The Hospital visit,
chapter 2
(previously, on the cut off chapter
Little did they know that Ginny was listening in from the door. She was utterly shocked at how cruel Malfoy could be; it definitely didn't run in the family. In their year before Harry was defeating Voldemort right in front of all the death eaters, Including Mr. Malfoy. This was all happening in 12 Grimmauld place, and Draco was there. Supposedly, Draco had joined the good side, nobody believed it, except Dumbledore. Draco had walked into the house and saw that Harry was getting weaker, he was about to shoot a curse at Voldemort, but Voldemort shot the killing curse at him. Draco dodged it, it hit his side, though. He fell to his knees and passed out.
"You tried to kill my son!" shouted Lucius Malfoy.
"He has betrayed us, Lucius, you know that!" spat Voldemort.) okay enjoy the rest! And please R/R!
"It doesn't matter, he's still my son!" shouted Lucius, and then he ran over towards Draco's unconscious body.
"I knew it, you have betrayed us, exactly like your son!" shouted Voldemort, and then he shot the killing curse right at his heart. Lucius Malfoy died that day, but only to protect what was right. Malfoy has been depressed ever since, he joined the good side, but he was still very cruel to Harry and the rest of the gang.
Ginny immediately started running to go to one of the secret passageways that she had discovered in her fifth year.
She was stopped by the one and only, Draco Malfoy.
"Well, well, well, Weasley, running in the hallway. I think I will take a good 20 points from Gryffindor!" said Malfoy.
"You! What are you trying to do? Breaking up the trio? You're more cruel than I thought! Don't you have any dignity to your father? He died trying to save YOU! And this is how you repay him? By being impeccably cruel to your fellow side? We're on your side Draco! You shouldn't be cruel to us, if you were about to die, we would help you! You know that, and you still love to torture us?" said Ginny, a little dwarfed by Malfoy's great height. He was about 3 inches shorter than him, but she had a furious face on.
"How dare you, Weasley, talk about my father in front of me? How dare you talk about how I have no dignity to him! Get out of my sight, you make me sick!" said Malfoy, then he started walking again.
"Oh really? It doesn't matter what I said, think about what it means Malfoy, you'll soon see that I'm right. If you don't, well then you're definitely more stupid than I thought you were!" yelled Ginny after him. This made him stop dead in his tracks.
"You want to know why I'm cruel to all of you, Weasley? Because I'm jealous? OK! I'm jealous that all of you still have a family, a family that cares about you and always stays beside you! Your family would never go to the dark side! If they did, it wouldn't take your death for them to realize that they're on the wrong side! The reason I don't have any dignity to my father is because he had no dignity to his family!" said Draco, Ginny could swear he was on the verge of tears.
"Oh, Draco, do you really feel that way? Do you really feel bad for yourself?" asked Ginny in a sweet, considerate way that Draco had never experienced before. He actually like it, so, he walked back towards her and they locked eyes.
"That's not a good reason Draco! Instead of being cruel to us, you should be nice, we could be your family! You're not an orphan, you have a mother! We could still be your family, Draco. Just because you don't like that we are together and you envy us, doesn't mean you should be cruel! You really should try to become friends. I know you, on the outside you try to be cruel just so that your friends don't think low of you! But, on the inside you have a heart dedicated to always cherish your dad and what me and Ron have! You actually think it's nice! I don't care if you won't agree, that is my last word, bye!" said Ginny, then she ran off.
It was very late at night and everybody had already gone to sleep. Ginny knew about every passageway that Hogwarts has! There are A LOT that aren't on the marauder's map that she knows of.
She ran into the great hall, she tapped five times on the painting of Bavarian the Bulgarian and climbed inside. She was in a medium-sized broom cupboard, but she wasn't alone.
"So, do you have what I need?" asked Sirius.
"Yeah, Sirius, did you hear the whole conversation?" asked Ginny.
