So second chapter.I forgot to do this the firs time andI hate it when people think that they can be witty with their disclaimers well I'm not going to try its been overdone. So here it isI don't own this and in factI make no monetary gain off of doing this.

Picking up the pieces

Chapter one: Waking up is hard to deal with

The man had been unconscious for three days. He was lying in his hospital bed finally gaining rest from the nightmares which had plagued his dreams since the fight that he had been in. The woman in the chair beside him was in a remarkable state of distress also finally sleeping for the first time in days. The only other man in the room showed a similar state of disrepair while baring his heat to the man who slept in the bed.

"Harry please wake up we know you're in there we know you don't want this but the people need you Ginny needs you. We all need you. Me, you're the last link I have to my life and my friends, to lily, James Sirius and yes even peter you are the last person to have seen him alive…."

"Remus can't a guy get some rest?" came a hoarse interruption

"Harry, you're awake" Remus stated bluntly.

"Well it's kind of hard to sleep with you yakking like that, where is everybody?" harry asked after taking a slow drink of water.

Everyone's in the great hall waiting for you to wake the only two aloud to see you are myself and Ginny" Remus responded

At this the girl in the chair next to the bed finally began to stir, "somebody call my name?" she said sleepily.

No beautiful just Remus talking to much once again." harry replied

Turning back over the young woman responded, "okay harry…………wait Harry you're awake!" she finished frantically rushing over to wrap her arms around him and placing herself on the bed next to him.

"Yeah for about five minutes now, I was wondering when you were going to catch on. Remus, can you go get Madame Pomphrey please I would assume that I'm in the hospital wing at Hogwarts." harry asked turning to Remus

"Yes harry ill get her where else would you be?" Remus chuckled

After Remus had left the room, Harry turned to Ginny saying, "Gods I've missed you, gin"

"Well, you could have come back any time couldn't you?" she said suddenly turning away.

"No, Gin, I couldn't of. Believe me there were times when I thought that it would have been easier to turn around and run away from my problems, to come back and take you away from here to somewhere where it would have been safe but then I realized that he wouldn't have stopped at the isles he would have moved to the continent and eventually to the Americas. Nowhere would have been safe that's why I didn't come home because the least safe place was wherever I was and I wouldn't ever put you in a place of danger. I…couldn't do that. Because I…I…I love you." he finished quietly after starting his rant.

Ginny turned back to face him, tears in her eyes "oh harry, do you mean it?"

"Of course I do. You were the reason that I kept going. If it hadn't been for you I might have just left after I woke up or left before my task was done but I stayed because I knew that as long as you were alive I had a reason to fight. I do love you ginny more than anything or anyone else on this planet."

Grinning ginny replied "only on this planet eh… so you might find someone else on another maybe take Cho to mars."

"You know what I mean ginny my world revolves around you before you my life had one meaning to destroy Voldemort now I have a new meaning to live and maybe if you'll have me spend the rest of my life with you?"

Shocked ginny questioned, "Harry, was that a proposal?"

This time it was Harry's turn to grin, "Not until you've finished school, then you'll get a real one."

At that ginny sprung on top of harry wrapping her arms around him kissing him with all of the passion that she could muster. Recovering from the shock of having the younger sister of his best friend on top of him it only took harry a second to begin to return the kiss with all that he was worth.

"hem, hem…." interrupted a very amused professor McGonagall followed by Remus, Madame Pomphrey, and Ginny's parents, Arthur and Molly Weasley, several minutes later.

"Miss Weasley please get off of mister potter so that I can give him the quick once over." said madame pomphrey. Once ginny was off harry and Mme. Pomphrey had finished giving him a quick physical exam and declared him healthy professor McGonagall turned to harry saying.

"potter… harry I think that its time you told us what happened that night." once again harry became the sullen boy that had often been found in the recent headmasters office explaining himself it took the touch of ginny next to him to bring him back and remind him that he was not in trouble and that the headmistress was only asking so that harry might not have to face the public without having his story already been heard.

"Yes ma'am, I guess now that we're done its okay to tell you what Ron Hermione and I have been doing for the last year. However, what I'm about to tell you cannot leave this room. Do you know what a horcrux is?" after affirming that she did harry went on" well for ginny whom I'm assuming doesn't know due to the fact that you don't teach about them here it's an object which a dark wizard puts part of his soul into. It's only a part because without a soul the body cannot exist. To make one the soul must be broken and that can only be done through the most evil of actions killing another person. That's what Ron Hermione and I have been hunting down for the last year Voldemort horcruxes."

At this professor McGonagall interrupted, "potter did you say horcruxes? I've never heard of more than one being made by a single person."

