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Chapter 2

"Partners, Problems, and Pain "

Ginny continued to look at Hermione.

"What do you think it was? Do you think it was real?" Ginny asked. Hermione looked at Ginny once again and sighed.

"There's no telling. Only two people have heard a real prophecy before; Harry and Dumbledore. Why don't you go and ask one of them?" Hermione spoke. Her eyes looked tired.

"Okay. Do you know where Harry is at?" Ginny asked.

"Up in his dormitory. I think you should go straight to Dumbledore. He should know about this." Hermione suggested.

Ginny sighed.

"Alright. I'll tell you what he said later." Ginny spoke as she began to walk out of the common room.

Ginny stepped out of the common room and was headed towards Dumbledore's office when a large white and black speckled barn owl landed on her shoulder with a huge scroll on his leg. Ginny carefully took the parchment off. The owl spread his great winds, and flew away. Ginny looked back down at the letter. She wondered who had sent it for a second then realized that the best way to find out was to read it. Ginny carefully unrolled the letter

Dear Ginny,

This is a letter containing the full details of our new Prefect schedule, which I'm sure you remember us explaining on the Hogwarts Express. Here is a reminder; every Prefect will have a partner Prefect from another house from now until the end of the year. This is done so if you happen to find one of your friends they won't get off easy and if you find someone your not fond of they won't get off to hard. We believe this will give every one a fair chance, and will allow you to make friends with a fellow Prefect. Now I'm sure you are dying to know who your partner is and when your first patrol is. At this time, I'd like to inform your partner for the year is none other than Draco Malfoy, and your first patrol is tonight. Now I know this news is very exciting, but please try to stay calm and don't arrive too early for your patrol, which, by the way is from 10:00 to 12:00. You will be patrolling all the halls. Have a wonderful time with your partner, Draco.

Yours truly,

Alana Ling, Head girl and Dustin Smith, Head boy

Ginny stared dumbfounded at the neatly written letter. Then she turned around and stormed back into the common room. Ron and Harry had now joined Hermione at the table. Ginny thundered of to them.

"WHO AND THE WORLD DO THEY THINK THEY ARE!" Ginny screeched, slinging the letter about over her head.

Ron Harry and Hermione started rushing over.

Hermione asked, "What's wrong Ginny? Why are you yelling?"

"WHAT'S WRONG! THIS IS WHAT'S WRONG!" Ginny screamed, as she thrust the letter into Hermione's hand. Hermione quickly started to read it with Ron and Harry reading it over her shoulder. When they were all done reading they stared silently at the scroll. Hermione was the first to break the silence.

"Oh great. I had forgot to warn you about this. I got mine today..." she spoke, still staring at the scroll.

"Who in the world do they think they are! Grouping you with that filthy death eater!" yelled Ron. Harry was still staring blankly at the letter, dumbfounded.

"Calm down Ron," Hermione pleaded, taking her eyes off the scroll. By now many people had come to see what the fuss was about.

"What's wrong Ginny?" asked Neville, concern dripping in his voice.

"WHAT'S WRONG! LOOK AT THIS!" yelled Ginny, pointing at the piece of parchment.

"Ginny, he was just asking a question. No need to bite his head off," said Hermione, her voice stern.

"I'm sorry Neville. I didn't mean to take it out on you," apologized Ginny.

"It's okay," Neville said with a smile.

"So, what are you going to do?" asked Harry, who had finally regained his voice.

"I'm going down to Professor McGonagall's office right now, that's what." exclaimed Ginny. Ginny started walking towards the portrait hole, and to her luck, at that moment, Professor McGonagall walked in, her eyes scanning the room, searching for some unlucky student. Ginny quickly walked over to her and had a whispering conversation that lasted about five minutes, Professor McGonagall stating at the end that Ginny would just have to work it out with Draco, and that the matter was closed.

"Well, what did she say?" asked Hermione.

"I can't do anything about it. I'm stuck," Ginny spoke gloomily, her eyes piercing bullets into the unfaithful roll of parchment.

"I'm so sorry Ginny," Harry said.

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Ginny stared out of her dormitory window. It was raining, and thunder boomed threateningly in the distance. A raindrop gently chased another raindrop down the window. The window was foggy from the heat of the warm dormitory, and the cold, dampness of the rain outside. Ginny watched the rain fall. She let her thoughts wonder back to her new Prefect buddy.

It was just her luck that she got stuck with her worst enemy, Draco Malfoy. The one that hated her family with a passion. Ginny groaned as she thought about how much time she would be spending with the slimy Slytherin. She would have to walk with him in the corridors, patrol with him, do duties with him. Her first duty started tonight, and it was going to be horrible. And she still hasn't had the chance to go see Dumbledore!

Ginny continued to watch the rain pommel the ground outside. The birch tree by the lake wilted from the pressure of the raindrops. Ginny looked slightly to the left of the tree. What she saw surprised her.

Its body outlined against the dark sky, Ginny saw a person walking in the pouring rain. Ginny couldn't tell who it was, because the rain was pounding so hard. Who would be taking a walk when the weather was so awful? And who was it?

A loud crack erupted from the dark sky as lightening flashed. Ginny took her eyes off of the person momentarily to watch the streak of light strike tremendously in the rolling clouds. She glanced back to where the person had last been, and just as quickly as the lightening had left the sky, the person had vanished.

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Ginny slowly walked down the corridor's countless paintings. She was on her way to the Kitchens to meet Draco for their first patrol. She was in no rush. The longer it took to get there, the better.

