They landed in the deserted and destroyed entrance hall.

"I'm under the invisibility cloak" Harry told Ginny. Hands still intertwined Harry led the way out to the grounds and immediately made his way towards Neville.

Neville stood above a body, a body of one of the fallen. He wiped his sleeve across his brow and leaned over to lift the body up.

"Harry, why are we...?" Ginny began, stopping abruptly as she saw Harry materialise from under his cloak.

The pair watched as Harry left Neville instructions to kill Nagini before throwing the cloak back over himself. They began walking towards the edge of the forest behind the invisible Harry.

"So that's why Neville killed Nagini?" Ginny asked already knowing the answer.

Harry nodded, "Yeah I thought that I should tell someone else then three people were still in on the secret like Dumbledore wanted. I obviously never explained that she was a Horcrux though. I figured the less people that know about that the better and well I wouldn't have had time to anyway."

They approached the outskirts of the forest and found Ginny comforting a girl.

Ginny gasped, "I felt you there. Well I felt someone watching me."

She looked into Harry's eyes. She was indignant and hurt all at once,

"Why didn't you say goodbye to me?"

"I wanted to, I really did" he said truthfully. He went on to further explain as she raised an eyebrow in disbelief,

"I stood here for five minutes just watching you. I wanted to say goodbye, kiss you one last time, tell you how much I'd miss you; but I knew that if I'd done it I wouldn't be able to leave you. Leaving you once was hard enough."

"I would have probably stopped you anyway", Ginny sighed after a short pause, knowing that she wouldn't have been able to do it either, had she been in his position.

"Come on", said Harry as he noticed the grass in front on him flatten as his invisible self stepped on it on his way into the forest.

They easily followed his unseen self due to the rustling he was making. They heard the soft whisper of "I am about to die" and Harry watched as his Parents, Sirius and Lupin appeared and a sad smile met his lips. Ginny looked around waiting for something to happen and noticed Harry's face, then his disembodied voice,

"Does it hurt?"

"Uh, Harry who are you talking to?" asked Ginny confusedly.

"What can't you see them?" Harry asked in exactly the same tone as Ginny.

"Who?" she asked. Just as Harry's voice said, "I didn't want you to die, any of you. I'm sorry."

"My Mum and Dad and Sirius and Lupin" he said. "I guess that Sirius was right they're part of me and that's why you can't see them", he added as an afterthought.

"Oh...I still don't get how you're talking to them though" said Ginny.

"I used the resurrection stone to bring them to me, Dumbledore left it to me in his will. It was in the snitch" he added noticing Ginny was about to ask the very question.

They followed once more as invisible Harry stopped talking and rustling could be heard once more. Once they heard the two Death Eaters discussing that they would have to back and tell their Master that Harry wasn't coming they began to follow them right into the clearing.

Ginny gripped Harry's hand tighter as she watched him remove the invisibility cloak and face Voldemort. She was startled as Hagrid began yelling, "HARRY! NO!"

The fear in her heart was rising and her breathing quickened. She couldn't hear the leering Death Eaters or Voldemort's mocking tone. She could only feel as Harry squeezed her hand in reassurance before leaning down and whispering in her ear,

"I thought of you right before the curse hit me."

Her eyes widened and when she saw the green flash on the Avada Kedavra curse she buried her face into Harry's chest not wanting to see him killed. Harry put his arms around her and comforted away the tears whispering nonsense into her ear; about how it was okay and he was okay.

She noticed a white flash through her eyelids and opened her eyes.

"Uh, oh right I didn't really think we would come here" he said embarrassedly.

"What, where are we?" she said trying to pull away and wipe her tears. Harry just held her tighter. "Harry what are you doing?"

"Em...just wait a minute. This is kinda limbo – in between life and death – I don't have any clothes on at the moment" he said blushing furiously.

She lifted her head and looked up into his reddening face. Smirking she said,

"I bet it would make me feel better."

Harry looked down at her his eyes widening, becoming even redder (he wondered how that was even possible).

"What? Ginny I mean...uh...no I...but I thought..." He spluttered.

"Calm down. I'm joking" she laughed.

"Oh, right" He said sounding a little upset. At this Ginny raised her eyebrows.

"Are you disappointed?" she said disbelievingly.

"No, no...It's not that...it's just well...a tiny bit" he said not meeting her gaze the flush returning to his cheeks.

They then heard a noise, a pitiful wailing and Ginny veered round to see what it was just as Harry's hand flew in front of her eyes. Just as she began to protest he removed his hand and Ginny noticed another Harry standing a few paces away now fully robed.

"You don't half contradict yourself Harry" she said cheekily, just as Dumbledore spoke,

"You cannot help."

"We can talk about that and us later", said Harry slightly annoyed, "Listen to Dumbledore what he says is important."

Ginny fell silent and together she and the two Harry's approached Dumbledore.

Ginny listened intently as Harry and Dumbledore talked about everything,

"I miss him" Harry whispered.

"Me too" said Ginny quietly.

All too soon for either of them the scene around them dissolved and they were back in the clearing in the forest.

"She lied for you?" Ginny asked Harry shocked that a Malfoy would do anything to help someone, even if it was for their own personal gain.

"Yeah, she's nowhere near as bad as her husband. And to be honest I think Malfoy got a bit roped in by Voldemort last year. It was his father's punishment for failing to get the prophecy. Voldemort probably thought that he'd die trying to kill Dumbledore because he pretty much intended for Snape to do it anyway."

Ginny said nothing as she watched Hagrid lift Harry and they followed him out of the forest. When they reached the front steps and everyone started spilling out onto the lawn Harry clenched. The grief, the sorrow, the shock on everyone's faces was too much to bear. Then he saw Ginny in the sea of people; Ron and Hermione behind her. Harry drew in a breath as he watched the anguish in her eyes. She raced forwards shoving her way through the crowd screaming,

"HARRY! HARRY NO! PLEASE! HARRY NO! HARRRRY!" Bill grabbed her as she broke to the front of the crowd. She began fighting him and trying to shove him off of her all the while screaming for Harry.

Harry had never heard that kind of pain in Ginny's voice before and suddenly, tears spilling from his eyes he turned to face the Ginny by his side. Without permission he wrapped his arms around her and sobbed into her shoulder.

"I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry. I won't ever hurt you like that again, I promise. I don't ever want to see you hurt like that ever again. I'm sorry" he said as Neville severed Nagini's head.

"Shh...stop it's okay now" Ginny soothed.

Harry tugged her elbow and they made their way out of the pensieve through the swirling mist.