Animagus 17
I'm so sorry that it took this long to get a chapter out!
I don't own any Harry potter characters or the story Cabbage Rose.
IMPORTANT- In the chapter before I accidentally had Ginny's middle name Adele, it isn't, it is Rowena I'm really sorry! And the story will be important later.
Ginny Weasley was sat on her bed and pulled out a book. It was her favorite book, called Cabbage rose. It was about a plain young girl who went off into the world to seek her fortune, falling in love with a prince but feeling hopeless because she was not beautiful. That is why Ginny loved the story so much it showed that you didn't have to be beautiful to be a princess. She opened the book and started to read.
Have you ever seen how, each day; the plain yellow sun paints the world in wonderful colors? There was a girl who could do that. She was an artist, and she painted skies, rivers and children's faces as perfect as roses. But the girl herself was plain, and so her brothers called her Cabbage. Cabbaged lived, and worked in her brothers in, which was on the road that wound into the King's Forest, which was Cabbages' favorite place to paint. Many people stopped by the inn, men who went to seek the King's council, woman trying to meet the prince, and one night an old magician. He arrived after all of the guests were in bed. Her brothers were also sleeping because they were a lazy pair! Only cabbage was awake painting.
When an old magician walked in Cabbage jumped swiftly to her feet to help him but he told her that all he wanted was to sit and watch her paint, and he did. The next morning when she awoke she found that the man was gone, with the blanket that she had given him, neatly folded on top of the bench. She picked up the blanket and out fell a beautiful new paintbrush. She smiled happily, and started to draw. Something strange happened when she dipped her brush into the paint and touched the easel, for as soon as it did the things that Cabbage painted would come to life. Her brothers soon found out about this and took advantage of it. They closed down their inn and made her draw them gold and riches, until she collapsed from exhaustion. The brothers smirked at each other and grabbed the paintbrush from her hands. They tried as best as they could but the paintbrush would only work for cabbage. That night Cabbage crept out of her window, paintbrush in hand and ran away, to the king's marketplace. When she got there it was morning, and it was beautiful.
All the children were outside playing, the people were talking and laughing, it was wonderful. She did not use her magic paintbrush though, when she painted people's houses for money, and pictures of people's families for food. She was the talk of many because of her skill with the paintbrush, but her brothers never heard of her. They didn't care if some girl can paint if she didn't have a magic paintbrush they didn't care! So one day the King heard about her. He came into the marketplace, dressed as a commoner and saw her work. He went back to the palace and ordered his minister to ask Cabbage to paint twelve pictures for him, one picture a day, and for the twelve days she would stay in the palace. Cabbage agreed, and went to the palace and met the prince. She instantly fell in love. On the very first day he came to watch her, and they talked, the second day he brought her something, and she blushed, so h e called her Cabbage Rose. The days past and Cabbage Rose found that she was dreading to go home for even in the short amount of time she had fallen in love with the prince. On the last day when her last painting was done she went over to the mirror and took out the magic brush that she hadn't used in so long, and started to draw. She drew a woman more beautiful than she could ever be, with a fancier dress than she would ever wear. She walked into the palace courtyard, and heard the whispers all around her. She walked over to the prince to find him ignoring her with a sulky look on his face. She curtsied and held out her brush for him.
"I can paint anything you would want me to!" she said, and the jewels and butterflies that she drew came to life. The prince stared at her.
"Then paint Cabbage Rose, for the world is plain without her." When Cabbage heard that she snapped the brush in half, and she turned into her old self, in front of everyone. The prince gazed into her eyes, and then he kissed her, and they lived happily ever after.
Ginny smiled and placed the book on her nightstand; she rolled up her sleeve to look at the tattoo that was there. It was what comforted her. She traced the rose with her finger, before pulling the covers up over her head and falling asleep.
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Draco Malfoy was worried, though he would never admit it. He didn't understand, they knew were Voldemort was so why don't they just go attack him! Draco wasn't stupid, he was just frustrated. He went back to thinking about his father. His father loved his wife and would do anything for her, so that is why he saved Draco. He hated Draco since he was little, though he would never say it. Draco took up all of his mother's time, and Lucius hated it. Draco sighed and sank into his chair, it smelt like Ginny. He grabbed his blankets off from the bed, and fell asleep in the chair.
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Lucius Malfoy was running away, he knew it was cowardly and he always preached never to be a coward, but if he would stay he was going to die. He apparated to the Malfoy Manor in Italy, but he knew his visit there could only be a couple of weeks, at most two months because Voldemort would surely find him out. He had to keep moving, not staying in any specific spot for too long otherwise, he would never be able to his wife again.
