The Portal Of Love

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A/N: This is a Harry/Ginny fanfiction, which contains Ginny/Dean and Bill/Tonks. It is set in between the Half Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows. Thanks to everyone who reviewed! If you have any baby names for Bill and Tonks' baby. Boy or girl.

Please review and I am taking requests for any further chapters.

If you have any names for house elf's I will be really grateful for them!

-Previously-

Later that night,Ginny awoke and got the clear impression something was wrong. Somehow, before she opened her eyes, she knew someone else was in her room.

She pretended to be asleep for a moment, before a better idea struck her. She pretended to be stretching. Her hand closed on the handle of her wand and she opened her eyes and pointed it directly at the intruder.

"What are you doing in my room?" she spat.

"Peace. I mean you no harm." The intruder replied. His voice seemed to echo with some great but well managed power.

"You didn't answer my question. Why are you here?" Ginny growled.

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Harry sat bolt upright in his bed and stared around his bedroom at Potter Place. He had been awakened from a nightmare in which Potter Place had been found by a coven of vampires and Ginny had been attacked. Harry was trying to remember why Potter Place would of even been discovered, when he suddenly remembered why he'd waken up. Harry had heard a high-pitched scream and the loud crack of splintering wood from somewhere across the hall of his bedroom near were Ginny slept.

Harry swung his legs off of his bed and grabbed his wand off his bedside table.

Hearing high-pitched screaming in the middle of the night was something that Harry had become used to to since having nightmares about Voldemort. Except the scream that Harry had just heard didn't sound like a scream that someone would let out during a nightmare. This one sounded like someone scared or in shock.

After checking to see if anyone or anything was in the hallway, there was no one there. What Harry did see, however, was Ginny's bedroom door wide open, and a trail of blood. He almost screamed himself when he saw the horrific scene that greeted him. In the middle of the Ginny's bedroom, a tall hooded figure stood with its back to Harry, forcing a terrified girl with flaming red hair back into a corner.

"Ginny!" Harry yelled as he ran across the room towards the figure with his wand raised. The figure turned around and looked briefly at Harry before making a run for the window. Harry raised his wand and shouted "Petrificus Totalus," but it was too late. The creature had climbed through the window and Harry's spell just seared the hem of its cloak as it was swept through the window after its owner. Harry dashed across the room and ran to the window to see if he could still see the figure through the window, but there was no one there.

"Ginny, are you alright?" Harry crossed to where Ginny was standing. She ran into his arms and was shaking so badly that Harry was sure she must be in shock.

"I'm f-fine," she said. It didn't hurt me."

"What on Earth was that thing?"

"It was a v-v-vampire," Ginny stuttered. She had pulled away from Harry and collapsed onto her bed and was now shuddering and crying, "I was sure it was g-going to k-kill me." She was crying so much now she was shaking.

Harry rushed over to her. He pulled her up out off her bed and held her in his arms while she cried. "It'll be okay," he said soothingly, "We'll catch it."

"What do we do now?" she asked. She was starting to calm down now and her voice was steadier. "We have to go wake the house elfs."

"Yeah, but we need to wake the everyone up first, and inform Dumbledore and everyone at The Burrow" Harry said to her. "I just scared the vampire off, it could decide to come back, and we don't want any more surprise attacks."

"Right," she consented, "I'll go get all the girls up."

"Good. Tell everyone to bring their wands."

Harry set off back up the stairs, stopping at every room on the way and ushering all of their sleepy inhabitants out with instructions to take their wands and go down to the sitting room. After instructing the others to wait patiently and keep their guard up, Harry called for Trinklet to floo The Burrow.

As people started realizing what had happened, some of them let out little cries of surprise, some of them looked angry, but most of them looked completely terrified. Hermione actually burst out into tears she was so scared.

"What happened here?" Ron asked

Ginny answered him. "I was sleeping in bed when I felt somebody else in my room. I pretended to be asleep, to see if they would go away, but they didn't seem to move. So I pretended to stretch and grabbed my wand. I turned around to look and it was a vampire, I asked him why he was here, but he didn't answer me, he just said, he meant no harm. But then he ran up to me and I screamed" At this, almost everyone gasped and most of the girls who hadn't been crying before started to.

"What did you do?" Hermione asked Ginny anxiously.

"Well," she continued, "I screamed, and tried to hex him, but he was to fast, so I just sort of ran around my bedroom trying to get away from it. It was backing me into a corner and I was sure I was done for when Harry turned up and frightened it off. Harry tried to jinx it, but it escaped out the window."

"You mean it's still in Potter Place somewhere!" yelled Ron, and a fresh wave of fear swept over the group.

"Yes," said Harry. "We need to go alert the order and Dumbledore. Half of us should go to The Burrow and the others should stay here. Bill, Charlie, you go alert the order and tell them what happened. Fred, George, I want you and two others to stand guard in the hallway.''

"Does anyone want to go?" Harry said to the rest of the group. "It could be really dangerous and I don't want anyone to stay who doesn't think they're up to it. There was only one vampire in Potter Place tonight, but who's to say there aren't more - or something even worse - lurking around out there?"

Several people looked as though they would love more than anything to go. Ginny was paler than ever and was trembling from head to foot, Tonks looked as though she had seen a ghost and was on the verge of tears, and Hermione was still trying to control her frightened sobbing, but no one backed out.

"Alright then," Harry said. "Let's go." And together, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, George and Tonks set off down the dark corridor to the Potter Place entrance hall to wait for Bill, Charlie, Dumbledore, Mr and Mrs Weasley and the Order.

-To Be Continued-

A/N: Please can you PM me any ideas you have for this story, seeing as I'm running out! Remember to review! Also I'm having a little debate, because I have been getting some PM's about people not liking the Bill/Tonks pairing, and I would like a vote whether to split them up or not, I was going to but I didn't know how to separate them seeing as Tonks is pregnant, so please could you tell me whether to split them up and how to or not in a review or PM me.

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LUV-TONKS