Chapter Five: Godric's Hollow.

The next day after lunch Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were sitting in the back garden drinking lemonade and chatting.

"Guys" He said.

They all turned towards him "yeah mate." Ron said.

"Before we go back to Hogwarts I want to go to Godric's Hollow. Would you mind coming with me?" He asked.

"Sure Harry, when do you want to go?" Hermione asked.

Harry smiled "Thanks. I was hoping that now we all have our apparation licenses we could go tomorrow." He replied.

Ginny cleared her throat "I don't." She said.

"You can side-along with me." Harry answered her.

"Oh, ok then." She said smiling.

"We'll have to clear it with mum first." Ron stated.

"I'll go talk to her." Harry said standing up. He went in to the living room where Mrs Weasley was cleaning "Mrs Weasley" he said.

"Yes dear." She said sitting down.

"Um…" He said taking a deep breath "I'd like to visit Godric's Hollow tomorrow and I want Ron, Hermione and Ginny to come with me if that's ok with you." He paused "I know Ginny can't Apparate yet but she can side-along with me." He said.

"Have you ever done it before?" She asked.

Harry nodded thinking of the one time he had Apparated for two "Yes… I had to do it with Professor Dumbledore the night he… you know…" Harry couldn't say died the memory was still too raw.

"Are you sure you want to go?" She asked.

"Yes, but I need the others there for support" Harry replied.

"Ok then dear. The others may go with you," she answered warmly.

"Thank you Mrs Weasley" he said.

"No need dear. I know how important this is to you" Mrs Weasley said hugging him.

The next morning Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny woke up early to have their breakfast and pack up some food for the day before preparing to leave.

"Grip my hand very tightly Gin" Harry said to his girlfriend as they stood out in the garden to Apparate.

CRACK! There was a completely deserted town spanning out in front of them it was almost spooky. A lot of the houses were completely destroyed, some only part. The street was destroyed. Ginny who was already gripping Harry's hand tightly squeezed harder and Harry noticed Hermione gripping Ron's hand tightly to. All four of them held their wands tightly with free hands and walked forward cautiously. There was a small graveyard that looked like it hadn't been affected by the blast. They headed towards it.

When Harry walked through the rusty gate he noticed that most of the graves were overgrown and the writing on the headstones was barely readable. They walked row to row until Harry spotted two shiny and immaculate headstones side by side; somebody had obviously cared for these graves there were flowers on both of them. He read the writing.

In loving memory of
Lily Potter (nee Evans)
17th May 1958 – 31st October 1981
A friend to all.

Harry stared at it with his mouth open. He read the one next to it knowing whose it'd be…

In loving memory of
James Potter
5th April 1958 – 31st October 1981
A first rate trouble maker.

Harry glanced at Ginny, why did she have tears running down her face? Hermione had buried her face in Ron's chest; Ron gave him a reassuring look. Harry knelt down, the others stepped back.

Harry wanted to say something but couldn't think of any words. He remembered at the end of his forth year when his parents ghostly forms had emerged from Voldemort's wand and spoken to him words of encouragement, he saw them smiling at him from the mirror of erised in his first year and he thought of the photo album full of photo's that Hagrid had collected of them and given to him at the end of that same year. He didn't notice when tears started to slide down his cheeks or Ginny joining him on the ground to comfort him. Harry had never grieved for his parents; he didn't remember them and he only knew what other people had told him.

Ten minuets later Harry was calm and ready to leave, a letter emerged from thin air and fluttered in to his hand on it were the words Harry James Potter he stared at it in his hands for another five minuets before pocketing it and walking back out the gate.

At the end of the street Ginny took Harry's hand and squeezed, he looked at her and smiled. Just then something caught his eye; near the ruins of a house was a sign.

Mr and Mrs J and L Potter and H Potter

Harry let go of Ginny and knelt down to closer inspect the sign. The last line seemed to have been added a while after the first. This was where Harry's parents had lived. He walked in to the middle of the rubble and started moving things aside.

"Harry?" Ginny said

Without speaking Harry handed her the sign, her jaw dropped. She showed the sign to Ron and Hermione before crouching down to help Harry search for anything that may have belonged to his parents.

After searching for fifteen minuets Hermione moved aside a large rock. She gasped and put her hand over her mouth "Harry come here, look at this" she said.

Harry ran over to her, she handed him a not even ripped but dirty, blue, polar fleece blanket with satin trimming. Harry's attention was drawn to a name embroidered in one of the corners, Harry. Without a word he folded it up and placed it in to his backpack.

They kept looking for over two hours without finding anything more than pieces of broken furniture and fragments of brick. As Harry moved aside a piece of wood the sun caught a shiny gold ring with a ruby set in it, he picked it up and pocketed it before continuing the search. Another hour passed before Ron found a necklace with a heart shaped locket on it, Harry opened it, staring up at him was a picture of himself as a baby on one side and his fathers smiling face on the other.

Half an hour later Harry found something that took his breath away. He had picked up something that looked as though it was just rubbish but upon closer inspection he discovered that the stick he was about to throw aside had a handle with the initials JP engraved on it.

"Come here guys!" He shouted though he really didn't need to.

His friends ran over to him

"I think this was my dad's wand look." He said pointing to the initials. They stood in awe for ten minuets before Ron said that he was hungry and they should eat before they went on searching through the ruins of the house. They stood to eat their lunch as there wasn't really anywhere suitable to sit.

By the end of the day Harry had in his backpack the sign, the ruby ring, the locket and the wand as well as another diamond ring, a silver ID bracelet with his father's name engraved on the front and on the back love from Lily, a photo frame with a picture of the four of his grandparents in it (he recognised them from the mirror of erised) and two silver goblets emblazoned with lions.

A/N: I don't own any of the potterverse... The birth dates that I wrote for Lily and James are not confirmed, I made them up, the year should be accurate though... the plot thinckens huh? Things will be explained in the next chapter so please enjoy and review!