Faceless in a Sea of Faces

Chapter Five

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Ginny and I sat in the stands, cheering loudly along with all the other Gryffindors as the match went on. Ginny still writes in her diary and that scares me immensely. However, I had decided to let it go to enjoy the match. "So, the chasers do the scoring until the seeker gets that little snitch thingy?" I mumbled the question, watching through my binoculars. Ginny nodded, keeping her eyes glued to Harry. I smirked a bit, nudging her playfully.

"Oh hush." She blushed, right as his arm was nearly ripped off by a bludger. I gasped, dropping my binoculars as I realized he wasn't going to give up. Now that's brave. Harry caught the snitch and then fell to the ground, at which point Ginny tore out of the stands like a bat outta hell. I snickered a bit, following slowly behind her. It wasn't two minutes before I found myself face first in the muddy ground. When I sat up, I glared at the Slytherin boys who'd done it. I noticed Blaise and Malfoy quickly, kicking them both in the shins before casting a protection charm around myself and walking off. I smirked as I heard them yelp from their spells bouncing off of me and onto them.

"What happened?" I whispered, coming up beside Ginny as we all stared at Harry.

"Broken arm. Lockhart tried to fix it and removed all the bones."

"Gross!" I wrinkled my nose, watching it flop about. Ginny thumped the back of my head, giggling. We watched Harry get taken up to the castle before heading to the common room where they were having a victory party. Ginny went off to talk to the twins, making me smile. I haven't spoken to Andy and Randy in months. I sighed, running a shaky hand through my hair. I leaned back against the couch and closed my eyes.

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"Ginny?" I mumbled, sitting up and rubbing my eyes. No one was to be seen. The party was over and the clock read around one in the morning. I checked our dorm and she wasn't there. Her diary, however, lay open on the bed. I angrily grabbed a quill.

'Busted Tom.'

'Writing me won't help you find her, now will it?'

I growled, throwing the book at the window. It bounded to the floor but the poor window shattered. I took off, running through the halls as quiet as a mouse. Then I found him, Collin was laying on the floor with his camera in front of his face. I gasped, shaking at the sight. Poor kid. The spiders by the window caught my eye, all in a perfectly single file line as they scrambled out the window. "What in the bloody hell?" I murmured, looking at them carefully. I gasped, scrambling away from them as quick as I could. "Baby acromantulas!" I began hyperventilating, my face pale. I know they aren't the beast of the chamber, but it doesn't explain why they're here. Something tells me..

I heard footsteps and quickly hid, seeing McGonagall. She gasped, then sent a patronus to Albus, who came quickly. I was curious as to how he got here so quick, but I ignored it. For the time being, anyway. I jumped as his eyes came right to me, making me think trouble was coming to find me. He didn't say anything to me, just mouthed 'to my office' as he and the transfiguration professor carried Collin to the hospital wing, alerting Madam Pomfrey. I'd taken a shortcut to meet them there and was busted yet again by Potter. It really was quite annoying. I'm sure he knows everything about these petrifyings except Ginny's part and the diary. He's creeping in on my little adventure, as selfish as that is.

"Do you think he managed to get a picture of his attacker?" Minnie whispered, catching my attention.

"Only one way to find out." Albus mumbled, keeping his voice low. I think he knows both Harry and I are listening. I watched as he opened the film portion of the muggle camera and it came out smoking and melted. Well dam-ng. Dang.