Both the Slytherin and Gryffindor tables sat quietly as the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs walked into the Great Hall. All the teachers who were scouting the grounds came back and told Dumbledore that there was no trace of the Dark Lord.

Dumbledore stood up.

"Perhaps we should tell them about the tunnel under the Whomping Willow," Ron said to Hermione, "They might have used that to get in."

Hermione shrugged her shoulders.

"Many of you know about what took place in this very room," Professor Dumbledore began, "Then there are those who don't. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, by some way still unknown, made onto the grounds and into the castle."

Harry was numb to his surroundings and all that was going on. He closed his eyes as a memory that he shared with Leona taunted him. It was their secret. She had given everything to him just as he had given everything to her. He sat there remembering all the times they were together. He regretted ever being so angry with her, how could he have put the one person he loved so much into so much pain?

Dumbledore had finished giving his speech and the hall was silent.

A voice came from the opened Great Hall doors, "Wow. You guys are acting like someone died. Did I miss something?"

"Who could be so inconsiderate at a time like this?" Harry asked allowed as the persons comment rang through the hall. That voice seemed so familiar, as if it was a distant memory.

Ron elbowed Harry on the side, "Harry… look who it is…." It barely came out as a whisper.

Everyone was looking at the doorway to the great hall. When Harry moved his eyes to there as well, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. Harry took a quick glance up at the teachers and even Dumbledore looked dumbfounded.

Harry got up and stood in between the two tables. Leona was the one standing in the doorway. Is she real?

Leona took a few staggering steps forwards before she broke into a run and ran to Harry. Harry held her, "How can this be?"

All the other students around them were quiet out of shock, fear, and every other emotion.

"All those times it seemed like he was torturing me he was actually preparing me," Leona looked into Harry's eyes, "He knew I had the power to resist the killing curse."

"But…. I saw you die."

"I didn't get to learn the last lesson, I was stuck in some other dimension that I didn't know how to escape."

Harry looked at her even more confused, "But then… how…" Harry touched her cheek.

"Your parents and my mother helped me in finding my way out."

That surprised Harry. She had seen my parents, Harry thought to himself and he was surprised that he felt a little jealousy. He grabbed Leona into a tight hug. Everyone else cheered.

"Well I'm glad that tonight didn't have such a somber aura around it anymore," Dumbledore said.

The rest of the night seemed to be one huge party in the Gryffindor Common Room. Everyone there was happy to see that Leona was back. The shock of Voldemort getting onto the grounds seems to be the last thing on everyone's minds.

No one went to bed that night and all the Gryffindors were half asleep as they clambered onto the Hogwart's Express that morning.

Harry, Leona, Ron, and Hermione shared a compartment together. Hermione leaned her head on Ron's shoulder and they were both asleep along with Harry. Leona had laid her head on Harry's shoulder but she wasn't asleep like the rest were.

She heard the door slide open she lifted her head up. Draco stood in the doorway. "Can I talk to you for a sec?" Draco whispered to her.

Slowly so she wouldn't wake the others, Leona got up and stood outside of their compartment, "What?"

Draco had his head bowed, and when he looked up he was crying, "If you hadn't come back like you did… I … I don't know what I would have done. It would have been my fault. It was my fault, and I'm sorry."

At first Leona was slightly confused, then she understood. Draco was the one who found away for her father and the Death Eaters to get onto the grounds. Part of her wanted to tell someone this while the other part felt like she had to protect Draco.

"Hey, stop crying. I thought you didn't cry." Leona poked Draco in the stomach. The tears stopped and he just looked at her, "Just promise me one thing, don't become your father. You're better then him."

"But he expects me to…"

"Become just like him, like my father expected of me. Do what you want to do, not what he wants."

The train pulled to a stop. They were at the Kings Cross Station. Draco nodded his head and walked off.

Leona went back in to wake her friends.

When Harry had stepped off the train, he had seen Lucious Malfoy. He laughed when he saw the look of shock on the older man's face as Leona stepped off the train behind him.

They had all said their goodbyes and Harry walked off with his Aunt and Uncle. He knew that this summer was going to be the strangest one yet. Leona had promised to visit him, and he knew she intended to keep that promise.

Author's note

So that's it. I might make a little story about Leona over the summer like the odd jobs that she has and things such as that. Not sure yet though.