At the End of the Day
Rating: still R
Disclaimer: Still not mine
Notes- I'm sorry about the Ginny in her 5th year thing, I forgot I wrote she was in her 5th year. She isn't, she is in her 6th year and she is 16. Just letting everyone know that.
Ginny Weasley stretched and got out of bed, or rather she tried to get out of bed. She fell back down on the red and gold covered bed with a thud. She didn't feel like moving, she was too weak. It's been two weeks into school and Ginny had yet to eat more than one bite at a meal. She wasn't anorexic, she just wasn't hungry.
She tried to stand up again, and this time it worked.
She went to the bathroom and washed her face, trying to wake her self up. She put on her now loose, because of how much weight she lost, clothing and left her curly auburn locks flowing down her back. She fastened her robe and walked down to breakfast.
She knew she fell because of how much weight she lost but she just couldn't bring herself to eat.
It wasn't that noticeable though, her weight really wasn't that bad, she reasoned with herself.
She sighed and took a bite of a strawberry for breakfast. She put it down, and stood up, and left the hall. If anyone noticed she was only in there for less than a second no one mentioned it to her, or to anyone else.
She walked slowly to transfiguration, falling at least twice on her way there. Once she got there she sank into her seat, glad to be sitting down.
Professor McGonagall came in and started their lesson.
Ginny was able to make it through the rest of the day without any more collapses. When it came time for dinner she decided to force herself to eat. She took a piece of steak. She cut a piece and took a bite of it, she was full already. She took another bite, and than another one before she felt as if she would throw up. She put her head in her hands and rubbed her temples.
Great, she thought to herself, I have a stomachache and a headache! She sighed and stood up. She walked to Gryffindor tower, only two more hateful weeks of this password Ginny reminded herself as she said the name of her deceased brother to the portrait.
"I wonder who that is!" The fat lady had once said to Ginny.
"Who what is?" came the reply of the auburn haired girl.
"Bill Weasley"
"My murdered brother" Ginny informed the portrait, who gave a gasp of surprise and immediately started apologizing. She used to say her brother that passed away, before the term started to really annoy her. Her brother probably was anything but passive when he died. Ginny was sure that he fought all the way to his grave, and she was so proud of him for it!
She clambered into the portrait hole, and went up to her room. She opened her trunk and rummaged around into it for a while before pulling out some sort of book.
Divination Throughout the Ages by Allreena Peronstrasta Ginny read skimming her hand over the lettering. She opened up the book, Bill had given it to her for her fifteenth birthday and told her not to open it until her sixth year at Hogwarts. Ginny had forgotten about it until now.
All of a sudden there was a large bang and Ginny dropped her book. There were shrieks of terror coming from downstairs.
She quickly grabbed her wand and rushed downstairs. The Gryffindor common room was in a state of chaos.
There were three dementors, and there was no Harry Potter to be found. Ginny searched her memory for the happiest moment.
"When Bill came home and gave me my necklace for my 16th birthday" she whispered.
"Expecto Patronum" she cried out. A large silver panther streaked out of the end of her wand. It charged the dementors with such a force that the people in the room hid behind things.
Once all of the creatures were gone the portrait hole opened and Professor McGonagall came rushing in along with Professor Snape, there wands at ready.
"Good Heavens" Professor McGonagall breathed "what happened here?"
There was a burst of noise and the whole common room was shouting at once.
The professor held up her hand signaling to them they should be silent. "One person, if you please."
Seamus Finnegan stood up "well you see Professor, we all heard this bang, and than all of a sudden three dementors appeared, and then Ginny Weasley came down and saved us all" he said this all very fast, but it seemed the Professor McGonagall got the gist of it. She nodded, and beckoned Ginny over with her finger.
"Follow me" she said crisply.
Snape left the portrait hole first followed by McGonagall than Ginny. He led them to Dumbledore's office.
"Blood Pops" he said to the Gargoyle.
All three slowly walked up the stairs to the office.
Professor Snape knocked on the door. It swung open letting all three of them in.
Dumbledore gestured to the three seats in front of his desk, wanting them to sit down.
He raised his eyebrows and motioned for Professor McGonagall to explain.
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Ginny Weasley walked slowly back to the common room, wanting to be alone for as long as possible. When she arrived she whispered the new password (Pixy Perfect) and walked in. She was lucky, everyone was asleep. She walked up the staircase and fell onto her bed. She closed her eyes and in seconds she was fast asleep.
