Author's Note: I CANNOT believe I haven't updated in abou two months. I'm really sorry, I just got caught up in other stuff. But I do appreciate all of the reviews I was given.
Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Rowling, nor do I own the Harry Potter world I just play with the characters inside and pretend I'm one of them...
Chapter 6- Attacks, attacks, attacks
Draco Black set down a copy of the Daily Prophet. An article featuring the current event of Eloise Midgen's being petrified was big news since it had happened the night of Harry and Dumbledore being petrified, but was found a day later under her bed.
"Draco, are you okay?" Ronald Weasley asked from Draco's left.
Draco looked up at his only sane Slytherin friend. "Sort of." Draco said.
"Do you want me to come with you when you visit Harry today?" Ron asked.
Draco shrugged. "Maybe, but I have to ask. How're you in Slytherin, you're too nice." Draco said.
"You're nice too." Ron pointed out.
Draco didn't respond and the two friends ate in silence until the dinner was over. They quickly got up and walked into the hallway and towards the hospital wing.
"Hey Draco, hey Ron." The two boys turned to see Ginny and Neville walking after them. "Going to see Harry?" Ginny asked.
Draco nodded. "Did you guys see the Prophet?" He asked as the group began moving towards the hospital wing.
"Yeah, I can't believe that Rita Skeeter is saying that Harry attacked Eloise because she wouldn't date him, then attacked Dumbledore for making him live with Sirius, then tried to commit suicide." Ginny said.
"You can't believe it?" Neville asked.
"Okay, so I can, but still, it was cruel." Ginny said.
"I know Gin, I know." Draco said. "But face it, Rita Skeeter is an idiot who will eventually get attacked by some person who she mocks, or maybe she mocks their friend or something like that."
"Draco, don't attack Rita Skeeter, she'll just write terrible things about you." Neville reprimanded.
"Not if she's dead." Draco devilishly said.
"Then Fudge'll send you to a pretty place called Azkaban." Neville pointed out as the group got closer to the Hospital Wing.
"Not if I kill him too."
At this point, Ginny and Neville were doing their best not to laugh.
"How many people do you plan on killing?" Neville asked still consoling his laughter.
"EVERYONE!" Draco joked before the whole group, Ron including, began laughing.
"Here we are." Ginny said as they reached the Hospital Wing.
Neville –because he was at the front- pulled open the door and everyone walked in.
"How's he doing Poppy?" Draco asked as he walked in.
"No better no worse, Professor Sprout is working on Mandrake roots as we speak to cure him, Eloise, and Professor Dumbledore."
"Any idea of how this happened?" Neville asked.
Madam Pomphrey shook her head. "No idea."
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Things got worse for students around Hogwarts since Harry and Dumbledore were petrified. Ginny focused on trying to find her Hermione, but school work evaded her from doing that. Four other students had been petrified, all muggleborn. Justin Finch-Fletchley was first to be petrified, three days later, Penelope Clearwater was found petrified. About two days after that, a boy who had adored Harry named Colin Creevey was found petrified. Only one day after Colin, a girl named Cho Chang was found petrified. Needless to say, the school was in a panic, Cho was a half-blood which broke the full muggleborn cycle.
"Who do you think'll be next?" Ginny overheard Blaise Zabini and Pansy Parkinson joking.
"Shut up." Ginny muttered.
"What's that blood-traitor?" Blaise began. "Don't like talking about the attacks ever since your little boyfriend got attacked."
Not specification was needed for Ginny to know who Blaise meant. "Shut up!" She forcefully said as she threatened him with her wand.
"Why?" Blaise mocked her.
"Rictemsempra." Ginny yelled at Blaise.
"Stop!" Blaise begged after a while.
Ginny stopped, smirked at Blaise, went to walk off, then –out of the blue- she turned around on her heels and punched Blaise in the mouth. "Shut up. You're pathetic." Ginny said before walking off.
"Hey Neville." Ginny said as she ran up to her friend.
Neville's face was worn, gray, and tired. "Hi Ginny." He said with no enthusiasm.
Ginny looked at Neville –not realizing a crowd emerging five yards away. "What's wrong?"
Neville pointed to the crowd and couldn't even summon up enough strength to say a word.
Ginny looked confused so she walked over to the crowd and pushed her way through the bystanders. Pushing her way past her brother, she saw what everyone was looking at. Her eyes turned a cold hard grey.
"NO!" Ginny shrieked as she ran. Her legs kept pulling her further and further until she reached the unspeakable bathroom of Moaning Myrtle.
Not caring about Myrtle or anything else, she pushed open the door and walked in crying. As she stepped in, she heard a clink. She turned to where the noise came from, but nothing was there but a sink.
"WHO'SE THERE?" A loud and pathetic voice cried. The wretched Myrtle flew from a ledge on the window to Ginny. "Oh, it's the annoying weasel girl."
Ginny just looked up and her and continued sobbing.
Myrtle's eyes grew big and she floated to her windowsill again.
"It's all happening again, isn't it?" Myrtle asked.
Ginny looked up from her tears. "What?" She asked.
"Well, I heard from annoying little Looney Lovegood that muggleborns and halfbloods are being petrified again."
Ginny crushed her knuckles into her pocket, trying to forget the comment about Luna. "Again?" Ginny asked curiously.
"When I was at school, children were being petrified too, and the Chamber of Secret was opened." Myrtle said.
"And who opened it?" Ginny asked, trying to forget her tears and stay calm.
"SURE!" Myrtle screeched. "LET'S JUST ASK MYRTLE FOR EVERYTHING!" Myrtle yelled in sobs before floating into the bathtub and disappearing.
Ginny began sobbing again.
A half an hour later, Luna Lovegood walked into the bathroom and sat down next to Ginny. "Gin, it'll be okay, everything will work out." She said in a dreamy voice.
Ginny looked up. She knew Luna as Harry's friend and her own, but she had never been really close with Luna.
"But Luna," Ginny began, "First Abby, then Eloise, then Harry, then Justin, and now DRACO?" Ginny yelled in anger pounding her wrists on the cold marble floor.
"It isn't the end of the world." Luna said.
"Yeah, but right now, it's the end of mine." Ginny gravely said before drying her eyes and walking off, back to her own dorm.
Author's Note: Okay, I know, pathetic chapter, but I stopped it here because I really wanted to get a chapter out. Reviews are appreciated! Oh, and there will be about four more chapters for Harry's second year, then I go to third. (I'm just skipping the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone plot...).
--Cherry The Black Weasel--