Her Desire, His Will, Their Future

Written by Flashfire Freak

Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the Harry Potter universe or anything like that.

Author note: I will be trying some different tactics to make my story more interesting and more informative. This will be a very lengthy fanfiction, and will take many months if not a year or more to finish, due to college classes.


Chapter One - Her Question

Looking down at the barely breathing form of Ginny, Harry carefully picks her up and follows Fawkes out of the Chamber of Secrets. Arriving at where Ron and Lockhart were sitting, everyone grabs onto Fawkes's tail, and they fly out and into the bathroom above.

*in Dumbledore's office *

"OUR DAUGHTER WAS TAKEN INTO THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, WHERE SHE COULD HAVE DIED?!" shrieks Mrs. Weasley.

Popping a lemon drop into his mouth, Dumbledore nods his head in silent confirmation when the door to his office bursts open, and in marches Ron escorting Lockhart, followed by Harry carrying Ginny's battered form with Fawkes on his shoulder.

"Ginny is alive." states Harry, gently placing Ginny on the floor.

Before anyone moves though, Ginny sits up and says, "I'm fine. Harry saved me from the basilisk."

Shrieking with joy, Mrs. Weasley quickly wraps Ginny in a bear hug, and Mr. Weasley says, Thank you for saving our only daughter, Harry."

"It was no problem sir." replies Harry.

"What should we do about this git here?" questions Ron, jerking his thumb over his shoulder at Lockhart.

"RONALD! Language!" shouts Mrs. Weasley, still hugging Ginny tightly.

"Gentlemen, we would appreciate it if you all could recount what happened in the Chamber of Secrets, please." requests Dumbledore.

So Harry and Ron begin their talk about how they had run into Lockhart's office to inform him where they thought the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets was, when they found him packing to leave the castle. Dragging Lockhart to the girl's bathroom, they fell down into an underground area where Lockhart then tried to obliviate Harry and Ron while leaving Ginny for dead. Then how the wand Lockhart was using backfired and how he had wiped his entire memory by accident.

Stepping forward slightly, Harry recounts how he had entered the Chamber of Secrets and found a slowly dying Ginny there, and a Tom Riddle waiting in the shadows. Fawkes had flown in and blinded the basilisk, and then Harry had pulled the sword of Godric Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat, and had slain the basilisk, and finally stabbed the nearby diary with a basilisk fang, killing the shadow of Tom Riddle, which gave Ginny her life back.

Quickly scribbling on some scratch parchment, Dumbledore hands Harry the parchment and says, "You and young Mr. Weasley take Miss Weasley to the hospital wing, and then go to your dormitories. If anyone stops you, show them this bit of parchment. The elder Weasley's and I will continue our discussion."

Harry and Ron escort Ginny to the hospital wing, and then arrive at the Gryffindor Common Room, and quickly go to their room and get in bed.


*a couple of days later*

Getting on the train, Harry, Ron, and Hermione grab a compartment to themselves, and begin to talk about what happened regarding Lockhart and his backfiring of a memory charm, to how Harry had saved Ginny.

"H-Harry?" questions a timid voice.

Looking up, Harry sees Ginny standing in the door, and warmly replies, "Yes Ginny? How may I help you?"

Blushing, Ginny stumbles over to Harry and whispers loud enough for Harry to hear, but no one else, "Will you owl me this summer?"

Smiling, Harry replies in a normal tone, "Yes, yes I will, Ginny."

Looking relieved, Ginny quickly exits the compartment, leaving Ron and Hermione simply confused at what had happened.

Smiling, Ginny thinks to herself Harry Potter agreed to owl me. Teehee!

Author note: If you don't know, I'm basically taking the books and rewriting them a bit [but most romantic pairings should be the same] to the way I'd do things. But I don't plan on changing the major things [like Harry killing the basilisk, etc].