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What has happened so far: In her fourth year at Hogwarts He-who-must-not-be-named had publicly returned. Ginny's family had been heavily active to fight the threat, Her Fifth year had been spent seriously training with DA and helping out in any which way she could, she had done a lot of growing up that year. A lot of people had lost family and friends a few of her class mates were on that list as well. Over the last years she had attended more funerals then a person should have to in a normal life time. At the end of the year it had come to an enormous battle in which most of her family had been involved, some of the older members of the DA and the full Order as well.
The dark lord was killed by Dumbledore, and most of the death eaters had been captured and imprisoned.
Ginny now prepares to return for her 6th year at Hogwarts, now again in a time of peace she looks forward to many things to come. But is totally not prepared for the things that are going to turn her life upside down.
Chapter one: House guests and visitors.
The Weasely family got of the muggle train in London. Packed with all the things she needed for her next school year Ginny followed her mother and father down towards the underground trains. All of them were headed towards Harry's house, which since Sirius had been cleared of all charges made against him all those years back. Was now at Grimwuald place in London. As soon as Wormtail had confessed to the courts that he had in fact been guilty of all the things Sirius had been blamed for all those years back, Harry had moved all his things out of Privet Drive and into Grimwuald Place.
Ron had told her that Harry hand never been happier in his life, now living in a wizarding household and being able to do things he had never done before.
Earlier this summer the Weasely family had got postcards from all over the country, of places Harry and Sirius had visited together.
They had been invited by Sirius to spend the last weekend before going back to school at the house.
As the train drove off again her father was happily playing with the muggle money he still had left in his hands. Mumbling things like; "Fascinating!" and "So funny!" Along the way.
A short walk from the underground they arrived at the front door of Grimwauld Place, outside stood the car of Hermione's parents and her friend stood looking at her father unloading her trunk.
Ginny ran towards her and hugged her.
"It's so good to see you? Did you have fun in Romania?" Hermione had gone to Romania on her holidays to visit Viktor.
"Yes it was a very interesting place." Hermione said with a bit of a flush on her face. Ginny made a mental note to herself that she had to ask her friend about what exactly had been so interesting.
The door to the house opened and Sirius welcomed them with a big smile. "Welcome come on in." He helped them with the luggage and took them inside.
"Hello Sirius." Ginny said not seeing him putting his finger over his mouth, but it was too late.
From behind the heavy curtains in the hallway came the load thundering voice of his mother.
"BLOOD TRAITORS! FILTH! Oh there he is the Family traitor! Bringing that sorry excuse of a wizard into MY house! Traitors to the bloodlines they where, that ones parents!"
"One of these days, I will figure out a way to get you off the wall. Just like the rest of them" Sirius said threw his clenched teeth as he was trying his best to close the curtains again. He eventually succeeded and softly said. "She has it in for Harry these days don't know why. I took some doing but I got the others of the wall and placed them in different rooms or just got rid of them. Lets get out of here before she starts again shall we?"
Ginny followed his lead and the rest of the group tiptoed through to the kitchen without saying anything.
After all the welcome wishes Molly looked round the kitchen. "I have to say Sirius you have done wonders to the place."
"Well I and Harry have been redecorating a lot; this place almost feels like a home instead of a headquarters." Sirius said with a smile. "Hermione, Ron and Ginny why don't you go and see Harry? He is in the upstairs parlour." He said looking at Mr. and Mrs. Weasely with a particular look.
"Yes go say hello to Harry we will join you in a bit." Her mother said steering them out of the door.
Geese, like I don't know when we are being sent away so the adults´can talk! Ginny thought to herself as she followed her brother out of the room, she hated it when people acted like that. She had been through a lot these past few years and still was treated like a child. She was 16!
The kitchen door was immediately closed after them and the three made there way up the stairs.
They found Harry sitting in a chair listening to the radio and flicking through a book.
"Harry." Ron said walking up to his friend.
