Good Cheater

Chapter 1

Dear Ron,

Hi! How have you been? We've been great here! I trust that you received word of the…event that happened? Please, consider it for me, okay? How is Hermione? And the kids? I was actually thinking of coming out to visit you all sometime soon. I hope that you want to see me as much as I want to see you and 'Mione. I also want to meet my nieces and nephews (I trust that there are quite a few). Get back to me and say hi to everyone for me!

Love from your sister,

Ginny

"HEY, Gin! You coming! We're supposed to be there in ten minutes!"

"Yeah! Be down in a sec!" Ginny Weasely finished writing the letter to her brother, put it in an envelope and was about to put a stamp on and address it when she remembered that Ron and Hermione wouldn't get it if she sent it that way. She wondered where she would get an owl that would take it to the Wizarding World….

"Ginny! We've got to go!"

"Honey, you go on without me. I need to finish something. I'll catch up with you later."

"You sure, 'cause I could wait!"

"Yeah! Go on! I'll catch right up with you!"

"'K! See you there." Ginny heard the door close behind her fiancé and relaxed. Now, if she could just find an owl…. She shot a glance at the drawer in her desk that contained her long unused wand. She carefully pulled the drawer open and drew out her wand…. Oh, but it felt good to grip it again after all those years. How long had it been? Oh yes, it had been almost eight years since Ginny Weasely had left the Wizarding World and all her family and friends behind. She had not really noticed it before now, but it was not only the people she cared about that she missed, but also the Wizarding World and magic, too.

She stained her mind to remember the summoning charm and once she thought she had it, she flicked her wrist and summoned an owl. Almost immediately, one appeared by her window. She attached the letter to his lag and said take this to Ron Weasely. When the bird didn't leave right away, she thought that maybe she had done something wrong. Then she remembered, when that owl isn't yours, you must pay him.

But, she didn't have any money that the owl would take. Or did she? She looked back in the same drawer from which she had taken her wand and sure enough, there were three galleons and nine sickles. She gave the owl a galleon and three sickles, hoping that it would be enough. The bird looked extremely happy and took off. She thought that maybe she had given it too much.

She remembered that she had to be somewhere. And soon, too. She hurried to her car and drove off.

"Daddy! When's breakfast gonna be ready?" a whinny voice yelled form the table.

Ron Weasely rolled his eyes and said to his six year old son, Sirius, "Just a minute, Sirry! Daddy's almost done with the scrambled eggs." Silently, he thought to himself, If your mother was helping me it would go a lot faster, but no! She gets to rest, according to Harry, because she's pregnant again! Oh, well. Ron sort of agreed with Harry, okay, he totally agreed that Hermione should rest up. It was just easier to blame some one, at least to himself.

Suddenly, Sirius cried, "Pig!" Ron whipped around to see that there was an owl coming towards the house with a letter tied to its talons.

"That's not Pig, Sirry!" Sirius's twin brother, Albus, said to him. Ron realized that Alby was right. The owl coming towards the house was not the owl that he had gotten from Sirius's namesake when he was thirteen. It was a barn owl and much bigger than Pigweedgen.

As the owl landed on the window sill, Ron grabbed the letter that the bird was holding and he the owl left. Ron turned it over and as soon as he recognized the hand writing, his hand began to tremble. It had to be Ginny's hand writing. Nobody had the same style… He opened the letter and read it. First, his ears turned red due to rage, then, it was just embarrassment. Yes, he and Hermione had a lot of kids, but Ginny didn't have to mock him like that, did she? Maybe, they just wanted kids. Okay, maybe not, but Ron thought that he was a pretty good dad! He couldn't believe that Ginny wouldn't even say "the event". If she was that unsure about it, why was she going through with it? Ron still had the slightest hopes that she would come home to their world and see Harry and marry him.

Ron heard some one come up from behind him and knew that it was Harry. He didn't know what it was, but something made him not tell Harry the truth when he asked who the letter was form. He mumbled some reply about work and then, as if on cue, Sirry shouted that his little sister, Mona, was throwing her scrambled eggs at him. Seeing as Mona was only three, this was not surprising; nevertheless, Ron gave her an extra squeeze after scolding her.

Harry said that he had to get going, said good bye to everyone, much to the children's dismay, and walked out. A few seconds later, a pop was heard, signaling that Harry had apparated.

Ron sighed with relief, and then felt guilty. Should he have told Harry that Ginny had written to Hermione and him? He consoled himself that they weren't even sure if Ginny was going to come. He had to talk it over with Hermione. Knowing her, though, she would insist on having Ginny come. Although she had been disgusted by what Ginny had done, like all the Weaselys, she had never really approved of them not speaking to her at all after the Final Battle. She personally thought that if they had not been so harsh on her, she would have stayed in the Wizarding World. She thought that Ginny had had a lot of promise and that was the other reason that she totally hated-

Ron's thoughts were cut off when Hermione came up to him and snatched the letter out of his hands. "Oh," she exclaimed, "Ginny wants to come and visit?" Ron nodded. He could see that Hermione was just as embarrassed at Ginny's remark about how many children they had as he was. "I think that it would be lovely to see her!" she said enthusiastically.

"But, what about Harry?" Ron asked. They were both very worried about their best friend. He had asked to stay with them offering to help look after the children, but they both knew that it was because he was lonely and didn't want to live alone. Of course, they had agreed, but they had noticed that Harry was steadily getting worse. He had never been the same after the final battle, and he hadn't gone out with a girl since Ginny had left.

Such thoughts made Ron's blood boil. He was so angry at Ginny. It was not only who she had left with, Ron liked to call him "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named II" (Hermione scolded him whenever he used it). What really got to Ron was how scarred she had left Harry. Harry was like a brother to him and it pained Ron to see his best mate so down all the time. The only time he was cheerful was around the children. They loved him and e loved them back. He often told Ron how thankful he was to him, because the children were the only joy in his life.

"We don't have to tell him that she's coming." Ron was snapped back to reality.

"There's no guarantee that she'll come even if we ask her to." The pleading look in Hermione's eyes was what made him agree. That girl could make him do anything.

"I guess. Yeah. Ad we had better not tell her that Harry is here, either."

Hermione nodded in agreement and then turned to the children. "Would you guys like to meet your Aunt Ginny?"

A loud agreement met her ears, and that seemed to decide it. They would ask Ginny to come, not tell Harry about it, and not tell Ginny about Harry.

Who is the mysterious person that Ginny is engaged to? Mwah ha ha! You will have to keep reading to find out!

Please R&R

This is my first fanfic, so be gentle, but constructive criticism is greatly valued!