What a truly enchanting story! Ginny the Not-Quite-A-Fairytale-Princess has a perfect, wry, humorous voice that seems perfectly IC.
I wanted to write 'that is perfectly IC, and then I realised how little we hear Ginny speak in canon. But your version must be what Ginny is really like.
what you like as a kid isn’t always what you keep as you grow older Great line.
but she’s then distracted by Neville falling and having to dig him up, and then they just spend the rest of the day building an ancient fort (sand castles are boring) on the beach. Such a great way to show that building relationship in just a few words. I agree with Inamac: is this really just 2K? You've packed in so much!
She is not going to be lost because of some stupid old curse. She has things to do, after all: tickets for the Weird Sisters and re-sit her Transfiguration N.E.W.T and the Holyhead Harpies really did sound interested. Perfect Ginny. Perfect list.
And Finite Incantatum is inspired.
Who wants a fairytale hero, anyhow? Sure, riding a horse up a glass hill is a rare skill. But what guarantee for future happiness does it hold? Give me a man with an eye for a practical solution anytime.