Chapter 11 Dreaming of the Past

"Albus?"

"Yes, Severus?"

"Ever since the beginning of the year I've had a strange feeling about the Weasley girl. It's her isn't it? They came back in the same exact families after all these years."

"Yes, the same families, but something is different this time…"

"They're younger…."

"It isn't that, no, it's something else…or perhaps someone else."

"Someone standing against them or beside them…?" the Headmaster looked at him with that twinkle in his eyes. "You know more of what goes on in this Castle than you let on, don't you?" Snape asked smirking.

"Isn't it about time for you to get to class, old friend?" the Potions master returned the smirk and left for the Dungeons just as the bell rang out for classes.

Another day passed, full of tests and lectures and Ginny Weasley wanted a quick shower to wash it all away before bed. An hour later she slipped between her sheets wearing only Draco's shirt and a pair of knickers. "We left it at Hogwarts. It has always been safe at that school. But you should know... the thing you are looking for isn't just an object. It has life, energy, of its own and it is everything we've worked for. Long ago, before there were non-magic people in the world, everyone, everything, was connected. They could lend their magic out, giving some one the power to control certain elements of the Earth. Things could move on their own, even speak to each other, though we aren't sure if they spoke English or something else. But war came and some magical people lost their magic and were cast away from the Wizarding World. Angry at losing people they cared about everyone began abusing the spirits of the Earth and so they took back their powers and went deep inside themselves, leaving the world in the hands of witches and wizards. They went to sleep as far as we can tell, waiting for a time when they could once again move among us. I must hurry, they are coming, and they've already killed Darien. I'm sending this out to both of you inside your souls and now that you've found it you must find the link and continue our work and the work of the gods. We could not wake them ourselves, that is why you need the link, it will connect you to the spirits. You must hurry, or the world will destroy itself." Ginny and Draco woke up sweating, the rest of the Castle still asleep, and the missing link wandering towards a prefect's bathroom some where between them.
Blaise Zabini had been doing laps in the huge tub for no more than ten minutes when the door burst open revealing a disheveled Draco, and Ginny right behind him. When they walked into the room and saw the dark Slytherin in the tub they shouted "Blaise!" right as they sunk to the floor laughing. "At least it wasn't a spider, or your brother for that matter." Draco said turning to look at Ginny as she slid in to the water still wearing his shirt and her knickers.

"Could've been the mudblood." Ginny said and then sunk beneath the water. When she reappeared she found both boys staring at her with shock written in their features. "What?" she asked slightly annoyed.

"You called Granger a mudblood." Blaise stated.

"Don't get me wrong Hermione's alright but I can't change what she is. Let's not forget that I had Voldy in my head for nearly a year, something was bound to stick." It was Draco's turn to speak,

"What!" he yelled

"Oh, right, well you remember when the Chamber of Secrets was open? Yea, uhm… that was me because Lucius slipped me Tom's journal and I didn't know… and he made me set the snake loose on everyone and write the crap on the walls…it's a bitch not being able to control your own God-damned body." She finished huffily.

"Let me guess, Precious Potter" Draco spat, "saved you, right?"

"So he says, I mean, yea, I guess he did 'cause as Tom grew stronger I grew weaker, but I died that day, metaphorically speaking of course. I'd spent the year trying to tell my family what was going on, but they wouldn't listen to me. The only one's who didn't ignore me were Bill and Charlie but they couldn't exactly come save me from half-way around the world and they were working too so I understood that, but they still had time for me. But everyone else was in the same building as me and couldn't give me the time of day." She took a second to look at them and then continued on, "By the end of the year I'd done a lot of growing up, come to terms with a lot of things…and I'd found you. But then I had to get shipped off back home. You were my strength and hope and I thought if you ever found out you would mock me, and then I would have lost everything."

When she was through she dove back into the water trying to wash her pain away with the cool water and then she rose to meet them. Blaise led her out of the water and went to get her a robe while Draco dried her off from bottom to top. They wrapped her in the robe grabbed one for themselves and then escorted her to the Slytherin Dungeons, where they stayed all night talking about Hades and Persephone and how Blaise was somehow connected to their missing link. When they made a comment about how she would've been great in Slytherin she shrugged and said with a smirk "No more lion in the snake's den, I converted."