Disclaimer: I don't know why we put these thingy's but I will put one anyway! I don't own any characters in this story except the ones I made up of course. The rest belong to J.K.R.
Summary: Draco/Ginny Draco was a normal guy, he had a normal life... or so he thought. Everything starts to change as he starts his seventh year and everything starts to revolve around him and a certain red head... RR :D
"..." talking
'...' thinking
changing place
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Chapter 1I once saw a man of fire Staring at his window
Watching as the flames grew higher and higher
I thought that I saw him cry
Or was he only laughing
As his life went rushing on
Or maybe we're just like him
Maybe we are all waiting
For our moment to begin
Time of our Life
David Usher
Cauldron cakes, new shops and the beginning of everything...
"Mom, can you read me Cinderella again? Mom..."a small girl around the age of 7 asked. She had her shoulder length hair tied up into two pigtails and she wore a little magenta dress that reached her knees with worn-out sneakers. She also had a pink bracelet with four silver stones that spelled out the word love.
"Hold on dear..."
"Mommy...what's that cave over there?" a little girl around the age of seven pointed and asked.
"Virginia, mommy is talking to a friend she hasn't seen in a long time, so mommy will talk to you in a few minutes. Alright... darling? You just play with the other kids, but don't wonder off into the forest ok?"
Nodding in a yes manner, the small redheaded girl walked towards the so called cave which was deep within the woods. As she took small steps towards the dark cavern, her eyes started to glow blood red. The grown ups and older kids started to turn their heads one by one as the littlest one of the group headed in the direction that had a sign with the words "Danger Danger Cave ahead!" imprinted on it. It didn't matter since the young one didn't know how to read. Once she took a step onto the 'forbidden land', her brothers tried to grab her arm, but suddenly a force out of nowhere pushed them back and they all went flying into a huge sand castle. They all started to scream her name, but it was useless it was like she was in a trance and she wouldn't wake up.
As she reached her destination, she noticed that there was some kind of small pond at the end of the cave. It was beautiful to say the least. Without any control of her body, she started to walk towards it. Once she kneeled in front of the pond, she noticed a gold key under the blue shimmering water. For a moment, she thought about not taking the key. Seconds later, she heard a voice that started to resound everywhere in the cave. She tried to find the source of it, but she couldn't pinpoint the direction or place it was coming from.
'Take the key... Don't be scared... Once you take the key, you'll never fear anything... ' the soft female voice said.
"Who are you? What's your name?" she asked confused and a little bit scared.
"It is not important for now my child..."
"Will I find a prince like in Cinderella?" she asked with her big round eyes.
'Of course little one... and much more... ' the voice said with a little small laugh.
"Will I have wings? And everything I want?" she asked with a big smile.
'If you take the key, you will discover everything you can do! You are special Virginia; you are not like the other kids in your family. Now take the key... '
As little Virginia took the key, she hugged it close to her heart and promised herself something she would regret.
"I will do whatever it takes to keep everyone safe..."
'... Virginia... you have to promise me you will complete the key in time or something bad will happen to everyone in the world... goodbye... I will see you in time little one... goodbye... ' the voice started to fade away slowly. Suddenly, Virginia's eyes turned back to her brown ones and everything went black.
On that day, young Virginia woke up that morning to see a key hanging on a silver chain around her neck.
9 years later...
Sixteen year old Virginia sat on her bed thinking about the day that happened. Yes, she remembered that day perfectly. It was like that moment was permanently stamped into the back of her mind. Right after everything went black in the cave, her brothers told her she went to the hospital and slept for a week and a half. They said she didn't move at all and the doctors thought she was in a coma and wouldn't wake up. But, they were wrong. She wasn't, or wasn't for long.
Ever since that day, her older siblings always referred to it as 'the incident'. Her mother didn't even want to hear a peep of that moment in her daughter's life. She was still a bit shaken about it. Ginny always wondered why the voice hadn't spoken to her.
