A/N: (looks around) Nope, don't own HP. Still live in suburbia...did I say live? I meant trapped.
My love to the reviewers! I'd high five you, but not in the same room right now.
It was another week before Sky and Keefer came back. They had more donations. I was anxious by then, I hadn't left shelter in that entire week and took them up on their offer to go to lunch. They paid. It was awesome. They were really nice everywhere. The more time I spent with them, the more I liked them better than the shelter. It might have been because I grew up in a semi-normal home with two parents and they have other kids all close to the age of my brothers, but it was there I decided to move in with them. They even said that people from the shelter could visit. I became suspicous when they said that. I had spent the past few weeks with people who were trying their hardest not to hate me and failing miserably. Sky and Keefer didn't ask any questions about why I left my previous home. They were very calm about everything. True hippies. All three of us went to the shelter after lunch and got my few poccessions. I said goodbye to Tina and Connor, and a few of the others, including the people who ran the place. They told me I could come back whenever I needed to, I smiled and thanked them. Very polite, but I really doubted I'd be coming back. It was on my way out that Connor told me "I'll be seeing you." I figured he meant around, just all casual like. Nope.
"Well Ro, ready to be a muggle?" Sky asked as I boarded the train with her and Keefer.
"Wait, what?" I nearly did a double take. She said muggle, I knew she did. Keefer and Sky both laughed their airy, hippy laughs.
"We know you're a witch, Sweetpea! We can tell! You see, we're squibs." Keefer explained. They were very relaxed about this.
"Oh...well then...yes. I am." I was ready. Ginny no more! "Well, we better erase you from the magic files. But only if you're ready, don't want to rush you into anything." Sky was saying this but Keefer nodded as if he was saying it.
"Yeah, I'm totally ready. You guys really know a lot about this, don't you?" I was slightly surprised. The only squib I had met before this was Filch, and he didn't seem as happy and care free as they did.
"Yes, we're the only people in our families who aren't magical, so we heard all about it growing up. None of the kids at home are magic, except you, of course. We don't talk to our families anymore...we were always seen as...weak." Keefer kept so calm as he said this. I couldn't understand how someone could be so calm about being looked down upon by his family.
"Weak..." I smiled as I mused over the thought, "having magic does not mean you're not weak."
"Well, this is it." Sky had just taken me to a huge old house. It could put the Burrow to shame. "I think everyone's home, I'll show you around." she led me inside and the house wasn't as big as it had looked at first. It was crammed with things that were truly muggle, regular clocks, still photographs, something I'm pretty sure are called dream catchers but haven't seen enough to tell. Sky led me through the house, introducing me to people as she did. Ty, Bill's age, from Cambodia. Jack, Charlie's age, from Egypt. Rex, Percy's age, from Romania. Hugh, Fred and George's age, from Korea. Bell, also the twin's age, from the Philipines. Vic, Ron's age, from Japan. I stood out when I got there, and by stood out, I mean there was no mistaking I was different. My bright red hair was by far the brightest and boldest color, what everyone's eyes immediatly went to when I was being introduced. It was strange, the way each one fit an age, but it did make some sense. These were good ages to space children out. I couldn't get over how comforting it was, having siblings that fit the ages, though. The ages might have fit, but Bell didn't. She's a girl, and last I heard, the twins were not. But I realized then, I'd been gone awhile. If one of them was now a Winnafred or Georgia I wouldn't know.
"Ro, darling, I hate to be pushy, but maybe we should go get your life erased." Sky was so gentle and serious as she said that, I couldn't help but burst out laughing. Vic, who was sitting by me, smiled, but looked a little confused. "Erased?" he asked, eyebrows up.
"Oh, you wouldn't understand! We got you when you were a baby, nothing to erase! And now we have Ro, with a big secret life! Oh, it's just so exciting!" Sky gushed, her eyes glazed over as she spoke. "Ah, geez, you're a trashy romance novel for her now..." Vic muttered. I could have taken offense to that, but instead I laughed.
"C'mon Ro, we got to erase the past. Unless you've changed your mind." Sky's face fell as she said that last part, as if there was a chance I could. I quickly got up and we rode in her tiny car to the library.
The library was a disguise. In the back of the building was the magical area for the city. It was there I filled out all the forms, showed my wand, and was varified as Ginerva Molly Weasley so I could erase Ginerva Molly Weasley. "Oh, drat..." I mumbled as I looked at the part of the form that would be where I put my full name.
"What's the matter, love?" Sky looked up from what Vic had called her 'trashy romance novel' to see what was wrong.
"I have a first name, but no middle or last"
"Rowena....Rowena June? No....Rowena...Sky? No....Rowena Ann? I think that works! It's classic, and the woman from the book I'm reading is named Ann..." it didn't take her long to think of it, and I liked it. It's a classy name. Rowena Ann.
"Rowena Ann what?" I asked her, still slightly panicked.
"Wellington, of course! That's our last name. Keefer and I figured you'd take it." And I did. I was now Rowena Ann Wellington. I checked the box on one of the many forms I filled out that said that I was not to be associated with Ginerva Molly Weasley at all. Ever. So there.
