Harry slumped backwards on to the grass behind him and waited for something anything to happen, The body of Voldemort lay a few foot in front of him. Finally dead.
Harry was a free man, he no longer had to live under the living curse that had ran through his blood for seventeen years.
He wiped the blood away from his face, cleaned his glasses and looked at the devastation that surrounded him.
He felt numb, like he would never be happy again , it was as if dementors had swarmed in upon him and there was nothing he could do.
Not that he haven't seen his fair share of dementors in the last 24 hours. He knew the final battle was near but for it to fall on the very doorstep of the place that he regarded as his safe house.
Hogwarts lay in ruin, people he called friend were dead.
The image of ron falling to worm tail would haunt him, ron's motionless body, hermione yelling at him to go on without the two of them ginny pursing him out the door luna and Neville close behind… Harrys chest hurt. It was as if his heart was breaking inside.
The world slid in and out of focus….
"is he dead?" " no just exhausted" Harry heard the voices of Ginny and Remus, he willed himself to open his eyes but his body wouldn't co opereate.
"we need to get him some medical help" said the voice of Remus. " and someone will have to have a look at you aswell" " im fine we have to get harry to the hospital." Slowly harry sliped in to sleep again.
Ginny had been scared, more scared than she had ever been in her life. But she had stood there with harry ready to die for him if he needed her to, anything to stop Voldemort winning the war.
She had a vivid image in her mind of Voldemort as he had aimed a spell at her , ready to kill, it had ricochet of the only spell Ginny could remember whilst facing down death.
She would thank Fred and George everyday from now on for teaching her the bat boggy hex.
And now she was scared for Harry, he was her number one priority, he had no one to be worried about him , no one but her . She would sit here until they got whatever tests they needed done then go get treated herself. It wasn't until ginny spotted an all to familiar red head foating down the corridor n a streter did she remember ron laying there motionless…. She got up and walked to the door.
She craned to see if it was her brother. It was but not the one she had been looking for , Percy lay on the stretcher, arm bandaged and looking woebegone .
He reached out and hugged ginny, every inch of her wanting to hug him back but she couldn't. he had soled them to Voldemort, he was the reason her mother was dead.
He was the reason her father cried every night.
She hated him with every inch of her being.
She pulled herself free and walked back to harry's room.
She whispered in to his ear.
Then headed to the check in to see if she could track down her real brothers.
Hermione waited Fred wrapped his arm around her soothing her , calming her trying to make her feel as if everything was going to be ok.
How was everything going to be ok… "he's not dead" remus half smiled from the ground next to ron.
" he's not" hermione almost screamed.
"no but he's pretty badly hexed, see where it hit?" remus pointed to the scaring where the brains had wrapped around Ron in the department of mysteries all thoughts years ago. Was it only two years ago?
" seems as if one of your adventures may have saved Ron for a change" Fred said reassuringly squeezing Hermione's shoulder.
"don't joke about it.." Hermione was shaking like mad, it had knocked her for six trying to take on both worm tail and luscious Malfoy , watching him attack his own son. Watching Malfoy stand by both Ron and Hermione's side and take on his father. Hermione could never ever use an unforgivable cures on her own flesh and blood. But tehn again her last name wasn't Malfoy.
He lay on the ground near ron watching the presiding , blood flowing from a cut on his head. He swayed as he tried to stand and nevill caught him.
" you ok?" Neville asked as draco looked down at the remains of what used to be his father.
Slowly he shook his head.
"you get used them not knowing who you are… but its still hurts" said Neville.
Draco just stared at ron.
" is he going to be ok ?" he asked in a cracked voice.
"we'll see we have to get this lot to the hospital. Harry is already there" said lupin.
"so…so he's not dead?" hermione asked " has Harry ever failed us yet?" lupin smiled.
The room swung in to focus , no one had taken his glasses off. He stared at the dark sealing for some time before he noticed that he wasn't the only one in his room.
Ron lay in the next bed, white as a ghost. Only the rhythmic breathing told harry he wasn't.
How long had he been asleep?
Days? Hours minuets?
His body ached.
"your awake?" Ginny's soft voice met his ears.
He just nodded. He turned his head to look at her. She was looking tierd. A long cut wound it's way up across her fore head and in to her hair line. But other than that….
"I thought you were a goner that time " she said " I thought I wasn't going to have you anymore" she said giving him a drink. Harry tried to reach out for it but his body just wouldn't do what he told it to.
"how's Ron" Harry managed but his voice was all rasp and crispy.
" pettegrew hit him with the same hex Voldemort tried to hit you with.. He's going to be alright" she added upon seeing Harry's face " but he's going to have to be looked after properly for a long time.." she nodded across the room to where hermione was fast asleep on the spare bed. " I'm sure hermione wont mind" said Ginny grinning evilly . But at the same time she eyed up Harry's reaction.
"bet ron will love that" he said before accepting another drink from harry.
"as for you you just need a lot of bed rest and a woman to look after you" "ron can share" harry joked.
"can he now?" ginny questioned.
Harry knew that when it had come down to it hermione was his friend but she had shown in the battle where her heart belonged, even if she didn't know it.
A pain his harry in the side of the chest.
"right you need more sleep" said Ginny helping him lie back down on his pillow.
" and don't worry im here if you need anything