Ginny began her flight home still trying to wrap her head around what she had to do. So I have to find one of my own mother's hairs….I should also grab some of her clothing too, to make sure it is as convincing as possible. Ginny thought to herself as she flew through a rain cloud due to her mind being somewhere else. Ugh, I feel like nearly headless Nick just floated through me. She thought to herself, beginning to shiver slightly. Not too long afterward she landed back at the Burrow and quickly stashed the broom behind the same bush that she used to hide her trunk. As quietly as possible she opened the back door and entered the kitchen, looking around to see who was home and where. She heard a loud noise coming from upstairs and smoke beginning to seep through the crack under the door of a room. Well sounds like the twins are upstairs and concocting another prank. She tried to see where her mom and dad were but couldn't find them, assuming that they were out of the house she walked quickly into her parents' bedroom and closed the door behind her as quietly as she could. She quickly found her mom's hairbrush which of course was filled with hair, she quickly grabbed a handful of hairs and stuck them into a vial, and placed it in her pocket. She then went into the closet and pulled out several outfits of her mothers and quickly exited the room. Just as she exited the room she stopped dead in her tracks, for coming down the stairs were the twins...who were now staring at her. The twins began their weird twin talk.

"Hello, dear sister."

"Why is it that you have."

"Our mothers' clothing in your hands."

"And why does it seem that."

"You are trying to sneak around."

"The house trying not to be caught."

Fred and George asked. Ginny was stunned silent for a few seconds but quickly came up with a plan.

"I see you two have just come out of Rons' room, with smoke coming out of the room to boot,"Ginny said looking at her brothers, and by the expressions they had on their faces, she knew she had something. " So I propose a compromise, you forget that you saw me here and what I am doing, and I will forget what I saw just now." Ginny stared at both of them both waiting for a response.

"Dear sister"

"I believe we have ourselves a deal"

"I do hope this upcoming year"

"You will join us in our endeavors." the twins said with smiles on their faces. "You never get caught when you do your pranks."

"So adding you to our team."

"Will only benefit us all in the end." the twins said. Ginny smiled at them for this, a mischievous smile.

"Oh brothers of mine I will...consider your offer," she said back with a grin

"Oh, Brother did you hear that?"

"Indeed I did brother."

"It seems that this upcoming year."

"Might be our most productive yet." and with that the twins disappeared back upstairs, pretending they never saw Ginny. Ginny chuckled to herself and shook her head slightly at her brothers before moving back into the kitchen and back out of the door. She quickly found her broom and took off back to the Lovegoods home. The fly back was...let's just say the ride back was miserable. Because of the incident with the twins she had forgotten to change her clothes before she left and therefore was flying through the sky with cold wet clothing on. By the time Ginny arrived back at the Lovegoods she was shivering and her lips were blue. Ginny quickly left her broom by the house and walked the steps back up to the house before knocking on the door. A few moments later Luna appeared at the door, her hair frizzing up much more than usual.

"Hello Ginny, my I must say you have gotten awfully wet for a day it is not raining, how did you manage that?" She asked genuinely curiously.

"I zoned out thinking and flew through a rain cloud," Ginny replied through chattering teeth. "What's with your hair Luna, what happened?"

"Oh my hair?" "Well this happens a lot when I make potions, my hair just doesn't seem to like it," replied Luna running a hand through her hair. "Anyways that's enough chatting for now, you should hurry up and take a bath to warm up. I've almost gathered all of the ingredients for the Polyjuice potion now. I should be ready by the time you are out of the bath. Ginny simply nodded and headed for the bath.

"Oh ya Luna, speaking about ingredients, here is my mother's hair." She said handing Luna the vial. Luna took the vial and inspected the hairs.

"I only needed one hair for the potion to work, but I like that you have brought plenty, so now we can simply make more if needed, good thinking Ginny," Luna said with a smile. "Now seriously go take a bath and warm up," Luna said, giving Ginny a small push to the small of her back.

"Ok, ok I'm going," Ginny said with a smirk on her face. Ginny entered the bathroom and turned on the hot water and waited for the tub to fill up. Once the tub was full and the temperature was just right she quickly stripped off her clothes and put her hair up before gently submerged herself only leaving her neck and head out of the water. She laid her head back against the edge of the tub. ahhh, this is exactly what I needed, the warm water just melts away any coldness and replaces it with comforting warmth. She thought as she relaxed and closed her eyes. Sometime later Ginny decided to get out, having been warmed up, she dried herself off and put her clothes back on, and headed out of the door while letting her hair once again fall free. She found Luna downstairs preparing the ingredients for the potion. "Hey Luna, how is the potion coming along?" Ginny asked looking over at Luna and the weird assortment she had gathered.

