Recap!

"For…for choosing me." Ron said

"Oh, Ron-" but she was cut off, for Ron had pulled her into a deep tender kiss.

"Hermione, I love you from the bottom of my heart."

"I love you too."

"Hermione, I've been meaning to ask you something for a while now." He said, now getting up.

Hermione's heart took a jolt as Ron got down on his knee.

"Hermione Jane Granger, the most beautiful woman in the world, will you marry me?"

Chapter 3

Explanations

Hermione was speachless. Was it really happening? Was her boyfriend proposing to her? She had not expected this. She hadn't even thought about marriage, but she knew from the bottom of her warm, kind heart of gold what she must say.

"Ron, I love you too, but I just think we're too young. After all, we're only seventeen. I'm just not ready to be married."

"Hermione, please? I want nothing more than to be with you for the rest of my life. With the war and everything, I might not get the chance to ask you again."

Hermione's eyes were welling up. "Ron, I want to, but it's just to soon. Maybe, if you asked me after the war?"

"What if there's not a after. What if we die? What if our lives end and we would never have known what it would be like to be wed?"

"Ron…"

"Hermione, let me finish. I have bickered with you my entire life. Or most of it, at least. All of that bickering, that was me hiding my feelings for you. You are the one for me. My soul mate. My twin. My only true love. If it means I have to give up my life for you, I will. If I have to sacrifice myself for you I will. I haven't gotten a ring yet because I want you to choose one for yourself. Just, let me have this one honor. I'll love you until my dying day, no matter how soon or far away it is. Just, marry me. Please?"

Hermione's tears were flowing freely, but she was smiling. "Ron, I see now that you do love me. I think it's time I told you something… something important for you to know.

"Back in fourth year, when me and Viktor were dating, he asked me to marry him. He said it was custom in his land that we were wed before my seventeeth birthday, because after 17 is the illegal age to be married. I said… yes. Ron, I can't marry you, because… I'm already married…"

Ron got up and left the room, slamming the door behind him. Hermione decided that it was time. She needed to write to Viktor. She went to her bed and grabbed some parchment and a quill. She sat down and started writing.

Dear Viktor,

I've decided that I want to have our marrige anuled. I don't even live in Bulgaria with you. Plus, with the war and all, it would be terrifying if I never knew where you were. I just need to have this ended before it goes to far. Before I have to see you die. And also, I'm in love with another man. Ron. I love him more than I think I can ever love you. I hope you understand. I'll let you file for divorce first, as it was under your custom that we were wed, but if I don't get papers owled to me within two weeks, I'll file over here.

Sincerely,

Hermione Jane Granger