(Some of you may not be happy that it wasn't real, but it was needed. Voldermort got cocky after his 'victory' in the fifth book. He thinks Harry wouldn't be as angry as he really was. He had no idea that Dumbledore would even feed that fire. I hope you all like it. Thank you for the reviews! We're not done yet. Besides there is an entire new story after this one, their seventh year which is going to be just as exciting!)

Chapter 34

Hermione, Ron, and Harry took their N.E.W.T.S shortly afterward, relieving some of that stress. Ginny took her O.W.L.S. Everything seemed fine, but in actuality it wasn't.

Harry, who was very relieved that the war was over, was not as happy as he thought he would have been. He wanted to go back to the alternative universe that Dumbledore had created.

"I don't feel like I belong here any more. I want to go back there. I want to be with them," he tried to explain one evening to Ginny. She sat next to him, looking out at the stars. She took a deep breath, her heart ripping within her.

"Then go back," she whispered.

"What?"

"Tell Dumbledore that you need to go back. Tell him." Harry looked at her in surprise.

"Should I?"

"It is what you want. You need them, Harry. I understand."

"Will you come with me?" She shook her head.

"No, Harry. There I am rich, yes that is wonderful, but here I already have everything I want."

Harry nodded in understanding. She had her parents. She had siblings. He was the one that didn't.

"Thank you Ginny," he said as he got up.

"You're welcome," she said with a small smile.

"I love you."

"And I love you. Now go."

Dumbledore sat in his chair, looking at Harry in bewilderment.

"You want to reside in a world that is not real?" Dumbledore asked.

"I need to." Dumbledore sighed. He had feared that this would happen, but he had hoped that Harry would have been strong enough to know the difference between reality and fantasy. He got up and brought Harry the book.

"If you want to return just hold the book and say, I want to go home. It will bring you back," Dumbledore instructed.

"Thank you."

"When you want to go there just say, Bring me back."

"Bring me back," Harry said. He disappeared, along with the book. Dumbledore sighed.

"We will miss you Harry Potter."

Ginny was sitting upon the couch in the common room, crying silently when Hermione and Ron came into the room hand in hand.

"Ginny! What's wrong?" Hermione asked immediately.

"Harry," she whispered.

"Did he hurt you?" Ron asked defensively.

"He went back."

"Back? Back where?" Hermione asked as she sat down next to her friend.

"He went back to that alternative universe thing," Ginny replied.

"What!" Ron exclaimed.

"He said that he needed his family."

"But, what about us?" Hermione asked her, tears springing into her eyes.

"He wanted me to go with him."

"Why didn't you?" Ron asked her softly.

"I already have what I want."

"Except him," Hermione said knowingly.

"No. I have him, but he needs something more."

Harry sat in the alternative universe common room upon the couch in the exact spot where Ginny was sitting in his real world. He sat there alone, just staring at the fire. He was happy, yes he was happy. He had his sister and his brother. There was a Hermione and a Ron and a Ginny. He had his parents. His parents were even staying at the castle until he came home. He got to see them every day. Yet, something was missing.

Hermione and Ron fought all of the time and there was no spark of love between them yet. Ginny and himself were together, but she was not the same Ginny. Her soul was different and he could feel it.

He had a hard time looking at Sirius and Violet, knowing that they weren't real. It was even harder to be around Violet. He knew that she had died that day with his parents.

He thought that he needed to be here, that he needed people that didn't exist, but now he knew that he needed the people that had become his family long ago.

He looked down at the book and smiled.

"I want to go home."

Ginny put her hands to her face, not seeing Harry appear in the common room.

"Harry!" Hermione and Ron exclaimed. Ginny looked up and gasped.

"Missed me?" He asked with a smile that they hadn't seen in a long, long time. Ginny jumped up and engulfed him in a large hug.

"I thought you wanted to be back there," Ginny whispered softly.

"And be around people that I know never existed in my life? Besides I learned something there," Harry responded.

"What did you learn?" Ginny asked as she pulled away to look at him.

"I have everything I have ever needed right here the entire time," he told her with a smile.

"We're glad you're back," Ron said, clapping him on the shoulder.

"I'm glad to be back," Harry said with a smile.

The days passed by too fast for their liking and soon they were once again on the train.

"Are you allowed just to go to our house for the summer?" Ginny asked him as they pulled into the station.

"Dumbledore said there are Death Eaters still out and he wants me to go back to the Dursleys for a week then I can come with you guys."

"Well at least we get to see you!" Hermione said happily.

They got off the train, all smiles.

"See ya Harry!" People called from all around. Harry smiled. He was their hero. He didn't exactly like all the attention, but he was glad that he had done the right thing. He went over to the Dursley's, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny right behind him.

"What are they doing with you?" Uncle Vernon sneered.

"We just came to tell you that Harry has just killed a wizard. Don't mess with him in this week," Ron warned.

"Yeah because if you do then we all will help him torture you all," Ginny pointed out.

"Or hurt you in more muggle means," Hermione spoke up.

Uncle Vernon swallowed hard.

"Come on boy. We haven't got all day."

Harry turned around and hugged Hermione and clapped Ron on the shoulder. Then he turned to Ginny. He pulled her to him and kissed her softly, sending a beautiful blush to spring across her cheeks.

"See ya guys in a week!"

With that he turned around and walked away, truly happy for the first time in a long time.