chapter 4- Ice skating

The day started off as any weekend day. Sleeping in until 10, waking up to Kreacher's delicious cooking, sleepily getting dressed and eat breakfast.

Harry and Ginny were going to Mrs. Tonks' place to spend the day with her and Teddy. Teddy was growing up into a very cute, adorable boy and he was always pampered as he was the first unofficial grandson of the family. He had started speaking and his favorite word was "dada", what he calls Harry. The first time he said "dada", Harry got tears in his eyes and before he slept, he told Remus about his boy and thanked him for making him his godfather. Since then, even if he was busy the whole day, Harry would make it a point to see Teddy every day. Teddy was also getting attached to Ginny and would always be excited every time she visited him as she brought home some very nice toys for him.

While eating breakfast, Hermione said she would like to go shopping for clothes because hers were getting older, Ron said he would join her.

As they started walking towards Gringotts, Ron assumed she was going to shop in Diagon Alley but he had a shock when he realised she wasn't going to withdraw some money but to exchange it for muggle money.

They stopped by the shop on their way out and met George and Angelina. Hermione and Angelina discussed a lot about the upcoming wedding while Ron helped out George in the shop. Soon after, they left the Leaky Cauldron and walked down the streets of London. She liked a lot of dresses and ended up spending a lot of her money in shopping while Ron would just carry the bags in the magically modified bag.

When they stopped for lunch at a muggle restaurant, Hermione saw that it was right next to a ice skating arena. She began telling Ron about when they had gone to France during the snow and how her parents had taught her to ice skate and she began reminiscing the sweet childhood memories. Ron saw that she really liked ice skating and asked her if she'd like to go ice skating after lunch, to which she agreed but was hesitant because it would be the first time Ron ever did ice skating.

After lunch they went to the ice skating arena entrance, put all their belongings in a locker and went to get the skates. Ron was offended when the boy at the counter asked Hermione "what's your size?" but Hermione just laughed and told Ron that the boy was asking her her shoe size.

Seeing Ron put on his skates was one of the most hilarious things Hermione had ever seen. It was like seeing a child trying to wear his shoes right and when the child would get it right, he would be so happy, as happy as how Ron looked right now, grinning at her as his eyes sparkled. Hermione would just love for the moment to last forever as Ron looked most handsome when he was smiling so openly at her. However, the moment got ruined or should I say complete, when Ron tried to get up, he couldn't balance himself and ended up falling on his bum. Hermione couldn't stop laughing and when she saw his ears turn red, she knew he was getting very embarrassed and she helped him to stand and told him to find his balance while holding her shoulder.

On finding his balance, Ron tried to walk towards the frozen lake while holding Hermione. He was still embarrassed on falling on his bum but he couldn't stop smiling (well, on the inside) when he remembered Hermione laughing so freely at his antics. He loved when she laughed at something he did as much as he loved when she would roll her eyes and scold him over some stupid thing that he did. People would say that they are opposite in almost every way but he would say "Opposites attract" and the saying was very right, in his opinion.

On reaching the frozen lake, Hermione tried to teach him how to move forward while at the same time not giggling at how cute Ron looked trying to cautiously learn. He told her to let go as he held onto the railing and moved forward slowly. Hermione let her eyes travel around the lake. She saw families, couples, friends skating around the lake. She saw a mother teach her son to skate and she imagined how it would be to teach her son to skate. Her son with red hair and blue eyes. She blushed when she realized that she assumed her son would look exactly like Ron.

Speaking of Ron, she looked towards the railing where Ron was trying to skate only to see that he wasn't there anymore. Panicking she looked around the lake when she felt someone hug her from the back. Surprised, she turned around to see Ron with a mischievous look on his face as he started skating backwards while holding her. She was shocked and asked him why he never told her he could skate, to which he replied that she never asked. They enjoyed the rest of the day ice skating around the lake holding hands.