Once you turned (there's no turning back)
By: MirainoTenchi
Summary: Ginny goes to Japan for a year to stay with her pen friend Hotaru. When the two come back to Great Britain and join Hogwarts they mess up the school.
A/N: This is the first fanfic I ever posted so please forgive me my stupid mistakes. I also hope my English is not too bad. I'm still on search for a Beta-Reader. If you like the story and you're interested in being my Beta-Reader please let me know because I'd like someone to read the other chapters before I post them. It would be very helpful if it was somebody whose (gr.?) English's better than mine. I also rated it higher that needed in the first chapters but I hope it's not for no reason and that will change later. I won't write about the year Ginny spent in Japan but that won't be important anyways.
Thank you for deciding to read my story and please review if you like it or not.
I already have some ideas for the pairings in this story but please make your suggestions anyways. After you made some I'll tell you my ideas.
Disclaimer: The characters taken from the Harry Potter novels belong to great J. K. Rowling and a part of the plot of course. Hotaru Tomoe is taken from one of Naoko Takeuchi's Mangas but it's not important because the plot of it doesn't really have anything to do with my fic. Just wanted to let you know that the character belongs to her.
P.S.: I'll try to avoid A/Ns in the beginning of the chapters as far as possible.
P.P.S.: I already drew some pictures but I don't have a homepage yet so if you're interested and have an idea of how I could show you please let me know.
The story takes place in Harry's sixth/Ginny's fifth year. My main focus is going to be on Hotaru and Ginny.
Now have fun with the story:
Chapter 01 - Say "Adios" to little VirginiaLittle Virginia Weasley had grown up to the age of 14. She had changed a lot over the last months. There were two weeks left until the new term was going to start only that she wouldn't go to Hogwarts this year. With a holiday job she had gathered some money over the last few weeks to do some shopping and to spend a year at Tokyo with her pen friend Hotaru Tomoe. They'd been writing letters for almost three years now and it was time for them to meet..
Hotaru visited the Infinity High School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was a very famous school and not many students were allowed to go there, only the elite of Japan's witches and wizards and now it was Ginny's turn to proof that she belonged to Great Britain's elite…
"Ginny dear, are you sure you've everything you need?" Molly Weasley seemed to be even more nervous then Ginny was. She followed her one and only daughter through the whole house asking her for the one hundreds time if that was the right thing to do. "I mean, are you sure you really want to go to Japan? It's so far away and a year is a very long time. You don't have to…" Mrs. Weasley had just reached the stairs when Ginny interrupted her.
"Mum, did you see my pajama? The white one. I can't find it!"
Molly sighed. "Ginny, were you listening…"
"Oh, don't worry… I got it!"
When the elderly woman reached Ginny's room the red haired girl shut her trunk loudly and pulled it from the bed to the floor with a loud noise. "I think I've got everything now." She commented hastily.
Mrs. Weasley looked her daughter over. "Don't you think you're going to miss anything this year?"
"But mum, I'm going to visit one of Japan's best wizarding schools! The Infinity High is even here in Great Britain famous, you know, I'm sure I'm gonna learn a lot while I'm there. Besides, Hotaru'll have a look at me. She's a very good student."
Her mother sighed again watching as Ginny picked up her heavy trunk and pulled it more or less over to the stairs making her way down step by step. "I know, dear, I know. But I don't like the idea that you're gone for so long…"
Ginny suddenly stopped and ran back up the stairs leaving her trunk to her mother. "I'll be right back. I just forgot something important.
Ginny threw the door to her room open and opened her cupboard. She took out a little, black box. The youngest Weasley took out a small ball. It was made out of glass. Inside was a small version of Hogwarts. The special thing about it was, that it always showed Hogwarts in the actual season. In fall there were leaves falling and the trees didn't have many left. In winter there was snow everywhere around the castle and the lake was frozen. In spring the grounds of Hogwarts were all green and there were flowers blooming. Right now the sun mirrored in the dark lake and blinded whoever looked into the ball. Ginny was sure that Hotaru would like her present. She put it back into the box and closed it carefully. Than she hurried back downstairs where her brothers were having breakfast together will her mum. Her father had already left for work. He'd been promoted and was now head of the department for muggle protection.
"Ginny, if you want to have some breakfast now, you need to hurry." Mrs. Weasley told her and shoved her over to the table.
"Morning." Ginny said to her brothers and sat down next to Fred. At least she thought it was Fred first but on second gaze it also could have been George. They were usually very busy with their shop in Diagon Alley but they always had time to come over to the Burrow for some days.
"Morning." They greeted her and the twin next to her gave her a toast. Ginny gave him a suspicious glance but decided that they probably wouldn't intoxicate her on her last day in Great Britain. She listened to Ron's speech about the Chudley Cannons while eating her breakfast and wondered what life would be like in Japan. The language shouldn't be any problem because there were potions which could solve this problem plus Hotaru had told her that the pupils of Infinity had to learn some languages beside Japanese, like English and French. She was rudely kicked out of the clouds by her mother who had had a look at the clock above the table (not the one with the Weasley names and places where they were, which now had a new section which said Japan).
"Ginny, hurry up! We need to go! You're going to miss your… your…"
"Plane, mum." Ron informed her.
"Yes, thank you Ronald, your plane."
Ginny stood up not before hugging her three brothers who were at home. "Say greetings to Bill and Charlie from me." She said. "And have a nice time while I'm away."
"We will, Gin." The boy she now knew to be Fred said.
"Goodbye." The other two added. "You too."
"Mrs. Weasley obviously didn't have time for such long good-byes know and Ginny didn't like them anyways. She grabbed her trunk and pulled it over to the door. George had ordered a taxi for Ginny, which would take her to the airport. The driver was already hooting. Mrs. Weasley had tears in her eyes as she hugged Ginny before giving some money to the driver. He didn't have time to wait for her to stop crying so he put Ginny's trunk into the car and Ginny sat down. He closed the door and than turned to Mrs. Weasley.
"Ma'am." He said and lifted his hat slightly before he drove off.
Virginia hated the airport. It took her some time to find the right way but once she'd reached the gateway she became more and more excited. It was her first time to fly with a plane and she really wondered how those big metal things could fly without magic.
About 20 minutes later she had seated. Next to her sat an old man. He already had grey hair but he looked friendly. He asked Ginny rather she'd flown before and they started to talk.
