They spent hours in the library, reading the books and quietly talking about classes. Harry was finding the myths from the text books interesting but couldn't help feel like these were familiar. He was almost certain he had never been taught these in his old Muggle school and it wasn't like Dudley was a scholar or anything. In the end he just shrugged the feeling off.

The trip must of ended not too long ago as one of the Gryffindor girls in Ginny's year told them Hermione was asking about where they were. They put the books back on the shelves in what they assumed were the right places and left to go to the Gryffindor common room where their friends were waiting for them.

The exchange students were surprised to find exactly what they had been studying, Nico sending a look in Ginny's direction, but didn't say anything. They shared a few words but eventually Hermione wanted an early night. She went to the girls dormitories and Ginny went to follow her but Hazel asked to talk to her in private.

They left the common room and stood a distance away from the Fat Lady, knowing how much she loved to gossip to the other paintings. 

"Greek mythology?" Hazel raised an eyebrow and leaned against the wall.

"I know, I was studying in the library to understand a bit more about- you know- but Harry came in and saw the titles. I couldn't exactly hide it and it's not like he figured it out or anything." Ginny shuffled her feet and looked guilty.

"You just have to be more careful, remember we told them our patron was Lady Hecate. If he remembers that then we're screwed."

"I know."

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Ginny didn't go to bed after that, she went for a walk through the castles halls  to take her mind off things. She expected to be the only one doing this but it wasn't long before she bumped into Luna. Literally. When walking around a corner she walked directly into her and fell back onto the floor. Surprisingly Luna barely flinched.

"God, Luna, I didn't see you there," She smiled at her friends and scrambled back onto her feet "I thought I was the only one still walking around."

Luna's face was blank, her arms stayed by her side and her eyes following Ginny was her only movement. Even that was out of the normal though. Her eyes that were usually blue-silver eyes were a dark shade of red and the longer Ginny looked at them the more they seemed to resemble fire.

"Luna? A-Are you okay?" She stammered and took a step back. She considered running but before she could make her mind up Luna's hand shot out to cover her mouth, stifling Ginny's scream.

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It was ten in the afternoon and everyone was supposed to be asleep. Nico was, for once, lucky enough to be sleeping without any terrifying nightmares but that didn't last long. He was shaken awake by a panicking Hermione and barely fought off his reflexes that would normally make him judo-flip whoever was stupid enough to wake him. 

"What the-"

"Shh!" Hermione hushed him, not wanting to wake everyone in the boys dorms "You need to be quiet! I can't find Ginny, she never came to bed after Hazel talked to her. She never stays out this late so where is she?"

Nico rubbed his eyes and it took a few seconds for him to adjust to the darkness. He sat up in his bed and noticed the glare Hermione was sending his way "You think I know something about this? I thought we were past this already." He sighed and had the urge to hide under the covers and just ignore her.

"You're supposed to be protecting this school, so where is she?" Hermione hissed and jabbed a finger in his direction. So much for a break from fighting.

"I'll wake the others and we'll look for her, try and go back to sleep." He pushed himself out of bed, already dressed in fighting clothes as he was supposed to go out in two hours to the forest.

"There's no way in hell i'm going back to bed and you better believe Ron and Harry wouldn't want to miss this." She strode off to wake her friends, leaving Nico to do the same.

A/N
[PUBLISHED 04/10/19]

Almost forgot to update this, whoops. Today was a bit busy, but I managed to remember and do a quick sketch of Ginny. Sorry if it's a bit crap, when the book is complete I'll go back and redo the illustrations.

What do you think will happen next?

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