Chapter six- At the hollow once more

It was over before it began once more Harry was able to take breath into his lungs. This fact didn't stop the fast beating of his heart nor that of Ginny's also pounding against his chest. "It's all right, your safe here." Harry murmured into Ginny's hair, weather it had been entirely for her comfort or his own he was not entirely sure. With a sigh he let her out of his hold to look around. To see in the distance a house covered in vines, a house that he had never remembered but one that had to be that of his parents, because somewhere in his heart of hearts he knew it to be true. Ron and Hermione moved from the spot where they also had appeared just moments before till they were standing right behind Harry and Ginny.

"What are you looking at mate?" Asked Ron looking as puzzled as ever at where Harry was staring seemingly transfixed.

"Don't you see it? That's my house, well was my house. It doesn't ever look like it is that badly out of repair for not being lived in for the last 16 years." Harry asked looking not only at Ron but also at Hermione and Ginny, all three of whom didn't seem to be able to see a thing.

"Oh! We can't see it because the house is protected by a secret keeper. You lived there so you would be able to see it but we can't. Harry you have to tell us that this is your home so that we will be able to see the house and enter it." Said Hermione after a minute of thinking.

"My home where I lived with my parents is, there in front of us at Godric's Hollow." With his words the house that until then only he could see appeared.

"Well it's not that nice looking, now but I bet it was a wonderful home back in the day." Said Ginny the first thing that she had said since appareting. Trying to brighten up the mood, after being attacked she figured that everyone could use a little boost. It seemed to have the opposite affect though.

"I wouldn't know." Harry whispered before starting up the overgrown garden path, to the front door.

Inside the house was like practically every other house in England. A long hallway with stairs to the second floor, a kitchen leading off to the right and the living room leading off to the left. Hermione took out her wand and pointed it against the wall. "Scrongfy!" She yelled revealing a bright blue wall as about two inches of dust vanished. Harry looked around the hall wondering if e recognized anything, and was deeply saddened when he did not. But it was then that he remembered that there was something that he had been meaning to tell Ginny. "Ginny about you magic, Dumbledore told me that in wizarding houses the ministry can't detect who does magic, so they leave it up to the parents of the underage wizard or witch to make sure that their children don't do magic. That means that you don't have to be afraid of using magic outside of school, so that you will be able to defend yourself. I had been meaning to tell you this since I came to the Burrow, sorry."

Ginny seemed to process this information quite slowly, but then a smile came on her face. She ran into the kitchen where Hermione was trying to discover what was actually in the room, yelled "Scrongfy!" At the top of her lungs. Seeing the new shinny yellow walls gleam back at her she started to laugh and laugh and didn't stop laughing till she was unable to breath.

Ron himself had also been very quiet since entering the house. "Mate, this is wonderful. You have a house; you own two houses. I can't even own my own room." He let out a long sigh and pushed open the door to the living room.

"Ron, wait." said Harry following after him. It was then that he noticed Ron was standing motionless in the doorway. Not even going over the threshold. "What's wrong? You know that I never wanted to own two houses, that's not what I would have ever wanted. I would rather live in a cardboard box, with my parents then have them be dead and me own the house."

"Spi..Spiders. SPIDERS!" He turned around ran out the door and into the now respectably clean kitchen. Harry could not stop laughing he also took out his wand and with a quick swish and flick the spiders were gone. Revealing a room much like the Dursley's living room. This room though had a real fireplace, and the lived in look that the Dursley's always seemed to lack. It was all too much seeing the house like this, knowing that it was here that his parents were happy, and that he himself would have been happy as well. Slowly he turned around taking the whole room in as his eyes started to blur with tears. Almost fully turned around in his circle, his eyes fell upon the playpen in the corner. It was that the finally caused him to fall to his knees, and cry. Something that he had not allowed himself to do in so long, that it felt like a foreign thing. Ginny who was still in the kitchen had heard his sobs, and without a second thought went to comfort him, leaving Ron and Hermione alone.

Ron who had been helping Hermione root through the cupboard to find, dishes, food, and many rats. He stopped to look at Hermione, who had been inspection the seemingly muggle plumbing underneath the sink, at last finding the switch that turned on the water, and getting soaked in the process. Ron laughed at the sight before helping her to fix the pipe. As Hermione was moping up the water that had found its way into her hair, he turned serious again. "Hermione, if we make it out of this war, will you marry me?"

Hermione seemed completely surprised at the question. "Marry you?" She asked in return.

Her words seemed to snap Ron out of his revive. "I have loved you for so long, ever since second year when you were petrified and in the hospital, and I knew what it was like to be without you. You must know that, that... that... thing with Lavender was only to make you jealous, and it worked too didn't it? I know that we fought all the time but anger was the only emotion that I was able to express to you. And then there was that whole thing with Krum, you made me hate my favorite quiditch player in the world, because you liked him more than you liked me."

"Ron stop!" Hermione said forcefully, to make him stop his very much-unneeded explanation. She wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered "Yes" into his ear before kissing him deeply.

It was like this that Ginny and Harry found them, and both of their friends where bursting with happiness at the news.

The next three days were spent making the house able to be lived in, but they were also spent in worry. What had happened to their family and friends, the other members of the Order? No letters could be sent for fear that they would be intercepted, by the enemy and there was really no way to communicate with the outside world. The fourth day dawned the same as the third and the second, with the eating of breakfast, and the talk of what room was going to be attacked by the cleaning squad today. The cupboards seemed to be able to produce food at the will of the cook as Hermione had discovered on their first day in the house as she had tried to make supper.

"The only spot that we haven't taken care of is the attic." Hermione said happily "You know that we were very luckily that the cleaning charms were so strong on this house to begin with meaning that there wasn't all the nasty stuff we had to deal with at Grimwald Place."

Following this news there was the normal silence that came with any mention of Grimwald Place. The happiness was not completely lost though as the four walked through the trap door to the spider filled attic, causing Ron to slide back down the ladder, till the spiders were gone. Unlike the rest of the house the attic didn't hold up to the cleaning charms. It took around two hours for the teenagers to even recognize what was in the attic, let alone sort through everything. It was then with the noon sun shinning through the one and only window that an arrow that sparkled and shinned appeared on the floor.