Chapter 2: Ginny's Tale
It was six o'clock in the evening at the Burrow and the Weasley's were in a panic. Ginny had been abducted from Diagon Alley shortly after noon that very day and they had not heard a word since Hermione returned with the news of her abduction. Ginny had been out shopping with her sister-in-law Hermione when several death eaters apparated into the alley. The group of six quickly cast several curses and jinxes into the crowd hoping to cause mass hysteria. Their true targets however were Hermione and Ginny Weasley.
Ginny pushed Hermione into the Leaky Cauldron before the death eaters could reach the two Weasleys and cast a locking spell on the door to keep the death eaters from reaching her sister-in-law.
Hermione pounded on the door, begging Ginny to unlock it but by the time someone could remove the charm on the door the death eaters and Ginny were long gone. The entire Weasley clan was sitting in the living room awaiting word on Ginny. Mrs. Weasley and Hermione were taking this hardest. As her only daughter, and the youngest of her seven children Ginny was the one she worried about the most. She was also the only one not married or seeing anyone. Hermione was upset because Ginny had sacrificed all to keep her safe.
The Weasley clock suddenly chimed six thirty and then came the sound a spoon moving on the clock. Molly went to look and saw the hand showing Ginny was home. She moved to the staircase and that was when she saw her daughter, slightly bruised, in tattered clothes, but very much alive. Ginny ran down the stairs and into her mother's arms.
"Ginny." Molly cried out as she held her daughter tightly.
"What happened? Where did they take you, how did you get away?" Ron asked as he embraced his sister.
"Draco Malfoy and five of his goons had me." Ginny told him.
The color of Ron's face suddenly turned as red has his hair.
"Don't worry, he's already in ministry custody, as are his associate." Ginny told him.
"But, how did you get free?" Hermione asked, happy to see the girl alive and safe as she hugged her tightly.
Ginny didn't answer she just hugged the girl back. No more questions were asked of her. She just gave each member of her family a large hug and told them she needed to get changed and cleaned up. When she was done, she walked down the stairs again to find her mother and father sitting in the living room awaiting her return.
"Sit down dear, we need to talk." Molly told her daughter.
"What is it mum?" Ginny asked.
Her father answered for his wife. "We need you to be even more careful from now on." Stopping his statement for a moment.
"You were very brave today, protecting Hermione, escaping from the death eaters. It's just. It might not be safe for you to go out without your brothers, mother or I." Arthur told his daughter.
"What are you talking about? What aren't you telling me?" Ginny asked, looking at both her parents.
Molly handed her daughter a folded copy of the Daily Prophet. She looked at the headline:
Harry Potter Escapes Azkaban!
Dementors destroyed! Aurors' Defeated!
Diggory and Dumbledore Stunned!
Ginny tossed the Prophet on the table.
"You're worried that Harry will come after me aren't you?" She asked them in a disgusted tone.
"We all are." Bill announced as he and the family returned to the living room.
"Well don't be." She said, informing her family.
"Why not. It's our job to worry." Ron informed her. "What makes you think that hew won't come after you? It's just the kind of thing he would do."
"BECAUSE HE BROKE OUT OF AZKABAN TO SAVE ME YOU STUPID PRAT!!!" Ginny yelled.
All eyes in the room were on Ginny now. She took a moment to regain her composure and explain.
"I was tied to a chair in a locked room when I heard several spells being cast. I couldn't make out who was saying what, much less if it was the Ministry that had found me, or my family. I was extremely nervous and then a body flew through the door and landed in front of me. It was Draco. That was when I saw him. I didn't recognize him at first. His hair was long and he had a beard from his stay in Azkaban but I saw his eyes, and his scar and I knew it was him." Ginny told them.
"He told me that he knew I was in danger, that he could see into Voldermort's mind again. He had learned through their connection where I was and how many death eaters were standing guard over me. Apparently with Harry in prison Voldermort thought he would torture Harry with the knowledge of everything he was planning. He hoped letting Harry feel everything that he was doing to his victims would drive him over the edge. Harry didn't say how he summoned the power to get out of Azkaban, just that he broke out to save me." Ginny said trailing off.
