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Chapter 7: Possessed

In her dormitory, Ginny sat beside the window overlooking the lake. Things were crowded in her mind right now so she chose not to go to breakfast. A single tear found its way down her cheeks. She quickly wiped it off before anyone could notice. Too late.

"What happened?" a female voice said. She turned around and saw Hermione. Hermione walked closer and occupied the space beside her. Worry evident on her face. "I heard from Riniel that you were crying when you entered the dorm room."

She quickly gave her a hug. She buried her face on her shoulder. "Hermione, it was awful!" she said her voice a little muffled.

Hermione rubbed her back to soothe her. Then, she said, "Calm down and tell me what happened."

"Last night, I had a dream. In it, I was walking towards the lake. It seems as though I was to meet someone there. When I arrived, somebody was there waiting. It was a guy. We hugged each other. The guy told me that she missed me and that he had been waiting for a very long time. Afterwards, I found out who the guy was! Do you know who the guy was? IT WAS MALFOY!" she cried out.

"Gin, don't worry about it. It's only a dream." She said optimistically.

"That's not it! I woke up this morning and guess where I was!"

"You don't mean…"

"Yes! I was near the lake under a tree and Malfoy was there with me!"

"Oh my! You're sleepwalking!"

"I don't think that that's the case. If I'm sleepwalking then why is Malfoy there as well?"

"What do you have in mind?"

"I'm guessing it's because of the bracelets. Just yesterday I found out that Malfoy owns the bracelet I found and the night before mom sent me this." She revealed the Suzaku on her left arm. "Hermione, help me!" she gave Hermione a look of sheer desperation.

"Gin, don't worry. If it is the bracelet causing these things to happen then I'll look up something on the library. I'm bound to find something." Giving her a reassuring smile, Hermione brushed the tear off her cheeks. "Now, don't cry and get ready. Classes are about to start."

Ginny can't help but smile to her. She gave her another hug and then got up to go to her dormitory.

Ginny and Hermione were walking towards their classes when Hermione tossed her something that was neatly wrapped in a napkin. Ginny eyed it and gave Hermione a questioning look.

"Your breakfast." She said.

"Thanks, Hermione."

"Don't thank me. Thank Harry. He was the first one to hear the news from Riniel. Sadly, he can't come up to your dormitory so he asked me go and talk to you. When I came downstairs, he gave it to me saying it's your breakfast. He already went to History of Magic."

Harry, you're too nice. She said to herself.

"By the way, Ron told me that the team will have a meeting at the common room instead of the field. I don't think you guys are actually doing some practice today."

"Okay, thanks." She said as she took a bite off her sandwich.

Ginny ran as fast as she could. She was late. Late for the Quidditch meeting. As she rounded at the corner the portrait of the fat lady came into view.

She quickly told the painting the password. When the portrait swung open, she saw a group of people all gathered up near the window. They were all talking. His bother's flaming red hair told her that that was where they were.

"Ginny! What took you!" Ron yelled at her when he saw her approaching.

"Sorry, everybody." She saw that everybody else was there except her. She took the seat between Harry and Colin.

Ron sighed and said, "Never mind… Anyways, where was I? Oh yeah! As we all know this would be the only match before winter. All the other matches would be after the winter season. We're fighting against the Slytherin and I heard that they have members of their team. Harry?"

"Um… Yeah… They have three new players. They have Blaise Zabini as keeper. Their two new chasers are John Reid and Ryuen Feinstein. Of course, we all know that Malfoy is their new captain."

"Colin and Dennis, here, was able to sneaked in and saw how they performed during tryouts." Ron said.

"John and Ryuen were excellent! They played a practice game against the old keeper. They performed really well. They were doing amazing maneuvers just to get the ball in. Every ball did go in. Blaise was excellent too. Their old players played with him and not one single ball got through." Colin explained.

"Yeah! Then Malfoy decided to play them together. It was a heated match. After about 30 minutes, Blaise blocked about 7 attempts and 9 went through. I mean if we are somewhat having a hard time with the old players. What more if it was the new ones?" Dennis said.

"I agree and based on what Colin and Dennis have said, we have to work extra hard this year. Malfoy made a clever decision by replacing his old players." Ron told them. "… so tomorrow, I want us to have a practice after school. Is that okay with everybody?" All of them agreed eager to defeat their rival.

"I want the chasers to come up with new tactical maneuvers for the game. Is that understood?" he continued. Ginny, Dean, and Seamus nodded at him.

"Okay, you guys can go now." They all got up to leave. Ginny was about to go up to the dormitory when Ron called him.

"What is it, Ron?" she asked.

"I want you to be careful, okay? I know you're not little anymore but I'm still your big brother. I want you to be safe during the game."

"Oh Ron!" she gave her a big hug. "I'll be fine just like all my other games."

"I know but I don't know what might happen with new Slytherin players on the game."

"Thanks for the concern, Ron, but I'm going to do fine on the game. Don't worry."

"Yeah, but watch your back."

