Chapter 4
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Sorry I haven't updated in a few days. It is kind of crazy where I am. Well, on to the story!
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Ginny picked up a few sticks and rocks, wondering how she was going to do it. What if it doesn't work? What will happen? she thought as tons of questions ran through her mind. She sighed softly as she looked around for something to hold the sticks together. All she saw was some mold and grime on the walls. She jumped slightly when something clattered with the floor. She looked over to see one of the Death Eaters slide a small plate with a potato on it and a glass of warm water. "I know you have better food" ginny retorted to the Death Eater. The person seemed to ignore her or not hear her at all cause they just walked away. She crawled to the food, realizing how hungrey she was. She drank the warm water rushingly.
Ginny opened up the potato and mashed it with her hand. She noticed it was a bit sticky and smiled. She grabbed two sticks and stuck them together with a bit of the potato. She kept doing it till it was long enough to reach the keys on the wall and her wand. She ate the last bit of potato she didn't use and laid back against the wall, waiting for the Death Eaters to fall asleep.
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Harry sat in the Great Hall, eating very bit of food. He was thinking of a plan to get Ginny back safely without someone dying in the process. He heard Hermione saying something but didn't really listen.
"Harry are you listening to me?" said a annoyed Hermione.
Harry looked up at Hemrione, "What were you saying, sorry" he said clueless to what she just asked.
"I was saying that we should tell dumbledore about the letter you got, so he can help out in a way." hermione said rudely, showing she was mad at Harry for not listening.
"Hermione, give him a break" Ron mumbled, "He's already through enough."
"Why tell dumbledore?" Harry replied, "How the hell can he help?"
"Cause he and the Order can help defeat you-know-who" hermione said plainly.
"Whatever" Harry said getting up and walking out of the Great Hall. Hermione gave a hmpth before eating again, Ron wondering who's side he should be on.
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Vanessa watched Harry leave the Great Hall. She had been watching him the whole time, waiting for him to leave. She smirked brightly, getting up and walking out of the Great hall. She ran in the direction Harry went, ending up on the 7th floor in which she didn't know what was on the floor other than the Room or Requirment. She saw Harry in front of a portrait of a very Fat Lady. "Hippergriffs" she heard Harry say clearly as the portrait opened. As soon as it closed she walked up to the portrait smiling like a Gryffindor.
"I haven't seen you before, you a first year?" asked the Fat Lady looking down at Vannessa.
"Uh, yes I am" Vannessa said taking a small step back.
"You are tall for a first year though" the Fat Lady said straightening up again.
"Well, can i say the password already?" said Vannessa, slightly irritated.
"Well, sure" snapped the Fat Lady, "You should had said it when you walked up!"
"HippergriffS" Vannessa said as the portrait opened to a Maroon and gold common room, much like the Slytherins other than the color. She climbed through the portrait hole and saw Harry with his back to her on a armchair. She smiled and thought of a spell in her mind,((nonverbal spell)) changing her hair to red, eyes to Chocolate brown, and her face to having freckles. She glanced in a mirror and stared at herself. She looked like Ginny. She turned back to Harry, "Harry?" she asked walking over.
Harry jumped at the sound of his voice. He turned and gasped. There stood Ginny in front of him without no cuts or bruises.
"Ginny?" Harry asked, "How did you get away from Voldemort? Are you alright?"
Ginny ((A.K.A. Vannessa)) sat on the arm of the armchair, "I'm fine, I went to the hospital wing and got healed. And I just gave his Death eaters the slip." she said smiling softly.
Harry smiled and hugged her, causing her to fall on his lap. Ginny returned the hug. "I missed you so much" Harry whispered to Ginny.
"I missed you too" Ginny said back. Harry kissed her on the lips, glad he had Ginny back. Ginny wrapped her arms around Harrys neck, returning the kiss. Oh my god, oh my god! Vanessa thought happily, Harry is kissing me! ME! Wait he thinks i'm Ginny, but oh well.
Harry pulled away, breathing again. He opened his eyes wide as he pushed her on the ground. "What the-" he said looking down at Vannessa.
Vannessa rubbed her head and reliezed she had her brown hair again. "Oh snap" she mumbled. She forgot the spell wore off after 15 minutes. Sh got up and rushed out of the portrait hole and to the Slytherin common room.
Harry sat there for a minute before running up to the boys bathroom to wash out his mouth. Now he had a reason to kill Vannessa, now he needed one for Malfoy. He came back and saw Ron and Hermione were sitting in the common room. "Hey" he said wiping his mouth of some water.
"Hey, wanna play Wizards Chess?" Ron asked excitedly.
"Sure" harry said taking out the chess board and pieces. He looked at Hemrione slightly before making his turn. "Something bothering you hermione?" he asked.