"He took me to a place I'd never been to before, I think it was Romania actually. He had a temporary safe house there. He showered, shaved and changed. Then we talked. He thanked me for believing in him when all of you turned against him. He thanked me for giving him the strength to live. And then he gave me a Port Key to bring me back home." Ginny said with tears in her eyes.
The Weasleys were in sitting in stunned silence. All save Ron. He was standing.
Ginny then stood and walked over to Ron. She then slapped him hard across the face. Just as he turned to ask her what that was for she did it again. "The first one was for doubting him. The second was from me for thinking the worst of him after he risked everything to save me."
"You're an insufferable prat who never deserved Harry's friendship." Ginny then stomped back up to her room. When she was inside her room she slammed her door.
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"Can I come in Ginny?" Hermione asked.
"If my brother's standing next to you I'll hex you both." Ginny yelled through he door.
Hermione opened the door, slid in and quickly closed the door.
"GO AWAY RON!!!" Ginny yelled. She then heard someone walk down the stairs.
"Ginny, they're just worried that's all." Hermione told her sister-in-law.
"Well when they stop treating me like a baby, I'll stop acting like one." She told Hermione.
"Is.. Is there anything else that you didn't tell us Gin?" Hermione asked.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"How about that silver chain I saw around your neck earlier?" Hermione said.
"I wondered if anyone noticed." Gin said smiling.
"Well?"
"Don't worry about it. Anyways of course there is more to the story, just stuff that I don't want to talk about. I don't wish to discuss it with you or anyone else." She said to the slightly older brunette.
"Ok Gin, I won't push you." Hermione informed her.
"By the way, thanks for risking everything for me." Hermione said tears in her eyes. She hugged her sister-in-law and just held her as she cried. Ginny was now crying as well.
"How is he?" Hermione asked before exiting Ginny's room.
"As well as can be expected for someone who spent the past ten years in the worst place imaginable." Ginny stated.
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It was a beautiful and sunny August day when Ginny awoke. She looked out the window and smiled at how radiant everything looked today. She quickly dressed and made her way downstairs. Ginny's smile faded when she saw her parents sitting at the table with Professor Dumbledore, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Amos Diggory.
"Good morning Ginny." Molly and Arthur said.
"I have nothing to say to any of you." Ginny told the group and started to go back upstairs.
"Ginny, we have to ask you some questions." Amos Diggory announced.
"Stuff your questions. I'm not going to tell you anything." She replied.
"Ginny, be reasonable." Sirius stated.
"Have I hexed you yet Sirius?" She spat. Sirius shook his head. "Then I'm being very reasonable aren't I?"
"Miss Weasley, you're making this more difficult than it should be." Amos Diggory replied.
"Really. Enlighten me then. Why should I give you information that my parents have already given you?" Ginny asked giving her parents a hateful glare.
"Because you haven't told us everything that transpired after your rescue." Arthur interrupted.
"I told you all that you needed to know father. They don't care about what the death eaters did to me? They don't care about what they said about my family and I? They don't even care about what they were planning to do with me. No. All they care about is the location of Harry Potter." Ginny said.
"Well if that's all you want to know then you can all stuff yourselves. Stay away from me or else next time I will start hexing you." She said, then apparated out of the room.
"The boy has obviously influenced her somehow. Maybe a charm or a curse?" Amos said to Ginny's parents.
Molly Shook her head, "I don't think so Amos."
"I think she still loves Harry, and its obvious that he still loves her. He mustered up power beyond comprehension to save her life." Dumbledore interrupted.
"I agree." Molly said.
"Then I have no other recourse than to put Ginny under twenty-four hour surveillance. If he approached her once, he'll likely do it again." Amos said with a sigh.
"And if he does, what will your course of action be Amos?" Arthur asked.
"I think it is in the best interest of the public, that he be eliminated." Amos stated. He then finished his tea, and departed the Burrow.
Ginny, who had only apparated outside of the Burrow, was standing in tears. She had heard what the Minister was planning and was scared. She drew her necklace from under her blouse and looked at the ring Harry had given her, a ring that she had wanted Harry to place on her finger just last evening. She looked at it and replaced it under her blouse.
"Stay safe my love." Ginny said in a low whisper as tears fell down her face.