'It's been 9 years. People would think it or whatever the heck it was would have talked to me by now. Ah well! That's the last time I'll listen to voices that suddenly pop out of nowhere and decide to have a little chat with me!'
Now, Ginny Weasley also known as Virginia Weasley was dressing up to go to Diagon Alley. She had saved up money from her last two Christmases and allowances to go shopping for a whole new wardrobe. All her clothes were hand-me-downs and her shoes were all worn out. Plus, all her stuff was not her style.
As she made a popping sound with her tongue, she looked at the outfit she picked out. Casual and simple she thought.
She paired up a jeans skirt that had slits at the sides, with a pink halter top that matched with the white socks she had prepared in her shoes. The white tennis shoes she had at the bottom of the bed would be the pair. As usual, her sliver chain necklace with the key she could never forget, hung loosely around her neck. While she applied mascara, a bit of eyeliner, pink lip gloss and a touch of blush to her face, she expertly dressed herself. Once she was done and satisfied with her look, she descended the stairs.
"Hello! Ron, Harry, Hermione, Fred, George, Charlie, Bill, Percy, mom and dad!" she said as she sat on a chair and began to pile her plate with bacon and eggs. It seems Percy got over the whole thing with the Minister, since Fudge fired him because he didn't want to work over time. Well, Ginny and the whole family were glad that that problem was over...
"Gin dear, aren't you going to Diagon Alley today?"
"Yephm!" she said as she chewed ferociously on three strips of bacon.
"Oh! Don't talk with your mouth full darling! You might choke!" Mrs. Weasley told her, while walking towards them with letters. She started handing them out when she stopped at Ginny's letter.
"Ginny dear, since you're going to Diagon Alley to buy your new clothes, I'll buy you all your school supplies except your robes of course." Told her mother, scanning the letter which was filled with the pile of stuff Ginny would need for 6th year. Ginny just nodded with a pained face trying to drink down the huge pieces of bacon stuck in her throat.
"Did you know they opened a new shop at Diagon Alley!" hollered the head of the house.
"No, really?! I thought they would never-"George started.
"-ever update that place dad!" finished Fred.
"Well, it seems they did! It even hit front page on Witch Weekly! It's called Clothes from Joe's! Now, who would ever name a bloody shop Clothes from Joe's?!?!?" said Ron showing the paper to everyone in the room.
"It seems the owner of the shop did Ron and if you ask me, I'd visit the place." said Hermione nodding her head.
"It has a corny name I find." said Harry grimacing.
"All shops have corny names Harry and yet they get famous! Like the twins shop." said Percy.
"True, true!" said Fred.
"Well, Hermione I thought you were coming with us to visit Hagrid near the pet store!" said Ron in a confused voice.
"Oh! Yes, that's too bad... Oh Ginny! Maybe you could buy me something from that shop! I mean you are looking for robes so maybe you could buy me a shirt and a robe I'll need for head girl! I'll give you the money right now!" she said happily as she climbed up the stairs to get the money. Hermione changed over the years, but not as much as Ginny. Hermione didn't have a huge bush on her head anymore. Instead, her hair descended her head in curvy curls. She also went through a big surprising change: the loss of her bookish attitude. She still loved books though! She would still however, never miss a day of homework, much to Ron's and Harry's dismay. She would always stay up till 11 to do her homework, if not less. She had a "now or never attitude" so that explained the homework problem.
"Sure! I'll even buy you sugar quills and cauldron cakes if you want! Anyone else want something? No? Well, I'm off you guys! I got shopping to do and so do you guys so hurry up and let's go!" Ginny excitedly chattered. Her mother washed up the last of the dishes and told the rest of the family to get what they needed and they would leave.
Ginny, already having everything she needed, took a muggle lighter and tried to make a fire. With a concentrated expression, she tried 3 more times before she gave up. A horrified shriek broke through the house making the birds on the roof fly away startled. She threw the little object she was strangling onto the floor, took out her wand and said a great big "Incendio". Seconds later, a fire started.
