This is the first chapter of a story which I really doubted would ever see the light of day, but it exists. It is set 4 years after the 7th book. I don't own Harry Potter, otherwise, I wouldn't be wasting my time here, I'd be writing my next best selling series. Please favorite, follow and bookmark, and let's get into it.

A large tawny owl swooped in through Ginny's window and perched on the back of her chair, sticking its leg out. The witch swiveled in her chair and fumbled with the knot tying the parchment to the owl's leg. Stroking her parents owl, Ginny unrolled the parchment and read the letter.

Dear Ginny,

I hope Kean finds you well. I know he hasn't delivered to your new apartment yet.

We are missing you, so make sure you come to visit us soon. I hope you haven't forgotten

us with your new job starting soon. You will remember that your father's birthday is

coming up, and we are visiting someone for dinner and would love for you to come.

It's a surprise, so don't try to worm it out of us, and it's not optional and expect to see you

there. Send a reply by Kean and we hope to see you soon. Dress code is formal.

Love,

Mum

Ginny smiled as she finished reading the letter, and searched the messy countertop for a quill and parchment to send a response.

Hi Mum,

I'll see you the day after tomorrow. I need to pop around tomorrow, so we can talk

then.

Love,

Ginny

She handed the owl the letter and watched him fly off. She turned away from the window and walked to her room and opened her closet.

She had cast an undetectable extension charm on it, so she was met by rows and rows of clothing, shoes, and accessories. The witch walked over to where her dresses were displayed and rifled through multitudes of sundresses. Realising that she had lost her nice, formal dress, she decided that she would need a new one,disapparated to a quiet alleyway in London.

Brushing herself down, she strode out and scanned the area for a suitable store, and spotting a store called Dotti. The doorbell chimed as Ginny pushed through, and searched for the dresses, finding it easily.

Since clothes shopping wasn't something Ginny enjoyed doing, she sorted through the dresses until she spotted one she liked. Grabbing a dress in her size, she rushed to the changing room, casting a quick spell to change into it. It was a strapless white dress with pale blue flowers and off the shoulders short sleeves. Charming it off again, Ginny unlocked the door and stepped out, pulling her sunglasses down over her eyes. Not looking where she was going, she bumped into someone and looking up, met the icy blue eyes of Draco Malfoy.

"Well, well, well. Never expected to see Draco Malfoy in muggle London," Ginny commented, a smirk on her lips.

"Never thought I'd see a Weasley in a clothing store," retorted Malfoy.

Ginny tossed her flaming hair over her hair and pushed past him to the checkout, unaware that he was watching her go out the door before proceeding to find the dress his mother wanted.

Back at her apartment, Ginny hung up her new dress in her closet before disapparating to Diagon Alley.

Once she was there, Ginny set off to Gringotts slowing as usual to admire the beautiful marble of the bank and the power it seemed to radiate.

"Weasley, just because you've never seen bank before, doesn't mean you can block the doorway from those who have," A snide voice says behind her.

Whipping around, Ginny responds, "That doesn't make any sense, Malfoy. And after your family lost all that money when charges were pressed against your father and I started earning more money than you ever will, I'd say we're about even," she snaps, pushing the doors open and leaving them to slam closed in Malfoy's pale, pointed face.

"I'd like to get some gold out from my vault, please," Ginny told the goblin at the desk.

The goblin looked up from the ruby he was measuring and asked, "Name and number?" from over his long hooked nose.

"Ginevra Weasley, Vault 654," She stated, cringing at the sound of her full name and placing the small silver key she placed on the desk.

The goblin picked it up in his gnarled fingers and inspected it closely through the glasses perched precariously on the tip of his nose. Finding it all in order, and nodded, and snapped his fingers and a slip of paper popped into the air, flying into the back room of the bank, where another goblin soon came running from.

"Hurbek, take Ginevra Weasley down to Vault 654," he instructed the new goblin. Again, Ginny cringed at her name, and Draco Malfoy watched her curiously from the next line over, as she followed the goblin, considerably smaller and weaker looking, over to a cart which the goblin bowed Ginny into.

Hurbek, as he was called, seemed to be one of the nicer goblins and engaged Ginny in some friendly conversation before falling quiet for the last couple minutes to her vault. When they got there, Ginny stepped out, but Hurbek pushed her back as he stepped forwards importantly and inserted the silver key into the lock. Ginny heard the click echo down the tracks as the door swung open, revealing a sizeable pile of gold.

After leaving Hogwarts, Ginny had become a sports news editor for the Daily Prophet and was making good wages, some of which she transferred into her parents' vault, unbeknownst to them. She counted out what she wanted, placing it into a leather pouch and sealing her vault up again and stepping back onto the cart which Hurbek climbed into as well and steered the cart back up to the surface.

Exiting the bank, Ginny had to shield her eyes against the bright sunlight burning the ground. She blinked a few times to adjust her eyes to the brightness before heading towards Flourish and Blotts, where the door chimed merrily as she entered, the magical air conditioning relieving the heat.

"Hi Percy," She greeted her brother, one of the staff at the bookstore. "Is that autobiography by Figlia Bunchkins out yet?" She asked.

"Not to the public, but I can make an exception," He told her, disappearing out back to get the book. A few minutes later he returned, carrying a glossy book which he handed over to her. "That'll be 1 Galleon and 9 Sickles, please," He told here. "Why did you need it so urgently?"

"Now that Figlia's retiring from her position as Chaser on the England Quidditch team, there will be swarms of articles about her career and I need to make sure the facts are right," She told him. When he raised an eyebrow she continued, "Oh, alright. It looked like a really good book as well," She confided.

Percy smiled, handed her the book and bid her a good day and Ginny left the shop, tucking her new book into her bag.

Ginny disapparated back her apartment and tucked her new book into the bookshelf, which had been expanded with many, many extension charms. Spotting an album she hadn't looked at in a while, she pulled it off the shelf to revisit old times. She saw the photo of her laughing family in Egypt with Bill in her first year of Hogwarts which seemed so long ago, lost in another millennium. Another photo on Fred and George's 19th birthday, the last one they had together. A tear dropped onto Fred's laughing face as she remembered the brother she had lost. She waved her wand over the page, drying it and fixing the ink which had bled through the page when the tear had dropped. Putting the book away, Ginny sat and reminisced about the past, remembering what it had been like with a whole family.

Sorry for the sad ending, but it happened. Please review because I can't fix mistakes if you don't point them out. Take a guess if you think you know what's going to happen, but see you next time.