Author's note: Hey, it's been awhile and I have been somewhat busy...at least that's my excuse :)...But yeah, I felt that it has been far too long since I updated this story and I should get to it...not to mention that I re-read the whole thing again and I have even more ideas as to what I should do with a few loose ends I have left...but I'll shut up so you can read on!

Chapter 14

Ginny didn't know what to think. This new information upset her more than she wanted to admit. Could Colin have actually betrayed her? She tried to justify the conclusion, but facts were facts, and not meant for ignoring. And just the fact that someone out there that she may or may not know, seems to know a whole lot about her. And now something terrible has happened to Snape. "Why cant things remain simple for one day?" Ginny mumbles to no one as she finally made her way out of the room she was in.

She didn't waste anymore time as she heard footsteps coming from the left hall leading deeper to the castle, where she assumed the Slytherin common room was. She quickly hurried up to the main level of the school and found herself in front of the Great Hall. She wondered if it would look too suspicious for her to walk straight in this early in the morning, but she heard the footsteps once again and rushed inside and found a seat just as the Slytherins walked in. Thankfully none of them even gave her a second glance.

She sighed, then looked up her table and saw she was getting a few odd glances from some of the younger students. She smiled nervously at them, and then pretended to eat some toast. When everyone had finally looked away, she threw the piece of bread back onto the big plate in the centre of the table. Food was the last thing on her mind.

Once again, Dumbledore was absent from the head table, as was Snape, naturally. Ginny gave a large dramatic sigh and looked around the rest of the hall. Many people had finally arrived and were sitting talking with their friends, laughing, being carefree. She gave a small smile at them all and out of nowhere she got an immense head ache. The room had an odd smell and all the people around her began crying, some even started crying out n strangled pain. The hall got an intense red glow, and sparks started shooting from the ground, tables and even the air itself seemed to crackle with heat. The tables turned to a black dust and the stone ground turned to dirt. The peoples screams increased as many of them fell to the ground in searing pain. The flesh on their very bodies began to bubble and disintegrate into nothing. The smell could make any same human fall to their knees.

Ginny jumped up from the table as it began to catch on fire, and she started to run around away from the growing flames. If she could just find someone, anyone alive. But all she could see was ash and flames. She fell to her knees and covered her ears with her hands in a feeble attempt to remove the sounds of death about her. She let out a deathly loud scream of helplessness and closed her eyes and pressed her head to the ground.

The ground became cool, and the air became clean. She could hear strange murmuring around her and feel a hand on her shoulder. She lifted her head and saw everything was fine. There was no fire, or burning corpses. It was fine.

She was still sobbing and she couldn't breathe properly. She looked at the person whose hand was on her shoulder, and it belonged to Draco. He was looking at her with a look of pure understanding, and he even had a trace of an un-fallen tear in his eye.

"Virginia? Virginia! Ginny, say something!" He whispered, pulling her face lightly towards his. Ginny still completely horrified, wiped her nose with the hem of her robe's sleeve. But when she sniffed in, she could still smell the odor of burning flesh.

She threw up all over the stone floor before she managed to get some words out. "I need a-air!" She shuddered and Draco helped her to her feet and literally shoved a path through the crowd, getting many insults thrown his way.

He completely ignored them, and rushed Ginny out the front door to the castle. She breathed in long and deep and then sat down on the top step of the entrance stairs. Draco sat down beside her and wrapped his arm around her mid back. He wanted to know exactly what happened, but he knew she would tell her, and it must have been horrific to display such a show of terror.

"W-what happened?" She asked, obviously not knowing what she just did.

"You were sitting at the table looking around at everyone when I walked in, you were half smiling, but then out of nowhere your face crumpled in fear and tears started streaming down your face. You were looking around frantically, you were now crying loud enough for people around you to start noticing. Someone tried to ask you what was wrong and you jumped so fast from the table as if it burnt you. You started running around the hall as if you were looking for something then you crouched down on the ground, covered your ears and gave the most pain filled scream I have ever heard. I knew you were obviously seeing things that no one else could but no one seemed to be doing anything about it, people formed a crowd around you, even the teachers were clueless as how to help you. So I figured you needed to be brought out of whatever you were seeing and I sat beside you and you seemed to have woken form whatever it was. It was really frightening to see you like that, let alone anyone. I couldn't help think that you were in excruciating pain." He said somberly.

