Okay so I know that there are a million of these stories out there and I would really appreciate it if you would give mine a chance. Please please please review, this is my first Harry Potter fanfic, and I would love reviews!

DISCLAIMER: HARRY POTTER AND ALL OTHER CHARACTERS ARE A PRODUCT OF THE AMAZING JK ROWLING'S IMAGINATION AND THEY AREN'T MINE!

Harry was lying in his four poster bed, he had just woken up and the events of the night before were now all coming crashing in on him. He looked at his battered watch and realized that he had been asleep for a very long time. It was four in the evening and he was the rooms only occupant. He decided he needed to find the Weasley's and apologize for everything. He picked up his newly mended wand and walked down to the Gryffindor common room. He paused at the end of the steps and noticed that the room was full of people, all of whom had their backs to him so they didn't notice him yet. The majority of the people had red hair. The room was currently occupied by the Weasley's (minus Fred), Fleur, Hermione, McGonagall and Kingsley. Harry took a deep breath before entering the room and making the others aware of his presence.

"Harry!" Kingsley said as he entered the room. "You are finally awake!"

"Minister." Harry couldn't help but say it with a slight grin.

"No, you shall never again address by anything other than Kingsley." he said, also with a slight grin in spite of himself.

"Harry dear, I was just about to send Ron up to wake you up." Mrs. Weasley said, her eyes were swollen, red and puffy.

"Mrs. Weasley, I am so sorry, this was all my fault." Harry said his voice heavy with guilt.

"Harry James Potter, don't you dare blame yourself for this, none of this was your fault. None at all, none of us blame you in the slightest. Fred knew exactly what he was getting himself into and we all can agree that is the way that he would have wanted to go out, a hero helping his brother. You were his brother too Harry, allow yourself to grieve with us, just do not blame yourself for his death." Mrs. Weasley said rather fiercely.

"Harry I know that this is not the optimal time to do this, but it has to be done as soon as possible. You mentioned extremely dark and complex magic when you were speaking with Voldemort last night, I think that you owe everyone in this room an explanation seeing as we have all been impacted by this mission that Dumbledore left for you, Ron, and Hermione." Kingsley said.

"Of course you all are owed a great deal more than an explanation. Ron, Hermione will you help me tell the story?" Harry asked, Ron and Hermione were sitting holding hands on the floor by Ginny who was sitting in an armchair and avoiding Harry's gaze.

"Of course Mate." Ron answered and Hermione nodded.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione then began to fill them in on what they had been up to over the past year. They omitted nothing, they explained about the locket and Dumbledore's death and how Harry had tried to give Mr. Weasley advice while undercover in the Ministry of Magic. Ron himself explained about wearing the locket and how he had left Harry and Hermione and gone to Shell Cottage. This earned him and Bill both dirty looks from Mrs. Weasley and Ginny alike. Hermione, however came to his defense explaining how he had then destroyed the Horcrux and saved Harry's life. Harry then explained about the Deathly Hallows and Snape's memories. The entire common room took in a sharp breath when he explained that Snape really was one of the good guys and how he had been in love with Lily Potter. When Harry finally finished by telling them about watching Mrs. Weasley kill Bellatrix while under the invisibility cloak the entire room had grown quiet.

George, of all people was the first one to speak. "And you all thought that the stuff from the joke shop was useless, it seemed pretty useful for them! Did you really ride a Dragon?"

"Ya we really did." laughed Harry. After the ice had been broken all sorts of questions began pouring out of everyone's mouths.

The last question however caught Harry off guard. Ginny, who hadn't said anything to him yet looked him straight in the eye and asked him two questions.

"Was I honestly the last thing that you thought about before you gave yourself up to Voldemort?"

"Yes, Ginny you really were the last thing that I thought of, you were the thing that I wanted to remember after I died." He said simply, as if she should have already known the answer to her question.

"When you were dead in Hagrid's arms, could you hear us or were you still with Dumbledore?" she asked, everyone else in the room also wanted to know the answer to that question but just didn't have the courage to ask him.