"Quite well actually, I am just ready to put everything in now," Luna said back, reaching for the first ingredient on her list. "First we add Lacewing flies that have been stewed for 21 days, after that we add leeches, then some powdered bicorn horn," Luna said while putting in those ingredients. Ginny looked on and watched Ginny as she added the ingredients. "Next up we add some Knotgrass, then some Fluxweed that has been picked at the full moon, and finally we add shredded Boomslang skin." "Now all we have to add is the hair from your mom and the Polyjuice potion will be all set and ready to use," Luna said excitedly.

"Luna, I just thought of something… how exactly am I supposed to get to Hogwarts from here?" "The journey would be way too long to do on a broom," Ginny said worriedly.

"Don't worry Ginny, just use our floo powder to get to Hogwarts," Luna said as she continued with the potion. Ginny looked at her with a quizzical expression.

"But we can't floo into Hogwarts, it is too secure," Ginny said

"You might not be able to...but we can," Luna said with a smile. Ginny looking even more confused now, Luna continued. "You see because we have so many paints and ingredients here for potions, Dumbledore on occasion buys some from us if the supply at Hogwarts is running low of a specific ingredient," Luna explained. "So we needed a way to get to Hogwarts quickly to drop off the needed supplies, so Dumbledore has opened up the Hogwarts Floo to us to use in secret, I am not sure where in the castle the floo is but I know it takes daddy to Hogwarts when he needs to drop off ingredients." Explained Luna.

"That is so cool Luna!" Ginny beamed.

"Hey, Ginny," Luna said, suddenly knocking Ginny out of her thoughts.

"Ya Luna?" replied Ginny, noting the serious tone Luna had.

"Promise me you will be careful ok?" Luna said, showing worry in her voice.

"What do you mean?" Ginny asked, genuinely confused at the question.

"What I mean is, be careful with Harry… in his nightmares," Luna said, explaining what she meant.

"Don't worry Luna, I promise I will be safe, besides his nightmares can't be any worse than mine from the chamber right?" Ginny said laughing slightly trying to get the serious tension out of the room. Luna looked into Ginny's eyes causing Ginny to feel slightly uncomfortable due to the atmosphere that Luna had created.

"I wouldn't be sure of that," Luna said, bringing her eyes back to the potion.

"What do you mean, I mean I know he saved me from the Chamber but that at least means his nightmares should be similar to mine...right?" Ginny asked, beginning to feel uncertain.

"It's in his eyes," Luna said.

"In his eyes?" "But as far as I can tell he always seems happy," Ginny said slightly blushing from thinking about Harry smiling at her, which in turn made her smile.

"I doubt you would see it since you have a crush on him," Luna responded looking over at Ginny once again.

"Luna!" Ginny exclaimed, her cheeks turning cherry red. "What does that have to do with anything!?" she said, still cherry red with embarrassment. At this all of Luna lost her usual bubbly demeanor and looked Ginny in the eyes once again, making Ginny once again nervous. It wasn't very often Ginny saw Luna like this so wherever she did, she knew she was about to say something important.

"It's in his eyes Ginny, he is always smiling...always happy almost as if… it isn't real."

"What do you mean by that?" Ginny said not following along with what Luna was saying.

"The people who smile the brightest are usually the ones who have suffered the most," Luna said with a hint of sorrow in her voice.

"You think Harry has suffered?" "But he is the Boy Who Lived, surely he has had a good life and has been well taken care of before entering Hogwarts," Ginny said a bit startled by what Luna had said.

"Ginny, tell me, what do you know about Harry before you met him at the Burrow last year?" Luna said looking calmly into Ginny's eyes.

"Well, he… I mean he...umm." Ginny stammered, then suddenly it dawned on her. I knew nothing about Harry from before I met him. Ginny thought. As if reading her mind Luna said.

"That is what I am afraid of Ginny… we don't know what you will be seeing or how dangerous this will be, that is why when I say "Please be careful" I mean it," Luna said, standing up and walking over to ginny to wrap her arms around her in a hug. "You have been through so much this past year Ginny and I don't want to see you get hurt again, so again I ask, please be careful." At this Ginny wrapped her arms around Luna as well and buried her face in her best friend's shoulder.

