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"Ginny! What're you-" Ginny pushed past Harry only to run straight into Ron and Hermione.
"Gin?" Ron cried, startled by meeting her.
"Oh, Ginny! Thank goodness you're alright! We've all been so worried!" Hermione exclaimed. Ginny turned around to face Harry.
"Why did you leave?" He asked. His eyes showed her pain, worry, and she could tell he was glad he had run into her. It made her mad that everyone was worried. In a sense, it showed her that people didn't think she could take care of herself.
"Because i'm not a child!" She yelled. The pub fell a bit more silent then it had been. "I can decide things for myself!" Ginny pushed past Ron and Hermione and ran.
Harry ran out the door and watched as Ginny turned a corner and was out of sight. "We've got to fin her. It's too dangerous for her to be running around alone."
"Mum's gunna be really mad when we catch her." Ron said. He had gone pale after seeing his sister and then seeing her run away. Agian. "What if something happens to her?"
"What was Ginny doing here anyway?" Hermione asked as she stepped out on the street with her friends. The trio turned and looked through the door. They could make out a very drunk Mundungus sitting at the bar. Hermione turned to Ron and Harry, stunned. "What would she want with Dung?"
Ginny kept running in hopes Harry wouldn't follow her. After a few minutes, she stopped running to see where she was. Looking around, she noticed a small, shabby sign reading 'Knockturn Alley'. The street was dark and smelly. Not many people were walking around. The atmosphere was definatly creepy.
'Uh oh,' Ginny thought. 'No wonder Mum never wanted us to come here.'
Ginny continued on down the street. She shoved the locket into her pocket and pulled her cloak around her tighter. Finally she noticed a sign hanging above a door. It was for a pub. She walked inside. The pub was almost empty except for a pair of witches in a cornor and a man seated at the bar. A bartender stood wiping a glass with a dirty rag.
Ginny walked up to the bar tender. He was a gruesome looking man with unkempt hair and ragedy clothes. He had a few scars on his face and stubble on his chin and along his jaw.
"Um, hi. Do you-er-do you have a fire place?" She asked tentivly. The bar tender jerked his head to the left where a fire happened to be burning. "Oh, is it connected to the floo network?" A nod. Ginny felt stupid. "May I use it?"
"Do you have the powder?" The bartender finally spoke. His voice was ruff and scratchy. His teeth were yellow and he had quite a few missing.
Ginny shook her head. The barman handed her a small bag of powder and turned to get another drink for the man sitting at the bar. Ginny took this as being excused and hurried over the the fireplace. She took a pinch of powder and threw it into the fire. She stepped in and shouted, "Headmasters office, Hogwarts!" and was gone in a puff of smoke.
Ginny fell out of the fireplace onto soft carpet, knocking over a small table in the process. Two silver discs clattered to the floor along with an overly large book. She hurried to pick up the table and had just managed to grab the book before he heard noises coming from the room she knew was the headmasters bedroom.
Ginny looked around and ran behind a curtian hanging beside a bookshelf, the book still in her hands. She felt the solid wood behind her and slowly backed up agianst it as much as she possibly could. A voice could be heard coming closer. Footsteps echoed on the small steps leading to the office.
"...disturbing me while i'm writing Hogwarts letters. How am I sapossed to get this done if-" McGonagall stopped talking. She had noticed her fireside table had been moved and the silver discs were on the floor. Her book was missing also. A scratching noise behind her made her jump. A small barn owl was tapping on the window. Behind him was another.
Ginny peaked out from behind the curtain as McGonagall let the owls inside. Ginny immediatly recognized both owls. One was her family owl, Errol, and the other was none other then Hedwig, the snowy white owl belonging to Harry.
McGonagall read the letters and quickly dropped them onto her desk. She grabbed her wand and ran out of the room ino the school hallway.
Ginny sighed but then gave a yelp of surprise as she fell backwards onto a pile of pillows. She was stunned. There had been a wall behind her a minute go. She crawled out of this new room and jumped when she heard a voice talking to her. (A/N: Ah yes. A fine stopping point don't you think? It has a nice cliffy too. Does Ginny get caught? Will she be sent home? Stay tuned for the next... oh ok. I guess I can let you read on...)
