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Chapter 9
"Harry is you sure you want to do this?" Arabella asked her nephew for the one-hundredth time that night. "You know you will have hardly at all any summer?"
"Bella," Harry sighed at her as he closed his suitcase, looked at Arabella and she pointed her wand at it and shrunk it. He picked up the shrunken suitcase and stuck it in his pocket. "When I get there Professor Dumbledore will bring it back to its normal size."
"Harry, you know you don't have to...."
"But, your wrong Bella. I have to do this. I have to get rid of Voldemort, and I've been waiting to join The Order of the Phoenix. I'll keep in touch, whenever I can. Keep Hedwig for me, she brings attention when she makes deliveries. I'll get a common owl from where ever we are." Harry looked around the bedroom he'd been sharing with Draco for the last week and a half. "Well, that's all guess I should get ready to Floo."
"Not yet, you won't." Harry looked at her oddly; she just didn't know how to say goodbye did her? "You've got guests downstairs that want to see you off, so let's go down there."
***
"I just c-can't believe h-h-he's actually going t-threw w-with this," Mrs. Weasley was sobbing.
"Aww, mum." Ron said sighing at how a total clump of mush his mother could be. "We always knew that Harry would have something to do with Defense against the Dark Arts. I'm surprised that you are surprised that Harry would jump on the opportunity to work with The Order. I know I would."
"Over my dead body," Molly gasped. "I've already lost Percy, now I've got to think about that we might lose Harry, and now YOU?!" Molly took a deep breath and looked around the living room of Arabella and Sirius's great Manor. There was Adora, Susan, and Draco in a deep conversation; over to the corner was Bridget staring at the wall across from her...but where was Ginny? "Ronald?"
"Yes, mum?" Ron said still looking out into the hallway, waiting for Arabella and his best friend to come around the corner.
"Where is your little sister?"
"At home, she said she didn't want to come." Right then and there Ron said the wrong thing because Mrs. Weasley marched across the room to the fireplace and yelled "the Burrow!"
"GINNY! GINNY! GINNY NOEL WEASLEY!"
"Mum?! Mum what is your problem? Some one die?"
Mrs. Weasley's head inside the fireplace looked very hard, "You will if you don't get your butt over here, and now!"
"But..."
"No, buts." Ginny nodded, and Mrs. Weasley pulled back into the Evans' Manor.
***
Ginny Weasley fell into the kitchen chair closest to her; she did not want to see Harry. It had been a week since Ginny had been to the Evans' Manor. She only stayed that weekend, to make Bridget happy, but she left as soon as she could. It seemed ever since Ginny had given Harry a piece of her mind, she had run into him more than she had wanted to. Since Ginny had made her decision to stay away from Harry and not have anything to do with him, the more and more he bothered Ginny to change her mind, in which she didn't she could not back down on her word. After a day of Harry trying to get Ginny to reconsider, he soon figured out it was no use, she wouldn't take him back...she was true to her word. Everyone in the house could feel the tension between Harry and Ginny, and knew something had turned for the worse. And, as girl's can not keep their mouths shut and have to tell someone, the word of Harry and Ginny breaking up and spread like wild fire in their home.
Since Bridget could just feel from Ginny that, she and Harry were indeed over, Ginny confirmed it. So when Ginny was in the shower, Bridget ran over to Adora's room which was occupied by Adora, Susan, and Hannah, then Susan ran to Harry's room and told Draco. In the end Adora was telling Arabella, and everyone in the house knew. Because of Bridget's bad judgment, Hannah went to owl Padma and Parvarti Patil, and Lavender Brown, and by the morning it was the headliner for The Daily Prophet. By that night at dinner, Arabella had received a letter from Sirius, asking what on Earth had happened. When Harry joined the rest of them for dinner, well...this is how it went:
***
There was chatter among them all, but when Harry entered the dinning room the whole room fell silent and all heads turned from Harry to Ginny and back to Harry. Arabella cleared her throat to bring all the children back to reality, "Harry, dear." She spoke up and the talking began to increase, but not very loud...because everyone was keen to know what exactly had happened between Harry and Ginny. Everyone looked around to see a seat next to Arabella open, but also one next to Ginny. "Harry, come sit over here by me." Arabella said trying to avoid any kind of fight. Harry nodded and sat down, but much to Arabella's disappointment, he was directly across from Ginny.
