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Ginny whistled quietly to herself as she closed her wardrobe door leaving her gown
hanging up safely inside. She looked down at the white bag with "Madam Malkins"
written in black letters on the side.
Smiling to herself Ginny sat down at her vanity, she knew she could never find a
place to make a gown that she could love so much anywhere else but Madam Malkins.
She was extremely proud of what the witch who used to get Ginny her Hogwarts robes
could still pull off. She was a bit more educated in the world of fashion, and created
something that Ginny would expect to see on a runway.
Ginny looked in the drawer and ran a finger over the letters from Sherise to
Elizabeth. She was dying to get into the garden but what else could she do if she couldn't
get it open? She only had a few days until Draco's return but she had gone to Vraleish to
get away from the manor for a while. If she had stayed she probably would have flung
herself at the door and given herself a concussion.
She ran her hands along the chain around her neck and lifted the key out from
under her shirt looking at it carefully. Along the side near the end of the key were a few
letters, Ginny narrowed her eyes to try and read them.
"B.." she said allowed making out the two rounded parts of the letter. Sighing she
took out her wand out of her sleeve and pointed it at the key.
"Magnifyco!" she said clearly. A round patch of light shone from her wand, she
moved it so it was exactly above the lettering.
"Bennett?" Ginny asked allowed. Wondering what "Bennett" was. Was it the
people that made the key and the vanity? "No." Ginny firmly thought to herself. "There
has to be more to it then that, nothing so far has been coincidental." she thought putting
her wand back in her sleeve holder. She stood up and went over to her bed stand to get
one of the few remaining chocolates to satisfy her sweet tooth. She sat down gently on
her neatly made bed, she sat back a little and felt her hand hit something hard. Looking
over her shoulder Ginny saw one of her books.
'Enchanted' was about a girl who was taken away from her family when she was
a toddler and raised as a slave. The girl used to dream she was a princess, but when she
was thirteen she ran away and met someone that made her feel like one. She became best
friends with a prince who didn't care she was a slave, and let her live in the castle under
the disguise of a scullery maid who he would roam about with for hours in the
wilderness.
In the end the girl ended up becoming a princess at a young age, happy she
married her best friend. She was a happy little princess. A thought sprang up in Ginny's
head, she had an idea and she needed to find out about it before her head exploded in
anticipation.
Quickly Ginny changed out of her work clothes into a pair of jeans and a long
sleeved shirt, then tossed the invisibility cloak over her shoulders.
Once she reached the dragon table she gently pressed the dragons eye and watched
the wall start to glimmer. She looked down the hall making sure its was empty, and took
a few steps away from the wall, breaking into a run towards it. She went through the
watery substance quickly and dashed towards the library.
"Bennett..Bennett.." Ginny muttered, holding onto the large ladder. She stood
near the very top of the large bookshelves along the B section praying she was right.
"Belta, Belon, Bemile, Benert..." she read aloud, running her fingers along the
leathery spines. "Bennett!" she said happily. She gave herself a little push along the
shelves and let the ladder slide right in front of the authors name.
She looked through the few volumes, she smiled as she saw the title 'A Little
Princess.' and took a deep breath full of anticipation as she closed her hand on the spine
of 'The Secret Garden.' Carefully she slid down the ladder and set the book down on the
table. Hoping with every fiber in her body she opened the book.
There were only a few pages, the rest were fake and held together. In the center of
the fake pages was a small metal door, with a small key hole. Ginny ran her finger over
the door, wondering if she could pull it up with her fingers. She jumped a little as a bright
light came from the key hole, the key around her neck started to hover in mid air.
"What the.." Ginny whispered, the paintings around her letting off dull snores
from an afternoon nap. The chain unclasped itself and fell uselessly to the floor as the key
shot across the small distance between Ginny and the book, setting itself into the small
door.
"Well I guess that was a bit obvious wasn't it?" Ginny smirked putting her fingers
on the key and turning it gently. The small key made a series of quiet clicking noises
before the small door swung open. Inside was a larger black key, with flowers and vines
engraved in the handle. Ginny picked it up, a wide smile spreading across her face, her
eyes widening happily.
