A/N: I am so sorry I didn't update for such a long time. When I finally finished this chapter and was about to put it up fanfiction wouldn't let me because they were doing some freakin' upgrading or something. So I waited and waited until finally I could log in. The problem was when I was writing the Author's Notes my computer kept freezing on me because I have to phone lines so if somebody calls my computer freezes. Because of that i had to rewrite this at least 3 times. Anyway this is much longer than before so you should be happy. I'm happy because I just got the POA DVD and happened to stumble upon my favorite graphic novel. So I also bought book 4,5,6, and 7 for Alice 19th. I am just leaping with joy. When I'm happy ya'll are happy because that means I write but if I'm not happy then you're not happy because... LOL Remember reviews make me happy. : D
Disclaimer: I dont' know if I really have to do this but everybody else is so I will to. In conclusion I must say... NOT MINE!
Magic chapter 2 coincidences
"Tiffany!" Ginny ran into the room to see a surprised face. "I was hoping you were still here."
"Do you have to scare me like that?!" Tiffany said, though she didn't sound mad.
Tiffany was a friend of Ginny's ever since first year and they had been in the same dormitory every year. She had long black hair, dark brown eyes, and was as tall as her. What Ginny always liked about her was she was always positive and bright.
"I just got my letter from the Ministry of Magic about the project and guess where I'm going?" Ginny asked, ignoring her.
"Where?" she asked trying to sound like she cared, but failing.
"New York." Ginny said simply.
"Isn't that where you wanted to go? Didn't you say you wanted to see the…?"
"City lights," Ginny said nodding furiously. "I can finally see the beautiful lights again." She had a sparkle in her eyes as if she found the cure to world hunger.
"Talking about city lights… I finally got the C.D. I wanted."
"What C.D.?" Ginny asked truthfully.
Tiffany rolled her eyes and said, "The one I've been talking about every five minutes."
Ginny still had a confused look on her face.
"Isn't it obvious?"
Ginny's face brightened as she finally understood. "Oh. You mean that C.D."
"Obviously," she said sarcastically rolling her eyes thinking of how pathetic her friend was acting. Probably because she was so ecstatic about the project she completely forgot about a thing called memory. "I got it this morning from aunt," Tiffany said unable to hide her ecstasy too.
"The "muggle" aunt?" Ginny asked confused, once again.
Tiffany just gave her a look clarifying that it was.
"Here I'll show you." Tiffany got up from her bed and walked, partly skipping, to her drawer next to it. She opened the first drawer and took out a purplish C.D. There was a girl on the front and next to it were the words "JoJo" with a star underneath. The star reminded her of her necklace for a mild second until the C.D. caught her attention again.
"Isn't she pretty, and she's only 13 years old. Younger than us," Tiffany said a little too energetically. From where Ginny was it seemed as though she was jumping up and down.
"Um… What does this have to do with City Lights?" Ginny's stomach was growling now that she remembered that it was almost time for breakfast. Tiffany turned the C.D. over to where it showed all the song names. She pointed right at the song that said "City Lights" and smiled proudly.
"Isn't this C.D. great?" Tiffany said. "Ironic, isn't it?"
Ginny stared at it in disbelief. "Yeah, how ironic."
New York? Funny, that's real funny. Why not Egypt or Paris or something? Why New York out of all the places in the world? At least everywhere else has something worthwhile to do, but New York? The only thing I really know about New York is from my father who used to go there a lot. Probably for Death Eater meetings.
Draco was too busy thinking to himself that he didn't hear the screeching voice calling for him.
"Draco! Can't you hear me? Draco?"
Draco finally realized that somebody was calling for him.
"Draco, where are you going? Draco?"
He was about to go back into his thoughts when he realized it was just Pansy. She used to be alright but now she was constantly annoying or maybe he just didn't notice until now.
He was just about to go back into thought when somebody almost tripped him by hooking their arm with his. However, Draco didn't show any sign of acknowledgment or that he almost tripped. He kept an emotionless expression on his face as if nothing happened and just kept walking on.
"Draco did you miss me? Of course you did." Pansy didn't seem to notice that he didn't response to anything she did or said. "Are you going to breakfast?"
"It is morning on a Sunday so where do you think everybody else would be going?" he said, with an annoyed tone.
Pansy seemed to ignore this or she probably didn't even realize he was annoyed. "I'm going to breakfast too! What a coincidence, out of all the places in the school." Now she just sounded pathetic. Pansy dragged Draco to the Great Hall at an incredibly fast speed compared to everybody else. Everybody was staring at them but it was, of course, oblivious to Pansy. However, Draco didn't like the attention but he was too tired to pull away from her. Anyway, she was pretty strong for a girl when it came to something she really wanted so he didn't bother.
