The train came to a halt and everyone got up, grabbing their stuff ready to leave the station.
Ginny, who was a little more cheerful and extremely thankful to have such good friends, grabbed her trunk and headed to the train exit closely followed by Colin and Amy.
All three of them walked along the platform and waved to Hagrid as they walked past him calling all the first years to him.
'Look after my twin sisters won't you Hagrid?' Amy called.
Hagrid gave her a huge grin. 'Of course I will.' he said grinning and left the three to head back to Hogwarts.
They got into one of the free carriages and waited to be taken back to Hogwarts.
The weather was dreary. The sun had left and had been replaced with grey clouds. Thunder and lightning struck out.
A few minutes later Harry, Hermione and Ron joined their carriage, all a little damp. Luckily Ginny, Amy and Colin missed the rain.
'I heard you got head girl Gin. Congratulations.' Harry said to her smiling and congratulated the others too. Hermione didn't look too pleased about it.
The carriages started moving up the hill leading them to Hogwarts. There was quiet chatter in the carriage between Harry, Ron and Hermione but the other three kept quiet.
They didn't feel comfortable having their private conversations in front of the dream team.
After about a ten minute ride they arrived in front of Hogwarts' entrance. They dashed out of the carriages fast hoping not to get too wet.
They all linked arms when they were finally inside the castle.
McGonagall was waiting for the first years to arrive and get them sorted.
The three of them sat themselves down at the Gryffindor table all waiting to see Amy's twin sisters be sorted.
The hall was filled with nosey chatter everyone discussing their own thing. Ginny looked around the great hall sinking it all in.
Ginny's thinking was interrupted the doors of the great halls being pushed open by McGonagall dozens of first years following. They were all soaked obviously the rain hadn't been too kind on them.
Ginny saw Reece and Lucie and nudged Amy and Colin. They all looked at them and waved and the two twins waved back grinning.
They were all led up to the front of the hall and McGonagall began calling out names.
'Patel, Lucie,' she called out and Amy's sister walked up onto the platform and sat herself on the stool and McGonagall placed the hat on her head.
After a few minutes of debating the hat yelled out. 'Gryffindor!'
Amy, Colin and Ginny erupted into cheers as Lucie ran towards them and sat down next to Amy and Ginny. Ginny kissed her cheek and gave her a huge hug.
Ginny had met the twins when she stayed at the Patel's for a bit of the summer.
Reece walked up next and sat herself on the stool. The hat took more time debating where to put her then with Lucie.
After about 10 minutes. 'Slytherin' the hat called out.
The room was an eerie silence. Everyone knew she was Amy's little sister and all the Patel's that went to Hogwarts had been in Gryffindor.
Reece hopped off the stool and headed over to the Slytherin table and took a seat next to a few first year girls.
Once the sorting had finished. Proffessor Dumbledore stood and everyone began silent.
'Well I have an announcement to make. This year we are starting a new programme to bring the houses closer together. This year you have to write to somebody in another house. They will also be the opposite sex to you. We have already chosen who you will write to and you can't change it. Your owl's all know who they have to send the letters to so don't worry about that. I will not tell you who you shall be writing to I'll leave it up to you if you want to tell the other person but sometimes if you don't know who the other person is you can be more free and open about yourself. I want you to be able to tell the other person anything. At the end of the year a ball will be held which you will attend to with your partner. I will give you more information about it later in the year but for now everyone dig in and enjoy the feast.' Dumbledore and sat down.
Everyone began to dig in to the delicious feast in front of them.
'So who do you think we might have to write to? I hope it's not a slytherin.' Ginny said.
Amy shrugged. She wasn't too sure but thinking about it took her mind off what happened with Reece.
'Well some of the Slytherin's wouldn't be too bad. Like Matt Trimm. He seems like a decent guy.' Amy said as she cut up the potatoes on her plate.
'I really hope I don't get Pansy Parkinson.' Colin said and shuddered just thinking about it.
'Well I think we should make a pact that we won't bug each other about what's written in the letters we get unless we want to share them. Ok guys?' Ginny asked.
They others nodded thinking it was a good idea.
After the delicious meal the food cleared and Ginny stood up ready to lead the first years the common room.
Ginny sighed as she walked down the corridors leading to the Gryffindor common room with the first years following her like duckling's following it's mother.
'kind-hearted' Ginny spoke to the fat lady portrait and it opened letting them all in.
Ginny told them about the password and said that they could come to her if they had a problem or a worry. Once they were all settled Ginny left with Amy and Colin to go to their private headquarters are saying goodnight to Lucie.
Draco stood in front of the entrance to the slytherin common room repeating the same transaction as Ginny did for the Gryffindor's.
'Pure blood.' he said and the portrait opened like it did for Ginny.
He gave them a speech much like Ginny's and let them settle themselves.
'Patel? Can I have a word?' he said and Reece got up and walked over to him.
'look Reece isn't it? Anyway I want you to know that just because none of your family are or have been in slytherin doesn't mean it's bad for you to be here. You can always tell me when you feel upset or anything you can come to my headquarters ok? I'll show you where it is tomorrow ok?' he said smiling slightly at the young girl in front of him.
She smiled and hugged him. 'Thanks. I really needed to hear that.' she said her face beaming.
It felt...strange to help someone, which wasn't something he'd really done before but he knew how she felt. Out of place.
'But if you tell Ginny, Colin or Amy I'll have your blood. Got it?'
She grinned nodding and ran off to her room to unpack her stuff.
Draco got up and left the common room hoping for peace in quiet in his room.
Draco arrived at the portrait entrance to the head's quarters. He was joined there by Ginny, Colin and Amy. He scowled wondering how they could be quite so cruel to reece.
The portrait was of a woman who looked like a princess and a man who resembled a prince. The prince had bleached blonde hair and the woman flaming red hair. The two of them were dancing contently with each other both smiling widely.
'Responsibility.' he mumbled and the portrait swung open letting them pass. Draco pushed past them and headed straight for his room to unpack his possessions.
Ginny, Amy and Colin sat themselves down on the couch in the common room and chatted a while before they decided to go to Ginny and Amy's room so the girls could pack.
Colin settled himself on Ginny's bed while the girls dispatched their possessions.
'So why do you think Reece was put into Slytherin?' Ginny asked.
Amy sighed not really knowing the answer.
'I don't have a clue but it doesn't means he's evil I mean Blaise Zabini seems nice and well not like the others. He actually smiles which is quite a miracle for someone in Slytherin.' Amy said not so hung up on her little sister being in Slytherin.
'I take 7th year potions. I'll ask him if he could keep an eye on her.' Ginny said smiling at her friend.
Colin decided to head to his room at 11 o'clock and Ginny and Amy decided they needed a good night sleep before school tomorrow.
Colin climbed the staircase which led to his and Draco's room. He opened the door to see Draco lying on his back head behind his head shirtless. Colin stormed up to him.
'Look Malfoy I know you don't care about anybody's feeling's but your own or anything but you really hurt Ginny on the train today. You might not have noticed but she was only trying to make it easier for her to do her job and you to do yours. She doesn't want to be nice to you either she was just trying to the bigger person and make the most out of a bad situation and you blew it up in her face. Well I hope you're happy with yourself Malfoy because you really hurt her.' he snapped at him then walked over to his bed and lay down breathing heavily.
'You're right. I don't care if I hurt the Weaselette. She's a pathetic little girl who's living in a world where there's sunshine and daises. And like I'd want to be nice to her or talk to her. She'd just infect me.' he said looking over at Colin.
'And Creevy? Don't even think about touching my stuff or any letters or parcels I might get ok?' He said looking sharply at Colin.
Colin glared at him and sighed. 'Same goes for you too Malfoy.' he said and turned over so he faced the wall.
'Fine then. We'll just ignore each other for the year.' Draco added. Colin rolled his eyes.
'Fair enough but don't you dare bring your girlfriends here. I don't want to walk in on you doing god knows what.' he said.
Draco smirked knowing how horrified Colin would be if he saw anything like that.
'I'll make sure to warn you if I do ok?' He said smirking even more.
'Use the room of requirement of something but don't you dare do it here. Kissing? Fine. Anything else? No way. Nada. Completely out of the question.' he said making sure that Draco understood.
'Excuse me kid. This is my room to and I will do what I damn well like in it. Got it punk?' He snapped at him.
Somehow Colin didn't feel like arguing tonight. He was way too tired anyway.
When Draco realised that was the end of the conversation he smirked knowing that he'd definitely won this round and drifted off to sleep thinking about who his partner would be for this writing thing.
Ginny lay in her bed. She was having trouble sleeping. She usually did on the first day back and it was also a new room to get use to.
She lay on her back, hands behind her head looking up at the ceiling. Tomorrow she was going to enchant it so she could look up and see the night sky with hundreds upon thousands of stars shining against the midnight sky.
She looked over at her closet. Her jacket was hanging on the handle and sticking out of the pocket she caught a glimpse of gold then she suddenly remembered the present her mother gave to her on platform 9 and three quarters.
She quickly got out of bed and hurried over to where her jacket was hanging being careful not to wake Amy who was fast asleep.
She took the box slowly out of her jacket pocket and held it in the palm of her hand. She whispered a spell and the box restored to its original size.
She tore off the ribbon which held the lid onto the box and slowly lifted off the gold lid.
She gasped when she saw what was inside. Amidst the tissue paper was a gorgeous gold halter neck dress.
She pushed back the tissue paper and lifted out of the box and a small letter fell on to the floor.
She carefully put the dress down on her bed and crouched down to pick up the note. She opened the seal and began to read.
Dearest Ginny,
I found this In a dress shop in a muggle shop when I went to London with Hermione's mum. I thought you might enjoy wearing it and hopefully you'd be able to wear it at some point when you are at Hogwarts.
Love you loads
Mum xxxxxx
Tears welled up in Ginny's eyes as she read the note over and over again.
She picked up the dress and decided to try it on. She pulled off her too small night gown and put on the gold dress.
It went up to her knees and tied up behind her neck. Her back wasn't covered and had an elegant look to it. It was like a salsa dress that you would wear to go partying.
Ginny spun round and round her dress spinning around her knees. She loved it. She couldn't wait to show Amy in the morning.
She silently slipped out of it being careful not to tear it. She folded it up and was about to put it in the box when she saw a pair of strappy golden shoes in the bottom of the box that she'd missed.
She picked them up hugging them to her. This was one of the nicest presents she'd ever got.
She put the shoes and the dress back in the box and put it in the bottom of her closet and pulled her nightdress back on and slipped herself under her covers and drifted into a calming sleep.
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