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Chapter 1

Bye bye Hogwarts

Ginny Weasley awoke to the muffled sounds of voices coming from the other side of the large girls dormitory. She yawned and stretched out slowly, and letting out a big sigh she relaxed down into the big old squishy mattress that had been hers for nearly seven years now. Rubbing her stomach, she willed away the feeling of anxiety that she had had for the best part of a week; ever since the NEWT exams had finished. Ginny was not sure what she was more nervous about, getting the results or finally leaving Hogwarts.

"Gin, get up you lazy moo," squealed Posie as she came crashing through the thick drapes that surrounded Ginny's bed.

"I'm up, I'm up," Ginny giggled as the other girl started to bounce on the bed. "Posie, start acting like an adult, we are eighteen now!" said Ginny, trying desperately to keep a straight face. In response Posie promptly stuck her tongue out, revealing the piercing she had had done that Easter holidays. Not able to help it anymore Ginny burst into fits of laughter and started bouncing along with her friend.

"Can you believe that this is IT, we are never going to wake up in this room again! Never going to wake up in Hogwarts EVER again?" Posie said breathlessly.

At this the two girls sobered up and sat down on the bed. "Wow, I hadn't though about it like that before Posie. I will miss you girls soooooo much," Ginny choked looking around at her dorm mates, "But I suppose we will see each around university though."

"Yeah, assuming we all get the grades we need," snorted Marie-Ann, "and I for one am not expecting any miracles. If I get the two O's and two E's to do the Medi-Wizard degree I will eat my knickers while I am still wearing them. Hell, I will even eat my knickers with SNAPE wearing them!"

Ginny grimaced at the mental image of her Potions teacher wearing nothing but a pink lacy thong trying to stop Marie-Ann biting at the strap. Looking at Posie she could see that she too was trying clear her mind of the thought too.

Marie-Ann seemed unaware of the mini torture she had just dished out to her friends and continued chatting away, "Gin, I don't think you have anything to worry about. You only need four Acceptable's don't you, and you took five subjects so I wouldn't stress if I were you. You neither Pose, Muggle relations only needs a E in muggle studies and I think even you can achieve that…you cant be THAT thick…." Marie-Ann continued to ramble away, and it was obvious to the others that she was having a particularly bad case of verbal diarrhoea. Ginny gave Posie an exasperated look and dragged her off to the bathroom, leaving Marie-Ann chatting to herself. This didn't stop Marie-Ann though, she simply turned to the other two girls in the dorm and started talking at them.

Locking the door behind them, Ginny and Posie started their daily beauty routine. "I am going to miss Hogwarts but I am NOT going to miss her voice at all!" Ginny said between brushes with a mouthful of toothpaste.

"I just cant wait to start Maloestra University. I heard that the freshers fortnight is AMAZING, that they have a toga and Tequila night, a foam and fetish night and loads of other events…I am just going to get soooooo drunk and pull as many guys as I can," said Posie, grinning like a mad woman while pulling a brush carefully through her long hair.

Posie had to be one of the vainest people Ginny had ever known, but she was also one of the nicest with it. With her long black hair, olive skin and slim figure Posie knew she was beautiful and she also knew how to use it to her advantage when it came to the male species. Despite this she was never bitchy to the other girls and would be one of the first people to come to your aid if you needed it. Ginny sometimes wished that Posie wasn't quite so stunning. Being with Posie mean that the boys never seemed to notice Ginny. Although she knew she was pretty, she didn't have a natural flare for all things to do with beauty and fashion like Posie did. Now that she was 1eighteen Ginny had filled out in all the right places and had become curvaceous but her lack of skill in making the most of what nature had sent her (and not for lack of trying) drove her mad. And she HATED her hair. It was long, falling to well below her shoulders, but it just didn't know whether to go straight of curly, it was just a lazy sort of wavy –fuzzy mass. It was becoming more and more like Hermione's used to be like, which scared Ginny greatly. She liked the colour of it, but wished sometimes that it wasn't quite so…well…RED. This summer, however, Ginny planned to do something to change her appearance for the better. She was finally being allowed to stay with Posie and her muggle family for the first 2 weeks of the summer and Ginny was practically wetting herself with excitement. She planned to spend most of her time studying the muggle fashion magazines and learning all she could do from Posie.

"Earth to Ginny Weasley," Posie said waving her hand in front of Ginny's eyes. Snapping out of her day dream Ginny grinned sheepishly at her friend. "Gin, are you not even looking forward to going to uni just a LITTLE bit?"

"Of course I am, it's just….." Ginny broke off.

"It's just WHAT Gin? You have been touchy about university for ages now," Posie said, taking a seat on the work surface in front of the mirror.

"It is just….well…. I mean…. I am doing a crap course. Hell, it's even is called the CRAPS course by all the students. I don't even want to do a degree in Cultural Relationships According to Potions & Spells. What use is that EVER going to be in my everyday life when I graduate?" Ginny grumbled.

Posie had a simple solution, "Do a different course then Gin."

"I cant. We…I mean I….er….well….CRAPS is the only course that I AFFORD to do," Ginny said, going bright red.

"Huh?" Posie said with a confused look on her face, "all the courses cost the same amount in tuition fees, other than Auror and Medi-Wizard training. HEY, they are free, the ministry pay for them, why don't you apply to do one of those?"

