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Michelle, Mark & their two kids, Charlie Johnson, and Jeramy Ludwigon.
A/N: Here's the Sequel to 'Order of the Phoenix' Harry's sixth year. Hope you all like it, there's another story to come out here soon as well that's a Sequel to this one.
Harry Potter and the Year of Changes
Chapter Four: More Dreams, and a Few Secrets
Finally everyone had left with the exception of the Weasley's and Harry. They would wait until tomorrow before leaving for the burrow. Lily and Sirius hugged Harry goodbye and made him swear to send Hedwig or Fleur once a day to say hello and that everything was okay. Molly finally managed to get them to go swearing on her own life that she would send an owl if even one hair on Harry's head got hurt.
Molly and Arthur weren't about to object to Ginny and Harry sleeping in the same room again, especially after last night. Molly suspected Harry had heard Ginny screaming in his dream and convinced Arthur they would be safer if they were in the same room with their wands out and ready if they needed to be.
With that everyone went to bed, Ginny didn't bother going into the bathroom when she changed this time, she figured he wouldn't see much, and what he would see he was going to at some point anyway. Harry tried not to but he couldn't keep his eyes off of her, both of them were blushing like crazy, she couldn't keep her eyes off of him either.
They finally managed to finish changing and get into bed. Harry held Ginny close, and they just lay there cuddling and talking. They both managed to fall asleep after a while, but tonight it was Ginny that would have the bad dream, while Harry had a rather good dream.
Harry didn't recognize it at first, but soon realized he was in the burrow. He realized almost immediately that it was a dream, because Ginny looked much older, and so did he. They were lying in bed together, and he realized that they must have been married because Ginny was rather pregnant. They were just laying, cuddling and talking about baby names and what they wanted to do for the day. Harry couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked, and how in love they were. Ginny leaned in and kissed him, he kissed back and..
Ginny was moaning in her sleep, saying things out loud like 'not him, take me instead' and 'no! Not harry!'. Harry knew she was having a dream about Voldemort, and didn't want her to be any more upset than she already was, so he woke her up by leaning in and kissing her. She resisted at first and then kissed back. Harry looked into her beautiful eyes and whispered, "Are you okay?"
Ginny started crying, "I thought it was real, I was so scared I'd lost you forever."
Harry kissed her forehead, "You'll never lose me Ginny, I'll always be with you."
Ginny just cried harder, "That's what you said in the dream too."
"Tell me about the dream," Harry was starting to worry and was thinking, 'first I have a dream that Voldemort separates us, and now she does.something isn't right here'.
Ginny swallowed hard, "You and I were walking by the lake at Hogwarts, and Lucious Malfoy was there. He was going to," she was struggling to get it out in-between the tears, "he. he. he wa. was going." she sniffled, "going to. to. take. you."
Harry kissed her gently, "No one will ever take me away from you. That's a promise Ginny."
Ginny was still sniffling and crying, he hated seeing her so upset. He leaned in and kissed her, pulling her close to him. She wasn't good at resisting him for long, she gave in and kissed back wrapping her arms around him. They just lay there, kissing for most of the night. They finally passed out early in the morning, too tired to even dream.
The next morning everyone went to the burrow. No one had been in Ron's room since he'd left it the year before, and Mrs. Weasley didn't want Harry of all people to have to be the first. She couldn't bear to go in the room herself, and she knew Harry must have partially blamed himself for what happened the night Ron died.
So they decided to let Harry stay in Ginny's room until school started. The rest of the summer went by slowly for Harry and Ginny. They spent their days sitting in the garden, de-gnoming it for Mrs. Weasley, and playing Quidditch games with Fred and George whenever they weren't busy working at their joke shop.
Finally it was the night before Harry's birthday. Sirius and Lily came back to the burrow to spend Harry's birthday with him. Harry and Ginny were growing closer with each passing day, Ginny and Hermione were exchanging owls every day on arrangements for the wedding. That night Ginny decided to give Harry his birthday present a day early.
So Ginny and Harry went up to go to bed while their parents figured out which piece of furniture in the living room to change into a bed. Harry just automatically started to change into his boxers for bed, Ginny went into the bathroom to change, which he thought was rather odd considering that she hadn't gone into the bathroom to change since the second night they slept in the same bed. He climbed into bed figuring she'd be right back.
After thirty minutes he figured out she wasn't coming right back and got up to check on her. He threw a robe on without bothering to shut it and went to knock on the bathroom door. When he went to open the door he heard voices in the hall. Molly and Lily's voices were coming across loud and clear now that he was standing by the door. Molly was saying to Lily, "Have you told Sirius yet?"
