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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.

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.

This is the final chapter of this fic! I'm kinda sad to see it finished but I have started the sequel to One Night Can Change Everything and the final part of the trilogy! Give me a week or so and I'll start putting it up. And I'm working on a new one shot so hopefully that'll be up soon as well.

My ghost hunt was amazing and I can't wait till I go on another one. We had lots of activity and pessessions. 2 of the possessions were people sat right next to me so I was kinda scared.

Also I had 90 hits for the last chapter but only one review! Come on guys I need to know what you think.

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raidee - Thanks for reading and reviewing. I wanted an original way for him to die and me and one of my best friends were thinking of all these weird and wonderful ways he could die and she said about the wand so I stuck it in there.

Anyways now onto our feature presentation.

Chapter 17 – Harry Returns

After what seemed like he had been laying in between his parents' graves forever Harry decided that it would be best if he headed back to Hogwarts. He stood up and whispered that he would come back to see them soon before he disapparated out of Godric's Hollow and back to the edge of Hogsmeade where the castle gates were. The first thing that he noticed was that the castle gates were unlocked so he pushed them open and slowly made his way back up to the castle. He very slowly made his way to the Astronomy Tower and when he was safely there he began to make it look nice so that he could bring Ginny up here to see if she would consider being his girlfriend again.

He conjured up a table and two chairs and put them in the middle of the room before he conjured some fairy lights and began to light up the dingy room by moving them to the places that he would like them to light up. After he had done this Harry sat down at the table and tried to work out what to say to Ginny. When that was done he quickly made his way down to the kitchen to get some food to put on the table before heading back to Gryffindor Tower.

As he entered Gryffindor Tower he saw that a party was in full swing but Ginny was missing. Harry decided that it would be best to find Ron and to ask where his sister was.

"Ron, do you know where Ginny is? I want to take her to the Astronomy Tower to talk to her privately," Harry said to his best friend.

Ron looked at him rather grimly before saying "Harry, mate I'm so sorry."

"For what?" Harry asked while his smile faded from his face.

Ron looked away from Harry and decided what to say next.

"Ron?" Harry asked warningly.

"Well um. Err. You know I'm telling you this for your own good and because you deserve to know and your heart doesn't need to be broken again don't you?" Ron replied as he turned to face Harry.

"Yeah. Just tell me."

"I'veseenginnywithdeandownbythelakesnogginglikethere'snotomorrow," Ron said very fast.

"Huh? Slow down."

Ron took a deep breath then repeated what he had just said.

"I've seen Ginny with Dean down by the lake snogging like there's no tomorrow. Sorry."

Harry looked very disappointed then looked at Ron and shrugged.

"It's okay, I didn't like her that much anyway."

Ron nodded and looked at Harry as though he didn't believe him before he grabbed hold of Harry's arm and took him to where Hermione was standing. A few moments later Ginny reappeared in the common room and grabbed the first drink she could see. The night slowly wore on with Ron and Ginny drinking all kinds of alcohol while Harry and Hermione stood next to each other and talked quietly. Towards the end of the night Harry decided that it would be a good idea to look out of the window at the fireworks that were lighting up the sky. He soon realised that he wasn't alone though.

"Congratulations Harry," a soft voice said to him as someone put his or her hand on his shoulder.

Harry turned around and came face to face with Bri Culver.

"Not now. I'm not in the mood. How can you congratulate me when I've just killed someone? Don't you get it? The world's hero is a murderer," Harry replied.

"Harry, you saved us all. We can now have normal lives again. We can live without having to worry whether we'll see tomorrow."

"Suppose so. I haven't spoken to her all night," Harry said as he gestured to his former girlfriend.

"Oh don't worry about her Harry. You're too good for her. I heard that she was kissing Dean. If she's supposed to in love with you then she wouldn't do that."

Harry nodded and found that he couldn't take his eyes off Ginny. Bri noticed this and snapped her fingers in front of him.

"Listen Harry. Why don't we go upstairs and do a little celebrating of our own?"

"No. You're not her and you never will be. Sleeping with you was a mistake. One that I will never repeat again. See you," Harry replied as he walked away.

A few seconds later Harry was stood in front of Hermione.

"Can we go? This is getting too much for me," Harry told her.

Hermione nodded and walked with him back to the head's common room.

Once they were back in the common room Harry and Hermione sat down on the sofa and faced each other.

"When I was back in Gryffindor Tower. Brionna Culver said to me that she wanted to sleep with me," Harry said to Hermione truthfully.

"Really?" Hermione replied.

Harry nodded before saying something.

"I've already done that and she's not that great in bed. It was shortly after me and Ginny broke up. I would never do that now. In fact the only girl that I would dare to think of sleeping with other than Ginny would be you. But that's only because I trust you and I know that you wouldn't sell the story to the media."

Hermione nodded then licked her lips.

"How about we do it now?" she said.

"What?"

"We could sleep together. Let's face it Ron isn't going to realise his feelings for me anytime soon and I could be stuck as a virgin for the rest of my life. I don't want that and you need some comfort. We could do it then move on and forget about it," Hermione explained.

Harry thought for a few seconds then said, "okay."

Hermione moved closer to kiss Harry but he realised what she was going to do and made the first move. After a few minute of kissing Harry broke away and looked at her.

"Mi?"

"Yes?"

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Of course you silly bugger."

"It's just one night. Right? No strings attached and after this we both move on with our lives."

"Yeah."

Harry stood up and held out his hand to help Hermione up. Slowly they walked through the door to Harry's bedroom before shutting the door. Soon enough Harry was stood only his boxer shorts and he was frantically looking for something.

"BUGGER!"

"What?"

"I've got no protection."

"Harry calm down. I'll do the charm. Now come here."

Harry walked calmly over to Hermione and sat next to her on the bed.

"Now where were we?"

Hermione grabbed the back of his neck and pulled him down on top of her and continued to kiss him.

Hours later Harry woke up and looked at the now sleeping Hermione next to him. Little did he know that she had only just fallen asleep after feeling rather restless and spending half the night looking at Harry. Harry very slowly got out of the bed and dressed before sitting down at his desk and starting to write a letter. When he was happy with the letter he folded it in half and wrote 'Hermione' on the front of it. Harry packed what he felt that he would need on this next adventure and put the letter on the bedside table where he knew that his best friend would find it.

When he was packed Harry got hold of his trunk and walked slowly and quietly through the common room while levitating the trunk in front of him. He set it down by the door and turned to look at Ginny who was now asleep on the floor with Ron. He walked over to her and bent down to give her a kiss on the cheek.

"Sorry. I love you," he whispered before he walked back to the door and walked out of the room with his trunk.

Ginny snorted in her sleep and rolled over unaware that Harry had left. Meanwhile Harry was walking through the castle with his trunk whilst secretly wishing that no one would be up to see their great hero disappearing from the Wizarding world. Once he was outside the main castle gates, Harry looked back at the only home he knew before he disapparated out of the Wizarding world for what he thought was forever.

What happened next in Harry's life was a completely different story altogether.

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