Title: It Has Begun Again

Author: Hermione2be

Rating: PG

Warning: Sequel to Harry Potter and the Ghost of Past; read the first story for references to make since

Summery: Harry and Ginny's children are starting Hogwarts. But Harry and Ginny have fallen victim to the same paradox that befell Dumbledore when Harry started school. And a prophecy hangs in the balance, along with their lives. A new threat is among them and Hogwarts' staff watch as it begins again.

Prologue

Two years out of Hogwarts, Ginny worked in Hermione's Ministry division given the name 'Department of Muggle and Wizarding Science' a very productive department. Harry and Ron had been Auror partners since they entered the academy the day after Ginny left for her seventh year. Hermione and Ron had been dating seriously since their seventh year.

Harry proposed to Ginny his third Halloween out of Hogwarts. She excepted. They were married surrounded by family and friends the following June. Harry gave the note for Ginny from his mother to Hermione (Ginny's Maid of Honor and Ron was Harry's Best Man). Ginny only told Harry that his mother had made the rings very special.

Two Valentine's Days later Ginny and Harry were proud to announce that they were going to have a baby. Soon Harry, 22, and Ginny, 21, would be parents...

"Ginny I need to ask you something," Harry said sitting down to breakfast in Potter Mansion; it had been a restless night for Harry.

"No you cannot go play Quidditch with Ron," Ginny said between mouthfuls of her breakfast.

"I'm serious Ginny."

"So am I."

"Do you remember the summer before your seventh year?"

Ginny froze, fork halfway to her mouth, and looked at Harry, "of course, why?"

"You said that you 'ran into' Professor Trelawney during fifth year and she told you something strange."

"Yeah I remember."

"Do you remember what she told you?"

"Harry what does it matter? She was an old fraud telling students they're going to die."

"She is the old fraud who foretold my coming," Harry said quietly, "She was the one who said kill or be killed. Ginny what she told you could be very important."

Ginny thought for some time before saying, "I don't clearly remember it."

"I thought you might not remember," Harry said getting up from the table. He was gone only for a couple of moments, when he returned Headmaster Albus Dumbledore trailed him carrying a rune covered basin filed with a silvery light.

"Professor," Ginny said, trying to stand up to give him a proper hello, but Dumbledore held up his hand.

"Please Mrs. Potter," Dumbledore said noticing Ginny's rather large due-in-a-couple-of-weeks-belly, "don't get up on my account."

"I got up early this morning and needed to check in with Dumbledore," Harry explained quickly, "remember I told you that some of the 'ghosts' I visited gave sage advice?" Ginny nodded. "Well one of them said that when I was expecting something, there would be another foretelling. A foretelling that would originally be ignored but needed to be brought to light."

"Harry believes that," Dumbledore continued, "the prophecy you heard all those years ago might be of an important matter. It could simply be a small matter, but I am going to ask you to concentrate on that event put your wand to your temple then to the Pensive."

Ginny did as she was asked when Harry handed her wand to her. Dumbledore stirred the Pensive then looked at Harry and Ginny, "Shall we?"'

Harry held Ginny's hand then touched the Pensive.

Harry immediately recognized it as the third floor corridor of Hogwarts. The Pensive-Ginny walked up the stairs and was scared by a hand that touched her shoulder. The hand belonged to Professor Sybil Trelawney, her magnified eyes unfocused behind her glasses.

The Pensive-Ginny looked at the professor's rigid stature and was surprised when Trelawney spoke:

"THE DARK LORD'S END IS DRAWING NEAR... BUT THE SAVIOR WILL DISAPPEAR UNTIL HE UNDERSTANDS THE GREATEST OF ALL POWERS... BORN HIS CHILDREN WILL BE TO THE GIRL WHO RECEIVED THE GIFT FROM BEYOND THE VEIL... BORN AT THE DEATH OF THE TENTH MONTH, AT ONCE, ONE OF EACH, THE TIME BETWEEN THEIR BIRTHS WILL YEILD NO MAGIC... THEY WILL HOLD THE KEY TO THE NEXT DOWNFALL IF THEY STAND TOGETHER... BUT IF DIVIDED THEY SEEK CONTROL THE WORLD WILL SHATTER... BORN TO THE SAVIOR AT THE DEATH OF THE TENTH MONTH..."

The hallway melted away and Harry, Ginny, and Dumbledore stood once again in the Potter mansion dining room. The silence lasted until Ginny walked heavily to the living room. Harry and Dumbledore followed her.

Ginny sat down and Harry offered Dumbledore a seat. "What does it mean Professor?" Ginny asked.

"I only know as much as you do," Dumbledore said.

"They are talking about me," Harry said, "the first two lines make since and refer to the past."

"But what is the 'gift from beyond the veil'?" Ginny pondered. They all thought for sometime. Harry had his fifth year and the previous prophecies on his mind.

"Sirius," Harry said quietly taking the others from their thoughts, "the veil, the department of mysteries, the voices. The Veil the voices came from, Luna implied it was the voices of the dead..."

Ginny's hand went to her necklace, on which hung both her rings. The swelling in her hands made them impossible to wear, "your mother's rings," she breathed.

"What do you mean?" Dumbledore asked.

"My mother and father left these for me, but I got it from Remus' will," Harry said, he pointed to his and Ginny's rings, "Which Remus got from Sirius, who got it from my parents."

"That is as much as we know except that the prophecy speaks of twins born on Halloween," Dumbledore said, "Everything else may not even pertain to this pregnancy, but it is likely. They are said to be the key to the defeat of the next Dark Lord whoever that might be..."

"Or the destruction of the world," Harry said.

Dumbledore broke the silence that followed, "I must be going," he said, "I'll be in contact. And please don't worry yourselves with this at the moment. You have many sleepless nights ahead to worry about first." And he left the house.

Three weeks later Ginny lay in the maternity ward of St. Mongo's Hospital. It was 9:26 p.m. when Ginny gave birth to a little boy, his first cries echoed in darkness for all the lights went out and as nurses said 'Lumos' nothing happened. Moments later a person could be heard rambling about invisibility and protection wards. A nurse went our to see who he was and came back to tell the room that the spell that kept St. Mongo's hidden had somehow faltered and no one could Disapparate or Floo in or out of the hospital. Everyone in the room gave their wands a wave trying various charms. Nothing worked.

At 10:14 p.m. a knock came to the door and the nurses were handed, what Harry recognized as, flashlights. Muggle objects lit the room, the idea of a muggleborn witch in the accidental magic ward. At 11:56 p.m. many things happened at once: the flashlights' bulbs burst, a cry filled the room, the lights came on, and Harry and Ginny got the first look at their little girl.

"Mr. and Mrs. Potter I am happy to announce that you have two healthy babies," the medawizard said, "It has been an interesting Halloween...

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