Ch 12 – Breakfast
Ginny smiled to herself as she got ready for breakfast and classes. She felt so warm and happy and complete after waking up this morning and knowing that she felt like a real sister again.
Still smiling, she walked slowly down form the girl's dorm heading to the Hall. Normally she wasn't a morning person, especially when sleeping in an upright position with her brother all night (no gross thoughts anyone, its only brother/sister love).
She didn't notice the person in front of her path as she was carrying her book bag in front of her.
"Oof!" she yelled as she fell over, her book bag opening and her books spilling out. She was furiously hitting the person she was on top of when she heard a muffled,
"Er, I would get up, but you're on top of me."
"Wanker," Ginny said, loud enough for the person to hear. She began picking her books up angrily.
"I'm sorry Ginny. I wasn't looking at where I was going,"
Ginny froze then looked up at Harry Potter's anxious face.
"Apparently," Ginny said teasingly, grinning up at him. He grinned back and helped her pick up her books.
"Divination ay?" he said holding up her Divination book.
"Yes Mr Potter, Divination is most useful in many ways, for example, doodling in your text book, wondering what's for lunch, whether Snape washed his hair recently and much more pointless boring stuff that will get you further than anything that old bat Trelawney says," Ginny said, as if reciting out a text book.
Harry laughed. Really laughed. He hadn't laughed properly like this since Sirius had died, including pictures of Ron being humped my horny monkeys. Ginny smiled at him, he needed to laugh more.
"Gee, now I wish I hadn't dropped it," He said, picking up her bag and carrying it for her.
"I then give you permission to envy me on those hot days on the top floor with all that incense and smoke clouding the room," Ginny joked, following him out the portrait door.
"So," Harry said conversationally, "You worked things out with Ron?"
Ginny nodded, the warm feeling coming over her again. "Yeah, it was funny how we argued that much but didn't need any words to go back to how it was all those years ago," she said thoughtfully.
Harry didn't understand the meaning of the last 4 words but said, "Well I'm glad you're not fighting anymore. It was getting quite annoying to have to tell Ron time and time again that he was outwitted by his sister. He just wouldn't get it."
Ginny laughed, thinking how cute Harry looked when he was trying to talk seriously about something comical.
Harry was thinking how he got a strange feeling whenever he looked at or talked with Ginny.
~*~
As they entered the Hall, they were surprised to notice Louise sitting with Ron and Hermione. Ginny shrugged and followed Harry over to where they were sitting.
"Hay Everyone! Mione, Ron, Lou," Ginny said cheerfully. Louise looked up and smiled,
"Hay Gin! You were a bit late this morning and I didn't want to sit by myself so I asked if I could join Ron and Hermione," Louise said.
Ron and Hermione had looked up now and were smiling at them.
"Heya Harry, Ginny," Ron said, looking mostly at his sister. Ginny grinned at him and sat down next to him. There were a few whispers when she did this; most people thought they were still fighting.
Hermione waved at them both before getting lost in her book again. Ginny shook her head, did that girl ever change?
Ginny studied Ron and Hermione. They were sitting next to each other but seemed to be purposely ignoring each other. Ron had even asked Louise to pass the juice, when it was right in front of Hermione and Lou was furthest away from it. The thing was, they didn't seem to be angry at each other.
Odd, thought Ginny, just odd.
Her eyes drifted until they landed on Harry. She had been so happy when they had laughed together this morning. Every time she saw him it was like she fell even more in love, which she didn't think was possible. She had never even hoped for them to be friends, but here she was, laughing and joking with ALL of them.
She smiled to herself again, her eyes drifting some more before they settled on Louise.
Ginny looked at her, thinking how strange it was that she never had any contact with her parents. They couldn't be that bad could they? Louise was like the perfect person, who wouldn't love or get along with her.
Before Ginny could wonder more at Louise's strange secret, a red envelope landed in front of her and Ron. They both looked at each other and gulped, paling visibly.
A Howler.
It had already begun smoking at the edges so Ginny slowly opened the envelope with a terrified expression on her face.
"VIRGINIA WEASLEY WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU TOLD EVERYONE AOBUT RON'S TERRIBLE ORDEAL AT THE ZOO? YOU KNOW YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TELL ANYONE!"
Ginny had backed up in her seat, staring at the talking envelope with her mother's magnified voice coming out of it.
"AND AS FOR YOU RONANLD WEASLEY, I HOPE YOU'VE FINALLY REASLISED THAT YOU CAN'T BE SO HORRIBLE TO YOUR SISTER ANYMORE!"
Now it was Ron's turn to back away in his seat as the voice was directed at him.
"AND GINNY, I WILL NOT HAVE YOU DRESSING UP AS ONE OF THOSE, THOSE, SCARLET WOMEN!"
Ginny laughed, Ron had obviously told her mom that she was walking around in next to nothing while he was still angry at her.
"NOW I DON'T WANT ANYMORE MISBEHAVIOUR FROM YOU TWO, OR YOU WILL HAVE ME TO ANSWER TO WHEN YOU COME HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!"
