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Category: Post-OotP Characters:All, All Genres: Angst, Drama, Fluff, Humor Warnings: None Rating: PG Reviews: 309 Summary: *** The author has been reminded via the e-mail address on file that this story is listed as incomplete and has not been updated in over 2 years *** This story starts at the end of Order Of The Phoenix. Although this story starts as the usual Harry/Ginny romance, I believe after several chapters, you will find that Ancient Dark Magic takes on a whole new meaning to our Harry and Ginny. Will Harry discover the key to the Half-Blood Prince?* * * *American Edition *** * * * Hitcount: Story Total: 196486; Chapter Total: 3984 Author's Notes: SUMMARY: Harry learns a hard lesson. |
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Chapter Three - The Lesson A couple of days later, Harry was starting to come back alive. He was still very weak, but was staying awake for longer periods. Which also meant that he was thinking again. Something that he was tired of doing. He had to protect all those around him. He had a plan... Ron came in and sat next to the bed. He was still shocked at what Harry looked like, he was so gaunt. At least with his eyes open he looked alive. But even Harry's eyes weren't right, they looked cold and mean. "Hey mate, are you feeling any better?" asked Ron. "What do you care? What's it to you? I never asked you to come. Why don't you leave? I really don't have time for you right now," sneered Harry. Ron's jaw dropped. Was he hearing right? "Whaaat?" said Ron. "You heard me. Just beat it," Harry said coldly. Ron's whole body seemed to slump. He couldn’t yell back at Harry when he was this sick and weak. He stood up and lowered his head, then walked out of the room without saying a word. "HARRY POTTER ! Just what do you think you're doing?" screamed Ginny. Ginny had been sitting quietly on the other side of the room and Harry had forgotten that she was there. So it startled him when he heard her voice screaming at him. "It's none of YOUR business, Ginny," snarled Harry. "Don't tell ME that it's none of my business! It IS my business if you talk to my brother, that I happen to LOVE, like that!" screeched Ginny. "It's none of your concern, so butt out," said Harry. "It IS my concern and I'm NOT butting out. I KNEW this was coming. I hoped that it wouldn't come to this, but here we are. You’ve got a plan, you are going to hurt everyone that loves you one by one. You think that you can protect them, but it's not gonna work!" yelled Ginny. "Yeah, well, what do YOU know about it?" asked Harry. "Since everyone that you care about is either in the Order or is willing to fight, they are already in danger. You think that you are the only one who can defeat Tom Riddle, so you think that it is too dangerous to be around you, so you want to push everyone away. Well it's too late for that now. So give it a rest!" yelled Ginny. "Who says I'm the only one who can defeat Tom Riddle?" asked Harry. "Hello? Harry, it don't take a genius to figure that one out. Why would he try to kill you when you were a baby? Why has he been trying to kill you ever since he came back? Why would he be wasting his time on some kid, if you weren't dangerous to him. Why would there be a prophecy at the Department of Mysteries with both your names on it, if it wasn't you?" said Ginny. "Why didn't you DIE when he tried to kill you as a baby? Because you have something in you that is dangerous to him. Wake up Harry!" Ginny added. "So then you can see that I have to do it alone! I don't need anyone else around to do it. I don't want anyone else to get killed because of ME !" yelled Harry. "Harry! You are just so stupid! Just how far do you think you would have gotten at the Department of Mysteries if you were alone? It took all six of us just to stay alive and that was not enough. It took members of the Order and the Aurors AND Dumbledore, to finally get things under control or you wouldn’t have even survived ! “ “Harry, do you think that this war has just began? It’s been going on for at least ten years before you were born! Do you really think that you can fight it alone? Do you think that if you don’t fight it, that it won’t be fought? If you try to fight it alone, you will fail. If you fail, the rest of us are still going to keep fighting. With you, we will have a chance, without you, there will be more deaths. But we will still keep fighting. So when we do lose lives, it will be your fault! “ “I’ll do what I have to do.” said Harry “Yeah and now you tried to kill yourself, so where does that leave the rest of us?” yelled Ginny. “I didn’t,” said Harry. “Didn’t what?” said Ginny. “I didn’t try to kill myself!” he said, in an angry tone. “Oh no? Then why didn’t you even feed yourself? You were trying to starve yourself to death! “ yelled Ginny. “No, I wasn’t. I just didn’t want to bother with it. I just wanted to be LEFT ALONE!” screamed Harry. “Yeah, and if you were LEFT ALONE, you would never have survived!” yelled Ginny. “Why do you keep talking about the prophecy?” said Harry through gritted teeth. “What? I’m not talking about the prophecy, I talking about you LIVING! Can’t you get that through your head?” said Ginny. “There you go again,” said Harry. “I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I do know that you are not gonna treat everyone like the way you just treated Ron! Mum will probably be coming in here next and I promise you this, you will NOT treat her that way. My mum loves you with all her heart. She has cried harder about you than anyone in the world. I WILL NOT let you do that to her. NEVER ! I will jinx you so bad that there won’t be anything left for Riddle to kill ! AND THAT IS A PROMISE! “ Ginny stomped out of the room. Harry's face, for the first time in at least a month, finally had some color. It had to be bright red, at least it felt like it was bright red. He was angry. He lay on his bed, his hands in fists, and thought. Did she have the right to be angry? Was ANYTHING that she said to him wrong? NOPE! Everything she said was true. Just because what she said WAS true, didn't mean