AN: This song-fic will be divided into chapters. From proposal right
through to the end. R/R
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or the song You Got To Believe in Magic.
Chapter 1
Take me to your heart
Show me where to start
Let me play the part
Of the first love
Ron Weasley was happier than he has ever been in his entire life. The 22-year-old auror was preparing a romantic dinner in the flat he was sharing with his girlfriend Luna Lovegood. The two of them had been dating ever since the middle of Ron's 6th year at Hogwarts. He had organized the romantic dinner in the hope of asking Luna to marry him.
As he was waiting for the pasta sauce to simmer, Ron thought back to all the things he was to Luna. He was her first love, her first kiss, her first boyfriend, and her first. He was her first everything.
As a child, Ron was used to being cast into the background. He thought that he was nothing special. Bill was the first Head Boy in his family. Charlie worked with dragons, Percy became the youngest Minister of Magic, Fred and George were millionaires, even Ginny, his friend Neville's wife, was the only girl in the family. But to Luna, he was her king. It was Ron and nobody else. He was the first person that she ever loved. He was the boy she gave her heart to. He was the centre of her universe as she is with his. He loved her with his entire being. He was sure of that.
All the stars are right
Every wish is ours tonight
My love
Ron was brought out of his trance after he heard the sauce beginning to bubble. Acting quickly, he lifted the saucepan and poured its contents into the pasta bowl. He cleaned the saucepan with a quick spell and sent it flying into the cupboard. Ron wanted to make the night PERFECT and memorable for Luna. Taking the white wine from the fridge, he placed the bottle on the ice bucket he prepared on the dining table. He was about to light the candles he had prepared earlier with a flick of his wand when a pop was heard from the living room. Luna had just arrived.
"Ronald, I'm home!" Luna Lovegood hollered. Luna had just arrived from the Quibbler head office where she was the Chief Editor. She was wearing her grey office robes and her hair was dishevelled from all the deadlines she completed.
"Love!" Ron replied, coming out of the dining room. He walked towards her, his face carrying a lopsided grin that always made Luna melt. He was wearing his best formal dress robes, the one that he used in the 7th year Christmas Ball he attended with her. He gathered her in his arms and kissed her avidly.
Luna giggled as Ron reluctantly pulled out of the kiss. She noticed what he was wearing and the delicious smell coming from the kitchen. She gave Ron a confused look.
"Ronald, what's going on?" Luna asked, her arms waving at the food that was prepared and the robes he was wearing.
"I'll answer the question when we finished dinner." Ron replied. "Why don't you get changed in the bedroom?" He suggested. "I got out your favourite dress."
Luna walked into the bedroom while Ron lit the candles in the dining room. Five minutes later Luna came back looking refreshed and made up. She was wearing a blue and scarlet dress robe with the raven and lion earrings he gave her for her sixteenth birthday. Her hair, which was dishevelled minutes earlier, was tied into a neat bun with a few strands coming down on the front of her face. Ron thought she looked perfect.
Ron pulled out Luna's seat so that she could sit down. He sat on the opposite side of Luna and turned off the lights so that the candles provided the only light. 'So far, so good.' Ron thought.
Pity those who wait
Trusting love to fate
Finding out to late
That they lost it
As they quietly ate their dinner, Ron thought about his other best friend Hermione. She and Ron had more than friendly feelings towards each other. However, Luna had worked up the courage to ask him out first. Ron, thinking that Hermione would never like him more than a friend, agreed. To say that Hermione was pissed off about this development was an understatement.
*****Flashback*****
Ron and Luna had been seeing each other for a month. He had just escorted Luna back to the Ravenclaw common room after a date when Hermione caught him giving Luna a goodbye kiss. Hermione gave a yell and started to stride towards them, an angry look on her face. Ron seeing that Luna might be in danger put himself between Hermione and his girlfriend in case Hermione tried something.
"Ron, how thick could you be?" Hermione screamed. Her face was turning scarlet and tears were welling up in her eyes. She was trying to grab Luna by the arm but Ron kept getting in the way.
"I'm thick?" Ron retorted, pissed off at Hermione for ruining the end of his date. "If anyone is thick Hermione it's you."
"What does that suppose to mean?" Hermione spat, aborting her attempts to grab Luna and focusing all her rage at Ron.