"Yes!!" she yelled excitedly. Many of the paintings occupants stirred and Tobey
drifted into the room. "It figures you'd need a key to get a key.." Ginny laughed quietly.
"What did you find Miss Ginny?" Tobey asked, rubbing one of his large eyes.
Ginny held up the large key, fastening the other smaller one back onto her chain after
threading it back on. Tobey's eyes widened and there was excited chatter from the
paintings.
"She found it!" one of the nymphs cried happily.
"I thought she would!" said the same voice that had called her nosey before.
"What are you waiting for child! Go!" said another voice. Ginny didn't need to be
told twice she grasped the large key tightly, throwing the cloak around her shoulders she
ran to find the secret underground passageway with Tobey yelling behind her.
"Hey wait for me!!"
Ginny folded up the invisibility cloak and set it on one of the stones in the tunnel
near the gate. She looked up at the gate and transfigured herself a ladder climbing to the
top.
"Be careful Miss Ginny!" Tobey warned. Ginny nodded and looked down at the
ghost.
"Wait your coming with me!" she said down to him. Tobey coughed a bit.
"I..er..cant..I'm allergic too..grass." he stammered, Ginny glared at him.
"Your dead Tobey..doesn't really matter what your allergic to. Now come on what
if I get squashed by a giant people-eating rose huh? Who's going to call for help if
alone?" she pouted, Tobey grunted angrily wafting up beside her. He shot her a dirty look
before gliding easily through the gate and waiting by the door.
Smirking a little Ginny lifted up the gate and tossed it aside. Lifting herself out
she landed on her stomach smearing the front of her white and light blue shirt with dirt.
Sighing as she hadn't really even started charming (literally) her way inside yet and she
was filthy already.
Ginny whipped out her wand as she slipped the key into the hole. Turning it with
as much force as she could muster she heard the door creak and groan from not being
opened in so long. she began to pull on the iron and circular handle when she saw the
same thick vines that attacked her in the tunnel already starting to slide out.
Ginny stepped back pointing her wand and yelling clearly "FERENSAR
MORIENTA" at the vines. But to her dismay more kept coming into the confined space,
Ginny ducked as on of them swung at her head but another managed to scratch the side of
her neck causing a long but not serious cut.
"FERENSAR MORIENTA!" she yelled again aiming it at the vines. A few of the
vines wilted, but more came, pushing the door open to its extent. Ginny looked hard
through the vines, moving out of the way and cursing more vines that came at her.
They had to be coming from somewhere, Professor Sprout had told her back in
her school years most vicious plants shared the same source, a root in a sense. Ginny
narrowed her eyes and saw a small gap in the roots that was being covered by one thick
vine. She raised her wand and shot the spell at it before sprinting while ducking through
the small space. Tobey followed after her, the vines thrashing through him uselessly.
A vine came up under Ginny's feet, causing her to topple to the ground. She rolled
as another tried to get her neck. All she could see was the thrashing of the green vines.
Like thick, headless snakes that we are moving quickly and striving to strangle the
intruder.
Ginny screamed a little as a vine swatted her on the side of the head knocking her
over to the ground where she rolled over another vine. Getting to her feet Ginny yelled
the vine killing spell and everything she could see.
"TOBEY FIND WHERE THE VINES ARE COMING FROM!" Ginny yelled
loudly, Tobey blinked curiously.
"WHAT WHY?!" he yelled back. Ginny glared at him ducking another large vine.
"JUST DO IT!" she ordered. Tobey nodded and shot off quickly. Tobey followed
the thick vines that kept trying to grasp onto him but continued to fail miserably, until he
found a large yellow-green pulsing blob about the size of a fat horse that all the vines
seemed to be attached to.
"MISS GINNY I FOUND IT!! ITS OVER HERE!" he yelled. Ginny blinked
trying to find where his voice was coming from, she swore loudly as one swung over her
head. Ginny grabbed a hold of it and was thrown on top of another thick vine that was
rather high in the air. Some of the thorns scratched and prodded through her jeans cutting
her legs. Wincing she managed to catch a glimpse of Tobey and fell onto another vine
and leaned back.
She cast a spell at the vine and all the thorns sunk in, she loosened her grip,
dodging another vine that swung at her neck and slid down the smooth plant.
