Neville smiled to himself. Harry and Ron had seen to his stag night arraignments and seen to it perfectly. No going out on the town and pub hopping, all of his friends were here at Grimald place, Kreacher had a spread of finger foods laid out in the dining room and George was acting as bartender in the corner.
Lee was dj'ing a steady stream of easy listening favorites and they were all reminiscing. The married men all seemed to have advice to give and some of the singles were trying to talk him out of the wedding.
Hagrid kept tearing up, just as he had at Ron and Hermione's wedding. Arthur just sat and beamed at the collection of young men, many whom he considered his own or were in fact.
He hoped Hannah was having a good Hen weekend at shell cottage. Fleur had volunteered to pamper her and a few friends. Molly and Andromeda had stolen his grandma away for the weekend too. Next weekend was the big day.
They had both been thrilled when the board allowed the ceremony to be held at Hogwarts. His Hannah would be Mrs. Longbottom in one week!
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AN – From harry and Ginny
Ginny stood proudly with Neville at the front of the great hall. Hogwarts' dining hall had been turned in to a wedding wonderland. It had been a shock to some when Neville had asked Ginny to be his "Best Man", but not to the members of the DA.
Ohs and Ahs marked the progress of Teddy and Victoire as they made their way hand in hand down the long aisle. Teddy had morphed his hair to perfectly match the golden rose petals magically trailing from Victoire's basket. Victoire looked stunning in a pale blue dress, and her beautiful white hair hanging in long ringlets.
After the ceremony, the guests had danced and ate until the break of day. Augusta had been the belle of the ball. Every male DA member had asked her to dance at least twice.
Even Teddy had gotten caught up in the spirit of it all. First he had asked Ginny to dance. Then he had politely bowed in front of his Aunt Birdy, (He had started calling Augusta that as soon as he could talk), He then led her on to the floor and did his toddler best to waltz her around the hall. After that Hannah claimed her dance and a line formed waiting for their chance to dance with him.
Not wanting Victoire to feel left out Harry retrieved her from Bill and whirled her around, with her sweet mary janes resting atop his shoes. Next her Uncles, real and honorary, lined up and there were two happy and worn out toddlers put to bed that night.
They did not let Andy, Minerva or Poppy sit idle either. No one could remember such a good time.
At dawn the guests partook of an excellent breakfast and the newlyweds were sent off on their honeymoon.
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Their first stop was Edinborough. A week there was filled with getting to know each other in new and exciting ways; days spent walking the city, exploring the history and sites, the evenings at different pubs and restaurants.
Then to London and a Port-key to New York in the States. They rented a car and bought camping equipment, their honeymoon was spent traveling across the lower 48 to Seattle Washington. Neville started a tradition that lasted all of their married life when he bought Hannah a muggle cookbook in New York. By the time they reached the Yukon they had cookbooks from every region they visited.
Then it was to the Yukon to set up the food marquee for the world cup
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AN – part of this is from Harry and Ginny
Hannah had her hands full! Thank goodness for her excellent help and her hubby. Neville had proven a dab hand at tending bar. The food marquee should make a tidy little profit and allow her to buy the Leaky cauldron.
Neville looked up to serve the next customer; he had been pulling ale hand over fist for the last 8 hours and was darned tired.
There stood Rita Skeeter, her hair dyed a glaring red orange. "It's too bad a war hero has been reduced to tending bar. I guess it's true you've been fired from Hogwarts then! Give me an ale!"
A watery screech filled the tent. Hannah turned to see her husband conjuring and pouring beer after beer over the top of a very soaked red head.
She hurried over to try and save the situation, wondering what could have caused such a totally uncharacteristic reaction from Neville.
When she got close enough she heard: "No worries Ms. Skeeter you can have all the ale you want. It on the house. No wait it's on you!"
With a totally different perspective on the situation Hannah began conjuring pies and grinding them in to Rita's face.
"Here Rita have a nice Mince pie. It's a thank you for the wonderful article where you call my husband the true heir of Gryffindork. How about a Key lime for the article where you proved that Neville's parents were faking mental illness in order to be supported by the MOM. Here's a nice chocolate one for the lovely expose you wrote explaining why I should never be allowed to run a pub. Oops so sorry seems that wasn't a chocolate pie after all. It was a cow pie!"
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Ron stopped by the food tent first that night and quickly told Neville and Hannah what had happened to Rita when she had tried to 'bug' their campsite.
Neville was still chuckling when he turned the last customer out and put up the sign that said closed for private party.
AN- If you would like to know what happened to Rita read Harry and Ginny Harry and Ginny
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AN – some of this is from Harry and Ginny
Hannah had out done herself. The dinner was perfect. Neville chuckled to himself. If there were any problems tonight the quickest way to get help was just to show up here. He swore half the MOM, all of the OOP and all of DA was here.
A round of toasts had just been offered to the success of the UK team and to Ginny as chaser. Harry, standing behind Ginny's chair, winked at Teddy. Teddy eased his action figure out of his pocket and let it go.
Ginny, who was talking to Oliver Wood, noticed her mini-me buzzing around her head. "Teddy you've lost something!" Just as she reached for it a small puff of pink smoke erupted from the back end of the broom and a scroll unfolded.
"What do we have here?"
Oliver suggested she read it.
Laughing Ginny did. "Ginevra Molly Weasley would you do Harry James Potter the honor of becoming his wife?"
Ginny began a spin in her chair to look at Harry, but he was no longer behind her. He was kneeling beside her holding out the box with his mum's engagement ring.
Ginny knocked him to the ground and snogged him senseless.
"Oi! Ginny does that mean yes?" George teased.
Ginny lifted her head and shouted "YES! I GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY WILL MARRY HARRY JAMES POTTER!"
Soon Harry had the ring on her finger and everyone was offering toasts and congratulations to the happy couple.
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The next few days were hand over fist busy. Neville and Hannah fell in to bed exhausted each night but the profits sure looked as if they would secure the Leaky Cauldron.
All the customers were in fine spirits and when it was learned that Harry had proposed to Ginny at their food tent they had to hire a couple of extra helpers to handle the load! (Neville suspected that Harry himself had leaked the news just so the profits would go through the roof)
They closed up early the day of the match and sat with the Weasleys for the game. It was a close match, but the UK seeker pulled it out with a spectacular catch. Ginny had scored 14 goals for the UK.
Two days after the game WWW and their marquee were packed up and Hannah was handing Angie a hamper with the leftover food in it.
The two couples were planning to take muggle transportation to Toronto and then use the portkey terminal there to get home.
Bill had come by yesterday and secured their deposit and promised to let Tom know that the payment was being deposited in his account.
Hannah was over the moon as George and he secured the last of the crates in to the Lorry. She and Angie had their heads together planning the refurbishing of the inn and its private quarters.
