Disclaimer: Not my characters, J.K Rowlings work. Most of the first part of the story is based around what happened in her books but after that its my work btw cant write Fleur in a French accent- she will have an English accent but she is French, she may put the occasional French word and speak French as well but not very often. Bold parts are mainly going to be letters and italics are parts I have taken from the book in exact wording. Review and Rate please.
Harry moved towards Neville, who was bending over another body.
"Neville"
"Blimey, Harry, you nearly gave me heart failure!"
Harry had pulled of the Cloak: the idea had come to him out of nowhere, born out of a desire to make absolutely sure.
"Where are you going, alone?" Neville asked suspiciously.
"It's all part of the plan," said Harry "There's something I've got to do. Listen-Neville-"
"Harry!" Neville looked suddenly scared. "Harry, you're not thinking of handing yourself over?"
"No," Harry lied easily. "Course not … this is something else. But I might be out of sight for a while. You know Voldemort's snake, Neville? He's got a huge snake… calls it Nagini…"
"I've heard, yeah… it's got to be killed. Ron and Hermione know that, but just in case they-"
"Ok, Harry, I'll do it… I'll kill the snake" Neville said unreassuringly.
"Oh and Nev can you give this to Ginny please, when Voldemort comes back?"
"Sure thing, mate"
With that Harry pulled the invisibility cloak back on and headed off into the forest ready to face his death. "I'll be fine, I will get to see my mum, my dad, Sirius, Remus, Tonks, Fred, Colin, my grandparents, Dumbledore, all of them I will get to see again. I'll be fine; in fact, I'll be more than fine, seeing as I have no loving family here."
Whilst, Harry was walking into the forest, Ginny, Ron, Hermione and the rest of the Weasley clan, one less, were sitting in the Great Hall with Remus, Tonks and Fred's bodies, crying. Little did they know that they would be crying later over one more body, one person who was meant to save them all.
A while later, whether it was a minute or an hour, everyone assembled in the Great Hall, heard cheers and laughing and over it all Voldemort was shouting, at this point he was so far away the words were incomprehensible. Ginny had a gut-wrenching feeling, that her love was dead , the one she had loved since she first saw at King's Cross in Harry's first year. By this time, she was outside; her legs were moving off their own accord as if she had no control. And then, she heard it the words she never wanted to have to listen to, least of all now.
"HARRY POTTER IS DEAD." Those words were shouted from Voldemort's mouth, followed by loud cheers and laughter, coming from the Death Eaters. Ginny heard Hermione and Ron screaming, her mum crying, her dad was holding her back from running to Voldemort himself. Strangely enough she heard McGonagall screaming. Ginny could no longer hold it back, she screamed as loud as she could and sunk into the ground, crying for Harry, crying for Fred, crying for Tonks, crying for Colin, crying for everyone who had died at the hands of Lord Voldemort and his army of Death Eaters. She vaguely recalled hearing Neville give a speech to Voldemort, kill his snake and thrust a letter into her hand. When she looked down at the letter she recognized the familiar scrawl, it broke her heart to see her greatest desire and greatest fear of that moment collide. Ginny didn't know how she would react to reading this- it would be great but terrifying. Finally, curiosity got the better of her and she tore open the letter, tears pouring down her face- just from seeing the hand writing.
Ginevra Molly Weasley.
How can I even begin to say I'm sorry I ruined your life, your family's life? I took away pieces of families that should never be taken. I have forced others into feeling the pain of losing a loved one, I am so sorry. I'm sorry I left you last summer, the reason I left was because I cared about you and loved you too much to put you into any danger by being with me. Ginny, I love you with all my heart, all my mind, all my body and all my soul- you are the only one for me and I hope that as I am now gone, you will be able to find someone that loves you as much as I do now and that you will be able to love as well. Ginny, find someone that loves and cares for you as much as I do, if I was alive I would say so myself but I'm not Voldemort has killed me. I want you to know this; I died to give you and your family a better world to live in. I would be honoured if you could forgive me and if you loved me only half as much as I love you. If I were alive, someday I would have married you but as it happens I am not.
At this point, Ginny was sobbing quite loudly, sitting on the floor curled into a ball as if her life depended on it but she stayed strong and carried on reading the letter.
Please don't cry because I am dead, celebrate because I lived, and celebrate because through all of this we found love. Honour and remember what we all accomplished in our lives. Even though, I said that sometimes crying does sometimes help, my love. I don't think Fred would want you to cry for him either he would want laughter, my love help your family get through these deaths. Darling, I can't say the pain completely goes away but it does become easier as time goes by.
Ginevra Molly Weasley you have stolen my heart and love you will always have it. Darling Ginny, I will love you eternally.
With all my love, always
Harry Potter
Xxx
P.S Tell Ron to hurry up and date Hermione before she gets taken by some other lucky wizard.
