Chapter 5- Owlary

Tom and Ginny stood outside the door. 'Let's see. Ginny is a shorter version of the name Virginia, so I'll call her that.'
"Well Virginia." Tom started
"My name is not Virginia." Ginny said
"Really?" Tom said with some shock "Is Ginny not the affectionate term for Virginia?"
"It could be, I guess. But my name's not Virginia. Honestly, can't anyone ever get it right?" Ginny said bitterly
"Then what is it?" Tom asked
"Ask me no questions, and I shall tell you no lies." Ginny said with a very proud look upon her face.
Tom looked at the girl bitterly, if he were at school, he would most likely hex her. But he did not believe in hexing girls, it was as bad as hitting them.
He then just stared at the girl. She was different. 'Well maybe I know what the gardener's were speaking of. 'Ginny' is a deffinate surprise, one I don't mind I must add, and I'm not one for surprise's.'

Tom then watched Ginny go to open the door.
"No, allow me." Tom said, taking Ginny's hand off the knob.
"Er...why?" Ginny asked "Do you have door obbsession or something?"
'Where has this girl been living, an uncivil household? I thought the orphanage was bad, but at least we were taught mannors.' Tom thought
He then opened the door. "No Ginny. I do not have a door obbsession." Tom said 'Wow, I'm top student in all my classes, attempting to become a GREAT headboy, yet I have to reply to this girl, that I don't have a door fetish, or anything. This is quite pathetic. Tom Marvolo Riddle is not a pathetic person! Wait... now I'm speaking in third person. I'm just going to forget this strain of thought now.'
"Well Ginny, are you going to enter the owlary?" Tom asked, a hint of annoyence plauging his voice
"Erm. Alright..." Ginny said walking in.
"Well, I have some things to attend to at this moment. But if you need to be shown around, tell me now, and I will...well what I mean to say is. I'll show you around if you need any assestence." Tom said 'Why am I having trouble talking to this girl. I NEVER have trouble with speach.'

Ginny stared at Tom. 'Wow. This is...different, to say, or think the least. This would be great blackmail on him. But...arg. I'm not accepting. He is a murderer!'
Then another thought came to her mind 'He's not a murderer yet. He seems to be quite the nice young gentlemen too. No boyfriend you have had has EVER opened a door for you. Your own brothers have never opened the door for you either, say YES.'
"Well?" Tom asked
'Yes, say yes!' "Y..Yes." Ginny muttered
"What was that?" Tom asked, smirking at the distressed look on the girls face.
Ginny adverted her eyes to Tom's and choked out the word(s). "Yes. It is very...very kind of you to offer."
"Well, do you need any help with your letter?" Tom then asked Ginny "I'm a Prefect, and one of Dippit's favorite students, he always takes something into consideration if I say I think it's a good idea."
"Alright." Ginny said, then sighed lightly as Tom lightly took her arm in his hand, and guided her to the front desk at the Owlary.