All of the kids talked in a hush and constantly looked back and forth between Harry and Ginny. Finally Harry was sick and tired of this. "I have an announcement," everyone looked up from their dinner plates wondering what was about to happen. "I received a letter from The Order of the Phoenix, asking me to join them. It stated that I have shown myself over and over again, to be able to go against Voldemort. I have owled and talked to Professor Dumbledore many times since I got my letter, and I have agreed to join."
"What?!" Came out of Adora's mouth, "And what about school? We start our sixth year, this year. With you in The Order, how do you think you'll be able to carry on school? Quidditch? Your studies? And most likely a Prefect again this year, you certainly did much better than Ron did this year."
Harry chuckled, for Adora studies were always first. But, then again that's all she ever had to worry about was studies, Voldemort hadn't tried to take her out, and he wanted to make sure Voldemort didn't have a chance to. "Well, you see Adora, Dumbledore and I have talked about that also. I will participate in normal Order activities during the summer. I have my training first, and then I'll be able to go on missions. I'll have all that done right after my birthday; as a matter of fact my training ends two days before my birthday, so I shall return home for a few days. When school starts, I shall resume in my sixth year. I will be doing my normal activities: Qudditch, being a Prefect and Dumbledore thinks it wise for me to start a Defense against the Dark Arts Club, since I do know so much."
"What would the name be?" Bridget asked, very curious, she would of course join.
"Professor Dumbledore said I may call it whatever I want. I have decided. Since Dumbledore is in charge of Hogwarts, and the Order of the Phoenix; I shall name it Dumbledore's Army....or in shorter terms, D.A. I will be a look out during school, to which students I think might be a Death Eater at the school. As we all know that once you turn sixteen the Death Eaters began to find new ones to join. The Order, has agreed that they shall do that also. What I will be doing is checking behavior of certain students that The Order think might join Voldemort, or that have already joined him. Those that are involved will be taken out of Hogwarts, forced to drink Vertatisim, and if indeed they are a Death Eater...will be sent to Azkaban."
"So...you're the only one that's going to be, like Mr. Patrol-Man, for Hogwarts?" Susan asked a little confused. Hannah wasn't staying with the Potter Clan anymore, after Hannah let the news about Harry and Ginny 'slip out,' Arabella had enough and told her to go home. Then Arabella told Susan that she could stay at Hannah's house, but Hannah was not allowed ever again to The Evans' Manor. Now none of the kids knew if Arabella was going to keep up to that promise, or if it was just the hormones talking.
Harry laughed at how Susan, explained in such elementary terms. "No, not exactly. You see, when someone turns sixteen, if Voldemort thinks you accept his offer to become a Death Eater, he will contact you. Dumbledore wants to get a hand in this too."
"But, does he know that The Dark Lord only lets in four?" Draco asked, couldn't say Voldemort, it justwasn't discussed like that in his house you called him, the Dark Lord, and that was it.
"Yes, he has. That's why there will be one from each house of Hogwarts that he has sent a message to. Not which one he thinks has more brains, but has brains and has lots of experience in Defense against the Dark Arts, or will be able to develop it."
"Do you know who the other three will be?" Susan asked wondering, and Harry laughed at her again.
"No, not yet. He said the one from Hufflepuff and I will meet tomorrow, the other two haven't gotten back to him yet."
***
"GINNY NOEL WEASLEY! DIDN'T I JUST TELL YOU TO GET YOUR BOTTOM AT THE EVANS MANOR?!" Mrs. Weasley had now not only just talked through the Floo Powder and was right in front of Ginny's face. "Where were you?! I've been yelling at you for a few minutes now?!"
"Sorry mum went off into a day-dream. I'm coming, let me put my dishes in the sink." Ginny saw the stern look Mrs. Weasley gave her, "Mum, I swear. I'll be there in like a minute." Mrs. Weasley gave in and went back to the Evans Manor.
Ginny sighed in a really deep sigh; she hadn't seen Harry since the night he had decided to join The Order. She told him to do whatever he wanted, and it looked like it had. Now, she wasn't here to hold him down, and to get in the way of his destiny. But, then Ginny heard a voice in her head say, "You know you're his destiny, too." Ginny shook it off; she couldn't let her emotions get in the way. She stepped up into the fireplace and threw down the Floo Powder and yelled, "Evans Manor!"
