Disclaimer: I own the plot, Jeannette Lawrenceson, Nicole Pearson,
Michelle, Mark & their two kids, Charlie Johnson, Jeramy Ludwigon, Hope
Evans, Greg Martin, Laura Bell, and Thomas Spinnet.
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 Sixteen: A Dance, News and A Dream
Time passed quickly and soon it was the day of the Valentine's Day Ball. Everyone was busily getting ready for it after lunch. Harry, Jeramy, Neville, Dean and Owen agreed to meet Ginny, Hermione, Parvati, Padma, Jeanette, Nicole and Lisa at the bottom of the marble staircase leading into the Great Hall. Hope and Draco walked by as Harry, Jeramy, Neville and Owen waited. Hope and Harry exchanged glances, they hadn't spoken much other than to say hello and for Harry to ask how things were going with the baby. Nicole, Lisa and Jeanette came down together. Harry and Owen of course complimented all of them on how nice they looked before Owen went into the hall with the three of them.
Soon Padma came down and giggled away as Dean pulled her away into the hall, she was quickly followed by Parvati and Hermione. Parvati looked gorgeous with her blue robes and her hair up in a French Braid, Hermione had new robes made of a soft yellow that complimented Jeramy's soft blue robes perfectly. They both kissed their boyfriends hello, Hermione smiled at Harry and said, "Don't worry Harry, she'll be right down. She wasn't feeling all that well. I think she's just nervous about whether or not you'll think she looks good."
Harry smiled, "I'm sure she looks beautiful."
Hermione and Jeramy went inside with Parvati and Dean to the dance. Harry started to pace around the small landing area on the staircase worrying about Ginny like crazy. He started thinking to himself, 'Where is she? I should go up there and make sure she's okay. No she wants me to wait here, she wants to surprise me, she's already nervous. Alright I'll wait here a while longer, but if she's not here within two minutes I'm going up there to see if she's okay."
Harry glanced up the stairs and continued pacing the landing. He stopped four or five times to look up and see if she was coming. Hermione came out to see what was keeping them, and asked Harry, "Where is she?"
Harry looked at Hermione, "I don't know she hasn't come down yet."
Hermione and Harry were both extremely worried now, Hermione told him she'd go see what was going on. He however insisted on coming with, wands out. Jeramy came out as they were going up the stairs and followed them to see what was going on. Hermione explained and Jeramy got out his wand too and asked Harry, "Do you think I should go get Lisa and Owen?"
Harry nodded and Jeramy ran back to get them. Hermione checked all the girls bathrooms on the way to Gryffindor Tower. Lisa, Owen, Jeramy, Jeanette and Nicole caught up to them, all with their wands out. They all finally made their way into the tower, Hermione insisted on going in first, in case Voldemort had gotten inside. Jeanette was staying outside, with her wand out and ready to run for Dumbledore if Owen yelled for her to.
Hermione got in and motioned for them to come in. They all checked the corners of the room and slowly made their way up to the girls' dormitory. Harry and Hermione made their way up the stairs, Jeramy and Lisa and Owen right behind them, Nicole was standing at the bottom of the stairs to scream for Jeanette to get Dumbledore if they needed him. Harry couldn't take it anymore and called out, "Ginny?"
Ginny came out of the bathroom, her hair a mess and her dress robe with a slight stain on it. She smiled at Harry and said, "Sweetums what are you doing up here? I was just about to come down."
Harry smiled back, "I was worried about you Ginny, we all were."
Ginny smiled at everyone else, "Well let's get off to the ball shall we?"
Everyone else turned and walked down the stairs to the ball, relieved to see their fears weren't true. Harry walked up and hugged Ginny close and pointed out the stain, she immediately ran back into the bathroom to get it off. Harry laughed and followed her in and asked, "So what exactly have you been doing up here?"
Ginny looked nervous at first, and then said, "I haven't been feeling very well, I think something I ate at lunch didn't agree with me."
Harry smiled, "Why didn't you say so? We don't need to go to this ball, why don't we just lay down for a while and rest so that you can feel better?"
Ginny had finally gotten the stain out and rushed over to his side, kissing him gently on the lips, and said, "No, we're going down there. I feel like dancing tonight."
Harry smiled and kissed her, "Well than we better get down there love, don't you think?"
