Just know that I don't tend to update this fast. I'm avoiding my homework. Which I'm seriously regretting now.
Also, I'm impressed by the number of followers, but I'm so disappointed in the lack of comments. Guys, I need to know how I can freaking improve this fanfic!
Also, I love torturing Tom in so many mundane ways. Like writing wedding announcements. XD
I.
THE WEDDING OF HARRY JAMES POTTER AND GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY: A STORY OF ROMANCE FOR THE AGES
November 14, 2003
For those avid followers of Rita Skeeter's column at the Daily Prophet, it would be easy to remember the gossip of something more happening between Ginevra "Ginny" Weasley, the Holyhead Harpies Chaser, and Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived. It seemed only yesterday when the couple was all the Wizarding World talked about in December of 2001.
It was even longer and shorter for them. They were briefly in a relationship in Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts and Ginevra Weasley's fifth year. They broke up before Weasley's sixth year at Hogwarts.
The wedding was set in Godric's Hollow in front of Harry Potter's recently purchased home, which was bought for approximately 3,000 galleons with enough room for a wedding to be set on the back lawn. It was elegantly decorated with the skillful help of the mischievous George Weasley, who conveniently set up multiple balloons with random effects, and the bride's brother, Ronald Weasley. The wedding [picture above] was set in colors of white, red, and gold.
The wedding itself was crowded with many members of the Weasley family along with Dumbledore's Army (DA). Classmates of the couple such as Neville Longbottom, Dean Thomas, and Luna Lovegood were in attendance. Hermione Granger was right by the bride's side at almost all parts of the wedding as the Maid of Honor. The minutes before the union of Harry James Potter and Ginevra Molly Weasley was not peaceful, and it was wrought with unusual pranks and a casualness which wouldn't be found at Astoria Greengrass and Draco Malfoy's wedding.
We sigh in relief and awe as the beautiful bride dressed in white made her way and took Harry Potter as her lawfully wedded husband. Though the two were wedded with the warm words of one Rubeus Hagrid, it was their vows to each other which held all of our attention and our hearts.
To Ginevra, Harry said:
. . .
II.
He nearly tears apart the parchment into pieces. Only a stern and gleeful look from Thrasher and his eager fingers prevent him from destroying it again. He bites his tongue, and he dips his crushed quill into the bottle of ink and hesitates to write again using the memories of some dead Weasley who attended the unfortunate and sappy wedding.
If only, if only.
He glances at the floor covered in thick, rolled balls of parchment and then reluctantly continues penning the wedding article.
III.
THE WEDDING OF HARRY JAMES POTTER AND GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY: A STORY OF ROMANCE FOR THE AGES (Cont.)
To Ginevra, with the greatest sincerity and thoughtfulness we have rarely seen in grooms, Harry said:
"We've grown up together. We grew up together in times of peace. We grew up together in times of war. I want to thank you for everything. I promise you that if you want to, if you would like to, I would spend the rest of my days with you. In heart, in laughter, in everything."
Crying now, Ginevra said to Harry:
"I promise that I will be your partner, your friend, your heart, your everything. I promise I will be there for you in the brightest of days and the darkest of the nights. I will be there in the dawn, and I'll wait for you to dusk. Because I love you."
A pause.
Ginevra added:
"I would like to spend the rest of my days with you."
The Weasleys burst into applause and cheers, and poor Molly Weasley was swept away in floods of tears. Fireworks danced across the sky as the happy bride and groom walked to the apparition point in Godric's Hollow and disappeared onto their Honeymoon trip across Europe and the Americas. They would be back in England next year.
III.
He bares his teeth at Thrasher. "No," he hisses. "I will not write that."
Thrasher only smirks.
IV.
THE WEDDING OF HARRY JAMES POTTER AND GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY: A STORY OF ROMANCE FOR THE AGES (Cont.)
And they lived Happily Ever After.
We, here at Witch Weekly, congratulate the newly wedded couple, Mr. Harry James Potter and Mrs. Ginevra "Ginny" Molly Potter.
Thomas Smith is a 25-year-old senior wedding announcer for Witch Weekly's Commitments column. He is currently residing in Godric's Hollow, England. He has published numerous articles in the Daily Prophet, Spella Magazine, and Which Wizard.
V.