***
Ron sat in total solitude; he was losing his best friend for the summer. Every summer since the end of first year, they were always together...but this year was different. Harry was going off, into the War. Ron knew that Harry was already involved in the War, but now it meant that he really was involved, Harry would be on the battlefield. Every time something happened with Voldemort, someone was there to help Harry, and pretty soon he'd be by himself. Ron was also a little jealous, he'd wished Dumbledore would have asked him to join The Order, but then again this might be a sort of plan.
Susan, Adora, Bridget, and Draco were in their own conversation, but Ron didn't feel like joining them. He loved Adora very much, and he got along great with Susan and Bridget, Ron still wasn't comfortable with being friends with Draco Malfoy. To Harry and Ron, anyone with the last name Malfoy was considered the enemy. Now with the new news about Susan and Draco trying to be a couple, Harry had totally gone bonkers. Harry and Ron both had decided that it was only an attempt to get a Potter vulnerable and turn her over to Voldemort. The girls seemed to trust him, surprisingly enough...so did Ginny.
"Oh, H-H-Ha-Harry!" Mrs. Weasley's sobs had Ron back to reality, as she now had her arms around Harry sobbing. "Y-you can't leave y-yo-your much too y-young!" Then Mrs. Weasley had turned to Arabella, "B-Bella! Their t- taking our b-b-babies away from us!" Harry chuckled quietly so Mrs. Weasley didn't hear him and went to say good-bye to his sisters, and aunt.
"Aww, mum!" Ron said starting to get disgusted by his mother's behavior, "Buck up. You wouldn't get this dramatic over my leaving."
"Ronald, you shut your mouth. Of course I would, both of you are my boys." With that Mrs. Weasley shut up and sat down and didn't say another word.
"Well, Harry..." Adora said smiling at her nephew; she put her arms around his neck. Harry had become like a big brother to her instead of a nephew, and now she knew she wouldn't see him a month. "You be careful, alright?" He nodded, but then she whispered in his ear, "Don't worry, I'll look after your girl."
"What girl?" He whispered back to her.
"Don't you dare play me stupid, Harry James Potter. I know you two still deeply care for one another; in fact you both still love one another. Don't argue with me Harry, I'll take care of her, so you take care of yourself." She gave him a big hug and kissed his cheek.
Next was twin sister, Susan, and she was just too overcome with emotions that all she could do was hug him and tell him to owl as soon as he could. Bridget, being the one to never show her emotions in public then followed. Of course she had to make a joke out of it, because this was the only way she could show any kind of emotions.
"So, big bro? Gone to learn how to fight the old bad guys?" She asked looking him straight in his face. "You think you'd have already know how as...you've come in such close contact with them? But, onwards and upwards." She finally gave him a hug and walked off, to leave Harry face to face with Draco, a face Harry didn't like coming in contact with.
Draco nodded at him, and Harry did it back.....but then Draco did the unexpected....he shook Harry's hand and said, "Watch yourself out there, for your family's sake. I don't want to have to comfort Adora and Susan." Harry nodded and then Draco said quietly to where Harry could hear only, "Tell Dumbledore I shall arrive next week around noon." Harry's mouth dropped, but he nodded, and walked away.
Ron walked up to his best friend and gave him a manly hug, "You come back, I don't want my little sister to be upset to lose you entirely." Harry opened his mouth to object, but Ron put up his hand to stop Harry, "Whatever goes on between you and Ginny, stays between you, mate. Tell Dumbledore if he needs anymore I'm here, to fight the Dark Arts."
"I will."
Arabella and Mrs. Weasley hugged Harry one last time. Harry then picked up his bags and walked to the fireplace, put them down for a second and reached into the Floo Powder Pot, to get some Floo Powder. Harry threw some in the fireplace, and the green flames went up, but before Harry could say a word a auburn haired, fifteen year-old girl walked through the flames, with a kind of sad smile upon her face. Harry instantly backed up, and put the powder back into the pot. Everyone slowly left the room, without Harry or Ginny noticing.
"Hey stranger," she said with a shy smile that Harry knew only too well. "Trying to sneak off without saying good-bye to me?" This time her smile looked sad and hurt, and that was the last thing that he wanted to do to her.
