Disclaimer:  I don't own anything of the world of Harry Potter.  It's all J.K. Rowling's. 

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~~Well, well, is this Harry Potter? What a surprise.  I think it's quite the opposite.  I will kill you." Said a high voice inside his head.

Harry jumped in shock.  Was that Voldemort's thought that he had just heard?

~Why yes, Potter, you do catch on quickly.  You're inside my head, did you know that?~

~Not intentionally.~ thought Harry ~I saw what you did to my neighbor and then I thought about your disgusting self.~

~ahha.  Yes, I decided to give you a little gift.  I knew she was with Dumbledore and that you knew her.~

~How did you know?~

~I have my ways.~

~How nice.  Well, I'm not enjoying this chat so bye.~  Harry stopped thinking of Voldemort.

"What's the matter, Harry?" asked Ginny, seeing his worried face.

"I just had a chat with Voldemort." Said Harry, ignoring Ron's yelp.  (oh grow up, Ron, said Ginny).  Cho gasped and the Weasley twins suddenly looked worried.

"What did he say?" asked Fred in a hushed whisper.

"Not much really, only that he was going to kill me and that the killing of Mrs. Figg was a present for me."

Everybody gasped at this.

"You should tell Dumbledore." Said Ginny with wide eyes.

"Yeah, I think I will." Replied Harry, then he thought about Dumbledore.

~Professor?~

~Oh!  You frightened me.  Yes, what is it Harry?~

~I'm sorry, but I just had a chat with Voldemort.~

~What did he say?~

~Only that he was going to kill me and that Mrs. Figg's killing was a present for me.~

~Yes, I suspected that.  Why did you want to read Voldemort's thoughts, Harry?~

~Well…euh, it was sort of an accident.  I was looking at Mrs. Figg's house and I was thinking about him, and then suddenly I could hear his thought.~

~I see.  So when you think about someone, you can hear their thoughts.~

~euh..yes I guess so.~

~I will suggest you not to read any more of Voldemort's thoughts, Harry.  Don't think about him.~

~I'll try.~

~That's right.  I will alert the Order of your Gift, don't leave your relatives' house.~

~Okay.~

~goodbye Harry~

~goodbye Professor Dumbledore.~

"What did he say?" Ron asked immediately.

"He said that he knew that and that I shouldn't try and read any more of his thoughts and that I should stay in this house." Answered Harry in a dull voice.

"He's right." Said George firmly.

"So what do you want to do now?" asked Cho, who was plainly bored.

"How about a game of Truth or Dare?" asked Fred with a mischievious grin toward his brother.

"NO!" everyone shouted.

"Okay, okay, it was just a suggestion."

"How about Monopoly?" asked Harry.

"Euh..What's moronpololy?" asked George.

Harry grinned at this.

"It's Monopoly, and it's a Muggle game." He explained.

"Okay then.  Let's play.  What do we do?" asked Ginny.

"Well, I'll go get it." Said Harry and he went to get it in the closet.  He came back with a dusty box in his hands.

"I guess they never play it here." Concluded Ron.

"Right-o." grinned Harry.

They all sat at the table and Harry began passing out the money.  Ron's eyes widened.

"Is this real Muggle money?"

"Nope.  Sorry, mate." Said Harry, who was putting the board on the table.

"So what do you have to do?" asked Fred.

"Well, you have to be one of these figures, and then you have to ….." Harry explained the whole game.  "…And when there's only one person left, the game is over, and that person wins." Finished Harry.

"Okay, so we throw these things with the little dots…"

"And then we count the dots and move that amount of spaces…"

"We can buy some squares we land on with the money we got…"

"And if we have all the squares of one color we can build houses…"

"If someone else lands on your square, they have to pay you…"

"And if you have 4 houses, you can pay for one more house, and then you have a hotel…"

"And when all the players except one are broke, the game is over."

Harry beamed.  "Very good." he said. 

"Well, what are we waiting for?  Let's start!" exclaimed George, jumping up and down.

Harry watched as Ginny (the youngest)  rolled the dice.

~Hmm…how much is that?" she thought as she looked at the dice.

~Nine." Replied Harry in his thoughts.  Ginny quickly looked at him with a surprised expression.  Then she grinned and moved her figure 9 spaces forward.

~Thanks, Harry.~

~No problemo.  I hope you don't mind that I'm reading your thoughts."

"Absolutely not.  Let's see if you can read these thoughts." Ginny grinned as she thought some things that would make Harry very red as Cho bought a blue square. 

Harry went beet-red as he read Ginny's thoughts.

~Ginny, I think I'm going out of you mind now.~ he thought hurriedly.

~Why?~ she thought, smiling innocently at a very red Harry.

~You know why.  Bye…~ 

"What's wrong, mate?  You're really red, did you know that?" asked Ron.

Harry went even redder as Ginny giggled.

"Are we missing something?" asked an amused Fred.

"I think so, Fred, I think Harry and Ginny were exchanging thoughts." Replied George with an evil smirk.

Even Ginny went red this time.  Ron was chuckling, Fred and George were giving winks at Harry and Ginny, and Cho was examining her card of the blue square.

"Well, I suggest we go on with the game." Ginny said finally.

"Okay then, but no exchanging thoughts anymore!" said Fred warningly, waggling his finger at Harry.

"Okay!  I think I've learned my lesson anyway." He added.  George and Ron laughed.

