((A/N: *sniffles* Last chapter to this story. I hope all of you like the ending!By the way, I re-posted this chapter because with the whole name changing thing (By the way as soon as it allows me to change my name my writing name will be Hollow Haven) it didn't post the last chapter on the list or something))
Hermione looked up at the floating Ron with a horrified expression and nodded. "Hermione... Open the bracelet I gave you," He choked.
She looked down at her wrist and saw the bracelet with the locket dangling on her wrist that she normally couldn't get open. She did her best to pry it open. Instantly, pieces of paper shot out of it and floated in front of her face. She quickly grabbed it out of the air and read it- Ron Weasley. "But...Ron, this just says..." she blinked and studied it again.
Then it all dawned on her. Everything started to make sense. She realized why the phantom's voice and eyes were so familiar to her. She now knew the real reason why Ron was in the common room before the ball ended. The letters she got... the first one didn't mean "eye" it meant "I" and Ron had purposely offered her the ham at the feast...so the next letter would drop onto it. Ham, minus the "H" was "am": I am Ron Weasley. It had to mean that Ron was the heir of Gryffindor... that's why Ron had awakened after the Varax attack. She was one of Ron's protectors. It was destiny. Ron sent that letter, not Harry, not Damon... Ron. It was all Ron... the love of her life actual loved her back. She couldn't believe it. She looked back up at Ron who was struggling to break free.
"Ron!" She cried.
"I think I found something," Harry yelled as he pushed a rusty lever down the best he could until the glowing bars of the cage dissolved.
"Not. So. Fast." Said a voice from behind Voldemort. Lara had a knife against Voldemort's throat. Voldemort quickly moved a foot forward then turned around towards her so the knife wouldn't cut him. That broke Voldemort's concentration and Ron fell lifelessly to the ground.
"A sly little girl, aren't you," He hissed. "Fine... we do it the muggle way;" He rolled his eyes as he pulled his sword out of its sheath that was on his belt.
"Get yourselves out of here;" Lara mouthed to Harry and the rest of them.
"But what about you?" Harry replied.
"I've died before," she murmured. "Just go!"
Harry nodded and grabbed onto Ron's arms as Draco picked up his feet and carried him quickly out of the house. It was a brisk sort of feeling, walking outside from being in the death chamber. The sun was rising just as the snow began to fall. Harry and Draco set Ron down onto any type of ground that didn't have snow on it yet.
"Ron," Hermione muttered as she kneeled beside him and shook him. A single tear rolled down Hermione's face and landed on Ron's forehead. His eyes fluttered for a moment before they completely opened.
"'Mione?" He croaked out.
She nodded and smiled. "I'm sorry Ron," She muttered.
"Sorry for what?" He asked.
"For thinking that Damon wrote that letter," She whispered as she ran her fingers through his hair. He smiled brightly. He was about to say something but was interrupted by a loud explosion at the Shrieking Shack. Smoke filled the air as they tried to swat it away. Harry could barely see the outline of two figures emerging from the smoke. He raised his wand but lowered it when he saw Lara running towards them, pulling someone along by the collar.
"I believe he belongs to you," she said as she pushed Wormtail towards Malfoy who grabbed him by the neck as Wormtail screeched.
"Where's Voldemort?" Harry asked.
"He escaped," Lara panted. "I caught that little rat before he could escape to. Voldemort... blew the house up to get away... " She said. She looked over at Ron and Hermione. "I hope the best for you two... all of you," she smiled. "Now... I must go."
"But why?" Ron asked.
"I don't belong here... now that my work here is done... I can finally leave," she grinned. "I'll miss you all." She took a few steps back and turned around. Instantly, her clothes and hair began to turn their natural silver color as a beam of light surrounded her. A young man with piercing red hair stepped up beside her and took her hand. They both waved at them and stepped another foot forward and disappeared.
"Was that..." Malfoy begun?
"Gryffindor?" Harry muttered.
"Well that's something you don't see everyday," Malfoy blinked bizarrely.
