Woot! A chapter! Finally!
Man-I'm-getting-tired-of-these-Disclaimers: As stated before I do not own Harry Potter neither do I own his wand, shoes, glasses or even Draco drool … -mutters- Stupid Rowling…
Though I do own The Mockflax! dances around and as I haven't updated in, what a month (!) snickers I'm giving you an extra long! Aren't you proud?! sobs 'Cause I've seen that all the other authors chapters are so damn long and mine are, like 2 pages?! Plus my grammar is way better now, so don't judge my three first chapters!
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
(Doesn't that fit for Voldy?)
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Ginny was rather depressed where she was, stuck in the hospital wing. She heaved a sigh and swung a leg over the bedside. It took a while but soon the other followed. She stood up rather shaky, and went over to the window. Outside the sun was shining and watched longing at some of the older students, she assumed, who teased the giant squid. They had long sticks which they poked the squid's tentacles with. One in particularly brave student, a dark haired girl went toward the shore and touched the tentacles that were resting on the beach. After a while they got tired and went inside the castle again. Ginny heaved another sigh and walked around in the closed ward.
"Typical me!" She muttered to herself while she walked around. She had been here around a week and hasn't got to see anyone! Not even Madam Pomfrey! She was "contagious" … her food came at certain times, appearing out of nowhere on the desk and with them the homework… She made a grimace; she must be the last in her classes by now.
"Stupid trio leaving me behind, stupid Luna who had to bring a dangerous animal in her ba…" She stopped right in that thought. Luna was her friend and it wasn't her fault. She sat down on the desk and took one of the books there. Magical Diseases and how to cure them. She flipped open the book. The stiff new spine had creased, opening immediately to the page she'd been looking for.
Mockflax.
A Mockflax is the name on the disease as it's the name on the animal. A Mockflax is very like a porcupine, though small, round and have thorns. With that the similarities ends. An angry Mockflax is very aggressive and its bit is highly-toxic. When bitten the victim gets nauseous, the world fading, and sometimes hallucinations. This is the first stadium. After that the infected falls in to dark dreams, depending on the person, and the Mockflax, it varies from time to time on how long it takes to fall asleep. In this stadium it's rather important to get help, or the infected may risk not wake up again.
Ginny shut the book close. She had read it so many times she could recite it in her sleep. She gulped. The following part still made her shiver just by the thought of it.
If the infected don't wake up, she starts to scream and scream, and the poison settles in the nerve threads, making an illusionized pain in the body, they then start to cramp, badly. After a while the poison hits the brain and the organs shut down, one after one…
She shook her head to clear her mind. For once in her life, she was actually glad Malfoy existed. If it wasn't for him they wouldn't know what it was, well they might have but it could have been too late. Now she was only contagious, for what she didn't know, and didn't want to know either. Ginny smiled sourly to herself. Looks like he'd done something nice for once… She thought to herself. Now that's a thought no one should hear.
She returned to her bed, lay down carefully, it still hurt everywhere, why she didn't know as Madam Pomfrey, who usually was a talking lady, was very quiet when around Ginny. She just ignored her when she changed her sheets, which was the only time she actually came in to Ginny. And when Ginny asked, she shrugged and hurried out again. Ginny sighed once again. It was tiring to think about it too much. She picked up her wand from the bedside table and entertained herself by stunning the flies that zoomed around in the roof, as she sat around and waited, as she had for a long time.
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Ginny woken up the next morning when she heard a soft voice founding it's way into her ears. She opened her eyes and bolted up, eyes wide open. In front of her a tall, thin girl sat next to her bed, her eyes closed and her hand played with her wand. She was singing a slow lullaby to a melody Ginny never heard before. The girl's face was long and noble with the corners of her mouth twitched up. The girl didn't seem to notice that Ginny was awake. Ginny stared at the person before her. She hadn't seen a person in days, and now suddenly someone was by her bedside, singing! Ginny gave in to the urge of rubbing her eyes and the girl snapped her eyes open and locked eyes with Ginny. Ginny gaped, the eyes gazing into her caramel, were a shade of dark violet. The girl smiled and shook her red hair from her face. Ginny noted it was a much darker shade then her own, almost wine red actually. It curled around her face, falling out from the buns on the sides of her head. The girl raised her eyebrows interested and cocked her head. Ginny closed her mouth, and blushed.
"Who are you?" Ginny said curiously after an awkward silence. The girl grinned and quickly stood up.
"Aria Partana, at your service." She bowed and winked, her eyes glittering. She had a small accent very like Fleur's, though with a distinct "Americanized" pronunciation. Ginny stared. The girl was tall, probably as tall as Harry had been last time she saw him, though no where near Ron. She had a slender frame and long legs. She gracefully walked over and sat down beside Ginny on her bed instead of sitting down in the chair again. Ginny jumped back in shock. I must be dreaming! She thought confused. The girl examined her amused then shrugged casually.
"The chairs at this place are very uncomfortable!" She put on the grin again.
"You must be Ginevra Weasley, right?" Ginny nodded.
"Nice to meet you, Ginvera." Ginny took her hand and shook it.
"Nice to meet you to, Aria, call me Ginny." She frowned. "Why are you here? I mean it's not exactly an open ward…" She stumbled with her words. Aria just kept smiling.