P.P.S There is a letter enclosed from Fred, he asked me to give it to you- since he knew he was going to die he felt it apparantly. Be strong my love.
P.P.P.S I have left all my money, properties and belongings to you family- I hope you will use it in my memory. Have fun and enjoy yourself.
"I love you too; I always have and always will." Ginny whispered softly as if she was talking to someone privately.
Ginny pushed herself to read Fred's letter and she pulled out the letter and looked at the all too familiar scrawl.
Dear Ginny,
I guessed one of us wouldn't make it out of the pit alive and with all the success I've had in my life, I figured it would be me. Georgie and me wrote these letters to our family. Ginny, I wanted you to know you're my favourite sister-
At this Ginny said "Only sister," but carried on reading
-(I know you just said only sister) but your special, Gin, you're an amazingly talented and beautiful witch. Your such a strong and kind woman.
I've always supported you and Harry, I think you are perfect together and I know he loves you as much as you love him- you can see it when you two are together and they way he looks at you. When Harry blames himself for all these deaths give him a punch for me, then yell at him and say.
"Listen here, you git, no one blames you for their deaths , apart from the snake face bastard well we all blame you for his death, just his. Anyway, they all chose to fight, they knew the risk of not coming out alive but they laid down their lives in hope of a good future and a long and happy life for us all. They didn't lay down their life for you to mope around all day long, blaming yourself for their death that just makes their sacrifice ruined otherwise they died for nothing otherwise the wound in our hearts will never heal"
Say that to Harry sis, then snog the crap out of him. Also remind him, that Forge owes his 1000 galleons and we are willing to pay that back. Also sis tell George to pull himself together and get a girl.
Sorry to leave this life but I am ready for the next great adventure- as long as I have a skiving snack box and a trick wand- I'm good to go.
Your favourite brother,
Frederick Fabian Weasley
After laughing and crying whilst reading Fred's letter she cried some more knowing that she would never get to say those words to Harry, she would never get to kiss him again, never get to punch him, never get to send a load a bat bogeys at him, never get to call him a git. This all broke her heart and she began crying again staring at the bundle at Voldemort's feet whilst looking at him she saw movement, he was twitching, he can't be doing that- no one survives the killing curse- but this was Harry he had survived it once does this mean he had survived it again? She watched Harry carefully and attentively not daring to blink- then suddenly he was gone he had disappeared.
Then Hagrid shouted "HARRY – WHERE'S HARRY?"
Harry found himself watching everyone fighting in the Great Hall, he was desperately trying to get to Voldemort to finish him off but he it hard when your invisible- seeing as people can't see you. He saw him in the middle of the Great Hall duelling McGonagall, Slughorn and Kingsley all at once, they were ducking under his spells and trying to get clear shots at him but it was all pointless.
Bellatrix was fighting also- she was dueling three at once Hermione, Ginny and Luna who were all duelling their hardest which equalled Bellatrix's skill. Harry's attention was diverted as a Killing Curse missed Ginny by an inch. Harry changed course and started running at Bellatrix but before he had taken a few steps he was knocked sideways.
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH" The shout of rage came from Molly Weasley as she ran to engage Bellatrix in a duel.
"OUT OF MY WAY" She shouted to the girls and she began to duel Bellatrix with a swish of her wand. Harry watched as jets of lights flew from both wands only to be blocked by their opponent. Both of the women were fighting to kill.
Students ran to Molly's aid "No! Get back! Get Back! She is mine"
Nearly everyone in the Great Hall were watching the two duels- Voldemort and his three opponents and Bellatrix. Ginny was watching in terror of what she was sure would be her mother's death. She was preparing herself to see and mourn the end of her mother- when she heard cheers coming from crowds of people. She looked up expecting to see her family surrounding her mother's dead body but instead she saw her mother standing up and alive with a satisfied smile. That smile turned to fear as Molly saw Voldemort round on her to duel her because she had killed his most loyal follower and lover. Then suddenly she heard a shout of a spell, a spell to protect her from a familiar voice.
"PROTEGO"
As Voldemort turned to look for the source everyone's eyes followed his gaze. Harry pulled of his Cloak and in a stern voice he said "No one is to help me, no one- I have got to be the one to finish him"
Voldemort and Harry started circling each other. Harry was speaking but Ginny couldn't work out what he was saying, she didn't need to know what she was saying and it was taking everything for her to make herself stay where she was and not run and kiss him because that could get both her and Harry killed. Ginny was overjoyed to boy, no man, she loved was alive after all and she could see him in flesh and moving. HE WAS ALIVE.
Then she heard Voldemort cast his spell and Harry cast his at the same time.
