The train gradually stopped. I peered out the window, we couldn't be there yet! I saw a shape beginning to climb onto the train, I left my the compartment with my friends behind and began to hurriedly look for my brother.
I passed through many compartments in the dark, looking for any sign of my tall, red-headed brother, Ron. I reached the last compartment when I heard my brother and his friends voices.
"I'm going to ask the driver what's going on," I heard Hermione say. Pushing my fiery hair out of my face I slid the door open.
"Who's
that?"
"Who's that?" I asked.
"Ginny?"
"Hermione?"
"What
are you doing?"
"I was loking for
Ron-"
"Come in and sit down-"
"Not here!" I
heard Harry protest,"I'm here!"
I felt my way to the edgge of another seat.
"Ouch!" said Neville as I sat on his hand.
"Quiet!" ordered a hoarse voice.
I hadn't even noticed him before. He was an aldult, with brown hair streaked with a silver, I could only tell this, because in his hands he held a small blue fire. The fire lit the compartment up just enough so we could see eachother, though it cast strange shadows on the faces of the others. The man, who was wearing very tattered robes, said "Stay where you are,"
He walked toward the door but before he could open it, it slid open once more.
A creature to the likes of which I've never seen before stepped, no it didn't step, it glided, forward. I curled into a ball, overwhelemed at the coldness I felt.
Memories, hautning memories, played back through my head.
"Write on the wall Ginny, Mudbloods beware..." Tom told me.
I dabbed the message onto the wall not knowing ehat I was doing.
I wrote my own message on the wall, "Her skeleton will lie in the chamber of Secrets forever"
I was crying as I wrote that. I then walked myself down to the chamber. Tom began sucking the life out of me.
I shivered, why was it suddenly so cold again? I saw the new professor, who's name, Hermione whispered, was Lupin, approach the…whatever it was.
He spoke in his hoarse voice again, "None of us is hiding Sirius Black under our cloaks. Go."
The … thing, made no sign of moving and I let out a small whimper. Lupin muttered something I couldn't hear, and I saw a bright silver light, that drove the strange thing away.
Harry had fainted! Now, Ron and Hermione were hastily trying to wake him up. After Harry had woken up, Professor Lupin handed us all a large chunk of chocolate.
I must have still been shaking, curled up in my corner of the train because Ron pointed it out, and I let a small cry escape. Hermione came and put an arm around me. I was very glad she was there.