"Ginny, can we go down to breakfast now? I'm really hungry." Tiffany said in a whimpering voice.
"Huh? Oh, yeah go ahead." Ginny was still staring at the C.D. as if it would play if she stared hard enough at it.
"Ginny are you even listening to me?"
"Huh?"
"I'll let you borrow it for as long as you want just let me go." Tiffany whined.
Ginny jumped at what she said. "Really? Are you sure?"
Tiffany just nodded continuously.
"Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I'm just so shocked of the coincidence and curious."
"So can I go now?" Tiffany looked like she was going to cry of hunger.
"You could have always gone. Nobody was stopping you." Ginny said, honestly confused.
"What?!" Tiffany looked as she was about to go hysterical. She groaned and ran out of the room past several scared first years in the common room looking at the look on her face.
Ginny walked to her friend's drawer, oblivious of her hunger. She opened the same drawer Tiffany opened earlier and took out a regular C.D. player. Ginny opened the top and place the C.D. of JoJo inside. The C.D. was black with "JoJo" written across it like before, with the same star underneath it. She carefully closed the top and looked for the right button. Ginny knew how to use these "muggle devices" because her dad would experiment with them while she observed every move he took. However, watching her dad and may I add, somebody who doesn't know about muggles as much as the other wizard, didn't help her clearly understand everything.
Ginny finally found the right buttons and went to number six on the C.D.
Out on the street, I'm looking for a celebration
Come roll with me, together we can crash the party and
Get on the floor, DJ please play my song
And we can do this all night long
Once again, it is on
She wasn't sure if this was called a "good" song in the muggle world but in her opinion it was great. She couldn't help it and she started tapping her fingers to her beat.
I'm on a high
I feel like I'm on medication
I'm open wide, and we don't need no complications
Cause I feel alright
And all I see is red lights, and blue lights, and street lights
And it's real life, is that a sign
Before she knew it she was on her bed jumping around from bed to bed. Luckily none of her roommates were currently here. They were all at breakfast.
I'm under the city lights
It's on, its on tonight
My mood is right, its on its on tonight
Me and my girls (me and my girls)
Tonight it's our world (tonight it's our world)
I'm out tonight
Yea, I'm out tonight (Heyy)
Come on now
Ginny couldn't stop herself until she realized exactly how hungry she was and that breakfast would probably be over soon. Fortunately, it was Sunday so she didn't have to worry about classes but it didn't mean that breakfast was longer. She quickly jumped off whoever's bed she was on and turned off the C.D. player.
She walked out of the dormitory and into the common room to find it practically empty and thought she had to hurry.
Ginny was now walking down the corridors to the Great Hall once again in thought.
This was definitely her new favorite song even if she didn't get to finish hearing it even once. It fits perfectly with New York and what she likes most about it, city lights. Actually the title is "City Lights." Now what were the lyrics again? Something about parties at night, colors, and… was there something about her being psycho? Or was it high? Or was it-
"Ow!"
"Ginny?"
"Huh? Harry?"
"Ginny, why aren't you in for breakfast yet?"
"I should be asking you the same question, Mr. Potter." Ginny said with a grin.
"I thought I asked you first, Ms. Weasley."
Ginny laughed and Harry just smiled. She was always so cheery and positive like Tiffany. No matter where they were she was always fun to be around and she somehow found a way to make everything better.
Ginny hooked her arm around Harry's left one and pulled him towards the Great Hall just like somebody else before but gently. Harry was like another brother to Ginny and not just a good friend. Sometimes it was like her mind was making her think of him as a real brother and somehow she seemed closer to him then Ron.
"Ginny where were you?" Ron was sitting on the opposite seat from her in the table with food stuffed in his mouth.
"Where do you think I was, Ron? It is a Sunday morning and if I wasn't here then I was probably in my room." Ginny said as if it were obvious and it was. "Why do you have to be so curious? I don't ask you every time where you are."
"Well, I'm an older brother and that's what older brothers do."
Ginny scoffed and said annoyed, "How would you know? You're only an older brother to one sibling who may I add is the only girl. If you want to know what an older brother does than you should ask Bill or Charlie."
"At least I'm not the youngest."
Ginny just stuck out her tongue hoping to put an end to this so she could get on with her breakfast.
"How would you like it if I pulled that little tongue of yours out?" Ron was just acting silly now.
Ginny jumped and stuck her tongue right back in, in less than a second.
"Stop!" Tiffany and Hermione said at the same time tired of this happening everyday.
"Tiffany, don't you have something to tell Ginny?" Hermione said trying to change the subject.
