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Chapter 10 – Beyond the Grave
Reminder: What else could I do, I followed him, I had to let him know that he wouldn't be alone, that I was here, and I would stand by him until he needed me no longer.
I brushed past Cedric and followed him out into the grounds of the church.
Contact?
Harry ran on, dodging between the muddle of gravestones running without any real aim trying it seemed just to escape, eventually he stopped for a moment to catch his breath leaning on an old crumbled stone to gather his thoughts.
I moved silently to his side and gasped when I realised the stone on which he had chosen to lean momentarily, slightly obscured by ivy but readable none the less ..
Here Lies Lily Potter
Beloved wife and mother
She will leave her imprint on this world
Through the eyes of another
Now that was a strange thing to write upon a gravestone, Harry meanwhile had collapsed to the ground never seeing the stone or what was written on it. He buried his head in his hands, and I could see the tears streaming down his face, tears which I realised were meant for me…. And every drop of water that poured down his cheeks stabbed an even greater pain into my heart.
I'll be there for you Harry, I whispered, I don't know how, or if you will ever realise that I am here, and I may have to leave you from time to time, but I will always return… It was no good, he couldn't hear me but I carried on anyway, whispering my final sentence that seemed to float away with the breeze, and I will never let you be alone…
His head shot up and through his tears one word formed on his lips "Ginny" he seemed to be staring right at me, "Harry" I whispered back uncertainly, this couldn't be happening, had he heard me, or felt me or something, I forgot all my feelings and emotions and instead pushed against the invisible barrier that separated us and said one thing "The stone Harry, look at the stone"
With that I was thrown into another of my flashbacks almost as a reminder that I should not reach him, a reminder of what I tried to do to him, a reminder that I was no good, that I deserved to die
"Ginny no" shouted Harry stepping back in the mud, his arm held in front of him as if protecting him from something, a flash of light hit him, and he fell backwards sliding down the muddy bank, towards the great lake, his expression one of fear and something else that I didn't recognise, the rain beat on his almost still form as he led there, "Gin" he murmured, his head tossing about as he clasped his hands to his stomach in pain "Don't do it" I could hear laughing from somewhere and realised that it must be me, for there were no others around..
"Looks like this is it Harry, your finally going to get what you deserve" said a voice that I recognised as my own, I raised my wand and began an incantation, but as the words formed on my lips a spell rang out in the air "immobiliarus" it hit me from behind and pushed me down that muddy bank crashing into Harry as I fell..
Everything spiralled into darkness
"Harry" I sat up in shock remembering what had happened, somehow I had broken through, He had seen me, or at least he had heard me, but instead of finding myself in the graveyard surrounded by old stones and Harry's loving face I had once again returned to my old room,
Damn you, pink wallpaper why did I keep ending up here... a voice spoke from the shadows
"So you're awake?"
I spun around "Harry?" I asked, indeed almost begged..
"Sorry love, it's me" said the voice and the person stepped into the beam of moonlight shining through the window..
"Cedric?"
"None other" he replied with a grin,
"But how…" I began
"It's what happens to us, if ever we pass out, or anything else we automatically return to the place we were most comfortable during our lives, the place we felt safest. I bet you woke up here when you died didn't you?"
I nodded in understanding… "That explains it, I had always wondered"
The days earlier events came rushing back to me "Cedric, Harry... he saw me… or he heard me at least, how did I do it, can I do it again?" I stood up…
"He saw you?" asked Cedric "I didn't know that was possible" he said thoughtfully,
I sat back down on the edge of my bed disappointed. The stood up again an idea forming…
"We have to find Harry, if he's seen me once he will see me again I'm certain of it, I grabbed Cedric and danced around in a circle, he merely smiled at me somewhat taken aback by my new happiness ..
"Where shall we start" he asked…. I looked out of the window at the moon rising higher into the sky …
"It's the middle of the night, how about his bedroom" I replied a smile on my face...
I ran through the wall into the room that Ron and Harry shared but was dismayed to find them both out of bed… this was going to be harder than I thought I realised…
"Hermione" I yelled … that had to be it … I rushed downstairs to the couch … up til recently Hermione had always shared my room when she stopped over, but all that had changed with my death and she now stayed in our living room on the itchy old settee… I'd rather her than me any day!
I rushed through the door to the living room expecting to see them talking in the firelight as they had done so many times at Hogwarts, but once again the room was empty, and the small puff of smoke and the cool black coals showed that the fire had only recently gone out.
I sat down taking in the room around me, looking for some sort if indication of where they had gone, where they were, but all I could see was that Hermione's cloak had vanished from the stand in the corner…. Not just any cloak… her thick one, the winter one...
I stood up and a grin spread slowly across my face as I turned to Cedric...
"I know where they are"
Silvermoonluna …. I know its short but that seemed like the right place to end it … I will be cracking on with the new chappie straight away