Order Only: Private message to Ginny Weasley

[alt_luna]

I thought you were very brave today. I also thought your eulogy for Percy was quite touching, and certainly no one could have found any reason to object to it. I'm glad you insisted on delivering it yourself. (It was so much better than that dreadful speech Mr Mulciber sent for Bill to read, anyway. Although I must say Bill did a good job of delivering it as if he actually agreed with it.)

Anyway, what you said about how Percy taught you how to read: no wonder you picked it up so early! I almost envied your for your brothers sometimes, whenever Mummy and Daddy would bring me to visit, and how happy you all seemed to be at the Burrow. That's why I was so glad when your mum suggested we start studying together our last year before Hogwarts. Remember how she taught us fractions with the baking lessons? And the apple fights when we were supposed to be gathering them for cider? I still use a lot of the charms she showed us that year.

Anyway. Ever since the funeral, I've just been thinking about it.

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[alt_ginny]

Oh, Luna, of COURSE I remember the apple fights. Those were so much fun. And the baking lessons. And the books they had us read that we weren't supposed to tell anyone about.

But especially the apple fights.

And the hair braiding. Your hair was always so much fun to braid, because it was so long.

[alt_luna]

But yours was ginger! I remember being fascinated with trying to capture that colour whenever I tried to do a watercolour portrait of you. Especially when we'd be sitting out in the sun.

I'm glad we read those books. I think they started us down the road of joining the Order, at least some of them.

[alt_ginny]

Well ginger hair never seemed all the impressive to ME and I was never sure why you thought it was so nift, given that everyone at my house had the same hair.

Anyway about the books. Maybe? I think they made more of an impression on you than on me. They might make more sense to me now but when I was ten... mostly I just wanted adventure stories.