'I should have done that in the first place! Though it isn't so hard to make a fire! I saw dad do it yesterday! Oh, for Merlin's boots!' she said tapping her foot with her hands on her hips.
"Come on! Hurry up you guys! It doesn't take THAT long to get all the things you need!" Virginia, not being a patient person, grabbed a hand full of Floo powder and left. She screamed her destination into the fire place and landed right into Fred's and George's shop. Not even waiting for the others to pop out right after her, she walked out and started to head to Madam Malkins shop. But, changed direction the minute she saw Clothes from Joe's. The little building even had a little label painted across the shops doors. "All the clothes from stylish to old, from England to Canada this shop holds!" The place looked like it had two levels and the face of the shop looked amazing. The front was a huge picture of a big garden; all sorts of flowers were present. Dark red, dark green and dark blue were the colors of the rest of the shop. The clothes inside looked really expensive, but she thought it wouldn't hurt to look.
Once she stepped inside, she headed towards the first thing she saw: a beautiful black satin robe with glistering silver and red. She picked it up and started to walk to the girls' pants and shirt section. That was her undoing. She stared at all the different clothes and robes, grabbing all sorts of things from muggle pants, jeans skirt, halter tops and all sort of fancy dress robes. She found a black robe with a touch of midnight blue on the sides for Hermione. Suddenly, the minute she turned her head to the left. She dropped all of her clothes onto the counter and approached the piece that caught her eye. There it was! A beautiful red satin dress with thin straps, an open cut at the back that stopped inches above a certain place and it flowed down to reach a few centimeters off the ground. She stared at it in awe for at least 5 minutes.
"I saw the way you were looking at that dress and I could guarantee that you would look magnificent in it Miss... " said the cashier. She was dressed in a black tank-top and white cargo pants with black combat boots. She also had her hair pinned up into a ponytail. She had brown hair and blue eyes. She also had a tattoo on her right arm that had the words 'touch me and I'll kill you...! "My name is Ginny Moray Weasley. Nice tattoo by the way. It's very... creative." Ginny giggled while smiling.
"Thanks! My mom hates it, but hey, whatever! The facts still stands though, you would look really good in it! A girl named... um what's her name? Ah yes! Cho Chang came in and tried one of those dresses and she looked awful!" she said laughing. Her eyes brightening up, the second she had the slightest trace of a smile on her face.
"Oh! Cho Chang always bothered me, but she's still a pretty good friend, I guess. Well anyways, I want to buy it, but I'm afraid I don't have enough money to add it to my huge pile of clothes." she said blushing at all the clothes on the counter. It looked like there was at least 30 pieces of clothing in there and they weren't cheap, not at all!
"How about I give you a deal? I will give it to you for 80 galleons instead of 115. If, you could hang this sign on top of the shop. It's tricky, since we are under aged so we can't use magic and this is my punishment from my mom for getting my tattoo...haha..." She pointed to a sign on her right that said 'New shop! Take a look!' In big, black, bold letters.
"Deal!" As Ginny watched the cashier packed all the clothing into huge bags. She saw the price and smiled. She would have 8 galleons left and she was sure she had enough to buy a book she wanted for such a long time.
"Now that I have FINALLY gotten that last piece of clothing to fit in that bag, I would like to say you made a great choice in buying that dress! Have a good day Miss Weasley!"
"You too! Miss..."
"I'm Mac, also known as Michelle Alexis Camron... Do you by any chance attend Hogwarts?" she asked.
"Yes, yes I do. Why?"
"Well, I'm going to attend 6th year there. I was hoping, since you go there if you could show me around." she asked in a hopeful tone.
"I'd love too! It would be great getting a new friend! Since, I always have the same friends to talk too and most of them are boring!" she said while rolling her eyes.
"You know, my friends get discounts when they buy from my shop!" Michelle said giggling.
"Oh, really? Well, I'm glad I met you! You're probably wondering why I have so many clothes."
