sooo, I am not going to publish real fast but I do promise to publish once a week minimum, so guys here s the next chapter hope you enjoy it.

Editor: Helena Heansilton

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Mysterious Discoveries

Saturday and Sunday were quite strange for Ginny, because she seemed to have lost her memory again, and found herself outside the portrait hole without remembering having moved a foot. They were off on Saturday and Sunday, and Ginny anxiously waited to find out from Colin what had happened in the infirmary when he went to visit Harry, but she did not find him around.

Was it possible that he was spying on Harry Potter?

The girl, however, couldn't leave it at that: always, when she loses her memory something bad happens, and this time it couldn't have been different... why hasn't anyone noticed anything? Why did no one find anything strange yet?

Ginny saw Harry, getting sent away from the Infirmary after a whispered conversation with Madam Pomfrey's, Ron and Hermione. This did not put her in a good mood, indeed, maybe something really had happened that she ignored, that everyone ignored…

In those nights, little Weasley had other terrible nightmares: shadows that forced her into doing terrible things always permeated her dreams, and every time she would wake up drenched in sweat. Ginny could have sworn she saw Demelza and Vicky whispering to each other while she had these nightmares, and she was probably terribly screaming in her sleep.

On Monday morning, the girl was preparing herself as usual, with Demelza in the dormitory that was silent except for the talkative Alice and Rose, who seemed to Ginny as radiating with happiness and a mood for gossip.

"... and then I asked him if he could come for a walk with me in the castle!"

"Did you ask William this?"

"Yup!" Rose answered, turning purple. "And he said 'maybe' ... let alone! It seems obvious to me that he was too shy to say that he wanted to come with me, don't you think?"

"Absolutely"

Ginny grimaced at this in disgust. As she slipped on her shoes the dormitory door violently flew open, with such force that if Demelza had moved an inch closer she would have been shoved into the window of the room, which was so thin. Vicky was breathless and her eyes were shining with tears, which brought beads of sweat to little Ginny.

"Co ... Colin Creevey ... was ... he was found petrified ... lying out cold in the infirmary ..."

Ginny almost had a heart attack: her worst fears have been materialized.

The news that Colin Creevey had been attacked by the Slytherin monster, and was lying petrified in the castle infirmary was now in the public domain.

Ginny was desperate, she could not understand …

That's why Harry, Ron and Hermione talked to each other on Saturday morning! They could have warned her but instead ... they didn't. Ginny had found out that her friend had been attacked by them through Vicky, who had heard them talking to the teachers. Now it seemed so obvious that Colin was attacked: he had been missing since the day he had decided to visit Harry in the infirmary, and obviously, Ron and Hermione were there to be next to their friend. Colin must have somehow bothered them and ... Ginny could not believe that her brother and the others had really done that! But everything fits, everything went against her heart…

The relationship between her and Colin was just adjusting and warming, which no longer seem possible to her now that he's gone.

It was with an oppressed heart that she went through the lessons that day, and during the Charms class she did nothing but look at the empty seat next to her, where her partner used to chat away noisily telling what he thought incredible stories.

Professor Flitwick tried more than anything else to cheer the children's spirits but his eyes were bright and saw that the air too sad to do anything: perhaps he had witnessed Professor Dumbledore owling Colin's parents... what a nightmare!

Another nightmare was the twins, who as soon as they saw her alone, with the intent of raising her spirits, covered themselves with fur or bubbles and suddenly appeared in front of her from behind statues and armour and continued throughout the day. Ginny had a strong desire to join her first-year companions, who did not go around unless they were in groups of more than four or five, but she did not feel like it. She considered herself almost a stranger without Colin Creevey ...

"Boo!" exclaimed a hairy thing.

Ginny, who was lost in thought, jumped in fright and her eyes widened in fear.

"What fun!" George said in a laughter that seemed rather fake.

"Come on, sis, don't you find me funny?" Fred urged, but what the twins did was not much help.

In fear, the little girl's heart jumped to her throat.

"ARE YOU IDIOTS?" Percy shrieked from the other end of the corridor as some second years walked and looked at the twins as if they were both mad. "WITH THIS AGAIN?"

"Oh ... Perce, we can explain!" Fred said with a note of urgency in his voice.

"You can not explain anything to me!"

"Actually yes!"

"You know why we're doing all this," George added.

Ginny had an incredible headache.

"Aaaaah, still with that story of cheering her up ... look at her, look at our sister, she just got a scare with all these stories that are circulating around! She has nightmares and you make jokes to scare her and..."

"...we just wanted to get her to smile!" he railed in anger as Ron, Harry and Hermione watched the scene paralyzed.

