Chapter nine

That night, Harry really didn't want to leave Ginny, but he thought it would be better, so he could go get the pensieve early and see where Ginny died, so he could stop it happening. So he headed home after a private snogging session with Ginny out in the Burrow's garden, then watched as she went back inside before he stepped through the wards and apparated to a quiet lane not far from his flat.

The moment he stepped inside, he changed the protection on the fireplace so the Burrow was now accessible. After a shower, Harry went to bed, but it took him a long time to fall asleep because just like the last few nights, he kept seeing Ginny's lifeless body and hoped he could stop it. So it was early morning before he ended up falling into a very restless sleep.

Harry was woken by Hermione calling his name, so he quickly dressed and headed out into his living room.

'Hi, sorry,' Harry yawned and made himself a cup of tea. 'Just move all those papers into a pile so you can sit for a minute.'

'You didn't sleep much did you Harry?' Ron asked.

'Not a lot,' Harry made the three of them tea and sat down, running his hands down his face, 'I couldn't get the vision of Ginny out of my mind.'

'We were the same, but you actually saw it, we were just imagining what it looked like.'

'Yeah, but later you will see it as well. Did Ginny say anything this morning?'

'Not about that, she just said to tell you she loved you and wants you to go to the Burrow later.'

Harry smiled, 'I'm planning on it, but at least we can floo now. Let's go, the quicker we get this pensieve the faster I can find out where this is supposed to happen.'

Hermione, Ron and Harry stepped into Harry's fireplace and stepped out in the atrium of the ministry. The aurors were waiting for them as they headed to the lifts, then to the minister's office. Kingsley was waiting for them and ushered them straight into the office.

'Now, tell me what's so important?'

'There's a lot to go into which I haven't got time right now, but I've become a seer Kingsley. I got a vision of Ginny dying, so we're trying to do everything we can to keep her safe.'

'A seer, hang on, is that why the Prophet said you broke up with her?'

'Yeah, I thought I could keep her safe if the death eaters thought we weren't together. But I was told it will still happen. So I need to ask you a favour, about the aurors. If I have to have them around me, can they mainly protect Ginny without her knowing about it. She's angry because we keep trying to protect her.'

'This is a lot to take Harry. When did you find this out?'

'Not long ago, I kept getting visions of some people during their deaths at Hogwarts, then what they were doing before. I saw Remus and Tonks, Fred, my parents, Dumbledore, then Ginny. I spoke with Dumbledore's portrait and he told me he believed I was a seer since I was able to tell him exactly what he was doing and who he was talking to not long before he died. George even asked me about Fred, everything I saw was what they did and said to each other.'

'Okay, I know you wouldn't make something like this up. So do you know when this is supposed to happen and why?'

'I don't know when, I'm getting a pensieve to go over my memory of the vision to find out where. Why, well I got a sort of visit from a seer, an ancestor. She told me the people I see are important and good, they will do something to benefit the wizarding world and I'm supposed to save them.'

'So someone in your past was a seer, I've never heard of a seer named Potter.'

'Her name was Grace McCloud after she was married, it was Grace Potteral before. So what do you say about the aurors?'

'Yes, definitely, but would you mind me seeing this memory of what you saw?'

'No I don't mind, we're heading back to my flat as soon as I get a pensieve. But about the aurors, Ginny can't know there protecting her.'

'I'll tell them before we go, so sit down and I'll give them a quick explanation then we'll all head to Diagon Alley,' Kingsley stepped out of his office, leaving the door open why he spoke to the aurors. Harry could see all of them glance at him but they nodded to Kingsley, 'Let's go Harry.'

Harry, Hermione and Ron joined Kingsley and the aurors and headed down to the apparition point in the atrium. Some of the aurors apparated first, then Harry, Hermione, Ron and Kingsley before the rest, they arrived a few seconds later in the back of the Leaky Cauldron, but never slowed as they made their way to the back. Once of the aurors tapped the bricks, then they made their way to the magical instruments and gadgets store. They all looked around, but Harry stepped over to the back and found one similar to Dumbledore's one. It was surrounded in stone with runes all around it. So Harry bought that one, then sent it back to his flat before they all left.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, Kingsley and two aurors arrived at Harry's flat and walked inside.

'Sorry about the mess, I was studying my family history to try and find out who the seer was.'

'No worries Harry, but instead of us all going in, why don't I bring out the memory?'

'Good idea, I used to hate the feeling of falling into a memory,' Harry blew out a breath, closed his eyes, then put his wand to his temple and pulled away a long silver memory and he placed it inside the pensieve.

'Okay,' Kingsley waved his wand at the pensieve and Harry's vision appeared before them. They watched as Ginny was reading a book as she leant against a familiar stone wall inside Hogwarts, when three masked death eaters all shot the killing curse, seconds later she was lying dead on the floor. It changed to the vision of Harry and Ginny in Diagon Alley, they were looking in the window of quality quidditch supplies, before stepping into the shop with Hermione and Ron behind them, then the memory finished.

'Hogwarts, I thought the wards were stronger and all the tunnels sealed?' Harry asked looking up at Kingsley.

'They are, so I have no idea how they got in.'

'What about the vanishing cabinet?' Hermione asked.

'It was taken out of Hogwarts and destroyed.'

