A/N Here you are, hope you liked the last chapter, I'm determined to get this one up quicker!! Thanks to reviewers:
Kp: Thanks, I thought it was a pretty cheesy way of getting him back there, but hey as long as you thought it was good!!
SierraPotter: Thanks for your ideas! I do have some of my own however! But I will keep yours in mind! And I'm afraid that I'm not going to kill Ginny… That's a definite…
Another Loss
Harry took a deep breath before knocking on the door; No one knew he was coming, so he was afraid as to who would answer it.
Slowly he raised his hand and tapped loudly on the door. His face lifted into a crooked smile as he heard Mrs Weasley shout 'Now who on earth is this?' But his smile faded when the door opened and he saw a beautiful red headed and freckly girl stand before him.
"Harry…" Ginny said, utterly shocked.
Harry didn't get a chance to say anything, because at the sound of his name being said, Mrs Weasley ran to the door and gave him the biggest hug she ever had; pushing past Ginny in order to get to him.
"Hi, Mrs Weasley," He choked out from lack of breath support.
"Harry dear! How many times?!" Mrs Weasley said, "It's Molly!"
"Sorry," He replied, looking to his feet.
"Now come in come in!" Mrs Weasley said loudly, pulling him indoors. "How long are you staying? You are staying? Oh how wonderful! We were just about to eat, but I'll make some extra for you as well dear! Oh I must tell Ron and Hermione!" Harry smiled as Mrs Weasley ran to the bottom of the stairs to call them down; "Ronald! Hermione! Ron! Oh I dread to think what they're doing up there! Well they'll get a shock!" And with that she disappeared up the stairs.
Harry chuckled to himself as he turned and looked around the small kitchen. It hadn't been long since he was last here, but to him it seemed like an age. He smiled as he remembered the room, but again his expression dropped as he saw Ginny standing by the door staring at him.
"What are you doing here?" She asked, her voice quiet and croaky.
"I've come to see my best friends if you don't mind," Harry replied sarcastically.
"Well… You should have let Ron know, mum's not ready, she'll have to make loads more food now!" Ginny said, standing tall as if to make a point.
"She doesn't mind," Harry said, "She loves making food, and having me here."
"Don't get so big headed; just because you killed a person doesn't mean everyone in the world loves you! And I helped don't forget!"
Ginny bit her lip as soon as she finished talking and Harry stared at her with the most anger he had ever felt for her.
He paced towards her quickly and raised his hand. Ginny jumped backwards and hit the door with her ankle, bending down as she did so.
Harry was ready to hit her, his hand was raised for what seemed like hours, but he couldn't bring himself to do it; and before he knew it, he heard:
"Harry!"
He quickly lowered his hand and spun round to see Hermione running down the stairs. Breathing heavily, he smiled and walked up to her, who jumped into a hug as soon as she was close enough. Harry spun her round while holding her; and on the way round he saw Ginny's livid expression at them.
"Harry!" Hermione said again after he put her down. "I've missed you so much! What made you want to come back?"
"Ron sent me a letter last night and made me realise how much I missed you two!" When Harry said this, he saw Ginny look totally taken aback and look to the stairs. Harry looked as well and saw Ron slowly walking down them, with an angry looking Mrs Weasley behind him.
"Hi mate!" Ron said, looking a lot happier at the sight of Harry.
"Alright?" Harry asked, looking sideways at Mrs Weasley.
"Yeah, fine. What are you doing here?" Ron replied.
"Your letter made me think, thanks."
"It's ok mate, anytime! I'm just glad you're here, that's all," Ron said with a smile, ushering Harry and Hermione into the living room, and not even looking at Ginny. Harry saw her teetering on the spot, as if she didn't know which way to go, but in the end she apparently decided to follow them, even though it was obvious no one was going to talk to her.
They sat for no more than five minutes, talking mostly about the interview Harry had given, before they heard loud knocks on the door outside.
"Ron!" Mrs Weasley called for Ron to answer the door, as she must have been busy preparing food.
Ron groaned and stood up from his chair, but before he had even started walking, Ginny had stood up and ran out of the door to open the front door. Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other quizzically. When each of them shrugged, Harry knew that the person at the door was for Ginny, and she didn't want him or her to be seen, so he was the first to get up and walk outside.
Ginny had pushed the person outside and around the corner of the house, so that they wouldn't be seen, but Harry heard them talking and walked up behind Ginny, only to get the shock of his life.
"Dean?" Harry felt like he was shouting, but it came out only as a whisper.
Before either Ginny or Dean Thomas got a chance to answer, Ron and Hermione were round the corner and Ron was being held back, with difficulty.
While Ron was shouting at Dean however, Harry rounded on Ginny.
"How dare you?" He shouted, "How DARE you?"
"You weren't supposed to turn up here today! This was all going to be sorted out and now you're here it won't be!" Ginny screamed back at him.
"Don't try and turn the blame on me!" He shouted back as Dean looked over in bewilderment, "You were the one that goes and gets pregnant! Then you bring the father here to 'sort things out', without even consulting me?!"
"It has nothing to do with you!"
"Then why did you try and keep it a secret from me for so long?!"
"GINNY!"
Both Harry and Ginny looked over at the source of the shout; Dean was staring at her, looking like he'd seen a ghost.
"You're pregnant?" He asked quietly.
Ginny nodded slowly while he looked at her with amazement.
"You didn't know?" Harry asked him quietly. And when Dean shook his head, he looked at Ginny again; "He didn't know? And you brought him here to tell him? Didn't you even think that Ron might beat him up?"
"Well, the thought had crossed my mind, but I knew Hermione would hold him back," Ginny replied, looking at her friend with a slight smile.
