I still don't own Harry Potter (I know it sucks)
Right after Harry was gone Ginny made up her mind. She was going to start helping him today. She didn't care if he didn't want her worrying about him. She was decided. She would look for him and she would find him, and then he would listen to her, he would listen all that had been building up inside Ginny since he left. The little problem was that she still didn't know where he was. She remembered something Lily Potter had said. What was it? He is where it all started. Ginny could think of three places where it all had started. Hogwarts, Private Drive, and Godric's Hollow. She discarded Private Drive the moment she thought of it, just thinking about it was plain ridiculous, and Harry hated the place, why would he return there? There were Hogwarts and Godric's Hollow left. It could be really both. She decided to go to Hogwarts first. She just had a feeling she had to go there first, even if she knew deep down Harry wasn't there. She went back to her house, deciding it was easier to floo to Hogsmeade and then walked to the castle. Five minutes later Ginny was walking towards Hogwarts. She walked the familiar path thinking of Harry and what was she going to tell him when she would finally see him.
Inside the castle they were witches, wizards and house elves everywhere fixing stuff and helping rebuild the castle. She recognized several people that were in school with her, some she had saw fighting in the battle, and some she didn't recognize at all. She kept walking till she reached the Gryffindor tower. Inside there was no one, but then she noticed, sitting on a chair next to the window was Neville.
"Hey Neville" she said quietly. Neville turned surprised anyone was there
"Hello Ginny" Neville whisper. "What are you doing here?"
"Have you seen Harry?" she simply asked. Neville seemed to think for a while.
"Sorry, but not today" he finally said. Not today?
"What do you mean not today?" Ginny wondered. "Has he been coming?" Neville seemed confused. He been so busy helping the school that he didn't knew what had been going on with Harry and Ginny. He knew, though, that Hermione and Ron had gotten together after the battle, he just assumed that it had been the same with Harry and Ginny.
"Yes. He has been coming now and then to help." Neville looked carefully at Ginny, "Didn't he tell you?" Ginny looked down at her feet. She didn't say anything for a second, and then sighed before speaking.
"He… I … we hadn't been talking a lot lately" she finally said. Or looking at each other at all, she thought but she didn't say this out loud.
"Oh, do you you have any idea where he might be?" Neville asked, knowing that Ginny would like to talk to Harry. The two of them had really get to know each other in the few months they were in the head of the DA together.
"I think I know where he is" Ginny affirmed. "I think he is in Godric's Hollow"
"If you want I can apparate you there" Neville offered. Ginny realized she hadn't really thought of how to get to Godric's Hollow, she didn't exactly knew anyone who lived there where she could floo, and she couldn't apparate yet. She accepted Neville's offer, and the two friends started walking towards the outside of the castle. Neville had informed Ginny that they still couldn't disparate or apparate in Hogwarts.
"Ginny, why didn't you go straight to Godric's Hollow if you know he was there?" Neville asked while there were walking through the castle.
"I don't know" Ginny answered in a quiet voice looking to the floor, "guess I didn't know how to get there and I did how to get here."
A few minutes later they were dissaparating in Hogsmeade. They apparated in the outsides of the little town. Ginny thanked Neville and after he returned to Hogsmeade she started walking to face Harry. She walked through the street watching the first houses of the little village. She thought that in any of them could have been the Potter house. She imagined a little Harry playing with James, which was just an older version of Harry, and Lily watching them with a smile in her face. She smiled at the idea of a baby Harry. She kept walking until she found a little square with little shops and a pub. It had a monument for the heroes of some war and a church. She could see behind the church was the graveyard. She started walking towards it when something changed. When she was passing by the monument she realized now it was a statue of three familiar persons. It took Ginny a minute to realize they were James, Lily and a baby version of Harry without the scar. It didn't look anything like Ginny's fantasy. It looked somewhat unreal, like a reminder of what could be, or just a picture of the past a reminder of what once was and now it was gone. She continued her way to the graveyard. Everything was really quiet and still.
She stayed a few minutes in the cemetery. She rushed through the headstones reading quickly, recognizing some names from Hogwarts, but she was mostly looking for Harry she wasn't reading all of them. She stopped another few moments when she found the Dumbledore headstones but resumed her search quickly. She decided, after a while, that Harry wasn't in there. She started walking through some street where there were some houses to the side, she didn't know where she was heading, but she didn't have a destination in mind. She started wandering where else could Harry be. She could see where the houses ended and she also saw the last house didn't look like the others. It looked like it had been somehow abandoned. She walked toward the little cottage. The instant she saw it she knew it was what long ago the Potters lived. Not knowing they were going to die, not knowing his son would survive, not knowing he would have to face the darkest wizard ever. The house looked as normal as an abandoned house should looked. It was kind of dirty and the bushes and plants were wild and all over the place. The only reminder of what had happen here was a part in the top where it was totally destroyed. Ginny guessed that was where the curse had hit Harry when he was a baby. There was no one around the house so she decided to enter. She pushed the gate open and read the sign that appeared in front of her quickly. She stepped in and looked around. There to her right sitting behind a bush was Harry staring at the house. If he noticed her entrance he didn't showing, he seemed to be thinking too hard on something. She walked towards him this time he did turned at her. He stared at her.
