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Draco ran into his common room out of breath. He just finished his detention with Professor Snape and was extremely exhausted. Naturally, with Draco being a Slytherin, when Draco was late for class Snape wouldn't take off house points. Instead he gave Draco a detention. As Draco assumed, his detention with Snape was a rather easy task. Snape made him grade test papers belonging to the 2nd years. Snape wasn't present for the majority of the detention and all Draco had to do was read over boring essays on potions to heal dragon bites. On the most part Draco just went through the papers making up grades. Picking up paper after paper writing whatever grade came to his mind first bored him easily. Draco just sat down at the desk, slouching over, waiting for the time to relieve him from this tedious task. As all good things come to an end, bad things do too. For Draco, however, it wasn't soon enough. When Snape walked into the room Draco immediately acknowledged that he was done. Snape replied in his usual boring tone, "That took you two hours."
Draco nodded. Snape sighed. "Draco, you were supposed to tell me when you were done I have more papers for you."
This was the exact moment when Draco's day turned from bad to worse.
Draco now had a pile of papers to grade. The time was 12am and Draco wasn't done. He had the meeting at 1am! Draco rushed, making up grades and without waiting for Snape to come back left the classroom. Draco ran upstairs to his common room where he was now, getting ready for the meeting.
Draco changed into more comfortable robes and ran to Myrtles bathroom. When he stepped inside, he was relieved to see that the only addition to the group was that Loony Lovegod.
"Where is Ginny?" Asked Harry immediately.
"Isn't she with you?" Draco replied. Draco looked at the tiny circle the group formed on the floor of the bathroom. Their was Harry, Ron, Neville, Luna, and Myrtle. Draco then noticed what the rest of the group noticed before, Ginny wasn't present.
"We thought she was with you," Ron said quietly.
"I was in detention with Snape. Ginny wouldn't be in detention, would she?" Draco replied.
"Maybe she went to go save Hermione herself," Luna informed them.
"Uh Luna, Ginny wouldn't do that to her brother okay?" Ron said annoyed.
"You aren't organized enough for her," Luna replied simply and quietly.
Everyone just ignored her.
"Do you think something … bad happened to her?" Said Neville.
"NOTHING HAPPENED TO GINNY! SHE IS JUST LATE!"
"Could you two yell any more loudly? I don't think the creatures lurking in the Forbidden Forest heard you," Harry replied.
"It's not the time to joke around Harry. I know this might not seem dangerous to the Boy-Who-Lived. But, we are messing with pretty dangerous stuff. Something bad could have happened to Ginny," Ron reasoned. Then his anger grew.
Harry opened his mouth the say something in defense but Ron kept speaking
"I know you're used to danger, ever since you were exposed to it as a baby. You always come across danger and nothing bad happened before so why worry? You're used to all this dangerous stuff by now, heck you're probably immune to danger by now. But, I, I am not. And although I always wished I could be there when you do something good, to get some credit. To be noticed for once. I don't anymore. I just want my sister and my friend back. So please don't joke around. Just help me find Ginny, please?"
"The Weasel is jealous and admits it after years of keeping it to himself. I wish I had a tape recorder right about now…" Draco began.
"Malfoy I'm warning you. If you're sist… if Hermione was missing how would you feel? A little stressed right? Well that's how Ron feels," Harry explained.
"News flash- Hermione is missing too!" Draco said. "Remember, that's why we are here? That's why I'm losing sleep to hang out with a bunch of Gryffindors and that dreamy loony girl. That's why I'm standing in a dead girl's bathroom- To work on saving Hermione, the real one in danger. I'm not here to baby-sit little sisters who get lost on their way to a deserted, smelling bathroom."
At this point Moaning Myrtle burst into sobs of tears and flew into her stall. The splash was heard as Myrtle divided into her toilet.
"Ginny created order and organization, without her nothing will be accomplished. You are fighting like preschoolers. We all have the same goal here don't we?" Luna said.
"Let's look for the Weasel," Draco said with a voice of defeat.
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Ginny was heading over to the meeting and was on time too. Until, that is, a voice slowed her down. Ginny heard a voice yell out: Ginny?
Ginny turned around but the hallway remained empty. She continued walking with the strange feeling she was being watched. Then she heard the voice again yell out, "In this room. Come. Don't be shy."
Ginny became frightened and quickened her footsteps to the meeting place. Then, she abruptly stopped. A shadow was right in front of her.
A tall figure materialized from the shadows, revealing a mop of brown hair and a striking pair of dark brown eyes. He towered over Ginny by a good many inches, making her end up standing at eye-level with his broad chest.
"No one runs away from me," He replied looking down on her. "Let's see if you are just as fast as a learner as your friend was."
"Robert?" Ginny asked. After all the stories she heard about him she knew who he was and was positive that this was the Robert from New York. Ginny didn't wait for a reply. She resumed walking, headed towards the direction of the bathroom, but she didn't get the chance to take more than three strides before she was halted by a hand snaking around her wrist.
"Now let's go to a place a little more private," he said dragging Ginny by the wrist into an empty classroom.
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A/n- Remember Robert? Well he is back meaning more action! Next chapter is so long! It's over 2000 words! Plus guess what? If I keep it as long as it is you will see Hermione again! Yay! Well I know this chapter is short but the next chapter makes up for it! REVIEW!!! Thanks so much to my reviewers for chapter 23: Supreme Neo Countess, Little Miss Arwen, natyslacks, PinappleCube, VaNiLLa*cHai 501, dracohermioneluver, Sunna , Lover del Dragon, OutofAzkaban, Amber Lee1, Axisha, Icedfirestar, Miss Cassi, louise luvgood, and Tweetyiscool!
