Title: Believe

Prompt: Believe

Words: 200

Rating: G

When Ginny was five she believed in fairytales and Father Christmas.

When Ginny was nine she believed that wishes made on stars would really come true.

When Ginny was eleven she believed that her first year at Hogwarts would be the best.

When Ginny was sixteen she believed that Harry wouldn't really leave her.

As it turned out fairytales were just pretty stories and Father Christmas, if he came at all, was just your Mum and Dad. Stars were just balls of burning gas and couldn't grant wishes. Her first year at Hogwarts was lonely and miserable and that was before she'd been possessed by Lord Voldemort. Of her years at Hogwarts it was the one she most wanted to forget.

Of all the things she'd ever believed, she'd been right to believe in Harry. While he'd left her, it wasn't because he'd wanted to. Harry was being noble in the best way he knew how. He was trying to protect her. He'd left to be the white knight and save the wizarding world. In the end he'd returned to her and in the most important ways it was as if he'd never left at all.

Maybe fairytales were real.

Author's Note: I needed the extra words on this one. Thanks!