The one where Ginny is made a Marauder
Author's Note: There is a bit of kissing in this one, initiations and all that jazz. Just kissing nothing else.
Ginny stood behind Harry as he knocked on the door. She wrapped the cloak around her more firmly. She hoped her family were glad to see her and not angry for leaving.
'Harry! It's wonderful to see you again!' Mrs Weasley cried, giving Harry a huge hug. Ginny looked at her mother, gasping as she saw gray hairs and extra wrinkles. It looked as if Mrs. Weasley had aged twenty years in the three years Ginny had been missing. 'I suppose you want to see Ron then.' She ushered him in and Ginny followed, hoping that the Invisibility Cloak did not give up on her in that moment.
'...not sure about the pay, but the work's good.' Ron finished shouting at the base of the stairs. 'Oh, hey Harry. What brings you around so early? We weren't going to go out for a bite until lunch.'
Ginny took off the cloak and gave it to Harry. He smiled broadly and said, 'Ron, you remember your sister, don't you?'
Ron stared at Ginny as if she had the plague. Mrs. Weasley let out a high pitched scream and fell to the floor in a dead faint. Fred, George and Mr Weasley came running down the stairs, the twins looking excited, Mr Weasley looking concerned. As soon as the twins saw Ginny, they grinned.
'Ginny, where have you been?' Mr Weasley said sternly. 'We have been so worried about you!'
'Yeah, if you're going to run away for three years you might as well leave a note.' George said in a voice of mock anger.
'The dishes have been piling up whilst you were away.' Fred added.
'Boys, quit it now.' Mr Weasley said. He pointed his wand at his wife and said "Enervate". Mrs Weasley awoke. Fred and George helped her to her feet.
'I am really, really, really sorry, Mum, Dad, Ron, Fred and George. I was sent to the past with my blasted Time Turner I was using for all my classes.' Ginny played with the ring on her finger. 'I fell in love and I got married.'
Mrs Weasley felt faint again, but Fred and George kept her from passing out. Ron spoke for the first time since his sister had been revealed. 'Who to? Does he play Quidditch?'
She grinned at her brother's priorities. 'He did. He...uh...died.'
Ron gave her a hug. 'I'm sorry, Gin.'
Mr Weasley announced that they should all go into the lounge to have a stiff drink. Mrs Weasley concurred and all the red heads as well as Harry moved into the more relaxed room. Ginny sat next to Harry and Ron sat on her other side.
'So, you married without even telling us?' Mrs Weasley sounded hurt.
'How could I? You had no idea who I was.' Ginny's voice was soft, and it showed that she wished that her parents could have been there to see her wed.
'What's his name?' Mr Weasley began pouring drinks.
'James Potter.' She blushed ferociously.
'J-J-James Potter?' Ron repeated.
'I'm Harry's mother. You can do as many tests as you like.' She took a breath and began explaining. Once she had, everyone looked at her under a new light.
'Wow. I never heard it from my parent's point of view before.' Harry said.
'Well, of course not!' Ginny smiled and stood. 'Thank you for the drink and for hearing me out, Mum, Dad. I hate to be in a rush, but I need to go get my affaires in order.'
'Hmm, isn't there a movie or something. Things to do in England when you're dead, sounds appropriate.' Harry laughed, knowing that no one had any idea what he was going on about. 'Alright, mother, let's go.'
'You are in luck, Mrs Potter. Your account has been left open and is untouched.' The goblin said, looking over the key in his hand. 'My, there is quite a bit of interest too.'
Ginny smiled and Harry's brow crinkled. 'I thought you left everything to me.'
'Not everything, Harry. We had a second account, an emergency account, created. Annabel and Robert, your grandparents, left us all their gold when they died and we put half of it in the main one, your one, and half in the other. All my earnings, pitiful as they were, went into the emergency one and James' went into yours.' Ginny suddenly laughed. 'I left the deed to the house in there too! Oh, Harry, do you remember the house?'
'No, not as such.'
'You'll love it. Oh, it was so gorgeous! The backyard was as big as a Quidditch Pitch!' She stopped talking as they took the stomach turning ride down to the bowels of Gringotts.
One every part of them had stopped spinning, the goblin opened her vault. The amount of Galleons was double the amount Harry had in his, due to interest. 'I think Dumbledore also put the life pension in here too.' Ginny muttered. 'It would explain why there is so much.'
She put great handfuls of the coins into her bag and took the deed to Godric's Hollow. With a nod of her head, she told the goblin to shut the door.
'Do you know how to Apparate yet?' She asked, her eyes on the ownership papers in front of her.
'Of course, I do. What do I look like? Some sort of third year?'
'Sorry, Harry.' Ginny grinned apologetically. 'Once we're finished in Diagon Alley can we Apparate to Godric's Hollow? I want to see how much of a wreck it's become.'
Harry nodded. 'Sure, Ginny. If we make it out of this place alive.' He looked at the cart meaningfully.
'Ok, ask for whatever you want. I've got a lot of time to make up for so don't be shy.' Ginny smiled.
'I would have no idea what to ask for.' Harry replied. 'I have almost all that I want in the world. All I need is a father, but that isn't going to happen.'
Ginny hugged him tightly. 'I'm sorry Harry. I really am. I should have told him that my other self would protect you.'
'It's not your fault, Ginny.' She faced the opposite direction so Harry would wipe away tears that he had let fall. 'I know what I want!'
