Author's Note : I don't own Harry Potter. (If I did I wouldn't have stopped at only seven books. Jesus! What is J.K.R. thinking? For God's sake! Harry's just seventeen. Write some more!)
Master of Death
Chapter 1 : Prologue
Harry Potter was staring at the spot where Albus Dumbledore had died. It was a little after midnight and the world was asleep. From the astronomy tower he can see almost whole of the ground and the beginning of the forbidden forest in the soft twilight. For someone ignorant of current happenings of the wizarding world this place, this time would appear calm and at peace with itself. But for Harry it was calm before the storm. It wasn't the first time he came here. He had came back the same night Dumbledore was murdered to retrieve his invisibility cloak. He had stared at the spot for hours. He had set there and wallowed in grief, had raged against the injustice of it all. How the hell was he supposed to defeat Voldemort? He was doing the same now. But he hadn't lost his mind completely. He hadn't let the weight of the world crush him.
Suddenly silence of the night was broken. Soft sound of the footsteps brought him back to now and here in the land of living. He rapidly brought out his wand from his pocket, just in time for the person to reach the top. As Ginny Weasley came in to view he relaxed and then tensed for an entirely different reason. Her bright brown eyes were looking straight at him. Ex-girlfriend. Awkward. But than he got worried. It was late. He voiced the first thought that entered his mind "What are you doing here? Is everything all right?"
She hesitated in answering and He noticed that emotions in her eyes were different. Since the day Dumbledore died he has noticed the grief and fear clearly in her eyes though he knew that fear wasn't for herself. Now her eyes looked afraid but like she was afraid about something she had done. And he asked again "Gin?"
And she answered softly as if afraid of someone hearing them though nobody was there. "I know what you are doing to defeat Tom. The Prophecy. Your quest to destroy Horcruxes. Ron told me."
"What! Why would he do that? I told him not to tell anyone!" Harry was quite surprised and worried. He strode towards Ginny, took her shoulders in his hands and looked right in her eyes trying to convey the seriousness of the situation. "Gin you can't tell anyone about this. Not order. Not your family. Not even D.A. Ginny. No one. Do you understand me? Voldemort has systematically killed anyone who knew this information Gin. What the hell was Ron thinking? You'll be in so much danger if anyone finds out."
Harry hadn't told her what he was doing with the headmaster and she had never asked. It had hurt a little that he was keeping a secret from her but now she could understand why he was doing so. Harry could see the mischief entering her eyes. She looked quite impish now. "I may have threatened him with a few slightly painful curses..." Harry just raised an eyebrow. He knew Ron wouldn't buckle that easily and Ginny appeared like she was holding something back. "...And I may have threatened to make his feelings for a certain bushy head brunette known to the whole Gryffindore house!" Harry couldn't stop his lips from quirking upward. This girl could make him smile anytime.
But soon she became hesitant and fearful again. Harry said "What is it? You can tell me anything."
Ginny asked him "Promise me that you will hear me out, think about it and wouldn't blow your head off."
Harry was intrigued. What could make her so nervous? "Alright I promise! Let's hear it."
Ginny took his hand in hers and told him with the fierce look that he so loved "I want to help you. Fight by your side. Go with you wherever you go, as your girlfriend."
Harry has expected this conversation for some time but why was she so nervous about that. Was she afraid of rejection that much? He took her face in his hands and told her as gently as he could "You know I can't do that. If something happened to you I would die there and then." He wondered many time how much he loved her. He never told her. He wanted to tell her right now but he didn't. He didn't want her chasing after him because deep down he believed that chances of him making it alive were pretty thin. Ginny expected this answer so she was ready with her argument "What if I have found a way to keep myself and you completely protected? And by complete I really mean complete. Nothing and nobody can kill us or even harm us permanently."
This got Harry's attention, "How's that possible?" he asked. She couldn't be right. He thought that true immortality was impossible.
Ginny took a deep breath, looked him right in the eyes and whispered "By making a Horcrux."
Master of Death
Author : I wanted to read a story in which Harry makes a Horcrux and gives to Ginny. I always thought that Harry and Ginny sharing that kind of secret would be awesome. But I could find only one story and that was short and incomplete. There were other two or three in which Harry makes a Horcrux but they weren't satisfying either so I wrote this little piece. I don't know where will this go. We'll see.
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