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Memorable Moments - Order of the Phoenix
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Chapter 4 - Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place
 The door opened, and a long mane of red hair appeared. "Oh, hello Harry!" said Ron's younger sister, Ginny, brightly. "I thought I heard your voice."
Turning to Fred and George, she said, "It's a no-go with the Extendable Ears, she's gone and put an Imperturbable Charm on the kitchen door." -------------- "I didn't ask - I didn't want - Voldemort killed my parents!" Harry spluttered. "I got famous because he murdered my family but couldn't kill me! Who wants to be famous for that? Don't they think I'd rather it'd never -" "We know, Harry," Ginny said earnestly. Chapter 5 - The Order of the Phoenix
Opposite Harry, Tonks was entertaining Hermione and Ginny by transforming her nose between mouthfuls. Screwing up her eyes each time with the same pained expression she had worn back in Harry's bedroom, her nose swelled to a beak-like protruberance that resembled Snape's, shrank to the size of a button mushroom and then sprouted a great deal of hair from each nostril. Apparently this was a regular mealtime entertainment, because Hermione and Ginny were soon requesting their favourite noses.
"Do that one like a pig snout, Tonks." Tonks obliged, and Harry, looking up, had the fleeting impression that a female Dudley was grinning at him from across the table. --------------  "Course I will," Harry said.
Ron and Hermione beamed. "Fine!" shouted Mrs. Weasley. "Fine! Ginny-BED!" Ginny did not go quietly. They could hear her raging and storming at her mother all the way up the stairs, and when she reached the hall Mrs. Black's earsplitting shrieks were added to the din. Chapter 6 - The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black
"Yeah, size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny." "What d'you mean?" said Harry. "You've never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?" -------------- There was a musical box that emitted a faintly sinister, tinkling tune when wound, and they all found themselves becoming curiously weak and sleepy until Ginny had the sense to slam the lid shut. -------------- "I've ironed your best cloths for tomorrow morning, Harry, and I want you to wash your hair tonight too. A good first impression can work wonders." Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, and Ginny all stopped talking and looked over at him. Harry nodded and tried to keep eating his chops, but his mouth had become so dry he could not chew. Chapter 9 - The Woes of Mrs Weasley
Mrs. Weasley was wiping her face on her apron, and Fred, George, and Ginny were doing a kind of war dance to a chant that went: "He got off, he got off, he got off ..." "That's enough, settle down!" shouted Mr. Weasley, though he too was smiling. "Listen, Sirius, Lucius Malfoy was at the Ministry-" "What?" said Sirius sharply. "He got off, he got off, he got off ..." "Be quiet , you three! Yes, we saw him talking to Fudge on level nine, then they went up to Fudge's office together. Dumbledore ought to know." "Absolutely," said Sirius. "We'll tell him, don't worry." "Well, I'd better get going, there's a vomiting toilet in Bethnal Green waiting for me. Molly, I'll be late, I'm covering for Tonks, but Kingsley might be dropping in for dinner -" "He got off, he got off, he got off ..." "That's enough - Fred - George - Ginny!" said Mrs. Weasley, as Mr. Weasley left the kitchen. -------------- "And as for who's going to look after Ron and Ginny if you and Arthur died," said Lupin, smiling slightly, "what do you think we'd do, let them starve?" Mrs. Weasley smiled tremulously. "Being silly," she muttered again, mopping her eyes. But Harry, closing his bedroom door behind him some ten minutes later, could not think Mrs. Weasley silly. He could still see his parents beaming up at him from the tattered old photograph, unaware that their lives, like so many of those around them, were drawing to a close. The image of the boggart posing as the corpse of each member of Mrs. Weasley's family in turn kept flashing before his eyes. Chapter 10 - Luna Lovegood