"Yes, Ginny, Malfoy has reasoning, but the way he is taking is the bad way. The way we want him to take is definitely the way he should take, but....." said Sirius, but his voice trailed off when somebody had stepped into the great hall.
"Oh, Malfoy! You said that you would never do that!" said Pansy Parkinson, a Slytherin 7th year.
"Pansy, do I really have to keep promises I make to you? YOU'RE NOT MY GIRLFRIEND! Plus, it's a stupid promise, just because I promised to you that I would never date other girls doesn't mean I mean it!" said Draco.
When Draco said this, Sirius and Ginny stopped listening. It wasn't something important.
"So, have you told Harry that I'm staying here?" asked Sirius.
"Yes, I told him last week, he said that he'll visit you when he gets time. You know, with N.E.W.T.'s and all" answered Ginny.
"Sirius, how come you know everything that happens when you've been in this little cramped passage?" asked Ginny.
"Ah, Ginny, I have put a spell on you that allows me to hear all the latest gossip, not only the stuff that you hear, but everything. I put it on you because Harry has not come to visit me and I am getting lonely. I mean, you only come here 3 times a day!" said Sirius.
Just Before Ginny could give him his food, somebody knocked three times on the picture. Sirius and Ginny looked at each other and decided that they shouldn't open it. But, they heard some voices outside that made them open the painting.
"Maybe he's gone for a midnight stroll! You know, transformed and everything. Maybe we should come back tomorrow!" said Ron.
"Hey! Sirius, why didn't you open the door?" asked Harry after Sirius had pushed the painting open.
"Because you two forgot the code! It's 5 knocks! I actually got scared, come on in, there's room for all of us! The passage leads to a much bigger room, I told Ginny to hide in it, just in case it wasn't Ron!" said Sirius, chucking at the same time.
"Sorry, Ron told me it was three, I thought it was 5! Ginny's here? Why?" said Harry.
"Can you just come in here? I'm getting kind of creeped out!" shouted Ginny from behind the wall. They all climbed into a room that had no windows or light. It was dark and half of the room was in pitch black shadow. A throng of people wearing yellow could be there and you wouldn't notice!
"Wow! Sirius, how come you didn't find out about this passage when you were in school?" asked Harry.
"It wasn't even made then, this used to be a cupboard where they kept the tablecloths! Then, they decided to make a wall and put a picture on it so that people can hide in here anyway, Gin found out" said Sirius, smiling at Ginny's cleverness.
"Man! So, Sirius, Malfoy is trying to break up the trio-," said Harry, but he was interrupted by Sirius.
"I know all about it, trust me, I know about everything that goes on here! All the latest things, maybe you haven't even found out about it! All the people who want to talk about something private come into the great hall! I just listen in" said Sirius.
Harry blushed, because he had poured out his feelings about Cho to Hermione in the great hall. He had hated Cho because she tried to date Ron just so she could get to Harry.
"Well, if you would like to know what's new with me, it's nothing. I'm still in the same old rags and I still haven't bathed in weeks" said Sirius.
They didn't need telling to know that, they could smell that he hadn't taken a bath.
"Yeah, about that, the prefects bathroom's password is hollow Jasmine, just so you should know!" said Ginny, she was a prefect.
"Thanks" said Sirius.
Everybody was chatting about the latest gossip that Sirius heard that they didn't realize it was already 2:00a.m. Sirius was still eating when Harry, Ron, and Ginny said "good-bye" and left.
Ginny woke up an hour late, she was rushing because breakfast would soon be over. She quickly changed, brushed, showered, and ran to the great hall. She was too late, everybody was already filing out, she forgot to give Sirius his food!
She ran to the painting and told Sirius sorry and that he would have to sneak into the kitchen and take some food.
She ran to her first class, transfiguration.
"Ah, Ms. Weasley, you are late. It's okay, I'm not Professor Snape, I won't take points away for being 5 minutes late, sit" said Professor McGonagall.