Harry looked at the three of them and smiled, a few years ago Harry smiling at her would have made Ginny flush and very nervous. But she had got over her childish crush. Harry was now more like one of her brothers, like she actually needed another, and a good friend.
Pretty soon all of them were talking about the things that had happened to them over the summer.
Ginny took Hermione apart. "So, what happened with Viktor?" She asked at a low voice so the guys wouldn't overhear.
"Well we had fun and he showed me the sights." Hermione said.
"Do not hold out on me Hermione! Did anything happen between you two?" Ginny urged.
"Well......he kissed me." Hermione said timidly.
"He DID!" Ginny looked over to the guys to see if the noticed her outburst but they were discussing the Quidditch league and were not paying attention to the two girls.
"Yes he did, it was ok......but not like I always imagined it would be." Hermione said turning a bit serious.
Before Ginny could ask anything more the door to the room opened and a blond head with grey eyes peered into the room, saw all of them sitting there muttered; "Sorry." And closed the door again.
Ron's face looked like he had just seen a muggle riding a broom. "Ok, am I imagining things or did I just see..."
"Draco Malfoy." Harry finished his sentence for him. "Yes, you did see him."
"What is that git doing here!?" Ron half shouted. "You knew he was here and you didn't tell us!"
"Well I have got so used to him I forgot you did not know yet." Harry said blankly.
"What do you mean you got used to him being around?" Hermione had raised herself from the floor where she had been sitting and walked towards him.
Harry sighed and started to explain. "Well a week ago Dumbledore showed up at the door with Draco. He had a long talk with Sirius in the kitchen; I was not allowed to listen. It turns out that when Lucius was carted off to Azkaban, Narcissa decided to live her own life and she disappeared. As you know it is illegal for an underage wizard to live by themselves, else I would have been away from Privet Drive a long time ago. Draco was found by a ministry wizard who was following up on a few things for the trail. Dumbledore was informed and he took him with him, but found it better if Draco was to be with his family. As most of Lucious´s side of the family are either dead or in prison, they traced Narcissa´s side and found that Sirius was the closest living relative with the means to take him in. So he moved here."
"I can not believe that you have to share a house with Ferret boy!" Ron was still in a state of shock.
"Ron do not be crude, I think it was very nice of Sirius to take him in. It has to have been hard on him loosing his father and his mother walking out on him like that." Hermoine glanced at Ron.
"Wait are you feeling sorry for him?! He is a mean obnoxious, condescending, conniving and ferity little bast-"
"RON!" Hermoine said before he could finish his sentence.
"Well he is! I mean he has been a total Pratt to us all, or have you forgotten he calls you a Mud blood half the time?" Ron said in his own defence.
"Has he been acting ok? Because if he has not we could always pounce on him." Ron said looking at Harry with a hopeful face.
Ginny could understand her brother in one way, Draco Malfoy had been nothing but mean, bordering on hostile towards, her and her family. But on the other hand like Hermione said, loosing his parents would not have been easy.
"Well he has been here for a week now and he has not really bothered me, he just sits up in his room most of the time and when he does come down he hardly says two words." Harry said blankly. "And Sirius has told me not to provoke him." Harry ended looking at Ron.
"He's one to talk; every time he gets near Snape he has a go at him. Even after the Order was disbanded and Sirius was a free man again." Ron snorted.
As Ron and Harry discussed the matter of whether or not to beat Malfoy up Ginny turned to Hermoine.
"What do you think of this? Is it not a bit weird that Dumbledore would stick Malfoy in with his biggest enemy? And Sirius letting him, he knows all about his behaviour towards Harry."
"Well it is not up to me to say, granted Malfoy had been nasty and conniving to us all. But if Dumbledore and Sirius have agreed on it there is nothing any of us can do."
Ginny did not completely agree with her friend, Hermoine was always the straight thinker. She had a thing about not going against what where set as rules. Although over the years she had loosened her standards on rule breaking, because of the effect Ron and Harry had on her.
Not much later her mother came in the room telling them that dinner was ready, all of them followed her down to the kitchen.
