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As Ginny and Draco walked through the streets of Hogsmead, they chatted a lot about themselves and laughed at each other's jokes. Ginny smiled at Draco, she couldn't believe that this was the same person she's having a decent conversation with, the same person who treated her and her family like crap for the last 4 years of her life, she couldn't believe that this would be the same boy she'd fall in love with. Draco then looked at her.
"What?" He asked
"Nothing, I just can't believe that all of this is real you know?" She said as she now tuned her head away and stared at the open street.
"What's real exactly?" He said
"This whole thing…us" She said as she now looked up at him. Draco smiled as he linked his ands with hers.
"I blame you for my disease" Draco said as he kissed the back of her hand. Ginny chuckled as she remembered him saying that when they were on the Hogwarts train. Then it suddenly hit her.
"Um, speaking of diseases Draco, um do you think we can sit down? I want to talk with you"
"Uh, sure Draco said
Lucius walked inside the run down bar of The Hogshead. He slowly took off his hoody and looked around the place. He then walked to the bar and sat down on the stool. A woman with blonde hair then walked up to him.
"What'll it be hun?" She asked him while drying a glass. Lucius kept his head down but then looked up at her.
"Alize', and give me a cold one" The blonde woman smiled at him
"Sure, no problem hun" She said then walked away. A few minutes later the lady gave him the Alize', Lucius took it and started to drink it slowly"
"I guess you're here for me I presume" Said a creaky deep old voice. Lucius didn't turn around but he did stop drinking his drink.
"You're late" Lucius said the man smiled his yellow teeth at him.
"I had some other clients to attend to, you understand don't you?"
"Not when it involves the Dark Lord's business" The man's smile vanished.
"This way, so nobody will hear us" Said the man. They both walked over towards an empty table in the back.
"So I've heard you've made an arrangement with the Dark Lord, why?" Lucius asked
"He looked like he was pretty desperate" Lucius raised an eyebrow at this.
"Plus I needed the money" Said the old man Lucius said nothing.
"And I guess you're his right hand man?" Lucius glared at him.
"Let's get down to the point shall we, what do you have for the Dark Lord and what exactly do you know?" Lucius said the old man smiled at him once again.
"Just some ingredients for his potion, these ingredients will help him slow down any powerful magic to help absorb it better, of course that is what he is doing right, absorbing power?" Said the old man Lucius said nothing but the old man just laughed.
"Yes well, he told me, and I know you don't trust me but don't worry I've proven my loyalty towards the Dark Lord."
"And why should I believe you, you're probably just a spy working for the others old man" Lucius said. The old man laughed again.
"If I were a spy don't you think he'd have spotted that already, I'd already be dead actually" Lucius said nothing.
"Look, what the Dark Lord is doing is all fine and dandy, but what he's doing may not be easier than it looks." Said the old man. Lucius narrowed his eyes at him
"Are you denying the Dark Lord old man?" Lucius said
"Look all I'm saying is that the Prophecy-"
"You know of the Prophecy?" Lucius asked
"Yes and from the prophecy, it said he'll be taken down by the future great, great, great grand child of the powerful one, now I've read a couple of books about powerful infants and although they seem helpless they're feelings take on a life of its own."
"What are you talking about?" Lucius said
"The child, the child he wants to absorb its powers from, I'm telling you it won't be that easy. An infant can be helpless but when its feelings detect something wrong they shield themselves and it's very hard to get anything out of them."
"It's a risky thing and these ingredients may not help if you're going up against something that powerful, and I doubt the Dark Lord would want to get his powers taken away from him twice"
"So if this is all true of what you say, then what exactly should the Dark Lord do?" Lucius said
"Make it trust him before it trusts its own mother. Once that happens he'll be unstoppable" Lucius looked at him suspiciously
"What's your name old man?" Lucius asked
"They call me Amethyst" He said as he smiled at Lucius and then handed him the ingredients that was placed inside a small tube.
"He can keep this if he still likes the old plan better, but make sure he knows what he's up against"
"The Dark Lord will and shall know about this indeed, and I shall tell him of your strong loyalty for him." Lucius said as he bowed to him. Amethyst smiled.
"Anytime" He said. Then Lucius placed his hood over his head and walked out the door.
Draco and Ginny sat down on the bench that had faced the sparkling water. Draco stared at Ginny waiting for her talk with him. But Ginny just stared out at the glistening water.
"Gin?" Draco Ginny looked up at him.
"What was it you wanted to tell me?" Ginny sighed
"I uh, I had talked to Hermione and Luna earlier this morning" She said, Draco shrugged his shoulders
"And?" He said. Ginny looked back at the glistening water.