"No, I don't know how to, we weren't planning on this. I know he'll be happy but we wanted to concentrate on Harry right now. There's just so much going on."
"Well I'm sure it'll work out, I don't know what Arthur and I would do if it was us, we couldn't possibly afford that to happen to us. We're just glad Percy finally moved out, I'm sure Fred and George aren't far behind him though. Arthur's counting down the days to Ginny moving out too, honestly the way that man is acting about money you'd think we were broke."
"I'm sorry Molly, I know you two have your share of problems too, not that this is a problem, but I have no idea how Harry's going to react to this."
"That isn't why you two rushed the wedding is it?"
"Oh lord no, I don't think it wasn't even a possibility until the wedding night. Maybe it's a good thing I was in hiding all this time, we'd be competing with you and Arthur at the rate I'm going."
Molly chuckled, "Very true dear. We should get back down there, if Sirius brought up the ministry I'll shoot him I swear! If Arthur talks about work before bedtime all he does at night is have dreams that result in my legs having bruises the next morning!"
They both hurried back down the stairs whispering as they went. Harry waited until he was sure they were gone and hurried over to the bathroom, he knocked on the door and waited patiently, "Ginny are you alright in there?"
There wasn't an answer and Harry started to get extremely worried, this time he asked louder, "Ginny? You okay in there?"
Ginny was making noise inside but Harry couldn't understand it, at this point he decided it was worth risking her being completely embarrassed to see if she was okay and opened the door. "Ginny! What's wrong are you alright? What happened?"
Harry had found Ginny holding a wrapped box that he assumed was his birthday present, and Ginny nearly sobbing. Harry dropped to his knees in front of her, "What's wrong baby?"
Ginny chuckled, "Funny choice of words, Harry."
Harry look completely dumbfounded, "What are you talking about?"
"Didn't you hear what your mum said Harry?"
"Not really, why?"
"Oh, nothing. I shouldn't be the one to tell you. Let's go to bed, okay sweetums?"
Harry didn't object, he was tired after all anyway, so they walked back into Ginny's room arm in arm. Harry pulled her into bed with him so they could get some sleep. Ginny smiled, "Wake me up at midnight okay? Then you can open up your present."
He kissed her gently, "You being in my arms at midnight is good enough for me."
He told the alarm clock "midnight" quickly so that it would wake them up. Ginny pulled him closer and cuddled up to him. Within two minutes Harry was out cold, and Ginny was lying in his arms. She lay there and thought about everything that they'd been through together, and everything he had gone through without her.
He had risked his life to save her life during her first year at Hogwarts, and since then she'd felt differently towards him. And now three years later he finally felt the same way she did. His arms that seemed to be getting stronger with each day were around her now, and she knew that he would never let her get hurt.
Suddenly the alarm went off, 'wake up Ginny and Harry, it's midnight', the alarm clock sounded just like Mrs. Weasley. Harry squeezed Ginny closer and tighter to him, Ginny kissed him long and hard before whispering "Happy Birthday sweetums."
Harry smiled, kissed her and said "Thank you darling."
A little over a year before this, Ginny and Harry had just pushed their relationship into seriously romantic. Now a year later they were engaged and very much in love. Ginny leaned over and grabbed Harry's birthday present off the table and handed it to him. Harry pulled her close again and kissed her, "You know you being here is good enough for me."
Ginny smiled, "Open it Harry."
Harry opened the box to find the picture of Harry and Ginny together at his mum and Sirius's wedding in a beautiful frame. The frame had an inscription at the bottom of it that read 'I love you Harry. Love, Ginny.' Harry smiled and kissed her, "Thank you Ginny, I love you."
Ginny kissed him back, "I love you too sweetums."
Harry put the picture next to the alarm, and they cuddled back up and went to sleep in one another's arms. Harry slept fine, but Ginny tossed and turned all night. She didn't understand why she couldn't get comfortable, she hadn't had a problem getting comfortable in his arms before.
Ginny was thinking to herself, 'What is wrong with me? Harry's holding me and I can't get comfortable? Something's wrong. No, nothing's wrong. Not yet. Harry doesn't know about the baby yet. I should wake him up and tell him, but I can't do that to him, I can't be the one to tell him. I need to get some sleep and hold still though or I'll wake him up. If only there was a way to let him find out without me telling him.'
Ginny managed to fall asleep after several hours of thinking like this, worrying about everything that she knew that Harry would have to find out. She was really more worried about how he'd take the news than anything else. The worst thing is, she had no idea what she was going to tell him to comfort him when he found out, especially if he was upset about it.