From what he heard as he dressed at top speed, Harry gathered that Fred and George had bewitched their trunks to fly downstairs to save the bother of carrying them, with the result that they had hurtled straight into Ginny, and knocked her down two flights of stairs, into the hall; Mrs. Black and Mrs. Weasley were both screaming at the top of their voices. -------------- "Mum and Dad have sent Hedwig back" - the owl fluttered obligingly over and perched on top of her cage - "are you ready yet?" "Nearly - is Ginny all right?" Harry asked, shoving on his glasses. "Mrs. Weasley's patched her up," said Hermione. -------------- "I know you're not," said Harry and he grinned. But as Hermione and Ron dragged their trunks, Crookshanks, and a caged Pigwidgeon off toward the engine end of the train, Harry felt an odd sense of loss. He had never traveled on the Hogwarts Express without Ron. "Come on," Ginny told him, "If we get a move on we'll be able to save them places." "Right," said Harry, picking up Hedwig's cage in one hand and the handle of his trunk in the other. -------------- In the very last carriage, they met Neville Longboottom, Harry's fellow fifth-year Gryffindor, his face shining with the effort of pulling his trunk along and maintaining a one-handed grip on his struggling toad, Trevor. "Hi, Harry," he panted. "Hi, Ginny....Everywhere's full....I can't find a seat...." "What are you talking about?" said Ginny, who had squeezed past Neville to peer into the compartment behind him. "There's room in this one, there's only Loony Lovegood here -" Neville mumbled something about not wanting to disturb anyone. "Don't be silly," said Ginny, laughing, "she's all right." She slid the door open and pulled her trunk inside it. Harry and Neville followed. -------------- He would have liked Cho to discover him sitting with a group of very cool people laughing their heads off at a joke he had just told, he would not have chosen to be sitting with Neville and Loony Lovegood, clutching a toad and dripping in Stinksap. "Never mind," said Ginny bracingly. "Look, we can get rid of all this easily." She pulled out her wand. "Scourgify!" The Stinksap vanished. -------------- "Where's Hagrid?" he said out loud. "I don't know," said Ginny, "but we'd better get out of the way, we're blocking the door." "Oh yeah...." Harry and Ginny became separated as they moved off along the platform and through the station. -------------- "Malfoy was being absolutely foul to a first year back there, I swear I'm going to report him, he's only had his badge three minutes and he's using it to bully people worse than ever....Where's Crookshanks?" "Ginny's got him," said Harry. "There she is...." Ginny had just emerged from the crowd, clutching a squirming Crookshanks. Chapter 11 - The Sorting Hat's New Song
"Did everyone see that Grubbly-Plank woman?" asked Ginny. "What's she doing back here? Hagrid can't have left, can he? "I'll be quite glad if he has," said Luna, "he isn't a very good teacher, is he?" "Yes he is!" said Harry, Ron and Ginny angrily. Chapter 13 - Detention With Dolores
The door of the nearest greenhouse opened and some fourth-years spilled out of it, including Ginny. "Hi," she said brightly as she passed. Chapter 16 - In the Hog's Head
"There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you -"
"Hem, hem," said Ginny in such a good imitation of Professor Umbridge that several people looked round in alarm and then laughed. "Weren't we trying to decide how often we're going to meet and get defense lessons?" "Yes," said Hermione at once, "yes, we were, you're right...." -------------- "I don't like him much either," admitted Hermione, "but he overheard me talking to Ernie and Hannah at the Hufflepuff table and he seemed really interested in coming, so what could I say? But the more people the better really - I mean, Michael Corner and his friends wouldn't have come if he hadn't been going out with Ginny -" Ron, who had been draining the last few drops from his Butterbeer bottle, gagged and sprayed Butterbeer down his front. "He's WHAT?" spluttered Ron, outraged his ears now resembling curls of raw beef. "She's going out with - my sister's going - what d'you mean, Michael Corner?" Well, that's why he and his friends came, I