"Don't count on it," Hermione shot back at her quietly.
There was a silence and everyone looked at each other. Mrs Weasley had come outside but then evidently gone back in when she saw Dean Thomas was there; for which Harry couldn't blame her. His anger was bubbling right at the surface of his face, and his fists. How could someone have the nerve to bring a boy that no one likes to her house? It was literally unbelievable to Harry, he had no idea.
Ron was now gesturing for them to go inside, but Harry was finding it quite hard to move from his particular spot on the grass.
"Mate, come in…" Ron went to tug at his arm, but there was no need. Harry shot Ginny one more dirty look and started to walk inside. He almost felt the tension disappear behind him; and he nearly pitied Dean. That poor boy had been sucked in by Ginny and now was probably scared of Harry himself for shouting so much.
Harry, Ron and Hermione were just walking through the front door when he heard Dean say the thing that made his anger reach boiling point, and he exploded:
"Ginny, it's amazing news, but, what's wrong with Harry?"
Without even thinking about it, Harry turned right around and pushed Ron back to get out of the house again. "Sorry," He said with a sarcastic chuckle. And he walked straight up to Dean, seeing Ginny's worried look in the corner of his eyes. He ignored this, and without hesitation, without warning, punched Dean in the face so hard that he was knocked right over onto his back.
"Harry!" Hermione ran up to him and held back his arm that was going towards Dean on the floor.
"How could you?" Ginny spat at him, kneeling down next to Dean to see if he was ok. His nose and top lip were bleeding badly, but Harry thought nothing of it.
"That's what's wrong with me!" Harry shouted loudly, before shaking Hermione off his arm violently and striding inside the house. Even through all the commotion, it made him smile to see Ron's comic expression at what Harry had just done.
After he was inside the house, he looked at his hand, which wasn't actually hurt, then at Ron and Hermione, who had followed him through the door.
"Wicked," Ron smiled at him.
Harry couldn't help but smile back, and he walked off up the stairs to Ron's tiny bedroom.
"I still can't get over that punch you gave him though mate!" Ron said half an hour later.
The three of them had been in Ron's room since the incident and were talking violently about Ginny and Dean. Hermione had kept quiet for quite a long time, and then was shouted at by Ron for trying to be rational about the situation after saying that Dean didn't know and didn't deserve a punch.
"I've never seen ANYONE give a punch like that before," Ron continued in awe, "You knocked him of his feet completely!"
Harry couldn't help but smile again; and he had to admit that the punch did feel quite good. He'd been thinking about it silently for the past half hour and realised that about a weeks worth of anger (maybe more) went into that single punch, and that was a lot of anger.
"That'll teach him not to come here again and brag about getting my little sister pregnant!" Ron smiled.
"But Ron, he didn't know remember?" Hermione tried.
Ron shot her an evil look and she just looked away.
"I'm going downstairs to get a drink, ok?" Harry told them both as he stood up from Ron's bedroom floor, "Now, don't do anything I wouldn't do Ronnie!" He mocked as he walked out – receiving a pillow in the back of his head as he did so.
As Harry took the long walk down the corridor of the house he walked past Ginny's room. Expecting that there would be no one in there he got a shock to hear her talking, to Dean.
He walked a bit closer silently and stopped outside the bedroom door which was stood ajar. He heard Ginny's voice crying as it choked out words to Dean, and he cursed under his breath when he realized he wanted to go in there and make her feel better; he hated to hear Ginny cry.
"Dean, I don't know what to do!" She cried loudly.
"Well, whatever you decide, I'm here for you both," Dean replied; and Harry could almost hear the fake smile he had planted on his face.
"Both?" Ginny sniffed.
"Yeah, you and the baby…"
"What if I decide not to keep it?"
"But… You won't decide to get rid of it… I thought you wanted this baby…" Dean replied, obviously saddened by Ginny's reaction.
"Dean, I don't know what I want," She explained, "All I know is I want a boy who loves me; and won't drop me every time they have to go and do something more important."
"Like Harry?" Dean asked. At this, Harry almost burst the door fully open and punched him again, but somehow he managed to control his temper and just breathe it out slowly.
"Yes, like Harry… I loved him so much Dean, and then he went and… Well, he was obsessed with murder. And I know it was for a good cause but I can't get it out of my head why someone would enjoy killing a man."
"But, the man in question did kill off his entire family," Dean reasoned, and Harry actually appreciated it and felt a pang of guilt for punching him.
"I know, but he's changed since then. A spark in him is gone and I just want someone to love me like he did…" Ginny started to cry again.
"Gin, I've always felt something for you. Right now I'm feeling it in my nose but it's usually lower down!" She gave a short giggle at Dean's words. "I can't blame Harry for punching me, and I'm so glad he can't hear me now because, I do love you. And I want to have this baby with you."
"Really?" She asked, sniffing away her tears.
"Yes, I love you…"
There was a silence and Harry could only assume that they were locked in a passionate kiss. It was funny really; as Ginny sniffed away her tears she passed them onto him.
He began to walk back towards Ron's room; a slow, sombre walk that gave him time to think about everything he had just heard. Did Ginny really feel that way about him? She thought that he was so obsessed with killing Voldemort that he forgot about her. But Voldemort had ruined his life – well and truly now. For Harry realized as he walked up the stairs that even though Voldemort had gone, he had still managed to take away the last part of Harry's life that he loved more than anything; and Harry had been replaced.
A/N Aww, how sorry do you feel for Harry? This chapter was pretty rubbish at the start, but I got into it about half way through. Please tell me what you think!!
