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Ginny had just finished knitting a small scarf when she saw a white snowy owl appear at her window.
"Hedwig!" she exclaimed, running to the owl and letting her come in. The owl looked curiously at her. Ginny urgently took the letter and petted Hedwig, who seemed satisfied, tough still confused.
Ginny read the letter and couldn't stop smiling. With Dudley and Draco back, a lot of things could go better.
Um, telling Mum Harry missed her cooking? Oh yes it would be awkward!
Ginny finally put down the letter. What Harry mentioned was true-Sirius was stuck in Azkaban and he would like some company. It was possible-she knew it. Meanwhile Remus would also like a letter from somebody from his past.
Thinking about it, Ginny sat down and wrote the letter.
As she finished it, she heard her mother call her.
"Coming Mum!" she shouted, and folding the letter gave it to Hedwig.
As the owl flew into the sky, Ginny ran down the stairs to find her Mother dressed. "Come on," she said, "Let's get you to the Lovegood's."
Ginny practically skipped all the way to the hill and smiled brightly when she spotted the odd looking house. Oh, how much she had missed Luna!
Molly gently knocked on the door. There was a sound of something crashing followed by the sound of an explosion. The door opened to reveal Xenophilius Lovegood, with is hair burning and a mystical smile on his soot covered face.
"Hello Mrs Weasley." He said, and turned to look at Ginny. "And young Ginerva. To what do I owe this pleasure?"
"Mr Lovegood," Molly managed to speak, "Ginny here wanted to play with young Luna, if only it is allowed."
"Of course!" the man exclaimed, and the fire glowed fiercely. "Luna doesn't get many visitors anymore." He turned to reveal a rather balding portion on his head and shouted, "Luna!"
"Coming Daddy!" Ginny heard a voice she hadn't in years.
Soon, a girl about 10 was skipping down the hall and smiling at the people who had come.
"Hello Ginny." Luna said in the same old mystical voice, "What brings you here?"
"I wanted to play with you." Said Ginny.
Luna cocked her head and said, "You are different."
"Now Luna," said Xenophilius, "It's not good manners to say such things." He turned to Molly and said, "Expect her home by evening."
"Thank you Mr Lovegood." Said Molly and with a look at her daughter, she turned and left.
Luna immediately reached out for Ginny's hand and pulled her inside. Ginny heard Xenophilius close the door behind him as she finally entered Luna's room. Luna sat on the bed and made Ginny sit beside her.
"So, where have you been?" asked Luna. "You seem to have changed. You almost look like Daddy, old and worried."
"Oh, you have no idea Luna." Said Ginny. Smiling, she said, "Let's play, shall we?"
Harry, Ron and Dudley were standing out the Gamekeeper's hut.
"So," said Ron, "Harry, you should knock."
"What will I say?" he asked. Honestly, Harry just wanted to go there. He had no idea what he would once he got there.
Dudley rolled his eyes and with all the courage he had, he knocked on the gigantic door. "And the two of you are Gryffindors!"
Harry scowled at Dudley as the door opened to reveal a large door barking.
"Fang! Back, Fang!"
Soon, the gigantic man appeared as he pulled back the dog. He looked at the three and suddenly exclaimed, "Harry!"
"Um, hello Mr Hagrid." Harry responded shyly.
"Ah, no Mr Hagrid. The name's Hagrid. And you would be?"
Harry pointed at Dudley and said, "This is my cousin, Dudley Dursley and this is my friend, Ron Weasley."
"Weasley huh?" Hagrid looked at Ron, "Spent last two years casing your brothers out of the forests." The four stood there silently for a moment till Hagrid said, "Oh, come in! come in!"
Draco ad again buried his nose into one of the time travel books in the library. He really wanted to find out if things could change, because if they couldn't, he was in no mood to do anything.
But if he followed the text, by merely coming so much back in time, the timeline he knew had ceased to exist at all. So any changes he would make would make a new path. That seemed acceptable.
"Malfoy."
Draco looked up to see a seventh year Slytherin, Nott, Theodore's elder brother standing there with another Slytherin half-blood Draco didn't know. He wordlessly wandlessly charmed the book cover to show Transfiguration and greeted back. "Hello Nott. I haven't seen your brother."
"We are here to talk to you." Nott said. He pulled a chair and sat in front of Draco, the minion still standing. "We heard you have been making some friends out of the house."
Draco looked at the two boys in front of him. He knew this would come up sooner or later.
"Yes." Draco said, "I have been making friends with Harry Potter. I believe that is very intelligent, isn't it?"
"We are not talking about Potter!" spat Nott. "We are talking about the mudbloods and that traitor Weasley. And Hopkins and Longbottom."
Draco clenched is fist. This stupid division was what caused all the wars, taking everything away from him.
"Dursley is Potter's family." Said Draco. "If I want to be on his good side, I need to be friendly with everyone he is friendly with. I see no problem in that."
"Well, I do." Said Nott. "Talking with Mudbloods? What has the Malfoy name come to? You should not forget that your family is very important."
"Unless my father tells me otherwise, I have no problem in what I am doing." Said Draco, staring right into Nott's eyes.
Nott stood up and looked at Draco with a scowl. "Unless you change your ways, do not come near my brother. A word of caution Malfoy: If you do not change your ways, soon you will be a traitor yourself."
As Nott and his minion walked away, Draco cursed. He had to talk to his father before something goes wrong. Keeping the books back on the shelf, Draco ran to his dorm room to write his father a letter.
The time with Hagrid went almost similarly like the last time, with Gringotts break-in being the topic of discussion and Hagrid slipping it out that he was there. Harry thanked Hagrid for his birthday cake, which made the half-giant almost blush.
As the sky began to darken, The three boys took their leave and returned back to their common rooms. Hermione was busy completing whatever notes she had taken and Neville sat beside her, helplessly. As Ron and Harry entered, he looked at them, pleading. Ron took the chance to invite Neville to a game of chess which he accepted gladly. Harry smiling at everyone, went up to is dorm room to see Hedwig sitting there.
Excitedly, he took the letter from Hedwig and began reading.
Dear my present crush!
I am glad I am not the only one alone. I wanted to send you a letter, but imagine if you had not come back. Yes, I am glad as well that we are back.
Dudley as a wizard? I am pretty sure that must have been amazing. On that note, how are the Dursleys treating you? I hope they are not as bad as they were since their own son is now a wizard.
Stop talking about Dean! I have absolutely no interest in him now whatsoever. I am glad that Ron's friends with you again. What about Hermione? And Neville?
I am going to meet Luna today-her life was pretty bad after Mrs Lovegood died last time. Let's see what I get from there this time.
I am not going to tell Mum that you miss her cooking. Ron has not yet written home so I doubt if she even knows that the two of you are friends.
My advice: Write to Remus and Sirius. A normal letter to Remus and if possible, get Tipsy to get the letter to Sirius. She must be alive right now.
Please don't kill the traitor. He is far too precious. Yes, you can get Sirius to run away early. I mean, just get the word to him that the traitor is there? He will escape at once!
I need to run. We are soon leaving for the Lovegood's house.
Your best friend's younger sister with six alive older brothers right now,
Ginny.
P.S.: Grumpy? The name suits.
Harry smiled. If he is actually going to follow Ginny's advice, he has to start working right now!
So, Draco's been cornered, Ginny has replied and Ron, Harry and Dudley know something is going on regarding the Gringotts Break=in. What now?