Hermione looked back down at Ron and smiled. "'Mione... there's something I need to tell you," he whispered.
She put her finger against his lips. "I know, Ron." She whispered back as she smiled even more brightly. "I love you too... I always have," she said, tears flooding her eyes. He placed his hand on her cheek and brushed her tears away. She leaned over to him and put her arms around his neck. She pressed her lips against his. It was a kiss that was real, not one a secretive one or accidental. After awhile, Harry broke them apart.
"Okay, okay... break it up, you're making me gag," Harry coughed.
"Well... it looks like a happy ending to all;" Draco shrugged grabbing onto Wormtail's neck even harder. "Well... almost everyone."
"Destiny has finally been put together..." Harry said smiling.
"You and Ginny are finally together," Ron added, rolling his eyes.
"And... I get to spend the summer, living with my godfather... and.;" Harry began, but was interrupted by Wormtail gulping loudly.
"Uh oh," Wormtail murmured.
"What do you mean uh oh," Harry said as Malfoy passed Wormtail over to Harry so Harry could look him directly.
"Well...uh...you see." He gulped again. "Uh...when me and My Lord entered the house with those two," he pointed to Draco and Hermione. "Uh... and you see... Sirius Black was already there...and, he, so...uhh... we sort of tied him up and....put him in the basement... so..." he pointed towards the burnt down house. "Please don't hurt me... I only follow orders." Wormtail pleaded.
Harry dropped to the grounds and fell to his knees. "I... I can't believe... he's gone..." Harry whimpered. Wormtail slowly began to creep away, but Malfoy grabbed him again by the neck.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"I sentence you; Peter Pettigrew to the Dementor's Kiss." The Minister of Magic boomed from behind a desk in Dumbledore's office. "For planned murder of these four," he pointed to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco. "Murder of Sirius Black and association with he-who-must-not-be-named. Take him away!" He yelled as a pair of eerie green hands grabbed onto Wormtail's shoulders and pulled him out of the room with their black cloaks, flowing behind them.
Mr. Weasley (The Minister of Magic) looked over at them with an agonizing look in his eyes. "Are you kids all right?" He asked them.
"I think so Mr. Weasley... I mean, Minister sir," Draco muttered.
"Well, you best be off then. Oh... and Harry... my sincere regrets. Even though I am Minister, I still asked Dumbledore if you could stay with us this summer, but he insisted that you go to your uncle and aunts house first." Harry nodded solemnly and followed the rest of them out of Dumbledore's office.
"Harry!" Ginny exclaimed, running towards him and throwing her arms around his neck and kissing his cheek. "I was so worried," she whimpered as he hugged her back. "Are you all right?" She asked him, lying her head on his shoulders.
"I will be... now that you're here," he muttered as she smiled.
"And you two!" Ginny said, breaking free of Harry and looking over at Ron and Hermione. "I'm sick of this! You fancy him. You fancy her. Kiss already!" She yelled.
"She obviously doesn't know," Ron murmured to Harry who laughed.
"Just play along," Hermione whispered to Ron through the corner of her mouth. Ron shrugged and leaned over to Hermione and kissed her hard on the lips again. They broke apart and looked at Ginny.
"Happy?" Ron asked smiling.
"Very," Ginny replied with a sly grin as she turned back towards Harry as Ron rolled his eyes at her.
"C'mon... let's go," Harry said, putting his arms around Ginny as they, Ron and Hermione walked up to the Gryffindor common room, parting from Draco who walked back up to the Slytherin common room.
- A few months later-
"All aboard!" Yelled someone from the front of the Hogwarts express. Just then, a tall boy with bleached blonde hair walked passes them and purposely bumped into Ron.
"Move it Weasel," the boy sneered as he walked away.
"What's wrong with him," Ron asked.
"Lila just broke up with him for a Ravenclaw," said a voice from behind them. They turned around and saw Hannah with her blonde hair tied back into pigtails as she held a bag of luggage in her hands.
"Well there goes that friendship," Ron rolled his eyes.
"Yes and we were just getting used to Malfoy's company," Hermione added.
