Chapter Two; A New Light
"You know it sure is good to see you Harry, but does either of your parents know that you're here?" Mrs. Weasley asked him after she had greeted him with a hug as he came through the fireplace. Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were there to greet him as well.
"No." Harry responded truthfully with a shake of his head.
"Well then I better give them a call. Afterwards you'll be welcome to stay with us as long as it's alright with them." She said before she turned around and walked away.
"What's the matter with you mate? You look awful." Ron told him.
"Oh c'mon Ron, leave him alone." Ginny began. "He doesn't want to talk about it, because if he did he would have told us already." She finished when all of a sudden Mrs. Weasley reappeared.
"Harry, I just got off the phone with your mother." She began as all three of the teenagers turned over to look at her. "And she says that she knows you're going through a rough time right now and you're welcome to stay. All she asks is that you don't take off like that again without telling her or your father." She explained as Harry nodded.
"Thanks." He said.
"I'll go make your bed then. You can bunk with Ron while you're here." She told him before she walked away again.
"So, now what do you guys want to do?" Ron asked.
"We could play wizard snaps." Ginny suggested.
"No thanks, right now I don't feel like playing a game. I think I'm just going to go outside for a bit of fresh air." Harry told her.
"I'll come with you, I have to show you something anyway." She told him with a wide and excited grin before he followed her outside and into the backyard where a grey cat was slinking around the side of the house. "Oh, hullo Princess." She began with a grin. "She must be after some mice or something." She said before walking down the path into the woods. She seemed to be walking forever before she finally came to a quick and sudden halt.
Harry didn't even have to wonder why when he saw the hoof prints on the ground. A few moments later a pure white unicorn appeared. "Say hullo to Angelica." She told him as the magical horse pawed the ground and snorted. Ginny smiled up at her friend and gently stroked her cheek but Harry began to back away, for he knew how adult unicorns generally were around boys. Angelica closed her eyes with content before opening them back up again and looking back over at Harry.
"Don't worry, you can touch her. She's friendly with everyone, even Fred and George." Ginny assured him as Harry stepped towards her and gave the top of her head a pat before starting to stroke her mane.
"That's unusual, especially for a mare." He said.
"I know, but she's one of a kind. Just like you Harry." Ginny told him as she smiled at him lovingly.
"Yeah well I rather be like everyone else. I'm sick of being Harry Potter. And that's not even my real name." he began before he breathed a heavy sigh. "Unfortunately everyone seems to forget that." He said.
"Well I don't. I know your name is really Harry Snape. And that's not the reason that you're special to me. I could care less if you have a lightning bolt scar on your forehead." She told him.
"Thanks, you're about one of the few people that do." He said.
"Do you want to go for a ride?" she asked him.
"On the unicorn?" Harry questioned her with uncertainty.
"No on a motorbike." Ginny replied sarcastically with a roll of her eyes. "Of course the unicorn silly!" she exclaimed.
"Well, is it safe?" he asked her.
"It's not any more dangerous than riding on the back of a dragon, hippogriff or thestral." She told him as he nodded at her.
"Good point." He said as she climbed up onto Angelica's back and lowered her hand down to him. "Climb on." She told him as Harry quickly grabbed her hand and sat behind her. "And don't forget to hold on tightly." She told him.
"What!?" Harry exclaimed but before he knew it the unicorn started galloping away. Harry quickly wrapped his arms around Ginny's waist so he wouldn't fall of and that's when suddenly Angelica's hooves lifted off of the ground. Harry smiled as he turned to look over his shoulder back at the burrow as the magic horse galloped through the sky. It was a very peaceful and steady ride, and Harry couldn't remember feeling this happy since he had ridden on Diamond's back.
"Woohoo!" Ginny cried with a giggle as Harry smiled at her while he felt a sudden warm sensation inside his stomach. That's when he suddenly realized that he was starting to see her in a new light. He hadn't remembered ever feeling this way about anyone before, not even Cho. For he had broken up with her at the end of last year because he was sick and tired of her crying and complaining to him about how much she missed Cedric just so she could earn tons of sympathy from him.
Ginny wasn't like that at all. She was rarely ever weepy. Harry figured that it was because she had grown up with six brothers so she didn't let the small things bother her. "Eve's going to be really jealous when I tell her that you've got a unicorn. She's wanted one ever since she learned to talk." He explained.
"Well I don't really own Angelica. She still lives in the forest like she's supposed to, we just tend to spend a lot of time together. I found her one day when I was walking in the woods, and after that we became friends. Now we're totally inseparable. I mean I know it doesn't make a lot of sense," she began with a shake of her head. "I know she's just an animal but I love her like crazy." She told him.
"Actually it makes perfect sense to me. I'm the same way about my dogs,.." he began. "and Diamond." He finished feeling the tears start welling up in his eyes. Even though he had loved her draglings too, it just wasn't the same. For he knew that she actually loved him since she died trying to protect him. "Ginny?" he questioned as she turned to look at him with concern.
"Yeah Harry?" she questioned him back.
"Do dragons go to Heaven?" he asked her.
"I dunno." She began with a shrug. "But I don't see any reason why they wouldn't. I think they're just like everyone else really. As long as they have a good heart, they'll go to Heaven. And I know that Diamond did." She told him with a smile and a nod as Harry smiled back at her before they continued on their ride through the sky.