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Chapter 3: The Book

Ginny tried to ignore the fact that Harry seemed upset. She wondered what had happened after she left him and Neville in the train. She knew it had something to do with Malfoy by the way he was laughing his head off across the hall. She wanted to talk to Harry and see what was wrong but before she could get up and move over next to him, Dumbledore stood up and started his second speech. She turned toward him, but she was immediately distracted by his arm, which was all dead and burned looking. She turned to Dean. “Was it like that the first time he talked?” Dean shrugged.

“I don’t know,” he said, “I don’t think I could see it before.” The entire hall seemed to be thinking the same thing and everyone around her gasped at the sight of it.

“Nothing to worry about,” he said and covered his arm with his sleeve. Ginny glanced back at Harry who was now looking down at his plate. Ginny kept staring at Harry while Dumbledore talked about Filch’s rules and quidditch team tryouts. And then he got to the new teachers.

“We are pleased to welcome Professor Slughorn who will be taking over the potions classes for this year,” Dumbledore said.

“Potions?”

“Potions?”

“Is he sure It’s not Defense Against the Dark Arts?” These were the questions that echoed through the hall.

“And Professor Snape will be taking the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher,” Dumbledore finished.

Harry jumped up and screamed, “No!” And many heads turned toward him including Ginny. But many other people had shouted their dislikes to this new adjustment. The entire hall was in uproar. There was applause from only the Slytherin table, but it was droned out by the shouts of the other three house tables. Dumbledore cleared his throat and the hall silenced almost immediately. He then began talking about Voldemort. When Dumbledore said his name, everyone in the hall cringed.

“Advanced protection spells have been put in place for your safety. We still must always be on our guard to protect ourselves and those around us,” Dumbledore said. Ginny felt nervous just thinking about Voldemort. It made her even more nervous to think that Voldemort could get into Hogwarts. “But for now your beds await and you need to be well rested for tomorrows lessons. So, off to bed with you.” Dumbledore waved his hands and the food disappeared off the plates and the benches scrapped against the floor and the students filed out of the hall.

Ginny and Dean walked out of the hall and to their dormitory together. As they walked up the stairs toward the tower, they were silent. It was an awkward silence that Ginny had never experienced with a boy she was dating.

“Do you know what happened to Harry?” Dean asked suddenly, “he had blood all over his face and you said he was at the party.”

“I don’t know,” Ginny shrugged, “he was fine when I left him and Neville in the corridor. I don’t know what he could have done to get himself hurt between then and the time we got off the train.” Dean seemed satisfied with her answer. He knew that she liked Harry before and wasn’t sure if she still did or not. He always wanted to know where Ginny was and whom she was with, which Ginny found quite annoying. He thought that maybe she had been there when Harry had gotten hurt. They were silent until the reached the common room where Dean kissed her goodnight and Ginny went up to the girls’ dormitory.

Her roommates were already in bed and the room was dark so, Ginny tiptoed through the room and over to her bed. She slipped her pajamas on and got into her warm bed quietly. She fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. She was haunted by dreams where Harry and Dean were fighting but then Dean turned into Voldemort and killed Harry. These dreams occurred over and over throughout the night and it was always the same one. She tossed and turned and at 6 she couldn’t sleep any longer so, she got up, dressed and tiptoed downstairs to the common room. No on was there seeing as it was early. She sat down on the couch with a book to read in front of the fire.

CRASH! Ginny jerked around to see Harry standing at the top of the stairs with the entire contents of his bag spread out at his feet.

“Sorry,” he said quickly and started picking up his things. Ginny ran up the stairs to help him. She picked up quills and parchment while Harry picked up his books. They sat there in silence while picking things up, but this silence wasn’t awkward like the one that Ginny had the night before with Dean. Ginny reached for a quill at the same time as Harry and his hand crossed over on top of hers, but he didn’t move it. Ginny stared down at their hands and then looked up at Harry. Their eyes locked and stayed there. Ginny smiled and Harry smiled back, but the moment was broken by Dean opening his dormitories door. Ginny whipped her hand away from Harry’s and handed him his quills and parchment and ran up to greet Dean. He was watching her suspiciously all the way down to breakfast.

While Professor McGonagall was going over Dean’s O.W.L.S. scores, Ginny’s eyes wondered down the row of seats at the Gryffindor table. She spotted Harry who was whispering to Hermione and Ron. She wished that she could go back to that moment where their hands had touched. Harry glanced over to see Ginny looking at him and he smiled at her. Hermione was the only one to notice he was looking at someone and she knew that it was Ginny. Hermione smiled with that knowing smile of hers and looked back toward Ron while Harry continued to smile at Ginny. After breakfast Ginny ran off to her classes along with her fellow 5th years.

That night on her way to dinner Ginny overheard Ron, Harry and Hermione talking.

“I suppose you think I cheated with that potion then?” Harry asked Hermione.

“Well, you didn’t do it on your own did you?” Hermione snapped back at Harry.

“He only followed different directions in his book, Hermione,” said Ron, “it’s no big deal. He took a risk and it paid off-“

“Hang on,” said Ginny all of a sudden understanding what was going on. Harry looked around to see that Ginny had joined them at the dinner table. “Did I hear you right? You’ve been taking orders from a book?” Ginny was very angry. Had he learned nothing from Ginny’s first year catastrophe?

“It’s nothing,” said Harry trying to sound reassuring, “it’s not like Tom Riddle’s diary. It’s just an old textbook.”

“But you’re doing what it’s telling you to?” she said still sounding mad.

“I just tried a few of the instructions that were written in the margins, it’s no big deal Ginny,” Harry said.

“Ginny may be onto something here,” said Hermione in her know it all voice and with that she picked up the book, pointed her wand at it and said, “Specialis Revelio.” Nothing happened and book just layed there on the table.

“Happy now?” said Harry angrily as he grabbed the book back.

“It seems like there is nothing wrong with it. It seems like it really is just a book,” said Hermione.

Harry put the book in his bag and stomped off down the hall.


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