"Come to think of it... yeah." She said with a look of curiosity in her eyes.
"Well, as you know, the Weasley's are considered the poorest family possible that are pureblooded. I only had the chance to buy these clothes because I saved money for a few years which was a drag, because all the things I wanted and saw in shops disappeared! Now though, I don't have to save that much, since I now have a friend who runs a shop!" she said happily, but a bit of sadness was shown on her face when she remembered that the Weasley's were the poorest family in the wizarding world indeed!
"Don't give me that face! I'm sure everything will work out for you in the end! I mean your family probably loves you very much and that's all that matters! And, yeah, I guess we are friends! Maybe we will meet each other on the way to Hogwarts! People told me we would arrive at Hogwarts in a huge train. Is that true?" she said trying to change the subject so that Ginny didn't feel too uncomfortable.
"Yeah! It's called the Hogwarts Express! It's so cool! Well, the first time I saw it, I thought I was dreaming!" she said with a dreamy expression on her face remembering that day.
"Oh, gotta go Ginny! My mom is calling me by my headset!" she said while pointing to a black mini-microphone that hung around her ear. "I'm sure we will see each other again soon! Bye! Oh, don't forget to hang the sign!" she said while waving.
"Alright! Bye!" As Ginny took all the bags she came to the conclusion that she couldn't walk properly with all of them in her hands. She decided it was time to visit the twins shop. Walking to her big brothers shop, she flooed the bags to the Burrow. She walked back to Clothes from Joe's, took the sign and went out front to hang it. She climbed the ladder already set at the front and unrolled the big banner. She tied them onto metal bars on the edge and congratulated herself on a job well done!
She climbed back down the ladder to admire her work. It looked pretty good, since she didn't tie it too tight to the poles, the wind made it flow a bit so it would catch people's attention. She also remarked that a number of people saw the sign from a far and decided to visit the shop.
'Well, now that that's done, let's visit the book store!' she moved the ladder to the side so people wouldn't trip, fall or bump into the ladder. She swung the new white and sky blue purse that she just bought over her shoulders and walked down the crowded street thinking.
'This shop is really great! I found all sort of stuff in there! I even met a friend!' (( You know that radio station where they go "Jean Coutu you can find it all! Even a friend!" It inspired me to write this sentence! lol) she smiled overjoyed as she walked into the big crowd. People started to look at her because she wasn't wearing a robe but she just walked by ignoring their stares.
'Humph! I survived the chamber of secrets so, I could survive their little puny looks!' she thought.
"What are you people looking at?! Haven't you seen clothes before or is this not what you are wearing under those robes?!" With that they all looked away. Some mothers were even glaring at her for saying such things in front of their children.
"Well, that's it! Look away because there is nothing exciting to see here!" she said as she glared at an old lady who "accidentally" hit her with a cane! (My bottom accidently! Lol An old lady did that once just because I tripped over her plastic bags full of fruits on the floor!)
'Oh! You wait till the day I hit YOU with a cane you old coot!' she thought now glaring even harder at the old lady that laughed at her while running away. 'Oh! You are so not laughing at me!' With that Ginny's eyes turned red and suddenly the old lady's cane broke and the old lady fell down.
"Hah! You deserve that you little granny!" Everyone around her looked at her like she was evil but she just glared at them. "Come now, I couldn't have done that!" she said showing her empty hands. All the people started to look around looking for the culprit.
'Did I do that? I mean, I only stared at the old lady and poof, the cane broke! It's probably coincidence! It couldn't have been me!' she thought with a shrug. As she walked her way into the famous book store, she waved at the shopkeeper and then left her bags at the front. Who was the shop keeper you may ask? Surprisingly, it was Pansy Parkinson!
"Hello Pansy! How are you doing?" she asked as she hugged her friend.
"I'm doing fine Virginia and you? Could I help you with anything?"
"I'm doing ok and no, that's alright. I'll just look around. I'll see to it that I will ask for help when I need it."
