didn't know what he was getting into.
As they all approached a large door that was the entree to Dumbledore's office, Ginny turned toward her army.
"Okay, don't start shooting off spells as soon as you go in there. Keep your wands raised and, if they even try to reach for their wand, you make sure you get your spell out there first." Ginny said, trying to look confident. Everyone nodded and Ginny wrenched open the door, running in with everyone following quickly after her.
The room was empty. All of the Death Eaters were inside and looking around cluelessly. No one was in the room besides themselves.
"Ginny, what's -" Draco started but, before he could say anything, a spell shot straight over his head. He ducked quickly and chaos broke out. Every Death Eater looked for where the spell came from. One pointed up at the ceiling, and everyone's eyes followed.
Hovering by the ceiling, like spiders, was an army from the light side, including Fudge. But, before any Death Eater could so much as raise their wand, the light side, in unison, cast the disarming spell, and every wand flew out of every Death Eaters hand. Ginny had made sure to tell the Ministry how many Death Eaters there were, that way there would be the same number of people from the light side, so that everyone was assigned their own person to disarm.
The army from the light side, who had apparently been levitating, brought themselves back down to the ground. That's when the real fight broke out. Although the Death Eaters didn't have their wands, they did have fists. So they hit anyone in sight, hoping to win the muggle way.
Ginny dashed out of the way. She stood by Dumbledore's desk, watching as the war went on. Paralyzed with fear, Ginny didn't know what to do. She was searching frantically for Draco, wanting him to get out of harm's way. But she suddenly stopped when her eyes landed on someone fighting Dumbledore. She had no doubt in her mind that Dumbledore could beat anyone, but then he got double-teamed. As he was dueling with a Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy snuck up behind him and a green shot of light came out of a wand he had just stolen. Ginny couldn't find her voice to scream as she watched Dumbledore crash to the floor.
"Ginny, watch out!" Draco yelled, tackling her onto the floor. A flash of red light shot right past the spot where Ginny's head had been.
"Thanks." Ginny said, her mind still on Dumbledore.
"Are you alright?" Draco asked with concern, still lying on the floor with her as the battle raged on.
"I'm... fine." Ginny said, she looked into his eyes and couldn't hold it in any longer. "Draco, I need to tell you something."
But before she could say anymore, Draco was forced off of her. Fudge was standing there, holding Draco by the back of his shirt. He had a very strange gleam in his eyes that Ginny had never seen when they talked before. Fudge practically threw Draco to two of his strongest men, and the started to carry him away, each holding one of his arms.
"Stop! What are you doing?!" Ginny yelled, standing up and trying to run after them.
"Just following the Minister's orders." One of the men said. Draco was struggling a little but, mostly, he was staring at Ginny with confused eyes.
"Please! Stop!" Ginny yelled, running faster to try and catch up with them. She was sobbing without even knowing it. They were taking away the only light she had in her dark life. Fudge grabbed Ginny around the waist so that she couldn't run to get Draco. She struggled, the whole time with her eyes on his. She kept crying and telling them to let him go. As Draco grew farther and farther away, Ginny could feel herself falling. She couldn't feel her legs and had stopped struggling by this point. Draco was dragged out the door and out of sight. Ginny collapsed to the floor and sobbed.
"Why did you take him away from me?" Ginny asked shakily, glaring at Fudge.
"Because I can." Fudge said simply.
The battle was over. The Death Eaters that hadn't been killed were tied up and being dragged to Azkaban. Fudge seemed to be power crazed.
"I'm in charge now, and what I say goes." He continued. "Your stupid school-girl feelings aren't going to stand in my way now."
Ginny couldn't hear half of what he was saying, she was crying so hard. She'd been betrayed. Fudge had given her his word, and now that meant nothing. He'd stabbed her in the back and taken away the only person who understood and loved her. And she hadn't even had a chance to tell him how she felt.
Ginny was through. She didn't care anymore. She was too numb from the amount of pain she'd felt over the last few months to do anything by cry. Ginny had given her trust to too many people, and now she was alone. The only person who had comforted her and been there for her throughout the entire ordeal was gone. She'd betrayed Draco, when he would have died for her. No one could understand how much lose she felt and how alone she was. No one except Draco.
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I just want to apologize for how short this chapter and these thank yous are going to be. School is the shit and not in a good way. Sophomore year is a lot harder then I thought it'd be. Anyways, I'm typing this when I'm suppose to be writing an Eastern paper, so they're gonna be quick.
~Herbie- lol, looks like I just wrote your worst nightmare. Ginny endangered Draco! I'm sorry, I hope this doesn't ruin the whole 'highlight of your day thing.'
