I just couldn't resist! I justfinished creating a timetable to give me a rough overview what will happen the next year and now that I got so many plots – thanks to JKR! – I MUST continue writing immediately. Especially when I think that in a week I'll be preparing to go to Göttingen to continue my studies.
But what am I writing so much… ENJOY!
He's an idiot! Harry thought while he wandered the floor up and down. He – is – an – i – di – ot! His hands had formed fists, but loosened up the more he thought these words.
"Harry…" a voice whispered in his ear. It was Ginny's. Harry stopped moving and looked down at his shoulder on which her hand now lay down. "He's an idiot" he said breathing hardly.
"He's not trying to be one…" Ginny said flatly and embraced Harry from behind, laying her other hand on his stomach and her head on his other shoulder. Harry turned his head to lean it against hers, inhaling her smell with pleasure. He relaxed his hands and dissolved the formed fists, touching her hand on his stomach.
"I'm not saying he's right or anything, he's just trying to protect me… he always had, you know that, Harry" she fondly caressed his hand in hers and kissed his neck.
"He doesn't have to protect you from me, Ginny! He should know that!" Harry said angrily.
"Yeah, well… He's Ron, isn't he? Takes a while his brain to catch up with his actions" she said and created a smile on Harry's face. Oh, how I missed this… Harry thought urgently trying to hold back a tear that seemed to fight itself into existence. He used his other hand to caress her cheek and turned to face her.
He could still see the grin from her last comment on her face and looked into her eyes. They reflected his own eyes, his own green eyes. But Harry could see so much more, as though her entire soul lay there in front of him. Her entire soul that he had missed for so long.
"I will never let something happen to you, Ginny…" he whispered to her.
"Oh, now you sound like Ron… I can take care of myself, you know" she grinned at him.
"I know…I just wanted you to know…" he continued.
"… That you'd go into the chamber of secrets for me?" she finished his sentence. "Or that you'd kiss me in front of the entire Gryffindor common room? Or pretend to have died…" she swallowed hard.
"I had to…" he whispered sadly.
"I knew… I knew you weren't dead…" she said as she leaned into his hand "I mean, I saw you laying there, but I somehow knew you were alive… Just like I had a feeling you walked past me when I calmed that girl who was asking for her mother… Did you?" she whispered closing her eyes.
"Yeah" he said no longer able to supress the tear that began running down his face. "There were so many things I wanted to tell you, Ginny… So many things I wanted you to know… But… If I had stopped, even for one second… I wouldn't have been able to face Voldemort… I wouldn't have had the strength to leave your side again… I wouldn't have…"
"You won't have to leave my side again, Harry…" she whispered releasing a tear of her own when she reopened her eyes to look at him "I'm right here and I'll never let you go again…" Just when they closed their eyes again to lean into eachother to kiss, a male voice disturbed them.
"Sorry, mate… I shouldn't have stormed in on you earlier…" said Ron. Impeccable timing…thought Harry as he looked in Ron's direction. Hermione stood behind him obviously thinking the same thing.
"It's okay…" Harry said.
Ron walked towards them and asked Hermione to put his his arms around his best friend on one and his sister on the other side. Harry took a glance at Ginny at could not contain a grin when she saw her annoyed look at her brother.
"So, you two then, eh?" Ron grinned sheepishly. "I don't mind, Harry, don't worry. But I'll have to think of a revenge fort hat bone-removing"
"I keep telling you, it wasn't me, Ron!" Harry explained again.
"Sure it was you, who else would it have been? It's not like Hermione would do such a thing, is it?" Ron said looking slightly worried that it might've been Hermione's idea of revenge for his marriage-comment.
"I certainly would not, Ron… Besides, it's far more important to get some skelegrow potion for you" said Hermione. At that moment a door sprang open revealing George.
"I hear you need some Skelegrow?" he said and looked at the quartet searchingly. "So, who of you wanted to harm whom?" All of them looked bewildered.