"They know about your disease Draco" Ginny said. Draco stayed silent for a few minutes.
"How'd they know?" Ginny then looked at him again.
"I told them" Ginny said. Draco sighed
"Oh Draco, please don't be mad at me, I had to tell them. I mean, the things that have been going on with me lately, they just had to know…"
"It's alright its fine, I'm not mad" He said. Ginny stared at him with a confused face.
"Y-you're not?" She said. Draco stared at her and smiled.
"No, hey you never know maybe they can help me with my problem" Draco said as he gave a little chuckle.
"As a matter of fact, Hermione is at the library doing just that right now" Ginny said. Draco looked at her.
"She is?" He said. Ginny sighed.
"Draco look, Hermione, Luna, and I had a very long talk, and well, we feel this disease of yours may or could be a …..curse" Ginny said Draco looked away and sighed.
"Yea, I know" He said Ginny raised an eyebrow at this
"You do?"
"Yes" Draco said
"Blaise told me about it" He said
"Blaise knows, but how?" Ginny asked
"Because I told him, as a matter of fact Snape knows to, it was given an order to him from my mother to look after me because of my condition, Blaise happened to know also because Snape couldn't be around that much to look after me so I told Blaise about my condition and Snape told him to look after me as well since me and Blaise were that close as friends." Draco said. Ginny stayed silent. Draco kept talking.
"So, yesterday before the game Blaise kind of figured out that it couldn't have been a disease if it just suddenly popped out of nowhere. He knew it had to be a curse and that I was born with it all along… I just never knew it" He said Ginny looked at him surprised but said noting.
"Um, Draco do you know what you're curse is all about?" Ginny finally said. Draco looked at her then scratched the back of his head.
"Uh, no exactly, I know nothing of it only that it makes me obey others forcefully. Why? He asked.
"It's called Coraggio Forzato, now I don't know that much about it but from Hermione and Luna's point of view it was given first to a intelligent witch named Esmeralda Lane."
"Esmeralda Lane, why have I heard of that name before?" Draco mumbled to himself
"What was that Draco?" Ginny said Draco looked at Ginny and smiled.
"Nothing, go ahead" He said
"Um, well a witch noticed something about Esmeralda and knew that it had to do something about her powers and something about a prophecy…"
"Wait, what prophecy?" Draco asked Ginny looked at him weird.
"Well, from what I've heard the prophecy said something about Esmeralda's future great, great, great, grandchild defeating Salazar Slytherin's great grand child. I don't know the rest but I will if…" Draco snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Ginny.
"If what Gin?" Draco said Ginny sighed but then gave Draco a serious look.
"Draco I need to know if there is anybody in your family that has the curse as well" Ginny said Draco looked away again.
"I- I'm not really sure, I mean if there was I would have known. No, I've gotten this since I was born Gin…" He said
"Exactly Draco, you did get it when you were born but the only way that can be possible is for someone to pass it down to you, as in their own blood Draco" Ginny said. Draco stayed silent.
"Draco you must know, Hermione can't get any information if you don't have any info to give" Ginny said Draco stayed silent still lost in his thoughts then he looked back up at her.
"I-I'm sorry I just don't know" He said Ginny sighed
"It's ok, at least you tried but, somehow I feel as if this whole thing with the curse and all has a connection with my visions" Ginny said Draco looked at her
"What visions?" He asked
"For some reason, ever since I saved Harry I've been getting the same non- stop visions of screaming, and crying, blood splattering everywhere…and…and a little boy…." She said Draco looked at her suspiciously.
"A boy?" He said Ginny nodded her head.
"And in every vision he constantly calls me mommy Draco" Draco's turned his head away.
"This sounds like the dream that I had yesterday…only she was a girl and she called me… daddy." Draco shook his head at the thought of it.
"I don't know, that's just silly, right now we need to concentrate on your curse and if it's connected to Esmeralda in anyway" Draco stared at her then smiled
"Why do you care about my curse so much huh?" He said
"I don't know, I just feel like I need to protect you and that's what I'm going to do. I care for you a lot Draco. And seeing you hurt would kill me" Draco wrapped his arms around her stroking her hair gently. Ginny looked back out at the shimmering lake.
"I'll always protect you too Ginny, I want you to know that" He said, he then lifted her chin to face him.
"I …love you" He said. Ginny stayed silent sill staring at him. Draco searched her warm pools of brown eyes for any emotions what so ever. Suddenly Ginny smiled as she felt water coming to her eyes but refused to let them win. Ginny then kissed him passionately and broke apart from him.
"I love you too, so much" She said
"C'mon, we better head back" He said smiling at her. Ginny wiped her tears.