A/N: Here's the Sequel to 'Order of the Phoenix' Harry's sixth year. Hope you all like it, there's another story to come out here soon as well that's a Sequel to this one.
Harry Potter and the Year of Changes
Chapter Four: More Dreams, and a Few Secrets
Finally everyone had left with the exception of the Weasley's and Harry. They would wait until tomorrow before leaving for the burrow. Lily and Sirius hugged Harry goodbye and made him swear to send Hedwig or Fleur once a day to say hello and that everything was okay. Molly finally managed to get them to go swearing on her own life that she would send an owl if even one hair on Harry's head got hurt.
Molly and Arthur weren't about to object to Ginny and Harry sleeping in the same room again, especially after last night. Molly suspected Harry had heard Ginny screaming in his dream and convinced Arthur they would be safer if they were in the same room with their wands out and ready if they needed to be.
With that everyone went to bed, Ginny didn't bother going into the bathroom when she changed this time, she figured he wouldn't see much, and what he would see he was going to at some point anyway. Harry tried not to but he couldn't keep his eyes off of her, both of them were blushing like crazy, she couldn't keep her eyes off of him either.
They finally managed to finish changing and get into bed. Harry held Ginny close, and they just lay there cuddling and talking. They both managed to fall asleep after a while, but tonight it was Ginny that would have the bad dream, while Harry had a rather good dream.
Harry didn't recognize it at first, but soon realized he was in the burrow. He realized almost immediately that it was a dream, because Ginny looked much older, and so did he. They were lying in bed together, and he realized that they must have been married because Ginny was rather pregnant. They were just laying, cuddling and talking about baby names and what they wanted to do for the day. Harry couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked, and how in love they were. Ginny leaned in and kissed him, he kissed back and..
Ginny was moaning in her sleep, saying things out loud like 'not him, take me instead' and 'no! Not harry!'. Harry knew she was having a dream about Voldemort, and didn't want her to be any more upset than she already was, so he woke her up by leaning in and kissing her. She resisted at first and then kissed back. Harry looked into her beautiful eyes and whispered, "Are you okay?"
Ginny started crying, "I thought it was real, I was so scared I'd lost you forever."
Harry kissed her forehead, "You'll never lose me Ginny, I'll always be with you."
Ginny just cried harder, "That's what you said in the dream too."
"Tell me about the dream," Harry was starting to worry and was thinking, 'first I have a dream that Voldemort separates us, and now she does.something isn't right here'.
Ginny swallowed hard, "You and I were walking by the lake at Hogwarts, and Lucious Malfoy was there. He was going to," she was struggling to get it out in-between the tears, "he. he. he wa. was going." she sniffled, "going to. to. take. you."
Harry kissed her gently, "No one will ever take me away from you. That's a promise Ginny."
Ginny was still sniffling and crying, he hated seeing her so upset. He leaned in and kissed her, pulling her close to him. She wasn't good at resisting him for long, she gave in and kissed back wrapping her arms around him. They just lay there, kissing for most of the night. They finally passed out early in the morning, too tired to even dream.
The next morning everyone went to the burrow. No one had been in Ron's room since he'd left it the year before, and Mrs. Weasley didn't want Harry of all people to have to be the first. She couldn't bear to go in the room herself, and she knew Harry must have partially blamed himself for what happened the night Ron died.
So they decided to let Harry stay in Ginny's room until school started. The rest of the summer went by slowly for Harry and Ginny. They spent their days sitting in the garden, de-gnoming it for Mrs. Weasley, and playing Quidditch games with Fred and George whenever they weren't busy working at their joke shop.
Finally it was the night before Harry's birthday. Sirius and Lily came back to the burrow to spend Harry's birthday with him. Harry and Ginny were growing closer with each passing day, Ginny and Hermione were exchanging owls every day on arrangements for the wedding. That night Ginny decided to give Harry his birthday present a day early.
So Ginny and Harry went up to go to bed while their parents figured out which piece of furniture in the living room to change into a bed. Harry just automatically started to change into his boxers for bed, Ginny went into the bathroom to change, which he thought was rather odd considering that she hadn't gone into the bathroom to change since the second night they slept in the same bed. He climbed into bed figuring she'd be right back.
After thirty minutes he figured out she wasn't coming right back and got up to check on her. He threw a robe on without bothering to shut it and went to knock on the bathroom door. When he went to open the door he heard voices in the hall. Molly and Lily's voices were coming across loud and clear now that he was standing by the door. Molly was saying to Lily, "Have you told Sirius yet?"
