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Prophesy found out last chapter and written by SecretDestiny13:
One of fire
Flames of passion
one of rain
thunderbolts a crash-in
With fire everything is endlessly dmned
Passion burning everything in sight
But when together
The fire is harmless-embers of passion
The rain's harm,
Away it weathers
And the crackel of the fire
And the pitter patter of the rain
Still long to be together till this day
Without that they will always be in pain.
This time when she showed this to Dumbledore, he gave her actual advice. "You have seemed to have stumbled upon your ReSeer quill. I cannot tell you much except that you should follow what it says, or in this case writes, because ReSeer quills are here to help you" With those words Dumbledore left. Ginny called to Hermione (a/n- if you forgot or skipped over it, Hermione is at the burrow) to hopefully explain it to her.
"Hermione!!!!!!!!!!" came Ginny's scream. "Hermione!!!!!!" Ginny searched everywhere for Hermione. It seemed that she had been awfully quiet during her stay at the burrow so far, and this time Ginny really needed Hermione. Finally, she found Hermione while running upstairs. Hermione was running down, having heard her name. "Hermione!!! Oh thank goodness I found you. I need to tell you something very important." Ginny began, only continuing when she saw Hermione nod her head "Well, it started with this prophesy about Harry, I'm sure that Ron has told you about the one, and now, my quill, well it wrote another prophesy…" At this point, Ron was coming down the stairs because all of the commotion woke him up from a deep sleep. Harry was still in Ron's room seeing as he was avoiding everyone.
"What do you mean another prophesy!?!" he shouted.
"Shhhhhhh. We don't want to wake anyone up" Hermione whispered
"I was just getting to that part." With that Ginny showed them the prophesy (for you readers who have forgotten it, I posted it on top of this chapter). "Anyways, Dumbledore told me that it is a ReSeer quill. I have no clue what that is and you know that Dumbledore will never explain it to me. Hermione, do you know what a ReSeer quill is?"
"Of course I do. As a matter of fact, I was just reading up on them. Basically, a ReSeer quill writes out old prophesies. In a way they 'ReSee' it. They were discovered by Horus Grighlard in 1509 and were used to keep a record of all prophesies until Grighlard died. No others were discovered in many years since in 1634 when Norman Nanyull found his. They are very rare, and only five others have ever been found. Yours will be the eighth ReSeer quill in history."
"But how does Ginny have one. I mean, that quill has been hers since last year in Hogwarts and if they are so rare, why is it all of a sudden a ReSeer quill?" Ron asked, for once letting Hermione give him more 'useless' information on ReSeer quills.
"Well Telhiva Mozaur found out that the quills decide when they want to become active. In his studies, he also found that each quill is meant for only one person. This person may have passed away, is still living, or not been born yet. Since there are so many possibilities, it is rare for a quill to find the right person. Even then, they don't usually become active in the time period that the person and the quill are together." Hermione explained. How she remembered this information, no one knows. (A/N-Well maybe no one except the author who knew that her knowing this may benefit the reader and the story).
"Well, I'm really tired, so I think I'm going to go to sleep" commented Hermione.
"Me too" said Ron as he checked his watch and saw that it was 1:30 AM. Since everyone left, Ginny decided to go to sleep too.
The next morning, Harry woke up the earliest of them all. Perhaps this was because of the late time that the rest went to bed, but Harry thought of it as a sign of good luck. Harry decided that he would eat breakfast and then finish up his homework. After that, he would be allowed to take refuge in the twin's room. But, Harry was forgetting a very important fact. Good luck hardly ever comes to the-boy-who-lived. As Harry was eating breakfast, Ginny woke up and came downstairs. The others were also awake, but due to that prophesy (A/N—again the one on top of this page) they decided to let Ginny deal with it (A/N-how nice of them, right?). Harry had eaten very little breakfast, but figured that he had to escape now!!!!! So Harry Potter cleaned up his breakfast and was on his way out the door when…'Bang!' Harry was being bounced back with extreme force. There had been a spell put on the doorway preventing him from leaving. Harry had also carelessly forgotten his wand upstairs so he couldn't reverse the spell. "Now Harry, as we both know, we need to talk. And don't try to get out of it, because we both know that I have my wand, and you don't have yours. You should also know that I am not afraid to use my wand" This shout Harry up when he remembered Ginny's famous bat bogey hex. He conveniently forgot that neither of them were allowed to use magic at any rate as they were both underage.
