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BTW- how could a pheonix keep track of somebody?
Well I have no idea really how it works technically… I made some guesses however. First of all we know Dumbledore always seems to know where Harry is yet he couldn't find Sirius in the third book so that rules out the possibility that Dumbledore can find anyone. So I figured Dumbledore must have done something extra with Harry. A simple solution would be that Fawkes is tracking him, Fawkes can disappear at will and would be a good tracker…. I also figured that Fawkes knows Harry very well and could find him just like Hedwig could find Sirius or something. Anyway, Fawkes and Hedwig can find Harry if they want to, it's magic!

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Chapter 7 Final Goodbye

Occlumency wasn't easy especially when he started taking the maximum amount of the potion but he did manage to withstand the potion. He would be completely exhausted afterwards and fall asleep almost at once but he would do it happily. Ginny spent hours every morning and night when Harry trained reading books on magical creatures. Their situation was now becoming desperate they had no idea of what to do about Fawkes.

It was now two mornings before the Dursleys would return. At breakfast, Ginny brought the subject up, "Harry, I think we have to trust him."

Harry nodded in agreement. They had both realised this fact several days ago but neither of them had spoken it aloud.

"Yes" Harry agreed seriously and as he did so, there was a bright flash of golden light over the table where they sat eating breakfast.

Harry fell out of his chair and Ginny who had been sitting on his knee fell on top of him. It was very much like the first time Ginny had fallen on him and Harry had realised that Ginny was a young woman. Now she was pregnant with his child and Harry feared that whatever that golden flash had been. Drawing his wand quickly, he pointed it over the table ready to use any curse imaginable. On top of the table Harry saw, as he stood up, Fawkes standing as magnificent as ever, even though he looked very out of place in a muggle kitchen.

Looking at the two Fawkes began singing one of his melodious songs. Harry, breathing a sigh of relief, pocketed his wand.

"Hello Fawkes." Harry said taking another breath of relief, "You scared me."

Fawkes bent his head and looked apologetically at Harry and Ginny who were just standing up.

"Hello Fawkes," Ginny said hesitantly.

"Did Dumbledore want something from us?" Harry asked nervously. For a brief second Harry feared that Dumbledore had somehow found out about their plans and had sent Fawkes with a message for them to stay were they were. However, Harry saw that Fawkes didn't have a message with him.

Ginny's eyes went wide and the colour in her cheeks faded, "You won't tell anyone will you Fawkes?"

Harry caught on at once Dumbledore had of course asked Fawkes to watch over them and had shown himself the moment they had decided to tell him.

"We can't have a life here. We have to leave to protect our child." Ginny said rubbing her hand over her stomach. "Please don't tell Dumbledore." She pleaded desperately. Tears began welling in her eyes as she waited for Fawkes' response.

Harry didn't know what to do say, he just did what felt right and put an arm around Ginny for comfort and sign for Fawkes that they were a family.

Fawkes looked closely at them, sizing them up. Harry could tell the phoenix understood his gesture. After what seemed like several minutes of silence, Fawkes bowed his head respectfully and disappeared as suddenly as he had showed himself.

Ginny's threatening tears burst out of her eyes in relief. There was no mistake in Fawkes' gesture he considered them a family with every right in the world to seek safety for their child. Harry felt tears welling up in his eyes as well and smiled widely, "We are really going Gin."

Ginny gave a final sniff and beamed brightly up at him, "I am so happy."

Ginny had slowly increased her lies to Mrs Figg. Her latest lie was that Harry was having terrible pains in his scar and also that he was very depressed. Ginny sent carefully written letters home telling her mother about how much they loved their summer and that she was not sure if Harry would be able to leave when the summer was over. In her latest letter, she wrote that she thought Harry might do something impulsive. She had received a very hastily written letter in return saying that she would have to stay with him every single moment and that they were coming to get them the follow day, the 28th at noon. By the time they arrived there, it would not be much left of Privet Drive.

It hurt them both that they would have to hurt their love ones like this but no price was to high in comparison to the safety of their child. Harry had not returned Ron's and Hermione's latest letters at all, per Ginny's request. She had told him not to because that would be the best way of making it seem like he was terribly depressed.

Both Ron and Hermione had then written to Ginny demanding explanations. Until a day ago, she had just shrugged writing that Harry was very caught up practising Occlumency but in her latest letters, she told them that Harry might be suicidal and that she understood him. She had left the letters short as if she didn't find any point in writing them any more. The letter writing had been hard on Harry and Ginny and they both broke down at a number of occasions when they so deliberately chose the words carefully to seem suicidal.

They didn't bother keeping their tears off the final letter they wrote to all of them, the goodbye letter. They had decided only to write one final letter since they would never be able to write more then one of them. It was just too hard.


We are in love.

It hit us hard in the beginning of the summer in fact it hit us so hard that we won't be able to go back to our old lives. We are sure about it, we are so happy together and nothing can ever come between us.

This is our own decision we made it together. We are sorry to leave you like this but we don't feel we have any choice. We have chosen to end our lives together. It will be painless and it will be over very quickly. Please don't be sorry, we are not.

Goodbye, we love you all and always will.

