Chapter 5- Secrets
The room was dark and very cold. There were four large pillars and only one torch lit. Jenna heard a few muffled voices and moved closer in attempt to hear more.
"In where?!" a voice from the dark side of the room came.
Jenna then noticed that there were 4 men. Two taller men and 2 shorter men. One of the taller men had along hair and the other was wrapped in a cloak. The were a shorter man who seemed to be taking notes of the conversation and then there was a boy..
Draco Malfoy
"In.. Gryffindor my Lord," Draco said.
"She hasn't met Potter has she my boy?" asked the longhaired man.
"Yes Father, she has."
Jenna knew that Draco was disliked but she never imagined that he would be acquainted with the Dark Lord. 'Me? Are they talking about me?' she asked her self. Soon the smaller man spoke.
"My Lord, maybe it is a good thing she met Potter."
"What! are you mad? How is it good that she is friends with the boy who lead to my death when he was a mere child?!" the Dark Lord spoke.
"Please Sir, you are correct but," he hesitated for a moment and began again, "but, what if we get her back on our side? Just because he wasn't a loyal server doesn't mean her parents weren't. If I remember correctly they went to great lengths to hurt the Potters that night."
"Ah... yes that is a good point Wormtail. You have Potions with Gryffindors correct Boy?" he turned to Draco.
"Yes." he answered meekly.
"Very well Draco, to show that you are faithful, you will get to know this girl. Get to know her very well my Boy, or else...." the hooded man threw his arm out at a pillar, and it began to shake and crumble.
"Yes Sir."
Jenna was awoken by the sunlight coming in from the curtains.
"Jenna! Get up its first day back to classes! I'm so excited!!" Hermione was running around the room opening blinds and making sure every one in her dorm was awake.
The other girls groaned as Hermione was waking them and they pleaded her to like them sleep for a little while longer. After a few more minutes of Hermione running around, three out of the four girls in the dorm were awake. Lavender hated the first day and wanted to sleep as long as possible. Hermione tried to shake her awake but she threw her pillow at her. Then Hermione had an idea and a small smile crept across her face.
"Hey Lav, Seamus really needed to talk to you so he is on his way up." Hermione said trying very hard not to laugh.
"WHAT!! NO! Don't let him come in here yet." and with that Lavender Brown sprung out of bed and into the bathroom.
"Well that got her up!" Parvati said as her, Hermione, and Jenna all began to laugh.
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Ginny woke up and was breathing very quickly. 'Those dreams...' she said to herself. She looked at her clock and decided it was time to get ready and go to breakfast. She quickly did a new spell on her hair that made it flip out at the end of it and walked down to the Common Room.
Harry was sitting alone in the Common Room as Ginny was walking down the stairs. 'Great!' she thought, 'Why did he have to be here? I can't face him after yesterday'
***Flashback to Yesterday by the Lake***
She began to sob even harder and threw herself into Harry's arms. Surprised at Ginny's actions, Harry sat there for a moment and then finally wrapped his arms around her and let her cry and running his hand through her hair, making soothing sounds, trying to comfort her as best he could.
Ginny looked up into Harry's eyes and couldn't believe where she was. Her, Ginny Weasley in Harry's arms.. He was running his hand through her hair and looking out on the lake. Ginny suddenly got nervous and quickly escaped Harry's embrace and ran as fast as she could to the castle.
The rest of the day she had stayed hidden in her dorm.
*** End of Flashback***
Ginny quickly tip-toed to the Portrait Hole and was almost out of the Common Room when she heard Harry's voice.
"Stop right there Ginny." he stood up and walked over to her. "Don't ever run away like that again! You scared me. I couldn't find you. I asked Ron and Hermione and neither of them had seen you since we went out on the lake. Ron said you always used to do that, run off and just hide when things were bothering you but I was worried. For all I knew you could have been hurt or ever worse!" Harry finished and Ginny noticed he looked like he hadn't slept all night.
Ginny looked up into his eyes, "I'm.... I'm uhh sorry Harry, I didn't mean to scare you. I went to my room and slept that's all really, I'm aright. Don't worry about me I can handle my own problems.." she tried to give a smile, but Harry could tell it was forced.
"But I'm worried about you Gin... I don't want you to get hurt or anything. You mean a lot to me..." Harry looked at his feet when he said that.