~sweetstar3- Yea, I was thinking Dumbledore, but Fudge is funner to write. Plus, Dumbledore would never stab Ginny in the back.
~SkysTheLimit- lol, yes, Draco is sexy, and nice, and sexy, and kind, and sexy and sexy.... *drools on keyboard*
~cute-crazy-chick1- Thank you so much!
~kneh13- you'd be smart not to trust Fudge. And I don't really care that Harry died either. I mean, the Harry in the books is just an anal pansy.
~Ainur Agar- lol, um, I don't think she can tell Draco anymore. But maybe he already knows. As for the love thing; *tear* I donno! Maybe never.
~Hplova4eva- Thank you! Here's more. I was gonna wait till the weekend to post it, but decided you guys needed this chapter sooner.
~Foags- haha! We both have this procrastinating problem where we do fanfic stuff instead of our homework! I've never read the book 'things fall apart.' I'm reading 'siddhartha' right now, and it sucks. So I can kinda relate. I'll e-mail you soon, I promise! As soon as the shit load of homework I have is done!!!
~Crystal Snowflakes- Thank you. As for the piano lessons, I'm sorry. I use to take them, and hated them. Probably because I sucked, but whatever.
~Strayc@t- heeheehee, I knew you'd like that piece of string. Anyways, ya! Go Ginny! Except, now, she's all sad. Who knows? She might just go evil. Muhahaha!
~Vanyaria Darkshadow- lol, yea, Lucius was cool in the movie! But I suppose that's just cause Jason Isaacs is so great. Anyways, I like how you want the ending. It's all happy! But, Draco's been taken away... there's no sunset in Azkaban.
~HPfreak8- All the Weasleys died cause that's what Lucius wanted. He sent them all fake letters from Dumbledore asking them to meet in one place. Sorry if that was a bit of a shock. I promise not to kill so many people at once ever again :)
~ayumi-dono- I did some Draco/Ginny-ness in this chapter. As for Ginny going all evil on Fudge's ass; maybe. You never know what a girl'll do when you take away her husband.
~Lacy1- Thanks! Did you see this one coming?
~Emily- omg, how did you know that Fudge'd go against Draco?! You're so smart! Or else I just made it way too obvious.
~arcticshewolf- Thank you. And, yes, here is more! I skipped doing my Eastern paper for this!
~loonyluna1- Thank you! And, if I haven't said this yet, I love your name. Luna rocks.
~Jocelyn Padoga- Is this chapter a cliffy too? I hope so! Hopefully this got your mind off of the hell hole that is our education system.
~Mac12- Homework, I feel your pain. And thank you for all of the compliments :) It got my mind off of Spanish. *groans* why can't everyone just speak English?!
~xi-swt-tearz-ix- Thank you so much! I'll try to update every week. But you can never tell with school and all :(
~Wizzabee- you're smart not to trust the ministry. They suck big time, and Fudge is just a big smell monkey.
~Towenaar- I like the way you think. But I donno what I'm gonna have Ginny do. Something drastic, maybe, since she's upset and you can never think right with tears in your eyes.
Also, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO'S REVIEWED SO FAR! I've never had over 200 reviews! This is awesome, thank you so much! I'm really glad you like it!
hugs, kisses, and oodles of love,
Nicole
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Chapter 12: The Battle from Hell
Ginny sat at the kitchen table, looking very nervous as she bit her nails.
"What's the matter?" Draco asked, entering the room with a concerned look on his face.
"I'm just... worried, I guess." Ginny said, shrugging a little. Draco pulled up a chair next to her.
"Don't worry about the attack tonight. You said it yourself, it's going to be easy." Draco said with a little smile.
Ginny had told all of the Death Eaters, days earlier, that they should move in and attack Hogwarts. It was where the Ministry met, knowing that they would be easily found in the Ministry of Magic building. So, she told them, the whole army should go down and ambush them. They won't know what hit them, and it will be an easy win. Attacking the head of the wizarding community was exactly what the Death Eaters were waiting for. And Ginny knew that, so that's why she decided to make up the fake plan.
In reality, the Ministry knew that every Death Eater was going to go to Hogwarts that night and attack. So they'd be ready and, hopefully, all of the Death Eaters would be captured. The reason Ginny picked Hogwarts as the spot for an attack was because you can't Apparate out of there, meaning that no one can escape once they are inside, and will be, sooner or later, captured. Trapping them was going to be the easy part.
Ginny gave Draco a weak smile. He got up and hugged her from behind, whispering in her ear, "Everything's going to be okay, don't worry."
"How can you be so sure?" Ginny asked as Draco kissed her on the forehead.
"Because I believe in you." Draco said simply with his arms wrapped tightly around Ginny.
