Here is the rewritten Chapter 1!!

(If I don't get chapter 2 posted by tuesday, july 1st 2008 feel free to heckle the author.)

Disclaimer: I still do not own Harry Potter. That honor belongs to Jo Rowling.

Chapter 1

The room was calm and still.

Ginny lay unmoving on the stone, Harry pointlessly straddling her waist. He let out a small breath and drew back from her, his arms hanging limp at his sides.

Harry blinked as the door crashed open admitting Snape and McGonagall into the room.

Both looked faintly stunned at the unexpected scene before them.

"Mr. Potter..." began the headmistress, "my wards went off. They detected some dark magic. What happened?"

Harry still dazed, looked around the room his eyes settling on the horcrux. "Dark magic." he said, retraining his eyes on Ginny

Snape raised his eyebrows at Harry.

"I think that is the obvious conclusion Potter, but I think what Professor McGonagall was implying is why you're on top of Weasley, and why is she unconcious?"

Harry looked up at Snape then went back to staring at the girl underneath him.

"Oh," he said. "Stunned her."

"Professor Snape, I think it best you fetch Madame Pomfrey."

Snape gratefully followed her instructions and swiftly exited the room and disappeared down the spiral staircase.

McGonagall took a tentative step towards her previous students and seeing that Harry didn't react badly, she quickly closed the gap and knelt next to them on the floor. She put her hand on Harry's shoulder.

"Harry?" she questioned. "I think you should vacate Miss Weasley before Madame Pomfrey berates you for interfering with her patients."

Harry gave a small rueful smile and moved to kneel next to Ginny's head. He pushed a misplaced lock of hair behind her ear and looked up at Madame Pomfrey as she rushed into the room, wand drawn.

He stood up and observed her as she mumbled charms and spells under her breath, moving her wand in complicated gestures, and strange lights swirled around Ginny. Pomfrey only stopped her casting long enough to look puzzled and cast a few more spells.

A moment later she gave a small sigh, and conjured a levitating stretcher, floated ginny onto it, and walked briskly out of the room with the stretcher following her at a pace to match, in what Harry could only assume was the direction of the hospital wing.