I do not own Harry Potter. Or anything else for that matter.
Authors Note: I am trying to fix the name thing but my computer is being stupid and keeps changing it back, hang with me.
Happy Birthday to Me
Chapter seven
The next few weeks went by fairly quickly as Ginny got ready for and passed her exams to get into seventh year and they went three times a week to play with Teddy . Harry's birthday went by easily this year. They all went to diagon alley that morning for school supplies and had a big dinner at the house that included all of Harry's favorite things. That evening after everyone had left except for those who lived at the burrow, and Hermione. Harry put his plan into action.
"Gin, will you go on a broom ride with me? It is my favorite thing to do and I have never done it on my birthday before." He asked sweetly while kissing her on the back of the head. Ron perked up over on the other sofa.
"Yeah we can all go, we'll take two brooms the girls can ride with us since we got new ones today." He added excitedly.
"what if I want to take my own broom Ron, I can fly just fine on my own." Ginny argued. Arthur looked at Harry's slightly panicked expression at the turn of the conversation and immediately understood, seeing as Harry had come to talk to him earlier in the week, so he took control of the chatter.
"Ron you and Hermione can't go, I need your help for a minute in the attic and since it's Harry's birthday I am not making him do it. Besides you and Hermione are going to her house tonight in about 30 minutes and by the time you get everything together you won't even have time to get in the air. Harry you and Ginny go on, just be careful, it is getting dark out." He said, causing Ron to sigh heavily and Hermione to giggle quietly. Harry took Ginny's hand and practically drug her out of the house to the broom shed.
"I know you want to try out your new broom so if you want we can take yours and ride together. But I am steering. I think it will be more fun this way." He told her as he pulled her new firebolt out of the building. She looked at him with a questioning expression but he wiped it away with a serious kind of kiss. She smiled woozily and went to climb onto the broom behind him.
"Sit up front, I can still steer that way and I would rather hold you in my arms while we fly." She did as requested and he pushed hard off the ground, causing her to wobble slightly. He took one hand off the broom handle and wrapped it around her waist resting it on her tummy. "You good?" He asked in her ear.
She pressed her head back into his chest and sighed. "I am fantastic." He smiled and kissed the top of her ear and her temple.
"Ok I have something I want you to see." He shot off into the sky, they rode for roughly 15 minutes and she watched the stars start to twinkle in the twilight around them.
"We are almost there. Now close your eyes." He told her. She protested slightly and he laughed in her hear softly. "If you love me you will close your eyes for just a second ok." She sighed theatrically but closed her eyes. He spent the next minute laying on the speed and kissing the side of her neck and ears and face to keep her distracted.
"Harry James Potter you are going to make me fall off this broom if you don't stop." She whined.
"Ok," he answered slowing down to a hover. "Open your eyes then." She opened her eyes and looked around. There was still enough light in the sky to see the ground below them. She gasped as she looked closer at the field of flowers below. And her eyes began to fill with tears. There were hundreds, no thousands of red rose bushes growing and amidst the roses were bushes of white roses. The white roses spelled out I Love you Ginny. He squeezed her with his free arm and startled her slightly by taking his hand off her stomach and turning it over to reveal a ring laying on his palm. "Gin, I love you so much more than I have ever loved anyone else in my life. You are so amazing, more amazing that the stars around us. I do not want to spend another moment without knowing that my life will always be with you. I promise to spend the rest of my life making you happy, will you take the first step and make me the happiest man in the world? The only thing the I want for my birthday is to for you to say yes. Ginerva Molly Weasley, will you marry me?" he whispered in her ear. He felt her tears hitting his hand and she was shaking slightly.
"Harry, take us to the ground please." He lowered the broom to the field of flowers below and felt his stomach drop as his nerves got the better of him. Before he could touch down she jumped off the broom and turned to look at him. He stopped about two feet off the ground and she leapt at him knocking him off the side of his broom and pinned him to the ground with a soft "ugh." She kissed him soundly and he felt like his world was spinning, granted he had also just hit his head but still. When she pulled away he smiled at her.
"Is that a yes?" he asked numbly, while running his hands up her back and into her flaming hair.
"Happy Birthday Harry, of course that's a yes." She laughed softly. They stayed in the field until the moon had risen high above them. Harry was laying on his back with Ginny's head on his chest. "What time is it?" she asked him quietly. He held his arm up to her so she could read his watch and when she caught sight of her hand with the ring on it she smiled. "It is a gorgeous ring Harry. Thank you." she told him before she leaned up and kissed him again. He smiled at her and ran his hand through her hair.
"It looks as beautiful on you as it did on my mother. I can't believe you didn't recognize it from the memory." She sat up and smiled at him.
