this love potion is entirely my perception, as well as how molly and arthur met. mia is my own character too.
slytherinphoenix7
Breakfast was great. Hermione and I had finished packing for Hogwarts and were listening to Mum tell us about the love potion she made when she was a girl.
"So, after I added the moth wings, I let it brew for a couple minutes until it turned a nice light pink. I poured some into a vial and cleaned up the rest. That night, I sat put some into the glass of pumpkin juice, at the seat where he normally sat at dinner. I sat in the seat across from that," Mum said, turning pink.
Hermione and I giggled again. Between giggles, I asked Mum, "Was Sam Owens cute?"
"He was the most handsome boy in Gryffindor! All the girls drooled over him, but not many were lucky to be favored. Least of all me. I was a year younger, and not nearly as pretty as some of my friends. I was in 5th year, and he in 6th. Sam had dark brown hair with bright blue eyes. He was tall and strong, and played keeper on the Quidditch team," mum finished the description, and took a bite of her French toast.
"Oh, Mrs. Weasley, go on!" Hermione said her fork halfway to her mouth, forgotten for the last five minutes.
"Well, it so happened that Arthur and some of his friends came in to dinner early, and Arthur took Sam's usual place," Mum stopped.
"Gosh! Mum, was Dad taken with you at the time?" I asked my eyes wide with anticipation. I wasn't paying attention to anything else that was going on. I barely glanced at Harry as he and Ron came in.
"Well, no, he didn't really even know who I was, except that my older brother played with him on the Quidditch team. Anyways, I didn't know what to do. I finally decided to knock over his glass, but before I made a move, he picked up the glass, and took a drink."
"Oh no!" Hermione and I cried simultaneously.
"I was so scared. I looked at him in anticipation – my face must have been creased with fright – and he looked up, and I noticed he had blue eyes, nicer blue eyes than Sam Owens'," as if on cue, Hermione and I both sighed. We all started to laugh, and Mrs. Weasley flushed and continued. "Thank goodness the potion wasn't a lasting one. It was only supposed to last two hours, depending on how much the person drank. It was a good amount in there too. And, the more you drink, the more in love that person is with you."
I giggled again, and took another bite of my toast.
"Well, after dinner, Arthur asked me to go for a walk with him. I didn't say no, but I figured this was already starting to wear off. So, we went for a walk on the grounds. By the time two hours was up, we were pretty far from the castle. It had worn off completely, but Arthur was still kind, although I think he was confused about why he was out there with me in the first place. I decided it was only kind, for me to explain. So, I did. I told him why I made it, how it had happened to him, and everything else. He laughed, and asked me to go with him on the next Hogsmeade weekend," Mum said, finishing her French toast.
"Is that when you guys started going steady?" I asked picking up my glass of milk.
Mum smiled and said, "Yes, actually, after that Hogsmeade weekend, we kept going on dates, and the last week of seventh year, he asked me to marry him."
"Awwww," Hermione and I said together.
The ride to the platform was uneventful and the ministry cars were great. Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dad, and Percy went in one. I was joined by Fred, George, and mum in the other. They looked like ordinary cars, except they could slide through the smallest gaps, and when we got out, they managed to jump to the head of the line, of cars that didn't seem to be moving.
Dad and Harry leaned against the barrier and disappeared.
"Ginny, Percy, you next!" Mum ordered, busy with other things.
I smiled at Percy, and we ran towards the barrier. We reached the other side, out of breath.
"Penelope!" Percy said, smoothing his hair, instinctively touching the badge to make sure it was still there, and walked over to a pretty, curly-haired Ravenclaw girl. His chest was thrown out, so she couldn't possibly miss the badge – not that he needed to in the first place, after confiscating it from Fred, he had polished it, until it could have been used as a mirror.
I caught Harry's eye and giggled. He was laughing too.
Fred and George came through laughing their heads off at who knows what, and finally Hermione and Mum.
Mum kissed us all, including Hermione and Harry. Then she handed out our sandwiches.
"I've made you all lunch, here George, Percy, Ron – no it's not corned beef – Fred? Where's Fred? Oh, here, Ginny, here you go dear."
Dad pulled Harry away from everyone else and started talking to him.
Mum, putting us onto the train, yelled at Dad, "Arthur? What are you doing? Lets go now!"
Harry ran over to the train, he climbed on, and muttered, "I need to talk to you, alone."
"Go away, Ginny!" Ron said. Hermione cast me a sympathetic look, but it didn't matter.
"Thanks, that's nice!" I said huffily, but stalked off to find someone who didn't mind my company. I found Neville sitting in a compartment by himself, save his toad. I opened the door, smiled, and sat down.
"Hey, Ginny!" Neville's round face brightened at the prospect of having someone to talk to.
"How was your summer? I read about the Wizarding draw in the Daily Prophet!"
"It was great! The pyramids were awesome, and the tombs interesting. I really liked the food, it was really neat," I said, grinning. "How was yours?"
