Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or anything Harry Potter. Just the storyline. Well again R&R. I hope you like. it's a bit long, but i feel like i did a decent job explaining her emotions.
Chapter 2: Classes are not so fun.
I awoke with tears running down my face. My body was drenched in sweat… again. I really need to figure out what was causing theses dreams. The sun wasn't up yet so I lay back down and sighed. I already felt my body waking up, great. I sat up and just stared at the beds surrounding me. Out of the five beds in the sixth year dormitory, only 3 were occupied. I shook my head and freshened up, then grabbed a stack of textbooks. Whenever I was plagued by a bad dream, I would read books. They helped sooth my thoughts, taking me to a much peaceful world, but I ran out of those books this summer. Luckily Tonks would come around and handed me books. Most were romance stories, and after a while I got tired of them so I took to reading textbooks or books on fighting. I can see why Hermione loves to read. Just thinking about Hermione, reminded me of him. I can't let myself think of him. I shook my head attempting to get rid of these depressing thoughts. I went downstairs to the common area, which was completely deserted. I sat by the fire, enjoying the warmth it provided. I sat there for hours just reading until I heard the sound of footsteps.
"Ginny?" A sleepy voice called out. A bit startled I turned to see none other than Neville standing at the bottom of the boys staircase.
"Hey Neville," I replied looking back at my book.
"What are you doing up so early?" He asked sitting next to me. I held the book up to him. "A beginner's guide to healing," He read. "Do you plan to become a healer?"
"Not really, but I figured it would be good for us to know some helpful healing spells." I replied.
"So you like to read at 6 in the morning for fun?" he said, raising an eyebrow, "I think you spent too much time with Hermione" he laughed. Just hearing the name of my best friend was enough to make me tense. Its one thing to think their names, but to have a friend say it made it much more painful. "Are you okay?" he asked, taking in my serious look.
"Yes I'm fine Neville." I answered. "so why are you up?" He shrugged.
"I like to wake up to watch the sunrise sometimes. We get a pretty good view from the tower. It keeps me at peace" he said with a low voice. I just noticed he didn't really stutter anymore, he seemed to have grown up. I guess the war has had that effect on us. We just sat there in silence for a bit, both engrossed in our own thoughts waiting for the day to start.
~HP~
Neville and I walked downstairs to the great hall. We were both still silent, wondering what the day had in store for us. Professor McGonagall was passing out our schedules like usual. We sat with Seamus, who looked pretty lonely without Dean by his side. He barely acknowledged us as he ate. Everyone looked pretty glum, except the Slytherins. Finally professor McGonagall handed us our schedules. Seamus was the first to look at his.
"there must be some mistake!" he yelled angrily, "I'm not taking muggle studies, I never signed up for it!" He argued. Neville looked at his schedule and he instantly frowned.
"I think we have a problem." Neville said. That's when I looked at my schedule. I too was taking muggle studies. We all stood up and walked to professor McGonagall, who was surrounded by students.
"Quiet down! One at a time" She said annoyed. "I understand that none of you signed up for muggle studies but I am afraid that it has been required, all of you must take it." She said in a disappointed voice.
"You can't be serious!" Lavender yelled. Whoa when did she get here? I didn't even know she and Parvati would be back.
"I am sorry Miss Brown, but there is nothing I or any of your other professors can do."
We all sat back down, all looking put out. I took a better look at my schedule.
"what do you have now?" Neville asked
"Charms" I replied, but then frowned. "Great I have muggle studies right after. Then a break and Potions"
"I have Dark arts first thing today," Neville said with a distant look in his eyes.
~HP~
Charms wasn't so bad, we just went over most of what we learned last year. I had that class with Hufflepuff. I sat with the only one of my dorm mates that I got along with, Demelza. It was the class after it, that I was worried about. Luckily Luna was in it too, so I could sit with her and Demelza. The classroom was extremely dark looking. There were some posters of muggles on the wall, but most of the posters showed evil looking people, with twisted faces.
"Was this room always this creepy?" Demelza asked me as we took our seats. I shook my head.
"It's infested with wrackspurts" Luna said as she took a seat on the other side of me. Demelza just stared at her oddly. I couldn't help but laugh, at least Luna hasn't changed.
