Loving You Is An Easy Thing To Do

Chapter 35: No More Lies

A/N: Alright we're at 35. At the end there is a very important note, so do read it and give me your opinion when you get there. Enjoy..

The next day a healer came to the house to check on Hermione and Ellie. She had granted them perfectly healthy and left within 15 minutes. The storm the previous night had left some trees and branches down, along with the garden outside of the Burrow yard messed up. The house had even shook a few times from gusts of wind. Lupin had left in the afternoon that day, but he could tell Lupin was in a good mood. Ever since that Charlie was born, he had seemed more cheery, happier, and life had returned to his face. There had been times where age had take its toll, and he looked more like 60 then the 40 or so he was. They stayed at the Burrow up in Ginny's old room for a few days before returning home. Mrs. Weasley had been thrilled to have them stay there for a time being. She would come up constantly to check on them. When they had left, she would hardly let them walk out the door.

The golden locket of Slytherin remained in his pant pocket. He hadn't bothered to show it to Hermione just yet. Right now was revolving around Ellie. When he had gone back to work after a few weeks, he sat at the desk before going back to the Malfoy's and Snape's house. How he was going to destroy the locket, he wasn't sure. But it had to happen soon. Voldermort would find out in time that he had the horcrux, and if he had it didn't destroy it, then someone or something would destroy him. Putting the locket in the desk drawer and locking it, he set off back to the Malfoy's house to scrounge up anything more. By the looks for things, no one had been there for over a year at the very least. Trying to find some more sorts of addresses, notebooks or anything, he finally decided to move on to Snape's house. Malfoy's house had been deserted and left not even a single scrap of anything. He wouldn't give up though, he'd come back here everyday if that meant finding out where he was at. But for today, he had a time limit.

Going up the drive to Snape's house he could tell it looked just like the inside of his old classroom; dark, dirty and dreary. Pulling out his wand, he kicked open the rusted door. His house was worst than Malfoy's. Cobwebs hung from the ceiling, bookcases and arm chairs. Books, lamps and tables overturned and floor boards sticking up. It took him 5 minutes to make it into the kitchen. Finding some folders stashed away, he just threw things out on the floor and shredding papers apart. If it was up to him, he was going to defeat Snape one day too; he was after all the person who killed Dumbledore. Making his way to the stair case, he stepped on the first step when it broke through, causing his leg to fall partially into it. As that happened, a jet of red light sprung out from the hole. He pulled his leg out and dodged it. He should've known someone like Snape wouldn't have just abandoned his house and not leave a trap.

At the end of the day, he arrived back at the house around 6. Hermione was lying on the couch when he walked in the door.

"Hey, how are you?" he asked giving her a kiss.

"I'm alright, just really tired. Anything exciting at work happening?"

"Not much. I went over to Snape's house today though to search around."

"Really, what did you find? Anything good?" she exclaimed sitting up slowly. She was still pretty sore.

"Nothing really, but that's what I'm concentrating on for a while; searching his and Malfoy's house." Charlie who had been taking a nap woke up now and went over to him. "Everything been alright here? How's Ellie doing?" he asked picking up Charlie now.

"She's been great, sleeping all day almost. I'm gonna go make some dinner, are you hungry?" she asked him.

"A little bit, I'll be upstairs." He went upstairs into Ellie's room and tucked her in.

As June turned into mid July, he couldn't take it anymore. He had to tell Hermione about the locket. Everyday he would take it out, look at it, and then lock it back in the desk. But everything had been quiet lately…too quiet. No reports, attacks, nothing. He hoped an attack or something wasn't being planned.

That night, he ran into the door and called, "Hermione where are you! I have something to tell you!"

"Harry what is it?" she asked peering down the stairs holding Ellie. She went and put Ellie back down and then he ran up to meet her in their room.

"Hermione listen, about 3 weeks ago I found one of the horcruxes," he blurted out.

"You did what! When?" she replied grabbing his arm.

"The night Ellie was born, that's where I was before then. I found it under Malfoy's bed in a chest."

"Why didn't you tell me this Harry?" she asked.

"I did because I didn't want everyone concentrating on it instead of Ellie."

"Wait, what horcrux is it?"

"It's Slytherin's locket. The one I thought I had before, but it really wasn't."

"Harry that's great, did you destroy it yet?"

"No, I wanted to show you first," he said pulling it out of his pant pocket.

"How are you going to get rid of it?" she asked taking it in her hand.

"Not sure…that's something I need to look up."

"Where are you going to look?"

"To Mr. Weasley, he'd for sure know some sort of spell. I won't have to tell him what exactly it is though."

"One step closer to a free life," she whispered giving it back to him. It was true though, after this he had only 1 more left to find…then he had to face Voldermort.

The next day, they all went over to the Burrow. Knocking on the door, they just walked in and found Ron, Cho, Ginny, George and Mrs. Weasley all were sitting at the kitchen table. When they walked in everyone came up to greet them.

"What is everyone doing in here?" Hermione asked giving Charlie to Mrs. Weasley to inspect.

