Prologue


Ginny looked at her ragged robes and wished she hadn't spent her vacation money on candies and sweets. Her mother warned her that they were on an extremely tight budget and that Ginny would be expected to start being responsible with her own things. Ginny didn't think her Mother meant that she would have to give up all her summer enjoyment for buying clothes.

She touched her wand to her school robes and muttered a spell that would hem up all the frayed edges and she even managed to get that pumpkin juice stain out. But they still looked worn and old.

"I hate being poor." Ginny sighed, stuffing her robes into her trunk.

She had two more weeks until she'd go back to Hogwarts as a sixth year and she was liking it less and less. She trudged to her book bag to get some quills out when it burst open and an array of spiders and flies came scurrying out, then disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Fred! George!" Ginny yelled at the top of her lungs.

Just because Fred and George still lived at home didn't mean that Ginny was their free dumby to try their new products on. She turned quickly to her door where she heard muffled laughter. She took three quick strides to the door and flung it open only to find two figures disappearing around the corner.

"Mum!" Ginny exclaimed entering the kitchen. "Fred and George did it again!"

"Did what?" Molly asked after taking a sip of tea.

"They've been in my room and messed around with my stuff! I thought you told them to stay out?" Ginny plopped down in a chair next to her Mother, her face fuming.

"Ginny, I'll have another talk with them." Molly had an amused look on her face.

"It's not funny." Ginny grumbled.

Ginny looked at her Mother and wondered why she had to be the last child. Why she had to be a girl. Why she had to be poor. It wasn't fair to have all these disadvantages thrown at her in one blow. She had imagined herself somewhere else, the only child and rich and could do whatever she liked without anyone telling her she was too little, or too young or too girly to do anything. She would love to just be somewhere else.

Far from where Ginny sat wishing was someone else. Someone else who wished to be in a different situation also.

Draco lay across his bed staring up at the intricate pattern on his ceiling. He had just been grounded to the house after being away for two days and nights without telling his parents where he was going. Upon returning home his Father greeted him with a forceful shove into the wall.

"Where have you been?" He asked, none too lovingly.

"Out." Was all Draco would divulge.

"You had your Mother and I worried."

Draco rolled his eyes and looked beyond his Father.

"Listen to me!" Lucius shook Draco. "You are too old to play these childish games. You hold the Malfoy name and I don't appreciate you tromping it around in the mud. Your gambling debts are outrageous and I refuse to pay them off!"

"Fine!" Draco shouted. "I don't want your name! You can take your name, for all I care, and shove it!"

Lucius narrowed his eyes at his son then put a house arresting spell on him. "Now go to your room." He hissed.

As Draco thought over that little episode he recounted the many stunts he had pulled in the past. He remembered doing these types of things all his life and all he wanted was for his Father to recognize him. But as the years passed his Father's indifference grew. Draco found himself only appreciated for his surface value: Son of Lucius Malfoy. He was seen as an object like every other expensive thing in the house.

"I hate this place." He said to himself.

He wished he could be somewhere where people cared about him. Somewhere where a Mother fussed over him and a Father actually talked to him.

Now there is a certain magic in the air that senses when two people wish for exactly what the other has. A magic as old as time. This free spirited magic noticed these two plights and thought to play a bit of mischief. So when night fell and the two wishers were asleep in their beds the magic acted.


(A/N: I just thought of this idea a while ago but am not sure if I want to continue it. If this piques your interest let me know and I'll continue. Thanks!!!)