Year 6 || 1996

It was a year without Adrian, but that didn't matter. The owl found them, and everyone celebrated when Ginny's Captain and Headgirl badges fell out of the package. Draco had the Headboy badge, meaning Professor Snape found it safe for them to return to Hogwarts without any problems arising.

She managed to go to Bill and Fluer's wedding. Molly, Ron, and Arthur stayed away from her but her eldest brothers engulfed her in hugs. They all whooped and hollered when she told them she was Headgirl, and Bill carried her on his shoulders when she told them she was Quidditch Captain too. It went well until the patronus came, and then she and Charlie disaparated with the twins to their Joke Shop. Bill never showed up.

The train ride was enjoyable, except for when Deatheaters entered their compartment in search of Harry Potter. Ginny fell back into her habits of only talking when necessary, and the rest of them understood wholeheartedly. Daphne and Blaise were pulled from school, being Grey, and went into hiding. Ginny made sure to send the two a letter to use their own little house in the country side, right besides a beach. It was where Adrian was. And Marcus, and most of the old team.

Hestia and Flora were constantly glared at, only because it was their aunt and uncle who torturing the other houses. Ginny always glared back, and now more than ever was it required for Slytherins to travel in groups of no less than four. They didn't know how they were to make it through a year of this.

Ginny didn't know how she was going to make it through this.

Tom was back, and she began to zone out even more than in her first year. She would go to sleep in her bed and wake in the room of requirement with his voice filling her head, filling the room, filling any space of silence. Hester agreed to stay in the Head commons to lead her back to bed, but then one day Ginny hurt her.

She still excelled in her classes, but now she was frequently missing some. When asked where she was, she couldn't answer. She didn't know. She wanted to go home.

She still wrote to Bill every day. She sent a letter, hoping one day he would write back, tell her she's being over dramatic and annoying, then ask about the boy trying to flirt with her. She would tell him she gave him a nasty bat bogey hex and he would send her a few candies perhaps. Except he never wrote back, and she would never get the licorice wands.

"Death eater scum!" Someone yelled one day in the halls at Ginny. They were expelled the next day and Ginny refused to leave her room for weeks. Within that time she spent exactly two hours and thirty-seven minutes as Ginerva Black. The rest of the time she spent as Tom Riddle, and when she finally left the room, she was cold and uncaring to everyone. The one thing that gave it away was the fact that she stopped sending letters.

"Ginny, maybe we should go to the nurse, she could fix the nightmares an-"

"No. Too much is wrong with me and you can't change that! You can't fix me, because I'm not broken. I don't need to be fixed, okay? I'm me!" Ginny yelled back in the middle of the great hall, drawing all the attention to her bloodshot eyes, messy hair, and hysterical voice. They moved out of the way when she stormed out of the hall and didn't say a thing when she pushed past them in the halls that day.

Christmas break they all went to the small shack, Tom convinced her it was a shack when she saw Malfoy Manor in her flashbacks, but Ginny stayed behind. She lost a lot of things at this point that she should have remembered to find, but it didn't matter. Because of Tom she's hidden her feelings, and forgotten about those stupid little dreams she had of playing pro-Quidditch. She fell away from her friends and from everyone else who stared at her. She just wanted to go home. Except now home turned out to be a blank space in her mind.

"Hello Ophelia." It was Tom, he always called her that now.

"Hello Tom, What lesson is it this time?" she asked as she painted with pinks and yellows on her blank space.

"Blood traitors and mud bloods of course." He stepped forward with a sadistic grin.

Ginny's pink's turned to red and yellow's to black. She didn't want to paint anymore.

It was a shock to find the remains of Dumbledore's army in the Come and Go room.

"Get out of here death eater!"

"She'll rat on us!"

"Stun her!"

"Hey everyone! I have a surprise for you!"

Ginny made her way outside, using Neville's 'surprise' as a much needed distraction. She failed. Tom would know that she tried to get the Tiara and she would be punished. "All students report to the great hall immediately."

She caught up with her house and fell into line in the great hall before listening to the speech about Harry being in the castle. She didn't pay attention until Harry popped up himself and the Order drove Snape out. The Carrows weren't as fortunate and ended up imprisoned by Mcgonagall and Arthur Weasley. That was when Tom made his move.

"But he's right there! Someone grab him!" Pansy yelled as she pulled her friends closer in fear.

"Thank you, Miss Parkinson," said Professor McGonagall in a clipped voice. "You will leave the Hall first with Mr Filch. If the rest of your house could follow." Ginny, Hester, and Flora huddled together, looking at the Carrows and then at their house leaving.

"Where will we go?" Flora asked as she turned to their small group, "With them out there is no doubt that we can't go home so.." Ginny didn't answer, she was too busy staring at her brother.

"Bill.." she whispered before breaking the small group and walking, running, sobbing. She punched his shoulder, then his arm, and again, "You complete Arse!" the hall was staring at her, the Slytherins stopped to watch in worry, "You complete idiotic arse! Why didn't you write back!?" Hester pulled her back, held her up as her feelings came back tenfold, "I hate you! You promised me and then you left!"

She sobbed as Flora hugged her closer, as Draco led them out to the others, as they grouped together and sat down in fear, anger, sorrow.. Ginny didn't want to feel this anymore, she went to her blank space and let Tom take over with bloodshot eyes and dark bags.

When she 'woke up' she was at the top of the Astronomy tower with the Tiara. "Welcome back Luci." Only Luna called her Luci, but then again she could be hallucinating. "Going to come back now?"

She should've listened. Bloodshot eyes looked behind her and saw Luna Lovegood and a malicious smile made it's way onto her face.

"I guess not.. It's okay Luci, I don't blame you. It's not you doing this, just remember that. You'll always be my sister in everything but blood Luci."

"Avada Kedavra!"

An hour later she made her way down the stairs shaking. She looked around at the celebrating students, former students, and all others on the side of the light. She walked past them to the bridge where she saw the 'golden trio' and then she walked past them despite the calls of her name. She ignored them until Ron had pulled her around and then she looked into their eyes and they saw her. Not Ginerva Weasley, not Ophelia Lucretia Black, They saw her. Lucifer. The devil herself with the blood red eyes, the sadistic smile, and the tears..

They took steps back and pulled their wands but it was no use. Ginny turned around and continued to walk until she felt the wards lift from her shoulders and then she activated her portkey. The necklace that her sweet Adrian gave her. She appeared on the beach, collapsed on the spot and screamed her lungs out.

That's where Adrian and Marcus found her. They helped carry her in, called someone, and Marcus left the two on the couch. Ginny didn't know when she stopped screaming, but she did know that she didn't feel Tom anymore, and no matter how much that made her happy, it scared her twice as much.

Without Tom in her head she had no excuse to what happened to Luna. She killed- Oh lord she killed her best friend.

Bet you didnt see that coming! I hate myself for this tbh but holy crud why did it have to be Luna? also sorry for the late Updates! And thet reason this is so short, is mainly to emphasize the fact that Tom was taking over and i lost muse for a while but here it is!