Back in Time: Ginny Style
Started: August 2, 2007, I'm still working at it!
Author's Note:
This was written under the influence of The Remus Lupins (and Lady Gaga); please consult a Harry Potter fan before reading this fanfiction. Side effects include laughing, extreme enjoyment and in some rare cases readers have reported favouriting and reviewing. This fanfiction may not be right for everyone, if you are a complete idiot with no taste in stories, please refrain from continuing.
Sorry about that, I've been talking about medicine ads with my family and how silly they are. We made up a big ad involving world destruction being a side effect of drinking PlumSmart because the juice sounded like a medicine ad.
By the way in the dream sequence it's all happening in Ginny's head so it's in Italics, so her narrative thoughts will be in Bold Italics.
Last Time we saw Ginny! The chapter didn't actually focus on Ginny. We had a little fun with Elephants, NOT. The marauders got an elephant drunk and another hopping mad. Then Lily got trapped under this giant beast and all the spells had no effect on it. James finally saved his lily flower, but not without some personal injury. He's broken his leg and Lily whispered she loved him (course he didn't hear this, alas). Then Ginny noticed Bella coming out of where the elephant was kept NOT from where everyone else was. The Tolt Phickens- uh, the Plot Thickens!
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: I do not own anything you recognize unless it is the lovely Solaria Athens, who you all wish you had in your fanfictions.
Chapter 21
Ginny was still staring at the group of Slytherins when Lily collapsed crying.
"Oh come on Lily, you've had a bad day, let's go back to the dorm and get something piping hot." Molly said, for the entire world sounding like the future Mrs. Weasley.
Oh mum I miss you. Ginny thought, her attentions brought away from the quickly escaping Slytherins.
"Come on Lily, I'll get a house elf to bring us some cocoa." Alice said pulling out a hankie and offering it to Lily and her bleary eyes.
"Peter! What are the professors doing with Julius?" The short blonde who had brought down the elephant asked. Peter looked over at her, his pointed features confused.
"I don't know, maybe the profs are going to return Julius to the zoo." Peter said offhand, referring to the unconscious elephant being swarmed and sedated by professors.
He doesn't seem as concerned as he should be. An elephant he helped anger just destroyed his friend's leg and another drunken one is rolling about upstairs.
"I'm just glad you're okay Petie." The girl said kissing Peter swiftly. Ginny's eyes bugged slightly before the girl skipped away towards the Hufflepuffs gathering around the scene.
Ginny's thoughts were once again cut short by Lily's sobs. She fought the urge to follow them; last time the Slytherins had been lurking about they had set dementors on Molly.
Well probably but who else would have done it? Ginny thought as she looked at her boyfriend's-future-mum. She reluctantly pushed the green and black clad teens out of her head and tugged Lily and her puffy eyes up onto her feet.
"That stupid valiant idiot." Lily murmured as Alice assured the professors they would get Lily to her dorm. The elephant hadn't actually touched her and everyone knew that girls always had a good supply of chocolate on them.
The three shorter girls tugged the shaky redhead into the dormitories a few minutes later. They ignored the onslaughts of questions from students and the occasional Rita Skeeter. Past or future Rita was insistent.
Lily collapsed upon her bed, her pretty face streaked with dust from the broken Hall door and her tears.
"Guess it's obvious to everyone how much you like James now huh?" Alice said attempting a joke.
"Alice." Molly said, placing her hand on Alice's shoulder silencing her. "Just don't."
Alice fell silent and slunk back to her own bed. She drew the curtains and was silent.
It was barely four o'clock but everyone felt so tired. Molly was quiet as she drew her own curtains with a pair of knitting needles and a quick murmur about knitting something for her brother.
Ginny looked over at Lily. Her heart ached for the girl. Not wanting to tell the boy she loved about it because well, she was scared. She knew about that. She had always harboured a little ember for Harry and fanned it loyally in hopes he would see her in the same adoring way she saw him.
Lily surely wasn't scared of being rejected but she was scared just as much. Most likely scared of admitting to everyone that she had a soft side; admitting she loved James would be like she was weak and Lily always won, she wasn't the one to give in.
Ginny treaded the distance between her and Lily quietly. She sat down next to Lily and put her hand on the older girl's shoulder. Lily's chest heaved with a gasp. Ginny jerked away startled until she heard the soft blubbering of crying gasps.
"Lily?" Ginny ventured.
Lily's head turned into the pillow. "That idiot."
"He's not and idiot, just a boy in love." Ginny said fondly.
"Well it's stupid to be in love."
