Ode to Perfection, George Weasley X OC

Chapter 10: Her Father's Plan

Early the next morning, Capella exits her dorm room leaving a sleeping Gemma there peacefully. She thought, since she couldn't sleep, she could sit and think in the common room for a little. But upon entering the room, the three boys that she has known since the first train ride to Hogwarts, sitting there staring at her, come down.

"Good morning boys. Any news on the Weasley girl?" Capella asks, partially knowing the answer. George hasn't told her on the galleon yet, but since he said it was a prototype, she couldn't fully trust it, and he was yelling at her not even five minutes prior to him giving it to her. "No, nothing yet Capella. What are you doing up? Its barely five in the morning" Peregrine questions.

"I don't know. I guess I went to bed super early last night" Capella lies. "You came into the common room saying Weasley was missing at almost midnight" Lucian points out. "Alright guys, let's drop it," Marcus says with perfect timing too because not a moment later Gemma and the younger group of Slytherins come walking in. "Good morning and good marrow" Gemma yawns and cuddles up on a couch next to Lucian.

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It's now eight in the morning and everyone in the Slytherin house is awake and anxiously awaiting word on if Ginny Weasley is okay. Most are also contemplating why they care. Maybe it's because they have muggleborn friends that they want to be okay. But then comes the thought that not many of them actually have friends outside of Slytherin house. Then the real and true thoughts hit, if they can't find the Weasley girl, or worse they find her dead, then Hogwarts is to close, and everyone is to be sent home early.

Of course, that's not the thoughts on Capella's mind as she fiddled with the galleon that in her attempts to keep busy, she made into a necklace. The only thought in her mind was she hoped Ginny was safe for George's sake, obviously going home early is something that Capella doesn't want so that thought has crossed her path once or twice but was overpowered.

"Why are you playing with a galleon?" Miles asks from across the room. "Because I can, I'm bored" Capella answers. "Is it on a necklace?" Graham analyzes. "Capella, why do you have a galleon on a necklace? You're rich for crying out loud" Peregrine questions and laughs. "For that reason, I'm rich so I don't care if a measly galleon is wasted on a trinket" Capella thinks of quickly.

Though that is far from the truth. Why yes, of course she's rich, she knows this galleon holds more meaning to her than that. It was her way of communicating with George, well George's way of communicating with her. Capella didn't know the spell that was used to change it, but nonetheless it made her think of him, not that she needed a reminder, but it was nice to have something physical.

As time ticked on, meaningless conversations were being had amongst all Slytherins, but Capella wasn't fully paying attention. She was watching as the serial number on her galleon slowly changed.

She could see the first two words were 'Ginny is' but the last word hadn't come in yet and she was getting worried. Just as she was waiting, Professor Snape came in. "I have news on the Weasley girl," he says, painfully slow as well. "What is it, Professor?" Lucian asks, annoyed. Annoyed that they all had to stay in the cold dungeon common room because a red head Weasley was missing. "The girl has been found. She is in the hospital wing, but she is safe," Professor Snape answers.

As Professor Snape starts talking, Capella finally sees the last word on her galleon change to 'safe'. A small smile comes to Capella's face, glad that George's little sister didn't succumb to whatever her father had planned. That's when it hit her. This was what her father planned. Ginny was the one who took her place and went too far with it. Ginny almost died because of Capella's father....

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Not more than a week later and everyone was at King's Cross Station on platform 9 ¾. Capella is standing with Marcus and Draco in front of both of their families. "Did you hear Professor Snape is making Capella a prefect next year. She is right on track with our plans" Lucius gloats to Aris Flint. "Why yes, I heard Marcus and her are turning out to be the power couple we knew they would be" Aries compliments.

Capella gets lost in her own world, looking out at all the faces of her fellow Hogwarts students. When once again her eyes land on her favorite chocolate brown ones. The brown eyes once again showing that longing emotion, seemingly 100 feet away. George smiles at the girl across the station, a sorrowful, sad smile. It is hard for either of them to believe that it was almost a year ago that they took notice of one another, and it was all due to a cruel act of Capella's father.

Capella lightly smiles back not to draw attention to herself, as her own little way to say goodbye to George for now.