Disclaimer: This is all J.K Rowling's genius. The plot (whatever there is of it :-) ) is mine, so is Pixie, but thats it!
Holy cow! this chapter is long 10 freakin pages! no wonder it took forever to write. Sorry about that by the way.
Chapter 7
Birthday Surprises
The next morning, I awoke to sunlight streaming onto my face. I blinked in confusion. My bed doesn't face the window. Then I remembered. In Sirius' letter, he had mentioned new rooms and true to his word, Mum had announced our new rooms right after she had read her letter. Hermione and I now shared a bathroom but had our own separate rooms, on the third floor.Harry and Ron had the rooms across from us, also sharing a bathroom. Remus had a bedroom on the fourth floor, while Tonks had the bedroom next to it. The two rooms shared an adjoining bathroom, which I guessed was another of Sirius' not so subtle hints. To my surprise, mum only chuckled at Remus' and Tonk's predicament, no yelling or lecture. Mum and Dad's room is now across from Remus and Tonk's rooms, along with a guest bedroom. Meanwhile, on the second floor (there are no bedrooms on the first floor) Fred and George shared a room that was seperated by a bathroom(not adjoining) from the room that Snape would use when he was here. I smiled at this. Snape wouldn't be around too much due to this arangement, unless he wanted to be the unsuspecting queine(sp?) pig for some of Fred and George's experiments for their Joke shop. Bill and Charlie had the rooms across the hall from Fred and George, but Bill and Charlie didn't come home often due to their lines of work and Order 'buisness'. The rest of the day had been spent in a flurry of moving stuff from one room to the next. My new room was great, the only thing missing is some color. The walls are a plain white, while the furniture is mahogany. The canopy and bed sheets are the only things that aren't plain in the room so far as they had been my sheets and canopy from the room I had shared with Helen.
I sighed and rolled over to look at the clock. Great, it's 9:45. I guess I had better get up, I thought slowly getting out of bed and stumbling into the bathroom to shower and get dressed. Today happened to be my birthday, as well as the day we were going to get our supplies from Diagon Mall. Knowing that I'd have to wear robes to Diagon Mall, I pulled on a pair of jeans and a simple black tank top. There was no need for earrings or anything special yet, well maybe there was, but I didn't worry about them just yet.
I started to walk down the three flights of stairs then stopped. Why was I walking? There are plenty more fun ways to go down stairs! I thought grinning mischeiviously. Looking down to make sure that the coast was clear I noticed that Snape was starting down the stairs. What better way to start out my birthday than annoying Snape?
"Geronimo!" I yelled starting to slide down the banister. Snape stopped and looked around. He didn't see me sliding down the banister. He shrugged and continued walking. I was half a flight behind him now. He must have heard something, because he looked back in time to jump out of the way, almost falling down the stairs in the process. I laughed as I kept sliding the rest of the way. Reaching the end of the banister, I jumped neatly off and landed on my feet. I grinned. That had been fun and had annoyed Snape by the look on his face. He scowled at me as he headed towards the kitchen. I rolled my eyes and followed him into the kitchen.
"Happy Birthday, dear." Said my mum smiling. "What would you like for breakfast?"
I thought about it for a bit. It was my birthday so as a tradition I got whatever I wanted to eat for breakfast, and dinner. I could have anything ranging from French Toast to the normal porridge for breakfast.
"Could I have some banana and chocolate chip pancakes?" I asked. Mum nodded and I grinned. She made some of the best banana and chocolate chip pancakes and we only got them on special occasions.
I sat down at the table to wait. Snape was sitting further down the table eating some toast and scowling the whole time. I tried to think of things that I could do today to annoy him, but didn't come up with anything that we hadn't already done off the top of my head.
"Here you go, dear." Said mum coming into the kitchen and setting a plate of three wonderful smelling banana and chocolate chip cookies in front of me..
"Thanks, mum." I said starting to dig in. They were delicious. I was just starting on my second one when a hand reached out and grabbed my plate away.
