1992

Ginny Weasley sat down on the floor and bowed her head. She had spent only one week at Hogwarts and she already wanted to come back home. She just couldn't believe it. For all her life, she had wished to be in that Castle and now that she was there, she craved to be at the Burrow with her parents. Everybody had always told her that Hogwarts was wonderful, fantastic, but, Ginny sadly thought, they were all lies. Classes were difficult and she had dozens and dozens of homework assignments, her brothers didn't care that much about her and it was difficult to make friends.Moreover, everybody expected her to be just like her brothers, if not better: intelligent like Bill and Percy, a Quidditch Champion like Charlie, a prankster like Fred and George.

But what hurt her the most was that Harry Potter never looked at her and behaved like she didn't exist.

My life is a failure, Ginny thought trying to choke back her hears and nervously looking around, making sure that nobody would enter in that lonesome corridor. Suddendly she noticed a small door close to her. She got up and, without even thinking why she was doing that, she opened it.

She found herself in a large squared room with a big mirror in the centre.

What is that? she wondered stepping further, and then she suddendly remembered what Ron had told her about how Harry had managed to defeat You-Know-Who the previous year.

The Mirror of Erised! She thought, holding her breath..

She stepped further and looked inside.

And there it was, Harry Potter, smiling at her and waving.

Ginny felt tears swimming in her eyes.

Oh Merlin, I'm so pathetic. For him I am just his best mate's little sister, while he is my most important wish. I am so stupid, stupid, stupid...

She put her forehead on the cold glass and cried like she had never done in her whole life.


1997

Ginny Weasley sat down on the floor and bowed her head. She tried not to think about all the terrible things that had been happening in those months, but she just couldn't help it. Every single day they were getting news of people murdered by Death Eaters and of massive break-outs from Azkaban. Students were leaving the school everyday. She tried to organise the DA but except for a few people everybody was way too scared to join it that year. Neville and Seamus had already been tortured by the Carrows and Ginny knew that she was next.

And, what was worse, she had no idea where Harry was. She felt a sudden lump in her throat and she felt guilty as she didn't feel the same for Ron and Hermione. She was worried, of course, for all the three of them, she woke up all nights from nightmares where she saw them dead, but for Harry it was just different.

Suddendly, she noticed a small door at the end of the corridor.

But this... she thought looking around It must be...

She quickly got up, headed towards the room and opened it. And there it was, the Mirror of Erised. She looked at it, unable to step further.

What was she going to see? There were so many wishes in her soul, so many people she wanted to be safe and protected, so many hopes and dreams that rested in her heart.

I've faced the Death Eaters. I am not going to be scared by a stupid Mirror. What would Harry think if he knew that? she said to herself and she looked inside.

At first there was just her own reflection. She looked at it, amused, remembering the last time she had seen herself in that Mirror. She had changed so much. She was taller, her hair was longer. But there was something different, beyond physical appearance. She looked again and she beamed.

She wasn't a scared eleven-year-old anymore. She looked self-confident, brave, fearless.

But I am scared Ginny thought I've never been so much scared in my life.

Confused, she looked at the Mirror again and she smiled as her image went hazy and a familiar figure appeared.

Harry... she thought, tears in her eyes.

She got closer to the Mirror and put her forehead on the cold glass, smiling at the sense of dejà vu. Harry beamed and did the same, so that their foreheads would have touched if there hadn't been the Mirror between them.

Now I understand... Ginny thought smiling it's not that I am not scared. I am so damn scared. But I love you. And I know you love me back. And this is what gives me hope, confidence, courage.

She looked at the Mirror again and she wished Harry was there with her.

I know that you had to go to fight for all of us she sighed but please, please, come bak. Please, don't get harmed. Please, please, don't get killed. I am waiting for you. I have been waiting for you for all my life. Don't leave me. Come back. Please.

Ginny looked at the Mirror one more time and a small smile of hope appeared on her lips.


300 miles away

Harry Potter was sitting in a tent, looking at the Marauder's Map, staring at a little dot which was labelled with the name 'Ginny Weasley'.

Why is she alone in that room? What is she doing? he wondered, a bit worried.

Then looked at it again, feeling a lump in his throat.

Ginny... wait for me, please. I promise I'll come back. I know you've waited for me for so long and that I've made you suffer, but I need you, Ginny. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to do what... well... what I'm trying to do.

I wish so much I were there with you right now, but I can't. You know I can't. Please, wait for me. I promise I'll come back to you. I promise. Please.

Harry looked at the Map one more time and a small smile of hope appeared on his lips.


One word frees us of all weight and pain of life: that word is love.

Sophocles (400 b.C.)

A/N I hope you liked this... get ready for next chapter, the big finale: Harry.