CHAPTER 3

THE DATE IS SET

(A/N I left Amelia Bones as alive)

Harry was exhausted. But he had to get this investigation done. He got home really late that night and was suprised to see a red-head on his couch.

"What are you doing here?" he asked her as he took a seat on the couch next to her.

"I haven't seen you in forever. I thought that I would come visit." she replied.

Harry laughed. "I saw you yesterday. We've been working hard on the Longbottom case. I know it means a lot to Neville that we're actually trying to recover his parents. The healers at St. Mungo's said that it was impossible, but now we have evidence that it is possible."

"Harry, it's okay." Ginny said. "I actually have some news of my own. I just don't know how you're going to take it."

"You can tell me anything... wait. You're not pregnant, are you?"

Ginny glared at him. "We're waiting."

Harry sighed out of relif. "So what is your big news?"

"No, I still haven't heard from them. But I did talk to Gwen today."

"Of course?"

Ginny laughed. "Gwenogg Jones, my quidditch captain."

"Oh, right, right!" Harry exclaimed.

"Anyway," Ginny said, giggling. "She told me that I was going to be a chaser in the next game. And probably the other games afterwards."

Harry gasped. "That's amazing, Gin! Congratulations!"

"They said that I was going to start out as a sub for one of the Chasers, Wilda Griffiths. She's retiring because she wants to start a family, so they want me to take her spot on the team. "

"That's amazing. I'm really proud of you." Harry said. He gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"I was also thinking about a wedding date."

Harry groaned. "Do we have to think about that now? It's too late for me to comprehend that."

Ginny glared at him. "I was just thinking. I think we should get married in the Springtime. I've always wanted to."

Harry rolled his eyes. "Whatever you want, dear. I have to see when I can get time off. And we have to see where we want to go on our Honeymoon. Where do you want to go?"

Ginny had to stop herself from snapping at him. "I've always wanted to go to Disney World over in the States."

"Sounds great. I'll floo over to Hermione's flat to use her phone and sent everything up."

"Awesome. You're the best, Harry."

Harry smiled. "I know."

Before Harry went to work the next day, he floo'd over to Ron and Hermione's to call Disney World. He had gone to the nearest muggle Library and used their computers to find the number and the price it would be to stay for two weeks. He found that it would be about 248 Galleons or about 2,500 USD.

He telephoned a nice resort he saw. He booked a two-week vacation at The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge. They didn't have a lot of bookings the week of May 22. Before Harry confirmed the vacation, he floo'd Ginny at The Burrow real quick. He had to confirm the date. Ginny agreed that they would get married on May 20 of that year. Harry confirmed the week and they would be there on May 22 for two weeks.

Once Harry had made the reservations, he had to head to work and Ginny had a lot of planning to do. After all, they only had four months to plan a Weasley wedding.

Harry stepped out of his office fireplace. "We set the date." He told Ron and Hermione. "May 20."

"Okay. Sounds good." Ron said.

"Oh, by the way. Ginny is pregnant with triplets." Harry said.

"WHAT? I thought she wanted to wait?"

Harry laughed. "She does. She isn't really. Just had to make sure you were paying attention."

"Thanks for the scare, mate. Now can we get back to the plan? We have to set a time for this whole thing to take place. Hermione thinks we should leave by noon. That way we have time to tweak the plan if we need to. You also have to do extra work for the next couple of weeks, because you'll be out for a couple of weeks. This way, you can get a head start on everything." Ron explained.

Harry slumped in his seat. He had so much work to do over the next weeks so he could give Ginny the wedding of her dreams. He sighed and looked at his IN box. It was piled high with mission reports. The first thing he had to every day was to read over all of the reports, separate finished from in progress, and then file all of the sheets. He always hoped to not have as much paperwork and he couldn't imagine what would happen when he was away. He knew that Ron would have it all under control.

Harry started reading over the reports when Hermione walked in to his office. She dropped more paperwork into his IN box. Harry groaned. "More paperwork?" he asked her.

She just raised her eyebrows at him. "You're head of office, Harry. Besides, this isn't paperwork. It's the Longbottom's file from St. Mungo's. "

Harry's face suddenly lightened. "That's awesome, Hermione. How did you get it?"

"Well, it's not the original copies or anything, but everything's here." she explained.

"You have an amazing fiancee, Ron." Harry told him.

"I know!" Ron said, smiling at Hermione.

Harry finished reading and filing his paperwork. He walked down the hall to Hermione's office. He knocked on the door because he never knew what Ron and Hermione might be doing when in a room alone. He needn't had worried though. Hermione opened the door relatively fast.

"Harry, come in. Ron and I have been finalizing the plans. We should be able to leave on Monday.

Harry entered Hermione's office and saw papers strewn out all over the place. "Okay." he said. "How're we doing?"

