CHAPTER 1

The Surprise Gift

Harry didn't want to go back to the Dursley's, especially since the death of Dumbledore. He couldn't believe he was dead, he kept saying to himself he was still alive, "what if snape never meant the killing curse?" "You're wrong. He did mean it, he killed Dumbledore." "Yes, but did you see what happened? He flew into the air, hung in mid-air, and then fell to the ground." Harry was standing in front of his aunt and uncle's house with his trunk and Hedwig. Once he stepped inside, to no surprise they didn't talk to him at all. A couple of times, Dudley would make fun of him, but wince and tell Harry to put his wand away. "I'm of age now, I could do magic if I please." And with a notice of a scared look on Dudley's face, Harry went to bed pleased with himself.

It was one of the worst nights Harry has had since his return to number 4 Privet Drive. "Severus…Please…" Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. "Avada Kedavra!" Harry was having these dreams commonly. Not one night has passed without a dream. "Blocked again and again and again until you learn to keep your mouth shut and your mind closed, Potter!" Harry had no idea what Snape has meant by these words, could it be possible he was helping him? He was now dreaming of the last time he saw Dumbledore on the ground with the locket and the note on the ground,

To the Dark Lord

I know I will be dead long before you read this

But I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret.

I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can.

I face death in the hope that when you meet your match,

You will be mortal once more

R.A.B

"Boy, wake up and come downstairs!" aunt Petunia said through Harry's door. Harry just lied there on his bed trying to figure out where he was. "HARRY POTTER!" aunt Petunia said in a more viscous way. "Coming aunt Petunia," said Harry in a shocked voice. He can't remember the last time aunt Petunia called him by his name. Harry got up, looked around for his glasses, after about two minutes, of searching for them he found them and put them on. When he opened his door he noticed it was too quite, as he was going down the stairs, he starts to think that no one is home, but he was wrong. He herd people in the living room, and he was hoping the Dursleys left, but he was wrong, they were sitting with three other people in the living room.

"Harry, how are you? I've missed you so much" said Ginny while running up to Harry and she gave him a big peck on the cheek. Harry could have sworn he saw uncle Vernon give a surprise look. "Hey Ginny, I'm doing good, just trying to figure out what….." Harry didn't want to tell Ginny about the dreams he was having, he didn't want her to be concerned. Harry and Ginny walked back to the living room where to his surprise he saw Ron and Hermione holding hands. "Are… are you two…err…dating?" Harry asked them with a shocked voice. Ron and Hermione exchanged looks and then Hermione said in a happy, calm voice "well Harry, actually yes we are dating. We started dating when we left Hog-" uncle Vernon gave a suppressed cough; "I…Uhh…mean our school last year after what happened." Hermione, Ron, and Ginny noticed a look of sadness on Harry's face.

After about a minute, Harry decided to go back upstairs to pack his trunk while everyone else is downstairs. While getting up, Ginny said "Harry hold up I'll come and help you." Out of nowhere uncle Vernon bellowed "If you going to pack you better not use…that…that…wand." Harry, Dudley, and aunt Petunia were shocked that Vernon said wand in the house. They got to Harry's room and started packing; they were half-way done when Harry noticed Ginny staring out the window. "Ginny? Are you ok?" Harry asked her. After a few minutes Ginny started talking. "Harry after you come to burrow for the wedding, are you coming back to school if it opens?" Harry noticed tears coming down her face and he knew what she was about to ask, "And what about us? I mean look at Ron and Hermione, they are happy together. I know what you said last year at the funeral" from the look of Harry's face she knew what he was going to say, "But I really don't care, I like you a lot and I know if I'm in any danger I'll know you'll be there for me." Ginny walked around the room to finish packing.

Several minutes passed by before Harry and Ginny were coming down the stairs with his trunk and Hedwig's empty cage. "Oi…took you two long enough" said Ron not paying attention to Ginny who was sobbing. "Are you two…Ginny why are you crying?" Hermione noticed Ginny sobbing, so she went up to her and hold her to comfort her. "Ginny why are you crying? You can tell me." Hermione said in a questioning voice looking nervously at Harry as of though she knew what they were talking about upstairs in Harry's room, "It's…it's nothing Hermione, I just asked Harry what's going to happen between us" Ginny started crying harder and harder. Harry noticed Ginny crying and decided that he should try to comfort her. "Ginny look, I really don't know what's going to happen between us to tell the truth." He can see more tears building in her eyes, "and you were right Ginny, no matter what I will always be there for you, I like you a lot also I just have to figure stuff out first." Harry gave her a little smirk and she returned the smirk back to Harry.

