Chapter 2

"Er…Ginny, could I speak to you for a moment?" asked Hermione. Ginny was sitting in the Great Hall eating breakfast with her usual friends clustered around her.

"Sure, Hermione!" smiled Ginny. She liked Hermione a lot. Hermione was her friend, and she hoped Ron would marry Hermione. Ginny grabbed a piece of toast and followed Hermione out of the Great Hall.

"Um… Ginny… I heard you broke up with Harry today," said Hermione, tentatively. She hoped Ginny would not fly into one of her Mrs. Weasley-like rages.

"Harry? Who's Harry?" Ginny gave Hermione a blank look.

"Your boyfriend…" Hermione wondered what Ginny was up to. Was she joking or something? Maybe someone had bewitched her! Who would do such a thing? Hermione knew Dean held a grudge against Harry because he was Ginny's ex, but Hermione doubted that Dean was talented enough to perform such a spell. Maybe Ginny accidentally muttered the Oblivius spell while she was in the bathroom and the spell bounced off the mirror and hit her. That would account for her forgetting Harry, but it certainly was odd that she did not seem to forget anyone else.

"Boyfriend? I don't have a boyfriend! Dean and I broke up last year!" laughed Ginny. Hermione was really weird right now. Ginny wondered what she was up to.

"Doesn't Harry Potter ring a bell?" questioned Hermione, "You know, green eyes? Black hair? Orphan? The Chosen One? Hated by Lord Voldemort?"

"OH! You mean THAT guy!" Ginny scowled at the memory of her last meeting with Harry. "That pervert guy… Did you know he had the audacity to kiss me on the cheek this morning? I mean I don't even know that guy. And then he tries to drag me to Hogsmeade! He should be expelled from Hogwarts. Girls are in potential danger with him around!"

Hermione seriously doubted Ginny's sanity at that moment. She had never heard Harry described in such away. Hermione decided to take Ginny to the hospital wing.

"Ginny, come with me for a moment. I have something to show you," said Hermione suddenly. She didn't tell Ginny that they were going to the hospital wing because Ginny, with her mental state so fragile, could possibly erupt and go berserk any moment.

"Alright…" Ginny followed Hermione with a confused expression on her face. Hermione was acting really odd. Ginny wondered if Hermione was under a spell, but who would do such a thing? One moment Ginny was talking about that pervert Harry, and the next, Hermione was acting all strange around her and wanting to show her something. Also, Hermione had asked about a boyfriend. Maybe Hermione was a lesbian! But that could not be possible. Hermione had to end up with Ron! Otherwise nothing would be perfect! If Hermione did not end up with Ron, then she would go crazy and probably date Harry. She hoped that would not happen and trudged after Hermione.

"Here we are!" exclaimed Hermione. She stopped in front of the Hospital Wing.

"Hermione, what are we doing here?" asked Ginny with a bewildered expression on her face. "This is the hospital wing! Has something happened? Is Ron in there? Are you injured?"

"Well, someone's injured for sure and it isn't me or Ron," replied Hermione vaguely.

"Oh, well who?" wondered Ginny.

"We'll find out soon enough." With that, Hermione pushed Ginny into the Hospital Wing and steered her into Madame Pomfrey's office.

"Madame Pomfrey!" cried Hermione to a large white figure bent over one of the beds, "Someone's injured!"

Madame Pomfrey turned from the person she was caring for, who turned out to be Colin Creevey. Evidently, he had gotten injured while stalking Harry during Quidditch practice. Colin had idiotically climbed onto a broom himself and zoomed after Harry all over the Quidditch field with his camera clicking madly away. That's when he had gotten hit over the head with a Bludger. His body was badly injured.

"Who?" demanded Madame Pomfrey, looked back and forth between Hermione and Ginny. They both looked fine to her.

"It's Ginny Madame Pomfrey!" cried Hermione passionately. Ginny stared at Hermione in shock.

"No!" declared Ginny loudly, "It's Hermione! She's been acting weird all day!"

"Well she has amnesia!" yelled Hermione, pointing at Ginny.

"Well she's gotten mistaken-facts syndrome!"

"No I don't!"

"Yes you do!"

"No I don't!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"NO!"

"STOP!" boomed Madame Pomfrey's voice. "Both of you, QUIET! This is a hospital wing! Now, why don't both of you calm down and tell me what's going on?"

"Well see--" began Hermione and Ginny at the same time. They both stopped.

"Er… I think Ginny has amnesia," said Hermione.

"I think Hermione's not herself," countered Ginny.

"What's your evidence?" inquired Madame Pomfrey.

"Ginny forgot that Harry Potter is her boyfriend," answered Hemione.

"Harry was never my boyfriend, and Hermione keeps thinking she is!" objected Ginny. Madame Pomfrey did not know anything about her students, so she didn't know who to believe.

"Both of you, stay here," said Madame Pomfrey, and she decided to send for Ronald Weasley and Harry Potter. Hermione and Ginny glared at each other as they stood waiting next to Colin Creevey's bed.

"Ron! Harry!" said Luna Lovegood. She had suddenly popped up next to the grieving couple. She looked dreamily at them. "Hit by a snorglaspork I suppose? Father always said the best remedy was to catch a glookabook and to place it on both eyes. I suppose that would stop the snorglaspork droppings from dripping from your eyes, Harry."

"Er… yea," said Ron. Harry brushed the hot tears away from his face and looked at Luna.

"What d'you want Luna?" asked Harry through his tearstained face.

"Madame Pomfrey asked me to give you this note," she said.

"Oh, thanks, Luna," said Harry. He unrolled the parchment.

"Ron! We have to go to the hospital wing! I wonder what's happened!" exclaimed Harry. Both of them got up and ran toward the castle, leaving Luna to stare serenely into the Great Lake.