"I thought you weren't coming, I was trying to get out of here as soon as I could. The last time we talked, we...." Harry looked into those chocolate eyes he knew too well. Ginny had finally listened to Harry and took the charm that she'd had on her eyes, so that they'd be blue. He loved her chocolate eyes, they were always so warm...so comforting. But, right now all they looked was sad and very hurt.
"Don't say it Harry, please...just don't say it. I'd like one of our conversations to be a pleasant one."
"Ginny, I know you don't want to be with me...I know I've hurt you to many times."
The fire in her eyes ignited, "Harry James Potter, I never in my life, did I say that I didn't want to be with you." The anger went away, and now all there was, was pain in here voice. "You think this is the only way to save me from the big, bad Voldemort. Harry your wrong, your so very wrong. I told you I'm not putting up with this bullshit anymore, I can't take it. Whenever you decide that you don't have to save me from every little thing, then come and look me up. Harry, I'm not waiting forever." She looked down, Harry could tell all the hurt and pain that was inside of her. How much this was killing her, but he didn't know what to do...he was helpless. She looked back up at him, and Harry expecting to see happiness and Ginny cheerful, was taken back...he saw tears. "Please, please take care of yourself." She took in a deep breath as more tears fell drastically from her face, "Be careful. I love you, and please...never forget me." She began to sob very hard, and before Harry could say another word, she Floo back to The Burrow. Harry was going to run after her, until the fireplace turned green and a face was in the fire.
"Harry?" It was Dumbledore.
"Yes, Professor?"
"Harry, I was wondering what was taking you so long, you were suppose to arrive five minutes ago."
"Sorry, Professor. My family had to say good-bye to me."
"Ahh, I understand. Please, hurry up. We have so much to start with."
"Yes, Professor." Harry turned away from the fireplace and saw Arabella, Susan, Bridget, Mrs. Weasley, and Ron looking at him. "Well, I guess this is good-bye?" He said picking up his bag, and throwing Floo Powder into the fireplace.
"No," It was Susan, Harry turned around to see what was wrong, she hadn't spoken to him all day. "It's see you later." She ran up to him, and gave him a huge hug.
"Right," Harry smiled, and she let go of him. "Well then, See you later."
"See you later," they all responded back to him."
"Hogwarts, Headmaster's Office!" Harry yelled, and there was the familiar swirling green around him.
Chapter 9
"Harry is you sure you want to do this?" Arabella asked her nephew for the one-hundredth time that night. "You know you will have hardly at all any summer?"
"Bella," Harry sighed at her as he closed his suitcase, looked at Arabella and she pointed her wand at it and shrunk it. He picked up the shrunken suitcase and stuck it in his pocket. "When I get there Professor Dumbledore will bring it back to its normal size."
"Harry, you know you don't have to...."
"But, your wrong Bella. I have to do this. I have to get rid of Voldemort, and I've been waiting to join The Order of the Phoenix. I'll keep in touch, whenever I can. Keep Hedwig for me, she brings attention when she makes deliveries. I'll get a common owl from where ever we are." Harry looked around the bedroom he'd been sharing with Draco for the last week and a half. "Well, that's all guess I should get ready to Floo."
"Not yet, you won't." Harry looked at her oddly; she just didn't know how to say goodbye did her? "You've got guests downstairs that want to see you off, so let's go down there."
***
"I just c-can't believe h-h-he's actually going t-threw w-with this," Mrs. Weasley was sobbing.
"Aww, mum." Ron said sighing at how a total clump of mush his mother could be. "We always knew that Harry would have something to do with Defense against the Dark Arts. I'm surprised that you are surprised that Harry would jump on the opportunity to work with The Order. I know I would."
"Over my dead body," Molly gasped. "I've already lost Percy, now I've got to think about that we might lose Harry, and now YOU?!" Molly took a deep breath and looked around the living room of Arabella and Sirius's great Manor. There was Adora, Susan, and Draco in a deep conversation; over to the corner was Bridget staring at the wall across from her...but where was Ginny? "Ronald?"
"Yes, mum?" Ron said still looking out into the hallway, waiting for Arabella and his best friend to come around the corner.
"Where is your little sister?"
"At home, she said she didn't want to come." Right then and there Ron said the wrong thing because Mrs. Weasley marched across the room to the fireplace and yelled "the Burrow!"
"GINNY! GINNY! GINNY NOEL WEASLEY!"
"Mum?! Mum what is your problem? Some one die?"
Mrs. Weasley's head inside the fireplace looked very hard, "You will if you don't get your butt over here, and now!"