Ginny giggled and nodded her head. They started to walk down to the great hall when Ginny said she had to go to the bathroom. She nearly ran into one that thankfully they were right next to. Harry waited outside patiently just in case there were other girls in the bathroom. Finally Ginny came back out, and they walked down to the ball.
They thankfully hadn't missed dinner and their friends had saved them seats. Ginny and Harry started eating, Harry was having chicken while Ginny was eating the pork loin. About half way through dinner Ginny had devoured her entire plate, and asked Harry while pointing at the rest of his chicken, "Are you going to eat that sweetums?"
Harry laughed, "No, did you not get enough at lunch darling?"
Ginny giggled and smiled at him, "No I didn't. Thought I'd make up for it."
After dinner was over Harry and Ginny spent nearly the entire evening dancing. Hermione and Jeramy were dancing close to Ginny and Harry, Lisa and Nicole were dancing with three other couples like them to the side a bit. Owen and Jeanette were dancing with some of the other third years off to the other side of the room.
Hope and Draco were sitting down, Hope was still eating everything she could get her hands on. Suddenly an owl that looked quite familiar swooped down on Harry's shoulder. Harry smiled, it was an owl from his mum. He and Ginny sat down at a table with the owl and opened the letter to read it together. When they opened it a few pictures fell out with the letter.
"Harry, Ginny, Hope and Draco, We thought we should let you know, Lily had the baby! We've enclosed pictures, your new sister was born this afternoon at 4:15pm. We've named her Cynthia Jane, and decided that her godfather will be Remus Lupin. We'll be bringing Cynthia up to see you all as soon as Lily and Cynthia are well rested. We love and miss you all Love, Sirius, Mum, and Cynthia"
Harry and Ginny smiled at one another and looked at the pictures of Cynthia. There was one of Lily, Sirius and Cynthia together. Cynthia had Lily's curly red hair, and Sirius's dark eyes. They were smiling and waving at the picture. The next one was of Lily and Cynthia, Lily was holding her up for the camera. The last picture was of just Cynthia, crying and reaching up at the camera. Hope and Draco came running over, Hope was the one that talked, "Is everything okay? What's mum's owl doing here?"
Harry and Ginny smiled at them and handed her the pictures. She and Draco read the letter, and then the four of them went to show off the pictures to their friends. Harry made sure that Dumbledore and the rest of the professors saw the pictures, as he knew his parents would want them to. The rest of the night went by quickly, and soon it was time for bed. Ginny and Harry slept in Ginny's bed that night, since Ginny still wasn't feeling well and Harry wanted to help take care of her. So they just cuddled for most of the night. That night Harry had a strangely familiar dream.
Harry was running through the Forbidden Forest, he didn't know what after, but he could hear Jeanette screaming his name, telling him to run and get Owen. He could see shadows in front of him, and suddenly a second voice, Ginny's voice. He could barely make out what she was screaming, "Harry go find Dumbledore.. Don't follow us.. It's a trap Harry."
And than she screamed a blood-curdling scream that Harry couldn't bare to listen to, his scar was nearly burning while Ginny screamed, and suddenly a green flash of light. Harry didn't stop, he just ran faster as a third voice that sounded familiar yelled out, "Harry stop following us. Go get help Harry. Too many of them." Harry's scar burned worse as he could hear Ginny screaming from was sounded like a tremendous amount of pain being inflected upon her. He could hear a baby crying, and then he heard Voldemort's cold, shrill laugh as his scar burned.
Ginny was shaking him trying to wake him up, saying worriedly, "Harry? Harry wake up. Sweetums? It's just a dream baby, wake up."
Harry finally woke up, shaking in her arms. He looked into her eyes as she asked, "What was it?"
Harry calmed down a bit, "It was the same as before, but I heard another voice after yours, telling me to stop and go get help, that I was outnumbered. Then you were screaming, it sounded like someone was breaking your arm or something the way you were screaming, and while you were screaming I could hear a baby crying and then Voldemort, laughing. I think I need to go talk to Dumbledore."
Ginny smiled at him, "In the morning, alright sweetums? Let's just try to get some sleep right now."
Harry kissed her gently and said, "Alright cutie."
