Come Back: Part Two
Chapter One
The Past Year
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Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters. The Queen JKR owns everything!
This Story is part two of "Come Back" please read that story first before reading this one!
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Prologue:
Almost a year has gone by sense Harry and Ginny went out on that fateful day to bring justice to the remaining Death Eaters. All had been found and captured except for one…the one that could change everything……………….
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Harry had come to terms with the idea that his life was going to slow down. He was almost looking forward to a life spent in Ginny's arms, growing old, having a family and all the traditional things a person is supposed to do in life. The past year, though hard, had been one of the most enjoyable of his life. Ginny made everything seem worthwhile, fun and exciting all at the same time.
Almost a year ago to the date, Harry and Ginny packed their bags and headed out on a journey to round up the remaining Death Eaters and stick them in Azkaban where they belong. They weren't alone however, Ron and Hermione joined up with them almost a month after their departure. Ron's excuse being that he couldn't pass up a good adventure and Hermione insisted on keeping an eye on Ron. But Harry and Ginny knew that they just wanted to keep an eye on Harry, no one wanted to loose him again, and the entire Weasley family was making sure of that.
Harry was thankful for the company; it made everything much more enjoyable. They would take the time to stop and have dinner in quaint little restaurants as they passed small villages. Hermione would often read pages from different books as they took a break from riding their brooms and walked along countryside. One of the more fun moments coming when Hermione got so engrossed into a book that she forgot to watch where she was walking and ran into a tree. This sustained several days of laughter for everyone but Hermione.
But not everything had been fun; they were on a mission after all. Though most of the Death Eaters had either been killed or sent to Azkaban, a few remained. Finding them had been the hard part. Before leaving Hermione had made a list of the remaining Death Eaters:
Death Eaters:
Rodolphus Lestrange
Rabastan Lestrange
Bellatrix Lestrange
Augustus Rookwood
Antonin Dolohov
After several months of searching the only Death Eater still at large was none other than Bellatrix Lestrange. The others had been tracked and located by Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny. They would read newspapers, listen to funny rumors from muggles in different villages and spy on people who seemed odd to them. Once a member was tracked down, the remaining Order members would be notified who would come with other ministry officials and haul them off to Azkaban.
The most surprising part was that none of them put up a fight about being captured. It was as if they had been expecting to be found. Bellatrix was the only one who was truly hiding. Not a single tail had been found, no whispers of a funny woman living in a village, no unusual activities…nothing at all. Harry had a suspicion that she had left the country completely, more than likely had gone over seas.
None of them, including the Order members were willing to travel outside of the country, so instead various wizard communities around the world had been notified of her absence and to be on the look out for a dangerous woman. This satisfied Harry for the time being but he had this sinking feeling that he hadn't seen the last of her.
So after almost eleven months of intense searching, they had decided to give up and go home. Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione had spent one extra week taking a holiday in Shropshire where they enjoyed visiting the muggle sites and historic castles. They even came across a small wizard community where they spent a few days with some old fellow Hogwarts students. It was in this village that they found a safe place to apparate home.
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"Bloody hell, this place stinks Harry." Ginny said to Harry the moment they made it back to their flat.
The small flat that they had been renting over top of Ollivander's Wand shop in Diagon Alley had sat empty the entire time they were gone. They continued to pay rent on the place because they didn't know when they would come home and they wanted to make sure they had a place to come home to.
Harry dropped his broom and bag on the floor and looked around. It had a moldy smell about the place and cob-webs were stuck everywhere on top of the three inch high dust. "Well, at least we have something to do now that we are back." Harry said while giving Ginny an unsure look.
"I guess the only good thing is that our furniture is covered in sheets." Ginny said. "I'll start with the bedroom so we have a place to sleep tonight."
"Yeah, I'll start in the bathroom so we can shower, but first I'm opening all the windows." Harry said as he walked around the room waving his wand to open the windows.
Just as Harry started to head to the bathroom to start cleaning two loud cracks came from the other side of the room. Hermione and Ron had apparated and the strange thing was that they were still carrying their luggage from the trip.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Harry asked.
"Harry, we have a problem." Ron said as he dropped his belongings on the sheet covered couch.
"Yeah, Mum and Dad won't let us move back into the Burrow." Hermione said, also dropping her belongings down.
"What do you mean they won't let you move back in?" Ginny asked she had emerged from the bedroom with a large cob-web stuck in her hair.
"Well Dad said they got used to having all of the children out of the house and would prefer it if we found our own place to stay now. They didn't refuse to let us back in but they sure didn't welcome us with open arms. Their happy we are home and what not but they don't want us there." Ron said with a clear expression of hurt on his face.
"The problem being we don't have much money, I mean it's not like we got paid to go on this trip!" Hermione said.
"What do you want us to do?" Harry asked, somewhat fearful of the answer.
"We were wondering if we could stay with you mate, at least until one of us can find a job." Ron said while looking at his shoes.
Harry had feared this, here was his chance to really spend some time with Ginny, alone and now his house was going be invaded. "I don't know Ron, we only have the one bedroom and it's really dirty right now, we just started cleaning."
"Harry! Don't be silly, of course you guys can stay here. We can add on a room in the back for you." Ginny said as she tossed an angry look at Harry.
Harry didn't even have a choice in the matter. Before he knew what was happening Hermione and Ginny were hard at work cleaning while Ron took off to the Burrowto start bringing their stuff over. Harry was set the task of adding on the extra bedroom and was now shuffling around his old dusty spell books to remember how to do it.
A/N: Thanks to everyone who read "Come Back" it was because of you that I'm doing Part Two! Even though this story is still being listed as a Harry/Ginny Fic there will be a lot more Ron/Hermione in this story than the first one. Also it won't be as much of a mystery as the first one, but I know where I'm heading with this, so it should be good!
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