A Match Made In Heaven?
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or the characters, they belong to J.K. Rowling I only own the plot to this story.
Chapter 1 The Letter
It's been a year since the Final Battle ended, and we lost a lot of people that night. We lost Severus Snape, Tonks, Remus, Colin, and Lavender, we almost lost Fred that night but we got lucky that we found him when we did or we would have lost him like the others. I had been sent out with George Weasley to go find survivors and help them, as we walked through the rubble that used to be Hogwarts we heard a noise that sounded like a cry of pain, we immediately ran to find the person and we found Fred buried under a pile of rubble which used to be a stone wall. When we got to him we immediately started trying to free him from the stone.
"Fred are you okay?" George asked as he started pulling stones off him by hand.
"I'll be fine once ya'll get this rubble off me" Fred said as he turned his head to look at him,
"Don't worry Fred we'll get you out of there in a few minutes" George said as he and Hermione continued to pull the stone rubble off of Fred.
"Whose we Georgey?" Fred asked as he turned to see who was helping his brother free him but all he could see was a mass of brown.
"That's Hermione Freddie, she was partnered with me to go on a search and rescue" George said as he moved the last stone off of Fred.
"Thanks for the help guys" Fred said as he carefully sat up,
" Alright we need to get him to the castle so he can be looked at by Madame Pomfrey" Hermione said as she reached out her hand to help Fred up off the ground. Fred smiled up at her as he took her hand, and pulled himself up off the ground.
I remember that day as if it was yesterday.
About a week ago every survivor of the Final Battle received a letter from the ministry saying that they are imposing a marriage law on all of us, purebloods must marry muggleborns, and must be married within 3 or 4 months after the ministry picks their match for them and must have a child within the year.
"Hermione wake up the letters are coming today" Ginny said as she shook Hermione awake, "Gin couldn't you have woken me up earlier" Hermione demanded as she jumped out of bed and hurriedly got dressed. After she got dressed she ran down the stairs to join the others in the kitchen "Morning everyone" She said as she grabbed herself a plate of food and sat down between Fred and George. "Have the letters arrived yet?" Hermione asked as she started eating. "Not yet Hermie, but they should be here soon" George said as he took a bite of his breakfast, while they were eating the Weasley family owl Errol flew straight into the kitchen through the window, and screeched signaling to everyone that the post had arrived.
"Posts here" Mrs. Weasley said as she hurried to grab the letters and hand them to everyone, once everyone had their letters she turned to Percy "You start Percy" Mrs. Weasley said smiling at her third oldest son. Percy nodded and opened his letter, smiling when he saw who he was matched with "Who did you get Percy?" Mrs. Weasley asked smiling at him "I got Hannah Abbott" Percy said as he set his letter on the table. She smiled and turned towards George "You next George" She said smiling at her fourth oldest. George nodded and tore into his letter "I got Angelina Johnson" George said smiling as he bounced in place. "Congrats Georgey" Fred said as he clapped him on the back "Alright you next Fred" Mrs. Weasley said as she looked at her fifth oldest son, Fred nodded as he ripped the letter open and read the name "Who did you get?" George asked his twin brother "I got Her..Her...Hermione" Fred said as he looked at the girl next him. She looked up at him before looking at the letter in her hand and ripping it open only to read the exact same thing that Fred had read. "Why did we get chosen for each other?" Hermione asked aloud before running outside into the garden.
"I guess I should go after her and talk her out of hiding from me" Fred said as he ran out into the garden after Hermione. Fred looked around the garden and found Hermione sitting on a bench amongst the garden gnomes watching them fight with each other. "Hermione can we talk, please?" Fred asked as he sat down next to her on the bench, "What's there to talk about Fred?" Hermione asked as she turned to look away from him. "Maybe the fact that we have to get married, is what we should talk about." Fred said, as he reached his hand out to turn her face back to him.
"Look Fred I always thought I would end up marrying Ron, not his older brother." Hermione said as she kept her eyes trained on the ground. "Hermione we have no choice here, we need to discuss this and at least try to get along to make our future marriage work." Fred said as he placed his hand under her chin and pulled her face up to his and smiled kindly at her. Hermione looked at him and nodded "Alright we do need to talk about this and get along." She said as she looked into his eyes. "How about we go inside and you can clean up, then afterwards we can somewhere to talk about everything." Fred suggested as he wrapped his arms around her in a comforting hug. Hermione nodded into his chest, as she hugged him back. "Come on let's go back inside." Fred said as he stood up and pulled Hermione up with him making sure to keep his arm around her waist as he walked her back towards the house. "You first" Fred said as he opened the back door and held it open for her.
"Thanks Fred" Hermione said as she walked past him into the house. Once inside she avoided looking at everyone that was in the kitchen and ran up the room that she shared with Ginny. Hermione sighed as she looked into Ginny's vanity mirror and saw that the makeup she wore was running down her face from the crying she did.
"I'm surprised he didn't make fun of me for my makeup running down my face." she said as she wiped the makeup off and reapplied it. Once she had her makeup reapplied she ran down the stairs and barreled straight into Fred who was going up to check on her. "I'm so so sorry" Hermione said as she moved off of him. "It's fine Hermione, it was an accident." Fred said as she took her hand, "Come on let's get going so we go somewhere and talk about this." Fred said as he walked with her to the kitchen.
"We're going to go out and talk." Fred said as he looked at his mother. "Alright but ya'll be safe and don't stay out too late." Mrs. Weasley said as she turned to Ron and started talking to him about his future wife. Fred smiled and walked Hermione to the front door and held the door open for her. Once outside Fred wrapped his arm around Hermione waist and apparated them to Hogsmeade. "What are we doing in Hogsmeade?" Hermione asked as she looked around at the deserted street.
"We're here to get to know each other better and talk about today's events." Fred said as he guided her in to the Three Broom Sticks. Hermione nodded as she walked into the Three Broom Sticks, as they went and sat down at a table. "
Today has not been the best day we could have had, but tomorrow will be better."Fred said as he looked at her.
"I hope your right Fred." Hermione said as she looked at him, "Now about today, we really need to talk about the our future." Fred said as he placed his hands on the table.
AN: This is my first story and I hope ya'll like it, Read and Review, I'll try to update as often as I can.
