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Thank you for all the support from everyone who reviewed! I'm sorry it took me a while to get this out! And I know that everyone is saying that its not actually Virginia but its Ginevra, I disagree because I think Virginia is a much more suitable name, besides did anyone know that Ginny is an actual name? Because it is, its not just a nickname. And its called fanfiction not everything has to be spot-on.

Chapter 3

Ginny walked to the entrance of the castle with her trunk levitated behind her and midnight trotting slowly next to her. It was probably six-thirty and she knew that classes were now out and there was no way to avoid running into curious Hogwarts students wondering who she was and why they hadn't noticed her before. She was half-way to Gryffindor Tower when she was stopped by a couple of snotty looking (surprise) Syltherins.

"Hello there" the one with platinum blonde hair drawled. "And who might you be?" he asked looking her up and down slowly. 'oh my god, he looks just like Malfoy…. Oh no, he is a Malfoy isn't he' Ginny thought sadly with a shocked expression on her face. "Yes, I know my stunningly good looks must be distracting but you can stop gawking and answer my question!" he said while smirking. Ginny could tell he was as much of a prick as his son, so she mustered her courage and mirrored his smirk. "I'm sorry I was just being blinded by that horrible hair, who would do that to them self?"

Ginny knew that Malfoy and his merry band of Syltherins would get her back for that but she was a Gryffindor and she had to establish herself if she was going to get along better in this time then her own. Her smirk became a little more malicious when she saw Malfoys smirk fall into a frown, but her own smirk almost fell when she noticed a much, much younger Snape in the Slytherin crowd who seemed to have enjoyed what she said to Malfoy. She wondered why Snape would be happy with her insult toward her ringleader when the rest of the group looked ready for murder.

"Oh, nothing good to say to that? Well your intellect must match your looks!" now Ginny knew she was pushing it so she picked up midnight and walked through the crowd with her trunk still floating behind her. Just as she was almost through the group Malfoy grabbed her arm and swung her around. He moved his face very close to hers and said in a really pissed off voice "no one talks to a Malfoy like that!" Ginny, with a large amount of effort pulled her arm out of his grasp and put on a nonchalant face "Really" she said carelessly "I believe that I just did." With that Ginny turned back around and walked towards Gryffindor tower.


Once she was at the entrance to the Gryffindor common room, Ginny spoke the password Dumbledore gave her to the portrait, who was surprisingly not the fat lady but instead a boy and girl, it was painted in black and white and they were dressed in clothes from the 1920's. The people in the portrait looked at her questionably but the portrait swung open and revealed the exact same common room. As she walked through the doorway Ginny mentally prepared herself for what she had to do. She decided that to seem more convincing she would have to act slightly confused and ask an older student where the sixth year girls dormitory was. Ginny made her way over to a group of older students who were hanging around the couches, noticing that most of the Gryffindors that were lounging about were giving her curious glances. She also noticed that the group she was approaching was the marauders and a pretty red-headed girl she assumed was Lily Potter. Ginny was about to turn around and walk away (she really didn't want to explain herself for last night) when Peter noticed her and said to Remus "Hey its that girl from last night!" 'crap, there's no way out now' Ginny thought sadly as Remus's head snapped up from the book he was reading and the other two boys and Lily turned around to stare at her.

"uh…. H-hi" Ginny stammered, the famous weasley blush spreading all over her face and neck. Before any of the boys could even ask Ginny jumped in with an attempt to explain herself. "I'm really sorry about last night, I had a really rough trip and you look a lot like my friend from back home." Ginny said while pointing at James.

"I'd say you had a rough trip!" came James voice

"you were all beaten and bloody" said Remus looking slightly concerned for the girl he barely even knew.

"And what was that bit about Malfoy trying to shag you?" questioned Sirus who was looking Ginny up and down.

Ginny really didn't know what to say, and she hadn't realized that she had said anything about what Malfoy did to her. She thought for a second and then replied " Something went wrong with my portkey and I ended up falling pretty far, I'm not sure where I was but It caused me to be delirious. I had met Malfoy before and I must've had a nightmare about him through my delirium." Simple and believable! Ginny thought happily.

