The Untold Story Of Harry and Ginny

Part 20

"Happy Christmas!"

The Weasleys had gotten together for a merry Christmas celebration. Presents were exchanged, huge meals were eaten, and the family had talked about many, many things.

"So, you and Harry are back?" Angelina (who George was talking to rather frequently now a days) asked anxiously. Ginny smiled faintly and nodded her head.

"Oh, Gin, that must be hard with him being at Auror school and everything," Angelina said, feeling sympathetic.

Ginny nodded again and said, "But it's half way over basically, and I've gotten to see him. He came to Hogwarts for a mission briefly but that was nice…" She trailed off thinking of the time she had spent with him. Angelina nodded slowly, understandingly. It was nice to have a close friend like Angelina to see all the time. She was often very helpful since she'd been in some "boy mayhem".

"Well, hello there," George said and slumped down by Ginny. She smiled softly up at him.

"So what are we talking about?" he wondered.

"Harry," Angelina answered and laughed once. "Would you like to join this conversation?"

"Ah…not really," George laughed. "But I have one question: how is he?"

Ginny shrugged and sighed, "I don't know. I haven't talked to him since I last saw him early in the school year."

George nodded and then got up, leaving the two girls be.

"…So…You and George… Is everything all right?" Ginny wondered.

Angelina nodded confidently and answered, "Oh yeah. We're completely back to normal and we see each other a lot, obviously."

Ginny smiled, thankful that they were still as close as they had been - maybe even closer.

"And Hermione…" Ginny continued. Angelina laughed silently for a moment.

"We're fine," she responded. "We're actually better friends than we've ever been now because of George. I could see it too, George and me growing apart. Nothing was right between us without Fred. We were both equal to him, but we never really grew together like we tried to."

Ginny nodded and smiled a little brighter than she had been all night just because she was assured that one of her best friend and her other friend were friends.

"Well, good," Ginny smiled. When Angelina didn't say anything after that, Ginny stood up and said, "Well I should be getting up to bed. I'm a bit tired."

Angelina nodded and stood up after her.

"Sure," she smiled at Ginny. "It was nice talking to you. I should probably get going too. And I hope it gets better, but if it doesn't I'm here."

Ginny nodded and then the two hugged each other quickly and Ginny headed upstairs.

On the way, she said her goodbyes to all of her relatives and friends that were still over.

"Thanks for having me over!" Parvati thanked Ginny on her way up. Ginny nodded and returned the thanks to her for coming and hoping she had fun. Not many people were over anymore, so Ginny thought it was an appropriate time to go to sleep.

"Goodnight Mum," she finally bid to her mother on the third floor of the tall house. She then got ready for bed, and hopped in the covers. She turned her head on her pillow looking out of the window. The sky was black, and the stars made it sparkle while the moon made it shine. One star seemed to stand out to Ginny, as she wished silently in her bedroom, "Merry Christmas, Harry."

*Star*Star*Star

"Merry Christmas, Ginny."

Harry was in his bedroom, in his bed, looking out of the window at the same star Ginny was gazing at. He wished it would all just…go by more quickly. He wanted-needed-to be with her.

"Night, Harry!" Pop called from the room next to him. "Happy Christmas!"

"You too, Poppy! Goodnight!" Harry projected back to him. And with that, the light shining from the other room went out, and Harry turned his out too, thinking about Ginny, and hoping she was doing better than the last time he saw her. But there was some doubt in his mind that that would never happen.

*Star*Star*Star

"Harry, might I have a word?" Harry heard a voice call from behind him. He turned around to see Kingsley walked forward to him.

"Yeah, sure," Harry answered and walked towards him.

"Well, the auror team – or what's left of it," Kingsley amended, "figured that you've done an outstanding job with everything and it's April so we figured you've been here long enough to say this…You're free to go home, Harry. And you're on the Auror Team."

Harry took a minute to figure out what had just happened, and when he did, he exclaimed, "Really? Oh, thank you so much, Kingsley-er, Minister."

"Harry you know me well enough to call me by my first name," Kingsley said and smiled. Harry returned it and nodded.

"Thank you so much," he said.

"There will we an owl sent for you in a few days that will inform you on all you need to know," Kingsley stated. "And your train tickets are in your room. Poppy is going home as well seeing as he had the needed amount of training for him."

Harry nodded as Kingsley turned around and left the hallway to enter another.

He immediately sprinted to his room that he was staying in and grabbed the tickets on his desk. He laughed out with joy and called, "Poppy!"

"What, what?" Poppy responded and ran out of the room with a toothbrush and all he had on was a towel. Harry mocked disappointed-ness.

"…What is it?" Pop asked again. Harry smiled again and held up the two tickets in his hands.

"We're going home!" Harry exclaimed. Pop smiled and laughed with Harry.

"Really? We finished the sessions? YUS!" he bellowed.

"You get to see Janet!" Harry told him with excitement.

"And you get to see Ginny!" Pop said back to Harry.

"How many months pregnant is she?"

"When is she getting back from Hogwarts?"

"In May."

"Eight, I think."

…Oi.

After a few moments of complete silence, Pop spoke up.

"When does our train leave?" he wondered.