"Hey! I was enjoying those!" I said turning around expecting to see Fred, George or Ron, but instead seeing Remus.
"I can tell! Now what did you do to annoy our favorite Slytherin?" he asked in a teasing voice.
"What do you mean?" I asked in what I hoped was an innocent voice. I even tried the innocent face, but Remus laughed.
"You had to have done something to make Snape scowl that much." Said Remus. (Snape had left the room while I was still enjoying my first pancake.)
"What lil' ol' me did something to annoy someone? Never!" I said trying to hide a smile as I reached for the plate.
"Right…" said Remus skeptically holding my plate just out of my reach.
"Fine. So I slid down the banister, nearly hitting Snape on the way, but he jumped out of the way and almost fell down the stairs. Now can I have my pancakes back?"
Remus didn't answer as he was laughing, but he put the plate back down on the table and I started eating again. I heard the door open and close, but didn't turn around. I assumed Remus had left, so I was a bit surprised when Tonks sat down across from me.
"Happy Birthday, Ginny." Said Tonks, pouring herself a cup of coffee.
"Thanks, Tonks. You just missed Remus." I said grinning. Tonks frowned a bit at me. I just smiled and went back to enjoying my pancakes.
After I was finished I put my plate in the sink and walked off to find Ron,Harry or Hermione. We were supposed to leave for DiagonAlley right after lunch. I walked around the house for almost twenty minutes with no luck, so I decided to find something in my room to amuse myself with.
"You haven't gotten her a gift yet, mate?" Ron asked incredulous.
"No, I haven't. I didn't know what to get her so I am going to get her something in DiagonAlley later." Said Harry. He, Ron and Hermione were in the Harry's room wrapping Ginny's gifts. It was almost 11, and they hadn't seen or heard Ginny yet so they had figured it was safe enough to wrap her presents.
"Alright, mate." Said Ron sighing as he wrapped the last present.
"What are-" Hermione had started to say something but was cut off by a loud 'Geronimo' that resounded throughout the house. The three looked at each other startled and made their way hurriedly out of the room towards the stairwell where the sound had seemed to come from.
Upon their arrival, the three didn't see anything unusual, just Snape walking down the last twenty or so steps.
"You don't think Snape yelled that do you?" said Ron looking towardsHarry and Hermione. Harry and Hermione looked back at him with startled expressions.
"N. nooo. I don't think he did." Stuttered Hermione.
"No, he most definitely did not." Said another voice from the stairs. Harry, Ron, and Hermione whirled around to see Remus looking at them with an amused expression on his face.
"Who did then, Mr. I-know-everything?" askedHarry with a mischievous grin on his face.
"Ginny did." Said Remus with a smug grin on his face. The three Gryffindors just stared at him with their mouths hanging open in shock. Ginny? Quiet little Ginny, scream Geronimo for no apparent reason? No, that couldn't be right. Remus laughed at their expressions and told them what he had seen.
When Remus was finished, Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at him for a few seconds in shock again then burst out in laughter.
"Right, Remus and the next thing you'll tell us is that pigs can fly." Said Ron between bouts of laughter.
"Fine, then. If you don't believe me grab some of the twins wonderful Extendable Ear's and follow me." Said Remus with a smug smirk on his face.
"Whatever, Remus." Said Ron, whileHarry and Hermione seemed to be having second thoughts about whether or not Ginny had actually done what Remus said she did. Ron went into his room and fetched three Extendable Ear's and proceeded to follow Remus,Harry and Hermione down the stairs to the kitchen.
Remus walked in, while the three remained outside listening to the conversation going on inside the kitchen. Tonks walked up and was going to ask them what they were doing, but Remus came out of the kitchen so she just went in through the door that he had held open for her.
"Don't even say it, Moony." SaidHarry grinning and shaking his head.
"Say what?" asked Remus trying and failing to look innocent.
Harryjust shook his head again and walked back upstairs. Ron and Hermione also shook their heads in disbelief, but the couple walked off in the direction of the library, leaving Remus on his own once again.
