Chapter 12: (The Voice of Virginia Weasley)
The
judge said son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else,
then you won't have to die.
I said not a word, though it meant
my life,
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife.
Ginny
backed up away from the scene and placed herself by the wall where no
one would see or bother her. She saw Harry chuck the chocolate aside;
it clearly wasn't helping him much.
Concentrating with
everything she had, concentrating so hard she could no longer hear
anything, of feel the wind, she looked at Voldemort and entered his
mind.
Hello, Tom. Ginny thought in a whisper, and she
saw Voldemort's head twitch; he wasn't expecting someone to be
able to do Occulumency on him.
Tom. She called his
voice in a tune. Have we succeeded, Tom? Voldemort looked
angrier than before.
No, no, you haven't. Her voice
sounded definite in his head. You haven't even managed to
successfully re-open the Chamber of Secrets. You've been banished
time and time again. You flinch in the face of Headmaster Dumbledore,
the greatest wizard to ever live. Even your father hated you.
Voldemort was fighting Dumbledore harder that ever, but Ginny knew
that Dumbledore could handle him.
You're father hated you because he knew you would be a failure, Tom, and you are. That's why you hate yourself.
"Get out!" Voldemort shouted out loud. But Ginny wasn't letting go.
Do you think your so-called 'faithful' supporters know you're
a failure? I bet they can see right through you, Tom. Yes, they know,
if they really thought you could be the greatest Wizard of all time
they would have gone looking for you when you were banished. But who
went looking? Who went looking Tom? Ginny smiled to herself, it
was working, Voldemort was getting frustrated.
When are you
going to stop lying to yourself, Tom? You know you've failed, we
all do.
'Stop calling me Tom! My name is Lord
Voldemort!'
Lord? Lord, Voldemort? Tell me Tom, who
made you a Lord? You who couldn't even defeat a one-year-old boy!
Voldemort glanced at Harry and Ginny thought she had made a big
mistake. Harry had recently thrown up and was still recovering from
being surrounded by over fifteen Dementors for so long. She thought
quickly.
You know that prophecy, Tom? The one that your
clumsy Death Eaters caused Harry to drop? Do you know what it says,
Tom? Do you want to know? I think you do.
Dumbledore looked as if it was taking more of his energy to continue fighting Voldemort and Sirius and Tonks noticed this too. There were inching their way over to him slowly to help.
He's
going to kill you Tom. Fifth time's a charm.
"We've
only fought four times." And in Voldemort's mind, Ginny heard him
chuckle.
Fool. No Tom, he fought you again when your
sixteen-year-old self, preserved in a diary, tried to re-open the
chamber, and almost fully succeeded if it wasn't for Harry. Didn't
Malfoy tell you? It must have slipped his mind. This time though, you
didn't even manage to kill anyone.
Voldemort looked at
Harry, Harry was staring at him determinedly. He knew what he had to
do.
Ginny knew that she could not break what was left of
Voldemort's spirit any more, so she sent him one last message, her
voice in a whisper:
This time, Tom, you die.
Oh,
she walks these hills in a long black veil.
She visits my grave
when the night winds wail.
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows
but me.
