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The wind howled into Ginny's ear as she sat, quite alone on the ground, thinking about the future, even though the thought scared her. Black, cold, and lonesome, was all she saw so far, the days seemed bleak. Not even Fred and George were joking these days, although they spent most of their time at the shop.

It was not like when she was ten and no one but her parents were home, because people were always stopping by, but it just wasn't the same as when Ron wasn't there. Tonks hadn't stopped by since the wedding, and Ginny missed hearing her voice. She had been the older sister that Ginny never had. Hermione was also good at that, but Tonks was more understanding of Quidditch and her brothers teasing her.

The weather seemed to know that dark times were approching, since it was quite cold all of the time. The wind was unyeilding, and whipped Ginny's hair around. Her mother was calling her to come inside, and she couldn't disagree with the idea, leaving the tree to stand, all alone.

"Ginny, I need your help in the kitchen dear, Tonks and Remus are coming over for dinner. I thought you'd like that for your birthday. Your father thinks that it would be best if we kept this get together small, I'm afraid that I'd have to agree" her mother said, ushering her into kitchen.

"That's fine, I wouldn't want a big crowd of people anyways… You know me, besides, I couldn't think of anyone else I'd want to spend it with" she gave her mother a weak smile but knew, that she hadn't fooled her mother.

To be honest, she could think of three specific people that she'd also want at her birthday. Not to be rude to her mother, she knew that Mrs. Weasley was trying as hard as she could with the circumstances. "I know this has been hard on you dear" her mother said quietly, not looking her in the face, "but we've got to make the best of things"

"I know you're trying your hardest mum, but it's just… it's just that I don't know what's going to happen, and that scares me" she didn't want to lie, she was scared, but she wasn't specific on who she was scared for.

"I know you miss them, but cheer up, it's your birthday for heaven's sake" true, it was her birthday, but Ginny didn't know how to cheer up at the time. Sure, she would give anything to have it be Harry's birthday, just to have Harry near her, to feel his touch.

"I'll try my best mum" was all she could muster out

"That a girl, now help me with cleaning up a bit"

When they were done, Ginny went into the living room, and to her not so surprise, no one was sitting on the couch, in fact, no one else was home besides her and her mother.

It wasn't that she didn't love her mother, but recently, she felt distant from everyone and everything around her. Fred and George would hardly stop by anymore, because they were preparing to close up their shop, to leave. Charlie had already gone back to Romania, instead of staying with the family longer. Bill was off with Phlegm everywhere he went, and hardly stopped by the burrow anymore. Then, Ron… she loved all of her brothers unconditionally… but she just felt closest to Ron. He was off, who knows where, with Harry and Hermione. It hurt to think about him, both of them.

Then, a knock came at the door, and Ginny opened the door to find Tonks and Lupin, Tonks hugged Ginny tightly as Lupin just shook his head. "Don't you have to check us?"

"I'm not allowed to use my wand, underage" Ginny reminded him.

"Not everyone knows that" Remus said, and stepped inside the door, but Ginny was quick "But you are the only one that harps on me to check" she reminded him

"Very true"

"Oh stop it you two," said Tonks putting her hands on her hips, "Happy Birthday dear! Does your mother need help with anything?"

"No, she's just keeping all the food warm until the rest of the family gets here, which should be any minute…" Ginny looked at her flimsy watch and they would be home in the next ten minutes.

When everyone had arrived, they all sat around the kitchen table, while Ginny directed her question to Lupin, "Hey, what have you been up to?"

He was going to try his hardest not to bring up the subject, especially before cake and all of that good stuff… "Oh just tell her Remus, she's old enough to know the thruth, it's not like the rest of the people at this table already know" Tonks said quietly as even Fred and George looked different ways.

"Tell me what?" Ginny asked, eyeing both Remus and Tonks

"Well… I got into contact with Harry, Ron, and Hermione" Ginny started coughing, and almost choking on her dinner, "What?!" she asked after finally getting her food down.

"They were at Grimwald's place and I tried to presuade them to let me join their hunt for what ever it may be, but they denied… quite ungracefully" Lupin said the last two words quietly, but Ginny could still hear them.

"They're at Grimwald's place?" Ginny repeated in a more excited tone than before.

"But you won't be going there, Remus, I think Ginny has had enough of this-"

"Did they look okay? What happened to them? Why are they there?" Ginny's mind flooded with questions and she tried to ask them all at once.

