Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

Chapter 49
Ginny awoke late in the afternoon to the rhythmic pounding of rain on the window. She smiled slightly;
she had always loved the rain. As a child she had been soothed by the rain against her window, that and
she always associated rain with a warm fire and her family.
After a few seconds of just listening to the rain and letting it calm her still thrashing mind Ginny looked
over at Harry. He was still asleep, although most of the color was back in his face and his face didn't
have that pained look any more.
Ginny saw Harry's hand on the bed; she moved her own hand and took his. Apparently Harry was
closer to waking up than Ginny had thought, because the slight touch of her hand against his was
enough to bring him around.
As Harry woke up he groaned softly and looked around, upon seeing Ginny a huge smile came over his
face, "Morning," he muttered.
"Actually Mr. Potter it's about 8 o'clock at night," said Madam Pomfrey as she came over to check on
her patient. After poking and prodding almost as much as she had that morning she smiled and said,
"Your all healed Mr. Potter. There may be some lingering soreness for the next day or so but you're free
to go back to your dorm." The elderly school nurse looked at Ginny and said, "I recommend that he
gets a bit more sleep tonight, but check up on him every two hours or so, just to make sure he isn't in
pain."
Ginny just nodded, she didn't plan to leave Harry's side until they had to split up for classes, and even
then, she wouldn't have to leave him for long. Madam Pomfrey gave her another bottle of potion for
Harry and told her to give him a sip every few hours. Then Ginny helped Harry back to the Head
Dorms, where he didn't even bother going up to their room. Instead he just collapsed on the couch after
taking a swig of the potion Madam Pomfrey had given him and fell asleep almost immediately.
Ginny sat there looking at him for a few moments, smiling peacefully at the content look on his face.
Ginny then got up and went up to the room that Ron and Hermione shared; she softly knocked on the
door. "Harry and I are back from the Hospital wing," she said. She didn't hear a reply on the other side
of the door, but Ron and Hermione were probably just as tired as she was. Ginny didn't go in; she didn't
want to disturb them if they were sleeping. And if they weren't sleeping, well she didn't want to disturb
them then either.
She went back to the common room and sat in the chair that was next to the couch Harry was on. She
went over the previous night's events in her head. Harry disappearing, her breaking down,
McGonagall's refusal to look for Harry, Ron, Hermione and her going to Grimmuald Place and finding
the cave, the visions and other problems that they had in the cave, the 'battle' that they had had with the
evil Harry, and finally finding Harry and getting the list of spells. It already seemed like so long ago
and the emotions that flooded her at the time seemed like they belonged to somebody else.
Just thinking about the last 24 hours made her tired, and despite the fact that she had just woken up
from a 14 hour nap, she was soon asleep again, lulled by Harry's rhythmic breathing.
* * *
Ron woke up and looked at the watch his parents had given him for his 17th birthday, one of the only
things he owned that was new. It was about 10 o'clock at night and Hermione was still lying next to
him. Ron smiled contently and softly kissed Hermione's neck to wake her up.
She stirred and muttered something that sounded like 'fivemoreminutes."