"Oh, what a way to make a person laugh," Percy said contemptuously, putting a hand through his hair in exasperation. "I warn you, if you're caught again trying to scare Ginny I WILL write to our mother and then you are on your own!"

"Are you threatening us?" asked George angrily.

"Yes, I am!" Percy replied and turned away with his nose in the air, and striding toward who knows which corridor.

Ginny actually very much appreciated the twins, who until then had done nothing but tease her, hearing them say that they just wanted to see her smile really meant a lot. She also appreciated Percy - even if sometimes he seemed too exaggerated - but screaming in public that she had nightmares? He was certainly crazy too! Moreover, Ron, Harry and Hermione were there listening to everything, and he was screaming about her nightmares, which were certainly flaunted by Demelza and Vicky, because they, more than once, have been woken up for that reason.

Fred and George looked at Ginny sadly and she returned them the same look before she too went away with the afflicted air.

"Oh, it's terrible to be without Colin ..." Vicky murmured with a tearful voice to Ginny and Demelza, while they were sitting on a sofa by the fire on a Monday in December. Ginny and the twins had given their names to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas since the three had no desire to see Bill in Egypt kissing his new girlfriend. They were sitting on a sofa by the fire eating sweets that the twins, with so much kindness, had given to Ginny and that she, just as thoughtfully, had shared with her companions. "When I heard Flitwick tell Sprout, my blood was frozen in my veins. Do you think Harry Potter has something to do with it?"

"I do not think so ... he seems like a good boy," replied Demelza thoughtfully.

"Yeah, what do you think, Ginny, do you know him well?"

"Yes ... he's a good boy," the girl replied, having no idea what to say.

"Eloise Midgen's the crazy girl- Hufflepuff's pimply girl, you know? - just bought a talisman today," the blonde informed her with a chuckle. "Unbeknownst to the professors, among us students there is a business of talismans, amulets and green onions ..."

Demelza burst out laughing and Ginny opened with a sincere smile.

Eloise Midgen was in their Herbology class and she's a fat girl, short-haired and frizzy, a little silly and remembered for the large number of pimples that filled her chubby face. Eloise had bought an amulet?

"Grace wanted to imitate her and bought a horrendous purple amulet ... then threw it into the trash because two first-year Ravenclaws - Annie Gray and Elisabeth Harries - were laughing at her!" the informed girl continued. "Do you believe that those onions and amulets work?"

"Come on!" Demelza said with a smile. "Did you not say that Eloise was a little stupid girl?"

"She also looks like she has a crush on Harry Potter ... uh, no ... that's Johanna, she and Moaning Myrtille could open a fan club for that guy," Vicky said, bursting into laughter.

"Who is Moaning Myrtille?" Ginny asked in spite of himself.

"The ghost of a girl who lives in the bathroom on the second floor ... oh, and how exasperating she is!"

And so Vicky launched into a detailed description of the whining ghost named Myrtle Elizabeth Warren, and what a description! Every sad and negative appellation was part of the nature of that phantom girl, with a face full of pimples, thick round glasses and smooth black hair like spaghetti. Moaning Myrtille could be more malcontent than Ginny? They should have made friends, in fact, thinking about it, Ginny would have gladly taken a look in that bathroom.

Getting up and finding an excuse to justify her absence, little Weasley walked quickly to the second-floor bathroom, being careful not to look at the horrible writing that she still did not want to know about taking off. She opened the door cautiously and quickly slipped inside.

From what Vicky had said, the bathroom was always empty because of Moaning Myrtle, and Ginny couldn't blame the girls who were going somewhere else, since that bathroom was soaked with water, like on the night of the attack on Mrs Norris. The image that dominated the scene was the famous moaning ghost of a girl who leavened on the siphon, with teary opaque eyes.

"Myrtle is whining ... Myrtle is sad ..."

Ginny came closer and closer.

"Myrtle is ... oh, and who are you?"

"Gi-Ginny Weasley, hi" the girl replied.

"Ooooh, I've never heard of you, you know?"

"Well I've heard of you"

"Imagine what they will have told you! OWN IMAGE!" shrieked Moaning Myrtle, and with an incredible howl she threw herself headlong into a toilet and disappeared from sight.

Yes, that was much more than Ginny's malcontent could have been, but she was sure she and Myrtle would become great friends.

Some time passed, and Ginny took a while to walk around the ghost's bathroom, noting a few remnants of Knotgrass and little traces of Boomslang skin that Snape had so often talked about in Potions- ingredients that could only be found in his personal stock, which some students have certainly stolen. Then, she heard familiar voices coming from outside and hid quickly in one of the cubicles.

"Come on Hermione, don't be paranoid! You said that nobody comes in here ..."

