Nothing belongs to me.
XII: Puzzle
"You've got to come back in!" Harry's warning rang in her ears as though he had said it a second, maybe a minute before.
In reality, it probably had been thirty or forty minutes since.
Ginny laughed in spite of herself.
Harry, Harry, Harry. Didn't he realize she could help? She was practically of age! Not.
But, Ginny thought angrily, honestly! I'm not some innocent little girl!
Just this past half hour she had joined the fight with Tonks, Aberforth, Colin, Neville, and Luna (just to name a few), and had even taken down a Death Eater or two (or seven).
She halted in the entrance hall, leaning underneath the marble staircase.
For the first time during the battle, Ginny found herself very much alone. She certainly didn't feel as brave now.
All around her bangs, crashes, screams, and shouts seemed to reverberate. She turned.
And suddenly, there was a great scream of terror. Ginny looked up, and to her horror, she saw a large dark mass, falling from an upper landing, falling fast toward her.
But before she had time to whip out her wand, Ginny was dragged forward by an unknown energy.
Behind her the statue of Barnaby the Bald shattered, and the force of the collision knocked her down.
Ginny's eyes flickered open, meeting a horribly familiar grey. An electric shock coursed through her as she realized the position she was in, and Ginny hastily rolled off Malfoy.
"What the hell is wrong with you, Ginny?" he screamed, leaping to his feet. Malfoy was livid; she had never seen anyone look so angry. "You could have been killed!"
"Oh, sod off." Ginny said weakly. "I can take care of myself."
"Oh, yeah." He scoffed, waving a hand at the ruined statue.
There was a loud crash in the entry hall behind them.
Malfoy opened his mouth to say something, but he changed his mind, and dashed up the staircase.
Shaking a little, Ginny ran past the Great Hall and out into the Hogwarts grounds. If she had not been so preoccupied with the thought of how their bodies had seemed to fit like the pieces of a puzzle, she would have realized that only moments before Malfoy called her by her name.