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Ginny returned to sleep, not thirsty any more. She was worried, worried about her family. Worried about Harry, and worried that she couldn't do anything about it. After a half hour of turning and tossing, Ginny finally fell asleep. She woke up confused in the middle of trees. She stood up; she didn't know where she was. Maybe she was playing with Ron and ran too far. Maybe the twins had made her angry again and she run away and fell asleep in the forest. Suddenly she didn't know why but she felt really happy. The kind of happiness that makes you want to laugh, sing, run, jump, dance all at the same time.
She started running throughout the forest, laughing, wishing she could run forever, and stay like this forever. After a few minutes she reached a meadow. It was perfect square made by the trees. Like if someone had cut them to make this meadow. The grass was really green and beautiful. For the first time Ginny looked at her feet, she was bare foot, but the ground was so soft it didn't hurt her feet. She notice there was a woman standing in the middle of the meadow. She was redhead, and was wearing a long white dress. She was with her back facing Ginny. Slowly the mysterious lady turned to face the girl, her lips were forming a small smile, but the smile didn't reach her eyes. Ginny notice from a distance her green, bright eyes right away. Those eyes that were so familiar to her, but she didn't know where she had seen those beautiful eyes before. She also felt like she should know the lady but she didn't know from where neither.
"Hello Ginny", the lady said, Ginny was shocked by the sound of her name. "Why don't you come and have a little talk with me?" the lady smile grew, but her eyes stay the same:. Wary, Ginny, stepped into the meadow. The moment her foot touched the grass everything came back to her. She wasn't a little girl, she wasn't playing with Ron, because Ron had been fighting a battle, and helping fight Voldemort for seven years, and now he was with Hermione, who was helping him heal. The twins hadn't made her angry because Fred had died in the same battle, and Gorge wasn't speaking or interacting with any one. Ginny had fallen in love with Harry Potter, who was now not speaking, or eating, or smiling, or living for all that Ginny knew. She looked again at the smiling woman in the eyes. She now recognized the green eyes, and also the woman wearing them. She knew who she was in an instant, she never seen Lily Potter before, but everyone said Harry had her eyes, and right now looking into them she could tell they were the exact same color of Harry's. The difference was that these eyes weren't guarded, or exhausted, they were a little sad, but they were also warm. It reminded her of those weeks in her fifth year, walking by the lake, laughing and kissing. She reached Lily, she was still very confused.
"You're Lily Potter, right?" Ginny asked. Lily just nodded and kept smiling. "May I ask where we are?" She meant to ask 'Why are you here?' but she thought it sounded really rude.
"I don't know, in a forest I guess, but that doesn't matter. I really need to talk with you and we don't have a lot of time" Lily said calmly. Her tone of voice didn't match her words. Ginny nodded, unsure of what to say. "I want to talk about Harry. We've been watching him, James and me, all this time. We were always worried for him, since his first year when he saved the philosopher stone, and we worried from him all his time in Hogwarts, and we were worried for him when he faced Voldemort. We watch him, and we thanked there was always someone to help him when he needed, whether it was Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, Dumbledore, and even Hedwig help him when he was staying in Petunia's house, there was always someone when he needed, or couldn't handle it alone." she paused, and sit in the grass, she motioned Ginny to sit by her, she did. "After he destroyed Voldemort we thought we would stop worrying. That finally after all those years our worrying would stop. That finally Harry would be happy again, that he would live normally, or as normal as it could be." She paused again, meeting Ginny's eyes.
"Why are you telling me this?" Ginny asked, feeling again like she should know the answer.
"Because I want to ask you to help him, to help him to heal" Ginny was unsure of what to say, but she didn't need to say anything because Lily Potter continued. "I know maybe it is a lot to ask. James thinks I shouldn't intercept, he says that things would fall into place sooner than later. I know maybe he is right, but the guilt is consuming Harry, and I can't help to worry and I know he worries too." Lily looked to the ground. Like if she was ashamed of what she had just said. Ginny didn't know what to say. Completely silence ruled in the meadow for once since Ginny had arrived.
"I think you pick the wrong person" Ginny finally said, in a voice barely louder than a whisper.
"Why would you say that?" Lily raised her head again.
"I don't know, even if I get Harry to listen to me, I don't feel I am the right person to help him heal."
"That's because, even if you don't want to show it, you need healing too" Lily smiled again, "That's why I asked you. Because I know you need him just as much as he needs you. Because I know that the only way for you both to heal is if you do it together". Ginny knew deep down that she was right. Even if she didn't want to admit it, both, she and Harry were alone, and they needed someone, they needed each other, Ginny need Harry. She needed him more than ever, but most importantly he needed her, she could do something to help Harry get out of this dark hole he had been trapped for two weeks now. "He still cares about you" Lily said suddenly, "even if the guilt doesn't let him show it, he does, deeply. Don't give up on him"
"I don't think I can" said Ginny letting out a humorless laugh. She remembered Dumbledore funeral, two years ago. It was hard to believe that was two years ago, it seemed like decades. She had said to Harry 'I never really gave up on you'* she had said. She said she always had some hope inside her, and now even after two years, that hoped still lived deep down inside her, and she also knew that no matter what happened, that hope will be like an eternal flame that will always live inside her.
