After graduating from Hogwarts and moving to Paris to work at the prestigious Paris Amour magazine, Ginny receives an urgent owl from her family. She finally decides to come back home to the life she ran away from and the people she cherished the most.

The nurse hurried away, and they sat quietly for a long time, holding hands as tears rolled down Ginny's face. Their relationship had been hanging by a thread already, and Ginny was certain that this was the beginning of the end.

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Categories: Completed Short Stories
Characters: Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley, Other Characters
Compliant with: All but epilogue
Era: Hogwarts-era
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes

Ginny Weasley knocks some sense into our beloved Draco. One-shot. Please review!

Barely sixteen years old and fearing for his mother's life, Draco stepped up in his father's absence to take his place amongst the Death Eaters. The following year at Hogwarts School was, without a doubt, the hardest he had ever endured. Now seventeen, the young Malfoy seeks to keep safe all he loves by doing the opposite, and taking the golden advice Albus Dumbledore had left him minutes before his death.