It was Ron's voice. Ginny clung to the door handle like a lifeline: she was there and the three suspects were just entering ... she's right there and could be hearing their plans.

"Look, it's not my fault if I'm worried!" blurted Hermione angrily. "The Slytherin monster is already starting to attack the Muggle-borns, first it's Colin Canon, and I could be next..."

"Do not even say it as a joke, Hermione! We'll find the Heir, you'll see," Harry assured her.

Cold tears ran down Ginny's freckled cheeks, the girl was ashamed of herself: it's not the three of them… it had not been them. How could she have even thought for a moment that his brother had something to do with it? What a shame! Percy was right, Demelza and Vicky were right... Harry Potter couldn't be the Slytherin's Heir, and his friends weren't anything either.

How could Harry attack Hermione when together they were on the trail of the Heir?

She thought that she would never look them in the face for the horrible things she had thought of them... she wonders whether they would forgive her. Maybe not ... but then, who was the Slytherin's heir? Who was it that had indirectly attacked even Ginny, taking away her memory? Who the hell was doing this without leaving a clue?

"Listen!" Hermione's voice sounded worried.

"Was there another attack?" Harry asked.

"No, listen... I'm serious, let's get out of here, now!" Ron added, and the three snuck out of Myrtle's bathroom.

Ginny stepped out of the cubicle and followed them closely: a great deal of people were spilling out of the corridor on the second floor running like hell, as if they can't wait to get somewhere. Her heart turned somersaults. Had there been another attack occurred? It could not be, they all seemed excited. So, had they discovered who the Slytherin Heir was? Had they caught the Heir hands in the bag?

The girl happily girl joined the thrilling crowd, but was first stopped by Demelza Robins.

"Where were you?" she asked almost screaming, because you could not hear anything because of the students' chatter.

"But what's going on here? Did they get Slytherin's heir or something?" Ginny changed the subject.

"Oh no, maybe! They just made the Dueling Club ... coming with me?"

Ginny looked at her with a raised eyebrow: a Club of Duelists? Did they really believe that they could fight the Slytherin monster? But anyway, a couple of spells could always be useful.

She accepted.

Dear Tom, today has been such an eventful day.

Hey dear. What happened?

Apart from the fact that I miss my friend Colin so much and I can't wait for the Mandrake potion to be ready, I discovered that it was not Harry, my brother and their friend who attacked him. Is not it fantastic?

What makes you think so?

I am ashamed of myself for even having thought about those things about the three, I heard them talking: Harry Potter is on the trail of Slytherin's heir and says he wouldn't rest until the heir is caught, especially if his friend might be assaulted. He is a hero, he is not a villain! Although ... after today's event everyone believes in the contrary. You know, Harry talks to snakes...

Harry Potter is a Parseltongue?

Talk to the snakes, Ginny wrote again for she did not know what Parseltongue meant, and looked at Demelza's watch on her bedside table for a moment: it was only five o'clock. He made such a scene today at the Dueling Club, and you know why? It seems that he has aroused the snake against a boy named Justin Finch-Fletchley but... he couldn't have been trying to do that! If you are discovering the mystery how can you do such a thing? It is only found in the middle like Halloween. However, Justin, a Muggleborn, has ran away. I heard he hid in the Hufflepuff common room because he's scared ...

Is this boy a Muggleborn?

Yes, Tom.

Ginny Weasley then found herself standing in the dark ... with the feeling that had haunted her for months: she did not remember anything.

Why was she there? What the hell was happening?

She looked at her wristwatch and felt the blood freezing in his veins: it was eight o'clock. But if he had just looked at Demelza's watch and it was five o'clock, how could it be eight? She had empty pockets of memory in which there were nothing, neither what she had done nor how she had reached that place. She only had countless questions, and being there in the dark made her even closer to being scared to death.

Surely someone had been attacked ... certainly, something had happened ...

She walked blindly down the corridor and stumbled over something stiff and cold. He looked better and noticed that this was Justin Finch-Fletchley: the boy he had seen at the Club was petrified like a stockfish and next to him floated in the dark, steaming, Almost- Headless- Nick, Gryffindor ghost.

Ginny turned her head and felt sick.

She heard a noise that made her hide behind a statue, and Harry Potter, who was passing by, stumbled on Justin just as she had done ... without having the slightest idea that Justin was there on the ground, and looked terribly scared just like the girl had been.

He wasn't the one attacking people, and that was the confirmation!

Little Weasley was thinking quickly: she was talking to Tom Riddle and then... wait because she was talking to Tom, she could not remember anything, and something very bad happened? She realized she was shaking and it was not because of the cold ...

It was only when Peeves came shouting loudly that she decided to run away from there.

Next: The suspects and Ginny's Valentine

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