"Well, I forgot some things at Hogwarts, so they had to be mailed to us, and Gran got mad at me. My uncle came to visit, and he brought along a whole ton of exotic magical plants. He gave me a really neat one for my birthday, but the heat killed it," Neville stopped, saddened.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Neville," I sympathized with him.
We talked about lots of things, several people popped in to say 'hi'. Seamus Finnigan, Dean Thomas, Colin Creevey, and Fred and George who had more news about infuriating Percy – they had caught him kissing his girlfriend in an empty compartment. They were accompanied by their best friend Lee Jordan.
We had been traveling for a while, when the train stopped and the lights flickered.
"Why are we stopping?" Neville asked, fear in his voice, and etched into his face.
"I dunno," I said looking out the window, then opening the compartment door. "Let's go find Harry, Ron, and Hermione."
Neville nodded and followed me out of the compartment. We were walking down the hall when the lights flickered again, and went out. I grabbed Neville's hand and pulled him to Harry's compartment. I had seen them enter it a while ago.
I slid open the door and bumped into someone. That someone and I both squealed.
"Who's that?"
"Who's that?" I asked.
"Ginny?"
"Hermione?"
"What the heck are you doing?"
"I'm looking for Ron -"
"Well, he's here, come in."
"I've got Neville with me too." I said, and came in and sat down on someone's lap, I slid hurriedly off when that someone spoke.
"Not here! I'm here!" Harry said quickly.
"Sorry, Harry," I said, I was glad it was dark so he couldn't see my extra red face.
"Ouch!" Neville cried.
"Quiet!" Spoke a raspy voice in the dark.
All talking ceased at once.
Someone – I don't know who – was moving around in the corner. There was a cracking noise and the room was lit up. I tired looking man with alert eyes was holding flames in his hand.
I had slid off Harry's lap into the seat beside him, I whispered. "Who's that?"
Harry murmured. "Professor Lupin."
I suppose that would make him our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, since that was the only post I knew, that was vacant.
The door slid open and a scaly hand reached in. In the doorway stood a shrouded creature, towering to the ceiling. Its 'gaze' moved around and rested on Harry. It shifted and moved in. I felt all cold, like I would never, ever be happy again. Voices echoed in my head and scenes spun across my mind. I remembered when I fell of Fred's broom and couldn't do anything because I wasn't supposed to be riding it. I remembered when I was possessed by you-know-who.
"I'm going to be expelled, I know it! Ever since Bill went to Hogwarts, I've been waiting to go, and I did, and I was so happy, and now I'll have to leave! What will Mum and Dad say?" I sobbed.
"Ginny, I don't think you'll be expelled!" Harry said, but his words did not comfort me.
These voices echoed in my head, as I recalled the last time Percy was kind to me.
"Ron's going to be expelled, I just know it!" I sobbed into his shoulder. "Ginny, Ron's not doing anything he shouldn't, its ok. He's not going to be expelled. The car incident was a bit much, but he wasn't expelled, and he hasn't done anything drastic since then," Percy said consolingly, stroking my hair.
I jerked up, and saw Harry lying on the floor. Hermione was slapping his face, and Ron was kneeling next to her. Neville was standing over him too.
"What?" Harry opened his eyes, and took in his surroundings.
"Are you ok?" Ron asked him.
"Yeah," Harry said blinking. "What happened? What's that thing? Who screamed?"
"Harry, no one screamed," Ron looked even more worried than ever.
I looked at Harry, my face pale.
"But I heard screaming!" Harry said uncertainly.
A loud snap tore everyone's attention away form Harry. Professor Lupin was breaking chocolate slabs. He handed everyone chocolate, but an especially large piece to Harry.
"What was that thing?" Harry asked looking at the chocolate Lupin had just given him.
"A dementor of Azkaban. Eat the chocolate. It will help," he said urgently.
I was still feeling bad, and I didn't think I could hold anything down, so I laid the chocolate on the seat beside me. Lupin gestured toward the chocolate – looking at me - and left the compartment.
"I don't understand!" Harry cried. "What did happen?"
"Well, the dementor thing cam in and looked around," Hermione started to explain. "And you...."
"We thought you were having a fit or something. You went all rigid and fell onto the floor. You almost knocked Ginny out of her seat," Ron looked at Harry with concern.
"None of you reacted that way?" Harry asked uncertainly.
"Well, no, but Ginny looked as bad as you were, she didn't pass out though." I moaned, and Hermione came over and put her arm around my shoulders.
"Lupin stood up and said 'None of us in hiding Sirius Black under our cloaks. Get out.' But the dementor didn't move so Lupin said something and silver stuff shot out of his wand and the dementor left," Hermione explained, stroking my hair.
"It was horrible," Neville said. "It got all cold in here and I thought I would never be happy again."
"So, none of you fell out of your seats?" Harry asked sitting back down on his seat.
"No," Ron said. "But Ginny was shaking like mad."
I closed my eyes. The door banged open again, and Lupin walked in.
"I didn't poison the chocolate," he said looking at Harry and me. "Eat it!" I forced it down; it was good.
I felt warmth spreading through my body. I closed my eyes and sighed.
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