They all looked up and glared when George said, "Well Fred called off the wedding."

"What are you talking about?" Harry asked sitting down with Ellie. "What do you mean he called off the wedding?"

"Well Fred didn't think that he could commit himself to Angelina, and then he just kind of stopped talking to her. Then they got into a fight in the living room the other night," George explained.

"What! And I missed it?" Harry asked excitedly. Hermione punched him in the side and gave him a look.

"Where's Fred now?" Hermione asked.

"He's out somewhere…not sure where, most likely at Bill and Fleur's," Ron suggested.

"Can he just call it off? I mean with a weeks notice? Are you trying to get them to call it back on or make them get back together?" he asked.

"Actually no, not really," Mrs. Weasley chimed in. "Fred hasn't committed to anything other than his joke shop. Personally, I never thought he was into her in the first place."

"You don't think he'll come to his senses last minute or something?"

"Honestly mate, no. He isn't as crazy about Angelina like you were about Hermione. He doesn't rave about her or anything. He was just looking for something to do," George told him.

"Yeah I guess you're right," Hermione added.

"Where's Mr. Weasley at?" Harry asked.

"Upstairs I suppose, why do you ask?" Mrs. Weasley told him. "I have something to ask him." He handed Ellie to George and went upstairs. "Mr. Weasley, are you up here?" he called.

"Why ello Harry, it's nice to see you! How's Ellie and Charlie been?" he responded poking his head out of the office.

"They've been great. Listen, what would be a good spell to destroy something?" he asked him.

"Well what do you mean? What needs destroying?"

"I have Er-…this clock. It's 20 years old and chimes every 10 minutes and it's broken too, and nothing will break it. I need to know a good spell to get rid of it for good."

"Oh well then…" Mr. Weasley told him something, excused himself to get back to work, and went into the office.

That night when they home he tucked Ellie, and then went straight to his room, closed the door behind him, and took out the locket. Wish a swish of his wand a fire started in the fire place. Holding the locket away from him, he yelled "EXANTHIRE!" and the locket broke into 50 different pieces of ash. Using his wand to pick them up, he went over and dumped the pieces into the fire, to ensure that the locket was gone. When the fire distinguished, he opened the door to find Hermione sleeping in the hallway up against the wall. Smiling, he picked her up and carried her into bed. The following morning when he woke up for work, Hermione sat up.

"So…" she asked him.

"It's gone. Nothing's left of it and I made sure of it too," he told her kissing her and pulling on his shoes. He went into Charlie and Ellie's room and found Charlie already awake. "Hey you it's early, go back to sleep," he told him going over to his bed.

"Me no sleepy," Charlie had told him.

"Why don't I go fix you some cheerio's then," Harry told him taking his hand. Passing by Ellie's crib he kissed her and went out of the room.

Hermione came down the stairs with Ellie in her arms a half an our later as he was going out the door.

"Charlie's finishing up some cheerio's. Why are you already up?" he asked.

"Alright, I couldn't really sleep anymore. Listen Harry, be careful today, and weeks or so to come. Voldermort's bound to send attackers at some point. He's got to be angry about you finding one of the final horcruxe's; and if it's up to him, he won't let you find the last one," Hermione told him.

Going over to her and giving her a nice long kiss he told her, "Hermione, he doesn't have any way of knowing. I can look out for myself. I promise." Hermione gave him one of those 'you really should be more serious about this' look, and he went to work. That though haunted him all day. He was most jumpy about anything. He was especially when Kevin (the floors secretary) came to give him the coffee. He had jumped and spilled it all over Kevin. 'What if something does happen to me or Hermione? Who would look after Charlie and Ellie?'

After working an extra shift until 8PM, he hurried home.

"Hey, how are you Harry?" she asked greeting him.

"I'm fine, what about you?"

"Never better," she replied casting him a smile.

"Listen there's something I want to suggest to you," he told her sitting on the couch.

"What is it Harry?"

"We don't have a plan if something were to happen to us. Hypothetically speaking. We would need someone to look after Charlie and Ellie."

"I guess you're right, but where are you going with this?"

"I know who should be their godfathers."

"Oh please don't tell me you want Fred and George…"

"No I couldn't live with that fact. I think that Lupin should be their godfather."

She paused before saying, "You're absolutely right."

"You think so?"

"Yes Harry I do! He's helped us out so much since Sirius died. He's close to us."

"And he came the night Charlie was born, and was there when Ellie was born; when we couldn't get to St. Mungo's," he added in. That night he was glad Hermione agreed with Lupin. He wouldn't trust anyone else with their children as much as him.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AUTHORS NOTE This next chapter really seperates the whole story. It is a really important chapter. My story is on it's 35th chapter right now, and I have a TON more to post of it. But what I need to know is if I should continue posting the story into a new document. Otherwise, it would be going on to like 40 something chapters idk. I'm debating if it would be too confusing or not, or if I should just continue here. So those that read this, PLEASE tell me what you think I should do, cause I have no clue. Thank you so much!
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P.S. The next update will be on Saturday for sure