Colorless Memories
Molly Pruitt-Weasley sat very elegantly in the tea room of Pruitt Manor with her head held high and a gorgeous smile on her face. She was the eldest of six children but she rarely visited her parents home. When Molly Pruitt married Arthur Weasley her parents practically disowned her but Molly never once doubted the decision she made.
"Molly, do you remember when I you were about eight or so and I told you about my grandmother?"questioned Catherine Pruitt, who was the perfect pureblood wife and mother. She had been born into a pureblood family and still at the age of seventy-six held a prominent role in the pureblood society.
"Yes mother, she was the first female headmaster of Hogwarts," answered Molly in a voice that showed how she had been raised. Her children nor her husband ever saw this side of her but it was nothing she was ever ashamed of. Growing up she had the best clothes, the most amazing teachers, and was taught things that her children would never think about.
"Well a few weeks ago my grandmother passed away. She has been living in a nursing home in western England for the last 40 or so years. Yesterday afternoon a consultant of her late husband came to visit your father and I and she left something for someone. At first glance I thought that the package was meant for you but for the last 16 years or so I have been telling her about that fiery vixen of yours. I just didn't think that I should give her the package without consulting you for because you are still her mother."
"Mother, just hand me the package and I will see that Ginny receives it. I am hosting a family dinner this afternoon and would hate to keep my family waiting. You taught me punctuality and it would be quite rude to keep busy people waiting for something that you planned," said Molly moving to get up from her seat but her mother touched her shoulder and she knew that her mother would not dismiss her until she was ready. After almost 30 years Catherine Pruitt still had some sort of hold on her and she probably always would.
Catherine reached beside her and pulled out a package labeled Ministry of Magic-Department of Ancestry. The package was gold and Catherine now noticed that the package held the name Ginevera Molly Weasley in small silver letters.
Slowly handing the package to Molly Catherine hoped for the best and took a deep breath as her eldest daughter read the contents of the package.
"No," stated Molly is a tone that could have made Lord Voldermort himself shiver.
"Molly, I need you to be reasonable. All that my great-grandmother is asking is that Ginevera visits the match maker and receive a prediction. There have been many marriages from the match maker that have turned out wonderfully. Do you remember when you and I went? The hat pulled out Arthur Weasley. I was livid but I got over it and you know it's worth a try."
Catherine spent the next hour trying her best to convince Molly to allow Ginevera to visit the match maker. She really wanted Molly's only daughter to be able to receive everything that her mother and grandmother had. At the fruitful age of 18 Molly was no different from Narcissa Malfoy. She was vibrant, extremely gorgeous and was seen at all of the party that only pure bloods were allowed to attend.
"Alright, mother I will take Ginny to the match maker in the morning and you are welcome to join us if you would like."
Once Molly finished spending a little more time with her mother she left the Pruitt Manor and headed home. Many thoughts ran through her head about what would happen at the match maker but she did kind of hope for the best. The only names that went into the match makers hat was pureblood children and that scared Molly. Pure blood children weren't raised how they use to be and she knew that once she took Ginny she would have to go on a total of 30 dates with this boy.
Once back at home at the Burrow, Molly started her dinner and waited for her family to arrive. At 6 o'clock on the dot her children started to pore in and Molly smiled. She had raised an amazing group of children that were making her proud. All of them with the exception of Fred and George had been given the title of Prefect at Hogwarts and three of her children had been named Heads.
That really made her one of the proudest mothers on earth but what really made her heart warm were her two oldest sons and she couldn't wait for her other children to make her the proudest grandmother ever to live. . On April 13 and August 26 of this years she received her first two grandchildren. Bill names is son Alexander Arthur Weasley and Percy named his son Percy James Weasley 2nd.
"Hi Grandma," said Bill is a silly sort of voice as he placed his son into his mothers arms. She smiled down at the little boys and placed many kissed on his face. He was just like her Bill; very red headed with the biggest chocolate brown eyes she had ever seen.
