You're my only friend, Tom.

You're the only one who cares about me. The real me, that is, not someone you want me to be.

My brothers don't care. They're too busy with their lives to bother about the stupid games of a little girl. Did you know Bill and Charlie haven't been back to visit once since they left? And it's not as though they don't have the money – I know they're making more than enough. They just don't care.

Why should it bother them? I'm just an insignificant little girl. Percy's got the Ministry, Fred and George have their jokes and Ron – Ron's gone and stolen my dream. He knew how much I loved Harry Potter, and he went and warned him off me. I know he did. Why else would Harry be avoiding me? He has time to talk to every other Weasley in Hogwarts, but not me.

That's okay, though. I've got a plan for to make sure Harry notices me.

But that's not important.

The fact that my brothers think nothing of me is.

And my parents? They don't care for me! They only care that they have a daughter. It's not Ginny they want, but a daughter. They want a dutiful daughter who'll be my mother's exact copy. They don't want a girl with a love of Quidditch and the outdoors, who's better at sport than the boys are.

They don't want me.

But you – you're my only true friend, Tom. You know that, don't you? You're the only one who really cares about me.

I wish you weren't just a magical diary. I wish you were more. I wish you were a real person, Tom.

We could be best friends if you were a person, Tom.

I wish – but it's useless wishing, isn't it? Wishes don't come true. If they did, I'd have a family that loved me. A family that cared.

But I'm not worried. You're enough.

Thank you for being there for me, Tom.

Ginny W.

I feel like I should explain my thinking behind this. Ron held on to the locket for much lesser time than Ginny had the diary, and we know how it changed him. It's very possible that Ginny might have changed for the negative too - at least until she realised she was being possessed. At the time, she was 11. Combine typical 11 year old girl behaviour - which I remember very well, and see in my younger sister right now - with the effects of possessing a Horcrux, and we get this.

For:

The If You Dare Challenge, Prompt 605. Chosen Truth

All Canon Bootcamp, Prompt 25. If I Were A Boy

Hatest Character Bootcamp, Prompt 4. Dementia

Weasley-Potter-Prewitt Challenge, Ginny Weasley

Florence and the Machine challenge, Kiss With A Fist

Professor Trelawney's Divination Competition, Astrology

Colours Competition, Orange (negative)

Greenhouse Competition, Petunia

Quidditch Competition, Comets and Cleansweeps