'We couldn't see their faces, what if their students, kids of death eaters?' Ron asked.

'Damn, I never thought of that. Well it looks like aurors will be at Hogwarts with you lot. Ron, you and Harry are going to make great aurors.'

'Do you think we should try and talk Ginny out of going?' Harry asked shaking his head.

'If you do she'll know you're trying to protect her. Let's just tell her the truth and we'll all make sure she's not alone.'

'Kingsley,' Harry jerked his head towards his kitchen and they stepped away from the others, 'Do you know any aurors that's completely trustworthy, someone you would trust with your life?'

'Yes, Samuel and Oliver,' Kingsley nodded his head at the two aurors standing near Harry's door, 'I've known both for years.'

'Okay, let's go back in and I'll explain to them as well as you, Hermione and Ron.' the two men walked back in and Kingsley gestured for the two aurors to come closer, 'Okay, Kingsley said you two he would trust with his life. So I was hoping that you would both be at Hogwarts, I could let you use my invisibility cloak and follow Ginny and she will have no idea you're doing it.'

'That's a damn good idea Harry, Ginny will never know,' Ron grinned at him.

'Minister, this is your call as there is no head auror been appointed yet and you were the last,' Samuel said.

'Okay, I think it's a good plan. But Harry are you sure about the cloak, it was your father's?'

'Yes, to keep Ginny safe, I'd do anything, but I also have the map. So I can see if anyone's near her as well.'

'Map, what map?'

Harry waved his wand and his small pouch flew into his hand and he dug through it until he came to the old piece of parchment, then tapped it with his wand, said the words and watched as the map revealed itself, then unfolded it and moved back.

'As you can see, it's a map of Hogwarts.'

'It shows everyone, even if their under Harry's cloak, but it doesn't show the room of requirement,' Hermione said.

'Or the chamber of secrets,' Harry said.

'So does it show the tunnels?'

'Yep, but not the one to Ab's pub, we never knew about that,' Harry flipped through till he found the seventh floor, 'As you can see, no room of requirement, no tunnel. It's all to do with the magic around the room.'

'That will definitely come in handy Harry,' Kingsley kept studying the map, 'Who are these?' he asked pointing to the names on the front.

'Moony was Remus, Wormtail was Pettigrew, Padfoot was Sirius and Prongs was my dad. Sirius and Remus told me that because of Remus's condition, dad and Sirius wanted to keep him company on the three nights of his change. So they became animagi. Pettigrew was a rat, Sirius was a large black dog, dad was a stag.'

Kingsley looked up in surprise, 'A stag, like you're patronus?'

'Yeah, when Remus taught me, I needed a really happy memory, I never had a lot of those. So I had this sort of dream, it was mum and dad talking to me, that's all, but it was very powerful, so Remus told me to try and it work. I was able to get my full body patronus after four tries,' Harry tapped the map again, sealing the Marauders map.

'Did they invent the map, since it has their names on it, because if they did, that is very powerful magic?'

'Remus told me it was mainly dad and Sirius that performed all the magic,' Harry folded the map back up and put it back in his pouch, 'Damn, I forgot about that mirror,' Harry pulled the broken mirror out with a small cut on his finger and he spotted the blue eye, 'It's fine Ab, nothing going on.'

'Gotcha Harry,' Aberforth said, then his eye disappeared.

'Sirius and dad had these pair of mirrors they used when they got detentions. Ab's got dad's one, this was Sirius's but I broke it after he died.'

'That's how we were able to escape from Malfoy Manor. Harry saw the blue eye and called for help, Ab sent Dobby. Hermione was upstairs being tortured by Bellatrix, we were locked in the cellar,' Ron put his arm around Hermione, but both of them looked at Harry, 'It wasn't your fault Harry.'

'Tell me enough and I might believe it,' Harry put the mirror back in his pouch, 'Dobby saved us that day and he shouldn't have died.'

'I heard about that, Bellatrix threw her knife and it lodged in the elf's chest.'

'Yeah, he died in my arms, we buried him at Bill's place.'

'Harry even made a small headstone for him.' Hermione said sadly.

'That was the second time he saved my life.'

'Second time, when was the first one Harry?' Ron asked looking surprised.

'After I saved Ginny in the chamber of secrets. Remember, I tricked Lucius Malfoy into giving Dobby a sock, pissed him right off that did. So he was just about to do the killing curse on me when Dobby used his magic on him. He said, you will not harm Harry Potter,' Harry shook his head, 'He was always trying to help me, now he's dead, seems to be the way when someone gets close to me.'

'Stop it Harry, you've been doing that for years,' Hermione took his hand, 'Those deaths were not your fault.'

'Dobby, Sirius, Cedric's all were, my parents were as well, even Hedwig died because of me, then add Mad-Eye. I shouldn't have allowed him to go through with that plan.'

'If you want to blame anyone for Mad-Eye, blame Mundungus, he's the one that left him.'

'Maybe,' Harry stared at the pensieve, then slowly removed the memory and put it back in his head. 'We should get to the Burrow, I told your mum I'd let her know what we found out.'

Harry, Hermione, Ron, Kingsley and the two aurors stepped into the fireplace, disappearing from Harry's flat, arriving in the Burrow's kitchen a few minutes later.