Back in Time: Ginny Style
Started: August 2, 2007
Summery:Like all other back in time stories, one of the characters goes back to the Marauders' Era and meets the four boys. Only this story is if Ginny went back. Not the Golden Trio.
Disclaimer: Sorry I forgot to add this last chapter but I do not own Harry Potter. If I did Luna and Neville would have gotten together.
Chapter 2
Ginny's eyes fluttered. Oh Bloody Hell! Thought Ginny, using some of the vocabulary her brother taught her. I knocked myself out and I'm gonna be late for Transfiguration. Well I better get up before Professor McGonagall takes points away from Gryffindor.
Ginny sat up and looked around. She wasn't in the Gryffindor common room. She was out on the grounds. She had been lying near the lake under a willow tree.
Well how did I get down here? Thought Ginny, looking around. She spotted Hagrid's hut a little way's off and saw the castle behind it. Ginny stood up and started walking towards the cabin. She was climbing around a bush when she saw the door open.
That's odd thought Ginny, Hagrid's supposed to be teaching right now. What's he doing still in his cab-!
Ginny's thought where cut off when she saw a much, much younger Hagrid step out of the cabin. He set off into the forest with a crossbow slung over his gigantic shoulder.
What the heck? Ginny was very confused; she tried to reason. Maybe Hagrid just tried doing a spell and it made him look younger. Ya! That's it! Feeling a little better Ginny set off for the castle.
Along the way, Ginny saw a group of Slytherins walking by and she ducked behind a tree.
"Malfoy, why can't we just blast Potter into oblivion?" asked a girl's voice. Ginny looked, Oh my gosh! What is Bellatrix Lengstrate doing at Hogwarts? And who is that blond boy? She says it's Malfoy but that's not Draco. Wait! That's Lucius Malfoy! They both look younger just like Hagrid! But they're wearing uniforms, they can't be students…
Ginny stopped she just realized something as the Slytherins walked out of sight. BLOODLY HELL!!!! I'M LIVING IN MY PARENTS TIME BECAUSE THEY WENT TO SCHOOL WITH BLOODLY LUCIUS MALFOY!!!!!!
Ginny collapsed onto the ground. She bit her lower lip nervously and thought to herself, what am I going to do? I'm living about twenty bloody years ago. Calm down Ginny, you can work with this. You've heard a lot about Hogwarts History from Mum, Dad, Sirius… Bloody Hell! Sirius is here too! That would mean Professor Lupin and Harry's dad as well… Wow weird Harry's Dad, And Mum! This is gonna be weird. Well I need to figure out how to get back and in the meantime I need to pose as a student from this time. Hermione warned me about time travel with that incident with her time turner. I mustn't change anything. Okay, I think I might be able to do this.
Ginny took a deep breath and started off towards the castle and then realized she still had Hermione's charm book in her hand. And her wand! Ginny felt incredibly happy. She knew a bit about conjuring so she made a quick small bag out of a nearby rock and filled it with random uniform items transfigured from leaves. Thank goodness Hermione rattles on about spells in the common room; otherwise it would look pretty odd showing up with only my uniform. Also thank goodness they give us uniforms before school starts. But since Ginny wasn't supposed to be in this time before she muttered, "diffindo" to the Gryffindor crest on her blouse. She stuffed it in her bag along with the charms book and her wand and walked into the school thought the entrance hall.
A shrivelled old man with a large beard was mopping up some frog guts when he noticed Ginny.
"Hello," he said in a wheezy voice, "Who are you? Another late student? Look a little old but I see all sorts of strange sorts."
Ginny decided to use his excuse, "Yes I'm a late student. I missed the train. I only got my letter a few days ago; it seems the owl was severely lost. So lost in fact it took 5 years for the letter to come to me. Maybe someone accidentally cast a confundus charm on it." Ginny tried to put on a cheery look. But his man was not making it easy.
