Chapter 3

Chapter 6

The rest of the day, nothing out of the ordinary happened. Draco acted like nothing happened and Ginny could not deny that she felt a little sad about it.

Why am I feeling sad about this...its not like I like him right? Truth was, Ginny didn't know, but clearly Draco wanted to forget about it. They were pretty tired when they got back at Hogwarts. Ginny did NOT feel like that training with Cassie, but had no other option.

After dinner, Ginny said goodbye to her friends and began walking towards the Room of Requirement. On her way she was stopped by her brother.

"Gin-gin, I think this has lasted long enough, if you just come back and eat at the Gryffindor table we promise to pay more attention to you"

Harry and Hermione (who were with Ron, duh!) nodded.

"Go away Ron, I don't want your attention anymore"

He began to grow angry again. "He's got you under some spell doesn't he? That Malfoy! I'll kill him!"

"Touch one hair on his head and I'll tell mum who really broke that vase she loved so much"

Angrily Ginny walked away. When she entered the Room of Requirement she saw that Cassie was already there. Ginny took her time looking around the room. It was large and there was a big, soft carpet in the middle. On the walls were different things. On two walls there were weapons like swords, cross-bows, wooden sticks and lots more. The other two walls were filled with books on many different subjects.

"There you are! Right on time I see"

Ginny focused her attention on Cassie. "Yeah..."

Cassie frowned. "Not so enthusiastic I see"

Ginny put on a fake smile. "Let's begin"

"Okay, first I'll tell you what we're going to do. We are going to divide the time of these lessons in two. The first 1.5 hours we're going to practise controlling you're fire-elemental plus wandless magic and in the other half I'll teach you martial arts, the art of all these weapons and study them all too, understood?"

Ginny nodded and then asked something. "Wandless magic? I can do that?"

Cassie waved her hand indicating for Ginny to sit on the carpet cross-legged. When they sat down Cassie replied. "Yes, another ability of the Princess of Fire. It will be very difficult. Having the ability to do so doesn't mean that it will be easy, but we'll work on that. Eventually if you become strong enough, you'll be able to track down the Prince of Ice"

"I will?"

"Yes, the night of the full moon will strengthen your magic and will allow you to find him"

"The night of the full moon?"..."But that's a month from now!"

"Yes...yes it is"

"Okay then" Ginny said a bit unsure. "Where do we start?"

"Come on, we'll try to conjure another fireball. Just...try not to do any repeats of this morning okay? I don't like being target for flames" She said smiling.

So Ginny automatically stretched her hand. After about 10 minutes trying to get into trance it worked.

"Okay now Ginny, do you remember what to do next?"

"Yes, find my center"

"Good, try that and let it flow to the palm of your hand"

Again a fireball appeared the size of a tennis ball and Ginny was fascinated by it.

"Okay we're gonna try something now. If you can make fireballs appear then you control it. So try to see if you can change the size. You know like letting it grow the size of a bludger"

The rest of the training went like that. At the end of the training Ginny's body ached all over from the martial arts training and the fire training. Plus the studying gave her a headache. Cassie was not taking things slowly. When she stepped in the Common Room she was immediately bombarded with the Gryffindors. Almost every Gryffindor was there. Ron stepped up.

"Ginny, everybody knows here that you've been hanging around bad company lately. We're concerned about you and we want you back eating at the Gryffindor table. It's embarrassing to see you hanging out with them. It's like betraying you're own house and shaming it. We want you to leave those Slytherin's alone and everyone here agrees with me"

Ginny looked around. There was a whole crowd there. Only one person had separated himself from it and that was Colin Creevey. He too stepped up to say something.

"I want you to know Gin; I am not backing these Gryffindors. Sure, I'm worried about you hanging out with those Slytherins, but that's just because I care about you and don't want anything bad to happen. Now I must admit, those Slytherins have never been nice to me, but besides the fact that I think that their not the nicest people I've seen, I don't know them. I know nothing about them and it seems that you do. So if you give them a chance then I won't judge you like these people here. I'll just say be careful" He looked at her and Ginny felt so incredibly thankful to know him.

She hugged him and gave a kiss on the cheek.

"Thank you Colin. You're the only one who understands. I'll never forget this. As for the other Gryffindors..." Ginny said turning around, her voice changing from friendly to venomous. "I will not give them up. As Colin said you don't know them and in the beginning neither did I. But I am now not so blind anymore. You cannot make me abandon them"

Ron's head looked down. "Then Ginny, we want you to step outside this Common Room to think about it and when curfew comes then you can come back and tell us what you've learned about this all"

Ginny couldn't believe this! "You're...you're banning me from the Gryffindor Common Room until Curfew?"

Ginny looked at the rest of the group. They all turned the other way.

She couldn't take this. SHE was the one stuck at training to protect THEM all from Voldemort. SHE was the one Voldemort would do anything to get his hands on. And THEY were sending her away, because she chooses her own friends?

She looked at the 'trio'. Once she had done everything to be a part of them...now...she didn't think she'd ever be able to forgive them.

"Ron?" he looked up. He was always the easy one to read his emotions. It was always so clear. He was obviously thinking that she would go down on hands and knees begging to be forgiven.

"I won't be able to forgive you for this...sending away your sister, but now...you no longer have one. I disown YOU as my brother. Harry, I've thought of you as my surrogate brother, but I disown you too. And Hermione, my only surrogate sister, You I disown too. My family is now three members shorter."

And with that she turned around and walked out.

She walked outside; again towards the lake. This evening she could not enjoy the view and the water couldn't calm her nerves. After 10 minutes at the lake she went to the Forbidden forest in a place hidden from the eye, she sat down. Not ONE tear she would let slip down. She slid down on the ground and just sat there...staring out in space. She did not go back when curfew was near. She sat there all night...