Ginny Weasley lay on her bed, thinking. She was happy. Today was the day she was going to Hogwarts. This was her fifth year. Everything seemed to be going smoothly since last year, since the downfall of you-know-who. She was a prefect. The smartest person in her year.
She had even gotten pretty over the years. From the overly tall scrawny girl with long stringy hair and a flat, thin body, she now looked very becoming. Her lengthy red locks caught the light when she moved showing of different shades of red. Her body had filled out as well. Her face was no longer looked pinched, but long and with high cheekbones. Yes, Ginny Weasley was a face turner.
She looked at the clock on the wall. It was looked like a muggle clock but it had a voice. Right now it was snoring, a soft breathing sound. Its eyes were closed, so she could not see the time. She gently prodded one eye and with a soft grunt the clock's eyes opened.
"Good morning, Timer" said Ginny cheerfully. Although Ginny was a morning person her clock was not.
"Good morning Ginny" said timer his face revealed it was just 5:00 she had 6 more hours until they left. She sighed. She was not going to get any sleep now. She swung her legs around the bed and stood up. Grabbing her jeans and t-shirt she ran softly to the bathroom so as to not wake up Hermione who was sleeping on the bed next to hers.
She came out of the bathroom a few minutes later, after having a shower. She swept her long hair into a many styles until deciding to leave it down her back. She wondered what to do and decided to check her trunk once more.
There, she found all her books and her clothes. Only one book was out and that was her arithmancy textbook. Ginny loved arthimancy .She loved to learn new things. She was very good in it. Infact, she was so good that she was taking arithmancy with the sixth years from this year onwards. She grinned at the prospect.
Seeing that everything was packed, she decided to head downstairs. Taking a final look at her reflection, she opened the door and went outside her room and down the stairs.
In the kitchen she found nobody. She saw on the table a plate of scones magically charmed to stay hot. She gulped down two and then grabbed her broom. A firebolt 500 which she had won at the competition held during the vacation at the quidditch center in ottery st. catchpole. It was open to fifteen years and above and she had visited a lot when she had come back from Hogwarts . After all a chaser has to stay in shape. Ginny had taken the place of one of the chasers on the quidditch team when Alicia, Angelina and Katie had graduated. She was the best chaser Griffindor had on their team for the past twenty years.
She grabbed her broom and headed out of the door to the quidditch center for a quick half hour of quidditch.
Ginny returned at 8.she had a quick breakfast with Harry, Ron and Hermione and left for the platform.
On reaching the station Harry and co. separated from Ginny leaving all alone with her huge suitcase. She had been counting on Harry or Ron to help her carry her suitcase.
She looked about for help. Lots of boys smiled at her and went up to her to help her carry her suitcase. She grinned. One boy, a handsome sixth year,approached her and offered to carry her suitcase. She entered the train and decided on sitting in the last compartment, as she wanted to be alone.
So far everything was going smoothly. Suddenly the door opened. Ginny expecting it to be the trolley witch dug her hand into her pocket to retrieve some money.
When she looked up she saw a flash of golden hair. "Oh no" she thought. "Why did he have to come here?" And sure enough there came his taunting voice.
"Why if it isn't the weasel" said a loud drawling voice. "All grown up I see, no Potter to protect you, now, is there."
"Shut up Malfoy or I will hex you"
To her surprise Malfoy spun his head around and left. Then she saw the reason for his sudden departure. Professor moody. He had been taking their DADA class for the past 2 years. Malfoy never got on well with moody.
He entered the compartment and saw Ginny. Giving her a smile, she sat next to her and began to talk. Ginny began to feel uneasy. She had never liked professor Moody except for the incident with the ferret. She began to wish that Malfoy were here. At least she could hex him.
Ginny sighed and went on listening to Moody as he raved on how unsafe everything was.
Ginny looked about her arithmacy class. Today was the first day of school and her first class was arithmacy.no one had arrived yet. She knew her class wasn't with the sixth years Griffindors.it was with the Huffflepuffs and Slytherins.she felt happy in spite of having Malfoy in her class as she remembered the incident in the train.
One by one all the slytherins and Hufflepuffs arrived.Malfoy sat right at the opposite end from her. She felt glad.
Soon professor vector entered the class. She smiled at all of them.
"Good morning everyone. This year dumbledore has devised a new way of teaching" she stopped and looked around the class "instead of yearly exams you will be given a project which you have to complete during the course of the year. You will have regular teaching lessons and homework. The project will have to be done with a partner since it is lengthy and will be difficult."
"I will be setting the partners up. It will be set up with a person from the opposite house" at this everybody groaned. However professor vector ignored them and started of the pairing.
"Macmillan with Zambini. Abbot with Crabbe. Floyd with Goyle. Weasley and Malfoy. Flinch-fletchy and..." She continued with the pairings.
Ginny mouth dropped open. She'd have to do a project for a whole year with Malfoy.this could not get any worse.
"I will tell you more about this project in the next lesson. Class dismissed," said Prof. Vector with a wave of her hand.
the next arithmancy class……….
Ginny was happy. So far professor Vector had not mentioned anything about the project. But then her dreams were shattered. It was nearing the end of the class.
"Now students' about the project. You will have respective study times, which are posted on the notice board. You will have to go collect the needed information from the library. Each pair will be working on a different project, depending upon the ability of the students to work hard. I expect everybody to work hard if they want to pass their grade. Every one will have to keep record of what they are doing and show it to me every month."
"I will now read the projects for each of the groups." and she proceeded to do it. By the end of the list everyone's name and pair had been called out except for Ginny and Draco's.
Ginny raised her hand to ask out why, but professor vector intercepted her thoughts.
"Will Miss Weasley and Mr. Malfoy meet me after classes today in my office? I have to talk to you regarded your project.
After a day of tiring classes, Ginny was back in the arithmancy classroom. Her last class, divination, had been cancelled due to 'unforeseen difficulties which may come if the class had taken place' or at least according to Trelawney. Privately, Ginny thought that she was a tiny bit miffed that Dumbeldore had not listened to her suggestion of making divination a mandatory subject as no one was taking it very seriously.
Ginny had decided to go there early and wait. After all, she had nothing better to do. She was the only one who took divination from the sixth year Griffindor; so all the other students had classes. She only took it because, Ginny was a SEER. She could predict the future with ease. No hoaxes like Trelawney.and she could read people's mind. But only Up to a certain extent. If a person were thinking about her, she would know. But she would not know if it was good or bad. She could also talk to other people through their minds. This was something she was good at. No one knew of her power except Trelawney, Dumbeldore and her best friend Shannon.
As she was absorbed in her thoughts, she did not notice a slim blond enter the room and scream the wits out of her.