Chapter 6
"Does it really look, that bad?" Ginny asked Hermione on the verge of tears, "I look like one of those French whores from the Moulin Rouge!"
"No, No, No, No!" Hermione said shaking her head and going to hug her best friend that was a girl. "You look fabulous! You don't look like a little girl anymore…you look like a…umm…how would I explain this?"
"Like you looked after the Yule Ball last year? All grown up?" Ginny said a tear striking down her face.
"Yes! That's it! Ron and I are going to have to beat those boys off you with a stick!"
How right, Hermione was. Ginny looked fabulous. Ginny's hair was cut in layers so it was easier for her to style and it shaped her thin oval face even more, which made Ginny look even more beautiful than she had looked this morning. The make-up was only to highlight her face which did wonders.
"So it looks, alright?" Ginny asked very nervous.
"Of course it does! It's great! The guys will love you!"
"Even Harry!" Ginny asked hopefully.
"Um, maybe. You know how much Harry's in love with Cho Chang, but hey, you never know."
Just then Ron walked into the room, "Hey Gin, I heard you crying all the way from downstairs. Did they really mess you up that bad?" Ginny turned around, "HOLY SHIT! GINERVA MOLLY WEASLEY! GET YOUR ASS UPSTAIRS AND TAKE THAT SHIT OFF OF YOUR FACE!"
"No, Ronald! You are not my father, and besides Hermione said it looks good."
"No, it doesn't. Although…it would look good on you, babe." Ron said winking at Hermione.
"Make me sick," Ginny groaned
Ron remembered that his little sister was still in the room, "But my little sister isn't suppose to look….like….like…"
Hermione finished his sentence, "Like a total knock-out."
"Whatever," Ron said rolling his eyes and walking out of Ginny's room in a foul mood.
To Harry's luck the Dursley's decided not to come back at all before Harry had to be back at Hogwarts and Harry got to spend his summer with Arabella, and during the day they'd go to Remus's to visit Remus and Sirius. To Harry, it looked like Arabella and Sirius were getting close again. Like they had been in the video that they'd showed Harry on his birthday. That wasn't the only video that Arabella had had of Harry and his parents. There had more, tons. So Arabella gave them all to Harry for his birthday. Before Harry was ready it was the morning of September 1st. Arabella and Harry had stayed the night at Remus's and he woke up that morning by Arabella and Sirius kissing in the kitchen.
"You'd think a guy could get some sleep with out hearing another smooch!" Harry said laughing as Sirius turned quaffle red.
"At least I got a woman. Oh, wait you do, problem is that you just haven't noticed her yet." Harry rolled his eyes, because Sirius was going on about Ginny, AGAIN. "Fine, don't believe me, but one day you'll see her and she'll be a knock out and you'll want her then."
"Ginny's a little girl! She's Ron's little sister!"
"That's what I said about Arabella as I was the oldest out of all of us, and our fourth year I noticed how beautiful she had become and I couldn't believe I'd never seen it before. So trust me on this Ginny thing I know what I'm talking about." Harry just rolled his eyes again.
"Can we go yet Arabella?" Harry was starting to get annoyed by Sirius. Remus was at the Shrieking Shack, it was a full moon week. "Yes, Harry. We just got to wait on the Taxi." Beep Beep. " Never mind then, lets go." With that Arabella and Harry were headed to King's Cross.
This year Mr. Weasley was able to get two different cars from the ministry to bring Fred, George, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny to Platform 9 ¾, Mrs. Weasley tagged along in case Fred and George "accidentally" forgot to get on the train. Fred, George, and Mrs. Weasley in one. Then Ginny, Ron, and Hermione in the other.
They all got to the train with five minutes before the train left. 'Hmm…I wonder where Ginny is?' Harry thought to himself, 'Wonder how she looks with her new make-over?' Harry started to laugh to himself when he thought about how girls are so picky about their appearance. The whistle to the train blew, which brought Harry back to reality and he said good bye to Arabella, as Ms. Figg, and Mrs. Weasley.
Ron was Gryffindor's fifth year boy prefect, and of course Hermione got Gryffindor's fifth year girl prefect. Since most of the prefects are rude, Ron and Hermione decided that they'd meet Harry early in their usual compartment, at the back of the train. Harry was once again reading Quidditch Throughout The Ages, there was a little knock at the door.
"Go Away!"
