Finally Potter

Chapter twenty four

September first had already arrived before Ginny could quite believe it and she found herself running around the department. It was always the same at the start of every month all the reports were due in from the month before and assignments were being handed out for the up coming months.

Ginny took a seat in the veil room along with the rest of the unspeakables. She was humming quietly to herself as people seated themselves on the tiers ready for this meeting that had been called. A pair of hands landed on her shoulders causing her to jump and she looked up into Clive Woodworth's laughing face.

"That wasn't funny Clive!"

"Yeah it was titch."

He dropped into the seat next to her and looked towards the centre.

"I hate this room."

She nodded there was a cold breeze running through the room that sent shivers down her spine. She guessed he felt it to since he run his fingers through his short blonde hair.

"There's nothing wrong with this room. It's mystical and you just don't like it because you don't understand the mystical side of our job."

Ginny grinned sharing a look with Clive as Opal Bottlenose sat the other side of her with Heather Macmillian. Opal looked even stranger than normal her dark red hair that was usually the colour of blood had green tips and her white eyes were shinning as she just looked out at the veil.

Heather was leaning backwards behind Opal and Ginny copied looking at her friend. She closed one of her clear blue eyes in a wink and using her left hand made an insane sign and Ginny laughed sitting back up. Opal looked straight at her though.

"It's nothing to laugh at. The mystical world is very real and just because you don't see it either doesn't mean it doesn't exist."

Ginny just smiled. She liked Opal and she thought maybe it was because she reminded her so much of Luna. Opal like Luna believed in out there things and had the same sense of morals. Although Opal was two years older than Ginny she felt like she had known her forever. Of course that hadn't been the case since Opal had been in Hufflepuff along with Heather and Ginny had never met them in school.

Clive rolled his eyes at them and Opal threw a bottle top that she was wearing as part of a ring at him. He ducked and pulled Ginny closer to him.

"Ignore her; she's been like that since we were eleven."

Ginny laughed lightly at this. Sometimes she forgot that Clive too was two years older than her and had been in school with Opal since he had been eleven. Of course he had been a Ravenclaw and so hadn't spent all that time with her.

"Okay everybody can I have your attention."

Ginny along with everyone gathered turned to look at her boss Tony he was looking at his watch and back up at everyone gathered there.

"Alright so I'm going to start this meeting n-"

A bang sounded from above them and Ginny jumped to her feet pulling out her wand as she did so. Her reflexes were still as fast as they had always been and she was always on edge. Even though the threat of Voldemort had passed she couldn't let it go so much of her life had been surrounded by protecting those around her from the evil wizard.

Then there was the surroundings she was currently in. As much as she loved working in this department part of her was always expecting a Death Eater to run in and throw a curse at her which was why when that bang sounded she had jumped to her feet.

"Wait Gin don't throw your bat bogey curse at us again."

"Yeah we didn't mean to make so much noise."

"Or to be late."

She lowered her wand as she looked at the twins Ernst and Robbie Martin. They were the same age as Percy and had been in Gryffindor with her but they acted like two year olds at times. They reminded her of Fred and George in many ways. The pair were identical with brown spiked hair and brown eyes with the same blue streaks.

Tony though looked up at the pair.

"Why are you late?"

Ernst lifted up a box and looked around.

"We stopped off to buy doughnuts."

Tony looked ready to blow but Robbie just took the box and started passing it around to the people sitting up by the door. Ginny took her seat again as Tony started to tap his foot. She laughed and then felt an arm slip around her waist as Ernst pushed his way between her and Opal as Robbie took the doughnuts up to Tony who took one. As Robbie took a seat next to Clive he passed the box around them.

Ginny happily took a jam one as Tony once again started up the meeting.

"Okay so people listen up its September and you all know what that means."

"Only 116 more shopping days until Christmas."

Ernst moved slightly backwards and high-fived Robbie as around them people laughed. Ginny sometimes found it difficult to believe that the twins were the oldest of her work friends but they did bring light entertainment to any occasion.

