BOTH SIDES NOW
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I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
- 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell
PRELUDE
Ginny Weasley was not known to be guileless or naïve.
At the age of eleven she had been possessed by the Dark Lord himself and had been made to do dark deeds no other wizard or witch her age had been made to do, not even the children of Deatheaters. By the time she was seventeen, she had fought against Deatheaters numerous times and even aided in the defeat of Voldermort during the final battle.
While Ron and Hermione decided to take the death of Voldermort as the opportunity to proclaim their love for each other and enjoy matrimonial bliss, Harry decided to use it as a chance to make a clean break from the burden of being 'The Boy Who Lived' and pursue a much-desired quidditch career, the rest of her friends and family considered their part in fighting in The War over and continued with their own lives, pursued their own interests, Ginny decided to become an Auror much to the chagrin of her mother and her understandably astonished family and friends.
It was not so much an addiction to the Dark Arts as Charlie had mentioned jokingly more than once. It was not even because she had always dreamt of being an Auror – that was Ron's dream but he was busy playing house-husband while Hermione labored away, rebuilding Hogwarts into the school it once was. It was not even because of what Kingsley had said, after Voldermort had been killed by Harry, about The Second War being far from over.
Even though Hermione, Ron and Harry had found all the horcruxes and destroyed them, hence preventing Voldermort from resurrecting, there were still numerous Deatheaters in hiding, Deatheaters who needed to be found and caught before they got together and planned an uprising of their own.
That was not why Ginny became an Auror – as much as a Gryffindor she was, her intentions were not that noble. The nobility of the cause appealed to her, no doubt there but the main reason she became an Auror was because after years of battling with Voldermort and his Deatheaters, she could not imagine herself doing anything else. That was what that had given her confidence, given her friends, proven to her brothers that she could take care of herself, even brought her closer to Harry – something she had wanted very much for sometime until she had realized that it was not meant to be.
Being involved in fighting Deatheaters and defeating Voldermort had not been a burden to her. It had given her existence a much-required purpose. Unlike Harry or Luna, she had no expectional quidditch skills or a family business to take over. Unlike her brother Ron, she had no love of her life to live for, no family to plan for. All she had was her skills in taking down Deatheaters, all she had was her passion in putting a stop to Dark Arts.
That was why she became an Auror and she never regretted it, till the day she realized that she had been hoodwinked and manipulated by the most hunted, most elusive, most ruthless and ambitious Deatheater – Draco Malfoy, son of Lucius Malfoy, Voldermort's right hand man and most trusted aide.
TBC
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