"Th-the fire! They were burning, flames everywhere! Ash, the smell! I couldn't- I cant-"She quickly drew away from him and threw up on the steps below them.

"Ginny! Come one, you're alright!" She started shaking and her sobs started again. "Ginny, you're fine, you're fine! We're at Hogwarts, and everything is alright." She kept sobbing and he did the only thing he thought might help. He pulled her closer and pulled her into a tight embrace. He started rubbing her back comfortingly and that seemed to help a little.

"Everyone was dying! I could hear their screams! I COULD SMELL THEM!" She yelled into his chest.

Draco continued to try and get her to calm down, and reassure her that everything was fine. She was getting progressively better, that is until a strange voice from behind Draco startled them.

"I told you things like what you have just witnessed will come to pass if YOU REMAIN TO BE IGNORANT!" They both turned as quickly as possible and they came upon the site of a strange looking cat. It was larger than most domestic ones and held a purely magical aura around it. They knew it could be no other than Clywynn. "But you do not seem to be entirely ignorant. I see you have put aside your differences." they continued to stare blankly. "Your time is running out my children. Actions have already been set into motion as you have learned. But now you need not bother about those things. They are to come further along, but in the present YOU MUST CONTROL YOUR GIFTS! I cannot stretch the importance of it." They winced at the power behind the voice whenever its tone raised in volume. "If you over look your duties this one time too many, that scene you witnessed will become the harsh reality you once called Life." With that, the "cat" sprung up and ran down the stairs at a remarkable pace, soon it was only a small black form in the distance, that seemed to have changed shape for it leaped into the air and spread a newly formed pair of wings. It disappeared over the tree tops of the Forbidden Forest.

The only thing the two shocked children could utter was a small "oh." They both stood up and dazedly walked back inside.

"We have to..." Ginny started.

"...classes..." Draco finished.

"...books..."

"Yeah..."

They both sort of slowly made their way to their respective classes and managed to snap themselves out of their hypnotic state and pay attention. People seemed to be giving Ginny frightened looks, as if they expected her to blow up at any moment. She tried to disappear behind a book in the very back of the class, even the teacher was actually nervous to talk to her, which is a very bad thing because her teacher was dead. Prof. Binns.

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Draco's morning wasn't going much better at all. He had DADA with Gryffindor and it would seem Potter and his possy had been told about this morning's incident.

Potter and Weasley were giving him death glares while Granger was trying to make them pay attention to what the teacher was writing on the board. If he hadn't been too busy with his mind on other things, he probably would have smirked outright at them.

"Could I have a pair of volunteers?" The teacher asked suddenly. And Draco would have not even heard it if it had not been for Potter yelling right after.

"Me and Malfoy will go!" Draco looked up at the class who were looking back at him expectantly. Draco read the notes on the board and saw that they would be practicing a very simple offensive curse that Draco had probably learnt when he was ten.

"Mr. Malfoy?" The teacher asked, waiting for his confirmation.

"Sure, whatever." That seemed to make Potter even angrier.

The two of them walked up to the front of the class and took a dueling position (a somewhat lazy one coming from Draco). "Okay, on the count of three Harry, you are going to attack Malfoy here, and he can either block, or dodge and send the same one back. Alright, on the count of three...one...two-

Harry sent the curse straight at Draco. He easily blocked it and sent one straight back, knocking Potter to the ground. He yawned and went back to his desk.

"Well done Malfoy! Ten points to Slytherin. Harry, you can take your seat now...Now for the few remaining minutes of this class, you can all read up about on the next chapter, which we will be covering for the next class.

TBC

Author's note: So there you have it. The plot of the story is moving along at a faster pace now, and no I haven't forgotten about Snape, he's still "dying". I hope you guys liked that one, and hopefully I am going to have another one for you in a few hours :) PLEASE REVIEW!