Harry, Hermione, and Ginny were walking back to living room when Ron was coming out of the kitchen with some food. "Ron why were you in the kitchen?" Harry asked Ron, "because I was hungry and I know that the muggles wouldn't let me have so food so I uhh…" Ron gave a nervous look towards the living room, and when Harry looked to the living room he saw uncle Vernon, aunt Petunia, and Dudley looking confused. Harry just looked back to Ron who gave like a nervous look until Harry spoke, "Ron that was the best idea ever." Both Harry and Ron started laughing.

After what seemed a life time of laughing, the four of them were standing in the living room wondering on how they were getting back to the Burrow. But before anyone spoke Ginny pulled out a locket and started to look at the locket then spoke to Harry. "Harry I want you to have this locket, it was my mum's locket." Harry took the locket with loss of words; he had no idea what to say. "Ginny…thanks," Harry said with a half laugh. As he opened the locket he felt Ginny's eyes upon him, he looked over to Ginny and gave her a loving smile. "Ok…well I don't want to ruin a wonderful thing here…OUCH," Ron was rubbing his arm due to Hermione punching him, "sorry…well let's get going today is the wedding."

Ron was pulling out a small bag filled with floo powder without realizing that they were in a muggle house and the muggle fireplace wasn't connected to the floo network. "Ron you stupid prat, you can't use floo powder in a muggle fireplace." Ginny snapped at Ron who hastily put the floo bag into his pocket. "Fine Ginny, but how do you expect we bring Harry back. Even though he is of age he hasn't passed his apparition test." Everyone knew this was true, Harry just turned of age, and he hasn't even taken his apparition test. "Well" Ginny said while looking a little curious at everyone, "I was thinking we can take our brooms." Ginny expected that Ron wouldn't bring his broom so right before Ron helped Ginny apparate to Harry's house, Ginny shrunken Ron's broom and stuffed it into her pocket. Ginny took Ron's broom out of her pocket and brought it back to regular size. "Ok well…then you and Hermione go on my broom and me and Harry on his broom." Both Ginny and Hermione gave him a disappointing yet angry look. "Fine…me and Hermione and Ginny and Harry."

After saying goodbye for the last time to the Dursleys he and Ginny mounted his broom and took off into the sky on there way to the Burrow. "Harry we need to get higher there are muggles looking up." So Harry went up higher and higher until they were hidden in the clouds, they couldn't even find Ron and Hermione. After several minutes Harry and Ginny decided just to go straight to the Burrow without Ron and Hermione, on there way to the burrow, Harry and Ginny didn't speak to each other at all during the whole ride, it was the longest broom ride in there lives. Harry was about to speak for the first time in this flight but Ginny interrupted him, "Harry look, Ron and Hermione are just ahead of us and I can see the house." Harry was happy to see Ron and Hermione touchdown on the ground in front of the burrow and Harry and Ginny touchdown just a few seconds behind them.

"Well were here" Ron said as the four friends walked up to the burrow. "Mum, dad me Ginny and Hermione are back from getting Harry" Said Ron as they heard a plate crash and break in the kitchen. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny walked into the kitchen and saw Mr. and Mrs. Weasley going crazy making dinner for the wedding. "Mrs. Weasley don't worry I'll get it" Harry said while bending down to pick up the broken plates. "Thanks a lot Harry." Said Mrs. Weasley while going frantic around the kitchen, "you won't believe how long I and Arthur have been cooking. We pulled an all-nighter just to prepare the food."

After helping the Weasley's in the kitchen, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny went upstairs to help Harry unpack his trunk in Ron's room. "Harry" said Hermione in a secretive voice, "are you going to get together with Ginny? You two make such a great couple." Harry just stood there for a few seconds before speaking, "Hermione, I really do want to get back together with her; I love her with my life." Hermione looked so happy about this. "But right now I really don't want to be with her now at this moment because so much is going to happen now that Dumbledore-" Harry choked on his words and had to hold back his tears, "is dead. Voldemort is a lot stronger now, and you remember what happened to Ginny in her first year, Voldemort used her to open the Chamber of Secrets because I'm best mate with her brother. I broke up with her last year because at the funeral I started to think how up set I would have been if that was her funeral. I don't want Voldemort take her away from me, I'm doing this to protect her."