"Ginny, its time for lunch." Said Hermione poking her head in through the doorway.
"Okay. One sec." I got up and put a bookmark in my place in the book I was reading. It was a muggle book called Too Young to Die that Hermione had let me borrow from her. It was a good book, but a little sad.
"Where have you been all day?" I asked reaching the door way where Hermione was waiting not so patiently.
"Errr... In the library." Said Hermione trying not to look flustered and failing.
I knew that Hermione wasn't telling the truth by the flustered look on her face, but I decided to leave it alone.
Lunch passed quickly and before I knew it we were on our way to Diagon Alley.
"First stop, Flourish and Blott's!" I exclaimed as soon as we were all there.
"What's up with her?" Ron whispered to Hermione. I was leading with Harry, Ron and Hermione close on my heels. Of course, Harry's 'guard' was following us under an invisibility cloak.
"I heard that!" I said. Not turning around.
Hermione laughed.
"I think she thinks she's gonna get presents 'cause it's her birthday." Said Hermione.
"Her? Get presents? Never!" saidHarry in a mock surprised voice. I giggled.
"Here's Flourish and Blott's." said Hermione leading the way in.
It didn't take us long to find our school books.Harry also got an animagi book, extra hexes and jinxes book, and a few other books on different topics.Harry thought that no one noticed him getting the extra books, but I saw Ron and Hermione exchange a glance and knew that I was not the only one to have noticed Harry's extra books.
Before I left the store, I noticed a particularly large book on one of the display shelves. The title read, 'The Mysteries of the Animal Kingdom: Magical and Not.' I walked over and flipped quickly through it. I gasped. It had every type of creature alive in it, from Griffins to mice and some thought extinct. I looked at the price tag, 10 galleons. I sighed. I'd have to wait to get it.
Next we stopped by the apothecaries to get some more potion supplies. Boy, was I glad to get out of there. Frog eyes are not my favorite things to see. I can't imagine drinking a potion with that in it. Eurggh!
Any ways, after stopping by Madam Malkin's for our school robes, we decided that ice cream sounded great.
We walked up to the window to get our ice cream. (A/N: I am not sure how it exactly works but this is how I imagine the ice cream parlor, so deal with it if you don't like it. If its wrong tell me though I don't guarantee I'll change it.) Hermione went first, ordering a normal banana split. Ron ordered a two scoop cone with one scoop of peanut butter crunch and one scoop of chocolateand Harry got a two scoop cone also, but his had two scoops of rocky road. I had a very hard time deciding between a hot fudge sundae and a cone with two scoops of chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough, but I finally decided on the chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough cone.
The four of us quickly found an outside table and sat down to eat our ice cream. As always, it was delicious. Normally, I got a vanilla cone or maybe strawberry, but today I had wanted to try something different and I had been told that chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream was really good by a very reliable source.
"Knut for your thoughts." Said a soft voice close to my ear. I jumped startled and turned to see that it had beenHarry that had startled me. He chuckled a bit when I jumped, but didn't say anything.
"So that's all my thoughts are worth? See if I tell you anything!" I said acting put off. I glanced around for Ron and didn't see him or Hermione for that matter.
"Ron and Hermione went to QualityQuidditch Supplies already. We are supposed to meet them there when we're done with our ice cream."
I nodded asHarry went back to his ice cream.
"What took you two so long?" asked Hermione asHarry and I came up beside her and Ron outside of QualityQuidditch Supplies.
"Ginny is a very slow eater." Said Harry. I felt myself blush slightly. It was true, if I didn't have to eat fast, I take my sweet time.
"Fine. Where to next?" said Ron.
"How about we check out QualityQuidditch Supplies for a bit, then go to the Magical Menagerie?" I suggested. The other three looked at each other and shrugged.
"Sounds good to me." SaidHarry opening the door of Quality Quidditch Supplies.
Once inside I looked around and sighed.Quidditch was my favorite sport. There were threeChaser positions open this year on the Gryffindor team. I was planning on trying out, but without a good broom, my chances were screwed.
