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I've decided to take the advice from brios and look for a beta reader. If you'd like to help out please email or message me. I'd prefer someone who has a decent vocabulary and experiance in writing or editing. Also good knowledge of the Harry Potter books would help.

This chapter is more than twice as long as the last one, I just wrote and kept on writing. I couldn't decide on what parts to cut out so most of this has been left in, thats another reason I need a beta. :)

Warning - This chapter probably has the most spoilers so far. I have to stress that if you haven't read all the books: DON'T READ THIS.

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Chapter four - Harry's Tale
Ginny and Hermione entered the dining room of Grimmauld place to find the Order of the Phoenix fully assembled around the large dining table. Harry was at the head of the table, with Ron on his right. Hermione sat down next to Ron and Ginny proceeded to sit in the only remaining chair, on Harry's left before being interrupted by her mother.

'Ginny, please wait upstairs.' Mrs Weasley said quickly, taking hold of her arm.

'But Mum!' she argued before being interrupted by Harry.

'Mrs Weasley please allow Ginny to hear what I have to say.' He requested, causing Ginny to look rather smile, it felt good to have him stand up for her.

'But she's not of age!' screamed a surprised Mrs Weasley, staring at Harry now but looking slightly helpless at being unable to prevent her only daughter from hearing what would of course prove to be a rather disturbing conversation.

'I was planning to tell Ginny beforehand, I feel she deserves to know what I'm about to say and I would tell her afterwards if needed.' He replied firmly, feeling guilty about demanding anything of Mrs Weasley. She was to him the mother he never had, but he would not be swayed on this. Ginny had a right to know about what he had been up to, 'more so than anyone else,' he thought inwardly.

Defeated, Mrs Weasley released her daughter and sat back down, looking back at Harry intently like nothing had happened. At this, Ginny's grin grew much larger and she took her place next to Harry, giving him a look that said 'thank you' before taking his hand in hers under the table.

Harry's emerald eyes moved across the table, studying everyone who had shown up. From his right they were Ron and Hermione, Elphias Doge, Aberforth, Hagrid, Dedalus Diggle and Hestia Jones (both recently returned from the Dursley's), Professor McGonogall, Kinglsey, Professor Slughorn (who had joined the order recently), Mr and Mrs Weasley, Bill and Fleur, Charlie, George, Percy and lastly Ginny. Some Order members had not made it due to being looked up in Azkaban or in Mundungus Fletcher's case, still in hiding. Upon finishing his search around the room, Harry had decided. He could trust everyone present with the truth, all of it.

All the eyes in the room were looking at Harry, in anticipation. Waiting for the explanations to begin, he cleared his throat and began telling them everything about the Horcruxes, dodging the subject of the deathly hallows.

'You wanted to know what we have been doing the past year. Dumbledore had given us a mission as you already know. That mission was to make Voldemort mortal once more and then kill him.'

There were whispers of surprise around the room; Arthur Weasley broke the silence.

'Your saying Voldemort was immortal?' he asked.

'Yes, when Voldemort killed my parents and his killing curse rebounded off me he should have died. But he had used incredibly powerful and terrible dark magic to ensure his survival. Voldemort made Horcruxes, which is to say he split his soul into pieces. This has been done before but most dark wizards only made one. Voldemort split his soul into seven pieces.'

The room erupted in disgust. Slughorn, who had some knowledge of the subject, was the most appalled.

'Seven, he went that far?'

'Dumbledore believed that Voldemort chose to split his soul into seven pieces because seven is the most powerful magical number. He had told us that we would need to destroy the six Horcruxes before Voldemort could be defeated. He also said that I had already destroyed the first one in my second year.'

'Riddles diary.' Ginny mouthed, 'That thing was part of Voldemort's soul?' she screamed in disgust.

Harry nodded, 'Dumbledore had also found another, destroying it himself. It was a ring passed down by Salazar Slytherin to Marvolo Gaunt, Voldemort's Grandfather. Dumbledore put on the ring but the Horcrux cursed him. That's why his hand suddenly turned black. He destroyed the ring but Snape told him the curse would kill him within a year.'

Harry had decided not to explain about the ring also holding the resurrection stone. They did not need to know about that particular hallow.

'Dumbledore also guessed that Nagini, Voldemort's snake would be another Horcrux, that was why I asked Neville to kill it yesterday. Another Horcurx, Dumbledore discovered to be Slytherin's locket. On the night he died, we were looking for it. But Regulas Black had beat us to it.'

He allowed everyone to absorb this information before continuing he didn't want to have to repeat anything.

'So that was what you were doing, finding and destroying the remaining Horcruxes?' McGonogall asked. In reply the trio simply nodded.

'If you had already taken care of two Horcruxes, and we know Neville destroyed the last one, what of the other three?' questioned Kingsley.

'With Kreacher's help, we found out the Mudungus had stolen the locket from this place. We got it back off him and destroyed that first. Then we were researching where the last two could be. After getting caught by death eaters and taken to the Malfoy manor we heard Bellatrix seem frightened when she thought we had got Gryphindor's sword out of her vault and asked what else we had taken. After escaping from there with Dobby's help, we planned to break into Gringrotts, finding another Horcrux, Hufflepuff's cup.'

There was a murmur of understanding as people realised why the three of them had been seen flying out of the goblin bank on a dragon.

'Lastly, we looked for a Horcrux at Hogwarts.'

'So when you were looking for Ravenclaw's diadem…' Ginny muttered.

'We were looking for a Horcrux, yes. After destroying that we tried to find Voldemort in order to kill Nagini, and then him. But Voldemort had realised we were after his Horcruxes and had protected Nagini. There was also more to do than we had thought, when Voldemort killed Snape, Snape gave me some of his memories.'