"Do we have too?" She chuckled. Draco laughed
"If you don't want your sexy ass to get expelled, then yea." He said Ginny laughed. Then they both got up from the bench and headed back towards the streets of Hogsmead hand in hand. The whole street was crowed as Draco and Ginny tried to get through.
"God, I hate this time of day it's so hard to get out of Hogsmead" Draco said frustrated
"Stay close to me Ginny" Draco said as he squeezed her hand. Ginny nodded.
Lucius Malfoy walked through the crowded streets of Hogsmead; his hood closely hovered over him. That's when he saw them. His son Draco, walking hand in and with that 'disgrace of a pureblood' the Weasley girl. They were walking the opposite from Lucius walking up the Street while Lucius was heading down. Suddenly he felt a jolt from his heart. Lucius stopped dead in his tracks. He could feel the aura of power traveling through his veins. He then looked up at Ginny and Draco.
"No, it can't be" He mumbled He then looked at Ginny, and as if a sign was slapping him in the face he saw a red glowing aura glowing around Ginny.
"The girl" He whispered. Lucius fixed his hood and slowly took out his short pointy hunter's knife and hid it in his sleeve but kept the tip of the knife out. Then made his way towards the struggling couple.
Ginny sighed as she pushed her self past the large crowd of people.
"Draco why can't you just do us both a favor and just apparate us out of here" She said.
"Because no one is allowed to apparate inside school grounds Gin, and there is no way we'll be able to get inside the gates if we apparate outside the school" Ginny sighed.
"Just stay close to me and you'll be fine" He said. Ginny smiled.
Lucius was getting closer he could feel Ginny's power rising towards him. Lucius pushed out the tip of his hunter's knife a little further. As Ginny held on to Draco's hand tightly her heart started to beat rapidly. She didn't know why but she felt something really bad burning at the bottom of her stomach. It was like bad vibes screaming out to her. Lucius walked a little faster pushing the crowd as he went. As soon as he was about to pass Ginny, he felt the wave of power strike him then he took out his knife and slashed her against her right arm.
"Ahhh!" Ginny let go of Draco's hand and fell to the cold stone floor on her knees. Lucius then kept walking faster as he took out a small tube from his pocket, opened the top as he let the blood from the knife slowly drip down into the tube. Lucius closed the glass tube then headed down the street with an evil smirk across his face. Draco felt a chill in his right hand; he turned around to see Ginny on her knees.
"Ginny!" He said as he pushed past the crowded people. Draco fell down next to her. Ginny had her hand placed on the bloody wound which was now seeping through her hand.
"What happened?"
"I don't know I must've walked next to something sharp" She said wincing her eyes in pain. Draco lifted his head towards the crowd looking around to see anything unfamiliar, but he saw nothing.
"C'mon we better get you to Madam Pomfrey" Draco lifted Ginny to her feet and they both walked through the bustling crowd.
Lucius bowed to Voldemort as he stepped inside the wet dark cave, which they were now placed.
"Well?" Voldemort said Lucius took out the tube of ingredients that Amethyst gave him. Voldemort held a venomous smile to his face as he held out his hand to take it but Lucius snatched it away from him. Voldemort's smile faded.
"What is the meaning of this Lucius?" Lucius bowed to him again.
"If you don't mind me asking my lord, but what do you really expect to get out of this potion once it's finished making?" Lucius said.
"I've told you this already Lucius, it is to absorb the child's power before the prophecy can be truly revealed"
"And what if it does not work my lord?" Voldemort looked at him suspiciously then sat down on his large cold throne.
"What has Amethyst told you?" He said
"From what I presume, I believe he's already told you what's he's told me" Voldemort scoffed in a nasty way.
"I don't need an old man's advice on how to plot my revenge Lucius; you of all people should know that"
"Please my lord, think about this for a second. How great do you think that child's power is, it's enough to stop you, Harry Potter, Dumbledore, even Salazar Slytherin himself-"
"And that's why I have to take its power and kill it" Voldemort said
"That would be impossible my lord, from what the old man has told me, it's power is to great to not notice the evil you possess. And once it notices that it shields itself from any harm, making it impossible to get near the infant. Its power is evolved around good, anything from the opposite it will shield itself." Lucius said
"So what must I do then" Voldemort said as he slowly sat back in his chair as if in defeat.
"Make the child trust you my lord, keep it…"
"KEEP THE CHILD!?" Voldemort said as he stood up from his chair. Lucius fell down to his knees as he bowed his head.
"Did you not understood anything of what the prophecy has told us!?" Voldemort said as he now stood above Lucius looking down at him with disgust.