"So umm, let's talk" Harry replied nervously.
"Ok, I was not going to force you to talk about the prophesy, but my quill picked up another prophesy saying that we need to be together and work things out if we want to defeat evil (A/N—yea, I know that's a long stretch from how most would interpret that prophesy, but that way worked for my story). That is why we need to talk"
"Wait a minute. I don't understand. What do you mean your quills picked up that prophesy?" Harry was confused. Like everyone else, excluding Hermione and Dumbledore, he had never heard of a ReSeer quill.
"I guess that's a good place to start. This is a ReSeer quill. A ReSeer quill can write out prophesies that have been given. They are very rare, as only seven are known to ever have been in existence. This will be the eighth ever to be discovered, and the only one that is currently working. ReSeer quills are also loyal to their person (a/n- NEVER think of the person as their owner because it is the opposite way around). When they write out prophesies, they are either giving advice, or helping their person be wary of an attack or problem. The last prophesy said that we needed to talk. The first one told me what we needed to talk about" Ginny was proud of herself. She remembered most of Hermione's speech from last night.
"So, how do we talk about this" Harry was still confused but as he noticed his surroundings, he knew that their was no way out. Also he felt that she knew too much about this for him to lie about it.
"Oh, um, err, well… I was hoping that you would know where to start"
"If I knew where to start do you think that I would have been ignoring and avoiding you!!?!!?!!" Harry was getting annoyed. No, worse. He was getting angry. "So you lock me in a kitchen to force me to talk about something that you ALL KNOW that I DO NOT want to talk about. Then you say 'I don't really know how to start this'!!" Harry was now extremely angry "This is impossible! YOU ARE IMPOSSIBLE" Harry was disappearing into that dark space that he had been in for most of last year. Ginny was crying.
"Please, I don't know what to do anymore than you do. You think that I wanted to find out about this? But I did. You think that I wanted to have to be the one that discussed this with you? I most certainly did not. But, as my luck has it with stationery (you know, that pretty paper and pens) objects, I was chosen to have this quill. I do not want to make the mistake of not sharing it like I did last time with the diary. All I know is that I am supposed to talk to you about this." Ginny then broke down into a crying mess. Harry was now less mad and tried to awkwardly comfort her. He was never good with crying girls, but their was nothing he could do. There was a silence spell on the room, as well as a packing spell. That was quite ingenious of Ginny. She placed the packing spell on Harry so if he tried to escape, he would bounce back, as would things in a suitcase. This also enabled Ginny to walk out because the locking spell only locked others out.
"I'm sorry, please don't cry. Gin, do you hear me? Please don't cry" He said in a soothing tone.
"It's just sob that I don't know what to do. This is a big thing and sob and I don't want to screw things up"
"Come on now, please don't cry. I'm sorry, but you have to realize that this is not easy for me either" Ginny smiled inwardly. This was just where she wanted Harry. Of course she would never let on that she could fake this 'helpless girl' act so well. "So, I, uh, why don't I tell you all I know. essentially, the prophesy starts out talking about me and Neville. It could be either of us. Then, Voldemort" Ginny tried her best not to flinch at you-know-who's name as he would probably refuse to continue if she did "marked me because he decided that I was more of a threat to him." When he noticed that Ginny had the well-you-are-more-of-a-threat-than-Neville look on is face Harry explained "Remember this is when we were babies. The fact that he chose me, half-blood (is that what Harry is? I don't know what he really is, but he is not a pure-blood), over Neville, a pure-blood, as more of a threat is interesting when you consider what Voldemort stood for. Anyway, the next part of the prophesy says that I'm Voldemort's equal and that I either have to kill him or be killed by him."