By now everyone in the hall had stopped to listen to Mrs. Weasley and some were even giggling at the horrified looks of Ron and Ginny's faces.
"OH AND HARRY AND HERMIONE DEAR, YOU TWO ARE MOST WELCOME TO STAY WITH US FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU." And with that the letter tore itself up
Hermione giggled, the last sentence was said at the same volume as the rest of the letter, yet it still sounded exactly how Mrs Weasley would talk to them normally.
Louise bit her tongue, trying not to laugh. Harry was outright laughing at them.
Ginny glared at them all for a second, before casting an amused glance at Ron and bursting out laughing. Ron looked at them all leaning against each other laughing, a grin playing at the corner of his mouth.
That was all it took, all five of them were laughing uproariously as all the other students looked at them in puzzlement. Who laughed after getting a Howler?
Ginny, still laughing, was watching Ron and Hermione looking at each other shyly. They had spent the whole time ignoring each other and were now looking gazing at each other like there was no one else around.
She caught Harry's eye and saw that he had noticed the looks going on between Ron and Hermione. She grinned when he started making smooching sounds with his lips at them.
Ron and Hermione instantly shifted their gazes away from eachother, blushing furiously. Ginny winked at them both as they went even redder.
Ron was looking at her in anger, then it turned to puzzlement, then disbelief. Ginny raised her eyebrows at him.
"Ginny, what's that on your nose?" he asked quietly, in horror.
Ginny glanced at Louise, who tried not to laugh.
She smiled at Ron, "Well, when I was at Hogsmeade, the lady said I would look fantastic with a nose ring, so-"
"YOU HAVE A NOSE RING?!" Ron yelled, stating and asking at the same time. Ginny rolled her eyes, breakfast was turning out to be a lot more eventful than she expected.
"Uh oh, late for class! Bye!" Ginny said as she quickly gathered her books and ran out the door before Ron exploded. He needed some time to calm down.
~*~*~*~*
Ginny and Louise were rushing towards the dungeons, being very late for Potions.
"We got up early this morning! How come no one told us there were a few time changes?" Louise groaned, hurrying even more.
"I. . .don't. . . know," came Ginny's panting, hurrying to catch up with her friend. "Maybe it. . . was the. . .fact. . .that we started the. . . pillow. . .war last night?"
"That's it," Louise replied.
They came to the door of their classroom, and were straightening their uniforms and hair to look like they hadn't run all the way from the Gryffindor Tower. Which is exactly what they had done.
They walked into the classroom and unsuccessfully tried to avoid Snape.
"We're all so glad you decided to grace us with your presence," came Professor Snape's cool silky voice from the front of the room.
"I'm not," muttered Ginny softly so only Louise could hear. She giggled, causing Snape to glare at them.
"What was the Miss Weasley?" he snapped.
"Er, Pardon Professor?" Ginny said innocently.
"Take a seat and listen – both of you!" Snape snapped, turning his attention back to the textbook and writing on the board.
Ginny opened her book with a sigh and began reading.
Yuinhu Potion
The Yuinhu Potion is somewhat similar the Veritaserum. However, instead of telling the truth when asked questions, you tell your exact thoughts when the question is asked, not the answer.
For example, when asked what day it was, the person being questioned wouldn't answer "Monday" but would say what they thought when they thought about the answer to the question like "I have to do the shopping" or "I'm meeting Mr Raymon at 3pm".
The Yuinhu potion is also similar to the Veritaserum in being made, with a few differences.
Ginny looked around the classroom, bored already. She glanced over at Louise, who was furiously scribbling down instructions.
"Pssst,"
Louise slowly tilted her head towards Ginny with a questioning look on her face. She moved over slowly so Snape wouldn't notice and whispered,
"Yeah?"
"Do you still have that vomiting pill I gave you? The one that makes you vomit when you swallow one side and stop when you swallow the other – the one my brothers invented?"
Louise's eyebrows furrowed, she slipped her hand inside her robes. She smiled slowly and nodded her head.
"Good, I don't feel like Potions today. Although that maybe because I didn't finish my 1 foot essay on the properties of sleeping potions. I got as far as they make you sleep and then sat there staring at my paper like-"
"5 points from Gryffindor for talking and another 5 because you haven't started taking notes," Snape's cool voice cut in. Ginny discreetly grabbed the pill and held it behind her back.
"Sorry Professor, but I was just saying how I felt sick, and if Louise could take me to the hospital wing," Ginny said in a "poor me" tone.
"I think you look perfectly fine Miss Weasley, unless this sick feeling maybe because you don't have a certain piece of homework to hand in?" Snape said evenly.
Ginny gulped and prayed Snape wouldn't see it, he was smarter than she gave him credit for, than anyone gave him credit for.
"I think I'm going to throw up." Ginny said bluntly.
"Oh? But I bet you won't do it in front of everyone because you don't need to at all and not matter how many times you say it we all know that you're not going to."
"No I am really going to throw up Professor."
