As soon as Ginny saw the Burrow she loved it. In a completely different way than how she loved the Malfoy Mansion, she saw it as something she wished she could have grown up in. Molly took her on a quick tour, showing her where each of her sons slept, Ron in the attic, Bill and Charlie, when they came, in the room that Ginny knew, unsaid, would have been hers had she grown up here.

Ginny was eager to help Molly prepare dinner. Just as Dumbledore had said, everything had been arranged, for Ginny's short few days to get to know her family before going back to school.

That night, it was just her, Molly and Arthur. None of them wanted to go to sleep, Molly and Arthur wanting to spend as much time with their new found daughter as much as possible, and Ginny not wanting to miss out on any of her short time with her family. She was almost sad now that she had organised to spend Christmas with her other family. Now she had met her real family, she felt like she wanted to spend as much time with them as possible, getting to know them.

Finally, Molly suggested they go to bed, so they can all go to Grimauld Place the next day. Before Molly had left with Ginny, Dumbledore had told her the secret. Ginny knew all about the fidelius charm by now.

The next day, when they woke up, they barely had time for breakfast before they apparated away to Grimauld place. Ginny was given a quick tour of the place, and where she would be sleeping. When they made their way to the kitchen, which seemed to be the cleanest, and in general nicest room in the house, there was a pop outside, and the sound of the door opening.

Everyone came slowly throughout the day to meet the youngest Weasley. Molly explained, each time someone new arrived, why Ginny had been raised in a muggle family the way she had.

When it came to dinner, the house was near bursting. Professor Lupin, from Ginny's second year was there. Along with a weird young woman, who had bright pink hair, and asked Ginny to call her Tonks. Professor Moody, from her third year was there, though he was nothing like he had been in her third year, which she found out was because at the time he had been locked in a trunk, while a fake moody had been teaching everyone.

Ginny met Bill Weasley, and his fiancé, Fleur, who insisted at once that Ginny be a bridesmaid at their wedding. She met Charlie Weasley, who lived in Romania, working with dragons. Harry, Ron, and Hermione came, and she saw them all with new eyes. Fred and George came, and they each gave her a large box of their merchandise, and apologised for the way they had treated her when they had just thought her another Slytherin.

It seemed like Friday came way too Quickly. Ginny spent her entire time, talking about how she had grown up. She learned briefly about all of her family, including the one who wasn't there, Percy, and why he wasn't there.

Ginny, Harry, Ron, and Hermione all went back to Hogwarts on Friday morning, with Ginny's name now on the Weasley clock, happily ticking away, and they arrived up at the castle for breakfast. Ginny gave her new found brother a hug, before leaving for the Slytherin table, where Draco was sitting, watching her carefully.

Ginny had just managed to find Draco before she had left on Monday night and explain everything to him. When everyone got up to go to their classes, Ginny waited for Professor Snape to hand her her timetable. Looking at it, she was due to meet with Professor McGonagall in the library for her first lesson on Mondays.

It didn't take Ginny long to figure out what she was going to be doing with Professor McGonagall.

"Okay, so you're sure there's absolutely no result from the quizzes in the book I gave you in your first year?" McGonagall barely waited for Ginny to enter the library before she questioned her. Ginny nodded, positive, and she frowned.

"Okay, in that case, do you know anything about a patronus charm? Often the patronus can be a clue to the animal you're linked to." Ginny had read all about the patronus charm in her first year. She had never summoned one before, but she knew what to do.

"Expecto patronum." She said, with a quick wave of her wand. A pure white figure appeared between the two of them, and McGonagall's eyes widened in disbelief. Madam Pince, the librarian, walked past, and gasped.

"What are you doing with that beast in here? It might eat the book! Minerva, get it out of here at once!" Madam Pince said, looking at the golden horn protruding from the otherwise plain white horse's head.

"Calm down, Irma. It's only a patronus." McGonagall said, waving her hands at the frantic librarian who had every right to worry. The unicorn appeared to be, in every way, shape, and form, real, which surprised McGonagall even more than the fact that Ginny had a magical creature as a patronus.

"I don't care. Get it out of here!" Ginny waved her wand again, calling her patronus back. McGonagall looked like she was about to feint.

"Are you alright Professor?" Ginny asked, pulling out a seat and leading the Transfiguration professor into it.

"I'll see you next week, Ginny. Feel free to take some time out before your next class." McGonagall said, her voice weak. Ginny nodded, and left, checking her timetable as she did. She was supposed to be with McGonagall for another hour, but she wasn't going to complain.

Seeing as she was excused, Ginny decided to take a few books out from the restricted section. Seeing as she had already read all of the books in the library, and she had been granted special access to it, she decided not to pass up the opportunity.

Ginny had a few books with her as she left the library. She flicked through them in her room. When her timetable flashed, telling her it was time to go to her next class, Ginny slipped them back in her bag, ready to return them after this meeting.

Remus Lupin was waiting for her in an empty classroom, and Ginny spent the next hour and a half using her knowledge practically against all manner of creatures.

"You're doing great, Ginny. There hasn't been anything I've thrown at you that you didn't know how to combat, and that's excellent." He smiled at her, and Ginny smiled back, before heading down to lunch.

Dumbledore had organised people from the Order of the Phoenix, and from wizarding universities, to come and teach her. Ginny was glad, that for once she actually did have some challenges. Some of her classes were held out in Hogsmeade, though most of the wizards and witches came in via portkey to teach her in Hogwarts.

Noe and then she had completely free periods, where the person who was supposed to teach her couldn't come in.

Her meetings with McGonagall were spent meditating, trying to search within her, for any animal that she felt close to. She produced her patronus for Lupin on a request, and he had been astounded at how real it had appeared.

Ginny new that a person's patronus was usually made of the silver light which was their happiest thoughts, but for some reason, her unicorn came out pure white, with a golden horn, unlike any other patronus any of her Professors had ever seen, and she ended up showing all of them.

To Ginny's great surprise, every Friday afternoon she spent with Harry, who taught her more practical defensive magic. Her Friday mornings were usually with Professors Snape and Slughorn, who taught her all different potions.

By the end of the semester, as well, she had finished reading the books which were kept in the restricted section at Hogwarts. Each day that was nearer and nearer to the day when she would go home and see the family she had grown up in seemed slower and slower to her, until, finally, the day arrived, after what seemed like forever, and Ginny had a bag packed with necessities, and was waiting in the Entrance Hall, with the rest of the students who were going home.

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