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Chapter 21

After we left the bathroom, we went straight to Professor McGonagall's office. When we opened the door, it was completely silent as we saw Mr. and Mrs. Weasley in the room with Professor McGonagall. All three of them looked shocked to see us.

"Ginny!" Mrs. Weasley screamed.

She ran over to her daughter, Mr. Weasley close behind, and flung herself onto Ginny. They all started to cry and Harry and I just stood there kind of awkwardly watching this family reunion. I looked over to the other side of the room and saw Dumbledore standing silently in the corner. He had a smile on his face when he saw the two of us.

I couldn't be happier to see him. I smiled back at him and couldn't help but notice the twinkling in Dumbldore's eyes.

"Oh dear…" Mrs. Weasley said, looking directly at me. "Emily, are you okay?"

"I'm fine…" I said. "It's just a little blood…"

"A little?" Mrs. Weasley said in a concerned tone. "Dear, you're covered in it!"

"Don't worry about it…" I said, feeling a little embarrassed.

There was silence for a moment and then Mr. and Mrs. Weasley pulled us both into a hug.

"How did you do it?" Mr. Weasley asked.

"I believe that is something that we all want to know…" McGonagall murmured.

It took us a while, but we managed to explain the whole thing. We took turns telling our part and we explained to everyone that Ginny didn't know what she was doing and that she was being controlled by Voldemort the entire time. After lecturing her daughter about the importance of not talking to objects that don't have a brain, Mrs. Weasley escorted Ginny and Mr. Weasley out of the room and to the hospital wing.

"I think that I will leave you four to talk," McGongall said as she exited the room.

Dumbledore sat down behind the desk and smiled at all three of us. He told us everything that had happened while we were down in the Chamber of Secrets and that none of us would get in any real trouble over this - in fact, we would all be getting awards.

"Gilderoy, you seem to be very quiet, are you okay?" Dumbledore asked him.

"Oh…about that," I said slowly. "He doesn't really know who he is."

"Is that so?" Dumbledore asked seeming almost amused at the idea.

"My wand backfired when he tried to erase our memories…" Ron said looking down at his broken wand.

"I see," Dumbledore said. "Mr. Weasley, would you mind escorting Professor Lockhart to the hospital? I would like to have a few words with these two."

"Sure…" Ron said, looking confused.

Once Ron left the room, Dumbledore looked back to us and smiled.

"You two must have shown loyalty to me down in the Chamber, otherwise Fawkes wouldn't have come…" Dumbledore said. "So, you two have finally met Tom Riddle."

"Yeah…he was quite the character…" I said slowly.

"Professor…" Harry said. "Why is it that we can speak Parseltongue?"

Dumbledore was silent for a moment and then looked back to us, his eyes were twinkling.

"The night that your parents died and Voldemort was trying to kill you, I believe that some of his powers transferred over to the two of you."

"So…part of Voldemort is inside of us?" Harry asked.

"If I am not mistaken, yes."

"So, I guess that the Sorting Hat was right…maybe we should have been sorted into Slytherin…"

"Why is that?"

"The only reason that the Sorting Hat put us in Gryffindor was because we asked it not to put us in Slytherin…"

"Harry, I want you to take a good look at that sword."

He picked up the sword and read on the side of it.

"That's Godric Gryffindor's sword…" I said. "Why did it come out of the hat?"

"The sword of Gryffindor only shows itself to a true Gryffindor," he smiled.

Suddenly the door flew open and Lucius Malfoy stood at the door looking furious. At his feet was a small, familiar looking creature.

"Dobby?" I whispered.

Dobby looked frightened when he saw us. He thought that he was going to get in trouble for just being in our presence.

"So you've decided to return even though you didn't have permission?" Mr. Malfoy snarled. "How charming of you!"

"Well, you see Lucius, many of the governors wrote to me saying that you had threatened them to make sure that I left," Dumbledore smiled. "They seemed to feel fit for the job.

They kept talking but all I could see was Dobby pointing from the diary that I was holding to Mr. Malfoy.

"It was you," I said.

"What are you talking about?" Mr. Malfoy snarled.

"You put this book into Ginny's cauldron after you and Mr. Weasley had a fight!" I said.

"Prove it!" he snarled. "Come Dobby!"

He strolled out of the office, kicking Dobby in the process.

