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TOM RIDDLE ACTS AGAIN
After classes, Ginny was the first to reach her dorm, and straight away she locked herself in the bathroom: it had been a bad day, seeing Tom's diary with Harry on top of the musical Valentine being shouted practically in front of the whole school.
She plunged herself into the shower and immediately turned on the hot water, vaguely hoping that it would not take too long to flush the thoughts out; but they remained imperturbable in her head. The girl almost thought that it was worth drowning in the shower for that incredible humiliation. Wondering about the reason for her foolishness she stepped out of the shower, and after putting on her pyjamas opened the bathroom door-
"FINALLY!" Rose wailed irritably.
"Ginny ... goodness, you were here!" Vicky said but she was not angry: rather, she was surprised. "Why did you not tell us you liked Harry Potter? You would gladly have helped you, I didn't know you had such good taste ..."
"Vicky!" blew Demelza upsetly as Alice and Rose giggled.
"No, that is, in the sense... hell, you like Harry Potter!"
Ginny tried to smile but turned quickly turned her face away so as not to be betrayed by the face red with rage and anger: she had really been stupid, with the stupid idea of sending a stupid nursery rhyme with stupid verses to an impossible boy as a stupid little girl in love. Ginny would have covered up with epithets blaming it on the twins, however strong they were, but she refrained from scandalizing anyone else. The enchanting figure was enough for her that afternoon.
"Weasley ..." Alice muttered, nudging Rose.
Both of them smiled at the girl's forty-two smile and exclaimed in unison, as if it was not clear enough: "But you like Harry Potter?"
The evening went on like that, between Vicky who kept reapproaching her for not telling her companions and that they could seriously help her, between Alice and Rose, who bombarded her with questions about life, death and miracles of Harry Potter and giggling almost malignantly when Ginny was forced to answer (they knew the story how Ginny had known Harry since four-and-a-half), and the laughter coming from the Great Hall because of the twins' chorus, which sounded awfully like his eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad. That seemed to very much please the Gryffindors, especially Alice and Rose, who began to mock her so wickedly that Vicky locked herself in the bathroom for a good hour and Demelza turned off the lights and silenced her companions.
That day was more like an exercise in enduring humiliation.
With the days that followed, the twins quickly forgot their sister's nursery rhyme, and when Ginny sometimes reminded them about that, in surprise they quickly fell silent and tried to be as friendly as possible with her, especially in the presence of Percy. On his part, he seemed as though he never witnessed the musical Valentine, and that was only good! Alice and Rose were the geese of the situation: they looked like the complete opposite of the twins, behaving even more disagreeable than usual as they launched countless winks at Harry and sang in the dormitory his eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad clearly with the intention of driving Ginny out of her minds, and it wouldn't take long. As for the other boys in the class, they looked profoundly sorry for those things, even though Christopher often struggled to stay serious.
Then came March and the Easter holidays: it had been four months since Justin and Nearly-Headless-Nick had been attacked and the Hogwarts students came to think that the assailant had grown tired of petrifying people and was giving up. Ginny did not have time to think about the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets, since she was too invested in trying to formula a perfect plan to recover the diary, and the only solution seemed to be sneaking into Harry's dorm and rummage through his stuff, but it was way too risky.
"Alice and Rose are hateful, I can not stand them! So ... now almost all the school knows that Ginny likes the famous Harry Potter but just stop asking her malicious and nagging questions, right?"
Vicky was outraged and Demelza hurled at Ginny a sidelong glance as all three girls walked down the corridors after dinner. She seemed deeply annoyed that the school knew that Ron Weasley's shy little sister had a crush on his best friend.
"William and Christopher like them a lot," said Demelza.
"Poor them," Ginny muttered between his teeth.
"Nah, they just struggle to get rid of them ... Ritchie Coote told me"
"That's great news!" exclaimed Demelza beaming, but Vicky wasn't listening to her anymore.
She ran to the window and looked down as if she was enchanted (though she certainly was enchanted by something). Demelza and Ginny approached and the girl noticed brooms racing around the Quidditch court: judging by the colors, it was the Hufflepuffs. Vicky had a spasm and opened her mouth even though no sound came out and her friends stared at her confusedly.
"THE HUFFLEPUFF'S! THE HUFFLEPUFF ARE TRAINING FOR TOMORROW!" she finally cried.
Ginny wanted to say, 'So what?' but Demelza stopped it.