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were done helping Harry. They all went downstairs to see everything set up for the wedding, where they herd Mrs. Weasley talking to Fred and George, "Fred, George no funny stuff today ok. I want this day perfect for Bill and Fleur's wedding." Mrs. Weasley said stubbornly while pointing a finger at them, "Come on mum, we know this is a big day for Bill, we will never do anything to mess it up for Bill and Phlegm." George said, but after reading Mrs. Weasley's disappointing face, George hastily added, "Ok mum we mean Fleur. Come on mum you really got to work on your humor." Mrs. Weasley gave a little chuckle then turned towards the kitchen when herself and the twins started hearing sounds coming from there. Mrs. Weasley and the twins were walking up to the kitchen and Mrs. Weasley cried out "who's there…P…Per…Percy?" Mrs. Weasley and the twins were standing there all shocked; no one knew what to do or what to say.

"Hello mum, hello Fred & George, how have you been?" Percy asked nervously standing across the kitchen room waiting for an answer. The three were lost of words until somebody behind them spoke and Mrs. Weasley and the twins gave a little jump of fright. "What the bloody hell are you doing here?" Ron asked standing in the doorway of the kitchen and the living room. Hermione, Ginny, and Harry were staring between Ron and Percy not knowing what to say. "Ahh…Ginny, how are you? I hope you did good on your O.W.L.'s and had-" Percy gave an angry look towards Harry, "-no distractions," but before Ginny could speak Harry spoke to Percy as though he was a stranger on the street, "don't worry I didn't distract her from anything." Mrs. Weasley looked at Harry and Percy with a confused look. "Harry, what do you mean you didn't distract Ginny from anything?" Percy just laughed at his mom's comment, after he stopped laughing he told his mom about Ginny and Harry last year. "So Ginny," Mrs. Weasley said to Ginny after calling her to come back to the kitchen, "this is why you are always in your room upset huh?" Ginny just looked at Percy with an angry but sad look then looked over to her mom and gave her a nervous nod.

Mrs. Weasley just stood there speechless. She knew her only daughter had a crush on Harry but didn't know that they actually dated. "How did you two start dating?" she asked Harry and Ginny. Harry gave a nervous glance at Ginny; he was scared on how Mrs. Weasley would react, "well I had detention with Snape during the quidditch final. When I was done with my detention I went down to the quidditch pitch to see if the match was still in play, but it wasn't, so I went back to the castle and went to the Gryffindor portrait. When the portrait opened everyone was screaming due to wining the quidditch cup." Harry kept looking so nervouse at Ginny and Mrs. Weasley, he knew after explaining how they got together he had to tell Mrs. Weasley why he broke up with her even though he didn't want to, "when I stepped in Ginny ran up to me threw her hands around me and I just sort of…kissed her." Harry looked nervously for her reaction, and to his surprise, "Well I'm not surprised…I knew this would happen but how come you two never told me." Ginny was about to answer when there was a knock on the door.

"We'll talk later…Ahh Charlie, Billy, how are you dears?" Mrs. Weasley gave Charlie and Billy great hug not even noticing the look on Percy's face. He was clearly upset that his own mother didn't give him a hug when he came back home. "Hello mum it's nice to see you too…" Billy said while trying to get out of his mothers tight grip. After hugging his mother he looked at Percy and asked him why he's back. "I'm back because…ever since Dumbledore was murdered, the ministry has been going a little crazy and well…" Percy glanced down to his luggage and they all took the hint, Percy came to forgive everyone, and to move back in. "Well…" Mr. Weasley said as he walked into the kitchen and saw Percy with his luggage, Percy just looked at his father before speaking, "dad I'm sorry about our row, I just wanted a really good job at the ministry, not that your job is ok, I mean come on who else is obsessed with muggle artifacts. And the fight two years ago made me realize that Voldemort is back and we need to stop him." Mr. Weasley was so happy to hear these words come out of his son's mouth; he ran up to him and gave him a bigger hug then Mrs. Weasley, if she gave Percy a hug.