Harry Potter

and the

War To End All Wars

By double0ducky

Chapter 6

"Realization and Redheads

Ginny froze. The voice said, "Stand up slowly and put your hands up.

Ginny obeyed slowly thinking about the voice. Somehow it sounded familiar but seeing as she had dealt with Death Eaters that wasn't much comfort or help. She looked up towards Harry hoping he would see her.

"Drop you're wand. Ginny reached into her pocket, an idea forming in her head. She had one chance. She pulled out her wand and shot sparks in the air. As she did she ducked and dove to the side.

It worked. Harry saw the sparks and looked down to see a hooded figure with his wand pointing at finny who was scrambling away. He streaked down pulling out his wand. When he got close he yelled, Expelliramus!" and dove off his broom to tackle the stranger.

He had taken the stranger completely by surprise. Harry pinned him down and pulled off the hood to reveal none other than Mad-Eye Moody.

"WhÉ What the hell did you do that for!?!" Harry yelled at him.

"I was testing you two. You were all wrapped up in each other," Harry and Ginny blushed at this, "I had to do it. CONSTANT VIGILANCE! Nice move Weasley and I liked your tackle Potter but could you please Get The Hell Off Of ME?

"You're lucky I only disarmed you I was thinking about cursing you but I didn't," Harry said. He stood up and looked at Ginny who was pretty shaken up, "You okay? She shook her head. "Look what you did, "Harry gave Moody a dirty look, walked over to Ginny and tentatively wrapped his arms around her. She wrapped her arms around him and rested her head on his chest. She felt so safe in his arms and at that moment he knew he could never let anything happen to herÉ ever. He didn't know why he felt that why though. (A/N: Thick huh?) They stayed that way for a while.

"Here," Harry conjured a cup of tea and handed it to her. Mad-Eye looked at him wide eyed because he had just picked up Harry's wand. Harry ignored him took his wand and led Ginny down the hill with his arm still around her shoulders while she sipped her tea. "You hungry? Harry asked Ginny.

"A little. What time is it?

"12:30. Lunchtime.

"Boys. You and Ron are obsessed with food.

"I'm not as bad as Ron," Harry argued, pausing to open the hill.

"Ginny laughed no I guess not," she paused with an amused look on her face as she thought of her pig brother, "What did you put in this tea? It worked like a charm.

"Well that would make sense since it was a charm. I put a calming charm on the tea.

"Works great.

"That's good," Harry answered happy that his training had paid off a bit already. They walked into the kitchen where Ron was stuffing his face with Hermione giving him disgusted looks and Mrs. Weasley cooking. They all looked up when the two walked in. Ron raised his eyebrows at Harry and he realized that his arm was still around Ginny's shoulders. He took it off reluctantly and the two sat down next to each other across from Ron and Hermione.

"What's going on?" Hermione asked giving them a funny look.

"Oh that? Well the git Mad-Eye snuck up on Ginny when she was getting the Quidditch balls. You know CONSTANT VIGILANCE. Prat. I disarmed him and tackled him when Ginny sent sparks up to get my attention. I was just comforting her. The jackass, sorry Mrs. Weasley but he is, shook her up pretty bad," Ginny nodded in agreement.

"Moody's here? He did that?" Hermione asked.

"Yes Ginny affirmed, "I liked your tackle by the way Harry. It was amazing.

"Thanks," Harry said, blushing, "Good idea with the sparks by the way that was very smart of you. Level-headed.

"Thanks," Ginny said, blushing.

Hermione giggled at the two before stopping her self and saying, "Well sounds like you've had an exciting morning," Hermione said, studying the two with a thoughtful look.

Harry and Ginny nodded as they began to eat the food Mrs. Weasley had just put down in front of them. The four chatted about the upcoming school year during the rest of lunch. Well three, Ron just ate and made incomprehensible sounds every once in a while.

After lunch the troop headed up to the Quidditch pitch. Harry and Ginny were going to team up against Ron playing keeper. Hermione was going to watch.

They played for two hours. Ron had really improved. It took every trick up Harry and Ginny's sleeves to get it past him. After an hour or two Ron went to go sit with Hermione by a tree and Harry and Ginny flew around on their brooms, playing a little more Quidditch.