"What are you doing here?" he asked almost in a whisper, after a long silence, still looking at her. Ginny stared back.
"Looking for you" Ginny said in soft voice. Harry went back to looking at the house.
"How do you know where I was?" Harry questioned, it sounded almost like an accusation. Ginny looked at the house and a little smile formed in her lips.
"I guess you would like to be here" she said, still looking at the house, deciding she would tell him about Lily later. She looked back at Harry and her smile faded. He kept looking at the house like if it contained a big secret and he was trying to discover it just by staring at it. "Can I sit here?" she asked him motioning to the space next to him. He shrugged, still looking at the house. Ginny took that as a yes and sat beside him. She stared at the house too.
After a few moments she asked "So this is it isn't? Where it all started?" For a moment she thought Harry wouldn't answer her, but after a few seconds he sighted and nodded.
"It is, well at least for me" he looked at the place that was destroyed, "It is where it all stared" he whispered, more to himself that to Ginny.
"And this is where you have been coming?" Ginny wondered, not wanting him to stop talking.
"No… well yes most of the time. I have also gone to Hogwarts to help a little" he told her.
"Oh, yeah Neville told me that you been to Hogwarts a few times"
"You saw Neville?" Harry raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, I went to Hogwarts" she admitted, "I thought you might be there" There was another long silence.
"How are you Harry?" Ginny thought it was the right thing to ask.
"Fine" he responded instantly, almost as if he had been practicing his answer for hours. This started to anger Ginny, it was a lie, he wasn't fine, and he wasn't pretending that he was either.
"Not, you're not fine" She said as calm as she could. She couldn't be mad at him for answering the same way she had answered Hermione when she asked the same question. "If you were you wouldn't be here"
"What are you doing here?" Harry asked for the second time.
"I told you I came looking for you "
"Okay, but why?" he demanded, "Why did you came looking for me?"
"Because I'm worried about you" she simply answered.
"You don't have to worry about me" Harry whispered. They were almost the same words he had said to Ron and Hermione.
"Stop saying that. Stop believing that." Ginny finally looked at him. He had stopped looking at the house and was looking at the floor.
"Believing what?" he questioned.
"Believing that no one would worry about you just because you said you don't need any one to worry about you." Harry looked at her, "You can't expect that after all this years of knowing my family, of being part of my family, no one would care about you. You can't expect that Hermione and Ron would just stop worrying about you just because you defeated Voldemort, after all you been through together. You can't even think that after nine months of not knowing anything about you, not knowing if you were alright, if you were alive, I would not worry about you. And you can't just say that no one needs to worry about you when you disappear every day, when you're not eating, and when you're not sleeping either."
"I'm fine" Harry said again.
"No you're not" Ginny snapped, "Just listen to me" she said when Harry opened his mouth to protest, "You spend all this time trying to destroy Voldemort, and you finally did it. You are supposed to be happy Harry. You're not supposed to sit here all sad and depressed. You are doing what he wanted to do: kill you. You're are killing yourself Harry, you're not eating, you're not sleeping, you're not fine. You're supposed to be enjoying not having to deal to Voldemort anymore, you are supposed to be proud that you finally destroy him and made the world a better place. You're supposed to be happy."
"But all the people who died, all the persons who lost someone they loved…"
"They died so everyone could live in a better place" she whispered, thinking of Fred, "Everyone. Even you, but you are ruining it all by sitting here being consumed by guilt. A guilt that isn't yours is Voldemort. The only thing you are guilty from is getting rid of that man"
Harry just looked at her, then at the house, and finally to the floor, but didn't say anything. "Look" said Ginny in a softer voice. "I know your parents wouldn't want you to be like this. They would want you to be happy."
"You know that's why I came here in the first place?" He finally looked again to the house, "I feel like here I am closer to them" Ginny looked at the house too.
"I think they are watching you" Ginny whispered to him "Wherever they are, I think they are always watching you. I think they are worried about you" She stretched her hand and placed it on his. He grasped his hand around her. Ginny gave it a little squeeze and he squeezed back.
"Harry please, come back to the Burrow with me" she said in a pleading voice. Then in a more bossy voice that sounded a little like Hermione she said, "We will eat something and you will explain what you were doing in this last nine months, because you are explain it all to me, and what happened in the battle at Hogwarts" Harry looked Ginny in the eyes for the first time, he didn't know if it was because of her warm brown eyes, or because of what she said about the people dyeing or what she said about his parents, but he knew it was time to stop sinking in this guilt and sadness and start healing. He simply nodded and they walked out of the house still holding hands.
"I am sorry about Fred" Ginny looked at the floor and stoped the tears that she knew they were coming.
"I'm sorry too" she said, and they continue walking untill they were outside Godric's Hollow.
"Oh, I still can't apparate so you'll have to apparate me to the Burrow" Ginny said with a small smile.
Hi! I'm sorry for taking so long to update but I just started school and I've been really busy with homework and stuff.
I hope you liked this chapter. Please review.
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