Chapter One
"Oww!" Ginny yelled in pain as she stubbed her toe on her bed post while accidentally waking Hermione up in the process.
"Ginny..?" Hermione mumbled sleepily.
"Oh, morning, sorry 'bout that Hermione, I stub my toe every single time I try to sneak out. I can fight off Bellatrix Lestrange but this bed post gets me every time!" The red head whispered furiously.
"Sneak out?" Hermione asked, still half asleep.
"Yeah I'm meeting Harry, I have to go, don't tell Ron!" Ginny said as she ran out the door of the girl's dormitory, she was already late.
Its quite difficult to sneak out of the Gryffindor common room without anyone noticing. Neville had fallen asleep on the couch so Ginny had to tip toe across the whole common room. Then he fell off of the couch, but didn't wake up so Ginny tried to lift him back on to the couch but ended up having to use a hover charm to lift him back onto the couch. Now she was an hour and a half late.
"Gin!" said a voice behind Ginny as she ran down the hall, she screamed and went to take out her wand, but she stopped when Harry gave her a peck on the cheek.
She gasped and punched him in the arm "You scared me!" she scolded half heartedly, while leaning into kiss her boyfriend, but they had to hide because Filch was rounding the corner.
"Filch has rotten timing," Harry said once the caretaker of Hogwarts had passed them. "Hey how 'bout we go for a walk?" Harry suggested as he hooked his arm around Ginny's. So they headed off to the lake.
On their way to the lake they passed the newly built war memorial. The names of the dead had been burned in the back of Ginny's mind. So many friends, Tonks, Remus, Colin, Fred.
A shiver went down Ginny's back at the thought of her mischievous and joyful older brother, pale and lying still in the ground.
"-do you think Gin? I mean yeah I could improve on my occlumency but do you think I'll be able to be an auror?" Harry asked.
"What? Oh sorry Harry," Ginny said, not knowing that he had even been talking. Seeing his disappointment at her lack of interest she added, "I was thinking about the war and I just-" but she didn't get to finish because Harry interrupted her.
"You don't need to be sorry Gin, Fred died, and here I am worrying about occlumency." Harry said. Hearing Fred's name brought back a flood of memories, playing quidditch at the burrow, pummeling Ron with bludgers, and pulling pranks on Percy that involved very itchy underwear. Ginny was forced to sit down.
"I'm so sorry Ginny, I should have gotten there sooner, I should've put up a protection shield, then the wall wouldn't have crushed him. I should've-" But she finished his sentence for him.
"Let me come with you? Yeah you say that a lot, but really I don't think it would've made much of a difference." She said, "You would've been to distracted with me around anyway" Ginny added with a small smirk.
"Well, I think you're right about that!" Harry replied as he kissed her, but she pulled away.
"I heard someone, over there" she said, as she pointed to a nearby group of trees.
"Ginny, no one would be out here except us, its bloody four in the morning! Besides, what are they going to do if they see us, tell on us?" Harry questioned.
"Oh we'll do much worse than that Potter!" roared a hooded figure as he ran out from behind the trees, along with 4 others.
Harry quickly threw his invisibility cloak over Ginny's head and pushed her away "Hide!"
"Rogue death eaters!" She screamed at Harry who was dueling the smallest of the figures. "Harry!" she yelled but she was to late, the death eaters had closed in on him.
"Stupify!" Ginny yelled pointing her wand at the death eater about to curse Harry, but they dodged the spell and fired a bright green light at Ginny.
She dove out of the way and Harry shot a jelly legs jinx at the death eater.
Harry spun around to see a death eater running towards them "Petrificus Totalus!" Harry yelled, and the death eater fell to the ground like a tree.
"Expelliarmus!" Harry and Ginny both said, disarming two of the remaining 3 death eaters, but where was the last one?
Behind Ginny the last death eater had his wand pointed at her head, and before Harry could disarm him, the death eater yelled "Infirmus!" and a bright purple light collided with Ginny's body, and she screamed, the most horrifying scream Harry had ever heard.
She clutched her head. Blood was seeping out of her nose and mouth, she soon stood in small pool of her own blood. Her head felt like it had been hit by the cruciatus curse a million times over. Her whole body shook and she fell to the ground.
"GINNY!" Harry screamed, he turned to look back at the death eater but he and the others were gone. Harry was by Ginny's side now, clutching her hand so tightly that he was surprised it didn't fall off.
"I-it hurts Harry...It h-hurts so-" But she couldn't continue, because she was throwing up a dark purple liquid, it was horrible.
"Ginny...Ginny what can I do?" Harry asked terrified as he held her hair back from her face as she barfed. But the darkness came over her before she could answer him.