Chapter 6
A Suprise Visit
It had been two days since Fred's funeral and once again Harry was putting his dress robes on as it was another funeral he was not looking forward to…Lupins and Tonks. Harry was trying to fix
his tie when Ginny walked into her room, which Harry was sharing with her now and walked up behind him and put her arms on his shoulders and said "you okay love?", I cant get this bloody tie on properly
said Harry in a agitated voice. Ginny knew why he was acting like this, she simply walked round and faced him and gave him a kiss on the cheek, and said "let me get it" Harry took his hands off the tie and
let Ginny fix it, he just stood staring into her eyes, she looked up at him after fixing the knot on the tie and said "what are you looking at Potter?" Harry laughed and whispered "Thank you for loving me"
Ginny looked at him worryingly and said "Always".
Once again, he found himself walking down what became a familiar graveyard path for him as they where placing Lupin and Tonks side by side in Godrick hollows graveyard not far from Harrys parents.
Harry went over to see his parents just before the ceremony began. Ginny was standing next to him holding his hand "Mum….Dad this is Ginny, the girl I told you all about…The one that keeps me
going when things are down, the one I will spend the rest of my life with" Ginny smiled at Harry when he said this, she had dreamed of hearing him saying it to her but now she caught a tear in her eye
and managed to wipe it before Harry seen it "He does love me he really does he wants to spend the rest of his life with me" Ginny thought to herself after a moment of silence they went to Lupin and Tonks
ceremony. Harry held Teddy through the whole ceromony, after the minister had finished Harry, Ginny and Teddy stayed behind. Ginny knew Harry would do this as he would want to say goodbye to them himself.
Ginny and Harry walked up to the closed caskets with Teddy sleeping in Harrys arms "He looks like you Lupin" said Harry swallowing the lump in his throat, apart from your crazy hair Tonks said Ginny.
Harry and Ginny gave a soft laugh "I promise the both of you that Teddy will grow up with all the love he deserves and he will never forget his parents or what they died for and how much use mean to me and
everyone else, I will tell my own children of use and anyone who will listen said Harry, then paused for a second he looked at Lupins casket and simply said "goodnight". Harry and Ginny stood there for what
could have been hours and they decided it was time to leave.
Once they dropped baby Teddy off at Tonks mothers house and made their way back to the Burrow they stopped in Diagon Alley to get some ice-cream and Ginny had to get some new robes for school,
so whilst she was getting fitted, Harry went into the Quidditch shop and bought the new dragon light broomstick that is supposed to be ten times faster than his fire bolt. He asked the shop keeper to keep a
hold of it until he came back as it was a surprise for Ginny. Once he got a hold of Ginny,he was acting so excited "Ginny you have to see this new broomstick in the quidditch shop, its the new dragon light"
said Harry, Ginny smiled and they ran to the shop she asked the shop keeper if she could see it "I'm sorry young lady the last one was just bought not moments ago" said the small shop keeper trying not
to smile "I would have really have liked to have seen it in person" Ginny said sounding gutted. Harry burst into laughter "well since your now the new quidditch captain Miss Weasley, I felt I had to as the
boyfriend and all that said Harry jokingly, I did purchase you a small gift" Ginny smiled but looked confused at Harry, he simply smiled at her and nodded at her as to turn around, Ginny turned round and
gasped " You didn't Potter" Harry laughed at this "oh yes I did Weasley" she looked between shock and anger, she ran towards Harry and jumped up and wrapped her arms round his neck "I love you so much
you crazy man but you didn't have to get me this" she said with a lot of emotion. Harry smiled at her and said " I know I wanted too" they kissed for a few seconds before grabbing there items and heading home.
When both fell into the kitchen door laughing, Ron and Mrs Weasley were staring at them. Ron looked like he was going to hit someone "Malfoy is sitting in my living room and he says you called for him" said
Ron in a demanding voice, "oh yeah I completely forgot about that" said Harry, Ginny kissed his cheek and smiled and said "I will be upstairs when you are finished" and Ginny rushed up the stairs shouting on
Hermione and George to show them her new broom. "what do you mean you forgot about that" asked Ron once again demandingly. "I wrote to him asking him to meet me here because I need his help, I thought
Mr Weasley told you Mrs Weasley?" said Harry. Mrs Weasley smiled and said "must have slipped his mind no worries Harry" "Help with what" barked Ron. "Professor Snapes funeral" said Harry, Ron just looked
at Harry and said "Oh". Harry walked into the Weasleys sitting room where Draco Malfoy was sat, Ron walked in and sat across from Malfoy at this moment Malfoy stood up and walked over to Ron by this point,
Harry reached for his wand but slipped it away again as Malfoy put his hand out to shake Rons " I know you are probably not interested in hearing this from me Ron but I am truly sorry for your loss and I thank
you for warmly letting me in your home" Ron and Harry both looked at each other shocked, then Ron stood up and took Malfoy's hand and said "Thanks Malfoy". Harry burst into laughter " I should get a picture
of this, could you imagine use to shaking hands and us three sitting having a civil conversation three years ago" Ron and Malfoy started laughing also after five minutes they sat down and got down to business.