Ron then started explaining all his actions towards her ever since second year. The slug incident in second year, him yelling at Snape in third year, his hatred of Viktor Krum in fourth year, the perfume he gave her in fifth year, it was all because of his feelings for her. He saw the look on her face and instantly regretted his harsh words.
Hermione started sobbing as his tirade eventually made sense to her. 'Why couldn't I see it before.' Hermione thought bitterly. She was preparing herself to ask the question that could break her. She needed to know.
"What about now Ron?" Hermione asked tearfully. "Do you still love me?" She looked at Ron right in the eye, daring him to answer yes.
"I'm sorry Hermione." Ron said regretfully, not wanting to hurt his best friend deliberately. "It's too late, I've fallen for Luna. You'll always be my best friend though." Ron looked at Luna, who looked back at him with a relieved expression.
Hermione let out a muffled sob, slapped Ron hard in the face and ran from them, her heart unable to take the pain. Ron watched Hermione's retreating figure with a depressed look on his face. When she neared the end of the corridor, Hermione turned around and yelled that he can keep his stinking friendship. She then fled around the corner to hide in the girls bathroom.
"Is she going to be okay?" Luna asked Ron. She didn't mean to hurt anyone by dating Ron.
"Not now, but she will be." Ron replied. "She's one of the strongest persons I know. She will get over this"
*****End Flashback*****
'At least Hermione found somebody else.' Ron thought happily. Hermione had started dating Ron's brother, Percy, after graduating from Hogwarts and working as his secretary. The two of them had been inseparable ever since.
I'm never letting go
They will never know the ways
Of love
"Ronald, is everything alright?" Luna asked suddenly, snapping Ron out of his musing. "Your starting to act as strange as I am"
'You would be if you got a 5-karat diamond engagement ring in your pocket.' Ron said to himself. 'And you wouldn't know for sure if the love of your life would accept.' He mentally added. Instead, Ron said that he was fine.
"So, how was your day, Love?" Ron asked, hoping to throw Luna of the scent and put himself at ease. He was fidgeting with the engagement box that was hidden in his left pocket. Luckily, Luna did not notice his nervousness and began recounting her day at the office to him.
As Luna went on telling Ron how her day went, he couldn't help but think about how many boundaries and obstacles they had to get through just to be together. His schoolmate's reaction to his love life, the War against Voldemort and the last year of Luna's schooling. All Ron knew was that he was thankful to the Fates that she was still by his side. He wouldn't know what he would do without her.
People had laughed at first when they heard that Ron was dating Luna. They had thought that Ron agreed to go out with Luna out of pity. It was only when the outcome of The Fight was known, that there laughter turned into shock. They had known that he had feelings for Hermione. For him to date and fall in love in another girl was quite extraordinary.
Parvati Patil, whose best friend Lavender Brown also had a crush on Ron, began a campaign of nasty rumours and taunts designed to ridicule Ron for dating Luna. Luna responded by saying that she never thought Lavender had a crush on Ron. She thought Parvati and Lavender were lovers and that they looked at guys only as a cover.
Ginny had been torn between her girl friend's misery and her happiness for her brother. She was both Luna's friend and Hermione's friend. At first she was shocked that he chose Luna over Hermione, the girl that he had a crush on for so very long. But in time she was sincerely happy for her brother for finding happiness early on his life. In exchange though, he had to give his blessing to Neville, who was dating Ginny secretly for two whole months.
Harry was a similar story. At first he was confused, now that Hermione had admitted her feelings for Ron and could have had her, but instead chose Luna. He knew that Ron had fancied her ever since his first year but for him to fall in love with another was sheer lunacy. But in time Harry agreed that Hermione had never shown her feelings for Ron until he was dating Luna. He gave them his best wishes and luck in the future. After Harry gave his best wishes, he admitted to Ron that he was seeing a certain metamorphmagus by the name of Nymphadora Tonks. Ron in return gave his best wishes to Harry, and promptly teased him, by asking how far the two of them had gone.