"Not many people know of that room Miss Weasley." Ginny looked up and saw Dumbledore's portrait smiling at her.
"P-professor!" Ginny said alarmed. "I didn't mean to! I mean, I didn't know where else to go. I couldn't go home. I'm in so much trouble and-"
"Miss Weasley, I am not in any postion to reprimand you for anything." Dumbledore said. His eyes twinkled as if he knew something. "I have already been informed of your, disappearence shall we call it? I will not tell anyone you are here if I know the reason for this disappearence."
"I-," Ginny looked at Dumbledore's picture for a moment. "I overheard Harry, Ron, and Hermione sir. They were going to leave on thier own to destroy Voldemort's horcruxes. I couldn't let them do it alone. If something happened to Harry, to any of them, and I couldn't help them, I would feel horrible. I couldn't let them do this alone. And it's time I get involved in something that has haunted me since my first year." She blurted.
Dumbledore studied her a moment before he spoke. "You really do love him, don't you?" Ginny nodded slowly. "How much do you know about the horcruxes?"
Ginny plunged into the tale about the night she left. She described her constant nightmares, how she had woken to find Hermione gone, how she had snuck upstiars and listened to them, about how they discribed the horcruxes, where they were rumored to be, and how she had packed her things. "And then I carried my trunk outside, got on the Knight Bus and left." She concluded.
"Very brave Miss Weasley." Dumbledore said. "Only those special enough with a great gift are able to find the room you found. Most people only feel the and see the wall behind that curtain. It was built by Godric Griffindor. The other founders could not access the room. I came upon it accidently when I tripped over a chair many years ago. The only other person I have met who has been able to use it is standing right in front of me."
Ginny gasped and looked back at the curtian. She pulled it open to look inside. The room was about the size of a medium sized bedroom. On one end of the room was a bed and a desk. Next to the door was a pile of sitting pillows that were very fluffy. The walls were bright pink and the soft mushy carpet, orange.
"Sir, can I stay here?" The protrait nodded. Ginny crossed to McGonagall's desk and noticed the two letters. She picked them up. She read the one from her family first.
McGonagall,
Ginny is missing. She left 2 days ago and we have not seen her since. Harry, Hermione, and Ron have obviously gone looking for her. If you see or hear anything from them or her, please inform me at once.
Molly Weasley.
Ginny nearly cried upon seeing her mother's handwriting. She missed everyone but she couldn't go back just yet, not now. She put that letter down and picked up the letter from Harry. She could feel Dumbledore and Hedwig's eyes on her. Errol had already left.
Professor McGonagall,
We have recently seen Ginny Weasley. She was apperantly talking to Mundungus Fletcher, but he is too drunk to tell us anything. If we could please ask you to come and take him to try and get information out of him it would be a great help. Please keep Hedwig until you can get information. She will know where and how to find us. Dung is in the Leaky Cauldron.
Hermione Granger
Ginny noticed a peice of paper underneath where the letters had been dropped. It had the offical Hgwarts creast on it. She shifted the papers around it and read.
Hogwarts school or Witch craft and Wizardry will be suspended until the memebers of the Board of Education decided what to do...
"Professor, if I might ask, what do you know about the horcruxes? What happened the- the day you died sir?" Ginny held her breath.
Dumbledore smiled at her. "Very smart Miss Weasley, a very smart question indeed. No doubt living with Hermione Granger every summer for the past 6 years has created you into quite the sluth, not to mention having a pair of brothers as Fred and George. I shall indeed supply the answer to your question." Dumbledore began to tell Ginny the story of the horcruxes and the tale of his last night of existance.
"R.A.B? Who is that?" Ginny asked.
"Regalus Alphard Black. Sirius' brother. He is infact dead now."
"I think he could come in handy. I do have the locket sir. Do you think- would he mind it if I used his name?" Ginny asked.
"You should ask him. His portrait is in that lovely little room you found. Along with one other I think you would like to see." Dumbledore smiled over his half-moon specticles at her.
Ginny walked behind the curtain into the room and gasped. A picture of a man resembling Sirius faced her. Next to that picture was the thing that had made Ginny gasp. It was a portrait. Smiling to her from thier large frame were the eyes of Harry on one, and his looks on the other.
"Hello." Lily and James Potter said at the same time.
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