I know this one is pretty short, but my last one was surprisingly long, so give me a break, okay?

My diclaimer stuff is in previous chapters. I'm too lazy to write it all out again.

Here we go:

Again, Ginny awoke abnormally early and trudged down the never-ending stairs to her Transfiguration class. Again, Draco arrived just as class was starting. But he did not regard Ginny as Weasel on this day.

Ginny and Hermione were sitting on their desks and talking to one another when Ginny heard, "Morning, love."

She turned to see who had said it and received a kiss on the cheek from Draco as he walked past her. Hermione's jaw dropped.

"Dare I even ask?" she said.

"I already told you, I lost a bet," Ginny said, trying not to blush.

Professor McGonagall called the class to attention and Ginny and Hermione slid into their seats and sat properly. She gave the students their instructions (retrieve one of the twenty-pound dogs in a kennel at the front of the classroom and transfigure it into a button) and let them get to work.

Tired and full of dinner, Ginny, Ron, and Harry slowly walked back up the staircase to Gryffindor tower. They were going to wait for Hermione, but one of the second years that admired her so much for her grades had asked her what her favorite subject was. This started Hermione on a long rant that would probably continue for some time, so the others decided that they would just meet her in the common room. The walk up all the stairs was painful for Ginny; she had an awful headache.

When they reached the common room, Ginny remembered that she needed to write a letter to someone. She went up to her room and quickley jotted it out. Then she headed back down into the common room, asked Harry if she could borrow Hedwig, and headed for the owlery.

It was terribly cold out. It must have been late, but despite the dark, Ginny could spot Hedwig out of all the other owls. Hedwig would always be the only white owl. She came down when Ginny called her and allowed her to attach the letter. Ginny gave her a special treat (a big juicy cricket) and Hedwig took off out of one of the windows. Ginny turned to leave.

As Ginny was walking out of the owlery--

The owlery? What was she doing in the owlery? Last thing she remembered was walking up to the common room...and being on her bed writing something... but she didn't remember walking all the way up to the owlery!

She saw Hedwig flying away,snd she had a letter.

"Hedwig!" Ginny shouted, "HEDWIG!" but she just kept on flying.

She gave up and rushed back down into the warm castle.

As Ginny headed back toward Gryffindor tower, she worried at the fact that she didn't know what that letter said or where it was going.

When she returned to the common room, Hermione was sitting in front of the fire writing a letter. Ginny wondered if maybe they were writing to the same person.

"Hey, Hermione," Ginny started.

"Hey, Ginny," Hermione replied without looking up from her letter.

"Who're you writing to?" Ginny inquired casually.

Hermione looked up. "If I told you, I would have to kill you."

"What?" Ginny said, confused.

"You wouldn't tell me who you were writing to, so why should I tell you who I'm writing to?" Hermione said with a bite in her voice.

"I was just writing to my mum," Ginny lied.

Hermione smiled.

"You don't have to be embarrassed about that. I'm writing to my mum too,"

Ginny smiled in return, but she was still nervous about that letter flying around to who-knows-where to who-knows-who saying who-knows-what.

At breakfast the next morning, Ginny was half-heartedly talking with the Creevy boy when there was a humungous bang from the other side of the hall. The two of them hurried over to see what all the fuss was. There was a crowd around the girl named Samantha. She was crying and her arms and neck were bleeding.

Luna Lovegood was sitting at the Ravenclaw table where she had watched the whole scene unfold.

"What's going on?" Ginny asked her, sitting down next to her.

"That letter exploded when she opened it and there was glass or something in it and it went everywhere," Luna said, "Bloody beautiful if you ask me!"

Ginny's stomach lurched. A letter? Ginny had sent a letter. What if this was what she sent?

She suddenly understood. The glass... the blood and the glass. Who else would know the meaning of the glass beside Samantha, Draco, and herself? If she did send it, which she now was almost sure that she did, she hoped no one would find out.

Like I said, it's short. At least it's got bloody-ness in it!