I was hugging Draco tightly. "I want to go in there."
"Are you crazy?" he asked, pulling back. "You don't know what's back there."
"But I've got to find out!" I protested. "If I don't everything will fall to pieces. I already can't eat and I can barely sleep. The letters are driving me crazy and the night that the girls normally get abducted it fast approaching; I want to get it over with now."
He considered what I said. "All right."
"All right?"
"Yeah," he replied. "I know I can't keep you from it and I'll let you go, but only on one condition."
"What's that?"
"Don't go yet. Let's get you prepared for what ever is in there… also; I want to be by your side through all of this. Okay?"
"Okay."
••••
"Ferula!" I whispered in the middle of my most boring class, Arithmetic. A wooden rod appeared before me.
Draco and I had been practicing spells, trying to prepare each other as much as possible.
"Flagrate," I hissed next, and began to trace images with a fiery flame into the edge of my desk. The teacher began walking my way. "Evanesce," I quickly said, and the log of wood was not only vanished, but completely gone.
"How is your math coming, Ginny?" the professor asked in a high, snooty voice.
"Wonderfully," I replied in a sarcastic tone. "Though I think it may help a bit if I actually knew what these little symbols mean."
She was fixing to reply when there was a tap at her door. The teacher answered it. There were muffled whispers, then, finally, a voice broke the sleepy silence of the classroom.
"I need Ginny Weasley. It's an emergency!"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Malfoy, but she is currently doing her work."
"But it's important!" he whined. Then, quickly looking over her shoulder, he shouted, "Ginny! I got a letter too! We've got to go, now befo-"
"That's enough!" the professor snapped bitterly. "If you do not leave immediately I will have to send to the Headmaster's office!"
I stood up. "Yes, Draco, I do suppose it is time for us to leave!"
"That's my girl!""If you take one step out of my classroom-"
"Move." I hissed. "Or I'll make you."
She laughed sourly. "I'd like to see that."
I pulled out my wand. Her eyes grew large. I guess she really wasn't expecting such an irrational move. "One… two…"
"I'd like to warn you that attacking a teacher is a federal offense here!" se exclaimed, her voice becoming higher with every word she spoke.
"Three…! Stupefy!"
My wand hurled a bold of red light at her and she was knocked unconscious. My classmates stared at me in awe. I didn't reply but instead left with Draco.
"All right, what is it?" I asked, running alongside him. We were headed towards the grounds.
"Read this." He handed me a letter. It read:
You have one hour. If you're not in the forest then, she dies.
"Who is 'she'?"He shrugged. "I don't know. All I can think of is Jessica because of your dream. I also don't think it's you because you would've been down there by now. I got that about fifteen minutes ago. We'd better run faster."
We rushed out the doors and to the edge of the forest.
"Come on," I said. "It's time."