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Chapter 6: Dinner with the dark lord

" Dinner with Voldemort " Draco said it as though it was an every day occurance. " You will be having dinner with the dark lord" Ginny couldn't get those words out of her head.

She couldn't even hear the screaming of the prisoners. The words kept spinning through her head. She was terrified, but determined not to show it.

Ginny didn't know where her feet were taking her, Draco didn't even have to push her along, she wasn't trying to run away. Draco raised an eyebrow and looked at Ginny. Her eyes looked unfocused, and she was clearly dazing off.

Draco stopped abruptly in-front of Ginny's door, he shoved her inside and said " Don't worry weaselette, there is still the whole afternoon to get through." He smirked then shut the door in Ginny's face.

" Hello, miss"

Ginny let a small squeek of surprise emit from her mouth. When she turned around she saw a house elf in tattered rags standing before her. ' if only Hermione could see this.' Ginny thought, thinking about Hermione almost made tears well up in Ginny's eyes

The elf's clothing were not the only thing that distressed Ginny. Clearly this elf was not treated well, dried blood caked her arms, above the blood was a thick layer of dirt. The elves sunken eyes were very depressing, they were a cold bluish black.

" my name is Lippy miss, for the masters and misses always say i have quite a lip on me, but Lippy gets punished for it miss, yes," the elves voice lowered " Lippy always gets punished." Lippy rose her head and looked at Ginny " what can Lippy do for you miss?"

" What?" Ginny was taken aback, what could this house elf do for her? " Can i have a bath?" Ginny was expecting this elf to laugh at her request, but the elf merely rose a stick, and said an incantation.

" There you are miss" Said Lippy. There was no bath anywhere.

" Umm, Lippy."

Lippy pointed to the wall, Ginny looked and there was a door. Ginny frowned, and the house elf smiled. " Go on miss, clean yourself up."

Ginny walked through the door. She found herself in a fantastic bathroom, marble tiling, a lion pawed bathtub with golden taps, bright fluffy towels of every color were folded to perfection waiting to be used, the aroma of soap and different perfumed bubble bath filled this room.

" this is perfect" Ginny muttered under her breath.

At Number 12 Grimmauld Place, London

All the weasley's, ( minus Ginny ) Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore, and the majority of the order of the phoenix sat in silence at a table in the kitchen. Mrs. Weasley sniffed, and a tear fell down her face.

Every person at the table had similar expressions on their faces. Sorrow, Worry, Guilt,

Cups of coffe and tea sat, undrank before every peson as well.

Mrs. Weasley broke the silence. She banged her fist on the table. " why do i even try! This war will never be over, i thought it could be ended , but now, now Ginny is gone i should never have let her get involved. This war will never be finished as long as one death eater survives, even then, more dark lords could rise, what would we do then, NOTHING, WE COULD DO NOTHING!" Tears burned in Mrs. Weasley's eyes. She picked up the coffe cup before her and threw it with all her might toward the wall.

She collapsed in her chair, and weeped silently on Mr. Weasley's shoulder. " I'm- I'm sorry everyone- im just so, so scared" Mrs. Weasley said in between sobs

" Molly" Dumbledore said soothingly " i promise that no harm will come to your daughter, and if any hurt is bestowed upon her, every death eater shall feel the wrath of the order of the phoenix."

Silence fell once again.

" One thing every person at this table should learn, is that there is always hope." Dumbledore said, looking at each person in turn. " All possessions may be stripped from you, but no one can ever steal hope. The one person who can tell you there is no hope is yourself. Believe that you can do something, and you can do it." Dumbledore's eyes twinkled

" My brother thought sheep were the cure to every disease man knew, even death, of course, we do not know if this is true, but my brother believed it, so to him it was true, he had hope."

" No i believe we can win this war, i may not be true, but i believe it, therefore there is still hope, there is always hope." A smile appeared on Dumbledore's mouth and his eyes twinkled once again.

Riddle Manor

Ginny emerged from the bathroom, with a towel wrapped around her, " Lippy, do i have any clothes to-" Ginny began, but she noticed a beautiful silver blue dress on the bed

" Master riddle wishes for you to wear this to dinner miss" Lippy said

" Lippy it isn' even lunch yet."

" This preperation will take a long time miss"

" First lippy, i order you to take a bath." Ginny said, eyeing the elf. The corners of Lippy's mouth twitched as if she would smile.

" Thank you miss."

Hours later, Ginny awaited for draco to get her to bring her to the dinner. She sat on the bed, and allowed Lippy to make last minute adjustments.

The door flew open " Lets go Weasel" A cold drawl said from outside the door.

Ginny walked out, and Draco was certain this was not her. Ginny's firey hair was placed in ringlets atop of her head, a few of the ringlets fell out of their pins and framed her face beautifully. Draco did not even look at the dress. Her face was enchanting him.

Draco almost shoved Ginny into a room, where she saw Tom sitting down, waiting for her. He smiled devilishly when he saw her. Ginny walked across the crimson rug and sat down, across from Tom.

He was eying her, making Ginny wish the dress was not low cut. His eyes were lingering below Ginny's neck " My eyes are up here." Ginny snapped, momentarily forgetting who she was sitting with.

Tom chuckled " ahhh you always were rather witty, as i remember from your diary entries." He smirked, Ginny would have loved to slap him, but she thought better of it.

" May i ask why you have not killed me yet?" Ginny asked, trying to hide the fright in her voice.

" well, you could ask, but whether i choose to answer is a complete mystery. So why dont we ask and we shall find out what i will say."

" why have you not killed me yet ,tom? "

Tom shrugged " Maybe i enjoy your presence too much to kill you right off"

" Or maybe your just a lying git" Ginny said, again forgetting she was talking to a man who could kill her in a heartbeat but tom only said

" perhaps i am that too, may i suggest you eat, this soup is very good, its an old french recepie."

Ginny didn't move, Tom gestured for her to try it. Again, Ginny didn't move " Well i suppose if you dont like my food i should not feed you at all ms weasley."

Ginny picked up the spoon and tasted the soup, it was indeed very good, but she was not about to tell him that.

" You Gryffindors are too proud." Tom murmered

" Like Slytherines are any better." Ginny grumbled, she hoped tom wouldn't hear her, but he obviously did because he snorted

" Slytherines are witty, cunning, and brave. Oh yes we are brave, just not stupid. We will always place our own well being over the well being of others."

" In other words, Slytherines are selfish prats who only care about themselves." Ginny knew she shouldn't be saying these things, but talking to Tom again, she just felt that she could say and do anything with no consequence.

" Yes, my fire haired beauty, i suppose us slytherines are."

" Tell me why i am here Tom" Ginny said forcefully

" You are here because i want you to be here. If i wished for you to be gone, believe me your heart would not be beating, however, for the time being, i suppose you are worth something to me." Tom said coldly

" What the hell is that supposed to mean, I want to know why i am here Tom, Fucking tell me!"

" tsk tsk tsk " tom said, waving a finger " language, i suppose it means i am tired and wish to go to bed. Goodnight." and with that, Tom left Ginny sitting alone waiting for someone to tell her to leave.

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i know draco isn't really in this a lot so far, and that it might be a lil boring but i promise i'll try to make it more eventful. Promise promise promise!

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