THE WHOLE WORLD IS AGAINST ME

Chapter 11

Harry ran through the many corridors Hogwarts following his daughter. By her direction she was heading towards the Gryffindor tower so he took a chance and used one of the many secret passages that existed within Hogwarts to try and get there before her.

He arrived at the Gryffindor common room entrance just in time to stop it from closing and moving in after his daughter. He saw Lizzy disappear up the stairs to the girl dormitories.

He knew that he couldn't go up the stairs to the girl's dorms by experience so he was forced to try and coax her down by words.

"Lizzy, I'm sorry you had to find out this way. That was why I came to Hogwarts, to tell you. I didn't want to tell you via a letter, I didn't want you to find out that way. This way hasn't been very successful either. I wanted to sit down and tell you tonight but I just got so worked up with Dumbledore and Neville being here. I thought I could cope with Dumbledore but I wasn't expecting Neville to be here. Lizzy please come down and talk to me."

He waited a few seconds before heard running footsteps coming from upstairs before Elisabeth came running down the stairs into his out stretched arms. He slowly leaded her over to one of the common room chairs and sat her on his lap while she cried into his shoulder.

They sat there for 20 minutes before the rest of Gryffindor started to trickle back into the common room to finish their homework, talk or just go to bed.

Sensing that the pair needed to be left alone the members of the house skirted around them and went to their dorms so that they wouldn't disturb them.

When most of the room was empty Harry sensed that someone was watching him. He looked up to find Alex standing not to far away. Harry let go of Lizzy with one arm and beaconed the boy over. He pulled Alex down onto the chair next to him and put his arm around him too.

"You Ok?" Harry asked pulling the boy close to his side.

"I don't want you to die," the boy said, tears starting to make their way down his cheeks.

"Hey, I'm not gone yet, the doctor said I still have a few years left in me," Harry tried to reassure him.

Lizzy spoke up now, "but it's not fair. I want you to be there when I graduate and when I get married and have kids."

"Lizzy listen to me, if I could be there for all those things I would be, I want more then anything to be there for you when you need me, but you knew that something like this might have come up when I had the test done, we just have to live with what we have, and be thankful that we have it."

"What be thankful that your going to die in a few years?" Lizzy shouted.

"No that we have some time left before I die. Lizzy when I was your age I had no idea if I was going to die in a few years or the next day but I got on with life regardless, now we have to do the same."

"But can we use magic to fix it, I'm sure we could find something…"

"Lizzy you heard them down there, no one wants me here. They are as likely to help me as they are to invite me to stay, they won't help. I will stay for a week at most then I will return home. I won't be able to work anymore so I'm going to cancel our lease on the flat, but Mrs K has agreed to let me stay with her so I won't be alone anymore."

"Dad, can't I come and look after you? I want to go home."

Harry sat up in the chair more so he could see his daughters face more, "Don't you like it here, Lizzy? You sounded so happy in your letters."

"Yes but that was before I found out that you were slowly dying and everyone hates you here, how can I stay here if everyone is going to be talking behind my back because my father is a whore." She snapped.

"I know its hard, I spent all my years at Hogwarts with people whispering as I went by, some kept their opinions to themselves, most didn't care if I heard them or not, others shoved it straight in my face. But in the end you just have to grin and bare it. You know how hard it has been for me to walk down the street or into a job interview and have someone say that I was a good fuck but I could work in their company."

"I just feel as though this is all my fault, if I hadn't been born then this would never have happened, you would still be loved by all, have a respectable job and you wouldn't be dying." Lizzy cried trying to hide in his shoulder again, but he push her back up to face him again and holding her cheek gently when she wouldn't look at him.

"Oh Lizzy I spent most of my younger years thinking about what ifs. What if I hadn't been born, would my parents still be alive? Would Sirius have gone to prison, would he still be alive? Would Cedric still be alive? But in the end it all boils down to the fact that if I hadn't been born Voldemort could still be alive or Neville would be the Boy-Who-Lived. Elisabeth if you hadn't been born then yes, I would be loved and yes I would probably have a great job living in some huge house in the country, but I would be miserable, I hated everyone knowing what was going on in my life, I hated that no one could look past my history and see the real me. If I had a normal job I would have been bored to tears, everyone expected me to be an Auror because I had defeated the dark lord, but I didn't want to be, I wanted to be a Quidditch player or do something else with nature, I loved to go outside with Neville and help him with his plants if I could I would have gone on a tour to some strange place in the south American rainforests with him, but I couldn't because I had to do what was expected of me. When I had you I was able to break free of the restrictions which were set down for me. Yes it wasn't perfect but I had you and it made it all worth while."

She went to argue again but he stopped her.

"Now no more tonight, we will finish this in the morning but right now you both need to go to bed, up you get." He said gently pushing them to try and get them moving.

"Can't we stay here I'm comfortable?" Lizzy said, "And anyway Alex is asleep."

Harry turned to look at the 11 year old on his left and sure enough he was sound asleep, with his head on Harry's shoulder.

"Alright," he pulled her back to his chest and put his arm around her before settling down himself for the night.

As they settled down none of them heard the entrance to the common room close softly.

A/N It just seems to fit with me that Harry would be a nature person I don't know why but it does, it seems to pop up unconsciously in most of my Harry Potter fics so it's going to be in this one too.

Thanks to everyone who sent me info on HIV/AIDS however I am just going to clear something up. I know that HIV and AIDS are the same thing, but think about it Harry has been struggling to support Lizzy and he doesn't what to take money for other people like Mrs K. Now that Lizzy is in Hogwarts he was able to get the tests for STDs done because he didn't have to worry about feeding two. Harry had had HIV for many years without knowing that he had it and he had had it so long that it had turned into AIDS before he found out about it.

Anyway thank you to everyone who reviewed I got so many for the last chapter and I loved it.

Question:

Should Neville and Harry get back together?

There's no way that he is starting a different relationship so that is the only choice. What do you think?