Chapter 3

Mrs. Weasley was distraught, "Well, no," she said to the Lovegood head in the fireplace, "of course we don't charm Ginny's hair. Where is she?"

"Luna is getting her, but Molly, I know magic when I test for it!"

"I really can't discuss this, like this. I'm coming over right away. Let me just send an owl for Arthur." Mrs. Weasley doused the fire quickly, not caring if she'd gotten him wet and penned a quick note to her husband, Arthur Weasley, at the Ministry of Magic. "Errol," she said to the owl that came to take the letter from her hand, "This is important, so please be quick!"

No sooner had Errol left than Mrs. Weasley apparated to the Lovegoods. "Where's my Ginny?" she asked. Luna, completely out of breath, turned to face Mrs. Weasley, "I can't find her anywhere! She was just here!"

Mr. Weasley apparated in moments later. He went immediately to his wife and held her.

For a moment, there was silence then in through the window flew a handsome gold-flecked hawk. It dropped the letter it was carrying, gave a harsh cry that echoed through the room and soared back out again. Molly caught the letter with numb fingers slid her finger under the dark mark seal and opened the letter. Voldemort's words, large and dark loomed. "Arthur..." she said, her voice breaking.

Arthur put his arms around his wife and picked out the piece of paper that was enclosed in the sealed letter.

He read it out-loud:

Mum, Dad,

What's going on? He says I'm his real daughter and that you stole me, and hid me from him, but he says he's not mad now that I'm back. I don't understand. I'm your little girl, aren't I?

Mrs. Weasley moaned. Mr. Weasley held her closer. "We've got to get to Dumbledore. He'll have some ideas. He told us we should have told her, but we just couldn't."

"It's true then? Ginny really is...his daughter?" Mr. Lovegood asked.

"Ginny is our daughter," Mrs. Weasley said firmly.

"Our daughter that we will do anything to get back." Mr. Weasley said to Mrs. Weasley, while nodding to Lovegood..

"I'll just get her things." Mrs. Weasley said, "Then I'll join you at Hogwarts."

Mr. Weasley apparated out, while Luna, Mrs. Weasley and Mr. Lovegood went upstairs to Ginny's room. Mrs. Weasley packed the clothing mechanically than started on the dresser. When she picked up the brush, she stopped. "This isn't Ginny's brush!" she exclaimed, surprised.

"No, it's one of mine," Luna said, "Ginny forgot hers."

A strange look passed across Mrs. Weasley's face. "I must get to Dumbledore immediately. "I'll be back for the rest of her things later."

"Good luck, Molly." Lovegood said and then she too was gone.

Luna and her father went down to breakfast.
(Author's Notes: I'm having a hard time deciding where to go with the next chapter. I feel like I should follow the Weasleys throbut my other options are the Cassandra backstory or returning to Voldemort to see how he and Ginny are getting on.)