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This is my fifth chapter of this story, this one will have a bit for those Fred/Hermione but will be mainly Ginny/Harry. Don't think you don't have to read this chapter though because there will be something important in here even if you don't think it will be.

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The Final Battle Trilogy Part One

"I mean her parents are like gone, I can't imagine what that would feel like." Ron said talking with Ron, Harry, Ginny and Luna.

"Yeah, neither can I." Harry said sarcastically.

"Me neither." Luna agreed with Harry.

"I'm so sorry." Ron immediately took back what he had said as Ginny hit him upside the head.

"It's fine." Harry said, "But the fact that your brother is going to be tailing her all year…she must get like no privacy."

"Fred will respect her space, he offered to bring her to see me last night but it was too late." Ginny said.

"Couldn't she just use the secret passage?" Luna asked smartly.

"It's locked for the year…the whole year. For safety reasons and when she closes her door at night it locks automatically after 2 O'clock. That way Fred can make sure she doesn't leave before then and after that he can just go to sleep." Ginny filled them in.

"I just can't believe he's coming to classes, can't the teachers watch her?" Ron asked.

"They can't always be looking at her and he has to be there as soon as she leaves the class so she can't slip under an invisibility cloak before she leaves. And…her and Fred have to sign out after the class before they can leave." Ginny finished.

"That's so not fair." Harry shook his head.

"They are just trying to protect her isn't that what you want?" Luna asked.

"Well, yeah but does it have to be so constricting and do they have to take away all of her privacy?" Ginny asked pointedly.

"I guess so." Luna told them.

--

Fred watched as Hermione joined her friends at the Gryffindor table and he sat down just out of earshot knowing she was probably going to complain about him. He was thinking about how much he wanted to be in the shop with George instead of here with all these people and none of them were even funny. He didn't mind watching Mione, it was his first assignment and they were friends but he wished for her sake and his that he didn't have to be here all the time. Fred looked up as the owls flew in signaling mail time, checking to see if his and George's owl Gred was there he was surprised to see the little barn owl zooming at him.

"What do you have?" Fred asked stroking his feathers.

Opening the envelope he saw a very long letter from his mum and a short note from his brother, opening his brothers he began to read,

Fred,

I was in the shop yesterday night while you were playing babysitter (How's that going?) and I came up with a brilliant idea. A line of beauty products that bewitch girls into being ugly, guys could buy it for their girls or girls could buy it to get back at others. Isn't it so cool? And we need a whole batch of canary creams, so I'm starting those today, get back to me soon,

George

Fred laughed at the thought of Harry getting Ginny eye shadow that made her eyes yellow or something crazy like that, it would be even funnier because of her reaction. Or blush that made their cheeks puff up or mascara that caused your eyelashes to never stop growing. George really was a genius, reading his mum's letter he checked for anything important. There was an order meeting at Grimmauld place on Friday and he would have to bring Hermione if he was going to come. Bill was staying home for an extra week so he could stay, Charlie was coming home on Thursday and Percy…wait why was she bringing up Percy? Percy's body was found yesterday after an attack at the ministry, he was dead.

"Fred?" Ginny came up to him.

"Yeah Gin?" Fred knew what she was going to say.

"Did you hear what happened to…" Ginny started.

"Yeah." Fred pulled her into a hug.

"We never got to say goodbye." Ginny sobbed.

"I know, how did Ron take it?" Fred looked for him.

"He ran out, Hermione went after him." Ginny said before her eyes went wide and she stopped crying.

"Shit." Fred said and he stood up, placing Ginny in Harry's arms he ran out of the great hall.

"Fred wait!" Luna called.

"I need to find Hermione." Fred looked around for some sort of clue.

"Oak tree, trust me." Luna said pointing outside.

"But it's raining." Fred grumbled running out quickly. It was raining so hard he could barely see two feet in front of him, running in the direction of the lake he didn't stop until he could see a tree, looking hard he searched wildly for any sign of the two teens. Seeing them he stopped running and waited, watching as they hugged and Ron headed back up towards the school he began running again and reached Hermione quickly.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Fred yelled as he got to her.

"Oh no." Hermione went wide-eyed.

"You are supposed to stay where I can see you." Fred shouted.

"I was worried about Ron, I didn't want him to do anything stupid." Hermione said carefully.

"Let Harry or his girlfriend go after him then or at least get me." Fred told her.

"I'm going to be late for class." Hermione said sullenly.

"Let's go." Fred let her lead the way back to the castle.

--

"Hi Ginny." Sarah Shamaya greeted sitting down. She had arrived at Hogwarts in her fifth year and was the same age as Ginny and Luna.

"Hey." Ginny said sadly.

"What's up?" Sarah asked.

"You my brother Percy?" Ginny asked in a small voice.

"The one you don't talk to, yeah." Sarah agreed.

"His body was found after the ministry attack and they aren't sire what side he was fighting on." Ginny's eyes filled with tears.