He leaned his mop against the wall and muttered to Ginny, "Well follow me I'll take ya to the headmaster."
Ginny followed him and was taken up to the headmaster's office. She was left to the empty office and the wheezy old man took his leave. Ginny stood in the middle of the room, wondering what was going on. A voice broke her thoughts.
"Hello, what's your name?" Ginny turned and saw the smiling face of Professor Dumbledore! He must have been Headmaster for a long time.
"Hello," Ginny answered, "My name's Ginny W-" Ginny stopped, I can't be a Weasley! Otherwise I'd be dad's sister or something. Oh what name…
Ginny said the first name that popped into her head, "Granger. Ginny Granger."
Professor Dumbledore smiled, "welcome to Hogwarts Ginny Granger. I am Professor Dumbledore. You are not the first student to come in a couple of years late. It seems you are the age of a fifth year."
Wonderful! Thought Ginny happily, He doesn't think I'm a faker!
Dumbledore looked at Ginny's small bag, "Are you sure you got everything on the school list?"
Ginny froze and them quickly thought up a lie, "Our family is very poor, and even with the help of the fund for school supplies we could only afford a wand and robes. We where hoping I could use library books. I heard this school has a large library."
Dumbledore looked at her with pity, "of course you can use the school library books. They are there for student use."
Ginny put a look of gratitude on her face and exclaimed, "Thank you Professor!"
Dumbledore smiled and his blue eyes twinkled, "You are very much welcome. Now there is the matter of getting you sorted."
Trying very hard to put on a good act, Ginny asked, "Sorted?"
Dumbledore replied, "Into houses. There are four and each and their own virtues and history. These houses are where you will find friends and have classes together." Dumbledore took an old hat from the top shelf of a cabinet. "Usually there is a ceremony but seeing as you have come three days late you are to be sorted privately."
Ginny took the hat and put it on her head, Uhh, Mr. Sorting Hat, you can see inside my head and know I'm not supposed to be here. But can you at least keep me in the same house while I am here? Ginny desperately thought
The hat simply said, "GRYFFINDOR!"
Ginny beamed and accepted a timetable, Gryffindor crests to put on her uniform and a map of Hogwarts from Dumbledore. The map was because she didn't have the prefects to lead her to the common room.
Ginny thanked the headmaster and walked out of the office. I convinced the Headmaster I really am Ginny Granger! I rule!
Ginny stowed the timetable, crests and map in her bag and repaired he blouse with the previous crest she had cut off outside the castle. Ginny walked all the way to the portrait of the Fat Lady and just stood there wondering what the password was.
All of a sudden three girls came walking up to Ginny. One girl had brown hair, a round face, and green eyes, (Oh my She looks like Neville! But what's her name?), the second girl had a wooden bracelet engraved with hearts and red hair and blue eyes, (Oh my gosh this is my mum! Has the same eyes as Ron!) The last girl was reasonably tall, wore a silver head girl badge and had red waist length hair and green eyes. This girl was the most surprising of all, Ginny saw that the eyes where the exact same as Harry's! This must be Lily, Harry's mum!
The brown-haired girl smiled at Ginny, "Are you a new student?" Ginny nodded, what's her name? hum…
Molly smiled, "It's alright, and the password is Lots of Patience!" They must have changed protocol on password; this password makes more sense than 'pig's feet'
Lily rolled her eyes, "that is exactly what you need to get through the day with James Potter asking you out every ten minutes! Even if he did become Head boy and is cleaning up his act, he's still arrogant!" Ginny was shocked, shouldn't Lily like James? Lily then smiled, "By the way my name's Lily Evans. This is Molly Prewett," Lily indicated Ginny's teenage mum, "and this is Alice Smith." Ah so the mystery of Neville's mum. Alice Smith.
Ginny clutched her bag, "My name's Ginny Granger."
"Ginny. I like that name," said Molly.