"Well," Ron said. "We looked over the contents of the Longbottom's file. They really have only tried mental rehabilitation and a few other things. Nothing they did should mess with them further. We should be able to restore them with our plan."

"And," said Hermione. "We have polyjuice potion and some DNA samples of those who are being released from Azkanan in a few weeks. We shouldn't raise any suspicion that way. We just need to finalize plan B. I think we need a second DNA sample for that plan."

"Thant's a good idea, Hermione." Harry said. "How can we get that?"

"Well, I've been doing some research," she said. "And I found that if we combine two DNA samples, we get a whole new appearance. So, we could do that."

"Great idea, Hermione!" said Ron.

"So, if we can't get it by asking him directly for it. We should sneak in late at night and search the shop; using search warrants of course." continued Hermione. "And if he already sold it... I'm not even sure what to do. I don't want this hunt to be like last time." She shuddered.

"Hermione, it's okay. It won't be. I promise." Ron said.

"Me too." said Harry. "We promise. We won't let them hurt you again."

"Harry, Hermione. I have an idea." Ron said.

"Let's hear it." said Harry.

"Okay. So if Borgin has already sold it, we can see if he will tell us who he sold it to. If not, he must have records from his sales. We could sneak in and find them late at night if he doesn't come out and tell us." he replied.

"Ron, that's a great idea!" Hermione said. "I can't believe I didn't think of that."

"Hermione," Harry said. "You had a horrible experience the last time we were hunting a Horcrux and the Horcrux we're hunting belongs to the witch who tortured you. We are going to end her before she comes back. This should be much easier than last time."

Hermione took a deep breath. "Yes, I know. Just a bad flash back."

Ron gave Hermione a kiss on the cheek because he knew that it would calm her down quickly.

"Okay, everything is set." We have everything we need. Next step is to approve everything with the two heads of offices. We obviously have Harry's approval. Now we need Amela's approval." Hermione said.

"I'll take it down to her office. I can tell her we already have my approval. She just has to read all of our notes and she should have it back to us in the morning and we can go home on time today! Well you can." Harry said.

"Harry, do you really think that working is more important than your own wedding and honeymoon?" Hermione asked him.

"No, this is the first time since before Hogwarts we aren't together for a big event." Harry said, laughing.

Ron and Hermione laughed too.

"What about you guys? Have you set a date yet?" Harry asked them.

"No, not yet. We wanted a spring wedding too. We obviously needed to see what date you and Ginny set." Hermione said. "We can't have both the head and his assistant out at the same time."

"You could do early June if you didn't want to wait until next year." Harry explained to them. "Because until then, we're booked and I need Ron's help with almost everything."

"I know," Ron said. "And you have overtime for a while."

Harry groaned. "Don't remind me."

After they finished talking, Hermione and Ron headed home and Harry went to talk to Amelia Bones. He needed her approval to pull Hermione from her other assignments so she could help with the Longbottom case. This seemed to be something normal to Harry. He seemed to be asking to pull Hermione off her cases to help him and Ron.

He knocked on Amelia's door. He heard her faint "Come in!" and he knew that she was very busy.

"Hi Amelia." Harry said.

"Oh, hello Harry. What can I do for you?" she said.

"I just need your approval on Ron and I taking Hermione off her regular cases so we can work on the Longbottom case. It's just Monday of next week and possibly Tuesday. But no more than three days. Hermione said that she hasn't been that busy. We, of course, just need your signature of approval." Harry explained.

Amelia sighed. "Of course. Let me just read over your plans. I'll get back to you in the morning."

"Awesome. Sounds great. I'll talk to you then."

Harry went to the cafeteria. He wanted to grab some dinner. He had a miniture case that he was going to start tonight and work on in his overtime hours. It was a curious case, happening in the muggle world. He suspected a teenager using magic in front of muggles. He had to attend the trial tomorrow and tonight he was planning on briefing himself so he didn't appear clueless tomorrow.

Harry grabbed a cauldron cake. He just needed a snack to hold him over until he got home and had a real meal. He headed back to his office. Once he got there, he located the correct file and what he saw brought back some memories. In the muggle world, somebody had cast a patronus charm in the presence of a muggle. Because it wasn't a case of underage magic, an auror had to be present at the trial. He didn't recognise the name, but he did have a good idea as to where it was cast. When he was hunting Horcruxes the first time, he had spent the night right outside of the small town. He noticed that this wasn't the first time this person had been on trial.

It looked like they had done some underage magic outside of Hogwarts. He also noticed that they were being held in a holding cell downstairs. Harry had an hour before he could go home so, he decided to go pay them a visit.

Once he got down there, he saw that Seamus was on gaurd for that night. "Hey, Seamus. How are you?"

"Hi, Harry. What are you still doing here?"