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Ron was Weasley sat in the common room fuming, his face a shade of purple that was almost inhuman. He kept clenching, and then unclenching his fists, making motions as if trying to strangle someone. No one was sure if it was Ginny or Draco. Hermione was sitting next to him trying to calm him down, with Harry on the other side, not saying anything just being there to support him. Hermione looked at Harry and sighed, this was never going to work out. She didn't say it out loud, but in her heart she knew that the Order would fail and all good in this world will fade, until there is nothing left, not the sound of water, or the whispers of the wind.
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Natalie groaned and sank farther into Blaise's arms. He licked her and she moaned.
"Do you love me?" she asked him. He looked at her startled for a moment before looking her straight in the eye. "I do." He answered.
She smiled at him, and he thought it was beautiful, he loved her smile.
"I want to be with you!" she told him.
"We've made love, already" he pointed out.
"Not like that, I want to be with you forever, I want to do what you do." She told him.
"You mean get married?" he asked, grinning.
She shook her head no, "I mean, I want to become a death eater." There was silence for the next couple of minutes or so, until he whispered something to her that made her shriek with joy. She smiled so widely her face began to hurt. She couldn't believe it; tomorrow night she would become a death eater.
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Blaise walked into Draco's room the next morning. "You know what tonight is?" he asked Draco.
Draco silently groaned, he knew this was coming tonight he would become a death eater.
Taking his silence for a yes Blaise started talking.
"What is up with you and that Weasley girl?"
"Hmm?" Draco asked him, not really paying attention.
"The Weasley girl, why did you go on that little adventure with her?"
Shit, Draco thought what am I going to say?
"It was father's idea" he said making up a story. "He thought I should spy on the order so when it comes time for my initiation, I could offer Lord Voldemort more than just an able-bodied male."
Blaise nodded "I wish I had thought of that" he told Draco.
Draco just shrugged and got out of bed, it would be harder to fool Voldemort, much harder.
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Ginny woke up and stretched, bumping into a picture frame on the nightstand. She closed her eyes waiting for the crash, it was her favorite picture and frame, but not hearing one she looked over and saw the picture floating in midair.
"Hello?" she asked, waiting for something to answer her. She heard the same voice as she did the night before.
"Hi" it replied.
"Why are you following me?" Ginny asked, not really sure if the thing was following her but she figured it would be a safe guess.
"Because I'm your guardian angel" the air explained to her as if she was talking to a little child.
"Right" Ginny said, thinking that she must be going insane. "Well I'm not getting dressed with you in here!"
"Come off it" the voice replied "I'm a girl."
"Obviously" she said "You don't sound like a boy" explaining to the angel her reasoning.
The air made an insulted huff, and told the Ginny that it wouldn't look. Ginny didn't believe that but it was the best she could do. She threw on her clothing and walked down to the Great Hall. She looked around to find Natalie but didn't see her. She shrugged and sat down next to Colin Creevey, who as soon as she sat snapped a picture of her. Ginny laughed and grabbed a piece of toast. She grabbed the butter and put some on her bread. She shoved it in her mouth; she hadn't realized how hungry she was. There was a slamming of a door, and everyone looked up to find Draco Malfoy walking in, with Blaise, and Natalie walking in after him. They all sat down at the Slytherin table, facing the Gryffindors. Natalie sat in-between both of them. Ginny knew she shouldn't be jealous but she was. She grabbed Colin's arm.
"Come Colin, let's go!" she was glaring death at Natalie, who just sneered back.
Colin raised his eyebrow, but left with her anyway, it was Sunday and he had no where to go. When they got outside of the hall Ginny stopped pulling him and took a deep steadying breath.
"Do you want to tell me what that was about?" Colin asked her.
Ginny shook her head "no."
Colin sighed, when Ginny didn't want to say something it is usually really hard to get out of her.
"I need to talk to Dumbledore" Ginny told Colin.
"He was in the Great Hall, when we left"Colin replied. Ginny nodded, grabbed Colin's arm once again and dragged him to Dumbledore. When they walked into the hall, people stared at them weirdly.
"Why are they staring at us?" Ginny asked Colin, who shrugged and replied that it was probably because she had just walked out of the Great Hall to come barging back in, Ginny stuck her tongue out at him and walked up to Dumbledore.
"Professor-"she started.
"I know Ms. Weasley, I know" He interrupted.
"You don't know what I was going to say!" she protested.
He looked at her, a twinkle in his eye "Come with me," he glanced at Colin. "You can come to, Mr. Creevey."
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Ok! I didn't get as many reviews as I wanted for last chapter, boohoo. That's why I didn't write for a long time, so if you all don't review, I wont write the next chapter- I'm trying for 200, please? That's all I wanted to say remember, I wrote over 2,000 words for you, write 5 for me!
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