but your heart is gonna see you through

[ashotofgin]

The odds were stacked against them. This was not a fight that they seemed meant to win, at least not on paper. The Boy Who Lived was dead. Fred was dead and countless others. Hogwarts was in ruins. It should be over

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[not_so_smooth]

"Everyone here is armed. At least- no, yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone here has arms. Actually, it's a common denominator among us all. Arms, each and every one of us," Sam said.

The girl looked like one or two he'd seen around the island, but newcomers were kind of easy to pick out. They didn't quite have signs around their necks but it was a close thing.

[ashotofgin]

No matter how bad or awful or downright strange the course of her day had gone, Ginny was not so out of it to fail to notice a joke when she heard one. She wasn't Percy for Merlin's sake. Her head might be spinning and her back and feet aching, but a joke even a bad one was worth cracking a small smile for.

"Good to know," she commented wryly cocking her head to the side. "How about fingers? Or feet? Everyone got those accounted for?"

[not_so_smooth]

"No," Sam said after a moment's thought, trying to think through whether or not everyone had all their limbs.

"Hiccup is missing a foot. He's got a cool metal prosthetic though, like Ash from Army of Darkness. Only if Ash lost his foot, and he was the most non-threatening Viking you ever saw who had a pet dragon. And had a ridiculous name like Hiccup."

[ashotofgin]

"That is an absolutely absurd name, but oddly enough not the strangest that I've ever heard."

It wasn't. Not by a mile. Her life and indeed the entire Wizarding World was peppered with names of increasing oddness. She was simply lucky that her name was something halfway normal. A frown worried her forehead for a moment before vanishing again. "Well that does happen with dragons. Limb-losing that is."

[not_so_smooth]

"Apparently so. Although to be honest I didn't have a lot of experience with dragons until here," Sam said. Not that giant alien robots were more normal, they were just the realm of weird he was used to.

[ashotofgin]

"Most people haven't." Ginny wasn't entirely certain how large the dragon population of this place was, but she knew enough about the care and keeping of them to know that dragons were kept out of sight. Magical law had seen to that, not to mention that dragons were both large and dangerous.

"One of my brothers works with them. He's always got burns and gouges. Dragons are no joke. But that I think is a given."

[not_so_smooth]

"I don't know, Hiccup's dragon is named Toothless... which it's not. Toothless, that is. So I think that qualifies as a joke," Sam said. That didn't mean Toothless wasn't scary as hell, he was just also nice.

"So, has anyone explained the deal to you? About the island?"

[ashotofgin]

"Yeah, definitely."

In all likelihood it wasn't a very good joke, but calling a dragon Toothless when it had a full set of teeth was a joke. A genuine groaner, but it was the sort of thing that Fred and George could appreciate.

Fred and George. Her heart sank slightly at the thought of them. Instead of focusing on them, she nodded at his question. "Yeah. An Unplottable island that no one can leave and weird things happen. Oh and there's no magic. I got it."

[not_so_smooth]

"Ohhh, you're from one of those worlds," Sam said, nodding in understanding. It probably explained why she was taking this so well, definitely better than Sam had.

"The kind where weird stuff happens all the time. Did anyone mention that you look exactly like at least two other people here? Not that it's a bad thing. I mean, you look good. You all look good. Not that it would be bad if you didn't look good. You just... look good like them. Is there any possible way I can keep talking and say something that redeems all of what I just said?"

[ashotofgin]

"Yeah, I am." There was a level of unease in Ginny's voice. How was she meant to take 'one of those worlds'? It didn't seem like he was trying to insult her, merely describe the difference. In the end she just let the whole thing go.

"Someone might've mentioned it." Indeed someone had which didn't stop her from frowning slightly. She was so used to being her own person that she wasn't sure of how to cope with suddenly being part of an identical set. But the bloke's bumbling made a small smile crack across her face. "I'm certain that if you keep on you'll bump into it eventually. Odds and all of that."

[not_so_smooth]

It was good that she was from a world that would prepare her better for all the crazy that was here. He wondered how hard it was for normal people like Kate and Claire to adjust to a place like this.

"You know, I like you," Sam said, grinning. "Most people tell me to stop when I'm ahead, but you encourage me to push on. Here."

He paused for a moment to untie one of the friendship bracelets at his wrist, something he'd learned while stuck in the hospital, and handed it to her. It was grey, red, and yellow.

"Now we can be BFF. Only if you say it BFF though, no pluralizing because the middle F is actually already plural."

[ashotofgin]

Her smile widened in response to his grin. There was something wholly absurd about this entire conversation, about this entire day really that Ginny was too tired to fight it any longer. It was simply easier to just go along with it.

"Not to mention that I am fairly certain that would very strange to say. B-Double-F does not have quite the same ring as saying BFF." Taking the offered bracelet she turned it over in her hands for a moment before wrapping it around her wrist and knotting it. "My brothers taught me that if you get yourself into a mess, just push forward making it worse until it gets better. I think a bad joke is like that."

[not_so_smooth]

"I am pretty sure that philosophy describes my entire life," Sam said. He was always sure that he could talk or connive his way out of just about any situation. He supposed that since he wasn't dead, that was a testament to his effectiveness at it.

"I'm Sam, by the way. Sam Witwicky."

[ashotofgin]

"It's a good policy." Ginny was horribly biased when it came to things that her brothers said or did. Fred and George might have driven their mum a bit batty, but at least they knew how to live. She had never seen a reason to quarrel with that. Besides it definitely made things a lot more fun.

"Ginny Weasley. Nice to meet you and er, thanks for the bracelet," she said raising her wrist as she smiled. "I'm chocked full of philosophy and ideas that drive parents and professors absolutely mental. So I am needlessly always in the look out for those who will join me in it."

[not_so_smooth]

"No problem, everyone needs friends when they come to a new dimension," he said. He wondered if she was the sort of wizard or witch or whatever it was, that did that. Once she mentioned her name though, he had his answer. Weirdly enough, his first thought was, "you're even prettier than in your movie" which was probably not the direction he wanted the conversation.

"And right now any madcap and wacky shenanigans I get myself involved in will have to be of the low physicality variety. I may or may not have gotten injured in my last such foray."