A Teacher in Time

Young Love

A/N: I'm doing two updates to make up for how long it's been since I last updated- anyway.. Enjoy!

POF

The wind caused the leaves to rustle and waves lightly lapped against the shore. Ginny leaned against Harry, tears sliding down her face, Harry's as well. 

She sniffed. "We didn't get any time to reflect did we?" 

Harry shook his head. "Not at all." 

Harry raised his wand. He gave a small smile to Ginny and conjured a pile of glowing lanterns. 

"What are you doing?" 

"It's what we planned to do at the memorial service. We put a lantern on the lake and for each person who died in the war." 

"But they'll stay there and we can't do that."

"They'll dissapear by tomorrow night." 

Ginny nodded. She picked up a lantern. "To Fred." She set the lantern on the water and it floated away. 

"Remus." Harry set another lantern down. 

"Tonks." 

*

Dumbledore had been watching the two young professors, he was suspisious of the two, but everyone loved them, saying how full of life, and how fun the two young people were. So of course, when he saw the two out by the lake two hours after curfew (Not that there was a curfew teachers, but he was curious) he of course had to see what they were doing. 

He walked across the grounds, in no hurry, when he saw a light on the lake. As he got closer, he saw more floating around, and noticed that they were lanterns. He cast a Dissillusion Charm on himself, and headed toward the two professors. He stopped about a few feet away from them. To his shock, they were crying. 

"Harry, I really miss them." 

Harry chocked up. "I- I know. I'm sorry." 

"Stop blaming yourself! You didn't start the war! You didn't kill them!" 

Dumbledore listened closer. 

"Yeah but if I had just faced Voldemort right away instead of trying to fight they wouldn't be dead! Fred, Remus, Tonks, Colin, Dumbledore- if we hadn't gone to the Ministry because of that STUPID vision, Sirius would be here!" 

Dumbledore's eyes widened. It concerned him that they were mentioning three of his current students, not to mention himself and the war. 

"Harry Potter you listen to me right now! This wasn't your fault! I'm still here, and I love you, and you have my whole family, your friends, Mcgonagall, Kingsley, you're in Auror training, your godson, nieces, and you've got a gazillion fans. Think of the world you've made. You saved everyone." 

Harry bowed his head. "It wasn't just me-" 

"It was everyone who fought, but tell me this. Who killed Voldemort? Who revelutionized the Ministry?" 

Dumbledore almost didn't catch Harry's mumbled 'me'. For once, his brain almost stopped working. He couldn't believe anything he was hearing.

"Exactly." 

There was silence for a long time, and Dumbledore was thinking of leaving until Harry at last spoke. 

"I love you Gin, so so much." 

Ginny kissed him, and in that moment, Dumbledore could feel their love, and would have felt shocked had he not had so many other thoughts going through his head that he couldn't sort. Was it possible that this man was the key to winning the war? He shook his head. He decided then to let them be, and watch the events fold out as they would. With that, Dumbledore walked back to the castle, feeling not only confused, but hopeful. 

A/N: This chapter didn't end up the way I had thought it would be in my head, but it's important to the plot, so please ignore the extreamly cheesy ending! I know it's cheesy! Oh well. If you could review and tell me what you think I'd be extreamly thankful!