He thought back to the exact time that he fell in love with Luna Lovegood. It was the their third date, when Luna had laughed at something that he said. It was as if his eyes were opened for the first time and the first thing that he saw was this girl with an infectious laugh, sea blue eyes that sparkled with mischief, and a voice like that of a Muse. He was so taken aback by this realization that he spent the rest of the date a blubbering and blushing mess. Fate would have it that it was the same day that the Fight occurred.
Ron broke out of his train of thoughts as the two of them finished their dinner. Luna was looking at him with curiosity and a hint of amusement, as if expecting Ron to jump up at the table and declare himself the Pumpkin King. 'It's time.' Ron said to himself. 'Go make this Veela your wife.'
You got to believe in magic
Tell me how two people find each other
In a world that's full of strangers
"Love, there's something I want to ask you" Ron said, his hands shaking in their pockets. He got up from his chair, walked up next to where she was sitting and knelt down on one knee. Luna's face went from curiosity to shock and excitement. "Here goes nothing' Ron thought grimly and prepared to ask his question.
"Love, you know that I love you" Ron began, looking into Luna's eyes. "Ever since our third date, I knew that there is nobody else for me but you. I don't know what I did to find you and deserve you, although I thank the Fates everyday for finding you. I wish that you would always be with me by my side, now and always. So I'm asking you," Ron took out the ring he bought a week before. Luna gasped as she looked at the exquisite diamond ring Ron had bought. "Will you marry me?"
Luna looked at Ron's eyes where she could clearly see the love that was shining forth from them. She beamed at him as she got down on her knees to his level. She put her arms around him, kissed him and gave him her answer.
"Ronald, I know that you love me. I also know that I love you. I have always loved you. Ever since Ginny introduced me to you when I first became your neighbour, I knew you were the One. You're my King. Know that it would take a miracle for me to leave your side." Luna paused to give Ron a sweet smile. "As for your proposal Ronald, yes I'll marry you. I thought you'd never ask after being together for so long." She kissed Ron again before she added. "Although marriage is just one of the ways the wizarding government keeps an eye on us."
"Love, you don't know how happy you just made me." Ron said, his voice nearly cracking. They sat there on the floor kissing and holding each other as if they would die if they stopped contact. After what it seemed an eternity, Ron scooped Luna up and carried her to the bedroom where they spent the rest of the evening making love.
TBC
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or the song You Got To Believe in Magic.
Chapter 1
Take me to your heart
Show me where to start
Let me play the part
Of the first love
Ron Weasley was happier than he has ever been in his entire life. The 22-year-old auror was preparing a romantic dinner in the flat he was sharing with his girlfriend Luna Lovegood. The two of them had been dating ever since the middle of Ron's 6th year at Hogwarts. He had organized the romantic dinner in the hope of asking Luna to marry him.
As he was waiting for the pasta sauce to simmer, Ron thought back to all the things he was to Luna. He was her first love, her first kiss, her first boyfriend, and her first. He was her first everything.
As a child, Ron was used to being cast into the background. He thought that he was nothing special. Bill was the first Head Boy in his family. Charlie worked with dragons, Percy became the youngest Minister of Magic, Fred and George were millionaires, even Ginny, his friend Neville's wife, was the only girl in the family. But to Luna, he was her king. It was Ron and nobody else. He was the first person that she ever loved. He was the boy she gave her heart to. He was the centre of her universe as she is with his. He loved her with his entire being. He was sure of that.
All the stars are right
Every wish is ours tonight
My love
Ron was brought out of his trance after he heard the sauce beginning to bubble. Acting quickly, he lifted the saucepan and poured its contents into the pasta bowl. He cleaned the saucepan with a quick spell and sent it flying into the cupboard. Ron wanted to make the night PERFECT and memorable for Luna. Taking the white wine from the fridge, he placed the bottle on the ice bucket he prepared on the dining table. He was about to light the candles he had prepared earlier with a flick of his wand when a pop was heard from the living room. Luna had just arrived.
"Ronald, I'm home!" Luna Lovegood hollered. Luna had just arrived from the Quibbler head office where she was the Chief Editor. She was wearing her grey office robes and her hair was dishevelled from all the deadlines she completed.
"Love!" Ron replied, coming out of the dining room. He walked towards her, his face carrying a lopsided grin that always made Luna melt. He was wearing his best formal dress robes, the one that he used in the 7th year Christmas Ball he attended with her. He gathered her in his arms and kissed her avidly.