think - well, they're obviously interested in learning defence, but if Ginny hadn't told Michael what was going on -" "When did this - when did she -?" "They met at the Yule Ball and got together at the end of last year," said Hermione composedly. They had turned into the High Street and she paused outside Scrivenshaft's Quill shop, where there was a handsome display of pheasant feather quills in the window. "Hmm... I could do with a new quill." She turned into the shop. Harry and Ron followed her. "Which one was Michael Corner?" Ron demanded furiously. The dark one," said Hermione. "I don't like him," said Ron at once. "Big surprise," said Hermione under her breath. "But," said Ron, following Hermione along a row of quills in copper pots, "I thought Ginny fancied Harry!" Hermione looked at him rather pityingly and shook her head. "Ginny used to fancy Harry, but she gave up on him months ago. Not that she doesn't like you, of course," she added kindly to Harry while she examined a long, black-and-gold quill. Harry, whose mind was still full of Cho's parting wave, did not find this subject quite as interesting as Ron, who was positively quivering with indignation, but it did bring something home to him that until now he had not really registered. "So that's why she talks now?" he asked Hermione. "She never used to talk in front of me." "Exactly," said Hermione. Chapter 17 - Educational Decree Number Twenty-four
"I'll tell Michael," said Ginny impatiently, swinging herself off her bench. "The fool, honestly..." She hurried off toward the Ravenclaw table; Harry watched her go. Chapter 18 - Dumbledore's Army
Somewhat to Harry's disappointment, it was Ginny who managed to find Cho Chang and her friend first; however, but the end of dinner he was confident that the news had been passed to every one of the twenty-five people who had turned up in the Hog's Head. -------------- "The Defense Association?" said Cho. "The D.A. for short, so nobody knows what we’re talking about?" "Yeah, the D.A.'s good," said Ginny. "Only let's make it stand for Dumbledore's Army because that's the Ministry's worst fear, isn't it?" There was a good deal of appreciative murmuring and laughter at this.  -------------- Ginny was paired up with Michael Corner; she was doing very well, whereas Michael was either very bad or unwilling to jinx her. Chapter 19 - The Lion and the Serpent
Hermione and Ginny sat down opposite them wearing red-and-gold scarves, gloves, and rosettes. "How're you feeling?" Ginny asked Ron, who was now staring into the dregs of milk at the bottom of his empty cereal bowl as though seriously considering attempting to drown himself in them. "He's just nervous," said Harry. -------------- "It's just so unfair," said Alicia numbly. "I mean, what about Crabbe and that Bludger he hit after the whistle had been blown? Has she banned him?" "No," said Ginny miserably; she and Hermione were sitting on either side of Harry. "He just got lines, I heard Montague laughing about it at dinner." Chapter 21 - The Eye of the Snake
"Well," said Angelina dully, pulling off her cloak and throwing it into a corner, "we've replaced you." "Replaced me?" said Harry blankly. "You and Fred and George," she said impatiently. "We've got another Seeker!" "Who?" said Harry quickly. "Ginny Weasley," said Katie. Harry gaped at her. "Yeah, I know," said Angelina, pulling out her wand and flexing her arm. "But she's pretty good, actually. Nothing of you, of course," she said, throwing him a very dirty look,. "but as we can't have you..." Chapter 22 - St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
