After All This Time... ~ HP Fanfic

01

After Harry Potter defeated Lord Voldemort, everyone is relieved that they're all safe again except for Lord Voldemort followers who just escaped and some were sent to Azkaban but yet are alive. Professor McGonagall stood in the middle of the Great Hall, sighing as she looked around to see dead bodies and kept her head down in respective for the ones who died in the battle of Hogwarts and how grateful she was for them to help and sacrifice themselves to joined the battle... she looked over to the redhead family, the Weasleys, who just lost their first member of their family, Fred Weasley. Then she looked down in front of her, there lay a couple who held hands together, Remus and Nymphadora Lupin, also dead. She sighed and shook her head in disbelief.

"Professor..." She looked over to the boy in front of her. She gasped and pulled him into a hug.

"Oh Harry..." She said.

"They're really gone, aren't they?" Harry said, with shaky voice.

"Yes, I am sorry." She said.

"This is all -"

"No, don't you say it's your fault. They choose to join us." She told him.

"If I haven't gone to see Voldemort sooner... they would have lived." He said.

"Potter, on behalf of Remus, I am sure he would tell you otherwise that isn't your fault for what happened to them."

"They had a child." He said.

"I know... but they'd choose you to be their child's godfather. They trusted you." She assured him. Harry looked down and shook his head before a couple who just recently got in a relationship approached them.

"Harry..." Harry looked up with tears in his eyes as he looked at his best friends, "Oh Harry..." Hermione hugged him.

"Mate, it's not your fault." Ron said rubbed Harry's back while Hermione was still hugging Harry tightly, "I don't blame you for my brother's death." Harry looked at him after Hermione pulled away from him and joined Ron's side as he wrapped his arms around his girlfriend waist, "I know how it sounds, but... I think Ginny needs you right now." Ron said, Harry and Hermione looked at him, surprised.

"Ron... what happened to you?" Hermione asked, sound shocked.

"I just tired of fighting... Harry defeated Voldemort. We all deserve peace right now... I mean, I just lost my brother, I really do not want to fight anymore, not especially with my best friend." Ron said, looking at his best friend, Harry, "But I know for sure that Ginny needs a comfort hug right now. I know you guys aren't in a relationship, but she does need you." Ron told him. Harry nodded, about to leave, "And if you hurt her -"

"Ronald..." Hermione said sternly.

"All right, sorry." Ron said as Harry went over to his ex-girlfriend, who he had just broken up with before went to hunt to find all the horcruxes a few months back.

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Harry walked over to Ginny, who sat on bench in front of her family, who was still mourning for Fred, who lay on the ground on the stretcher along with other dead bodies surrounding him. Ginny was crying slightly as she watched her family crying over her brother dead body, "Gin..." Ginny looked up to see Harry before she sobbed as Harry quickly sat by her side before pulling her in a hug tightly, "I'm sorry, Gin..." He said.

"I can't believe Fred is really gone." Ginny said, sniffed as she wiped away her tears before taking a deep, shaky breath.

"I know... I know he was your favourite brother along with George. It's unfair for you." Harry said, rubbed her back.

"But how are you?" She asked him.

"I... honestly, I have no idea." He said.

"What do you mean?" She asked, confused.