When they walked into the room was filled with the smell of all kinds of foods, Ginny noted some distinct smells of her mothers cooking. Knowing her mother she would have offered to help and taken over completely. Her mother was like a cooking factory, and now that it was only Ron and herself in the house, the rest of the children had moved out. Mrs. Weasely didn't get to cook as much as she liked anymore.
Sirius walked towards the garden doors and opened them a bit. "Draco, dinner is on the table." He smiled at Ginny as he walked back and sat down.
Draco came walking into the kitchen, he saw the Weasely´s and Hermoine and pulled a bit of a face like he was about to say something.
From the corner of her eye Ginny saw that Sirius threw him a warning look, Draco straightened out his face said a mumbled hello and sat down.
All of them started putting food on their plate; Ginny threw a look across the table and could have sworn she saw a glimmer of sadness in Draco´s eyes.
Later that night Ginny was on her way to the bedroom she shared with Hermione, her diary in hand. She had doubted starting one again, after the; Tom Riddle in the diary debacle she was weary but she needed a place for her thoughts and feelings. Things she couldn't share with Hermoine or any of her other friends.
She had bought this an had her mother and Mad Eye check and double check it before she even wrote one word in it.
When she turned form the stairs onto the landing she bumped into someone and dropped her booklet.
"Watch it!" The cold harsh voice of Draco said as he bent down to pick something up. "I thought Weasels were supposed to have good eye sight."
"Yeah well I thought that Ferrets did not bounce but was proven wrong a few years ago wasn't I!" Ginny spat back at him, she had made a promise to herself that she would at least try to be nice to him. But if he was going to insult her she would not let him get away with it.
Draco felt amazement rising up in him; she had reacted fiercely to him? He was used to having her brother jumping in between but now she herself was looking at him with that same kind of glare her brother had. "Oh you're all guts and glory now are you? To what do we owe this personality change" He asked with a drawl in his voice.
"I always had personality unlike some others I know, just because you are rich and your father thought he was an important man. Doesn't mean to say you have a personality." Ginny was still fuming and actually looking for a good verbal challenge, but after she had uttered the last words Malfoy turned on his heels and walked back to his room.
Ginny stood there for a moment wondering why he had backed away, if there was anything Draco liked it was a good verbal fight. Off course he wouldn't personally get into a physical fight, he had Crabbe and Goyle for that.
She dismissed the thought and walked over to the room she was staying in, she grabbed a quill and some ink and settled herself on the bed ready to write.
She opened her diary and flicked through it to go to the empty page, after a few pages she saw that the words written in it were not in her handwriting. For a moment she panicked, just her luck! She had got hold of an enchanted diary again!
She stopped at a page and read the entry of that day.
"This is the second day I am alone, I tried to find mum but she has put a charm on her self. I still can not think of why she left me, was it something I did? The house is empty and cold, I don't think I have ever felt this alone in my life. I don't know what to do, should I tell dad that im alone? Not that he would care, all he can think about is the dark lord being defeated and the fact that he is in prison. Most of the people I know are in prison as well, I think I will just have to wait till mum comes back."
Ginny looked at the page, this was Draco´s diary! She should not be reading this, she wanted to close it but her curiosity got the better of her and she flipped a few more pages which brought her to a week later.
"Mum is not coming back! I got an owl which said she was leading the life she had always missed and that she was not coming back. I don't know what to do anymore; I have no money and no place to go. For the most of the day I stay in the upstairs parlour, people keep coming by the house to stare at the used to be grand manor of Lucius Malfoy. I whish I could make this place unplotable or something!"
Ginny stopped reading for a second as she thought she had heard a noise in the hallway. She was amazed at what she had read, the high and mighty Draco Malfoy; scared and alone. She flicked a few pages further.
"Dumbledore was called to the house today; a ministry representative found me and alerted his superiors. Dumbledore says he will find me a place to stay, as I am not allowed to stay at the house alone.
