A/N Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. That honour belongs to the wonderful J.K Rowling.
Looking at the note in her hand, she knew this must be the right place. The café where Harry told her to meet him. She sighed as she walked in, hoping everything was ok. The note had seemed rather urgent, it wasn't usual for them to see each other in muggle London. In fact, it had been a while since they had seen each other at all.
Never-the-less, Harry needed Emmalina's help, and she was surely going to give it.
As she entered the café, she spotted Harry right away. It wasn't really difficult to notice the boy-who-lived, especially when everyone else was happily going about their business and he looked as miserable as sin. As soon as he spotted her, he smiled and pulled her into a hug.
"Em it's great to see you!"
"It's great to see you too Harry, it's been a while" Em returned the hug and sat beside him.
"Would you like some tea? Coffee?" Harry started, looking rather nervous.
"Cut to the chase, we've never been ones for idle chat. What's wrong?" Em looked concerned towards her friend.
"Well, I want to propose to Ginny"
"That's great news Harry!" Em beamed, putting her hand onto her friends'.
"It's completely terrifying!" Harry cleared his throat, looking around.
"But why are you so nervous? Why the secret meeting?" Em asked, slightly curious as to why he was bothering her with this new information.
"Well, you know I would usually go to Ron or Hermione with this sort of thing…" Harry looked sheepishly to the table, instead of to Em's face.
"Yeah, I get it" Em sighed, knowing that she wasn't exactly Harry's best friend in the world, but they shared a special connection.
"Well, I wanted to, but…but they would probably ruin the surprise" Harry blushed.
"Knowing those loud-mouths, probably!" Em chuckled.
"Hey!" Harry protested.
"Well, of what you've told me, your theory seems realistic. They'd want to help, but they'd be too excited not to blab. Especially Ron, being Ginny's brother" Em stated. After a few years of letters between Em and Harry, she felt like she knew his entire life story, his friends, his enemies, like she was one of them. She was slightly happy to know that he could rely on her in times like this, "So you need my help with the proposal?"
"Please…if you wouldn't mind" Harry pleaded.
"Not at all. Do you even have a ring yet?" Em asked
"Ummm…."
"Best get that sorted then eh? Shall we go to Diagon Alley?" Em smiled, standing up.
"We should probably keep it on the muggle side. People might see us!" Harry stood, paying for his cold coffee.
"And we wouldn't want that would we?" Em laughed, putting her arm around Harry as they left the café to head to the nearest jewelry store.
This move didn't go unnoticed, as an unsuspecting Hermione Granger exited the bookstore across from the café.
"What the hell?" Hermione dropped her bags in surprise.