Knowledge
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own the Potter-verse.
Summary: A one-shot Ginny-fic with a hint of H/G. Ginny Weasley reflects on her place within her family, and within the upcomingwar.
Ginny Weasley hears many things.
She knows many things she isn't supposed to know, and she also knows that the adults don't know that she knows. She likes it that way.
It's one of the few perks of being the only girl in a house full of boys. Her family often forgets that she's there; she doesn't announce her every entrance with an explosion, after all.
On the other hand, Molly Weasley's youngest child and only daughter is smothered by her overprotective, meddling family. It doesn't matter that it's her world in danger, too. It doesn't matter that her friends, her father, her mother, and all of her brothers are going to war. She's the youngest Weasley child, the only daughter, and they are determined to keep her safe.
Ginny won't have it.
Her mother says that only Fred and George have any part in this war. But Ginny knows better. She knows that Bill wears a bracelet that will heat up if he is ever needed at home, and that he will join the Order upon arrival. She knows that Charlie got a matching one this year, and that he has promised to bring half a dozen of his dragons with him. Percy…her family no longer speaks of Percy, but sometimes the look in Dumbledore's eyes when they do mention Percy makes Ginny wonder if her brother ever really left the fold. He is, after all, a Weasley, and although Draco Malfoy is too stupid to know anything else, even that prat knows that blood counts.
She knows that Fred and George are far more involved in the Order than her mother says they are; far more involved than Molly Weasley wants her sons to be. She also knows that her mother has finally, reluctantly accepted that Harry, Ron, and Hermione will all be fighting in this war; that the inseparable golden trio is far too entrenched in this second war against Voldemort to be protected.
What her mother cannot accept is that Ginny, too, has a place on the battlefield.
Even her friend Hermione wants her to stay away, asking why she would want to fight after "you know, well, everything that happened in your first year."
What no one understands is that Ginny doesn't just want to be on that battlefield; she needs to be there.
What Ginny doesn't know is that Harry needs her to be there, too.
A/N: Thoughts? I don't usually read, write, or ship H/G, so I can't really say where this one came from. It just...popped out. Reviews are always appreciated!
