Hi guys my name is Sheridan I'm from Australia and this is my very first Fanfiction so please be nice but I am open for any comments, please review. I was inspired to write this story to this theme from other stories I have read.

Disclaimer- I own nothing that is why it's called Fanfiction (thought I'd point that out)

Setting the story- Harry and Ginny have never met. The Chamber of Secrets was never opened and remains shut. I know that this kind of flaws parts of the original story line but you know, just go with it enjoy!

"I'm not doing it Hermione so you can just forget it!" I told her. I had just received a golden letter informing me that I was one of the ten woman selected out of a thousand who applied for the a reality TV show called the bachelor.

Dear Ginny Weasley 21,
You application for a position in this year's season of the bachelor has been accepted. You are require to use the floo network to get to the bachelor mansion on the 1st of October. You will be staying for a total of six weeks, bring all essential items including dress robes, muggle and sporting clothing.
We await your arrive, please confirm your position by return owl no longer than five days after arrival

Producer and event manager
Stacy Winsor

To gain a position in this contest you had to be nominated by a friend who thinks you'd be perfect for the role. The actual likeliness of getting chosen was against you but I wasn't exactly a nobody. I played Chaser for the Holyhead Harpers and became the new captain for the first time early this year. I had made some pretty good catches and goals making a name for myself as the 'chaser racer'.

"Do you know who put my name in?" I questioned her sternly.

"Well okay just don't be mad because I, I thought that you hadn't been going out with anyone in a while and I saw this advertisement in the paper. Well it's just I thought that this could be just a bit of fun for you and I didn't think that they would accept you straight away but I remain firm that you should at least try it and if you don't like it you're allowed to go home. Besides the bachelor could be someone famous!"

"They haven't said who the bachelor was" I replied checking over the letter. "Anyway I refuse to do it! It would be so demeaning!"

"It's not demeaning it's a creative way of finding a husband" Hermione protested.

"Well just because you're engaged to my brother doesn't mean I need to get married as well, you know that after Dean and Anthony I'm obviously not the marrying kind!" my two former boyfriends had both popped the question to me early in our relationship I said no to Dean because I was only 19 and far from ready to get married. I said yes to Anthony but then dumped him a month later realizing that I never really wanted any of it. It's safe to say that they took a lot longer to get over me then I did with them.

"Gosh Hermione look at this letter 'Dear Ginny Weasley 21' they have a mansion just for this show!"

"Oh I bet it's the bachelor's House you're going to!"

"I'm not going anywhere and even if I did go how would I get the time off work?"

"Oh simple this is all published they'd love you to go, it's like free advertisement" Hermione's reasoning was quite actuate because I did end up calling my manager just to see if it could work not saying that I was going; but they were very enthusiastic about it said it would be the best move for my career, slightly.
"Oh now you have to go because your boss said and I wouldn't want you to breech your contract"

"But six weeks! I'll never survive that and the other girls going will want to be there and I'll bet they won't so nice!"

"Who cares about the other girls just go for a holiday or a break from work what's the worst that can happen you meet a couple of nasty girls big whoop you get free food, free accommodation and you get to meet a celebrity!"

"We don't know for sure if they're famous or not it could just be a regular Joe"

"No I think it would be someone really special not an average person that would be boring" We talked and gossiped for an hour after in my apartment I lived in by myself. Hermione and Ron owned a house near Bill and Fleur's overlooking the ocean.
Finally I agreed that I would go and just try it out but on the condition that I could come home anytime I wanted.

The next couple of weeks wished too quickly for my liking and I found myself at Ron and Hermione's the night before.

"All alone! Not going to know anyone there! I bet that they'll all be airheads or something!"

"None of the other girls are going to know anyone there either! And they won't be airheads they've got to have respectable people on the show!" Ron reasoned. I shrugged restlessly.

"You're right I'm not going to have any privacy. Well I best go and enjoy my last few hours of aloneness" with a short smile and a wink I disapparated to my apartment.

The next day...

Keeping my elbows in tight and my eyes and mouth shut completely I whirred through the flames and into the great room of a beautiful mansion. I was never good at traveling by Floo powder and never got the landing right. I dusted myself off and check that I was all there before looking up. I was the last to arrive all the other nine girls were in their sits holding champagne staring at me in shocked faces their hair was all perfect and their clothes completely free of ash (unlike mine).
Standing up I saw Stacy presumably. She was platinum blond with a sharp face that had clearly had some shoty correcting done to it. Next to her was the mass murder, cleared of all charges Sirius Black; I gasped at the him having only ever seen him in pictures. As a child he used to be something nightmares were made of but now he actually looked friendly even likable, maybe. But then I spotted him;
Black messy hair, enchanting emerald eyes that sparkled and a lightening shaped scar on his forehead. Harry Potter was smiling at me in amusement while everyone else was a little shocked still.

"I'm sorry about that I prefer flying much arr better landing." Sirius Black gave a hearty laugh that seemed to lighten the mood a bit.

"You must be Ginny Weasley, last to arrive" he directed me to the couch but I remain standing; it made me feel more in control.
"Alright ladies as you may have noticed your secret bachelor is Harry Potter, I'm Sirius Black his godfather and will be staying with him throughout this show, this Stacy Winsor the producer and she going to explain more."

