Disclaimer: Same as always, I don't own Harry Potter only my characters.

The long awaited FINAL CHAPTER! (For me anyway..) Please enjoy it as much as I did writing it, the final chapter. Sorry I love saying that. final chapter!

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"TOM!" Laura screamed as she watched a green flash of light shot out of the end of James' wand and head straight towards Tom.

Laura shut her eyes as the light grew stronger and stronger. She couldn't bare the pain any longer. She closed them as tight as they could go just before the light had disappeared.

Laura took in one last gulp before reopening her eyes, to see the sight of Tom lying motionless on the floor. She opened her eyes, inch by inch until she had opened them enough to see Tom laying on the floor his back to her.

"Oh my god, Tom, Tom please wake up!" Laura screamed running over and kneeling next to him.

Laura knelt down next to him and grabbed his shoulders, shaking him, hopefully to get him to wake up. Laura began to whisper to him to wake up, shaking him harder with frustration. Streams of tears began to fall down Laura's cheeks watching the look on Tom's face and how white and pale he looked.

"He's dead?" James asked walking slowly over his wand still in his hand.

"No, he's alive, aren't you Tom? Tom please answer me," Laura pleaded staring down at his pale lifeless face.

James smirked a little as he saw Tom laying on the ground, not moving and from the looks of it pretty much dead. He knelt down next to Laura and put an arm on Laura's shoulder which she threw off.

"Lawz, please don't be mad at me," James said sadly staring into her face.

"Be mad at you? You've killed Tom and you expect me to like you the way I did?" Laura screamed turning to face him with blood shot eyes.

"But-,"

James was cut off as he heard a little moan come from the floor. He shot a look down at Tom whose eyes closed tightly before reopening a little, just enough to see through. James' eyes widened and he backed away a little still staring at Tom's eyes which were darting around the corridor before stopping when he saw Laura.

"Tom, y-y-your alive," Laura said breathless staring at Tom happily.

Tom closed his eyes and slowly nodded as Laura helped him sit up. He opened his eyes this time staring right at James who was nearly up against the wall in fear. Tom glared at him as Laura helped him on his feet.

"How did you survive?" James asked in disbelief.

"Easy," Tom croaked, "I tried to avoid it."

"Tried? You're still here!" James squealed frightened.

"Yeah it only paralyzed me a little and hurt me a little on my shoulder," Tom said winching as Laura tried putting a hand on his shoulder.

James' eyes narrowed and he began to glare at Tom fully with hate. He rose his wand once again but this time both pointing at both Laura and Tom. Laura hid behind Tom whimpering a little.

"I do love you Laura, truly but, if I must kill you to kill that thing before me I will," James said with hate in his voice.

"I wouldn't think about it," Tom said glaring at him.

"And why's that?" James asked his voice sounding different than usual.

Tom began to smile and nodded passed him. James turned around and his confident face left as soon as he saw Dumbledore and McGonagall standing behind him both of their arms crossed and neither of them looking happy.

"This way Mr Thomas," McGonagall said beckoning him upstairs with her hand.

"Why's that Professor?" James asked gulping hard.

"To discuss your expulsion," Dumbledore said not sounding happy at all.

James went a real pale white and began to walk slowly in front of Dumbledore who was taking him up to his office. McGonagall ran over to Tom checking him all over to make sure he was all alright.

"You should go to the hospital wing just incase," she said after looking him all over.

"I'm fine miss," Tom said before winching again when she put a hand on his shoulder.

"That will need to be checked out," McGonagall said before looking over at Laura who stood beside Tom holding him up.

"Miss Wilson could you please take him up to the hospital wing?" she asked her.

"Yes Professor," Laura said quietly and began to help Tom walk to the hospital wing.

Laura had her arm around Tom's waist as he had his around her shoulders as they hobbled along. They began to hobble up the stairs towards the hospital wing.

"Thanks Laura," Tom croaked as they began to climb the stairs.

"What for?" she asked with a laugh.

"Standing by me and helping me back there," Tom croaked again stopping for a second.

Laura smiled broadly and turned away blushing. Even though it was night, Tom could tell that her cheeks were bright red with embarrassment. Tom laughed and began to walk again but Laura held him back.

"I'm sorry about what I did," she said blushing even more.

"And what did you do?" Tom asked.

"Kissing you," she said really quietly.

It was now Tom's turn to blush brightly. He turned away quickly and then turned back and stared into her eyes which were still red from crying so hard before.

