The Tides of Change

Our heroine, Ginny, was the youngest of Arthur's seven children.  She was one year younger than her brother Ron, and attended school with Harry, Ron, and Draco.

During Ginny's first year, she was targeted in an evil plot to bring back to power Voldemort.  Lucius Malfoy passed on to the young eleven year old a diary that contained a shadow of a young Tom Riddle before his rise to power.  Ginny, the youngest sibling to six older brothers, found refuge in confiding in the diary that responded in the manner of a new friend. 

As Ginny continued to confide in the diary about her insecurities at attending school and her love for Harry Potter, the memory of Tom Riddle accepted seemingly meaningless rambles of an eleven-year-old girl, and in exchange put into motion a sinister plot to cleanse the school of muggle born witches and wizards.  With every drop of ink spilled by Ginny's confessions, her power grew weaker and Tom's grew stronger. 

This ordeal culminated in Ginny releasing an ancient and sinister beast upon the school; causing students, a cat and a ghost to be petrified before finding herself alone in a dank chamber far beneath the dungeons of Hogwarts.  It was ironic that her savior was none other than Harry, the descendant of the boy that had died so many centuries ago in the arms of her own ancestor.

As the years continued, Ginny's hatred of Lucius Malfoy was extended upon his son Draco.  Her temper, as brazen as the fiery red hair that adorned her hair, would not allow her to stand down during a confrontation with the boy.  On one occasion during her fourth year after being caught aiding Harry in breaking into the acting Headmistresses office by Draco Malfoy, she cast a hex on the boy causing large bogeys to form in his nose and take on wings likened unto a bat.

The tension between the three lineages of Malfoy, Weasley, and Evans escalated to frightening levels after Harry, Ron and Ginny managed to confront Lucius Malfoy in a battle that left him to be arrested and sent to the wizard prison known as Azkaban.

Draco under the auspices of family pride confronted the three the following year.  "Weasel's, you are a disgrace to wizard kind.  To form allegiances against a wizard, whose only interest is to purify our world; I don't know who the greater disgrace is, the mongrel Potter, or you blood traitorous Weasels."

As Harry and Ron turned, their fists clenched, eyes set to do battle, Ginny stepped in front of the two.  Her eyes held a look of pity in them as she looked upon the young Malfoy.  "A wizard whose only interest is to purify our world," she questioned.  "Do you know anything about this 'great wizard' that you ally yourself with?  Voldemort himself was born to a muggle father, what right does he have to determine that the world needs to be vanquished of all muggles," Ginny questioned before turning and pulling Harry and Ron with her, Draco's mouth agape as they left.

The words that Ginny spoke haunted Draco.  He had been raised to be proud of his pureblood lineage.  His sense of superiority relied heavily, not only on the stacks of gold stored in his families vault, but also in the purity of the blood that ran through his veins.  If his father truly served a mongrel, regardless of his power or talent of a wizard, what did that say of the superiority of pure-blood wizards?

As Draco questioned his father's servitude unto the wizard once known as Tom Riddle, he took in the world around him with greater objectivity than he had in the past.  As he observed the boys Harry and Ron, he no longer saw a pathetic pure-blood willing to live in the shadow of a mongrel; rather Draco saw two friends, willing to sacrifice everything for the other.  As he compared the two to his father and Voldemort, Draco recognized that while Harry would undoubtedly lay down his life ten times out of love for Ron, Voldemort would not sacrifice the loss of a toenail for his father.

Draco also took greater notice of the youngest Weasley.  While at one time, she had been little more than a Weasley, again willing to lower herself to follow behind Potter, he now saw a beautiful young girl who completely adored the young boy.  She did not shadow Potter for the reasons that girls shadowed Draco.  Draco's followers tended to admire his looks, his money, and the power behind the Malfoy name.  Ginny admired Harry for his selflessness, his kindness, and for the love he showed his friends.  Betrayed by the seed of doubt placed by Ginny, Draco experienced an unfamiliar emotion, that of jealousy.  As he looked upon the three he had once held in great contempt, he desired to have the love of others that they had amongst each other.

Lucius wasted no time after his break out of the now compromised Azkaban in contacting his son.  It had been sixteen years since Voldemort had fallen to the young Harry Potter, and he was anxious to avenge his downfall and return to the power that had been taken from him on that faithful night. 

Draco having been groomed to follow in his father's footsteps was not surprised when the large eagle owl swooped down at breakfast time to deliver his father's message.  As he read the note, his stomach turned in both disgust and anguish.

Draco, the time has come for you to fulfill your destiny.  Your master grows stronger with each passing day but he waits for the one who brought about his destruction to fall.  We await for you to demonstrate your allegiance to our cause.  You know what is expected of you, do not disappoint me.

'Master?  Allegiance," Draco questioned as he digested the letter.  His father meant for him to kill Harry Potter as a token of his servitude to a mongrel who had fallen at the hands of a baby.  Though Ginny's words had raised doubts on many things that he had learned in his childhood, Draco held on to the inherited belief that he should not lower himself to aide anything muggle, including his father's Lord Voldemort. 

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Thank you to BabyPan, Lady Ananas, Sannikex, and AznDreamer802 (who always reviews my chapters) for your reviews.  I'm sorry it took me a while to update, after the initial burst of energy, the fairy tale was hard to write.  I am hoping that the style was continued effectively as it appears that you all enjoyed it. 

BabyPan: Does Draco have to die, there is a clue to that answer in the last chapter.  Also Grimms Fairy Tales weren't exactly happy.  But I hear you :)