The car ride to the train station was not the least bit quiet. Fred and George were teasing Percy about Penelope. Percy had to be the least annoying of my brothers. He was quiet and a bookworm. But his need to follow rules and make sure everyine it the family knows them was off putting. After my time with Tom I came to appreciate Percy's behavior. He stands out from our rowdy family. Teachers love him. He is a rather perfect Perfect. He even managed to get a girlfriend. He is on track to a steady simple life and that is what probably drives my family mad. Mum wants so many grandchildren. Dad wants Percy to go into his line of work at the Ministry, but Percy never found muggles interesting like our father. Where he was convinced father would break the Statue of Secrecy, father just wanted Percy to see the wonders he does.

Bill and Charlie are not even remotely close to home. They are always changing their residence that mum only sends them letters a few times a month. I get letters from her everyday. I feel that this year, I'll get letters at least twice a day until Hallow's Eve. With an inaudible sigh drowned out by the shoutig of my family, I looked out the window and hoped we get to the train soon.

HHHH

When I was able to pull away from my mother's smothering hugs, I borded the train without yelling goodbyes to my parents like my brothers. While no eyes were on me, I boarded a different secti9n of the train and immediately came face to face with a familiar blonde.

"Hello Luna."

A bright smile on her face, Luna Lovegood boinced on her toes,

"Hello Ginny. How was your summer? Nargles seem to be trailing after you."

"My summer was busy. My family and I went to Eygpt. But nothing else really happened. I was just about to find a compartment to sit. Would you like to join me?"

Her eyes lit up and she twisted from side to side,

"I would but I have alreasy found a compartment towards the back. I'm going to be passing out the lastest edition of The Quibbler to the rest of the students for most of the ride anyway."

Politely smiling I nodded and stepped around Luna to find my own compartment. I found the least occupied compartment and immediately enentered without giving the occupant any thought or recognition. Swiftly, I put my trunk on the overhead shelf and sat across from the only boy in the compartment. He stared at me wide-eyed as a sneer began to form on his face, this making him eerily familiar now. Blonde hair, silver eyes, that sneer. He must be-

"Malfoy. Pleasure seeing you here."

"As if I could say the same. Go find another compartment."

A small sigh escaped my lips and I looked the boy in the eye,

"Fine. Let me be foreward then. I need the diary back. Can your father fix it? I have no money to offer for him to fix it, as you know. But, I want it back. I would be willing to put in a good word for your family once I have successfully brought Tom fully back."

Now Malfoy was wide-eyed.

"What on earth are you talking about Weasley?"

In his eyes there was true confusion,

"You don't know then. The attacks last year, I did them. Although I was possessed by a far younger version of your Dark Lord, it was my actions. I just wanted to make him real and was willing to do anything for it to happen. I did not truly realize he was trying to kill muggleborn students. Regardless, he was my mentor and we made a deal. You father has resources. Harry said himself that he gave the book back to your father."

Malfoy looked at me incredulously before his face turned into a grin,

"My, my. The Light has truly lost a capable potential member. I'll send a message to my father tonight after the feast...I guess you aren't like your rowdy family after all. I see a difference in you. I thought it was simply because of the book itself. Father told me over the summer that your behavior throughout last year was because you were possessed. I think the book just unleashed what was already there."

"More like what I was too innocent to see."

This earned a smirk from the Malfoy heir.

"Alright. You can stay in my compartment and I'll make sure Crabbe and Goyle leave you be. But one of your siblings are bound to look for you at some point."

I lightly shook my head,

"They don't even know which car I'm in and this is the last car they would ever look."

Draco's sliver eyes met my empty light brown and said nothing else until Crabbe and Goyle came barreling into the compartment and towards me.

"Stop! She has my permission to stay here. Any word against her this entire ride and you two can go find your own compartment."

The two boys sat adjacent to us and started tossing a color shape changing ball betweem themselves. Draco and I talked most of the ride about our classes this year. Draco told me about my professors and what to expect from them.