"Yeah, why did you have some water on your face?" Hermione asked softly.
"Cause I cleaned out my mouth" Harry said plainly. It was a stupid question to ask him.
"What was in your mouth mate?" Ron asked as his knight moved in front of Harrys queen.
"Something gross" Harry lied halfly. Kissing Vannessa was a gross thing.
"I knew it was the apple" Ron muttered as he took down Harrys king. Harry nodded in agreement, but Hermione didn't seem to believe it.
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Ginny woke up suddenly and looked around. It was dark other than the torch that lit half the room. Death Eaters were sleeping against the walls quietly that she saw. She crawled over to the edge and grabbed her long stick pole off the ground. She slid the pole on the ground towards the death Eater holding the keys and the sticks hooked the keys to itself. She started pulling it back toawrds her but froze when someone gave a grunt. Her eyes wondered around to see if one was awake then continued pulling the keys to her. Once she got hold of them she unlocked the door and walked out grabbing her wand. She turned and jumped slightly surprised to see Voldemort looking at her.
"How did you get out?" Voldemort said harshly.
"I gave them the slip" Ginny muttered to him as Voldemort moved in on her.
"Well, I'll give you one chance to get back in there without force" Voldemort said as Ginny kept stepping away from him.
"In your dreams" Ginny said and started running through the halls away from him.
"GET HER!" Voldemort yelled as the Death Eaters jumped up, slightly irritated, but ran in Ginnys direction with their wands out.
Ginny looked back as she was running and ran faster when she saw a Death Eater close behind. She saw a wide crack in the wall, wide enough for her to fit in, so she slipped in the crack and held her breath as the Death Eaters ran by. She peered out into the hall and sighed softly, but slipped back in when the death Eaters came walking back, muttering stuff.
"She just gave us the slip" one said.
"Like he will believe that, he will kill us!" another said.
"Yeah, Bella's right" another one said.
Once they passed Ginny ran in the opposite and ended up at a dead end. "Serves me right" she whispered to herself as she started opening the doors, trying to find a exit. She didn't find one so she went into a random room and saw it was full of more doors. They said stuff in different languages above them, none looking like a exit. She walked back to the hall and kept doing the same thing till she found one that said Shortcut to the Shrieking Shack. "why would they want to go to the Shrieking Shack?" she said as she walked through it.
Ginny had never been in the Shrieking Shack, so she was clueless to where to go next. She had to decide on going through two doors or going up the creaky stairs to another room or hallway. she chose the stairs and started walking slowly up the stairs, afraid that they might break under her weight. She looked around the unfamiliar room. It had a fireplace, table, and a worn out bed or couch. ((The prisiner of Azcaban movie, looks like that room where they met Sirius)) She saw a cracked window and peered out. She saw Hogsmeade, but it seemed farther than she expected. "It looks closer when I'm looking beside the gates" she said and started walking down the stairs.
Ginny heard a huge grunt under her feet and the two steps she was on broke. She screamed as she fell and got caught between the other two steps. "Someone help me" she wimpered slightly, feeling the wood scratch onto her chest. ((thought she would get away easily, huh?))
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Harry was about to move his king, losing for the 5 time in a row when his scar hurt. He placed his hand up to it and felt Voldemort was terribly mad and just killed two peaple.
"Harry, what's wrong?" Hermione asked, seeing Harry wince slightly.
"Voldemort is mad" Harry said, Rons turn to wince, "I think he killed at least two peaple."
"I thought you learned Occlumency, harry?" Hermione said, a hint of worryness in her voice.
"Since Snape left" harry said, "I've stopped so I could know where he went with Malfoy, or at least where Voldemort is."
Ron winced again at the Dark Lords name. "Ron get over it already, your 17!" Hermione snapped.
"And He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is still loose, hermione" Ron retorted.
"Shut up already, you two!" Harry said, "What if he killed ginny?"
"He couldn't have yet" Hermione said, "You still have more time."
"Yeah, but what if she did something bad?" Harry said, "What if he got so mad he just killed her?"
"Harry, that is not the attitude we need now!" Ron said, "We know Ginny is a strong girl and she can survive, so I don't want to hear that from you again Harry!"
Harry and hermione stared at ron, surprised by his outburst. They understood why he burted like that. Ginny was his youngest and only sister he had and he knew she would stay alive. They just nodded, not wanting to meet a redheads mean side. They noticed peaple walking up to bed, so they followed suite and went to sleep.
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Ginny panted, her breathing very low. The wood was cutting into her skin deeper every time she tried to move and it hurt badly. "so much for escaping" she muttered softly, panting softly still. She winced in pain when she tried to get comfortable, but was very hard since you are hanging in between some stairs. It felt like she had been here forever, but it only had been 3 hours.