"What does that mean?" Lily asked, a new light was now found in her eyes.
"It means that I never give up on him, never. Not when I was little, and not when I was in Hogwarts. I tried my hardest, but I just couldn't. If I couldn't back then, I don't think I can now"
"I'm glad" Lily smiled "because he really needs you, and you need him too" Ginny returned the simile.
"May I ask you something?" Ginny asked unsure. She didn't want to sound rude, but she was really curious about it.
"Sure"
"Well, please don't get me wrong" Ginny started, unsure of what to say, "I'm really glad that you came and talk to me and everything, but…"
"You want to know why I didn't talk to Harry" Lily had that warm knowing smile and look in her eyes he mother wore so well, and so many times.
She nodded, and started speaking before Lily's explanation, "I just think it would really help Harry. Seeing you, I mean. I'm sure that if you tell him to stop blaming himself he will" Ginny was now looking at the ground, not wanting to meet Lily's eyes.
"Believe I tried, but even when he sleeps, nightmares are always haunting him and I just can't have a chance to talk to him. I am also breaking all the rules now, I'm not supposed to interfere, and that's why I don't have a lot of time."
"Oh, I am sorry. I was just curious"
"Don't worry" she smiled again. "But like I said before we don't have a lot of time" she turned back to see the forest, then she turned to see Ginny again. She saw her in the eyes, and Ginny could only see worry and sadness in them. "Can I ask you one more thing to do; if is not too much to ask?"
"Of course"
"Please, tell Harry that we really love him, and that we are so proud of him. Tell him that we are sorry we couldn't be there for him, and that we can't be there for him now." In that moment Ginny realized that Lily Potter would not just die for his son, but also would do anything to be with him in this moment. Ginny had always admired Lily Potter (she knew her mother would do the same she did for any one of her sons and daughter), but in that moment her respect for her somehow grew.
"I think he already knows that" Ginny said.
"Then please remind him. Not only now, but every time he forgets it. Please just tell me you will"
"Of course I will" Ginny smiled
"Now one last thing, I want to thank you, for being for him. You are really what he needs, and I thank you for being able to make him happy. I also will like if you could please say thanks to you mom, for treating Harry as her son when I couldn't be there."
Ginny simply nodded, unsure of what to say. She started hearing a weird noise from the woods. It came from behind from where Lily was sitting. The sound sounded like if a train was coming her way. First it was a distant sound, but it was now getting clearer and louder.
"Thank you, Ginny. Thank you very much" Lily said, standing up, Ginny mimicked her. "I know you can do this because, like I said before, I know you need it too"
"I know" was all Ginny could say, the sound was now getting closer, louder, and clearer. "But where I can find him, he's gone everyday"
"He's where everything started" Lily looked back again to the forest and let a loud sight, "Is time to go". She hugged Ginny and whisper to her ear, "I always knew you were the one for Harry, from the firs moment I saw you". She pulled away and smile, Ginny couldn't help but to return the smile with the same warmth as hers. Lily started walking back to the forest. Just when she was on the edge of the clearing she turned and waved goodbye, smiling, this time the smile match her eyes. Ginny waved good bye too, and watched as Lily Potter walked into the thickness of the forest, slowly disappearing into the trees.
Ginny was starting to being pulled away of her dream. Like if someone had grabbed her from the back and started pulling her towards reality, away of the calmness and silence of the forest. She was watching everything like a blur, the trees the grass, everything. But, strange as it was she wasn't scared any more. She knew that what would have to happen would happen, and she would have to face it. She closed her eyes as she was brought back to reality. When she opened them again she was back in her room. Beside her bed there was an empty mattress where Hermione was supposed to be sleeping, the clock on her night stand was marking 6:00 am. Deciding she couldn't go back to sleep any more, she dressed slowly, thinking of her dream. If Harry really cared about her, he would start living again. If not for him, for her, because Lily was right, she really needed him. But she wasn't sure Harry still cared about her.
Ginny walked down the stairs for the second time that night. This time more carefully, she didn't want to wake up anyone. She went to the kitchen to get a glass of water and then went to the living room. In a few hours her mom would wake up, and soon the whole house. She still had to think a lot of her dream. When she arrived to the living room she stopped. For the second time that night she found another person in there. Ginny sat on the arm chair next to it, and tried to relax as she watched the sleeping figure of Harry Potter.
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*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, pg 647