They laid there the rest of the night with Ginny in Harry's arms, both of them holding one another close. Ginny was sleeping peacefully, but Harry was tossing and turning trying to get to sleep. Harry finally gave up trying to sleep when he saw the sun peak through the window. Hey got up carefully so that he wouldn't wake up Ginny and quickly wrote her a note.
"Ginny, I'm talking with Dumbledore, I couldn't sleep. I'll meet you for breakfast, I love you. Love, Harry"
He placed the note besides the bed, and used his want to turn a feather from the pillow into a rose. He placed the rose next to the note, and gently kissed her forehead. Then he quickly got up and left for Dumbledore's office. When he got there he discovered Dumbledore was already up and busily talking to Sirius's head in his fireplace. They were talking about Cynthia and Lily, though Harry couldn't make out what exactly about them. Harry knocked on the door and Dumbledore smiled at him and said, "Why, Harry come in. I was just talking with Sirius here about your mum and your new sister!"
Harry smiled and said, "Well, maybe it's best that you both hear this anyway."
Dumbledore motioned for him to come sit down, Harry noticed Sirius was looking rather concerned that Harry was there at this hour and spoke up, "Harry what is it? Is everything alright?"
Harry started slowly, "I had that nightmare again, you know the one where Ginny was screaming."
Sirius and Dumbledore both nodded as Harry continued, "This time it was different. I know the first voice was Jeanette, and there was a third voice. I think the third voice was Hope's, but her and mum have very similar voices and I couldn't really tell who it was between the two. The voice though, it told me to run get help and that there were too many of them, whatever that meant. I could hear Ginny screaming, it sounded like someone was torturing her. A baby was crying, and then I heard Voldemort laughing."
Dumbledore smiled at Harry, "Well, you've had a rough night then. Did you check on Ginny before you came down, Harry?"
Harry nodded and Sirius asked, "Dumbledore what does all this mean? Do you think it has anything to do with."
Dumbledore cut him off, "Harry doesn't know about that yet Sirius. I just finished speaking with Arthur about that, and I'll be telling them in the morning. There's no point in waking them all up, though I suppose it might have something to do with that."
Harry looked from Dumbledore to Sirius and asked, "What's going on?"
Dumbledore's eyes lost their twinkle as he said, "Harry, Molly Weasley seems to have disappeared."
Harry sat in disbelief, who would want to hurt her? And his thoughts went immediately to Ginny, and Voldemort. Harry didn't wait to find out, he asked, "Was it Voldemort?"
Sirius replied this time, "Harry we don't know what's happened to her. There's been no owl, and there was no note anywhere. Now, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred and George are with their father trying to figure this out. Katie Bell and Fred will be coming to Hogwarts in a few hours to tell Ginny. Arthur would tell her himself but he's preoccupied with finding Molly. We're hoping you can handle taking care of Ginny."
Harry nodded, "I can tell her, tell Katie and Fred to stay there and help find Mrs. Weasley."
Dumbledore smiled at Harry, "If you'd like I can help you tell her after breakfast."
Harry quickly responded, "No, I think she'd rather I tell her alone."
Dumbledore nodded, "I'll be announcing it at Dinner tonight, asking that everyone go out of their way to be respectful towards you, Ginny and Hermione. I know this will be hard on all three of you."
Harry looked at Sirius, "Are Mum and Cynthia okay?"
Sirius nodded, "Just put Cynthia down from her 6am feeding. Your mum was in bed pretty quickly after that."
Harry replied quickly, "Good, say hi to them for me. I'm going to go back up to the dormitory though."
Dumbledore and Sirius nodded, and Harry got up and left. The whole way up to the tower his mind was going crazy, he couldn't figure out why anyone would want to hurt Mrs. Weasley. Then it hit him like a stunning spell, Voldemort wasn't trying to hurt Mrs. Weasley, he was trying to get to Harry through her.
Voldemort must have figured out that he was dating Ginny, and knew that seeing Ginny in pain missing her mum would get to him. Though he was hurt too, she's almost been his mum to him for the past five years, and he loved her just like he loved his own mum. At this thought Harry had to stop because he was crying too much to be able to see where he was going.
He slumped against the wall and cried with his head in his hands for a while. He blamed himself for whatever Voldemort might be doing to Mrs. Weasley, and the thought of having to tell Ginny made him not want to see her until dinner time so that Ginny wouldn't be upset all day. If there was one thing he hated more than Voldemort it was seeing Ginny upset or in pain. Harry decided he'd wait for her at Breakfast, since it was about to start anyway.
