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Disclaimer - Sadly I don't Harry or any of his friends or places in the Wizarding World. I don't even own the character Brionna Culver seeing as she's based on one of my best mates! I do however own the plot and any other original characters. I also don't own Kelly Clarkson or Eminem (both are mentioned in this chapter) or the song Cleanin out my closet (which is also mentioned in this chapter)

Summary - Follow Harry through his seventh and final year at Hogwarts where he has to deal with girl problems, being a teenager and Voldemort and his Horcruxes. HBP spoilers, prequel to One Night Can Change Everything.

Thanks for all the reviews and sorry this is late by 2 days but work has been absolutely manic this week and I've had interviews for new jobs as well. That alone involved researching all my college work to remember things that I learnt 3 years ago.

Anyways now onto our feature presentation. Here's Chapter 6. Enjoy!

Chapter 6 - Voldemort Strikes Again

As August drew on, the days got hotter and there was more news of Death Eater attacks in various places all over England.

Each time Harry read about a new attack he seemed to become more focused on killing Voldemort.

But the report that hit him harder than any other report was one that he read at the end of August.

Harry woke up at around ten in the morning on the day before he was due to go back to school and headed downstairs after he had gotten dressed.

When he reached the kitchen, the first thing Harry saw was the entire Weasley family crowded round the table and looking at a copy of the Daily Prophet.

"Hey, what's going on?" he asked.

"Harry, there's a report of another attack," Mr Weasley replied.

"Oh."

"The Prophet is saying that the attack was on Malfoy," Ron told him.

"He deserves it," Harry replied.

Ginny looked up at Harry angrily.

"He did not deserve it!"

"Yes he did Gin."

"Why?" Ginny asked.

"Because he was going to kill Dumbledore! Voldemort told him to do it!" Harry shouted at Ginny.

"What! So he deserved this did he?" Ginny shouted back.

She then snatched the newspaper out of George's hands and threw it at Harry before walking briskly out of the kitchen.

Harry looked down at the paper and read the report.

YOU-KNOW-WHO STRIKES AGAIN!

Today we can exclusively reveal that You-Know-Who was involved in another attack during the early hours of this morning.

This is what must be the twentieth attack this month and You-Know-Who seemed to want to remind us that he is still out there as he did not send any of his followers to complete his task.

He personally attacked Malfoy Manor and it's occupants shortly after three this morning.

First he made Draco Malfoy, the teenage son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy watch as he tortured and then killed Narcissa Malfoy.

You-Know-Who then tortured Draco Malfoy, seventeen, using a series of unforgivable curses.

Mr Malfoy was taken to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries by aurors shortly after seven this morning.

He is still currently being treated and it is still unclear where he will live after being released as his father is currently residing in Azkaban prison.

Harry finished reading the article then looked up at the remaining Weasley's and Hermione.

"Harry as much as I hate him, I don't think he deserved to have his mother killed," Hermione told him.

All Harry could do was nod at her in agreement.

He re read the article while everyone else went about their own business.

All Harry could think about was Voldemort and the fact that he had blatantly attacked one of his own Death Eaters.

He even found himself feeling rather sorry for Malfoy and he even wondered whether Malfoy was okay.

"What I don't get is why would he do it?" Ron asked.

"Do what?" Hermione replied.

"You-Know-Who. Why would he attack one of his own?"

Harry heard this and decided to tell them why he thought Voldemort attacked them.

"Malfoy wouldn't kill Dumbledore. He couldn't, it was like he froze so Snape did it. Then Malfoy's Dad didn't get the prophecy in fifth year did he plus he got caught and is still in Azkaban. I suppose Voldemort wanted to teach the Malfoy's a lesson."

Ron and Hermione thought about it for a few moments then they nodded.

"You had best go and talk to Ginny. She should have calmed down by now," Ron said to Harry.

Harry nodded, got up and walked out of the kitchen.

He knocked on Ginny's door and heard her shout, "what!"

"Apparently she is still mad," Harry whispered to himself.

He pushed the door open and saw her laying on her bed whilst the Muggle singer Eminem was playing in the background.

"Hey Gin," Harry said.

Ginny sat up on her bed and looked at Harry.

"What do you want?" she asked.

"I'm sorry."

Ginny got up off her bed and walked to a CD player sat on her dresser.

She changed the CD and pressed play, soon enough the sound of Kelly Clarkson came out of it.

"Did you read it?" Ginny asked.

"Yeah and you're right. No matter how much I hate him, no one should have to watch their mother die," Harry replied.

Ginny smiled and hugged Harry.

"I wish You-Know-Who wasn't alive then you would be just a normal teenager," she whispered.

"Ginny, why are you listening to Muggle music?" Harry asked.

"It's Hermione's. Some of it is really good like that Ebidem guy," she replied.

"Eminem. Yeah he's okay. Dudley used to play it all the time. Strange really, Hermione having a CD by Eminem. I didn't think that she would ever agree to him," Harry told her.

Ginny laughed and nodded.