Fred, George, and Ginny were ushered inside by Professor McGonagall, all three of them looking disheveled and shocked, still in their night things. "Harry - what's going on?" asked Ginny, who looked frightened. "Professor McGonagall says you saw Dad hurt -" "Your father has been injured in the course of his work for the Order of the Phoenix," said Dumbledore before Harry could speak. -------------- "What's going on?" he said, stretching out a hand to help Ginny up. "Phineas Nigellus said Arthur's been badly injured-" "Ask Harry," said Fred. "Yeah, I want to hear this for myself," said George. The twins and Ginny were staring at him. -------------- And he told them all that he had seen, though he altered the story so that it sounded as though he had watched from the side-lines as the snake attacked, rather than from behind the snake's own eyes. Ron, who was still very white, gave him a fleeting look, but did not speak. When Harry had finished, Fred, George and Ginny continued to stare at him for a moment. Harry did not know whether he was imagining it or not, but he fancied there was something accusatory in their looks. -------------- Fred and George looked as though they could not care less what the Ministry made of anything. Ron was still white-faced and silent. Ginny said, "Somebody else could have told us....We could have heard it somewhere other than Harry...." -------------- Fred and George still looked mutinous. Ginny, however, took a few steps over to the nearest chair and sank into it. Harry looked at Ron, who made a funny movement somewhere between a nod and shrug, and they sat down too. The twins glared at Sirius for another minute, then took seats on either side of Ginny. -------------- Ginny was curled like a cat on her chair, but her eyes were open; Harry could see them reflecting the firelight. Chapter 23 - Christmas on the Closed Ward
"How're you feeling?" asked Hermione. "Fine," said Harry stiffly. "Oh, don't lie, Harry," she said impatiently. "Ron and Ginny say you've been hiding from everyone since you got back from St. Mungo's." "They do, do they?" said Harry, glaring at Ron and Ginny. Ron looked down at his feet but Ginny seemed quite unabashed. "Well, you have!" she said. "And you won't look at any of us!" "It's you lot who won't look at me!" said Harry angrily. "Maybe you're taking it in turns to look, and keep missing each other," suggested Hermione, the corners of her mouth twitching. "Very funny," snapped Harry turning away. "Oh stop feeling all misunderstood," said Hermione sharply. "Look, the others have told me what you overheard last night on the Extendable Ears -" "Yeah?" growled Harry, his hands deep in his pockets as he watched the snow now falling thickly outside. "All been talking about me, have you? Well, I'm getting used to...." "We wanted to talk to you, Harry," said Ginny "but as you've been hiding ever since we got back-" "I didn't want anyone to talk to me," said Harry, who was feeling more and more nettled. "Well, that was a bit stupid of you," said Ginny angrily, "seeing as you don't know anyone but me who's been possessed by You-Know-Who, and I can tell you how it feels." Harry remained quite still as the impact of these words hit him. Then he wheeled around. "I forgot," he said. "Lucky you," said Ginny coolly. "I'm sorry," Harry said, and he meant it. "So...so do you think I'm being possessed, then?" "Well, can you remember everything you've been doing?" Ginny asked. "Are there big blank periods where you don't know what you've been up to?" Harry racked his brains. "No," he said. "Then You-Know-Who hasn't ever possessed you," said Ginny simply. "When he did it to me, I couldn't remember what I'd been doing for hours at a time. I'd find myself somewhere and not know how I got there." Harry hardly dared believe her, yet his heart was lightening almost in spite of himself. -------------- "It sounds as though you've been trying to sew your skin back together," said Mrs. Weasley with a snort of mirthless laughter, "but even you, Arthur, wouldn't be that stupid-" "I fancy a cup of tea too," said Harry, jumping to his feet. Hermione, Ron, and Ginny almost sprinted to the door with him. As it swung closed behind them, they heard Mrs Weasley shriek, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT'S THE GENERAL IDEA?" "Typical Dad," said Ginny, shaking her head as they set off up the corridor. "Stitches... I ask you..." -------------- "Well, hello there!" he said. "I expect you'd like my autograph, would you?" "Hasn't changed much, has he?" Harry muttered to Ginny, who grinned. -------------- "I never knew," said Hermione, who looked tearful. "Nor did I," said Ron rather hoarsely. "Nor me," whispered Ginny. They all looked at Harry. "I did," he said glumly. Chapter 24 - Occlumency