In the front display was a Nimbus 2001, one of the fastest on the market. Of course I wouldn't get one like that maybe a Nimbus 2000 if I was lucky. I sighed and turned away to look at the robes.
"Can we go now?" asked Hermione from near the front of the store.
"Sure, let's go." I said. Ron andHarry followed with a bit of whining on Ron's part.
The next stop was the Magical Menagerie. I love that store.
A little bell rang as I gently pushed the door open. Cages of all sizes lined the walls. Some held beautiful owls, while others had magnificent hawks. On the other wall were cages that held other animals, like dogs and cats. In the center were rats, rabbits and toads. In the far back was where the snakes and lizard's are. I walked over to the side with the cats and dogs. On one of the cages was a sign that read, 'month old kittens 5 g.' I peered in and gasped. There were five kittens. Each was really cute. One was pure black with yellow eyes, two were tabbies, but one of the tabbies had green eyes and the other had brown eyes. One was orange and white striped with green eyes and the last kitten was pure white with clear blue eyes. The last kitten caught my eye. I checked the tag. It was a she and she was not claimed or anything.
I sighed. I really wanted that cat.
"Would you like to hold her?" asked the storekeeper from behind me. I jumped and whirled around.
"Er… Sure." I said. The storekeeper nodded and pulled out a key. With three swift motions the kitten was in my arms and the door was once again shut.
"Call me when you want to put her back or are ready to purchase her." With this and a smile the storekeeper moved off to the back of the store. I heard some whispering, but I couldn't tell what was being said. The kitten in my arms licked my face. Her rough tongue wasn't at all wet like a dog's. I giggled. She's so cute, I thought.
Looking around I spied Ron and Hermione looking at owl food.Harry was in the back talking to the storekeeper. I really wanted to showHarry the kitten, but I didn't want to interrupt so I walked over to Ron and Hermione.
"Hey 'mione, check this kitten out." I said as I approached them.
"Aw… it's so cute." She practically squealed as she spied the kitten that I had cradled in my arms.
"I know. She's so adorable." I said. "what do you think, Ron?"
"Er… She's okay, I guess." Said Ron reaching out to pet her.
"Who's okay?" askedHarry coming up behind me and thus not seeing the kitten till I turned around.
"She is." I said indicating the kitten in my arms.Harry smiled suddenly.
"Did you get the owl pellets, Ron?"Harry asked.
"Yeah, I did." He said showing us the bag he was holding which I just noticed.
"You lot can go on ahead. I told the shopkeeper that I'd help him with one of the snakes." Said Harry.
I sighed and walked back over to the kitten's cage. When I shut the cage door behind the kitten, I could have sworn I heard a voice saying, 'Too bad. She seems really nice.' I whirled back around but didn't see anything. Shrugging I turned back around and joined Hermione and Ron with soft indistinguishable whispers following me.
Ron and Hermione were in a heated discussion about whether cats or owls were better pets when I joined them, so I was left to my thoughts. I really wished I could have gotten the book and the kitten. Heck! I would have been happy if I could have just gotten one of them. Dad was earning more, but we still weren't even remotely close to being rich. I sighed. It was hard sometimes to be poor, other times you didn't notice that fact.
"Hey! Wait up!"
Ron, Hermione, and I stopped and turned.Harry came running up a bit out of breath, but he smiled and said, 'Thanks.'
"Do we have time to stop by Fred and George's shop?" I asked. Hermione looked at her watch before replying.
"No, we don't." She said. "Maybe we can come back in a day or two."
"Okay." I said. We had been told to be ready to leave by 5:30. Apparently it was close, because Hermione wouldn't let us even hesitate as we walked towards the Leaky Cauldron. From the Leaky Cauldron, we flooed back to Grimwauld Place. Hermione went first followed by Harry, then I went followed by Ron. Harry's guard hadapparated back.
I stumbled out of the and tripped overHarrywho had apparently had problems and had somehow ended up sprawled out on the floor in front of the fireplace. I landed on top of him with an 'Oomph.'
