"Malfoy. Wand. Angelina. Momma." Raine sobbed.
"Did you say Malfoy?" the man asked harshly.
Raine nodded.
"Oh dear. Was Malfoy here?"
Raine nodded again.
"Well that's not good," the man said to himself. "Not good at all. Now tell me clearly, what happened?"
"M-M-Momma had to work today," Raine began.
The man looked at the ground. "Oh my Lord," he said quietly. "Did Malfoy do this? Is this your mother?"
Raine nodded twice.
"What's your father's name?" asked the man.
"I-I-I don't have a Daddy!" Raine wailed. "He died!"
"Oh," said the man sadly. "Did Malfoy kill him too?"
Raine nodded her head, even though it was getting sore from nodding so much.
"What's your name?" asked the ma kindly.
"Raine-Raine-Raine Potter!" Raine said through her sobs.
"Jesus," the man said under his breath. "Come on, I'll bring you to my house and we'll figure out what to do from there."
Raine waited while the old man muttered a spell to make Ginny's body weightless, and invisible. He then picked up the body with his right arm. And he held Raine's hand with his other.
Raine followed him as he led her to the Hogwarts castle.
Raine looked at the castle in awe. "It's so big!" she cried. "Do you live here all by yourself?"
"Oh no," said the man. "This is Hogwarts."
"Oh," said Raine, comprehension dawning on her face. "That's the school!"
"That it is."
"Why do you live here?"
"I work here, I'm a teacher. I teach Dueling for sixth and seventh years."
"Oh, alright," Raine said. Tears were still running down Raine's face. "My parents came to this school," she said.
"They did."
"Did you know them?"
"Yes."
"How?"
"I knew your father very well. I knew your grandfather as well. Your grandfather was my best friend when I was young."
"That's cool," said Raine.
"Yes. You're father and mother were great people, Raine. Great people, the world will certainly grieve over your mother's death, almost as much as they did over your father's."
"Good."
Raine and the man continued up to the castle, once inside the doors, Raine stopped.
"What's your name?" she choked out, through her sobs.
"Lupin," he said. "Professor Remus Lupin."
"I like your name," said Raine thoughtfully. "Lupin sounds like something a flower should be called."
"There is a flower called Lupin, although it's spelled differently."
"Oh, well that's cool."
Raine and Professor Lupin walked down a long corridor and up to two stone gargoyles.
"Ministry," Lupin said to the gargoyles, as they sprang to life. 'Ministry' was obviously some sort of password.
Raine followed the Professor up a winding set of stairs, which lead to a large oak door, with many different names carved into it.
Lupin knocked on the door.
"Come in!" called a familiar voice.
Raine gripped Lupin's hand as he opened the door. "UNCLE PERCY!" Raine screamed as she saw the man who was evidently the headmaster of Hogwarts.
Raine ran over to him and grabbed his leg and began sobbing.
"What's going on?" Percy demanded.
Professor Lupin explained everything to Percy. When he was done, it looked as though Percy was desperately trying not to cry, although he wasn't succeeding.
"Why Ginny?" he moaned. "Why? Why? Why?"
Professor Lupin made Ginny's body become visible and left it on the sofa in Percy's office.
Percy and Raine both just cried harder when they saw it.
"Well-I-" Lupin said awkwardly, "I think I'll just leave now. Um, bye," he said as he backed out of the office.
Percy and Raine continued to sob when Professor Lupin left, and didn't quit until a good half an hour later.
"Raine," Percy said, choked out, "I'm going to have to get together with my brothers. We'll need to plan a funeral," he said, tears streaming down his pale freckled face.
Raine just nodded her head, if she talked, she would probably start sobbing gain, and she didn't want that to happen.
Percy busied himself, flooing his head into the fire, so he was able to talk to all of Raine's Uncles.
When he flooed his head to Fred's house, Raine heard a shriek come from the other end.
"OH, MY LORD! HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN? I JUST SAW GINNY TWO HOURS AGO!" came the unmistakable voice of Raine's Aunt Angelina.
Raine began to sob, at the thought that Angelina had been the last person she had been with before her mother's death.
"Oh, Raine, honey," said Angelina, her face visible through the fire, "I'm sorry," she said soothingly.
"It's okay," Raine said, her voice shaking slightly, as she buried her head in some sort of stone basin that was lying on Percy's desk.
Instantly she felt as though she was being transported to another place, in another time.
