How Could You Forget About Me?
By gorgeousbowneyes
Chapter One: Before the Battle
You Know Who To Attack
By Hilda Granious
News has reached this reporter's ears that You Know Who has planned to attack the Ministry of Magic tomorrow, just after noon. Rumours have been flying around for ages about when his attack will be, but at last we finally know for sure, as masses of supporters of the Dark side can be seen congregating around the Ministry. Muggles have fled, not knowing what the strange creatures were that accompanied You Know Who and his Death Eaters. This reporter has seen with her own eyes that the giants have joined the Dark side, along with Dementors and many other hideous beasts. There are thousands of Death Eaters massing along with the beasts, but no-one knows whether You Know Who himself is with them. Any able bodied witch or wizard who knows they can help, please apparate to the Ministry immediately. Otherwise keep out of sight and pray for our souls.
The teen let the news paper article drop to the desk. He pushed up his glasses and rubbed his fiercely green eyes. This was it. The moment the whole wizarding world had been waiting for. Finally Voldemort was going to strike the Ministry. And Harry was going to be there to destroy him once and for all. It had been two years, two tiring years since Dumbledore had died, and left Harry to track down the Horcuxes himself. It had been hard, but he had always had Ron and Hermione there for him. And Ginny. He loved Ginny with all his heart, he knew that now, but he didn't want to break her heart if he died in the next day. He had been pushing her away ever since Dumbledore's funeral. But it had been for the best. He could not have a relationship with anyone because it was too dangerous, and Harry couldn't stand to have another person's life on his hands. He had already caused too many deaths.
Slytherin's locket had been the first he found. He had tracked R.A.B. down, who was in fact a dead man but his children still kept the locket locked in a safe in their house. It had been hard to convince them to give it to him, but since he was "The Chosen One" and he had said he need it to destroy Voldemort (everyone had flinched at the sound of his name) they reluctantly gave it over. Destroying it had been harder than gaining it though. Hermione and he had tried many charms on it to break it, but none worked. Dumbledore had never given Harry any clue as to how he was to destroy them once he had found them. He decided to find the others first.
The next he found was Hufflepuff's cup, which he found in a far off country, led there by a clue he found at R.A.B.'s house. It had been protected in much the same way as the Triwizard Cup had been, in the third task, during the Triwizard Tournament in Harry's fourth year. He had had to get through a maze with obstacles and dark creatures aplenty. It was a lot harder than the Triwizard Tournament though, as it was meant to kill anyone coming for Hufflepuff's cup. Again he was stumped as to how he was to destroy it.
The Ministry had raided the Malfoy Mansion once more while he had been gone and Arthur Weasley had found the trap door under the table in the drawing room, where dark objects were kept. Inside, the Ministry had found a glass slipper that had once belonged to Rowena Ravenclaw herself. Arthur, knowing about the quest Harry was on, had told him of this discovery as soon as he had returned to London. Harry instantly stormed up to the Ministry and demanded that he have the slipper, and he was not refused, but it was on a condition, that he became the Ministry's "boy". They wanted people to see him coming in and out of the Ministry a bit to make them think they were doing something. He had reluctantly obliged, just so that he could have the slipper that was undoubtedly another Horcrux.
Harry now had three of the four Horcruxes left, for him to destroy. He, Hermione and Ron had been working tirelessly to try to destroy them, but to no avail. Then one day, Hermione had just thrown the slipper against the wall in anger, and it had just bounced back, but it had given her an idea. She grabbed the cup off of Ron who had been trying to curse it into shattering, and smashed it down on the slipper. The slipper had broken into a thousand pieces and let off an acid green smoke. The three had had to run from the room as the smoke started to choke them. And I don't mean just because of the fumes. The smoke had taken on hand forms, and was starting to wring Hermione's neck, but Ron brushed them away and pulled her from the room, Harry following behind, picking up the cup and the locket. The slipper was shattered, but that still left the problem of how to destroy the other Horcruxes. They had finally succeeded when Ron had thought to ask Bill, who was once a curse breaker, if he could break the curses on it. Bill had tried by himself, but had needed more power, so he gathered all his old crowd from Egypt, the curse breakers he had worked with there, and they had combined their powers and performed a very complex spell on both the cup and the locket. The locket had snapped in half at the hinges and issued a violent red coloured smoke, while the cup had snapped off from its base issuing a black smoke. The room was intoxicated and all curse breakers in the room had passed out, along with Harry, Ron and Hermione who had been in there watching the process.
When Harry had come to, three weeks later, he was told that the Horcruxes had been destroyed, but the room still had the smoke in the room and was unsafe to enter. The other people who had been in the room had awoken at around the same time Harry had. One of the curse breakers never awoke though. Apparently he had been really close to the Horcruxes and when they broke he got a full blast of smoke and was killed instantly. The three weeks that they had been unconscious in bed had caused much worry for the Weasleys, especially Molly who though of all the victims as her sons and daughters.
Harry still hadn't killed the snake, but he intended to do that tomorrow, before he killed Voldemort. Tomorrow was going to be a big day. He sighed, got up from the desk, and went to change into some bed clothes. He was just settling under the covers of his bed at the Burrow, where he had been staying, when there was a soft knock on the bedroom door. He didn't know who would be calling on him at this hour, it was past midnight! He got up from the bed and moved to open the door. He peered out at who was disturbing him at this late hour.
"Ginny! What are you doing here? It's late!" Harry exclaimed, although quietly so as not to wake anyone else up.
"Can I come in?" she whispered. Harry stepped out of the doorway to let her in.
"What do you want Ginny?" Harry asked after he had closed the door.
"I couldn't sleep, I was thinking about the war that is supposed to start tomorrow, and it scares me, Harry." She had sat down on Harry's bed and he sat down next to her and put his arm around her to comfort her.
"I know, it scares me as well," he said to her.
"I'm frightened that I will never see you again, be able to hold you again."
"We've been through this, Ginny; I can't get involved with you."
"I know, but surely just tonight I could stay with you? I mean, you could die tomorrow, I could die tomorrow, it wouldn't matter if we are together now."
It made sense to Harry. He yearned for her, loved her with all his heart, and if one of them died the next day they would regret not having this time together. He was not going to push her away any longer.
"Ok, Ginny. Stay." And with that he leaned over and kissed her gently on the mouth, all of his love and longing for her expressed in this one kiss. And she kissed back; at last she was once again kissing the man she loved more than life itself. Then Harry moved from her mouth to her neck and down her neck to its nape, and she trembled. She wrapped her arms around Harry's shoulders and pulled him down on top of her on the bed, where he continued to kiss his way down her body.
AN: Welcome to my new fic! I got this idea when reading a drabble by someone else on a different site. Just one simple thing that it said gave me loads of ideas I was dying to write about, and this is the start of it. I have it all planned out, with chapter two already written. I know where I'm going with it, but the plot kind of changes, I don't know how to best describe it. Just read and hopefully you will like. I kind of have a block now because I have to write a battle, the final battle actually, and I really don't like that but it's impossible to do this story without it, but hey. While I suffer this block, though, you can read the next chapter, when I post it, or you can read my other story. It's going well, the chapters are just writing themselves! Thanks for reading, and please review! I don't mind constructive criticism, or you even saying this sucks, get off this story now! ta ta for now!