Crystal Rose

Author: WhenGoodLlamasGoBad

Disclaimer: Okay fine! I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters. The only things I do own are my own characters that I created. Example: Amy. Just saying.

-Chapter One- Shopping

I woke up with the French Doors that led to the balconey flung wide open. I stretched and slowly got off my large bed. I twirled over the terrace and leaned over the railing taking in all of my surroundings. My balconey over-looked the crystal clear blue water of the Indian Ocean. Directly under me was a tropical courtyard sprinkled with lucious palm trees and delicate white sand. I sighed and rested my elbows on the beautiful arabian style railing. 'Dang it,' I thought. 'I am seriusly going to miss this place when I go back to Hogwarts.' Then I thought about all my friends. 'Scratch that.' I rethought. 'I'll still miss this place, but I can't wait to go back.'

I hopped up on top and threw my head back and breathed in the tropical breeze. Suddenly a voice called down from below. " Amy Faith Ricard!" my mom called from below. " Get down from there before you break your little magical neck!"

I glanced down at my mom, her light pink linen dress swirling around her. She stood with her hands on her hips and my colorful Toucan friend, Tiki, rested on her shoulder. "Got it, Mami!" I called down.

" Well, you better get down here." she shouted. " You have a Touci-Gram from Ginny Weasly!" My mom met the Weasly's and the only remaining Potter when they came to visit last summer. Me and Ginny kept close contact all through that summer and this one, so we're best freinds now. I know all her secrets now, including her deepest, darkest one. She has never given up on The-Boy-Who-Lived. Heehee.

I turned on the balls of my feet and jumped elegantly down. I ran to the doors of my bedroom and flung them open. I ran down the stairs calling, " A lettter from Ginny!" I stopped and looked down the stairs. Left and Right. I hopped up on the long marble stair railing and slid down, spiraling to land on the slick marble floor.

I jumped up and skipped out the wide-open doors to the courtyard. " Jessi, " my mother said. " I thought you had died, you took so long."

" Funny, Mom, funny." I replied. " Just give me the dang letter."

" Hold your horses, sweets." she replied and set Tiki in my shoulder. He hopped up on my head and pecked me on the forehead.

" Tiki Touci." he shirped into my ear. I replied in toucan speak shirping and cawing my way into getting my Touci-Gram.

I grabbed it from his out-stretched beak and gave my mom a quick hug. Mom hugged me back and ran to meet my Dad who was collecting a sample of the ocean water. Both my parents are marine biologists.

I ran back up to my room and ripped open the letter. It was incredibly simple, containing three words.

Look Outside. -Gin

I was confused wondering what in the name of Merlin Ginny could be meaning. Realization dawned on me and I ran to my window. I saw a little speck and all of the sudden Ginny was standing on my sill her broom thrown over her shoulder.

"EEEEEEEEEE!" We screeched together hugging.

" Ginny!" I exclaimed, " You could have called." Ginny spun around my room and flopped down on my bed.

" That would spoil the surprise you wierdo!" she exclaimed back. " Now wanna know why I showed up?" After I nodded my head she jumped up and spun around my room again till she sat down on the floor with a bang. " Well, my plan is this: we get Back To School...Makeovers!"

She jumped up again. And grabbed her broom and hopped upon the windowsill again. I remained seated on the window seat. " A Makeover.." I said, " I don't know.'' I suddenly broke into a grin. " Would that include shopping?"

Ginny smiled and jumed up and down. " Let's go go go!" she cried and jumped out the window into the sky and floated higher and higher.

I ran over to my enchanted closet and threw it open. I pulled out a sleek golden broom and hopped abroad. I hovered a few inches and flew in a circle going higher and higher every inch. Then I flew in a golden colored streak out the window and down to the water's edge. " Mom, Dad," I called, " I'm going to Diagon Alley. I'm going too stay there until school. I'll be back for Christmas!" I hopped off my broom and quickly gave my parents a hug.

My mom grabbed me by the shoulders. " Be careful, sweetheart. And why are you still in your pajamas?"

" Whoopsies," I said. I waved my wand around my body imagining a outfit from my closet. Suddenly white tank and light blue pants were replaced by bright blue yoga pants and midsleeve jacket with a white tank under. On my feet were a pair of squishy white tennis shoes.

I hugged my parent sonce more and mounted my Infinty Comet. " Bye, Mommy. Bye, Daddy." I called as I flew off. They waved and waved until I disappeared from view.

" Okay, Gin." I complained. " What's the plan."

She took in a deep breath as if to start a huge speech. " Here is my amazing plan." she started. " We go to a Muggle shopping place and then we come back to Diagon Alley and buy those pesky school supplies."

I laughed. " You, the pureblood of the century know of a place where we can shop for Muggle clothes?"

Ginny shrugged. " No," she said, brushing off the minor insult. " But you do."

I stopped in mid-laugh. " You tricked me." I glared. " I don't know how but, but, but...you tricked me. Somehow." I suddenly came to half-realization. " You're doing this for Harry, aren't you?"

Ginny stopped so suddenly that she did a back-flip on her Comet 2-60. " Um,..." she stuttered, " Why do you think that?" She turned all pasty-faced and looked suspiciously sheepish.

I gave a huge sigh and said in complete exasperation: " Because you've liked him for EVER."

Ginny grinned. " Okay, " she cried. " You got me! Yes, I'm doing this to impress Scarhead."

I nimbly leaped up onto my broom, grinning like a fool. " Hey world!" I yelled, " Ginny Weasly is finnaly going to make a move!"

Ginny rat-tailed my broom making me fly into the air. My broom sensed that it was without a rider and dove to where I was estimated to be. I landed nimbly on the broom and slid back to siting postion. " Hey," I cried. " I could have died."

Ginny scoffed me. " Whatever," she replied. " With a broom like that you are so not gonna die."

All of the sudden, I dived straight down gravity pulling me through the clouds. I muttered an Invisibility spell and pulled up just in time, so as not to hit the ground. Ginny was right behind me. She was gasping and panting for breath. " What the heck was that for?"

I turned around in a circle taking in my home place where I had not been for three years. " Welcome to New York."