Chapter one: the Letter

Ginny Weasley was lying in her bed at the Burrow reading a very interesting book on Leprechauns. She heard her mother downstairs making dinner, Ron and Harry upstairs playing exploding snap with Hermione watching, and of course the twins across the hall thinking of new products to make. It was almost twilight and she was getting hungry, and bored. She set the book on her night stand and covered her face with a pillow, barely hearing the annoying tap sounds coming from her window. When she finally acknowledged that she had gotten a letter, she leapt from her comfortable position and ran towards the beautiful barn owl. It dropped the letter in her hand, her name was written perfectly with green ink.

Dear Ginny,

I suppose that your family has gotten The Oldest Wizarding Families book? I hope so, because that's what I'm writing to you about. My mother read it today and was not surprised to see that the Weasley's are one of the oldest families, along with my family of course. Anyway, my mother has written a letter to your mother proposing for us to get married when we come of age and you finish school.

Read the book Ginny, you and I have the purest blood in the entire Wizarding world. It would only make sense that you and I marry. Your mother should have gotten the letter by the time you're reading this; she'll want to talk about it later. Mother has also insisted that you come over for tea on Thursday afternoon, and I hope to see you then.

Draco

She couldn't believe it. Narcissa Malfoy wanted her one and only son to marry her? Ginny read the letter over again making sure that she wasn't mistaken, she wasn't.

"Gin, mum says dinner's ready." Fred knocked on her door yelling for her. "Don't make me come in there." He waltzed in anyway seeing his sister's stricken face. "What's wrong Gin?"

"Read this, and tell me what you think of it." Fred took the letter with a curious look which was soon replaced with shock, disgust, and loathing. "Do you really think it's that bad?"

"Mum and Dad can NOT do this to you! I won't allow you to marry that git I don't care if you are of age and decide to do it yourself!" Fred took the letter downstairs, Ginny quickly followed. "There is NO WAY this is going to happen mum!" The entire family stared at a very serious Fred as she slammed the letter on the table.

"Fred, I don't think now is the appropriate time or place to talk about this." Arthur Weasley interjected.

"The entire family should know what you and that other woman are plotting to do! There's no way I'm letting that happen to Ginny, after all the tormenting he's done to her and our family!"

"Fredrick Oswald Weasley, we will NOT talk of this right now. You, Ginny, your father and I will sit down after dinner and talk about it in a civilized manner. For now, you and your sister will sit with the rest of the family and eat the dinner I prepared and you will not speak a word of this until I say." The two remaining kids sat across the table from each other, everyone else was looking at them interested in what was going on with Ginny that made Fred, the prankster of the family, so upset.

Every few moments through out dinner Fred would glance at Ginny like she was going to disappear each time he looked away, even George didn't know what was going on and couldn't make his other half even crack a smile no matter how hard he tried. To say that dinner that night was somber was a complete understatement, but when everyone was finished all but Ginny, Fred, and their parents left the table.

"Now, Fred, what does this letter say that's gotten you so upset?" Mr. Weasley inquired.

"It says that Ginny and Draco Malfoy have the purest blood in the Wizarding world and there fore you and his mum are trying to get them in an arranged marriage for when Gin is done with school!"

"Mrs. Malfoy wrote me about that, I haven't responded to her yet seeing as I was making dinner when it came."

"Mum, you don't know what Ginny has had to put up with from that family! Her second year Malfoy senior gave her Riddle's diary and that almost killed her! He's tormented our entire family ever since his first day at Hogwarts, he thinks that he's hot stuff and can get away with anything because of who his father is and I am failing to see how that boy would make my baby sister happy."

"I'm not a baby anymore Fred. I'm sixteen and I can take care of myself no matter what you all say! I don't always need you, or George, or Ron around!" Ginny had spoken for the first time since she asked him to read the letter. "I know that he's taunted us about things and yes his father almost killed me, but he didn't know what the diary did." Her brother's face lost all color.

"Are you telling me that you'd rather marry that arse just because you are the only girl in one of the oldest magical families in history than be happy?"

"Are you telling me that I won't be happy?" Fred's face was now red. "Draco and I have been talking since the end of term, through letters. We already figured out that one way or another his mother will want to have her son marry me because of our family lineage and because she thinks that I would be an amazing girl for him. Yes, I have met Narcissa Malfoy, and yes she has told Draco all of this."

"Narcissa has also told me everything, Fred. And Ginny's right, she doesn't always need you boys to watch over her. She's a beautiful young lad who is able enough to take care of her self and know what she wants."

"I know that, I just can't understand how anyone can want the ferret boy." Fred mumbled. "I just don't want you to get hurt is all Gin. You know I trust you and I know that you can manage. It's just hard watching you grow up and knowing that I can't always be the big brother." Molly was silently crying as her only daughter hugged her favorite brother.

Yes, Fred was Ginny's favorite sibling. It wasn't hard to figure out, she always spent time with Fred and George helping in anyway she could with their joke shop. She always wanted to play quidditch with him; he always carried her around, always got her something special, and always watched her the closest. Fred and George were closer than anyone could be, but Fred and Ginny were just as close. That's why Molly and Arthur weren't surprised when Ginny showed him the letter, when he got upset, and they won't be surprised when he is still the most livid of all the Weasley children.