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Summary: First girl in seven generations. People believe that Ginny Weasley will become a powerful witch. In this story she does, however she pays a painful price for such power.
Revision: 5/26/06
Chapter 1: Hup oh, Wild Dragon on the Loose
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Hidden deep within her plushy room, a young girl of eight pored over an old book that she had found up in the attic. Quite intelligent for her age, the girl had no trouble understanding what the book was about. However…
"…tran-fo-sfo-may-ma-tion re-qu-qui-res one to look within and draw out the inner animal." She repeated this line aloud several times with a puzzled expression on her face. It wasn't her fault, the book was vague and difficult to understand, even for wizards and witches three times her age.
Her determination was unstoppable though! Yesterday was Ron's birthday, and her parents in a bout of frustration and, maybe, insanity had taken the entire family, minus Bill, to see a magical circus. The crowds were much smaller than normal with the ongoing presence of Voldemort, however it wasn't bad enough to halt the activities of the defiant Relee Magical Circus.
Ginny's favorite act was the one where a wizard transform into an elegant cat – lion actually. She watched in fascination as the lion stalked through three large rings of fire and stepped onto a raised platform. As the platform slowly turned and rose under a levitation spell, small white fireworks shot from the rising slab straight towards the ceiling. It wasn't just white, however. Flashes of reds, blues, yellows, and other colors joined their less colorful cousins for a truly remarkable scene.
Animagus, the word stuck in her mind when the circus was over and the Weasley family returned home. She wanted to be one, and she remembered spotting a dusty book, with Animagi emblazoned on its cover in large gold letters, during one of her many explorations into the attic.
For any other, too young, witch or wizard, this was but a fool's dream. Many would also say that it was impossible for Ginny because she hadn't used a potion, or some other trance-inducing method, to reveal and activate her animagus form. In one day, an 8 year old defied age-old beliefs and became a tremendously magical animal on her first try.
The book said to look within, and imagining herself within herself, Ginny felt a pull. Following it, she found herself confronted by an unfamiliar glowing object. Curiously, she pushed it, and caused an event of such proportion that two of her family members would have nightmares for a long time.
It was a tremendous wonder that no one was seriously injured when she transformed. All of a sudden, the Burrow started to shake furiously as it strained to support the weight of something large.
"What's happening?" Ron shouted as he stumbled from his room into the hallway.
"Ron, out the door!" Molly shrieked from the bottom of the stairs. Arthur was at the ministry at the moment, so it was up to the Weasley matriarch to be the voice of leadership. Molly could not run upstairs to search for Ginny, not while Ron was trying to come down.
Ron finally came scrambling down the steps, "Mom! There's a dragon in Ginny's room!"
"What?" she panicked. She paled when there was a definite crash of something falling upstairs. "No…"
Ron tugged hard on his mother's sleeve as he struggled to get the two of them outside of the collapsing building. She dazedly followed her son.
The two had barely made it out of the door when the entire building fell inwards. Molly and Ron were treated to the sight of a golden dragon, whose brilliant scales shimmered with a reddish tint, that was at least 15 feet long standing on the collapsed form of the Burrow. It thrashed about wildly and breathed long gouts of flame, before it calmed enough to turn and stare at the two standing right in front of it.
The two Weasleys found themselves flung aside by powerful gusts of wind as the dragon leapt into the air and beat its powerful wings. It quickly flew off into the distance.
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March 3, 1989
Daily Prophet
Wild Dragon on the loose
A never-before-seen golden dragon was last spotted…
March 4, 1989
Daily Prophet
Dragon still on the loose
A trap laid by the best dragon keepers in England failed today when the golden dragon proved impossible to bring down. Dragons are notoriously resistant to magical spells and this one proved to be no exception…
March 5, 1989 Evening
Daily Prophet
Dragon's Terror has ended
A team of Dragon Keepers from Romania has finally apprehended the wild dragon that had been terrorizing the countryside for the past days. Several cows found their lives prematurely ended, but no other lives were lost. The team led by Senior Dragon Keeper Trey Lockwood…
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The dragon was finally captured after its 4 day rampage.
The body of Ginevra Molly Weasley was no where to be found. Fortunately, the Weasleys were able to piece together the real story. It was a good thing too, Molly would completely break down if her daughter had died. Arthur and the rest of her children would not be much better.
To understand how they found out, one must know that as long as everything is there, a side benefit of using magic to rebuild a structure damaged by a natural disaster is that everything inside pops up in its last location. Inside of the re-erected Burrow, they found the opened book on animagus transformations sitting in the middle of Ginny's room. It explained everything.
Even if the youngest Weasley was still alive, there was nothing that they could do as they found out later.
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Charlie gulped as he approached the paddock enclosing the golden dragon, alone. She had garnered a reputation as being wild and uncontrollable.
It started out perfectly enough. Having become a dragon keeper recently, Charlie was able to approach the golden dragon without suspicion from others. However, it is important to note that dragonslayers have incredibly dangerous jobs. These beasts have incredible magical and physical resistance, rendering all, but the most powerful, spells and weapons useless. In fact, if a single wizard managed to use tickle a dragon with Cruciatus, he was probably more powerful than one of Voldemort's Death Eaters. Unfortunately, this resistance held firm in Ginny's case, because...
"Fracta" Charlie shouted, after waving his wand in several intricate gestures, as he shot his sister with a wickedly difficult breaking charm designed for animagus. The book that contained the spell explained that this charm forces an animagus to human form and prevents further transformation for some time by severing the connection between human and animal.
A brilliant blue bolt flared from the wand and collided with the dragon's smooth hide, where it broke apart on impact.
Charlie dashed out of the paddock with an angry dragon on his heel.
Charlie was reassigned to another Dragon soon after, it seemed like a good idea to keep him and the dragon as far apart as possible.
No one suspected that the Weasleys were the direct cause of the dragon. A few pointed fingers at the Weasleys, but these were people with grudges against the family and their claims were ludicrous at best. This turned out to be a good thing, this incident had the general public crying for blood and the Ministry was hard-pressed to deliver. It might sound cruel, but the Weasley family would be unable to handle the punishment levied if the Ministry discovered that their daughter was responsible for the incident. Even if this was a special case, a magical oddity.
The mystery dragon's origins were never solved. In other words, despite several teams of aurors working around the clock, those who were responsible for breeding and releasing the dragon were never found.
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