"Harry dear," said Mrs. Weasley, poking her head into his and Ron's bedroom, where the pair of them were playing wizard chess watched by Hermione, Ginny, and Crookshanks. -------------- Professor Snape, dear. In the kitchen. He'd like a word." Harry's mouth fell open in horror. He looked around at Ron, Hermoine, and Ginny, all of whom were gaping back at him. Chapter 25 - The Beetle at Bay
It was a fresh, breezy sort of day and as they passed the Quidditch stadium, Harry glimpsed Ron and Ginny skimming over the stands and felt a horrible pang that he was not up there with them.... Chapter 26 - Seen and Unforseen
"It was a nightmare," Ron said in a surly voice. "Oh come on," said Hermione, looking at Ginny, "I'm sure it wasn't that -" "Yes, it was," said Ginny. "It was appalling. Angelina was nearly in tears by the end of it." Ron and Ginny went off for baths after dinner; Harry and Hermione returned to the busy Gryffindor common room and their usual pile of homework. Harry had been struggling with a new star-chart for Astronomy for half an hour when Fred and George turned up. "Ron and Ginny not here?" asked Fred, looking around as he pulled up a chair and, when Harry shook his head, he said, "Good. We were watching their practice. They're going to be slaughtered. They're complete rubbish without us." "Come on, Ginny's not bad," said George fairly, sitting down next to Fred. "Actually, I dunno how she got so good, seeing how we never let her play with us...." "She's been breaking into your broom shed in the garden since the age of six and taking each of your brooms out in turn when you weren't looking." said Hermione from behind her tottering pile of Ancient Rune books. "Oh," said George, looking mildly impressed. "Well - that'd explain it." -------------- The miracle was that Gryffindor only lost by ten points: Ginny managed to snatch the Snitch from right under Hufflepuff Seeker Summberby's nose, so that the final score was two hundred and forty versus two hundred and thirty. "Good catch," Harry told Ginny back in the common room, where the atmosphere closely resembled that of a particularly dismal funeral. "I was lucky," she shrugged. "It wasn't a very fast Snitch and Summerby's got a cold, he sneezed and closed his eyes at exactly the wrong moment. Anyway, once you're back on the team-" "Ginny, I've got a lifelong ban." "You're banned as long as Umbridge is in the school," Ginny corrected him. "There's a difference. Anyway, once you're back, I think I'll try out for Chaser. Angelina and Alicia are both leaving next year and I prefer goal-scoring to Seeking anyway." Harry looked over at Ron, who was hunched in the corner, staring at his knees, a bottle of butterbeer clutched in his hand. "Angelina still won't let him resign," Ginny said, as though reading Harry's mind. "She says she knows he's got it in him." Chapter 29 - Careers Advice
"Harry, I'm talking to you, can you hear me?" "Huh?" He looked around. Ginny Weasley, looking very windswept, had joined him at the library table where Harry had been sitting alone. It was late on Sunday evening: Hermione had gone back to Gryffindor Tower to review Ancient Runes; Ron had Quidditch practice. "Oh hi," said Harry, pulling his books back toward him. "How come you're not at practice?" "It's over," said Ginny. "Ron had to take Jack Sloper up to the hospital wing." "Why?" "Well, we're not sure, but we think he knocked himself out with his own bat." She sighed heavily. "Anyway....a package just arrived, it's only just got through Umbridge's new screening process...." She hoisted a box wrapped in brown paper onto the table; it had clearly been unwrapped and carelessly rewrapped, and there was a scribbled note on across it in red ink, reading Inspected and Passed by the Hogwarts High Inquisitor. "It's Easter eggs from Mum," said Ginny. "There's one for you....There you go...." She handed him a handsome chocolate egg decorated with small, iced Snitches and, according to the packaging, containing a bag of Fizzing Wizbees. Harry looked at it for a moment, then, to his horror, felt a hard lump rise in his throat. "Are you okay, Harry?" asked Ginny quietly. "Yeah, I'm fine," said Harry gruffly. The lump in his throat was painful. He did not understand why an Easter egg should have mad him feel like this. "You seem really