Finally Potter

Chapter seven

The lift door opened and Ginny walked into the office that the Aurors used as their headquarters. It was full and that surprised Ginny to no end after all it was twelve thirty and she has assumed that they had all gone for lunch.

A man noticed her walk in and she saw the way he looked at her. Ginny had seen him somewhere before but she couldn't put her finger on where. He stood a little above her but only by an inch or two. His dark hair sat perfectly combed and his light eyes danced with something.

"Who are you?"

"Oh I'm Ginny Weasley, I'm looking for –"

"A Weasley, I'm Foster. If you wait a second."

"But –"

She didn't have time to finish the sentence he had turned and screamed Weasley as loud as he could. Ginny looked around wondering what was going to happen but a small smile played across her lips when she saw Remus walk over to them.

"He's out there's a riot going on down at the Falcons ground. Oh hello Ginny."

"Hi Remus –"

Again she didn't have time to finish that as Foster turned to her.

"Sorry Miss, but it looks like Weasley is out of the building, I'll tell him you came to see him, now if you don't mind we're busy."

He waved his arms a little towards her and she raised an eyebrow towards Remus.

"I'm actually looking for Harry, is he here?"

"Potter why would you want him?"

"Because he's my fiancé and we're going to lunch together."

"Wait you're not Weasley's wife?"

"What! No I'm Ron's sister."

Foster looked a little taken aback but shrugged moving off to yell at somebody else. Remus grinned at her shaking his head slightly.

"Don't worry about Foster he's an okay guy just a little confused. Harry isn't here he's with Ron. Can I help you with anything?"

She shrugged and looked around.

"Do you know how long he's going to be?"

"Not sure, he could be a while."

She nodded and looked around the room.

"Remus have you had lunch yet?"

"Ginny would you like to come to lunch with me?"

"I'd love to."

"Foster, I'm going to lunch."

He took Ginny's arm then and the pair got back into the lift. They were silent until they got to the ground floor and came out of the lift.

"So where'd you like to go Ginny?"

"There's this muggle café not far from here, it's really nice, and its not normally busy we can go there."

Remus agreed and within five minutes the pair were sat together in a booth in the small café. A waitress came over smiling at the pair and waited for them to look at the menu.

"Umm I'll just have scampi and chips please."

"Make that two, and two cokes."

As she walked away Remus cleared his throat.

"So what's up then?"

"Not a lot."

"Ginny, I know you I've known you since you were twelve years old and I've watched you become the woman you are today. I know you better than maybe I should and I feel like an uncle to you almost, I know there's something wrong so come on tell me about it."

"I was in the time room today and I'm still a bit shaken."

"Time room?"

"Yeah, we're doing a research project on it and we spend one day a month in the room just looking at the hourglasses, but you can't tell anyone."

"I won't. Do you want to tell me what you saw?"

The waitress came back and placed the cokes onto the table smiling sweetly at them. She then headed over to the next table and Ginny looked around.

"I saw the battle. I saw Luna being killed."

"Have you ever talked about that with anyone?"

"Why would I?"

"Do you want to?"

She raised an eyebrow and looked around her.

"I just feel like I cheated her out of something. It's like she was so in love with Harry and they were engaged and then because of one stupid spell she's gone and I've got everything that should be hers."

Remus took hold of her hand and she forced herself to meet his eyes.

"Luna did love Harry but she knew that when she died life would go on. She was a smart woman and she would want Harry to be happy. I remember just after Lily and James got married there was an attack and Lily was seriously injured she was in hospital for weeks."

Remus' eyes seemed to glaze over as he travelled back into his memory.

"She told James that if anything ever happened to her he was to go on living. He was to find someone else that he loved and spend the rest of his life with her, because she wanted him to be happy. James didn't like that idea but he understood what she meant, and as a reply he told Lily she would have to marry Sirius because he's the only other man he would trust her with."

He laughed lightly before meeting Ginny's eyes again.

"Do you understand Ginny? We all now that we have a limited time appointed to us on this earth and when its over we can't do anything, but as long as we are remembered we live on, but those that we truly loved have to move on with their lives and Luna I think would be like James, glad that Harry has fallen in love with her best friend, with somebody she trusts completely with his heart."

Their lunch arrived and Ginny happily took a bite.

"Thanks Remus."

"There's something else isn't there Ginny?"

"Do you its mad that I'm jealous of April?"

"Why are you?"

"I saw Neville's accident as well, and it's got me thinking about him. I love him still; sometimes I'll look at Harry and find myself comparing him to Neville. I love Harry he's my world but part of me still thinks that I'm meant to be with Neville."

"Ginny it's normal. Neville was your first love and the fact he's just married can't be easy but he's not the same as he was in Hogwarts and neither are you. You've both changed so much and your ideals and needs have changed. You'll love him forever I can promise you that but that doesn't mean you don't love Harry."

"I think the memories have just messed up my feelings at the moment."

Remus gulped down his drink and his eyes seemed to bore a hole into Ginny.

"You saw the spell hit yourself as well didn't you?"

"Yeah and I know that's part of my doubting. Harry wants children and I can't give him any and that's why these things are playing on my mind."

"Ginny there's ways around it. I never thought I'd have children because I would pass the werewolf gene onto them but Neville came up with a potion and look at Sirius he's normal. There are things that you can do to have children."

"We can adopt, there's lots of little children that need homes and we can care for them and make them happy."

They ate silently then Ginny telling Remus not to be stupid paid for the meals and they headed back to the ministry.

"Remus thanks for listening to me. I think I'm going to go down and think of happy memories now you're a good friend you know that."

She hugged him before climbing into a lift and heading back down to the mysteries department.

Okay so just thought I'd let you know some good news; I'm only in Uni for six hours a week, yeah that serious. So for the time being the posting is going to be on Mondays and Thursdays but I haven't had my new rotas for work yet, so that might still change since it looks like I'm going to be working at least two weekdays.