Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. JK Rowling does. The plot is mine, which ever way it goes.

A/N:: Already on the third chapter! Thanks for the reviews they mean a lot.

Please Note;; that the chapters from here on are in present tense, but still in Ginny's point of view.

Chapter Three: Summer Pt.One

"RONALD WEASLEY!" shouted my mum, "Get down here this minute!"

I cracked open my bedroom door to see my older brother coming down the hall and halt in the middle of the stairs that led into the living room. My mum was at the foot of the stairs, red in the face. She was angry.

"Y-yeah mum," he stuttered, gulping a few times.

"That would be a 'yes mum'," she replied.

"Yes mum."

"Ginny!" whispered Hermione from the twin bed she was sitting on in my room. "It's rude to eavesdrop!"

I rolled my eyes and turned to face her. "Hermione, everyone staying here will know about this tonight, my mum's yelling is loud enough to wake the next town over. Besides, Fred and George are in the kitchen," I whispered back.

Hermione hurrumphed and went back to her book. I went back to my eavesdropping

"Ronald, you look at me in the eye when you are speaking to me!" said my mum, sternly.

My brother lifted his head slowly, looking her in the eye. "I said yes mum, that's what we were planning to do."

What were they planning to do? I wondered.

"WHAT?!" she screamed. Her face got redder by the second. "You are NOT leaving school, you are NOT going off to find You-Know-Who and you WILL NOT let Harry or Hermione do that either!"

"But, mum," he whined. I rolled my eyes at him. He should've learned by now that when mum is mad nothing is going to change her mind, especially whining as pathetic as that.

"Don't 'but mum' me, Mister," she said. "You, Hermione and Harry will return to school with Ginny and that's final!" She sighed. "You may leave now."

Ron stomped back up the stairs, obviously mad.

I shut my bedroom door and turned to face Hermione. "You were going to leave?" I asked.

She put the book down and looked at me. "Well, Harry really wants to find the rest of the horcruxes, but I told him that we should finish at Hogwarts, but you know Harry, the stubborn one. So, the three of us agreed we would leave before school started," she replied.

"And how were you planning to do that?!" I was trying not to get angry at her. "Would you have just left in the middle of the night with a note explaining everything?"

"Not exactly, but Gin-"

I cut her off. "Not exactly! Are you stupid?! Why would you do something like that?"

"I'm not stupid!" Hermione answered. "And your mum wouldn't have let us just leave in the middle of the day!"

I stood up and walked over to where she was sitting. "And you know why?" I asked. "Because she doesn't want to worry about you, she doesn't want to sit up in the night wondering if you came back, and she certainly doesn't want to get a knock at the door from a stranger who's telling her that her son is dead, along with his friends!" My voice had gotten louder by the minute and when I finished, I knew my eyes would be flashing with anger and my face would be red. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a fly on my broom." I took a deep breath and walked over to the door.

"Gin, you're ov-"

I whipped around. "Just shut the bloody hell up, Hermione!" I said and walked out the door, leaving a shocked Hermione behind.

I walked over to the Quidditch Pitch my brothers had made, climbed a tree beside it and sat down on one of the branches. I always came up here when I was angry or sad. I had spent most of my time up here last summer and I realized I would probably be doing the same this year. I sighed and closed my eyes, a nap would do me good.
I woke a couple hours later by the rustle of feet on the ground. I blinked my eyes, trying to get focus again.

"Gin, is that you?" asked someone from below.

I knew that voice. It was Harry. Focusing my eyes below, I found the messy haired boy that I fell in love with. "Yes, Harry. I'm up here," I replied, climbing down.

"Hermione said you came out here for a ride a couple hours ago, but when the twins came out here twenty minutes ago they said they couldn't see you, so I came to check on you."

"Oh, joy, " I replied, sarcastically. I was still very mad at him for breaking up with me.

"Gin, it's for the best, remember?" he said, brushing the hair away from my eyes.

I slapped his hand away. "I can't believe you were planning on leaving the Burrow before school!"

He sighed, dejectedly. "Oh, you heard that?" Who didn't hear it?

"Everyone in the world could've heard that! Plus, Hermione told me."

"I think Hermione did mention something about you going off on her. Why do that?"

"Because the three of you were being stupid!" I shouted. "Really? Leaving one night to find the horcruxes or whatever Hermione was talking about, that's incredibly stupid! And you're supposed to be looking out for them!"

"I have Voldemort to fight, if you didn't know," he replied, angrily.

"Oh, trust me, I know. I've heard about it for the last six years!"

Harry sighed and threw his hands up in the air in frustration. "What's gotten into you Gin?"

"What do you mean?"

