Harry, Ron, and Hermione tried their best to maneuver the hallways yet again under the invisibility cloak; thankful that no one was in their right state of mind, what with the war finally being over and all of the great lives it cost, because half of their legs had to of been showing, even though they had practiced this maneuver a lot lately. The trio was pretty much in a state of shock, especially Harry, not knowing how to react but they all knew this much for sure, they were exhausted. None of them really knew what to expect in the upcoming days or for the upcoming night at that. So they all wandered to their dormitories and tried to lumber to sleep. The rooms were filled with soft sobs of people who had lost their loved ones, but somehow Harry found himself in a troublesome sleep which he soon awoke from screaming, in the common room.
"AHHH," Harry yelled, shaking uncontrollably, "What am I doing here!?"
This seemed to disturb the soft, barely audible, confused sobs coming from the corner which Ginny was currently inhabiting.
"You were sleep walking and murmuring something about, 'I have to die..' and 'must kill him'. Harry, it's over, it's ok you don't have to worry about it anymore; Voldemort is finished now, all because of you," Ginny responded, the pitch of her voice going up at the sight of Harry still shaking a little more. "Harry it's ok. HARRY IT'S OK!" Ginny was really panicking now because Harry was not calming down. "HARRY ARE YOU OK!!" At this point Ginny began shaking harry also, because she herself was getting scared. "Somebody get some help.. HURRY!!"
The sound of footsteps were making its way down the stairs, the first person she saw was her mom then her dad, Hermione, Ron, and soon the common room was jam packed with what seemed to be everybody in Hogwarts.
"What's happened?" Mrs. Weasley began..
But was interrupted by random voices in the crowd all wondering the same thing; what was wrong with the famous Harry Potter, the one who just hours ago defeated the darkest wizard of all times.
"I-I-I-I," stammered Ginny, tears streaming down her big brown eyes "I couldn't sleep, so I came down here hoping others would be down here, and then harry was sleep walking down the stairs," Ginny paused trying to control herself, but you could tell her efforts were not working as she began to sob.
"Go on Ginny" coaxed Mrs. Weasley.
"an-an-And he started murmuring, and so when I-I got up from the corner.. he just screamed and started shaking." Ginny paused yet again unable to look at anyone at this point for she was now sobbing uncontrollably, she felt a comforting hand reach out and touch her on the back, which she realized was Hermione's.
"It's ok Ginny.. just tell us what happened we'll get this all straightened out," whispered Hermione comfortingly, though she knew she couldn't say much to calm down poor Ginny, she knew that it had been an extremely long day for everybody. First her dear brother Fred dies, and then the she witnesses the boy who she's had a crush on for her entire life go through an extreme rarity for which she surprisingly doesn't know what kind of spell, or perhaps sickness would cause this.
"I-I tried to calm him down, but no-nothing seemed to work" And at that Ginny lost it. Tears were now streaming down both her and Hermione's eyes, both girls were gripping each other for some shred of comfort, as they began to reminisce about some of the good times they had had with Harry, which only made this ordeal ten times more painful. Ron joined in on this group-hug like congregation trying to comfort the two girls that he loved so much, and whom meant the world to him.
"It's ok, everything is going to be ok.." cooed Ron just loud enough for both Hermione and Ginny to here.
At this point Mr. Weasley and some of the other adults were managing to get harry through the crowd of people and out of the common room to where Madame Pomfrey might be able to help them. This wasn't a specifically easy task, because for one Harry was still shaking uncontrollably but he also wasn't able to support himself anymore and wasn't responding to anything anyone said, though they were sure he was still conscious. But eventually they seemed to make it out the door all in one piece; and then, for Harry everything else went black.
A/N: I realize this is an incredibly short chapter, but I had to get it started somehow.. and I didn't want to give TOO much away :). But yeah, this is my first fanfic. so I hope you like it!