Another vine managed to scratch her on the back, but Ginny ignored it as she
landed on the squishy surface of the pulsing root.
"FERENSAR MORIENTA!" she yelled stabbing the end of her wand through the
surface of the main root. It glowed strongly, Ginny climbed off quickly as it started to get
small tears in it that oozed a disgusting green coloured slime.
She ducked and covered her face with her arms just in time as all the vines and the
center trembled and exploded splattering everything around in a sticky green slime. Ginny
wiped her eyes and sighed, healing the more painful of her cuts with her wand and
performing a cleaning spell on herself cleaning herself of the slime before looking to
Tobey.
"Onward then?" she asked letting out a deep breath. Tobey nodded looking
towards the arch of ivy that was now brown and rotting, the entrance itself full of thin yet
dangerous looking thorn bushes.
Ginny sighed lifting her wand and casting a disintegrating charm on them, then
stepping through.
"Aren't you going to fix the ivy?" Tobey asked gliding along beside her. Ginny
shrugged.
"I thought I'd concur all the deadly, strangling plants that want to kill me first
before I go on to the actual reviving part. I'm still not even sure if it'll work, I mean the
spell Sherise used said it would only work if something certain happened. The letter was
torn so I don't even know what that certain thing is, but im hoping for the best." Ginny
sighed.
She looked down as the archway thinned out and saw circular stone steps that
were aged and covered in dead grass. She stepped walked down them, hexing a few
doxies that came at her and Tobey from some dead bushes. When she got to the end her
breath caught in her throat.
"Oh my.." Tobey said quietly.
The garden was a large area, with a pathway that was now faded with brown grass
covering the stepping stones. The area was surrounded with a wall of now dead ivy, from
which the same dangerous looking thorns were woven throughout the dead plants. There
were statues that once would have looked stern and wondrous, but now had heads that
were made with slit like eyes and a large mouth full of fangs, of which bugs now crawled
over and through.
There was a pond, surrounded by rocks that were now cracked and faded, that
now was full of what looked like brown tar. It bubbled and spluttered as slithering,
disgusting creatures that resembles water snakes but with no eyes swam on the surface,
diving into the substance.
The statue in the center that Sherise once described a an angel, was now a dark
dingy grey. With dark bat like wings stretched up towards the grey and cloudy sky. Stone
snakes wove around its legs and torso, its face was twisted in an menacing grin showing
rows and rows of pointed stone fangs.
Where once flowers must have been were now small thorned vines, that were
shaking and twisting as though alive like their larger counterparts Ginny had just faced.
Ginny jumped clamping her hands to her ears as she heard a mandrake like screech. To
see a bunch of the annoying and loud baby-stage mandrake plants starting to writhe and
stir.
Quickly Ginny transfigured herself a pair of earmuffs and clamped them over her
ears. The smell of the tar like substance drifted around, making Ginny feel like gagging.
"Well it looks like I have some work to do." Ginny sighed rolling up her sleeves
and starting down the rest of the stone steps.
Ginny charmed, hexed, and did so many spells she felt as though she could now
take on even Neville in a herbology quiz. The moon had been in the sky for hours, yet
Ginny hadn't left. She was determined and she was on a roll, in her eyes there was no
sense in stopping now. The vines slowly began to wither and disappear and the thorns
burnt and withered into nothingness.
The tar like substance dried up, taking the snake like things with it, leaving the
clay and mud large hole where the pond should be. Ginny was beginning to work on the
other vines when suddenly she heard a crash even from under her earmuffs.
"It sounds like a storm is coming Miss Ginny!" Tobey said. Ginny sighed looking
up to the sky. Her legs and arms ached, even her fingers that had been gripping onto her
wand for so long felt tired and strained. Her shirt and pants were now filthy, ripped in
places and splotched with blood. Her eyes were red and opening them after she blinked
was becoming difficult.
"I'll keep working until the rain starts." Ginny told him. Tobey nodded and went
back to looking around for any creatures. Ginny yawned as she pointed her wand at the
knee high vines that were too short to lash at her yet.