"No Robbie, that's not what it means."

"Actually it does. The first of September is 116 days before Christmas so he was right Tony."

Opal was still staring down at Tony but her words caused Ernst to snicker and Ginny poked him in the ribs.

"Okay so it is 116 days till Christmas but what I meant was that it means that we have trainees starting with us, the graduates from last year."

Ginny couldn't believe that it was September already and with it marked her third year out of Hogwarts. She had forgotten what it was like in this department when starting up. She had almost forgotten how she had gotten to know her friends.

Every year the new people were set to work with those that had been there for a while. Her first month in the department she had been assigned to work with Clive and then the following it was with Heather, followed by Ernst, Opal and then Robbie. After which time she felt she had learnt a lot and was expected to work more on her own. Of course that hadn't stopped her from socialising with this group of people and she had found some very good friends from it.

"Okay so I'm gong to split you all up into groups and each group will have to help one of our new recruits."

"I'm with Ernst."

"Robbie which part of I'll pick the groups didn't you understand."

"I want to be with Clive."

"Ernst what did I just tell your brother."

"Oh I pick Ginny."

"Clive now don't you start."

Ginny grinned she knew how this one worked.

"But I want to work with Heather."

"Ginny no don't you start with this too."

"I'm with Opal."

"Heather!"

"That's fine with me."

The group shared a smile all making big eyes towards Tony and he sighed in defeat.

"Fine the first group will be the Martin twins, Woodworth, Weasley, Bottlenose and Macmillian."

The group all high-fived each other. Ginny had learnt in her time in the department that when groups were to be called the twins would always pick each other and then the others and it always meant they got to work together.

Ginny wouldn't mind if she was forced to work with the other Unspeakables but she enjoyed spending time with this group of people and they always had a laugh and they did manage to get the work done.

When the meeting was over they climbed to their feet about to leave when Tony called to them. They all headed back down and he just shook his head.

"What am I going to do with you five?"

"Oh come on Tony you know you love us."

Robbie had taken his hand and Ginny laughed hard exchanging a look with Heather. Tony pulled his hand back and looked at them all.

"You'll have Richard Adams assigned to work with you. He's waiting in my office. I want you to go get him and then head to Hogwarts. I'm assigning the five of you to go speak to the seventh years and convince them that they want to work in the Department of Mysteries. But for today you'll have to meet with the heads of houses to decide on when you're going to talk to the students."

"But we can't tell them anything?"

"Use you're imagination Ernst."

"Yeah I know how about we tell them that we have meetings that are filled with doughnuts and pizza. Then we have rooms which are good for hide and seek and we get paid to mess around."

They all looked at Heather and she grinned innocently at Tony before he shooed them off. They headed first to Tony's office and they stopped just short looking through the glass window. Inside sat a boy who was obviously just out of Hogwarts. He had black hair identical to Heathers that flowed to his chin giving him a messy look. They could see pale green eyes looking around the room and then they landed on the door and he jumped.

Ginny remembered standing where he was only three years ago and seeing her five friends watching her through the glass. She pushed Clive backwards a little and opened the door walking in.

"Hello you must be Richard, I'm Ginny Weasley and you're going to be working with me for a while until you get use to being here."

"It's nice to meet you Miss Weasley."

"It's Ginny and these are the other's you'll be working with. Oh get in here you lot."

She watched as the three boys pushed to get into the room and then Heather and Opal walked in slowly behind them.

"Hello I'm Ernst and this is my brother Robbie."

"Richard."

"Don't worry you'll soon learn to tell them apart, I'm Heather by the way."

"Nice to meet you."

He shook her hand before turning to Clive.

"I'm Clive and this lovely lady who's staring at you is Opal."

"Your aura is teal."

He looked shocked and Ginny just laughed putting an arm around his shoulder.

"Don't worry you'll get use to Opal. Now come on we've got to go Hogwarts to meet with some people."

With that the group headed up to the atrium to go to Hogwarts.