Harry didn't see Ginny much around the house. He eventually got the heads up by Hermione that she was trying to avoid him to think clearly. But it didn't really help trying to avoid each other when they lived in the same house and had dinner together every night. Molly still had her mind on other things it seemed because Harry started to notice that she kept herself so busy that she didn't have time to think of things and was always one step behind.

'Hurry up! Hurry up! We have to get going before the big rush.' Mrs. Weasley heared them all in front of the fire place and they all grabbed a handfull of floo powder. Ron went first, Hermione, Mrs. Weasley, Ginny then Harry. Harry noticed as Ginny went into green flames in the fire place, that she had a slight pout on her face, and that she looked very annoyed with something. He too then followed and went inside the fire place.

'Diagon Alley.' Harry threw down the powder and got engulfed in green flames. He ened up in a fire place in a shop he knew all to well.

'Harry Potter!' Mr. Ollivander exclaimed as Harry dusted himself off and shook hands with Mr. Ollivander. 'Nice of you to drop in again.' Mr. Ollivander said looking at Harry apraisingly.

'Nice to see you again.' Harry replied. 'Sorry about umm, dirtying your floor.' Harry looked down at the floor that was now covered in soot.

'No, no, it's alright. Doesn't make much of a difference. Was going to give this place a nice clean out soon anyway.' Mr. Ollivander looked at Harry's face. 'Nothing wrong with your wand is there? Dear me, I thought after all it's been through it would be tough enough for anything.' Mr. Ollivander's voice was filled with worry.

'Oh, my wand! No, no. It's fine. Just dropping in Diagon Alley to get some supplies for the year.' Harry smiled.

'The year? You make that sound like you're going for another trip?' Mr. Ollivander raised a curious eyebrow.

'Oh, yeah. Um, some weird thing has happened and well, I have to go back to school and finish.' Harry shrugged. 'I have to, um, go and meet back up with Mrs. Weasley.'

'Oh, well. Nice meeting you again might I say. It's always a pleasure!' Mr. Ollivander waved as Harry went out of the shop and into the street.

'You too.' He called back.

'Harry!' Mrs. Weasley yelled as she waved her arm in the air and got his attention, she was at the end of the road. Harry jogged over to her and meet up with Ron and Hermione. 'Where did you go?' Mrs. Weasley asked, worry written all over her face.

'Mr. Ollivander.'

'Oh, nice man, nice man. Now come on! I left Ginny at Madam Malkin's, we need to get you lot a new set of robes.' She ushered them all along the alley until they came to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. Harry walked in with Ron and Hermione and they sat down on some chairs at the front of the shop. 'Mum, seriously. I don't see why I have to do year 7. Ron didn't last year. He went off and camped out with Hermione and Harry. And I already have good enough OWL's.'

Harry could just picture the way her face would look while she was arguing with her mother. It nearly made him laugh, but he stopped himself before he could.

'Yes, but Ron has to go back if you hadn't realised. And I don't want my only daughter not finishing her last year at Hogwarts just to go exploring and running into Death Eaters!'

'Death Eaters my ass.' She mummbled.

'Ginny!' Mrs. Weasley yelled, which silence Ginny.

At this Harry couldn't stop from laughing. Ron chuckled a little and Hermione giggled along.

'Ginny! You're going to have to stay at Hogwarts until you finish. You can't win against mum.' Ron yelled as he chuckled again.

Ginny popped her head out around the wall and gave Ron the death stare. 'I can at least try!' she snapped.

At this Harry laughed even louder and Hermione even began to laugh and not giggle this time. Ron stayed quiet, which made things a whole lot worse because they could hear each and every word Mrs. Weasley and Ginny were having.

I hadn't come across Harry till then that Ginny and him were both going to be in year 7. And that He, Ron and Hermione would probably be the oldest in the year. This made him sigh, but then gave him hope when he thought about the possibility that he and Ginny might have some classes together. That one thought on his mind made him smile for most of the day.

'Harry!' A dark haired boy called from the other side of the Book Shop. Harry's head turn instintly.

'Neville! Nice to see you again.' Harry said, patting Neville Longbottom on the shoulder and giving him a great smile.

'Yeah, could say the same to you Harry. Haven't seen you since, well, since the day after the battle.' He smiled for a hint of a second before his face turned into one that was remembering the tragic moment, he then recomposed himself. Harry knew that Neville had also lost some friends in that battle.

