Chapter Three: New Friends
September, 1989.
Despite the fact it was September, it was a warm day at the Burrow. Ron Weasley was sitting in his room reading comics about Martin Miggs: the Mad Muggle, when his sister came into his room.
'Hey, Ron, want to come to the village with me?' she asked.
'Yeah, all right,' he said and so they left the house and walked down to the village.
'Ron, have you had those dreams again?' she asked.
'The ones with that girl and Harry Potter?' replied Ron.
'Yeah,' she said.
'Yeah, I see them all the time.'
'You're not going to tell mum and dad about them, are you?'
'Are you having a laugh, Ginny? They'd probably think I'm mental!'
'They won't because I'm having them too.'
'You are?'
'Yeah, but I can't see the girl as clearly as you can though …'
'She's really pretty though! Everyone should be able to see her! She's got all that brown hair and pretty brown eyes, kind of like chocolate!'
'You and your chocolate!' said Ginny, giggling.
'What, it's good for you!'
Ginny snorted and shook her head at him as they went into the shop and bought a cheap ice lolly each. They found a nice secluded spot with a bench and sat down.
'Can you see her whenever you want to?' she asked.
'No, not really, I only see her when she is really sad. All the other kids bully her, and she has no friends, she's so lonely, I wish I could help her …'
'You can,' said a voice.
Ron and Ginny stood up before Ron faced the direction of where the voice had come from as he kept Ginny behind him.
'Who's there?' he asked.
A boy about their age stepped out from behind a tree and they recognised him immediately.
'Merlin's beard, you're Harry Potter!' said Ron and Ginny together.
'Yep,' he said.
'Bloody hell, the whole country is looking for you!' said Ron.
'Too bad I don't want to be found,' said Harry.
'Why?' asked Ginny.
Harry gave them a quick explanation about his life with his family before saying, 'Any way, I came here because I've been looking for you both. You see I've been having visions of you both for a while, and not just you, another girl whose face I can't see …'
'No way!' they exclaimed, 'we've been having visions of you and her too!'
Harry smiled and said, 'I think all of us are meant to be friends, but we need to find the other girl.'
'We?' said Ron.
'You do want to find her, don't you?' said Harry.
'Yeah, but how?' replied Ron.
'Come with me now, leave this place and we'll find her together,' said Harry.
'We can't!'
'You mean you'd rather stay here and be sad? Not to mention have more visions of her being sad and being picked on by bullies?'
'But how can we just leave here?' asked Ginny.
'Come with me, my godfather has a car, he'll take us somewhere safe in the muggle world while everyone goes mental looking for the two of you.'
'Just to be clear, are you saying we should leave with you without going back home?' asked Ron.
'Yes, and we won't be coming back, at least not for a very long time.'
Ron and Ginny looked at each other for a moment.
'Are you coming or not?' asked Harry.
'We're coming!' they said together and as they walked to where Sirius was waiting, Ron spoke,
'By the way, Harry, I'm Ron Weasley, and this is my sister, Ginny …'
Harry chuckled and said, 'I was beginning to wonder if you were ever going to introduce yourselves …'
All three of them were still laughing when they got into Sirius' car unseen before he drove away with them.
A/N: For the purposes of this story, Ron and Ginny are the same age. Ron's Birthday has been brought forward to September 1979, and Ginny's is eleven months later.