"I know, but the Head-Mistress Minerva sent me here. I'm immune to Mockflax." Ginny listened confused to her before the words sunk in. Head-mistressAnd with an impact the reality hit her. Dumbledore was dead. She looked surprised at her. ? Minerva? Never heard a student say that!
"Immune? How come? It didn't say in the books that that was possible!" She narrowed her eyes and watched her more thoroughly. She noticed the Gryffindor crest on her pullover. "Are you in Gryffindor? I've never seen you before!" She sat up straighter and swung her legs over the edge of the bed to sit beside her. Aria sighed and sat back in a more comfortable position, leaning against the wall.
"I see this will take some time." She noted and grinned. She did that often Ginny noticed. "Well, how about I take it from the beginning?" Without waiting for an answer she continued briskly. "My mother is a witch and my father is a muggle. I don't see him a lot. He and mum are divorced. They divorced last summer actually and mum and I moved here to get away from him. I went to Beauxbatons before, as it was there or here, and I had to improve ma French! I'm from Sweden actually." She said with a wry smile. "Plus, Beauxbatons is a girl's only school and my mother are like a nun. And of course there was the itsy, bitsy problem with my condition. When I was 4 my dear big sister, the moron she's oldest by the way, my other 2 sisters are younger then me, well, she walked with me out in the forest. And, of course as the clutz I was…" Ginny hid a smile, couldn't see that she had been a clutz. Aria was gracefully draped over the rear of her bed. Ginny could never be 'Draped gracefully', maybe spread over something but not 'draped'. Aria didn't notice and just kept going. "I fell into a Mockflax nest. As my mother is a Medi-Witch, she knew what to do but my condition was so bad they needed special treatment." She paused for air and continued with the same bored voice. Ginny had just started to wonder if you could talk this long without fainting.
"In la France they had specialists and I was put at Saint. Catharine's hospital. I stayed there until I was 6, and they kept treat me with potions till I was about 12. I still take them every month and I have one to you right now, then the potions master will brew some more." She added with a wink. "Then my mum and dad divorced and that's how I ended up here. I actually arrived this morning, and at breakfast the sorting hat put me in Gryffindor. Then Minerva asked me if I could go up here and talk to you, and that how I ended up here. With a carrot headed, walking pyjamas." She grinned and looked at Ginny's too big pyjamas. Ginny who had listened breath taken at the words pouring out blushed hard and pulled a hand through her hair. Her pyjamas had been her mum's old one and it was at least 6 sizes to big for her
"Just kidding, love." Aria winked, Ginny decided to switch back to the subject.
"So, you come from Sweden, you are immune to Mockflax, are a newly sorted Gryffindor and know French." Ginny summarized it. It was still rather confusing this situation. But she enjoyed the new girl's company. Aria nodded happily.
"How about you?" Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Well, I'm youngest out of 8 siblings, all guys, and my mum and dad are both magical and my dad works at the ministry." She said the last part with a face. "My oldest brother Bill is working at Gringotts and is engaged with Phlegm." At Aria's confused look she added. "She is a part-veela with a terrible French accent." She smiled at Aria teasingly. "The second oldest is named Charlie. He's in Rumania working with Dragons. Then there is Percy, he's a total jerk! The only thing that connects him with our family anymore is that he has red hair!" The last part ended up yelling as she got worked up and Aria looked at her surprised. Ginny calmed down and mumbled a sorry before continuing. "Well he is, he abandoned his family for the work so we don't talk about him to much. Then there are the twins, Gred and Forge, no Fred and George. They are hilarious! Ever been at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes? They are my brothers too." Aria grinned and laughed.
"Of course I've been there! Bought a Skiving Snackbox there like yesterday!" Ginny grinned back and straightened proud. "I know, they're magnificent." Her face darkened. "
And then there is Ronald." Her eyes flashed. "He is the most utterly, gruesome, overprotective, horrible human being on this earth! But he is my brother, and I love him, even though he left me behind with some of my friends…" The last part ended up muttering. Ginny was really in a funny mood today, she hadn't talked this easily to anyone in about a year when the dream team ventured out to find the horcrux. She looked up to see Aria eye her wary. Aria smiled a comforting smile.
"Don't worry; you probably have other friends here!" Her eyes were carin but showed a bit of sadness.
"Yeah, they're great, but they aren't in my classes." Her brows furrowed into a knit.
"Which year where you in again?"
"6th." Aria said and stood up. "You should probably get dressed and then drink this Potion." She hurled up a fragile looking bottle from somewhere inside her rob and put it on the bedside table. "You'll be out of here like lightning then." Aria smiled and headed toward the door. Ginny bit her lip.
"Aria wait!" Aria turned around slowly.
"Yes? " She sounded a bit exited, or was it Ginny's immagination?
"Do want to have a tour around the castle after I'm done here?" Ginny could smack her head, but this was the best after 'Hey! How about we become mates and do stuff!' Though it sounded good now when she thought of it. But Aria grinned bigger then ever and nodded.
"I'll wait outside then, don't worry I'll talk to Poppy." With a cryptic smile and a wave she walked through the wall leaving a puzzled Ginny behind.
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a/n Not much Draco PoV in this chapter, none at all actually, though don't worry, he'll get most of the attention in the next one!