"They looked fine from where I was standing, a little tempered but fine.-" before he continued on he looked guiltily at Molly and turned back to Ginny "Two death eaters had found them when they had apparated" Ginny gave a huge gasp, and covered her mouth, while Molly bowed her head at the table. Remus added hastily at Ginny's horror struck face "They got away fine, no harm done, besides spooking them a bit."

"What did Ron look like?" her real question was if Harry was alright but tried to sound more concerned for her brother.

"The same as usual, only a little bit paler than before" Lupin recalled

"That's quite enough Ginny-" She ignored her mother

"But why were they there? I mean Snape has access to it doesn't he? I mean they could be found in a moment if they wanted to, I guess that was quite stupid of them to go there" Ginny couldn't help but feel a twinge of annoyance as she spoke because she was really thinking 'If Harry would have brought me along I could have told him that it was a stupid idea to go there, but no, he wouldn't let me'

"There have been enchantments put around that place Ginny, don't forget. Even though I highly doubt Snape would want to go into that house, none the less have a reason to even go in there" Lupin said sipping his pumpkin juice

"Oh well, hmm, let me think" said Ginny in a harsh, sarcastic tone, "Hmm, maybe, just maybe, he'll want to show Kreacher to Voldemort, ever thought of that?" her mother squeaked as Ginny used his name, then said "That's enough, no more questions"

Ginny couldn't stop thinking about why those three would be so stupid as to go to Grimwald's place, but she just kept her mouth shut most of the dinner, and ate her food.

On their way to the living room Ginny asked Remus quietly "Did Harry say anything about me?"

"There wasn't much time and it really didn't come up-" but he knew that Ginny had sounded him out by now, a frown now perminately on her face. He probably wasn't missing her, just thinking about what ever it was and as she worried about him, he would talk to Kreacher about making Ron more food or something to that extent…

Veela or no veela, Ginny felt more alone than ever before, even more alone than when she was outside. She plunked herself down on the couch and had an expression worthly of just having a dementor kiss you. "Ron asked about you though" Lupin was lying through his teeth but Ginny couldn't tell, she looked up at him, and he continued "I was pestered until they got an answer out of me and then I told them about what happened to you, Hermione seemed scandalized."

It still wasn't the same without them there, no people her age were around anymore and when there was, it was Gabrielle, who Ginny would rather not talk to. The Order had been keeping her out of everything and she couldn't send messages to any of her friends or it would be tracked. These things made her feel even more alone than ever before.

"Okay, presents Ginny!" her mother said loudly so that she was sure to get everyone's attention, but giving that there were only: Fred, George, Tonks, Remus, Her parents, and Ginny there, it didn't seem that she had to do much to get everyone's attention.

It wasn't that big of a deal anyways… why did they make it a big deal? Sixteen, big deal, nothing to really do when Voldemort was at power. "Thanks for announcing it mum" George said rubbing the one ear he had, making Ginny laugh.

"Now, Ginny, open ours first" said Tonks shoving a box onto Ginny's lap, it felt heavy. When she opened it though, nothing was in there, she looked at the box once more and said "Oh, um, it's a- What is it? Why are you laughing?" Tonnks couldn't help herself at Ginny's confused expression.

"It's a vanishing box, your contents are in there, if you can grab them. It won't hide humans though" Ginny cautiously put her hand in the box, and picked something up, it was a, well the thing was, Ginny didn't really know what it was, it kind of looked like an oddly shaped scarf though… "Thanks so much for the scarf" Ginny said wrapping the purple scarf around her neck, even though she wouldn't need it during the summer.

"Reach in there again" Tonks said anxiously

So Ginny did, only this time, she knew what it was, two years ago Ginny had pointed out a necklace in Diagon alley that she wanted really badly, and then, now she had it sitting in her lap. "How did you get this? It must have cost a lot… I didn't want to-" but Tonks shhed her

"It's fine Ginny, we got help with the expences, let's just say, who ever gave us the money, they really care about you" Ginny looked from Remus to Tonks questioningly, but neither of their expressions showed who it had come from, and they wouldn't be telling either.

"Reach in there again" Tonks said happily

"Again?" Ginny asked wide eyed, what could they possibly have in here? She put her hand in again, leaning over her now blue scarf to see inside of the box, she couldn't see anything but she checked all of the corners, nothing, then she felt around until she pulled out a paper.