Alice led them all into the common room. "I'm very much out numbered here," Alice said, "There are so many Gryffindor red-heads!" Lily giggled but abruptly stopped and got a sour look on her face, when she noticed someone.
Ginny looked around, "What is it Lily?"
Molly giggled, "James Potter at twelve o'clock!" A boy was making his way over toward them. He had messy black hair and brown eyes which he his behind spectacles. He wore a silver head boy badge and had trailing behind him none other than a younger Sirius Black, a defiantly younger Remus Lupin and a small ratish looking boy. This is Harry's dad, thought Ginny to herself; I can't help but see that Harry and his dad could be twins, very handsome twins. But Harry has that wonderful scar, those beautiful green eyes and he saved my life. But still James Potter... No I will not fall for Harry's dad, yuck, that's just wrong. Sirius looks a lot happier and Professor Lupin is defiantly not so… old. But who is that small boy?
James called out to Lily, "Lily you still haven't given me a proper answer to the question I asked you in Charms, DADA, Transfiguration, Potions, Arthimacy, and every other class we've been in together. Will you go out with me?"
Molly and Alice giggled, Ginny was still thinking about who the small boy was. Lily answered, "I have told you a million times Potter, No!"
Ginny was brought back to the real world and watched Lily and James. James crossed his arms, "well at least I have the courtesy to call you by your first name. You still call me Potter."
Sirius joined in, "That's true!" Ginny saw that Sirius was a very mischievous boy. He was trying to stir up the heat around Lily and James.
Remus just rolled his eyes and said, "James, stop pestering the poor girl with the same question 500 times in one day."
James shrugged, "Fine," he turned back to Lily, "But someday you will go out with me."
Ginny shifted her bag onto a more comfortable part of her shoulder and turned to Lily, "Where do I put my things?" She asked although she knew perfectly well where the dorms where. Lily was about to open her mouth when Sirius called over to a boy in the corner rather loudly, "Oi! Weasley! There's another red-head in the vicinity!"
Ginny looked over at her teenaged dad. He was sitting at a table that was practically sinking under the amount of books, which all seemed to be on muggles. Typical dad. He had the same wooden bracelet as Molly, which made Ginny think this is when her parents where going out. Scary thought! Arthur rolled his eyes, "Black, you know fully well I am only interested in one red-head. You can be very rude sometimes." Arthur stuck his nose back in Mistreated Muggles
Sirius shrugged his shoulders, "He's missing out. Anyway, what's your name?" Sirius had taken Ginny's hand. Ginny thought to herself, Sirius Black is hitting on me. And with my dad and mum in the same room, wait they aren't my parents yet. This is really odd
Ginny pulled her hand out of his grip, "My name is Ginny Granger. I'm a fifth year."
James chuckled, "Guess you're too much of an old man for here Sirius." Sirius was sulking. He was most likely a ladies-man. James told Ginny, "Be warned Sirius sulks a lot. By the way I'm James Potter."
Ginny shook his hand, "I know. Lily told me." James looked happier at this. Ginny noticed this and then asked him, "Who are the other boys you are hanging out with?"
James put his hands behind his head, "Ahh, these boys are two of my three best friends. This is Remus Lupin." Remus looked up and turned slightly red at the fact a girl was looking at him. "And this is Peter Pettigrew." James continued indicating the small boy, "and unfortunately Sirius 'The Sulker' Black is my third best friend."
Peter Pettigrew? Thought Ginny, The traitor, Peter Pettigrew. The one who used to be Ron's Rat? This is really peculiar.
Ginny smiled at him and said, "Nice meeting you." Ginny walked back over to Lily who led Ginny up to the dorms.
Lily led Ginny into a room that looked exactly like the dorm at home, except at home there was a chocolate stain on the door bed. Lily collapsed on one of the beds.
Ginny set her things down on an unoccupied bed. "What year are you in Lily?"
