What Words Can Do (TOMARRY)

Year 5 ∆ Part 6

"She made you do what?" Ron practically shouted. Harry had just told him that she made him write with a blood quill, but hadn't gotten to the part where he didn't write what she wanted him to.

"She made me write with a blood quill," Harry repeated his previous sentence. Hermione came up behind them, her arms full of books as always.

"Who? Umbridge?" she asked curiously. Harry nodded his head. "Those are illegal."

"I know," Harry agreed. "But I was just about to tell Ron what I wrote instead of her lousy sentence. She wanted me to write something about not talking about not talking about Voldemort in class. Instead, I wrote this." Harry pulled up the sleeve covering his hand with a smile.

"Serves her right," Ron laughed. Hermione only nodded in agreement. "But in all seriousness we have to figure out who told the Ministry about Tom. It wasn't me or Hermione. Ginny's the only other one who knew who he was, but she was in love with your relationship, so I don't think she would rat him out."

"You might have to question her," Hermione said. "She does have legit reasons to get Tom thrown in Azkaban. When she would have gone to the Ministry, though, I have no idea."

"'Mione's right," Harry agreed. "We do have to question her. At least find out for certain if she's innocent or not. Speaking of the devil."

As if on cue, Ginny Weasley came running up to them.

"Harry, I'm really sorry about Tom," she hugged Harry. "I've been meaning to come talk to you, but I didn't know if you would want to see me. I know I seem like a likely suspect, but I swear. Everyone saw how happy he made you. I would never ruin that. Especially for someone who's like my brother."

"Well then I guess there's the questioning for her," Ron chuckled. "Thanks, Gin, you made our life easier."

"What he's trying to say," Harry interrupted in a more serious tone, "that we were going to come talk to you to ask you if you had anything to due with Tom getting put in prison. But you've answered that for us."

"So you believe me?" Ginny asked, her eyes wide.

"We didn't want to question you in the first place," Harry assured her. "The only reason we were going to is because, as you said, you had likeable reasons to be a suspect."

"Wait," Hermione spoke up, "if it wasn't any of us, then who turned in Tom?"