Chapter 1: Remembering
The snow was falling from the sky forming a white blanket of snow on the ground. It's New Year's Eve and Ginny Weasley was sitting at her desk at St. Mungo's thinking about the events that had occurred over four years ago.
Voldemort had been defeated during her seventh year at Hogwarts. After his defeat the wizardry world tried to go on with their lives as best as they could. During the war lives were lost and lives were saved, and some came out alive but damaged.
The twins went back to their joke shop, Bill stayed around working at Gringotts in Diagon Ally, Charlie went back to Romania, and Ron married Hermione, who works as an unspeakable, and he became an auror. The only casualty that the Weasley's suffered was Percy. He was killed by Death Eaters before he could reconcile with the others. But the person who Ginny can't stop thinking about was Harry Potter.
Ginny and Harry had grown close during his sixth year and soon became the best of friends. After Harry graduated he became an auror, and him and Ginny wrote letters back and forth. When the final battle came Ginny stood by Harry's side fighting. Harry spent a few weeks in the hospital after his final confrontation with Voldemort. Ginny made sure that she was kept informed about Harry's condition while she was at school. Harry was released from the hospital in time to attend Ginny's graduation. After the ceremony there was a party in the Burrows back yard, and that is where Ginny found out that her best friend was leaving her.
Flashback
It was a clear night and the graduation party was in full swing. Ginny was walking around greeting people as they offered their congratulations. She had just finished talking to one of the many guests when she felt a tap on her shoulder. When she turned around brown eyes met green.
"Hey Gin, I need to talk to you for a sec if you're not busy."
"Sure Harry let's go into the kitchen where it's quite."
Harry followed Ginny into the kitchen and they sat down across from each other at the table. Harry reached across the table and took one of Ginny's hands into his.
"I have something to tell you and you're not going to like it." Harry looked down at the table and sighed deeply.
"Just spit it out Harry." Harry looked up at Ginny.
"I'm going to Germany for an assignment and I don't know when I'll be back."
All Ginny could do was just stare at Harry. She had been looking forward to hanging out with him before she started her training to become a healer. After a few moments Ginny finally responded.
"When do you leave for Germany?" Harry turned his head and looked away from Ginny. Ginny reached over and turned his head towards her. "Harry, when do you leave?"
"I leave first thing tomorrow morning." Ginny went from shock to sad to angry in a matter of a few seconds.
"You just got out of the hospital and they expect you to go running off to Germany to work."
"Gin, I'm fine and if I could avoid going I would, but there are still Death Eaters out there who need to be captured. I'm more than willing to do just that, and really make the wizardry world safe." Harry got up from his seat and walked over to Ginny and pulled her out of her seat and into a big hug as she let her tears fall.
"Don't worry Gin you'll always be my best friend and I plan on keeping in touch Alright." Ginny pulled back slightly and looked into Harry's eyes.
"Alright, but for now let's just enjoy the party and worry about the rest tomorrow."
"That sounds good to me." Harry led Ginny back outside to the party.
End Flashback
For the first two months that Harry was gone they wrote letters to each other keeping in touch, but eventually their jobs kept them busy and soon the letters stopped. Ginny often wondered where Harry was and what he was up to. She really missed him and hoped that he missed her too.
Ginny got up from her desk, grabbed her coat, left the building and headed home. Luna would be there soon and she needed to change her clothes because tonight she was going out and she promised herself that she was going to have fun with no worries.