The Guest

"Ginny, has Dad ever taught you how to drive?" Fred asked one day.

"You were there whenever we saw Dad repairing the car," George added.

"Umm… a little bit?"

"So we have four little bits now."

"Sounds like enough bits to me."

"Enough what?"

"Come here, we're gonna go study it."

For the whole afternoon that day, Ginny, Ron, and the twins crowded in the car to piece together their knowledge of driving. It was almost time for dinner when they thought they got the gist.

"Why didn't you guys ask Aquamarine? She knows everything." Ginny couldn't help but ask when they were heading to the kitchen.

"There's no difference asking you," George said.

"The point is you wouldn't ask around." And this was Fred.

Why do you want to know how to drive? That was supposed to be Ginny's second question, but now she had no choice to keep quiet.

At night, Ginny was walking through the corridor and saw the flying car that father had recently completed refitting. It was driven out of the garage and flown away.

The voice coming from Ginny's back gave her heebie-jeebies, "It's probably the twins and Ron. Percy would definitely not do something like this. Really, sneaking out like this… aren't they afraid that Mum would worry?" Shaking her head, Aquamarine headed back to her bedroom. "I'm glad you didn't follow them along and do these naive and brainless things."

Before closing the door, she turned her head and smiled beautifully.

And so much for sleeping. When Ginny finally fell asleep, the sky was already getting brighter.

"Clunk. Clunk. Thud, thud, thud… "

The loud noise awakened Ginny. She rubbed her eyes and walked to the kitchen to get a glass of water. As soon as the kitchen door opened, she was stunned. Beaming and screaming, she ran into her sister's room with excitement.

"What's the matter?" Aquamarine whispered half-consciously.

"We have a guest… he came… "

"Who?" Aquamarine muttered.

"Ha… Harry Potter." Ginny seemed like she had tried very hard to finally say the name.

"Enough!" Aquamarine suddenly got furious. "You know how angry I can get when someone forcingly wakes me up! Do you have to pick this time of the day to have a girl talk with me?"

Ginny dodged the pillow thrown at her and rushed out, her good mood undiminished.

Yell all you like. I'm just warning you that your days might be over soon~ The tough one came here now, let's see how much time you have left to be this domineering!

Ginny naively thought that she could sit by and watch, immersed in the imagination of sipping tea in the first-class seat.

As soon as Dad entered the door at noon, Mum rang the drums of war and launched an attack on him for their son stealing his car.

"Arthur Weasley, you made sure there was a loophole when you wrote that law!" shouted Mum. "Just so you could carry on tinkering with all that Muggle rubbish in your shed! And for your information, Harry arrived this morning in the car you weren't intending to fly!"

"Harry?" said Dad blankly. "Harry who… Good lord, is it Harry Potter? Very pleased to meet you, Ron's told us so much about- "

"Your sons flew that car… " Another attack.

Through the roar of anger, Ginny gradually smelled an ominous premonition. Not long after her father came back, the long-lost dizziness appeared again.

Wave after wave, Ginny looked at the people around her. All of their expressions were somewhat unnatural, with a kind of dream-like feeling crawled on everyone's cheeks.

"Mum, you're too loud." A lazy voice appeared on the stairs.

Mum stopped immediately.

"Honey, are you hungry?" Mum's voice became very gentle.

"A little. I stayed up too late yesterday." Aquamarine came over lazily and gave her mother a good morning kiss.

"Aqua, I didn't get a kiss last night nor this morning! " Dad's behavior of acting like a child made the guests' eyes wider.

Aquamarine swayed and sat down between Fred and George and said, "This is a punishment."

Bugger, Ginny put her head on her arm, Aquamarine's field of power strengthened again.

Aquamarine continued, "Also, Dad, please watch your manners. There's a guest in the house!"

Mr. Weasley immediately remembered Harry's existence and introduced Harry to his sweetie.

"Ah, sorry, Harry. This is my youngest daughter, Aquamarine. She is the pride of the Weasley family."

"Yes, Harry." Fred nodded.

"Little Princess Weasley." George put his hand on Aquamarine's shoulder in a daze.

Ginny saw the smile Aquamarine gave Harry and realized that she had made a mistake. A look of pity and the usual contempt.

Ginny's revenge plan died before it was even born. Even the tough one can't beat her.

"Ron, why don't we show Harry your room?" Ginny got up, intending to escape. The more people can leave, the better.

"Sure. Come on, Harry, this way. You can share a bed with me."

Good job, Ron! Go, go, go!

The three of them walked towards the stairs.

"Ron, have you finished your homework yet?" Harry cut in Ginny's perfect plan. "I have no idea how to write the Potion essay. Snape is going to kill me… "

Aquamarine frowned with annoyance, and interrupted suddenly, "I personally think it is very impolite to talk about a teacher like this behind their back."

Something poked a hole in Ginny's heart, and for the first time, she personally experienced how much it would cost when her body acted slower than her mind and missed the opportunity.

Aquamarine continued unceremoniously over there.

"Moreover, if you do your homework the same way Ron does, then I definitely wouldn't doubt that your teacher will dislike you. No teacher would like a student who doesn't study hard. You're supposed to be learning and studying in school, not to be sulky on your teachers."

After that, Aquamarine continued with her breakfast, ignoring the rest of the people in the house.

Ginny thought there's nothing wrong with what Harry said, it's not like he said something super rebellious. Unfortunately, her parents seemed to take Aquamarine's side.

"Harry, Aqua is right." Mrs. Weasley put down the pan in her hand.

"Yes, and Ron's Potion is really terrible. It took Aqua the whole afternoon to help him complete the homework." Mr. Weasley also nodded, "The point of going to school is to gain knowledge and learn how to protect yourself using them. Putting up with your teacher will not do you any good."

"But Snape did trouble Harry on purpose!" Ron protested.

Aquamarine finished the last sausage and put down her fork, and then she smiled.

The sharp air raid sirens rang in Ginny's head. She instinctively knew that something had touched her sister's angry nerves. Look what kind of smile is on her face! She looked around quickly, and the faces of her parents and brothers seemed to be infected with the smile from hell as well.

Ginny escaped the scene as quickly as possible, yelling "I wanna sleep in", leaving a bloody storm behind her.