Luna giggled as Ron reluctantly pulled out of the kiss. She noticed what he was wearing and the delicious smell coming from the kitchen. She gave Ron a confused look.
"Ronald, what's going on?" Luna asked, her arms waving at the food that was prepared and the robes he was wearing.
"I'll answer the question when we finished dinner." Ron replied. "Why don't you get changed in the bedroom?" He suggested. "I got out your favourite dress."
Luna walked into the bedroom while Ron lit the candles in the dining room. Five minutes later Luna came back looking refreshed and made up. She was wearing a blue and scarlet dress robe with the raven and lion earrings he gave her for her sixteenth birthday. Her hair, which was dishevelled minutes earlier, was tied into a neat bun with a few strands coming down on the front of her face. Ron thought she looked perfect.
Ron pulled out Luna's seat so that she could sit down. He sat on the opposite side of Luna and turned off the lights so that the candles provided the only light. 'So far, so good.' Ron thought.
Pity those who wait
Trusting love to fate
Finding out to late
That they lost it
As they quietly ate their dinner, Ron thought about his other best friend Hermione. She and Ron had more than friendly feelings towards each other. However, Luna had worked up the courage to ask him out first. Ron, thinking that Hermione would never like him more than a friend, agreed. To say that Hermione was pissed off about this development was an understatement.
*****Flashback*****
Ron and Luna had been seeing each other for a month. He had just escorted Luna back to the Ravenclaw common room after a date when Hermione caught him giving Luna a goodbye kiss. Hermione gave a yell and started to stride towards them, an angry look on her face. Ron seeing that Luna might be in danger put himself between Hermione and his girlfriend in case Hermione tried something.
"Ron, how thick could you be?" Hermione screamed. Her face was turning scarlet and tears were welling up in her eyes. She was trying to grab Luna by the arm but Ron kept getting in the way.
"I'm thick?" Ron retorted, pissed off at Hermione for ruining the end of his date. "If anyone is thick Hermione it's you."
"What does that suppose to mean?" Hermione spat, aborting her attempts to grab Luna and focusing all her rage at Ron.
Ron then started explaining all his actions towards her ever since second year. The slug incident in second year, him yelling at Snape in third year, his hatred of Viktor Krum in fourth year, the perfume he gave her in fifth year, it was all because of his feelings for her. He saw the look on her face and instantly regretted his harsh words.
Hermione started sobbing as his tirade eventually made sense to her. 'Why couldn't I see it before.' Hermione thought bitterly. She was preparing herself to ask the question that could break her. She needed to know.
"What about now Ron?" Hermione asked tearfully. "Do you still love me?" She looked at Ron right in the eye, daring him to answer yes.
"I'm sorry Hermione." Ron said regretfully, not wanting to hurt his best friend deliberately. "It's too late, I've fallen for Luna. You'll always be my best friend though." Ron looked at Luna, who looked back at him with a relieved expression.
Hermione let out a muffled sob, slapped Ron hard in the face and ran from them, her heart unable to take the pain. Ron watched Hermione's retreating figure with a depressed look on his face. When she neared the end of the corridor, Hermione turned around and yelled that he can keep his stinking friendship. She then fled around the corner to hide in the girls bathroom.
"Is she going to be okay?" Luna asked Ron. She didn't mean to hurt anyone by dating Ron.
"Not now, but she will be." Ron replied. "She's one of the strongest persons I know. She will get over this"
*****End Flashback*****
'At least Hermione found somebody else.' Ron thought happily. Hermione had started dating Ron's brother, Percy, after graduating from Hogwarts and working as his secretary. The two of them had been inseparable ever since.
I'm never letting go
They will never know the ways
Of love
"Ronald, is everything alright?" Luna asked suddenly, snapping Ron out of his musing. "Your starting to act as strange as I am"
'You would be if you got a 5-karat diamond engagement ring in your pocket.' Ron said to himself. 'And you wouldn't know for sure if the love of your life would accept.' He mentally added. Instead, Ron said that he was fine.
"So, how was your day, Love?" Ron asked, hoping to throw Luna of the scent and put himself at ease. He was fidgeting with the engagement box that was hidden in his left pocket. Luckily, Luna did not notice his nervousness and began recounting her day at the office to him.
