AN: Finally some peace and quiet. All 11 other family members have gone out to dinner. So I got the rental house to myself for a while so I'm writing :D Well no reviews on chapter 1 then again it's been less than 24 hours. Anyway enough about my life and onto the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters unless specified otherwise. I do own this story and all the original twists.

"Spell"

"talking"

'Thinking' (only if section is in readers POV)

The Good the Bad and those Inbetween

Chapter 1: Close Calls and New Laws

Story so far:

I rushed out of my room down the stairs. I threw open the front door and ran outside and right into the face of none other than Bellatrix Lestrange.

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Ginny's POV

I froze dead in my tracks as the woman's crazed eyes glinted sadistically. Her mouth curved upward into a spine chilling sneer. Not good.

"Well, well what have we got here? It seems that I have stumbled upon a poor lost little weasel." She laughed the sound causing me to flinch. This woman was completely out of her mind. She twirled her wand dangerously close to my face. "Oh, looky here," Bellatrix crooned, her lips forming into a teasing pout. "You wouldn't be afraid of little old me would you weasel." She raised her wand smirking once more and hissed. "Because you have every reason to be terrified. CRUCI…" A black clad hand snaked forward grabbing Bellatrix by the wrist stopping her mid curse.

"That's enough Bella," a voice sneered from next to Bellatrix. His face was vaguely familiar. "Although I would love to watch you tear this blood traitor filth to pieces," He paused to look me up and down. I felt my blood go completely cold as I recognized him, Rodolphus Lestrange. "We've been summoned back to headquarters."

Bellatrix snarled before raising her wand and with a flick of her wrist, a loud crack and a puff of black smoke they were gone. I stood for several seconds. I know I was very lucky, if that Lestrange bastard had showed up a couple seconds later I would have literally been in a world of pain. But then again feeling even the slightest bit seemed like a betrayal to the cause.

"GINNY!" My mother's cries pulled me out of my reverie. She came sprinting up the path and reached forward pulling me into a bone crushing hug. "Oh, Ginny thank the powers that you are safe. I saw that terrible Lestrange woman raising her wand and my heart stopped." My father came rushing up the path to stand next to my mother. His father was dark with rage.

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Arthur Weasley's POV

"Did that horrid bitch hurt you? If she did then she will…"

"ARTHUR." Molly snapped.

"Sorry dear." I amended for my use of "language" almost automatically before turning back to Ginny. She just shook her head.

"Good." I said taking his wand out.

"What in GOD's name do you think your doing?" My Molly cried.

"What does it look like I'm going to go make them pay."

"Make them pay!? Don't make me laugh. You may be an excellent wizard but you wouldn't make it past the Malfoy's front gate before you would be surrounded and killed. I will not let the Death Eaters take anymore of my family away from me." I grunted lowering my wand. I knew she was right. Ginny was looking shell shocked. I suddenly felt a hand placed reassuringly on my shoulder. I turned to see Remus standing next to me, Tonks was standing a little way off talking to several other order members. She kept throwing worried glances at Lupin.

"Molly's right Arthur, I doubt that any of us would get very far. At least Harry, Ron, and Hermione got away safely." I nodded before turning back to Molly.

"Well that does it. Ginny is going back to Hogwarts," I paused raising a hand silencing Molly's protests before they could leave her lips. "Even though Dumbledore is gone, it is still safer then her staying with us. We are too involved in the Order. He-who-must-not-be-named and his followers will attack family members first. At least at Hogwarts there are still people like Professor McGonagall that will try there hardest to keep the students safe."

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Ginny's POV

"But…But…"

"It's okay mom. I want to go." I said looking at my mom. Both of my parents turned to me in surprise. My dad seemed surprised that I had found my tongue and my mom surprised that I wanted to go back. I forced a smile.

"It will be okay. There are a lot of people that I want to see anyway. Besides dad's right McGonagall and the other professors won't let anything happen to us." With that I turned and walked back into the house. Now that all the excitement had subsided I felt the ache of my broken heart once again.

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September

Ginny's POV

I sat numbly watching the landscape fly by the trains window, it' s beauty lost on my aching heart. Though my last meeting with Harry had been several weeks ago the pain was still as strong as ever. I had put, in my opinion, impressive façade of normality. Mostly for my mom, who worried about me returning to Hogwarts. Though in the end the decision whether or not to return to school hadn't really existed. Just last week the Ministry had published a law that all children of appropriate age had to attend one of the magic schools. I heard the door to my compartment slide open.

"What's this I thought I smelled something foul but it's only the little Weaslette." An all too familiar voice drawled from the compartments threshold. I looked up to see that standing there with his usual 'holier than thou' attitude was none other then Draco Malfoy.

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This is an AU (alternate universe) so some things are different and characters maybe some what ooc (out of character) but seeing as I'm not J.K. Rowling I don't think I would be able to write every single character in character so you not like my writing that's ok please just find something you like instead of writing rude comments and wasting both your time and mine.Well now that that's over with thanks so much for reading. Review? Please (I will read well rounded and constructive criticism. I will delete obnoxious and rude comments though) Once again thanx for reading. ^_^ Namine Chi