..::AN: Grr is being very cruel it keeps screwing up my bloody formatting..i was swaring quite a bit when i uploaded this chapter. Aww ur comments are alway so sweet!!! You guys beyond rock! im glad to see people are enjoying this fic!! Cheers to G/D!!! but anywhoo..short chapter but its leading up to something..dun dun dun.NOTE ABOUT THE FORMATTING THING: if anyone has actually read the stuff of the homepage (lol i dont very often) it said its removing the ability to have indents hense why its all blurred together. I suggest making the font bigger with the thingie to make it easier to read..if anyone has found a way around this little annoying problem please email me!! THanks!!! Somtimes the formatting goes weird and having one word on one line then skipping down i dont know why it does that and dont have any idea how to fix it!! Im sorry but i really dont. Sometimes it doesn't go all wonky and somtimes it does::..
Ginny went through the doors of Vraleish quietly, the quiet sound of her leather pumps against
the polished floor echoed a little around her. She skidded to a stop in front of the circular desk
and tapped the bell trying to get the blonde receptionist's attention.
Luna was reading a issue of Vraleish upside down, whistling quietly, she looked up from behind
it with wide eyes and squealed when she saw Ginny smiling down at her.
"There you are! Finally you show up we've been trying to get a hold of you!" Luna said happily,
yet scornfully as shestood up and put the magazine aside.
"What why?" Ginny asked hoping she didn't do something wrong. Had Draco made a mistake in
telling Marissa she would be away for a while? Luna grabbed Ginny by the elbow and started
walking towards Ginny's office at a brisk pace.
"We need you to write an article! There's a huge gap where your interview should have been but
as it is..well there's no interview. We couldn't find a replacement so you have to write
something." Luna ordered going into Ginny's office with the wide eyed red-head giving her a
aghast look.
"On what?!" Ginny asked. "I have nothing, I'm already busting my ass off for this interview and I
have to write another one?" Ginny sunk into her office chair letting her forehead fall onto the
desk.
"Just write anything! But we need it by the end of the day!" Luna sighed patting her friend on the
back. "Tell you what, once your done, we'll go shoe shopping..you said you always get a
confidence boost from good shoes."
Ginny snorted a bit and sat up, Luna pressed the switch on the Cyberparch which flickered and
turned on quietly.
"I do need new shoes.." Ginny murmured.
"Not only shoes! We can go and treat ourselves for getting gowns for that party at the end of the
month. You don't have your gown yet do you?" Luna asked excitedly. Ginny shook her head
raking her hand through her satiny hair.
"No I don't, I haven't given much thought to it to be honest." Ginny sighed. She reached into her
small clutch purse for a stick of gum, her fingers brushing against something cold she lifted out a
small ink bottle.
Luna narrowed her eyes at it. "You won't be needing one of them Gin, you know I hadn't used
one in years before I wrote your letter the other day but that's because I lost all my pens. Neville
was using them to put some air in some soil in the greenhouse. Well come find me once your
done and we'll head to Granita Avenue!" she said with a smile before leaving Ginny's office.
Ginny continued to look at the ink bottle, twirling it slowly between two fingers as she watched
the dark liquid splash around. Granita Avenue was a Wizarding street that was hidden by a
magic barrier like St. Mungo's and Diagon Alley. It was a bit more posh with the stores of
famous designers, Ginny hadn't really shopped for clothes in Diagon Alley in ages.
"I think I've found my angle." Ginny said aloud.
"The Wizarding world has been growing and expanding for ages. But not as much as it
has in the past decade. Though many still haven't shed their hatred and dislike for
muggles, our world had been evolving into something quite like it. Mimicking their
ways, technology, and some ways of life but with our own magical twists.
For many, it has become nature to do things the modern way. For example using pens
instead of the usual quill and ink used by our kind, because its quicker and less messy.
Or, dressing like muggles instead of wearing Wizarding robes. Why is it that now more
then ever we can blend in so naturally in a crowd of muggles?
Is it possible that some of us are forgetting our roots? More common in the younger
magical beings, it seems that we have grown accustomed to modern conveniences so
much that it seems odd and unfamiliar to try and attempt some of the ways from our
younger years.
It was so much easier to write essays on parchment rolls with a quill and ink well back
in the days of our school years. It was natural then, where as now many of us just use
sheets of paper, Cyberparch's and pens. It is curious that now, when everything is
peaceful and times are changing that we don't seem to remember the little things that
used to make us stick out so
much among muggles.
Besides the fact that we can levitate things with wands, we used to look odd because
we wore cloaks and pointed hats. We'd carry around books about magical histories and
creatures like Kappas and Unicorns. But now we carry briefcases, we wear muggle like
clothing and listen to music on muggle-like inventions.
We cant stop this from happening, it would be stupid to try. But it is important that we
don't forget where we came from, the older ways that some people have forgotten. To
do this take the dare I offer you.
.All letters, papers, notes ext. will be written on parchment, using a quill and ink.
.When going somewhere not to be spotted by muggles wear a cloak, or something to
show your proud of what you are.
.Go shopping in Diagon Alley. Even if you don't have a real reason, get ingredients for
potions and brew one just to remember what it feels like.