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 Sixteen: A Dance, News and A Dream
Time passed quickly and soon it was the day of the Valentine's Day Ball. Everyone was busily getting ready for it after lunch. Harry, Jeramy, Neville, Dean and Owen agreed to meet Ginny, Hermione, Parvati, Padma, Jeanette, Nicole and Lisa at the bottom of the marble staircase leading into the Great Hall. Hope and Draco walked by as Harry, Jeramy, Neville and Owen waited. Hope and Harry exchanged glances, they hadn't spoken much other than to say hello and for Harry to ask how things were going with the baby. Nicole, Lisa and Jeanette came down together. Harry and Owen of course complimented all of them on how nice they looked before Owen went into the hall with the three of them.
Soon Padma came down and giggled away as Dean pulled her away into the hall, she was quickly followed by Parvati and Hermione. Parvati looked gorgeous with her blue robes and her hair up in a French Braid, Hermione had new robes made of a soft yellow that complimented Jeramy's soft blue robes perfectly. They both kissed their boyfriends hello, Hermione smiled at Harry and said, "Don't worry Harry, she'll be right down. She wasn't feeling all that well. I think she's just nervous about whether or not you'll think she looks good."
Harry smiled, "I'm sure she looks beautiful."
Hermione and Jeramy went inside with Parvati and Dean to the dance. Harry started to pace around the small landing area on the staircase worrying about Ginny like crazy. He started thinking to himself, 'Where is she? I should go up there and make sure she's okay. No she wants me to wait here, she wants to surprise me, she's already nervous. Alright I'll wait here a while longer, but if she's not here within two minutes I'm going up there to see if she's okay."
Harry glanced up the stairs and continued pacing the landing. He stopped four or five times to look up and see if she was coming. Hermione came out to see what was keeping them, and asked Harry, "Where is she?"
Harry looked at Hermione, "I don't know she hasn't come down yet."
Hermione and Harry were both extremely worried now, Hermione told him she'd go see what was going on. He however insisted on coming with, wands out. Jeramy came out as they were going up the stairs and followed them to see what was going on. Hermione explained and Jeramy got out his wand too and asked Harry, "Do you think I should go get Lisa and Owen?"
Harry nodded and Jeramy ran back to get them. Hermione checked all the girls bathrooms on the way to Gryffindor Tower. Lisa, Owen, Jeramy, Jeanette and Nicole caught up to them, all with their wands out. They all finally made their way into the tower, Hermione insisted on going in first, in case Voldemort had gotten inside. Jeanette was staying outside, with her wand out and ready to run for Dumbledore if Owen yelled for her to.
Hermione got in and motioned for them to come in. They all checked the corners of the room and slowly made their way up to the girls' dormitory. Harry and Hermione made their way up the stairs, Jeramy and Lisa and Owen right behind them, Nicole was standing at the bottom of the stairs to scream for Jeanette to get Dumbledore if they needed him. Harry couldn't take it anymore and called out, "Ginny?"
Ginny came out of the bathroom, her hair a mess and her dress robe with a slight stain on it. She smiled at Harry and said, "Sweetums what are you doing up here? I was just about to come down."
Harry smiled back, "I was worried about you Ginny, we all were."
Ginny smiled at everyone else, "Well let's get off to the ball shall we?"
Everyone else turned and walked down the stairs to the ball, relieved to see their fears weren't true. Harry walked up and hugged Ginny close and pointed out the stain, she immediately ran back into the bathroom to get it off. Harry laughed and followed her in and asked, "So what exactly have you been doing up here?"
Ginny looked nervous at first, and then said, "I haven't been feeling very well, I think something I ate at lunch didn't agree with me."
Harry smiled, "Why didn't you say so? We don't need to go to this ball, why don't we just lay down for a while and rest so that you can feel better?"
Ginny had finally gotten the stain out and rushed over to his side, kissing him gently on the lips, and said, "No, we're going down there. I feel like dancing tonight."
Harry smiled and kissed her, "Well than we better get down there love, don't you think?"
Ginny giggled and nodded her head. They started to walk down to the great hall when Ginny said she had to go to the bathroom. She nearly ran into one that thankfully they were right next to. Harry waited outside patiently just in case there were other girls in the bathroom. Finally Ginny came back out, and they walked down to the ball.