Ginny laughed, "Harry it's okay, you don't have to pretend you care about what happens about to me. I've learned to deal just fine by myself and.."
Harry quickly cut her off, "Ginny... I'm not pretending... I .. love" ' Come on you prat, just tell her!' he though to himself. "Ginny," he started again, "I umm... Iloveyou!" he quickly kissed her on the cheek and ran out the Portrait Hole.
Ginny stood there, shocked.
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At breakfast, Harry sat between Ron and Hermione and Jenna sat next to Hermione. Ginny sat across the table between Neville and Seamus. Harry kept his eyes on his plate the entire meal and Ginny seemed to be spacing out a little. Only Hermione seemed to notice.
"Harry, are you okay?" Hermione asked with concern in her voice. "Harry?.."
"Sorry, what did you say Mione?" Harry looked up from his plate and looked directly at Hermione
"Are all right?"
"Yeah, just fine."
"Harry, something's bothering you, I can tell."
"Yeah Mate, you seem like something's troubling you." Ron said as he entered the conversation.
"I'm fine you guys, really." Harry then began to look down at his plate again.
The rest of the meal Harry stayed quiet. Hermione continued to give him worried glances and Ron seemed to forget about the whole thing. After a while Ginny got up and left. She didn't say good bye or anything. Finally the four all left the Great Hall and headed towards the dungeons for Potions with Snape.
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Harry was walking down the corridor with his head down and only spoke to say sorry when he ran into people. Hermione had pulled Ron to the side to tell him to talk to Harry. So while they were walking to Potions Hermione was talking to Jenna and they both quickly sped up and headed into the classroom. Ron slowed down and bit and walked with Harry.
"All right Mate, something's bothering you... what is it?" he asked.
"I told you Ron, I'm fine." Harry answered as he walked into Snape's room and sat next to Jenna.
"Everyone sit." came Snape's icy voice from the doorway.
The class all sat down and looked at Snape and no one said a word.
"This year you will be working with partners. You will have to make to potions for your final exam, if your lucky you'll get a smart partner as you will have to conduct one potion with them for the exam. This week you will have to make two potions with your partner. Open you text to page 359. There are various potions to choose from, pick two. Write a 4 foot essay on why you choose these potions and how you conducted them. One essay per group. Your partners are as follows:
Longbottom, Weasley Thomas, Goyle Zabini, Crabbe Malfoy, North Patil, Parkinson Brown, Finnigan Potter, Granger
Now, move with your partners and begin." With that, Snape strode into his office and shut the door.
The children began to move with their partners. Jenna looked over to her fellow Gryffindors and rolled her eyes and Draco sat in his chair and looked at his hair in a mirror.
"Harry.." Hermione said quietly and she opened her textbook.
"hmm?"
"Well, is it just me or does Snape seem in a good mood? He didn't take any house points away." she said as she skimmed through the book looking for a potion.
"Yeah, I guess." he answered as he peered over at the book.
"Harry, what's wrong?"
"I'm fine Hermione, what potion should we do?"
That was all Harry really said. He spoke when necessary and was not really paying any attention to what he was doing. Not too long after Snape had walked into his office, two voices could be heard yelling at each other. Every one looked up to see Draco and Jenna bickering about the potion Draco had picked.
"No! Look at the ingredients! A five year old could do this potion!" Jenna was saying
"Yeah, well I bet Scar-face and Weasel couldn't do it with out the help from their mudblood friend Granger!" Draco said harshly.
"Leave my friends outs of this! Just because your a stupid git and can't make a more difficult potion..."
Just then Snape came walking out of his office door and stood right in front of the fighting pair.
"What is the meaning of this?" He looked down to see Malfoy with a smirk on his face. " 5 points from Slytherin for disruptive behavior."
The class all gasped, never had Snape taken points away from a Slytherin. Especially when that Slytherin was Draco Malfoy.
Snape noticed how the class reacted so he spoke again, " and 3 points from Gryffindor for Miss North's disruption. Now every one back to work! You two, my office." and with that Snape went to his office with Malfoy and Jenna following.
A few minutes before class was to end Malfoy and Jenna walked back out of Snape's office, took their stuff and left. Then Snape came out and told them to go so every one was allowed a more time to go to their next class. On their way to DATDA Jenna explained that at her house she had access to many more ingredients than the students did here at Hogwarts simply because she did not have a Professor she could walk up to and ask for more dragon's blood. So she was used to doing complicated potions all the time.