"Let me see that," Harry said to me.

I handed him the book and he ran out of the door with it.

"What is he doing?" I asked Dumbledore.

"I haven't the slightest clue…" he smiled at me. "You really should get yourself to the hospital, you look rather frightening with all of that blood."

I smiled back at him and went out into the hallway to see Dobby and Harry standing side by side.

"What did I miss?" I asked.

"Dobby is a free elf!" Dobby cheered.

I smiled as I saw Harry's sock sitting inside of the diary that apparently been thrown at Dobby by Mr. Malfoy. He had tricked him.

I walked up into the hospital wing without Harry. I figured that I should probably get some kind of blood replenishing potion from Madam Pomfrey considering how light-headed I still felt.

When I made it in there, the entire Weasley family greeted me.

"What happened to you?" George asked me.

"Did you get mauled by a werewolf or something?" Fred asked.

I laughed as I looked down at my bloody clothes.

"No, I was just bitten by a gigantic snake, that's all," I said.

"I just hate it when that happens, don't you Fred?" George said as he elbowed his brother.

"It just ruins my whole day!"

Once I had cleaned myself up and got some more blood going in my system, I made my way down to the Great Hall for the feast.

When I got there, I saw that Hermione was with us. When I looked around the room, I saw many more people that had been returned to their original state. Before I walked beyond the doors though, I was stopped when someone started talking to me.

"I see that you're back to normal."

I turned around and saw Snape standing just outside of the door. I smiled at him as he walked beside me.

"I heard that you were covered in your own blood not that long ago…" Snape said sounding slightly concerned.

"Yeah, it's a shame that you couldn't see me like that," I said sarcastically. "I was quite the sight."

There was a moment of silence as we stared into the Great Hall, watching all of the students talking happily to each other.

"Lockhart's lost his memory, in case you didn't know," I said.

"I heard about that…" Snape said slowly. "I wasn't sure whether or not it was true though…"

"It is," I said. "I'm sure that you're upset that you've lost your best friend…"

I looked over at him and saw him rolling his eyes, a hint of a smile across his lips.

"Maybe we'll get a teacher next year that isn't a complete psychopath," I said.

"We can only dream," Snape said as he walked into the Great Hall.

I walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, and Neville. They were all getting Hermione caught up with what had happened since she had been petrified. Out of everything that we told her, the one thing that freaked her out the most was the fact that exams had been canceled.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, Ginny, Neville, and me all managed to get ourselves into one compartment on the trip back to Kings Cross Station.

On the way there, while all of the guys went to go get food from the trolly in the front of the train, I remembered something from earlier in the year.

"Hermione, you never told me who that Valentine's Day gram was from," I said.

Ginny started giggling.

"What?" I asked her.

"You mean that you haven't noticed?" she laughed.

"Why is this so obvious to everyone else!" I said.

Hermione and Ginny continued to laugh at me.

"It should be very obvious to you!" Hermione said. "I told you, he stares at you all of the time!"

"And talks to you any chance he gets!" Ginny said. "And talks about you all the time!"

"WHO?" I asked.

Then all of the guys piled into the compartment again and Hermione and Ginny busted out laughing.

"What?" Ron asked.

"Emily was just asking us about that Valentine's gram that she received from earlier this year," Hermione said.

"And she still doesn't know who it is!" Ginny laughed.

"Honestly?" Harry asked. "You don't know?"

"You too!" I yelled and hit him in the arm. "Who is it?"

"I don't know George who is it?" Fred poked his brother in the side.

George went slightly pink in the face and looked down.

"Thanks a lot guys…" George muttered.

Everyone started to laugh, but I just smiled at George who was looking down at the floor sheepishly. When he looked up at me, his face went a little redder, but he smiled at me.

"I thought that it was sweet, George," I said.

"Ah, young love," Fred sighed and put his arm around George. "It's so innocent, isn't it?"

"Shut up!" George said elbowing his brother in the side.

When we got off the platform, I saw the Dursley's car sitting a little ways away from the station and sighed.

"You'll have to come by for the summer," Ron said to Harry and me.

"I wish we could just stay at your house…" Harry said.

"If only…" I said.

"They'll be proud of everything that you two did this year, won't they?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah, right!" Harry snickered. "After all of the times we could have been killed-"

"They'll be furious!" I laughed.

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