“You know, if I were you, I’d go and have a word with Steve about the job.”“Steve?”“The guy who just served you, he’s the landlord, lice...see, manager, call it what you will.”“You think I have a chance? After Sarah?”“Well, if the way he’s looking at your backside from over there is anything to go by, it’s not impossible. Do you have any bar experience?”“Yes, I worked in the union bar all last year, and my dad owns a pub, but now I’m a bit worried.”“Why worried?”“Well if he’s ogling my bum, am I. You are so incredibly beautiful and I knew there was something about you that was drawing me in. I could see it in your eyes. The play audition was the point of no return. It’s not like I was planning what happened just now. I just knew I needed to be around you. Hell, I may sound like some deranged psychopathic stalker but that’s how I feel. I needed to be in your presence. To hold you while we were walking today was euphoric but this afternoon it was like heaven. You looked so innocent and. ”“I never underestimate the power that love can have,” Dumbledore said with a grin.“Poor child,” Professor McGonagall said. “She should never have seen what she did. It tore my heart out to hear the pain in her last scream before she passed out.”It was at that moment that Ginny rolled over and looked at the group saying, “I’ll need to go to him as soon as possible, Professor Dumbledore.”“I thought you would feel that way,” Dumbledore said, being the only one in the group not surprised to learn. As he peeled down the winding driveway and into the forest road, she looked back to make sure the villagers weren’t chasing them with pitchforks.Once on the open, dark road, she finally settled in her seat and put her arms in the air to catch the breeze. “Freedom!” she hollered in sweet relief. Then she turned and eyed Brander as he drove. “You were a bad boy back there, ‘Mr.Bond’!”“What can I say? I got it from you,” he replied. “I’ve been infected by you.”Meghan grinned crookedly. “Just what.