"Yes professor I said horcruxes as in multiple. Voldemort had six….seven I guess not including the bit of his soul which resided in his body. He began making them while he was here at school. The first was created after he killed his father up to the most recent with the death of Cedric. If you're wandering what they are that's not important just know that they're all gone. After I killed his pet snake out in the forbidden forest, yes it was in the forest making its way to the school, my head began to hurt and I saw the ministry under attack. At that point I sent Ron and Hermione to headquarters to get help. And I apparated directly to the lobby of the ministry of magic. As soon as I got there DeathEaters set on me and I began to immobilize as many as I could. There were too many, I had to start using lethal spells but never the killing curse I was only going to use that one once. Eventually I mad my way to Voldemort. I was tired but I knew that I had to take him out. We began to duel and it became obvious that I had taken on more than I should of after several rounds of the cruciatus curse I realized that he was just toying with me. He cast the killing curse at me but it never hit wormtail I mean peter was laying dead at my feet or at least almost dead; it seems that his silver hand was another horcrux created after he found out about the destruction of the diary. I don't know how but the hand kept peter from dieing immediately he let out two words 'for Lilly' I don't know why but I think that he was talking about my mother. Voldemort laughed and said that it didn't matter if 'that one' was destroyed as long as he had the others. After I informed him that I had destroyed the others as well he cast the killing curse at me again, and my scar felt like it was going to cut through my skull through the pain I saw his body fall lifeless to the ground. Then o passed out and woke up here." as he closed his story he noticed that all in the room were a pale white and staring at him with open mouths. Remus was sitting in the chair which had recently been occupied by the youngest Weasley in the room, quietly sobbing for the loss of the last of his childhood friends. Noticing this harry began to apologize but was cut off by the werewolf.

"No harry its okay, if he hadn't died in that battle I was going to kill him myself after I had recovered from the full moon I'm just glad that he died the hero's death that he was honored for the first time." Rising up Remus left the room to return to the great hall moll comfortingly wrapping her arms around his shoulders. Mme. Pomphrey having left the room quite some time ago harry found himself alone with professor McGonagall, Arthur Weasley, and Ginny.

Following a few minutes of silence Mr. Weasley began, "gin, why don't you go wait outside…"

But was cut off by harry, "its alright Mr. Weasley I intent to have Ginny right by my side for quite some time she can hear whatever you have to say to me."

"Well then I guess that you should know that minister Scrimgeour has resigned his position due to the attack on the ministry. With the rest of the office heads being murdered over the last year, by the way thank you so much for allowing molly and I to stay a Grimmauld Place, I have been selected by the Wizengamot to act as the minister of magic until the next public elections which happen to not be for another two years. Anyway harry, as the minister of magic I am here to personally offer you a position in the Auror office."

"mister Weasley, or would you prefer if I called you minister when your on official business, either way I am honored by the offer however I must decline, and for several reasons. Up to this point I have wanted to be an Auror since my fourth year when the impostor professor mood told me that I would make a fine one. However after the battle which occurred three days ago my priorities have been brought back to me and the most important thing right now is family and I cannot have one of those and be putting myself into danger every week. Equally important is that I don't want to be given a position just because I'm harry potter the savior or the Wizarding world especially because I didn't kill tom riddle peter Pettigrew did, it would not be fair to those who have earned the required owls in order to enter the Auror training program when I never even graduated from school."

At this professor McGonagall began to speak, "well potter perhaps you would consider taking a position at hogw…"

However harry cut her off too, "I'm sorry professor but I cannot take a position here either once again I have not received the newt scores that I would need to become a teacher besides the only part of the world that I have seen is dank caves where Voldemort hid parts of his soul. Now onto matters which need to be taken care of minister can you tell me what happened to Severus Snape I saw him at the battle?"

At this Arthur became very serious, "yes he's in Azkaban going to be one of the first to be put to death next week he was found unconscious inside the atrium at the ministry after the battle."

At this harry became worried, "minister please I know that suicide is illegal in our world and that murder is even more frowned upon but you must take Severus off of the death list. I confronted him about six months ago while searching for one of the horcruxes. I had him on his knees and was about to cast a curse which would have ended his life in a very messy way when he asked for one thing as it is customary to give those about to be executed one last request I obliged he asked me to look into his mind something he knew that I could do due to our sessions at occlumency while looking into his mind he showed me a memory of Albus asking him that if it should come down to it and Draco was forced into a situation where he must kill Dumbledore that Severus do it. He then told me of the poison which professor Dumbledore had taken earlier that night by my hand, its effects were irreversible and Dumbledore would have died within the hour anyway, he was ending his pain. Please if you don't believe me ask his portrait in the headmistress's office."

"Harry if you are sure about this then I'll take him off the list but I cant give him a pardon" mister Weasley replied

"I know you can't but you can have his sentence reduced to oh say a year." harry remarked slyly.

At this mister Weasley was truly astonished. "Yes, yes, I'll get right on it."

As minister Weasley left the room to reduce the sentence given to Severus Snape, harry potter turned to the girl who had remained quiet through much of the recent conversation.

"Ginny I know that I said that I never wanted you to leave my side again but this time it is a necessary evil, could I have a moment alone with your headmistress?" he asked plainly.

After a quick kiss and a word of "see you later, love" Ginny left the room as well. Turning to the headmistress of Hogwarts with a twinkle in his eye which would have made the late Dumbledore very proud, Harry began to speak, "professor I have a special request, and I know that it's never been done before but these are special circumstances..."

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