After a delicious dessert, Harry checked his watch and noticed what time it was.

"I hate to cut this short, but I've got to get home. I have to be a the Ministry at 7 in the morning tomorrow." Harry said as he got up to leave.

"Harry, you can stay here for tonight, can't you?" Ginny asked, looking towards her parents.

"Of course he can, since I don't think he has another place to call home." Molly said.

"Actually, Sirius left me Number 12 Grimmauld Place." Harry said.

"Really." Molly said.

"Yeah, that's actually Ron, Hermione and I were hiding out from Voldemort's supporters at first." Harry said.

"Well, I suppose that you do have a home to go to." Molly said.

"Don't worry, I'll still be dropping by loads of times, but now that I'm 17, I think I'd like to have a independence, like living on my own." Harry said.

"Of course, but Harry, are you sure you don't want to stay here tonight." Molly asked.

"Thank you, but I'm sure. Besides, I think you've already pushed this house to its limit on holding people." Harry said, since right now, the only ones not staying at the Burrow aside from himself was Bill and Fleur.

"I suppose so. Just be careful Harry." Molly said reluctantly.

"I'll see you out." Ginny said, taking her boyfriend's arm.

"You know you can't come with me. Trust me, I wish you could, but your mum would throw a cow." Harry said.

"I know, but I went a whole year without you and it was almost unbearable. I'm not ready to be separated from you just yet." Ginny said.

"I don't want to leave you either Ginny, but I have work tomorrow." Harry said.

"Harry, please just stay over one night. Just so I can make sure that you aren't murdered in your sleep." Ginny said.

Harry thought about it and then said "Well, I suppose one night wouldn't hurt. Besides, I still have to get my things back from Hermione."

"I'm glad you see things my way Harry." Ginny said.

"I get the feeling I'll be seeing things your way for awhile in the near future." Harry said only loud enough for Ginny to hear.

"I agree with you on that." Ginny said.

"Alright then, everyone off to bed." Molly said.


That night, Harry was having a nightmare.

"C'mon mate, wake up." Ron said, shaking Harry awake.

"What's going on?" Ginny asked as she entered she entered Ron's room, after hearing Harry scream in his sleep on her way back from the bathroom.

"Harry's having a nightmare and I don't think it's an ordinary one. With the noises he's making in his sleep, it's as if he's gotten too close to a dementor or something." Ron said.

"Can't you wake him up?" Ginny asked, not being able to bear the sight of her beloved Harry thrashing around in his sleep, terrified.

"I've tried everything, smacking him, punching him shaking him, nothing's working." Ron said.

"Did you try using magic?" Ginny asked.

"Yes I did and he wouldn't budge. Whatever's going on with him, nothing I can think seems to be able to snap him out of it." Ron said.

"Well, there's one thing you didn't try." Ginny said.

"And what's that?" Ron asked.

"You didn't tell me." Ginny asked.

"I didn't want to receive your Bat Bogey Hex for waking you up in the middle of the night." Ron said, just now starting to take in the fact that more people had heard Harry through the open door and now Molly, Arthur and Hermione had joined them.

"What's wrong with Harry?" Molly asked Ginny kneeled down next to Harry.

"Night terrors I think. I guess without You-Know-Who here, all the horrors of Harry's past are finally catching up with him in some kind of post traumatic stress." Ron said.

"If this doesn't work, nothing will." Ginny said as she kissed Harry, which made his eyes shoot open immediately.

"Note to self. Next time Harry has a nightmare like that, call Ginny." Ron said.

"What's going on?" Harry asked.

"You were having a nightmare." Ginny said as she sat down next to him and cupped his face.

"You all came in here just because I was having a nightmare?" Harry asked.

"Harry, your screams woke us up. We were worried." Hermione said.

"I think everything that's happened over the past 7 years is finally catching up with you mate. After all, up until now, your mind was too preoccupied trying to keep You-Know-Who out of it and on how to defeat him to keep you from dealing with all the trauma from everything you've gone through from catching up to you, but now that he's gone, it's all catching up to you." Ron said.

"That's the kind of thing I'd expect to come from Hermione, not you." Harry said.

"Whatever." Ron said, rolling his eyes.

"I thought I could finally get some sleep without a crazy nightmare, but now, I guess that will never happen." Harry said.

"Well, Harry definitely seemed to calm down when Ginny woke him up." Hermione said.

"True, maybe if Ginny were there with Harry to help comfort him, it might help him sleep." Arthur said.

Molly thought about it for a minute and then made her decision.

"I suppose that as long as things are kept appropriate, we can change up our sleeping arrangements." Molly said.

"How so?" Ginny asked.

"From now on, when Harry stays here, he'll stay in Ginny's room and Hermione will stay in here with Ron. However, if I discover that any other activities other than sleeping are taking place, the arrangements will go back to boys in Ron's room and girls in Ginny's." Molly said.

"Understood." All the kids said.