Lily sat up cross-legged, "Oh, Molly, Alice and I are in seventh year. Just like the annoying Marauders, Arthur Weasley and Frank Longbottom."
Longbottom? Neville's dad? Oh, wait she said 'Marauders?' Even though Harry has told me all about the map, any normal new girl wouldn't know about them.
"Who are the Marauders?" Ginny asked unpacking her little bag, "Are they Sirius and the other three boys?"
Lily nodded, "They play pranks on everyone, jinx people for fun, and do all sorts of mischief. Although James hasn't played a prank all day. The Head Boy post must be improving him…" Lily suddenly got a faraway look in her eyes. Ginny was totally unsure what that was all about she brought Lily back to earth with another question.
"If I'm a fifth year, shouldn't I share a dorm with other fifth years? These things are all yours, Molly's and Alice's." It was true. On the beds beside Ginny there where trunks with their names: Alice Smith, Molly Prewett and Lily Evans stamped on them.
Lily was indeed brought back to the real world, "Oh, that?" There are only a few female students trickling in these days. Their parents think that they should all go to the new all girls boarding school: Beauxbatons. (A/N: I don't know if Beauxbatons is all girls but I want Lily and Ginny to share a dorm and let's just say I'm going by what the movie said. In the fourth HP movie it was all girls, with the birds and the music and Madame Maxime and you get the idea.) I mean a year after me and the other girls arrived, the school opened and all of the girls where transferred to France. Right now in Gryffindor, there is 3 seventh years, no sixth years, 1 fifth year, 4 fourth years, 3 third years, 5 second years and 2 first years. That's only 18 girls in all of Gryffindor! We should have something like 37 girls. Life stinks. Now there are only three dorms. Grouped by this new fangled idea borrowed from the muggle system. Primary: 1st and 2nd year, Junior: 3rd and 4th years, Intermediate: OWL and above. I have no idea who suggested it but it's the reason we share a dorm with you."
Ginny looked at Lily, "I think it's a nice idea. At my old school it was all year with year. So if it was like that here I would be all by myself."
Alice and Molly came walking in. "Hello Ginny. Oh, and Lily Sirius Black is pelting the first years with beadle puff pods and chocolate éclairs. You need to go help James clean up the mess." Molly told Lily.
Lily groaned and marched out of the room.
Molly waved bye to Alice and told them she was going for a walk with Arthur and then Alice left to visit Frank in the Library. Ginny decided to go and explore the Hogwarts of twenty years ago. Maybe this might be fun.
Ginny took her wand and stuck it in her pocket and walked into the common room. There were three of the four Marauders sitting in front of the fire in the common room. James must be with Lily and Sirius must have escaped Detention. Maybe I'll go see what the men of my time talked about as teenagers.
Ginny walked over to the couches and heard Sirius first, "James owes me big for that excuse to be alone with Lily."
Remus shook his head, "If Lily finds out she'll hex you."
Peter spotted Ginny and said to no one in particular, "Or her friend could do it right now."
Remus and Sirius looked behind them to see Ginny leaning on the couch. Remus jumped a foot up into the air but Sirius just stared at her. "You aren't gonna hex me? Are you?"
Ginny laughed, "Ya right, it would be a waste of my perfectly perfect bat bogey hex, to use it on you. Although Lily might feel that my perfect hex is too 'tame'."
Remus and Peter gulped but Sirius just laughed, "So she'll hex me, Remus will unhex me and I'll be fine. Why does everyone worry I can't take a simple spell?"
Peter looked at his book, "I don't know, maybe because you can't?"
Remus and Ginny roared with laugher and Sirius got sulky. "You people aren't nice."
Ginny laughed harder, "you remind me of my brother when Hermione went with someone other then him to the Ball. He sulked for about 3 days."
Sirius pulled Ginny down beside him and Remus. "Tell me more about your family and maybe you." Sirius' hair fell in front of his eyes and made him look very handsome. Ginny tucked the gold streak of hair behind her ear, "I hardly know you, why should I tell you anything? Also don't flirt with me." For some reason it was fun messing with Sirius.