"Now, today we will be learning on how to transfigure a rat into a piece of bread. It is very hard to transfigure an animal to a type of food, so, pay close attention to this spell" said Professor McGonagall as she demonstrated the spell on a rat that she was holding.
Ginny imagined the rat as Malfoy's head and then she turned it into a piece of bread. That made her crack up on the inside, she wouldn't dare laugh out loud.
She had skipped lunch so that she could go to the library and read, she wasn't hungry. She was still replaying last nights' event in her head. Why is Malfoy so cruel? Do you think he's listened to me and stopped bugging Harry, Ron, and Hermione? Oh well, I'll find out soon. She thought in her head and then she saw Malfoy enter the library and her question was answered.
"Weasley, I've been thinking about last night, I've decided that I'll stop bugging you and your friends. You listen to me, this doesn't mean that I'll become friends with you! Besides, you work at the hospital wing, right?" said Malfoy.
"Good, and yes I do work there, Madame Pomfrey said that you come there for your coughing medicine" said Ginny, half chuckling at the thought of Malfoy having a weakness.
"Oh, you better not tell anybody, Weasley, but Madame Pomfrey told me to tell you that you have to make and give me my medicine from now on! You listen, and you listen good, we won't make any interaction except you throwing me the medicine and getting on with your pathetic life!" said Malfoy.
"Malfoy, that attitude will get you nowhere!" said Ginny, a little red in the face because of the insult.
"Weasley, you won't tell anybody that I have a coughing problem, ok?" said Malfoy, and then he ran off.
That night, when Ginny was in the hospital wing, Malfoy came and sat on a bed. Ginny didn't notice him come in, she was making his medicine, she looked very different. Her long red hair was out and reaching to her waist, she had a denim skirt and a pink, fitting shirt on. She was measuring the liquid and then she put it into a clear, glass vial.
"Hurry up, Weasley! I'll start coughing furiously!" said Malfoy.
"I'm not your servant, Malfoy. I'm helping you, so you have to be polite. In fact, I really wouldn't mind if you coughed to death!" lied Ginny, she would mind. Even though Draco Malfoy is cruel, she still cares about him, she cares about everybody, she wouldn't want them to die.
"Here, now I'm leaving because I've had a very long day! Good- night" said Ginny, she started walking away, but Malfoy grabbed her hand.
"You aren't going to leave your patient here at this time of the night?" said Malfoy with a smirk that Ginny didn't like one bit.
"Oh, you mean so you can tease me some more? Fat chance!" said Ginny, and then she walked out of the hospital wing and crept into bed.
"Hey, GINNY! Wait up! Why are you walking so fast, we don't have any classes" said Colin Creevey, Ginny's friend.
"I have some work I have to do in the hospital wing, see you later" said Ginny while turning the corner and disappearing.
She walked into the hospital wing and she did see Malfoy there, but he wasn't there because he wanted his medicine. His shirt wasn't on and he had a bandage all over his ribcage and his forehead. He was lying there on the very last bed, sleeping and coughing.
"You! You haven't taken your medicine and you go out for Quidditch practice? I suppose you started coughing and let go of your broom so it fell? Oh, what am I talking about, are you okay?" said Ginny, concerned.
She touched his ribcage and he started wincing in pain, she immediately took her hand off.
"Did Madame Pomfrey treat you already? It looks like she hasn't given you your cough medicine, here" said Ginny while handing him the vial.
He gulped it down and started to fall asleep.
"No you don't, you still have to take the medicine for your ribs, I'll go check on it" said Ginny while walking into the back office. She came out five minutes later with a mug of medicine.
"Okay, here you are, drink up! Malfoy, really, why didn't you take your medicine? Classes ended hours ago! You should've come and asked Madame-," said Ginny, before she cut off. Malfoy fell asleep. She pulled the covers up to his neck and took one last look at him. Then, she left towards the Gryffindor common room.
