Hey, guys. Back with Chapter 7.

This chapter is about Harry's 18th birthday. It takes place a few months after the last chapter.

Let's get going.

Chapter 7- Happy 18th

Harry slowly shook his head and raised it off his pillow. The sun was just rising over the horizon.

For a few moments, Harry was still feeling really sleepy. Then, he suddenly sat up straight. He remembered what day it was. It was his 18th birthday. By Muggle standards, he was officially an adult.

He shot up out of bed, finding Ron about to wake him up. "Well, somebody's excited," Ron said with a smile. "Hey, I'm 18. It's exciting," Harry said with a smile of his own.

"Now, if you'll please excuse me, I have to go say Good Morning to somebody," said Harry. Ron rolled his eyes, but let Harry out of the room once Harry had changed into jeans and a T-shirt.

Harry made a beeline to Ginny's room. He knocked lightly on the door, and when he got no response, he opened the door. He found Ginny tangled up in her blankets, fast asleep. Harry smiled. Apparently, the large amount of Quidditch they played the day before had completely tired her out.

Harry walked over and shook her. "Ginny, wake up." She instantly shot up in her bed, tried to get up, tripped over her blankets, and almost fell over. Harry grabbed her and helped her back to her feet, using his wand to make the blankets unravel.

"Why did you do that?" she said. "I wanted to wake you up to ask why you didn;t come to wake me up on my birthday," he said with a smile. Ginny had taken up a habit of waking him up the mornings, usually with a kiss.

Ginny's eyes widened. "Oh my gosh! It's your birthday! How could I have forgotten?" For a fraction of a second, it looked like she wanted to cry, but Harry looked her right in the eye and said, "It's okay. You were tired and needed sleep." Then, he leaned in and kissed her.

When they pulled back, Ginny had a smile on her face. "Thanks," she said softly. Then, in a normal voice, she said, "Get out of here. I need to change. I'll meet you outside when I'm finished." Harry smiled, then hurriedly left the room.

While he waited for Ginny to change, Harry reflected on the last few months. It had been about two and a half months since the funeral and memorial service. During that time, Harry and Ginny had grown even closer, which was saying something, since they were engaged. Incidentally, they had not told anyone outside the Weasley family of their engagement. Yet.

Harry had also been spending a lot of time at Andromeda Tonks' house with her and Teddy. He had grown incredibly fond of Teddy. Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and Mrs. Weasley had accompanied him on several visits. Ron thought Teddy was cute, but the women absolutely adored him.

Harry's musing over memories was interrupted when Ginny's door opened, and she stepped out, dressed in jeans and a blue T-shirt. She smiled at him, then said, "Well, let's go see everyone. I'm sure they're waiting to wish you a Happy Birthday." Harry smiled, took her hand, then they walked down to the kitchen.

When they entered the kitchen, they saw an owl flying out of the window. Five envelopes and eight packages were sitting on the table. Two envelopes and a package were set aside from the others, which were being scrutinized by Mrs. Weasley, Ron, and Hermione.

Harry sighed. "More fan mail?" he asked. "This is," responded Ron, indicating the three envelopes and seven packages that he, his mother, and his girlfriend were eying. Hermione then indicated the two envelopes and one package that were set apart from the others. "These letters are from Kinglsey and Mr. Ollivander. The package is from Honeydukes, interestingly enough."

Harry nodded, then looked at the fan mail and sighed. Ever since the funeral, fans had swarmed him, Ron, and Hermione, but mainly him. He got tons upon tons of fan mail, mostly love letters. He had also received a number of packages holding chocolates spiked with love potion. Ron had gotten the same, though there was less of it. Hermione had also gotten a lot of love notes and poetry and letters asking her out. She had even received a few packages of love potion chocolates. The amount of love potion chocolates being sent to the tree was so bad, George had actually taken his line of love potions off the shelves. It had been funny to him at first, but eventually he decided enough was enough, and decided to keep them off the shelves for a while.

Harry had also had to deal with fans trying to meet him. Starting about a week after the funeral, people had started coming to the Burrow to try and see him. It had been a surprise when a number of people, led by Romilda Vane, had showed up at the door to the Burrow, wanting to see Harry. They had been greeted by Mr. Weasley and Percy, who had not been pleased to find so many people on their doorstep. They threatened to set Ginny and her Bat-Bogey Hexes on them if they didn't clear out. That threat managed to keep them away just long enough to set up magical barriers, which kept out anyone the Weasleys did not want coming onto the property.

