A/N: In this story, everything is AU. Hogwarts isn't a boarding school, but a day school. And Voldemort isn't around to mess things up (: Also, Ginny is in the same year as Hermione, Ron, and the rest. (Harry isn't present— yet.) This is Book Six disregarded.

Chapter One

The Prince Arrives

Ginny Weasley walked into her Transfiguration classroom and saw total chaos. She looked around for her three good friends and found two of them looking and squealing over something. She put down her bag and went over for a look.

"What are you two looking at?" she said, and teasingly tugged the book out of their hands and poring over it. "Oh! It's got pictures of Royal family in it!"

"Hey, give it back, Ginny!" yelled her friend, Lavender Brown, making a grab at the book, but missing.

"Oh my gosh, the castle is amazing," breathed Ginny, holding the book high so that her friends couldn't take hold of it.

Then her other friend Parvati Patil managed to take hold of one side of the book, and tried to tug it back. Ginny held on fast. "Wait a while," she said, "I just wanted a look." They proceeded to have a tug of war.

"Don't!" screamed Lavender. "You'll tear it!"

Neither Ginny nor Parvati heard her. Finally, a page with pictures of the prince as a toddler of the book tore.

There was silence among the three girls. Then—

"GINNY WEASLEY!" screamed Lavender in anguish. Then both she and Parvati began to charge at Ginny.

"Aaaaaaah!" hollered Ginny as she took off out of the classroom. Her other good friend Hermione Granger looked at her back, shook her head, and sighed.

Insert: Yup, that's me, Ginny Weasley. I study at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I aspire to be a fashion designer for witchwear, though I know my mum disapproves. I mean, the cloaks now are so passé! Even witches should have good dress sense.

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Ginny walked into the Gryffindor common room after lunch. Hermione looked up and gave her a smile. Ginny smiled back.

Then Ginny caught sight of Parvati and Lavender cooing over the royal book. They were sighing and kissing pictures of the prince at intervals. Ginny put down her sketch book (in which she drew her cloak designs) and crept up to them. Then she screamed in both their ears, causing them to scream as well.

"Ginny Weasley!" Lavender exclaimed.

"Hello," replied Ginny cheerfully.

"Why are you forever wearing that pair of pants? It's Muggle stuff," said Parvati, surveying the pant Ginny wore under her skirt.

"Well," began Ginny, sitting herself on a table, "my dad brought them home one day. Anyway, it does match with the uniform, doesn't it? And besides, it's my style!" She struck a pose like a model.

"Hey Ginny," said Hermione, "have you done that assignment?"

"Assignment?" asked Ginny, frowning. "What assignment?"

"The one for Herbology," said Hermione. "It's due today."

"No, I haven't!" gasped Ginny.

"Neither did I!" wailed Parvati and Lavender.

"Serves you right," said Hermione to Parvati and Lavender rather sniffily. "Cooing over your Prince. If you ask me, those people don't deserve anything."

"Why?" asked Lavender, looking hurt.

"Because they don't do anything for the country, and they take all of our money," replied Hermione, and tucking her hair behind her ears, she strode out of the common room.

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A luxurious black Limousine sped through the village of Hogsmeade, with two cars at its front back for security reasons. As soon as it entered the gates of Hogwarts, a crowd of students who were resting (it was break) all started screaming and pointing, then they all rushed towards the three cars— no, actually, just the car in the middle— and followed the cars up towards the school.

When the car parked, men emerged from the front and back car, gathering around the middle car and fending off the screaming crowd.

A man opened the door and escorted a teenager out. He had blonde hair and his uniform was neat it didn't have a single crease. His eyes were a piercing grey, and he looked very unimpressed by the crowd. In short, he looked bored but cool.

Two men, presumably his bodyguards, flanked him as he walked up the steps to the Great Hall, while the rest of the men tried to stop the crowd (especially the girls) from running up to him.

After the two men and the teen walked into the Great Hall. Then the teen stopped. "I thought I told you that I did not want any bodyguards following me," he said, not looking at the men flanking him. "If you must, stay by the gates."

"But your Highness, it is what her Majesty wanted. It is for your safety. There might be dangerous students in this school," one bodyguard replied.

The Prince didn't answer; he just turned around and gave the two bodyguards a piercing stare.

"V-very well, your Highness, we will stay by the gates," said the other bodyguards.

The Prince nodded once and left.

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Insert: Thank goodness Professor Sprout allowed us to submit the assignment late. Today we were working with some plants that didn't grow in the greenhouses, so we had to work at the garden at the main entrance of Great Hall.

"...Now I want you to split up and work in pairs."

Ginny immediately grabbed Hermione and they went off to find some Morphlumps. They were lumpy plants that could morph into different shapes upon sensing danger, and had healing purposes.

They had just found one Morphlump which had morphed into a poisonous looking toadstool and were about to pick it up when Ginny looking up, caught sight of something.

"Hey, look," she said, nudging Hermione. "Isn't that the prince? He's staring at us! What's he doing here? Shouldn't he be at some other classy royal school?"

Hermione looked over. "Oh, yes," she said, "He's with a crowd of boys who grew up with silver spoons in their mouths. Look, there's the son of the Head of Law Enforcement Department, and beside him, the second son of the Head of Law Enforcement Department, and look, beside him, the son of one of the riches witches! I despise them. Whenever they appear, the academic atmosphere disappears."

Lavender and Parvati had overheard Ginny and came squealing. "The Prince? Where?"

Ginny pointed to a figure standing over looking at them. He was surrounded by three other boys who were talking and laughing.

Lavender and Parvati stared, then turned around with their hands crossed over their hearts. "Oh my gosh," breathed Lavender, "I think I'm going to faint!"

"Heart, stop beating so wildly!" said Parvati melodramatically.

Hermione rolled her eyes at Ginny. Then Lavender patted down a few strands of hair that was out of place and turned around, yelling, "Hey Prince, aren't I gorgeous? I happen to be single, too!"

"Oh boy…" muttered Ginny.

Parvati joined in. "Aren't I sexy?" She started blowing kisses.

"Merlin," exclaimed Hermione disgustedly. "I won't be able to look at anyone afterwards."

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Draco Malfoy stood in the field with his hands in his pockets, with his friends surrounding him. He was looking over at a class crouching near the ground apparently in search for some plant.

"What's that commotion over there?" his friend, Blaise Zabini, asked. They all looked in the direction he was pointing and saw two girls proclaiming their beauty and their love for the prince. Well, all of them looked over except the Draco. He was too busy looking at another person in the class.

"Now what are you looking at?" Blaise questioned, peering in the direction in which Draco looking. He saw a girl with lustrous black hair, brown eyes and pale skin that contrasted perfectly with her hair. "Oh, you're looking at Camilla Nott. She's quite a catch! She's got practically everything: brains, money, beauty."

Draco said nothing. He just smiled and nodded.