Hermione laughed at our predicament. Remus came into the room to see what the commotion was about just as Ron came shooting out of the fireplace and landed on top of me. Seeing the pile of tangled limbs that was Ron,Harry and I, Remus burst out laughing as Hermione startedlaughing harder.
"It's not funny!" exclaimed Ron.
"Geroff!" saidHarry from the bottom of the stack.
"I would but Ron is on top of me." I said attempting to get up.
"I can't get up Ginny's on my foot." Said Ron.
"On your foot my foot." I grumbled trying to stand and falling again.
"Oof!"
"Sorry, Harry. Ron's bloody heavy."
"I am not!"
"If you weren't heavy, I'd be able to stand."
"Ron! Just get up or I'll be the-boy-who-was-squished-to-death!" Hermione and Remus were now rolling on the floor with laughter.
"Ron! Get your fat ass up!" At first, I had just been annoyed, now Ron was making me angry.
"I can't someone's pinned my arm down."
That did it. I got really angry, but then I felt all of my anger leave with a whoosh.
"Uh oh." I said as I felt a weight suddenly disappear from where it had been on top of me. As I said that Ron gave a yell and there was a thud. I got up quickly. The first thing I noticed was that the armchair was no longer upright, instead it was knocked over onto its back. I groaned this can't have been good. The second thing I noticed was that Remus and Hermione were no longer laughing, they were now staring at me. The last thing I noticed was that Ron was sprawled out behind the overturned armchair half on the floor half on the back of the armchair.
"Oops." I said sheepishly as I helped Ron up.
"Remind me not to annoy you on purpose again." He groaned as he rubbed his head. "That kind of hurt."
At that Remus, Hermione andHarry burst out laughing. Ron and I looked at each other. He shook his head and I circled my index finger around my ear. Ron nodded.
"Help with the chair. Would you?" I asked of Ron since the other three people in the room were unable to get off the floor with laughter. I couldn't really see what was so funny.
Any way, Ron and I somehow managed to put the chair back upright about two seconds before mum came into the room.
"What's all this racket about?" she asked looking at the three people trying to stop laughing.
I rolled my eyes and Ron filled her in. She shook her head when Ron was done and smiled.
"Dinner will be ready in 45 minutes." She said walking out of the room.
"Have you ever done that before, Ginny?" asked Harry.
"Done what?"
"Sent someone flying across the room."
"Only when I was extremely annoyed with someone." I said.
"Right, well, I'm going to go put up this stuff." Said Ron indicating to his bags. "Are you coming too, Harry?"
"Sure, let me get my stuff."
"I think I'll go read until dinner. That book you lent me, Hermione is really good. It's a bit sad though." I said. Hermione nodded and I turned towards the stairs.
Forty minutes later, I put the book down and sighed. I had almost cried when the main character had gotten leukimia, but rejoiced when she got better. All in all it had been a great book and I was gratefull to Hermione for lending it to me.
I swung my legs over the edge of the bed and got up. Dinner was in five minutes so I might as well go down stairs and see if I could help Mum at all. I grinned as I slid down the bannister. It was my birthday, so I wouldn't get in too much trouble for doing this, just as long as I didn't hurt anyone. Jumping off the banister, I walked into the kitchen. Mum shooed me out saying not to come in until she called. Something about surprises being ruined or something, but either way, I had five minutes and nothing to do. So I flopped on the couch to wait. Today had been rather ordinary besides the incident earlier with Ron and Harry, but that hadn't been that bad. Looking back on it, it was actually rather funny. We must've looked pretty funny, I mused smiling to myself.
"Supper's ready!" called Mum from the entrance to the kitchen.
The reaction this caused would scare people who don't have a lot of siblings as I do half out of their mind. It sounded like hundreds of elephants were pounding down the stairs. I frowned and walked into the kitchen. There were streamers and balloons decorating the room. A banner hung across the wall directly across from the door. It said, 'Happy Birthday Ginny!' in large hot pink letters. My jaw dropped as I walked in and took a seat. Mum had really out done herself this time the decorations were great and the food… Don't even get me started! She had made all of my favorite foods.
