(A/N) Alright everyone, this is pretty much the last chapter. The next thingie is an epilogue and a thanks thing, so come back for one more chappie. I'm sorry it took me so long to update, but I've just been so… unwantingtowriteish. Ps. Theres a picture of Autumn and Harry here.

If this is confusing, I'm sorry. The first half was written a month ago.

Disclaimers: Yes, Kelly Clarkson at the end. Too bad. I don't own HP

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Harry had covered his head with his hands as he lay face-down on the cold floor. Two bodies had come flying toward him at a tremendous speed, one landing near him and the other, smashed against the altar, lifeless. He was unsure of the other, but was too weak to move to check and see if the one close to him was alive or not. With an idling heart, Harry did the only thing that his weak and delusional mind could think of. Thumbing the pendant of the dragon, he sang.

"Wh-Who am I and wh-…" Harry coughed, almost choking on the dust that now covered everything in the lair. The sound ricochet off the stone walls creating an eerie echo that sent chills down Harry's spine. Yet still, he continued, unsure if this was the last thing that he would ever say or do. "And who should I be, is this person really me," Harry groaned a bit, shuffling himself off to one side. "Sometimes dark things happen in ways that we don't always understand." Harry paused, looking around for any sign of a person. In a fainter voice, he began again. "I ask myself who am I, the question took me to almost die, but now I know," Harry glanced towards the body covered in his blood to the left. He slid his arm out to touch the hand of the one he had loved so much, Autumn. "Now I know, I can't always be the hero." With the last note, Harry felt helpless, weak and unable to move, but alive. More alive then ever and determined to make it out in the same state.

Autumn's body beside him shifted, stirred and eventually rose. She peered over at Harry who rolled over and looked up at her. He coughed from the dust and tried to get up, but he was too weak from his loss of blood.

"Let's get out of here." Autumn spoke, darting her eyes around the cavern. Harry moaned.

"I-I can't get up. I've lost too much blood… I'm not going to make it out of here." Autumn picked up her wand from the ground and thought for a second before speaking.

'sanguia blocagio' Her spell was filled with sorrow, knowledge and sheer tiredness. The blood stopped coming from Harry, but that couldn't make any go back to him. Autumn knew that if she didn't get him out, he would die. That left them with a question though. Where was the exit? She walked near to where the Death Eaters had earlier been standing and found that it was in front of a door.

"I found a door, Harry. But I'm not going out there without you." Thrusting her arms underneath his dead-weight body, Autumn lifted Harry up and headed towards the door, not knowing what was to be found on the other side.

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"C'mon e'eryone, on teh train, yer late, yer late! Don' wan teh train te leave!" Hagrid hollered out, late students rushing all around him. Autumn gazed out the window of the Hogwarts Express, watching a few of the students she knew wave to teachers. She was thinking of Harry just as he appeared, embracing Hagrid in a huge bear hug. A few people were still loading their bags as she turned to Ron and Hermione, who were sitting in the same cabin.

"It's been a crazy year." Ron spoke to the two girls, but mostly to Hermione. "Not unlike any other, of course." Just then, Harry cracked open the cabin door, then walked in, taking a seat next to Autumn, wrapping one arm around her shoulders and giving her the smile that got to her every time.

"Crazy's the right word for it, Ron. I can't believe I survived this year." Autumn half laughed, pushing more towards Harry. "I probably wouldn't have if it wasn't for you." Harry said to Autumn, kissing her on the cheek. The train then began to move, slowly at first, but then speeding up, the English countryside flashing by.

It was true. Harry'd nearly not survived that year, and the reason he had was Autumn. The door Autumn had found was the way out, and she'd managed to navigate her and Harry back to Hogwarts to get a full blood transfusion, for his blood had been poisoned from the potion that Autumn's father had tainted and also because of his blood loss in the lair. If Autumn hadn't been there, he would have surely been dead.

"I'll be back in a minute." Autumn spoke, raising herself and brushing past the three.

"Yeah, us too." Ron smiled, taking Hermione's hand. Autumn let a blushing Hermione and a smiling Ron past her before she too left, leaving a pondering Harry.

Walking up the train isle, she stopped at the fourth cabin, tapping the door before letting herself in.

"Hey Autumn." Seamus spoke out, tapping a seat beside him, interrupting a conversation with Neville and Dean Thomas. Ginny was sitting on the floor at his feet. "How goes it?" Autumn smiled, thinking of how easily Seamus had taken it when he found out that they were related.

"Not too bad." She tossed back a piece of hair. "You'll have to come visit me in the summer, you realize."

"Who are you staying with now that your… Johnathon's gone?" Seamus inquired.

"I don't know, really. I think Dumbledore said something about a family member coming down." Autumn replied.

"Y'know, it would be cool if out parents got back together again." Seamus spoke with a twinkle. "If it wasn't for Azkaban." Autumn nodded, then got up.

"No funny stuff with my brother now, Ginny." Autumn joked, winking. Sliding the cabin door closed, she took a deep breath, thinking that this train ride, her last, was where the story ended. With her head high, she walked back to her own cabin, only to find Harry still there. He was staring out the window, as if in a trance. "Harry?" Autumn whispered, sitting beside him. Harry looked at her with tear-stained cheeks, a dragon pendant in one hand.