"You—" snarls the Dark Lord. He is sure that he would be spilling a curse out next, but not a single word pops out of his mouth. The infuriating elf-like creature only glows in Voldemort's suffering.
"Yes. Please," eagerly says Thrasher. "I dare you to say it." His black eyes glow brighter somehow, and Voldemort can feel the slightest prickling at the back of his neck. The last time he has remotely felt something like this was when he dueled Albus Dumbledore at the Ministry of Magic's headquarters.
He remains silent.
Thrasher still smiles. "Good. The next article you will write is about Draco Malfoy's beautiful, extravagant wedding to Astoria Greengrass. Make sure you write a minimum of three paragraphs about her dress. She insists on her dress being written thoughtfully and kindly and politely."
The quill snaps under the Dark Lord's grip.
VI.
GREENGRASS AND MALFOY HIGH SOCIETY WEDDING
March 12, 2003
In the dressing room, I managed to meet with Draco Malfoy to ask him a few more questions before he is married to Astoria Greengrass. The blonde carefully buttoned up to his neck, and he ran a hand through his oiled blond hair. He was quite thoughtful and thorough as I asked him question after question.
TS: Do you consider this the last moment as an unmarried man?
DM: No. I don't. Astoria is kind, polite, achingly perfect in ways I never thought she would be. I never thought about my status as an unmarried or married man. To me, she is the one and marriage doesn't matter as long as I'm with her. I don't consider myself free in any way. The second I met her was the second I knew.
TS: It sounds romantic.
DM: (smiles) Yes. I suppose that is what you'll call it.
I even managed to visit the bride before she was to be married to her betrothed. She, in the presence of her mother and older sister, was fixing up her lusciously long dress. [See image to right for more details.] It was Slytherin green with specks of silver and the slightest bit of grey. A necklace with black diamonds and crystals curled around her neck, and her auburn-brownish hair were decorated with additional tiny rubies and sparkles. There had never been a more graciously dressed bride than the former Miss Greengrass.
The dress was personally designed by Cho Chang, a current up and coming fashion designer in the recent trends. Shimmering silver when sunrays hit the dress from high angles, the dress is clearly made to stun and awe all those who witnessed its splendor. Dozens of cameras were aimed at Miss Greengrass and were cementing the moment she came out of Malfoy Manor's back doors of the ballroom. The dress swished around.
But what was truly spectacular was her train. It was measured at three meters long with tiny diamonds and other such jewels like red rubies and emeralds sewed into the silver green fabric. A close source told me that the Malfoys went "full out" for the new bride in the family. Costing approximately more than twelve years of my current salary at Witch Weekly, the dress was clearly worth its value.
The Malfoys looked back as the bride entered the ballroom, and they waited patiently—with the slightest hint of approval on Matriarch Malfoy's face. When the couple was bonded together by a close friend of the two families, there was polite applause.
It was a very formal affair, but it was the reception afterwards which were a little less tame and out of the sorts. From the elaborate dances to the blatant but flattering proposals I had incidentally received from far older woman at the reception, I was also surprised by the extravagant food such as tart imported from the Americans and old wines imported from Germany. Never have I ever been to a wedding like this before.
But it was truly not the most important thing I saw.
After their exchanged vows—in which neither of them had outstanding, romantic vows like the marriage between George Weasley and Angelica Johnson, both war heroes, which sent much of the witches and some wizards in the Wizarding World into a frenzy to write vows like the wedded couple—the newly wedded couple were sitting in the corner and looking utterly relaxed with each other. Draco Malfoy's hand was curled around her shoulders, and Astoria was looking at him as if he is the first and last man she would ever see.
It was a fine way to start a marriage.
Thomas Smith is a 25-year-old senior wedding announcer for Witch Weekly's Commitments column. He is currently residing in Godric's Hollow, England. He has published numerous articles in the Daily Prophet, Spella Magazine, and Which Wizard.
VII.
Two hours before the arrival of Thomas Smith, Hermione Granger manage to take a few moments out of her time to sneak by Kath's desk and take a peek at what she has discovered about the Witch Weekly writer, Thomas Smith. He writes all sort of wedding articles including one she once read a long time ago on Angelica and George's wedding. He was even there for Percy's wedding, amazingly enough. It seems like he managed to cover every single wedding that was happening between 2001 and 2003. It is in late 2003 when Witch Weekly promoted and moved him to the Bulgarian gossip scene.