Ginny saw the stair in front of her crack and break, causing her head to hit the broken staircase as she leaned forward, falling down under the stairs. She laid there in the dirt and pieces of wood, feeling pain all over her now. "ow" she whispered, her jaw causing pain to her if she moved it. I should have stayed still she thought someone please help me.
Ginny soon could feel her hand again, so she reached to her jaw and gently touched it, seeing blood covering her finger. Her eyes looked around the area. No door or windows at all, just walls, dirt, and broken pieces of wood. She sighed slightly, recieving a bit of pain from her jaw. She stared at the bottom of the stairs, hoping someone, not the Death Eaters, would find her soon.
Ginnys breathing became lower, seeing the cut on her stomach was deep. she was losing blood mostly from her stomach more than any other cut that had created in her skin. She couldn't see nothing now but darkness, guessing it was midnight about now. she managed to tear both her sleeves off, placing them over the cut on her stomach, trying to stop the blood. "Someone please help" she whispered, ignoring the pain in her jaw now.
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Harry jolted up in his bed, sweat running down his face. He just woke up from a terrible nightmare. He had seen through Voldemorts eyes again and saw he was telling the Death Eaters to find Ginny, even if it took all night. He rubbed the sweat off with the back of his hand hurriedly and wondered if Ginny got away from Voldemort. No she couldn't have, he thought, someone would have to be an idiot to do that. He laid back down slowly, thinking that Ginny had gotten away, seeing Voldeort was sending his death Eaters to look for her. But he had saw another vision too. Not Voldemort though, just someone falling down from a staircase that had cuts all over there body. It looked like they had fell under the staircase, since they were trapped between two stairs, there stomach holding them there. He decided to go back to sleep and tell his friends tommorrrow.
TOMMORROW MORNING
Harry woke up and rushed downt he stairs, catching Ron and hermione before they walked out of the common room. "Hey, I need to tell you something!" he said to them. The two walked over and stood in front of him.
"I had a dream that Voldemort had lost Ginny, and that someone had fell down under some stairs" Harry said.
"You mean ginny is...gone? dead?" Hermione said softly.
"No! She is missing. She ran from voldemort I think, seeing he sent his death Eaters out to search for her all night" Harry said.
"Who is the person with the staircase thing?" Ron asked.
"I don't know, it was kind of a slight blur to me" Harry said.
"What happened?"
"Well, I remeber someone being trapped between two stairs by their stomach, and the person falling after the front stair breaking. Then I saw the person fall under the stairs, a piece of wood in their stomach that had a very deep cut." Harry said.
"Do you know what they looked like?" Hermione asked.
"Not really, they had long dirty hair though, with blood all over there clothes." Harry said closing his eyes, trying to imangine the picture.
"Boy or Girl?" Ron said.
"They had long hair, so maybe a girl" Harry said.
"Ginny!" Hermione said, "You saw Ginny!"
"How did she get stuck between some stairs?" Harry asked.
"They had to be old" Ron said.
"What if it isn't Ginny?" Harry said, not getting his hopes up.
"It maybe is" Hermione, "She escaped voldemort, didn't she?"
"Well, i think she did. But how do we find her?"
"Okay, a place with very old stairs, has to be a medium sized building, broken stairs now" Hermione said.
"Yeah" both boys said, "But where is that?"
"I'm not sure, maybe Harrys dreams will give us more information soon or something." Hermione said, "Not much houses or buildings are like that."
Harry nodded as he pulled his black robe over his uniform. "We better get some breakfast before classes start" he said walking down to the Great hall with his friends. once they were done, Hermione rushed off to Double Ancient Runes, Ron to Charms, and Harry to have a free period.
Harry entered the common room, not surprised to see other 6th and 7th year students around. He took a seat in the last empty armchair, placing his bag down beside it. He shifted so that he was facing the window, now he was sideways in the armchair.
He heard Demelza walk in with her friends, seeing they were giggling non stop. He gave Demelza a soft smile as she walked by with her friends.
Demelza stopped and turned back to Harry, with a frown. "I heard what happened to Ginny, I'm sorry that happened." she said while her friends watched her patiently, "I hope she comes back in time for the Quidditch match, well and alright." She gave him a smiled and turned back to her friends.
Harry just nodded softly and saw Dean and Seamus walk in as well. If Ginny wasn't back by this week, he will have to fill her in with Dean as chaser. Then something shout in Harrys mind. He turned back to Demelza. She wasn't a sixth or seventh year yet. "Hey Demelza, how did you get out of class?" he asked.
Demelza laughed, "I'm not a know-it-all that loves class, especially Divination. I told the Firenze I was sick and had to puke." she said smiling., "I had to prove it, so I had a puking thing from Weasley Wizard Wheezes. Then I have 5 boxes of u-no-poo to use now."