"This is yours." Harry pressed the pendant into her quivering hand. Autumn shook her head.

"No. No Harry. It's yours."

"But it's you." Harry replied. Autumn shook her head again.

"It's not me. It never was me. It was an illusion of me in a glass ball. I am here, not in a pendant. It's only a remembrance of me, not a form of me." She passed the dragon back to Harry who fastened it around his neck.

"Well then, this is will be my remembrance of you when I can not have the real you." Harry replied, kissing her gently. Autumn knew then that she was wrong. This wasn't the end of their story. Autumn momentarily pulled away.

"And Harry?"

"Hmm?"

"You can always be my hero."

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Autumn had gotten a ride back home with Seamus' father, Jared. As soon as she walked in the door, she knew that something was different. First of all, the house was neat. Not Johnathon-neat, but someone-else neat. Secondly, Jared and Seamus had both brought her bags right into the house. As soon as her things had been set down, a woman with fall-like auburn hair stood at the top of the stairs, smiling. Autumn stood for a moment, dumbfounded.

"Mom?" Tears welled up in Autumns eyes as the woman descended the stairs, arms outstretched. "Oh my god." Autumn spoke as she was taken into a warm hug.

"Hunnie, th-there's s-s-so much to t-tell you." Khate spoke, sobbing. Parting, she fell into the arms of Jared, who stroked her back. Seamus and Autumn shuffled, wondering if they'd missed something. Khate turned her head and mumbled to Autumn. "What Johnathon said to you, about he and Lucius setting me up… it was true… it's all true." She turned back into Jared's arms as Autumn and Seamus carried Autumns things into her room. Ginger hooted from the kitchen, where she was nibbling on cake frosting. As Seamus shooed Ginger from the kitchen, Jared and Khate entered the room.

"I'm free now." Khate spoke, eyes dry. "News got to Azkaban about what had happened and they let me free two weeks ago. I told Dumbledore not to tell. I never thought this day would come." Autumn glanced at Jared, wondering. "I can tell what you're asking by that look." Khate chuckled. "And nothings official yet." Autumn gave a crooked smile.

"Yeah right." Seamus laughed. Jared couldn't help himself.

"Alright you." He mussed Seamus' hair. "So maybe it's not totally official."

"You've been in Azkaban five years, right Khate?" Seamus asked. Khate nodded. "And the year you got put in was the year you were with my dad. Don't even try to say that you didn't miss him." Khate gazed at Jared like a young schoolgirl.

"Maybe." She smiled, blue eyes shining.

"We'll leave you be." Autumn spoke, dragging Seamus out of the room and outside, Ginger flying out with them. "Can you believe them?" Autumn cried as the walked outside. Seamus cracked up.

"They're going to get back together, can't you tell?" Autumn grabbed a spare piece of parchment and a quill out of her suitcase and scribbled down a quick note, reading it aloud. "Harry. My mom got freed from Azkaban and she and Jared (Finnigan, Seamus' father) are inside being mad. They're quite loony, those two. You remember what Johnathon said about them, right? I sure hope so." Autumn paused. "What next, Seamus?" Seamus squinted his eyes in the sun.

"Tell him that you think that they'll get married." Autumn giggled and wrote. "And tell him that he must come down this way if he stays at the Weasley's." Autumn scratched down the last part, signed her name with pounds of hugs and kisses and sent Ginger off with the letter.

"Well, we may as well pull your bags out of the boot, Seamus. I don't think you'll be leaving for awhile." Autumn, Seamus and Seamus' bags traversed inside the house to a laughing Khate and Jared.

"We've been back together for two weeks, Jared." They heard Khate speak. "Two weeks plus two years beforehand. I think that's enough to make a decision."

"It's right for the kids and it's right for us." Jared looked into the kitchen to an eavesdropping Seamus and Autumn.

"It's right for everyone." Autumn concluded. Khate and Jared stood from the kitchen table, then pulled Seamus and Autumn into a large hug. Autumn and Seamus both pulled out at the same time, looking at the two adults before them.

"Mom." Seamus spoke, tentatively.

"Dad." Autumn ended, hugging Jared. This was her real father. As the mirror had said to her at the beginning of the year, 'people aren't always as you think they are, and they aren't always doing what you think they are.' This was true for Johnathon. This was true for her first impression of Harry. This was true for the entire year that she'd spent at Hogwarts. As Autumn sighed into her real father's arms, she saw Seamus hug who was now their mother, a single tear stroking his cheek.

Pulling away, she sat down on the floor, overwhelmed by the whole situation. Seamus sat beside her and brotherly rubbed her shoulder. "I can't believe some people regret having parents." Seamus spoke.

"It's moments like this that make you alive. Moments of family."

"Ours that has finally come together." Seamus spoke.

"Moments of truth."

"You and Johnathon?" Seamus questioned. Autumn nodded.

"Moments of love." Autumn spoke in a hushed whisper.

"Harry?" He didn't get a reply.

"Best of all is when they come all together. A moment like the one we have right now. Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this."

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