The rest of the days classes went by quickly. (A\N because the author said so! :-) hehe) Through out the day Harry spoke very little and Ron, Hermione, and Jenna all seemed to notice. During their last class, Herbology, he did talk quite a lot and what ever was bothering him seemed to go away. At dinner Harry was talking to Ron and Jenna to Hermione when Ginny walked in and sat across from them. As soon as she sat down, Harry got up and left. Every one looked at Ginny with a suspicious look but she tried to ignore them and went back to eating. Hermione looked at Ron with worried eyes, and he nodded in understandment as she went to follow Harry.
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When Hermione walked into the Common Room she was suprised to see Harry sitting in a dark corner all alone. She walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Harry, now I know something is bothering you, why can't you just tell me?"
Harry sighed as Hermione sat in the chair in front of him.
"I know I can Mione. I... umm, I told Ginny I loved her." he said quickly.
Hermione's eyes widened, "Ginny..?" she said quietly.
Harry only nodded.
"Well what did she do when you told her?" Hermione questioned.
"I told her and then I kissed her on the cheek and left. It doesn't matter now, she thinks I'm a complete prat. All those years she was right in front of me and now I lost her." Harry looked to the ground.
"Oyi, who are you talking about Harry?" came Ron's voice from behind them.
"your sister.." Harry mumbled.
"Right that's funny Harry come on now, who was it really?" Ron was laughing now and Hermione gave him a hard stare and then he realized he wasn't kidding.
Just then Ginny and Jenna walked into the Common Room. Hermione seemed to give a signal and her and Jenna went to their dorms and Ron up the stairs to his.
Harry stood up and started to walk up the steps to his dorm when he heard Ginny's voice.
"Harry, wait!" she called
He turned around and walked over to her. She gave a weak smile.
"I love you too.." she said quietly.
Their eyes focused on each other as the moved closer and closer until the two finally shared their first kiss.
A\N- Snape being nice I know it's really poorly written but I'm no good at writing mean people. Haha! well R\R! :-D I hope you like it!
The room was dark and very cold. There were four large pillars and only one torch lit. Jenna heard a few muffled voices and moved closer in attempt to hear more.
"In where?!" a voice from the dark side of the room came.
Jenna then noticed that there were 4 men. Two taller men and 2 shorter men. One of the taller men had along hair and the other was wrapped in a cloak. The were a shorter man who seemed to be taking notes of the conversation and then there was a boy..
Draco Malfoy
"In.. Gryffindor my Lord," Draco said.
"She hasn't met Potter has she my boy?" asked the longhaired man.
"Yes Father, she has."
Jenna knew that Draco was disliked but she never imagined that he would be acquainted with the Dark Lord. 'Me? Are they talking about me?' she asked her self. Soon the smaller man spoke.
"My Lord, maybe it is a good thing she met Potter."
"What! are you mad? How is it good that she is friends with the boy who lead to my death when he was a mere child?!" the Dark Lord spoke.
"Please Sir, you are correct but," he hesitated for a moment and began again, "but, what if we get her back on our side? Just because he wasn't a loyal server doesn't mean her parents weren't. If I remember correctly they went to great lengths to hurt the Potters that night."
"Ah... yes that is a good point Wormtail. You have Potions with Gryffindors correct Boy?" he turned to Draco.
"Yes." he answered meekly.
"Very well Draco, to show that you are faithful, you will get to know this girl. Get to know her very well my Boy, or else...." the hooded man threw his arm out at a pillar, and it began to shake and crumble.
"Yes Sir."
Jenna was awoken by the sunlight coming in from the curtains.
"Jenna! Get up its first day back to classes! I'm so excited!!" Hermione was running around the room opening blinds and making sure every one in her dorm was awake.
The other girls groaned as Hermione was waking them and they pleaded her to like them sleep for a little while longer. After a few more minutes of Hermione running around, three out of the four girls in the dorm were awake. Lavender hated the first day and wanted to sleep as long as possible. Hermione tried to shake her awake but she threw her pillow at her. Then Hermione had an idea and a small smile crept across her face.
"Hey Lav, Seamus really needed to talk to you so he is on his way up." Hermione said trying very hard not to laugh.