"Look at them," Hermione said, "Harry has finally realized Ginny.

"Yeah I wonder how long it will take them to get together. Its invetible.

"Inevitable.

"Oh.

"But I know what you mean. Hopefully they won't take as long as us.

"That wouldn't be good.

Hermione shook her head. "At Harry's birthday party tomorrow lets enlist Fred and George to help us fix them up.

"Fix them up? Isn't that kind of sneaky and underhanded?

"Since when does that bother you?

"WellÉ yeah I guess you're right. It just sounds worse when you say it. But I like it. He leaned over to try and kiss her but she leaned away.

"Uh-uh. We have to come up with a plan and I can't concentrate when you're kissing me or sitting too close. So move Over!

"WellÉ I would take that as an insult if it weren't because I'm so sexy." Ron said moving over and waggling his eyebrows at her.

Hermione snorted and before Ron could retort she said, "Lets get to work. Ron frowned but said nothing and they set to work.

Meanwhile Harry had gotten to chasing Ginny around. She flew over the lake and Harry seeing an opening dove from his broom and grabbed her around the waist. They both fell into the water, Ginny screaming and Harry laughing his head off. When they popped up they were both cracking up. The water felt great after figuring around. The two splashed around for a good amount of time before the whole splashing each other thing became kind of boring so they got out.

"We need towels," Ginny said.

"Let me," Harry replied.

"No I want to do it.

"Okay. Ginny reached into her pocket to get her wand. Nothing. She tried her other pocket. Nothing. Her eyes went wide. "Uh-oh.

"What?

"My wand is gone.

"I'll just summon it. Ginny sighed a sigh of relief. He reached into his pocket. Nothing. He tried his other pockets. (A/N: Guess what's next.) Nothing. "Uh-oh. They both turned to look at the lake.

"Ron!" Ginny yelled.

"Hermione!" Harry yelled.

"Help!" They both yelled.

"Where the hell are they?" Harry asked.

"They must of gone back inside to snog or something," she giggled, "We can just go get them.

"Wait I want to try something." Harry said looking thoughtful "If I can do wandless conjuring why not wandless spells? I mean spells are easier than conjuring anyway.

"Maybe.

Harry cleared his throat and pointing his pointer finger at the lake said, Accio wand. His hair flared up as if a wind had just gone through (Think of the first movie when he got his wand) but no wand came from the lake. Accio wand," Harry tried again but to no prevail. This time though the air around him crackled and his hair rustled again. "That must mean something is happening. Accio wand, Harry said with feeling. He felt as if something inside of him was released. A powerful something that was somehow guiding him, controlling him. Firmly but almost lovingly. It felt like aÉ he couldn't quite put a finger on it but it was there and it was strong. That was for sure. His wand flew out of the water and into his hand. "Wow," Harry said thinking of the felling. It had gone away when the spell was complete.

"Wow," Ginny agreed, although she was just commenting on the wandlessness not the feeling. "Try it again.

Harry handed her his wand and pointing at the waster said, Accio wand." Harry once again felt the strong surge of power and control throughout his entire being until the spell finished and Ginny's wand had flown out of the water and into his hand. "Cool.

Ginny nodded and they traded wands. She conjured some towels and they walked back talking about how many wizards could probably do that. They decided to ask Hermione. Harry decided not to tell anyone. Not even Ginny about the feeling. He wanted Dumbledore to be there. ÔNot even Ginny? What does that mean? Isn't it supposed to be not even Ron and Hermione?

They found her and Ron snogging on a red couch in Ron's room. "Eh hem," Harry said. They didn't notice. Harry and Ginny coughed loudly. They didn't notice. "I can't watch this," Harry said. He turned around. Ginny laughed. ÔGod I love that laugh. Whoa. What the hell is happening to me?

Ginny walked up, grabbed the back of Hermione's shirt and dragged her off Ron onto the floor.

"Bugger. When you two are at it you don't notice a thing," Ginny said with a smirk. Both Ron and Hermione turned a deep shade of red to rival the couch.

"Is it safe?" Harry asked.