"So what's your name?" Sirus asked already in full flirt mode. "My name is Virginia Summers but my friends call me Ginny, and what is your name?" Ginny asked him even though she already knew what it was. Sirus leaned back in his seat and replied "My name, miss Ginny is Sirus Black, this is James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew and Lily Evans." Pointing towards each person while saying their names.

Midnight had taken an obvious liking to Remus and was purring and rubbing against his legs, Remus didn't mind, he reached down and petted her while asking "Is she yours?" Ginny was surprised because it took midnight about an hour to get used to Ginny and here she was, happily sharing kitty love with a stranger! And a werewolf no less, she thought midnight would be afraid of him! "Yes, she mine, and her name's Midnight" she replied still in slight shock. Remus nodded in approval for her name and played with midnight for a little while longer before glancing at Ginny and going back to his book.

Before they could start bombarding her with questions Ginny turned to Lily and asked "Lily do you think you could show me to the sixth years girls dormitory? I would like to unpack and have a shower before supper." "Your in the sixth year?" she inquired and continued when Ginny nodded "that's great! I'm also in sixth so we'll be rooming together and in the same classes! Which ones are you taking?" lily asked while hooking her arm with Ginnys and showing her to the girls dormitories.


After Ginny had showered, done her hair (but left it red), done her make-up and gotten into her brand new Gryffindor uniform she walked down the stairs to a half empty common room to see the marauders and lily waiting for her. Once they saw her they started staring at her in a funny way especially Remus, Ginny was starting to think maybe she put her make-up on wrong or something when Sirus walked up to her, took her arm (causing Ginny to blush at the contact) and said: "Why miss Ginny, might I say that you dress up quite nicely." Ginny carefully removed her arm from his, she like Sirus but definitely not in that way 'wait until I get home and tell Harry that his godfather was hitting on me!' she thought while giggling slightly and saying "You might." Ginny saw the look of shock on his face and the amazement on the faces of rest of the group. Lily started giggling and the other three boys started laughing madly, "Wow Padfoot a real girl! You know, the type that can resist your charm." James mocked once he had finally stabilized himself. "Yeah man you totally got shut down by her!" came peters voice. "Ya, ya, ya" Sirus grumbled as he moved towards the portrait hole.


Ginny was seated in the great hall facing the Slytherin table, between lily and James and across from peter, Remus and Sirus. She was talking to lily about the classes she was explaining about her parents divorce an the rest of the made up reason why she was there when professor Dumbledore started the daily announcements.

"…….Hogwarts will be having a Halloween dance and a Yule ball this year, I would also like to announce that we have a new student, that came to our school today, she will be staying here for a while so please make her welcome here. Please stand up Miss Summers." Spoke the headmaster with his normal eye-twinkle.

Ginny got up, while trying to stop a very colorful blush she knew was coming. She smiled and waved at everyone. When she turned her head towards the Slytherin table she saw Malfoy glowering at her and Snape smirking. Ginny nodded towards Snape and winked in a mocking way at Malfoy.

"What was that about?" James asked Ginny when she sat back down. "well I told you I'd met Malfoy before, now didn't I?" she replied simply and started eating her food.


After spending the rest of her night explaining her life story to almost all of Gryffindor Ginny was glad to be going to bed. Once she was in her new pajamas and lying in bed with midnight curled up at her feet. Ginny started thinking about the marauders. Lily was beautiful and really nice, she was so much like a normal girl and her and James weren't even dating yet! Speaking of James, he looks just Harry minus the scar and glasses, but his personality is way different. Harry's pretty high stung (hey I would be to if I was fighting against the dark lord!) and James is so happy, semi-normal and very laidback. Sirus is handsome and a major flirt (but Ginny expected that) Peter is a lot taller than she imagined and Remus, Remus is completely different than she thought! As an adult he's so sad, worn down and quiet but as a teenager he's lively, smart, goofy and really cute, he's got sparkly eyes that are a honey brown with flecks of gold and feathery, messy brown hair (Ginny defiantly noticed that).

With that, Ginny fell into a long happy sleep.


wow another chapter!

I hoped you guys liked it because I really tried!