"You have a new patient." Mr. Wells said throwing a file onto Ginny's desk. Ginny looked up at her boss curiously,
"Who is it?"
"Why don't you read the file?" Mr. Wells irritably, before walking out.
Ginny softly laughed to herself,
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." She muttered, as she opened up the file.
Ginny Weasley was a child counselor/therapist. The thing is she wasn't there to diagnose them with some kind of mental problem. She was there to help them. She was there to make them feel like they had someone to trust. She took her job very seriously. She always became very close with her patients and they were like her own children, even after the parents stopped paying for sessions she still checked up on them every other month or so.
When Ginny opened the file the first thing that popped out was the last name.
Malfoy
Where had she heard that name before?
Then it clicked.
Draco Malfoy
But the first name was Carina. She must be related in some way, Ginny thought trying to remember hearing about any more children born into the Malfoy family. Then she remembered hearing about Astoria, Draco's wife, being pregnant.
"Oh shit." Ginny muttered to herself, as she began to read more.
Carina was five years old and she was very artistic but also very short tempered. Ginny snorted at this one. It said her parents were taking her here because she has been very angry lately and hard to deal with and they want to know what is wrong and why she has been acting up. She also, since she was young and couldn't control her magic yet, had been destroying some possessions of the family, including blowing off a chunk of their mansion. Apparently this was their last resort. Ginny shook her head,
"Should've been their first resort." She muttered to herself. Her first meeting with the little girl would be tomorrow. This should be fun, Ginny thought to herself and as she packed up to leave for the day. She took out her wand and apparated to her flat she shared with Luna.
When she got home she sighed, taking off her coat and headed immediately to the kitchen. She saw a note on the fridge from Luna:
Hi Ginny!
I'm out with Neville! I know I promised I'd have dinner with you tonight but he needed me! Hope you understand.
Love you,
Luna
P.S. Don't let the Nargles get to you, they're mating around this time of year.
Ginny rolled her eyes and crumpled the note. This had been the fifth time this month Luna had blown her off. She made herself a sandwich and sat on the couch angrily, muttering to herself. Well, she wasn't going to just sit around all night by herself, so she decided to visit Colin Creevey. She hadn't talked to him forever. She quickly grabbed a pen and paper and scribbled a note notifying him of her unexpected visit, tied it to her owl and sent him off. She waited patiently for about a minute before he swooped back in with his answer:
Ginny-
I'd love to see you!
-Colin
Ginny smiled, took out her wand and apparated to Colin's flat.
"Colin?" Ginny called out.
"In the kitchen!" she heard a voice yell out. Ginny walked into the kitchen where Colin was making coffee.
"Hi Gin." Colin said smiling, before hugging Ginny tightly.
"How're you? I haven't seen you in ages!" Ginny gushed.
"I know!" Colin said laughing, "Well I've just been working hard as usual, you?"
"Same but Colin I must tell about my new patient." Ginny said before launching into her story about Carina.
"Wow, I knew Malfoy would be a terrible parent." Colin said after Ginny finished.
"I feel bad because in most cases when children are acting out it's because of a home problem… which makes no sense because if there was an obvious home problem her parents wouldn't be sending her here, it would be a concerned teacher or babysitter or something." Ginny said, confused.
"Maybe it's a school problem. I mean, she's five so that means she just started school, maybe she's bullied." Colin suggested.
"Ironic, the bully's daughter is bullied herself."
"Maybe it's karma"
"Maybe." Ginny said shrugging.
