A/n: Hey, my name is Mia, and this chapter includes the pre-write so you can see what the story is about and the first chapter. You don't have to read the pre-write if you want, you can skip to Chapter 1: How It All Began. It's short but the next one will be much longer. This was just the Prologue. Advice wanted. Flames not.
Pre-write
Story Title: Siriusly in Love: The Story of Ginny Weasley
Setting: Starts off with a 14-year-old Ginny Weasley during The Order of the Phoenix. The year is 1995, and it's right before Christmas, December 19th, mid-winter. She is then transported into 1974, the Marauder's 5th year, a little after the beginning of the school year. Mostly takes place at Hogwarts.
Main Couples: Ginny/Sirius, Lilly/James, Remus/ Tonks.
These couples are the final and main ones, but in the story they switch around at first. For example, Lilly dates Snape for a while, Sirius dates a lot of girls, Ginny and James try to make them jealous by going-out with each other. There's also side-couples like the Narcissa/Lucius/Catherine love triangle. Think Dawson's Creek and Degrassi. Also in this story I decided to make Peter good at first, because even though he's just UGH in the books, there has to be a reason he was a Marauder. There's not too much of him though.
Characters: (in relation to Ginny)
1995 (December 20th)
Harry Potter: Harry is angry at the Ministry for making him look like a liar, Dumbledore for ignoring him, and Umbridge for taking over the only place he could call home. At the same time his spirits are being lifted by the D.A. and his now requited crush on Cho Change. He thinks of Ginny as a friend, nothing more.
Ron Weasley: One of Ginny's annoyingly over-protective brothers. She's just waiting for him to realize his feelings for Hermione. Now, if only he wasn't so oblivious!
Hermione Granger: Over the summer, mostly because of being roommates, Hermione and Ginny had become good friends. They sort-of bond over their crushes on Ron and Harry.
Neville Longbottom: After going to the Yule Ball together, Ginny and him have become good friends. Often Ginny helps him with broom flying and Quidditch while he helps her with her Herbology homework.
Luna Lovegood: A dreamy and quirky classmate of Ginny's. Ginny often helps Luna retrieve her "mysteriously missing" items. They're not the ultimate best friends or anything, but they are kind-of close.
Michael Corner: A Ravenclaw boy who is in an on-again-off-again relationship with Ginny. When she's not with her brothers, the Trio, Neville, or Luna she's hanging out with his friends who are admittedly kind-of dull.
Fred and George Weasley: Her twin brothers who tease her endlessly about Harry. She partly started going out with Michael just to shut them up. Unfortunately, they will not be silenced. Besides that, they're pretty close, and they all share a love of pranks and mischief. In facts, Ginny has recently helped come up with the Skiving Snackboxes and has been known to test a few on herself.
Bill Weasley: The brother she most admires. Lately he's been talking about a girl at work. Fleur Delacour, was it?
Percy Weasley: The traitor who she refuses to admit she misses.
Sirius Black: Over the summer he's seemed to be avoiding her, and when they come face-to-face he ignores her gaze. That, or he does a double-take. She's about to find out why…
1974 (September 9th )
James Potter: James is "Prongs" of the Marauders. He keeps asking Lilly Evans to go out with him, but she always turns him down…he's quite the player and starts going out with Ginny because she subconsciously reminds him of Lilly and he, who could pass for Harry's equally good-looking twin brother, reminds Ginny of her first real crush. Besides that they're friends who joke and flirt a lot.
Remus Lupin: She looked up to him back in 1995, and they became good friends, though he always told her he used to know someone just like her and then flash her a mysterious smile. At first, being the most clever and paranoid in the group, he finds something odd about Ginny who is trying to match-make him up with Tonks even though Tonks is only 13. He tries to conceal his "furry little problem" from her (even though she already knows) and is shocked when she "finds out" and doesn't care.
Peter Pettigrew: Ginny can't help but hate the traitor at first sight, what with knowing what becomes of him in the future. She starts hating herself even more when she starts to find a friend in him.
Lily Evans: A beautiful 15-year-old who quickly befriends Ginny when she tutors her in Muggle Studies.
Isabella Armstrong (P): "Bella" is Lily's best friend and dorm mate. She has big gray eyes and pretty black hair. You wouldn't ever guess who she likes… Peter Pettigrew. Voldemort threatens to kills her if he doesn't betray the Potters six years later.
Jessica Lovel (HB): Jessica is quite the girly-girl with her best friend Ellie. She's also Lilly's dorm mate. She has blond hair and green eyes.
Ellie Masonburg (HB): Jessica's best friend who's notably quieter than Jessica. She's Lilly's dorm mate too. Ellie has brown hair and blue eyes.
Natalie Raymond (HB), Catherine Dales (P), Vanessa Rivera (HB), and Mallory Peterson (MB): Ginny's dorm mates. Natalie is a dark girl with beautiful dreads. Catherine has brown hair and mysterious violet eyes, Vanessa is Spanish, sultry, and gorgeous, and Mallory has blond hair, blue eyes and a studious manner.
Lucius Malfoy: A cruel 6th year boy who finds Ginny attractive and who's smirk makes her nervous. He's going out with Catherine Dales, Ginny's dorm mate and part-friend, part-rival.