down lately," Ginny persisted. "You know, I'm sure if you just talked to Cho..." "It's not Cho I want to talk to," said Harry brusquely. "Who is it, then?" asked Ginny, watching him closely. "I...." He glanced around to make quite sure that nobody was listening; Madam Pince was several shelves away, stamping out a pile of books for a frantic-looking Hannah Abbott. "I wish I could talk to Sirius," he muttered. "But I know I can't." Ginny continued to watch him thoughtfully. More to give himself something to do than because he really wanted any, Harry unwrapped his Easter egg, broke off a large bit and put it into his mouth. "Well," said Ginny slowly, helping herself to a bit of egg too, "if you really want to talk to Sirius, I expect we could think of a way to do it...." "Come on," said Harry dully. "With Umbridge policing the fires and reading all our mail?" "The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking that anything's possible if you've got the nerve." Harry looked at her. Perhaps it was the effect of the chocolate-Lupin had always advised eating some after encounters with dementors-or simply because he had finally spoken aloud the wish that had been burning inside him for a week, but he felt a bit more hopeful.... "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" "Oh damn,' whispered Ginny, jumping to her feet. "I forgot -" Madam Pince was swooping down upon them, her shriveled face contorted with rage. "Chocolate in the library!" she screamed. "Out-out-OUT!" And whipping out her wand, she caused Harry's books, bag, and ink bottle to chase him and Ginny from the library, whacking them repeatedly over the head a they ran. -------------- "Hey," said a voice in Harry's ear. He looked around; Fred and George had come to join them. "Ginny's had a word with us about you," said Fred, stretching out his legs on the table in front of them and causing several booklets on careers with the Ministry of Magic to slide off onto the floor. "She says you need to talk to Sirius?" Chapter 31 - OWLs
"I'm just glad we won, that's all." "Yeah," said Ron slowly, savoring the words, "we won. Did you see the look on Chang's face when Ginny got the Snitch right out from under her nose?" "I suppose she cried, did she?" said Harry bitterly. Chapter 32 - Out of the Fire
The classroom door opened. Harry, Ron, and Hermione whipped around. Ginny walked in, looking curious, closely followed by Luna, who as usual looked as though she had drifted in accidentally. "Hi," said Ginny uncertainly. "We recognized Harry's voice-what are you yelling about?" "Never you mind," said Harry roughly. Ginny raised her eyebrows. "There's no need to take that tone with me," she said coolly. "I was only wondering whether I could help." "Well, you can't," said Harry shortly. -------------- "We'll draw Umbridge away again, but we'll need lookouts, and that's where we can use Ginny and Luna." Though clearly struggling to understand what was going on, Ginny said immediately, "Yeah, we'll do it," and Luna said, "When you say 'Sirius,' are you talking about Stubby Boardman?" Nobody answered her. -------------- "Luna and I can stand at either end of the corridor," said Ginny promptly, "and warn people not to go down there because someone's let off a load of Garroting Gas." Hermione looked down in surprise at the readiness with which Ginny had come up with this lie. Ginny shrugged and said, "Fred and George were planning to do it before they left." -------------- "You can't come down here!" Ginny was calling to the crowd. "No, sorry, you're going to have to go round by the swiveling staircase, someone’s let off Garroting Gas just along here-" They could hear people complaining; one surly voice said, "I can't see no gas..." "That's because it's colorless," said Ginny in a convincingly exasperated voice, "but if you want to walk through it, carry on, then we'll have your body as proof for the next idiot who didn't believe us...." -------------- 
"Got 'em all," said Warrington, shoving Ron roughly forward into the room. "That one," he poked a thick finger at Neville, "tried to stop me taking her," he pointed to Ginny, who was trying to kick the shins of the large Slytherin girl holding her, "so I brought him along too."
