This chapter wasn't in the old version of the story either I'm adding and rearranging just now.


For about a minute the ghoul just hovered, leering at Ginny from it's position, floating about a foot above the toilet. Ginny edged along the wall, keeping her eyes on the ghoul, feeling her way towards the cabinet by the sink. Panic was trying to take over and Ginny couldn't stop shaking. The ghoul, though frightening, didn't seem to be too interested in what Ginny was doing, it was looking around the room with an excited look in it's eyes, possibly wondering if there was anything good to eat in the room.

Ginny had never actually been this close to the ghoul before, the only time she had ever actually seen it before had been when she was still quite a young child. She had been playing a game of hide and seek with Ron and the twins and had somehow managed to crawl her way up the narrow staircase that lead to the attic and opened the old wooden door. On that occasion the ghoul had been tearing up an old hat stand and was paying no attention whatsoever to Ginny. It wasn't until Ginny knocked over a rotting bookshelf, which collapsed causing a very load crash that echoed through the house, that the ghoul did anything frightening. When it heard her it began screeching and banging the remains of the hat stand against the various boxes around it. At this point Ginny started crying her eyes out and the rest of the family still can't agree whether it was Ginny or the Ghoul who was wailing loudest. It was Bill who was first on the scene on this occasion followed closely by Charlie, they were both home from school for the summer and had been practicing magical duelling on the floor below when they had heard the screaming, Bill still had blood pouring down his cheek from a large cut above his eye. Bill started firing off a variety of spells at the ghoul as Charlie pulled Ginny from the room. After Bill had locked the ghoul in a wardrobe they had taken Ginny down to the kitchen. It took them sometime to get her to stop crying and it wasn't much help that Percy kept sneering that she was "going to be in so much trouble when Mum gets back". In fact Ginny didn't start smiling again until the twins, Fred and George, had entered the room and proceeded to ambush Percy, knocking him to the floor and sitting on him. Since then she had just avoided the attic and tried not to think about the ghoul.

Now, though, there was no way out. To leave the room she would have to open the door and that would mean taking her eyes off the ghoul and she didn't want to do that…

Suddenly, the door crashed open. Charlie dived into the room, slamming into the ghoul, throwing it to the floor. An arm reached into the room and grabbed Ginny's. Mrs Weasley pulled Ginny out as Charlie wrestled with the ghoul. Throwing the ghoul to the ground again Charlie leapt from the room and slammed the door on it.

"Why didn't you hex that thing Ginny?" asked Hermione, who had appeared behind Mrs Weasley

"D-d-didn't h-have m-my w-wand" shivered Ginny, Curling into her mother's hug.

"Hermione, be a dear and help Ginny change into some dry clothes" said Mrs Weasley.

As Ginny hadn't dried herself in her hurry to get out of the bathroom her t-shirt had soaked up all the water on the upper part of her body and was not see through, which meant her bra was fully visible through it.

As Hermione put her arm around Ginny and lead her off in the direction of her room, Mrs Weasley turned to Charlie.

"What are we going to do about that Ghoul?" she asked "It's been getting more and more violent and adventurous for months… and this is the first time that It's left the attic for years…"

"I think we're going to have to have it removed" said Charlie "but when Bill or Dad get home we'll move it back into the attic until something else can be done."