Emilie stood frozen in her spot; she could sense someone gently shaking her. She blinked and her eyes focused and saw Ginny in front of her; her hands placed on Emilie's shoulders.

"Emilie, it's time to go." She said softly, lowering her arms and went to stand by Harry's side. Emilie nodded and followed them back up to the castle, Fred had stayed close to her; not holding hands or touching her but just close enough for comfort.

Emilie's mind was racing, my mother can't be here. God she doesn't even like Harry Potter! She though trying to grasp at the idea of her mother standing in the flesh, well she looked alive until she disappeared. Maybe it was the lack of sleep she got last night or that she had just been gone too long and started imagining things.

The Great Hall was lit by candles and torches while families merged together and sipped hot chocolate, tea or coffee and spoke of the good things about the person they had lost. The house tables were replaced by smaller tables, surrounded by benches. House Elves were walking around handing everyone a warm drink and a clean towel. Emilie hadn't noticed but she was soaked through to her skin, her body shivering in the cold.

It wasn't long before people had stopped crying and were smiling, remembering all the happier times. Fred had suggested them to sit in front of one of the fires, seeing as most of them were soaked; he and Emilie included. The Weasleys' were also among those talking about the happier times, Ginny spoke of a girl in her year that was lost, Rosie something she seemed fond of her.

"Are you okay Em?" Fred whispered in Emilie's ear, sending chills down her spine. She wrapped her hands around her mug of hot chocolate and stared into it while she nodded, she knew she had tears in her eyes and didn't want to be noticed. She didn't like it when people felt sorry for her, and it took a while for her to let someone through her walls after what had happened.

"Mum, is it okay if I take Em, up to the library. I think there might be something about memory removal up there?" He asked quietly, Mrs Weasley looked surprised but agreed when she saw Emilie's face lit up by the flames.

They walked silently, all the way up to the library. Emilie holding onto the warm clean towel around her shoulders for warm. It was eerie, the old library so empty. Emilie's mouth corners turned into a small smile, she had dreamed of this library dozens of times. Her inner Hermione coming out as she drifted past the tall bookcases filled with dusty books. It's not every day a fangirl gets to see the Hogwarts library.

"I don't want to pry, but I can see how upset you are. If you don't want to talk to me at least talk to Gin or Hermione." Fred said quietly, his voice slightly echoing off the walls. Emilie sat down at a study table and Fred followed sitting in front of her. She sighed before thinking of a lie.

"My mother, I saw her today except it's impossible for her to be here." She admitted, well not exactly neither a lie nor the truth she thought. Fred sat in silence waiting for her to continue much to her annoyance.

"I mean, she's not dead. Just lost. It couldn't possibly be her, one she can't get inside the Hogwarts wards, two she looked like a ghost and disappeared before I got close and three she doesn't know I'm here." She finished, looking up to find Fred looking at her. His golden brown eyes staring into her blue ones.

"We'll figure it out, or Hermione will. You know what she's like." He said, trying to make her laugh. True there was nothing Hermione couldn't solve but this I don't think she would come close to. Emilie thought. She could imagine Hermione reading through dozens of books and never finding the solution or she could see her sit in disbelief as she found out her world was not real. Either way seemed pretty scary.

She nodded and stood up again, and walked towards the door. Fred slowly followed, wondering what she was doing. He soon found out she was leading him back down the stairs to his family. Once reunited, the Weasleys decided to turn in and go home. All of them apparating as the floo connections were too busy with everyone else. McGonagall had let the anti apparition spell down in the Great Hall like when there was an apparition test.

The next day the girls had went shopping to find Emilie a new wardrobe, she politely told Ginny that she needed her own clothes and kind of had to stop borrowing hers. Ginny agreed joking that Emilie had stretched her good black top but winking at her later.

Harry and Ron had gone to the castle to help with the repairs which were far from over, so that left Fred and George to go back to their shop and sort a few things out.

"Where did we leave the skiving snackboxes again?" Fred asked, walking out of the storage room in the back.

"Back of the storage room, behind the Wonder Witch products." George said, flicking through their order forms and writing down what they needed more of. The two were re stocking the shelves; both thought it best if they got the shop open as soon as possible. The quicker people were laughing again the better.

"Gred, what about a dramatic re-opening night?" George called into the store room, a large smirk on his face when he remembered what Ginny had said to him earlier.

"Re-opening night? Like a party or something?" Said Fred, carrying two large boxes out into the shop again. Seeming very confused and not even noticing the evil grin on his twin's face.

"Yeah like a party, of course people can order some stuff early before we officially open. I'm thinking about next Wednesday night, before we open on Thursday." George said, actually he was tempted to half sing about it, but decided against it.

"Okay, sounds good. We can clear the bottom floor so that can be like a dancefloor. The next floor can be were all the products will be for the night. "Fred agreed, looking up at the floor above him and then looking around at some of the stands. He'd have to move the love potions to the top floor, also the puking pastilles and the skiving snackboxes. Other than that, the bottom floor was pretty clear.

In the back room watching Fred then move the skiving snackboxes to the top floor, George tapped his wand a few times on one of the old DA coins; he and Ginny had fixed their two so only both of them could see the messages.

"Okay so we have a good couple of outfits, we can mix and match so we technically have more." Emilie said, sighing as she carried the clothes bags in her hands. Somehow when they arrived at Gringotts, Emilie's jean pocket heated up and she found a key to her own vault. Inside was a reasonable amount of money for a family never mind one person. Hm perks of crossing worlds she guessed.

Find her a pretty dress.

Ginny grinned and tucked the coin back into her pocket and turned to the girls.

"Oh, I forgot to mention Fred and George are having a re-opening party on Wednesday so we all need new dresses." Ginny said excitedly. Hermione turned to Emilie and gave her a 'is she serious' look. Emilie just shrugged her shoulders and allowed herself to be dragged to the nearest Muggle shopping centre.

I'd just like to say thank you for the positive feedback, it's so greatly appreciated!

The next few chapters will be either the lead up to the party or the actual party itself. I hope I'm not going too off character for the ones that I'm writing about. I know Ginny is a badass bitch that doesn't take any crap, so to see her be sneaky and up to something is fun.

Leave a comment about what you'd like to see happen at the party or the lead up. It can be about Emilie or another character. ~ MischxfManagxd