Title:Phire and Ice

Rating:Pg13

Author: Butterfly Kisses

Summary: Ginny Weasley spends the summer before and her fifth year in an American school for witchcraft and wizardry. While there, she makes wonderful new friends, and a name for herself in a place where she's not known as just another Weasley. But will the same shy and quiet Ginny that left be the same one that comes waltzing back to England? And will she be able to control and break a Dragon of bad faith?

Disclaimer: I am not, nor do I claim to be, JKR. I am a sixteen year old girl who owes my little sister five dollars.

Claimer: I own all characters that you do not recognize from the book, and of course, my plot.

Authors Babble: This is a RE-WRITTEN chapter! Yay I am BACK! And working on this. Send love this way

Chapter One- prologue: Take a crazy chance

"MUM!" Ron Weasley, second to last youngest of the Weasley family, burst out during the family meeting in the small but cozy family room, "You're not actually going to let her go, are you?"

"I don't think it would be such a bad idea. She gets to live with another wizarding family for a year. Besides, what harm could it do?" Charlie Weasley, second to oldest, said as he flipped through the pictures of the family his youngest and only sister would be living with if they chose to send her to school in America.

"I agree with Charlie. It would be a wonderful learning opportunity for her, and if she wants to attend a university after graduation, it would look excellent. The school is one of the top rated, right after Hogwarts supposedly." Percy Weasley said as he looked at the brochure of the school.

"But we don't have the money to buy her new school robes and such!" Ron said, deciding to try another approach.

"Well, actually…" Percy said looking at the brochure, "we don't have to pay anything. If we choose to do this, the host family will buy all of her school things. They've already offered to do so."

"I think," Arthur Weasley, said, cutting into the bickering between his sons expertly, "that Ginny wanted to do this, otherwise, she wouldn't have signed up for it. And I think that being the case, if she still feels the same way, we should let her go."

Molly Weasley, who was seated next to her shy timid daughter reached over and tucked a strand of fiery red hair that had escaped the low ponytail behind her ear.

"Ginny, dear, is this something you want to do?" she asked.

Ginevra Weasley thought it over quickly. At the time she had signed up for the program she had been upset, and later hadn't retracted her name from the list because only one student was being selected for the exchange and she hadn't thought she would be chosen at all. "Yes mum, this is something I want to do very much." the words came out before she could stop them, and after she said them, she realized she did indeed mean them.

A/N: This wasn't a major overhaul, a little bit of cleaning up and correcting. I look forward to hearing from you all and getting back to this story.