"It's happening" a voice whispered
"I know it is!" cried a different voice, sounding a little bit indignant.
"She is coming" the first voice said.
"Who is?"
"Istahar" the first voice said, happy he knew something the other voice didn't.
The second voice gasped "It's not possible! She vowed never to return!"
The voice shook its head, or it would have if it had one to shake.
"She vowed never to return until the country needed her and when all-"
"Yes, yes, I know" interrupted the second voice, a little impatiently "but you don't think it's really going to happen do you?"
"I do" the first voice said without much conviction.
"It would be beautiful to see her…" the second voice trailed off.
"Yes, yes it would."
"Do the two people know what to do?"
"They hardly know each other; of course they don't know what to do!"
"Somebody ought to teach them then!"
"Yes someone ought to, but no one will, everyone is too scared."
"Then we must take it upon ourselves" cried the second voice with a fiery passion
"How are we going to do that?"
"I haven't actually figured that one out yet" the second voice said, feeling a little sheepish for the first time that night.
"Think before you speak" the first voice sneered.
The second voice sounded angry when it spoke next "Don't you dare speak to me like that" it hissed. "You are no more important than I am!"
"You must be jesting me, I am the most important! Without me the whole operation would fail!"
"Without everyone the operation would fail, don't you see if one person doesn't do their job than everything would fall apart!"
The first voice seemed to have lost its sneer because it apologized.
"Apology accepted" the second voice answered. "Now onto business, we may not think it will work but we shall do everything in our power to make it work!"
"Istahar will make it work!"
"It would be a comfort to have her, but since she may not come we must plan according to as if she is not going to be there, and if she comes all the better for us."
"But I am positive she is coming, Alex-"
"No names" hissed the second voice.
"Centaur B is our most reliable source, and she told me!" the first voice said stubbornly.
"I know that, but just in case we must be sure!"
The first voice sighed "I suppose you're right…but still-"
"No buts about it, it's better to be safe than sorry!"
Ginny awoke with a start, and remembered the strange dream she had last night. She rubbed her eyes, and stretched. Then she realized something, she was hungry! It had been weeks since she was last hungry. She threw her robe on and rushed down the stairs and to the Great Hall.
She sat down next to Colin and piled food onto her plate. She had a helping of scrambled eggs and some fudge. She finally felt full, truly full. After she finished her breakfast she turned to speak to Colin, but he was already gone. She sighed, she knew they weren't friends but she was getting very bored with no friends. She got up and made her way to transfiguration.
They were still all working on changing an inanimate object into an animate one.
Ginny had always hated transfiguration; it was always so boring to her. She wasn't bad at transfiguration, actually quite the opposite she was one of the top in her class it just bored her to tears.
Ginny swished her wand, said the incantation and her clock became an owl. She smiled, all done. Around thirty minutes later the bell rang. Ginny gathered her stuff and went to potions.
She sat down in her seat, but stopped when Professor Snape called her to his desk along with Serena.
Ginny walked over to the potion master's desk and waited silently.
"Do you remember when I spoke to you on the first day of class about a potion you would have to work on?" he asked.
Both girls nodded simultaneously and so Snape continued.
"You two and Mister Malfoy will be working on it today; you have been excused from the rest of your classes. You will be working in my study, it is through that door on your right, the password is Valerian Roots.
Ginny and Serena both walked to the door.
"Valerian Roots" Serena said, the door opened and they stepped inside.
Malfoy was already in there, his feet up on the desk.
He nodded at Serena, and he looked Ginny up and down.
"Weasley" he sneered.
"Malfoy" she sneered back at him. If he was surprised that she had said anything to him he didn't show it.
"Let's get to work" he said, and swung his feet down.
"Draco?" Serena asked "we don't know what potion to make."
"Everlasting Elixir" Draco told them.
Serena dropped the vile she was holding, and Ginny's jaw dropped.
"But that's never been made before" Ginny said "even the ingredients are unknown."
"Yes" Draco said "so is the effect, and if we want to find out how to make it we'd better get started!"
They spent the whole day reading books and looking at ingredients.
Ginny was lying on the ground, Serena was sitting in a chair, and Draco was standing, but they all had one thing in common. They all were reading furiously determined to make the potion.
