A/N: I am so sorry I updated so late. I was really busy and the computer was always occupied. This may be a little too short and confusing but please understand. The other chapters will probably be longer and if they aren't then there will be a lot of chapters instead of longer ones. I'll also update a lot sooner then usual, hopefully, and sorry the story's going slow. Another reason I took long to update was because I had to think of ideas and organize it. I'm pretty sure there will be some Action/Adventure in the end and a lot of romance throughout the story. Including a little bit of this and that.
Disclaimer: I don't know why you have to put a disclaimer here when this whole site should have a disclaimer because it's for fanfictions. So isn't it obvious that this isn't entirely ours? ...? ...? LOL. ...?
Magic chapter 1 The Project
"Students, since it seems as though many of you have finished I would like to make an announcement."
"Ginny, where were you, we were looking all over for you?" Ron, Hermione, and Harry all looked at me questioningly.
"I was, um..." I didn't really feel like saying that I was outside just thinking because Ron would ask what I was thinking about and get suspicious. I don't know what he would get suspicious about but he would, I assure you.
"Ginny, what is it is something wrong?" Hermione asked sympathetically.
"Huh?" No. But, um..."
"Students!"
Everybody turned their heads to their headmaster instantly staring at him in surprise.
"I have an important announcement to make and I think many of you will be very pleased with the news." He was smiling, no he was beaming that many of the students were panicking with fear. "I cannot tell everything about the project but just enough to get you interested.
"Our school has been chosen to participate in a new program the Ministry of Magic is trying out. This is to learn more and communicate better with the muggle world and to have fun."
There will be four people in a group chosen randomly and unfortunately for you most of the people will be in different houses." Dumbledore didn't sound like it was unfortunate though he still sounded extremely peachy.
"The group will be chosen a certain place in the muggle world and you will stay there for the next couple of weeks. You will have jobs given to you that you will have to fulfill with some of the certain people in your group. Hopefully you will come back before Halloween because as a celebration after the program is over there will be a ball or party or whatever you would like to call it for all of the participates to attend. Those who will be eligible to join will be the sixth and seventh years and actually you will have to come as it is an assignment.
"Personally, I don't know why somebody wouldn't want to do this special privilege. I myself would like to go but then there would be no one to run this school, would there? Anyway, before you miss your whole day I would like to say that the information for all this will come to all the sixth and seventh years sometime over the weekend. I hope you enjoy this opportunity as much as I would enjoy it if I could join too. Have a wonderful afternoon and I hope that everybody will enjoy experiencing something as big as this."
The volume of the Hall grew and now everybody was talking about "the project" and who you might get grouped with, what you have to do, and where you'll have to stay. It was something nobody was expecting and it was actually good for something different to happen for a change.
(A/N: Muahahaha! I have figured out how to put the line thingy to divide up sections of the story. I know it's pathetic but I could never figure it out until now and that's why some of my writings weren't divided up so it was confusing. I'm so proud of my self. sniff I love to be sarcastic)
"Can you believe they made such a project? I'm not complaining but it was really unexpected. I wonder who's in my group." Ginny said dreamily. She was thinking of where she may have to stay though, she didn't care much about the groups. All she wanted was her friend to be able to be in her group and that was all. She wanted to stay somewhere where it was easy to have fun and there were a lot of lights. She remembered when her family and she when to the cities somewhere and at night there were lights everywhere. She always wanted to dance under them whom and she would just embarrass herself.
Ginny was in so deep of a thought she didn't even notice everybody staring at her. They were all in their common rooms with the cozy fire crackling. It was a relaxing Saturday because they had something to look forward to, the project.
"Anybody in there?" Ron was waving his hands frantically in front of her trying to get her attention. He sighed when that didn't work and dropped his hands back to his sides.
"Ron, who do you want to be in the group with?" Hermione asked hopefully. It was obvious that she fancied him but it was oblivious to Ron.
