A/N: This is my first fan fiction and I hope you'll like it

Oh and of course I don't own anything referring to Harry Potter

This story starts at the beginning of "The Prince's Tale" right after Voldemort commands his forces to retreat and announces that the battle will continue in hour unless Harry faces him in the Forbidden Forest. But Snape hasn't died in my story so Harry never got the chance to see all of his memories and so he still doesn't know that he is the last Horcrux...


Come on now… Think! Harry told himself. There must be a solution. Nagini is a Horcrux for sure but what is the last one?? Focus…We've destroyed Hufflepuff's Cup, Ravenclaw's Diadem and Slytherin's Lock…It can't be something that belonged to Gryffindor, because the only valuable possession of Gryffindor was his sword, which is we know for sure is no Horcrux…So we've got four Horcruxes together… then there was the ring that Dumbledore had destroyed and of course the diary… Cup, Diadem, Lock, Nagini, Ring, Diary…Diary… Harry's thoughts trailed off into an different direction. Chamber of Secrets… Tom Riddle…Dumbledore…

Wait… Dumbledore…There had been something… And then suddenly he remembered the talk he had with the former headmaster almost 6 years ago.

"You can speak Parseltongue, Harry, because Lord Voldemort – who is the last remaining ancestor of Salazar Slytherin – can speak Parseltongue. Unless I'm much mistaken, he transferred some of his own powers to you the night he gave you that scar. Not something he intended to do, I'm sure…"

That day he hadn't understood the meaning of these words. Now he did.

"Harry?" Caught of guard Harry looked up directly into Ginny's warm, brown eyes, his heart pounding in his chest. "Are you okay?", she asked worried taking a seat next to him in the Gryffindor Common Room.

"Yeah I'm fine.. just didn't hear you enter the room…

"Well, you looked like you were somewhere far away", Ginny said smiling weakly.

Harry noticed that she didn't look very healthy. Her long red hair that Harry loved so much looked pretty messy and she had dark shadows under her puffy, red eyes.

She has probably cried for hours Harry thought worried. He wanted to lock his arms around her, to comfort her and to tell her that everything was gonna be okay so badly, but he knew that it wasn't.

"Yeah.. I was just trying to find the answer…", Harry said turning away from her because he could no longer bear looking at her sad face. Instead he stared into the empty fireplace, where he had so often warmed himself after a cold day on the grounds. It had half collapsed during the battle of Hogwarts and now looked rather shabby.

"The answer to what?", Ginny asked desperately. "And now don't tell me that it is too dangerous for me to know, I don't think it makes any difference any more."

Harry sighed, still not looking at her. "Yeah I guess you're right", he finally said and started telling her all about Voldemort and his Horcruxes.

"And so here I am wondering what the last Horcrux could be", he finished his story. "Oh and of course I still need to figure out how to get rid of Nagini.."

He didn't tell her that by now he was quite positive of knowing what the last Horcrux was.

" Okay that's a tough one… well.. you said that Dumbledore told you that Voldemort intended to tear his soul into 7 pieces.. what if he never finished his work because he vanished? Maybe there is only Nagini left..", Ginny suggested.

"Yeah..", Harry lied finally looking at her. " Yes you're probably right.."

He hated to lie to Ginny but he couldn't stand telling her the truth either.

"Harry, you can't fool me", she said obviously hurt. " If you don't want to tell me the truth – Fine! But you know, you don't have to lie to me.."

She stood up and turned away from him heading to the girls dormitory .

"Ginny! It's just… I – I can't"

" Why Not?! Do you think I can't bear the truth? Harry, my brother was murdered! He is dead and I'll never have the chance to see him again. I think whatever it is I can live with it. But I can't live with the fact that you seem to think that I'm to weak to know it, because I'm not! "

Harry looked at Ginny stunned. "I – I'm sorry…", he stumbled.

" Oh forget about it..", Ginny whispered her eyes filled with tears and she hurried into the girls dormitory and slammed the door shut.

"Fuck!", Harry shouted angrily, shoving a roll of parchment, a quill and a bottle of ink from a table. The ink bottle crashed on the floor and burst into a thousand pieces leaving its surroundings covered in black ink. " There I am trying to protect her and all I do is hurt her!"

Okay now calm down…Harry thought and dropped back into his favorite armchair. I still have to figure out what I'm doing about the last two remaining Horcruxes…Nagini…Maybe with Gryffindor's sword? I killed the Basilisk with it… Chamber of Secrets… Ginny… no FOCUS… where is that damn sword now…Ginny probably hates me now…No she doesn't you fool… you just hurt her…

I can't concentrate like this…but I can't tell her, I just can't…

"That's it", Harry shouted out. He was slightly surprised of hearing his voice as he hadn't intended to say that out loud. "I'll write her a letter… and I guess I'll have to write a will to", he added almost amused by his idea. But when he thought about it, he decided that it was necessary and he turned serious again.

He picked up the roll of parchment and the quill and placed it on one of the tables. Then he took out his wand, pointed it at the shattered ink bottle, murmured Reparo and put the now repaired ink bottle next to the quill.

The he sat down on a chair, dipped the quill into the ink and started scribbling his first letter - his will. Then he started writing a letter for Ginny which was way harder than he would have thought.

When he was finally finished he stuffed the letter and his will into one of his pockets and went down into the great hall. At last he had a plan.