A/N: Here it is! The third chapter and the next to last one. The final one is
already written and it's pending revision. Plus, I'll send it out more quickly
if I get enough feedback! ^_^ My own private little thingy that I learned from
my friend. ANYWHO, new POV. Guess who.... Next is the final one and it'll be
romance. PROMISE!

Disclaimer: A statement made to save one's own ass. I don't own "Harry Potter"
that's J.K. Rowling's and I don't own the song. It's Bette Midler's.


"Did You Ever Know?"
By: Angel Grrl


I could see him standing near the Quidditch field and I could hear his words.
They sounded so distant to my ears that I was straining to hear them. Watching
him....standing there all alone I started to remember our days at school. We
were always together....if we weren't the infamous trio of Hogwarts then we were
the dynamic duo....or something like that. Ron and me....together all the time.
If we weren't faking our divination homework, it was going on another adventure
that would threaten certain detention and Snape's wrath. Hmm....those were the
good days. I found myself looking back more and more these days...I had found
that I had never told Ron some things that needed to be said, and I didn't think
that I would ever be able to tell him....

It must have been cold there, in my shadow
To never have sunlight on your face
You've been content to let me shine
You always walked a step behind

The last time that Ron and I had spoken was when I was preparing to fight. He
had wanted to come and I strictly forbid it. I was already putting myself into
mortal danger and I couldn't risk having him die. I had already lost Cedric and
my parents to Voldemort...and I wasn't going to lose anybody else....not ever! I
had told him that if anything happened to me that I wanted him to be happy. He
didn't say much after that. I don't know if he understood or not. I wasn't doing
this for glory or for recognition....I was doing it because it had to be done. I
remembered during the Triwizard Tournament that we had had a fight. Hermione had
said that Ron was jealous because I was always getting the recognition and he
was just " Harry Potter's Friend". I had NEVER thought of him that way...and I
was so scared that he thought I ever thought that. Didn't he know what he really
was to me?


I was the one with all the glory
While you were the one with all the strength
Only a face without a name
And I never once heard you complain


He had always stuck by me through everything that had happened. A true friend to
the end...and never once doubted me. Well, except maybe once or twice but Hey!
Nobody's perfect......even me. There were times...that I had caught myself
envying Ron. I wanted to be him many times. I envied him for his family, for the
love that surrounded him, and for never doubting himself. He was.....in every
sense of the word.....a hero. MY hero. Did he know that? Did he know that he was
my hero? I may have been a hero to the world when I defeated Voldemort but that
didn't matter. I wish that I could have told him before.....


Did you ever know that you're my hero?
And everything I'd like to be
I can fly higher than an eagle
When you are the wind beneath my wings



I saw him shifting his weight from foot to foot. That meant that he was getting
restless and was about to leave. I couldn't let him leave yet! Not yet! Not when
I was so close to having my old life back again.....only better than before. I
felt that feeling in my middle that meant that I was about to become visible. It
was feeling that made you feel like vomiting and sleeping at the same time. I
don't recommend it at all. When I finally did appear, I gave myself the once
over before I went to him. He was about to turn around when I put my hand on his
shoulder. He stiffened and then relaxed.

"I knew you would come."
"There is much I have to tell you."

He turned to me and I could see the tears in his eyes. Something in him was
finally being released after all these years....and I could see his old self
return. His smiling, carefree nature.



It might have appeared to go unnoticed
I've got it all here in my heart
Want you to know, I know the truth
I would be nothing without you


We talked for a while....I don't recall how long but long enough. I told him
what happened to me and I told him that soon everything was going to be perfect
once more. The smile on his face reached his eyes and he looked to be in pain. I
had never known Ron to be in pain when he smiled before....but he was. I
actually don't think he cared in the slightest. I asked him about his life now
and he told me that he was an Unforgivable....and I then called him a regular
James Bond. He chuckled at this a litle. I asked him if he ever forgave me. He
looked somewhat startled at this question.

"What do you mean?"
"Do you hate me? For leaving you out of the adventure?"

For a long time his eyes did not meet mine. Then he looked at me with a
confident air about him.

"No. I don't hate you. I'm just not that kind of a person. I'm not the hero
type."
"Yes, you are."

He smiled.


Did you ever know that you're my hero?
And everything I'd like to be
I can fly higher than an eagle
Because you are the wind beneath my wings


I asked about Hermione.....he told me that she had never forgotten me after all
these years. That she was still grieving for me. It was going to be all right I
told him. She wouldn't grieve any longer after this night. He looked puzzled but
I just gave him a reassuring wink. I then went off into the night....and went
looking for my beacon of hope.


Thank you, thank you
Thank God for you
The wind beneath my wings


'Hermione......I'm coming.'


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