"…One hour," Harry told him looking down at the tickets. And with one more moment of silence, Pop ran into his half of the dormitory and finished brushing his teeth and dressing. Harry rushed into his side of the dorm as well and began packing immediately.

Within a half an hour, both men were ready and had made sure that everything was packed and that they didn't forget anything.

"So, the train's dropping us off at the main station, and then we're free to go back home, it looks like," Harry explained as the two were walking up to the train that was located outside of the auror training facility.

And then they got on, gave the Ticketmaster the tickets, and sat down in a compartment they found suitable.

They got to the train station an hour later, and there, Harry and Poppy said their goodbyes.

"Well, I'll see you soon hopefully," Poppy said and smiled.

"You too," Harry said. "And congratulations again about Janet! You should have me over sometime. Owl or whatever."

"Yeah, and the same goes for you!" he called back to Harry, as he walked down the platform the opposite way. Then, without another word, he apparated on the spot. Harry smiled and then did the same thing, thinking of the burrow.

*Star*Star*Star

Molly Weasley heard a knock on the door and a familiar voice call, "Hello?"

She at once knew who it was and scurried to the door.

"Harry!" she exclaimed as she opened the door and embraced Harry tightly. He did the same and smiled.

"Hi, Mrs. Weasley," he greeted.

"Why didn't you tell us you were coming back so soon? I would've tidied up more and made you a welcome back dinner-"

"No, no, it's fine," Harry stopped her. "It was actually pretty sudden. Kingsley told me a couple hours or so ago. I should've sent an owl or something-"

"Oh, no, Harry, it's perfectly fine," Molly intervened, "we're just happy you're back. Ron, Hermione! Everyone! Harry's back!"

Harry then heard an immediate blur of people saying, "Harry's back? Really? Harry's back!" with footsteps following.

"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed and ran to hug him. He hugged her back.

"Hi, Hermione," he sighed.

"Wow, it's been so long! You've changed!" she said back to him after pushing away from him and looking at him.

"Yeah, that's what auror school does to you," Harry said and laughed.

"Hey mate!" Ron spoke to his best friend as he gave Harry a big man hug.

"It's good to see you," Harry said to him.

"You too," Ron said and released him.

"Harry!" Arthur Weasley greeted him and pulled him into a great big hug.

"Good to see you Mr. Weasley," Harry said and hugged him back.

"How've you been?" Arthur asked and released his hug. "You look fit!"

"Yeah, yeah," Harry began. "I've been doing well, thanks."

Then, following Mr. Weasley, George, Angelina, Bill, and Fleur came to welcome him back home. He smiled thankfully for all of them welcoming him back so warmly. It really felt like he was part of a family.

"Well I'm afraid you won't get to see Ginny until school is finished," Molly told Harry after dinner was finished and everyone headed off to bed except for Ron, Hermione and themselves.

"Have you spoken to her, or did the Auror School not let you have any contact with anyone outside of it?" Hermione wondered.

"If I was allowed to send owls then I would've sent them to you too," Harry replied and sipped on a warm cup of hot chocolate Molly had whipped up for him. Hermione smiled and took a sip of hers also.

"…I did see her, though," Harry adjoined after a few moments. Hermione and Ron looked up at him and furrowed their eyebrows.

"I was assigned a mission to Hogwarts," Harry explained in a nutshell.

"Oh, what was the mission?" Ron inquired.

"There was a thief at Hogwarts, but my partner and I figured out that it was just someone who wanted to start over and began a life without dark magic," Harry clarified.

"What did he steal?" Molly wondered.

"Some money, telescope, and some other stuff that would make a good start for a new life," responded Harry. Molly shook her head.

"Well, I best be off to bed. I need some sleep," she said. "Goodnight, Ron, Hermione. So glad to have you back, Harry."

And with that, she went up the several floors of stairs and went to sleep.

"Well, what did you say to her when you saw her?" Hermione asked after Molly was gone up the stairs.

"Huh?" Harry wondered.

"Well you obviously didn't just walk up to her and say, 'How've you been?' " Hermione amended.

"…Well, I said, 'hi.' Then, we talked a little bit about how each of us was holding up," Harry told his two best friends.

"Ah," Ron said, understanding.

"So, I saw Angelina here," Harry started. "What's with that?" His question was obviously directed towards Hermione.

"Well she and George have started to talk and get together a lot recently. And she knows about George and me. Thankfully she's not mad about it or anything. We talk too. It's nice. She's nice," Hermione told him. Harry nodded and smiled.

"Well, I think I should be heading off to bed, too," Hermione sighed and stood from her chair and walked up the stairs.

Harry then focused his attention on Ron.

"You've been okay…with all of that, I mean?" Harry questioned.

Ron nodded and answered, "Yeah. We just moved on. It's fine."

"So you and Parvati are going well I presume?" Harry said and took another sip of his coco.

"Mhm. Better than ever," Ron replied and smiled. Harry bobbed his head up and down.

"…You look tired," he stated. "Maybe we should go to bed."

"Yeah, all right," Ronald agreed and then walked up the stairs all the way to the fifth floor where they fell asleep within minutes.

A/N: WHOA! Yay! It's gonna start to get gooooooood! Hope you like it! And sorry it took a while. Talk to y'all soon!