'What are you doing here?' He asked smiling at Hermione who was plucking books from the shelves, with Ron holding the books for her.

'Hey Neville.' She waved then reached on her tiptoes for a book, throwing it down on the growing pile of books in Ron's arms.

'Hey Hermione.' he replied.

Ron gave Neville a smile and nod before his face got covered up by another book Hermione had thrown on top.

'Oh, we were just here to get some books for the year.' Harry said noncholantly.

'Year?'

Harry didn't miss that by saying "the year", most people picked up that he was going to be away for a while.

'Yeah, umm, we're going back to Hogwarts. No big deal or anything though.' He covered up the hole fact that it was a big deal and that it kind of really pissed him off.

'Hogwarts ay? Me and Luna are going to go there every now and again. Proffesor McGonagall said we could use their library for research and stuff.' He said this like he was really proud of it.

'Good for you Neville.' Harry said giving him another smile.

'Neville! There you are!' Luna Lovegood came bounding around the corner and landed a peck on Neville's cheek. 'Harry!' Luna's soft voice brought another flash of memories of radish earings and the lion hat she wore during Quiditch matches.

'Hey Luna.' Harry said, he was suprised to be bumping into so many people here, most of them would of finished school by now and wouldn't be here picking up school books.

'Heard you two were together.' Hermione mused as she walked over, Ron in tow, carrying half her books this time, Hermione had the other half.

'Where did you hear that?' Ron asked looking at her in shock.

'I socialise with other people Ron. Not just you and Harry.'

Harry chuckled again while Ron rolled his eyes. He started to mumble about socialising while Hermione and Harry talked to Neville and Luna.

'So is it true?' Harry asked, looking at Neville. Luna once again was looking at Harry's scar on his head but with a smile on her face. Probably thinking about something happy, though Harry couldn't figure out what happy memory would go with his scar.

'True.' Luna comfirmed looking at Hermione now and showing a full show of teeth. Harry noticed that she now had cupcakes hanging from her ears. He chuckled silently. They wern't as random as the radishes were but they were kind of nice for a change.

'Aww, isn't that sweet. Hey Ron?'

'Sweet? Yeah, umm. I'll go pay for these.' He walked away, after taking the other half of books off Hermione.

'What's wrong with Ron?' asked Neville.

'He's just moody because he didn't get what he wanted last night.' Hermione said waving a hand dismissivly, obviously wanting to change the subject.

Luna didn't let it drop. 'What might that be?'

Hermione blushed and chewed on her bottom lip.

'So, what are you guys going to be researching while at Hogwarts?' Harry changed the subject quickly for Hermione's benefit.

'Oh, just you know, what ever we need. Really we just wanted to stay there a bit longer.' He gave them a small smile.

Harry knew what that felt like. He too also considered Hogwarts home. And he too would be going back there once more for another year.

'We, um, we better get going Harry. Mrs. Weasley said we had another half an hour before we had to go back to the Burrow.'

'Cya Harry.' Luna said giving him a wave.

'Bye Hermione, Harry.' Neville farwelled them and then left through a door, intwining his finger with Luna's.

'Luna hasn't changed much has she?' Hermione said stifly. Harry knew Hermione liked Luna as a friend but they had their disputes about things. Hermione was all about scientific proof while Luna thought that if you believed it was true, then it was true.

'She has.' Harry replied. Hermione stopped walking and stared at him. Harry smirked, 'She has new earings.'

Hermione burst into laughing and was still laughing silently by the time they met back up with Ron.

'Whats so funny?' Ron asked, he probably hadn't seen Hermione laugh this much in a day since third grade.

'Harry just pointed out to me that Luna Lovegood has changed.' She said, letting another single, breathless, laugh escape.

'What's changed about Luna?'

'Her earings.' Harry snickered.

'What are they this time?'

'Cupcakes.' Harry sat down on a bench in the alley and absentmindedly ran his fingers through his hair.

'I heard they were a one month anniversary gift.' Ginny popped out from behind a bag and smiled a small smile.

There was an awkward silence.

'Where's my anniversary gift Ron?' Hermione sarcastically whined as she began to play with Ron's fingers.

'I didn't. . know. . we were official?' he stammered, obviously he hadn't picked up the sarcastic tone in her voice and really thought she wanted one.