As Luna went on telling Ron how her day went, he couldn't help but think about how many boundaries and obstacles they had to get through just to be together. His schoolmate's reaction to his love life, the War against Voldemort and the last year of Luna's schooling. All Ron knew was that he was thankful to the Fates that she was still by his side. He wouldn't know what he would do without her.
People had laughed at first when they heard that Ron was dating Luna. They had thought that Ron agreed to go out with Luna out of pity. It was only when the outcome of The Fight was known, that there laughter turned into shock. They had known that he had feelings for Hermione. For him to date and fall in love in another girl was quite extraordinary.
Parvati Patil, whose best friend Lavender Brown also had a crush on Ron, began a campaign of nasty rumours and taunts designed to ridicule Ron for dating Luna. Luna responded by saying that she never thought Lavender had a crush on Ron. She thought Parvati and Lavender were lovers and that they looked at guys only as a cover.
Ginny had been torn between her girl friend's misery and her happiness for her brother. She was both Luna's friend and Hermione's friend. At first she was shocked that he chose Luna over Hermione, the girl that he had a crush on for so very long. But in time she was sincerely happy for her brother for finding happiness early on his life. In exchange though, he had to give his blessing to Neville, who was dating Ginny secretly for two whole months.
Harry was a similar story. At first he was confused, now that Hermione had admitted her feelings for Ron and could have had her, but instead chose Luna. He knew that Ron had fancied her ever since his first year but for him to fall in love with another was sheer lunacy. But in time Harry agreed that Hermione had never shown her feelings for Ron until he was dating Luna. He gave them his best wishes and luck in the future. After Harry gave his best wishes, he admitted to Ron that he was seeing a certain metamorphmagus by the name of Nymphadora Tonks. Ron in return gave his best wishes to Harry, and promptly teased him, by asking how far the two of them had gone.
He thought back to the exact time that he fell in love with Luna Lovegood. It was the their third date, when Luna had laughed at something that he said. It was as if his eyes were opened for the first time and the first thing that he saw was this girl with an infectious laugh, sea blue eyes that sparkled with mischief, and a voice like that of a Muse. He was so taken aback by this realization that he spent the rest of the date a blubbering and blushing mess. Fate would have it that it was the same day that the Fight occurred.
Ron broke out of his train of thoughts as the two of them finished their dinner. Luna was looking at him with curiosity and a hint of amusement, as if expecting Ron to jump up at the table and declare himself the Pumpkin King. 'It's time.' Ron said to himself. 'Go make this Veela your wife.'
You got to believe in magic
Tell me how two people find each other
In a world that's full of strangers
"Love, there's something I want to ask you" Ron said, his hands shaking in their pockets. He got up from his chair, walked up next to where she was sitting and knelt down on one knee. Luna's face went from curiosity to shock and excitement. "Here goes nothing' Ron thought grimly and prepared to ask his question.
"Love, you know that I love you" Ron began, looking into Luna's eyes. "Ever since our third date, I knew that there is nobody else for me but you. I don't know what I did to find you and deserve you, although I thank the Fates everyday for finding you. I wish that you would always be with me by my side, now and always. So I'm asking you," Ron took out the ring he bought a week before. Luna gasped as she looked at the exquisite diamond ring Ron had bought. "Will you marry me?"
Luna looked at Ron's eyes where she could clearly see the love that was shining forth from them. She beamed at him as she got down on her knees to his level. She put her arms around him, kissed him and gave him her answer.
"Ronald, I know that you love me. I also know that I love you. I have always loved you. Ever since Ginny introduced me to you when I first became your neighbour, I knew you were the One. You're my King. Know that it would take a miracle for me to leave your side." Luna paused to give Ron a sweet smile. "As for your proposal Ronald, yes I'll marry you. I thought you'd never ask after being together for so long." She kissed Ron again before she added. "Although marriage is just one of the ways the wizarding government keeps an eye on us."
"Love, you don't know how happy you just made me." Ron said, his voice nearly cracking. They sat there on the floor kissing and holding each other as if they would die if they stopped contact. After what it seemed an eternity, Ron scooped Luna up and carried her to the bedroom where they spent the rest of the evening making love.
TBC