"AVADA KEDAVRA." From Voldemort
"EXPELLIARMUS"
When Voldemort's green jet of light met Harry's own spell, the Elder Wand came flying through the air, Harry caught it as he had good Seeker reflexes. Due to the weakness of Voldemort, his magic had been drained because the Horcruxes had been destroyed and the Elder Wand was not in his command, he was defeated. Lord Voldemort killed himself- the spell intended for Harry backfired and he killed himself.
After that everything was a blur for Harry, he realised he hadn't slept in days and the adrenalin he had been running on was running out, he realised he hadn't showered properly since leaving Shell Cottage (3 or 4 days before), he realised he hadn't changed his clothes in a while, and he realised he still had the Elder Wand. He was crowded people were all around him, clapping him on his back, praising him, shouting for him , cheering , but what caught his attention throughout the whole scene was a gorgeous red headed girl called Ginny. Harry pushed his way through the crowd which was surprisingly easy and walked over to this goddess and as he got there he bent down and whispered in her ear.
"We'll talk later, after this ruckus has died down a bit"
She whispered back "You have a lot of explaining, you can't kiss me now because your breath smells ghastly but I love Harry James Potter."
After a little laugh at his breath being ghastly he whispered back "I love you too, now my love, I will see you later or tomorrow whenever I wake up."
With that Harry demanded some time and space and said "I will be giving interviews at a later stage at the moment can people give me some time and space alone to grieve the loss of my friends. Thank you."
He walked out off the Great Hall and up to Dumbledore's office, Harry spent nearly two hours talking with the portrait and learning about his new found power which Dumbledore said the Horcrux was limiting before. Harry also learned that he couldn't speak Parseltounge anymore. Dumbledore said that the Elder Wand was Harry's but Harry didn't want to keep it so he repaired his own wand and placed the Elder Wand back into Dumbledore's tomb.
"Thank you, Albus, for all your help and guidance over the last few years. I was told the true story from your brother about your sister Arianna. I know understand every time I said to you that you didn't understand what it was like to lose all your family, you knew all along. Thank you sir for everything, you are my mentor and I will be talking more with your portrait in the future. "
Harry then headed off to the Gryffindor tower to hopefully get some sleep; he didn't know how much he would get since he hadn't slept through the whole night since his encounter with Voldy in the graveyard.
Whilst Harry, was enjoying his peaceful slumber, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Luna were being checked for injuries by Molly Weasley. Molly was forcing them to eat, all of her children including Fleur, even though they were just pushing their food around on their plates. Ginny kept anxiously looking at the doors of the Great Hall to see if Harry had emerged yet.
Fleur was watching Ginny and she whispered to her " He won't come any quicker," Ginny looked at Fleur suprised, she didn't know the older woman took so much interest in her. Fleur laughed at Ginny's expression "I do pay lot of attention to you, you're quite the belle, don't look so surprised,ma chérie"
Molly Weasley was ordering everyone to go to bed, as they had a busy day rebuilding the castle tomorrow. Everyone went up to bed, eager to not have to face the wrath of Molly Weasley when she is grieveing the loss of her son, preparing to face a long night of no sleep because of nightmares. Girls went up to the Girls dorms, Boys to the Boys dorms. Molly and Arthur on a makeshift bed and Fleur and Bill on the couch, everyone drifted off to sleep quickly after all the adrenalin had worn off. They fell asleep around half past eleven.
In the morning, on the 3rd May 1998, everyone woke up red and puffy eyed, everyone including Harry. As Harry desencded the staris he saw Ginny waiting, sitting one the couch staring into the embers of the fireplace in the Common Room, alone. She heard someone walking down the stairs and looked up to see Harry watching her , she patted the seat next her and he followed her orders.
"Ginny, I am so sorry for lea..."
"HARRY JAMES POTTER, LISTEN TO ME RIGHT NOW. You say sorry way too much, I understand that you only broke up with me because you had to leave and go on the run completing the mission Dumbledore set you, I know that, and you've already apologised to me for that so stop apologising, you defeated Voldemort yesterday and saved our lives more than once. Me in the Chamber, Dad with the Snake, Ron you have saved countless of times and you saved all our lives yesterday not just the Weasley's but the WHOLE wizarding world. Harry you are a remarkable, noble git but I wouldn't have you any other way. I love you so much."
"I love you too and I guess your right, ok I won't brood over the lives that were lost. I will celebrate in the life, love and future they have given us, I love you, Ginny will you be my girlfriend?" Ginny stood there staring at him even though he had told her a million times that he loved her, she still couldn't believe that someone so amazing and perfect like him could love someone so poor, normal and common like her. Harry was getting nervous, Ginny was standing staring at him like he was mad.
"Okay" Harry said uncertianly. "If you don't want to be my..." That was as far as he got because Ginny grabbed him and kissed him, trying to convey all her feelings for him into one kiss, Harry kissed her back just as enthusiastically, he was tangaling his fingers in her hair when he suddenly heard a cough. He reluctantly stopped kissing Ginny but didn't let go of her as they turned around to face the person the cough had come from.