They thankfully hadn't missed dinner and their friends had saved them seats. Ginny and Harry started eating, Harry was having chicken while Ginny was eating the pork loin. About half way through dinner Ginny had devoured her entire plate, and asked Harry while pointing at the rest of his chicken, "Are you going to eat that sweetums?"
Harry laughed, "No, did you not get enough at lunch darling?"
Ginny giggled and smiled at him, "No I didn't. Thought I'd make up for it."
After dinner was over Harry and Ginny spent nearly the entire evening dancing. Hermione and Jeramy were dancing close to Ginny and Harry, Lisa and Nicole were dancing with three other couples like them to the side a bit. Owen and Jeanette were dancing with some of the other third years off to the other side of the room.
Hope and Draco were sitting down, Hope was still eating everything she could get her hands on. Suddenly an owl that looked quite familiar swooped down on Harry's shoulder. Harry smiled, it was an owl from his mum. He and Ginny sat down at a table with the owl and opened the letter to read it together. When they opened it a few pictures fell out with the letter.
"Harry, Ginny, Hope and Draco, We thought we should let you know, Lily had the baby! We've enclosed pictures, your new sister was born this afternoon at 4:15pm. We've named her Cynthia Jane, and decided that her godfather will be Remus Lupin. We'll be bringing Cynthia up to see you all as soon as Lily and Cynthia are well rested. We love and miss you all Love, Sirius, Mum, and Cynthia"
Harry and Ginny smiled at one another and looked at the pictures of Cynthia. There was one of Lily, Sirius and Cynthia together. Cynthia had Lily's curly red hair, and Sirius's dark eyes. They were smiling and waving at the picture. The next one was of Lily and Cynthia, Lily was holding her up for the camera. The last picture was of just Cynthia, crying and reaching up at the camera. Hope and Draco came running over, Hope was the one that talked, "Is everything okay? What's mum's owl doing here?"
Harry and Ginny smiled at them and handed her the pictures. She and Draco read the letter, and then the four of them went to show off the pictures to their friends. Harry made sure that Dumbledore and the rest of the professors saw the pictures, as he knew his parents would want them to. The rest of the night went by quickly, and soon it was time for bed. Ginny and Harry slept in Ginny's bed that night, since Ginny still wasn't feeling well and Harry wanted to help take care of her. So they just cuddled for most of the night. That night Harry had a strangely familiar dream.
Harry was running through the Forbidden Forest, he didn't know what after, but he could hear Jeanette screaming his name, telling him to run and get Owen. He could see shadows in front of him, and suddenly a second voice, Ginny's voice. He could barely make out what she was screaming, "Harry go find Dumbledore.. Don't follow us.. It's a trap Harry."
And than she screamed a blood-curdling scream that Harry couldn't bare to listen to, his scar was nearly burning while Ginny screamed, and suddenly a green flash of light. Harry didn't stop, he just ran faster as a third voice that sounded familiar yelled out, "Harry stop following us. Go get help Harry. Too many of them." Harry's scar burned worse as he could hear Ginny screaming from was sounded like a tremendous amount of pain being inflected upon her. He could hear a baby crying, and then he heard Voldemort's cold, shrill laugh as his scar burned.
Ginny was shaking him trying to wake him up, saying worriedly, "Harry? Harry wake up. Sweetums? It's just a dream baby, wake up."
Harry finally woke up, shaking in her arms. He looked into her eyes as she asked, "What was it?"
Harry calmed down a bit, "It was the same as before, but I heard another voice after yours, telling me to stop and go get help, that I was outnumbered. Then you were screaming, it sounded like someone was breaking your arm or something the way you were screaming, and while you were screaming I could hear a baby crying and then Voldemort, laughing. I think I need to go talk to Dumbledore."
Ginny smiled at him, "In the morning, alright sweetums? Let's just try to get some sleep right now."
Harry kissed her gently and said, "Alright cutie."
They laid there the rest of the night with Ginny in Harry's arms, both of them holding one another close. Ginny was sleeping peacefully, but Harry was tossing and turning trying to get to sleep. Harry finally gave up trying to sleep when he saw the sun peak through the window. Hey got up carefully so that he wouldn't wake up Ginny and quickly wrote her a note.