"You don't regret it do you?" Tom asked slightly scared of what her answer was going to be.

"What? No, no of course not, not unless you do," Laura said all rather fast.

"No I don't, man don't I regret it, but do you?" Tom asked again dreaming off.

"Tom, you don't regret it then neither do I," Laura said as she closed her eyes and kissed Tom and before to long he began to kiss her back.

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The night of the talent show had passed and it was now the next day, and for all the others, they couldn't wait to get down to the hospital wing and see Tom.

"Please miss, for like five minutes?" Ginny pleaded.

"Alright but not a minute longer!" Madam Pomfrey said with a sigh.

Ginny grinned and walked in behind her followed Paul, Peter and Rhys who all were disparate to see Tom. They walked down to his bed where he sat upright with Laura in a chair her head resting on his bed asleep.

"My gosh, Tom are you alright?" Ginny asked walking around to the other side of Tom's bed.

"Yeah, Madam Pomfrey said I can go after, my shoulder just needs a few days to heal properly," Tom said smiling.

"Great, just in time to go to the end of school feast!" Rhys said drool appearing out of the side of his mouth.

"Did you two finally get it together?" Paul asked nodding in the direction of Laura asleep on the chair.

Tom blushed and said, "If you put it that way then yeah we did."

"I'm so happy for you!" Ginny squealed hugging Tom lightly.

"Yeah man, good job," Peter said shaking Tom's free hand.

"Thanks," Tom said noticing Laura move a little before waking up.

"Well, she awakes," Paul said smirking down at her.

"Huh? What?" Laura asked sounding slightly doped up.

"Nothing, don't worry," Tom said kissing her on her forehead.

"Enough times up out!" Madam Pomfrey screeched coming around to Tom's bed.

"Wait; please don't make them go yet!" Emily said who came bursting into the hospital wing covered in sweat.

"What ever for my I ask?" Madam Pomfrey asked sternly.

"Please miss, just a few more minutes?" Emily pleaded giving her the puppy dog eyes.

Madam Pomfrey sighed and smiled sweetly, she couldn't resist any kid's puppy dog eyes. She nodded and said, "Five more minutes then you all must leave," and left and went into her office.

"Thanks Em, you scored us a few more minutes," Paul said grinning at her.

"I'm sorry Paul but you can't stay, only Rhys and Laura can," Emily said sadly staring at her little brother.

"Why can't we?" Peter asked piping up.

"Because, well, it's a surprise just for Tom," Emily said.

"And how come the other two get to stay and not us?" Ginny asked slightly annoyed.

"Because the surprise is for them as well," Emily said sighing, wishing they would leave.

"But you said it was for Tom!" Paul shouted as Emily began to push him out the door.

Tom, Rhys and Laura laughed as Emily struggled to get the three of them out the door. After they heard a bang of the hospital wing doors closing, Emily came rushing up to Tom's bed.

"Now wait here," Emily said puffing and run back down to open the doors again.

They watched her go and shrugged to each other as they heard the doors open and close again. Before to long, Emily returned at the side of Tom's bed a huge grin across her face.

"Guys, I'd like you to meet the real Herman," Emily said loudly and footsteps could be heard coming closer.

"The real Herman? What you on bou-?" Tom began but stopped as soon as he saw his friend at the end of his bed.

The other two mouths's dropped to the floor. Before them was a blonde/brown haired, brown eyed boy which all three of them knew to well as their friend Nick. Laura squealed before jumping out of her seat and flung her arms around his neck, knocking his cap off his head and onto the floor.

"Nick, what the hell, how are you, why are you here?" Rhys asked his mouth still dangling open.

"I was Herman, should know me better Rhys," Nick said smirking at his friend.

"Yeah we did, that's why we're shocked! We always thought you'd come back as a hot chick!" Rhys said stupidly taking Laura off Nick.

"But Herman was my cat," Tom said goggling at Nick.

"Yeah and that cat was me, yah mum turned me into one!" Nick said smiling.

Tom blushed and told Nick how sorry he was for what his mum did. Emily gave her goodbyes and left the four of them to catch on what they'd missed.

"Are you going to start school here?" Laura asked excitedly.

"I'm gonna try too, I got an appointment to see Dumbledore after the school year's over," Nick said staring down at the floor.

"I hope you can enroll! You can take that stupid James' position," Laura said crossing her arms.