.If your of age, practice a few spells you haven't used in a while.
. If your not of age and reading this while your in school, magically create a poster with
your house's crest on it, hang it in your dormitory.
.Go somewhere set up specifically for Quidditch a play with your friends.
.Play other Wizarding games like Exploding Snap and Gobstones.
.Here is the more challenging bit. Lock away all things you don't need, like
Cyberparch's, pens, Magical Music Devices, and some muggle clothing, into a trunk
and don't touch any of it for a week.
Hopefully once you have completed this challenge you will remember what it was like
to be familiar with your roots. Perhaps you will even cut back on modern conveniences
all together. Do not ever remember what it was like before we evolved so much.
This article is not meant for you to turn your back on how far the Wizarding race has
come, because it is such an accomplishment and we should be proud of how amazingly
complex in resources we now are. But this article is for showing you that sometimes we
do forget where we come from, how we grew up, and showing you that we can have the
best of both worlds but let us not forget either completely."
Sighing she saved her work, turned off her Cyberparch and grabbing her purse she left her office
and went to find Luna.
Picking up a pair of white stilettos's Ginny found a pair in her size and set the box carefully under
her arm. Her fingers were numb from carrying so many bags and she felt like they would fall off
soon.
The store was brightly lit with clean white walls. Shelves and racks everywhere with stylish
designer shoes and clothes. Colourful sweaters sat folded neatly on tables where manikins
talked to other manikins with hand gestures and cheery smiles.
Ginny sighed as she saw another pair of opened toe heeled shoes that seemed to be calling 'Buy
me Ginny! Buy me!'
"So Neville and me have been discussing the "B" word a lot lately." Luna sighed picking up a
blue sweater, and adding it to her spherical iron basket. Ginny dropped one of her bags startled
at the change of topic, carefully she picked it up.
"B? As in a kid..as in a baby?" Ginny asked as the went to pay for their purchases. Luna shot
her a peculiar look.
"No I meant 'B' as in balaclava..yes baby you nitwit!" Luna laughed handing over her money and
taking her bag into her already heavily loaded arms.
"Well that's lovely Luna! Are you two going to have a child?" Ginny asked taking her own bags
from the cashier after paying, trying not to fall over. Luna shrugged as they went out into the
street to head to the next shop. The day was dark but there was no rain, just cloudy and
occasionally a dull streak of sunlight would streak through the clouds.
Luna performed a compacting charms on their bags so their could carry all their belongings in
four bags instead of nine. Sighing of relief they headed on to the next shop.
"I don't know yet. I mean I'm still thinking. But hey what about you?" Luna asked. Ginny
squawked a little.
"Me? Kids? What the hell I'm not even married!" Ginny protested. Luna chuckled a bit.
"No I meant guy wise..you've been single for ages!" Luna smirked. "So any guy that your hiding
from me?" Luna nudged Ginny a little with her elbow. Ginny blew a piece of her hair out of her
face and shook her head.
"Oh yes he's in that no existent other life of mine where I don't have more shoes that cant fit in
one closet and spend my nights alone reading. He's got a yacht and we drink expensive
champagne while cruising the ocean." Ginny sarcastically mused. Luna laughed.
"I'll take that as a no then." Luna laughed as they stepped into the next store. Ginny sighed
looking around the store, the floor was black white the walls we're white and it reminded her of
the Manor. She thought about Draco for a minute, the thought of him probably visiting one of his
lovers and being blissfully happy.
Her stomach lurched a bit, Ginny figured she must have been hungry and popped a stick of gum
in her mouth to hold her over until she could get food.
"If he can find someone the obviously I can." Ginny thought to herself. Sighing Ginny nodded.
"A big fat no."
The two witches searched around the store for a while and Luna gasped as she spotted the
evening gown section. Ginny and Luna chatted while they searched through the rows and rows
of colourful dresses and gowns. Ginny sighed, there were perfect gowns for Luna. Hundreds
maybe, but nothing really here seemed to suit Ginny at all.
Some of them were daring, too daring for Ginny's liking and some of them were just to wild for
a formal affair like a Vraleish party.
"Maybe you should ask if they custom make gowns." Offered Luna as she tried on one of the
gowns in a changing stall. Ginny sighed collapsing into one of the stylish loft like chairs letting her
feet relax.
"Maybe." but then a thought popped into her mind about her article. "You know what I think I
know where im going to get my gown." she smiled leaning back into the chair. Luna emerged
from the changing room in a dress that made Ginny laugh quietly.
It was strapless, and tight fitting in style, it was a dark blue with roses stuck oddly here and
there. Ginny was highly reminded of a table cloth.
"What?" Luna asked looking down at it.
"Its a little too free spirited Luna, even for you." Ginny confessed. Luna grumbled a bit before
heading back into the changing room, leaving Ginny trying to conceal her laughter.
"So where are you going to get your gown? I mean the party isn't too far away, you better
hurry." Luna reminded her,Ginny could hear her putting that flower gown back on the hanger
and slipping into something else. Ginny smiled, she would go that evening to get her gown and
keep it secret to surprise her friend who seemed to be struggling with a zipper.
"Somewhere I haven't been in a long time."