It was Tonks's handwriting, and it stated, If anything were to happen to me, Nymphadora Tonks, who likes to be called by her surname only, or my husband Remus John Lupin. We would appreciate it if Ginerva Molly Weasley would be the godmother of our child, if she would accept. And if anything were to happen to us, then she would be so kind and raise our child as if he or she were her own, but she better not be having any in the near future.

Signed: Nymphadora Tonks and Remus J. Lupin

Ginny screamed, getting up to go and hug Tonks, "Of course I would! But you two aren't going anywhere, I know that for sure" Ginny went over to her mother and gave her the note, then going to hug Lupin too. When her mother was finished with the note, she also went and hugged those two, with tears in her eyes. "Now none of us can compete with your gifts" she laughed, handing the note to Arthur.

After everyone had settled down, it was time for Fred and George's gift, "It's not much really, but it's something at least" a twisted smile on both of their faces. Ginny pushed her green scarf out of the way and opened her present from the twins. "It's a new product that no one else has and won't be in our stores till after kids go to Hogwarts" Fred, the two eared twin, said and George added to his mother "But it's totally safe, we've had eight people test it already"

"That makes it so much easier, Ginny I don't think that you should be playing with what ever that is-" but Ginny was already pushing buttons. Moving pictures showed up of the people that she missed the most, Sirius, Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "What is this? It doesn't show people that are dead does it?" she asked skeptically.

"No, just anyone that you want to see, anyone, anytime. It doesn't matter if they are dead. You can talk to them but they won't respond. We've had a hard time enchanting the dead to come and talk to you" George said, as his mother gave him a nasty glare.

Now a black haired boy smiled at her, then it changed to a picture that was sitting in Ginny's room of her and Harry that she had Hermione take last spring. "How did you get these?"

"You're thinking of the pictures, by your touch, it shows all of the pictures that you've seen in your lifetime. Then if another person were to touch it, their pictures would also be stored in that little contrapment." Fred explained.

The twins had known that Ginny had been missing Harry terribly, but Ginny thought irritably "They haven't been around to know this"

"There's one more thing in there Gin" Fred said smiling, Ginny looked back into the box and found a bracelet, she hadn't seen anything like it "That is for if you mysteriously think I'm telling you something and end up dead that time, then we can easily find the body" Ginny's eyes went wide as she dropped the bracelet back into the box.

"Fred!" his mother screamed, as Ginny stared wide eyed at the bracelet, not paying attention to either of them.

"I'm only joking Ginny. It's just a regular bracelet that George and I made muggle style, since we thought that it would mean more" Fred said with a laugh, watching Ginny carefully pick the bracelet back up, acting as if she moved it one wrong way, it would explode into her face. Fred laughed at his sister's reaction and told her "I'm honest this time"

She quickly put on the bracelet, and when it didn't bite her she gave a sigh of relief. "Now our present Ginny!" Mrs. Weasley shoved a present into her lap.It was quite heavy, and when she opened the box, she found an album of photos. When she opened it, the book was filled with pictures of her and when she was younger. She set the book gently on the couch, and went to go hug her parents. "Thank you both so much, that really means a lot to me" she said smiling, and wishing that she could just go and see Harry once. Once was all she was asking for.

"Now, let's clean up and we'll let Tonks and Remus on their way" Mrs. Weasley said, in a happy tone but Ginny didn't want them to leave, she wanted to know exactly what the three had said. They had to leave; Fred and George didn't stay too long after that, and then it was like Ron's first year of Hogwarts all over again… Just her and her parents, and they went up to bed early, leaving Ginny to go out exploring in the yard.

The wind had not yet died down, and it was worse than ever, Ginny could barely hear anything around her. She was glad that nothing else was out there, just leaving to her thoughts and the wind. Looking up at the sky she asked "Why?" and put her head in her hands, crying. "A-All I wanted was this to be alright, but I can't put on a fake smile and just go on with things. I need them here, I need to know that they're alright, I need them to care." This is what Ginny Weasley did for the next two hours, and accidentally fell asleep outside… but when she would awake, she would be in for a surprise.

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Thanks, thanks, and thanks again for reading my story, now if you could please write a review, that would be ultimately amazing of you, because this story is kind of a favorite of mine as of right now and it will be canon, but yet there could possibly be more than Harry, Ron, and Hermione knew about what happened when they weren't around. For the people that read my stuff, hopefully the story 'Is It Goodybe' will be updated this week, and maybe a new chapter of 'The boy it could have been' Two completely different stories but so far I have done 3 chapters in 3 days. 1 per day, I hopefully will make it a 4 for 4 thing! :) Thanks again