Ginny was handed about 3 or 4 sheets of parchment, a quill, and ink. She headed over to a table and chair to write the letter. When Tom took the parchment and other items from her. "I'll write it. Dippit will get you in if I write it. He does not let just anybody in. Your pureblood, correct?"
"Why does it matter?" Ginny asked, giving Tom a harsh look
"Oh, no reason. It's just if you want to get into the best house, you would want to be pureblooded, at least to go through school a living person." Tom said casually, ignoring the look Ginny gave him.
"Well, I am a pureblood. But that really does not matter to me." Ginny said
"It should." Tom said "Don't tell my you are going to support that fool Dumbledore."
Ginny looked at him 'Play dumb.' "Who? and by the way, when you say house's, what do you mean?"
"Oh. Well Dumbledore is the transfiguration teacher, favors the Gryffindors, by the way, you don't want to be one of them." Tom said, writing down in his perfect hand writing. "Oh, and you could be placed in 1 of four house's, they are the place you will be grouped in. There are Slytherin, the best house of all." Tom started, giving Ginny a wink. "Then Ravenclaw, they are ok. Smart, if not placed in Slytherin, you would want to try to get placed there, it's a big complement to your brain." Tom then got a bitter look "Then there is Hufflepuff. They are mainly Mudbloods, and foolish purebloods and halfbloods. Dumbledore also favors them. They are loyal to anyone who would give them some time in the spotlight." Then the bitter look vanished, and a sneer formed on his handsome face. "Then last, and deffinatly least. Gryffindor. They are a bunch of show offs who think they are the greatest people. They get away with everything, and most of the teachers favor them, even the head of our own house. You do not want to get placed there. I could tell you stories, but I think I'll just let you see how awful they truley are when you first enter the building itself, no, the train." Tom finished. "Oh, and here is your letter, you could read it, if you like. But I'd just send it out now." Then he took it from her. "I'll send it for you."
Ginny looked at him for a moment, blankly. 'He does not like Hufflepuff because they are to loyal? I thought he liked loyal people, maybe that is later? I knew he did not like Gryffindor, what Slytherin does? Wow. This is weird, and hey! Control freak! I wanted to read that, curse you Tom Riddle!'
Ginny stood at the table for about 6 minutes, before realizing Tom was gone for 10. By then he was already back in front of her, smirking.
"Well, I think I'll just bring you to get clothes, then I must go." Tom said "Your family must be wondering where you are." He added bitter-toned
"I...I dont have a family." Ginny said 'I'm an orphan now. They are all gone. I should of never touched that thing.'
"Oh, I'm sorry." He said quitely, and emotionlessly. "So am I."
"Do you know any place's I could stay?" Ginny asked
'I know one...but that would be cruel, but who cares, if she was there, then that muggle would stop annoying me, and start annoying her. Yes. I'll just bring her there.'
"Well, I know the orphange always has space." Tom said, a somewhat cruel smile on his face, but Ginny choose not to notice it
"Okay?" Ginny said with a worried hint
"And they just love us magic folk." Tom said with great sarcasim.
"Er...why dont you show me to that clothes shop now." Ginny said, quickly
"You girls and clothes...sheesh." Tom muttered
Then Ginny took out a galleon. She did not know why, but she just did, and stared at it, she never had this much money on her, never. Then she noticed Tom looking at it in a strange way. It was normal, everyday galleon, nothing weird about it to her.
"Strange coin." She heard Tom mutter. Then she saw him dig into his pocket, and pull out another coin, a different looking Galleon.
"Is that one from over seas?" Tom asked
"What do you mean? It's a normal coin." Ginny said, as Tom and her walked out. He opened the door, and this time she walked out. 'Finally' Tom thought.
"No. That is just a strange looking one, it's just a bit odd." Tom said. "I'll trade you 10 galleons of mine for 10 of yours."
"But I dont have that many." Ginny said
"Oh. Then I'll trade you for whatever you have, I could assure you that you wont get far with those." Tom said, taking the gold out of his pocket. "Here."
"I can't, it's your money, I have my own." Ginny said
"I'm only trying to be nice." Tom said "Just trade, please.
'If I do trade, then he will look at them, and he is quite the smart boy. He was headboy, and he must be somewhat like Percy, I mean, he would probably know something is not right here. He already has questioned me.'
"I'm sorry. But I can't trade. These were the last things my parents gave me before...before...before 'they' came." Ginny said 'Lame Ginny. Very lame. They. It's 1945, the wizard who's name I can't prononse is still at large. Another lame thing Ginny. Wow.'
"Oh, then forget it, take this then." Tom said, putting some gold into Ginny's hand
"Your pursistent, arent you." Ginny said
"I normally try to always get what I want, and right now, I want you to have money. Believe me, I have much more in my vault, now the store is just three doors down, I have to go. Bye. Meet me at the Leaky Caludren later." Tom said, and then vanished into the crowd, before Ginny could say a word.

Thanks for reading. I'm just going to get some chapters out. I'm packing, and have talked my parents into letting the computer stay a little while longer.
Thanks everyone who reviewed!

LadyLestrange- Odd that the update did not show up on the e-mail alert, now that I think about it, I've had that problem myself. Very odd, very odd indeed.

Death Immortalitis- I'm really trying to get TOM updated, like I said in the e-mail, I just have writers block on that story. It's terrible. Also, it just takes a lot longer to write, and I've pretty much used up all the thoughts I've had for it, and other idea I've had wont fit in.

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Everyone else, I hope you liked this chappie!
I'm attempting to make them longer, I dunno, I think I'm loosing it for long chapters, can't seem to write them anymore. Well night. it is 1 am, and i'm tired. took a 5 hour nap, woke up at 10:40pm. tired again.
I'll update soon. I have the next chapter done already.
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oh. the chapter is not due for a while, but what house should Ginny be in?
(s) (g) (h) (r)?

I just am testing out different ideas, each one leads to it's own path, and I liked each one, well, maybe not hufflepuff, but I can't see Ginny as one. well, night all!