Sirius put his arm around her shoulder, "But I like to flirt with you." She pushed his arm off her shoulder and told him, "well don't, I'm two years younger than you, and I already have a boyfriend" Ginny then thought Uh oh, they're gonna want to know who my boyfriend is. I can't tell them about Harry it would ruin the future.
As Ginny predicted Sirius shuffled a bit away from her and asked, "You have a boyfriend?"
Ginny crossed her legs and flipped her red and gold hair, "Yes, he is my neighbour back home if you must know."
Sirius looked slightly disappointed. The flames crackled in the fireplace and there was silence until Remus broke it.
"So what are we going to do abut those Slytherins?" Remus asked the rest of them. Ginny remembered, these boys are best friends and as Harry tells, they love to pull pranks, especially on the Slytherins. Then again who wouldn't? Especially after what I heard them saying about James earlier today.
Peter started flipping through a book on hexes eagerly and Sirius took out his wand. "What do you propose Miss. Granger?" It took Ginny a second to realize that Sirius was talking to her I've only been a Granger for a couple hours, I've really got to get used to this
Ginny thought back to pranks her brothers pulled and then remembered their last prank at Hogwarts. Fred and George made a giant swamp appear in the corridor and then left school for good. Now just to tailor it to fit.
"Maybe you could turn the Slytherin common room into a swamp." Ginny told the boys. Peter jumped up and exclaimed, "Perfect!" He started dancing a little victory dance and almost fell into the fireplace.
Remus nodded, "That is a great idea Ginny, but we don't even know where the Slytherin common room is." Ginny hadn't thought about that.
Sirius jumped up, "Maybe there's a map of the school somewhere." His eye twinkled and the boys all seemed to know something that Ginny didn't. Sirius rushed off to the boys dorms and Ginny just stared. Is there something I missed? Wait, map of Hogwarts… This must be the Marauder's Map that Harry has. They've only know me for a couple hours so I'm defiantly not in on the secret.
Sirius came back a little while later and looked triumphant and very pleased with himself. "I've got it! Down in the dungeons near Slughorn's Office. It's behind a blank wall!"
Ginny smiled and walked back to the dorms, leaving the boys to chatter about how they where going to get into the Slytherin common room. Molly and Alice had passed by Ginny in the common room without her noticing. The two where talking dreamily about their dates with their boyfriends. I remember when I used to talk about my dates with Harry. Luna could never get me to shut up. Ginny listened to them politely and even joined in with a couple of, 'oh I did that with my boyfriend, Harry.' Ginny figured if they knew the name it couldn't hurt.
The two seventh years and one fifth year where talking about what place would be best in the castle to talk a romantic walk; when Lily stumbled into the room, a dreamy look in her eye. Molly giggled. Alice raised her eyebrows. Ginny just smiled. Lily seemed to be in a trance as she made her way over to her four poster bed. She fell backwards and sighed deeply.
"Spill it," Ginny said to the sighing Lily.
Lily sighed again, "I never knew the arrogant Potter was such a gentleman. He cleaned the entire mess up all by himself and then took me for a walk around the hallways. We where supposed to be on patrol but he took me out onto to battlements. It was so romantic in the moonlight. He kissed my hand and asked me to go to Hogsmede with him. He was so polite about it, but I can't let him know I like him. It would completely ruin his polite attitude. He wouldn't be acting polite for long enough for it to sink in. I've got to play hard to get. But I almost said yes. His eyes are just so nice." Lily continued in her sighing stupor.
Ginny finally ordered the older girls to go to bed and stop cluttering up the air with their sighs and chattering of how cute their crushes where. Ginny herself then lay down and thought, I wonder how tings are at home. At the exact moment when she was about to close her eyes, her earring burned.
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