"I cant do Medi-Wizard because I didn't take arithmancy, which they require you to have, and I don't want to be an Auror, I am just not very comfortable with the thought of being on the front line of fighting crime. I didn't sleep properly for nearly a whole year after the department of mystery's incident at the end of 4th year, so I doubt I am cut out to be an Auror. Besides, it is not really the tuition fees that is the problem. I did my research and the CRAPS course doesn't need any special books to be bought, and you only have to go in 4 mornings a week, which means I can work in the afternoons and the evenings to earn money."

"You are going to WORK while you go to uni?" Posie screeched, as if Ginny had said that she was going to dress in a French maids outfit and do a striptease for Dumbledore. "You cant work Gin, it just wont be fun if you work The whole point of going to uni is to defer having to work for another 3 years!"

"No Posie, the point of going to uni for me is so that I can get a job at the Ministry at the end of it. They wont even read your application if you don't have a degree of some sort nowadays. If I have to work all the hours in the day in order to get a decent job in the ministry then so be it. I mean OF COURSE I wish I could do a course that I was actually interested in but I cant so there is no use in getting miserable about it."

"Ho-Hum," sighed Posie, "So I suppose that you REALLY want to do a Potions degree or something? I just don't understand how you can actually enjoy that subject….that bastard is a fucking sadist. I reckon he is into the whole S&M thing. Do you think he hires a dominatrix at the weekends?"

"POSIE! I really don't want to have any more strange thoughts about Snape today, or EVER again! Besides, if you ignore the fact that he is a mean little shit he is actually a really good teacher and the subject is fascinating," said Ginny. She then heard her stomach rumble loudly. Deciding that it was probably safe to assume that Marie-Ann had gone now down to breakfast by now, Ginny unlocked the bathroom door and she and Posie made their way down to the Great Hall. On entering the room Ginny scanned the Gryffindor table to find her other best friend Benjamin. On locating him she skipped off to sit in the seat that he had saved for her, Posie hot on her heals.

"DARLINGS,' Ben exclaimed, "What took you girlies so long? I thought that Posie had finally sacrificed herself to the gods of Clinique!" he started laughing to his own joke.

"Oh shut up Benjamina," Posie sneered at him, but had a slight smile on her face. She then suddenly screamed, "HOLY CRAP Benny, what the fuck have you done to your hair?"

As a natural blonde, Ben had been "helping" nature for about 2 years by using muggle hair dye to turn his dirty blond hair to a vivid platinum blond colour. Today however, interspersed between the blond spikes were pink and purple strands, which he seemed to have hexed to make them sparkle.

"Do you like it," he grinned moving a hand to loving tap the rock hard spikes proudly, "did it yesterday evening."

"You are going to get into trouble when McGonagall sees you Benny," giggled Ginny.

"What is the old crow going to do? Expel me? HA!"

"You know what Benny, you are as camp as a row of pink tents," Posie laughed affectionately.

Bens replied as quick as pig would wink, "Camp by nature, ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS by choice darlings," his expression then changed to mischievous, "So Gin, looking forward to the prize-giving this evening? Your WHOLE family are coming are they not? Extended family members as well I believe?"

"Yes, Bill is bringing his wife….it wouldn't be fair to leave Diana at home would it," Ginny said innocently, knowing full well that Ben wasn't referring to Di.

"And Harry, he is coming too isn't he? You must consider him a brother by now, he is always at family events isn't he?"

Ginny went bright red. Yes Harry would be coming to the prize-giving ceremony and the Leavers Feast that evening. But Ginny was desperately trying not to think about it. She hadn't seen him since Christmas, and was now VERY nervous about seeing him again. She wasn't at all sure if she still had a crush on him because she didn't miss him being at school this year, but the thought of him still made her insides turn to mush, despite the fact that she was no longer a pillock around him and had everyone convinced that she no longer fancied him. Everyone despite Ben and Posie that is.

"If you embarrass me Benjamin Slinkhard-Pinkstone I will tell Charlie that you have had a crush on him for over 4 years," growled Ginny under her breath.

"OOOOOOOO," squealed Ben, which sounded scarily like a pig on heat, "The threats, why you little minx you!"

" I don't see why we have to have a big old ceremony just to open our NEWT exam results," grumbled Posie, "I mean what if you don't get good results, how mortifying will that be!"

"You don't open the results on stage you prat," sighed Ben.

"And you only have to go up on stage to collect your certificates for the NEWTs you pass. So don't worry Pose, you might not have to go up at all," laughed Ginny, ducking a swipe from Posie.

"So are you still set on doing fashion design at the Royal London School of Fashion Benny-pops?" asked Ginny. Ben nodded in reply, as he had stuffed a whole boiled egg in his gob, "you know that you cant use spells there…it is a MUGGLE university, sweetie?"

"DOH, huow fwick dou hyou fhink I amh?" Ben scoffed, making bits of egg fly about everywhere. But he was saved a telling off, as Dumbledore had just stood up to make a speech.

"I would just like to take his opportunity to wish you all a lovely summer holidays. Please do enjoy your last breakfast at Hogwarts for this academic year, and for some, your last breakfast at Hogwarts ever. Please continue"

END OF CHAPTER 1

A/N - This is my first attempt at a Fan Fic. I need all the reviews i can get to hear your views and suggestions. If there is anything you dont understand then just pop it in a review and i will explain it in the authors notes in the next chapter, which i have written already and will put up when i get some reviews - MWAH ha ha ha!