Severus Snape: Lily's secret friend, and at one point, secret boyfriend. Ginny and him become friends eventually.
Sirius Black: A beautiful boy with sparkling gray eyes, shaggy black hair, and a charming manner, Ginny can't help but fall hard for him. Big time. They have an on-again, off-again relationship.
Summary: 14-year-old Ginny doesn't know what to expect when she's transported to 1974, the Marauder's fifth year. Voldemort uprising. More inside. S/G, J/L, R/T.
Hogwarts Info:
Heads
Head boy: Frank Longbottom
Head girl: Alice Westing
Prefects
Gryffindor: 6th year- Maria Rivera and Ryan Armstrong
5th year- Remus Lupin and Lilly Evans
Ravenclaw: 6th year- Bella Elter and Xenophilius Lovegood
5th year- Annabel Red and Rafael Corner
Hufflepuff: 6th year- Melissa Velez and Jacob Smith
5th year- Kara Frank and Sean Cooley
Slytherin: 6th year- Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Black
5th year- Brian Greengrass and Narcissa Black
Quidditch:
Gryffindor
Keeper: C. Frank Longbottom
Chaser: James Potter
Chaser: Ginny Weasley
Chaser: Catherine Dales
Beater: Sirius Black
Beater: Ryan Armstrong
Seeker: Isabella Armstrong
Ravenclaw
Keeper: Rafael Corner
Chaser: Serena Kelly (Luna's mom)
Chaser: Xenophilius Lovegood
Chaser: C. Bella Elter
Beater: James Prescott
Beater: Dawson Laessig
Seeker: Annabel Red
Hufflepuff
Keeper: C. Robert Diggory
Chaser: Jacob Smith
Chaser: Melissa Velez
Chaser: Kara Frank
Beater: Sean Cooley
Beater: Cedric Hogart
Seeker: Lacey Greene
Slytherin
Keeper: C. Lucius Malfoy
Chaser: Bellatrix Black
Chaser: Narcissa Black
Chaser: Gemini Larson
Beater: Brian Crabbe
Beater: C.J. Goyle
Seeker: Regulus Black
C. means Captain.
Chapter 1: How It All Began
If you just so happened to step into the Room of Requirement on December 20th 1995, you would see the shaking, curled-up figure of a red-headed teenage girl. If you stepped a little closer, you would probably recognize her as Ginny Weasley, a 14-year-old girl with a fierce Bat-Bogey Hex. And if you pushed the long red hair out of her face, you would see tears slowly running down her slightly-freckled face.
It happened at the last D.A. meeting before Christmas. Ginny had lingered a little afterward, wanting to practice her Patronus charm a few more times before leaving. She was at the doorway, about to leave, when she decided to turn around and say good-bye to Harry. That was when she them, the cheery smile leaving her face. Cho and Harry, leaning in closer and closer underneath the mistletoe, until finally their lips met. She stayed there, stunned for a second, before running as fast as she could.
Ginny ran until she reached the entrance doors, pushing them open before running again. She stopped when she reached the edges of the Forbidden Forest. It was cold and pouring hard, but Ginny took no notice of that. She slumped down underneath a tree, legs spread out, watching the slushy mix of snow and rain fall onto her hair and robes.
Ginny had no idea how long she stayed there, feeling cold, numb, and defeated. It could have been a few minutes, it could have been a few hours. She slowly came out of her state of shock, realizing that she should have seen it coming. Ginny knew Harry had a crush on Cho, she just hadn't known it was mutual until now. And even now that she knew, it was still hard to believe. There was always a part of her that dreamed, even prayed, that he loved her back.
Ginny had started making her way back to the castle, trudging along the mud, when she realized she didn't want to go up to her room. She didn't want to face Harry, Fred and George, her roommates, or anyone for that matter. That was when she made the decision to spend the night at the Room of Requirement. It was the place where Cho and Harry had kissed, but it was also the only place she could be alone.
Ginny had to sneak over there because it was late and long past the time when students were supposed to go to bed. It took her a while, dodging corners whenever she saw the shadow of a teacher approaching. For a horrible moment she thought she had heard the meow of the evil Mrs. Norris. When she finally got to the door, she walked past it a few times thinking the following things:
"I need a place that's warm, somewhere to think, somewhere to cry."
"I need a place that will help get Harry out of my mind."
"I need a place to stay for the night."
Then, right before the door appeared, she whispered, "I need somewhere to be happy, and I also need someone to love me as much as I love him."
Ginny opened the door quickly, where a beautiful room had now appeared. It was all scarlet and gold, a warm fireplace on the wall, and a bed in the corner. However Ginny didn't feel like enjoying its beauty, and just decided to curl up in front of the fireplace where she finally released the tears that she had been struggling to keep in the whole night.
After about half an hour she looked up for a moment, and saw something she had failed to notice before. On top of the bed was a golden object, and as curiosity came, Ginny slowly got up and walked over to it. It looked like a golden Time Turner. Ginny recognized it from Hermione, who had shown hers to Ginny in her second year. Her fingers lingered above it for a moment before she touched it. Everything went black.