Decisions which have to be made
Chapter 10: Ginevra Potter
Before Harry knew it his ninth birthday had come and passed. Basic training was only a bit over a year away now.
Harry was soon fluent in Spanish and German. He enjoyed English, karate lessons and especially maths. Although Fergal did not exchange another word with him, Caroline chatted more than enough to make up for that.
Even the bestest time of all ended, however, and basic training drew near, only three more months away. Since Harry had come to CHERUB campus only two other children had been recruited: seven-year-old Eric McLaghan and a twelve-year-old girl named Juliet Ewer who had completed basic training only a month before. On the 91st day before Harry and some of his friends would start basic training, another girl arrived.
"This is Ginevra Potter*," Mr. Large said, pushing a small, ginger-haired girl gently into Harry's Spanish classroom. "She's your new fellow pupil."
After the lesson had finished Caroline, Harry, Eileen, Cieran and Hilary went over to Ginevra.
"Hey," Eileen greeted her. "I'm Eileen McFurrin, and these are Harry Turing, Cieran Crystal, Hilary Burton, and Caroline Heinz. Your name is Ginevra, right?"
"Call me Ginny," the young girl whispered. "My mummy and my daddy and my brothers used to call me that all the time before they suddenly disappeared, leaving me on my own..."
"How old are you, Ginny?" Harry asked, brushing his hair away from his eyes. In the last year he hadn't really cut it, so it fell over his eyes all the time.
Ginny looked at him, and her eyes grew big. She pointed at his forehead, her jaw falling down.
Harry gave her a weird look until he finally got what she was pointing at. "Oh - that. The scar?" The girl nodded. "Yeah, I got it when I'd been a baby. Apparently it happened when my parents died in a car crash. At least that's what they told me at the children's home."
Ginny relaxed, breathing out. "And I thought," she muttered.
"You thought what?" Caroline asked instantly.
Ginevra shook her head. "Nothing," she murmured. "Nothing." She knew that they could not tell them. Tell them about Harry Potter.
* Yes, it is Ginny Weasley