"Okay, I will."

"Harry, thanks." Ginny said when both of them were sitting in the common room doing the rest of their homework. It was around ten o'clock and almost everybody retired for the night. Only Ginny, Harry and a few students were occupying the common room.

"For what?" he asked as he continued to write the essay for McGonagall.

"For the sandwich. You were awfully nice."

"Don't mention it. I figured that you're going to be hungry. You never told me what happened though."

She looked down before saying, "Harry, is it okay if we talk about it some other time? I really don't feel like talking about it, right now."

Harry sensed tension building up so he said, "I see… it's okay… anyway… What do you think of the Slytherin team?"

"If Colin and Dennis think they're good then they probably are. I'm kind of worried. I know Malfoy's cooking up a plan. He's out on revenge against the team for years now." And against me too! She said to herself. After that blow I gave him this morning, I'm sure he wants to skin me alive.

"Yeah… you're right. Well… it's not our fault that their team sucked."

"Damn right about that!"

They carried on their discussion on the upcoming match. At some point, Ginny heard a strange voice in her ear. Soon, the voice started going louder and louder. She closed her eyes and covered her ears as an attempt to block it off but she kept on hearing them. Harry quickly went closer asking her what's wrong.

"Gin, what's happening?" he worriedly said as he shook her.

"Ginevra…"

"Come…"

"Come…"

"Stop it! Just stop it!" she screamed hoping the voice would halt. Harry continued to shake her but she only kept on screaming. Then, Harry saw that the eyes of Suzaku were glowing bright red. Now, he was worried.

"Gin! Snap out of it!" he said as fear started to overcome him. After that, her screams stopped and she kind of lost consciousness. "Oh my God, Ginny!" he said when he thought it was over. He gave her a hug scared that he might lose her again. Then suddenly, Ginny opened her eyes only to reveal red orbs.

"Draco… I'm coming…" she spoke but a slightly different voice was heard. She removed herself from Harry's hug, stood up and turned headed straight for the portrait hole.

"Gin! What's happening to you?" he grabbed her hand as an attempt to try and stop her. "Gin, please snap out of it!"

"Let go of my hand. I have to see Draco." She told him.

"Gin! It's me! Harry! Please snap out of it!" he said desperately kneeling in front of her.

She struggled out of his grasp and carried on walking towards the portrait hole. After that, she felt strong hands encircling her from behind. "Gin, please remember. It's me, Harry. Please, Ginny!"

"Harry?" Ginny said confused.

"GIN!" he said hugging her tighter. "I thought I'd lost you."

"What happened?"

He released her from the hug and proceeded into telling her what happened. He was shaking while he did this. He was so scared. Her eyes scared him. They are of brilliant red much like the phoenix on her bracelet. Her voice. Although somewhat similar, Harry knows that it wasn't quite hers.

"Okay, before we start I want us to warm up first. I will tell you what to do after that." Ron told them during Quidditch practice.

As their warm up exercise, they have to jog around the field for three laps to get their hearts pumping. Then, they have to hop on their broom and fly around the field for another five laps. Ron does this to make sure that they're still fit to play the game. The other members argue that it was pointless to do so because they're not running but riding their brooms but they always do it anyways.

Ginny felt the cold November wind sweeping past her while riding her broom. She loves the cold and it suited her mood today. A swirl of emotions was forming up inside her now. All of them are not good. Harry told her exactly what happened last night. She saw that Harry was scared. She thought she even saw tears brimming in his eyes last night.

"For now, the chasers will practice against me. Harry, you'll play on the other end of the field with the beaters. I still haven't finished my plan so it will have to wait until tomorrow." Ron said when they were all gathered up at the middle of the field.

They followed his order and separated into two groups. When they reached the goals on their side of the field, Ron tossed them the quaffle. Dean easily caught it.

"Okay, let's start." Ron said.

Without further ado, Dean came charging at his direction followed by Ginny and Seamus. Ron looked up at them ready to block their attack. Dean gained more speed and more speed flying straight at him. He was holding the ball seemingly ready to shoot at the goal on the right. Ron saw the stance as a sign to guard that goal. Unfortunately, Dean quickly tossed the ball to Ginny and she threw the ball to the other goal. Ron was fast. He blocked the ball just in time.

"You guys have to do better than that."

"Okay, Ron. You want something better? Try this." Ginny headed straight for Ron. The two stared at each other without blinking. Ginny raised her arm seemingly aiming for the goal he was guarding. She threw the ball up to the highest goal post. He missed by a few inches. The ball hit the goal post and bounced back to her hands. She easily caught it and threw it to the goal through the other goal.

She gave him a big smile when he looked at her. He said, "Nice technique, Gin"

The game continued. It looked as if the game is really brother against sister. When Ron blew the whistle, the score ended up tied. Soon after, they were all in the locker room sweat dripping down their clothes.

"Okay, tomorrow, we practice at the same time." Ron announced after everybody was now all dressed. Everybody agreed.

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