(Added: Please be sure to read A/N at bottom.)

Chapter 1: Ginny Weasley

Ginny Weasley, a fiery young redhead, was on her way to the Hogwarts Express, along with Ron, Harry, and Hermione. They were riding in a Ministry car; Mr. Weasley had been lucky enough to get it from the ministry.

Hermione had been talking the whole way about NEWTS and how much work they were going to have. No one felt like telling her that they didn't care one bit about them, so they just sat there, listening to her ramble on and on. They finally reached King's Cross station and unloaded their belongings.

The group made their way to platform 9 ¾, where they found Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan.

"Hey Harry! Ron!" Dean called at the two boys.

"Hey Dean," Harry called back politely.

"Good summer?" Seamus asked as they made their way through the barrier.

"Not bad," he replied.

"Oh, well, I have to say goodbye to me mum. See you Harry!" And with that, Seamus walked off to say good-bye to his mother.

They all got on the train, after taking a considerable amount of time to get their heavy trunks onto the train. Hermione and Ron said they had to go to the Head's compartment, causing Harry's face to fall unhappily.

"Want to go find a compartment?" Harry asked Ginny.

"Oh, um, sure I guess," she responded dully. No, Harry, I don't really want to get a compartment with you, but what else am I going to say?

All summer Ginny had noticed how Harry was suddenly paying attention to her a lot more that he used to. He had finally seemed noticed what other guys had noticed years ago: just how beautiful and feisty she was.

Ginny always had flocks of guys around her. She wasn't a slut or anything, the guys just liked her; they either liked her for who she was or just wanted a good shag. Of course, Ginny wasn't really into the whole 'one night stand' thing. She didn't really think they were quite right.

Which was but one reason why she hated Zabini and Malfoy so incredibly much. She scowled just thinking of them.

"Er... Ginny?" Harry asked unsurely, noticing her scowling, and stopped walking, causing Ginny to nearly run into him.

She blushed. "Oh, sorry." He gave her one last confused glance and continued down the aisle.

"Here's an empty one," he said. They walked in and sat down, an awkward silence enveloping them. Suddenly the door burst, and there stood Neville Longbottom.

"Hi Ginny! Hi Harry! How were your summers?" Neville said with a smile. "Gran made me stay inside most of the time to study."

"Oh, that stinks," Ginny cut in before Harry could answer. "My summer was kinda boring. Harry stayed with us for most of the summer though." Unfortunately.

"Oh, that must have been fun!" Neville said brightly. Nope, it kinda sucked actually, I mean all Ron and Harry want to do is play chess or talk about Quidditch and I love Quidditch and all, but when you talk about it 24/7...

Ginny smiled at Neville; he was a great guy, not as boyfriend material, but as brother-type friend. Not that I need anymore brothers, Ginny thought.

Ginny looked at Neville, then Harry and said, "I'll be right back, I'm going to go... see if I can find any of my other friends to say 'hi' to."

"Oh, ok," said Harry sadly.

Ginny walked sullenly into the hall, not entirely sure why she decided to leave the compartment. They weren't being particularly annoying, but she just had to get out of there.

She walked down the hall a short distance and opened the first compartment door she came across with some hope it might be her friends.

Sitting in the compartment was Blaise Zabini and Draco Malfoy on one side and across from them sat Pansy Parkinson and Millicent Bulstrode.

"Can we help you, Weasley?" drawled Malfoy, annoyed.

"No," she said. "Actually, you could stop being such a damned stupid git," she said with a smirk. "But, hey, that's never gonna happen." She said the last part under her breath.

"Excuse me?" Malfoy spat nastily. "Get out of our compartment, Weasley!"

"With pleasure," she said with a fake smile, closing the door with a snap.

"Damn!" said Blaise. "She is sexy. Hate to say it, but she acts more like a Slytherin every day!"

This particular comment earned him a smack upside the head from Malfoy, Pansy, and Millicent.

A/N:

Added (1-27-09) Ugh, I'm sorry to say this, but I cringed when I read through this. It's not very well written. Maybe it's just because I'm a weird OCD person, but it isn't the greatest. At all.

I'm slowly (but surely) rewriting all of these chapters. Same storyline and plot, just better written.