Tiffany looked puzzled for a second until she remembered. "Oh, yeah. Ginny, I got the letter for the project and guess where I'm going?"
Tiffany didn't give Ginny time to answer and said, "New York."
Ginny's mouth fell open.
"I know, can you believe it?" Tiffany looked as though she were about to jump up and down.
Hermione was listening closely but then she remembered what she had to tell Harry. "Harry, your letter for the project came also. You wouldn't believe where you were placed."
"How do you know?" Harry slowly looked towards Ron and gave him the, you-always-do-this look and rolled his eyes.
"Um… I couldn't help it?"
Harry kept giving him the same look with a hint of annoyance.
"Oh, come on. I would've found out anyway."
Harry rolled his eyes once more. "Whatever. So where am I staying?"
Hermione put on a big grin and handed him a piece of paper. Harry took it and carefully scanned it. When he got to the bottom of the page he looked up with his mouth open just like how Ginny was moments before.
"This is great, but how did three people from the same house get picked to be in the same group? Didn't Dumbledore say that we were all going to be separated?"
Hermione rolled her eyes also and said, "Does it really matter, Harry? What matters is that you are all going to get to be in the same group."
Ginny was listening intently trying to understand what they were talking about. "So do you mean that Harry is going to come to New York with Tiffany and me?"
Hermione nodded.
"This is great! We'll all have so much fun! Today must be my lucky day, with all the coincidences happening. I wonder who's going to be in the other person in our group. I hope it's someone we know and their in our house. Wait a minute, didn't you two get the letters too?"
Ron and Hermione looked at each other. "Everybody got their letters," said Hermione.
"Well?"
"Well, what?" Ron asked.
Ginny rolled her eyes and said, "Where are you going to go?"
"Virgina." Hermione said, sheepishly.
"Huh?"
"It's in the same place you're going, the United States of America." Ron said like it was obvious.
"Huh?" Ginny said.
"It's the state the president is in." Ron said once more.
"Oh." Ginny said but she still sounded a little confused. "How do you know all of this, Ron?"
Ron pulled out a piece of parchment and handed it to her. Ginny took it curiously and read it. "So who's going to go to Virginia?"
"We are." Hermione and Ron said at the same time.
"Oh." Ginny looked as if she were going to scream from confusion. "Why didn't you just say so?"
Ron shrugged while Hermione was slightly blushing.
"You know what? I'm going to go for a walk. I need some fresh air, away from all this confusion and sudden news."
"Ginny, didn't I just tell you that an older brother has to watch over their siblings."
Ginny just walked on by and put a hand up to signify one of the most popular motions in the muggle world, "talk to the hand."
Out of nowhere Colin rolled his eyes. Everybody stared at him curiously.
"Why did you roll your eyes?" Ron asked.
"Everybody else was rolling their eyes so I thought I should to."
"Uh-huh." Ron said sarcastically.
Hermione and Tiffany giggled along with his response.
"What?" Colin asked utterly confused.
"I think I'm going to go for a walk too." Harry got up from the table and headed to the exit.
"Okay, whatever," said Ron oblivious to what Harry said and continued questioning Colin while Hermione and Tiff continued giggling.
Ginny was sitting outside in her same spot, on the cliff. Breakfast was almost over by now and she wanted a break from all the commotion. It didn't mean that she wasn't glad about everything that happened but it was too much at once for her to handle. She was used to quiet, slow days with nothing really happening and Voldemort didn't count. For now, nothing happened that had to do with Voldemort so this project was a big change for everybody.
I wonder where exactly we will be staying. Will it be a hotel, apartment, or something I wouldn't know about and if it's that the case then I wouldn't be surprised. I don't know much about the muggle world but fortunately my dad's job is all about muggles. So I should know more than many others and I also took Muggle Studies a couple of times. Anyway, Harry is in our group and Tiffany whose mom is a muggle. But what would we have to do while we're there?
Ginny was in so deep of thought she didn't even hear somebody coming her way.
"Ginny?"
Ginny turned around in surprise but relaxed when she realized it was only Harry.
"You scared me."
"Oh, did I?" Harry said teasingly.
"Yes, you did." Ginny said playing along.
"Well, would it help if I apologized?"
"I don't know, why don't you find out?"
"Okay. I am extremely sorry Miss for scaring the wits out of you. Is that good enough?"
"Perfect. And I accept." Ginny said grinning. "So why did you come out here?"
"Why? You don't want me to be here?" Harry said sarcastically.
"No! I was just wondering."
Harry smiled. "I wanted to ask you about the necklace."
"What necklace?" Ginny asked, honestly.
Harry sighed. "The necklace you were going crazy about when Ron told you it was gone."