Ginny sighed, she grabbed another book, there was nothing in Potions for those who Excel, or in Potions for Geniuses. She looked next to her, there was still at least twenty books left in the pile that they had made.
Draco had read the most while Serena and Ginny had read only two, he was on his fifth.
It was dinner time before they knew it, and they had found nothing. Ginny wanted to scream in frustration, they had been working the whole day, and nothing had come up!
"Maybe we should just guess the ingredients" Serena said half joking, half serious.
Draco just smirked at her and packed his stuff. "This is what we're going to be doing every Sunday; we're not allowed to miss class, if you have any free time I would advise you to read up in the Library."
He nodded at Serena, and sneered at Ginny before he left. Ginny sighed and gathered her books; she gave Serena a little smile and went to dinner. She ate her mashed potatoes and roast beef.
After she was done she went over to the table for the teachers and went up to Firenze.
"Excuse me Professor" she said, wedging her way next to him.
"Yes Miss Weasley?" he asked her.
"You see sir I was thinking back to our first lesson and you said a seer gets his or her gift at the age of seventeen. Is it possible for a seer to get their gift earlier?"
Firenze looked at her knowingly.
"Yes it is possible, and highly unlikely, but there have been cases, can I assume you are one of them?" he asked her, raising his eyebrow.
Ginny blushed and nodded "yes sir." She said, it felt a little weird to call a centaur sir, but she respected him and so she gave him his rightful name.
Firenze smiled down at her kindly "Good night Miss Weasley" he told her.
"Good night" she answered.
She walked to her room smiling, today was a good day.
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She woke up the next morning and smiled, it was Saturday. Today was the first match against Slytherin.
Ginny got up and threw on her quidditch robes. She put her hair up so that it wouldn't get in her way. On her way out she grabbed her nimbus 2001, a present for getting good grades on her OWLs.
She ran down to the Gryffindor locker room, Harry was already there. He nodded at her and she sat down with the rest of the team.
"Okay" Harry said clapping his hands "we're playing Slytherin today; we've been training for this the whole year." No one wanted to point out that it had only been to weeks into the school year. Harry was sometimes worse than Oliver Wood, he made grueling practices when they won, and even harder ones when they lost.
Harry finished his pep talk and went outside, the rest of the team followed.
"Captains shake hands" Madame Hooch said, as Ginny mounted her broom.
Neither Harry nor Draco held out their hands, they just stared at each other, Madame Hooch sighed.
"I want a nice clean game" she said staring hardly at both boys.
Ginny and Harry switched places while Draco and Theodore Nott switched places.
"On my whistle she told the two."
She threw the ball up and blew her whistle. Ginny flew up and grabbed the quaffle she flew straight at the Slytherin hoops, but dropped a pass back to Dean who shot.
"Oh blocked by the keeper" cried Amy Jordon, the announcer. "The keeper gives it to Nott, who passes to Zabini; Ginny Weasley has stolen the quaffle"
Ginny held the quaffle tight as she flew towards the Slytherin goal post. A bludger was hit at her but she dodged it, she aimed and fired her shot.
"Goal!" cried Amy, waving her hands wildly in the air.
"Zabini passes to Phelps, who swings it around and throws it to Nott, back to Zabini. He's heading straight for the goal post, Oh Natasha Greyheart has stolen the quaffle she passes to Weasley, who passes back to Greyheart." Amy said the excitement was evident in her voice.
Ginny sighed and sped up to get near Dean who now had the quaffle. He threw it at her and she ducked underneath Zabini, she saw that both bludgers were coming at her she threw the ball to Dean and went into a graceful dive down avoiding collision. She looked up and saw that Dean had scored. She smiled and he gave her a thumbs up. Natasha grabbed the quaffle out from Notts hand and threw it in the goal.
The Slytherins were upset, and started to play brutally. Zabini knocked Dean away with his elbow. "Foul" cried Amy, getting upset "where were you on that one Madame Hooch?"
Zabini threw the quaffle in the goal, Ron blocked it, but Nott retaliated with shoving Ginny out of the way and getting the goal. Ginny got the quaffle and streaked off toward Slytherin. She kicked Phelps out of the way-
"Foul" Madame Hooch's whistle blew.
