Hello everyone! Thankyou already for the follows and the Favs, At the moment I'm writing chapter Fourteen which If I told you about now I'd have to kill you! But that gives you an idea of how long it'll be :) I'm not 100% happy with these upcoming chapters. But chapter five is when it all gets a bit exciting. For now it's a bit of filler as Harry gets ready to live as a muggle. But as you can tell from the chapter title this is the breakup, so brace yourself, it could all get a bit angry. Enjoy! Let me know what you think, what you like, what you don't. Any constructive criticism is always appreciated.


Chapter Two The Big Change. June 1998

After sitting up most nights with Remus reminiscing about Remus' past he'd almost forgotten about the importance of today until Remus had wished him luck as he was half way out the door. He stopped so suddenly the door shutting had almost made him fall over. Oh god, what was he going to do? How could he even word this without being horrible, rude, mean? What if she hit him? What if Ron hit him? What if she cried? What if he cried. No, he wasn't going to cry, he wanted this. He really wanted this, but he really didn't want to get hit. He let out a long breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding during the apparation as he faced the usually welcome door of the burrow.

"Here goes nothing." He murmured to himself before pushing open the door and shyly stepping inside.

"Harry!" Ginny exclaimed as he walked through the door, he was immediately pulled into a frantic hug which he returned automatically until he remembered why he'd come here.

"Gin, I need to speak to you." He said trying to sound serious, and ignore the excited look from Molly Weasley who probably assumed he was taking her away to propose.

"Sure." She said with a smile as she took his hand and pulled him to the door. "Lets go outside."

They walked for a moment until Harry stopped, unable to keep up any pretense.

"Ginny, this isn't working." He said calmly, or as calmly as he could be at that moment. He watched as her smiling face fell and looked more confused.

"What? I don't understand..." She stammered, already close to tears. "I thought..."

"I know. I'm really sorry for letting you feel like that" Harry mumbled. "But I'm moving away for a bit."

"Where?! When?" She practically screeched making Harry flinch slightly. "You've only just come back!"

"I know, I'm sorry..." Harry began.

"You're sorry!" Ginny exclaimed. "Your going away? Where? How long?"

"I'm not sure yet, out of the wizarding world, maybe London. I don't know how long I'll be gone."

"But what about us?" Ginny pleaded, stepping forward, to which Harry took a step back.

"Ginny, I'm going away indefinitely. There's no way there could be an us. I'm really sorry. I never meant to hurt you..."

"What? How could you not. You show up here...and I think, Oh for some bloody reason you might propose or at least talk about our relationship and you shred any chance of us even being together. Why not?"

"Why what?" Harry asked, looking confused.

"Why cant we be together?" She insisted. Harry rubbed his temples in frustration and looked at Ginny frantically.

"Because, Ginny, we're going in circles. I'm leaving for a while and you're going back to Hogwarts. Theres no way we can be together, and even if there were a way. I just don't feel that way about you anymore..."

And that's where she hit him. Hard.

"Harry James Potter, don't you dare say anything like that! What about before, what changed?" she pleaded, tears falling down her already wet face. This wasn't how he wanted this to go at all.

"I changed, or want to change. I just cant see us together anymore. I still want us to be friends." he explained trying to sound hopeful.

"Oh well that's okay then!" She snapped sarcastically, wiping away her now angry tears. She stormed ahead of him and he began to follow. She whipped round quickly making him stop and look at her. She really was beautiful, but he really only saw her beauty on the same level as Hermione's. There really was nothing else.

"Harry if you don't have anything else to say I think you should go." She snapped angrily

"But Ginny..." He started.

"FUCK OFF!" She screamed, storming away across the field. He let out a breath he felt he'd been holding since the beginning before stuffing his hands in his pockets and pacing back to the house.


As he entered the house the deafening bang of party poppers filled his ears and he was surrounded by string. He looked up with a stunned expression before looking
back at other stunned faces.

"Did she say no?" Molly asked, quickly clearing away the string with her wand. Harry rubbed his face with his hands and avoided the question by sitting at the table. Everyone seemed to join him. Ron was on his left.

"Mate, what happened?" Ron asked, sounding concerned.

