Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out Saturday. I bought the book at 12:01 (don't you hate that they added that extra hell minute) at my local walmart. I stayed up the entire night reading it and finished it on Saturday. Boy oh boy was it sad. Terrible really. But i'm not going to spoil it for those who have not read, and if you had, I encourage you to not spoil it for others either. Sadly, the Harry Potter series has come to an end, just like this story has. I've been reading this series since I was like... 8. When you're a kid, you never expect the books to end. I guess that's one kid quality I never quite got rid of. I knew it HAD to happen, but I just didn't believe it would. And now it has. July 21st will always be known to me as Harry Potter day. Always.

Disclaimer: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was nothing like the story you all are reading. Therefore, I can not be JK Rowling, therefore I can not own anything related to the characters and the trademarks except for the merchandise I have bought. If buying merchandise makes you JK Rowling, then that means that there must be more then one-hundred-million JK Rowling's in the world.

Dedicated to JK Rowling and Harry Potter. JKR because

she brought the wonderful world of Harry Potter to life in

millions of people's hearts. Harry Potter because he

defeated the Dark Lord and saved everyone without thinking

of himself, even though he doesn't know everyone in the

world and even though he would probably not like a lot of

the people he saved, he did it anyway. That's bravery if I

ever heard of it.

Chapter 22: Bravery in Love

The battle raged between the good and the bad. No one had noticed Voldemort and Harry talking. No one had noticed Ginny, Ron, and Hermione. They were all too busy fighting. No one noticed Ginny preparing to attck Harry.

"Avada Ked-"

"NO! Expeliarmus!" Ron shouted. Ginny's wand flew from her hands as she was thrown backwards.

"Fool!" Voldemort screeched. "Crucio!"

Hemione screamed and threw a curse at Voldemort. Harry ran forward to Ginny, who had crawled within reach of her wand. Harry ripped it from her grasp and pinned her to the ground. They struggled agianst each other's strength for a moment.

"Ginny," Harry grunted. "Snap out of it! Wake up! You can do it Ginny, fight him!" He yelped as he was blasted off of her.

"Get up girl!" Voldemort yelled. He threw Ginny her wand and pointed his own at Harry. Instantly ropes shot out of it and wrapped around the boy. "Well how does this situation look to you Harry?"

Ginny stepped in front of Harry, her wand once more pointed at him. "Goodbye Harry." She wispered in a cruel, coldless and uncaring voice.

"Kill him." Voldemort hissed.

"Avada K-"

"Ginny i'm sorry!" Harry yelled. Ginny froze.

"Kill him!" Voldemort hissed a little louder and more forcefully. Ginny's wand moved up a little higher.

"Ginny, hear me out." Harry called to her. Something flashed behind the girl's eyes and she lowered her wand an inch. Voldemort hissed something to her so that Harry could not hear. The wand rose agian.

Harry tried, despraite, agian. "Ginny." He pleaded.

"What are you doing girl?! Kill him already!" Voldemort roared. Ginny's eyes flashed agian and the wand was inches from Hary's heart.

"I'm sorry Ginny." Harry continued. "I should have believed in you. I should have kept you near me. You were right. You can help. So help me now. Snap out of it!" There was a moment where no one said anything. Harry and Voldemort stared at Ginny, she at Harry.

"Ha-rry." Ginny finally croaked.

"That's right Ginny. You can do it. Fight him." Harry urged. "Fight him!"

"What are you doing?! "Voldemort yelled. "Kill him Ginny, kill him now!" Ginny's arm raised as she shook her head.

"Ginny," Harry yelled. "Ginny I love you!" Tears leaked down Ginny's cheeks as she fought with herself. "I love you ginny!"

She stood frozen in place, a pained expression on her face. Harry swallowed hard, just waiting. Voldemort seemed frozen too. They just stood there as Ginny cried. A sob escaped her lips. It broke the trance everyone was in.

"Ginerva, listen to me!" Voldemort spoke. His tone was icy and angry. "He lies. He doesn't love you. He never has. Only I have ever loved you. I alone have shown you the love you want and need. Only I have given you love and care. Listen to me!"

