Chapter six

Harry and Ginny couldn't stop smiling as the muggle celebrant announced that they were man and wife. After a long snog, they thanked the celebrant, then signing the forms, they headed back to the cabin. After making sure Dobby understood that he had to stay safe, the little elf popped away.

Even though Harry and Ginny were about the have sex for the first time, neither of them were nervous, or awkward. They had seen each other naked and did some innocent touching, now they were ready to take it all the way.

Harry knew what to expect, Ginny had explained what it would be like for her, for the first time. Harry hated the fact that Ginny would feel pain. When Ginny reminded him they could use magic, which meant she could cast a charm to ease the pain, he felt better. He knew she could have cast a numbing charm but neither of them wanted that because it would mean Ginny wouldn't feel anything, so she wouldn't experience what true love making was like. They decided against the numbing charm and just used the other charm which will ease the pain, but Ginny will feel everything.

Even though they both knew this could mean the end of Voldemort, they decided this would be for them more than Voldemort. They took their time, both undressing the other, then their hands were all over the other. This time though, they didn't have to pull back or stop, this time they went all the way. They had expected Harry to feel something, if it worked, they just didn't know what. Both would have stopped when Harry began to grunt in pain but they realised this was it, it was working. They didn't stop until they were both satisfied.

When Dobby arrived beside Harry and Ginny to explain that Voldemort dropped dead inside the ministry, they instantly grinned. But Harry quickly looked at the diadem to see that it looked normal. He very carefully got closer. When he didn't feel anything like he did before, he picked it up.

Harry and Ginny both grinned. The horcrux was destroyed. Ginny's idea worked. So even though this was something they both wanted, it worked, Voldemort was dead.

Ginny hated that Harry had been in pain but she had been scared when Harry had ended up screaming in pain and it happened right as he had an orgasm. She knew from the grunts of pain he had that it was working, but when he screamed that's when she knew for certain that it did work so she had to make sure they kept going until they were fully finished and satisfied. That was the hardest part for Ginny, hearing Harry in pain and seeing the black mist leave Harry scar and the mist did resemble Voldemort, before it vanished.

Harry and Ginny ended up exhausted, but very satisfied, more so once Dobby told them Voldemort had dropped dead. Ginny couldn't help smiling as Harry picked up the diadem and he actually smiled which told her the horcrux was destroyed. But it also gave them both proof that the horcrux in Harry's head was destroyed to. Even though they knew it had been, it was good to have proof. Ginny cleaned up Harry's old scar which had bled, but they had talked about it and thought there was a possibility of it bleeding if their plan worked.

After their first night as man and wife and knowing that it helped destroy Voldemort, Harry and Ginny didn't leave the bed for the rest of the day. So even though they made love a few more times, with Ginny using the charm each time, mainly because that part of her body was getting used to having something large inside her. So as they occupied their bed, they kept the wireless on so they could hear what was happening. They heard the truth from Dobby that he died, they just wanted to listen to any news. Ginny wanted to share a shower with Harry but they both figured it would be best if one kept listening the news as it could be important.

The wizarding wireless network had not stopped repeating the story of how Voldemort had begun writhing in agony in the middle of the ministry. It took half an hour with Voldemort screaming before he finally died. What shocked Harry and Ginny, but didn't really upset them, was the fact that every marked death eater died right as Voldemort died. They believed that whatever Voldemort did to connect himself to his death eaters using the dark mark is the reason they died along with their master. They just didn't know exactly how it happened. They weren't even surprised to hear that when the death eaters died, Dolores Umbridge had also died. Harry always knew she was evil, this proved it.

They told Dobby to relay secretly to Neville that everything was okay and everyone would be safe but just to be cautious. If he wants to hear what was going on to turn on the WWN. Dobby was to tell Neville that Harry would explain everything when they saw him. But Harry also told Dobby he would be able to stay with them from now on.

'Do you believe they will think it was you that caused his death?'

'Probably, or they just might think he was poisoned. They will question us. Do we tell them the truth?'

'We don't tell them how we were able to kill him, just that you were given the job to do it. We make sure we say we had nothing to do with any other deaths, just Voldy and it was because Dumbledore told us to destroy his dark items and the dark items were the reason he was alive. We could mention the prophecy and since everyone knows or it was rumoured there was a prophecy about you and Voldemort, they would realise you were involved some way. If they want proof we can show them the memory of the prophecy. But it's not like anyone knew the death eaters would die with their master. We just make sure they can't blame you, or us for what happened to them. We could actually put the blame for the death eaters dying on Voldemort. We tell them that the old man told you that Voldemort could use the dark mark in many ways. To track his death eaters, to take some of their magic, but what Dumbledore discovered was Voldemort could siphon the life out of his death eaters to try to save himself, if he felt he was going to die.'

