Dead Letters
Chapter 4
As Draco made his way back to the Slytherin dungeons the thought of Hermione kept intruding his mind. "Screw it! I'm going to the library to look up the effects of a love potion…or I could find someone who knows a lot about potions…
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Meanwhile in the girls' dormitory of the Gryffindor house several things happened in quick secession. Hermione opened the door to see a very angry and distraught red head sitting on the floor at the foot of her bed. Ginny was flipping, furiously, through a very aged book in the section under cleansing spells. Hermione quite confused already went over to Ginny then sat on the floor and was formulating, in her mind, what to say. To Hermione's relief Ginny spoke first.
"Hermione do you know any powerful cleansing spells?" Ginny asked pleadingly.
"No, well you're pretty good with charms so why look to me for help?" Hermione asked more to herself than Ginny.
"I…swear you won't tell," Ginny's eyes bore into Hermione's with sweet innocence, "I went to the prefect's bathroom to meet…to meet someone, I suppose I only do this stuff because Tom's no longer around but still haunts my day to day life…well that's beyond the point but while in the lavatory I met Draco there and almost made the biggest mistake of my life!"
Deep in thought of the information she just heard Hermione, using a neutral but just underneath the surface hiding her eagerness, said, "Well did anything happen?"
"Yes…yes and no."
"So I see…"
"It's not like that! I saw him…but not his face until later. I saw a person so I walked over to the guy and then he turned, then I saw his face ….we saw each other and ran in opposite directions."
Exhales "Oh, well then, nothing's wrong so don't worry about it."
Ginny tremendously relieved to hear that she did nothing wrong lunged at Hermione and gave her a short, but warm, embrace. Soon after, Ginny was racing down the stairs to the owlery because she forgot to mail a last minute letter to her family.
'Glad that's over' thought Hermione. Blushes I can't believe I almost got jealous of Ginny when I heard about her and Draco. Draco. The name just slides off your tongue doesn't it? Oh shit! Why am I thinking about him?! My dream…my dream was why I came up here to think, away from Harry and Ron. Those eyes. They were gray…no? Green?
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Harry stayed in the common room while Ron headed up to bed. Slowly Harry drifts off to sleep and sees that familiar figure that haunts his sleep. Sirius. For some reason Sirius still has a look of wanting to tell Harry something. Harry takes a step closer to his godfather but the distance between him and Sirius lengthens. Sirius points to something behind Harry and as soon as Harry turns to face the monster he finds himself looking at Ginny who is gazing upon him. A smile slowly spreads upon his face for he found the monster to be his best friend's little sister. He glances at her but immediately does a 'double-take' because Ginny is now shirtless with her back turned towards him. Harry now see writing scribbled across her shoulder blades, up her neck, across her ribs and down her spine. Squinting, Harry slowly approaches her gently dragging the back of his palm over her milky white skin. She takes no notice of him and continues to sit there looking towards the stairs where a faint outline of a person is seen. The person walks out of the shadows and looks victoriously at the, now very small and helpless, form of Ginny huddled next to Harry.
(FLASHBACK)
The Chamber. Tom. Ginny and the diary.
(END OF FLASHBACK)
Now acknowledging this, Harry throws his cloak over Ginny's cowering form and walks cautiously but determinedly towards her aggressor; Tom.
"Leave her to me you ignorant boy!" commands Tom clearly not expecting to see Harry but still keeping his cool.
"No. You leave her alone. You've tormented her enough and it's time to go now," Harry injected wondering if he'd have to duel.
"Honestly boy, stay away from her," said Tom as he walked over to the young girl who was rocking back and forth on the floor, "and keep out of her dreams where I rule her."
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Draco now thinking better of his previous thought now goes down to the dungeons for some sleep. Love potion. It has to be a potion of some kind it sure as hell didn't taste like pumpkin juice.
Whispering as Draco enters the common room
"Pansy you infernal demon…. I meant my dearest don't even bother tonight I don't feel like it," sighed a very sleepy and stumbling Draco.
Louder voices but still Draco doesn't know who they are and what they're saying
An extremely drowsy and drugged up Draco tries his best to stay awake. It fails dismally.
"I…I can't yawns…move. Wh - -Why is th…this happening?" thought Draco aloud as he fell rather gracefully on the cold dungeon floor.
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Ginny long ago came back from the owlery and luckily passed the prefects patrolling the floors. Ginny was now safe in bed, or so she thought. The same dream resurfaced, as did every night since the Chamber had been opened. Tom never left her, as he said once before, "You're mine, you'll always be mine, don't forget that." Upon first hearing this she never thought much of it till he started intruding her dreams. Afterwards Ginny was very hesitant about picking up a book but once while reading a book Ginny surprisingly related to the character in there. A girl was trapped, tormented, and through it all there was a bond between the characters that no on could see or break. Ginny lost the book during a train ride to school a couple years ago but she still remembered every fact that related to her experience in life.