"Well, I just wanted to say goodbye and congratulations to both of you," Hannah smiled.
"For what? We've only been together for the past four months," Ron said.
"Five, Ron," Hermione said as Ron's face turned slightly red.
"Not that silly," she replied. "For both of you making prefect next year. The Ministry was so impressed with your O.W.L score, Ron, that he instantly made you Gryffindor prefect next year."
"How do you know that?" Ron asked.
"A little birdie told me," she winked as she pulled out a prefect badge herself and smiled. "Well, Happy summer," she waved as she skipped off.
"I've dated two prefects this year..." Ron said with a furrowed brow of amazement as Hermione jabbed him slightly.
"Anyway... I didn't know you were going to be a prefect next year," Hermione said to him.
"Neither did I," he shrugged as they boarded the train. They entered a compartment to find Ginny and Harry kissing exuberantly.
"That's it Potter! You crossed that line again! I don't want you at my house this summer!" Ron laughed as he pulled them apart. They both blushed and sat back in their seats as Ron and Hermione sat down.
"This is going to be one interesting summer," Harry said, putting his arm around Ginny.
"You can say that again," Ron murmured.
"This is..." Harry began but Ron put his hand up to stop him.
"Shut up Harry," Ron said to him.
~ THE END ~
((A/N: Okay, one thing is the only reason I killed Sirius in this one is that if I do make a sequel to this and all, I wanted it to at least sort of match up to the actual 5th book. So sadly, yes this is the last chapter. Just for fun I wanted to say all the things that were not going to happen when I first thought of this...
When I first started this I intentionally thought it was going to be probably 5 chapters long.
The was in fact to be meant for the rose Ron gave Hermione at Christmas, and it was basically going to end at Christmas.
The journal was not going to be brought up again.
Harry and Ginny were not going to get together.
Lara ((The Grey Lady)) was not going to be brought up again and all she was going to do was give them mysterious advice at the beginning.
The fact that Lara told Ron that she watched her love die before her own eyes and then Hermione watched Ron die, at the time of posting that I had totally forgotten that Lara had almost the same experience until a reviewer reminded me that Hermione was having the same experience as Lara which gave me the idea of making Lara and Hermione related, so I thank the reviewer who said that!
Mr. Weasley was not going to end of being the Minister of Magic, intentionally it was going to be Dumbledore, but I thought that would be too difficult and a little obvious.
Sirius was not going to die ((And let me say that I did indeed write Sirius dying before the actual fifth book come out because I wanted there to be some angst and that Harry wouldn't end up going to live with Sirius *shrugs*))
Malfoy was not going to be nice to them. As you might notice, he was mean to Hermione at the beginning of this story. And when I did make Malfoy nice, he was going to be nice throughout the entire story, even at the end. I first planned for the person that bumps Ron to be Damon, but I changed it.
My first intention was that Harry and Cho stay together through out this story ((She would have still been a ditz)) and then Harry would burst at the end and break up with her or something, but I didn't really like the whole Harry and Cho thing to begin with so I put Harry with Ginny.
I put this fact in the last chapter too but I was SO angry that J.K Rowling put almost the same exact reason why Voldemort wanted to kill Harry in the first place. The fact that it had to do with a prophecy that Trewlany made before she actually became a professor. When I first wrote that I thought that was the best reason but when I saw J.K. Rowling wrote that, I didn't want people to think that I copied it ((Which is very selfish of me)) and I was actually thinking of changing the reason. But ended up sticking with it.
Thank you all of my reviewers throughout my story!!!!!! You all are awesome!!!!!
muykiay: Thanks! And of course I wouldn't leave off with a cliffhanger, that would be too cruel ^_^. But I have decided that I will be making a 6th book (Not a sequel to this one) so watch out for that!
Julie: Yeah, I tried to make it as non-confusing as I could, but if I changed things around I just thought that would make it more confusing. Thanks for reviewing!!
S.H. Weasley: *sighs* Yes, yes I am. Thanks for reviewing!
Magical*Me: I just thought it was kind of odd that it was sort of the same *shrugs* Thanks!!
