Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.  Please don't sue.

Several days later, Ginny finally managed to open her eyes, and found Harry, Ron, and Hermione looking hopefully at her.

"Ginny," Harry whispered tenderly.

"Ginny," Hermione said more practically, "Do you know who we are?"

Ginny gave a small groan and croaked, "No."  Harry, Hermione, and Ron's head fell in disappointment.  Harry looked back up at her, and noticed she had a weak smile.

"Ginny," Harry said, half exasperated, half overjoyed.

Ginny gave a weak laugh which ended up making her cough, and said, "Ok, maybe that wasn't the funniest joke to play there."

However, her visitors overlooked it, and all burst into talking at once.

"I'm so glad you're back, Ginny," Hermione said.

"I missed you, Ginny," Harry softly croaked.

"Don't ever do that to us again!" Ron hissed, although everyone could hear the immense gladness in his voice.

However, before anyone could say anything else, Madame Pomfrey returned and insisted that they all leave and let Ginny recover.  The three made their way back to the Gryffindor commons, all in considerably lighter moods than before.  Harry, however, insisted on going up to this room instead of talking with Ron and Hermione in the commons.

He thought about the past two weeks, and what had happened.  He realized what his life was like, when Ginny wasn't there with him.  He remembered the year before, and how alone he felt when she left for Durmstrang for several months.  Finally reaching a decision, Harry grabbed his Gringotts Key, his money pouch, and his Floo Powder and left for Diagon Alley.

When Ginny awoke two days later, Harry, Ron, and Hermione noted she looked much better.  The color of her skin was back completely, and she was able to smile and laugh like normal.  After a few hours of the four talking, Harry asked, "Ron, Hermione, would it be alright if I talked alone with Ginny for a few moments?"

Ron and Hermione both nodded and left the room.  Ginny looked at Harry and noticed the unusual face he was wearing.  Harry slowly reached into his robes and pulled out a small book, which he handed slowly to her.

"What is this?" Ginny asked, confused.

Harry smiled and handed her a quill and told her to write something.  Ginny took the quill with a trembling hand and wrote, "My name is Ginny Weasley."

The book absorbed the ink, and Ginny let a yelp of alarm, remembering Tom Riddle's diary.  However, the response quickly came back, "I am Harry Potter."

Ginny looked at the diary with a small look of puzzlement.  "How are you Harry Potter, when Harry's standing right next to me?" she quickly wrote.

"Well," the book wrote back, "more accurately, I'm a part of Harry Potter.  Harry put a bit of himself into the diary and made me."

Ginny took a moment, and wrote back, "Harry filled you up?  When?"

The diary quickly and almost eagerly responded, "Just a few hours ago.  We have a very important question to ask you."

Ginny looked over at Harry, who had a smile on his face.  Ginny slowly turned back to the diary and wrote, "Well, what's your question?"

The diary wrote four words which made Ginny's heart leap, "Will you marry me?"  Ginny looked over at Harry, who was now on one knee, holding a ring in his hand.

Ginny trembled, and managed to croak, "Yes!"

In that moment, Harry knew that no matter what happened or where he went, he knew who he would be with, and knew he would be happy.

*** Epilogue ***

White robed ministry officials swooped down into the Forbidden Forest shortly after Hermione and Harry had left.  One of them, with robes of white and gold, cautiously picked up the black orb, and the group silently left.

The Department of Secrets resolved to keep the sphere from any dark wizards wishing to attempt to open it, and hid the object in a deep chamber under constant guard with the most experienced aurors the ministry had.

Yet despite everything, Voldemort remained optimistic in his prison, insanity coursing through him.  One day, the Sphere of Madness would be opened.  One day, he knew, he would be free again.  It wouldn't be today.  It wouldn't be tomorrow.  It probably wouldn't be within the next hundred years, or even a thousand.  But Voldemort was immortal, and he knew that time was on his side…

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The END!  Whooo!  Talk about furious writing.  A +100k word trilogy done in little over a month.  Wow, it certainly looks like I have no life…

I'd like to thank all the reviewers out there, for all three of the stories.  You've really directed the flow of this story – several sections were added by request and many others were tweaked.  But not only that, you've given me some good pointers for the next stories I write.  THANK YOU!

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What's Next?

First off, although I will be offline for 3 weeks, I can almost guarantee I will be writing over the holiday (although I obviously can't post anything).  I've got something new planned – something I don't think has ever been done on ff.net, and almost certainly never for Harry Potter: A choose-your-own-adventure.  I've got most of the main plot points done, and most of the early choices.  I'm still hammering out some things, and trying to get more variety among the branches.  This promises to be a large amount of text, possibly even around 200-500k words.  I don't know whether it will get done or not, but there is one positive note if I fail – I'll still have a linear story done (I'll write the obvious/sensible branches first).  So I can almost guarantee you, there WILL be another story.

Parodies: Unfortunately, I probably will not be able to write any parodies during the break.  How I write a parody is I browse through ff.net, looking for overused or crazy ideas (songfics, lily/james, Harry/Hermione, romance, etc).  Since I won't be able to scour the site for ideas, I probably won't write a parody.

Sequel: I've been toying with the idea of a sequel for this trilogy.  It would probably take place 10 years from Harry's graduation, and would center around Voldemort escaping from his sphere.  However, I am inclined not to write this story.  I like the ending I've got in the end of the trilogy.  I don't know if I want Harry to end up completely destroying Voldemort.  And I certainly don't want to re-trap him in the sphere, which I think would be pretty lame.  So unless I can come up with a good end for a sequel, it probably won't get written.  And if it does, it won't be for a bit.  So don't hold your breath.

Anyway, I will hopefully see you all in roughly 3 weeks!