Nargles and Mistletoe
It had been two years since The Battle of Hogwarts. Slowly, things had started to go back to normal...or at least, as normal as it could be after what happened. Harry had moved into Number Twelve Grimmauld Place and he stayed with the Weasleys for the holidays. Hermione had gone to Australia and took the curse off her parents and they remembered her again. Harry and Andromeda Tonks raised Teddy Lupin whose hair was usually turquoise and was your typical rambunctious two-year-old. Fleur was due in a month and she and Bill were thinking of naming the baby Victoire if the baby were a girl. Life was how one would hope it would be.
In the year of 2000, Harry had held a rather large Christmas party in his home. All of the Weasleys, of course, were invited along with Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom. Many other friends from school had been invited including Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigin, the Patil twins, Lavender Brown, Ernie Malcolm, Hannah Abbott, Justin Finch-Fletchley, and about everyone from Dumbledore's Army and The Order of the Phoenix had been invited. After mingling for a little, Harry made his way over to his favorite seat near the fireplace. Ginny was waiting for him there. "Hey," she said and she kissed him on the cheek.
"How's the party?" Harry asked her.
"Fine. I've been talking to Andromeda and Teddy is so cute! His hair is half red half green for Christmas colors. I think that he might be getting a little tired, though. He looked awfully droopy to me."
"I'm glad you're having a good time."
"I ran into Ron and Hermione and they said that they've been having fun. They're over there getting butter-beer. I asked them to get us some too." She jerked her head toward the refreshment table. Ron was leading Hermione over to the couch (both were holding a butter-beer in each hand) and she was laughing really hard at something that he had just said.
Ron and Hermione sat down and Ron said something else which only made her laugh even harder. Ron handed Harry and Ginny a butter-beer and took one from Hermione.
Ron and Hermione scooted over so Harry and Ginny could have more room (which basically meant that Hermione was on Ron's lap) and Ron put an arm around her. "What's up?" Harry asked.
"Nothing," Hermione said still laughing. Harry grinned and Ginny smirked.
After a while of small talk, Ginny whispered, "Look!" Her face was filled with utter glee.
The other three turned to see what she was pointing at and saw Neville and Luna talking. They both had a drink in their hands and Luna was chatting away and Neville was listening carefully. Harry didn't understand what Ginny thought was so interesting about this until he looked up. They were standing under the mistletoe without realizing it. Harry nearly spit out his butter-beer from laughing so hard. The four of them stood watching the scene and waited for Luna or Neville to realize what was hanging over them. After a while they heard Luna say, "Did you notice what we're standing under?" She pointed up at the mistletoe with vague interest.
"Oh," Neville's face went red and he stepped out from under the mistletoe. "Probably filled with nargles or something," he muttered blushing violetly.
"Oh, no," Luna said stepping toward him. "I checked." With that she kissed him. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny's jaws dropped before they started laughing then Ginny whispered, "Finally! I thought I'd never happen!"
The End