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celle: Thanks!
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Hermione looked up at the floating Ron with a horrified expression and nodded. "Hermione... Open the bracelet I gave you," He choked.
She looked down at her wrist and saw the bracelet with the locket dangling on her wrist that she normally couldn't get open. She did her best to pry it open. Instantly, pieces of paper shot out of it and floated in front of her face. She quickly grabbed it out of the air and read it- Ron Weasley. "But...Ron, this just says..." she blinked and studied it again.
Then it all dawned on her. Everything started to make sense. She realized why the phantom's voice and eyes were so familiar to her. She now knew the real reason why Ron was in the common room before the ball ended. The letters she got... the first one didn't mean "eye" it meant "I" and Ron had purposely offered her the ham at the feast...so the next letter would drop onto it. Ham, minus the "H" was "am": I am Ron Weasley. It had to mean that Ron was the heir of Gryffindor... that's why Ron had awakened after the Varax attack. She was one of Ron's protectors. It was destiny. Ron sent that letter, not Harry, not Damon... Ron. It was all Ron... the love of her life actual loved her back. She couldn't believe it. She looked back up at Ron who was struggling to break free.
"Ron!" She cried.
"I think I found something," Harry yelled as he pushed a rusty lever down the best he could until the glowing bars of the cage dissolved.
"Not. So. Fast." Said a voice from behind Voldemort. Lara had a knife against Voldemort's throat. Voldemort quickly moved a foot forward then turned around towards her so the knife wouldn't cut him. That broke Voldemort's concentration and Ron fell lifelessly to the ground.
"A sly little girl, aren't you," He hissed. "Fine... we do it the muggle way;" He rolled his eyes as he pulled his sword out of its sheath that was on his belt.
"Get yourselves out of here;" Lara mouthed to Harry and the rest of them.
"But what about you?" Harry replied.
"I've died before," she murmured. "Just go!"
Harry nodded and grabbed onto Ron's arms as Draco picked up his feet and carried him quickly out of the house. It was a brisk sort of feeling, walking outside from being in the death chamber. The sun was rising just as the snow began to fall. Harry and Draco set Ron down onto any type of ground that didn't have snow on it yet.
"Ron," Hermione muttered as she kneeled beside him and shook him. A single tear rolled down Hermione's face and landed on Ron's forehead. His eyes fluttered for a moment before they completely opened.
"'Mione?" He croaked out.
She nodded and smiled. "I'm sorry Ron," She muttered.
"Sorry for what?" He asked.
"For thinking that Damon wrote that letter," She whispered as she ran her fingers through his hair. He smiled brightly. He was about to say something but was interrupted by a loud explosion at the Shrieking Shack. Smoke filled the air as they tried to swat it away. Harry could barely see the outline of two figures emerging from the smoke. He raised his wand but lowered it when he saw Lara running towards them, pulling someone along by the collar.
"I believe he belongs to you," she said as she pushed Wormtail towards Malfoy who grabbed him by the neck as Wormtail screeched.
"Where's Voldemort?" Harry asked.
"He escaped," Lara panted. "I caught that little rat before he could escape to. Voldemort... blew the house up to get away... " She said. She looked over at Ron and Hermione. "I hope the best for you two... all of you," she smiled. "Now... I must go."
"But why?" Ron asked.
"I don't belong here... now that my work here is done... I can finally leave," she grinned. "I'll miss you all." She took a few steps back and turned around. Instantly, her clothes and hair began to turn their natural silver color as a beam of light surrounded her. A young man with piercing red hair stepped up beside her and took her hand. They both waved at them and stepped another foot forward and disappeared.
"Was that..." Malfoy begun?
"Gryffindor?" Harry muttered.
"Well that's something you don't see everyday," Malfoy blinked bizarrely.
Hermione looked back down at Ron and smiled. "'Mione... there's something I need to tell you," he whispered.
