Ginny snuggled up to Remus on the Hogwarts Express; she hadn't gotten much sleep the night before, mainly due to the fact that they both couldn't stop talking. The entire Lupin family had seen them off onto the train and Charlotte had promised that they'd see each other again during the summer holidays. Just as Ginny was dosing off, the door opened to reveal Narcissa.
"Ginny?" Narcissa questioned, looking delighted. Ginny's eyes shot open on hearing the voice and smiled.
"Hi Nar, what's up?"
"Oh, you're busy, sorry, I'll leave you alone" Narcissa said as she made to shut the compartment door, but Ginny leapt up and stopped her.
"It's alright, come in" Narcissa apprehensively walked in, shooting worried glances over her shoulder.
"Is something wrong?" Remus asked.
"Oh, nothing" she said with a nervous laugh "I've just been told not to talk to Ginny, that's all"
"Oh?" Ginny said, raising an eyebrow "And who, pray tell, told you that?" Narcissa blushed bright red as she muttered the name "Rudolphus Lestrange"
"Lestrange?!" Ginny cried "What about Lucius?"
"Oh, Lucius likes you. He's happy that you made me talk to him, but Rudolphus has this thing against you. I think it's because you're a Gryffindor now and … Bella's sort of agreed with him" she murmured quietly.
"Bellatrix agrees?" Ginny yelled, looking on the verge of tears. Remus stood up and quickly pulled her into a comforting hug. Ginny burst into tears.
"I thought you guys were still my friends" she cried.
"Lucius and I are … but Rudolphus has convinced her that you're not to be trusted. She spent the entire Christmas holidays with him, now she's totally changed" She mumbled sadly.
"B-But, you and Lucius are still my friends? And Severus?" Narcissa nodded with a smile on her face.
"Yes, don't worry about that. Actually, Severus wants to have a word with you about his tutoring you in Potions" Ginny nodded and wiped her nose with her sleeve. Remus looked to her questioningly.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were going to have tutoring lessons in Potions?" he asked, looking hurt.
"Remus, I haven't even started them yet, I was going to tell you when I'd sorted it all out. I need to pass Potions this year because, blimey, I didn't exactly get on Musky's good side last year, did I?" Remus grinned as he nodded.
"Yeah, that's true"
"So, Lupin? I hope you've been treating Ginny with respect, otherwise you'll have me to answer to!" Narcissa growled, narrowing her eyes at him. Ginny giggled at Remus, who looked taken aback.
"Don't worry, Narcissa, I've been treating her with respect, no doubt, you'll hear from Gin if I haven't" Remus put his arm around Ginny and smiled. Ginny leaned onto him and grinned as Narcissa laughed.
"Alright, alright, I'll leave you two lovebirds alone. I need to speak to Lucius about something anyway" She winked at Ginny as she left.
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Ten minutes later, the compartment door opened to reveal Lily, James and Peter.
"GINNY!" Lily yelled when she saw her best friend. Ginny leapt up and enveloped her in a hug.
"Aw, I've missed you so much!" Ginny cried as she hugged her friend tightly. Remus noticed, without much concern that Sirius wasn't with them.
"Hey Prongs, Wormtail, what's up?" James smirked as he messed up his hair once again. Peter just looked around with a small smile on his face.
"Nothing much Moony, trying to get Evans here to go out with me, but to no avail" Remus chuckled.
"Prongs, you know that you two won't get together for another year, so why bother?"
"I prefer to forget that little detail and just try my luck" Peter let out a sound that sounded suspiciously like a laugh.
"I can't believe that we're already in sixth year! Only one more year to go and then we'll be leaving Hogwarts for good" Lily said sadly "I know this sounds crazy, but I don't wanna leave" Everyone else nodded in understanding.
"Same here, hey, has anyone seen Padfoot?" James questioned, noticing that he wasn't anywhere to be seen.
"Probably too embarrassed to show his face because he was rejected by a girl" Ginny spat, looking angry. Lily nodded, while James grinned slightly.
