Broken

The red haired girl tossed and turned in her sleep. She was beginning to have nightmares now. About her parents that she had never meet.

The night was dark and stormy. Halloween and she was being held close to her mother. She heard nothing but all the sudden her mother ran with her…brother…she never knew she had. She was thrust under blankets next to her brother in his crib, but unseen to the world. All the sudden a great green flash of light. Then another.

“No Mum your gone,” Ginny woke up screaming. Then the lights flickered on. Fred stood in the doorway.

“Ginny, are you alright,” he asked in a near whisper. Then there were footsteps. It seemed as if she had woken up the whole house. George, Percy, Ron, Mum, Dad, and even Harry Potter, Ron’s friend, came rushing towards her room.

“Who were my parents?” Ginny asked under tears. It was breaking her shell now that she knew she was adopted. She was being broken inside and out.

Mum and Dad looked at each other with a sad look on their faces.

“Please just tell me,” Ginny yelled. She needed to find out maybe it would stop these nightmares which she knew there were more to come.

“We don’t know,” Mum said quietly, with tears in her eyes, watching her adopted daughter cry over her lost parents. “When you were 4 months old a cloaked man came to our doorstep with you. He said that we must take care of you, adopt you. He said that you would fit right in with your red hair that had just begun to grow. He explained that your parents had lost their lives against….You-Know-Who….and that it was too dangerous to say their names but to please take you in and make you our own.”

“What?” Ginny sobbed even harder now. It seemed as if she would never find out who her parents were, unless she could find out who the cloaked man was.

Then a small voice spoke up. “What was your nightmare?” It was Harry Potter her brothers best friend.

“Well,” Ginny started. “The night was dark and stormy. Halloween and she was being held close to her mother. She heard nothing but all the sudden her mother ran with her…brother…she never knew she had. She was thrust under blankets next to her brother in his crib, but unseen to the world. All the sudden a great green flash of light. Then another.” She explained starting to cry again.

“You have a brother,” George asked surprised. “Mum, Dad, do you know about this?”

Harry stood there silent as can be as if he knew something. Something that could help her.

“No,” said Mum right away. “We were told nothing of a brother. Maybe someone else had found the boy before the man found you. You did say in your dream you were unseen to the world.”

Ginny stared at a spot on the wall. “Well then can I please just sleep for now.”

“Of course,” Dad said and beckoned them all to leave.

Ginny stared at Harry trying to tell him to come back later. She needed to talk to him. He knew something, she was absolutely sure of it and she needed to speak to him right away.

Everyone left the room and Ginny stayed sitting up on her bed. Waiting for Harry to come back in. He would come wouldn’t he.