Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or anything related to it.. J.K. Rowling is that person.
I'm sorry I do not love thee, alas I love another
Now this is regarding infatuation, love, deceit, adultery, friendship, forgiveness and betrayal.
In the Euphoria of the defeat of Voldemort, many things that Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron would come to regret came to pass. Though at the time who could have blamed them for doing what they did? Without thinking though much of anything, Harry and Ginny married, they were happy before the war, why not go back to that? Hermione and Ron dated a bit and made the unfortunate mistake of identifying mutual love for a best friend as true love for barely tolerable friends. Sure they were fine friends when not ripping each other new orifices, but beyond that?
Within three years all three were miserable and sadly were unable to admit it to there significant other.
At first they were in denial but a few chance meetings and new lighting on old people changed them and directed the love they did not hold for one another onto a person they truly loved beyond childhood crushes, getting the girl, the proper choice, what others wished to happen, and plain dumb luck for not realizing what they should have known all along.
Only after pledging faithfulness to another were true feelings discovered, revealed and a carefully planned out web on its way to being destroyed. A Family would change forever, for the better to some, the worse to others.
Ginevra Molly Prewett Potter nee Weasley truly believed she married the man of her dreams, or so she had thought until she met an old flame. She had not had contact with him for more then three years until one fateful day on the way to the Leakey Cauldron to access Diagon Alley, she met him again.
Ronald Bilius Prewett Weasley knew before marrying his wife that there relationship was rocky, that they constantly butted heads, yet they did love each other. Alas Poor Ron never did dare think that the loony Ravenclaw who joined the trek to the Department of Mysteries would catch his eyes so much that he became transfixed by her being and would stop at nothing and deny no means to have her.
Harry James Evans Potter realized too late he was only infatuated by the fun loving nature of his wife, he was never in love with her, she was his friend, not lover. Sadly Harry realized his heart truly lay with the woman married to his best friend and she her heart with him.. Too late did they realize.
Hermione Jane Granger Weasley loved her husband, but not in the way she should love a person she had planned to spend her lifetime with, she loved him as one would love a friend and nothing more. She had thought that perhaps through time she and Ron would find something to sustain them, but within the first few months she realized nothing would. Unfortunately for Ron, Hermione realized too late for both he, herself and their other friend's that her love lay with another.
The four went along as if everything were normal, not all stuck in loveless marriages, going behind the backs of there significant others or friends to find what they truly loved lay in another's arms, not the embrace of the one they had married.
Now, the affairs did not start immediately, nothing went on for the first three years of marriage… But after those years, into the fourth, the feelings of regret over whelmed them all and led to things that would not be sanctioned by Mrs. Weasley for a fact. Guilt rose with each passing transgression, yet even when they went home, they felt horrible for denying the true love they felt for someone else. Suffice to say nothing they could do seemed to rectify any of the mistakes. Luck was certainly on there sides as none were caught by the one he or she was married to. Yet, one must wonder whether or not they wanted their husband or wife to find out, to end the charade of marriage, the façade of a happy familial life. The Guilt of destroying the lives of there best friend's, friend's, hero's. Leaving the one there leaving behind without hope for love, or so they believed in there little worlds with there loved ones…
But of course they were wrong, there husband or wife was not sitting back home fretting about the other's absences, rather having a grand time in the arms of there lover or worrying about the consequences of the frolics with said lover.. Oh the fear of the consequences, the fear of the backlash. The fear did not stop them, as the euphoria from the arms of their true love kept them afloat until those nights in their bedrooms with the husband, wife, self, or alone.. All alone, no one besides them, even if it is a living breathing human being or a pillow, the wish to be with there true love dictated there actions, no more relations with the significant other, unless for show… If it had not been for the guilt of I am going to destroy her or him, it is quite possible they all would have realized much sooner that, wait a minute, my husband or wife is making no claims upon me, no frolicking in the sheets, just laying there with six inches between us, separate, no trying to do anything with them, fully satisfied with the one they have discovered they love.
The marriages seeped into being show only, a cover for a sham life, real living being with another…. More and more excuses easily accepted because none had a care to spend more then the necessary time with the one they were married to, if the husband or wife had to be away, they would be away as well, off to the home, flat, or some other meeting place where they would not be caught by someone they all knew.. To be with the one they loved truly.
AN: I hope you all enjoyed this… I'll warn you upfront, updates will be slow.