"Cedric Diggory is in Hufflepuff ..." the girl answered in a whisper. "Cedric Diggory, girls!"
"Still with that story," muttered Demelza amusedly.
"But do not you understand? It's an opportunity not to be missed!"
"Sorry but what ...?" Ginny intervened and in less than a minute she knew everything that was to be known about Cedric Diggory.
This boy was the son of Amos Diggory, whom Ginny had already heard of because he worked in the Ministry of Magic with his father, he is a Hufflepuff fifth year at Hogwarts, he was tall, blond and really, really charming: Vicky was going to go to the training sessions before it was Gryffindor's turn, to see him and he was begging at the two girls.
Ginny had let herself be convinced when ...
Come on! After the Hufflepuff there is Gryffindor training and the stadium will be full as an egg!
"I will not come" Ginny declared.
"Why? There's nobody in the common room!"
"I do not feel very well ..." she lied. "I'm going to Madam Pomfrey's and I'll join you later!"
"Suddenly?" asked Demelza worried.
"Yeah!" Ginny called after her and hurried away, striding toward the Gryffindor Common Room.
Ginny had waited patiently for the last member of Gryffindor, a clumsy and chubby-faced boy, to come out of the Common Room and slowly climbed the spiral staircases leading to the boys dormitories. She passed the 'first-year students' door and quickly threw open the 'second-year students' door, slipped inside and sighed with relief.
This worked well so far.
She locked herself in even though she imagined that anyone outside could open the door in no time, and went to Harry's bed, realizing that it must be the one next to the trunk labeled 'HP'. She threw off the blankets with almost brutal ferocity, pulled out the sheets and pajamas from under the pillow but there was no trace of the diary. She tried the drawers, spilling their contents, but there was nothing. The only other possibility was his trunk. She opened it and frantically threw his stuff everywhere, spreading it around, accidentally tearing his cloak and broke many pages of Travels with trolls, but a rage seized her: she screamed and swore aloud for the barbarity she had just done and for the fact that she could not find Tom Riddle's diary, then when all hope was about to fall from her, she found it and laid it greedily inside her robes.
What she did next was just running madly toward her dorm.
Dear Tom ... Ginny wrote once in safety.
Hi Harry Potter. Tom Riddle answered and the girl's heart went up to her throat.
No Tom, I'm Ginny Weasley.
How did you resume this diary?
I ... I'm so sorry for what I did Tom!
She was not so sure of Tom's innocence but that strange feeling inside her led her to keep talking to him, to listen to him, to trust in some way a memory kept in a diary for fifty years. It was silly, maybe weird ... but that was it. She suspected him, but at the same time she would do anything to get back a friend with whom to confide, in order to get back his company. In spite of everything it had been important and still was.
Yes, it was terrible.
You are right! You do not know what a dread I felt when I saw that Harry had the diary. You know, it happened on Valentine's Day: I was getting into the classroom when there was a traffic jam because of a love note I had written to Harry and his bag got torn and ... poof! There was this diary in his books and I panicked. I thought about the worst, I thought you could take revenge on me!
Despite everything I could never do it, Ginny.
The girl sighed with relief.
Then, urged Riddle. How did you get your diary back?
A friend of mine told me they were all at Quidditch training, so I waited while no one was in the dorm and snuck in. I hoped with all my heart that Harry does not report everything to the teachers: I made quite a mess in a room.
Fascinating.
Tom, can you forgive me? Ginny wrote, noting that Tom Riddle did not answer her as before. I will do anything to get your forgiveness, I promise. I swear to Godric Gryffindor, like my father made me swear.
Oh, obviously. There will certainly be something I can do to you. I missed you, Ginny Weasley, and I know for sure you will show me your loyalty, ability, readiness and of course you will be of enormous help.
Ginny did not know what to do, probably the only good thing to do was a walk before they all come back and notice how upset she was, being pale or doing anything strange that might arouse suspicion.
He scribbled a 'I have to go, Tom!' and ran into the corridors.
Strolling around, she realized that she was not the only one who had the idea of going for a walk while everyone was away. In fact, there were snaps and strange noises, but certainly nothing sinister. That noise came from a classroom and a familiar voice echoed in her ears: it sounded like Percy's voice. Was he revising for exams? Probably, it was from Percy. But did his brother not always tell her that they did not have to bother people while they were studying?
Oh, but how many paranoia! Almost resembling him ... she was a Weasley!