Ron came in and sat across from me, while Hermione took the seat next to me. Remus came in with a big grin on his face that made me a bit nervous. After all he was a Maurader. Remus sat down next to Ron and Tonks sat next to Remus. Fred and George came in and sat down across from each other, one next to Tonks and the other next to Hermione.Harry came in and sat next to me, as it was the only open seat other than Mum and Dad's normal seats.
The food was great. Mum had made a great dinner as always and everyone was raving about her cooking, but she wasn't done yet. When everyone had finished dinner, she went into the kitchen and came out with a huge chocolate cake with chocolate icing. On the top in white icing, it said, 'Happy Birthday, Ginny.' Around the outside of the rectangular cake, it had sixteen candles, fifteen because that's how old I was turning and one to grow on. (A/N: tell me if she should be fourteen going into her fifth year.) Everyone started singing happy birthday and I grinned thinking of my wish.
"Blow them out, Ginny!" someone said from my right.
I closed my eyes and blew. I opened them and the candles had been blown out. Just as I started to reach for them to take them off of the cake they lit up again. Fred and George started laughing. I grinned and tried blowing them out again. The same results happened. Then I got an idea. Water should help. I got up and went to the sink for a glass of water. Coming back to the table I set the glass next to the cake. Carefully extracting a still burning candle from the cake I dropped it into the class. With a hiss it went out and the laughter stopped.
"Aw! Man! Why'd you have to ruin our fun, Ginny?" asked Fred.
"Because I wouldn't be me if I didn't ruin your fun, now would I?" I said sweetly. Fred and George reluctantly agreed. Growing up they had tried to prank me several times, but the pranks had usually 'mysteriously' backfired.
The cake was awesome as Mum's cakes always are, but each one she bakes seems to get better and better.
Finally, everyone was finished and it was my favorite part of my birthday. Present time. Being the only girl could have its advantages, but then it has its disadvantages too.
As tradition in this house had it, my gifts were in the library. I gasped. They covered the top of a desk. I pulled up my favorite squishy armchair to curl up in while I unwrapped all of the wonderful looking gifts.
"Open this one last." Said Mum moving a parcel to the floor.
"Which one should I open first then?" I asked.
"How about this one?" said Tonks handing me a heavy rectangular package.
"No, this one." Said Ron trying to hand me another package.
"How about I open Tonks' first since it's in my arms already, then yours' Ron." Ron grudgingly agreed.
Tearing open the package, I gasped again. I seemed to be doing that a lot lately. Tonks had gotten me the book I had seen in Flourish and Blott's.
"How did you know I wanted this?" I asked.
"Do you think there was only one person tailing you lot all day?" she asked. Now that I thought about it, no I didn't think there had been only one person following us, maybe two or three.
"That's the last of them. I said standing up. I had gotten some joke things from Fred and George, including a small box that said do not open till you're alone on top. I suspected that it was full of invisibility pills or something like that. Ron had gotten me a practice quaffle. Hermione had given me several novels like the one she had loaned to me. Mum and Dad had gotten me a new set of dress and a Nimbus 2001. They said something about saving up for it for a bit. Charlie had given me a book full of pictures and information on some of the dragons he worked with. Bill had given me an I.O.U saying that he hadn't 'found anything special enough for his baby sister's birthday, yet' but to give him sometime to find something. Remus had given me a package secretly and gave me a card explaining that it would be better if I opened it in private.
"There's one more. Let me go get it." SaidHarry hopping up and running out of the room.
I shrugged and sat back down, flipping absentmindedly through 'The Mysteries of the Animal Kingdom: Magical and Not.'
Harry came back into the room with a suspiciously plain box with several holes in the lid. He set it down on the desk and sat down as I eyed it suspiciously.
'Is anyone going to open this box anytime soon? It's a bit stuffy in here.' Said a voice from inside the box.
I nearly jumped out of my seat in surprise. Bloody hell! The box or what's inside of it just said something.