"What are you talking about?" screamed Amy "if you're going to call a foul at least call all of them you cheating bit-"
"Miss Jordan" McGonagall cried from her seat.
"Sorry Professor."
The shot on goal was blocked, and Natasha got the quaffle she flew to the other side of the pitch with Ginny in front of her and Dean behind her.
She threw the ball to Ginny he threw it up in the air, and hit it with the back of her broom.
"Goal!" screamed Amy "that was beautiful, did you see that? One of the best shots so far!"
Nott was getting mad, his face was red and he was not in a good mood.
"Where is the fucking Snitch?" he screamed to Blaise, who shrugged his shoulders in reply.
Thirty minutes later there was still no sign of the snitch and the score was Gryffindor 150, to Slytherin 100.
Ginny grabbed the quaffle and scored once again.
"Ginny Weasley is really on tonight!" said Amy happily "her shots have been amazing and her flying is the best!"
Ginny flew with the other Gryffindor chasers in a V towards the Slytherin posts. She passed the quaffle to Greyheart, who swung it around to Dean who shot.
"Blocked by the keeper" Amy cried. "It looks like Harry Potter has seen the snitch!"
Draco started to follow Harry until a hint of gold caught his eye.
Potter was pulling a Wronski Feint; Draco smirked and veered left with his broom. He shot towards the snitch he reached out and caught it! He held it up triumphantly, as all the Slytherins cheered wildly.
The Gryffindor team landed, defeat written all over their faces.
"Come on" Harry said to the team "let's go shower."
Ginny and Natasha went to one side of the locker room, while all the boys went to the other.
"You were really good today Ginny" Natasha told her.
"Thanks" she said smiling "you were too."
Natasha Greyheart would have been popular if she wasn't such so smart. She would get good grades, and wouldn't let anyone cheat off her, enraging the "popular" people.
Ginny and Natasha never really spoke before, they each normally kept to themselves, but now they could see this would be the beginning of a great friendship.
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It was Sunday and Ginny had to work on the potion. She was the first one in Snape's office. She started on the books, reading about the ingredients.
When Draco and Serena walked in they looked surprised Ginny was already there, but said nothing.
"How where potions first made?" Ginny asked them, smiling as if she knew something.
Serena raised her eyebrows "probably exactly how we made them in potions class."
"No, that's not what I meant" Ginny explained. "When a potion was made for the first time how did they get the right ingredients?"
Neither Draco nor Serena answered her, just looked at her expectantly.
"They researched the ingredients and found out what each ingredient did. SO if we could do that we could make the potion."
"There's one problem with that Weasley" Draco smirked "we don't even know what the potion does."
Ginny's face fell "Good point" she mumbled.
Ginny read through at least four books that morning, and found nothing on the potion. Towards the middle of the day though Serena jumped up, and screamed.
"I got it!" She cried, holding the book up in the air.
Ginny ran over to her, and Draco sat where he was.
"Well what does it say, Zabini?" he asked.
Serena glared at him, Draco just shrugged in reply.
"Everlasting Elixir" Serena read.
"The Everlasting Elixir is a potion that can cure all ailments, including old age, and even death. The potion will never run out. This potion has never been made before and all of the ingredients, except for one, are unknown. The known ingredient is acromantula venom."
"Acromantula venom?" Ginny asked "that's impossible to find!"
Serena nodded "even for a Malfoy" she said glaring at Draco.
Ginny looked up "What?" she asked
"It's the only potion ingredient my father doesn't have, It is impossible to find." Draco explained.
"Well" Ginny said "look on the bright side, now we can use my idea with potion ingredients."
Serena nodded "let's get to work then!"
Draco smirked and went over to Ginny "You know what Weasley?" he asked.
Ginny sighed "No I don't."
"Yea, I kind of figured you wouldn't."
Ginny stared at the blond boy "What?" she asked him, confusion written clearly on her face.
He smirked even wider "get back to work Weasley, it's what you're good at" he took a delight in vexing her.
"As opposed to you, who has never done a decent day of work in his life" she bit out.
"Obviously, I'm a Malfoy"
"Oh shut up both of you" cried Serena, having enough of the two of them.
And for the next couple of weeks this was how it went.
I still didn't get as many reviews as I would have liked but whatever, I'll put this up anyway. It's out of love. Anyway guys please review. If you hate it review and tell me why, if you like it review and tell me why!
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