"Good, good," said Umbridge, watching Ginny's struggles. "Well, it looks as though Hogwarts wil shortly be a Weasley-free zone, doesn't it?" Chapter 33 - Fight and Flight
Harry and Hermione moved instictivly together and peered through the trees. Ron came into sight, closely followed by Ginny, Neville, and Luna. All of them looked a little the worse for wear - there were several long scrotches running the length of Ginny's cheek, a loarge purple lump was swelling above Neville's right eye, Ron's lip was bleeding worse than ever - but all were looking rather pleased with themselves. -------------- "How did you get away?" asked Harry in amazement, taking his wand from Ron. 
"Couple of stunners, a Disarming Charm, Neville brought off a really nice little Impediment Jinx," said Ron airly, now handing back Hermione's wand too. "But Ginny was best, she got Malfoy -Bat Bogey Hex- it was superb, his whole face was covered in the great flapping things. Anyway, we saw you heading into the forest out of the window and followed. What've you done with Umbridge?"
"She got carried away," said Harry. "By a herd of centaurs." "And they left you behind?" asked Ginny, looking astonished. "No, they got chased off by Grawp," said Harry. -------------- "Okay," Harry said irritably, roundoing on her, "first of all, 'we' aren't doing anyting if you're including yourself in that, and second of all, Ron's the only one with a broomstick that isn't being guarded by a security troll, so -" "I've got a broom!" said Ginny. "Yeah, but you're not coming," said Ron angrily. 
"Excuse me, but I care what happens to Sirius as much as you do!" said Ginny, her jaw set so that her resemblance to Fred and George was suddenly striking. "You're too-"
"I'm three years older than you were when you fought You-Know-Who over the Socerer's Stone," she said fiercly, "and it's because of me Malfoy's stuck back in Umbridge's office with giant flying bogeys attacking him-" "Yeah, but-" "We're all in the D.A. together," said Neville quietly. -------------- "Okay, fine, it's your choice," he said curtly. "But unless we can find more thestrals you're not going to be able-" "Oh, more of them will come," said Ginny confidently, who like Ron was squinting in quite the wrong dirrection, apparantly under the impressioin that she was looking at the horses. "What makes you say that?" "Because in case you hadn't notice, you and Hermione are both covered in blood," she said coolly, "and we know Hagrid lures thestrals with raw meat, so that's probably why these two turned up in the first place...." Chapter 34 - The Department of Mysteries
"Okay, listen," said Harry, stopping again within six feet of the door. "Maybe... maybe a couple of people should stay here as a - as a lookout-" "And how're we going to let you know something's coming?" asked Ginny, her eyebrows raised. "You could be miles away." -------------- "What was that about?" whispered Ron fearfully. "I think it was to stop us knowing which door we came from," said Ginny in a hushed voice. Harry realized at once that she was right: he could no sooner have picked the exit from the other doors than located an ant upon the jetblack floor. -------------- 
"What're those things?" whispered Ron.
"Dunno," said Harry. "Are they fish?" breathed Ginny. "Aquavirius maggots!" said Luna excitedly. -------------- "Keep going!" said Harry sharply, because Ginny showed signs of wanting to stop and watch the egg's progress back into a bird. "You dawdled enough by that old arch!" she said crossly, but followed him bast the bell jar to the only door behind it. Chapter 35 - Beyond the Veil
"You need more persuasion?" she said, her chest rising and falling rapidly. "Very well-take the smallest one," she ordered the Death Eaters beside her. "Let him watch while we torture the little girl. I'll do it."