"it is the exact same color as your eyes." She whispered as she kissed his nose. He laughed as he pulled himself to his feet.
"I think that was why my father picked it for my mother. But it works just as well in reverse too." He said. "Let's get you home so you can show it off to your mum and Hermione." He said giving her a hug.
"Hermione will be at her parents tonight remember?"
"No she won't be. They aren't going until next week. Dad knew I was up to something so he got Ron distracted so I could bring you alone. He got suspicious from the beginning when I asked you to go, seeing as I asked his permission to ask you about a week ago. So he has been waiting for me to do it for awhile. Every time you and I have gone away together this week when we got back he looked all nervous. I was going to wait for your birthday but he just kept getting more and more nervous not to mention the fact that I was without a doubt more nervous so I decided to get myself an extra birthday present. " he told her as they flew back to the burrow. This time she was steering and he was holding his hands to her waist with his head leaned against the back of her neck. She landed softly in the orchard and they walked into the house after putting the broom away. They barely got through the door when Ginny was practically plowed over by Hermione and her mum. Arthur walked over to Harry and patted him on the back. Ginny was laughing as she pulled out of her mother's vicelike hug.
"How could you possibly know I said yes?" she asked while hugging her father
"Ginny, you have loved him since you were ten. You would rather die than say no to him. You forget I was with you last year when he was gone. I know you would never willingly be apart from him again." Her mother told her. Harry was vaguely listening as he looked at Ron who was sitting at the table alone. He went and sat down across from him and looked him full in the face. Everyone got quiet as Ron looked at his best mate.
"You could have told me Harry." He stated apparently irritated.
"No I couldn't it wouldn't be fair for you to have known before Gin, no one would have known if I hadn't wanted to ask dad for permission." He muttered.
"Well, I don't want to know about the honeymoon but I am really glad you asked." He said fervently a smile breaking out on his face. Harry returned his smile.
"That's good because you are my best man." He replied with a laugh.
"Well we have plenty of time for all that a couple of years or so right." Molly stated happily.
"Actually mum, though Harry doesn't know this, the wedding is going to be the week after we get out of school." Ginny replied matter of factly. Harry looked at his fiancé stunned and Mrs. Weasley stared at her stubborn daughter.
"Now honey there isn't any reason to hurry, the war is over and Harry isn't going anywhere. If you wait awhile we can have a nice ceremony." She responded.
"Well I can think of, and I would imagine that if Harry thinks about it he can think of some very good reasons to get married as soon as possible. Look I am sure you can appreciate that he wants, and I guess I want, to do this right. The way you would want us too, so if that is in fact what you want then we are going to need to get married as soon as possible." By the end of her speech Ron was laughing Mr. Weasley was nodding his agreement at his wife who was watching Harry turn beet red in front of her. He was staring at Ginny opened mouthed not certain what to say one way or another. Arthur walked over and squeezed his shoulder.
"Well as your father I can say that I am very glad that you two are going about this in the right way. I am sure since you are all either of age or almost of age that you can add up the fact that we didn't do that seeing as Bill was born 6 months after our wedding."
"Dad!" Ron hollered, Harry and Hermione laughed.
"C'mon Ron, it isn't like we didn't know that." Ginny said. While Molly looked mortified.
"Anyway, Molly we can plan a beautiful wedding in ten months and think about it there will be no security precautions this time. You can't complain about it since they are being responsible. I think it will be perfect you two. Now You all can do what you want but Harry, don't forget you have Teddy all day tomorrow so I would rest up godfather. And Hogwarts letters should be here tomorrow. Harry looked at Mrs. Weasley and felt a whole different nervousness.
"You are going to be here with Me and Teddy right?" he asked slightly flustered. The girls laughed at him and Ron looked just as unsure.
"Actually you and Ginny are going to Andromeda's house to keep him because she has all of his things there. And just so you know she is going for a job interview and if she gets it, you are going to be keeping him all night." She told him, he looked downright alarmed at the thought.
"Harry you will be fine, just calm down. After all we will be going to the alley tomorrow to finish shopping for the things we weren't sure that we had to get the other day. We will all be there together until you get the hang of it." She smiled at him as she walked past and headed upstairs.
"Well if you think, I am facing being up all night tomorrow and not getting a good night sleep tonight, you would be wrong." He said as he walked by Ginny and kissed her softly. "See you in the morning fiancé." He smiled winningly at her and winked. She giggled and let go of his hand as he started up the stairs. He got ready for bed and was laying comfortably half asleep when he heard a whispered, "I love you Harry." Through his vent he smiled to himself and whispered a soft but fervent, "Good night my love." And rolled over and drifted off to sleep.