Ginny smiled sweetly as Ron rolled the dice.  They played for the rest of the day (Harry won) and at 6 they ate dinner.  They played a game that they called Exploding Snape, they made little figures of Snape with their wands and then they blew them up.  Ginny, who couldn't use magic, used some of Fred and George's inventions to blow the figures up.  (fireworks, dangerous matches, thundering boms,…).  Cho, who had graduated, was looking in a booklet on careers.  When Ron asked her what she was going to do, she said "Probably a reporter."

"The new Rita Skeeter." Ginny whispered to Harry, putting a firework in the figure's mouth.

Harry, Fred and George (who had heard) burst out laughing as the Snape-figure went whizzing around the room, spitting out stars and sparks.

Finally all of them got tired and they decided to go to bed.

"That was the best game we ever came up with." Decided Harry.

"Bloody brilliant!" exclaimed Ron, falling on his bed.

"I'll never forget the Snape-figure emitting those hearts." Said Ginny, also climbing into her bed.

"'y wa fafnctc!" proclaimed Fred, who was brushing his teeth.

"He said it was fantastic." Translated George, who had just finished brushing his teeth.

"Well, goodnight!" said Cho cheerfully.  Everybody raised their eyebrows and then they shrugged.

"Goodnight!"

"'Night!

"Don't let the bedbugs…"

"Shut up!"

"Fine!  But you'll be sorry!"

"Especially when you have these itching bites in the morning!"

"I'll take a chance.  Goodnight!"

"Nightie night!"

"Farewell…"

"Shut up everybody, I'm trying to sleep."

~arghh, I want to sleep!" Harry thought, looking at Ginny through half-closed eyes

~So do I.  I'm lucky that there's no storm tonight.~

~I'm not.  Now I don't have something to hug in my sleep.~

~Where's your teddy bear?~

~Euh…he's in my trunk.~

~You have a teddy bear?!~

~No of course not!~

~Sure…~

~I don't!~

~All right, I believe you Harry.  (not really)~

~I can read all your thoughts you know.~

~oh, yes, I forgot about that.~

~I don't have a teddy bear!~

~How about a stuffed …pig?~

~???!!  How do you know about Mr. Oink?~

~Hahaha!  Got you!~

~euh…that was a joke…~

~I don't believe you.~

~Well, Ron has a stuffed potato!~

~I know…I'm his sister remember?~

~Yeah, but I didn't know you knew…~

~Well, anyway, why do you have Mr. Oink in your trunk?~

~Mr. Oink isn't mine.~

~?Whose is it?~

~euh…it's Alex'~

~?Why do you have it?~

~He put it in my trunk by accident.~

~I'm not sure I believe that.~

~Why not?~

~Because people with stuffed animals don't put their stuffed animals in somebody else's trunk, and you could have sent it to Alex with Hedwig.~

~euh..It might have gotten lost.~

~Sure…~

~It's true!~

~I still don't believe you.  I'll ask Ron tomorrow.~

~hmm..okay.~

~goodnight~

~sleep tight!~

~love you~

~Would you love me if Mr. Oink was really mine?~

~haha..of course!~

~okay, I love you too, Ginny, good night~

~Ron?  Are you still awake?~

~arggh, I am now!  What is it?~

~If Ginny asks about Mr. Oink tomorrow, just say it's Alex'.~

~Why?  It's yours!~

~I don't want Ginny to know.~

~Why not?~

~Do you want Hermione to know about Bob the Potato?~

~NO!~

~Well, then, you see?~

~okay, I understand.  Now let me sleep.~

~okay, fine.  Goodnight Ron~

~night…snore~

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hehe…I love the stuffed animals.  How should I name Alex' stuffed animal?  What should it be?  A chipmunk or something?

Responses: 

Sarahamanda:  Hmmm…I chose Mrs. Figg because 1) she lives close to Harry, so Harry would notice (and that's what Voldie wants), 2) she knows about the magical world, 3)  she's in the Order.  Are that enough reasons?  Glad you liked the chappie…hope you like this one!

SiriuslyDelirious:  I love your nick!  Yes, I don't like Cho, but I made her a little nicer in this chappie.  I know nobody wants to go out with Dudley, but he is popular (in his own disgusting way) because he's in a gang and he beats up people..and Valerie is kind of a slut…  glad you like the story!

Ariena:  I know the scene with the Death Eaters was really quick, but these are the sort of stupid Death Eaters like Crabbe and Goyle, so they're so stupid they just walk into a public place…And I'm not really focusing the story on that..so that's why it was so quick.  But I guess I could have made it more detailed.  Anyway, Glad you like the story.

Miss Prongs:  Yes, that's what I thought too, but it is interesting, and I wanted to share it with everyone…hope you're not too grossed out!  Glad you liked the chappie!

ZagZig 722:  yes, excuse you!  Haha..just kidding!  I'm sorry, but I didn't know that…Glad you liked the chappie!  Yeah, it is kind of creepy…but it might come in handy later on in the story…

Confused ( ):  Yeah I know, but I didn't know how else to end it.  Glad you like the ideas though!

Alueua:  yeah, I wish I had Harry's new power…hehe this chapter was some examples of those nice conversations he and Ginny could have;)

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Today's quote:  Have a sandwich! –Dennis the Duck

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I like sandwiches, they're welcome, unlike tomatoes *ducks* arghhhhhhh!!!!

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