Garmen
By: Kryptonite
A/N: Well it looks like I confused you two... I guess that works just as well, means you read it and want to know more. Here's more, not much but I am trying to drag this out a little bit. (And yes, Rammstein LoL) Enjoy.
Ginny woke up at that point, panting and crying from the nightmare, just as real as the day it had happened almost two months ago. The room was still dark but she could tell that the sun was going to be up soon. The stars had started to fade as they usually did a while before the sun peeked over the edge of the mountains around Hogwarts.
She stood slowly, trying to dissuade the sickness that had taken a grip on her body in the last two weeks. Ginny creeped into the bathroom, getting ready for the day before her roommates awoke. First one to make it to the Great Hall, and even if she had been the last, she was the first done with the little amount of breakfast she could stomach.
" Hey Gin." Harry called as he, Ron and Hermione sat down at the table. Neville, Dean, Seamus, Lavender and Parvati all followed accordingly.
" Hey." Ginny replied, forcing a smile on her face. No one noticed it was fake.
" Has everyone received their schedules?" Hermione asked, already starting in on the group of students.
" Yes Hermione." They chorused as they piled their plates with food.
" Eat something Ginny." Lavender said, moving to put some bacon on Ginny's plate.
" I ate already. It's what comes from getting up an hour early. I should get going, I have Potions first thing." Ginny smiled at the group as she went to get up, some new student taking her seat as soon as she cleared it.
" See you at lunch Gin." Ron called as she high-tailed it from the Great Hall. The combination of the smell of the food and the loud voices caused her to feel extremely dizzy. Barely making it to the girls' restroom Ginny emptied what little was in her stomach.
" You don't look so good." Myrtle commented happily. Ginny rolled her eyes, not in the mood for Moaning Myrtle, as the ghost had been nicknamed years earlier.
" I'm going to die soon so that I can haunt Hogwarts and take over your toilet." Ginny spat, remembering Ron teasing Harry about Myrtle telling him that he could share her U-bend before he went into the Chamber of Secrets.
" That's not funny." Myrtle said, her look of happiness turning to its usual pouting expression.
" Neither is telling me I don't look so good when I'm throwing up." Ginny said softly, cheeks bulging as her throat gagged and she turned her head to face the toilet. Myrtle just made a 'humph' noise and did a back flip into her U-bend.
Ginny took a deep breath, wiped her mouth off and then hurried to Potions. She had three minutes before the bell rang, just making it to her seat in the back of the room.
" Unlike last year, you have all opted to be in this class. Which means, unlike last year, I expect absolute perfection from you." A voice from the Slytherin side of the room mumbled that he expected it every year.
" Yes but this year I am actually going to receive perfection, is that clear?" Ginny bit back the reply that perfection was impossible, knowing Professor Snape would not want to hear it.
" Now, open your textbooks to the first section and start reading." Ginny looked up, a little shocked that Snape had not opened with his usual threatening speech, but glad nonetheless. " One more thing, we have an uneven number of students this year. Whoever you are sitting with will be your lab partner. For the left over, I feel for you, I do." Snape said, sarcasm dripping from his voice, with just a hint of smugness since he knew whom it was that didn't have a partner.
Ginny just closed her mouth and went back to reading the print in the textbook. It wasn't until the bell rang that the silence was broken by anything other than the rustling of numerous pages.