(previously, on the cut off chapter
Little did they know that Ginny was listening in from the door. She was utterly shocked at how cruel Malfoy could be; it definitely didn't run in the family. In their year before Harry was defeating Voldemort right in front of all the death eaters, Including Mr. Malfoy. This was all happening in 12 Grimmauld place, and Draco was there. Supposedly, Draco had joined the good side, nobody believed it, except Dumbledore. Draco had walked into the house and saw that Harry was getting weaker, he was about to shoot a curse at Voldemort, but Voldemort shot the killing curse at him. Draco dodged it, it hit his side, though. He fell to his knees and passed out.
"You tried to kill my son!" shouted Lucius Malfoy.
"He has betrayed us, Lucius, you know that!" spat Voldemort.) okay enjoy the rest! And please R/R!
"It doesn't matter, he's still my son!" shouted Lucius, and then he ran over towards Draco's unconscious body.
"I knew it, you have betrayed us, exactly like your son!" shouted Voldemort, and then he shot the killing curse right at his heart. Lucius Malfoy died that day, but only to protect what was right. Malfoy has been depressed ever since, he joined the good side, but he was still very cruel to Harry and the rest of the gang.
Ginny immediately started running to go to one of the secret passageways that she had discovered in her fifth year.
She was stopped by the one and only, Draco Malfoy.
"Well, well, well, Weasley, running in the hallway. I think I will take a good 20 points from Gryffindor!" said Malfoy.
"You! What are you trying to do? Breaking up the trio? You're more cruel than I thought! Don't you have any dignity to your father? He died trying to save YOU! And this is how you repay him? By being impeccably cruel to your fellow side? We're on your side Draco! You shouldn't be cruel to us, if you were about to die, we would help you! You know that, and you still love to torture us?" said Ginny, a little dwarfed by Malfoy's great height. He was about 3 inches shorter than him, but she had a furious face on.
"How dare you, Weasley, talk about my father in front of me? How dare you talk about how I have no dignity to him! Get out of my sight, you make me sick!" said Malfoy, then he started walking again.
"Oh really? It doesn't matter what I said, think about what it means Malfoy, you'll soon see that I'm right. If you don't, well then you're definitely more stupid than I thought you were!" yelled Ginny after him. This made him stop dead in his tracks.
"You want to know why I'm cruel to all of you, Weasley? Because I'm jealous? OK! I'm jealous that all of you still have a family, a family that cares about you and always stays beside you! Your family would never go to the dark side! If they did, it wouldn't take your death for them to realize that they're on the wrong side! The reason I don't have any dignity to my father is because he had no dignity to his family!" said Draco, Ginny could swear he was on the verge of tears.
"Oh, Draco, do you really feel that way? Do you really feel bad for yourself?" asked Ginny in a sweet, considerate way that Draco had never experienced before. He actually like it, so, he walked back towards her and they locked eyes.
"That's not a good reason Draco! Instead of being cruel to us, you should be nice, we could be your family! You're not an orphan, you have a mother! We could still be your family, Draco. Just because you don't like that we are together and you envy us, doesn't mean you should be cruel! You really should try to become friends. I know you, on the outside you try to be cruel just so that your friends don't think low of you! But, on the inside you have a heart dedicated to always cherish your dad and what me and Ron have! You actually think it's nice! I don't care if you won't agree, that is my last word, bye!" said Ginny, then she ran off.
It was very late at night and everybody had already gone to sleep. Ginny knew about every passageway that Hogwarts has! There are A LOT that aren't on the marauder's map that she knows of.
She ran into the great hall, she tapped five times on the painting of Bavarian the Bulgarian and climbed inside. She was in a medium-sized broom cupboard, but she wasn't alone.
"So, do you have what I need?" asked Sirius.
"Yeah, Sirius, did you hear the whole conversation?" asked Ginny.