It was six o'clock in the evening at the Burrow and the Weasley's were in a panic. Ginny had been abducted from Diagon Alley shortly after noon that very day and they had not heard a word since Hermione returned with the news of her abduction. Ginny had been out shopping with her sister-in-law Hermione when several death eaters apparated into the alley. The group of six quickly cast several curses and jinxes into the crowd hoping to cause mass hysteria. Their true targets however were Hermione and Ginny Weasley.
Ginny pushed Hermione into the Leaky Cauldron before the death eaters could reach the two Weasleys and cast a locking spell on the door to keep the death eaters from reaching her sister-in-law.
Hermione pounded on the door, begging Ginny to unlock it but by the time someone could remove the charm on the door the death eaters and Ginny were long gone. The entire Weasley clan was sitting in the living room awaiting word on Ginny. Mrs. Weasley and Hermione were taking this hardest. As her only daughter, and the youngest of her seven children Ginny was the one she worried about the most. She was also the only one not married or seeing anyone. Hermione was upset because Ginny had sacrificed all to keep her safe.
The Weasley clock suddenly chimed six thirty and then came the sound a spoon moving on the clock. Molly went to look and saw the hand showing Ginny was home. She moved to the staircase and that was when she saw her daughter, slightly bruised, in tattered clothes, but very much alive. Ginny ran down the stairs and into her mother's arms.
"Ginny." Molly cried out as she held her daughter tightly.
"What happened? Where did they take you, how did you get away?" Ron asked as he embraced his sister.
"Draco Malfoy and five of his goons had me." Ginny told him.
The color of Ron's face suddenly turned as red has his hair.
"Don't worry, he's already in ministry custody, as are his associate." Ginny told him.
"But, how did you get free?" Hermione asked, happy to see the girl alive and safe as she hugged her tightly.
Ginny didn't answer she just hugged the girl back. No more questions were asked of her. She just gave each member of her family a large hug and told them she needed to get changed and cleaned up. When she was done, she walked down the stairs again to find her mother and father sitting in the living room awaiting her return.
"Sit down dear, we need to talk." Molly told her daughter.
"What is it mum?" Ginny asked.
Her father answered for his wife. "We need you to be even more careful from now on." Stopping his statement for a moment.
"You were very brave today, protecting Hermione, escaping from the death eaters. It's just. It might not be safe for you to go out without your brothers, mother or I." Arthur told his daughter.
"What are you talking about? What aren't you telling me?" Ginny asked, looking at both her parents.
Molly handed her daughter a folded copy of the Daily Prophet. She looked at the headline:
Harry Potter Escapes Azkaban!
Dementors destroyed! Aurors' Defeated!
Diggory and Dumbledore Stunned!
Ginny tossed the Prophet on the table.
"You're worried that Harry will come after me aren't you?" She asked them in a disgusted tone.
"We all are." Bill announced as he and the family returned to the living room.
"Well don't be." She said, informing her family.
"Why not. It's our job to worry." Ron informed her. "What makes you think that hew won't come after you? It's just the kind of thing he would do."
"BECAUSE HE BROKE OUT OF AZKABAN TO SAVE ME YOU STUPID PRAT!!!" Ginny yelled.
All eyes in the room were on Ginny now. She took a moment to regain her composure and explain.
"I was tied to a chair in a locked room when I heard several spells being cast. I couldn't make out who was saying what, much less if it was the Ministry that had found me, or my family. I was extremely nervous and then a body flew through the door and landed in front of me. It was Draco. That was when I saw him. I didn't recognize him at first. His hair was long and he had a beard from his stay in Azkaban but I saw his eyes, and his scar and I knew it was him." Ginny told them.
"He told me that he knew I was in danger, that he could see into Voldermort's mind again. He had learned through their connection where I was and how many death eaters were standing guard over me. Apparently with Harry in prison Voldermort thought he would torture Harry with the knowledge of everything he was planning. He hoped letting Harry feel everything that he was doing to his victims would drive him over the edge. Harry didn't say how he summoned the power to get out of Azkaban, just that he broke out to save me." Ginny said trailing off.