"Silence! I am Professor Carrow. As many of you know my brother is the professor for Dark Arts. Many of you are wondering why Muggle studies is suddenly on your schedules. It has come to our attention that most of you think that associating with muggles is acceptable. It is not, muggles are filthy animals that do no deserve to even exist with us. We are their superior and it is time that you all learn that." She said with an evil look on her face. My anger boiled, and instantly I felt like I wanted to curse her. Hermione was born as a muggle and she is nothing of the sort! I looked around and most of the Gryffindor's looked livid. "You see this picture, this is what the normal muggle looks like." Professor Carrow said, pointing to a picture of this deformed looking human. This is so wrong, and I was fighting with myself. She kept talking about how muggles deserve to die, and that's when I lost it.
"Exactly how many muggles have you seen?" I asked angrily. "From what I remember they look nothing like that" Professor Carrow snarled at me.
"Ahh Weasley I presume, I have heard of you and your blood traitor family. You are exactly the type of people I am talking about, mingling with mudbloods." She snarled.
"Ginny calm down!" Demelza whispered as I sat back down. I could barely register what she said, I was too angry.
"Miss Weasley it would do you good to pay attention during this class, who knows maybe it could be you who redeems your families name." She smirked. She was goading me. I glared at her. "I want an essay on the different ways muggles are inferior to us by next class. Dismissed!" She said. I packed up my belongings and stormed out of the classroom, aware of the eyes watching me. I had at least an hour before lunch and wasn't very hungry. Instead I went outside to the lake. This area always calmed me down when I was upset. All the memories that Harry and I shared under this very tree, were enough to calm me. I can't let them get to me, I need to stay strong. I just wish he was here, even if we weren't together I just want him here. He took my brother and best friend with him! My body trembled but I will not let myself break down, that is weakness. After an hour of clearing my mind, I went to potions. It was uneventful, except for the Slytherin's who took to attempting to start a fight with us. Luckily none of us paid them any attention.
~HP~
The next day went by slowly, but no more outbursts were heard from me. I had Care of magical creatures with Hagrid, which I must say was so far my favorite. Then a double period of Transfiguration. I had a feeling Tuesdays were going to be my favorite day. Wednesday wasn't so bad either, i only had Charms, potions and ancient runes. Muggle studies was only once a week, which made me feel better.
Finally Thursday came, I had a double period of Dark Arts and then nothing else. I was completely dreading it. If Alecto Carrow was bad, then I can't imagine her brother.
I took a seat to the middle-back. Demelza sat next to me.
"Welcome to Dark Arts. I am Professor Carrow, I know all of you have had the pleasure of meeting my sister. This class is here to train all of you purebloods, who are worthy in the dark arts. We will be going over the spells that have been withheld from each of you. We will find your potential, so some of you may even be worthy enough to serve our dark lord." He said. He's using this class to point out the strong student? "So I know all of you must know the three unforgiveables by now. The Killing curse, Imperious, and my personal favorite the Cruciatus. Each of these are very important, so I have been given the task to make sure you each can use them." He said with a wide smile. He can't be serious.
"So we will be using them in class?" A Ravenclaw boy asked.
"Yes, we will. You all need to practice. So-"
"That can't be allowed!" I said standing up. Demelza looked at me with wide eyes.
"Ah Miss Weasley, I was wondering when I would meet you. I hear you gave my sister a hard time, but its not matter. I assure you I have permission to do this. We will be starting with the Cruciatus curse. Let's get ourselves acquainted with the curse and then we could start a bit of practicing. By the end of the year my hope is that you will all be experts on all three"
"This is ridiculous! You want us to use the cruciatus in class! We are students, not dirty death eaters!" I yelled angrily. I have a feeling I crossed a line because Professor Carrow looked absolutely furious.
"Detention Miss Weasley! My sister may have let you off easily, but I surely will not. Friday night at 9 in the dungeons!" He yelled. "Now class open your books and I want you to read a little more about it" he said regaining his composure. For the rest of the class I just stared at my book. If looks could kill then I think my book would have been turned into ash. After class I stormed out and ran to my favorite spot. The lake looked absolutely amazing. What was I going to do when the winter came? I couldn't sit out here. All I wanted to do was go home. I miss my family, i miss my friends, and I just miss Harry. Please Harry finish this quickly so everything can go back to normal.
Author's Note: So what do you think? The next chapter will hopefully be up soon, it should be on her detention and the start of the DA. Thanks for the feedback everyone!