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"Wait, so is this in my head...or is what's inside my head affecting this...uh... place?"

"You've always been quite clever Miss Weasley, you could have given Miss Granger some competition if only you'd wanted it...but you never did." He said, making Ginny blush.

"Yes, well it kept people from paying too much attention, kinda made them underestimate me sometimes." It really had, for most people she was just a tiny, pretty girl with average grades...and that did give her some advantage when dealing with others. "And my grades weren't so bad, were they?" She shrugged.

"Oh, no they weren't bad at all, but they could have been better, as not only are you a very intelligent witch." He looked at her pointedly. "You also knew most of the material beforehand."

Ginny frowned. This was not going how she thought this would go. "No, I didn't. That wasn't my knowledge. So why should I use it?"

The old man sighed. "Perhaps we should sit down for a while. Would you do the honors? You just have to wish for something and it will come, as it would in the room of requirement."

Ginny nodded and thought of the chairs in the Headmaster's office at Hogwarts, and saw as the appeared next to them.

"Ah, thank you Miss Weasley, it looks just like the one I had." He sat down and smiled. "Feels like it as well."

"Yeah...and it makes me feel like I was caught pranking and sent to the Headmaster's office." Ginny looked at him and smiled sheepishly. "So, nothing new there."

"Ah, yes!" He said with a laugh. "I must say that I rather enjoyed your visits, Fawkes did as well, he would act like a child denied of candy when more than a week passed without you coming to see us."

"Sir, eh...I did feed him sugarquills sometimes..."

"Indeed? I never noticed." He said with a raised eyebrow. He had never seen her bring sweets with her, let alone feed them to his companion.

The redhead couldn't but blush as she answered. "No, he...er... sort of visited me at nights or after Quidditch practice. I thought you knew...I mean he is your phoenix."

"He did? I had no idea...you see a phoenix cannot be owned, Fawkes was my companion, yes, but only because he chose to be...though with this information I think that had you called him, he would have come to you just as he would come to me..."

"...What?"

What the hell was he saying...maybe been dead made him lose it or something...he had been a bit barmy when alive so maybe, because he could not be implying what she thought he did.

"Miss Weasley, Phoenixes are not like other creatures...I don't think Sugarquills would have been enough incentive for him to come to you...an added bonus perhaps, but not the sole reason." The twinkle was at full power now, and he made no effort to hide it.

"So...he just... wanted to see me?"

"Yes...this I believe is another proof that you could use this knowledge, safely." He raised a hand when she tried to interrupt. "Phoenixes are Light creatures. They are attracted to it and therefore to people who possess that light in them..."

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