She put her finger against his lips. "I know, Ron." She whispered back as she smiled even more brightly. "I love you too... I always have," she said, tears flooding her eyes. He placed his hand on her cheek and brushed her tears away. She leaned over to him and put her arms around his neck. She pressed her lips against his. It was a kiss that was real, not one a secretive one or accidental. After awhile, Harry broke them apart.
"Okay, okay... break it up, you're making me gag," Harry coughed.
"Well... it looks like a happy ending to all;" Draco shrugged grabbing onto Wormtail's neck even harder. "Well... almost everyone."
"Destiny has finally been put together..." Harry said smiling.
"You and Ginny are finally together," Ron added, rolling his eyes.
"And... I get to spend the summer, living with my godfather... and.;" Harry began, but was interrupted by Wormtail gulping loudly.
"Uh oh," Wormtail murmured.
"What do you mean uh oh," Harry said as Malfoy passed Wormtail over to Harry so Harry could look him directly.
"Well...uh...you see." He gulped again. "Uh...when me and My Lord entered the house with those two," he pointed to Draco and Hermione. "Uh... and you see... Sirius Black was already there...and, he, so...uhh... we sort of tied him up and....put him in the basement... so..." he pointed towards the burnt down house. "Please don't hurt me... I only follow orders." Wormtail pleaded.
Harry dropped to the grounds and fell to his knees. "I... I can't believe... he's gone..." Harry whimpered. Wormtail slowly began to creep away, but Malfoy grabbed him again by the neck.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"I sentence you; Peter Pettigrew to the Dementor's Kiss." The Minister of Magic boomed from behind a desk in Dumbledore's office. "For planned murder of these four," he pointed to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco. "Murder of Sirius Black and association with he-who-must-not-be-named. Take him away!" He yelled as a pair of eerie green hands grabbed onto Wormtail's shoulders and pulled him out of the room with their black cloaks, flowing behind them.
Mr. Weasley (The Minister of Magic) looked over at them with an agonizing look in his eyes. "Are you kids all right?" He asked them.
"I think so Mr. Weasley... I mean, Minister sir," Draco muttered.
"Well, you best be off then. Oh... and Harry... my sincere regrets. Even though I am Minister, I still asked Dumbledore if you could stay with us this summer, but he insisted that you go to your uncle and aunts house first." Harry nodded solemnly and followed the rest of them out of Dumbledore's office.
"Harry!" Ginny exclaimed, running towards him and throwing her arms around his neck and kissing his cheek. "I was so worried," she whimpered as he hugged her back. "Are you all right?" She asked him, lying her head on his shoulders.
"I will be... now that you're here," he muttered as she smiled.
"And you two!" Ginny said, breaking free of Harry and looking over at Ron and Hermione. "I'm sick of this! You fancy him. You fancy her. Kiss already!" She yelled.
"She obviously doesn't know," Ron murmured to Harry who laughed.
"Just play along," Hermione whispered to Ron through the corner of her mouth. Ron shrugged and leaned over to Hermione and kissed her hard on the lips again. They broke apart and looked at Ginny.
"Happy?" Ron asked smiling.
"Very," Ginny replied with a sly grin as she turned back towards Harry as Ron rolled his eyes at her.
"C'mon... let's go," Harry said, putting his arms around Ginny as they, Ron and Hermione walked up to the Gryffindor common room, parting from Draco who walked back up to the Slytherin common room.
- A few months later-
"All aboard!" Yelled someone from the front of the Hogwarts express. Just then, a tall boy with bleached blonde hair walked passes them and purposely bumped into Ron.
"Move it Weasel," the boy sneered as he walked away.
"What's wrong with him," Ron asked.
"Lila just broke up with him for a Ravenclaw," said a voice from behind them. They turned around and saw Hannah with her blonde hair tied back into pigtails as she held a bag of luggage in her hands.
"Well there goes that friendship," Ron rolled his eyes.
"Yes and we were just getting used to Malfoy's company," Hermione added.
"Well, I just wanted to say goodbye and congratulations to both of you," Hannah smiled.
"For what? We've only been together for the past four months," Ron said.
"Five, Ron," Hermione said as Ron's face turned slightly red.
