The 7th Child
A/N: Hi, this is my first fanfiction so I'm really sorry if its kinda shit and all that but I had this idea that was inspired by the summary of The World as we knew it and it just kinda kept festering! I hope you enjoy and I'll try and upload soon as soon as I figure out how to do the new chapter things. - Eve x
Prologue: The Chamber of Secrets
Ginny sat huddled in her mother's lap as Dumbledore calmly explained to her parents what had happened. "Many great witches and wizards have been hoodwinked by Lord Voldemort Miss Weasley, you should not blame yourself" Dumbledore kept saying (in a variety of different ways) but Ginny still felt sick to her stomach. She'd confessed her darkest desires to Voldemort of all people and he'd played her like one of those muggle puppets her dad always got excited over when he saw them. She was weak and foolish and pathetic and -
"Ginny, Professor Dumbledore said you're not to be expelled, I said that there was nothing to worry about now, didn't I?"
Molly Weasley's voice broke through Ginny's dark thoughts and she breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn't her fault (though a little voice kept questioning that) and Dumbledore understood and it was going to be alright. However, before Dumbledore could continue with what he was saying before her mother's interruption, Lucius Malfoy and Minister Fudge walked in, with two other people who she didn't recognise. Ginny's heart stopped.
"Minister Fudge, what can I do for you?" Dumbledore's voice was pleasant but the dangerous undertones showed how truly angry this interruption had made him. Ginny shrank back into her mother's lap, and the cold fingers of dread began the claw their way into her mind.
"Dumbledore, this child opened the Chamber of Secrets and endangered the entire student body and you want to allow her to remain in school? The girl should be in Azkaban!" Fudge's voice was weak but still held no question that that was what was going to happen. "As the Minister I'm afraid I will have to have her arrested, due to the severity of the crimes, which automatically invokes an expulsion from Hogwarts. Miss Weasley, your wand please."
Ginny watched in horror as her wand was snatched out of her hand and snapped in half, and then felt herself being forcibly dragged to her feet and away from her mother by the two unknown individuals. Her mother and father looked shocked, Dumbledore murderous, Lucius Malfoy smug, and Fudge proud. That was the last thing she saw of them before she felt a sudden lurch and she arrived in a place that felt… dark.
Azkaban.
-The 7th Child-
A few days following Ginny's arrest found Harry Potter in Dumbledore's office; in his opinion the amazing wizard had never looked so tired. Harry was nervous about this, all the Weasleys were convinced that Ginny was evil following a talk with the Minister and the subsequent Daily Prophet article, but Harry was not so easily persuaded. In complete honesty, he was shocked with the speed in which the exceptionally close family had turned their backs on their youngest. The Minister must have had a very convincing argument, Harry thought, to make the Weasleys believe that Ginny opened the Chamber on purpose. And with that, Harry asked the question her had been burning to ask from the minute he saw the gargoyle.
"Ginny's not really evil is she?"
Dumbledore looked up, pride and shock evident on his face. "No Harry" he shook his head as he responded. "Ginny is not at fault, nor evil, and it saddens me that her family have so readily believed that she is. I was worried that you also believed these cruel stories, and had forgotten about the innocent little girl you had discovered in the chamber."
Harry shook his head aggressively. "No, I would never -, Ginny was so scared and no-one is that good of an actor… are they?" He ended on a question in the hopes that Dumbledore would reassure him more.
"No, I don't believe they are" came Dumbledore's reply.
"But we will get her out, right?"
"I will try everything in my power, to get her out of that place".
Harry smiled.