As Ginny and Harry turned they saw all the Weasley brothers, the fact the Fred's presence was not here was quite apparant, Bill was shocked, Charlie was smiling, Percy had a blank expression plastered on his face, George although he looked depressed had an I told you so expression, Ron looked like he was about to explode which did in fact happen quite quickly.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU, HARRY POTTER, YOU BROKE UP WITH HER LESS THAN A YEAR AGO, LEAVING HER HEARTBROKEN, LETTING HER GET TORTURED HERE FOR A YEAR. THEN YOU COME WALTZING BACK IN AFTER DEFEATING LORD VOLDEMORT AND KISS HER TO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH PAIN YOU HAVE CAUSED HER AND YOU JUST DO THAT RIGHT THERE. YOUR'E A BASTARD NO AN ORPHANED BASTARD. YOU KNOW SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER AND ALL US WOULD HAVE BEEN IF YOU HAD JUST DIED WHEN YOUR STUPID USELESS PARENTS DIED. YOU HAVE DESTROYED OUR FAMILY AND YOU WERE A WASTE OF SPACE ALL OF THESE YEARS, YOU KILLED MY BROTHER IN YOUR STUPID LITTLE GAME WITH VOLDEMORT. GET YOUR ARM OFF MY SISTER AND GET OUT OF MY SIGHT." Ron bellowed at Harry, when Harry was about to respond to what Ron was saying, someone stepped up, someone he didn't expect to.
"RONALD BILLIUS WEASLEY, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST SAID THAT TO HARRY, I CAN'T BELIEVE, YOU SAID HE SHOULD HAVE DIED WHAT HAS COME OVER YOU, YES ICKLE GIN-GIN AND HARRY MAY HAVE BROKEN UP LAST YEAR BUT DID YOU READ THE LETTER THAT NEVILLE GAVE TO HER FROM HARRY, DID YOU SEE HER WHEN VOLDEMORT ANNOUNCED HE WAS DEAD, DID YOU? AND ABOUT HARRY DYING WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU SAY THAT, DEATH ISN'T SOMETHING WE SHOULD WISH ON ANYONE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE FAMILY, EVEN OUR WORST ENEMIES. I'VE NEVER MET HARRY'S PARENTS BUT IF THEY ARE EVEN HALF AS NOBLE AS HARRY, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN TREASURED PEOPLE. HARRY BEING HERE HAS NOT DESTROYED OUR FAMILY- BECAUSE FAMILY CAN'T DESTROY FAMILY, HE IS A PART OF OUR FAMILY WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. YOU CAN'T CHOSE FAMILY RON, BUT KNOW ONE THING NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU IN YOUR LIFE BETWEEN FRIENDS, WOMEN, WORK ANYTHING FAMILY ARE ALWAY THERE TO HELP YOU GET THROUGH IT. FAMILY PUT EACH OTHER FIRST, FAMILY CARE FOR EACH OTHER MORE THAN THEY CARE FOR THEMSELVES, FAMILY WOULD LAY THERE LIVES ON THE LINE ANYTIME AND EVEN DIE AS LONG AS THEIR FAMILY IS SAFE. HOW MANY TIMES HAS HARRY DONE THAT FOR US? HARRY'S LIFE HAS NOT BEEN EASY RON, NOT AS EASY AS YOURS, MINE, HERMIONE'S. HE HAS BEEN THREATEND AND TORTURED SINCE THE AGE OF ONE. HE HASN'T HAD A PROPER FAMILY AT ALL. HOW DO YOU THINK THAT FEELS, KNOWING YOUR NOT WANTED, NOT CARED FOR, NOT LOVED COULD YOU DO THAT? COULD YOU LIVE LIKE THAT? VOLDEMORT ISN'T A GAME, YOU CAN'T REDO LIFE, YOU CAN'T GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING, LIFE IS HARD ONE DAY YOU COULD BE SO HAPPY AND THE NEXT YOU COULD BE LYING ON THE FLOOR, NEXT TO YOUR DEAD TWIN'S COFFIN, NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO NEXT. LIFE IS NASTY RON, WE ONLY GET ONE SHOT."
Ron stood there looking at George surprised as soon as the words left his mouth, he was expecting Harry, Ginny or Molly but not George. After that George ran out the potrait hole, Harry and Ginny followed, leaving Ron having to deal with all his brothers and his parents and Hermione, whether she was his girlfriend at the moment or not all the rage was aimed at him because of what he said to Harry.
Thank you for reading this, it is my first fanfic ever so am not sure how it is, I appreciate criticism and improvements. If anyone one has any thing to say about my story, whether good or bad, please tell me.
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