Harry sat there with a smirk on his face as he watched Ron blabber and became redder in the face.

'Does this make it official?' Hermione grabbed Rons face between her hands and began to kiss him deeply.

Harry watched for a second then dropped his eyes in embarrisment of watching their moment. He took off his glasses and began to clean them with his shirt. His vision became blurry when he took them off and this helped him not see them. When he put them back on they were still kissing so he began to tap his fingers in no particular pattern, on the wooden arm of the chair.

Ginny coughed really loudly into her hand while she was pretending to be paying attention to something on her shoe.

Hermione pulled away and was left looking into Ron's frozen face full of shock. 'Bloody hell. . .' He said slowly. Hermione giggled and then took his hand in hers.

'Where to now?' Harry asked raising an eyebrow.

'Do you need a . . . a new owl Harry?' Hermione said slowly, probably not trying to hit a sensative cord of Harry's.

'No, I think I'll just use Pig if its okay with you Ron.'

'Sure. . Pig. Sure.' Ron murmered. He looked like he was thinking of something else. Probably had his mind on things; like Hermione.

'Well what now?' Ginny asked.

'Might as well go back to the Burrow. Mrs. Weasley said we could go back when we're done.' Hermione said.

had left them all there at Diagon Alley to get the rest of the things she needed.

'We havn't visited George yet though!' Ron exclaimed.

'Okay, we'll go visit George, then we'll go home.' Ginny then began to walk down the alley, her head just barely visible among the people passing by.

Harry got the occasional stares as he walked by, and although he was kind of used to it by now, he didn't expect a 5 year old to come running up to him with a quil and a piece of paper.

Harry looked down at the 5 year old and smiled. The 5 year old grinned and showed her dimples as she showed Harry the paper she had in her hands. Harry looked at it and saw a picture of himself and an article, Hermione had stopped as well as Ron to look at what Harry was doing. Looking at the paper once more and finally getting what the 5 year old wanted from him, he dropped his bag and kneeled down to sign the piece of paper the 5 year old was holding up for him. 'What's your name?' Harry asked the little girl politely.

'Mi- Millie.' The girl stammered, she then showed Harry another full teeth smile.

Harry wrote on the piece of paper: To Millie, keep on smiling, there is a lot ahead of you for your future. From Harry Potter.

The second Harry had finished writing it the girl stood up on her tip-toes and pecked Harry on the cheek. She then ran away squealing with delight to her mother, who was looking at her with a smirk on her face. She pattered her hair and they left down the alley. Harry noticed that the little girl was squishing the piece of paper so close to her chest that it looked like she was hugging a teddy bear.

Harry picked up his bag and stood up, looking at Hermione who was smiling at him in awe. Ron looked rather revoulted.

'That was very nice of you Harry.' Hermione whispered to him as they walked through the crowd back up the alley towards Fred and George's shop.

'Yeah, nice. More like Ginny has competition.' Ron snickered. Harry punched him on the arm.

A head came back through the crowd the second Harry had punched Ron on the arm.

'Why did you do that for?' Ginny asked, looking at Harry like he could give her a resonable explanation.

'He deserved it,' Harry said as he began to walk once again back towards Fred and George's shop, 'He said you had competition.' Harry smiled when Ginny blushed hugely and then hid behind a person in the crowd.

'George?' Hermione called from in front of the counter. They had looked all around the closed shop and hadn't found George anywhere, so Hermione had mentioned that he might of been hiding in the storage room.

'I'll get him.' Ron moaned as he hopped over the counter.

'Wait.' Harry said, putting a hand on Ron's shoulder. Harry could of sworn he had heard a moan that sounded like someone was in pain. He pulled out his wand and jumped over the counter top. He put his fingers to his lips and motioned for Ron to take the other side of the door. Ron took out his wand and looked at Harry for more directions. Hermione and Ginny had already gotten the idea and were withdrawing their wands.

If it was some stray Death Eater coming to reek more havoc, they could certanly take it on. If there were two. Yeah, their chances were good. But if there were more than four, they probably didn't have too long.

Harry opened the door ever so slightly so he could get a look inside. The door creaked at the slight movement and Harry cringed.

'Hello?' A voice that Harry knew carried over to him. He opened the door even more now, knowing that his weapon of suprise was gone. And was suprised at what he saw.