Mrs. Weasley refused to leave the girl's side after she was placed on the bed in the corner. Ron, Harry, Ginny, Fred and George were all crammed in the doorway wondering what the heck was going on. Bill turned to them and tried to shoo them out. "Give Mum some air, guys come on. Leave her alone..." he said, coming out of his room and closing the door behind him.

"Bill, what's going on? Who is..." Ron asked.

"I'll explain everything to you in a moment. Now be quiet...Fred, George, go get a bucket of water and bring it up."

"Bill..." said George "Is she?"

"...who we think?" Fred finished.

"I know it is..." Bill said not sounding like himself. "Go..."

Ginny was on her knees and trying to look through the lock in the door. Bill knelt down reached under her arms to pull her up. "Come on...let's go outside." He whispered. Ginny turned and nodded and started down stairs Bill, Ron and Harry behind her.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Mum shouldn't care whether I tell you are not, considering the situation..." Bill said sitting down in the grass.

"Bill! I can't stand anymore! Who is she?! Why is mom crying?!" Ron asked, trying not to yell.

"Ron maybe you should sit down..." Harry said.

"Sit down!? No, I can take it! Tell me, Bill!"

"Her name is Isabel..." he said, putting his arm around Ginny when she sat down beside him. "She's your big sister."

"What?..." Ron looked even more confused.

"That young woman...inside the burrow...whom mom is crying over...is Isabel Weasley and your sister!"

Ron then plopped down on the grass, staring at his brother like he was a nutcase! Another sister? How could that be? Ginny was his sister...his ONLY sister! How could he have another? Where was she all this time?

"Our sister?" Ginny asked in a surprisingly calm voice.

"Yes, Ginny..." said Bill.

"But how...you and others..." Ginny didn't quite know how to ask where Isabel lay in the sibling line up.

"She's the same age as Charlie...she's his twin." Bill explained.

"Charlie is a twin?" said Harry.

"He never said a word!" said Ron. "Why hasn't he?!"

"Why do you think, he never wants to come home, Ron? Isabel disappeared a year before they were to attend Hogwarts. That's why you and Ginny don't remember...You were 3 and 4 years old at the time."

Ron didn't look at his brother. He couldn't believe that all this has been kept from him. He never liked being kept in the dark and this was probably the worst thing that his family never told him. He stood up and stormed up the hill.

"Ron!" Bill tried to call him back. But he got no answer.

"I'll go with him..." said Harry.

"Better just let him have a few moments alone, Harry. This is a lot to take in. If he doesn't come back in an hour or so, then we'll find him."

Harry nodded and sat back down.

Ginny on the other hand was feeling curious about this girl they say is her sister. So she wasn't the only daughter. She wanted to go inside right now and see her but she knew she wouldn't be able to get anywhere near her.

"Tell me more, Bill. About how she was before she left..." she said.

Bill smiled and pulled his baby sister into his lap, hugging her. "She was like Charlie in many ways...she was interested in learning about dragons...actually she loved all animals. She was always a sweet and gentle thing. She and Charlie were of course inseparable. And when you were born...oh! She was crazy about you!" he said squeezing Ginny a little tighter.

Ginny smiled.

"She loved you and Ron very much."

"I wish I could remember her..." Ginny said sadly. Hard as she tried she couldn't conjure up a single memory of her sister.

"Well she's home now...you can get to know her again."

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Charlie woke up suddenly to the sound of the train whistle. He had been having a very strange dream. It was strange he couldn't remember a thing about it, and usually he remembered his dreams vividly. Something happened. He was glad now that he was coming home, something happened there but he couldn't tell...if it was good or bad, or both. Charlie lay back in his seat, trying to remember something, anything about his dream. He soon drifting off to sleep again...

"Charlie...Charlie..."

Charlie opened his eyes. He saw the burrow, he saw little Ginny. She was smiling and laughing in the arms of their sister Isabel. "Charlie!" Bell called. "Charlie...Charlie..."

"...Charlie...Charlie! Wake up!"

He opened his eyes to find that the train had stopped. He looked over and saw that it was a woman he had met on the way who was awaken him.

"You're home, Charlie. Better get moving now, your family is waiting."

Charlie stood and took his suitcase and headed out of the compartment. When he stepped onto the platform he was smiled at the sight of his father and Bill waiting for him.

"Charlie! My boy," Mr. Weasley embraced his second eldest son. "Wonderful to have you home again!"

"Hey, Dad."

"Come on let's get to the burrow...everyone is waiting to see you...everyone..." Mr. Weasley trailed off. He thought about coming home early that morning...

"Morning, Molly..."he said coming into the kitchen "Now what's the news?"

"Oh Arthur!" Mrs. Weasley cried "You won't believe it!"

"Molly? Molly what is it?" Mr. Weasley asked, very concerned to see his wife in tears. Had something happened to the children? "Is it the boys? Or Ginevra? What's wrong?!"

"Come with me! You must see her!" And Mrs. Weasley took his hand and started dragging him upstairs. Something was wrong with their Ginny? Arthur was about to go into the Ginny's room when Molly shook her head "No, in here, she's here!" and she brought him to Bill's room. Why would Ginny be...? But what he saw was certainly not his little Ginny! What he saw he could not believe! He rubbed his eyes and looked again. There sitting the old bed was a young woman with long red hair. She looked up as they came in.

"Daddy?" she said quietly.

Now it was Mr. Weasley who had tears in his eyes. That voice...yes it had changed with age but it could only be...but he had thought she was dead!

"Daddy!" she stood up and but was too weak to stand, Arthur caught her in his arms before she could fall.

"Oh God...can it be true?" Arthur said, tears staining his cheeks.

"It is Dad..." he heard his eldest son, who was now standing in the doorway.

Mr. Weasley held the girl's chin to see her eyes...they were hers. "My little girl..." he cried "I had just about given up hope..." he held her tighter.

Mr. Weasley was trying with all his might not show any tears on the platform. They had decided not to tell Charlie yet. And just wait for him to see when they get him home. By now they had already loaded his things into the trunk of their car and were driving down the road.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ron had pretty much got over his shock about Isabel. But he still had so many questions. Isabel hadn't come down for breakfast, so his Mom brought some up to her. She said she needs to rest her feet. Ron and Harry thought about that and actually agreed, they remembered when they saw the girl that she had blisters on the soles of her feet. She was under nourished and weak. 'She must have walked very far...' Ron thought.

He turned around to see his Mom and Ginny washing the dishes. Ginny seemed in a very cheery mood. He stood up from the table and he and Harry decided to take a walk.

"I can understand why, she's happy..." said Harry. "She's always been the only girl and has felt out numbered. She probably felt she was missing something...turned out to be a sister.

Ron nodded. And although he wouldn't admit it yet...he kind of felt he had been missing something too.