"Alright!" with the wave of her hand, Pansy continued reading her book.
Pansy and Ginny always had gotten on good terms. They were even good friends! It all happened in Ginny's 5th year, when she got pissed at Harry because he was hitting on Cho. Yes, Cho Chang the evil bitch. That's what Colin and she referred to her as. They called Harry the boy-who-was- hardheaded. Yep, Colin got over the whole 'I love Harry Potter and I'll take pictures of him no matter what!' episode. Ginny was great friends with Harry, don't get her wrong. It's just that sometimes Harry was so clueless! It wasn't even funny!
Anyways, Pansy had been crying in the girl's bathroom on the 4th floor and Ginny met up with her there because she was so pissed.
Flashback
As she walked down the stairs she heard crying and sniffling. It sounded like a girl was crying.
'Maybe, I should find out what happened to her. I always feel better when someone talks to me and gives me advice when I'm crying! Yeah! I'll talk to her!' with a boost of confidence, she slowly tip-toed her way to the side of the crying student. It was, after all, after curfew she had to keep quiet.
"Um, hello? Are you ok? I know you may not know me, but maybe I could help." she asked in a timid voice. She was wondering why a girl would cry here! Of all places, and after curfew too! She could have cried in her common room or in her dormitory... Well, maybe there's a reason behind that. As she slowly walked towards the girl that was hiding near a suit of armor, she noticed the girl was wearing the slytherin crest and colors. She had a black and red V neck sweater and a dark green skirt that reached her knees.
"No, no one could help me... Weasley..." the girl said, as she lifted her head from her little ball she curled herself into. Yes, Ginny was sure it was a Slytherin.
"Pansy, I know it may seem the only thing you can do is cry, but sometimes the better thing to do is to move on. I know that whatever going on in your life is a very big trauma, because I've never seen a tough girl in Slytherin cry!" She said as she put an arm over the girls shoulder.
"Hah! That's a laugh! You know you shouldn't even try to comfort me because it doesn't really help. Weasley, why are you doing this? I mean, I always insulted your family, I was always mean to you and plus I'm a Slytherin! Now, you're comforting me, near a silver suit of armor, after curfew, on the 4th floor in Hogwarts. This is so weird! I'd never see the day! I mean, you're a goody-goody Gryffindor and I'm the bad Slytherin! " she said with a little bit of humor in her eyes but lots of sadness covered them.
"That's true, but one: I was never one to hate people just because they were from different houses and 2: How about we go get a bite to eat in the kitchens. It will make you feel better. Maybe you could tell me what happened, if you want and if you don't, I'll have to force it out of you!" She said with a comforting smile.
"Yeah... maybe I'll feel better. Virginia... thanks. I know I've been mean to you in the past and I'm sorry. I guess I should have gotten to know you better instead of judging you." She said with a sad smile present on her face.
"Now, let's go get food. I was going to kitchens anyway to get a snack because I was pissed at somebody."
"Oh, really? Who?" she asked with curiosity.
"Why don't I tell you that, after I show you what nutella is."
"What is nutella?" she asked with even more curiosity.
"It's this muggle food it's kind of like chocolate, except better! You could put it where ever you want! On bread, on cookies, it could even be an Oreo cookie dip!" she said naming everything she knew about it.
"Who is Oreo?"
"This is going to be a long night..." Ginny said laughing. She knew that this friendship would last for a very long time. She didn't know why, but she had a feeling in the pit of her stomach.
End Flashback
On that day, she found out that Pansy's mom died because of cancer. She couldn't attend the funeral because of the richer families that would insult her and stare at her through the whole thing with pity. She didn't like that. She found out that Pansy really did love her mother very much. She also found out that Pansy was strong and stubborn and since that talk with Ginny, she never ever looked back at the death of her mom and felt the need to cry her eyes out. No... she had enough.
'Poor Pansy...'
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Author's Note: How did you find it? Well, I hope it was good. I know things are moving slowly, but things will get better in the next chapter. See you soon!