"Ginny, I'm talking with Dumbledore, I couldn't sleep. I'll meet you for breakfast, I love you. Love, Harry"
He placed the note besides the bed, and used his want to turn a feather from the pillow into a rose. He placed the rose next to the note, and gently kissed her forehead. Then he quickly got up and left for Dumbledore's office. When he got there he discovered Dumbledore was already up and busily talking to Sirius's head in his fireplace. They were talking about Cynthia and Lily, though Harry couldn't make out what exactly about them. Harry knocked on the door and Dumbledore smiled at him and said, "Why, Harry come in. I was just talking with Sirius here about your mum and your new sister!"
Harry smiled and said, "Well, maybe it's best that you both hear this anyway."
Dumbledore motioned for him to come sit down, Harry noticed Sirius was looking rather concerned that Harry was there at this hour and spoke up, "Harry what is it? Is everything alright?"
Harry started slowly, "I had that nightmare again, you know the one where Ginny was screaming."
Sirius and Dumbledore both nodded as Harry continued, "This time it was different. I know the first voice was Jeanette, and there was a third voice. I think the third voice was Hope's, but her and mum have very similar voices and I couldn't really tell who it was between the two. The voice though, it told me to run get help and that there were too many of them, whatever that meant. I could hear Ginny screaming, it sounded like someone was torturing her. A baby was crying, and then I heard Voldemort laughing."
Dumbledore smiled at Harry, "Well, you've had a rough night then. Did you check on Ginny before you came down, Harry?"
Harry nodded and Sirius asked, "Dumbledore what does all this mean? Do you think it has anything to do with."
Dumbledore cut him off, "Harry doesn't know about that yet Sirius. I just finished speaking with Arthur about that, and I'll be telling them in the morning. There's no point in waking them all up, though I suppose it might have something to do with that."
Harry looked from Dumbledore to Sirius and asked, "What's going on?"
Dumbledore's eyes lost their twinkle as he said, "Harry, Molly Weasley seems to have disappeared."
Harry sat in disbelief, who would want to hurt her? And his thoughts went immediately to Ginny, and Voldemort. Harry didn't wait to find out, he asked, "Was it Voldemort?"
Sirius replied this time, "Harry we don't know what's happened to her. There's been no owl, and there was no note anywhere. Now, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred and George are with their father trying to figure this out. Katie Bell and Fred will be coming to Hogwarts in a few hours to tell Ginny. Arthur would tell her himself but he's preoccupied with finding Molly. We're hoping you can handle taking care of Ginny."
Harry nodded, "I can tell her, tell Katie and Fred to stay there and help find Mrs. Weasley."
Dumbledore smiled at Harry, "If you'd like I can help you tell her after breakfast."
Harry quickly responded, "No, I think she'd rather I tell her alone."
Dumbledore nodded, "I'll be announcing it at Dinner tonight, asking that everyone go out of their way to be respectful towards you, Ginny and Hermione. I know this will be hard on all three of you."
Harry looked at Sirius, "Are Mum and Cynthia okay?"
Sirius nodded, "Just put Cynthia down from her 6am feeding. Your mum was in bed pretty quickly after that."
Harry replied quickly, "Good, say hi to them for me. I'm going to go back up to the dormitory though."
Dumbledore and Sirius nodded, and Harry got up and left. The whole way up to the tower his mind was going crazy, he couldn't figure out why anyone would want to hurt Mrs. Weasley. Then it hit him like a stunning spell, Voldemort wasn't trying to hurt Mrs. Weasley, he was trying to get to Harry through her.
Voldemort must have figured out that he was dating Ginny, and knew that seeing Ginny in pain missing her mum would get to him. Though he was hurt too, she's almost been his mum to him for the past five years, and he loved her just like he loved his own mum. At this thought Harry had to stop because he was crying too much to be able to see where he was going.
He slumped against the wall and cried with his head in his hands for a while. He blamed himself for whatever Voldemort might be doing to Mrs. Weasley, and the thought of having to tell Ginny made him not want to see her until dinner time so that Ginny wouldn't be upset all day. If there was one thing he hated more than Voldemort it was seeing Ginny upset or in pain. Harry decided he'd wait for her at Breakfast, since it was about to start anyway.