Listen for the Lullaby
Chapter 1: Wishful Thinking
Ginny took one last glance around her Burrow bedroom. It was small, possibly once a rather large broom closet but she was the only one in the house with the luxury of their own bedroom. Reassured that she wasn't forgetting anything she wandered down the hallway to the busy kitchen where her mother was attempting to undo one of Fred and George's tricks. Ron's hair normally red like the rest of the families was apparently purple.
"You two hold it a second," Mrs. Weasley looked up just in time to point her wand at the twins before they darted out the door,"Stikouse!"
"Mom, Ron should have noticed that no one else had grape juice," Fred whined while George attempted to pull his feet off of the floor where they now where firmly attached.
"It's not our fault he's so unobservant," George countered, giving up on moving. Ginny snickered a bit before heading out the front door to her father.
"My stuffs all packed" He smiled at her before zapping her trunk into the back of a loaned ministry car.
"Once your mom finished with the boys we just have to head to pickup Harry. I had the ministry loan me a car considering how his family acted the last time we came to get him." His eyes twinkled with laughter at the memory. As the rest of the family joined them out side more trunks were zapped to the back of the car. Mrs. Weasley assured that Fred and George were seated close to her up front allowing Ginny and Ron to have the spacious back area of the car. There was a crackling sound as the car started and momentarily Mr. Weasley was counting the houses on Privet drive. "Ah, this must be the place," He waved to Harry who was sitting on his trunk on the front porch. As Harry stood up he zapped the trunk to the back with the others. Harry climbed into the back seat sitting across from Ron and next to Ginny. Ginny could feel he cheeks begin to blush and she automatically thought of something else.
"Hi everyone, Thanks for coming to get me," Harry looked curiously at Ron who was now somewhat happier but still rather disgruntled. "What happed to you hair?" most of the purple was gone but it still had almost a magenta tint.
"He tested our new drinkable hair dye" George answered for him attempting not to laugh. If looks could kill the twin certainly would be dead from the look Mrs. Weasley sent them. Harry and Ron began talking about what he had missed in the Quidditch world and Ginny drifted off into her own thoughts.
'Its been 6 years now I should have gotten over this by now, Harry will never look at me the same way I look at him' Harry laughed pulling her out of her thoughts but only momentarily. 'I love the way his eyes light up when he smiles,' Ginny could feel her cheeks begin to turn again and she mentally reprimanded herself.
"How have you been holding up with those two?" Harry turned to her and smiled,
"Other then the bubbling toothpaste Ron's gotten the brunt of it" Ginny set the twins a look almost identical to the one of her mothers and turned back to Harry. Fred and George could be heard whispering.
"Remember she breathed bubbles for almost 2 days" Ignoring them Ginny attempted to put her crush aside in order to not blush.
"How has your summer been Harry?" Ginny caught her self unintentionally twirling a piece of her long red hair.
"The usual, its Dursleyized," He tried to make the light of the events but it was obviously bothering to him. "Dudley's down to a celery and water diet but he just keeps getting bigger" the thought brought a spark of light back to his eyes. "I only have one summer left with them though so I should be ok.
"There's a light at the end of every tunnel," Ginny smiled as the car came to a halt. They had arrived at the long cobbled street called Driagon Alley.