The battle was over. He had won. He smirked inwardly at the thought of the daily Prophets headline for the next day " Boy-Who-Won". There were too many witnesses to the battle; he couldn't just slip away quietly. They were going to want interviews, they would try to give him awards, and make him become a leader.
He sighed deeply; all he really wanted to do was to go on a nice long vacation. Relax and try not tot think about all that other crap. There has to be a way to make them not bother me.
Rita Skeeter was the first to reach him, acid green quill in hand she started to shout questions at him. "Harry, now that you have defeated the Dark Lord what are you going to do?"
His first thought was to say "Go to Disneyland" but that was just a line he had heard one time.
He said instead, "Well Rita, I am going to find out if my friends are alive and if they need my help." He turned quickly and started to backtrack his steps to see where his friends had fallen. Hermione was the first he came across, one of the Auror medics was tending to her already. Hermione looked up and smiled at him and mouthed the words 'I am fine.' He was relieved to see her doing well. He past several bodies on the way to where Ginny was last seen. She and Ron had seen Harry get hit with a curse and they went apeshit. Ginny started throwing curse left, right and center, and people thought that Molly Weasley had a temper. Ron didn't have his wand at that point but that didn't stop him, he started swinging and was soon in the middle of a crowd of Death Eaters, Harry had lost track of him at that point because Harry's opponent had finally shown. He saw Ginny helping treat someone's' injuries and he realized it was Ron. He ran to her side and saw that she was laughing at something Ron had said. Harry decided to speak up," So what did I miss?" Ginny squeaked in fright, momentarily startled by the voice next to her. Ron looked at him and said "I bet Ginny that if you beat Voldemort that she would have to ask you out and I won!" Harry raised an eyebrow at Ginny who was blushing fiercely. "So Ginny…..would you like to go out sometime?" mumbled Harry. Ginny whipped her head around and sputtered "What?...I mean WHAT?" Harry shrugged and said "I bet Hermione that if I won I would ask you out."
Ginny got a look on her face that wouldn't look out of place on the twins. "So… what did she have to do if you lost?" Harry knew that Ginny already knew the answer but she was doing this to get back at Ron. "Well," Harry began "It was something so bad I think even Snape would have been repulsed." At this point Ron interrupted by saying, "Well what was it?" Harry looked down at his friend and said, "She said she would go on a date with Malfoy." Ron looked livid, Ginny was fighting back tears of laughter, and then Harry went for the zinger, "She said if she had a boyfriend she wouldn't have to, I guess since she doesn't have a boyfriend she might go out with him anyway…" Ron started immediately and sat up. "Hey Hermione," he shouted, "Do you want to go on a date with me this week?"