Ginny laughed. "Yeah. Harry turned around cautiously and breathed a sigh of relief. Ron and Hermione glared at him.

"So. Whatcha doin'?" Harry asked.

"Ha-Ha Harry. Very funny." Ron said, "There a reason you're here?

"Yeah, " Ginny said, "Harry has a question for Hermione.

"What is it Harry?" Hermione asked, standing and sitting next to Ron.

"Well. Do you know of anyone in history who could cast spells without a wand?" Harry asked.

"Not for sure but maybe Dumbledore, Merlin, Godric Gryffindor, Slytherin and You-Know-Who. Why?

"Harry tossed his wand across the room. He pointed his finger at it and said, Accio wand." His wand flew into his outstretched hand.

Ron and Hermione stared at him in awe. "I think you can add one more name to that list Hermione." Ron said. He smirked at Harry. "You know what that means don't ya?

"What?" Harry asked not really sure he wanted to know.

"You're one of the," he counted on his fingers, "six most powerful wizards of all time!

"Uh huh," Harry said glumly. "Joy oh joy." Ginny looked at him and smiled.

"You got to admit that's pretty cool though.

Harry looked at her. She was still smiling. Somehow seeing her smile made it okay. He nodded.

"How'd you figure that out?" Hermione asked. Harry and Ginny told them the story of how they lost their wands.

When they were finished they all sat there in silence until Ron of course said, "Time for supper." And stood up.

"How would you know?" Ginny asked, "You don't have a watch.

"I know but my stomach growled five times meaning its around five and time for supper. The other, sane, three looked at him incredulously. "Actually that's not true," Ron said, quavering under their looks, "I'm just hungrier than I would be normally meaning its probably supper time. The others nodded. That was a better explanation. They trooped off to the kitchen for supper.

They walked in to find that Ron was indeed right. It was time for supper. With one look around they could tell that it wasn't going to be a normal supper. There were several more chairs than usual and Mrs. Weasley was cooking a considerable amount of food even compared to her usual huge dinner. "Oh. There's going to be an Order Meeting tonight and some of the Members are going to eat dinner with us.

"Who?" Hermione asked.

"Tonks, Remus Lupin, Sturgis Podmore, Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall. Ginny looked at Harry at the last name with a questioning look in her eyes. He mouthed, "After dinner." She nodded.

ÔWe need some kind of sign language,' Ginny thought, ÔBut why would Harry want to do that with me? He has seemed like he's been noticing me more though. Even like me maybe. I mean he spent the whole day with me. Why am I thinking about this?' she mentally smacked herself. She looked around to see that everyone had sat down and was looking at her. "Sorry I was thinking. She blushed and sat down next to Harry. He smirked at her and she blushed even more.

"So Ginny," Ron said, "What or Who were you thinking about?" She glared at him and was saved from answering by the entrance of the Order members who were coming to dinner.

"Hello everyone!" Tonks said as she walked in, knocking over a chair. She was a fat woman today with acne and greasy hair. They all laughed at her appearance as they said hi and she picked up the chair.

Remus Lupin came in next without a spectacular entrance like Tonks but drawing attention just the same with his shabby and tired appearance. He nodded to everyone and sat down next to Tonks.

Professor McGonagall and Sturgis Podmore came in together said hello and sat down. Professor Dumbledore came in shortly after them saying hello to everyone and thanking Molly for her hospitality. Harry said hello to the professor and pulling him aside said, "I have to show you and Professor McGonagall something after dinner.

Professor Dumbledore's eyes lost their twinkle at the seriousness in the young man in front of him. "Okay Harry.

"Thanks," Harry said and went and sat down next to Ginny. The two started up a conversation and soon became oblivious to everyone else. While talking to McGonagall Dumbledore noticed the two and pointed them out to McGonagall. She chuckled when she saw them.

Sturgis was talking to Arthur Weasley who had just arrived. Remus was talking to Tonks and the two seemed very happy together. Especially Remus, happy was a rare thing for him since Sirius died. Harry briefly looked up and made a mental note to ask Professor Lupin what was with the close proximity to Tonks. He smiled and went back to the beautiful redhead in front of him.

