Chapter 5
When Ginny stepped off the Knight Bus, she looked around. To her left was the Leaky Cauldron. She was just outside the wizarding world, but in muggle London. Cars were driving everywhere, houses that all looked the same. The weather was nice and warm.
Then Ginny got out a map of muggle London. She copied it from the one her dad had. She wasn't just going to London THAT unprepared. She looked to where she was standing and to where she was going. Ginny sighed. It was going to be a LONG walk. So she started walking. Looking around and trying to remember everything. She could tell her dad that Pansy and her went into muggle London and so she could tell everything that she saw! Arthur was going to have a field day!
After an hour walking, her feet started to hurt a bit. Deciding that breakfast would be nice, she entered a nice, little restaurant. She ordered two eggs, bacon, some toast, tea and Jus d'Orange, and of course pickles! Ginny was having an urge to eat A LOT of pickles. Pickles here and pickles there, Ginny wanted pickles EVERYWHERE!
...okay…to make things clear...Ginny is pickle-fan!
Ginny had withdrawn a bit of money from Draco's account, because she couldn't just ask her mom for the money and she didn't want anyone else to know that she was going to muggle London. Besides...she'd pay him back.
After the food, Ginny went on her way again. As she continued walking, she began to feel tired again. She looked on the map again. It wasn't much further. She was glad that she (finally) found the museum. Ginny got all nervous and she had only just looked at the damn building.
She bought a ticket and entered. As it turned out, the museum consisted of different rooms and each room had was on a different age or important event. For example, one room was about two wright-guys and a big...plane...was that it? Anyways, Ginny didn't look around much; she just looked for the room that she needed. Eventually, she did found it. A room dedicated to the Greek Gods. There were different statue's all over the room and each had a cart before it, explaining who it was supposed to be and some information about it.
Ginny walked straight to the statue of Ares. When she examined it, she noticed it looked absolutely nothing like him. She read the cart, but was disappointed when it didn't give her any new information. The same thing with the statue of Aphrodite. All it said is which God or Goddess it was, what it represented and some history like: 'mother of' or 'son from'.
Nothing else in the room was particular interesting. Ginny walked back to the receptionist and asked her if the room with the statue's of the Greek Gods was the only information about them that the museum had.
She looked very annoyed at Ginny for interrupting her quality time. (which consisted of painting her nails) "No! There's a library...that way!" she snapped and pointed in the right direction.
"Thank you" Ginny said coldly. As she entered the library, she noticed that it was consistingly smaller then the one at the Department of Mysteries. She walked to the Greek Mythology section and searched through the books. Grabbing a few books, she sat down and began reading.
After an hour of reading, she still didn't find anything remotely interesting. Arching her back, she stood up feeling stiff. She looked at her watch. Already three o'clock. Looking back at the books, she decided that this wasn't going to work. The section of Greek Mythology was big! To go through all the books would take hours, weeks maybe. She looked around and saw a librarian putting away books. She asked him for help and he showed her all the books on Ares and the otherworld.
"I hope you find what you need" The librarian said. He has to be no older then twenty and was pretty handsome. He even winked at her, but Ginny acted like she hadn't noticed it and thanked him.
"Thank you Adrian" (that's his name by the way...he introduced himself)
Though he had helped her find the books she was looking for, it were still about ten big books. She went back to reading. After a (long) while, she found something.
Ares, God of War was a fierce warrior and loved battle. He has always liked to interfere with the lives of mortals. It was widely known that Ares was involved in the Trojan War, fighting side by side with the Trojans. Hera, Ares' mother, saw Ares' interference and asked Zeus, Ares' father, for permission to drive Ares away from the battlefield in which she succeeded (For more information, turn to page 237)
Many people make the mistake that Ares is reckless and doesn't think too much. He is often portrayed as blunt and solving everything with violence. Foolish was never mentioned, but many thought of it. However, according to trustworthy sources, he is also cunning, ambitious, deceitful, intelligent and has a nose for talented fighters with potential.
"Slytherin" Ginny mumbled and then continued to read.
The story of Persephone is supporting this statement. Hades wanted Persephone and thus abducted her. Demeter (mother of Persephone) was not pleased and was so angry that she withdrew herself in loneliness, and the earth ceased to be fertile. Knowing this could not continue much longer, Zeus sent Hermes down to Hades to make him release Persephone. It was said that Hades went to Ares for help. Ares thought up a plan for Hades and gave him a pomegranate. He told Hades to give it to Persephone. Hades agreed, and so before Persephone went back, he gave her the pomegranate. When she later ate of it, it bound her to underworld forever.
At that point, Ginny stopped reading.
...a pomegranate She thought. bound to the underworld
Ginny thought back to the last moment that she had seen Draco alive. It was when Draco and her were standing in the misty room with Rosie. Rosie gave them a the beautiful, but rare rose.
Flashback
"I understand...well here!" Rose said, giving them a beautiful rose. It was blood red and just by looking at it, you were in awe.
"It's beautiful!" Ginny said.
Rosie nodded. "And quite exquisite, I hear they are rare in your world...I'm not even sure they have them there anymore...but anyways...you get them, because your fight was so great" She said.
Ginny accepted the rose. "thanks, but could we leave now?" Draco (being the ever patient person that he is) said.
End Flashback
That was it! Draco was very weak then and Ginny had to support him. She was holding Draco's hand and in between their hands was the rose. Could that rose be something like the pomegranate that Peresephone?
It was the only lead that she had. Putting away all the books (but not before she copied that piece of information) She checked her watch again and saw that it was almost five o'clock.
oh no! Ginny jumped up. If she wasn't home by dinner time, Molly was sure to floo Pansy and ask her why she wasn't home on time and...did she really have to mention the previous statement of 'Molly Weasley' and 'skinning alive'?
And with that, Ginny ran home (few stops to catch her breath) and finally reached the Leaky Cauldron. She held out her wand and the Knight Bus appeared.
Hello there, the name's Shunpike, Stan Shunpike, the cond- " Ginny cut him of.
"Yeah, heard the speech before, now I must hurry so it will be the Burrow please, Ottery st. Catchpole"
Took her five minutes and Ginny was dropped of at the same spot that she was picked up from that same morning. She sprinted the last meters home and arrived (so totally) out of breath. Her watch said that it was a few minutes before six. She sighed and thanked Merlin that she'd made it.
Before she had even opened the door, it already was swung open. It revealed a VERY, ANGRY Molly Weasley. She looked livid.
"Gone in the morning saying or actually LYING to me about going to Pansy Parkinson and then I floo there around noon wanting to ask you if you will eat dinner at the house, but there you have it! I find your friend without you and without any knowledge of you coming over there for the day! HOURS, I've waited and worried about your SAFETY!"
Ginny could face Voldemort with a brave face, confront Death Eaters and get out alive, defend herself against different, dark creatures, but Ginny Weasley cowered in front of the wrath of Molly Weasley!
EVERYBODY I'm SORRY! I made a mistake about the story of HAdes and Persephone, but I edited it a bit now, so it'll be plausible. Really sorry! Plzz review though!