"Not that silly," she replied. "For both of you making prefect next year. The Ministry was so impressed with your O.W.L score, Ron, that he instantly made you Gryffindor prefect next year."
"How do you know that?" Ron asked.
"A little birdie told me," she winked as she pulled out a prefect badge herself and smiled. "Well, Happy summer," she waved as she skipped off.
"I've dated two prefects this year..." Ron said with a furrowed brow of amazement as Hermione jabbed him slightly.
"Anyway... I didn't know you were going to be a prefect next year," Hermione said to him.
"Neither did I," he shrugged as they boarded the train. They entered a compartment to find Ginny and Harry kissing exuberantly.
"That's it Potter! You crossed that line again! I don't want you at my house this summer!" Ron laughed as he pulled them apart. They both blushed and sat back in their seats as Ron and Hermione sat down.
"This is going to be one interesting summer," Harry said, putting his arm around Ginny.
"You can say that again," Ron murmured.
"This is..." Harry began but Ron put his hand up to stop him.
"Shut up Harry," Ron said to him.
~ THE END ~
((A/N: Okay, one thing is the only reason I killed Sirius in this one is that if I do make a sequel to this and all, I wanted it to at least sort of match up to the actual 5th book. So sadly, yes this is the last chapter. Just for fun I wanted to say all the things that were not going to happen when I first thought of this...
When I first started this I intentionally thought it was going to be probably 5 chapters long.
The was in fact to be meant for the rose Ron gave Hermione at Christmas, and it was basically going to end at Christmas.
The journal was not going to be brought up again.
Harry and Ginny were not going to get together.
Lara ((The Grey Lady)) was not going to be brought up again and all she was going to do was give them mysterious advice at the beginning.
The fact that Lara told Ron that she watched her love die before her own eyes and then Hermione watched Ron die, at the time of posting that I had totally forgotten that Lara had almost the same experience until a reviewer reminded me that Hermione was having the same experience as Lara which gave me the idea of making Lara and Hermione related, so I thank the reviewer who said that!
Mr. Weasley was not going to end of being the Minister of Magic, intentionally it was going to be Dumbledore, but I thought that would be too difficult and a little obvious.
Sirius was not going to die ((And let me say that I did indeed write Sirius dying before the actual fifth book come out because I wanted there to be some angst and that Harry wouldn't end up going to live with Sirius *shrugs*))
Malfoy was not going to be nice to them. As you might notice, he was mean to Hermione at the beginning of this story. And when I did make Malfoy nice, he was going to be nice throughout the entire story, even at the end. I first planned for the person that bumps Ron to be Damon, but I changed it.
My first intention was that Harry and Cho stay together through out this story ((She would have still been a ditz)) and then Harry would burst at the end and break up with her or something, but I didn't really like the whole Harry and Cho thing to begin with so I put Harry with Ginny.
I put this fact in the last chapter too but I was SO angry that J.K Rowling put almost the same exact reason why Voldemort wanted to kill Harry in the first place. The fact that it had to do with a prophecy that Trewlany made before she actually became a professor. When I first wrote that I thought that was the best reason but when I saw J.K. Rowling wrote that, I didn't want people to think that I copied it ((Which is very selfish of me)) and I was actually thinking of changing the reason. But ended up sticking with it.
Thank you all of my reviewers throughout my story!!!!!! You all are awesome!!!!!
muykiay: Thanks! And of course I wouldn't leave off with a cliffhanger, that would be too cruel ^_^. But I have decided that I will be making a 6th book (Not a sequel to this one) so watch out for that!
Julie: Yeah, I tried to make it as non-confusing as I could, but if I changed things around I just thought that would make it more confusing. Thanks for reviewing!!
S.H. Weasley: *sighs* Yes, yes I am. Thanks for reviewing!
Magical*Me: I just thought it was kind of odd that it was sort of the same *shrugs* Thanks!!
Wicked Witch of Slytherin: Thanks for reviewing!
celle: Thanks!
Strawberries and Blueberries: ^_^ Thank ya!