After arranging everything and just before Malfoy was leaving, Malfoy faced Harry and said "Thank you for asking for my help Harry it means a lot" "of course Malfoy you did know him best its only fair you get a
saying in it, I will see you at the funeral on Thursday" Malfoy looked stunned at this " you mean I can go?" asked Malfoy "yes of course you are going, I wouldn't have asked you to come over to help me with this
then tell you to bugger off" said Harry "honestly, use Slytherins are not the brightest" teased Ron, they had a final laugh and said there goodbyes.
"I thought he was never going to leave" said Ginny running down stairs with her new broom under her arm, "I knew you were going to get her that for you too" said Ron pointing at the new dragon light broomstick
with a grin on his face "can I have a go?" he asked Ginny " yeah not until after Harry though" replied Ginny. They all went out the back garden "Here Harry" Ginny went to pass him the broom "no its yours, I'm happy
with this" he said climbing onto his firebolt him and Ginny kicked off flying up into the sky, they were zooming in and out and around each other laughing and joking. Harry stopped in mid air abit away from Ginny and
just stared into the distance where he had the best view of the sun setting. Ginny zoomed up beside him "you okay Harry?" "lets just zoom off into the night, just leave everything behind and start fresh, just me and you...
" Harry said. this sounding very serious the smile slowly went off Ginny face "Harry you know he will never be back don't you, he's gone for ever" Ginny said while rubbing the bottom of Harrys back. "I know, I just don't
know if I can go back to school Ginny. It just reminds me of everything" he said quietly " yeah we will all get like that but you promised me one thing Harry" she said with a cheeky smile on her face, you told me you will
always be with me, you were not going anywhere and I am going back to school so you will just have to put up with it Potter" Harry just smiled at her "your right I'm just been stupid" but while he said this Ginny could see
in his face that he wanted to just fly away into the sunset, was it from her? "no it couldn't be he bought you a new broom he asked you to go with him" she said to herself. "Come on, I think I can hear your mum shouting for
dinner" said Harry and they both zoomed back towards the Burrow at full speed laughing at each other.
Thursday came and it was the last one finally Harry thought to himself. The last few weeks he had went to countless funerals and this was the last one, and it would be one of the hardest ones. Harry dissaparated just in
front of his father and his mothers grave as he visited them nearly every day. He knew exactly where to apparate to. At the right hand side of his parents graves was where Snapes casket lay, not a lot of people appeared
at this funeral as a lot of people never knew the truth about Snape. well not yet anyway, Ginny was there for Harry so was all the Weasleys, except Charlie who had to go back to Romania after Tonks and Lupins funeral.
The Malfoy's sat at the back out the way, all the teachers of the school where there and a couple of students such as to Harrys surprise was Neville and Luna. After the minister done his part, Harry put his hand up
"I would like to say a few words if that's okay" people looked at Harry, some were shocked, others gave him a small smile. Harry walked to the front once again like he did at Freds funeral and
faced everyone " Not a lot of people know the truth about Severus Snape, he was the most bravest man I have ever known, as much as he never liked to show it he cared for all his students, he loved some of them"
Harry looked over to Draco Malfoy when he said this last bit. Draco looked at Harry and gave a small smile and a nod. "He was also one of the smartest wizards in the world, yes I would rank him up there with Dumbledore,
he was a master at potions and even more powerful fighter believe it or not. He fought for love and as many of you have been lead to believe that he didn't like muggles or muggle borns you couldn't be anymore wrong for
those who haven't seen, if you look here to my right this is where my mother and father are and the reason Severus is lying next to them is because he loved my mother and swore to protect me and for that" Harry turned
to the casket and said "Thank you Professor Rest In Peace" Harry lay his hand on the casket turned round and walked past everyone in the crowd and right upto Draco Malfoy "sorry for your loss" said Harry. Draco put his
arm on Harry's shoulder "Thank you Harry I wish you all the best with you life" Harry smiled " you to Malfoy" Harry then turned to Malfoy's Mother and simply said " Thank you" she smiled and said back "Thank you" Draco
and his father looked at each other suspiciously to Harry's guess, Dracos mother had not explained to her family that she lied to Voldemort in the forrest for him saying he was dead when he was looked round to
see Ginny walking towards them "you stay out of trouble!" Ginny said to Draco and she and Harry walked away and apparated back to the Burrow. Harry wanted to just relax as they were leaving for Hogwarts on Sunday
so he went to his and Ginnys room and just lay on the bed. Ginny not long followed him with two glasses of butter beer, she handed one to Harry and said " to your health Potter" Harry smiled then looked at her seriously
and said " To our future Miss Weasley" she smiled, they had a drink of their butter beer and sat and spoke for a while and the next thing they fell asleep in each others arms.