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Chapter Thirteen

Hermione hated it here.

That much was true. She hated being away from everyone she had ever known.

Stuck in a wizarding pub in northern Australia by herself looking for her family. She was beginning to regret leaving without talking to anyone.

But in her haste she had known that had she taken the time to talk to Harry, at least, then she wouldn't have gone. He would've convinced her to stay. Convinced her to talk to Ron, which was exactly what she had not wanted.

Now she would give anything to talk to him again, to see him. Even if he was completely angry for no reason.

"Are you Hermione?" She turned around to see a brown-haired man, relatively her age, standing next to her. "My name's Rory Jones, I'm your handler."

She nodded and he came and sat down next to her. "Bottler. Sorry to have to meet you in this cactus place but it was the only wizarding section within clicks of the place you sent your parents."

She nodded again and frowned. His name was Rory. It started with an R like Ron. Damn she missed him.

"So, it'd help if you'd tell me everything that you can about the spell and what specifically you told your parents. The more specific the better it'll be to find them."

"Of course." She said, those being the first words she had spoken in days.

"Harry I have something for you." Mrs. Weasley said as she saw him sitting on the sofa.

Ginny perked her head from under his arm at the sound of his mother's voice. They had simply been laying there on the couch watching the fire, his index finger drawing lazily up and down her arm, causing her to almost fall asleep. At least until her mother had shown up.

"Yes Mrs. Weasley?" He asked in a rather tired voice, it seemed he had almost been falling asleep as well.

"Oh sorry dears. Well I found this in the attic the other day and I thought that since you had new photos from Lupin that you could use it." She handed him a thick and heavy book covered in dust.

He blew the dust layer off the book causing them all to cough lightly. "Sorry." He murmured and placed the book in his lap opening it to see blank photo pages, with titles and contributing images like 'School Days,' 'Baby Pictures,' and even 'Good Times.'

He flipped till the last page which had the title 'My Family.' It was a double-folded page and there were already photos of him and the Weasleys and even one of him, Sirius and Lupin that he had taken back in Grimmwald Place. He didn't even remember taking the picture but there they were smiling with Lupin and Sirius on either side of him but they playfully shoved each other in the back while he just rolled his eyes and shook his head.

"I hope you don't mind me filling in the last few pages, I made sure to leave space for pictures of your parents, as well."

Harry nodded and smiled. "Thank you Mrs. Weasley. It's brilliant. I love it."

He brushed his fingers against a picture of him, Ron and Hermione. The photo was from ages ago and he wasn't even really sure when it was from it had to have been at least their fourth year. All of them where in their school robes and even in the photo they were in deep conversation, probably planning something that under normal circumstances would get them into immense trouble.

Mrs. Weasley wandered out and Ginny followed her leaving Harry alone to place photos that he had taken from his home in Godric's Hallow inside the book.

"That was really nice of you Mum." Ginny said when they were alone in the kitchen.

"Yes well I figured it was the least I could do to apologize for how I acted the other day. You know, I never apologized to you Ginny." She said gripping Ginny's hand.

"Don't be silly, as if I need you to apologize. I know you weren't being yourself. None of us has, it's been a rough few weeks for us all." She sat down and looked at Harry flipping through the book while lying down completely.

"Yes, I wonder how he deals with all this sometimes." Mrs. Weasley said following her gaze. "It is quite remarkable."

Ginny chuckled quietly. "He has his own ways, and I imagine he must be used to it by now."

"You're never used to it." She said. "You know I lost two brothers in the first war, right before you were born. I thought I'd never be right again and now…"

Ginny's eyes teared. "We'll be okay one day. I like to think that he's looking out for us trying to make sure that we are."

"Let's hope he's looking out for George the most." She sighed. "I basically haven't seen him since the funeral and Ron won't tell me how he's doing at the store."

Ginny nodded. "I think he just needs time."

Molly nodded and looked over at her daughter teary eyed. "Let's talk about something else." She reached over for her daughter's hand. "You and Harry seem to be a lot closer these days."

Ginny scoffed. She knew her mother wasn't an idiot. Her mother definitely knew that her and Harry were more than friends, probably her brothers did as well but they were smart enough not to pry. At least not yet.

"I love him mum." She said and tapped the table lightly, letting go of her mother's hand, afraid of her response.

"I know, I used to get the same glow when I was with your father, still do sometimes. I believe he loves you too."

Ginny laughed. "He does, he's told me." She blushed, being embarrassed to be having this conversation with her mother. It wasn't that she was embarrassed but having this conversation with her mother was less than wonderful.

"He did? Ginny I hope you understand the seriousness of that." Her tone was very different from the playfulness earlier. "You do realize that he's probably never had anyone tell him that they love him or say it to anyone else as well, except for maybe Ron and Hermione, if that. At least if what I understand from his childhood is true."

Ginny looked over at him. He had fallen asleep looking at the photos during their conversation. She opened her mouth but no sound came out.

She hadn't exactly thought of that.

Not that it made her feel any less but she was suddenly overwhelmed with their relationship. In a good way though, if that was possible.

