Dedicated to grace-lily-potter
The next morning Ginny woke up as early as Hermione, a very rare occurrence, and then proceeded to not move. At all. For at least an hour. She just lay there, staring at the ceiling, her breathing the only indication that she wasn't still asleep. Hermione was pretty sure she was going into shock. Maybe it hadn't been a great idea to tell her absolutely everything in the space of about half an hour but hey, it sounded like a good idea at the time
Ginny didn't respond to any off her classmates as they left the Dormitory. Parvati and Lavender left last, and the moment Lavender shut the door behind her Ginny started talking
"So... Sirius Black is innocent?"
"Yes" said Hermione
"And was set up by Peter Pettigrew?"
"Yup"
"Who faked his own death and turned into... our rat?"
"Yesh" said Hermione
"And they were both best friends with Professor Lupin, who is a werewolf" said Ginny "and Harry's dad, who was... a deer?"
"A stag, yes"
"And the dog everyone kept seeing last year... that was him?"
"Indeed"
"And you, Harry and brother dearest helped him escape on a should be dead hippogriff using time travel? And you lot have been in contact with a suspected murderer for half a year?"
"Uh... Yes"
"And said suspected murderer... who is in fact not a murderer because our rat did it... is Harry's godfather?"
"It sounds stupid when you say it like that" said Hermione "but yeah, that's right"
"Cool" said Ginny, getting up and heading to the bathroom
"Wait, what?!" Hermione got up as well "I just told you all this mind blowing, not even really believable stuff, and you just say cool?"
"Yup!" Ginny grinned "as I said last night, literally possessed by a book. You could tell me you had a half-brother who's a velociraptor and I'd probably believe you"
Hermione burst out laughing
"I'm that bad a liar?"
"Indeed" said Ginny "now, if you'll excuse me, I need to wash my hair"
She walked into the bathroom and shut the door behind her
"Promise you won't tell anyone?" Hermione called after her
"Course I won't!" Ginny yelled back "have fun with your wanted friends!"
Hermione shook her head, a wide grin on her face, before leaving for breakfast
After breakfast, Hermione went with Ron and Harry to the owlery to send a letter to Percy, before heading down to the kitchens to give Dobby his socks. Dobby was almost reduced to happy tears when Harry presented the socks to him
"Harry Potter is too good to Dobby!" he said
"You saved my life with that gillyweed, Dobby, you really did" said Harry
"No chance of more of those éclairs, is there?" said Ron to the surrounding house-elves
"You've just had breakfast!" snapped Hermione, but four elves had already appeared, carrying a plate of éclairs between
"We should get some stuff to send up to Snuffles" Harry whispered
"Good idea" said Ron "Give Pig something to do. You couldn't give us a bit of extra food, could you?" he said to the elves, who bowed and rushed off
"Dobby, where's Winky?" said Hermione. She had checked, and it looked like she wasn't there
"Winky is over there by the fire, miss" said Dobby
"Oh dear" said Hermione, spotting her. Winky was sitting on the same stool as before, and was so dirty that it wasn't immediately obvious that she wasn't part of the dark bricks behind her. She was carrying a Butterbeer bottle and swaying slightly
"Winky is getting through six bottles a day now" said Dobby miserably and Winky let out a very loud hiccup
"Well, it's not strong, that stuff" Harry said
"'Tis strong for a house-elf, sir" Dobby said, shaking his head. The surrounding house elves gave Winky disapproving looks as they worked, which Hermione thought was rather mean
"Winky is pining, Harry Potter" said Dobby "Winky wants to go home. Winky still thinks Mr. Crouch is her master, sir, and nothing Dobby says will persuade her that Professor Dumbledore is her master now"
"Hey, Winky" said Harry, walking over to her and crouching down "you don't know what Mr. Crouch might be up to, do you? Because he's stopped turning up to judge the Triwizard Tournament"
"M - Master is stopped - hic - coming?" squeaked Winky, her voice slightly slurred
"Yeah" said Harry "we haven't seen him since the first task. The Daily Prophet's saying he's ill."
"Master - hic - ill?"
"But we're not sure if that's true" said Hermione
"Master is needing his - hic - Winky!" Winky squealed "Master cannot - hic - manage - hic - all by himself..."
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