Authors Note:
Just a situation that entered my head quite randomly. Wrote this one listening to 'I'm Lost Without You' by Blink 182. The verses have no relevance to this but I like to think the chorus can be applied to Harry and Ginny. Another great H/G song is 'Don't Wanna Miss A Thing' by Aerosmith, especially when taken with that line near the end of HBP 'he owed that time to Ginny'. Last sentence of this, of course applies to us all when the Harry Potter series ends.
Ginny,
Before you read your name, before you opened the parchment, before we even left your home last summer, you knew this letter was from me.
When we left, we didn't know we would succeed. We knew we would have to make some sacrifices, but we had no idea how big they would be. Sometimes, I glance at you and I can see you're thinking about Ron. I know, because I am too.
We destroyed them all though didn't we? We followed all the clues, we fought all the battles, we destroyed them all. We even got Voldemort himself. But he isn't dead.More people join him every day, whether they truly believe in him or it's just to save their own lives doesn't matter, there are few friends that are friends anymore.
I figured it out Ginny, but I think I always knew, I think we all did but didn't want to admit. We just hoped, clung on to the hope but I know now.
I am, of course, the final horcrux. I hope I will be the last person to die because of Voldemort.
I'm at Privet Drive now.
No, I'm not at Hogwarts, my home. I'm not even in the bedroom you always knew, I'm in the cupboard under the stairs. This may sound strange but to me, it makes perfect sense. I will end the journey where it began.
I am sad, Ginny. So desperately sad, I'm lost without you Ginny. I'm so, so scared. But I have all of the photographs here Ginny, of my parents, of the wedding, of you, and that's the one I'll look at when I hold my wand for the last time.
Don't think of me as gone, I will only be gone when everyone who ever knew me is gone, when Hagrid is gone, Neville, Seamus,Dean, your mother and father, Fred and George, Collin, all those other friends, and of course Hermione. Am I forgetting someone? Don't worry Ginny, I'll never forget you, and I know you will never forget me. I know you will be sad, I know and this is what I'm the most sorry for. But look at the photographs Ginny, remember when I smiled, remember winning the Quidditch Cup, remember the first time we kissed, and remember I died thinking of you, Ginny. After that moment, I will have saved your life twice Ginny Weasley, and so when we finally meet again, you owe me a kiss in return.
I was always a scared eleven year old boy who begged the Sorting Hat not to put me in Slytherin. You were that ten year old girl who pleaded with her mum to let her go to Hogwarts with her big brothers. Then we fell in love Ginny, and suddenly I became brave, and determined and the Boy Who Lived. Now is not the best time for irony?
I am scared Ginny, but eventually, I'll have to go. I've decided it must be now.
I've whispered your name to myself so many times I can almost imagine you sitting beside me.
Make sure you laugh again Ginny, because that's what I loved most about you. Make sure you fall in love again and live your life the best you can. Don't ever be frightened, you can't ever be frightened because no matter what, I'll never let anything happen to you.
Harry
Ginny read the letter without crying, but with the resilient determination Harry had loved in her. Later, tears would dampen her pillow. And suddenly, she was lost, so hopelessly lost and faced with the thought of life without Harry Potter.