"I promise Luna, I promise I will be careful." She then thought for a moment and then added. "Thank you, Luna, thank you for being there for me." After the embrace they parted, Luna returned to work on the potion and Ginny watched her work. After a few minutes, Luna finally wiped the sweat off of her brow and looked over at Ginny.

"The Polyjuice is done, now all that is needed is to add your mother's hair and it will be ready," Luna said. Ginny noticed the sweat coming off of Luna's face and the bags under her eyes.

Luna really went through a lot of trouble to do this for me. Ginny realized. "Thank you again, Luna, I really could not have done this without you, I awe you so much," Ginny said smiling. Luna put up her hand and said.

'I was happy to do it for you, Ginny, besides that was the easy part, the hard part is going to be trying to find a potion that will take you out of Harry's nightmares when you need to." Luna said thoughtfully.

"That's right!" Ginny said remembering. "What can I do to help?" Ginny said earnestly. Luna once again put her hand up.

"Don't worry about that Ginny, let me handle finding the potion and making it, I have something else that I want you to do," Luna said with a smirk on her face.

"Alright, what would that be?" Ginny asked.

"How about we test out this Polyjuice potion by having you take it and go to Hogwarts to get your bearings about what Ron and Hermione are doing over there, also it will give you an excuse to check on Harry before you go there for real," Luna said

"Alright, I can do that," Ginny said, but catching a look at Luna, Ginny raised an eyebrow in question.

"Remember, go there and see what Ron and Hermione are doing…. Mrs. Weasley." Luna said with the same smirk on her face. Ginny looked confused for a few seconds before what luna said finally clicked in her mind.

"I think I understand now Luna," Ginny said adopting the same smirk Luna was wearing. "Maybe I should go there and… talk to Ron and Hermione," Ginny said thinking of ways she was going to mess with them for leaving her out of their plans.

"So it's settled then, I will figure out the potion and you..well, you'll do whatever it is you need to do at Hogwarts," Luna confirmed. After the mutual agreement on the plan, Luna placed one of Molly's hairs into the potion and watched it bubble. Handing Ginny the bottle Luna said. "You may want to go into the bathroom to take this." She said while handing over the potion. Ginny held the potion and nodded, quickly scooping up the clothing she had brought with her she headed for the bathroom and closed the door. Once she was in, she put the vial to her nose and smelt it, instantly recoiling from the awful smell while making a face. This is going to be so nasty. She thought to herself. She quickly took off her clothes so they would not rip once she took the potion, but right before placing her lips around the vial she had second thoughts about taking it due to the smell and look of it. With one thought of Harry, she quickly steeled her nerves and drank the whole vial down in three gulps. Just as she finished drinking she dropped the vial as the glass shattered on the floor, she felt as if her body wasn't her own anymore and she felt her bones, muscles, and flesh beginning to change form around her. As best she could, Ginny stood up and looked into the mirror and watched as her face bubbled and morphed until finally, the face in the mirror was no longer her own, but her mother's. Ginny quickly felt nauseous after the shock of the change had warned off but the taste remained and she quickly vomited into the toilet. Once she finished heaving her stomach out she looked into the mirror once more and was astonished by how much she looked like her mother, she was identical. A shiver went down her spine as she thought about that. No offense to mum but I hope I don't become overweight like this. Ginny thought to herself with a smile. She quickly got dressed in the clothing that she had brought with her and exited the bathroom making her way back down to Luna. Once she made it downstairs and found Luna with her head in a book she cleared her voice to get her attention. Looking up from the book Luna noticed who was there and smiled.

"Hello Mrs. Weasley, I do hope you are ready for your trip to Hogwarts," Luna said through a grin.

"Of course Luna dear, I am ready," Ginny said almost laughing at herself for impersonating how her mother talked. With that, Ginny went over to the fireplace and grabbed some floo powder, and stepped into it. With one last grin over to Luna who returned the grin.

"Good luck Mrs. Weasley," Luna said before returning to her book to continue researching. Ginny smiled and nodded at this before clearing her throat and saying loud and clear.

"HOGWARTS." with a bright green flash of fire Ginny was gone.

Scrappy8: Thank you again for your continued comments, and I am glad you liked what I did with Luna! I think she is very smart but overlooked because of her personality, but remember she is in Ravenclaw (: