Just Harry
"I've got it," Harry appeared at his and Hermione's apartment as fast as he could.
"You found what?" Hermione said looking up from The Eye book to an over excited Harry.
"The potion," Harry placed the piece of paper down that Saylie slipped into his hand before she left on the counter that Hermione was at. "Saylie gave me this when I met her tonight."
"WHAT! Harry you know better then to go and met someone dangerous without anyone with you. You could have died, Harry."
"Hermione, before you bite my head off please at least let me explain. Saylie left a note in the book to tell me to meet her at Mainfield forest but I had to go alone. I didn't want to break their trust and why would she leave me a note telling me to meet her somewhere if she wanted to kill me."
"But, Harry, you could have at least told me," Hermione said looking very hurt at Harry.
"I'm sorry but I knew you wouldn't let me go if I told you," Hermione sighed in defeat and looked at the potion that was placed in front of her.
"This spell all adds up," Harry started to explain while Hermione read over it. "The need for KK blood, the snake and why the murder had to use lust to capture his victims."
"But Harry, there is a bit missing, down the bottom, the page has been ripped off."
"I know, that's the bit I don't understand. Why would Saylie give me this to help her if it wasn't the entire potion?"
"Wait! Did you just say that Saylie needs your help?"
"Yes, she said that her plan might fall or something and she needs me if that plan does fall. She also said that she will not hurt either me or my friends but she can not say the same for Serenity. She has also given the corps of Luna's father back to her so she could have a proper funeral,'
"Well, it doesn't seem that the KK covens are as bad as what they seem." Hermione said looking back down to the potion.
"She also told me more about this meeting that the murder is having. She said that I can bring 6 people with me and no more so I don't course any attention."
"She is being very kind but Harry, remember she could easily be planning something, and always take caution. You never know what she might have up her sleave."
"I know Hermione, but you didn't see the way she was looking at me or the way she was. She looked so sincere and worried, not like the killer that we first saw,"
"Still be cautious, Harry. People can be very good actors,"
"Ok, ok. Now I have to go to the head quarters with this information. I don't know when I'll be back so don't wait up. I'll need to take the potion with me to show them."
"Ok, but first can I just make a copy of it?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah sure," And with a wave of her wand a copy of the potion was beside the original one. With that Harry took the original copy and then disparreted to the aurors head quarters.
"So, this killer needed to use lust to capture his victims because he could not let the blood be disturbed, such as rushing through the veins at a fast pace. So he needed the victim to trust him. They victims couldn't be panicky or scared cos that would make the blood flow to fast." Harry explained to Nathan while he was looking at the potion. "Also, all of our victims have gifts or powers that the potion needs and this type of snake seals this gift in the blood that it drinks. Also, the reason why he used witches with non magical parents is because the gift or power is much stronger in their blood then in pure bloods, but the spells still needs pure blood in it. I don't know why we didn't see this before." Harry sat down in frustration. He didn't know how obvious all of this was to him.
"But why is the end of the methods missing. Why didn't Saylie want us to know?" Nathan asked who had finished looking over the potion.
"I think she doesn't want us to know so she still has the upper hand in all of this. She might want our help but she also wants to protect her kind."
"Ok, what about this meeting?" Nathan asked.
"Well, I was thinking, if Ron and Hermione wanted to do this with us they can be two of the six people to come."
"But Harry, you know you are not aloud to do that. we should get specially trained aurors in here to do this."
"Hear me out, Nathan. Look, Hermione and Ron are both capable of doing this and we need people who I trust and that I can read what they are doing. Why work together as a team and yes, ok, I know aurors are trained and everything but this goes beyond that training. This group needs to be connected to one other, to know what the other person is doing with out any real communication," Nathan sighed. He knew he wasn't going to be able to pursue Harry away from this idea so he best not argue with him.
"Ok, you win," He said pointing his hands up in defence. "But you are going to be the one putting it forward to the boss. I don't want to get my head chopped off,"
"Ok, and to make it fair for you, you can ask two other people who you trust, two teams of three. But, just in case anything really bad happens we will have a group of aurors ready in case worse comes to worse. You got it."
"Yeah, I got it," Nathan said nodding to Harry. "Ok, what about some protection for Luna and the others. Since there still might be a chance of Serenity coming after them?"
"Well, I think it would be best if Luna stay with me until this is all over. I'll also ask Hermione if she can make something to alarm us if anyone is in trouble. Other then that I just hope Saylie is true to her word. I'd hate to loss Luna, I'd hate to loss any of them."
"Ok, well, I'll go get my team ready and you can go do what you have to do." Nathan said heading for the door.
"Ok, see ya,"
"See ya and good luck,"
Harry's arm was around Luna's shaking body. He hated to see her like this. She had lost so much in her life, yet still bad things kept on happing to her. They walked; there black shoes crunching under the gravel. Black clothes, smoothed from any wrinkles. Harry hated funerals. They never got any easier, no matter how many times he went to them. As they headed down to the lake and stepped on the wharf, Harry started to pull away from Luna, out of respect, not that he really wanted to. But, she grabbed his hand. He looked into her tear strain eyes.
"Don't leave me, Harry. Please stay with me. I need you here. I want you here with me." Harry nodded his understanding. He moved back towards Luna and walked her to the end of the wharf, Ron and Hermione and some of Luna's family following behind them. They reached the end of the wharf, Harry's arms wrapped around Luna's slender waist. She sighed heavily and then nodded to the priest that she was ready to start.
"Welcome, family and friends. We are here today to look upon the life of ….." Harry drowned out the priest voice. He focused his thoughts on Luna. He hugged her tight, to help her be strong. Through the days leading up to the funeral, Harry and Luna had talked a lot. They talked about what they had done during the time they had lost contact. Harry had written to Luna but she didn't get any of his letters. She said that she was all over the place with her modelling and it was very hard to track her down. She thought that he wouldn't want to talk to her anymore, now that the war was over. Harry couldn't believe his ears. Why wouldn't I want to be your friend, Harry had asked her. She told him that she was a nobody and to weird for the famous Harry Potter. Harry couldn't believe she could think that, yet on the other hand Luna didn't have many friends back at Hogwarts so she needed to be convinced that Harry wanted her in his life. They also talked about how they felt, what they wanted and anything that was on their shoulders. They laughed at stupid stuff that they had did at Hogwarts and the gossip that they heard. It was another one of those talks, which was very similar to the one they had after Luna's fathers' death. But, Luna had sometime to think about everything that she had to do and realise that if there wasn't any suffering in the world then there wouldn't be any compassion. She could now talk to Harry about how she was feeling. Not the confused mind that she had first woke up with. She was so happy to have Harry back in her life. She had missed him heaps over the past few years. She just wished that it hadn't been such bad timing. Or was it bad timing? This is when she would have needed him most, to be with her and help her through her loss. She didn't ever want to loss contact with him again. Never will she be that stupid again.
During the times that they had talked, Harry had felt something towards Luna. Something he had only felt once before but that was different. This wasn't just her looks but he wanted to spent time with Luna. He couldn't wait to see her again and again. To just be around her made his heart feel so light and warm, like nothing bad could happen. This feeling kept on getting stronger and stronger. Yet he know it wasn't the right time. The timing had to be right. But he was also scared of this feeling. He had never let anyone into his life before. Not in this way and not this strong.
The priest ended his speech and the only sound in the air was the lapping of the water and the muffled sounds of people crying. Luna walked shakily over to the edge of the wharf and then sprinkled her father's ashes into the lake. As the last ashes fell into the water, Luna whispered her good bye, gave the jar that once contained her fathers ashes to her grandparents and then walked back to Harry. He once again embraced her with his arms. She cried into his shoulder, letting out all the sorrow and pain that she felt. He stroked her hair caringly and held on to her trembling body until she could cry no more. She looked up at Harry who was still holding on to her.
"Thank you, Harry. Thank you so much for being here with me. I don't know what I'd do with out you." Luna starred into Harry's eyes and at that moment Harry's heart filled with warmth and a feeling that he had felt towards Luna for the few past days. He had to hide how he felt and then he began to comfort the one who bought this warm feeling to his heart.
"You don't have to thank me. I'd do anything for you. I'd even chop off my leges so you could walk again because I care so much for you. Never ever think other wise." Harry kissed her forehead, he kissed her a little bit longing then he should have.
"No you wouldn't, Harry. You love your legs to much,"
"Hey don't test me on that one cos you never know," Harry said to her smiling, this made Luna smile back at him with red eyes. "Come on, we better go. The others are waiting for us." They slowly walked back to the open picnic area that Luna had organised for the end of the funeral.
"Harry?" Luna said quietly while they both strolled towards the others.
"Yeah," Harry asked waiting to see what Luna asked him.
"How do you know if you love someone, like really love someone? Not just a school crush?" Harry didn't know what to say. He had never been in love before and so he didn't know much about it.
"Umm….. I'm not to sure. I've never really been in love so I'm not the best person to ask."
"Oh," her voice sounded disappointed. As if that answer and crushed something within her.
"Can I ask you something?"
"Yeah," Luna said, her voice lacking effort and emotion.
"Who is this person that you think you have fallen in love with?" Luna stopped, she turned on her side to face Harry, Harry followed suit. They were now facing each other, Harry were holding both of her hands in his. She looked up into his eyes and sighed.
"Do you really want to know?"
"Yes, please. But only if you want to, you never know I might be able to help."
"I don't love the boy who lived. I love you. I love just Harry."
A/N - Ducks tomatos from readers I'm sorry.... it just happened.... I didn't even plan on having that happen. Ok, for the thing that I said last week about Draco and Harry slash. (If you don't know what that is, it's Harry and Draco in a gay relationship) I'm writing one... I've already got about 34000 words written up but I want someone elses option on it (other then my friends) before i start posting it. TRADGITY HAS STRUCK..... my computer is fucked (i'm using my brothers at the moment)I can't even get into my computer.... i can't turn it one but not into my account.... i'm not happy.... i don't know how someone is going to fix it... hopefully I can save my work on it and then i'll have to clean it up.... wipe everything off it and then start again.... i've had shit with my computer ever since I've had it..... I JUST WANT A COMPUTER THAT ISN"T SLOW AND WORKS..... IS THAT TO MUCH TO ASK. Toodles and a BIG thanks to my reviewers and readers.