When someone has just been denied doing something that she really, really wants to do and everyone is staring at her because they feel pity for her because she's just been denied doing that dangerous thing that she really, really wants to do and she is standing with her hands folded across her chest and she keeps on continually blowing strands of flaming red hair from her face in her frustration and then she looks at everybody and declares her need of using the bathroom, she usually doesn't really want to go use the bathroom.
No, what she really wants to do is sneak in the bathroom and from there think of a clever plan that will lead her to go on a dangerous hunt for cold-blooded killers who would not hesitate to tear her head off, and by doing that she would be doing what the most powerful wizard in the Ministry who also happened to be her auror instructor and the man she'd been infatuated with for years told her not to do.
So when Ginny Weasley told all the people at the dinner table staring at her "I have to go to the loo," we of course know that's not what she meant at all.
Unfortunately, no one really thought that she as going to sneak after Harry Potter and go hunting for Death Eaters. Not even Hermione suspected anything, thinking that Ginny wanted to be alone for a little while after her little argument with Harry.
When Ginny went into the bathroom, she sat on the toilet seat and thought to herself.
Harry said he was the captain (Why does he have to be such a showoff?) of his auror team, so that meant that he had to go back to the Ministry and get his team together.
Ginny figured that no one was going to hear disapparate, seeing as she was inside the bathroom on the other side of the house from everyone. So she stood up and twirled her feet, feeling the uncomfortable feeling of apparition.
She landed in the apparition floor of the Ministry of Magic. She followed some other wizards and witches to the elevator. When she got down to the auror floor, Ginny quickly went down the hall, looking for Harry. When she saw him coming down the hall with a group of trained aurors following him, she quickly opened the door of what she guessed was a broom closet and hurled herself inside. She kept the door opened a tiny crack so that she could hear what Harry was saying to the aurors beside him.
Ginny thought it was just a stroke of luck when Harry stopped right in front of the broom closet door; she could hear everything he said.
As Ginny stared at Harry, she couldn't keep herself from noticing how gorgeously handsome Harry looked when he was giving out orders. His black, unruly hair fell over his eyes, his sparkling, and gorgeous, beautiful green eyes. The scar on his forehead was just visible enough that it made Harry look … powerful. There was just no other word for it. And his hand, which was slowly inching over to her …
Wait – what!
What was his hand doing pulling the door of her broom closet open?
Ginny snapped her back to the wall of the closet, hoping that Harry wouldn't notice her. Fortunately for her, he was still giving out orders when his hand searched inside what really wasn't a broom closet but a map closet. Harry pulled out a large roll of parchment and tossed it a wizard in a long, dark blue cloak.
"That's the forest near Hogsmeade," Harry said. "All of you – study it. The Death Eaters are meeting somewhere in the middle of those woods. We need to take them by surprise. Try to not kill any of them so that we can interrogate them later, but if you must, then there's nothing we can do about that." Harry had a wicked grin spreading up his face.
Harry pulled out his wand and pointed it to an empty space in the hall. He muttered a spell under his breath, and a red X appeared on the floor.
"Just step on that X and apparate," Harry said. "You'll go immediately to the forest. I'll go first, and make sure the place is clear. Then you can come after me. The last person to leave, make sure you get rid of that X. We don't want anybody to end up in the middle of a battle."
Harry stepped on the X and twirled his feet. He disapparated. A moment later, a witch turned to the rest of the group and said, "Clear."
Ginny ran out of the map closet and placed her hood on. She joined the line of aurors and disapparated with them.
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The forest was dark, and the gray clouds gave a sign of rain. Ginny kept her hood on so nobody would recognize her.
"Let's separate," Harry ordered. "If you're in trouble, shoot red sparks up in the air."
Immediately everyone separated into groups of two. Ginny was left alone as the aurors made their way through the woods. She ran the way she thought Harry went.
Ginny kept on running. Twigs snapped under her feet, and she worried that a Death Eater would discover her. Just when she decided that she was never going to find the Death Eaters, Ginny heard a yell behind her and around fifty people in masks scrambled all over the place. Ginny hid behind a bush and watched the action take place. From out of nowhere, red lights started flashing, hitting Death Eaters in the chest. Most of the Death Eaters managed to produce protecting charms after they'd figured out that someone was attacking them, but some of them lay sprawled on the ground, unconscious.
As a Death Eater came her way, Ginny flicked her wand and whispered, "Stupefy!" The Death Eater fell on the ground. The other Death Eater nearby searched around to see where the spell came from. Ginny stood up and ran, not having enough time to stop and apparate.
"There!" one of the Death Eaters yelled.
Ginny picked up her speed as spells went flying her way. She figured she couldn't dodge them all forever.
As a flash of green light flashed way to close to her ear, Ginny heard a tiny pop behind her and an invisible hand wrapped over her mouth and then another invisible hand wrapped around her waist. The invisible hand pulled her tight into a hard invisible chest, and then the invisible man disapparated with her.
Ginny struggled to get free of the invisible man, and managed to send red sparks flying through the air.
"Ginny!" The invisible man scolded.
Ginny froze. That was the voice of the same man that had told her only a few hours before that she was not coming with him, the same man that she was infatuated with and that had told her exactly what not to, which was what she was doing, so she figured she was in very, deep trouble.
"What do you think you're doing?" Harry said. "Now they all know where we're at."
Which was definitely true, because before Harry could even get all the words out, the woods around them started to fill up with Death Eaters who had seen the sparks. They were surrounded.
Harry wrapped his arms tighter around Ginny, flicking his wand out. In two seconds, half of the Death Eaters lay on the ground, twisting around and screaming. Their eyes were rolling in their heads, and they were covering their ears.
"What did you do to them!" Ginny asked Harry, astounded.
But before he could answer, spells were flying all over the place.
Harry, who was fighting three Death Eaters at once, screamed at Ginny, "Go! Go now, Ginny!"
Ginny hit a stunning spell at one Death Eater who was trying to get up, and turned to face another. "No! I'm not leaving you!"
"I can take care of myself!" Harry screamed. "Go! That's an order!"
One Death Eater started laughing as he pointed his wand at Harry's back, and Ginny hit him straight in the chest with a stunning spell.
Ginny grinned at Harry, who now was fighting another four Death Eaters. Ginny turned around to face more Death Eaters, and found a wand pointing at her chest. The Death Eater was grinning maliciously as he said, "Say goodbye, blood traitor."
The man raised his wand and started screaming, "Ava - "
"NO!" Harry, who was at the time trying to fend off seven Death Eaters, turned and shot a spell at Ginny. Immediately a barrier stood between her and her attacker's wand.
When the man finished, "-da Kadavra!" the green light bounced off of the barrier and hit the man square in the chest. He was dead before he touched the ground.
Ginny didn't get the chance to feel relief, because she suddenly screamed, "HARRRRRYYYYYYYYYYY!"
Seven strings of green light hit Harry in the chest as seven Death Eaters screamed, "Avada Kadavra!" He went flying through the woods and he hit the trunk of a tree with a loud thump! The Death Eaters disapparated away as more and more aurors started apparating into the clearing.
Ginny managed to get up and run to Harry. Tears started falling down her eyes before she saw Harry's body face lying face down on the ground. She turned him over and yelled, "Wake up, Harry! Wake up, please wake up!"
But Harry didn't breathe. Not one muscle twitched on his body.
"Nooooo!" Ginny screamed, as the rest of the aurors gathered around her and Harry Potter. Her hands were wrapped around Harry's neck, and she was sobbing in his chest. "Noooo… It was all my fault… all my fault…"
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