DISCLAMIER: I DO NOT! OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS METIONED OR NAMES OF PLACES AND PEOPLE AND SO ON AND SO FORTH THEY BELONG TO J.K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Last Horcruxes

Chapter 1:

The Day After

Harry felt as though the wizarding world had crumpled beneath him and that nothing would ever be the same, the warm day only seemed to give him a chill, as his jet black hair moved in the warm summer wind he breathed and thought back to the last time he saw Dumbledore. He closed his eyes and tried to imagine what it would be like if Snape had never come up the stairs if Malfoy had just lost his gut, if the death eaters had lost the battle and retreated. He could see Dumbledore now.

Leaning against the rampart weakly sliding to the floor, his face paler then usual and green under the dark mark. His breathing shallow and his voice low as he told Malfoy again and again that he was not a killer and again and again Malfoy shouted that he didn't know what he was talking about.

He saw the whole thing again as though it had been sitting in his brain on instant replay, seeing Dumbledore rising into the air, slowly almost gracefully and then dropping behind the rampart and out of sight. Harry opened his eyes o longer wanting to imagine the death of one of the greatest wizards he had ever known but blocked any thought of Dumbledore completely. "Harry dear" said Mrs. Weasly in a quiet voice. "You should come inside dear; dinner is going to start soon." Harry nodded silently and stood up straight he opened the back door and all the familiar smells of the burrows small kitchen met him. He inhaled them and walked over to the small scrubbed table and took a seat next to Ginny.

She patted his arm consolingly and offered him a plate filled with broiled potatoes, steamed broccoli and a drumstick from the plump turkey sitting in the middle of their annual back to school feast. "Ginny, I was wondering when we go back to school if you, Ron and Hermione could help me gather the members of the D.A. back together again? The D.A.!?" Ginny looked elated and confused at the same time. "I think that it's a good idea Harry but why? We can practice defense against the dark arts openly Umbridge is packed up at the ministry… Well-"Harry said "To practice I mean you see how Voldemort has gotten death eaters into the school, but that wasn't Voldemort who got them here it was Malfoy? Under the command of Voldemort, I really doubt that someone as cowardly as Malfoy was able to guess that the vanishing cabinet had a path between schools even if he said he did.

I really think that we need to bring as many people back from the D.A. as possible, I mean the whole point of it was to be prepared for battle if Voldemort or his followers attacked wasn't it? So what was the point of going through all that trouble of secrecy if we're just going to waste it? Your right your right." Ginny said with an air of confidence, I wouldn't mind having the D.A. back it can be a second line of defense the first being the order but we can fight to Harry your absolutely right but are you sure that everyone will be as opened minded as us about this?

You know what happened last time people were acting as though Voldemort's return never happened I mean now that Dumbledore well, what do you think people will do now and who is to say that anyone will come to you, seeing as your not coming back with the rest of us. And when are you going back to the Dursley's? I want to be there with you, if you must go I want to be with you. Ron and Hermione are coming with me as well, but Ginny you have to return to school the rest of us Ron, and Hermione I mean we have to do the rest.