"No, I don't know how to, we weren't planning on this. I know he'll be happy but we wanted to concentrate on Harry right now. There's just so much going on."
"Well I'm sure it'll work out, I don't know what Arthur and I would do if it was us, we couldn't possibly afford that to happen to us. We're just glad Percy finally moved out, I'm sure Fred and George aren't far behind him though. Arthur's counting down the days to Ginny moving out too, honestly the way that man is acting about money you'd think we were broke."
"I'm sorry Molly, I know you two have your share of problems too, not that this is a problem, but I have no idea how Harry's going to react to this."
"That isn't why you two rushed the wedding is it?"
"Oh lord no, I don't think it wasn't even a possibility until the wedding night. Maybe it's a good thing I was in hiding all this time, we'd be competing with you and Arthur at the rate I'm going."
Molly chuckled, "Very true dear. We should get back down there, if Sirius brought up the ministry I'll shoot him I swear! If Arthur talks about work before bedtime all he does at night is have dreams that result in my legs having bruises the next morning!"
They both hurried back down the stairs whispering as they went. Harry waited until he was sure they were gone and hurried over to the bathroom, he knocked on the door and waited patiently, "Ginny are you alright in there?"
There wasn't an answer and Harry started to get extremely worried, this time he asked louder, "Ginny? You okay in there?"
Ginny was making noise inside but Harry couldn't understand it, at this point he decided it was worth risking her being completely embarrassed to see if she was okay and opened the door. "Ginny! What's wrong are you alright? What happened?"
Harry had found Ginny holding a wrapped box that he assumed was his birthday present, and Ginny nearly sobbing. Harry dropped to his knees in front of her, "What's wrong baby?"
Ginny chuckled, "Funny choice of words, Harry."
Harry look completely dumbfounded, "What are you talking about?"
"Didn't you hear what your mum said Harry?"
"Not really, why?"
"Oh, nothing. I shouldn't be the one to tell you. Let's go to bed, okay sweetums?"
Harry didn't object, he was tired after all anyway, so they walked back into Ginny's room arm in arm. Harry pulled her into bed with him so they could get some sleep. Ginny smiled, "Wake me up at midnight okay? Then you can open up your present."
He kissed her gently, "You being in my arms at midnight is good enough for me."
He told the alarm clock "midnight" quickly so that it would wake them up. Ginny pulled him closer and cuddled up to him. Within two minutes Harry was out cold, and Ginny was lying in his arms. She lay there and thought about everything that they'd been through together, and everything he had gone through without her.
He had risked his life to save her life during her first year at Hogwarts, and since then she'd felt differently towards him. And now three years later he finally felt the same way she did. His arms that seemed to be getting stronger with each day were around her now, and she knew that he would never let her get hurt.
Suddenly the alarm went off, 'wake up Ginny and Harry, it's midnight', the alarm clock sounded just like Mrs. Weasley. Harry squeezed Ginny closer and tighter to him, Ginny kissed him long and hard before whispering "Happy Birthday sweetums."
Harry smiled, kissed her and said "Thank you darling."
A little over a year before this, Ginny and Harry had just pushed their relationship into seriously romantic. Now a year later they were engaged and very much in love. Ginny leaned over and grabbed Harry's birthday present off the table and handed it to him. Harry pulled her close again and kissed her, "You know you being here is good enough for me."
Ginny smiled, "Open it Harry."
Harry opened the box to find the picture of Harry and Ginny together at his mum and Sirius's wedding in a beautiful frame. The frame had an inscription at the bottom of it that read 'I love you Harry. Love, Ginny.' Harry smiled and kissed her, "Thank you Ginny, I love you."
Ginny kissed him back, "I love you too sweetums."
Harry put the picture next to the alarm, and they cuddled back up and went to sleep in one another's arms. Harry slept fine, but Ginny tossed and turned all night. She didn't understand why she couldn't get comfortable, she hadn't had a problem getting comfortable in his arms before.
Ginny was thinking to herself, 'What is wrong with me? Harry's holding me and I can't get comfortable? Something's wrong. No, nothing's wrong. Not yet. Harry doesn't know about the baby yet. I should wake him up and tell him, but I can't do that to him, I can't be the one to tell him. I need to get some sleep and hold still though or I'll wake him up. If only there was a way to let him find out without me telling him.'
Ginny managed to fall asleep after several hours of thinking like this, worrying about everything that she knew that Harry would have to find out. She was really more worried about how he'd take the news than anything else. The worst thing is, she had no idea what she was going to tell him to comfort him when he found out, especially if he was upset about it.