"I think you damaged his ego a bit"
"He needed it, if you ask me!" Peter nodded furiously in agreement.
"Sirius has always thought himself as god's gift to women"
"I know" Ginny muttered bitterly "and it's about time he realized that he isn't. He never will be. I really don't like him"
Meanwhile, Sirius had heard the whole thing and he could feel his heart breaking in two …
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That night, Ginny had a dream. Yet, what she didn't realize was that it was a dream from the future that had happened in her lifetime.
It was during the Valentines' Ball and a male that looked to be about fifteen walked over to her.
"Hey Ginny" It was a boy with a handsome face and floppy hair. He was known as the guy who was trying to act like the Sirius Black during his school days. Ginny felt her heart melt. This guy was absolutely gorgeous.
"Wanna dance, gorgeous?" he questioned flirtatiously. Ginny felt herself blush as she nodded. They danced on the dance floor to a few songs, before the boy who was trying to be like Sirius Black, roughly pushed her to the floor, his eyes agleam. Everyone stopped dancing to stare.
"Sorry Weasley, I don't go out with ugly bitches like you, see ya" and with that, he walked off. Whispers immediately broke out as Ginny just lay on the floor, stunned by what had happened. A girl with blonde hair and blue eyes ran up to her and tried talking to her, but it seemed to go in one ear and out the other. He's just called her an 'ugly bitch'! Was that true? Was that why she'd never had a boyfriend? Was it because she was ugly? She felt tears well up in her eyes as she watched a boy with unruly black hair, emerald eyes and glasses storm up to the boy, tap him on the shoulder, then punch him square in the mouth. A boy with red hair and blue eyes knelt down next to her and asked her if she was alright. She didn't answer. She couldn't! She was in shock.
"Look what that jerk has done to her! Now she's in shock! I swear to god, I'll kill him!" The girl with blonde hair and blue eyes growled angrily. She strode straight over to the boy and slapped him hard around the face, then angrily yelled something at him, yet the music was still playing, so Ginny couldn't hear.
The boy stared at her, stunned, his hand covering the place where she'd slapped him. His face softened as he stared at the girl, then he ran a finger down her cheek, muttering something in her ear. The girl's jaw dropped as she blushed crimson. Ginny still lay there in a daze, there was something strangely familiar about all this, yet, she couldn't quite put her finger on it…
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Ginny awoke the next morning to tears streaming down her face. That boy who looked just like James, he seemed so familiar, as if she knew him, yet she knew for a fact that she didn't.
It's probably just because he looks so much like James, Ginny mused to herself. She looked up and stared in shock, when she realized that she was in the Gryffindor common room and The Marauders and Lily were watching her worriedly.
"Are you alright?" Lily asked. Ginny nodded.
"I just had a weird dream, that's all" Remus sat down next to her and hugged her. Sirius watched from the boys' staircase, feeling jealousy course through him. He should be the one hugging Ginny, not Remus!
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During lunchtime, The Marauders and Lily were called up Dumbledore's office. They all looked to each other worriedly, had the done something wrong? The Marauders hadn't even pulled a prank yet, so they couldn't really be accused of anything … yet.
As they entered Dumbledore's office, the first thing they saw were Marie, Max, Charlotte and Zak Lupin. Remus stared at his family in shock and surprise.
"What are you guys doing here?!" he cried. Marie smiled sadly.
"I've called you here to my office to discuss Miss. Weasley" Sirius tensed slightly on hearing her name "Your father told me about how he tried to use a memory charm on you, but Ginny stepped in the way, correct?" Dumbledore questioned, his eyes no longer twinkling and instead, were replaced by sadness. Remus nodded. Everyone looked to him in amazement.
"Why didn't you tell us?" James asked. Remus shrugged.
"She no longer has any memory of anyone from the future?" Remus nodded again. Dumbledore sighed and looked to everyone worriedly.
