Making a Stand
Chapter One: Intro

Ginny sat upon her leather sofa in her house in a town called Hogwash. It was summer, and a hot one at that, even though it was merely 9 o' clock in the morning. She attempted to part contact with the pine-tree colored couch, but it stuck to the backs of her legs. It was too hot out to wear robes.
She freed herself and staggered over to the bookshelves full of magical spells. It had been five years since she had left Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and, in a poetry contest winning, won enough Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts to last her quite a while. She was aware her parents could barely afford their house, let alone the people in it, so she considered the fact with them and moved, though not very far.
She had gotten a job in Diagon Alley, helping Manage the Magical Menagerie. She was quite good with animals.
She reached in and pulled out a book called "Temperature Trouble and Weather Worries". She opened it and turned to a certain page. Waving her wand, she brought about a spell that cooled down her house. Thinking it would be an igloo when she returned, she stepped outside.
The warmth penetrated her skin and reached inside her, and she hopped on a broomstick, nothing special, and sped off.
Getting a true bird's-eye view of the villages below, clouds on either side of her, she liked it more and more as she went. A while later, she looked down. Diagon Alley! She would miss it if she did not land now!
She landed with quite an impact, but was all right. She walked down the cobblestone street and reached the Magical Menagerie. And she could not believe who she saw.