Chapter 10- The Requirements of Living

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It wasn't long until the whole of Dumbledore's Army had heard the news of what had happened with the hat and the sword as well as Ginny being tortured as they had all been filled in on details by Neville and Luna as they thought that everyone should know despite Ginny's wishes. Neville was even tempted to owl Harry when he realised that he had no idea where he was. Also something else fatal had happened; Luna had been taken by Voldemort after he had found out about her father's connection with the Deathly Hallows. Neville was left heartbroken. From that moment on, he vowed to keep the rest of the D.A safe and take any measure to help Harry in any way he could.

The next day Ginny woke up with a pounding head ache looking up a stone ceiling. The first thing she thought was; where am I? She realised she was lying on a cold floor covered in a blanket. She shot up straight to see Neville looking at her with concerned eyes.

"Neville!" Ginny said relieved to see his friendly face as she hugged him tight in a friendly way.

"Ginny! Thank god you're alright! Guys, she's up," Neville called over as a group of people joined them.

Ginny looked around to see all familiar faces she had grown up with; Dean Thomas, Susan Bones, Seamus Finnegan, Hannah Abbott, Michael Conner, Cho Chang, Colin and Dennis Creevey, Lavender Brown, Katie Bell, Cormac Maclaggen, Nigel Wolpert, Anthony Goldstein, Romilda Vane, Pavarti Patil, Padma Patil, Terry Boot, Marietta Edgecombe, Ernie Macmillan, Justin Flinch-Fletchly and Zacharias Smith. There was also a man that she knew but only vividly. She recognised him as Aberforth; Dumbledore's brother. He had shown her pictures and told her a few stories during there meetings.

"Where am I? How did I get out of Snapes office?" Ginny asked in a confused daze as she saw all the faces of her friends' staring down at her, making her feel slightly embarrassed and uncomfortable.

"Room of Requirement. Luna and I bought you here after we heard Snape leave his study. We told everyone what happened and moved them here. It's not safe for any of us anymore so we are living in here until Voldemort's gone," Neville said in a big rush but Ginny somehow understood every word. Suddenly it hit her; Luna was not there. Panic started to rack through her bones as she started to worry about her closest friend.

"Luna! Where is Luna?" Ginny said in an instant, seeing Neville's face fall as she said her name.

"She…um…she was take last night just after we got you and...Er…"Neville stammered as tears burning in his eyes. Just then, a large 'POP' interrupted them as a dreamy voice came from the back of the room.

"What have I missed?" everyone turned around to see a dreamy faced Luna covered in dirt and grime. Everyone rushed over to her and Neville flung his arms around her. Ginny tried to get up but failed miserably so she continued to just lay there until Luna walked over and sat beside her.

She became telling everyone her story about how she had been taken to Malfoy Manor and Dobbie had died but Ginny wasn't really listening. Her mind was too far away to even mentally process whatever it was that Luna was saying…Until she heard his name…

"Oh yes, Ginny, Harry's perfectly fine…I think," Luna said as if there was nothing wrong with the sentence.

"Harry, you saw Harry!" Ginny's head snapped up from where she was looking at the floor. She didn't quite know what to feel; Jealousy, hope, fear or worry.

"Yes, he saved me. He said he's okay although he was almost killed by Bellatrix and some snatchers. Somehow, Hermione had the sword of Gryffindor but she didn't give me the details. We went to shell cottage. It's quite nice there. Oh yes, Harry told me to tell you that he's fine and he's coming back for you," Chimed Luna as she once again smiled as if there was nothing wrong with that sentence either.

After that, it seemed that Luna had just about finished her story and everyone went their separate ways to continue their previous activities. While they did this, Ginny just sat there thinking over what Luna had just told her. She's see Harry! He's okay! Ginny began to cry. She had been trying so hard just to help him that she had forgotten how much she missed him. She just realised how much danger he had been h=in for the past many months and that it was about to come to an end. It scared her to death to think that he may not come back although he had promised her and just stated it to Luna.

Suddenly, Ginny jumped up from her seat and gained herself a ton of well know Gryffindor courage and decided that now he was closer to the end, she was going to do what she could to fight so she walked out to find and enemy she long wanted to attack and now she had a reason to. She walked down a long crowed corridor until she reached her destination; the dungeons. She was looking for none other than Draco Malfoy when she heard him having a heated conversation with Snape…

"Why did he get away?" Snape almost shouted being careful to keep his voice low.

"I don't know!" Malfoy cowered at the tone he had used.

"You must Draco otherwise he wouldn't have been sighted in Hogsmede only moments ago!" Snape snapped and a trigger in Ginny's mind was pulled. Hogsmede was only a few miles away! She had to go warn the others. She turned around so quickly that she didn't see where she was going and whacked straight into a hard brick wall. She hit her head with such force that it began to bleed. She resisted the urge to pass out as she ran as fast as she could back towards the Room of Requirement, head pounding as blood trickled down her dirty face. Her and her fellow D.A. members had not had a shower in day due to the fact they would get caught.

Ginny ran straight into the room where a crowd seemed to be chattering when she opened the door. Everyone fell silent at the sound of Ginny's footsteps and the creaking of the door. She ran in to seen the crowd split to show the one person she hadn't expected to see; Harry James Potter.

Standing there, as bold as day with Ron and Hermione behind him was the raven haired, green eyed boy she had always loved. Ginny was at a complete loss for words as she managed to whisper the word she loved so much, "Harry."

"Hi there," He seemed to be at the same loss of words as she was.

"She's aint seen me in six months and it's like I'm Frankie-first year! I'm only her brother," Ron said hotly under his breath.

"She's got lots of those though, she only has one Harry," Seamus joked causing Dean to chuckle.

"Shut up Seamus," said a rather disgruntled Ron as Hermione just patted his shoulder in a comforting gesture. Without realising it, Ginny had been silently gazing into Harry's shining emerald eyes. The eyes she had adored and missed so much.

"Ginny what is it? And what the hell happened to your head?" Neville exclaimed as many people gasped at the blood they had not noticed dripping form her forehead.

"Oh, yeah that doesn't matter. Snape knows. Snape knows that Harry was spotted in Hogsmede," Ginny rushed through while ripping apart of her school robe to dab on her head to clear the blood.

Everyone looked frightened. Harry just looked at Ginny with worried and sympathetic eyes that were filled with all the love he could contain. They knew this was it. The war had officially begun…