DISCLAIMER: If I owned Harry Potter, do you really think I'd be sitting here writing for fan fiction?

Thanks to my friend 'Strange' for her help with this chapter.

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Chapter 3: Footprints

Harry sat down, staring at his feet. He hated them. They had carried him away from his home, where he wanted to be, and they would absolutely not turn back.

He had done all he could. He had captured all the remaining Death Eaters who were known for what they were. Harry knew that there were most likely still more out there, but none of them were willing to show themselves without their leader of evil lighting the way on the path to destruction.

Now, Harry realized, he was able to go home. Go back to the Burrow where he was able to see his real family.

Harry had captured the Death Eaters in a surprisingly short time considering how vast the job. It had taken him a month to do it, which most would consider remarkable, but which Harry thought nothing of. He wasn't sure what he had done to capture the Death Eaters. Whenever he neared them, they just seemed to drop dead on the spot.

It was puzzling, but Harry neither knew nor had the energy to care what it meant.

All that he wanted was to be back at the Burrow with Ron, Hermione, Ginny and the rest of the Weasleys.

This brought his mind back to another thing: Ginny.

Harry had had no idea how much he would miss Ginny until he was forced to spend time away from her. After defeating Voldemort, he was ecstatic that he finally may be able to get back to together with the girl that he had been in love with all along.

Yet the question remained: Would she take him back?

Two years ago, Ginny had said that she loved him, but two years is a very long time. Her feelings may have changed, she could have moved on, found another incredibly lucky guy who would not exclude her from what she wanted to do as Harry had done.

Or, she may have completely given up on him when he didn't say a thing to her even after Voldemort was destroyed. Ginny could hate him with a passion so large that the first thing she would do when seeing Harry is throw something heavy, sharp and hazardous at him.

Harry realized that maybe he shouldn't go to the Burrow. It would be too hard to face his family after leaving unexpectedly with no not of where he was or where he would be.

But where could he go if not the Burrow? Not The Leaky Cauldron, it had been destroyed during the war and was still being re-built. Hogsmeade perhaps? No, Hogsmeade was filled with reporters and Harry didn't wish to be hounded by them anytime in the near future. That left one place: 12 Grimmauld Place. It was not somewhere Harry wished to be but it would have to do.

Yes I know. A very short chapter; but the next one will be !longer!