"I've gotta work some overtime for the next two weeks so I can go on vacation."

"Fun. So what are you doing down here?"

"I've gotta attend a trial tomorrow and I saw that the person on trial was being held down here. I thought that I would come and meet him. I didn't have anything else to do tonight anyway."

"Okay, who is it?"

"Uhm... His name is Xavier Scloop."

"Oh, he's in the third cell. Go on ahead."

"Thanks."

Harry didn't have far to go until he reached the third cell. In fact, it was the only holding cell that had someone in it. He must have been placed under a sleeping or a calming spell because he was sleeping soundly. Instead of waking him up, he decided to leave a note for him. Just a little something to explain what was going to happen in the morning. It wasn't like he was a criminal or any thing. He left the note with Seamus who promised to give it to Xavier in the morning.

Harry was glad to be heading home for the day. He was exhausted. He floo'd home and saw that there was already a dinner on the table for him. On the counter, there was a note. Harry picked it up and saw that it was from Ginny.

Harry,

I felt bad that you had to work late. I was bored after practice anyway. I came over here and made you some dinner from some of the things you had lying around. I hope you don't mind. See you Sunday at Lunch. I Love You,

Ginny

Ginny was the best and he was glad that soon he would be able to call her his wife. Ginny had made some of Harry's favorite foods. There was stuffed chicken and peas and Cauldron cakes for dessert.

Harry smiled as he lay down on the couch. "Oh. My. Gosh." Harry sat up abruptly. "Teddy!"

He quickly got up and Floo'd over to Andromenda's house. As he stumbled out of the fireplace, he panted an apology. "I'm...so...sorry!" he said as he was catching his breath.

"It's okay, Harry." 'Dromenda said. "Ginny owl'd me earlier saying that you might be a little late tonight. He asked for you a couple of times, but he's asleep now. I have his bag packed and everything. I'll go get him."

Harry sighed in relief. He shared custody of his godson with Andromenda. Teddy was five and had grown up an orphan, like Harry. But Harry was determined to make Teddy's life a wonderful place to be. He would NOT let his godson have a miserable childhood.

Harry was deep in thought when Andromenda came downstairs with a sleepy Teddy at her side. His hair currently resembled Harry's own and Harry had not ever received a better compliment. "We'll see you on Sunday 'Dromenda. I'll try my hardest to drop him off on time next Thursday."

"Harry, its absolutely okay. You have a lot of work to get through. I understand."

Harry smiled as he took Teddy back to his house. Once back home, Harry put Teddy in his bed. He smiled down at his godson. Once Harry was sure that Teddy was situated, he ran downstairs to floo Ginny. He spread floo powder on the fireplace and shouted, "The Burrow!" and stuck his head in.

His head stopped spinning and he saw the Weasley's living room come into focus. He saw Ron asleep on the couch. "RON!" he yelled because he knew that was the only way to wake up someone who resembled a log.

Ron jerked awake and looked around. He saw Harry's head floating in the fireplace. "Oh. Hey Harry. How long have you been floating there?"

"Not long. I've known you for a while, I think I know how to wake you up."

Ron laughed. "Right. So what's up?"

"Not much. I almost forgot Teddy today."

Ron looked surprised. "You forgot Teddy?"

Harry looked somewhat ashamed. "Yea. Luckily, Ginny owl'd 'Dromenda."

"You were lucky, mate. You have to be careful."

"Yea, I know. I'm looking at this as a learning experience. I'm just glad that he was with his grandmother."

"You got that right."

"Can I talk to Ginny real quick? I want to say thank you."

"Sure thing. Lemme go get her."

Harry stared around the Burrow's living room. Everything was the way he remembered it. The couch was in the same position, and so was the chair. You could see a sliver of the kitchen where you could usually smell deliciousness.

Harry saw his fiancee come into the room. When she saw him, her face light up. "Hey, what are you doing?" Ginny asked.

"I wanted to thank you for owl'ing 'Dromenda. I totally forgot to pick up Teddy until I was collapsed on the couch and relaxing. Luckily, he was with 'Dromenda. I couldn't believe I even forgot about him."

"It's what I do". Ginny laughed. "I'm just glad you eventually remembered."

"And, thanks for dinner. It was amazing. Ron, I have to attend a hearing in the morning. You and Hermione might have to talk to Amelia by yourselves in the morning. He didn't do anything major, they just need me there."

"Okay. Sounds good. We'll meet you afterwards. We just have a little bit to discuss with Amelia, right?" Ron asked.

"Right. She'll give you all of the paperwork and give us a time limit. From what she said yesterday, there's not a lot of work in their department at the moment." Harry replied. Just then, he heard a baby crying. "I've got to go. I think Teddy is having a fit. I'll talk to you guys soon." He winked at Ginny as a parting gesture and disappeared from the fireplace.