I know that McGonagall should have used a hover charm, but I thought that would be weird, and plus I needed a twist to the story. Besides, it shows a bit of the gentleman hidden in Snape. Thanks for everyone who actually wrote a review and not a message to me - you can email me that!

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We settled down on puffy cushions in the Room of Requirement. Aida and Caitlin on either side of me with Alex and Mia facing. Mia still wasn't looking at me.

"So, why are we actually here?" Alex asked, looking around.

"Ginny, is going to explain..." she trailed off and looked at me.

"I'm going to explain what happened last year, with the attacks," I said.

They looked at each other.

"What about them?" asked Caitlin suspiciously.

"It was me," I said simply. "I was responsible for everyone being petrified!"

They all stared at me, wide-eyed. Mia's mouth hung slightly open.

I continued, "of course, I didn't know I was doing it! I was possessed by you-know-who. He controlled me, and made me write messages on the wall, and set the monster on the muggle-borns. It was the diary I had. I wrote in it, and he wrote back. He seduced me, and when I didn't have any will left, he forced me into the chamber, and I almost died. If Harry hadn't come and killed the monster, and destroyed you-know-who, I would have. I almost DIED down there!" I stopped, feeling like I was going to cry again.

"Oh, Ginny," Mia said in a trembling voice. "I didn't know..." she broke off and started sobbing. She crawled over and hugged me.

I looked over her shoulder and saw Alex crying silently, Aida sniffing, and Caitlin with tears welling up in her eyes. I didn't mean to make them so emotional.

"I should have given you more of a chance!" Mia cried.

"Mia," I said, and she lifted her head off my shoulder. "It doesn't matter anymore. He was destroyed."

"Is that why the dementors affect you more than me?"

"Yes, Mia. I suppose, you'll just have to be a bit more patient with me, not that I deserve it or anything."

"Ginny, I'll always be your friend and be there for you."



"Here, Ginny," Harry said, dumping a package on the pile of stuff in my arms. "Happy Christmas!" He grinned and walked over to Ron and Hermione.

"Thanks, Harry!" I called after him, turning slightly pink. I took his package, Ron, and Hermione's up to my room. The rest of the girls were in there.

"Merry Christmas, Ginny!" Cried Aida jumping on her bed and tossing me a small package.

"Thank you!" I said, putting the package on my bed next to the others. I piled my robes into the trunk, along with my other clothes. I shoved my schoolbooks and everything else I was leaving under the bed. Then I put Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Aida's packages on top. I would wait until Christmas Day.

"Ginny!" Called Alexandra from across the room. "Here's your present, from me!"

"Thank you!" I called back over the noise in the room. Aida was playing loud music, and singing along, as well as dancing around.

"Merry Christmas!" said Caitlin cheerfully, her cheeks red, and her green eyes dancing. She handed me another package, and then went over to join Aida singing and jumping on the bed.

"Hey, Ginny," Mia said quietly.

"Hi!" I said, standing up and hugging her.

"Here you go," she said, giving me a small box. "Will you open it now?"

I carefully opened the box. It was a small jar of black ink.

"Thanks, Mia," I said, uncertainly.

"It's not regular black ink," she said. "When you use it, while it's still wet you tell it what color you want it to be."

My eyes widened. "That's so cool!"

I hugged her again. Then I dug under my bed, and handed her my present for her.

Mia opened it slowly, careful not to tear the paper. Then she laughed as she pulled a pad of multi-colored parchment out of the wrappings.

"It's so your essays can be a bit more exciting and colorful, but I wouldn't exactly advise you to use it for Potions. Maybe Transfiguration wouldn't be such a hot idea," I said, and then after thinking for a bit, "In fact, I'm not exactly sure in what class you can use it."

Mia laughed and hugged me.

I bent down under my bed to find my gifts to everyone else. A pulled the pile out and dumped them on my bed. Hermione had gotten me some stuff from Zonko's and Honeydukes for my friends.

"Here you go, Alex!" I yelled above the noise, her bed was on the opposite side of the room from mine. She turned towards me and held out her arms to catch the gift. I tossed it to her.

Caitlin and Aida were too preoccupied in jumping on the beds so I motioned to them that I was leaving their presents on the bed, and I went downstairs with Hermione, Ron, and Harry's presents.

"Hermione, here's your present," I said, handing her a small package filled with various quills. "And here you go, Ron," I gave Ron his, grinning at him. It was a package of Peppermint Toads. "Here, Harry, Merry Christmas!" Harry, who had been preoccupied with a chess game he and Ron were playing, looked up.

"Thanks, Ginny."

I went back upstairs to the dormitory, which had calmed down a bit, and threw the rest of my junk into my trunk and latched it shut. Then I joined Caitlin and Aida in jumping on the beds. Mia was reading a book, and Alex watching us. I had no idea how Mia was concentrating. Finally, Alex stood up and started jumping too.

"C'mon, Mia!" called Aida.

Mia looked up, with raised eyebrows at the mess we were making.

"Join us! It's the last day of the term! Have some fun!"

I looked at my watch. It was nine-thirty.

Mia grinned, set her book aside and jumped to my bed. "All right, but, ONLY if we change the music!"

"Deal!" I shouted.

Aida switched to another, and resumed jumping and singing.

"Merry Christmas, Ginny!" Mum cried giving me a big hug. "I missed you so much!"

I had just stepped off the Hogwarts Express into a huge hug from Mum. She released me and looked me up and down. Dad was standing behind her.

"Mum and Dad, I want you to meet my friends!" I pulled Mum over to Mia and her parents. "Mum, this is Mia Perkins."

Mum smiled at Mia, and her parents shook hand with mine.

"Nice to meet you," Mr. and Mrs. Perkins said. They were tall nice- looking people.

Aida was waving from the other side of the platform.

"Mum," I said, pulling her over to them. "This is Aida Baker - she's a metamorphagus – and her parents."

Mum and Dad started chatting with Aida's parents. I looked around for Alex, but she had disappeared. Caitlin had stayed at Hogwarts over break because her parents had taken a vacation to Ireland with her brother who was a Ravenclaw seventh year.

Fred and George were talking to Lee Jordan, and Percy was chatting to Penelope and who was apparently her mother.

Ron had stayed at Hogwarts with Hermione, who was using the time to do more homework, and Harry whose other option was the Dursleys.

I turned back to Mum and Dad. They were still talking with the Bakers. Fred was now talking to Angelina, and Oliver and George were discussing – what else could it have been? – Quidditch.

"Well, we have a car waiting outside for us, so we really must go," Dad said, shaking hands with Mr. Baker, again. I gave Aida a hug and then followed Mum and Dad over to Fred and George.

"Hello, Oliver, Angelina," Dad said brightly. "Fred, George, we have a car waiting and we need to go."

"Ok, coming in a minute," Fred said, turning back to Angelina.

"I'll get Percy," Mum said, walking toward him and Penelope. "Hello, Percy," she said pleasantly. "Penelope, how are you?"

"I'm doing well, thank you, Mrs. Weasley," Penelope said smiling. "Let me introduce my Mother. Mother, this is Percy's mother, Molly Weasley. Mrs. Weasley, this is my mother, Patricia Clearwater."

"It's so nice to meet you," Mrs. Clearwater said. "Penelope has told me a lot about your family."

That could mean about anything, I thought.

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