-1Chapter 11- What Lies Ahead
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"Your parents are here, your highness?" the red head boy says. "The princess is saying her goodbyes to them at this very moment."
"Alright." Harry says looking still at the water.
"Your parents would like to see you there, sir." Ron continues. "They have asked me to come and get you."
"Tell them I will be there when I feel good."
"But…"
"Go Ron. Let me be." Harry says turning to face the other boy.
There is fire in his eyes. Making Ron runaway.
A few minutes later he hears a noise from behind him. Harry turns to see his cousin looking at him with a troubled shine of his eyes. He soon replaces it with a smile.
"So now your scaring the help. I wonder what is going through your head." Harry looks away. "Your lucky that Ginny has convince your parents that you have said goodbye to her already. So they let her go."
Draco walks over to Harry and sits on the grass next to him.
"I just don't feel so good." Harry says.
"Is it because of that woman you've been seeing." Harry nods. "You know it wasn't going to last, Harry. Why would you keep on tormenting yourself over one woman?"
"I love her."
"I am sorry, Harry. I don't know what to say to you. I just hope you make the right decision."
"I do too."
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"Hello father. Mother." Harry says as he kisses his mother's cheek. "I heard you been wanting to talk to me."
"Where have you been, son?" Lily ask.
"You were suppose to be out in the front bidding the princess goodbye with us." James says irritated. "What kind of hostess are you if you don't even see your guest off."
"Has it occur to you that I am not feeling well, father? Or do you just like to scream at me for no apparent reason?" Harry says raising his voice.
The queen gets between her men. She is worry that they might get in another fight. It is no time for fighting.
"Dear husband, lets listen to what are son has to say. I am sure he has a good reason for not being out there to see the princess and her party go." Lilly says.
"Speak." James almost barks.
Harry just looks away. What is he suppose to say that the reason he is sick is because he has found love but not with the princess. He has fallen in love with a stranger. Yeah, that will make his parents happy.
He looks at his parents and just takes a deep breath.
"Well?" James says getting more annoyed.
"James, honey. I don't think he wants to talk about it now." Lily says eyeing her son carefully.
Harry gives her a grateful smile.
"So how was the trip?" Harry says after a moment of silence.
James all of a suddenly looks tire and flops onto a chair. At that moment Draco passes by the room and James summons him in.
"Take a seat. Both of you. I don't think I have good news to tell you." James says as his wife, son and nephew take a seat. "That is why I think it is of importance for you to marry son. Who knows what the future holds for us?"
Harry looks at his parents with an open mouth for a few minutes. Then Draco speaks.
"What do you mean, uncle?"
"Like you all know we went to Ravenclaw. There I was able to look around its border with Slithering." he pauses. "There is definitely something going on."
"Like what, dad?"
"I am not for certain. I just want us to be aware that there is a possibility that we might be at war once again." James continues.
The boys look down. They have no idea what to think of the news. They know about the past war but they where to young to remember. They were barely toddlers.
That is how Draco lost his mother and the king and queen of Gryffindor took him in even though he is a rightfully born Slithering.
"Another war?" Harry ask.
"You see the importance of you marrying son. If anything happens to me I want to know that there is someone in your life. Someone that you will love or at least care for."
"Dad…"
"I know I am asking for to much. Its just that because of your mother and you that I was able to come out of the first war alive." James says.
Both Draco and Lily look at Harry. They can see how the sadness wash over his features.
Harry nods and then excuses himself and leaves the room. His mother follows him out towards the lake.
"What is wrong, honey?" Lily says as she sits on the bench next to her son. He turns to her with red eyes and dark circles under his eyes and she lets out a sigh. "You look awful. Are you sick?"
Harry hugs his mother tightly.
"I am, mom. I feel pain in my chest." he pulls away and holds his hand over his heart. "Its to much to handle."
Lily starts caressing Harry's face and hair. Her green eyes full of concern for her only son.
"You want to talk about it?" she ask.
"I met someone, mom, but she is gone. The worst thing is she never even told me where she is from. She never wanted me to know. Its like she didn't want me to find her. Now she is gone. All I know is her first name. That she has a father and an older sister."
"I am sorry, honey. I wish I can help you but weren't you suppose to be with the princess?" she ask.
"I spent sometime with her. She is nice. If I had to choose and between all the princesses I have meet I am pretty sure I would choose her. That is if I have to marry soon and the other woman is of limits."
"So princess Ginny is a choice from default?" Lily ask.
Harry nods and looks of into the water.
"I am pretty sure your father will like that. He liked Ginny the moment he saw her. But her friend he dislikes a lot."
Harry looks at his mother when he hears about a friend.
"What is her friends name?" he ask eagerly.
"I believe, Jane. I think. I am pretty sure."
Harry jumps up at the sound of his beloved name.
"Did they say where she was going?"
Lily looks at him confuse.
"Princess Ginny? She lives in Hufflepuff."
"No, mom, Jane."
"She didn't say. All I took from them that is a little farther than Hufflepuff. Ginny herself has never been there."
Harry begins to pace in front of his mother.
"What is it, Harry?"
"That is her. That's the girl."