"He took me to a place I'd never been to before, I think it was Romania actually. He had a temporary safe house there. He showered, shaved and changed. Then we talked. He thanked me for believing in him when all of you turned against him. He thanked me for giving him the strength to live. And then he gave me a Port Key to bring me back home." Ginny said with tears in her eyes.
The Weasleys were in sitting in stunned silence. All save Ron. He was standing.
Ginny then stood and walked over to Ron. She then slapped him hard across the face. Just as he turned to ask her what that was for she did it again. "The first one was for doubting him. The second was from me for thinking the worst of him after he risked everything to save me."
"You're an insufferable prat who never deserved Harry's friendship." Ginny then stomped back up to her room. When she was inside her room she slammed her door.
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"Can I come in Ginny?" Hermione asked.
"If my brother's standing next to you I'll hex you both." Ginny yelled through he door.
Hermione opened the door, slid in and quickly closed the door.
"GO AWAY RON!!!" Ginny yelled. She then heard someone walk down the stairs.
"Ginny, they're just worried that's all." Hermione told her sister-in-law.
"Well when they stop treating me like a baby, I'll stop acting like one." She told Hermione.
"Is.. Is there anything else that you didn't tell us Gin?" Hermione asked.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"How about that silver chain I saw around your neck earlier?" Hermione said.
"I wondered if anyone noticed." Gin said smiling.
"Well?"
"Don't worry about it. Anyways of course there is more to the story, just stuff that I don't want to talk about. I don't wish to discuss it with you or anyone else." She said to the slightly older brunette.
"Ok Gin, I won't push you." Hermione informed her.
"By the way, thanks for risking everything for me." Hermione said tears in her eyes. She hugged her sister-in-law and just held her as she cried. Ginny was now crying as well.
"How is he?" Hermione asked before exiting Ginny's room.
"As well as can be expected for someone who spent the past ten years in the worst place imaginable." Ginny stated.
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It was a beautiful and sunny August day when Ginny awoke. She looked out the window and smiled at how radiant everything looked today. She quickly dressed and made her way downstairs. Ginny's smile faded when she saw her parents sitting at the table with Professor Dumbledore, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Amos Diggory.
"Good morning Ginny." Molly and Arthur said.
"I have nothing to say to any of you." Ginny told the group and started to go back upstairs.
"Ginny, we have to ask you some questions." Amos Diggory announced.
"Stuff your questions. I'm not going to tell you anything." She replied.
"Ginny, be reasonable." Sirius stated.
"Have I hexed you yet Sirius?" She spat. Sirius shook his head. "Then I'm being very reasonable aren't I?"
"Miss Weasley, you're making this more difficult than it should be." Amos Diggory replied.
"Really. Enlighten me then. Why should I give you information that my parents have already given you?" Ginny asked giving her parents a hateful glare.
"Because you haven't told us everything that transpired after your rescue." Arthur interrupted.
"I told you all that you needed to know father. They don't care about what the death eaters did to me? They don't care about what they said about my family and I? They don't even care about what they were planning to do with me. No. All they care about is the location of Harry Potter." Ginny said.
"Well if that's all you want to know then you can all stuff yourselves. Stay away from me or else next time I will start hexing you." She said, then apparated out of the room.
"The boy has obviously influenced her somehow. Maybe a charm or a curse?" Amos said to Ginny's parents.
Molly Shook her head, "I don't think so Amos."
"I think she still loves Harry, and its obvious that he still loves her. He mustered up power beyond comprehension to save her life." Dumbledore interrupted.
"I agree." Molly said.
"Then I have no other recourse than to put Ginny under twenty-four hour surveillance. If he approached her once, he'll likely do it again." Amos said with a sigh.
"And if he does, what will your course of action be Amos?" Arthur asked.
"I think it is in the best interest of the public, that he be eliminated." Amos stated. He then finished his tea, and departed the Burrow.
Ginny, who had only apparated outside of the Burrow, was standing in tears. She had heard what the Minister was planning and was scared. She drew her necklace from under her blouse and looked at the ring Harry had given her, a ring that she had wanted Harry to place on her finger just last evening. She looked at it and replaced it under her blouse.
"Stay safe my love." Ginny said in a low whisper as tears fell down her face.