"Ginny, she... she's still so young. How could you?"
"Yes, it's pitiful that I chose her. Under my careful guidance, step by step, her jealousy and resentment reached their peak. She summoned the Snake King to eliminate one Muggle student after another who slandered Harry or tried to kill him."
"The girl petrified in the Second-Floor Girls' Bathroom—I wrote the latter half of the 'Eliminate the Heir' plan in her notebook, imitating her handwriting. Ginny was terrified. She attacked that girl before she had time to think it through."
"Later, she got 'clever.' Clever enough to imitate my handwriting and invite Stanny Chester to meet in the Fifth-Floor Empty Classroom. Unfortunately, her deception was so clumsy that Severus Snape recognized at a glance that it wasn't my handwriting."
Suddenly, the Magic Circle emitted a pink glow, which formed a pink butterfly in midair. Salatea threw aside her sword and spread her arms, her expression crazed. "Soon, the blood curse that has always plagued me and denied me my freedom will leave me forever. As for you, don't worry. I'll ask Albus Dumbledore to grant you a Special Contribution Award from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. That way, your two trophies can stand on either side of Tom Marvolo Riddle's."
"Uh, why two?"
Ron held up three fingers, pointing out that there were three people here!
"You, Ron Weasley, cannot die. Snape has never stopped suspecting me. You must live to corroborate my account."
Salatea waved her wand. Then she and Ginny rose into the air, one at each end of the pink butterfly's wings. An exquisitely crafted wand, obviously expensive, floated out of the collar of Ginny's wizarding robe. Once it reached the center above the butterfly, a beam of light shot from each end.
The two beams struck