Disclaimer: I own nothing except the plot, The characters belong to the best author in the world J.K. Rowling.
Authors note: This is the first fanfiction I ever wrote, so bear with me, it was previously published on another account but now I am using this one permanently. Hope you like it, I tried to make it better but it still isn't where I want it to be, I may rewrite it again later.
Chapter one
Virginia Weasley was standing at the window of her room staring into space, she continually jumped as the ghoul in the attic was incessantly throwing the pipes around, which seemed to become more frequent as the weather became cooler.
It was the last day of August, and the holidays, tomorrow she was to be returning to school. This was not something she was looking forward to, since Dean had dumped her half-way through last year.
It had been so embarrassing. Dean had somehow gotten very drunk on fire whisky; they thought one of his friends from another school had sent it to him. He had sauntered into the great hall with his shirt buttoned wrong and a big busted, blonde Slytherin called Tiffany simpering at his arm.
He had walked, or rather, stumbled down the hall towards her, stopping about five meters away, he started yelling and blubbering about if she hadn't been such a frigid little bitch, he wouldn't have had to look elsewhere for what he wanted. After he had finished yelling he had told her he expected the necklace he had given her, back by the end of the day so he could give it to Tiffany. He had turned to leave but halfway to the door he passed out falling to the ground and pulling the Slytherin cow with him.
Ginny had been devastated, she had tried to be a good girlfriend to Dean, she really had, but there had been some things she just hadn't been ready to do.
She had left the hall soon after but only with Hermione's help, she had been frozen in her seat then she burst into tears with shouts of laughter from the Slytherin table. Hermione had gently pulled her to her feat and helped her to their dormitory. Hermione had been the person who had helped her through the rest of the year, Ron and Harry had tried to help but they just didn't understand, not that Hermione did but she knew much more about it than the boys.
Dean had tried to apologise, but mainly because Ron had made him, several times he had appeared with shining black eyes (although Ron swore it wasn't only him) but Ginny had never opened any of his letters and turned away every time he tried to talk to her, she burnt, ripped up, threw away or just returned them to him through Ron.
Because of him she had had to put up with the Slytherins ridiculing her through the rest of the year. Not surprisingly the worst at it were Pansy Parkinson and her group of friends; they would probably still be doing it this year.
"Ginny!" Ron called from behind the door.
"Yes." She replied just loud enough for him to hear.
"Mum says to make sure you have packed everything in your trunk, especially your new sets of dress robes for the balls this year, she brought them especially for you because you barely ever ask for everything."
"Ok Ron, tell her I'm finishing up now".
"Good girl, Deans going to be beating himself up for sleeping with that bitch when he sees you in those robes, I think your pretty and I'm only your brother".
"Ron, what have I told you about lying", she joked, "your nose will grow bigger than it already is, remember the story mum used to read to us about Pinocchio?"
"Yeah, I remember it, I wasn't lying anyway, I never lie to you Ginny, you do know that right, I wouldn't lie to my sister".
"Sure, whatever you say Ronald Weasley."
"Yeah, whatever I say" He murmured quietly, she heard his footsteps fading as they walked towards his own room.
Though she had changed over the summer she still wasn't what she would call pretty, she was wrong though, her red hair now fell to her waist in beautiful curls, her green eyes sparkled when she smiled and held such expression in their depths. Her freckles had lightened and now you could barely notice them, her skin was a beautiful creamy colour (Which still turned bright red when she was especially angry or embarrassed), her voice had changed slightly and now had that slightly husky voice many guys really enjoyed listening to, she had grown about two inches and had filled out and was no longer resembling a stick insect but now had 'womanly curves' as her mother would say.
She would miss Hermione this year, she would still see her of course, but Hermione had been made head girl and had a private dormitory, whilst Harry and Malfoy had been named head boys, the school hadn't been able to decide who would be best at it so they now had two.
"Ginny dear", she heard her mother called, "its dinner time, go wash your hands then come down to the kitchen and get something to eat".
"Ok, mum", she called back, "Just let me put my robes away", she yelled as she picked up her new robes and folded them carefully into her trunk and placed the lid on with a small clunk, she locked it and went to the bathroom to wash her hands.
When she woke up the next morning Ginny Weasley had a shower, dressed and went down to eat breakfast. It came as no surprise that Harry was sitting at the table with Ron eating breakfast, he must have come during the night, he would be coming to Kings cross station with them to catch the Hogwarts express to school, his owl Hedwig was sitting quietly on his shoulder nibbling on the toast he was absently holding near his mouth when he was trying to finish his sentence.
After breakfast they pulled their trunks out to the cars waiting outside, after Harry's fifth year the ministry had supplied cars for them to get to and from Kings cross, they didn't want anything to happen to him before he killed Voldermort.
As Ginny pushed through the gate to platform nine and three quarters with Ron and Harry, she kissed her mum goodbye and loaded her trunk onto the train with Ron's help, they found a carriage and Harry pushed his trunk under one of the chairs and left, he had to meet the new prefects and give them their instructions.
Ginny pulled out her newest copy of teen witch magazine out and started reading while Ron began to Read his issue of Wizard chess weekly.
"Hey Ron, Hey Ginny, we've been looking for you everywhere and here you are in the very last carriage". Hermione said teasingly.
"I told you they were here Hermione", Harry teased back.
"Oh shut up", Hermione said as she entered the carriage and sat down next to Ginny, "What's been happening to you?" Hermione asked and they continued gossiped all the way to Hogwarts.
When Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny walked into the great hall the Slytherins were almost falling out of their seats with laughter, when Draco looked up it took a while to figure out who the beautiful girl with Weasel, mud blood and scar head was, she was wearing jeans and a black halter necked top under her school robes, she had red hair to her waist and the front sections were pulled back to keep the rest of her hair out of her face with a few strands of hair hanging in her face, holy shit! He thought it was weasels little sister. The saying good things take time is right, it certainly took her long enough he thought with a smirk on his face, and, she's going to be mine.
"Hey Drakie", Pansy screeched, "What you smirking bout?"
"Oh, nothing" he replied and gave her a last appreciating look and turned back to the Slytherins.
The chattering in the great hall ceased as Dumbledore entered the Hall, he went and sat in his chair and the doors opened once more admitting Professor McGonagall and numerous first years with expressions varying from uncertainty to absolute terror on their faces. They were sorted and when they were all sorted Professor McGonagall returned the sorting hat to its rightful place.
When she had returned to her seat at his left Dumbledore stood and began to speak. " I know you are all hungry so I will make this quick, I would like to inform you that a further forty-seven items have been added to the list of forbidden items a full list can be viewed by request in the caretakers office. The forbidden forest is out of bounds to all students unless they have written permission before entering the forest. I would like to announce our new head girl, Hermione Granger and our head boys Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, they will be in charge of organising the Christmas, valentines and Halloween Balls as well as a new event this year, a fireworks display on Guy fawkes evening. Enjoy your meal and as soon as the plats have been cleared would the prefects please direct the new first years to their dormitories. Thank you and enjoy your meal."
The plates quickly filled with a huge amount of food and everyone began to eat.
When the plates had been cleared the prefects called for their first years and left the hall. Ginny followed the Gryffindor first years to the Portrait of the fat lady but it closed just before she got to it and she didn't have the password, she was lucky Colin came when he did and told her the password (Wolfs bane).
When she got into the common room she said goodbye to Colin and headed up to the girls dormitory, when she got there she pulled out a black folder with lots of pieces of parchment in it, a bottle of ink and some quills. She didn't want anyone to see what she was doing, it could put her out of business.