Harry Potter x Reader

Second Year - Goodbye Second Year

"You have also saved a very precious life here."
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End of Second Year..  They're growing I-
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Third Person POV

For a moment there was silence as Harry, Ron, (Y/N), and Lockhart stood in the doorway, covered in muck and slime and (in Harry's case) blood.

The three were surprised to see Mr and Mrs Weasley with Ginny at the back.

"(Y/N)!" Mrs Weasley yelled, running over and holding her in a tight embrace.

(Y/N) had never been in such an embrace to know that this is what motherly love is but she liked it, and hugged back.

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry.. Ginny -- she.. she's just explained everything and of course we don't want anything horrible to happen to you.." Mrs Weasley said, holding (Y/N) tightly.

(Y/N) was looking past Mrs Weasley, to see Ginny in the corner with Mr Weasley, crying her eyes out at the sight of (Y/N).

When Mrs Weasley finally pulled away, (Y/N) was shocked to see that she had tears in her eyes.

"Mrs Weasley, you don't need to cry.. I'm fine now, see?" (Y/N) said, quickly.

"No.. no, you were taken in! And -- and Ginny.. she --" But she stopped halfway and held Harry this time, in the same way.

"You saved her! You saved her! How did you do it?"

"I think we'd all like to know that," said Professor McGonagall weakly.

Mrs. Weasley let go of Harry, who hesitated for a moment, then walked over to the desk and laid upon it the Sorting Hat, the ruby-encrusted sword, and what remained of Riddle's diary.

Ginny's sobs and sniffs were heard by (Y/N). (Y/N) hesitated as she walked over and stopped in front of her, everyone watching intently.

"It wasn't your fault." she said, quietly. "It was his. He did this. Not you." she reassured her. Ginny sniffed, tears still streaming down her face.

"I don't blame you, if that's what you're thinking." and without a second thought, (Y/N) hugged Ginny who stuttering, hugged back.

Harry, surprised at the gratitude, half expected (Y/N) would be raging at the thought of being taken into the Chamber, nearly killed all because of Ginny herself, but he was proved wrong, once again.

He tore his eyes away from the two and
started telling them everything. For nearly a quarter of an hour he spoke into the rapt silence: He told them about hearing the disembodied voice, how Hermione had finally realised that he was hearing a basilisk in the pipes; how he, (Y/N) and Ron followed the spiders into the forest, that Aragog had told them where the last victim of the basilisk had died; how he had guessed that Moaning Myrtle had been the victim, and that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets might be in her bathroom...

"Very well," Professor McGonagall prompted him as he paused, "so you found out where the entrance was, breaking a hundred school rules into pieces along the way, I might add, but how on earth did you all get out of there alive, Potter?"