"Ferensar morienta.." she sighed watching the vines explode dully, splattering her
pants a little more. It was so desolate, Ginny was barely even half done. Even with her
wand this was going to take a long time.
"I wonder what that thing is that Mistress Sherise meant that would help awake
the garden is." Tobey asked, giving the twisted angel a dirty look.
"I don't know. I hope its not something overly dramatic like blood or something."
Ginny responded heading to the next patch of vines. She shot an annoyed look at the
mandrakes and put a silencing spell on them so she could take off her earmuffs.
They both continued to talk randomly as Ginny continued to work on for about an
hour, Ginny was just getting to fix the path when she felt something wet on the back of
her neck. She looked up to the sky to see that it was beginning to shower down thick
drops of rain.
"We better get going!" Ginny said as her and Tobey left the garden quickly. Ginny
ran up the steps and out of the garden, closing the large door behind Tobey and locking it
again. She slipped the key into her jeans pocket and jumped down the tunnel hole,
fastening the gate behind her magically.
"Well we have more work to do tomorrow then." Ginny yawned, wondering if her
legs would collapse before she reached her room. As they reached the exit Ginny picked
up Harry's invisibility cloak , tossed it around her and waved goodbye to Tobey before
heading towards her room.
The next day Ginny left for the garden with Tobey right after breakfast, she
carried two large crates in her arms full of dirt and had to levitate them out of the tunnel
in order for herself to be able to get out. It was another dull day, Ginny dressed herself
appropriately in a long sleeved shirt, jeans and a thin black cloak.
"What are they for Miss Ginny?" Tobey asked as they started down the stone
steps. Ginny dropped them down besides the silenced yet moving mandrakes.
"For our little squirmy friends here." She said, pulling on her dragon hide gloves
and slipping the earmuffs back on in case she missed one with the silencing charm. "My
friend Neville works at St. Mungo's he was rather pleased when he said I was giving him
over a dozen for free." she said digging a hole then pulling up a mandrake firmly then
plunking the squirming creature into the dirt.
Ginny worked all morning and afternoon, eating the snack bar she had in her
pocket instead of going in for lunch. The sun was beginning to get a little warmer so she
took off her cloak as she got to pulling some of the weeds off the statues. Ginny tossed
off her cloak setting it gently on one of the two halves of a broken stone bench.
"Miss Ginny can I ask you something?" Tobey said quietly, he had burrowed a
pair of firming gloves from the butlers so he could actually do some work. He pulled
some disgusting looking weeds out of the bottom of the clay in the pond hole.
"Sure why not?" Ginny nodded, climbing onto a stump of what looked like it had
been a willow tree at the far side of the garden. There were small openings in the ivy
covered stone walls that Ginny assumed led into other pathways but she was going to
concur this area first before she proceeded on.
The stone archways Ginny had reassembled magically but they were still looking
dirty and grimy, no spell Ginny had tried yet had managed to clean them off. The vines
were mostly gone but dead grass remained in their place. The grass wouldn't re grow no
matter what Ginny tried but she had gotten an idea she'd have to try this the old fashion
way.
"Why are you doing this? I mean Mistress Sherise isn't here anymore, so why work so
hard?" Tobey asked. Ginny paused as she reached for another weed. Why was she doing
this really? She bit her lip since she knew the answer. She was doing this in Sherise's
memory, Ginny felt like she really did know her. But was she also doing this for Draco?
Draco really never seemed that happy. Sure he was never crying and miserable,
but he never was genuinely happy. She could swear she had never seem him actually
smile, not smirk, but smile the entire time she knew him. Would this make him smile? Or
would he never want to see her again.
Ginny felt a bit miserable at the thought, why? She didn't know. But she felt like
she knew him so well now, the 'why' to the person he was at school when no one else
really did. But did Draco still think of her as the youngest Weasel?
"Miss?" Tobey's voice interrupted her thoughts. Ginny shook her head a little
grabbing the weeds and tossing them into a small magical fire that was hovering above
the ground.
"Draco has done some really nice things for me. Between excepting this interview
and letting me stay in his manor, I guess I want to return the favor." she shrugged.
Sighing she tossed some more weeds into the fire and began to think of where she could
get some grass seed.
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