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Chapter 9
The class looked at her in disbelief.
"Oh, quite looking at me like that! I'm not saying we are going to go camp out in the center of the forest, I'm going to take you onto a short path of about one hundred meters and then I will take you to a large clearing with lots of sun and light. Now, you won't be needing your books or quills and ink, just take your wands and follow me!" She said while walking out of the greenhouse and not bothering to look back to see who was following.
The class walked in silence as they reached the path she was talking about, and then slowly they all proceeded to walk into the forest in pairs. As she said, they walked for no more than five minutes and they were at the clearing. The class all sort of huddled together in the middle while Professor Sprout walked around looking at all the different plants and herbs.
"Now, now students, come here, have a closer look!" She said while pointing to a purple leaved plant, with red and yellow veins. "This plant is a highly poisonous plant, you see the red and the yellow is the poison, but if I were to touch the leaf right now, nothing would happen, because the purple exterior holds the poison in. So if an animal were to eat this plant, they would probably die very quickly. But, even though this plant is poisonous, it is also used in many potions, but most of those you wouldn't be learning about in school, because they would be far too complicated. Now, can anyone name this plant?" She said looking around hopefully.
"The Mulbaiya plant." Said Colin.
"Oh, very good! Five points for Gryffindor! Now if you would come over here and see look at the pattern on this plant..." She went on for the rest of the class, examining and explaining almost every single living thing in the clearing.
Once the class was over, they were walking back through the trail, when suddenly a crack of thunder loudly sounded right above them; it was then followed by a bolt of lightning. As soon as the sound started, the downpour of rain came down horrendously and the students ran all the way back into the greenhouse, grabbed their books and ran all the way back up to the castle. Once everyone was inside, everyone took out their wands and muttered their drying spells on their hair, books and clothes. They then all separated to go to their next class. Ginny went to Defense against the Dark Arts class and Colin went to History of Magic. This year their new teacher was Kinsley Shacklebot from the ministry. In the time Ginny had spent in Grimmauld place, she had come to know him a little better. She couldn't say she was fond of him, but she did nowhere near dislike him. She just found him a little boring. He talked about the unforgivable curses today, Ginny found them fascinating, but she was really tired of having them every single year, they knew what they were, and knew the incantations (because of Moody) and well everyone with half a brain knew what they did, it just lost it's appeal after a while. Once class was over, Ginny headed up to the common room to put all her books away and head down for dinner. When she came back down from her dorm, she saw that Ron, Hermione and Harry were all about to leave at the same time. They were about to walk out of the portrait when she was spotted. She put her shoulders back, raised her chin and kept walking. When she walked past them she stopped a few feet a head.
"Oh yeah Ron, forgot to thank you for you know, sending me a get well card, coming to visit me, for making sure I wasn't dead, and stuff like that. That's what truly makes you my sibling." She said in a sweet but poisonous voice. She really did not care at all that they had not visited her, and if they did, she probably would have told Madam Pomfrey to make them go away, but she just felt like dealing that blow to him, to make sure he knew she was tired of his attitude towards her. She started walking again, noting the temperature in the hall being a lot warmer. Then she remembered that it was her that was doing that, and she needed to stop that right now.
She was almost at the door, when she realized she was not in the mood to eat, she hadn't really eaten anything all day, but she figured it was because she had been sick for some time and her body was used to not eating. So she decided she would go out side. She thought the heavy rain would relieve her mind. When she got out, the rain was cold and thick, so she smiled and went out father onto the grounds. She was in the middle of the grassy plain with her heating charm cast on her and then she lay down and let the rain beat against her face. She lay there for a long time with her eyes closed. She seemed to lose her sense of time. Ginny sighed and knew it was time to go in. It was now actually dark, not just overcast, but nighttime darkness. She walked as quickly as anyone could while wearing sopping wet clothes, and when she got in the halls were empty. She silently sloshed her way up to the Gryffindor tower she still couldn't see anyone around and she thought that it might be past curfew, but she seriously doubted that she had been outside for four hours. When she walked into the common room, she saw Colin, Ron, Harry and Hermione talking to Professor McGonagall. They all seemed deeply worried about something and were talking in hurried voices.