"My lord, this is a one time chance we must take upon, this will be something that will have everyone cowering you with fear. Keeping that child will help you reign over anything you come across. Keep it, and teach it your ways, let it trusts you before it trust its own mother. Both of you together will become unstoppable." Voldemort stayed silent still looking at Lucius. Lucius took this sign and kept on going.
"I must warn you my lord, I wish to help you in your every need. I am your most humble servant and for that, I must warn you that your great power plus the child's will not be able to hold inside of you. Having that amount of power inside you, my lord it will kill you. Not to mention that the prophecy may be fulfilled if it was mentioned in that way."
"How do you know all of this what proof do have of the power being that great!" He said. Lucius then stood up, reached into his pocket and took out the glass tube that held Ginny's blood in it.
"What is this" Voldemort said staring at it. Lucius smile.
"This, my lord, is the blood of the youngest Weasley girl" Voldemort looked up at Lucius then slowly sat back down in his throne.
"What does that have to do with anything?" He said
"I saw her earlier today after I came out of my meeting, she was with my son Draco"
"Oh?" He said. Lucius ignored it and went on.
"My lord, The girl possess a large amount of power held inside her"
"How would you know that?" Lucius then held the tube of blood up to Voldemort's face
"Take it my lord and you shall see" Voldemort slowly lifted out his hand, as soon as his finger tips touched the tube, and urge of bolting shock went through his veins and around his body. Voldemort grabbed the tube as he slowly closed his snake like eyes feeling the power surging through his body. Voldemort then opened his eyes as he lift the now red glowing tube to his face, inhaling it as if he could smell the power.
"Such….powerful blood Lucius" Lucius smiled.
"This plan I'm about to tell you will work my lord I guarantee it" Lucius said
"And the boy?" Voldemort said, already knowing that there was something going on between Draco and Ginny.
"Don't worry my lord, he is the main essence to our plan" Voldemort gave him devious smile.
"Excellent" He said as he kept smelling the tube of blood.
"You should have contacted me before you left school grounds Mr. Malfoy, and now looked what happened you got this girl hurt….again!" Madam Pomfrey said as she cleaned Ginny's wound.
" Sorry Madam Pomfrey, wow Gin that cut is really deep" Draco said looking at it as Madam Pomfrey did her work cleaning it. Ginny turned around and glared at him.
"Can you please not tell me about how it looks right now?" She said
"Oh…sorry" Draco said
"Are you sure you don't know how this happened Miss Weasley, for all we know you could have slashed yourself on something poisonous" Ginny nodded her head no
"I'm sorry Madam Pomfrey I just don't know, I must've walked next to something really pointy for me to have this"
"Well, you're going to be fine just but some ointment on it every day, a potion can't heal up a deep wound like that, you're just lucky it didn't cut and artery"
"Yes ma'am" Ginny said. Then Madam Pomfrey walked over to Draco.
"And I assume your arm is feeling better since you had the nerve to just walk out of infirmary like that" Draco scratched the back of his head in an uncomfortable way.
"Uh, heh, about that, see what had happen was…."
"Oh, just give me your arm" Madam Pomfrey said as she grabbed his right arm that was now wrapped in a bandage. She unwrapped his arm and threw the bandage in the garbage then she took out a new bandage and wrapped it around Ginny's wound. Suddenly Hermione walked in.
"Ginny, thank god I found you!" Hermione said they all looked at her.
"Miss Granger you can't just bust in here like that, do you have a pass?"
"Unfortunately, no but I assure you madam Pomfrey this is urgent I must speak with Ginny right away" Hermione said. Draco looked at Ginny but she just shrugged. Madam Pomfrey sighed.
"Very well. I'm just about done here anyway. I'll be in my office if you need me" Madam Pomfrey said as she left towards her office. Hermione walked up to Ginny then finally turned towards Draco just noticing him.
"Malfoy" She said
"Mud- I mean" Draco looked at Ginny who just looked at him giving him the ' You better not say it look'
"Granger" He said. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Ginny, did you ask him yet?" She said
"Yes, but-"
"I don't know anyone in my family that has that curse" Draco said Hermione sighed.
"Fine, It doesn't matter because I found loads of information about the curse, and it has a lot to do with Draco and his family and the prophecy itself" She said. Draco and Ginny both looked at each other then looked back at Hermione.
Ok people that's chapter 16, don't worry chapter 17 will be up next I promise you that!!! Anyway REVIEW PLEASE and if you have the time make sure you review Ice Box if you can ok! Anyway, I like to thank Lizzy and all the Kathy'zzzzzz for supporting me I love ya'll sooooooooooooooooooo much to infinity!! lol, lol, lol, lol, lol ok that's it gotta go bye and don't forget to review chapter 16! LOVE YA!!- DM16