Dead?

Ginny's head bobbed up and down over Harry's chest as she sobbed. Harry's robes were wet with her tears. He was still as stone.

Aurors surrounded Harry and Ginny. They gasped when they saw Harry's body sprawled on the ground. Some of the witches started crying, and a couple of them apparated away. I minute later, the woods were filling with Ministry officials. Most of them were yelling and screaming.

There were reporters everywhere. Flashes of light went off all around Ginny, but she didn't notice anything. It was still going over her head that it was her fault Harry had died.

"Ms. Weasley!" the reporters called, snapping pictures of Ginny sobbing on Harry chest. "Ms. Weasley! What happened? Tell us! How did he die! Ms. Weasley!"

More reporters started filling the woods. The aurors were trying to keep them back, but they were trained to fight Dark Wizards, not nasty reporters with attitudes.

"What's going on?" people asked.

"It's him! Harry Potter! He's dead!"

"WHAT! I don't believe you!"

"It's true!" other people screamed. "He's laying over there!"

"We think a Hungarian Horntail attacked him!"

"You idiot! It was obviously Death Eaters! They actually got him! Can you believe it!"

"I thought he was invincible!"

"Obviously not!"

"The Harry Potter is dead?"

"The world is coming to an end!"

"Everybody clear out! That is an order!"

Ginny recognized this last voice, and was happy to have someone save her from the reporters. The Minister of Magic himself was standing in front of her. He gave her a weak smile and tried to get her to leave Harry's body.

"Come on, Ms. Weaselby. It won't do you any good to be near his dead body."

At this, more tears flowed from Ginny's eyes, and she wrapped her hands tighter around his neck and sobbed harder into his chest.

"I said clear out!" the Minister yelled to the reporters still flashing pictures. The Ministry officials managed to put a shield between the reporters and Harry's body. This shield acted as some type of two-way mirror, allowing the people on one side to see the other, but the people on the other side were not able to see anything. The reporters couldn't see anything, and they couldn't brake through the shield, so most of them apparated away.

"Come on Ms. Weaselby, I really don't thin – "

"Ginny!"

Ginny looked up at the sound of her father's voice.

"Oh my god, Ginny!" Mr. Weasley yelled, heading towards her. "You're alive! And when I heard! It's not true, is it? Tell me it's not true, Ginny! Harry… he's not…"

"I'm sorry, Arthur," The Minister said. "He's dead."

"Bloody mother of god!"

Ginny was still sobbing on Harry's chest.

"Ginny, please come," Mr. Weasley said. "You can't help him now…"

Ginny saw the tears in her father's eyes, and she swung herself at him. "Dad…" she sobbed on his shoulder. "It's all my fault… he told me not to come… it's all my fault…"

"You can't blame yourself, Ginny," Mr. Weasley said, although he was crying.

"Arthur," the Minister interrupted. "I think I should get some people to take Harry's body back to the Ministry – "

"What!" Ginny cried, speaking to the Minister for the first time that night. "No! He's got to come with us. He's a part of our family! I don't want more reporters gawking at him." As she said this, Ginny started to cry again.

"I think she's right, Minister," Mr. Weasley said. "He was – is – part of our family."

"Alright…" The Minister thought. "I think he would have liked that best."

Mr. Weasley nodded. "Thank you, Minister."

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Ginny, Mr. Weasley, and the Minister of Magic apparated to the Burrow. Mr. Weasley and the Minister were carrying Harry's body.

As soon as the people in the Burrow heard the pops, they rushed outside.

"It's not true!" Mrs. Weasley cried. "Arthur… Harry…"

Ron grabbed Ginny by the shoulders and eyed Harry's body. "Ginny, what happened? He's just been stunned, right! That's all, he's just been stunned!"

Ginny shrugged Ron's hand's off of her shoulders and ran into the house. Hermione looked after her with tears in her eyes. She knew what that meant.

The Minister looked down at his feet and said, "I'm sorry to you all." Then he apparated away.

That night, if you had been even a mile away from the Burrow, you would have heard the cries of Mrs. Weasley and Fleur. Ron and Hermione sobbed in each other's arms. Mr. Weasley and Tonks and Lupin cried as well. The twins went inside their room, for once in their life not causing trouble. Ginny locked herself in her room. She cried by herself. She cried until her throat couldn't cry anymore. And then she realized she was alone. She was all alone.

Harry Potter Dead

Last night Harry Potter, The Chosen One, The Boy Who Lived, lived no more. Shot by seven Death Eaters in the Chest with the Avada Kadavra curse, Harry Potter couldn't escape Death a second time. It was said that he survived his first killing curse because of his mother's love fore him. This time, Harry didn't his mother with him. Even if he had, he wouldn't be able to escape with seven killing curses to the chest. No one is that powerful. This morning, the Chocolate Frog Company announced that they were going to put Mr. Potter in their cards. So next time you eat a chocolate frog, look for Harry Potter, our chosen one, our boy who lived. We are all deeply concerned with the death of Harry James Potter, 19 years of age, and we all send our deepest regrets to the people he knew best.

Mrs. Petunia Dursley

Number 4, Privet Drive

Little Whining,

Surrey,

The Kitchen

Dear Petunia

I am sorry to tell you that Harry is dead. He died last night in a fight against some of the darkest wizards of our time. I know you must feel terrible, and I would be happy to have tea with you sometime. Please send me a letter so we can discuss things.

Molly Weasley

"Bloody hell!" Uncle Vernon said after he read the letter.

Aunt Petunia stared at the letter in silence. She was never fond of the boy, but he was her sister's son. She couldn't believe what she was reading. Now all of her family was dead. It was impossible. It couldn't be true.

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Albus Dumbledore stood looking over Harry's body. Fred had given his bed up for Harry.