He is the male version of Rita Skeeter. A slight more polite, distant, and respectful one—but that is what he really is. The only difference is that he can't turn into a beetle to help gain information to write more informative articles.
As she reads through some of his articles—a few of them were causing her to tear up in sighs and to bring out the tissue papers—she sniffles quietly and glances at the clock. Six o'clock, and she has to get ready to raid one of their suspects' homes by nine thirty.
She stands up and goes into the bathroom to freshen it. An all-nighter at the Ministry of Magic always forces her to use their gym showers to look presentable the next day. She would rather not see Ron before she had her breakfast and her coffee and had washed up.
The last time she did, they was an argument. He thinks she is working too hard and too much, and she knows that she has to keep up in the Ministry or else her career will be pushed into the back of the Department of Law Enforcement and she will never be promoted. The last time she was promoted was last year when she became team leader of the squad patrolling and covering—what the Muggles called it—Inverness.
"Granger!" Leaning towards her desk, the office messenger plants a yellow parcel of something thick and heavy inside. "This is for you from HR. Smith, Thomas file."
"Thank you, Eddie."
"You're welcome."
Hermione walks over to her desk. It would be the official documents on the new recruit—not the little pieces of here and there Kath stole from HR while the file was being created for her. She opens the parcel and finds a quick summary of the new recruit.
NAME: SMITH, THOMAS
DATE OF BIRTH: 31 DECEMBER 1978 (26 YEARS OLD)
LOCATION OF BIRTH: FALMOUTH, ENGLAND (CORNWALL COUNTY)
MINISTRY ID NUMBER: X98-234WE-0932B-09382
ID NUMBER: 093382-TS
DEPARTMENT: DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT (MAGICAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PATROLS OFFICE; INVERNESS SQUAD)
HAIR: BLACK
EYES: HAZEL
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, SPANISH, BULGARIAN, ALBANIAN, [PASSABLE] ISTANBUL TURKISH
EDUCATION: HOMESCHOOLED
OWLs:
1. DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS: EXCEEDS EXPECTATION
2. POTIONS: EXCEEDS EXPECTATION
3. TRANSFIGURATION: OUTSTANDING
4. ARITHMANCY: EXCEEDS EXPECTATION
5. CHARMS: EXCEEDS EXPECTATION
6. DIVINATION: POOR
7. ASTROLOGY: ACCEPTABLE
8. HISTORY OF MAGIC: ACCEPTABLE
NEWTs:
1. DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS: EXCEEDS EXPECTATION
2. POTIONS: EXCEEDS EXPECTATION
3. TRANSFIGURATION: OUTSTANDING
4. CHARMS: OUTSTANDING
5. ARITHMANCY: ACCEPTABLE
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
1.WITCH WEEKLY: WEDDING ANNOUNCER IN 2000 TO 2003, JUNIOR CORRESPONDENT IN BULGARIA IN 2004
NOTES:
COMES WITH TWO RECOMMENDATIONS (J.S)
ONLY FAMILY IS THRASHER SMITH (UNCLE; MATERNAL RELATIONSHIP), PARENTS DECEASED, YOUNGER SIBLING DIED AT BIRTH (L.S.R)
TRULY OUTSTANDING AT TRANSFIGURATION (B.X.R.)
ADEPT AT DETECTIVE WORK, THOUGH FOR UNSAVORY REASONS (B.X.R)
1ST BACKGROUND CHECK ADMINISTRATOR: John Salvador
2nd BACKGROUND CHECK ADMINISTRATOR: Lilith Sara Rossi
3rd BACKGROUND CHECK ADMINISTRATOR: Billy Xavier Richardson
It goes on and on for several pages about Thomas Smith. Though she knows a lot about what he has done, she doesn't know anything about him at all.
"Granger! Suspect spotted in Balloch twenty minutes ago. Get your squad out in the field now," shouts her boss, Madeline Ross. Ross is the current head of the Magical Law Enforcement Patrols. Rumors have it that the rotund blonde has been eyeing for a position in the Department of Mysteries.
"Got it," she yells back. "I'll have it on right away." Thomas Smith's file forgotten, she immediately enchants her voice to a magnified level and the alarms go off. "Inverness Squad A, prepare yourself for immediate apparition."
Then she begins to dress herself in the standard black Patrol uniforms.
It's time to catch a murderer.
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