"Seeing as she doesn't know anyone from the future, she cannot go back. Her memory will never be re-modified. It can only slightly come back every now and then to her in dreams" he said sadly "She will never remember anyone from the future. She has to stay in this time" Remus felt thrilled at the prospect, but kept his face neutral.
"And, I'm also afraid to say, that I need to remove all knowledge that you know of the future" Everyone froze; they'd expected this, but not so soon.
"I'm sorry" he apologized as he raised his wand, yelling out the incantation.
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"Hiya Severus" Ginny yelled as she ran up to her friend. Snape whirled around and instantly relaxed when he saw who it was.
"Hello Ginny, how are you?" he questioned with a small smile on his face.
"Oh, I'm just fine, how about you? You don't look too good" she observed. Snape shrugged.
"A bit tired, homework and stuff, ya know?" Ginny nodded in understanding.
"So, Narcissa told me on the Hogwarts Express that you wanted to talk to me about you're tutoring me with Potions" Snape nodded and smirked.
"Ah, yes, I can do Tuesday and Thursday nights at seven, how does that sound?" Ginny nodded enthusiastically.
"Yeah, great! Um … how long will it go on for though?"
"An hour and a half, not too long for you, I hope"
"No, that's great, start tomorrow night, it's Tuesday, right? So, I'll see you in the Potions classroom then, okay?" Snape nodded and grinned.
"See you then" Ginny giggled as she pulled Snape into a hug and hurried off. Snape stood there, stunned, before regaining his composure and stalking off. Meanwhile, Sirius had watched the whole thing, feeling jealousy surge through him as he hurried after Ginny.
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Ginny hummed to a song as she wandered down the corridor to the Gryffindor Tower. She let out a cry as she felt a hand grip itself tightly around her arm and quickly, a hand put itself firmly over her mouth to muffle her screaming. She was being taken somewhere, yet Ginny had absolutely no idea where.
Suddenly, she was thrown into a broom closet. The person that had thrown her in there had followed her in and slammed the door behind. Ginny's eyes widened when she saw that it was Sirius. He muttered two spells, then turned to face her. His eyes showed anger.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" he snapped. Ginny snarled as she stood up.
"I should be asking you the same question, Black!"
"I'm asking the questions here, now answer me!" He yelled as he grabbed a hold of her and pinned her to the wall. Ginny struggled, trying to get out of his grip.
"If you must know, I'm having extra Potions lessons!" she spat. Sirius merely smirked at her.
"Gin, c'mon, no need to get angry" Ginny felt her stomach twisting and turning as Sirius leaned into kiss her. Ginny spat in his eye and he immediately backed off.
"You bitch! What was that for?!" he yelled. Ginny's eyes widened. The dream that she'd had! It meant something and she had a horrible feeling that it had something to do with Sirius!
"Just leave me alone Sirius" she whimpered as she burst into tears "You're scaring me by acting like this, why can't you just go back to being the Sirius I knew before Christmas?" she wailed. Sirius' face softened as he felt anger at himself. He was being an absolute jerk! Suddenly, everything seemed to clear up as he realized what he'd been doing for the past few weeks! He felt disgusted at himself; even though he knew he had feelings for Ginny; trying to break her up with Remus wouldn't get her to go out with him! He knew that much. Dropping his hands to his sides, he knew that he had to go back to the way things were, Ginny would never love him.
"I'm sorry" he whispered, trying hard to swallow a lump in his throat "I'm so sorry" he stepped aside to let her pass "I promise I won't let this happen again, but, can we please be friends?" Ginny stared at him in disbelief. After all this time of fighting, he wanted to be friends? Well, friends were better than nothing. She held out her hand to shake his and Sirius shakily shook it.
"I-I'll tell Remus that I'm sorry too" he told her reassuringly, his voice strangely calm. Ginny smiled, hugged him and made to leave. Sirius quickly whipped out his wand and muttered the counter-curses and watched her leave, then he did something he'd never done before. He slid down against the wall and sat down, put his arms around his knees, then put his head to his knees … and cried.