that it didn't hurt to hear the truth. He didn't like it that she knew what he was thinking. He didn't like it being pointed out to him that he was wrong. And who gave HER the right to tell him off? Just because most of her family were in the Order or were close friends of his, that meant that all her family were targets of Riddle. So she DID have a right. Grrrrrrrr How did she figure out the prophecy? Was it THAT obvious? Why hadn’t HE figured it out? Well yes, he really did kinda know all this time. He just didn't want to face it. All the facts were right there to see. He just didn't want to see it. If he didn't see it, then he could pretend that he was just a normal wizard boy that somehow always seemed to get caught up in some kind of trouble that involved Riddle. How did SHE figure it out? She was way younger than him. Was she that smart? Hmm well, she was really only a year younger. Why did she seem so much younger? Probably because she was Ron's little sister. She was the baby of the family, yeah, that made sense. What about Ron and Hermione? Had they figured it out too? Did they line up the facts as Ginny had done and seen the obvious? Or were they denying what was in front of them all this time too? They probably were. He would know if they knew. Ron... poor Ron. Harry would have to try to talk to him again or at least send him a letter. Yes, he would write a letter to Ron. Ginny had opened his eyes about himself. He didn’t like what he saw. SHE surely did not treat him like a kid... like he was fragile... like he would break. She certainly told HIM off royally AND he deserved it. That's just what he needed. Someone to jinx him into next week if he tried to pull something stupid. Yes, she would hold him to her promise. With that, he grinned. That night, Harry sat down with ink and parchment and wrote a letter to Ron. Dear Ron, I really don’t know where to start. But please read all of this letter before burning it. I know I don’t deserve your friendship. You and Hermione have stood by me in the worst of times. I have treated you both very wrongly last year and today I was at my worst. I don’t have the nerve to ask your forgiveness, that would be too much to ask from you. I only ask that you try to understand that I only wanted to protect you. I did not mean a word of it. I wanted to push you away from me so that you would not get hurt. It was my fault that Sirius died and everybody got hurt at the Department of Mysteries. I didn’t want anything like that to happen to you again. Your sister pointed out to me (quite elegantly, I might add) that it is too late to protect you from this war that is coming. So I guess I can say that I hurt you for nothing. I’m so sorry for being so stupid. Harry When Ginny came back for her next shift, he asked her to give the letter to Ron. “Ginny, please tell him that he don’t have to forgive me or anything but to at least read it, all of it. Then he can decide what he thinks about it,” said Harry. “You were so right. I really messed up this time,” said Harry sadly. Ginny took the letter and left the room. She held her rock and whispered “Burrow”. Ginny landed in The Burrow kitchen. No Ron in sight, so she went upstairs to Ron’s door and knocked. “Yeah? What do you want?” growled Ron. “Ron, it’s Ginny. Can I come in?” “Yeah,” said Ron. He looked awful. Ginny knew that he had been really hurt, but she made no comment about it. “I have this letter from Harry,” she said. “Well you can toss it in the bin cause I don’t want to see it!” yelled Ron. “Ron, you are right. Harry had no right to talk to you that way. He knows it too. He only asked if you would read all of it. Nothing else,” said Ginny quietly. “Yeah, well what gives him the right to talk to me like that? Then he thinks if he writes me a letter that it’s gonna make everything all peachy. Does he think I’m that thick? “ sneered Ron. “You’re entirely right Ron,” said Ginny as she handed him the letter. Ginny left the room and went down to the kitchen for a snack. Later, Ron entered the kitchen looking resigned. “Take me to see Harry.” Ginny wanted to smile but thought better of it. Ron was in a delicate mood right now. Just a facial expression could be enough to change everything. So she kept a neutral expression. Ginny walked up the stairs with Ron, then told him she would go down and get them some drinks. Ron entered Harry’s room. Harry looked up with surprise. He waited for whatever Ron was gonna say. “So you thought that I could just forgive you for all that you said. Just like that?” said Ron. “No,” said Harry. “Well that was HARD Harry,” said Ron. “I know. I messed up. I thought I knew what I was doing. I was stupid,” said Harry. “Yeah, you were,” said Ron. “You want to talk about it?” asked Harry. “What’s to talk about? You are right. You were stupid,” said Ron. “Do you still want to... eh... be my friend?” asked Harry, with his eyes closed. “I don’t know,” said Ron. “Well, if you do. You have to stop letting me yell at you. You have to stop letting me get away with stuff! I am not a little baby! I took a lot of my frustrations out on you and Hermione last year, neither of you deserved that,” said Harry. “You are not some kind of wimp. You would never have taken half of the stuff I put out last year from anyone else. You should not have taken it from me,” Harry added. “Yeah, but you had a lot on your mind,” said Ron. “Yeah, well you had stuff on your mind too. So, can you stop me if I start acting stupid again?” asked Harry with a grin. “Yeah, that’s easy enough,” said Ron with his own grin. Ginny waited outside the door with some butterbeers in her hands. She waited until it was quiet before she knocked on the door with her foot. Ron opened the door. “Butterbeer!” he said with a grin. Ginny handed a bottle to Ron, but put hers and Harry’s on the table. “You can have butterbeer after your treatment,” she told Harry. Then she preceded to go through their normal routine. When she was finished, she handed Harry his butterbeer and took one for herself. “Harry looked over at Ron and said “Wanna play some wizard chess?” |
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