Title: Bat Talk Characters: Ginny Weasley Rating: G Summary: Ginny goes to visit her favorite place in the Forbidden Forest.
She found it her second year on one of her solitary walks. If anyone knew about those walks, they wouldn’t have been happy with how often she walked into the depths of the Forbidden Forest, but no one ever found out.
Today the forest reflected her mood, fog rising up from the ground to muddle the path, making strange shapes jump out from the murk. She held her ground, used to the fog and the creepiness of creaking woods and far off sounds.
She followed a curve in the path, until she was in a clearing across from a small cave. Suddenly the light seemed to go entirely, twilight fading into night, and the cave erupted. Bats, hundreds of them, streamed out of the entrance.
"Hello," she called, and a few flitted around her head before continuing on their hunt.
In a few hours they'd be back, bearing stories of the forest. They liked to talk and she liked to listen, strange as she knew it was that she could speak to bats. She sat on a stump by the mouth of the cave, watching them fly away. In that moment her mood lifted, and she was content to wait.