Now it was Harrys turn to laugh, "How did you get past Filch?" he asked.
"The Weasleys have their order thing going on still, so I got it through my owl sending it to me." she replied.
"Cool." Harry said and heard the bell ring. He got up and picked up his bag, waved to Demelza and walked out of the common room to walk to the dungeons. He saw students walking out angry or red faced, maybe humilated to get points taken away by Snape. He sat down in his usual spot on the Gryffindor side in the back row and waited for Ron. Hermione had a different Potions hour now, seeing she was tired of helping them brew their potions but that didn't stop the copying homework thing.
Ron walked in and took a seat beside Harry just in time to see Snape had come in as well. The whole room silenced as he walked up to the board. He flicked his wand once, not saying anything while notes appeared on the board for them to copy. Everyone undertsood and took out paper and parchment and started, Snape wandering around the room, watching each student carefully hoping to see a mistake to take points away.
Everyone had not gotten no points taken yet, and Snapes face looked angered by that. His face changed to a smirk as new words appeared on the board, this time for a potion called Prince Charming. It seemed complicated, the list of ingredients longer than usual.
"Ok, we need sweet spice, what is sweet spice?" Ron whispered to Harry.
Harry shrugged and walked to the cupboard that held ingrediants that weren't sold at the Hogsmeade Village. He pulled at a cup of sweet spice. He walked back at gave Ron two sticks of the spice. These sticks were very hard to break, and were very long. Ron had to use his wand to break his in three pieces before throwing it in his caldroun. Harry had broke his in two pieces but had to use the table to make a third piece.
They heard Proffesor Snape walking around, checking how the potions were. "Your forgot to stir 5 times clockwise, Mr. Thomas." he said harshly, "5 points from Gryffindor."
Harry heard Dean groaned slightly as Snape wlake dover to their caldrens and look over Rons. Ron knew Snape was looking at his, but didn't want to look up. "No mistakes, lucky you" Snape said angrily. Ron heaved a good sigh as Proffesor walked over to harrys now.
"Well, you haven't messed up yet, mr. Potter, but I know your not geting away so easily" Snape said as Harry looked down, a grin on his face. He walked away to the next student to take away more points.
"When the bell rang, everyone placed some of their potion in two vials. One for the teacher, and one for them to keep, even if they messed up. Harry placed his in his bag, while Ron just carried his, not wanting it to spill on his books like the last potion did last week.
They met Hermione in the Great Hall, who seemed to be busy with her homework. She looked at the them, seeing the grins on their faces. "What did you do?" she asked.
"Nothing, just something grand" Ron said to Hermione's surprise.
"So tell me" she said.
"We didn't get no points taken for our potions, we didn't mess up." Harry said as Ron held out his potion to hermione, "So we don't have no homework to do for it."
"That's great" Hermione said, now smiling, "Whats the Potion though?"
"Um, Prince something" Ron said, "Oh, Prince Charming."
"Wow, that has alot of ingredients though, how did you do it?" asked Hermione, now continuing to complete her homework.
"Don't know" Harry said while gathering food, and Ron just nodded, seeing he had his mouth full of pumkin juice.
"Maybe cause you are dumb enough" Hermione said, not actually joking much.
Ron still ahd juice in his mouth, and when he heard Hermione, he said to sound like he was choking, but was laughing. Harry and Hermione just stared at their friends from across the table, completly clueless to why he was laughing with juice in his mouth. Soon Ron spit out his juice from laughing hard and fell backwards off the table. He got back up and slipped, seeing the pumpkin juice that he spilt from htting his cup on the floor from laughing. Harry sat frozen with Hermione, not saying a word. Ron looked at his friends and froze. The juice he spit out was on their faces and some of it on their shirt.
Hermione spit some juice out of her mouth and glared at Ron, Harry wiping the juice off his face with the back of his hand. Ron didn't laugh, knowing that he would get hurt from the both of them, especially from Hermione.
"Your lucky I won't hurt you now, I'll wait for a while before I hurt you" Hermione muttered grabbing a napkin and wiping her face of. Harry was wiping the neck of his shirt with a paper towel now, not getting anywhere to cleaning it.
They walked back to the common room, recieving laughs and giggles from passing paaple. "Please don't hurt so bad, guys" Ron whispered, "Acid Pops." He was first to walk through the portrait hole, Harry and Hemrione behind him.
"I'll wait to hurt you too" Harry said while he pointed his wand towards him and thought of a clean up spell. Hemrione walked up to the girls dorm to go take a shower instead of cleaning her clothes.
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Well, sorry I haven't writen in a week or so, I've been trying to correct this chapter and the next one. So, thanks for waiting and review! This time I'll accept flames if it is bad.
Michelle