"Erm… me… Harry" said Ron with his ears getting their normal red-state whenever he is ashamed.
"How'd you know?" asked Hermione incrediously.
"I was missing a wand that removes arm-bones when someone wants to harm another person with magic. New product, see. Been thinking our little Ginny here might replace Slytherin wands with mine."
"So, how come you lost one? And why did it look like Ron's?"
"I didn't exactly lose it…" George said innocently "Just misplaced it…" he thought out loud "Next to Ron's… By the way, brother, here is yours" he said and threw a wand in Ron's direction "I might have mistaken them… deliberately"
"That's not nice, George" pointed out Hermione.
"He wouldn't have noticed, Hermione. Besides who knows what our dear Harry would look like now" George defended himself. He grabbed inside his room and took out a bottle of skelegrow potion then handed it to Ron and returned to his room, saying "Remember… Don't come in here" on his way.
Harry couldn't sleep half of the night. It might have had something to do with Ron's snoring or – when Ron woke up due to the pain – his swearing.
The next day - June 1st – Harry woke up finding a finally silently sleeping Ron in the bed next to him. His bones seemed to have regrown already and the pain must have been gone. Harry got dressed and left for the kitchen where Mrs. Weasley already had breakfast served.
"Morning" he mumbled still half sleeping.
"Good morning, Harry dear" Mrs Weasley said giving him a hug. Percy, Mr. Weasley, Charlie and Hermione already sat at the table and greeted him.
"Harry, I think you should read this" Mr. Weasley said handing him the Daily Prophet. He took it and read two Articles on the front page:
Ministry cleans out its own backyard
Temporary Minister of Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, surprised the wizarding world by taking a clean sweep all across his ministry. Many of the highly positioned politicians of former Minister of Magic Pius Thicknesse saw themselves confronted with pending charges and investigations for crimes against Muggle-borns. Whether the Minister himself was – as he claims – under the Imperius curse has yet to be determined.
Among the most arrested is Dolores Jane Umbridge, former head of the short lived Muggle-born Registration Commission, with charges of crimes against Muggle-borns. Should she be convicted she will soon call a cell in Azkaban her home. Luckily for her, the Minister also changed the guard arrangements at the wizarding prison. For more see page twenty-nine.
A satisfied smile formed on Harry's face when he looked up at Mr. Weasley. "You should read the entire page, Harry…" He looked back at the page. Above the article he just read is a photo of Umbridge being escorted out of her office seemingly protesting. Below the article however… A picture of Harry and Rita Skeeter who pulled his photo-self in the frame. His stomach felt like it will turn over.
Harry Potter – The Face Behind The Scar
This is the announced title of Rita Skeeter's project – A biograpy of Harry Potter; a follow-up on her top-selling biography of Albus Dumbledore.
„Yes, of course, silly" she said when we asked her if she had first-hand-information on how He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named – Furthermore Lord Voldemort – finally demised. „Me and Harry are like a unit, but surely you noticed it when I interviewed him on [Voldemort's return" she laughed. „And I won't give too much away, but I think it's fair to assume that he was the one who killed him in the end. But readers will have to wait untill December to read the full story. A good reporter takes her time"
Given recent events, it is fair to assume for us, that Rita Skeeter is about to write an instant beststeller once more.
Harry put aside the Daily Prophet and rubbed his forehead. That woman he thought I wonder whether she wrote that article herself…
A/N:
Yeah, that's it! It's 1 A.M. in Germany and I really need some sleep. I bet we'll hear from Rita again soon, she has to interview a lot of people, you know. And I think the Azkaban guard part will also come up sooner rather than later, so there will be a lot of cleaning up to do and I can't imagine Harry relax until it's done.
F.Y.I. I'm just listening to a song from The Red Jet Jumpsuit Apparatus - ´Your Guardian Angel´ and if you want to know my opinion… this song totally fits my opinion on the Harry-Ginny-relationship! I think it's on YouTube, too.