A few days have passed as I continued chatting with Ginny in her free time - she was very excited about her new friend. She told me lots of stories about herself, her hobbies, how she sneaks out to fly with a broom regularly and other fun stories. In return I told her what I did remember about the muggle world - she was amazed at what wonders humans can achieve without the help of magic.
I admit I was initially worried as I saw the-boy-who-lived during breakfast through the screen - I had forgotten he stayed there during this time. Ginny was glancing at him a lot, like every few seconds, only to look away with a blush through all meals - luckily it seemed Harry was fine, not touching his scar, not in pain or anything - this reassured me that I most likely did not have any remaining connection to snake-face. As I see through Ginny's eyes it could potentially trigger something in him if Voldemort still lingered somewhere there.
Speaking about possession, it did progress a bit - initially I could only see through her eyes when she was in the same room, now I could spectate the meals and even outside when she went flying during night time. I am still not sure how that works, well I did want to see, so perhaps like the pen appearing - I can possibly somewhat control, or at least influence this, as I was sure I did not want to kill off some poor girl just to emerge as a young snake face with a physical body…
Now I watched in amusement as the said girl dived in her bed and grabbed me from under the pillow, while writing while blushing - she will probably ask me about Potter boy, I thought just as girls writing started appearing in the sky.
*Dear Tom, how are you today?*
*I am fine Ginny, thank you for keeping me company. Is something on your mind?*
The girl was still blushing a lot, and seemingly hesitating, before she finally worded her question.
*Could you offer me some… relationship advice?*
I rolled my eyes at that and sighed, kids' first crush is such a sweet thing looking from the side, but a nightmare when you're the one kid dumps this problem on.
*sure, why not, is it the Harry boy you have been writing about for the last few days?*
Somehow she blushed even more, her cheeks taking the colour of ripe cherry tomatoes - did she think no one would notice her crush? It was basically an open secret, heck I think even Harry knows by now.
*Do you think Harry would ever like me? I am too shy to even sit near him during meals, never mind converse with him… What can I do to get his attention? *
I rolled my transparent eyes and wrote the reply in elegant blue cursive -
* I am not sure if you know this, but girls mature faster than boys and their first crushes would only happen starting at 14 or even later, hence you can not worry about it for now.*
She seemed deep in thought for a while, and just as my words were disappearing she wrote back -
*I see… I remember mom mentioning something similar in the past, you really do know a lot! Thank you Tom*
*Don't mention it, now why don't you do something productive for a change? I remember you saying Harry was destined to be a great wizard, so to match well shouldn't you aim to become a great witch? Knowledge is power as muggles say*
She somehow looked a bit down - did she hate reading?
* I suppose I should… *
*Now don't be sad - you said Harry is the third coming of Merlin, a famous mage, so if you do end up dating him by some chance, don't you want to similarly be a great witch to match his status and stand by his side? Don't you want to get a good job after Hogwarts and make a lot more to ease your family burdens? Don't you want to learn magic, just because it's fun?*
Her bright brown eyes seemed to glimmer with excitement as she fired up for learning. She quickly stood up from her bed and grabbed her school books to start reading, only to remember her unfinished chat a moment later. A bit ashamed she blushed slightly, then perhaps thinking I could not know what she was doing relaxed somewhat and picked up the diary again.
*Thank you so much Tom! Yes I am excited about learning magic, I just was not excited with reading and learning, more the actual magic part, but it makes sense that knowledge does make a witch better… muggles do have sayings for any situation don't they? Well I am off to learn, I will discuss what I will learn today with you tonight, write to you soon!*
*write to you soon, Ginny. Have a fun day learning!*
I watched in amusement as Ginny read school books - there's only a few days till express, but I suppose if her motivation does not die out she will manage to finish them all before arriving at school, it's not like books for kids at 11 were very thick, and they had a lot of pictures for potions ingredients, magical beasts, wand movement diagrams and the like. Will she become a second coming of Hermione? Chuckling I gazed into the screen to read as she was reading, after all I did choose this world for a reason - the wonders of magic.
A few days have passed an Ginny really did live up to 'Greatest witch of all time' so far - she finished her first read of the books yesterday and seemed to understand most of it - I did try to explaining harder parts for her when she summarised her learning for me, still the parts that are still confusing should get better with actual practice - as soon as she's able to do that. I did mention to her that she can practise as soon as she's in the express train - she seemed excited at the idea, magic is such a wonderful thing. Ginny had so much fun just reading about magic theories, potion making and other subjects, with the exception of history. She surprisingly even cut out her nightly activity of sneaking out to fly from her schedule, preferring to stay cosy in bed while reading books.
Today she finally went to sleep, book in hand, tomorrow was finally the day to travel to Hogwarts. I was excited too - there were a lot of things in there that could help me figure out a way to somehow prevent possession of her, or possess some nobody like Goyle or perhaps find a way to get a body without hurting any innocents…
On the other hand it was also scary. There was, of course, the second coming of Merlin, Albus many titles Dumbledore at school, who will hopefully not notice me, there was also Snape - being a trusted spy of Voldemort he could know about the diary and rat me out… Damn thinking about it, that Wormtail fellow is also in Hogwarts, never mind that he's even in this house, even in the next room where Harry and Ron were sleeping… Yeah 2 young boys sleeping with one adult criminal - that just sounds so weird, I won't be able to sleep well now…
I eventually managed to fall to my 'sleep' state - or what I consider sleep as can't really sleep normally while being stuck in this damn mindscape.
Some time later I suddenly awoke at midnight - it was dark all around, but something was wrong. I could feel a mattress below me, heck I could clearly feel my body, touch things even. I noticed a couple of bumps I should not have on top of my chest, then my eyes snapped open as realisation kicked in - somehow I was in possession of Ginny's body.
Panic kicked in as I went to the bathroom, I washed my face and watched the mirror, trying to see any difference from the girl I knew. The reflection looked back at me, everything was the same as I remembered, through the eyes… they were somewhat off. The colour was still brown, but unlike Ginny's light brown it was quite a darker shade of brown.
I went back to her… I guess I should say my or our room now. I was still in panic. I was not ready. I could not pull off a believable Ginny persona - especially fawning over the Harry Potter brat part… But as I laid in bed something happened again. I felt like falling and falling and then I was back to the bookscape. Quickly looking at the screen I just saw Ginny's eyes close as I felt some relief - so she's not dead.
Unfortunately I did not glance at the clock much, so I could not know important details like how long was the possession? Did Ginny know? How to trigger it again without fully possessing and killing the girl? So many more questions, yet no answers I could get… for now, hopefully Hogwarts would have them.
I did not sleep, I did not want to accidentally possess her again. And so a long time later, morning finally arrived. I was relieved to see young Ginny acting as usual - seeing her eyes back to light brown as she brushed her teeth gave me some relief.
Today was going to be a long day - but I, along with other young Weasleys, young Potter and a lot of other young witches and wizards, were looking forward to arriving at the school of magic.