"Yes, I heard everything, and it was the hardest thing that I have ever had to do. Listening to you guys yelling and crying and screaming and Neville being tortured. It was so hard to make myself lay still. All I wanted to do was call back to you and let you all know that everything was going to be okay that I was all part of the plan." Harry said. Then there was silence, no one knew what to say next.

"Harry, Andromeda Tonks has requested to see you about Teddy Lupin, you are his godfather and therefore his legal guardian at this time, she however has offered to take him and raise him and of course let you be a big part of his life." McGonagall said, after a long, but not awkward, silence.

"You must also attend a meeting that is going to take place to discuss the repair of the castle and funerals of the hero's that lost their lives. We also have to round up all of the remaining Death Eaters. I would be honored if you, Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger would attend and give your input." Kingsley said.

"Ya sure, what time is the meeting? Professor McGonagall can you ask Mrs. Tonks to meet with me tomorrow because there are things that I need to take care of tonight that cannot wait any longer than they already have." Harry said with his eyes on Ginny.

"Of course Harry I will set it up for eleven in the morning is that alright?" McGonagall asked, Harry nodded and then turned to Kingsley.

"The meeting begins at half past eight this evening, it is half six right now so I am sure that will give you plenty of time to take care of whatever it is you need to take care of." Kingsley said in his deep soothing voice.

"Alright I will be there at eight thirty. Now, Ginny would you please come on a walk with me?" Harry asked. Ginny nodded but still did not say anything to him. The two walked through the portrait hole and through the corridors and out to the lake. Somewhere along the way Harry had taken Ginny's hand. She squeezed his reassuringly and they sat hand in hand by the lake.

"Ginny, I am so sorry for everything I-" Harry started but Ginny cut him off.

"No, Harry now it is your turn to listen to me. I love you and I know that you love me too, but right now I am very angry with you. First you leave me when we both clearly still have feelings for each other. Then you go and no one hears from you for months and I spend everyday worrying about you and lose sleep over you. Then you show up here and tell me that I shouldn't help you fight! Then you go and freaking die! Do you have any idea what that did to me? Not just me but to all of us? Do you know what it did to my mother, it just killed her, she had just lost Fred and then there you come dead in Hagrid's arms! Did you even think about saying goodbye? That would have made it somewhat better!" Ginny ranted.

"Ginny, you know I love you, and you know that all of that stuff that you are mad at me for I did for your own good. I died to protect you, and trust me I did think about coming and saying goodbye. You have no idea how hard it was for me to walk past you and go into the forest. It was so hard for me to lay still while I could hear you yelling and crying for me when I knew that I was perfectly fine! As for you worrying about me everyday, I did the same. I would lay up at night staring at your dot on the Map just to know that you were still alive. Then on the day that Ron left and we overheard the Goblins talking about you I wanted to kill Snape!" Harry said.

They sat in silence for a while longer and all the while they still held hands. Ginny looked at Harry's beautiful green eyes and knew that he was right, he had never intentionally hurt her and never would.

"Harry?"

"Yes,"

"I am so glad that you are alive and that you are okay but I really think that I should take you to Madam Pomfrey before your meeting with Kingsley." Ginny said when she noticed that Harry had been wincing in pain every few seconds.

"What why? I am fine." Harry said absentmindedly.

"You, Harry James Potter, are far from fine at the moment you are covered in blood and bruises and I bet that you have another nasty scar from the killing curse again." Ginny said.

Harry lifted up his shirt to reveal where the killing curse had hit him. His chest was one big scar, this one didn't look like anything in particular but it was bloody and puffy and most definitely needed to be inspected by someone with healing training.

"I suppose you are right, just like you always are." Harry said. Now that he had acknowledged the pain he could feel it and agreed with Ginny one hundred percent that he needed to go and get it looked at by Madam Pomfrey. He stood up and helped Ginny up. He looked into her chocolate brown eyes and saw his future. He bent over and gave her a quick but passionate kiss and then turned and the two of them walked hand in hand back to the destroyed castle that had always been Harry's home.