Harry felt the others close in around Ginny. He stepped sideways so that he was right in front of her, the prophecy held up to his chest. "You'll have to smash this if you want to attack any of us," he told Bellatrix. "I don't think you boss will be too pleased if you come back without it, will he?" -------------- There was a shout from a room nearby, then a crash and a scream. "RON?" Harry yelled, turning quickly from the monstrous transformation taking place before them. "GINNY? LUNA?" -------------- "Ginny?" Harry said fearfully. "What happened?" But Ginny shook her head and slid down the wall into a sitting position, panting and holding her ankle. "I think your ankle's broken, I heard something crack," whispered Luna, who was bending over her and who seemed to be unhurt. -------------- "We've got to get out of here," said Harry firmly. "Luna, can you help Ginny?" "Yes," said Luna, sticking her wand behind her ear for safekeeping, putting an arm around Ginny's waist and pulling her up. "It's only my ankle, I can do it myself!" said Ginny impatiently, but next moment she had collapsed sideways and grabbed Luna for support. -------------- "Diffindo!" yelled Harry, trying to sever the feelers wrapping themselves tightly around Ron before his eyes, but they would not break. Ron fell over, still thrashing against his bonds. "Harry, it'll suffocate him!" screamed Ginny, immobilized by her broken ankle on the floor - then a jet of red light flew from one of the Death Eater's wands and hit her squarely in the face. She keeled over sideways and lay there unconcious. Chapter 36 - The Only One He Ever Feared
Slipping and sliding he ran on toward the door. He lept over Luna, who was groaning on the floor, past Ginny, who said, "Harry -what -?" past Ron, who giggled feebly, and Hermione, who was still unconcious. Chapter 38 - The Second War Begins
He helped himself to a handful of Chocolate Frogs from the immense pile of his beside the cabinet, threw a few to Harry, Ginny, and Neville, and ripped off the wrapper of his own with his teeth. -------------- "Daddy sold it to them," said Luna vaguely, turning a page of The Quibbler. "He got a very good price for it too, so we're going to go on an expedition to Sweden this summer and see if we can catch a Crumple-Horned Snorkack." Hermione seemed to struggle with herself for a moment, then said, "That sounds lovely." Ginny caught Harry's eye and looked away quickly, grinning. -------------- Hermione and Ginny muffled their laughter in the bedcloths. "Speaking of centaurs," said Hermione, when she had recoverd a little, "who's Divination teacher now? Is Firenze staying?" "He's got to," said Harry," the other centaurs won't take him back, will they?" "It looks like he and Trelawney are both going to teach," said Ginny. -------------- Harry looked around. Cho was passing, accompanied by Marietta Edgecombe, who was wearing a balaclava. His and Cho's eyes met for a moment. Cho blushed and kept walking. Harry looked back down at the chessboard just in time to see one of his pawns chased off its square by Ron's knoght. "What's - er - going on with you and her, anyway?" Ron asked quietly. "Nothing," said Harry truthfully. "I - er - heard she's going out with someone else now," said Hermione tentatively. Harry was surprised to find that this information did not hurt at all. Wanting to impress Cho seemed to belong to a past that was no longer quite connected with him; so much of what he had wanted before Sirius' death felt that way these days... the week that had elapsed since he had last seen Sirius seemed to have lasted much, much longer; it stretched across two universes, the one with Sirius in it, and the one without. You're well out of it, mate," said Ron forcefully. "I mean, she's quite good-looking and all that, but you want someone a bit more cheerful." "She's probably cheerful enough with someone else," said Harry shrugging. "Who's she with now anyway?" Ron asked Hermione, but it was Ginny who answered. "Michael Corner," she said. "Michael - but -" said Ron, craning around in his seat to stare at her. "But you were going out with him!" "Not anymore," said Ginny resolutely. "He didn't like Gryffindor beating Ravenclaw at Quidditch and got reallly sulky, so I ditched him and he ran off to comfort Cho instead." She scratched her nose absently with the end of her quill, turned The Quibbler upside down and began marking her answers. Ron looked highly delighted. "Well, I always thought he was a bit of an idiot," he said, prodding his queen forward toward Harry's quivering castle. "Good for you. Just choose someone - better - next time." He cast Harry and oddly furtive look as he said it. "Well, I've chosen Dean Thomas, would you say he's better?" asked Ginny vaguely. "WHAT?" shouted Ron, upending the chessboard. |
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