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Notes: This chapter is short. I admit it. But as a avid Ron and Hermione shipper, I have never really wrote anything else. So I'm slightly rusty on the H/G stuff. But I think I might do a couple of Harry/Ginny fics in the near future, to refine my technique. (3 guesses where that quote came from? Hehehe) Anyways, got off track, the next couple of chapters are going to focus on Ron and Hermione during their extreme emotion journey throughout HBP. So, there you have it…and just a little hint, I might put up a chapter focusing on another character. Guess who?
Enjoy!
HarrySitting on the edge of the lake, surrounded by my friends, my family, I look at Ginny and realise what I must do. It breaks my heart to think about it, but ever since Dumbledore died, I've known that I have to do it.
To break up with Ginny.
God, I don't want to. My heart aches thinking about not being with her and ending it will probably be the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Harder than facing Voldemort even. My head and heart are telling me two different things. My heart screams for me not to do it, that I'll need her, but logic settles in and my head tells me she'll be in more danger if we stay together.
And deep down, I know its true. Voldemort will use Ginny to get to me, I know it.
I can hear Ron and Hermione talking, bickering, but smiling all the same. Ginny laughs at them and my stomach churns at the sight of her beautiful smile. I don't want to have to break her heart. I don't want to break my heart. But I have to. Their laughter seems distant somehow. I'm only absorbed in the fact of what I'm going to have to do next.
They can't come with me. I know they are going to want to, but I'm not putting them in danger. I've lost 2 of the most important people in my life over the past year and I'll be damned if I let him take anymore. He's not coming near them.
Things have changed. Maybe not for the better, but now things seem clearer. Maybe its just us all growing up. Watching Ron and Hermione smile at each other, looking at Ginny again, it all makes sense. Life makes sense. The reason I survived, the reason I have my friends; it will keep me going. It will make me want to fight. Give me reason to kill him and return to Ginny. Return to Ron and Hermione. Return to the normal life I crave. All I have to do is kill the Horcruxes. Then kill Snape. Then kill Voldemort.
A/N: I know that was short. But I'm updating more frequently, and with more chapters. So hold tight, the next ones going to be longer…