'What?' Her eyes were shining but he did not know if it was from unshed tears or from excitement.
'I want a motorcycle just like Sirius' old one. I've seen so many pictures of it, and I actually managed to have a ride before it was taken away by the Ministry. Sure, I was a baby at the time...but it still counts.'
Ginny played with her bottom lip thoughtfully. Finally, she said, 'You're very lucky I was an Honorary Marauder and take their beliefs to heart. We'll go to a Muggle car yard and buy a bike. My dad will help me charm it, and Sirius will lend a hand too.'
'Hey, that means I'm Ron's nephew!' Harry said, laughing.
'I never thought of that, Harry. I'm glad Dumbledore didn't either, otherwise my mum and dad may have been thinking "What on earth is a baby claiming to be that of a daughter we haven't even had yet doing on our doorstep?"' She giggled. 'Harry, I would really like to see Godric's Hollow now, if we can.'
'Of course, Ginny. Besides, you have no idea where a car yard could be. I wouldn't want my mum to splinch herself!'
They Apparated a little way off from the cottage, the wards against Apparition still there even after nineteen years of disuse. Ginny gasped as she saw the house, eyes full of tears again. The house was in one piece, and it looked like something out of a fairy tale. The grass had not even grown since the last time she stepped on the lawn.
'Wow, this place is wonderful.' Harry said beside her.
'I know, James bought it without my knowledge and surprised me. That was two years before you were born.' Ginny walked in the door, Harry following her. A note on the table caught her eye. She picked it up and noticed the handwriting as Professor Dumbledore's.
Dear Mrs. Potter,
Godric's Hollow has been rebuilt and refurbished as it once was when you bought it. I hope it is to your liking.
Professor A. Dumbledore.
'Ah, that explains it.' Harry said, reading over her shoulder.
Ginny nodded, pocketing the note. 'Hey, Harry, want to see your room? It's rather pathetic now, really. You're as old as I am and yet you are stuck with dead yucky clowns and stuff.' She started climbing the stairs, and Harry followed.
They entered a room covered, wall to wall, in blue. The floor was a deep navy color, the walls and ceiling were baby blue and the bed was draped in a powder cerulean colored quilt. 'James really wanted a boy, you see.'
'Ah.' Harry grinned. 'If there was another color except for blue it would be alright.'
With a flick of Ginny's wand, Harry had his wish. She changed the paint on the wall to a nice creamy color. 'Better?'
'Much. Thank you.'
'What are mother's for?' Her grin was the exact same as Harry's. It was quite unnerving having a son the same age as you, Ginny thought. Almost as bad as the Annabel/Hermione problem.
Sirius and Remus helped to get Ginny eased back into the future. She got a job as a teacher at Hogwarts as the new Charms Professor and loved it. Ginny spent of her spare time with her friends, old and new, as well as Harry. She loved Harry to pieces and wanted him to love her back.
Before anyone could put a finger on it, the year had gone by and Ginny was once again celebrating the New Year with the remaining Marauders.
A solemn Sirius stood and brought out a book that looked like it was falling to pieces in his very hands. Ginny gasped, knowing at once that it was the Prankster's Bible. She placed her wineglass on the table and looked at both Remus and Sirius.
'It looks like we have two spots we need to fill in the Marauders.' Moony said softly. 'I would like to nominate Ginny Potter Weasley to join.'
'I second your nomination. Ginny, do you wish to join our ranks and be a Prankster for as long as you live?' Padfoot said, standing over her, the Bible resting on one of his hands.
'I do so wish.' She replied.
'Then place your hand on the Bible and it will see if you deserve entry in our circle.'
Ginny laid a white hand on the book and felt it shake. In her mind, she heard a voice that sounded awfully similar to the Sorting Hat. "Yes, yes, you should have been in the Marauders years ago. SHE SHALL BE ACCEPTED!"
Sirius put the book to a side and helped Ginny to her feet. With a grin, he kissed her on the lips deeply. She let the kiss finish before raising an eyebrow. 'Initiation rites, Lils - I mean Gin.'
Remus walked over and took her hands. He leant down and kissed her also, but his was different from Sirius. It wasn't a friendly one like Padfoot's, but one full of love and longing. Ginny did not want to stop kissing Remus, she wanted him to hold her like that forever.
He drew back and smiled at her ruefully. 'Sorry Ginny. Don't know what came over me.' He wiped his mouth to remove the lipstick.
'I nominate Harry Potter to join.' Sirius said loudly, trying to get their attention back to the "serious" events about to take place.
'I second your nomination.' Ginny said, eyes lingering on Remus. Sirius gave her the book and she held it out to her son. 'Harry, do you wish to join our ranks and be a Prankster for as long as you live?'
'I do so wish.' Harry said clearly.
'Then place your hand on the Bible and it will see if you deserve entry in our circle.'
Harry did so and almost a second after, the book screamed that he should be accepted. Ginny kissed Harry's cheeks and welcomed him into the Marauder's. Sirius kissed him with no where near as much enthusiasm as he had for Lily and Remus kissed the boy's cheeks. He somehow thought that by kissing another person's lips would take away the feeling he had deep inside him he still had from when he kissed Ginny.
Sirius placed the book in safekeeping and returned with a smile. 'So, we have four members again. God save them.'
Author's Second Note: Sirius isn't gay or anything! Don't fret.
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