Ginny was curious. so she walked up behind Colin and said. "What are you guys talking about?" Colin jumped at hearing her voice, and turned around to look at her, wide eyed.
"Good Heavens child! Where on Earth have you been!" She yelled at her.
"I was outside." She said. Then the five others looked out the window, and saw the rain slamming against the window and the wind slamming the windows the windows even more.
There was an odd silence as they all looked at her as if she were mad. "...So...What were you talking about?" She asked trying to remain aloof.
"We were trying to figure out where you ran off to!" Yelled Ron. "You could have been abducted by a deatheater like Malfoy!"
"Malfoy? Why the hell would I get abducted by Draco Malfoy!
"THE OTHER MALFOY!"
"Oh yeah, him." Ginny said while smiling at her stupidity.
"Mr. Weasley, close your mouth."
"But!"
"I said close it! Yes Miss Weasley, your brother does have reason to worry; Lucius Malfoy has been spotted near the castle. That is why we have been worried about your absence. Now, seeing as how everyone is alright, no one has been abducted," She said while glaring at Ron. "We can all go about our own business!" She said, and then left curtly.
"Maybe Malfoy senior abducted Ginny and used polyjuice potion and is now in the common room!" He said while looking right into Ginny's eyes. "Because the Ginny I know isn't such a bitch." He yelled for the whole common room to hear.
"Hey Ron! You better watch what you say about peoples' fathers, because I don't have to remind you, this is a big castle, and Malfoy could hide your body in many, many places!" Yelled Colin, no one would insult Colin's best friend while he was around. He looked at Colin a little stunned that he used Malfoy as a threat.
"I wasn't talking to you Creevy! I was talking to Virginia!"
"Oh, shut up Ron, you really want to know what happened to me? NOTHING! YOU ARE JUST A FUCKING RETARD!" She leaned over to him and whispered in his ear. "If you plan on having children, stay away from me." She said venomously. Then out of nowhere, she shoved him hard in the chest and he fell right over the footrest that he was conveniently standing in front of. He toppled over onto his head, and lay there looking at her with pure loathing in his eyes. A thin aura around Ginny started to glow red, and crackle with energy. She walked by a table with a candle on it, and the flame spat out sparks. She looked at it momentarily then went up to her room smiling. This was the second time this had happened, and now she left Colin back down there alone. She felt a little guilty, but her resolve was to stay up here and not come down until morning.
She sat in her bed, trying to calm her anger, and after a while, she finally cooled down. She picked up the book her three brothers had gotten her and started reading it. After a long time, she figured it had been two hours, her dorm mates still didn't come up. She figured they were going to wait for her to fall asleep before they would come near her. Right now she was thinking about how terrible tomorrow was going to be. By now, the people she might have been on her side last time were probably scared shitless. They would all become wary of her and she would be shunned and ignored. She knew Colin would stay with her, because he had a slight knowledge of what was going on. But the more she thought about it, the more she didn't care, no one other than Colin had ever really cared about her, so why should this be any different. She could face them, and if they tried to mess with her, she would most certainly, openly retaliate. Those were her thoughts as she drifted off into sleep.
"Virginia! You have not been doing anything I have told you! I told you to control your emotions and at least attempt to practice your power! Not to mention, you have been burying all about your gifts and about the other one, Draconius, into the back of your head. You are going to have to realize and except the greatness of this. You do not have the luxury of time because the war is coming. You need to be ready. Now I will not come again to you, you are going to be on your own until I feel you are ready to proceed with your partner to the next level of your task." Said Clywynn in a strangely humanish voice. Then the small forest they were standing in became a blur, and Ginny went back to her unimportant dreams.