Ron was still trying to think of a way to get Ginny's attention, like it was some sort of a game. His face lit up when he thought of the perfect idea.
"Ginny, where's your necklace? It's gone!" He was putting a little too much sarcasm into this little act, but it seems as though Ginny fell for it. She fell from her seat and was looking around frantically.
"What?! Where is it?! It couldn't have disappeared it was in my room safely hidden in my..." Ginny realized she said too much and stopped instantly. She sprang up from her fallen position and ran up the stairs to her dormitory.
"What necklace?" Harry asked curiously.
"Oh, it's just something that Ginny would die for if it really disappeared," Ron said slyly, with a grin on his face.
Harry had a, you-still-didn't-tell-me expression and a, you-always-do-this expression to go with it.
"Don't worry I'll tell you later, someday. Actually just ask Ginny, I'm sure she'll tell you everything. She'll never tell me exactly what happened. Sometimes it seems as though you're her real brother and I'm just the boy-who-lived."
Harry just frowned and put on the, you-always-do-that expression again for the tenth time today. Surprisingly, that wasn't a record, the twenty-first time was the all-time record.
Ginny ran into her room and rushed to her drawer. She took out her wand and tapped the top of it twice with the tip of her wand. The bottom drawer automatically came out and inside was nothing but a plain surface of wood at the top. Anybody would think that this ordinary drawer was empty and had nothing special in it but they would be wrong. Ginny got her wand once again and wrote the words "Magic" in the middle of the blank surface. The surface slowly slid back inside and was replaced by an elegant little velvety box. It was covered in dark green with a silver embroidery on the top that read "Magic." She carefully opened the box and to her relief found a necklace set inside. It was a simple, silver necklace with a hollow circle dangling from the ends. The circle was large enough for a coin to fit and maybe it was supposed to be...
Ginny was so relieved to see that it was still there in her possession. She reminded herself that she had to pound Ron later for making her worry for nothing.
I came out again next to the lake away from everywhere and near the cold. This time I didn't come out because of everybody judging me but because I was becoming extremely annoyed with the nonsense about the project. I was curious of where I was going but I didn't go on and on about it.
I took off my shoes once again and dipped them into the freezing lake. I closed my eyes with empty thoughts until something dropped into my lap.
I glanced down and saw a letter with Draco Malfoy written across it. I looked up and saw an owl flying, already yards away from me. I picked it up and realized it wasn't cold at all. That's odd. If it was flying in from the Ministry it should be freezing cold by now.
I laughed to myself about how I could even think of that. I must really have nothing positive to think about or at least not negative.
I opened it and scanned the letter.
Dear Mr. Malfoy,
You have been chosen along with the rest of the sixth and seventh years of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry to participate in our latest project. Your location including your groups is Manhattan, New York of the United States of America. The groups have already been chosen and you will find out who is in your group when the project begins. We will provide you with a place to stay and enough money to maintain your stay which will only be a couple of weeks. While you are there you will have to complete certain jobs assigned to your group. The assignments will be to help the muggle world along with our world in learning more about the muggles and to understand them. We hope you enjoy the project and have a good time experiencing this privilege.
Sincerely,
The Ministry of Magic
(A/N: Just to tell you that there is a reason Draco is saying "I" and Ginny is not doing that and it's kind of not in her POV. I did that on purpose to make it sound better but it's not always going to be like that. Thank you my beta, uniquelydefined, for asking me about that. sarcasm alert.)
"What's this?" Ginny was walking down the corridors to the Great Hall for breakfast. She felt like she was going to collapse from the tiredness rushing though her body. She looked down and found a letter lying on the corridor floor right in front of her. She picked it up and on it was her name. Curiously she opened it and her face brightened up. It was as if her tiredness vanished and she saw the best thing in the world. Ginny ran back upstairs to her dormitory to tell her friend, Tiffany, about the great news. Now she could finally get to do what she wanted.
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