"WHAT!! NO! Don't let him come in here yet." and with that Lavender Brown sprung out of bed and into the bathroom.
"Well that got her up!" Parvati said as her, Hermione, and Jenna all began to laugh.
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Ginny woke up and was breathing very quickly. 'Those dreams...' she said to herself. She looked at her clock and decided it was time to get ready and go to breakfast. She quickly did a new spell on her hair that made it flip out at the end of it and walked down to the Common Room.
Harry was sitting alone in the Common Room as Ginny was walking down the stairs. 'Great!' she thought, 'Why did he have to be here? I can't face him after yesterday'
***Flashback to Yesterday by the Lake***
She began to sob even harder and threw herself into Harry's arms. Surprised at Ginny's actions, Harry sat there for a moment and then finally wrapped his arms around her and let her cry and running his hand through her hair, making soothing sounds, trying to comfort her as best he could.
Ginny looked up into Harry's eyes and couldn't believe where she was. Her, Ginny Weasley in Harry's arms.. He was running his hand through her hair and looking out on the lake. Ginny suddenly got nervous and quickly escaped Harry's embrace and ran as fast as she could to the castle.
The rest of the day she had stayed hidden in her dorm.
*** End of Flashback***
Ginny quickly tip-toed to the Portrait Hole and was almost out of the Common Room when she heard Harry's voice.
"Stop right there Ginny." he stood up and walked over to her. "Don't ever run away like that again! You scared me. I couldn't find you. I asked Ron and Hermione and neither of them had seen you since we went out on the lake. Ron said you always used to do that, run off and just hide when things were bothering you but I was worried. For all I knew you could have been hurt or ever worse!" Harry finished and Ginny noticed he looked like he hadn't slept all night.
Ginny looked up into his eyes, "I'm.... I'm uhh sorry Harry, I didn't mean to scare you. I went to my room and slept that's all really, I'm aright. Don't worry about me I can handle my own problems.." she tried to give a smile, but Harry could tell it was forced.
"But I'm worried about you Gin... I don't want you to get hurt or anything. You mean a lot to me..." Harry looked at his feet when he said that.
Ginny laughed, "Harry it's okay, you don't have to pretend you care about what happens about to me. I've learned to deal just fine by myself and.."
Harry quickly cut her off, "Ginny... I'm not pretending... I .. love" ' Come on you prat, just tell her!' he though to himself. "Ginny," he started again, "I umm... Iloveyou!" he quickly kissed her on the cheek and ran out the Portrait Hole.
Ginny stood there, shocked.
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At breakfast, Harry sat between Ron and Hermione and Jenna sat next to Hermione. Ginny sat across the table between Neville and Seamus. Harry kept his eyes on his plate the entire meal and Ginny seemed to be spacing out a little. Only Hermione seemed to notice.
"Harry, are you okay?" Hermione asked with concern in her voice. "Harry?.."
"Sorry, what did you say Mione?" Harry looked up from his plate and looked directly at Hermione
"Are all right?"
"Yeah, just fine."
"Harry, something's bothering you, I can tell."
"Yeah Mate, you seem like something's troubling you." Ron said as he entered the conversation.
"I'm fine you guys, really." Harry then began to look down at his plate again.
The rest of the meal Harry stayed quiet. Hermione continued to give him worried glances and Ron seemed to forget about the whole thing. After a while Ginny got up and left. She didn't say good bye or anything. Finally the four all left the Great Hall and headed towards the dungeons for Potions with Snape.
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Harry was walking down the corridor with his head down and only spoke to say sorry when he ran into people. Hermione had pulled Ron to the side to tell him to talk to Harry. So while they were walking to Potions Hermione was talking to Jenna and they both quickly sped up and headed into the classroom. Ron slowed down and bit and walked with Harry.
"All right Mate, something's bothering you... what is it?" he asked.
"I told you Ron, I'm fine." Harry answered as he walked into Snape's room and sat next to Jenna.
"Everyone sit." came Snape's icy voice from the doorway.
The class all sat down and looked at Snape and no one said a word.
