Chapter 10

At this point in our story we jump to Harry.

Light bounced off the tent in the late afternoon sunlight. There were no birds singing and the trees were silent. The tent was in a forest somewhere in north Wales. The atmosphere inside the tent was uncertain. There had been no way to get hold of a daily prophet for days and they felt increasingly cut off from the world. To make things, worse Harry had not herd from Ginny for days. Ron and Hermione had no idea that Harry was able to communicate with her, but it was making him tense and crabby. Combined with the locket that they were passing around between them trying to share the load, the atmosphere was verging on an explosive panic attack.

Hermione spent all her days scrambling though endless books trying to find a way to open the locket. She was also providing Harry and Ron with endless reading and research to do, which was driving Ron in particular up the wall!.

As the evening came they decided that they all needed to give there eyes a rest and so they stopped reading and took a break. They also took off the locket to give their soles a rest because it tormented the wearer. Harry sat on the sofa in the middle of then tent looking up at roof canvas above him. Hermione was making some soup and Ron was nervously fiddling with his deluminator light catcher thingy that Dumbldore had left him; it had become quite a nervous twitch of his. Noe of them were really talking infact they had hardly spoken at all in the last few days.

Harry got up suddenly, and Hermione and Ron looked at him expectantly waiting for some kind of miracle or amazing answer to all their problems to come from his lips, then Harry spoke!

"It's getting dark now. I will take the first watch."

And at this he slumped off and picked up a bundle of papers and a coat and went to sit outside the door. Hermione and Ron looked at each other clearly bitterly disappointed that Harry was not oozing fantastic ideas and answering all the questions. But Harry had no answers to give them; he was just as much in the dark as the rest of them if not more so.

Harry sat on the cold ground. He was so worried about Ginny his mind flickered over to her every few seconds. He unravelled the talking paper expecting it to be blank as it had been for what seemed like days and days. But there! There it was look a message from Ginny!!!

J this is M

I am ok but I need to talk to you, I will be back at 10pm we can talk then. Don't worry everything is going to be ok.

Ok he thought all I have to do is wait till 10pm. But his mind was buzzing and whirring with the short note she had left for him. 'I am ok' she wrote. Does this mean that she hasn't been? Why would she have to say it if she was ok anyway? There was cold and a business like tone to the note 'I need to talk to you' that sounded an awful lot like a pre-dumping line! What if that was it? Maybe she had met someone else and didn't want anything to do with him anymore? He wasn't there after all he was off risking his life to save the world, not there with her having a nice normal life like he should be. But the most worrying thing was the line 'don't worry everything is going to be ok.' That defiantly meant that things were not ok right now.

Hermione came out and gave Harry a mug of soup and then disappeared but Harry was now so nervous her could not really drink it, and by the time he had calmed himself down a bit it had gone cold and was unappealing. 10pm was getting close and Harry was practically counting the seconds but he didn't know if her wanted the time to come or not. Then when his watch finally said 10pm his stomach turned over he was more afraid of what Ginny was going to say to him than he was of the dark lord stalking him every day and every night. He had worked himself into such frenzy by that time the first line came out all wrong.

"M are you there? Speak to me!"

Harry scratched onto the page

"That's a rather aggressive tone J! Its me the woman you love you don't have to bite"

Ginny replied

"Sorry its just your message was a bit… well it doesn't matter, what's going on? Why do you need to talk to me?"

Harry was still scratching a bit desperately onto the paper

"Look you seem to be in a very crabby mood are you ok I never said it was urgent, have I caught you at a bad time?"

Ginny was fishing for a reason for Harry s mood

"No I just,"

Then there was a long pause

"What is it J? What's wrong?"

"WHY HAVENT YOU WRITEN FOR 4 DAYS!! I HAVE BEEN WORRIED SICK!"

Harry jabbed onto the page in capital letters!

" Don't worry calm down I have just been busy that's all and I had a bit of food poisoning so I wasn't t able to write, I'm sorry everything's fine don't worry."

Ginny's words were comforting and Harry sighed in relief

"Ok sorry, maybe I was making more of it than it was, oh hang on, food poisoning? Poor you are you ok?

Harry's mood suddenly changed from an aggressive accusing tone to a worried sympathetic one

"Yes j I am fine the nurse fixed me up really quickly"

"That's good"

Then there was another pause when Harry waited for Ginny to write something

"About me needing to talk to you J"

This was the moment that Harry had been dreading, here come the words 'it's not working out' or something like that.

"I think we need to talk in person there are lots of things going on here that cant tell via this method coz we cant use names or places."

Harry was somewhat relived

"ok well how do you envision this happening we just meet for a drink in a pub shall we?"

"Don't be sarcastic J I know it isn't that simple."

"Sorry its just the atmosphere here getting to me a bit"

"Sounds like getting away will do you some good, all the entrances are guarded to here even the secret ones. But there is a magical one that no one knows about, its going to be hard to tell you how to get to it though, coz we cant use names, it will have to be a riddle are you ready?

"yer ok? You mean you know a way we can get in?"

Wrote Harry surprised he had though that that would be impossible

"Yes my brothers told me that it exists but it is hard to find so it has never been used.

You have to get to the village

The man who died had a brother

This brother owned a building

In this building there are images of depiction

You can step into one and that brings you to a safe place here

Do you understand?" There was another short pause while Harry thought

"Give me in min"

Harry's mind was buzzing but then it all clicked together. If he can get to the Hogsmede, then Dumbldore's brother had a pub, and it that pub would be paintings, and then he steps though one of those paintings to get to a safe place in Hogwarts! It was brilliant!

"yes I understand! Your brothers are very useful for sneaky information aren't they"

Harry's mood seemed to have lifted

"Well it is what they are good at! But I stress that they have never used this entrance because the building is really secretive."

"Well secretive seems to be what I am specialising in right now so it shouldn't be a problem my love".

Harry was feeling encouraged that even if this event would not lead to him conquering the dark lord it was still something that he could achieve, and he felt that he needed a but of triumph, after all there recent frustration.

"I can come at night about 11pm, but not for another couple of days how about Tuesday? Will you be able to meet me?"

" Yes that should be ok I will meet you then"

The conversation continued after that in a sting of sweet nothings and some erotic suggestions. When midnight came they decided to say good night because Ginny had told him all about Karakil and that she had some more a training tomorrow.

Harry put the parchment in the pile of papers beside him. Ad spent the rest of his watch thinking about his wonderful Ginny and running over in his mind some of the sexual suggestions they had made together. He found himself very tight around his crotch several times before Hermione came out to swap over with him. That night he slept really soundly because even if Ginny had endless bad news about Hogwarts, even if Snape had been made Headmaster and everyone was now in Slytherin and the world was coming to end (he speculated jokingly) he was still going to get to see his Ginny, and she did still loved him after all. Finally he had something to aim for that was going to have a defiantly good outcome, and it made him able to relax and slip into a dreamless sleep for the first time in weeks.