Most of the paintings mounted on the walls were sleeping soundly in their frames. Ginny looked at all the interesting pictures and photographs.

One beautiful painting caught her eyes. It was of a old witch. She was wearing a turban around her head, and had long, sparkling earring drooping from her ears. In her hands she held a crystal ball, which her eyes store intently upon, but closed with sleep. It reminded her slightly of Professor Trelewney.

Ginny read the golden label at the bottom on the painting.

The Seer Cassandra Telewney

That's who she was! She was Professor Telewney's great-great grandmother, who she had supposedly inherited the gift from. Ginny continued to stare at the sleeping form for minute, and then walked on.

"It's coming my dear."

Ginny spun around. Her eyes scanned the corridor for the maker of the voice. She glanced back over to the painting of the Seer, but she was fast asleep.

"I'm going crazy," Ginny spoke aloud.

When she arrived at the kitchens, Draco was already there.

"A little late, aren't you Weasley," the usual lazy-drawl of Malfoy spoke.

"No, your just a little early. What, couldn't wait to see me?" Ginny smirked.

Draco's face went white for a minute, but it was immediately taken over with anger. His eyes flashed furiously as he glared at Ginny.

"Why would anyone want to see you or your blood traitor family?" Draco spat.

"Keep my family out of this you DeathEater!" Ginny threatened . Ginny reached into her robes and jerked out her wand, and Draco did the same thing. Ginny's wand tip was inches from Draco's face, and Draco's pointed lazily at Ginny's stomach. Ginny's whole body shook with rage. Her face was red and her teeth were clenched together. Her emerald green eyes flickered with anger.

"Go ahead. It'd like to see you try," Draco sneered.

Just as Draco spoke the word, Dumbledore walked by and the two quickly stowed their wands in their robes.

"You two should get going. You never know, someone might be lurking around in the halls," stated Dumbledore. His eyes twinkled as he looked at the two of them. A small smile appeared on his old face.

"Yes sir." Ginny stated quickly before Draco could say some unseemly comment. Professor Dumbledore walked off down the curving halls until he was out of sight.

"You're lucky that old man came by. He just saved you from a lot of pain." snarled Draco.

"Just keep telling yourself that DeathEater," claimed Ginny.

Who was that ugly blood traitor filth to call him a DeathEater! He would never become one of those, he would rather die! Yet everyone expected him to become one: he had been branded since the night he was born.

DEATHEATER

He would never escape it. Draco's mind wandered back to Ginny's earlier comment.

What couldn't wait to see me?

How did she know he had been eager to see her? Draco noticed on the Hogwarts Express how pretty Ginny actually was. She wasn't tall and lankly like her brothers, but short, and curvy. She had long, wavy, controllable red hair, and piercing emerald green eyes.

Don't be stupid, he told himself. She was a Weasley. She just made a lucky guess about him wanting to have a good look at her again...

He took back his statement about Ginny being ugly. She was anything but that. Her hair seemed to glow even in the dim light...

BANG.

A loud noise interrupted his day dream. Ginny was already ahead with her wand drawn. A scream rent the air as a jet of blue light hit Ginny right in the chest followed by a dull thud as her limp body hit the floor. Draco rushed to her side; she was still alive, just unconscious. He looked up and stared one of his worst enemies right in the face.

"Hello son. We need to talk."

Draco stood up and looked his father square in the eye.

"What do you want?" Draco snapped. The only reason his father would ever come to see her would be because something bad had happened...

"I just came to let you know that your mother died, but the only reason I'm telling you this is so your not surprised by the letter you will be receiving tomorrow. We wouldn't want to give anything away now would we? You better not tell anyone or I'll make your pain great," he snarled. He walked over to the prone form of Ginny and savagely kicked her.

"Almost as great as this family's will be." He spat. Draco turned and looked at Ginny, then looked back up but his father. He was no where to be seen.

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Ginny awoke in a white room and in a stiff bed. There was only one place she could be; the Hospital Wing. The sound of snoring directed her to the form of her brother who was lying asleep at the foot of her bed. She "gently" woke him with a sharp kick of her foot.

"Owww! Oh! Ginny you're awake!" Ron ran and hugged his sister

"can't … breath"

"Sorry;" said Ron sheepishly, "I was worried; you've been out for a week!"

"WHAT!" said Ginny in surprise. "What happened?"

"You were hit by a spell but they don't know who cast it. It was someone who knew a lot about the Dark arts." said Ron.

"What–"

"Ginny," Ron cut in. His face had gone sullen. His light brown eyes looked up at Ginny. There was a glare in them from the lights in the hospital wing. Ginny could feel a painful silence fall in between them. Something bad had happened. Something really bad. Ron's eyes began to water as he looked into Ginny's.

"Ginny," he choked, holding back his apparent tears,"Charlie died."

A/N: Hope this was better than the first chapter. We didn't really know the name of Professor Trelewney's great-great grandmother so we called her Saphora. If the book mentioned her name and you know it, we would greatly appreciate you telling us! If we get better reviews on this chapter, we are going to go and revise the first. After re-reading it once again, we have noticed that there is a lot of repetition, like our readers told us, and poorly written. Hopefully this chapter was a lot better. We just settled for Draco's and Ginny's POV. PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW! We have had many hits on this site and only 3 reviews! Even if you don't like it, we would like to know. Thank you so much!

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