A few hours later Bellatrix lead Harry and Hermione to the edge of the Death Eater encampment, where Voldemort and his evil villains were plotting their reign of terror. The crouched in the bushes and watched carefully as the Death Eaters walked through the tents plotting evil things.
"Look!" Bella hissed, pointing to the center of the encampment. "There's Lord Voldemort!"
And then Harry saw the most disgusting thing he had ever seen in his long eventful life. There was the Dark Lord, his shiny white head gleaming in the sun, and on his lap was a girl with red hair. It was Ginny.
"There's Voldemort's new tramp, Ginny," Bellatrix said angrily. "I hate her."
"I hate her too," Hermione said with a quiet anger.
"Ginny?" said Harry, confused beyond belief. "But why would Ginny be helping Voldemort?" He was revolted by the way his former girlfriend was gazing up at his worst enemy with a seductive expression.
"Let's use a long-distance listening charm so we can hear!" suggested Mione.
"Good idea Mione," Harry said. "You are the cleverest witch I know."
So they used a long-distance hearing charm to tune in the distant words of Tom and Ginny.
"I made the Potter Brat fall in love with me, my Lord," Ginny was simpering. "He didn't know I was alive before, but then he went crazy about me! I put all kinds of evil thoughts into his head like saying it was OK to be rude to Fleur and to crash into Zacharias Smith."
Voldemort cackled with evil laughter. "Well, done, my little snuggly-wuggly!" he said evilly. "You have done well to mine the Potter Brat of his greatest strength- the ability to feel compassion for others!"
Voldemort and Ginny laughed. It was hard to say who sounded the most evil.
"But my Lord," Ginny simpered. "My plan was nearly ruined by the Mudblood Harry calls Hermione. Her true and worthy love for the Potter Brat nearly ruined our perfect plan. But I managed to drug her into falling for my ugly older brother, and that distracted her for the time I needed!"
Mione gave a gasp and her chocolate eyes began to fill with regretful tears. Harry reached out and took her hand.
"Don't worry, Mione," he said gruffly. "I don't blame you. Love potions warp the mind. Look at what they made me fall in love with."
As he looked at Ginny he couldn't believe how ugly she really was. She looked like Merope with red hair. Maybe that was why Voldemort liked her. He supposed the vision of a pretty girl with dancing hair must have been a product of the love potion. He looked down at the horrified Mione beside him. By contrast, with her cinnamon ringlets and deep, soulful coffee eyes, Mione was the most beautiful witch in the Wizarding world, as well as the cleverest and the bravest.
"It is a shame you did not kill the Potter Brat at the wedding of the Weasel Clan, my dear," Voldemort said. "But you did well to kill your former family."
"I hated them," Ginny said evilly. "My brother was always controlling me and telling me not to go crazy with the boys. I made his death an extra painful one. The twins were always teasing me so I made their brains explode. I hated Fleur most of all so I put a spell on her to make her ugly then killed her."
"She's so evil," whispered Bellatrix.
Harry growled. "How could we have been fooled like this! She killed her own family! And she was after me at the time! By a lucky chance it was only Molly's chili dogs that saved me! Truly I am the Chosen One to be saved by badly cooked food!"
"We will punish her Harry," Mione said grimly, her chocolate eyes shining with fury so she looked like Albus Dumbledore in a bad mood. "For she is the one we set out to kill!"
"But you are no longer a Weasel, Ginnykins," Voldemort smirked. "You are now Mrs. Tom Marvolo Riddle."
Bellatrix burst into tears. Hermione patted her reassuringly on the back. "Don't worry, Bella, he was evil."
"Let's find out what they're planning," Harry said heroically, though his stomach was churning in disgust at Ginny and he was wondering how he could ever have kissed that foul, diseased, evil mouth. Truly he would rather spend the night with Umbridge than that disgusting tramp.
"Now it's time for you to travel in time, polyjuice yourself into the traitor, Bellatrix, and torture the Longbottoms and kill Sirius Black!" Voldemort laughed evilly. "Everyone will blame Bella even though she's really quite nice!"
Harry gasped. He now understood everything. "It was Ginny!" he said angrily. "Ginny killed Sirius and drove Neville's parents insane! I'm so sorry I misjudged you Bella!"
And then Harry and Bellatrix fell into each other's arms, hugging and crying. Harry was worried Hermione would be jealous but a look at her face told him it was alright.
"Harry!" Mione said. "We stop Ginny going back in time and save Sirius and Neville's parents!"
"I agree Mione!" Harry said. "We can still save Sirius!"
"I'll go with you!" Bella said. The other two nodded.
As Ginny got up to step into the time machine the three of them rushed across the field, wands drawn to protect themselves from the Death Eaters.