At that point many people across the table asked similar questions.

'Why did Voldemort kill Snape?'

'Why did Snape help you?'

'You'll have to tell them Harry,' Hermione whispered. 'You can't explain this without mentioning the elder wand.'

Harry looked reluctant, but after getting a reassuring squeeze from Ginny, he continued.

'Are you familiar with the elder wand, or the deathstick?'

Every single person on the table stared at him at once. 'That's just a fairy tale!' 'You're saying the elder wand exists?'

'Yes.' He said simply, at that point he realised the wand was still in his pocket. He did not show them however; they didn't need to know he hadn't hidden it yet, he made a mental note to do so as soon as they left. 'Dumbledore owned the elder wand, after taking it from Grindlewald. Voldemort believed that as Snape killed Dumbledore, Snape was the true owner of the elder wand. But he was wrong. Malfoy had disarmed Dumbledore, so Malfoy was the owner, Snape may have killed him but he did so on Dumbledore's order.'

There was a sudden burst of outrage at the revelation. 'How could Dumbledore have asked Snape to kill him?' more than one person shouted together.

'As I mentioned before, Dumbledore had a limited time left to live. He did not want Voldemort to gain possession of the elder wand and the act would fortify Snapes position, as Voldemort's most trusted Death Eater. This meant that Voldemort thought he owned the wand, he didn't, and I did. I defeated Malfoy, that passed the ownership onto me and is why Voldemort's killing curse rebounding on himself yesterday.'

The commotion was silenced at this fact for the best parts of a minute until Ginny spoke up. 'But what happened to you in the forest? We thought you were dead.'

'This part is the most difficult to explain…' he trailed off. 'Kreacher!'

Crack

The house elf appeared immediately.

'Kreacher, can you bring the package Professor McGonogall brought?' He asked.

Kreacher bowed low and then disapparated again. The whole table, except McGonogall, looked surprised. Even Ron and Hermione were confused, they had no idea that he had asked the Professor to bring Dumbledore's pensive and the flask next to it before he had made his speech.

Kreacher arrived with the pensive and some realisation appeared on Ron and Hermione's faces.

'I…didn't think I could explain all of this myself.' Harry announced, realising that tears were forming in his eyes because of what he was about to show them. He signalled for everyone to stand, explaining that they should dive in at around the same time. They all appeared at the deserted playground, watching intently, going through each one of Snape's memories.

Through watching the memories tears formed in almost everyone's eyes as they realised proof of Snape's allegiance, and watched in horror when they discovered that Harry himself was a Horcrux. Rising from the pensive, Harry noticed that Ginny was now looking at him, grasping tightly at his hands, tears falling down her face. Everyone else was staring at him.

'What…happened Harry?' she asked.

Without his eyes leaving hers, he explained, her hands almost crushing his own as she discovered what he went through. 'I…put on the invisibility cloak and walked towards to forest, I told Neville to kill Nagini on my way down and went towards the forest. To my death.' He had decided to skip out finding the resurrection stone, since he had not told them about the stone being in the ring, perhaps he would tell Ginny later.

'I walked straight up to Voldemort, without bothering to take out my wand. He cast Avada Kedavra on me and I collapsed, so did Voldemort. I thought I was dead but for some reason the curse hadn't worked, it had destroyed the last Horcrux instead.' He recalled what Dumbledore had told him in King's cross, telling them the reason he did not die 'I guess I didn't die because Voldemort used my blood to return. That put my mother's protection inside him and so making it impossible for him to kill me, Voldemort thought I was dead though and Hagrid carried me to the school. That's about everything I guess.'

Harry was glad no one asked how he knew that was why he couldn't die as he didn't feel like recounting the events at Kings cross, they might think he was insane. Instead, once Harry was finished Ginny and Mrs Weasley at once threw themselves at him, hugging him. While the others in the room shed tears or looked on in disbelief.

'You…walked to your death, to save us.' Ginny sobbed into his chest.

'Harry dear, you've been through far too much!' Mrs Weasley cried.

After receiving many hugs and kind words which lasted hours, the house began to empty, people still discussing the revelations in hushed whispers. Leaving Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Mr Weasley, Professor McGonogall and Kingsley alone in the house. Kingsley then announced his departure, taking Harry aside first.

'That speech you made at the funeral, I know I'm only the acting minister for magic but I want to try and make all of those things come true. But I'll need your help Harry, you're a hero to most witches and wizards in this country and we'll need to use that if this 'New World' is going to work.'

Harry agreed, telling Kingsley to send an owl if he could help with something before Kingsley flooed back to the ministry. Seconds after Kingsley left, McGonogall called Harry over with Ron, Hermione and Ginny.

'Term has ended, it would be impossible to teach right now with the school in that state so you all have extended holidays. Ginny I expect you to return to Hogwarts next year, as for the rest of you, meet me at the school in one week and we will discuss your options.' She stated, before leaving herself.

'I have to go back to school?' Ginny complained loudly.

'You can't just drop out, you need to get your NEWTs.' Harry argued.

'Hypocrite.' Ginny laughed, 'look who's talking!'

Harry held up his hands in defeat. 'Yeah I know but still…'

'Don't worry Harry I'll go back. I'm just not very keen on spending another year in Hogwarts without you…' she said, looking up at him with puppy dog eyes.

'Don't worry Gin. We'll make up for it in the holidays,' he grinned kissing her on the lips.

'Time to go!' Mr Weasley shouted, obviously surprised, he didn't know Harry and Ginny were going out. Harry looked up and saw Ron and Hermione pulling away from each other while him and Ginny did the same. Laughing, the four followed a very embarrassed Mr Weasley outside and apparated to the burrow as a group.

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