Chapter 42 - Ginnys obsession over the diary (2/2)
”And Draco Malfoy caught the snitch. Congratulations Slytherin for winning with a score of 340-100. Today has been one of the most exciting matches in this season. Mr. Slytherin has scored 15 goals and is just 4 goals away from setting the highest number of goals in a year which hasn't been broken in the past 150 years”.
Flint, Draco, and everyone slapped his back as a form of praise, ”welcome back, Neal”. Neal raised his hand with a smile on his face, looking at the sky.
Meanwhile, in one of the cells at Azkaban Prison, A tall man with jet black hair and brown eyes and wearing ragged clothes is looking at a picture in a newspaper. Upon seeing it, he asked in a whisper, ”Is this the boy?”.
Outside of his prison cell, Oakley Avery looked at his son who looked very pale and has blank eyes which don't have hope for anything, ”yes, he's is Dewy's son”. Upon hearing her name, the prisoner's pale and blank face suddenly changed into a sort of sadness. He ċȧrėssed the picture and whispered, ”he has her hazel eyes”.
Oakley clutched the prison bars in frustration, ”Leon, you've suffered enough. I'll use all of my connections for a retrial. I don't want you to suffer anymore here for the crime you haven't committed?”.
Leon chuckled and didn't answer it and stayed silent for a while. Then he opened his mouth and asked, ”how did Neal's custody go? Did you file a notice in Wizengamot yet?”. Oakley replied, ”we have to wait until he turns 14. Until then, he will be under Dumbledore's care”.
Then Leon asked, ”what about the music box?”. Oakley replied, ”I sent it to the boy last Christmas”. Leon gathered the last of his strength to smile once more, ”good”.
Meanwhile at Hogwarts, in a potions class for first years, while brewing a Wiggenweld potion, Ginny suddenly fainted on the floor and making a mess on the table as the cauldron fell aside. While a couple of students took her to the hospital wing, Snape took out 10 points for wasting the ingredients.
Anything about Gryffindor will always be discussed at the Slytherin common room. A first-year girl was commenting about Ginny who fainted right in the middle of Prof. Snape and how she'll be punished for sure.
After realizing it, He thought, ”I guess this is why that girl seems stronger than the other first years. It's all because of Riddle's guidance. But it doesn't make sense. Only a previous owner who lost it before has the guts to go to such lengths impersonating a person and entering Slytherin's dungeon and stealing it after waiting for the right time.
Let's just ȧssume Ginny is also the one who dumped the diary in Myrtle's bathroom. But why will she kill the cat and frame me? Is it because of Ron? Something isn't adding up. If it's really the same as I was thinking, then Ginny no longer just liked the diary. She has an obsession over it. Or Tom Riddle affected her personality before? Is this possible?”.
While Neal is thinking about different things, Harry, Ron, and Hermoine stood before Ginny who was in the hospital bed sleeping. When they asked Madam Pomfrey, she replied, ”she's been cursed. Her life force is slowly seeping away.
When she wakes up, take her to Dumbledore”. As they nodded, a nurse said to her, ”isn't her condition exactly like that boy's?”. Madam Pomfrey replied, ”Oh, him, Neal Slytherin? Now that you mentioned it, seems like both of them got hit by the same curse”.
As the trio heard it, their faces turned dark and all of a sudden, Ginny woke up and suddenly looked around, ”where's my diary?”. Ginny began to anxiously search all over the bed and madly threw out the medicines near her bed on the rack and just searching for the diary in the drawers. She threw the pillow away and shouted, ”where's my diary? Where is it?”.
As everyone was watching her behaving crazily, Ron, Harry, and Hermoine grabbed and shook her and shouted, ”Ginny? Calm down. Look at us. Ginny”. As she came back to her senses, she collapsed on the bed while clutching her head, ”I've acted crazily again, haven't I?”. The Trio nodded.