**A/N all right I am reposting this story which used to be titled Brotherly Love, and now is entitled "Getting a Grip Of it Al" and I'll be updating it with chapters every few days if all goes well. Please give it a chance, and review after, and you'll forever hold a residence in the little village of my heart.**

Disclaimer: I don't own harry potter or his series in any way, shape, or form, I would love it if I did, but I don't…it all belongs to J.K. Rowling.

Getting a Grip Of it all

ginny5

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The weather had been alarmingly warm for England, even in the summer, they hadn't seen rain in over two weeks. It seemed as even the weather was celebrating the downfall of the evil Dark Lord, Voldemort. It was the summer after Ginny Weasley's sixth year of Hogwarts, and the entire Weasley family was currently visiting the Burrow on order of Mrs. Weasley. Harry Potter and Ron now graduates of Hogwarts had been working at an Auror training camp that had been necessity war efforts. To everyone's surprise, Draco Malfoy had joined them at the camp. The entire wizarding world had had a tough last few years, but it seemed everything was beginning to go back to the way it had been before the war. Voldemort was at last defeated, and Death Eaters were being caught daily and sent to Azkaban, though all were given a trial.

Witches and wizards celebrated every chance they got now, for there was light at the end of the path now, and it seemed everything was right. No one could stop talking about how wondrous life was again, especailly the Weasleys, who miraculously didn't lose one member of their large family.

"This is just fantastic! Life has been so miserable for far too long! Can you believe it? I'm overjoyed how you all could come home," Mrs. Weasley beamed at six grown sons, husband, and little girl. Now Ginny wasn't really a little girl, at sixteen she was quite a young woman, but Molly was a bit blind to that. "You'll all be staying the summer of course,"

"Sounds great mum," Grinned Charlie as he looked over the faces of his siblings, marveling how they all had grown. His eyes wandered to his youngest sibling and only sister Ginny. " How you holding up kid?" Charlie asked Ginny in an undertone. The two had always been close, despite the dramatic age difference.

Recently Ginny had been through a rough break up with her boyfriend of two years, Seamus Finnagan. Seamus has said it would be too hard to keep in touch and keep the relationship as great as it was while Ginny was at school for months at a time and he was back in London working. It was a hard hit for Ginny, who was still a bit fragile about the entire thing.

"I'm ok." Ginny said looking up tiredly. But she wasn't fooling anyone, and she knew it. "I'm just going to go up to my room I guess," she sighed, getting up and slowly turning to the stairs.

"Virginia Anne Weasley! You most certainly will do nothing of the sort, the entire family is here, and you will stay here and visit with them. You've been hiding upstairs alone all since you came home last week, and I for one have had enough of it! Clearly, he didn't love you if he could dispose of you so quickly now that he is on his own now aye? No, you'll stay there in your seat and enjoy yourself!" Mrs. Weasley positively shouted in a voice that could have raised the dead.

Ginny's head snapped up, looking appalled and furious," No thanks mum, I would prefer to rot then sit in here and pretend to enjoy myself with you! If I want to go to my room, I'll bloody go to my room! I don't need you or anyone else to treat me as if I was 11 frigan years old! Let me BE!" Her voiced shook violently now, and she turned on her heel and left the room. Though she didn't exit to the stairs, she left through the front door, slamming it behind her.

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" Honestly! She has a temper a mile long in her," tisked Mrs. Weasley. "But honestly, this constant cranky sour mood is new this summer!"

All the Weasleys were a little shocked at Ginny's outburst.

"She's still a little upset about Seamus the," commented Fred.

" They dated for almost two years, of course she's bloody upset Fred," sighed Percy, shocking everyone as he cursed.

"I'm gonna go and see if she wants to talk or something," Charlie said, getting up from his seat.

"Do you want us to come along," asked Ron looking concerned as he glanced at the front door.

"No, I don't think she'll want to see too much of any of us at the moment. Better to just approach her one on one. Right now I think she might be able to, ahem, deal with me a little better than, well, anyone else," Charlie sighed looking from brother to brother, and then his parents. Though Mr. Weasley nodded lightly, Mrs. Weasley's lips were in a tight line, showing that she wasn't to be a part of this.

"Good Luck," said Bill, looking at Charlie in a bit of admiration for his bravery to face his tempest of a little sister after such an outburst.

Charlie turned and walked out the front door, shutting it lightly behind him. As he stepped out onto the front porch, his heart crumbled at the picture before him. Ginny was seated at the little porch swing Mr. Weasley had built for the children when they were young. The sun had just set moment ago, and there was a cool little breeze blowing Ginny's hair a bit. Her head was in her hands, her shoulders were hunched over and shook with sobs. He cautiously walked across the porch to her. He kneeled down before her so he was face to face with her and pulled her into a hug. Ginny excepted her brother's embrace without hesitation and cried into her brother's chest. Holding her close. Charlie made little circles at the small of her back and slowly rocked her back and forth as he had done when Ginny was a little girl, a garden gnome had bit her finger while she had tried to befriend it.

"Charlie…" Ginny cried, attempting to say something.

"Don't sis, just have a good cry for yourself, no sense of trying to hide it now. Let it all out," soothed Charlie, then kissing her forehead lightly. Ginny didn't argue, and after about another half an hour, she sniffed and looked up to her older brother and smiled shyly, "I'm being silly aren't I?"

"Virginia Anne Weasley, single female spawn of the Weasley breed, silly? Never!" Charlie grinned at her and began tickling her like crazy. Eventually she surrendered grinning at Charlie who grinned back triumphantly. "So Gin, do you wanna go up to bed or something,"

"Ugh, anything not to face mum! She's going to chop me into little pieces and add me as a special ingredient into her famous tomato sauce!" Ginny groaned, standing up with Charlie's help. Charlie pulled a face and commented, "I'll save you from Mum's cooking wrath Gin, have no fear,"

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**A/N I know I made Mrs. Weasley out to be a bit of a bitch, and I'm sorry about that, but with Voldemort gone, someone has to be the villain. This fic has a few different places it could go to, and I'm not sure what I want to do. I think its going into a Ginny rebelling from her family thing eventually, but review with any ideas you have. Please, review with any comments, questions, or any other something that may have anything at all to do with this story.**