"5 more points from Gryffindor for lying."
"But I am really going to throw up!"
"Take another 5 points."
"I AM GOING TO THROW UP!"
"YOU ARE NOT GOING TO-"
That was as far as Snape got as Ginny swallowed the pill while he was shouting and immediately threw up all over Snape.
Again
And again
And again
And again.
Louise was snorting with laughter as Snape stared in horror at his puke-soaked clothes. The rest of the class was gaping in shock, as speechless as Snape. Ginny grabbed her books and ran out of the classroom still vomiting with Louise at her heels.
It was a really strange feeling to be laughing and vomiting at the same time, it obviously looked funny too because Louise wasn't able to stop giggling her head off.
Ginny stopped and collapsed on the floor. The paintings on the wall were looking at her with disapproval and she heard a few 'how immature', 'in my day' and 'what the students are becoming' murmurs coming from them.
She stuffed the other end of the pill in her mouth and dry swallowed painfully because her throat was so sore from all the vomiting.
"Remind me. . . to. . .thank my dear. . .brothers," Ginny panted in between breaths and outbursts of giggles. She looked at the vomit trailing from her mad run from the dungeons; did she really eat all of that?
Louise was on her back still chuckling. "I wouldn't be sure whether to thank them or yell at them really." Ginny nodded in agreement, grinning at her. The bell went and they heard the sound of people walking on the stairs and talking.
"Quick, get away from here so no one thinks we had anything to do with the vomit all over the floor, especially Filch," Ginny whispered frantically, getting up and gathering her books.
They ran along one of the empty corridors and caught up with the rest of the crowd.
"Ginny!" someone called out.
Ginny turned and came face to face with a smirking Harry and Ron. She raised a quizzical eyebrow at them as she walked beside them.
"Heard you just threw up all your insides on Snape – good for you!" Ron grinned, looking like it was a dream come true.
"Yeah well I warned him, but you know what he's like," Ginny said lightly. "Oh yeah, if I were you I wouldn't go near the corridor leading to the dungeon until Filch has cleaned up my, er, insides from the floor. Fred and George's vomiting pills were stronger than I expected."
Harry laughed and looked surprised, although Ginny didn't know why. He smiled at her and her stomach did a bellyflop. He had no idea how cute he was when he put on that goofy grin.
"Well, Lou and I were about to go get lunch. Care to join us? Where's Hermione by the way?" Ginny questioned.
"We can't have lunch, we've got detention with Flitwick for blowing up his precious charmed fishtank. He seemed very offended for some reason when Harry told him that fish can't survive in cabbage with no water. The bloody cabbage was going to kill them anyway, we just got to them first." Ron said.
"How on earth did you manage to blow up that tank? Its huge!" Ginny asked, amazed.
"Well Flitwick seemed to think we needed revision on Summoning Charms. He was right." Harry said darkly.
Ginny chuckled and asked where Hermione was again.
"Oh, she went to the library to research some more on some planet. She already has 2 feet of parchment on it, but she need another ½ a foot apparently. Even though it only has to be 1 foot." Ron said disgustedly.
"By the way, speaking of Louise, where is she?" asked Harry, looking around.
"She's right. . ." Ginny trailed of when she couldn't find Louise. "Well she WAS right here."
"Well tell her we say hi, because we've got to go." Ron said, heading with Harry towards the Charms classroom.
Ginny looked around in puzzlement, now where had Louise gone?
~*~*~*
20 minutes later Ginny walked into the common room totally mystified. She had searched the toilets, the Great Hall, the library (narrowly escaping Hermione's rant about her assignment), the hospital wing. But Louise was nowhere. Lunch was just about over and Louise had just disappeared.
She walked into the common room and fell in a heap in one of the squashy chairs near the fireplace. Where on earth was Louise? In the corner of her eye she saw something on the ground by the huge window overlooking the grounds.
Was it? Surely not. Ginny walked over and gasped.
Louise was on her back spread-eagled and deathly white. Ginny dropped to her knees and touched her arm, it was ice cold. She pressed her fingers to her neck to check for her pulse.
But there was none.
~~Dun Dun Dunnnnn! Heheh hope that was a nice long comeback chappie! The first thing I did when I got home tonight (apart from falling down a flight of stairs because I wanted to carry all my suitcases in one load) was jump on the comp and write this chappie that I have been dying to write ever since I thought it up. I hope you all had great Christmases and New Years! My new year wasn't crash hot as a 6 foot poisonous snake was 30 inches away from me at one point. Apperently I would have died if it had bitten me. Boy you should of heard me screaming.
Well I'm not going to do review replies this time because I am way to tired and I cant be bothered because so many wonderful people have reviewed!!
Another thing I have to say, I reread OotP, and I had forgotten how much more confident Ginny was in that book. The thing is I thought up this story before that book had come out (yes I know that was a long time ago). So if you're going to review me and say it doesn't make sense with OotP, don't bother – I know.
Well hope this LONG (well its long for me and I'm proud) chappie satisfied you!~~