"Who was with him when he was shot with the curses?" Dumbledore asked.

Hermione managed a choked, "Ginny."

Nobody in the room caught the glint in Dumbledore's eyes except for Snape, who was standing at the door.

"Would someone please call her here," Dumbledore requested.

"She won't come," Ron said immediately. Ginny had been avoiding everyone since Harry's death.

"I'll get her," Hermione said.

She left the room, and a few minutes later she came back with a red-eyed Ginny.

"Ahh…" Dumbledore started. "Ms. Weasley. I am really glad you've joined us."

Ginny could bring herself to look the old man in the eye.

Dumbledore continued. "Would you please allow us to see that memory of when the curses hit Harry?"

Ginny looked up, startled. "What do you need those for?"

"It's crucial," Dumbledore answered simply.

"Crucial!" Everyone except for Snape and Dumbledore jumped as Ginny yelled. "Harry's dead! And you're saying my memories are crucial!"

Dumbledore stayed calm. "I'll explain later, Ms. Weasley, but I really need to know what happened."

Ginny stared at him, but finally said, "I'm not very good at extracting memories."

Dumbledore smiled. "It's a simple spell."

Dumbledore showed her the spell, and after two tries, she finally managed to extract the memories of when the Death Eaters surrounded her and Harry.

Everyone watched quietly as Dumbledore made the figures from the tip of Ginny's wand appear in the room, as if the woods were inside the room.

A flash of green light flashed way to close to her ear, and someone apparated behind Ginny. An invisible hand wrapped over her mouth and then another invisible hand wrapped around her waist. The invisible hand pulled her tight into a hard invisible chest, and then the invisible man disapparated with her.

Ginny struggled to get free of the invisible man, and managed to send red sparks flying through the air.

"Ginny!" The invisible man scolded.

Ginny froze.

"What do you think you're doing?" Harry said. "Now they all know where we're at."

Which was definitely true, because before Harry could even get all the words out, the woods around them started to fill up with Death Eaters who had seen the sparks. They were surrounded.

Harry wrapped his arms tighter around Ginny, flicking his wand out. In two seconds, half of the Death Eaters lay on the ground, twisting around and screaming. Their eyes were rolling in their heads, and they were covering their ears.

"What did you do to them!" Ginny asked Harry, astounded.

But before he could answer, spells were flying all over the place.

Harry, who was fighting three Death Eaters at once, screamed at Ginny, "Go! Go now, Ginny!"

Ginny hit a stunning spell at one Death Eater who was trying to get up, and turned to face another. "No! I'm not leaving you!"

"I can take care of myself!" Harry screamed. "Go! That's an order!"

One Death Eater started laughing as he pointed his wand at Harry's back, and Ginny hit him straight in the chest with a stunning spell.

Ginny grinned at Harry, who now was fighting another four Death Eaters. Ginny turned around to face more Death Eaters, and found a wand pointing at her chest. The Death Eater was grinning maliciously as he said, "Say goodbye, blood traitor."

The man raised his wand and started screaming, "Ava - "

"NO!" Harry, who was at the time trying to fend off seven Death Eaters, turned and shot a spell at Ginny. Immediately a barrier stood between her and her attacker's wand.

When the man finished, "-da Kadavra!" the green light bounced off of the barrier and hit the man square in the chest. He was dead before he touched the ground.

"HARRRRRYYYYYYYYYYY!"

Seven strings of green light hit Harry in the chest as seven Death Eaters screamed, "Avada Kadavra!" He went flying through the woods and he hit the trunk of a tree with a loud thump! The Death Eaters disapparated away as more and more aurors started apparating into the clearing.

Ginny managed to get up and run to Harry. Tears started falling down her eyes before she saw Harry's body face lying face down on the ground. She turned him over and yelled, "Wake up, Harry! Wake up, please wake up!"

Everyone stared in silence as the silvery figures disappeared. For some odd reason, Ginny noticed that Dumbledore had a slight smile on his face. What was wrong with him? She felt like killing him!

"You!" Ron said, pointing at a surprised Ginny in anger. "You're the one who got him killed! It's all your fault!"

"Ron!" Mrs. Weasley and Hermione screamed in unison.

Ginny, with tears in her eyes, ran out of the room.

"Look what you've done!" Hermione yelled at Ron.

Dumbledore stared sternly at Ron. "There was no need for that, Mr. Weasley."

"She was the one who got Harry killed," Ron said, trying to defend himself from Dumbledore's stare. "He told her to go! He could have saved himself if her hadn't been busy saving her. Now he's dead."

Snape, who was leaning on the Door of the wall, walked over to Harry and looked down at him. Without looking at Ron, he said, "Actually he's not dead!"

"What!" Ron screamed. Everyone was looking at Snape in disbelief, but also in hopefulness.

"No need to scream, Mr. Weasley," Dumbledore said calmly. "Severus is right. He's not dead."

A/N

Hi you people! Did you guys like this chappie? I guess you're all relieved now, huh? Hope you enjoyed. And please, please, review. I'll right more when people review.

notsosirius – I hope you didn't kill anyone! lol.

Speacil2 - did you really think I'd kill Harry off when I'm hoping to god that Rowling doesn't kill him off?

carolquin – is this soon enough for you? Hope you liked!

harry-an-ginny – hope u loved this one too

Radcliffe's number 1 girl – I'm not really that evil. Only a bit. lol. But I guess you don't have to dream. At least I didn't kill him off…

sectumsempra – wow.. thanx for all the reviews. Glad you like it. :)

nihilus 1- I guess it won't be LIFE AFTER HARRY POTTER DEATH. But yeah, I did have fun writing this chapter. Thanx.

vain-comforts – feeling relief? Yeah, me too.