"Ron! Quit being so mean! Who is it?" Hermione asked the person at the door, giving Ron a 'What-a-prat look.'
"It's me, Ginny!" Ginny yelled from outside the door, "Come in!" Hermione responded back.
Ginny entered through the door, Hermione and Ron looked up, Harry still had his nose in the book. "I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU THAT YOU COULDN'T WEAR THAT STUFF ON YOUR FACE ANYMORE AND THAT YOU CAN'T WEAR YOUR HAIR LIKE THAT!" Ron yelled at Ginny.
"WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO REALIZE I'M NOT A CHILD ANYMORE! AND THAT I'M NOT YOUR CHILD!" Ginny yelled back . Harry looked up to see what was making Ron so mad.
Harry understand perfectly why Ron had been yelling. Ginny didn't look like the little girl he was use to seeing, she didn't look like a….child anymore at all. Ginny looked like…a young woman. If it was possible Ginny looked even more beautiful the Cho Chang. Harry rubbed his eyes and cleaned his glasses put them back on to see Ginny looking nervous.
"Harry?" Ginny whined, "Do you think this looks bad? Please convince Ron that I look fine? Please!"
"Yea, Ron. I think Ginny looks…." Harry saw the look on Ron's face, "Ginny looks…okay?"
"Yea, but she's not YOUR sister!"
"SHUT IT RON!" Hermione said and that ended everything.
Once they got to Hogwarts and went in to the Great Hall to wait for the Sorting Ceremony to start, Ron leaned over to Harry to ask since Oliver Wood had graduated two years ago who was going to be the new Quidditch Captain. Harry just shrugged, he hadn't thought about that yet. Hermione said something that sounded a lot like 'boys.' Harry looked down the Gryffindor table and noticed Ginny sitting next to Fred and George, she looked so pretty and she wasn't as shy as she was when he first met her. How she had been the first summer he stayed at The Burrow. All of a sudden Harry could hear Ron's voice inside of his head, "HARRY DON'T YOU EVEN THINK OF MY BABY SISTER LIKE THAT OR I'LL KILL YOU! GOT IT?" 'What am I thinking! It's Ginny! Ron's little sister.'
Dumbledore got up to talk and Harry realized all this talking to himself made him miss the Sorting Ceremony, when all the food appeared on the golden plates and pumpkin juice appeared in the golden goblets. Soon, Harry started to feel very tired and was ready to go to bed. So Hermione and Ron led all of the first year students to Gryffindor Common Room went up to the picture of the Fat Lady and said the pass word 'Jelly-Legs.' The first years followed the three friends and you could hear the 'ooos' and 'ahhhs,' as Hermione led the girls up the Girls' dormitory, and Ron led up the boys up the Boys' dormitory.
That night Harry had a very strange dream, Harry was in what looked like a Muggle investigation room. It only had two people inside of it, Harry and Voldemort. Or what Harry remember what Voldemort looked like on their last encounter. Harry looked a little older, but not much. Harry had gotten taller, and was more built up. Voldemort kept asking the same questions over and over again, "Where's Dumbledore, and where are they hiding him?" and "Is the rumor true, is Arabella Figg really alive?" All Harry would say is "We're not hiding Dumbledore, your just not looking in the right places!" and Voldemort would slam his fist on the table. "Who's this Arabella Figg you speak of, I don't know of her." Finally, at the end of the dream Voldemort stared straight into Harry's brilliant green eyes, and said "Okay, so you won't talk, huh? Fine! 'Crucio!'"
Since Voldemort performed The Cruciatus Curse on Harry, he was suppose to bend in all kinds of ways, but Harry just sat there and laughed at him. "You really think I'd fall for that old trick again, Voldie?"
"How dare you call me this…this… 'Voldie', you speak of! How can you resist the curse?" Voldemort said in a hiss like voice. "Oh, well. I know one way of hurting you…bring the girl in!"
Just then Lucius Malfoy brought in Ginny Weasley and threw her into a chair next to Harry. Ginny looked at Harry through watery chocolate brown eyes. 'I love you,' Ginny mouthed to Harry.
"Aww, yes! The only way to bring down 'The Famous Harry Potter', by this sniveling, rotten, blood traitor. 'Crucio!'" With that Ginny went into all kinds of odd shapes and began to scream bloody murder, until….
Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley sat up in their own separate four poster beds in a cold sweat.