"Oh, it's okay Gin." Sarah wrapped her in a hug tightly.

"I hadn't talked to him in over a year…and I never got to say goodbye." Ginny cried.

"He knew you loved him." Sarah promised her.

"The last thing he said to me was "I hope you don't take after our parents." And I told him to go kiss Minister Fudge's ass." Ginny said quietly.

Srah laughed loudly.

"What's so funny?" Ginny asked looking at her friend.

"Your attitude. You stand up to like everybody." Sarah smiled.

"What's so funny about that?" Ginny smiled shyly at her friend's enthusiasm.

"Now I'm thinking about Malfoy last year." Sarah laughed.

"Which time?' Ginny asked.

"After Valentine's day." Srah explained.

"That was pretty funny." Ginny agreed smiling properly now.

"You were always good at a bat boogey hex." Sarah told her happy that her friend was okay.

--

"I want to stay in the apartment today do you have any complaints?" Fred asked looking angry.

"No." Hermione said as they walked to their rooms.

"Good because you would have had to stay with me anyway." Fred told her walking faster.

"Fred! Wait up." Hermione called beginning a light jog.

"If you would hurry up we could be there already." Fred said angrily.

"I'm going as fast as I can." Hermione came up beside him.

"Well I'm not going that fast so I don't know what you're complaining about." Fred turned a corner and said the password so they could enter their rooms.

"Why are you being so mean?" Hermione asked in a hurt voice.

"Do your homework." Fred ordered beginning up the stairs.

"Talk to me now. You aren't being yourself." Hermione pleaded trying to get through to him.

"You could have gotten hurt today, you put your life at risk going out there without me." Fred said sitting on the stairs.

"I didn't mean to and I already apologized." Hermione joined him.

"You need to think about what you're doing, I know you're used to going wherever you want with Harry and not really worrying about your safety only his but now you can't." Fred told her slowly.

"What is going to happen to me on school grounds?" Hermione asked pointedly.

"You can't tell anyone this but the grounds aren't as safe as everyone think. Dumbledore's doing what he can to control this but for now the forest isn't blocked as well as it could be. The centaurs won't allow him or anyone else into the forest so he can't put up the regular shields, there is a bit of protection on the edge of the forest but nothing further in. So yes something could happen to you." Fred explained.

"But nothing did." Hermione said shocked to receive this information.

"But it could've." Fred shouted.

"It didn't." Hermione argued.

"Don't you understand what you're doing, you could have been KILLED." Fred yelled angrily trying to make her understand.

"Why are you yelling at me, why do you even care? Isn't this just an assignment to you?" Hermione asked miserably.

"No, I actually care." Fred said sadly.

"Why?" Hermione asked, "Am I not just your brother's friend?"

"You are my brothers friend." Fred began and watched as Hermione's face fell, "But I think I'm falling for you."

"You're what?" Hermione asked before turning and running out the door.

"Mi!" Fred called taking off after her.

--

"Did you see…" Fred began.

"She went that way." Seamus pointed.

"Thanks." Fred called running out the front doors into the light spray of rain.

Hermione sat on the edge of the lake her eyes closed feeling the rainfall around her and thinking about Fred. Ron would not be happy even though he had Luna, she didn't think that he would be too happy they were living together under the circumstances. Hermione didn't want to like him but she couldn't help it and the fact that he liked her to wasn't helping.

"Mi." Fred said sitting next to her and pulling her to face him.

"Go away." Hermione said turning her head.

"Please talk to me. I'm sorry I was so mean to you today but I was so angry because you ran away." Fred took her hand.

Hermione shook her head and pulled away standing up.

"I know you feel it." Fred told her making her face him.

"Yes." Hermione agreed.

"Then why won't you give in?" Fred asked.

"Because I can't." Hermione hung her head.

"Why not? What's holding you back?" Fred asked.

"Me. I'm not ready to be in a relationship, one of my best friends is your brother, I've never been kissed and it'll pull me away from my studies." Hermione told him pulling away so she was standing by the big tree.

"Ron is a prat and you can't let him stop us, I won't stop you from studying I'd be afraid of being hexed, and I don't care if you've never been kissed, that doesn't matter to me." Fred told her.

"There's one more thing." Hermione stopped him form getting to close.

"What now? I've waited a whole fifteen minutes to kiss you already." Fred rolled his eyes.

"Nevermind. He's back." Hermione said to him stepping closer.

"Who is?" Fred asked looking around wildly, over-exaggeratedly.

"The crazy, sarcastic guy I'm falling for." Hermione said shyly.

"Oh so you meant me? I never went anywhere babe." Fred put a hand on the back of her neck and kissed her.

"Mmm." Hermione said as they pulled apart.

"We're really wet." Fred said laughing swinging her around.

"Let's go inside then." Hermione suggested.

Fred looked towards the lake, "We're already wet." He shrugged picked her up and jumped into the lake.

"Fred!" Hermione came up spluttering.

"Got you." Fred laughed as she dove towards him.