"I don't know what I'd do without you here." Ginny whispered, closing her eyes and smiling. She meant every word, and Draco could hear it in her voice.
"You don't have to know, cause that'll never happen. I'll always be right here, waiting for you." Draco whispered, his voice muffled by his lips being pressed so tightly on her neck. Ginny smiled, but she was really crying inside. His words were too honest for her to handle.
~*~*~*~
Since they couldn't Apparate to Hogwarts, all of the Death Eaters, including Ginny and Draco, used floo powder to get there. Wands raised, each Death Eater walk quietly out of the fireplace in the kitchen. It was too risky to use the fireplaces in the common rooms. School was in session, and some children might still be awake. So, stepping carefully over sleeping house elves that were sprawled over the floor, everyone proceeded down the corridors with Ginny in the lead.
Ginny stopped in front of a stone gargoyle that marked the entrance of Dumbledore's office.
"The Ministry of Magic is meeting in here." Ginny said, signaling toward the gargoyle. "All we need is the password... quick, someone name candy."
As each Death Eater named off as many candies as they could, Ginny waited patiently. She already knew the password; Fudge had told her. But she didn't want to make it seem obvious, so she acted stumped for a few moments.
After a minute or two, Ginny finally acted as if a light bulb went off inside of her head.
"Butterscotch." She said to the gargoyle, who jumped aside, revealing a spiral staircase. Everyone got on, wands still at the ready. Ginny kept on glancing at Draco, biting her lip, and then looking away. She hated that he didn't know what he was getting into.
As they all approached a large door that was the entree to Dumbledore's office, Ginny turned toward her army.
"Okay, don't start shooting off spells as soon as you go in there. Keep your wands raised and, if they even try to reach for their wand, you make sure you get your spell out there first." Ginny said, trying to look confident. Everyone nodded and Ginny wrenched open the door, running in with everyone following quickly after her.
The room was empty. All of the Death Eaters were inside and looking around cluelessly. No one was in the room besides themselves.
"Ginny, what's -" Draco started but, before he could say anything, a spell shot straight over his head. He ducked quickly and chaos broke out. Every Death Eater looked for where the spell came from. One pointed up at the ceiling, and everyone's eyes followed.
Hovering by the ceiling, like spiders, was an army from the light side, including Fudge. But, before any Death Eater could so much as raise their wand, the light side, in unison, cast the disarming spell, and every wand flew out of every Death Eaters hand. Ginny had made sure to tell the Ministry how many Death Eaters there were, that way there would be the same number of people from the light side, so that everyone was assigned their own person to disarm.
The army from the light side, who had apparently been levitating, brought themselves back down to the ground. That's when the real fight broke out. Although the Death Eaters didn't have their wands, they did have fists. So they hit anyone in sight, hoping to win the muggle way.
Ginny dashed out of the way. She stood by Dumbledore's desk, watching as the war went on. Paralyzed with fear, Ginny didn't know what to do. She was searching frantically for Draco, wanting him to get out of harm's way. But she suddenly stopped when her eyes landed on someone fighting Dumbledore. She had no doubt in her mind that Dumbledore could beat anyone, but then he got double-teamed. As he was dueling with a Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy snuck up behind him and a green shot of light came out of a wand he had just stolen. Ginny couldn't find her voice to scream as she watched Dumbledore crash to the floor.
"Ginny, watch out!" Draco yelled, tackling her onto the floor. A flash of red light shot right past the spot where Ginny's head had been.
"Thanks." Ginny said, her mind still on Dumbledore.
"Are you alright?" Draco asked with concern, still lying on the floor with her as the battle raged on.
"I'm... fine." Ginny said, she looked into his eyes and couldn't hold it in any longer. "Draco, I need to tell you something."
But before she could say anymore, Draco was forced off of her. Fudge was standing there, holding Draco by the back of his shirt. He had a very strange gleam in his eyes that Ginny had never seen when they talked before. Fudge practically threw Draco to two of his strongest men, and the started to carry him away, each holding one of his arms.
"Stop! What are you doing?!" Ginny yelled, standing up and trying to run after them.
"Just following the Minister's orders." One of the men said. Draco was struggling a little but, mostly, he was staring at Ginny with confused eyes.
"Please! Stop!" Ginny yelled, running faster to try and catch up with them. She was sobbing without even knowing it. They were taking away the only light she had in her dark life. Fudge grabbed Ginny around the waist so that she couldn't run to get Draco. She struggled, the whole time with her eyes on his. She kept crying and telling them to let him go. As Draco grew farther and farther away, Ginny could feel herself falling. She couldn't feel her legs and had stopped struggling by this point. Draco was dragged out the door and out of sight. Ginny collapsed to the floor and sobbed.
"Why did you take him away from me?" Ginny asked shakily, glaring at Fudge.
