Revisions
Chapter Five: Reverie
LunarianPrincess
Ginny has returned to Hogwarts with one goal in her mind, escaping the self-righteous control of her brother and his friends. Reading becomes a sanctuary and she finds that her favorite author has just published a new work, with her as the heroine. She becomes focused on finding the identity of the author and is shocked when she finds out. Throughout her school year she finds out who she is, and is a new collaborator with the famous author who she can't stand and who can't stand her. What's a frustrated girl to do, why, revise the story to fit her needs.
SDA: Standard Disclaimers Apply
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"What the bloody hell?" a voice expounded next to her, she turned to stare into inscrutable silver eyes with trepidation and shock.
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She tried to ignore the people who were giving catcalls and teasing them. She hung her head and, shoulders slumped, joined Draco at their desk. She watched in rapt attention as Ms. Cho showed them new ways to work spells, looking into the actual working of them, rather than just the actual incantation or process. It focused on the actual elements and their relationships in space and on planes. It was a fascinating thing to Ginny, all those different equations for each type of spell. Each spell had a dominant element, Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and each element had a different equation involved.
"Hmm" she said in response to some mumbled comment by Malfoy. She turned to find him staring at her in surprise.
"You can quit writing notes, class is over," he said incredulously, shaking his head at the odd girl who was enraptured by all the elements and their relationships. She was surprised to note that he was correct, Ms. Cho was waving as students left the room, and others were still packing their things up. She was the only person still working on the practice problem Ms. Cho had left on the board.
"Did someone get the answer yet?" she asked him as she grabbed her bag and set it on their table.
"No, why did you?" he asked sarcastically, thinking that in the scant amount of time they were given that there was no possible way anyone could answer that question.
"I think so, I was trying to see if another way would give me the same answer," she responded absently, staring at the board intently. Draco just looked at her in surprise, how could such a pretty, outgoing, popular girl be so interested in such a boring subject?
"Yes, Ginny, I was seeing that you were working on the problem, what did you get?" Ms. Cho asked from behind Draco. Draco walked out of the room in mystified shock, the girl had actually answered the question right, earning them a few extra points for their project, but not only that she had begun debating alternate means of solution with Ms. Cho Sha Cao.
Draco walked down to the dungeons and directly into the private room he shared with Blaise, wondering how he was going to find his book. It was confusing to think that he had lost it, he always kept it with him and because of what was in it he never told people about it or let them see it, other than Blaise, who helped him by letting Draco bounce ideas off of him. He looked at his watch and was glad to note that he had at least an hour before he had to be to his next class. He pulled out his notebook, a black leather-bound volume, with a small silver dragon motif on the corner, that had all his ideas and character notations in it, this was his permanent record. He opened it to a blank page and all his ideas about the story came flooding out, in less than a half an hour he had a premise, characters and a setting organized. He just knew that this was going to be the easiest thing he had ever written.
"Is the literary genius done for the moment," a wry voice intruded upon his brainstorming. He raised stormy gray eyes to meet laughing blue ones.
"Sorry, I had an idea and I had to write it down before it disappeared," he remarked apologetically. He closed the book and turned to face his friend.
"So, I take it this sudden burst of inspiration comes from the unlikely source of Ginny Weasley," his friend remarked as he perched on the table that sat under the window. Draco nodded absently before answering.
"I don't know I just see the way she is, how she acts, her friends and who she is in love with," he spat, "And I just had this great idea for a story, I think I'll start tonight, I already have some great ideas, by the way, did you ever find my book, I had some ideas and scenarios I wrote to improve my writing in there," he asked hopefully. When Blaise shook his head Draco sighed and frowned, becoming introspective again.
Ginny smiled widely as she walked out of the Arithmancy classroom. She and Ms. Cho had debated the new method of finding the amount of an element in a person's body in relation to the successfulness of the spell being used. Ms. Cho had conceded to Ginny and she had said she was going to send it to her friend, a professor of Arithmancy at one of the most prestigious wizarding colleges.
She walked into her room to find that Tia was there already. At first Ginny was a little surprised but then she realized that Tia had probably talked to Dumbledore.
"Hey Ginny, I just talked to Dumbledore and he said that he would enlarge the room after lunch, isn't that great," Tia bubbled. Then she seemed to become quiet and introverted. She stared out of the window from the small desk that was next to the bay window. Ginny was grateful, she had a funny feeling just under the surface that she couldn't identify. She pulled out her sketchbook and found the D. M. Ladon book that belonged to Malfoy, she resolved to find him before the end of the day and return it to him. She sat near Tia, in the comfortably plush window seat. She cleared her mind and grabbed a pencil, flipping her sketch book to a blank page, she fingered the creamy pages of the leather bound book before starting her sketch.
She began drawing blindly, her mind occupied, her hand moving freely, expelling the demons of her mind. She looked down at the page and was surprised to find intense, alluring and oddly familiar eyes looking back at her from the page. She snapped the book closed quickly, fingering the silver phoenix that lay in the corner of the leather cover. Her eyes drifted towards Tia and she was surprised to see the girls staring at her silently, an indeterminable look in her cerulean eyes. Tia smiled sympathetically even though Ginny had told her nothing of her inner conflict.
"After class, before dinner, I'm going to the library, if you want Collin will be in the common room working on his portraits and candids, if you want someone to be with, I think I just need some alone time," she said quietly. Tia smiled widely as she nodded understandingly.
"I've never seen pictures developed, that should be interesting, by the way Ginny, you must trust your heart, nothing that stands in its way will last forever," as she delivered this enigmatic advice a deep gong filled the air, the lunch time was over and this was their signal to return to class. Ginny grabbed her bag, shoving her sketch book into her bag and walking to Professor McGonagall's classroom. She sat next to Tia and throughout the class she answered al the questions correctly and followed directions perfectly, successfully completing the review assignment but Tia knew she was not there mentally, she was thinking about what had happened on the train and what Tia had said to her.
Ginny was jolted out of her deep thoughts when Tia jostled her and walked with her to the door. Tia told some lighthearted jokes as they walked across the verdant grounds toward the herbology greenhouse. Ginny faltered in her steps and almost fell as an Adonis with platinum hair strolled out of the greenhouse joking with his friend. Tia seemed equally captivated with the sable haired boy standing beside Malfoy. They instinctively gripped hands and stalked past them, their eyes pointedly studying the ground. Had they lifted their eyes they would have seen indigo and silver eyes studying them respectively.
Okay that's it for this chapter, it is kind of long though. I reloaded the last chapter because I found some errors, so what do you think, what should happen next?
Now the Thank Yous to my absolutely fabulous reviewers:
Dracosbaby7: unfortunately, I am in the same position as our lovely Ginny. Oh well, we take it where we can get it right? Luckily I was very serious and worked so hard over break, and this is what I have to show for it, updates on all my stories.
Hoppers: I would gladly accept your internet, but as the weeks have passed I found I couldn't, oh well, here is the long awaited next chapter, sorry it took so long!