A few minutes after dinner had started Ginny, the only girl of the Weasley family came in and took her seat at the table. She was late so much lately that her parents always started dinner without her because the boys had lives to get back to. Ginny was working as an intern at Hogwarts for the summer and she was going to take Ms. McGonagall's position as Transfiguration teacher. She would be the youngest person to ever teach at Hogwarts but Headmaster McGonagall was extremely quick to offer her the job.
"How's it going at Hogwarts?" questioned Charlie the eldest of the Weasley boys. He was something else in his mother's opinion. He had tattoo and a ear ring that sometimes made Molly and Arthur both furious.
"It's hard but it's also a lot of fun. I really can't wait until the actual year starts. I started lesson plans and everything." stated Ginny with a glowing smile that traveled all the way up to her dark chocolate eyes. She was really happy since she left Hogwarts two years ago but she was lacking on a personal life to some extent. Her mother had been bugging her for the last few weeks about that special someone but Ginny wasn't sure she was ready for that. She had dated Neville for a few months during seventh years but that didn't work out. He was totally the opposite from her but they still hung out. Neville was to be the new Herbology teacher in the fall.
"I am so proud of you Gin but I would like to talk to you before you leave so don't just jump up and run out of here," said Molly at she stood up to get her dessert out of the oven.
As dessert started conversation wondered to everything from the Wizarding Bank to the dragons in Romania. The Weasley family was a very extended bunch of people with careers in everything. Fred and George still had the joke shop and Ron had recently opened the very first Optimum Weasley Brooms.
Once everyone had wound down Molly finally got a hold of Ginny and walked her into the living room. She had really thought through this but had promised herself that the decision still belonged to Ginny and Ginny alone.
As Molly sat down on the sofa Ginny glanced at the package her mother held in her lap and Molly sat in down on the table in front of her.
"Ginny, earlier today I went to visit my mother. She got a visitor yesterday with a package that belonged to you."
"To me?" questioned Ginny cutting her mother off and Molly just smiled. Her daughter was always impatient and could never wait for the other person to finish talking.
"Yep, my reaction was some what like yours but the package was indeed for you. My great-great-grandmother died a few weeks ago and she left you everything that is still in her name or her husbands name. Ginny it's a good sum of money."
Ginny gasped when she heard her mother say that someone she never meet left her something. She had never dreamed that anyone from her mother's family would leave her or her brothers anything.
"Do I get the money, me all by myself?" asked Ginny, curiosity flowing throw her veins about everything that she could by her and her family.
"Yes, you do get all of the money all by yourself but you must do something first." Ginny spoke up cutting Molly off again but Molly stopped her. "There's a man called the Matchmaker who lives in the foothills of England. He's a very old man and is said to have been alive when Merlin was living. When I was 20 years old I had not found a man that I wanted to have a real relationship with but I wanted a family. My mother took me to the matchmaker and he paired me with your father. Ginny before the matchmaker suggested you father I had not ever considered him as someone that I could spend my life with. In school he we were total opposites but I was required to go on 30 dates with him and I did. Two months after our last date we said our vows and I have never been happier.'
As Ginny listened to her mother talk many thoughts ran threw her head and she really thought about what her mother was saying. Her great-great-grandmother was offering her enough money to make her entire family rich and all she had to do was go on 30 dates with so guy.
"Mom , I don't have to marry this boy do I?"
"Nope, it's all up to you. All you have to do is commit yourself to a total of 30 dates then at the end of the thirty dates you free to go on with your life."
"Why haven't you ever mentioned this matchmaker before?"
"Well, I wanted you and your brothers to have something different than what I had in my childhood. Also Ginny before you make your decision remember the name of name of any pureblood boy in England can come out and your committed.
Ginny sat on the couch for about 10 minutes weighing the pro's and con's out loud and with her mom . The fact was that it was only 30 dates compared to enough money to take care of her family for generations to come and the pro's outweighed the con's . Ginny told her mother that she would ask for one day off and they would visit the matchmaker.