"Thank you Sirius right now... All of you girls will be sharing a room in pairs of three or two. The rest of the day is free time you can wonder the castle and gardens but we will be having a formal dinner today at 7 o'clock in the dining hall behind me to start the show off you may be interview or may not, it's undecided. This is actually Harry's home that you have been welcomed to and I expect you to treat it with respect and we do have a few rules there is to be no swearing on camera or nudity but off camera do whatever. Harry's and Sirius' rooms and quarter are off limits as are leaking any information to the press, you have all sign privacy agreements before you got there and I expect you to honour them. Other than that you will be given a letter each day to describe the day's events but most importantly because this is a dating contest you'll need to be yourself." She smiled stiffly causing wrinkles in her expression; obviously her face wasn't used to it.
"Alright can Carmen, Zia and Nora go down the hall and take the first door to your left and Scarlet and Penny first to your right and Amelia and Sian right second door and Gwen, Tress and Ginny second on your left thank you girls and if there is ever a problem come see me about it I'll be floating around"

Most of the girls didn't walk towards their assigned rooms but over to Harry. I felt slightly uncomfortable about him being the bachelor because he's practically royalty in the Wizarding world now and to be in the same room as him and even to be in his house was weird.

I had my trunk in one hand and my bag in the other they were fairly heavy so I went off to my room. It was fairly big, three king sized singles. I dumped my stuff on top of the one right next to the window. The view was amazing it was a rose garden of pure reds, whites and yellows. Staring at it I decided that maybe it wouldn't be too bad after all.

The door open behind me and two girls pulled their trunks in after it.

"Oh hi you must be Ginny I'm Gwen" she gave me a welcoming hug and so did the other girl.

"I'm Tress. Wow look at this place it's a palace! I can't believe we get to stay here for six weeks!" After talking to the girls while we unpacked I found out that they were in this for the kill both very serious about claiming Harry while i on the other was here for the food, accommodation and sights. They did seem nice but I figured that they might just have two heads. After some chit chat I learnt that Gwen's mum nominated her for this show and that she wants to get married badly and that Tress' ex-boyfriend nominated her.

"It's silly really, he wanted to prove that he's over me so he sent in an application then paraded around that he's happy for me and when it came back that I got in well let's just say he wasn't so happy for me anymore!" after unpacking all of us were eager to found out where we were (having been told nothing) so the three of us decided to go exploring the gardens.
I had established my first impressions of the two; Gwen was a sharp, independent woman who could be nice and encouraging or an ice queen to others. Being the first to arrive she had met all the girls and decided who the competition was.

"Scarlet, Carmen, Amelia and maybe Sian I'm undecided although she seems like a push over"
And you seem like a bully I thought to myself.

Tress on the other hand seemed like a Park Avenue princess. She was very innocent and pretty and wanted to get married to the perfect guy and have two perfect babies (a girl and a boy) but I didn't think she would have much of a fairytale on a dating contest how romantic that'll be one for the grand-kids I met your dad while he was dating nine other girls.

We walked around the yard for awhile and it was truly beautiful and i couldn't help thinking what St. Mungo's could do with all this money. We came around the corner and into the view of the amazing rose garden outside my bedroom window. Sitting on the white outdoor benches was all the other contestants including Carmen, Scarlet and Amelia

"Enjoying the gardens, isn't this place beautiful?" Gwen addressed the crowd.

"Well only if you've never gone anywhere nice before, in fact this is a lot like my house" Scarlet replied rudely. We sat down on the bench and Gwen looked away clearly pissed off, uh oh.

"So Ginny or should I call you the chaser racer? What do you prefer?" she said in a clearly meant to be bitchy way. I looked around at all the other girls and saw that they were all eagerly waiting for my respond, clearly trying to see if I was a threat.

"Ginny, call me Ginny." I stared at Carmen and Amelia and I think that they must be her poesy. Hoping to stay out of anymore conversation I pretended to be admiring a nearby rose.

"Tress that's a bit of a Half name, no what I mean. No follow up." Carmen piped up.

"That was the name of grandmother, I'm named after her" Tress said defensively. I made a mental note to swat Hermione next time I met her for putting me in a place where girls care about half names, honestly...

Tress let out a long breath of air and looked away angrily mirroring Gwen.

"You know I suspected that Harry was going to be the bachelor" Scarlet said.

"How could you possibly have known that? It was all really secret so that they could have a good first show" piped up Nora.

"I just knew okay!" Scarlet gave her a dirty look making her cower back. "I hope I get an interview for the show tonight although I would have thought so considering there's only ten of us and I'm properly the most well known"

"I'm sorry but all I know about you is your name, Scarlet" I said drawing the last word out.

"I was voted the most eligible single lady in Witch Weekly and my family comes from a long line of rich, pure bloods. I'm actually a descendent from Rowena Ravenclaw."

I immediately didn't like the way she said pureblood; I'm a pureblood but I don't think it makes a difference what blood you have it's not going to help you win a dating contest.

"I don't think Harry really cares what a person's blood status is, I mean he's a half blood" I said to her giving her a mean look.

"Whatever" She replied dismissively.
Getting sick of these girls I retreated inside to write letters to people I actually liked.

"Oh my god is she always so touchy?" i heard Scarlet say before I went out of ear reach.

Dear Hermione,
I'm just writing to say thank you for putting me in this place if I don't get out of here soon I'll nor my arm off!

Hope you're well
Ginny xoxo