A/N: Ten facts about each of my favourite couples from Harry's time. (H/G, R/Hr, Draco/Astoria). Other chapters coming soon! (REVIEW! If you like it, I'll write more.) Short, fluffy and sweet! (I know I'm supposed to be working on my longer stories, but this just wouldn't leave my head!)
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all affliated material don't belong to me.
Harry Potter & Ginny Weasley
1. Harry Potter married Ginny Weasley after three years of careful courtship on Harry's part. (Ginny would never tell him that she'd have married him even if he'd never bought her a single flower or a ring or told her scary, scary brothers that he'd throw his life out the window for hers.) Ginny loves how she was the only girl that Harry ever loved after the war, loves how he never saw the sea of women swamping him after the war because he was telling her how beautiful she was. She loves that he only has eyes for her now, as selfish as that is.
2. At their wedding, George recited Ginny's supposedly beautiful "Eyes as Green as a Toad" poem from her First Year, much to Ginny's embarrassment and Harry's general amusement. Ginny proceeded to accidentally cast a particularly nasty hex that Hermione had taught her at him.
3. Mr and Mrs Potter live happily in their gorgeous home in Gordric's Hollow, which has suffered many great mishaps of accidental magic. (James was particularly intent on stealing the Marauder's Map one summer, and what better way to drive his father crazy than to "unintentionally" blow up every piece of furniture in the house?) Each week, Harry requests to have the massive statue of himself taken down from the Town Square at the Ministry, and each week, he is cruelly denied.
4. The Weasley family forced Harry to choose names for their children following the Great Pigwidgeon Naming Disaster that Ginny was the central part of. (Mrs. Weasley cited not wanting to have grandchildren named Nardwuar as her reason for this.) Harry was also forced to take cooking lessons with Ron from Mrs. Weasley after realizing that neither Ginny nor Hermione can bake without burning down an entire neighbourhood.
5. Ginny once threatened to kick Harry out of the house when she discovered that he had been trying to teach one-year-old James how to catch a Snitch thirty feet up in the air. (Later, she would hastily hide the evidence of her own attempt to teach Lily how to shoot a Quaffle at age two.)
6. James Sirius is just as talented at school and at Quidditch and at wooing girls as his namesakes; perhaps more so, judging by the numerous offers from Quidditch teams he receives and his constant interchanging of girls. Upon finally stealing the Marauder's Map from his father, he became a dangerous hazard to the general well-being of the population of Hogwarts. (A hazard that Headmistress McGonagall often refuses to acknowledge when she is at the Potters' for Christmas dinner.)
7. Albus Severus cringes at the mention of his full name and insists that he will change it the moment it is legal for him to so to John Doe, but he wouldn't really. (He knows what his name means to his father, his idol.) When he was sorted into Slytherin, he remembered what his father said about not thinking any less of him, shrugged and told the Hat to go eat itself. A month later at Quidditch practice, he'd slap his new best friend Scorpius on the back and whoop when they made the team. (In four years' time, they'd be made co-captains.) Al thinks he can be the first Potter to escape the Potter Men and Redheads Theory, but that's only because he hasn't taken a real look at his cousin Rose's best friend Aurora Wellington yet.
8. Lily Luna is the baby girl of the entire family. From the day she was born, she'd been doted on by just about everybody. She's just as brilliant at Quidditch as her mother and can (arguably) perform the Bat Boogey Hex even better. She has every male she's ever met wrapped around her finger; her father, uncles, brothers, cousins and the male half of Hogwarts included. Lily is beautiful and popular, but kind is not necessarily one of her qualities.
9. The old photo album that Hagrid gave Harry rests on the Potter family mantel, and new pictures are added every once in a while: the picture of Ginny and Harry at their wedding, where they'd looked so much like Lily and James that Slughorn jumped about a foot into the air when she saw it, the picture of James Sirius at his first birthday, a picture of Al looking thoroughly grumpy as his sister tortured him with makeup, documents of the life that Harry knows that the loved ones they lost would want them to have.
10. Sometimes, on lazy, perfect evenings at the Potters' summer cottage, Harry reflects on his life and decides he wouldn't have had it any other way. Usually, about three seconds later, when James and Al are at each other's throats again and there is a boy on the wizard-proofed "fellytone", as Ginny still calls it, for Lily, he changes his mind and idly wonders if maybe he should have decided to use the Elder Wand after all (for such things like disciplining his insanely loud children, of course).