"Well, the other prophesy suggests that I have a part in this. It basically says that you have to be honest with your feelings with me (A/N- again, I know that that is a far stretch from what it really means but my friend SecretDestiny13 wrote it and there is no way that I can write anything better so lets just pretend that the prophesy is to be interpreted the way I say it does). I guess that's a start. So, what were your feelings about this?" It was amazing how fast Ginny could switch modes. One minute she was the hysterical girl who Harry was trying to comfort, and the next she was his therapist.
"I don't really know. I mean I think I was angry at first, but that was right after Sirius' death and I was wrecking Dumbledore's office. I don't really know." Harry, at this point, was uncomfortable talking about his feelings. This was clearly shown through his voice.
"It's okay Harry. We have the whole summer to talk about this. I'll just release the spell around you and the room, and we can meet again Thursday (for it was a Sunday)." She murmured a few words and when she left the room Ginny was no longer a therapist, she was a normal teenage girl. Once the restraining spells put around the door were off, Ginny quickly conjured a couple of cushions for the expected arrivals falling through the door. No one said that Ginevera Weasley was not a witty witch.
"Ginny, you know that you are not allowed to practice magic as an underage witch" Hermione stated, as always, with full knowledge of the rules.
"Well, Dumbledore gave me special permission. Seeing as everyone in my house just loves to eavesdrop." Ginny said, looking directly at her mother who was also on the ground "It is the only way to insure privacy" With that Ginny left, suggesting a game of quidditch. Harry readily agreed, as well as the twins and Ron. After much convincing, Hermione agreed to go; and Mr. Weasley was hunted down. They only had enough members for one team, but it would be enough for a practice. Ginny was a chaser, as well as Hermione and Mr. Weasley. Ron was the chaser, Harry the seeker, and the twins were the beaters. Not so surprisingly, Hermione made a great coach, but an appalling player. She had read all about all the techniques in first year before their first flying lesson and never forgot it. Needless to say, she was always reviewing her details before every flying lesson so that she wouldn't crash (ok, just because they don't show them does not mean that the lessons are not their. If that were true, the students would have a total of about 7 classes each school year).
The practice was over in an hour. Lunch was ready by then. Everyone ate hungrily as most of the Weasleys had eaten candy for breakfast. The rest of the day was pretty normal. Ginny threatened to bat bogey hex anyone who talked about either of the prophesies, which left Ron to fight with Hermione over something stupid. Today's argument was about DA.
"If we make the club known, we would have more members who would be prepared. The new DADA teacher could even come and teach us some cool hexes" Hermione continued on to say how existent members would learn more this way, as well as teach even more people.
"Are you bloody insane!?!!? We can't let the DADA teacher get involved! I mean look at our DADA teachers. You just can trust them. Remus was the only safe and sane one we have had. And that is saying something, as he is a werewolf. Also, Slytherins would then join. They would spy on us!!!!!" Harry did have to admit that Ron seemed to be winning this fight. He was right on the whole thing about not trusting DADA teachers. Still, Hermione would not let up without a fight.
"Not all Slytherins are evil Ron.
That's just a stereotype. Many
are, but I reckon that there are a few respectable ones and…"
"Are you BLOODY MAD!?!?!!! Slytherins
are evil. There's no doubt about it" Harry
left the argument and went outside to think.
He really needed to clear his head.
At least his next meeting with Ginny was not for four days. It would give him time to clear his head.
Well that is it. I will hopefully update sooner next time but no promises. Remember if you review and give me the name of a story (if there is no author, I'll assume you wrote it) and I will advertise it on my next chapter!!!!!!!!!!