Ginny's Sixth Year

Chapter 15

The next week and a half passed in a blur. I exchanged letters with Fred, George, Mum, and Percy. Neville, Luna, and I recruited people for the D.A., which was meeting for the first time the night of my first detention with Alecto Carrow. Dark Arts and Muggle Studies were awful, but all my other classes were amazing, especially Transfiguration. We kept starving. Luna tried to slip me a little bit of her food, but she got caught by the Carrows. I continued being tortured in detention. Finally, the night Luna and I had detention together came. 

"Ah, ladies, right on time!" Carrow exclaimed, her voice dripping with the same false sweetness as her brother on my first night of detention. "Are you ready to begin?"

"Yes, ma'am!" Luna and I replied in unison. In the past two weeks, we had learned that replying with anything but what the Carrows wanted to hear was pretty close to a death sentence. 

"Let's begin! We'll start with Miss Lovegood today. Weasley, sit down." I did as I was told. "Incarcerous!" I was bound to the chair and gagged. I knew what was about to happen. "Crucio!" Carrow said, her wand now pointed at Luna. 

Luna let out a piercing scream. I had no choice but to watch one of my best friends be tortured. 

After what seemed like hours, though I'm sure it was no longer than 15 minutes, Carrow release me from my bonds. She tied Luna to the chair and began to torture me. By then, I was used to the Cruciatus Curse being placed on me. It happened almost every detention and Muggle Studies class. I tried not to give Carrow the satisfaction of seeing me in pain. I bit my lip and used all of my strength to stay upright.

My lip eventually started bleeding, and I did collapse. Carrow stopped after what seemed like an eternity. "You may go," Carrow sneered.

Luna was released, and we quickly reached the Room of Requirement.