Ginny walked into her dormitory and fell back on her bed and smiled. Her face dropped, suddenly. She sat upright.
Wait a minute she thought. Did I just have a good conversation with a Malfoy?
"No," she said aloud. She couldn't have. Could she? No. She couldn't. It did not make any sense.
"It was just a dream, and I will probably just wake up soon," she told herself. She sighed and crawled under her covers sleepily. She turned on her side. She missed her family. She turned on her other side and closed her eyes…
Ginny opened her eyes. She crawled out of bed and got up to stretch. She looked over out the window, expecting to see snow. There was no window at all. Ginny blinked. Weird, she thought, thinking really nothing of it. She shook her head and walked out the door. She expected to see the three boys sitting by the fire. But they weren't there. There was a bunch of other people there.
"Ginny there you are," someone said. She turned around. It was Ron.
Ron? What was Ron doing here? Was she back in her own time? She looked back at the room. Her eyes immediately drifted to a girl with brown hair. Hermione! She was back in her own time!
"Oh, Ron!" she cried and flung her arms around him.
"Um... Ginny what are you doing?"
"Where's Harry?" she blurted out.
"You mean Larry? Since when were you so inerested in Larry Potter?"
"What are you talking about?" Ginny asked, confused.
"I asked why you were so in to Larry Hey-You-Kid-Get-Out-Of-My-Way-And-Bring-Me-Some-Food-Because-I-Said-So-And-Because-My-Father-Is-The-Headmaster Potter."
"I don't get it. Dumbledore is the headmaster, and Harry's dad is dead."
"I wish and stop playing dumb, Ginny." Ginny was confused. What was Ron talking about? He walked off. She half-expected him to go to where Hermione was sitting, but he walked straight out of the common room.
Ginny followed him. "Hey are you looking for Hermione because she is over there," Ginny asked.
Ron stopped. "Who?" he said.
"Hermione. " Ginny looked at her brother. He had a confused look on his face. "Hermione Granger...?"
"Mmmm... Never heard of her," Ron said and kept walking.
"Are you mad at her again?"
"Ok Ginny you are really starting to scare me today. Now, let's hurry so we don't miss breakfast." He rushed over to the Great Hall. She followed closely behind him. As Ginny stepped inside, she had a different feeling. She wasn't sure what it was though. She glanced at the head table. In the center was not an old man with a long white beard though. It was a man who looked similar to Harry. What in Merlin's beard was going on? This is like a crazy dream, Ginny thought.
Why was Ron acting so weird. And how come he called Harry, Larry? Why did he say Harry's dad wasn't dead? And was that James as the headmaster? Why isn't Ron friends with Hermione? How come Snape is not at the teacher's table? Ginny took her seat at the Gryffindor table next to Ron.
"Attention, everyone," the person in the headmaster's seat said. That is James, Ginny thought, looking closer. "I have an important announcement," he said. Ginny looked around. Everyone had worried expressions on their faces. "It is about--" James was cut off and it suddenly became pitch black. Someone screamed. Cruel laughter was echoed throughout the castle. Another person screamed.
"My first attack," said a voice. Ginny knew that voice. Of course it had deepened a bit since she last heard it but she knew that voice. It was Tom. "My first attack," he continued. "And I have waited twenty five years for it. And let me tell you it will go down in history." Tom laughed a cruel laugh.
Ginny bolt straight up. She panted and wiped a drop of sweat from her forehead.
"It was a dream," she told herself. "It was a just a dream." She tried to calm herself down. "Calm down. Calm down." She took in a breath and let it out. She put a hand up to her heart and felt it bang against her chest. "Just calm down." She lay slowly back down in her bed.
I just screwed everything up, she told herself. I need to get back in my own time. She took in another breath. And closed her eyes.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. J.K. Rowling owns the characters, and I did not make up the plot. It's been done like a thousand times before.
A/N: Ok ok. I know that dream wasn't too SCARY. I am not good at writing scary things. FYI: Ginny just realized that she would mess up the future is she stays in the past. James will never marry Lily and they won't have Harry. In this chapter (in the dream) James married someone else and they had a baby named Larry. He was never faced against Voldemort so Harry couldn't defeat him. That is why Voldemort is still alive. Make a little sense? P.S. Sorry this was a little short. Please review! Oh yeah: Does anyone know how to delete a chapter? And also does anyone know if you replace a chapter do all the reviews for it go away? Well just please answer me that in the review! Thanks!