Ginny's eyes widened as a memory flooded her mind. The chamber, the snake, Tom Riddle, the diary, they all flashed in her head. A clam, soft, nurturing voice was saying the same things Voldemort was now. 'He doesn't care Ginny, only I care. He ignores you, and pities you. I know you Ginny, I know what you want, what you need. Let me give it to you. Let me care for you.' With as much power as she could muster, Ginny threw her wand to the side, sobbing as she broke the curse and fell to the ground.

In Voldemort's shock and anger, he had forgotten to concentrate on Harry's bindings. The ropes fell away and Harry ran to Ginny. He dropped to the ground next to her and hugged her.

"NO! Look what you've done Potter! How did this happen?!" Voldemort shouted. "How did she break my spell!"

"It's called love, Tom." Ginny's once glazed eyes bore holes into the Lord's face. "Something you've never understood." She calmly walked to her wand now that she knew she could trust herself.

Voldemort sneered at her. "Love is a silly emotion that only gets in the way of power." He flicked his wand and Ginny went soaring back into a tree 20 yards away. "All distractions out of the way, this is between you and me now Harry."

Harry shuddered as a deatheater swooped down on Ginny. "That's it Voldemort! I'm tired of this. Let's finish it!" He pointed his wand at his foe and shouted a curse.

Harry fought Voldemort for what seemed like an eternity, but he was steadily becoming weaker. With every curse he dodged, every curse that hit him, and every curse he sent out he was growing even more tired. Voldemort shot the crutacious curse one more time at Harry, who wasn't able to dodge it fast enough. He was hit and thrown back, screaming in pain. The curse lifted and he lay on the ground panting and sweating, staring hopelessly at the sky before Voldemort appeared above him.

"Tired Potter? Are you ready for all of this to end? Are you ready for the pain and suffering you've felt to stop?" Voldemort asked in a tone that clearly said he was pretending to care.

"Yes." Harry croaked.

Voldemort laughed. "One little word and you can be done with it. Just answer me Harry, do you give up?"

Harry was beginning to lose conciousness. His mind was screaming that, yes, he was giving up. He wanted so badly to it, to never have to deal with the pain, the suffering, the torture, the everything. He was done being a hero and thinking about everyone else; He wanted to think about himself and how he felt. But a small voice, that was quickly being overcome was telling him that if he gave up now, everyone he had ever loved and many more people would feel the pain and torture for years to come.

"I-"

"NO!" A scream sounded from somewhere on his left. A flash of purple blasted Voldemort away. Harry felt someone drop beside him and cried when he saw Ginny. Her hair was matted and sticky. A gash across her forehead was dripping blood. She had two more scratches on her left cheek and a deep slice across her stomache. She winced as he raised a trembling hand to touch the slice. She grabbed his hand and held it agianst her cheek.

"Harry, listen to me. You musn't give up. You can't. Like you told me, you have to fight him. He's trying to use your disadvantages agianst you. His trying to use your weakened state to trick you into giving up. But you can't Harry. You simply can't. Everything you suffered for, everything you fought for will all be in vain if you do. You worked so hard to get rid of him, don't let it all go to waste. Don't let me down Harry. Harry, can you hear me?" Ginny bushed his bangs out of his face. His eyes were drooping and he wasn't concentrating. She glanced up worridly and then back down at him. "Harry, Harry I love you too! Don't die on me now!" She cried. His hand slipped from hers as she shook him. "Don't you DARE!" She screamed.

Without thinking about what she was doing, Ginny bent over him and pressed her lips agianst his in a pleading kiss. A kiss that showed her fear, pain, and worry. She put all her emotions into it and nearly broke this kiss to yell happily as Harry started to kiss her back. The air seemed to crack and Ginny felt very warm suddenly. When the kiss ended, Harry looked right into her eyes. They were glowing with power. Infact, he and Ginny were glowing themselves. They were covered from head to toe in a soft white mist. Voldemort was standing in front of them, having succesfully gotten rid of the bat boogie hex Ginny had shot him with. His eyes widened as he looked at them.

"What- what is this?" He asked.

Harry stood, shakily and helped Ginny to her feet. He turned to Voldemort, his wand pointed toward the evil man. "Love gets in the way of power?" He asked. "Didn't you say that? You were mistaken. No, love is power." He grabbed Ginny's hand and squeezed it. She squeezed back. "That will be your downfall.