"But..."
"No, buts." Ginny nodded, and Mrs. Weasley pulled back into the Evans' Manor.
***
Ginny Weasley fell into the kitchen chair closest to her; she did not want to see Harry. It had been a week since Ginny had been to the Evans' Manor. She only stayed that weekend, to make Bridget happy, but she left as soon as she could. It seemed ever since Ginny had given Harry a piece of her mind, she had run into him more than she had wanted to. Since Ginny had made her decision to stay away from Harry and not have anything to do with him, the more and more he bothered Ginny to change her mind, in which she didn't she could not back down on her word. After a day of Harry trying to get Ginny to reconsider, he soon figured out it was no use, she wouldn't take him back...she was true to her word. Everyone in the house could feel the tension between Harry and Ginny, and knew something had turned for the worse. And, as girl's can not keep their mouths shut and have to tell someone, the word of Harry and Ginny breaking up and spread like wild fire in their home.
Since Bridget could just feel from Ginny that, she and Harry were indeed over, Ginny confirmed it. So when Ginny was in the shower, Bridget ran over to Adora's room which was occupied by Adora, Susan, and Hannah, then Susan ran to Harry's room and told Draco. In the end Adora was telling Arabella, and everyone in the house knew. Because of Bridget's bad judgment, Hannah went to owl Padma and Parvarti Patil, and Lavender Brown, and by the morning it was the headliner for The Daily Prophet. By that night at dinner, Arabella had received a letter from Sirius, asking what on Earth had happened. When Harry joined the rest of them for dinner, well...this is how it went:
***
There was chatter among them all, but when Harry entered the dinning room the whole room fell silent and all heads turned from Harry to Ginny and back to Harry. Arabella cleared her throat to bring all the children back to reality, "Harry, dear." She spoke up and the talking began to increase, but not very loud...because everyone was keen to know what exactly had happened between Harry and Ginny. Everyone looked around to see a seat next to Arabella open, but also one next to Ginny. "Harry, come sit over here by me." Arabella said trying to avoid any kind of fight. Harry nodded and sat down, but much to Arabella's disappointment, he was directly across from Ginny.
All of the kids talked in a hush and constantly looked back and forth between Harry and Ginny. Finally Harry was sick and tired of this. "I have an announcement," everyone looked up from their dinner plates wondering what was about to happen. "I received a letter from The Order of the Phoenix, asking me to join them. It stated that I have shown myself over and over again, to be able to go against Voldemort. I have owled and talked to Professor Dumbledore many times since I got my letter, and I have agreed to join."
"What?!" Came out of Adora's mouth, "And what about school? We start our sixth year, this year. With you in The Order, how do you think you'll be able to carry on school? Quidditch? Your studies? And most likely a Prefect again this year, you certainly did much better than Ron did this year."
Harry chuckled, for Adora studies were always first. But, then again that's all she ever had to worry about was studies, Voldemort hadn't tried to take her out, and he wanted to make sure Voldemort didn't have a chance to. "Well, you see Adora, Dumbledore and I have talked about that also. I will participate in normal Order activities during the summer. I have my training first, and then I'll be able to go on missions. I'll have all that done right after my birthday; as a matter of fact my training ends two days before my birthday, so I shall return home for a few days. When school starts, I shall resume in my sixth year. I will be doing my normal activities: Qudditch, being a Prefect and Dumbledore thinks it wise for me to start a Defense against the Dark Arts Club, since I do know so much."
"What would the name be?" Bridget asked, very curious, she would of course join.
"Professor Dumbledore said I may call it whatever I want. I have decided. Since Dumbledore is in charge of Hogwarts, and the Order of the Phoenix; I shall name it Dumbledore's Army....or in shorter terms, D.A. I will be a look out during school, to which students I think might be a Death Eater at the school. As we all know that once you turn sixteen the Death Eaters began to find new ones to join. The Order, has agreed that they shall do that also. What I will be doing is checking behavior of certain students that The Order think might join Voldemort, or that have already joined him. Those that are involved will be taken out of Hogwarts, forced to drink Vertatisim, and if indeed they are a Death Eater...will be sent to Azkaban."