Harry Potter & Ginny Weasley


It was a short letter but it was all they managed to write. They folded it, and then placed it in an envelope. It was almost nine in the evening and they were both sitting on Harry's bed holding each other tightly. Ginny didn't have to return to Mrs Figg's house for the night since Mrs Weasley had given Ginny permission to stay with Harry. In the early hours of the following morning, much earlier then dawn, Harry's alarm clock woke them. Harry and Ginny need to be at Gringotts at six o'clock when it opened so they needed to be up and about early.

Ginny had a very determined expression from the moment she opened her eyes.

"Ginny, you know that we don't have to do this." Harry said softly, she was still in his arms as she had been the entire night.

"I know." Ginny whispered locking her gaze with him.

"We don't even know if we'll have a baby. It's still very early and the chances of you having a miscarriage are high especially since we are so young," Said Harry, softly stroking her hair.

"If I were to have a miscarriage I would get pregnant again." Ginny replied equally softly.

He kissed her forehead he needed to know that she was as far into this as he was and not only because she was pregnant.

"So" Ginny said seducingly when noticing his manhood a few moments later.

"Care for a shower before we get going, to make up for our last morning together?"

They did indeed have a shower. After the shower, they tried to eat breakfast without success. They were too nervous. They gave up after a few minutes and focused on their final preparations.

"I will have to leave my necklace." Ginny said as she went through the things they'd packed one final time. They couldn't bring much just some clothes, their wands, Harry's broom, invisibility cloak, map of Hogwarts, photo album and of course the key to his vault in Gringotts. The rest would be burned to ashes.

"But we'll need it." said Harry at once. He had no idea of how to make sure Ginny was alright in her condition without its golden glow.

"Harry, the necklace has been in the family for ages so they'll probably look for it." Ginny replied as she took it off and placed it on the kitchen table. The soft golden glow faded, the stone lost its transparent quality and turned solid cold silver. Harry couldn't help feeling bad the glow was something he associated with their baby.

"We better send Hedwig away with the letter." She said taking his attention away from the stone pendent and over to Hedwig who sat sleeping in her cage in the living room. Hedwig had been forced to move from Harry's room when they started using it for more then sleeping and studying. Saying goodbye to Hedwig wasn't easy but Harry gritted his teeth and woke Hedwig. She gave an annoyed hoot.

"Shh… it's only me Hedwig," Harry said softly. Hedwig relaxed her feathers and calmed down. She nibbled his hand affectionately.

"Hedwig," Harry said seriously. Hedwig being a very intelligent owl stopped nibbling his fingers and straitened up "Ginny and I have to go away and we can't take you with us."

Hedwig understood every word he said, for a moment Harry thought she would be upset but instead she gave a low sad hoot.

"Hermione will take good care of you." Harry when on feeling tears prickle at the corners of his eyes. "You can't find us either Hedwig. If they try and send a message you have to pretend you can't find us."

Hedwig hooted again accepting his news sadly.

"I've got a final letter for you to deliver to the burrow." Harry said and tied their goodbye letter to Hedwig's leg. A very sad Hedwig held out her leg prouder and better then ever as if wanting everything to be perfect. Harry couldn't suppress the silent stream of tears that ran down his cheeks. He carried Hedwig on his arm and let out her out through the back door. Before she left, she nibbled his ear one final time. Harry swallowed and with huge effort managed to stop his tears.

"Only us left," He said still staring at Hedwig as she disappeared behind some treetops far away. Ginny had stayed in the kitchen during Harry's goodbye to Hedwig letting them be alone.

"It will never be only us," Ginny replied softly, "You and the baby are everything for me."

As rituals go the inferno ritual was fairly simple. The ritual contained a long incantation and a potion. Ginny had made the potion while he practised Occlumency. The hard part of it was doing it without the guard having time to stop the fire or see them leave the house before it started burning. Just before daybreak when it still was dark, they slipped out of the house through the backdoor, under the invisibility cloak.

They walked far enough away from the house so that they were sure the fire wouldn't burn them. Once they were at safe distance, they lifted the cloak high enough so that they could point their wands out from under it.

They started chanting softly as they said the first words the entire house gave a soft red shimmer, it was the potion merging with the house making it vulnerable. They continued chanting pouring magic into the potion weakening it to fire. The potion would make any material burn like parchment even concrete.

"Incendio," They chorused at last and a great ball of fire left their two wands.

It was practically an explosion. As their fireball hit its target, the entire house turned into one giant flame. Harry and Ginny fell to the ground both from the shock of the blast.

"No more cupboard," Ginny said dryly as number four Privet Drive collapsed in front of them.

"No more Harry Potter or Ginny Weasley" Harry replied as they got up on his broom. They should have figured out better how they would sit on the broom because it wasn't easy riding two on a broom and at the same time managing to stay covered by an invisibility cloak. They were both however pretty comfortable on brooms and soon they kicked off. Ginny was sitting in front of Harry holding the cloak while Harry held Ginny around her stomach with one hand and the other on the broom. They cast one last glance down on the burning remains of number four, where it had all started.

Kinsley Shacklebolt was standing down at Privet Drive looking sadly at the fire knowing he could do nothing to tame the magical flames and if he could it would be too late.

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