"Because I can." Fudge said simply.
The battle was over. The Death Eaters that hadn't been killed were tied up and being dragged to Azkaban. Fudge seemed to be power crazed.
"I'm in charge now, and what I say goes." He continued. "Your stupid school-girl feelings aren't going to stand in my way now."
Ginny couldn't hear half of what he was saying, she was crying so hard. She'd been betrayed. Fudge had given her his word, and now that meant nothing. He'd stabbed her in the back and taken away the only person who understood and loved her. And she hadn't even had a chance to tell him how she felt.
Ginny was through. She didn't care anymore. She was too numb from the amount of pain she'd felt over the last few months to do anything by cry. Ginny had given her trust to too many people, and now she was alone. The only person who had comforted her and been there for her throughout the entire ordeal was gone. She'd betrayed Draco, when he would have died for her. No one could understand how much lose she felt and how alone she was. No one except Draco.
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I just want to apologize for how short this chapter and these thank yous are going to be. School is the shit and not in a good way. Sophomore year is a lot harder then I thought it'd be. Anyways, I'm typing this when I'm suppose to be writing an Eastern paper, so they're gonna be quick.
~Herbie- lol, looks like I just wrote your worst nightmare. Ginny endangered Draco! I'm sorry, I hope this doesn't ruin the whole 'highlight of your day thing.'
~sweetstar3- Yea, I was thinking Dumbledore, but Fudge is funner to write. Plus, Dumbledore would never stab Ginny in the back.
~SkysTheLimit- lol, yes, Draco is sexy, and nice, and sexy, and kind, and sexy and sexy.... *drools on keyboard*
~cute-crazy-chick1- Thank you so much!
~kneh13- you'd be smart not to trust Fudge. And I don't really care that Harry died either. I mean, the Harry in the books is just an anal pansy.
~Ainur Agar- lol, um, I don't think she can tell Draco anymore. But maybe he already knows. As for the love thing; *tear* I donno! Maybe never.
~Hplova4eva- Thank you! Here's more. I was gonna wait till the weekend to post it, but decided you guys needed this chapter sooner.
~Foags- haha! We both have this procrastinating problem where we do fanfic stuff instead of our homework! I've never read the book 'things fall apart.' I'm reading 'siddhartha' right now, and it sucks. So I can kinda relate. I'll e-mail you soon, I promise! As soon as the shit load of homework I have is done!!!
~Crystal Snowflakes- Thank you. As for the piano lessons, I'm sorry. I use to take them, and hated them. Probably because I sucked, but whatever.
~Strayc@t- heeheehee, I knew you'd like that piece of string. Anyways, ya! Go Ginny! Except, now, she's all sad. Who knows? She might just go evil. Muhahaha!
~Vanyaria Darkshadow- lol, yea, Lucius was cool in the movie! But I suppose that's just cause Jason Isaacs is so great. Anyways, I like how you want the ending. It's all happy! But, Draco's been taken away... there's no sunset in Azkaban.
~HPfreak8- All the Weasleys died cause that's what Lucius wanted. He sent them all fake letters from Dumbledore asking them to meet in one place. Sorry if that was a bit of a shock. I promise not to kill so many people at once ever again :)
~ayumi-dono- I did some Draco/Ginny-ness in this chapter. As for Ginny going all evil on Fudge's ass; maybe. You never know what a girl'll do when you take away her husband.
~Lacy1- Thanks! Did you see this one coming?
~Emily- omg, how did you know that Fudge'd go against Draco?! You're so smart! Or else I just made it way too obvious.
~arcticshewolf- Thank you. And, yes, here is more! I skipped doing my Eastern paper for this!
~loonyluna1- Thank you! And, if I haven't said this yet, I love your name. Luna rocks.
~Jocelyn Padoga- Is this chapter a cliffy too? I hope so! Hopefully this got your mind off of the hell hole that is our education system.
~Mac12- Homework, I feel your pain. And thank you for all of the compliments :) It got my mind off of Spanish. *groans* why can't everyone just speak English?!
~xi-swt-tearz-ix- Thank you so much! I'll try to update every week. But you can never tell with school and all :(
~Wizzabee- you're smart not to trust the ministry. They suck big time, and Fudge is just a big smell monkey.
~Towenaar- I like the way you think. But I donno what I'm gonna have Ginny do. Something drastic, maybe, since she's upset and you can never think right with tears in your eyes.
Also, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO'S REVIEWED SO FAR! I've never had over 200 reviews! This is awesome, thank you so much! I'm really glad you like it!
hugs, kisses, and oodles of love,
Nicole
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If you want me to e-mail you when I update, just leave your e-mail address in your review. I'd be happy to do it.