'You are brilliant Ginny, absolutely brilliant. We've charmed his portrait so even if they find another, the one we charmed is the main portrait, so any memory he has, is from that portrait. But we removed all memory of the horcruxes, including me. All he could tell them is about the prophecy. Okay, that actually sounds like something Voldy would do. But you know it doesn't really bother me that they died Ginny. I know hundreds died, some our age, but they chose to follow Voldemort. They were torturing and killing so they deserved to die. The stories Dobby told us about how the death eaters were punishing the students at Hogwarts made me want to rip them apart. They used the cruciatus curse on kids,' Harry shook his head. He remembered what that curse felt like. He was fourteen at the time. Some of the kids at Hogwarts who were punished with that curse was only eleven.

'I know McGonagall and the other teachers helped when they could and rescued some of the kids. Snape was also hurting the kids. But to hear that many of the girls were raped by Malfoy and his lot made me furious. We also know they would have targeted me if I had been there and my parent's would have probably made me return, until they knew who was in control of Hogwarts. By then I would have been stuck. I could have tried sneaking away, but for all we know the rat told them about the tunnels and had them watched. Anyway, you are right though, they deserve to die for everything they did. All they keep saying is that Voldemort died which caused his death eaters to die and we're going to agree with that.'

'I wasn't surprised to hear that Umbridge died the same way. I knew there was just something off about her, apart from the fact she liked to torture.'

'She was evil Harry, so it's not really a surprise to hear she was a death eater.'

'So we work on what we tell everyone when we return. We just don't tell them that we committed our hearts, souls and bodies to each other to do it, or anything about the horcruxes.'

'Once we tell them we're married, it's not like they won't figure out we had sex.'

'No, they just don't need to know it was our love making that destroyed every horcrux and killed Voldemort at the same time, which killed his death eaters. You know love, when you read what Dumbledore wrote about love and how it would be love that would allow me to destroy him, it could be the reason why he only allowed me to go to the Burrow when I left the Dursley's.'

'I don't get what you mean.'

'Well, I got to spend time with your family, with you. Maybe he saw something in us that let him think we would end up together. I might not have ended up trusting him but he did know magic that most didn't. He also knew about the magic of love when most had never heard of it. I've heard Remus say that you reminded him of my mother and I looked like my father, I sometimes acted like him. Maybe Dumbledore saw history repeating itself, in a way. From what Sirius told me, my parent's had their rough times but they were engrossed with each other. Mum had red hair, like you even if hers was a darker red and I look like dad. If I was around you enough then he may have hoped that lead to use falling for each other, just as my parent's did when they became head boy and girl. They had to spend a lot of time together.'

'They did and we did, so I think you're right. Unless he heard another prophecy. Something made him believe love could destroy Voldemort, yet you had to love for it to work. All this is contradicting each other though. The prophecy said you had to be the one to kill him, yet you had to die, as far as Dumbledore was concerned, all because of the horcrux inside you. Then he goes on about how love will be the weapon that will destroy him yet you never love anyone, until we got together.'

'He thought I had enough love for everyone, like your family and my friends. He didn't realise that because of how I grew up I never experienced love. Then there's my big thing on trust. Without trust you can't really love someone. He went on about how I loved Sirius but he forgot that I didn't spend enough time with the man to do more than like him. I cared about Sirius a great deal but I know I didn't love him. The few weeks we did spend together was interrupted a lot so there wasn't a lot of time for my feelings to grow for my godfather. Then I was hurt when he said I was less like my father than he thought. He even called me James. He loved me for my dad, not really me. I know he cared, I get that but it takes more than a few weeks to learn to care for someone, especially me who was wary of all adults.'

'But add to that with how you were treated at Hogwarts when everyone thought you were the heir of Slytherin. From then on you became wary of everyone.'

'I was. Also, you have Ron and how he refused to believe I didn't enter the tournament. You have Hermione who went behind my back to McGonagall about the Firebolt. That was her first strike, but when she called me a cheat and a liar it was then that my feelings for her changed. One more thing and even though I don't want to upset you, is your mum.'

'What about mum?'

'It's how she said I was as good as a son, she even tried to mother me. I could never trust her because to me she was trying to take my mother's place. I would never allow that to happen. So you see, there is no way love would have worked, not until you and I began dating. Dumbledore was wrong, with a lot of things even if he was right about lot. But a lot of it still doesn't make sense.'

'No, it doesn't, but I do get what you mean about mum. You might have cared for her but you saw her trying to replace your mother. We're adults now, you don't need a mother or a mother figure, you have a wife.'

'I do, so only you get to tell me what to do,' Harry smirked making Ginny scowl but Harry ended up snogging his wife.

The moment they pulled apart, they realised it doesn't really matter now. Voldemort was dead and they were alive, but also married. They could finally get started on plans for their futures.