"Oh, that necklace." Ginny said finally understanding. "You also reminded me that I have to pound Ron for that."
"Talking about Ron, wouldn't tell me what the necklace was. He just said that I didn't know as much as I did."
"Of course he doesn't know. If I told him then he would probably make me throw it away telling me that it was suspicious."
"Can you tell me though? You know I wouldn't make you throw it away."
"Um… I guess its okay." Ginny said uncertainly because she hadn't told anybody about it besides Tiffany. "Just promise me that you won't tell Ron."
"Don't worry I won't. You should know me well enough to know that I won't anyway."
Ginny smiled. She cleared her throat and started on her interesting story while Harry listened intently.
"I was really little when it happened, probably around seven. It was late at night and I was upset about Charlie leaving. I was crying in my bed and fell instantly to sleep.
"I had a dream but I can't remember exactly what everything looked like and what happened.
"I was somewhere where there were a lot of lights but I couldn't see clearly because I was blinded by the lights. I was dancing in the rain and I might've been crying along with it but I'm not sure because it was raining at the same time. Then suddenly and big dragon came towards me. I was scared and didn't know what to do. Then somebody came and rescued me. At first I thought he was about to attack me but instead he stood in front of me blocking the dragon. He said a word but I couldn't hear it clearly because of the pounding of the rain. But when he said it a big star shot at the dragon. The dragon disappeared and so did the person. But in place of the dragon were a simple box and a piece of parchment. I hesitantly walked over to it and picked up the box ignoring the parchment. I was young and the parchment didn't get my attention, however the box did. The box was velvety, covered in dark green and on top of it, it said "Magic." The moment I opened it I woke up and I was frustrated because I didn't get to see what was in it. I found out that I didn't have to because the same box was lying on my lap. I didn't even bother to think about how it got there and just opened it, curious of what was inside.
Inside of it was a necklace that was simple yet elegant like the box. The necklace had a hollow circle dangling from the bottom that could just about fit a coin. And that's all that happened."
Harry looked at Ginny and said, "Did you ever find out how the necklace got there?"
Ginny shook her head sadly.
"How about who the person was?"
"I still have no idea and I'm sure it wasn't Charlie because… Well, I just know. I could feel it."
"I know what you mean. I get that feeling all the time."
"So do you promise you won't tell anybody especially Ron?"
"No."
"What?"
Harry smiled. "I can't promise that I won't tell anybody because I already did."
Ginny stuck out her tongue.
"You know, you really shouldn't do that. Ron's right, somebody could pull it."
Ginny just stuck out her tongue again and laughed.
Harry stared at her with a blank expression until she stopped laughing.
"What? Do I laugh that weird?"
Harry ignored her. "Who do you like?"
A/N: Cliffie! This probably isn't a cliffie in your opinion but in mine it is and I'm the writer so it all depends on me! MUAHAHAHA! LOL Anyway I wanted to know if you all thougt this would be a good idea... I am going to write a D/G fanfic based on the song The Twelve Days of Christmas. I'l post each chapter up everyday (unless there are some technical difficulties with ) until Christmas. Yes, I know that there are many stories like this but I assure you this will go up everyday for twelve days until Christmas so you read the last chapter on Chrismas. So if you'd like to read this and think this is a good idea then tell me in your review so I can start writing it. Thanks!!!
Review Respones:
UniquelyDefined: Tiffany, just to tell you that even though you mentioned me a "couple" of times in your story it can't match up with what you're going to do in my story. You will probably become one of the main characters and get to act in the plot (oops! Oh well, I'll tell you, there is a plot. Anyways I bet nobody's really reading this)
Fireylove: : D thanks for reviewing : D
Ngoc1231: Even though "Muggle Year" is my MOST favorite fanfic of all, no I did not use the idea for this. I didn't even think of it while I was writing it. : D
Flavor of the Week: You're so funny! LOL However I have no idea what you're talking about but I agree on you about the reviewing part! : D
cheeryblossom01: I'm so glad that you like my story (I feel so special) and you're predictions are (looks side to side and whispers) absolutely correct. But for the coin you'll have to find out! : D I did review for your story and I read in your bio that you're from New York, in you're reviews could you tell me some helpful stuff about New York for the story? And I also love Inuyasha too! I'm not talking about the story itself but Inuyasha the part demon himself. I especially like his eyes. LOL ;)
Remember everyone review!! I'll be happy then and if you don't then I won't and you know what that means... LOL(sarcasm) Before I go I forgot to say that the song in this chapter, City Lights, is a real song from JoJo who sings Leave(Get Out). As you all should know I have the C.D. and I love it!!!! Well that's all I had to say. Bye!!!!