"And with all that happened with Vo...Voldemort and the love and all that—not that I understand all that well myself—you can see how important something like that would be to him."

Ginny nodded and leaned her head in her palm watching Harry as he slept.

Ron had been able to find out where "Rory Jones" lived, or at least the general area from some people who worked in the Ministry's Department of International Cooperation. (It turned out that using Harry's name was useful to Ron.)

It turned out that Rory had gone out with some witch in the department and she was able to tell him the town in which he lived.

Unfortunately it turned out that after the war all Portkeys had been banned to stop Death Eaters from using them so Ron was expected to apparate, which even under circumstances where he knew where he was going would be extremely stupid.

He had to go and beg Kingsley for a Portkey. He briefly wondered how Hermione had even gotten to Australia in the first place as he quickly made his way through the Ministry.

Then he smacked right into Percy.

"In a rush?" Percy asked as Ron helped him pick up all his papers.

"Sorry Percy, I need to talk to Kingsley." Ron said with a guilty face.

"He's out at a meeting for the rest of the afternoon. Maybe I can help you?" Percy said as he put his hand on Ron's back and led him to what he assumed was his office.

He sighed in defeat. "That's it. I just, I can't. It's like I can't win."

"What's the matter?" Percy asked in a concerned voice as they reached a door with his name on it.

"Percy!" A small, blond woman came up to him and then noticed that Ron was there and blushed. "I mean Mr. Weasley, here are your messages." She stuck out her hand and gave him a stack of papers.

Percy blushed as he noticed her blush. "Thanks Audrey."

They stood there staring at each other for a few seconds before Ron coughed.

"Right, I'll be going then." She said and shuffled away.

"Who was that?" Ron asked curiously. He had never seen Percy so flustered in his life.

"Oh just the floor's secretary. Nothing of consequence." He pushed Ron into the office in front of him as he looked back at Audrey's retreating form.

"Looked of consequence, bloody hell Percy! Look at this office!" Ron said as he noticed the size of the office.

"Yes well, Kingsley gave me a promotion as soon as he got back." Percy said with a blush.

"What? Why didn't I know?"

"No one does, not even dad has been here." He sighed. "I just thought with everything going on that it wasn't right to mention it."

"I reckon we could use some good news around here plus you know how mum loves to plan a party." Ron said with a smile.

Percy nodded. "Perhaps this weekend. Now what was it that you muttering on about earlier?"

"Oh." Ron said with sigh. "Hermione and I had a fight."

"Shocking." Percy said with an unaffected face.

"Shut it. It was bad and I said some things that I didn't mean that I shouldn't have said in the first place and then I went to go and apologize and she was gone. She went to Australia to go look for her parents. Without even talking to me! Can you believe that? I mean, I thought we were, well you know!" Ron groaned and slid down into a chair in front of Percy's desk.

Percy gave him a small smile. "Ronald, what exactly happened?"

"I told her that she couldn't understand what was going on with the family and it just got worse from there. I have a tendency to stick my foot in my mouth and I just can't believe I said such horrible things and I can't blame her for leaving but…I need her. I thought she knew that."

Percy looked at him sympathetically.

"I tried to find her and I even found out what town she's in but it's not like I can apparate there and I already had to beg Kingsley for the name of her handler and I got it and then I even found out where he's supposed to be but I can't get to her without a portkey." Ron grumbled and put his head in his hands.

"Well, I suppose that there's no point in being promoted if I can't use it." Percy said with a smile and went over to his desk and scribbled before the parchment flew out of his office.

"What are you doing?" Ron asked.

"Getting you to Hermione."

"Did you really think that I was gone?" There was a laugh and an echo.

Harry turned looking for the source of the voice.

"I'll never leave. I'm inside you!"

Harry turned to find himself in a familiar graveyard. It was the one in Godric's Hallow.

He was standing near his parent's (and now Lupin and Sirius') graves.

There was a sudden explosion and the graves exploded throwing bones everywhere.

"NO!" He called and then he looked over to see Hermione, Ron, Ginny and all the other Weasley's lying in a heap not breathing or moving.

"NO!"

"I'll never leave you; you can't be rid of me!"

There was a malevolent laughing and then a green light striking his chest.

He clutched his chest as a horrible pain shot through him.

He ripped open his shirt to find it on fire and he fell over to the ground. No longer able to move and all he could was listen to the laughing.

"Harry."

"Harry."

"Harry!"

He jolted awake in a cold sweat, launching the album Mrs. Weasley had given him across the room.

Ginny and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were standing in front of him staring at him with concern.

"You were screaming." Ginny said.

"And letting loose magic like a baby." Mr. Weasley said and motioned towards all the fallen things that had originally been on bookshelves and the wall.

"Sorry." He whispered wiping his forehead. "Nightmare." He shrugged and everyone but Ginny left him.

He was shaking and she reached over and pulled him over to her.

She kissed his temple and his shaking began to reduce as she stroked his hair. "I love you." He mumbled into her shoulder and she closed her eyes leaning against him.

"I love you too."

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