"Well, if that isn't a give away, I don't know what is." Said Remus chuckling a bit. I looked at him and he stopped chuckling. "What?"
'Open the box, please. It's a bit cramped.' Said the voice. I jumped again.
'Fine, I'll open the box.' I said back. This time it was everyone else's turn to look at me funny. I ignored this and took the lid off of the box. Inside was the white kitten I had seen at the pet store, earlier.
'So it was you who was talking to me. How come I can talk to you?' I asked of the cat.
'Well, I'm guessing you're able to speak to cats.' It said a bit sarcastically.
'All right. What's your name?'
'My name is Pixie.'
"Meet Pixie, everyone." I said looking up. No one so much as moved. "Er… Anyone awake?"
That seemed to work. Suddenly everyone was talking at once.
"Shut up!" I yelled. Everyone quieted down. "Thank you. Now, I know that was kind of weird, but I just figured out that I can talk to cats."
"Kind of weird." Ron snorted. "Try majorly weird, but cool."
"So I guess it's like me being a Parselmouth, except with cats." Said Harry. I nodded.
Remus got out of his chair muttering something about telling Dumbledore. Tonks got up and followed him out.
"'Mione, could you help me take this stuff upstairs, please?"
"Sure." She said looking a bit dazed. "How long have you known you can speak to cats?"
"Since today." I said putting Pixie on the floor and gathering up some of my presents.
"So you could talk to Crookshanks for me?" said Hermione gathering up the rest of the presents.
"Probably." Then I turned to Pixie. 'Hey Pixie. I should probably warn you that'Mione herehas a cat also. Hisname isCrookshanks. He's part kneazle though.'
'Thanks for the warning.' Said Pixie purring around my ankle.
"That is going to take some getting used to." Said Hermione laughing a bit as we walked up the stairs with Pixie on our heels.
"You're telling me." I said. "I can talk to them and hear them!"
Helen giggled. I smiled and opened the door to my bedroom. Immediately, Pixie ran and jumped onto my pillow.
'Comfy. You don't mind if I sleep here do you?' I laughed.
'No, I don't mind too much, but you'll have to share it with me.' I said. Pixie just curled up on my pillow.
"What did she say?" Hermione asked setting down my presents at the end of my bed.
"She asked if I minded if she slept on my pillow." I said bending down to put down my armload of presents. "What do you hear when I talk to her?"
"I hear her meowing, then you meowing back." Said Hermione walking towards the door. "Goodnight, Ginny."
"'Night, 'Mione." I said walking over to shut the door.Hermione turned to go to her bedroom.
"What an interesting day!" I said to myself jumping onto my bed. Eagerly I reached for the two 'Private' packages. The one from Fred and George did indeed contain the invisibility pills. A note from Fred and George said that they weren't exactly sure how long they lasted, but they lasted for at least an hour. It also said to tell them exactly how long they worked when I found out. I smiled and hid the pills in the golden box that was now unlocked but I was still the only one who could see it.
Next I opened the gift from Remus. Inside was a blank roll of parchment about two feet long, a vial with some green liquid in it and a note. Curious I opened the note. It read:
Ginny,
The vial contains an animagus telling solution. Since the sixth years will be learning about this, this year, I decided to let you see if you could become an animagus. I know your mum won't like the idea, so keep it secret. Let me know what your form is.
To use the solution, pour a small amount into another small vial. Then add one hair to the small amount of liquid. Once the hair dissolves, put two drops of liquid onto the piece of parchment. Leave the parchment to sit flat for anywhere from two hours to overnight. When you check it, it should have writing on it saying what type of animagus you are.
Have fun!
Moony
I decided to set it up that night to so it would have all night to work. Setting it up in my secret room on a desk, I smiled. This would be fun. Maybe with some help this year from my best friend, Gloria Anderson, we could start working to become animagi. That would be cool.
I smiled again and left my secret room to get ready for bed. I was exhausted and fell asleep as soon as my head touched the pillow next to Pixie.
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