"Love is irrational Lily. It's just a fact. You too know about that, I mean you're acting completely irrational as well."
Lily flipped herself onto her side. Her green eyes bored into Ginny's brown ones. "Love makes fools of us all doesn't it?"
Ginny smiled. "Yes it does."
"Have you ever had these moments with Sirius?" Lily asked.
"What?!" Ginny said sitting bolt upright, "What do you mean?"
"I've seen how you look at him, there's something there." Lily said, her uniform crumpled on the bed sheets.
Ginny drew in a sharp breath. "There is nothing except a get-rid-of-him date between Sirius and me. I love Harry."
"Keep saying that kid, but it seems that you have a bit of a triangle going on, and the feelings are mutual on both ends." Lilly rolled over and snapped her curtains.
Ginny stood there.
Do I love Sirius? Is that even possible? He's so much older than me. But well Lily would be talking about this young and lively Sirius; he's different from the one I know. He's younger and happier and much more hand- NO! I can't say that. I LOVE Harry. We are meant to be together and Harry trusts me to make good decisions because we love each other. Sirius is just a minor well… perhaps an infatuation? Yes, just an attraction, nothing more Ginny. You love Harry, you love Harry! I Ginerva Molly Weasley love…
Ginny threw herself onto her bed in frustration. She had nothing to turn to. If only she could wake up and find this whole fiasco was just a dream.
Her head raised up. Wait, dream…?
She looked over at her bedside table and saw the delicate blue flower bracelet that Solaria gave to her. She pulled it over and inspected it.
"'The truth lies in your dreams'." Ginny read.
She slipped it on. "Maybe Solaria can make sense of my life." And within a few minutes Ginny was sleeping.
Now I bring you into a land of Dreams
A Land where anything is possible
A land where turtles eat cake and moonbeams
And unicorns dance tango in rivers of lava,
Fairies drink the blood of pomegranates
And the only killing, is of innocence as it is disturbed by its nightmares
In the midst of this mysterious land
A small blonde unlocked the mysteries of the secret language of dreams
And in her quest for the knowledge of her own dreams
She bottled the power of dreaming and gave it to a traveler from the future
So as to bring her spirit some form of peace
Ginny stood in the middle of a darkened hallway. She recognized the hallway as the one directly outside the common room. She took a step towards the portrait of the Fate Lady, but immeidatly she heard voices.
"We will meet next week Pettigrew. The Death Eaters will hunt you down if you don't help." The dark male voice said.
Ginny hid behind a tapestry. She recognized the voice from one of the various hordes of Slytherins.
Bellatrix's voice cut in. "You have been drafted into this situation because we need you Petigrew, that and you aren't a complete blood traitor like Potter or my bastard of a cousin." She sneered.
A squeal, most likely from Bella cursing Peter to make sure he remembered was heard. "You will countunie to spy on the Gryffindors and see if there are any supporters to our cause in that pitiful house and remember not to breathe a word of this."
"Don't worry, I wo-won't." Peter stuttered.
Ginny's lips pursed as she listened to the full conversation she overheard that day. She felt the tension building as she hid behind the taperstry; but instead of a final warning before departing, the conversation turned towards her.
"Espically take a good long look at Granger. There is something off about her. A 'new' fifth year? I sincerely doubt that. I bet she snoops about as much as you do Wormtail." Bellatrixa said using the MArurdaer nickname for PEter.
Suddenly the tapestry was pulled back and Ginny saw Avery, Bellatrix and Peter all standing in front of her; each with a razor blade smile. Bellatrix's long black hair hung in glossy hanks over her cropped blouse. Peter's pointed features were stretched in his sniggering whilst the young Death Eater next to him stood imposingly. All three surrounded Ginny pinned her agaist the wall.
And me without my wand. What is going on? This didn't happen the first time.
"So Granger, your little mudblood nose can't even stay in its own business?" Avery asked rhetorically.
"I knew you were a little bitch since you first bumped into me." Bella said grabbing Ginny by the collar, her long black manicured nails scraping the thin layer of skin between the collarbone and neck. "There is no respect for purebloods anymore."
Bella threw Ginny across the hallway with superhuman strength. Ginny screamed as she hit the wall with a crack and slid to the floor, broken. Blood ran and Bella's heel punctured the red river between the stones on the floor.
"If only you were a Slytherin, then your dirty blood could be overlooked. You could join us. You're tricky and sneaky Granger but you have that damn noble streak that I can't abide." Her beautiful face twisted into a blackened knob as she frowned. Not only did her expression shift, but her entire being did.
