Harry Potter and The Bonding of Hearts

Authors Note:

Disclaimer. I Do not and will never own Harry Potter. He is owned by J.K. Rowling.

The characters, locations, and any other references to the work of J.K. Rowling are needed

to write this but the story is entirely my own work.

Life After Voldemort

Harry, Ron and Hermione left the spiral staircase from Dumbledore's office on their way back to the great hall and Ginny came running up to them and hugged Harry and kissed him on the cheek and then looked pointedly at Hermione, saying "Can you give us some space" and Hermione understood because she pulled Ron ahead to let Harry and Ginny talk.

Once they were out of earshot Ginny said to Harry "Well now, Mr. Potter, What am I going to do with you for scaring the hell out of me like that?"

"I have no idea" replied Harry " but how about being my girlfriend, I think that will do for the moment." A small smile spread over Ginny's face until it covered her whole face and she replied with a cheeky grin " alright Harry but lets not tell Ron 'till the morning." At this Harry leant down and kissed her on the lips and she kissed him right back and with such passion, it surprised Harry but he didn't pull back. A week might have passed while they stood there or only several seconds neither could tell but when Ginny pulled back from the kiss and said "God I missed that, Harry, really I did"

" So have I, Ginny, so have I" replied Harry earnestly. With that Harry and Ginny hand-in-hand walked down to the great hall where Ron and Hermione were sitting with the Weasley family beside Fred's body and the fifty other people who had fallen in the final battle.

As they approached Mrs. Weasley came up and hugged Harry so hard he thought his head would fall off and when she let go she held him at arms length and surveyed him and said " I think you need a good holiday and a good meal but for all we have been through, we were lucky not lose you as well, I don't think I could have got over that or if we lost Ron or Hermione." Harry was a little shaken by this but was relieved. " It will be ok, Mrs Weasley, we survived and thats all that we need to worry about for the minute." said Harry giving her a quick hug. Just at that moment, Professor McGonigall got to the podium and called for silence. When all the chatter had died down she said "May I have your attention please, Lord Voldemort has been defeated by Harry Potter and may we all thank him for ridding us of the person who has murdered our friends and destroyed our familys."

There was a deafening roar and much clapping for Harry and Ginny kissed him on the cheek and there were a few wolf-whistles from the people nearest them and Ron gave him a look that said "If you hurt her again I will kill you', but Hermione gave them a look of great happiness and she said "it's good to see that you two are back together again, now lets hope you stay that way" Harry smiled and returned his attention to Professor McGonagall who was about to begin a list of the people who fell in battle against Lord Voldemort.

McGonigall started calling out names. the list included Fred Weasley, Remus Lupin, Tonks, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Colin Creevey, Alastor Moody, Rufus Scrimgeour, Dobby the House Elf (#2), and the fifty others who had died fighting Voldemort. As she finished, McGonigall called for a moments silence in rememberance of the fallen heros who had given thier lives to help rid the world of Tom Riddle.

After the minutes silence, Harry looked toward Ginny and motioned his head towards the door, she got his message and started towards the double doors, one of which was lying on the floor, ripped from its hinges by a stray curse or hex. Harry and Ginny started walking towards the Griffindor common room and somewhere nearby, they could hear Peeves singing a victory song that he had obviously made up himself;

We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the One

And Voldy's gone mouldy, so now lets have fun! #1

Authors note: Well thats chapter one done. There will be approximately 50 chapters in this, and i would appreciate any comments, ideas and all

reviews on this. All ideas uesed in this work WILL be credited to the originators. I am also looking for a beta, so if anyone can help me out i would be very grateful.

Notations:

#1 Peeves' song is taken from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Australian version, bottom of page 597.

#2 The names are taken from throughout the book with a majority taken from the bottom of page 596.

There is some slight rewriting of the canon ending as from page 595 where McGonigall replaces the house tables and I have them standing or kneeling around the bodies of friends and family.

Professor Albus