"So...you're the only one that's going to be, like Mr. Patrol-Man, for Hogwarts?" Susan asked a little confused. Hannah wasn't staying with the Potter Clan anymore, after Hannah let the news about Harry and Ginny 'slip out,' Arabella had enough and told her to go home. Then Arabella told Susan that she could stay at Hannah's house, but Hannah was not allowed ever again to The Evans' Manor. Now none of the kids knew if Arabella was going to keep up to that promise, or if it was just the hormones talking.
Harry laughed at how Susan, explained in such elementary terms. "No, not exactly. You see, when someone turns sixteen, if Voldemort thinks you accept his offer to become a Death Eater, he will contact you. Dumbledore wants to get a hand in this too."
"But, does he know that The Dark Lord only lets in four?" Draco asked, couldn't say Voldemort, it justwasn't discussed like that in his house you called him, the Dark Lord, and that was it.
"Yes, he has. That's why there will be one from each house of Hogwarts that he has sent a message to. Not which one he thinks has more brains, but has brains and has lots of experience in Defense against the Dark Arts, or will be able to develop it."
"Do you know who the other three will be?" Susan asked wondering, and Harry laughed at her again.
"No, not yet. He said the one from Hufflepuff and I will meet tomorrow, the other two haven't gotten back to him yet."
***
"GINNY NOEL WEASLEY! DIDN'T I JUST TELL YOU TO GET YOUR BOTTOM AT THE EVANS MANOR?!" Mrs. Weasley had now not only just talked through the Floo Powder and was right in front of Ginny's face. "Where were you?! I've been yelling at you for a few minutes now?!"
"Sorry mum went off into a day-dream. I'm coming, let me put my dishes in the sink." Ginny saw the stern look Mrs. Weasley gave her, "Mum, I swear. I'll be there in like a minute." Mrs. Weasley gave in and went back to the Evans Manor.
Ginny sighed in a really deep sigh; she hadn't seen Harry since the night he had decided to join The Order. She told him to do whatever he wanted, and it looked like it had. Now, she wasn't here to hold him down, and to get in the way of his destiny. But, then Ginny heard a voice in her head say, "You know you're his destiny, too." Ginny shook it off; she couldn't let her emotions get in the way. She stepped up into the fireplace and threw down the Floo Powder and yelled, "Evans Manor!"
***
Ron sat in total solitude; he was losing his best friend for the summer. Every summer since the end of first year, they were always together...but this year was different. Harry was going off, into the War. Ron knew that Harry was already involved in the War, but now it meant that he really was involved, Harry would be on the battlefield. Every time something happened with Voldemort, someone was there to help Harry, and pretty soon he'd be by himself. Ron was also a little jealous, he'd wished Dumbledore would have asked him to join The Order, but then again this might be a sort of plan.
Susan, Adora, Bridget, and Draco were in their own conversation, but Ron didn't feel like joining them. He loved Adora very much, and he got along great with Susan and Bridget, Ron still wasn't comfortable with being friends with Draco Malfoy. To Harry and Ron, anyone with the last name Malfoy was considered the enemy. Now with the new news about Susan and Draco trying to be a couple, Harry had totally gone bonkers. Harry and Ron both had decided that it was only an attempt to get a Potter vulnerable and turn her over to Voldemort. The girls seemed to trust him, surprisingly enough...so did Ginny.
"Oh, H-H-Ha-Harry!" Mrs. Weasley's sobs had Ron back to reality, as she now had her arms around Harry sobbing. "Y-you can't leave y-yo-your much too y-young!" Then Mrs. Weasley had turned to Arabella, "B-Bella! Their t- taking our b-b-babies away from us!" Harry chuckled quietly so Mrs. Weasley didn't hear him and went to say good-bye to his sisters, and aunt.
"Aww, mum!" Ron said starting to get disgusted by his mother's behavior, "Buck up. You wouldn't get this dramatic over my leaving."
"Ronald, you shut your mouth. Of course I would, both of you are my boys." With that Mrs. Weasley shut up and sat down and didn't say another word.
"Well, Harry..." Adora said smiling at her nephew; she put her arms around his neck. Harry had become like a big brother to her instead of a nephew, and now she knew she wouldn't see him a month. "You be careful, alright?" He nodded, but then she whispered in his ear, "Don't worry, I'll look after your girl."
"What girl?" He whispered back to her.
"Don't you dare play me stupid, Harry James Potter. I know you two still deeply care for one another; in fact you both still love one another. Don't argue with me Harry, I'll take care of her, so you take care of yourself." She gave him a big hug and kissed his cheek.
