A/N: This chapter is a oneshot following the last line of the final chapter. Harry's POV.

Disclaimer: Everything belongs to J.K. Rowling I own nothing.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione turned and left the headmaster's office. After walking along the corridor a little way Harry realized there was something he just had to do before he could sleep.

"Hey guys, I will catch up with you in a little while," he said. "Where are you going?" asked Ron. "There's just something I have to do." "Alright see you in a little while mate!" At this Ron and Hermione continued on there way to the Gryffindor Common Room, Ron interlaced his fingers with Hermione's as they walked.

Harry smiled to himself. He always knew Ron and Hermione would end up together, he just couldn't believe it had taken them so long.

Most of that was Ron's fault though. Hermione had just started showing signs of liking him during their sixth year and Ron chose to ask out Lavender Brown. Harry still didn't understand what Ron had seen in her, other than the fact that she was willing to snog him anywhere at anytime.

As Harry continued on his walk to get where he needed to be he passed many corridors and classrooms that held so many memories. As he passed one classroom he remembered walking into it to comfort Hermione about Ron snogging Lavender. Then Ron and Lavender came into the classroom thinking it was empty so that they could snog some more and Hermione sent a flock of birds at Ron. Harry laughed to himself as he remembered Ron furiously swatting at the little yellow birds.

The next classroom he walked past was the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. This room reminded him of Lupin teaching him how to produce a patronus in his third year.

Lupin…..how could a man who had so much going for him in life just die in a matter of minutes. He was just starting to achieve the normal life he had always wanted. He had been married for a few months to Tonks and they had just had their first childe Teddy, the child Lupin never thought he would have. Harry realized at that moment that little Teddy would be growing up much in the same way that he himself did. With no parents. Harry made a promise to himself right then that he would be a sort of father figure to Teddy and always be present in his life.

As Harry turned down the next corridor he realized that this is where the first warning about the Chamber of Secrets had appeared during his second year. No one could believe that it had been young little Ginny Weasley who had actually opened the Chamber.

Ginny…..at the thought of her name Harry felt a chill run through him. He had missed her so much in the last few months that it had actually made his heart hurt.

For the first few years that Harry knew Ginny he thought of her only as Ron's little sister. Then at the end of his fifth year he started to notice her as a bit more than just his best mate's sister. When they were at the Ministry of Magic he realized that he feared for her safety more so than any one else's. The more he watched her he thought she was the most beautiful girl he had ever laid eyes upon.

After that night he began to notice Ginny even more, yet he continued to convince himself that it would never work because she was Ron's little sister. Then a few months later he caught her snogging Dean Thomas. At that moment Harry wanted nothing more than to strangle Dean with his bare hands.

Then a few months later he did the thing he had wanted to do for over a year. He grabbed Ginny and kissed her in the Gryffindor Common Room in front of everyone, including Ron. To his great relief she kissed him back and for those few short moments Harry felt as if his feet had left the ground.

For those short months that Ginny had been his girlfriend he felt like everything was perfect, as if he was living in a dream. He felt almost as if the world was fine and there was no evil. That perfect dream was shattered, however, the night Dumbledore was killed.

Harry realized no one was safe and he had to break things off with Ginny in order to protect her. He would not let her die because of him like so many other people had. He could tell that he had hurt her but he knew it was for the best, no matter how much it tore him up inside.

This last year had been the worst. Spending every day not knowing if Ginny was safe, if she was unharmed, and worst of all……if she had moved on to someone else. Harry knew that he had to talk to her this minute.

As he entered the Great Hall he saw her just a few feet away with her parents. He walked over to her and said, "Ginny, may I please have a moment?" "Sure, Harry." she replied.

She quietly followed him out of the school and onto the grounds of the school. As they walked neither of them spoke. Harry was trying to form the words in his head that he knew she needed to hear. They stopped walking and he turned to face her.

When he looked into her eyes he saw the affects of the battle. He saw her exhaustion, sadness, and pain, and there was still some fear in them. He could not imagine what was going through her mind. She had lost one of her brothers and for a while she thought she had lost him too. When Harry acted like he was dead it took all of his strength not to get up and run to her when he heard her call his name in fright.

He was amazed, however, that after all she had been through that night that she could still look so flawless and beautiful.

"Ginny," he said breaking the silence, "over the past few months I have seen more heartache and destruction than I have ever cared to see in a lifetime. I just want you to know that during all of those times I always thought of you." At this point his voice began to crack. But he willed himself to go on, she needed to hear this. "Tonight when I went to the forest to meet Voldemort, I knew I had to let him kill me for it all to end. Ginny, I did die out there for a little while, but just so you kow, right before he sent that curse at me the last thing I thought of was you. I saw your face, I could feel your touch, I could smell your hair, and I could taste your lips."

He finally looked into her eyes again and saw the first two tears spill onto her cheeks. He reached up and wiped them away with his thumb and said, "I love you Ginny Weasley." With this he stepped closer and wrapped his arms around her waist to pull her closer and kissed her. Not a hard kiss but just a soft sweet kiss. Then she responded by deepening the kiss and putting her arms around his neck.

After a few moments they broke apart and Ginny gave him a hug and whispered in his ear, "I love you too Harry." Harry smiled and knew that after all he had been through over the last year, it was worth it all. Just to hear Ginny Weasley say those words.

A/N I will put up another chapter soon. I also have a Ron/Hermione missing moment series that I hope to put up! Hope you enjoyed it!