"Yes, Ginny, Malfoy has reasoning, but the way he is taking is the bad way. The way we want him to take is definitely the way he should take, but....." said Sirius, but his voice trailed off when somebody had stepped into the great hall.
"Oh, Malfoy! You said that you would never do that!" said Pansy Parkinson, a Slytherin 7th year.
"Pansy, do I really have to keep promises I make to you? YOU'RE NOT MY GIRLFRIEND! Plus, it's a stupid promise, just because I promised to you that I would never date other girls doesn't mean I mean it!" said Draco.
When Draco said this, Sirius and Ginny stopped listening. It wasn't something important.
"So, have you told Harry that I'm staying here?" asked Sirius.
"Yes, I told him last week, he said that he'll visit you when he gets time. You know, with N.E.W.T.'s and all" answered Ginny.
"Sirius, how come you know everything that happens when you've been in this little cramped passage?" asked Ginny.
"Ah, Ginny, I have put a spell on you that allows me to hear all the latest gossip, not only the stuff that you hear, but everything. I put it on you because Harry has not come to visit me and I am getting lonely. I mean, you only come here 3 times a day!" said Sirius.
Just Before Ginny could give him his food, somebody knocked three times on the picture. Sirius and Ginny looked at each other and decided that they shouldn't open it. But, they heard some voices outside that made them open the painting.
"Maybe he's gone for a midnight stroll! You know, transformed and everything. Maybe we should come back tomorrow!" said Ron.
"Hey! Sirius, why didn't you open the door?" asked Harry after Sirius had pushed the painting open.
"Because you two forgot the code! It's 5 knocks! I actually got scared, come on in, there's room for all of us! The passage leads to a much bigger room, I told Ginny to hide in it, just in case it wasn't Ron!" said Sirius, chucking at the same time.
"Sorry, Ron told me it was three, I thought it was 5! Ginny's here? Why?" said Harry.
"Can you just come in here? I'm getting kind of creeped out!" shouted Ginny from behind the wall. They all climbed into a room that had no windows or light. It was dark and half of the room was in pitch black shadow. A throng of people wearing yellow could be there and you wouldn't notice!
"Wow! Sirius, how come you didn't find out about this passage when you were in school?" asked Harry.
"It wasn't even made then, this used to be a cupboard where they kept the tablecloths! Then, they decided to make a wall and put a picture on it so that people can hide in here anyway, Gin found out" said Sirius, smiling at Ginny's cleverness.
"Man! So, Sirius, Malfoy is trying to break up the trio-," said Harry, but he was interrupted by Sirius.
"I know all about it, trust me, I know about everything that goes on here! All the latest things, maybe you haven't even found out about it! All the people who want to talk about something private come into the great hall! I just listen in" said Sirius.
Harry blushed, because he had poured out his feelings about Cho to Hermione in the great hall. He had hated Cho because she tried to date Ron just so she could get to Harry.
"Well, if you would like to know what's new with me, it's nothing. I'm still in the same old rags and I still haven't bathed in weeks" said Sirius.
They didn't need telling to know that, they could smell that he hadn't taken a bath.
"Yeah, about that, the prefects bathroom's password is hollow Jasmine, just so you should know!" said Ginny, she was a prefect.
"Thanks" said Sirius.
Everybody was chatting about the latest gossip that Sirius heard that they didn't realize it was already 2:00a.m. Sirius was still eating when Harry, Ron, and Ginny said "good-bye" and left.
Ginny woke up an hour late, she was rushing because breakfast would soon be over. She quickly changed, brushed, showered, and ran to the great hall. She was too late, everybody was already filing out, she forgot to give Sirius his food!
She ran to the painting and told Sirius sorry and that he would have to sneak into the kitchen and take some food.
She ran to her first class, transfiguration.
"Ah, Ms. Weasley, you are late. It's okay, I'm not Professor Snape, I won't take points away for being 5 minutes late, sit" said Professor McGonagall.