"He will, and then it will be just like old times," Tom said smiling.

Nick smiled weakly before staring back at the floor deep in thought. He didn't see why Dumbledore wouldn't let him in, unless he found out about his deep darkest secret from his past which still scared him.

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After the long, fun filled feast and spending the last night in the castle, the students said goodbye to Hogwarts and bordered the Hogwarts Express back home. They packed their trunks on the train along with everything else and began a long train ride back home.

"I'm going to miss Hogwarts," Emily said who was sharing a compartment with Ron.

"Me too, but I can't wait to go home again," Ron said smiling.

"I'm not, I hate my home," Emily said shyly and looked out the window.

"I know Em, but guess what? I can ask my mum and she'll probably let you stay a while at my house," Ron said happily.

Emily looked back and Ron and smiled sweetly at him. She nodded and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before resting her head on his shoulder and drifting off to sleep. Ron blushed and his ears went red before he began to rest his head on hers and fell asleep as well.

Down at the other end of the carriage, Ginny sat with Laura, Paul, Peter, Rhys and Tom who all seemed just as sad as Emily and Ron about leaving Hogwarts behind.

"Wish you could have stayed," Paul said glumly leaning on the edge of the window.

"You have it hard at your house don't you?" Peter asked sadly.

"Yep, our step mother hates us, need I say more?" Paul said sarcastically.

"Don't be so down Paul, you can always stay at our houses will gladly have you stay," Ginny said sweetly who was resting on Peter's shoulder.

"Yeah," Rhys said who was sitting next to Paul.

"Thanks guys, I owe you one," Paul said sleepily.

The other smiled at him and soon the whole lot of them fell asleep and dreaming of what the next year at Hogwarts would bring them.

As soon as the train pulled into the station, all the kids which were asleep woke and began to get off the train and get ready for the long goodbyes to their friends. Ginny woke and looked up sadly at Peter; she was going to miss him like crazy over the holidays. He smiled down at her as he helped her up and they began to collect their belongings.

After getting their trunks and had gotten back out into the muggle world, it was finally time for Ginny to say goodbye to all her friends she had made that year. Ginny sniffled before she threw her arms around Laura's neck.

"See you soon Gin," Laura said as they broke apart, said goodbye to all the others, and quickly skipped off to find someone from her family.

"Come here you two," Ginny said and pulled both Rhys and Tom into a hug.

The boys hugged Ginny back, and gave her quick kisses on her cheeks. Ginny then turned towards Peter who had just said goodbye to Paul. Ginny smiled and ran into his arms for their last hug for a while.

"I'll write to you," Peter whispered in her ear.

"Me too," Ginny said as they shared one last kiss goodbye.

"Bye!" called Peter, Rhys and Tom as they set off to find their families.

Ginny waved goodbye to them before turning around to Paul who was last and who looked rather down and upset. Ginny smiled and as she went to hug him something came over her, a strange feeling she hadn't felt towards him. She couldn't understand what it was but as she hugged him it felt like they were the only two there and everything around them was blurred.

"Miss you," Paul said in her ear as they hugged.

"I'll miss you too little guy," Ginny said roughing up his hair.

"Hey!" Paul said flattening his hair.

Ginny laughed as he tried to flatten his hair. Paul stopped flattening it and began to turn away. Ginny smiled as she called, "I'll miss you Paul! See you soon!"

Paul turned back around and nodded as he waved goodbye to her before he disappeared around a corner. Ginny felt tears building up but threw them aside and ran off to find her mum. She found her mum along with all her brother, including Ron who was saying his last goodbye to Emily.

"Goodbye Em," Ron whispered as they hugged.

"Please don't cry Ron," Emily said sniffling trying to hold back her tears.

"I won't," Ron said as they pulled apart.

"See you round buddy ol' pal," Emily said giggling and began to walk away.

"See you," Ron said quietly watching her go.

Ron watched her go and as he watched her he rejoined his family and they began to walk off. Ron took one last look at Emily and smiled weakly.

"I love you Emily," Ron mumbled before turning away.

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Hip, hip hooray!!!!!!!!!!!! I have like finished this story!!!! Ain't it great? I hope all you people who reviewed like and enjoyed my story as much I did writing it. And I would just like to say to look out for my new story I'm beginning to write, 'The Year of Change', which will be up soon once I begin finishing it. Please R&R and thank you to every1 who did and I hope to see your reviews soon in my next story and the one's to come!

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