Hey! Thanks to all those reviewers Umm, what I meant by I now know how the ending is going to be is that when the time comes for the ending I'll know what to do, because when I started the story I only knew what the beginning was going to be like. I was kind of winging it. I'm hoping to have at most ten chapters for this story. I don't want it to go on forever, because sometimes people make their stories too long and it ruins the story for me. :)
Like usual, please tell me what you think! I've taken some of your suggestions so far, and I will take more if I think they fit into this story!
Thanks again, and please enjoy!
Fruity.tooty
It was the morning. Harry was sitting down with the rest of the Weasleys, for breakfast although four of them were missing.
Mr. Weasley was off with Hermione in Australia, looking for her parents, Bill was at his home with Fleur, and Percy thought he might go to the ministry and help sort everything out.He wasn't sure where Charlie was, but Mrs. Weasley seemed to know.
Harry was sitting near Ron who looked bored and was picking at his food. He thought that this might have something to do with Hermione being absent.
Mrs. Weasley was the only one at the table with a smile on. She looked as though she were stressed and hoping to get everybody's spirits up. Harry wasn't sure what they were going to do that day, but he knew that whatever it was, Mrs. Weasley wanted them to be happy on there way there, and not looking as if somebody in the family and just died…
George and Ginny were sitting together on the other side of the table, but they both looked as though they didn't even know the other was there.
Harry didn't know that Ginny had been that close to Fred. Of course he knew they were brother and sister and everything, but Ron wasn't as beat up as Ginny was about it. She looked even worse then George sometimes. She didn't come down for supper, and usually stayed away from everybody else. The one person Harry could remember her talking to in a conversation was Hermione and she wasn't here at the moment.
All Harry wanted to do was to go over there and put his arm around her, like Ron did to Hermione when she was feeling sad (although Harry was sure he had gotten it from the book that he had given Harry as a birthday present last year).
Harry knew that he had to talk to Ron about Ginny. He knew that Ron would be a little nervous about it, but once he knew how Harry felt, and that Harry didn't want to hurt his sister but comfort her; he would say that he was ok with it.
"Alright. We're going to be leaving for Hogwarts so we-," "Hogwarts?" Before he could stop himself, Harry had interrupted Mrs. Weasley. He looked around and saw Ginny's head look up.
"Yes dear, we're going to go to Hogwarts. They've already got everything cleared up. Charlie and Bill are there helping to get everything ready for the ceremony and-," "Ceremony?" Harry cut her off again. He didn't mean to, but he didn't know about anything that was going on.
Mrs. Weasley's smile had faded but she was looking sternly into Harry's eyes. "Yes dear, don't you remember? We were talking about it last night during supper. We're going to have a ceremony for those who fought and died in the war against Voldemort."
Harry was shocked. He didn't know anything about this. Shouldn't he had known if everybody at the party last night was talking about it?
He thought back to last night when they were all sitting down in that long table outside in the backyard of the burrow. He couldn't remember a single thing about what anybody was talking about. All he could remember was that Ginny had looked incredibly good in her light blue robes…
He shook his head trying to clear his mind, but Mrs. Weasley had taken that as a "no".
"Oh well, let me explain to you now. We are going to have a ceremony for… for those who died fighting Voldemort in the war. It's going to be where Dumbledore's funeral was. Do you remember where that was? Yes, well, they are also going to fix Dumbledore's tomb. You know, since it was distroud and everything. They are also going to be a memorial statue of… of those who fought..."
There was a long pause when Harry looked at Ginny, and for the first time that day, their eyes met. George was also looking at Harry.
"Alright. When are we leaving?" Harry said trying to break the silence and tension that was looming over the breakfast table.
"As soon as you're all ready, and washed up." Said Mrs. Weasley seemingly remembering what she was doing before the conversation had started.
Harry was glad to have an excuse to get away for a while. He excused himself from the table, and he and Ron left to go change.
When they arrived at Hogwarts, there were already a lot of people there, despite that Mrs. Weasley wanted them to be there early so that they could help out a bit before the actual ceremony begins.
Their seats were already held for them right at the front and they sat down. It wasn't long before that, that Hermione came with her parents and Mr. Weasley.
"It didn't take long at all! We apparated right into the city they were staying in. we caught them right before they were going to a concert at some grand place-," Hermione kept on talking while Harry noticed Ron was watching her intently, and even though Hermione was addressing Mrs. Weasley and Ginny, Hermione kept on sneaking looks and smiles at Ron.
Harry's stomach dropped. If only he could have that with Ginny.
He pushed the thought away when he saw Neville walking towards them with Luna, Dean and Seamus at his sides.
"I'm so glad I got to talk to you before the ceremony begins! My grans over there waiting for me to sit down but I wanted to talk to you before it began. How's everything going?" Neville had a huge grin and was looking at all of them.
"Not bad, Neville, and yourself?" said Hermione directing her parents to reserved seats. She apparently wanted to have good seats incase she came back early enough.
"Not bad for me either. Me and my Gran are helping people whose houses have been destroyed by you-know-who. It's kind of nice, because they like to give you treats afterwards."
Harry couldn't help notice that Neville still didn't like to use Voldemorts name. There were probably hundreds of witches and wizards out there that still didn't want to hear his name.
"How are you Luna?" Ginny asked. Harry didn't dare turn around to look at her, but couldn't help notice that it was the first time she spoke today.
"Not bad, how are you?" She asked in that dreamy voice of hers.
Harry couldn't help it he turned around and looked at Ginny. She was looking at him too. She looked incredibly sad, and Harry couldn't help but stare.
Finally she looked back to Luna and just smiled and looked away.
Harry watched her for a few moments. She was leaning against her mother who was having a conversation with her father and Hermione's parents about Australia.
Harry's heart fell. He didn't like to see her sad, but he didn't know how to make her feel any better. It was his fault that Fred was dead and so many other people too. It was his fault that Teddy- that his Godson was parentless. He knew that they were fighting for a cause, and that they all knew that there was the risk of dying, but he couldn't help but think that if he had gone to Voldemort sooner, then a lot of people wouldn't have died.
A thought occurred to Harry; what if Ginny blamed Harry for Fred's death? He had told Hermione and Ron about what had happened. Maybe Hermione told Ginny about Harry going there to let Voldemort kill himself so that Voldemort could die?
Harry's heart was beating so fast. His head was spinning. He didn't even realize it when the same man who conducted Dumbledore's funeral stood up at the stand and called Harry's name.
Everybody was standing and applauding and Ron picked Harry up from his seat by his arms so that he would stand. Hermione pushed Harry towards the front where everybody was watching him and applauding. And all Harry could think of was what a monster he was.
Thanks again, and please review! Sorry it was rushed. I'm going away and I have to leave soon but I wanted to put another chapter up before I left.
Sorry about how Hermione got her parents back wasn't really in the story, but I wanted to focus the story on more than just that.
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