Pretty soon Mrs. Weasley had placed a huge meal in front of them. Everyone stopped their conversations and dug in. Harry and Ron had the biggest servings of all. The two just kept on filling their plates.

"Not as bad as Ron huh?" Ginny said.

"M hot has hard has Hon." Harry said with his mouth full.

"Yeah okay," Ginny said rolling her eyes, "Sure.

Harry took a big gulp and said, "There's no way I'm as bad as that! He pointed at Ron who now had a fork in one hand and a spoon in the other, shoveling the food in.

Ginny laughed, "Maybe not that bad but you are pretty bad." Harry shrugged and continued eating. Ginny giggled, making Harry's stomach do a flip flop although he still couldn't figure out why, shook her head and took a bite of ham.

After dinner Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, McGonagall, and Dumbledore headed down to the training room. When they got down there Dumbledore said, "What was it you wanted to tell us Harry?

"Harry wordlessly walked to the middle of the room, took off his glasses placed them down and transformed into his bald eagle form. Professor McGonagall, Ron and Hermione all gasped. Dumbledore stood with an uncharacteristic surprised look on his face and Ginny just smiled proudly at him. He transformed back and smiled sheepishly.

"Uh. Wow?" Ron stammered.

"Did you do that today? Dumbledore asked.

"No. I did it in a couple of hours the day you sent me the instructions.

"You did in a couple of hours?" McGonagall asked. Harry nodded. "Wow. I've never heard of that before. Harry decided not to ask what that meant.

"Why didn't you show me that yesterday?" Dumbledore asked.

"Wanted to wait for Professor McGonagall," Dumbledore nodded, "I did learn this today though. He threw Ginny his wand and conjured a quaffle. He threw it at Ron who caught it and smirked.

Dumbledore stood there for a minute then said, "You did that in a day?

"More like an hour.

"Wow, " whistled McGonagall.

"This too. He nodded at Ginny who threw his wand to the other side of the room. Accio wand." Harry said. The feeling came again and his wand flew into his outstretched hand.

"That's amazing, " Dumbledore said, "Not many wizards can do that. Only you, me, Voldemort," Ron, Hermione and Ginny shuddered, "that are alive and then there was Gryffindor and Slytherin.

Ron laughed, "You were right Hermione. Harry and Ginny smirked.

Dumbledore's eyes twinkled, "Anything else you want to show me?

"Something to tell you.

"Yes?

"When I did the wandless spell I felt something inside of me. TI felt powerful. It felt like it was guiding me.

"Well I have to say I can't tell you what that could be. I just don't know. You'll have to figure it out for yourself and when you do tell me. See you at your birthday party tomorrow.

"Bye, "the group all chorused. McGonagall and Dumbledore walked out and the teens looked at each other. "Well what now? Ginny asked.

"Want to have a game of Exploding Snap? Ron suggested. They all nodded and headed off to play.

At 10:00 they headed off to bed. The boys were the first to be dropped off. They said goodnight to the girls then to each other and headed off to bed where they both fell asleep immediately.

The tow of the fairer sex walked down to the room they shared got dressed, got in bed and started talking about who else but Harry.

"He really grew this summer huh?" Hermione said.

"Yeah. Up and out," Ginny answered with a dreamy look in her eyes.

"I don't think you're the only one that noticed something.

"Really?

"He was staring at you a lot today.

"I noticed that too. I thought I was hallucinating though," she paused, "I think I'm falling of him. Not just a silly crush either. More. He's amazing.

Hermione giggled. "Don't worry. He's definitely noticing you.

The two giggled. "You should have seen him today. "Ginny said, "He dove off of his broom to tackle Moody.

"Wow.

Ginny nodded. "G'night.

"Night.

The two fell asleep quickly.

END CHAPTER 6

A/N: Hi. Stupid highschool and writers block. I have a bunch of ideas up in my head but whenever the paper gets in front of me I can't think. Wasn't too long though this is a pretty long chapter. Next chapter is Harry's Birthday. Maybe he'll figure something out. Hehe but I'm not sure. This story is writing itself! I'm looking forward to finding out what's going to happen as much as you.