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All Who Wander

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot. The characters are JK Rowling's and the song is Good Charlotte's. Happy reading!

Description: AU Ginny just wanted to play with the band and get her family back together. Can a simple tour in Europe make things worse then they already are? She wanders, but is she really lost?

People say it's not where you start, but where you end up. I ended up at Hogwarts school, they so many restrictions there that I couldn't wait to leave. But after a while I fit in there and wanted to stay. The thing is, what I want and what I have to do are two totally different things.

******Scotland, Glasgow******

"Where's our next show?" Ron asked Percy who was madly flipping through the tour binder.

"It doesn't give a location!" He shouted sounding thoroughly frustrated. Fred and George both turned to look at him. He hardly ever lost his cool.

"How are we supposed to get there?" Ginny asked picking another pineapple off the pizza.

"Who ordered pineapple on the pizza?" Percy asked his hand recoiling from the open box.

"We did!" The twins unanimously stated. Percy disgustedly shook his head before going back to the binder.

"It give explicit instructions on how to get there," Percy said looking for something, anything, to reference the directions by.

"Let me see," Ron called from George's bed. He was channel surfing on the TV.

Percy threw the red binder over the squabbling twins to Ron.

"Whose turn is it to call Charlie?" Ginny asked picking up the phone beginning to dial.

"FINE! Don't answer me," She said beginning a conversation with Charlie.

"These instructions really are meticulous," He said looking over a whole page dedicated to them.

"I've never heard of Hogwarts before," Ron said flipping through the binder, much like Percy had done.

"What warts?" Fred asked grabbing the binder from Ron's hands.

"Hogwarts, England's best wizarding school," Percy answered grabbing the binder from Fred.

"Where's Kings Cross Station?" George asked reading the directions over Percy's shoulder.

"It's in England," Ginny answered hanging up the phone. "Charlie and Bill send their love and say good luck on our last show." Ginny stated giving a quick over view of her 30-minuet conversation.

"Why in Merlin's name are we going back to England?" Fred asked while trying to steal the controller from Ron.

"The school opted for the last date on the tour, I'm really not sure why though," Percy said scratching his head as he yet again looked through the tour binder.

"Well when do we have to be at the school?" Ginny asked pulling out a bottle of black nail polish.

"September 1, but according to this we don't play till the 21. What the hell?!" Percy shouted reading some fine print on the last document in the folder.

"What?" the twins asked abandoning attempts to get the controller back from Ron.

"While we are staying at the school we are required to attend classes," Percy said reading the line over again.

"The can't do that!" Ron yelled wiggling out from under the bed.

"Yes they can," Percy challenged pointing to a line only he could see. "Bill even approved it."

"WHAT!!!" The twins and Ginny yelled all clamoring to see where Bill signed away another month to the tour.

"There's even a supply list included," Percy said looking thoroughly amazed as he pulled out 5 sheets of paper. He handed each sheet to it's respective owner.

Mouths dropped even farther as they went down the list.

"Where the hell are we supposed to get this…shit!" George scream infuriated that Bill would betray their trust like that.

"Diagon Alley," Percy read from another sheet that seemed to have appeared by magic.

"And how are we supposed to get there?" Ron asked not looking up from his letter.

"By floo powder, for more directions read page 27, fuck!" Percy cursed holding up wath appeared to be a manual.

"What the fuck did we get ourselves in to?" Ginny asked giving a sigh of defeat.

******Diagon Alley******

"If I never travel by floo powder again, it will be too soon," Ginny stated as Fred and George helped her off the ground in what appeared to be a dingy pub.

"Now the manual (as they had dubbed it 3 days ago) says we need to ask Tom, the bartender, to show us the way, and we have to use those exact words." Percy said reading it from the manual for the hundredth time that day.

"Ok, I'll go," Fred stated beginning to walk forward, but was soon stopped by Ron.

"Have Percy do it. He looks the most normal," Ron spit out the word like the worst curse in the world, but the others agreed. Percy didn't have facial piercings, or weird colored hair. Only a few tattoos.

Percy walked to the bar and returned with an old man who led them into a grassy area out back. Fred and George made sure they were in front of Ginny, to protect her, just in case.

The old man tapped a few brick with a wand when they started whirring in all directions forming the shape of a giant archway. Leading the way Percy took them to a huge white marble building. Gringots.

Walking through the doors, Ginny immediately decided that American goblins were much friendlier. At least they were charmed to smile. Walking to the front desk, Percy asked if he could deduct some money from our account.

"Does Mr. Weasley have his key?" The goblin asked wearing a nasty grin.

"Skullie, your necklace," Percy said as Ginny took the chain off her neck. It was a silver chain, enchanted to never be lost, given to her by her father. She didn't know why she kept it.

The goblin escorted Percy away and returned with him a few minuets latter. He split the money in three even piles and split it up between Ron and Ginny, the Twins, and Himself. Making a deal they decided to meet back at Gringots in 2 hours.

Refastening the necklace around her neck Ginny and Ron hit their first stop, Flouish and Blotts. Each pulled out their lists and went to work finding the books. Ginny was looking for the last book when she met him. He had a kind of elegance that she had never seen before, and it made her want to beat him up. He reminded her of the preppy kids back at Washington Wizarding High, with his gelled blonde hair and designer clothes, he disgusted her.

Walking away she found the book two shelves down.

Their next stops were the cauldron shops and Apothecary. Ginny loved to make potions and could have spent all her money in that one store, but refrained after looking down the lengthy list of other necessary items.

Eeylops Owl Emporium was the next stop they took, both purchasing Europe's only way of wizard communication. Ginny picked out a small owl, about the size of her palm, jet black with amazing green eyes.

The stationary store was a breeze as Ginny picked out a special teal ink, and the came the robe shop.

Washington Wizarding High never had uniforms, which was the only thing she agreed with them on. It stunted your individual growth, they would say. Hogwarts didn't feel the same way.

While being measured for school robes, she was glad to see Ron held the same disgust as her. They still purchased the ugly robes, and uniforms too, but this battle was not over.

Two hours latter, as promised, the 5 Weasleys met up to floo back to find their rooms in the Leaky Cauldron, where they would be staying till school started.

Once they settled in they all returned to Percy's room. They still had to practice.

"ONE , TWO , THREE , GO!!" Ron screamed tapping his drumsticks in mid air.

Educated With Money
He's well just... Not funny

All of these boys (yeah) and all of the girls are
Losing Their Souls In a Material World...

"Any one else hate the uniforms?" Ron asked as soon as the song was over. Ginny let out an involuntary shiver as she raised her hand along with the rest of her brothers. Oh those uniforms were going down.

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How naive we were. That was the least of out problems……..

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