I am now at the house of Sirius Black! I can not believe im stuck here in this house with Potter. Granted Sirius is trying to be kind but I can tell both he and Potter would rather be rid of me. The only one who was really happy to see me was that screaming portrait in the hallway."
Ginny turned the page to read further when she heard the door open; quickly she closed the diary and looked up to see who it was. She looked up into the Draco´s eyes, which were filled with horror and amazement. "I believe you have something of mine." He said pointing at the diary in her hand.
Ginny hoped she had closed it in time, she looked up at him. "Oh is this yours? I thought it was mine." Draco walked further into the room. "No this is yours." He said holding out the diary in his hand. "I saw it by the cover, mine is older than this." He pointed at the
Scarlet red cover of the book. "You didn't read it did you?" Ginny asked almost horrified at the thought. What if he had? He would know her deepest and most secret thoughts!
"What do you take me for? Off course I didn't!" Draco said looking at her with a shimmer in his eye. "You didn't read that did you?" He pointed at his diary. "No, I was just about to open it when you walked in." Ginny lied hoping she wouldn't turn her usual shade of red when she lied.
She held up the book and Draco took it from her, handing her back her own. "Thanks." He mumbled holding on tightly to the book as he walked out the room closing the door behind him.
Ginny rested her head on her arms for a moment; she hoped he had believed her. She now opened her own diary to write in and saw a few of the pages were ruffled in a way they were not supposed to. He HAD read it! Now her hart sank, he had read her diary! Draco Malfoy was now aware of her thoughts, the things she didn't want or could share with any other person! At least a good part of them, she was sure he did not have the time to read all of it.
She dipped her quill in the ink and started to write, she needed to get her head clear of all the thoughts now buzzing through her head like a swarm of Bee's.
A few hours later she was still lying on her bed, having replaced her diary by a book Hermione had lent her. It was a muggle book written by a William Shakespeare called Romeo and Juliet. It was quite a good read and she was stuck in the book when Hermoine entered the room. "Stop calling him that Ron." She said angrily towards the hall way. "Stop calling Vikki what?" She heard her brother's voice tauntingly. Hermione made a protesting sound and then closed the door. "Sometimes your brother can be so immature." She said looking at Ginny. "You're talking to a convinced person here, try living with about 3 of him in one house. I almost threw a party when Fred and George moved out." Ginny said with a smile.
Hermione sat down on the bed and smiled at her. "I know what you mean, how do you like the book?"
"Its great, thanks for lending it to me." Ginny said putting a slip of parchment in between the pages and closing the book.
"So what did exactly happen between you and Victor?" Ginny asked as she watched Hermione turn slightly red.
"Like I said, we kissed. It just happened all of a sudden, I knew he liked me but never expected him to do that." Hermione said looking at hr folded hands.
"Well, you said it wasn't what you had always imagined, but did you like it?" Ginny edged on.
"It was ok, but I always thought then when you kissed a boy you liked very much it would be like in the movies. You know your foot popping back and the ground shaking. Im just imagining things I think." Hermione said lying down on her bed.
"Well maybe you just don't like him as much as you thought." Ginny said, for the past years she had the thought in her head that both her brother and Hermione were not being honest to themselves. She noticed the tension that sometimes hung between the two of them. They could also sometimes bicker like a married couple, and the fact that Hermione was the only one besides her mother that called him Ronald and got away with it.
Hermione did not answer and Ginny also lay back to go to sleep.
The next day Ginny was getting dressed, they would go to Diagon Ally to get their school things. She would also be fitted for new robes as she had got a lot taller over the past year and a half.
She reached for her brush and felt something sliding over the top of her hand; she looked to see what it was and saw a huge spider on her hand. She screamed and shook her hand, the spider was flung on the floor and the door to the bedroom opened. Draco looked at her. "What are you screaming about?" Ginny pointed to the floor. "A spider." She said with a shaky voice.
Draco made no attempt to hide his smirk. "You made all that noise for a little spider?"