She opened the door and the scene before her was more than disgusting, she would have dared to say vomit-triggering: the Ravenclaw Prefect, Penelope Clearwater, was sitting on a bench and Percy clasped on her chest and kissed her with fury. Ginny almost laughed and never thought that Percy was capable of those things ... especially in an empty classroom in an almost empty castle!
"GINNY!" he roared, quickly adjusting the red tie of embarrassment, while Penelope came down from the desk with a totally confused but serene air. "Oh my goodness ..." he added, gasping, almost unable to speak.
"Percy," said the girl.
"Go Penelope, I'll join you later," said Percy to his girlfriend. "That's a maybe!" he shouted at her.
Ginny lowered her head to stop herself from laughing.
"Oh Godric, you look upset!"
"No, I'm not upset because you ... well ..."
Percy almost did not seem to hear it and took it gently by the shoulders, with a gesture that suggested an imminent threat, and blew: "You will not tell anyone what you saw!"
"But do you think that ...?"
"No one," he repeated, still red-faced. "Especially the twins, they absolutely do not have to..."
Percy swallowed and ran away, throwing a last look of warning to his sister and the message to Ginny was clear: I will seriously get the Slytherin monster to petrify if you dare open your mouth.
The next day was a nightmare almost as much as the previous one... and the previous one: Ginny could no longer raise her arms and legs, she was weaker than usual, her eyes were tired, her pallor was ghostly and, above all, she was thinner than usual.
It really scared her.
Her heart began to beat quickly, as if in anxiety ... in fact, she certainly had anxiety. Why was it so scary? She was stuffing herself with food at Hogwarts banquets, she was used to eating a lot but she looked so malnourished and without strength?
"Who knows if Cedric will grab the snitch before Harry!" Vicky was saying as Ginny got ready with sore arms and thighs.
"Who's Cedric?" asked Alice.
"Cedric Diggory?" Rose echoed. "Oh, he's so cute!"
Vicky looked deeply irritated and Demelza disgusted, then the girl said, "Hey Ginny, are you ready?"
"No," she croaked as Alice and Rose emerged excitedly from the dorm, mumbling something that sounded indistinctly as 'lentil is not ready yet' and giggling loudly.
"We're waiting for you," said Demelza fervently.
"Oh no go on, I'll join you right away"
"Like yesterday?" Vicky ironically grimaced.
"No, I really will catch up"
When the two companions hurried out of the dorm too, Ginny rushed with trembling legs to take her diary from the back of the trunk to confide again with Tom Riddle, because that was what the girl always did: confide in him, always and in any case. She would not allow an impulsive act to ruin their relationship and Ginny was ready to write to him as often as she could.
Dear Tom, I think I'm not very well today.
What's up, Ginny dear?
I think I have serious problem, because I eat but look undernourished, I sleep and it seems I did not sleep for who knows how many days and then ... I'm ugly, pale ... it's horrible what's happening to me, Tom.
Oh sorry! You must go immediately to get yourself checked now.
Ginny thought about it. Yes, I could really because no student stayed here in school to see me in this pitiful state.
There is nobody?
Oh no, they're all at the Quidditch game. But I hope not to meet Percy with her girlfriend Penelope Clearwater, you know, I saw them kissing in an empty classroom and my brother was upset. I think they did not see each other long because I heard Percy say that Penelope is a Muggleborn and did not want to risk running around the castle.
"GINNY, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" the voice of Demelza Robins roared.
Little Weasley stood by the door leading to the library and felt very ill: she had a retching and again the feeling she had not felt for months had made its way into her ... she's lost her memory again.
What was she doing? Good question. Why was she there? Beautiful question. What the hell had happened? Wonderful question.
"RUN, MOVE!" echoed Vicky who ran at breakneck speed behind Demelza and dragged her by the arm.
Ginny felt very faint and fell: Vicky came back to help her, believing it was her fault.
"What is it...?"
"The monster! The Slytherin Heir has attacked again! Here in the library!"
Ginny her body freezing up to the neck: another attack? But why when the attacks happened she was always next to the place of aggression? Tom Riddle was innocent ... a horrible thought crossed her mind as she struggled to keep up with her friends.
Next: The Chamber of Secrets
So I am super excited for the next chapter, and it's going to be long so it might take a little bit more to translate but do not worry, I did promise to translate minimum 1 every week so you guys can have it in a couple of days.
Editor: Helena Heansilton
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