There is nothing but peace until….

"Harry."

Harry's happily floating mind tried to ignore the rude intrusion.

A not so gentle shove and a shout brought Harry back to reality.

Harry finally opened his eyes to the piercing bright light of the early morning, he then had to shut them again due to brightness of the light. He groped blindly for his glasses.

"Finally, nice of you to join the living again" Ron said as he stepped away from Harry with a smirk on his face.

"Why, what time is it?" Harry looked up at Ron whilst putting on his glasses and rubbing at the sleep in his eyes.

"Just gone past nine o'clock, you've been asleep for over a day mate" Ron said happily. "Come on, get up and get ready, everyone's down in the great hall having breakfast, and I'm starving"

Harry took a second to adjust to the fact that he'd been asleep for over 24 hours. "Have I missed much while I was out?"Ron nodded.

"You've missed the Auror's taking all of the Death eaters back to the Ministry, I think that we dodged a curse there mate", "I also think Ginny's looking for you" he said with worry in his voice.

"Yea, I'll find Ginny later; anyway she might be in the Great Hall eating with the rest of the family…"

Harry trailed off thinking about all of the people that had died for him in the last couple of days ; as he thought of Fred, Tonks and Remus, tears started to form around his eyes. He quickly looked away from Ron, and got up to walk towards the washroom, but he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Ron standing there.

"Nobody blames you mate, you know that right?" Harry could hear the mixture of concern and sadness in Ron's voice.

"I know, but your brother, Tonks and Remus and Teddy will grow up without a mother and father".

"Yeah, it's sad what happened, but what's done is done, all we can do now is remember them" Ron said with half a smile on his face.

"Yeah, Ok. You go head, I'll..." there was a pause as Harry caught his breathe and then continued "I'll catch up, I'm just going to get washed and changed"

"Right, ok then" Ron said still watching Harry with concern,worrying about his best mate.

"I'll be fine, Ron" Harry said with a half-hearted smile as he turned and walked into the bathroom.

Ron hesitated, went to follow, and then thought to himself 'he just needs some time' and left the dormitory.

Harry heard the door close behind Ron, he got washed, put on some fresh clothes and was about to leave the dormitory, when he stopped to take one last look at the place that had been his home from home for the past six years. He thought about all the happy memories he had from living at Hogwarts, and smiled.

"I've had some fun here" Harry, said this more to himself than anything else.

He then turned and closed the door and started to walk down to the Great-hall. This was one of the hardest things that he had ever done, and all he had to do was walk down a couple of staircases, but the further he walked the harder it got. Everything he looked at brought back memories of the battle that had taken so much from him. He was standing on the last flight of stairs, he could see the Great-Hall's big wooden door and could hear the laughter and chatter of the people inside, but something caught his eye, Ginny was sat on the last step of the stairs. It was like she could sense him because as he approached she turned to face him.

"I'm sorry" Harry said, before Ginny could even open her mouth.

"For what? It wasn't your fault Harry".

Then Ginny got up and hugged Harry, they stood there holding on to each other, when they finally broke apart Harry took hold of Ginny's hand and they walked into the Great-Hall together.

Harry thought to himself it can only get better from now on, and for the first time in weeks he smiled.

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