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Draco had been looking over every page in the entire book, unfortunately for him, this book was incredibly old, and they hadn't thought of making a table of contents or index, so he had to read every page to see if her name was mentioned. He had been looking all night and was now into the early hours of the morning. He looked out his window and saw that the sky was getting lighter ever so slowly. He looked back down at the book and realized that he wasn't even close to half done. He sighed, put in a small piece of parchment to keep his place, and he went into his bed. He fell asleep instantly.
Earth Child! You have not headed my instructions. You will learn, in later times, who I am and what I have done in my time, but now is not it. You must realize that when I say you learning your gifts quickly, I do not lie. You must also realize that if you don't hurry and learn, you will never be any help to anyone in this war. You need to stop pushing your duties to the back of your head! There is someone else who is doing just the same thing; she tries to push you out of her mind, as you are trying. Virginia and you will only reach your potential when you come together as one. Now, listen to what I say, because this will be the last time you hear of me if you do not learn. I will come back once I can see you are ready." As with Ginny, the world blurred around him, and he was left with his dreamless sleep
He woke with a jolt, as he realized he had his third meeting with the mystery Goddess. He spent five minutes thinking it over until he came to a decision. He opened his door to see who was awake, and when he saw that the common room was still fairly dark, and no one was about, he put on his cloak and walked out of his room then out of his the common room carrying a small piece of parchment.
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Ginny's resolution was at its strongest. She had a job to do, and she was not going to back down. She got out of her bed as silently as possible, and slipped out the door down to the common room. She saw that it was clearly empty, so she left without another hesitation. All she had was her light cloak that her brother had given her and the small note in her hand.
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Draco was entering the south entry to the owlery, when he managed to see the dark blue sky had grown lighter while he walked. He looked around, then after a bit, he stuck his tongue to his two front teeth while blowing air through. It made a high pitched sound, before a large barn owl came and flew down to meet him, before landing on his shoulder. His scratched its neck with the side of his index finger and it replied with a soft hoot.
It let Draco pet it until its head stiffened and swerved towards the north entrance. "What is it girl?" He asked while following her gaze.
His silver eyes met with chocolate brown ones.
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Ginny knew she had been seen, her heart was hammering in her chest. Her resolve was dropping every second. Sending him a note that they needed to talk sometime in the near future was different than actually coming face to face with him, not really knowing what she would say or what they even needed to figure out. She felt like, as muggles say, a dear trapped in headlights.
She stood paralyzed for a few minutes, not knowing if she should turn around and leave, or walk in and come here to finish what she was originally going to start.
"I already saw you, come out." He said in a voice she had never heard him use. It sounded almost warn out and tired, not like his usual lazy drawl.
Ginny opened the door wider and walked cautiously in. She stopped when she was about five feet away from him and started fiddling with her parchment behind her back.
Draco looked his owl in the eyes, and it flew off to join the others once again. They stood there for awhile, both no knowing how to start. Then finally Draco sighed and broke the remaining silence.
"Okay, someone is going to have to start this, and since I am incredibly impatient, it's going to be me. Frankly, I am here because I was going to send a note to you, telling you we need to talk. And hopefully you at least have a small inclination as to why we need to talk. Now, I am going to presume that that letter you have in your hand is very similar to the one in mine." He said while pausing to let her nod slowly. "Now, is there anything you would particularly like to talk about, or do you want to just cover the whole general thing?"
Suddenly gaining a little of her confidence back, she began to speak. "I want to know why we of all people were chosen. What is so special about are blood and why has she given us powers that, well I don't know about you, can control!" Ginny could tell that she needed to calm down a bit, because Draco was looking at her like everyone did when she had been angry recently.
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Draco looked into her eyes, and saw that they were no longer the brown he had looked into earlier. They were now orange and red. He shook his head, knowing that this was not going to be easy on them.
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