"AVADA KEDAVERA!" Harry's voice echoed as a green light flashed from his wand. There was a moment where Voldemort just stood, the shocked expression on his face. But the moment lasted only a second and then a blinding red light flashed. Ginny felt a powerful burst before she was thrown backwards. She blanked out for a moment before feeling the most terrible pain she could have ever felt. Her body was screaming and it felt like it was on fire. She heard herself screaming. Nothing, nothing could have ever felt as bad as the pain she was feeling. But, a thought kept popping into her dazed, pained, and confussed mind. Where was Harry? She rolled over an attempted to get to her knees, but she was too weak. Instead, she began to crawl. She hadn't even crawled a foot when she came into contact with another body. She screamed when she saw it was Harry. He didn't appear to be breathing at all, but he couldn't be dead. He couldn't be dead.

Ginny screamed agian and began yelling for help. It seemed as if they were both alone, stranded. She kept yelling, hoping someone would hear and come running. She yelled and yelled. When she stopped to breath she felt her aweful pain, momentarily forgotten come rushing back to her. She pushed herself onto Harry's stomach, crying into his shirt. "Don't die, please don't die. Don't leave me Harry." She pleaded. She heard pounding and lifted her head to see shapes running at her through her distorted vision. One of the shapes grabbed her and hauled her away before setting her down and ripping at the cloth covering her stomach.

"I need someone over here, she's not doing well!" The person yelled. Several more people came running over and kneeled next to her.

Ginny blinked several times, trying to see clearer. She felt another hand take hers. "It's ok Gin, don't worry. Just stay calm." She knew the voice belonged to Fred. "George, she's losing conciousness. She's not going to make it. Do something!"

"Harry," Ginny wispered. Her throat was burning and she wished for a glass of water. "Where's... Harry? What's... happening... to..."

"Shhh Gin. Don't talk." Fred wispered. She could feel him wince as a voice shouted.

"Harry's not going to make it! We're losing him. Can't you do anything?!" Ginny tensed. Harry was dieing.

"No no no." She muttered. The people who were trying to work on her gasped and shouted as she tried to wiggle away from them and sit up. But she couldn't. She was too weak. She tried and tried but the people kept pushing her down, not that it mattered, for she could only raise herself about an inch from the ground before she would fall back anyway.

"Don't move Gin, they're trying to help."

"Help Harry. Forget... me..." She groaned in pain.

"Harry! Harry!" She heard Ron shouting. "Harry don't die! Hermione he's dieing!"

"Don't listen to them Gin. Don't listen to anything."

"HARRY!" This one was a scream. It was then Ginny knew. She knew Harry was really dieing. The seconds of his life were ticking away. She would never see him agian. Not alive anyway. She gave up trying to fight to stay alive. She screamed as her head felt like it was exploding. The pain made her vision dark. Then, then she couldn't hear Fred's voice reassuring her. She couldn't speak. She was sinking, sinking and she knew she would never come back. She wasn't going to come back. If everything was going as she thought it was, she didn't think she would ever want to come back. She heard one last yell from Fred and then she was gone, sucked into the darkness.

That's it everyone. That's the end of the story. There's no more chapters, nothing. I know you don't know what happens completely. It's all faded and hazy and a rather disappointing end. But that's the way I saw fit to end it. I created the end of the story in my head before I had even started writing the beginning.

Thanks to all my reviewers who have stuck by me through all of this mess. And for those who started in the middle, thank you for reading and reviewing anyway! You are all wonderful, and i'm sorry I had to be so rude and end it like this.

This was indeed my favorite chapter out of them all. It was my favorite to write, and my favorite to read. When a story comes to an end, I like to think that that's it. There's nothing else that can be done to it. But then I think, no. That's a lie. Several things can be done with it. Things can be done with it until the end of time. Because something else can always happen. Soemthing will always happen. Just because it's a story, doesn't mean time stops in it for the real world. I'm surprised JK Rowling didn't realise this. She can't stop people from trying to continue the story, because the story continues in our hearts and in our minds. Every author should know and understand that.

The end of this story is unclear and very depressing in the sense that you don't know what's happened. Do you want to? Then reveiw and tell me so. We'll see what I can do about this.

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