Disclaimer: lyrics belong to David Bowie and the characters to J.K. Rowling. The plot however is mine.


May the saints protect us from the gifted amateur!
- Dial M for Murder –


A/N

I am not sure whether the rating is high enough. Can you say whether you think I should push it up in your review please?

Merci Mon Amie,


A new career in a new town

Ginny opened one eye lazily. The sun was trying desperately to force its way through her curtains, her clock told her the time was 3pm. Ginny sat up and searched for the reason she was now awake. Pig was excitedly flying around her room. It took Ginny twenty exhausting minutes of playing cat-and-mouse to catch the owl. After reliving him of the parchment, Pig looked at her blinked and fell over. The heat finally had got to him. Ginny snorted as she read the note. Read is the operative word. Ron's handwriting was so bad that during the war, he had been nominated to write all the notes. The logic was that if any of the other side could decode his handwriting, they deserved to read the message. After studying the note, Ginny concluded either Ron meant:

Gin,

Len book, moody who so AS AP press would bruin de ago n mead distraught bv go AS AP

Or

Gin,

Lex back. Need you home ASAP. Press mad. Bring dragon need distraction. RSVP ASAP.

In light of her knowledge of Ron, she concluded that he meant the latter. Ginny groaned. She was supposed to be Draco's girlfriend and she never knew where he was, he simply appeared and then disappeared. The quickest way to contact him would be to send a howler saying he had forgotten her birthday. Ginny thought. The only problem was her birthday was two months away and Draco never forgot. Ginny paced her room searching for the perfect excuse to get Draco back. Fate however intervened.

Draco landed with a crash in Ginny's fireplace. "Can't you see I am trying to think!" Ginny snapped in the general direction of the fireplace.

"Wow, let me recorded this for posterity" said Draco sarcastically. His had bruised his ego by his less then spectacular entrance, Ginny's total disregard said entrance and the fact he was now covered in soot.

"Didn't your mother ever tell you if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all!" Ginny pouted as she turned to face him.

"Perhaps I can help, what are you trying to think of?" said Draco helpfully.

"I want to get by errant boyfriend back here. The quickest way to do it I to send him a howler but I can't think what to shout at him for." Said Ginny.

"Is he so perfect?" asked Draco, bursting with hubris.

"No, he is never here!" sobbed Ginny dramatically. Draco walked over to her and made to hug her. "If you get one speck of soot on my robe you are dead Malfoy" Ginny said. Draco froze. "You figured out who I am?" he asked perturbed.

"Malfoy you are giving blonds a bad name. Of course, I know it is you." Ginny giggled.

"I can't be giving blonds a bad name. In case you hadn't noticed I am a brunette." Draco pouted. Ginny laughed and pulled out her wand. "Now Ginevra, there is no need to hex me.." Draco started.

"Why would I want to hex you? What has my naughty Dragon done?"

Draco groaned "gin, please don't use that voice."

Ginny sashayed over to him. "Scourgify," she whispered in his ear.

Draco wrapped his arms around her waist. "I was going to suggest we took a shower," he murmured. Ginny smiled "who's we white man?"

"The best pastimes involve two or more participants"

"All of them?"

"Well if that's not the reason you wanted me back then what is it?"

"I need to go home for a while. The only trouble is" she hesitated.

Draco raised his eyebrow suspiciously. "I need to create a distraction. Alexandra is back and she needs to be able to do things with out the press reporting it."

"My cousin Alexandra?" he asked surprised.

"That's the bunny."

"Well seen as she is family and you are my mistress so I have to do as I am told then when do we leave?" he growled.

"Hm, well I suppose we could leave tomorrow, there are certain transactions I want to set in motion before we leave." Ginny said suggestively.

"I agree, there is one thing I want to do before we leave." Draco said.

After his initial meeting with her, Harry did not see Alexandra for nearly a week. When he asked Hermione where she had gone, Hermione blew him off with some vague explanation about the need for secrecy. Anxious to find out more about her, Harry consulted the twins. If any one knew why Alexandra was back, it would be them.

"Alexandra Winter? She's one of the top research witches," said Fred when Harry asked him.

"Yeah, she heads that team of witches. You know the daughters of Hecuba. You remember when we fought with them in the battle of Hogwarts?" added George as he poured Harry the obligatory cup of tea.

"She wasn't there!" interjected Harry irately. It had been a long and confusing week.

"She was mate," corrected Fred settling down with his cup of tea.

"What was she doing there?" asked Harry.

"Same as us fighting." Answered George. "I wonder why she is back. Didn't she swear something about never returning?"

"Depends on what she came back for. She is probably only back to get some information. I hope she drops in. I could do to pick her brains. She has got a fiendish sense of humour." Added Fred.

"Alexandra? Got a sense of humour? About the same as Percy." Said Harry over his teacup.

Fred raised an eyebrow. "Have you ever met her?" he asked.

"Yeah. She made McGonagall look like a droll."

"Well I expect she has got a lot on at the moment. What with.." George tailed off.

"What with what? No one will tell me why she is back!" Harry threw his cup in temper.

"You know you two have got a lot in common. Alexandra has a nasty temper to. Did you see the way she threw that curse at Avery? I thought she had put the cruciatus on him the way he screamed. When I asked her about it after, she would not tell me what it was. She just said never to tell a girl certain things weren't painful." Said Fred chuckling.

"Look do you know why she is back?" snapped Harry.

The twins looked at one another. "Not for sure, but it has probably got something to do with her research." Postulated Fred.

"Right. Thank you, that was all I wanted to know." Said Harry sitting down.

"Any way if you see her before we do will you ask her.." Fred was interrupted by the shop was suddenly thrown into complete darkness. "Lumos" the three men muttered in unison. By the light of their collective wands they saw a figure standing in the shop door way.


A/N

I do so love cliffhangers.

So, Ginny has found her boyfriend. Question is who is the figure in the doorway? Bonus points to whoever guesses correctly.