Here is my first ever Harry Potter story. It is basically about how Harry and Ginny's relationship evolves during Harry, Hermione and Ron returning to Hogwarts to repeat their Seventh Year at the school. It also shows how Ron and Hermione's relationship evolves, as well as Harry, Ron and Hermione's friendship throughout the year. Expect Drama, Romance and much more. Will include the whole Weasley Family and a little of Hermione's parents. As well as the normal gang at Hogwarts.

Disclaimer:- I don't own Harry Potter at all, he belongs to the wonderful and fabulous J.K Rowling and her publishers. All I own is the plot line, some own characters later on, the books and DVD's.

AFTER THE GREAT WAR

Chapter 1

Harry's Point of View

I walk up the quiet dusty lane pulling my school trunk behind me, which leads to the one place where I feel at home. It is the place where I have spent the last 7 summers and even though I am not blood related to any of the people in the house, they are my family. I am of course talking about the Burrow, where the Weasley's live.

I approach the gate of the property and I look at the house that is three stories high and has odd parts sticking out that makes the house very quirky indeed. I push open the gate as quietly as I possibly can. I then start to walk up the short pathway to the front door. Just as I am about to knock on the front door, I see it swing away from me and I am face to face with a women with medium length red hair and a smile on her face.

"Harry Dear. How are you?" She asked as I walked in the Weasley's kitchen.

"Thanks Mrs Weasley. I am not too bad." I reply. "How are you and everyone else?" I ask looking at her face once I have sat my trunk down on the floor.

"We are all coping. Still a little sad at times but we'll get there." She answers, then adds, "Fred would have wanted us to all move on and be happy again." I nod my head in agreement.

There is a slight pause before Mrs Weasley says, "Ron, Hermione and Ginny are all in yours and Ron's room if you want to go up there."

"Ok, thanks for letting me stay Mrs Weasley." I say as I am about to pick up my trunk and carry it up the stairs.

"Harry. Don't carry your trunk all the way up there, just levitate it up. It is a pleasure having you with us, it doesn't feel the same if you are not here. I wish you could have stayed after Fred's Funeral. I think that Ron, Hermione and Ginny would have liked it." Mrs Weasley explains.

"Believe me Mrs Weasley, I would have much rather have stayed here with you, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and everyone else. Except Professor McGonagall asked me to return to Privet Drive just to check on my Uncle, Aunt and Cousin and remove any knowledge of my being with them for good. I would have been here yesterday but my cousin Dudley wasn't home last night and I had to wait for them all to be in the house together. I know I left you all without really giving you a reason just that I would be back in a few days, was rather cruel of me given the circumstances." I explain.

"Harry, you don't need to explain anything to me or any of us. Now go up and see Ron, Hermione and Ginny as they are dying to see you." Mrs Weasley said smiling again.

I then levitated my trunk up the creaky stairs, which led to Ron's room in the attic. It wasn't that long till I was outside the door and I could hear voices coming from inside the room. I wasn't able to hear what was being said though. I knocked on the door and was about to reach for the doorknob when I saw it turning. In a matter of seconds the door was open and I saw sitting on Ron's bed where Ron and Hermione. Ron's arm was around Hermione's waist and his fingers where drawing little patterns on her hip, and her head was on Ron's shoulder and they were both looking out of the window. Neither of them took in the fact that I was even there. I coughed slightly and they both jumped at the sound and looked towards the door. I then heard a giggle coming from behind the door.

Hermione then got off of Ron's bed and ran towards me and gave me a massive bone crushing hug. Once she pulled away and was trying to look angry but was failing badly at it.

"Hermione let Harry get in the room before you kill him." Ron's voice says from behind Hermione and was full of laughter. Hermione stepped aside and let Ron and I hug. Once we pulled apart, I finally walked into the room and my heart skipped a beat at the sight of Ginny sitting on my bed with her knees tucked up against the rest of her body and her arms around them. Her long straight red hair was hanging down her face. She had a small smile on her face as we both just stared at each other, in silence.

I dropped my trunk in the middle of the room and started to walk towards my bed. When I was in front of Ginny, I put my hands out to touch her hands and took them in mine and gently pulled her up and into my body. I felt her wrap her arms around my waist and grip my shirt in a death grip. I then wrapped my arms around her neck and shoulders and held her like that for a couple of minutes. She then started to pull away and then she sat back down on my bed and I sat next to her. Ron and Hermione has resumed their previous positions on Ron's bed.

There was a silence for a couple of minutes until Ginny said quietly, "You came back. I was so worried about you and that you might not come back again."

"Of course I did. I said I would didn't I. I just had some things I needed to sort out, that was all." I reply looking Ginny, Ron and Hermione in the eyes, but mostly Ginny.

"What sort of things, mate?" Ron asked.

"Things to do with my Uncle, Aunt and Cousin." I state turning to look at him.

"You're not going to live with them again are you?" Ginny asks looking worried.

"No Gin. Not in a million years. No-one could ever pay me enough Gallons in the world to make me ever go back to Privet Drive again." I answer honestly to her, looking her in eyes.

