Oh my Gosh! It has been like weeks since I have updated! I feel likeI have broken some law or something! I am so completely sorry! School has just gotton so darn hard and the fact that this story is complex and therefore hard to write is not helping either. I hope you like tihs chapter! Please review and soI knowI still have people reading. So sorry for the wait!


"Hermione! Are you okay?" Ron said as he shook her slender shoulders. "What happened? Why are you asleep?"

Hermione looked up at Ron dazed. "Asleep? Why I don't remember…I must have just blacked out…wait…could it have really happened?..."

"Hermione what are you talking about? What happened to you?" Ron asked worriedly. With a shaky hand, he tucked a bit of bushy hair behind her ear.

A look of realization washed over Hermione's face and she looked up with tears in her eyes. "Sirius…" she whispered. "…he's alive."

"What?" Ron asked incredulously. "How do you…," he paused, "Hermione, what did you see?"

"I saw him Ron," she said quietly. "I envisioned it. It's happened before…I saw Sirius Ron. He is alive and he's here on the island…with us."

A clatter woke Ginny up and she shot up in bed. A huge serving dish had appeared at the door and food was piled on. "Ugh," she said aloud, "I'm not hungry."


"Good afternoon my darling Ginny Weasley." Ginny jumped. The voice had blared out of a funny little white box somehow screwed into the stone wall. "You slept long but that is okay on account of you needing to have a healthy body. I assume that you have received you lunch so be a doll and dig in. You need to finish the whole platter and be thankful that I am letting you do this on your own. There are other ways to make you do it but I have decided to see if you can obey me willingly. I doubt it, but it will be fun to watch! Oh, and you will be deprived of the bathroom until you finish. See that as motivation. Enjoy!"

Ginny shook her head in disgust. "How dare you!" she yelled at the wretched box. She pounded her fluffy pink pillow in frustration. "I hate you, you stupid dragon! I won't eat! You have no control over me and what I do! I'd rather starve and die than do as you wish!..."she faltered already regretting her rash words.

"Well, if that's the way it has to be," the white dragon stated curtly. "You will pay for your stupidity. You see, I do have control over you." Suddenly Ginny's necklace began to glow and her body convulsed involuntarily.

"What are you doing to me?" she cried out.

"There, there, you will soon see," Charla said quietly. Seconds later a voice appeared in Ginny's head and she shook her head to try to get rid of it.

"Get up!" it said.

"No! I won't!" Ginny said defiantly. "You cannot make me!"

"I have control of you now Ginny. Don't make me hurt you. Now GET UP!"

Ginny tried to withstand it but the force was too great. Ginny slow stood up. She had no more control over what her body did. Charla was in command now.

"Good girl Ginny," the voice continued. "Go over to the nice food that my cooks have prepared for you and eat every single bite."

Ginny whimpered and a tear fell down her cheek as her now robotic body brought her to the platter of food. She picked up the fork and so began her long feast.


"Harry, we need to get you back to the campsite. Your ankle is badly broken and I need to look at it properly her and now," Hermione said as she knelt down beside Harry. "Do you think you can get back to camp if we support you?"

"You could ride on my back, Harry," Ron chipped in. "It is not too far of a walk."

"Ron, I don't think we need to go as far as a piggy-back ride but thanks for the thought," Harry said laughing. "Come on guys. Help me up. I can do it."

"Yah okay," Hermione said grabbing his left arm. "There is also something really important that we need to talk about but it would probably be best if we waited until you were comfortable."

"Wait…"Harry said eyeing Ron. "What is it? Is it Ginny? Tell me now." He looked up at Hermione trying to read her face and noticed that she had scratches on her cheek and leaves in her knotty hair.

"Harry, it's just that I don't want to get your hopes up. Okay…umm…we think that Sirius is still alive," she finished off slowly.

"What..." said Harry in disbelief. "Where?...How do you know?..." he asked quickly.

"You see Harry," Hermione said quietly, "I have been having these blackouts recently where I would see like clips containing things that have never happened. We decided that it may be like seeing the future I guess. We aren't really sure." She stole a glance at Ron before looking at the ground.

"So," Harry said cautiously, "Sirius may actually be alive?"

Hermione was silent but Ron spoke up, "Yes, Harry and we think he may be on the island."

A look of determination crossed Harry's face. "Okay," he said, "let's go. Tell me everything you know o the way back. Broken ankle or not, I'm leaving tonight. We've got to save Ginny and Sirius!"


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