Autor's Note

English is not my mother tongue, so I appreciate your support for any corrections.


She had been nervous about the party, Harry and a lot of members of the Phoenix Order will be there but all of her nerves and worries almost instantly disappeared, he was there watching her, looking as handsome as always, then in a flash she remember his nervousness to ask her to the ball, stating that there where no other girls like her, telling her how highly attracted to her he was and saw her as the most desirable girl, been smart, beautiful and not a fawning groupie, which was a bonus, she remember their first kiss, sweet and tender almost three years ago follow by a few more not so innocents and how their lives required to leave it as friendship but even then they had been able to defeat that barrier and their letters, arriving every month where a warm reminder of the first boy that find her beautiful and now he was a man looking at the woman she had become, with the same eyes of the boy, and still as sweet, he bring her a gift, a beautiful necklace of a bear, she almost laugh at this, remember how she mentioned him that upon first saw him in his coat and hat, he look rather huggable, almost as a bear, and become a recurrent joke between them. They spent hours dancing and the conversation flow naturally, most of the contents of the letters been review and elaborated, the past and future dreams, even their desires, before they were able to elaborated on the future, everything went down...

As soon as the Patronus of Kingsley appears reveling the fall of the Ministry she quickly steps up and look for Harry and Ron, she can feel his eyes on her the entire time, once she found them she takes their hands and before she disapparate with them, she found him in the crow and for a second she saw all his emotions, not a second later she was looking at the cold darkness of Tottenham Court Road in central London...

They start the hunt of Horcruxes, but she always plays with her necklace, almost as a reflex, sometimes she even wonders what is he doing...

Then, sooner rather than later, they are infiltrating the Ministry in order to rob Umbridge, they get capture and tortured in the Malfoy Manor by Death Eaters, they infiltrate Gringotts, infiltrate Hogwarts and before she knows it, she is in the Chamber of Secrets retrieving basilisk fangs in order to use the venom and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, she gets kiss by Ron, but it doesn't feel right, she trembled looking at the supposedly corpse of Harry, once he wakes, she is participating in a full combat against Bellatrix Lestrange and almost get kill by her if not for Mrs. Weasley, that ultimate defeat and kill the witch.

She barely remembers what happens next, they have a memorial for the death, some of them she knew personally, Lupin, Tonks, Colin Creevey, Fred Weasley...being this last one the most hard to accept, but she is amazed that there is no memorial for Snape even when he was Headmaster, not even a mention, it makes her conflicted, granted he was a Death Eater, but something happen, he gave Harry some information and even make him change his mind, she knows that Snape information may had change the war...

Well McGonagall is surprisingly unforgiving and the body is not even at Hogwarts anymore...

She spends the majority of the time in the infirmary since they have a lot of injured and helps Madam Pomfrey as much as she can before she collapses, she noted the tiredness in her, and even sees her one afternoon sitting by her desk looking to a picture and drooping a tear, the picture is her and Snape, for some reason he is smiling, which is a little disturbing, but also they are sharing a bag of gold, which is intriguing...

She is puzzled, but doesn't inquire, then and been honest about herself she asks acting Headmaster McGonagall if she can come back for her last year and get her N.E.W.T.s in order to finish her education in Hogwarts, she has no idea what to do next but if anything, she want to have is Hogwarts certificate with her eleven O.W.L.s and as many N.E.W.T.s as she can, so once she knows it she can apply for anything she wants.

After the battle and with the summer upon them, she realizes that her infatuation with Ron is comfort not love and ultimately won't make them happy, maybe content, but after all that has happen they deserve happiness, so they decide let things be and she told them about going in search of his parents, they both offer to help, but she decline, Ron needs to be with his family and Harry surprisingly want to find the Dursleys and bring them back to Privet Drive.

She read about him, about the bravery of the alumni in the defense of Durmstrang and how their former and most famous student in recent times brought back the old history of Durmstrang from oblivion, and how he destroys a wall during the battle and almost died in the process, her heart aches, but first she need to find her parents and then she'll look for him, for now she simply contents with sending him an owl, to let him know that she is alive and free...

He writes back immediately, glad that she is alive and to brag about translate runes in order to find the long forgotten protections of Durmstrang, but don't write about his nearly death, instead he confess the intentional destroy of Grindelwald wall in the great hall of Durmstrang, she receives the letter before she left home to take a plane to Australia, she decided to travel the muggle way, first because she can't apparate that distance and second, well, she always has lacked of the confidence for ride a broomstick, she is grateful do, if only to have more time to sorting her thoughts, she is happy for him, but didn't reply or tell him about Australia, she will have time for that...

So she travels to Australia looking for her parents, hoping they forgive her for everything, erase their memories of her, change their identities, run off, almost die several times, and probably a couple more that she still hasn't figured out...yeah, she was hoping...