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Author: oliverwoodubmine Story: I'll Stand by You Rating: Young Teens Setting: Pre-HBP Status: Completed Reviews: 4 Words: 1,350 A/N - This is my first story. I hope you like it. I want to say two things. Thank you to my three betas LadyChi and Liz Weasley(from http://www.phoenixsong.net) and Amphora (from http://www.perfectimagination.co.uk.) and I own nothing from the Harry Potter Universe. There was a party the Weasley's garden that night because it was the week before they returned to school, and they wanted to celebrate Harry's recent defeat of Voldemort on his seventeenth birthday. Harry and Ginny could be seen dancing rather closely to each other while others just danced everywhere. Dean Thomas, who was acting as DJ for the night, turned to the announcer Lee Jordan as he announced that they were going to get to see a real treat that night. Ginny walked away from Harry towards a group of four girls as she started to prepare for what she was going to do. Hermione, Angelina, Alicia, Katie, and herself had picked out a song that they were going to dedicate to their boyfriends. Ginny had been dating Harry since the previous year and she wanted to tell him how she felt through song. Ginny would be singing lead and everyone else was back up. Hermione had found a song by a Muggle group called The Pretenders called "I'll Stand by You." The girls thought that this song was very appropriate since they had all stood by their men, but none more so than Ginny. Just as the girls got themselves together, Lee called out, "Alright everyone, it's time to start! Why doesn't everyone take a seat, and then we can get on our way? We have a group of ladies that want to dedicate a song to their devilishly handsome and sexy boyfriends!" They all glared at Lee. "Okay, so I added the devilishly handsome and sexy part, but I am one of those lucky guys!" Ginny, Hermione, Angelina, Alicia, and Katie led their boyfriends (Harry, Ron, Fred, George, and Lee) to the front row of saved seats. They placed small kisses on their lips and then went onto the slightly raised platform. Dean started the background music as the girls prepared to sing. Ginny started… Oh why you look so sad? Tears are in your eyes Come on and come to me now. Don't be ashamed to cry, let me see you through Cause I've seen the dark side too. Harry's eyes locked with Ginny while she was singing and they both started thinking back over the past year. Harry Potter had gone to the Burrow two weeks after the end of his 5th year at Hogwarts. He looked thinner and had taken to brooding. The Weasley's didn't know what to do about him. Mr. Weasley tried to get him to talk about Muggle things but Harry was content to just stare at the floor. One night, about a week after Harry arrived at the Burrow, he had awoken from a nightmare that placed him back at the Department of Mysteries. He went downstairs to sit in front of the fire. When he reached the landing he noticed Ginny was sitting on the couch. She looked up from the fireplace and over at Harry. She stayed silent but patted the cushion next to her. He cautiously sat down and stared into the dying flames. They sat together in silence until Ginny quietly asked him, "Did you have a nightmare too?" Harry looked at her and then slowly nodded his head. That was the most he had done since his arrival. Ginny sighed and tentatively said, "If you ever need to talk I'll be there for you, whenever." Harry look into her beautiful brown eyes and saw understanding and sympathy but not pity. Everyone else felt bad for him. Maybe Ginny was different. Maybe she did understand. He kept staring at her as she turned back towards the fire. After another long silence Harry finally spoke, but in a voice so small Ginny had to strain to hear him, "It hurts, Ginny." Then Harry Potter did something that he had never done before in anyone's presence … he cried. When the night falls on you, you don't know what to do, Nothing you confess could make me love you less Harry confessed everything that was hurting him to Ginny that night. He finally fell asleep exhausted with his head in Ginny's lap and her fingers running through his hair. He started to seek Ginny out to just talk to her about anything and everything. He found that it was easier to talk to her than it was to talk to anyone else. I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you, won't let nobody hurt you, I'll stand by you. So If you're mad get mad, don't hold it all inside, Come on and talk to me now. And hey, what you got to hide? I get angry too But I'm a lot like you. Ron had gotten mad at Ginny for talking to Harry. Harry finally got so sick of Ron yelling at Ginny for being in his, business that he blew up at him one day. Ginny took Harry out to the orchard to calm him down. Harry fumed, yelled and, threw sticks at trees. Ginny sat there and listened to it all. Ginny's temper was starting to rise when Harry wouldn't shut up for two seconds so she could say something, so she did the only thing she could think of that would make him shut up. She pushed him against a tree and kissed him with everything she had. That shut him up. When you're standing at the crossroads, don't know which path to choose Let me come along, cause even when your wrong I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you, won't let nobody hurt you, I'll stand by you Take me to your darkest hour, and I'll never desert you, I'll stand by you Harry and Ginny had started dating at the end of the summer, much to Molly and Arthur's delight. She was the best thing that ever happened to him. She brought light and laughter into what, he thought, would be his darkest year. Harry did not know how he had lived without her in his life this whole time. But then he thought back. Ginny had always been there for him, but he was just too blind to see it. ‘Well,' he thought, ‘she won't slip through my fingers this time!' And when, when the night falls on you baby, you're feeling alone, You won't be on your own, I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you, won't let nobody hurt you, I'll stand by you, Take me into your darkest hour and I'll never desert you I'll stand by you. The day of Harry's seventeenth birthday Voldemort attacked Hogwarts. The Order was staying there that summer and had been warned of the attacks by Professor Snape and Harry's nightmare visions. Harry was ready to kill Voldemort this time. Before the battle started Harry found Ginny. He kissed her, held her, and told her how much he loved her. "Be careful, love. I need you. I love you." "I love you too, Harry. Don't you dare die on me! Be careful and come back to me when this is all over." Ginny would be helping Madame Pomfrey in the infirmary, while Harry would be in the Great Hall with all the teachers, Order members, and Aurors that were fighting. Harry kissed Ginny one more time and then left for the Great Hall. The last chords of the song played and the girls all stepped down to their boyfriends, who were giving them a standing ovation. Fred and George threw Angelina and Alicia over their shoulders and left the common room. Lee spun Katie around the room and ended up in a dark corner. Ron wrapped his arms around Hermione and was whispering in her ear things that made her cry. Harry whispered in Ginny's ear, "Thanks, love! You never did desert me. I love you, Ginny Weasley." Then he kissed her. The End |