Hey guys! I am SOOO sorry it's taken so long to get this chapter up! I've been so busy with my school play. I'm on lighting and props crew. But it opens this weekend! As You Like It is the name. It should be good. I'm also involved with my community play at the same time so I leave for school at 6:20 am and I don't get home til about 10 pm and I am wipped by then. But like I said, play opens this weekend so i'll have more time. Thanks for being patient and thanks to my reviewers! Lylas Emma-bug! (She's kill me if I didn't say her anme on here...)

Disclaimer: Well... If I was J.K. Rowling, I would A) Give a good name to blondes, B) Not post every chapter at different times, C) Be rich and famous, and D) Most likly have to boy of my dreams!

Time flies like an arrow- fruitflies like a banana. I hope you get it...

Forms of Scars-We share one thing

Ron screeched and ran to hide behind Hermione. Looming up in front of them was a giant spider, even bigger then Aragog. "Spider!"

"Ron, get a grip. It's just a spider!" Hermione said. Her vioce quivered slightly as she looked behind it. A werewolf was sniffing around. It caught a wiff of something and snapped it's head in Hermione's direction. "Harry?"

Harry was not paying any attention to them. He was watching a hooded figure rise up from the ground. It slowly glided up until it was 4 feet from Harry. A hand gripping a wand slowly lifted until it was pointed at Hary's chest. A scream distracted the figure. Harry turned and saw the werewolf on top of Hermione, about to strike. Ron was running in a cirlce shooting spell after spell at the spider but always missing. One quick spell from Harry blasted the werewolf off. It landed in a crumbled heap quite a few feet away from Hermione.

"Thanks!" She said as Harry helped her up. But before their very eyes, the werewolf stood as if it hadn't been touched. "What the-"

Another hooded figure was watching the scene unfold. It unfolded a peice of paper and held it's wand close to the paper. "Lumos." It read the paper and cursed to itself. Jumping from it's perch, the figure ran head long into the battle.

"MOVE!" It shouted as it pushed Harry and Hermione out of the way. The werewolf that had been lunging at them staggered forward before it snapped it's head back at them. The cloaked figure moved to the left of Hermione and Harry. The werewolf followed it's every move.

The figure raised it's wand. Hermione had a brief glimpse of a necklace hanging off the neck of the figure as the werewolf lunged agian. The figure moved out of the way and landed on it's back on the ground. Something huge was standing behind it. The thing ate the werewolf before anyone had registered it was there. A scream echoed around them all. The figure knew what the thing was and so did Harry, Hermione, and Ron. Ron was know cowering behind Hermione as the giant thing divowered the spider.

"The Basilisk? Who's fear is- oh!" Harry said.

The Basilisk turned it's attention on the hooded figure. The figure slowly scooted backwards as it tried to stand. It didn't notice the tail flicking behind it. It tripped backwards and the snake's tail flicked the body closer to itself.

"Ginny! No!" Harry cried. His wand emited a purple light, stricking the snake. It fell back, forgetting about the girl next to it. It turned and lunged at Harry.

"Don't even think about it!" A very angry voice from behind the monster shouted. "This is not between you and Harry." Ginny had her wand pointed at the beast. Her eyes, clearly visible as the hood had fallen off her head, held ditermination. She was prepared to fight the snake with every ounce of her being.

The Basilisk turned and slithered around her. Ginny watched it. The beast opened it's mouth and prepared to attack. Just as it lunged forward, Ginny pointed her wand straight at it and shouted "Immortalis Nex!" at which the Basilisk stopped in mid-lung and dropped to the ground.

"Ginny!" Ron ran around the snake and envaloped his sister in a hug full of relief. "We've been so worried about you! Mum's practically in histerics! She'll be so glad when we bring you back home-"

"Ginny stopped hugging him. She had proceeded to hug Hary and Hermione and was on her second hug with her brother. "I'm not going home." She said quietly.

"What?" Ron blinked before grinning. "'Course you are. Mum'll probably have a big welcome home party for you."

"I'm not going home Ron." Ginny said a little louder. She distinctly saw Hermione and Harry exchange glances but chose to ignore it. "You just saw what I did to that thing!" She gestured towards the Basilisk's body. "I know more about what's going on then you think I do. I know more then you do! Those things, those illusions, they're indestructable unless you know the right spell. You don't, I do."

"Ginny, you can't stay with us! You're safer at home! You're not involved in this!" Harry said. He recieved a glare in return. Ginny rounded on him.

"We're in the same boat Harry. It's safer at home for you too. You ought to stand back and let the older people handle things. But of course, you're a big puzzle in this mess. You just don't get it. I am too."

"No, you're not. Voldemort has done nothing to you to make you involved in this. He hasn't marked you-"

"Yes he has!" Ginny screeched. Her vioce dropped to almost a wisper. "He has. Voldemort may not have given me a visible mark, but he has scared me. You have decisions. You always have. I went a year without decisions. Sometimes I wonder if I do now. He has not completely left me Harry. He's still in my heart and mind. He's torrtured me to the point that-" She broke off. "I have the same feelings as you do Harry. Sometimes," She yelled this next part. "I always wish he'd just get out of my head!" She turned and ran.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron had been so preoccupied with Ginny they hadn't even noticed they were back, standing in front of the iron gate leasing to the mansion or that the Basilisk body was gone.

"Harry-" Hermione said weakly. She glanced at Ron before stepping towards Harry.

"Damn!" Harry yelled as he punched a nearby tree. He immediatly regreted his actions and was fretted over by Hermione as Ron stood looking sadly at Ravenclaw's wand on the ground.

Hey ya'll. Agian, sorry it took so long to get this chapter up. Review so I can get the next up sooner! I am not quiting this fic! I love you all!

Emily the sequal! (Emma-bug is Emily the prequal!)