I would like to visit you for a while
Get away and out of this city
Maybe I shouldn't have called but
Someone had to be the first to break
We can go sit on your back porch
Relax
Gallie Labinsky stepped out of her old, yellow Volkswagen Beetle. Her brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail. Her big brown eyes looked around. She nervously walked up the front steps.
Talk about anything
It don't matter
I'll be courageous if you can pretend
That you've forgiven me
Harry Potter put down hid newspaper and walked up to the front door.
Because I don't know you anymore
I don't recognize this place
The picture frames have changed
And so has your name
"Are you Harry Potter? Harry Gerald Potter?"
"How did you know my name? I mean, my middle name? Are you.. no, she died years ago in the last attack..." He slipped back his bangs, revealing the lightning scar given to him 30 years before.
"I am."
"Are you- are you really- Hermione Granger?"
"Yes. I changed my name to keep that Draco Malfoy from tracking me down and killing me."
We don't talk much anymore
We keep running from the pain
But what I wouldn't give to see your face again
"But you died 15 years ago in the battle of Freestone."
"That's the story I made up. Malfoy was after me, I knew more than anyone."
"You did. What happened after that?"
"I changed my name to Gallie Labinsky and got a small cabin out near Hogsmead. But I always missed the inner city, I hardly ever went there for fear of being discovered as who I really was."
Springtime in the city
Always such a relief from winter freeze
The snow was more lonely than cold if you know what I mean
Everyone's got an agenda
"What ever happened to all the others... from Hogwarts..." Harry knew what she wanted to say. She wanted to say "What happened to Ron?" He choked back tears and slumped onto a leather chair.
Don't stop keep that chin up you'll be alright
Can you believe what a year it's been
Are you still the same?
Has your opinion changed?
"It's OK. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." Hermione wondered whatever happened to Ron.
"I want to tell you, I really do, but I" (sob) "I'm still scared, Hermione! Voldemort could return in a new form- Draco Malfoy! The bastard, he killed Ron in the same battle we thought he had killed you." He choked, and tears poured down Hermione's cheeks.
"I'm ready to join you again. Under my new name. No one shall know who I am." Hermione had a determined look set on her face that Harry could remember seeing many years ago, before the Battle. Before life changed, forever.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot. Savage Garden owns the lyrics.
A/N: *Sings* Love and other moments are just chemical reactions in your brain...