Next was twin sister, Susan, and she was just too overcome with emotions that all she could do was hug him and tell him to owl as soon as he could. Bridget, being the one to never show her emotions in public then followed. Of course she had to make a joke out of it, because this was the only way she could show any kind of emotions.
"So, big bro? Gone to learn how to fight the old bad guys?" She asked looking him straight in his face. "You think you'd have already know how as...you've come in such close contact with them? But, onwards and upwards." She finally gave him a hug and walked off, to leave Harry face to face with Draco, a face Harry didn't like coming in contact with.
Draco nodded at him, and Harry did it back.....but then Draco did the unexpected....he shook Harry's hand and said, "Watch yourself out there, for your family's sake. I don't want to have to comfort Adora and Susan." Harry nodded and then Draco said quietly to where Harry could hear only, "Tell Dumbledore I shall arrive next week around noon." Harry's mouth dropped, but he nodded, and walked away.
Ron walked up to his best friend and gave him a manly hug, "You come back, I don't want my little sister to be upset to lose you entirely." Harry opened his mouth to object, but Ron put up his hand to stop Harry, "Whatever goes on between you and Ginny, stays between you, mate. Tell Dumbledore if he needs anymore I'm here, to fight the Dark Arts."
"I will."
Arabella and Mrs. Weasley hugged Harry one last time. Harry then picked up his bags and walked to the fireplace, put them down for a second and reached into the Floo Powder Pot, to get some Floo Powder. Harry threw some in the fireplace, and the green flames went up, but before Harry could say a word a auburn haired, fifteen year-old girl walked through the flames, with a kind of sad smile upon her face. Harry instantly backed up, and put the powder back into the pot. Everyone slowly left the room, without Harry or Ginny noticing.
"Hey stranger," she said with a shy smile that Harry knew only too well. "Trying to sneak off without saying good-bye to me?" This time her smile looked sad and hurt, and that was the last thing that he wanted to do to her.
"I thought you weren't coming, I was trying to get out of here as soon as I could. The last time we talked, we...." Harry looked into those chocolate eyes he knew too well. Ginny had finally listened to Harry and took the charm that she'd had on her eyes, so that they'd be blue. He loved her chocolate eyes, they were always so warm...so comforting. But, right now all they looked was sad and very hurt.
"Don't say it Harry, please...just don't say it. I'd like one of our conversations to be a pleasant one."
"Ginny, I know you don't want to be with me...I know I've hurt you to many times."
The fire in her eyes ignited, "Harry James Potter, I never in my life, did I say that I didn't want to be with you." The anger went away, and now all there was, was pain in here voice. "You think this is the only way to save me from the big, bad Voldemort. Harry your wrong, your so very wrong. I told you I'm not putting up with this bullshit anymore, I can't take it. Whenever you decide that you don't have to save me from every little thing, then come and look me up. Harry, I'm not waiting forever." She looked down, Harry could tell all the hurt and pain that was inside of her. How much this was killing her, but he didn't know what to do...he was helpless. She looked back up at him, and Harry expecting to see happiness and Ginny cheerful, was taken back...he saw tears. "Please, please take care of yourself." She took in a deep breath as more tears fell drastically from her face, "Be careful. I love you, and please...never forget me." She began to sob very hard, and before Harry could say another word, she Floo back to The Burrow. Harry was going to run after her, until the fireplace turned green and a face was in the fire.
"Harry?" It was Dumbledore.
"Yes, Professor?"
"Harry, I was wondering what was taking you so long, you were suppose to arrive five minutes ago."
"Sorry, Professor. My family had to say good-bye to me."
"Ahh, I understand. Please, hurry up. We have so much to start with."
"Yes, Professor." Harry turned away from the fireplace and saw Arabella, Susan, Bridget, Mrs. Weasley, and Ron looking at him. "Well, I guess this is good-bye?" He said picking up his bag, and throwing Floo Powder into the fireplace.
"No," It was Susan, Harry turned around to see what was wrong, she hadn't spoken to him all day. "It's see you later." She ran up to him, and gave him a huge hug.
"Right," Harry smiled, and she let go of him. "Well then, See you later."
"See you later," they all responded back to him."
"Hogwarts, Headmaster's Office!" Harry yelled, and there was the familiar swirling green around him.