"Anyway if we don't go downstairs soon then Ron will think that we're up to something," Harry said regretfully.

"Like what?"

"Sex. As much as I like you, I'm not ready to have your brother's kill me for sleeping with you just yet."

Harry and Ginny walked down the stairs and into the kitchen holding each other's hand.

When they were in the kitchen, both had to stifle laughs at the sight before them.

Ron and Hermione were stood in the middle of the kitchen participating in a rather heated kiss.

Ginny looked up at Harry and smirked before shouting, "RONALD WEASLEY!"

Ron pulled away from Hermione and looked around the kitchen while saying, "sorry mum. We didn't mean to. It just happened."

When he got no response he turned round and came face to face with Ginny and Harry who by now were near enough to rolling around on the floor laughing.

Both Ron and Hermione had turned bright red and were looking sheepishly at Harry and Ginny.

"Ginny, we were um. We weren't doing anything really," Hermione tried to explain.

"Oh come on Hermione Granger, me and you both know that you have wanted this since fourth year," Ginny told her.

Hermione smiled and giggled at her.

"Can we forget that you ever saw this? You know carry on like we were before this happened?" Ron asked.

The other's nodded in agreement and went about their own business.

Needless to say that Harry and Ginny tried to avoid Ron and Hermione until dinner in fear of laughing at them again.

However news of Ron and Hermione's kiss did reach the ears of the other Weasley brothers through the means of Fred and George and their extendable ears.

As everyone sat down for dinner that night no one was prepared for the events that were going to unfold.

"So what did you do today Ron?" Mrs Weasley asked doing her usual 'ask the children what they were up to' routine.

"Hermione hopefully," George replied which made Harry laugh.

Ron looked up at Harry and George and shot them death glares.

"I played Quidditch with Harry mum. He was too busy thinking about Ginny and I won," Ron told Mrs Weasley.

Ginny erupted into a fit of giggles when she saw Ron's face which was by now as red as a lobster.

"Hey Ron?" George asked.

"Are you sure that you played Quidditch with Harry earlier? Only I could have sworn that it was Hermione you played with," Fred commented.

This last comment was the final straw for Hermione.

She stood up and looked at the twins.

"Honestly Fred, George! It was nothing! What happened between myself and Ronald was perfectly normal! You can't say that you haven't done anything like it before because I know perfectly well that you have! Why George, you were kissing girls in every corridor at Hogwarts and as for Fred! Well I walked in on you and Angelina participating in an activity that can produce children if it goes wrong!"

She looked around the table and saw that everyone had shut up.

Ron was still red but was now looking at her, Harry and Ginny were looking at Hermione in amazement, Fred was holding his head in his hands, George was looking at Fred smirking and Mrs Weasley was glaring at Fred.

She sighed then stormed out of the kitchen.

Once Hermione had shut the back door, everyone looked at Fred.

"FRED WEASLEY! YOU DID WITH WHAT WITH ANGELINA?" Mrs Weasley shouted in Fred's direction.

"We didn't do anything like that mum and even if we did we're both over the legal age," Fred explained calmly.

"I DON'T CARE IF YOU ARE OVER THE LEGAL AGE YOUNG MAN! JUST THINK OF THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE SETTING FOR YOUR SISTER!" Mrs Weasley scolded.

Ron had ignored the whole argument and had spent the whole time looking at the back door.

"I'm going to see if Hermione's okay," Ron said to no one in particular.

When he got no answer, he looked around and saw that his mother was still scolding his brother and that the other's were laughing at Fred's face which was turning redder with every word that Mrs Weasley said to him.

Ron shrugged his shoulders and got up from the table then made his way to the back door.

The last thing that Ron heard as he walked out of the door was Fred singing, "I'm sorry mama, I never meant to hurt you, I never meant to make you cry but tonight Hermione's cleaning out my closet," and Ginny erupting into a fit of giggles.

Ron walked around the garden for a while looking for Hermione.

Eventually he found her sitting on the grass in the middle of the orchard where they play Quidditch.

Ron sat down next to Hermione and realised that she was crying.

"Hey."

Hermione sniffed, wiped her eyes then looked at Ron.

"Hey," she replied quietly.

"Are you okay?" Ron asked.

"As well as I can be. Is your mum really mad at Fred?"

"Kind of. She started yelling at him. She turned round and told him to think about the example he's setting Ginny. Then he sang one of those Enemin songs that you have."

Hermione thought of Mrs Weasley saying that to Fred and Fred replying with a song and smiled.

"Ron, it's Eminem. Kind of like the Muggle sweets M and M's," she said as she giggled.

"Now that's more like it. The smile and laugh that only Hermione can do is back," Ron told her.

Their heads had gotten dangerously near each other again just like they had in the kitchen.

Before they knew it they were kissing each other again.

After a few moments they pulled away from each other and blushed.

Ron stood up and held out his hand for Hermione.

"Shall we go back inside?" he asked.

Hermione nodded, took Ron's hand and pulled herself up.

Ron put his arm around Hermione's waist and together they walked back to the house.

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