"So what did you have to do at the Dursley's?" Hermione asked.

"I just returned to get the stuff I left last summer and I had to make them forget about me for good." I answer looking at Ron and Hermione. "I would have been here yesterday but stupid Dudley was out of the house last night and I had to wait for all of them to be in the house before I said the spell." I add. Hermione lets out a gasp at what I have said.

"HARRY JAMES POTTER! Why on earth did you erase your family's memories of you? And go back to the house to get your stuff?" Hermione half shouts.

"I got my stuff because I am going back to Hogwarts just like you and Ron are, Hermione. I erased their memories of me because I have never really classed them as family, the only reason I ever went back there at the beginning of the summer was because of the protection the house gave me from Voldermort. Besides I am with my real family now." I explain while looking at each of them.

"Why didn't you just tell us that before you left after F..f..fred's funeral?" Ginny asked with tears in her eyes.

"Professor McGonagall asked me not tell anyone about my trip until after I was back." I explained.

"Why bloody well not. For god's sake Dumbledore trusted you, to tell Hermione and me about the Horcruxes's. Why on earth couldn't McGonagall have trusted us to know that you were going back to Privet Drive to collect your thing and erase your families' memories." Ron asked.

"I don't know, but she didn't." I reply taking a deep breath after it and looking at the floor.

I then feel Ginny's hand on my shoulder and she says, "Harry? What is up?"

I continue to look at the floor before saying, "It just feels weird that I don't ever have to go back to the Dursley's and that if I was to meet them on the street they wouldn't even know who I was." I raise my head after I have finished talking. Then I lean back against the wall of the room.

"That is true, but is there a reason that McGonagall got you to erase their memories?" Hermione asked.

"She asked me if I had any intention of going back to live with them and I said no, as your mum and dad had offered to let me stay here. She then said that if I wasn't going to live with them then the best thing I could do for them was to make them forget me. Apparently they didn't like hiding for the past year and didn't like being around magic and everything. So in a way I am doing them a favour. They forget me and in time I will forget them." I explain.

"When did you and McGonagall speak as you were always with us?" Ron enquires.

"Remember the second night after the battle?" I ask. They all nod their heads to say 'yes'. "Well I left the common room to go for a walk and I meet McGonagall and she asked if she could speak with me for a moment." I clarified. "So how is George?" I ask.

Ron and Hermione exchange glances before Ron says, "He is quiet, to damn quiet. He hasn't stepped foot in his and Fred's old room. He is sleeping in Percy's old room and Perce is in Bill's."

"Has he spoken to anyone?" I enquire.

"No. None of us." Ginny says simply. "I wish he would talk to one of us." She adds, resting her head on my shoulder.

"He will once he is ready." Hermione says.

Mrs Weasley's voice is heard from down stairs shouting, "RON!! GINNY!! HERMIONE!! HARRY!! Could you please come down for a minute?" So we all get up and walk out the room and walk down the creaky stairs.

End Harry's Point of View

Molly's Point of View
I am standing in the kitchen cooking dinner for my family. I have just shouted for Ron, Hermione, Harry and Ginny to come help me. I can hear their footsteps on the stairs. I turn around and see my youngest son and his not official girlfriend walking down the last couple of stairs holding hands. Then I see Ginny holding hands with Harry, I know that they were together last year but Harry had to break it off because of the Horcruxes's. I just hope that they can find each other again and from the looks of things they might have.

I know that Arthur and I already think of Harry and Hermione as family, but it would be nice if one day in the future it is made official. That being said I know that Ron and Hermione haven't actually said that they are a couple but I know that since they got back after the war that they have been inseparable. Also we have had an idea that they both liked each other since they first met as all they did was bicker, that didn't really change as they got older but I think the fact that when Ron dated that other girl in their 6th year at Hogwarts it really made Hermione realise what she felt for Ron and vice versa, or so Ginny told me after Harry, Ron and Hermione left.

"What was it you wanted mum?" Ginny asks looking at me.

"Oh right. Could Hermione and Ron clear the table and you and Harry can set the table for dinner." I respond looking at the four of them.

"How many is for dinner, Mrs Weasley?" Hermione asks as she gets place mats out.

"Eight of us." I reply. "Also Harry and Hermione it is time you called Arthur and I by our first names, as you guys are of age any way." I add.

"Errr...thanks Molly." I hear Harry say slightly nervously.

I then hear the four of them walk into the dining room and start setting the table. I then hear Arthur, Percy and George enter through the front gate and I can hear them talking in hushed voices that suddenly go silent as they approach the door of the house. The door then opens and my husband and two sons enter and I look at each of them and then say, "What is going on?"

What is going on? Will Arthur tell Molly and the others the truth? Is it more bad news for them Weasley family? Find out in Chapter 2 of After the Great War.

A.N:- Here is the first chapter of my new story. I hope you all liked it and will review it and let me know if there is anything I should change about it, or anything you want to know. I think the first couple of chapters will be before they get to Hogwarts, like getting there book lists and other things from Diagon Alley ect.

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Vikki xxx