"Now, today we will be learning on how to transfigure a rat into a piece of bread. It is very hard to transfigure an animal to a type of food, so, pay close attention to this spell" said Professor McGonagall as she demonstrated the spell on a rat that she was holding.
Ginny imagined the rat as Malfoy's head and then she turned it into a piece of bread. That made her crack up on the inside, she wouldn't dare laugh out loud.
She had skipped lunch so that she could go to the library and read, she wasn't hungry. She was still replaying last nights' event in her head. Why is Malfoy so cruel? Do you think he's listened to me and stopped bugging Harry, Ron, and Hermione? Oh well, I'll find out soon. She thought in her head and then she saw Malfoy enter the library and her question was answered.
"Weasley, I've been thinking about last night, I've decided that I'll stop bugging you and your friends. You listen to me, this doesn't mean that I'll become friends with you! Besides, you work at the hospital wing, right?" said Malfoy.
"Good, and yes I do work there, Madame Pomfrey said that you come there for your coughing medicine" said Ginny, half chuckling at the thought of Malfoy having a weakness.
"Oh, you better not tell anybody, Weasley, but Madame Pomfrey told me to tell you that you have to make and give me my medicine from now on! You listen, and you listen good, we won't make any interaction except you throwing me the medicine and getting on with your pathetic life!" said Malfoy.
"Malfoy, that attitude will get you nowhere!" said Ginny, a little red in the face because of the insult.
"Weasley, you won't tell anybody that I have a coughing problem, ok?" said Malfoy, and then he ran off.
That night, when Ginny was in the hospital wing, Malfoy came and sat on a bed. Ginny didn't notice him come in, she was making his medicine, she looked very different. Her long red hair was out and reaching to her waist, she had a denim skirt and a pink, fitting shirt on. She was measuring the liquid and then she put it into a clear, glass vial.
"Hurry up, Weasley! I'll start coughing furiously!" said Malfoy.
"I'm not your servant, Malfoy. I'm helping you, so you have to be polite. In fact, I really wouldn't mind if you coughed to death!" lied Ginny, she would mind. Even though Draco Malfoy is cruel, she still cares about him, she cares about everybody, she wouldn't want them to die.
"Here, now I'm leaving because I've had a very long day! Good- night" said Ginny, she started walking away, but Malfoy grabbed her hand.
"You aren't going to leave your patient here at this time of the night?" said Malfoy with a smirk that Ginny didn't like one bit.
"Oh, you mean so you can tease me some more? Fat chance!" said Ginny, and then she walked out of the hospital wing and crept into bed.
"Hey, GINNY! Wait up! Why are you walking so fast, we don't have any classes" said Colin Creevey, Ginny's friend.
"I have some work I have to do in the hospital wing, see you later" said Ginny while turning the corner and disappearing.
She walked into the hospital wing and she did see Malfoy there, but he wasn't there because he wanted his medicine. His shirt wasn't on and he had a bandage all over his ribcage and his forehead. He was lying there on the very last bed, sleeping and coughing.
"You! You haven't taken your medicine and you go out for Quidditch practice? I suppose you started coughing and let go of your broom so it fell? Oh, what am I talking about, are you okay?" said Ginny, concerned.
She touched his ribcage and he started wincing in pain, she immediately took her hand off.
"Did Madame Pomfrey treat you already? It looks like she hasn't given you your cough medicine, here" said Ginny while handing him the vial.
He gulped it down and started to fall asleep.
"No you don't, you still have to take the medicine for your ribs, I'll go check on it" said Ginny while walking into the back office. She came out five minutes later with a mug of medicine.
"Okay, here you are, drink up! Malfoy, really, why didn't you take your medicine? Classes ended hours ago! You should've come and asked Madame-," said Ginny, before she cut off. Malfoy fell asleep. She pulled the covers up to his neck and took one last look at him. Then, she left towards the Gryffindor common room.