"I told her I was leaving?" Harry mumbled,

"Leaving?" Hermione exclaimed. Looking at him with wide eyes. "But you're not leaving."

"Yes I am." Harry mumbled into his hands his head was resting in. Gasps and shocks erupted in the room.

"Harry, what do you mean you're leaving." Arthur questioned.

"I'm leaving the wizarding world. Just for a bit, I need to get away." Harry explained bluntly.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Ron mumbled, looking visibly hurt, Hermione squeezed Rons hand and went to clasp Harry's.

"He's telling us now." She muttered, and Harry nodded looking downcast.

"Can we visit?" Ron asked, looking miserable and Harry looked up in surprise.

"What? Of course you can! Depending on where I am, but yeah. I just want to be out of the public eye for a while." Harry explained and Hermione smiled slightly.

"But what about your future?!" Mrs Weasley exclaimed and Harry almost winced at the bluntness of such an overused question. He steadied himself before looking into the angry eyes of Molly Weasley.

"I guess its on hold for a moment." He replied honestly, she let out a small shriek and went out to the garden to see to her daughter. Arthur turned and looked at Harry seriously.

"Well Harry, I can't say I'm not sad that you wont be in Auror training with Ron, but I understand your reasons for leaving." He said with a clear and rationale understanding. Arthur held out his hand with a smile and said. "Well, good luck Harry Potter." Harry jumped up in and instant a shook his hand happily with a grin. "Thankyou Mr Weasley, I'll be back here all the time, and eventually I may join Ron in Auror training." He said with a smile as he looked at his best friend who grinned back happily.

"There is one thing though." Harry said suddenly and all eyes looked at him worriedly.

"I wont be going by 'Harry Potter' anymore." Harry announced and this time there were no shouts and gasps. Just deafening confused silence.

"What?" Ron burst out suddenly, breaking the tension and the silence. "But why?"

"Even if I'm in the muggle world people are going to know who I am as soon as I introduce myself, hopefully once I change myself a bit I'll look a little less myself and will have a different name anyway." He said, trying to explain it as rationally as he could. Everyone around him seemed to show some understanding which was good.

"So who are you now?" Ron asked suddenly, humour showing in his voice. He turned to his best friend and grinned.

"Harry Evans." He declared happily. Hermione let out a little noise and looked up at Harry with emotion filled eyes. Before he could even smile at her she stood up and threw her arms around him tightly.

"That's beautiful Harry."

"It's a name Hermione." Ron stated with a snort, in a teasing way. Hermione pulled apart from Harry and swatted Ron forcefully.

"It's a beautiful gesture Ronald, any one could see it." She snapped looking back at Harry. "It's very appropriate, you going into the muggle world with a muggle second name."

It wasn't until then that Harry knew that was the case, of course. He simply smiled and nodded. "Yeah exactly, it was...as you said appropriate." He said hiding his sideways grin as he was pulled into another hug by Hermione. He looked over her shoulder at a certain red head rolling his eyes and masking a chuckle.


"Are you sure about this Harry?" Remus asked as he stood in Harry's room helping him pack. Harry looked up from pulling all his clothes into bin liners.

"Sure about what?" Harry asked looking up at his godfather.

"Leaving? Throwing away all your clothes. Leaving the wizard world?" Remus asked with a concerned frown.

"I'm sure about all of those things." Harry smiled. He picked up a rather hideous looking t shirt and looked at Remus. "Especially throwing away my clothes."

Remus chuckled. "Okay, that one I can understand, it will probably be nice to have clothes that actually fit you. But are you sure about leaving?"

"More than anything, I'll visit you and Teddy all the time, I just want to start new somewhere. Where no one knows what I've done or who I am." Harry explained and Remus crouched down next to Harry with a smile.

"As long as you don't forget who you are" Remus murmured looking serious for a moment before smiling. "Thank god Sirius or your father aren't here to hear me say that."

"It was slightly cheesy." Harry agreed earning a shove which caused him to fall slightly into the collection of bin bags. He looked around and frowned.

"I think I should start my new life by burning these."


So Harry's burning his clothes, Ginny's pissed off and Ron and Hermione are as supportive as ever, for now. What could I mean by that? Favourite, follow and review to find out soon! Thanks!

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