A sixth-year fic begun pre-HBP, this fic begins where Order of the Phoenix left off. As Harry lies in his bed in Privet Drive, guilt-ridden and devastated, Voldemort finds an "easy in" to the young wizard's mind...

The last battle has been waged between Harry Potter and Tom Riddle, and it took an irreversible sacrifice to stop the evil wizard's rule of the magical world. Now, weeks later, Ginny Weasley must learn to live without the man she has always loved.

Eleven-year-old Ginevra Weasley is having a hard time of it during her first year at Hogwarts. As she struggles to understand the events unfolding around her, she turns to the one friend she knows she can trust...the memory of a boy named Tom Riddle.