"You never used to be so angry and you never used to talk back to people. You were always so happy and carefree."

I sighed. "People change Harry, and that includes me." My stomach growled. "I'm hungry, I'm gonna get some food." I walked away, but stopped to look back at him. "And Harry?"

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Don't try to talk to me for the rest of the day."

"Mum?" I asked, looking for her in the kitchen.

"Yes dear," she replied, her head popping up from behind a cupboard door.

"Is it okay if I go to Diagon Alley today?"

"Alone?" she questioned, her eyes narrowing. Everything with mum these days made her mad.

"No," I lied, "Colin will be there and so will Fawna."

"Well, I guess so, but be back before supper. And don't get into any trouble! And if anything bad happens, leave straight away!" she exclaimed.

I kissed her cheek. "Don't worry mum, I'll be fine."

Oh, how wrong I was.

After flooing out of The Leaky Cauldron, I headed into Diagon Alley. I knew that it was incredibly stupid of me to come here alone, especially with the Death Eater raids lately, but lately I wasn't one for rules.

I stopped in at The Quidditch Store to look at their new brooms, and went to Madame Mulkin's and got fitted for new school robes, but other than that I was immensely bored. So, while walking around, I came upon a dead end brick wall. I knew what this lead to, but of course, I had never been in. Though, it would be a wonder to see what lie in Knockturn Alley.

The sound of footsteps and yells behind me made me focus my attention back to where I was. Looking behind me, I noticed masked figures down by The Leaky Cauldron. Ugh, bloody hell! This was not supposed to happen with me here. Panicking, I tried to look for a place to hide but found none. So, there I was, standing in the middle of the road, nowhere to hide and with Death Eaters coming towards me. So, not good.

Then, a hand shot out from behind me and dragged me behind the brick wall. The person, who looked like it would me male, put his hand over my mouth, and carried me to an alleyway. All the way, I was kicking and screaming.

"Fuck!" swore my capturer, letting go of me and looking at his hand. Yes, I bit him.

Turning around to face him, I almost fainted from shock. "M-malfoy?"

Running a hand through his hair and over his face, he managed to mumble, "'Ello Weasley."

"Why did you bring me here?" I whispered, frantically. "My mum's gonna kill me!"

"Why did I bring you here?" he replied. "Is that what you're asking? I just saved your bloody ass from those Death Eaters!"

I glared at him. "Or maybe you are one and you just captured me to bring back to Voldemort."

He glared back. "If I was one, I would've apparated back to his cave by now, or wherever he is." He sighed. "Geeze, Weasley. I saved your life."

"Why?"

"Why what?"

I groaned. "Why save me?"

He opened his mouth to say something when he heard the shouts of people behind him. "Shit!" He turned back towards me and grabbed me by the arm.

I opened my mouth to say something when he cut me off. "I'm not gonna kill you Weasley," was the last thing he said before he disapparated us.

"You okay?" came the voice of Draco Malfoy.

I staggered back a bit and had to hold on to his hand to keep me from falling. "Ugh, where are we?" I asked.

"About ten minutes away from your house," he replied.

"What? Why?"

He jerked his arm away from the hold I had on him and pushed me in the way of my house. I glared at him.

"Just go Weasley," he said, sighing. Still, I remained in the same spot and so, he repeated his orders. Yawning with newfound tiredness, I walked slowly away from him.

"Thanks, Malfoy," I said, turning back at him.

He shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Just be careful, Weasley."

I nodded and continued on my way home.

"Ginerva!" my mum shouted as I walked in the door. "We just heard what happened in Diagon Alley. Are you okay?!"

"I'm fine, mum. I made it out just in time," I answered, walking past her to head up the stairs to my room. I think a little rest and some quiet thinking would help me.

"How?"

"Some boy grabbed me and he disapparated with me to the field by the house."

"What about Colin and Fawna?"

What about them? Oh, hell. "They were heading back to The Leaky Cauldron at that point and made it back in time for the Floo. I'll owl them to make sure they're okay."

She rushed over to me and pulled me into a big hug. "I was so worried, I'm so glad you're okay."

"I'm gonna go take a rest. Some time to think after what happened today and I'll owl Colin and Fawna," I said, pulling back from the hug and heading upstairs.

"Okay, love," was her reply.

Flopping onto my bed, I noticed Hermione wasn't in the room. Probably watching the boys play Quidditch. My last thought before I nodded off to sleep was that Draco Malfoy had actually looked scared.

Looking back on that memory now, I realize that this was the point when it all changed. And nothing would ever be the same again.

A.N:: All done, I tried to keep the characters, in what I thought, in their character. Anyways, please review!

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