Holyshite
Bella morphed into a thirteen foot tall giant, with long hairy legs with wiry talons on the end. Her skin was violet with exotically dangerous swirling tattoos in translucent patterns of puke green and iridescent silver. Her face was ugly and angled like an arrow with pupil less eyes. Meanwhile Peter had morphed into a small rat and Avery had liquefied and was pooling around Bellatrix's feet.
A harsh voice which scratched like broken glass and nails screamed: "YoU WiLl fEEl tHe DArK LoRd'S PowER mUDblOoD!" The creature's voice screeched.
Ginny froze. Her senses escaped her upon seeing the terrible she-creature. She wished she had her wand with her so she could do something to get rid of the nightmare.
The multicoloured hell beast advanced towards Ginny's broken form. The careen of its voice came again.
"tHE DaRK lOrd wAnTs Us tO KiLL aLl wHO wOuLD OpPoSe uS. We SAW YoUr PoTeNtIaL as A tOOl. THaT fiRsT lEsSOn wE sAw YoUr pOWer, JoIn USssssSs!" The Bella-Thing crooned in it's disgusting voice.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" A boy cried shooting a silver stag into the thing threatening Ginny with it's foot long fangs.
Ginny's limbs instantly felt stronger when she heard the voice of someone so familiar. Her bleeding head tilted to see the messy haired boy running into the situation with his wand raised and his emerald eyes glowing.
"THAT'S RIGHT BITCH, GO BACK TO HELL!" A second voice called at the Bella-Beast, shooting a hex, that when combined with the stag, felled the beast.
The shadows overtook the creature, swallowing it into the recesses of Ginny's mind, storing alongside the images of Tom Riddle and other torturous ideas.
Ginny stood up and saw her two heroes facing her. Sirius' eyes were dark with anger but still burning with a passion. Harry's were glowing protectively and were softened with sympathy.
"Ginny. Why? I thought you loved me." Harry said indicating Sirius.
"Harry I-" Ginny started but faltered.
"Kitten, I'm used to being the other man but really, you know you can't keep this up. It's one or the other Ginny." Sirius crossed his arms.
"But-" Ginny stared at the two confused and unsure. "I don't know. I think I love both of you."
"Ginny, you've only known this Sirius a few weeks." Harry reasoned.
"But I get him better than you, Harry."
"What do you mean Ginny?" Harry looked at her, his green eyes loosing their soft understanding sheen.
"Harry you're amazing and I've always loved you but Sirius is well… we're so alike it's amazing and he's funny and clever and well…" Ginny trailed off.
What was going on? She loved Harry! How could she been telling him she also loved his Godfather? This was insane!
"So which one shall it be Gin?" Harry asked, his voice hardening.
Ginny faltered but thankfully the dream- or nightmare- she was in provided an escape.
"Ginerva!" Solaria called. The blonde flew through the shapes of Harry and Sirius, making them disappear into swirls of green and gold mist.
"Solaria? What are you doing here? And what are you wearing?" Ginny asked looking at her friend, who was wearing long trailing robes of silver and blue, reminiscent of Professor Cheops.
"I have this book for you; you brought it with you when you came here." Solaria said holding out Hermione's copy of Advanced Charms by-
Ginny couldn't believe it. This was how she would get home. This was the person who could help her get back to Harry and Hermione and Luna and Neville and Ron. She had never read the cover of Advanced Charms properly. The author would know how to get her home.
"Cassandra Cheops." Ginny read off the cover of the book amazed.
With the flash of revelation, Solaria's form shimmered and her eyes flickered from bleu to silver. Solaria- or Luna, or whatever this dream induced person was whispered sagely. "Wake up."
Ginny's eyes snapped open and she sat up. Moonlight shone on her face, which held a small smile. She was going home.
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Author's Note: This story (in my eyes) is going to take a considerably darker tone, what with the fact we REALLY need to get Ginny home. And now there's the issue of Sirius or Harry!
Wow, was it just me or was that dream sequence really messed up? Read the dreaming intro while listening to some dramatic background music (West Wing from Beauty and the Beast works); seriously I thought I was with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (you conspiracy theory people will understand it). The Intro to the dream sequence was supposed to be pretty trippy.
Also I reintroduced my character of Peter Pettigrew's girlfriend Erica Samson. She's so cute and perky, I just love her. You can see a bit more of her in Wooing a Seer. But don't worry; she's just here for fun. I got inspired by reading Fruits Basket (manga) and the margin notes said a really hysterical woman was a revival character from another story. It seemed like fun.