Chapter 6
'Ron, wait! Where are you going!' he shouted as Ron turned and walked past him and out of the door. Harry followed him. He could still feel the tears burning his eyes and he raised a shaky hand to wipe them away. 'What do you mean? What do you mean you buried her…is she…' he couldn't bring himself to say it. Ron stopped and turned to face him, saying nothing he silently nodded. He then turned back and went to walk away again. 'Where are you going?' Harry asked again in an effort to stop him from doing anything stupid. This time Ron answered.
'To see my daughter,' he said without turning round. 'I…I have to see her.' And with that he apperated. Harry stepped back, attempting to steady himself, before apparating himself.
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Harry sat in his office, staring out into the Hogwarts grounds. His office. The idea still felt a little strange. All the times he'd been in this office as a student he never imagined it would one day be his. So far he thought the best thing about was the view. He reckoned that if leaned a little to left he might even be able to see the Quidditch pitch.Unfortunately staring at the view for too long seemed to make him drift a bit too much for comfort.
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Harry arrived at the burrow with a loud crack. He opened his eyes to the sitting room where he could see Ron walking over to his mother, who was looking a bit shocked and very worried.
'Mum where is she, I need to see her.' Ron sounded desperate now. Molly was now looking very concerned.
'Ron, what's wrong, what's happened?' Ron just looked at her, swallowed hard and mutely shook his head as if to say that he couldn't answer that.
'Please,' Ron whispered. It was then that Harry heard a floorboard creak on the stairs as Ginny walked down with a small bundle cradled in her arms.
'I couldn't get her to stop crying,' she said. 'What's…what's going on?' Harry watched as Ron quickly walked over to Ginny and lifted the baby into his arms. The second he did she stopped crying. Ron looked at his daughter closely, as if to make sure that she really was there, before kissing her lightly on the forehead, dropping to his knees and breaking down completely. Molly was at his side immediately trying to console him but to no avail. He sobbed as he held his daughter tightly. Harry looked up to see Ginny looking at him.
'Harry,' she said, her voice shaking slightly. 'What happened?'
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Harry looked away from the window and back down at the papers on his desk. He thought back to earlier in the term when he'd introduced Caitlin to Hagrid. He been a little apprehensive, not only had he not seen Hagrid for quite a while a while but he didn't want to have to go through what had happened earlier in the week. Praise he could just about take, pointing he'd already dealt with for most of his life, but he didn't want peoples sympathy. The worst had been when he'd run into Caitlin and then they'd both ran into another teacher who Harry only vaguely recognised from his first day. After reintroducing herself and then going on and on about the war she had then, once she realised Caitlin was a Weasley, become very interested in her. After wrongly assuming she must be Bill Weasleys daughter, and not giving either Harry or Caitlin space to correct her, she'd then gone on and on about how much she'd heard about the Weasley's before she began on 'wasn't it a shame about Ron Weasley though'. It was too much. He could tell when he saw Caitlin go oddly silent, mumble an excuse to leave and walk as quickly as she could in the opposite direction.
Thankfully Hagrid hadn't been so tactless.
It was then that he heard a knock on the door, though the door opened before he could invite anyone in. However he didn't mind when he saw who it was. He smiled.
'Hey Ginny, when did you get here?' she gave him a weak smile.
'Just now…look Harry, I've just been talking to Remus and…' she trailed off and took a deep breath.
'What?' he asked nervously.
'There's something I've got to tell you.'
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A/N: -
Originally this chapter was going to be longer but, unfortuantley, i seemed to be suffering a severe case of not knowing what the hell to write.
If anyone has any questions that don't seem to be being answered then please ask them. I'll probably need reminding of all these loose ends I seem to have created. I'm about to create a damn site more of them.