"This year you will be working with partners. You will have to make to potions for your final exam, if your lucky you'll get a smart partner as you will have to conduct one potion with them for the exam. This week you will have to make two potions with your partner. Open you text to page 359. There are various potions to choose from, pick two. Write a 4 foot essay on why you choose these potions and how you conducted them. One essay per group. Your partners are as follows:
Longbottom, Weasley Thomas, Goyle Zabini, Crabbe Malfoy, North Patil, Parkinson Brown, Finnigan Potter, Granger
Now, move with your partners and begin." With that, Snape strode into his office and shut the door.
The children began to move with their partners. Jenna looked over to her fellow Gryffindors and rolled her eyes and Draco sat in his chair and looked at his hair in a mirror.
"Harry.." Hermione said quietly and she opened her textbook.
"hmm?"
"Well, is it just me or does Snape seem in a good mood? He didn't take any house points away." she said as she skimmed through the book looking for a potion.
"Yeah, I guess." he answered as he peered over at the book.
"Harry, what's wrong?"
"I'm fine Hermione, what potion should we do?"
That was all Harry really said. He spoke when necessary and was not really paying any attention to what he was doing. Not too long after Snape had walked into his office, two voices could be heard yelling at each other. Every one looked up to see Draco and Jenna bickering about the potion Draco had picked.
"No! Look at the ingredients! A five year old could do this potion!" Jenna was saying
"Yeah, well I bet Scar-face and Weasel couldn't do it with out the help from their mudblood friend Granger!" Draco said harshly.
"Leave my friends outs of this! Just because your a stupid git and can't make a more difficult potion..."
Just then Snape came walking out of his office door and stood right in front of the fighting pair.
"What is the meaning of this?" He looked down to see Malfoy with a smirk on his face. " 5 points from Slytherin for disruptive behavior."
The class all gasped, never had Snape taken points away from a Slytherin. Especially when that Slytherin was Draco Malfoy.
Snape noticed how the class reacted so he spoke again, " and 3 points from Gryffindor for Miss North's disruption. Now every one back to work! You two, my office." and with that Snape went to his office with Malfoy and Jenna following.
A few minutes before class was to end Malfoy and Jenna walked back out of Snape's office, took their stuff and left. Then Snape came out and told them to go so every one was allowed a more time to go to their next class. On their way to DATDA Jenna explained that at her house she had access to many more ingredients than the students did here at Hogwarts simply because she did not have a Professor she could walk up to and ask for more dragon's blood. So she was used to doing complicated potions all the time.
The rest of the days classes went by quickly. (A\N because the author said so! :-) hehe) Through out the day Harry spoke very little and Ron, Hermione, and Jenna all seemed to notice. During their last class, Herbology, he did talk quite a lot and what ever was bothering him seemed to go away. At dinner Harry was talking to Ron and Jenna to Hermione when Ginny walked in and sat across from them. As soon as she sat down, Harry got up and left. Every one looked at Ginny with a suspicious look but she tried to ignore them and went back to eating. Hermione looked at Ron with worried eyes, and he nodded in understandment as she went to follow Harry.
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When Hermione walked into the Common Room she was suprised to see Harry sitting in a dark corner all alone. She walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Harry, now I know something is bothering you, why can't you just tell me?"
Harry sighed as Hermione sat in the chair in front of him.
"I know I can Mione. I... umm, I told Ginny I loved her." he said quickly.
Hermione's eyes widened, "Ginny..?" she said quietly.
Harry only nodded.
"Well what did she do when you told her?" Hermione questioned.
"I told her and then I kissed her on the cheek and left. It doesn't matter now, she thinks I'm a complete prat. All those years she was right in front of me and now I lost her." Harry looked to the ground.
"Oyi, who are you talking about Harry?" came Ron's voice from behind them.
"your sister.." Harry mumbled.
"Right that's funny Harry come on now, who was it really?" Ron was laughing now and Hermione gave him a hard stare and then he realized he wasn't kidding.
Just then Ginny and Jenna walked into the Common Room. Hermione seemed to give a signal and her and Jenna went to their dorms and Ron up the stairs to his.
Harry stood up and started to walk up the steps to his dorm when he heard Ginny's voice.
"Harry, wait!" she called
He turned around and walked over to her. She gave a weak smile.
"I love you too.." she said quietly.
Their eyes focused on each other as the moved closer and closer until the two finally shared their first kiss.
A\N- Snape being nice I know it's really poorly written but I'm no good at writing mean people. Haha! well R\R! :-D I hope you like it!