"It's not little! Look at it!" Ginny said backing away as the spider started to walk.
Draco smirked again as he walked into the room, he bent down and picked the spider up in his hand. He opened his fingers up and allowed it to walk over his hand.
"Do you want to say goodbye?" He asked sticking his hand towards Ginny. She backed away a bit more as he smiled, he did that on purpose! Draco smiled at her reaction and turned round to the window.
She stayed on the other side of the room until Draco had opened the window and put the spider outside.
He turned to her as if he was about to say something mean, he had a certain look on his face when he was about to do that, but before he could Ginny beat him to it. "Thank you." She said with a small smile. She could see that she had thrown him off by doing that, but after what she had read last night she was even more determined to make an effort to be nice to him. He looked at her surprised, nodded and walked out of the room without saying a word.
After an hour or so Ginny stepped out of the fire place and into the Leaky Cauldron. Her mother took the brush out of her bag and whipped the sooth off her. Draco was the last to come out of the fire place and her mother gave him the same treatment as Ginny. The look on his face was quite reluctant but he also looked like he was afraid to protest.
They were greeted by the people they knew and Ginny greeted them all back. She noticed that everybody was nice and polite to their entire group, but when they came to Draco they pulled a face like they saw something filthy and pulled up their noses not saying anything.
When they left the Leaky Cauldron they made their way to Gringotts, for helping the ministry with the battle Mr. Weasely had got a promotion and a large increase in pay. Ginny had never minded having less then others, she was loved and they always got there in the end, but belonging in the just-above-average category also had its advantages.
They stopped at the shop of Fred and George first to say hello, their group split up into a few smaller ones because everybody needed different things. Then Ginny, her mother and Draco went to the robe's shop. In her brothers shop she had noticed the same cool behaviour towards Draco as in the Leaky Cauldron.
As Draco was alone now the ministry had taken the Malfoy account under calculation making sure the money was used so he could get what ever he needed and that a monthly sum was paid to Sirius for his living expenses.
Mrs. Weasely ordered a new set of school robes for Ginny and added some dress robes to the order as well.
As Ginny stood on the plateau and the tape measure was magically doing its work she had the feeling she was being watched.
She turned her head slightly to the left and stared straight into Draco´s eyes, he diverted them immediately but there was no mistaking the fact that he had been looking at her.
Her stomach took a turn and she felt herself flush, she turned quickly and faced her mother again.
"Almost done dear." The shop assistant said when she noticed Ginny fidgeting.
Ginny smiled and tried to stay as still as possible; when she was done she got of the plateau and sat down in a chair. They would now have to wait for Draco, and again Ginny noticed the cold manor he was treated with. To her the lady had chatted away and smiled, to Draco she did not utter a word that did not involve taking the measurements for his robes.
Although he tried hard not to show it Ginny could tell by his eyes that Draco was affected by it. She felt sorry for him somehow, in one way this was his due payment for being obnoxious, condescending and mean all those years. On the other he might have just been mirroring his behaviour of his father. From what she had read in his diary, she knew there had to be another side to him.
She was lost in those thoughts for a while and when she returned to "reality" her eyes were locked with his. Quickly she turned away, what would he have thought? She must have had the most stupid expression on her face while looking at him!
Why did she care?
After waiting a while the robes were done and Ginny walked out with the bag in her hand.
After all the shopping was done the whole group had lunch in the Leaky Cauldron and then they went back to the house.
Ginny went upstairs like her mother asked to get her trunk ready for the trip to school. Tomorrow they would just spend round the house, arranging all the last things and on Monday morning they would catch the train to school and she would be in her 6th year! She couldn't wait to see al her friends again, this year was going to be totally different from last year and the year before that. Now there was no more threat, all they had to do is pass their tests and have fun!
That night Ginny fell into a peaceful sleep dreaming about school and the things that lay ahead, but somehow Draco managed to find his way into all the things she dreamt about............
A/N: This is my firts attempt to write a HP FF i would love to hear what you think so pls leave a review!