Harry asked, "Any familiar names among the fan mail?" "Yeah. Romilda again," said Hermione indicating the largest package. Harry felt Ginny's hand tighten around his. Romilda sent him packages containing a lot of love letters and love potion chocolates about every week and a half on average. The last time Romilda had sent Harry something, Ginny had gotten so angry, she had just chucked it out the window before Harry even had the chance to get near it.

"Anyone else?" he asked. "Nope," Ron said. "Well, let's get started," Harry said. They started going through the fan mail. All the letters were love letters. All but one of the packages contained chocolates. The one from Romilda was literally stuffed full with chocolates. Ron agreed to test out a chocolate from each package. The Weasleys had a large container of love potion antidote on hand. Each package's chocolates were indeed spiked, and Ron had to be quickly given the antidote. The final package actually contained a birthday cake. It was from a girl who had never written him before, and after reading it was his birthday, decided to show her thanks for what Harry had done in defeating Voldemort. Ron took a small bite of the cake to test it, and it actually wasn't spiked with love potion. Harry quickly decided to write a thank-you to the girl.

All the letters and other chocolates were quickly thrown into the fireplace and incinerated. Harry got the feeling he should try and take care of Romilda's obsession with him before long.

"Well, let's see what these are about?" Harry said, looking at the letters from Kingsley and Ollivander , and the package from Honeydukes.

Kingsley's letter was first. It was a letter about the plan Kingsley had figured out for Harry's Auror training and his post as DADA teacher. Kingsley was also explicit that Harry not show the letter to anyone. Luckily, when Harry said that, everyone accepted it.

The letter from Ollivander was merely a thank you letter, and also asking if he needed a new wand. Harry quickly wrote a letter for Ollivander saying he had a wand, but thanking Ollivander for thinking of him.

Then, came the package from Honeydukes. Harry first opened the note attached to the top. It was a Happy Birthday note, and saying the package was a birthday gift from the people at Honeydukes.

When Harry opened it, it was a single Chocolate Frog. Harry felt a little confused, but opened it. He handed the frog to Ron, who quickly started to eat it before asking, "What's the card?" Harry quickly lifted the card, and froze. His hand shook a little.

"Well, what's the card?" asked Ron again. "Me," Harry said softly. "What?" asked Ron. "It's me. The card is me!" Harry said.

"What?!" everyone the kitchen asked. Harry turned the card around so everyone could see the picture. It was a picture of Harry, smiling slightly and looking out at everyone.

"You're on a Chocolate Frog Card?! That's incredible!" shouted Ron. Everyone else congratulated him too. "What does it say on the back?" Ginny asked.

Harry turned over the card and started to read what was on the back.

Harry Potter

Harry Potter is most well known for being the first and only person to ever survive the Killing Curse. Raised by Muggles, Harry Potter grew to become one of the greatest wizards of his time. Mr. Potter defeated the Basilisk of Salazar Slytherin at age 12, learned how to conjure a Patronus Charm at age 13, and won the Triwizard Tournament at age 14. Potter became the one to finally kill the wizard known as Lord Voldemort. Potter enjoys playing Quidditch, and is widely recognized as one of the greatest Seekers to ever play at Hogwarts School.

Everyone was quiet for a few moments. Then, Ron said, "This is awesome!" Everyone went back to congratulating him.

After all the congratulations were finished, Harry went to open his gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley got him everything he had left at Privet Drive. Bill and Fleur had gotten him a wallet that had a picture of him and Ginny fixed to the inside of it. George and Percy had together gotten him a large box of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes merchandise. Ron had gotten him a new Firebolt. It turns out he had gotten the money from Kingsley. And, Hermione had gotten him a golden figurine of a lion rearing over the body a beheaded snake that bore a striking resemblance to Nagini. And, Ginny had gotten him a scrapbook to put in photos of the two of them.

After opening his presents, Harry decided to take a walk around the house with Ginny. As soon as he exited the Burrow, there were screams from girls waiting beyond the magical barriers, trying to get his attention. He did not acknowledge them, even when he saw Romilda Vane watching him expectantly. He simply gripped Ginny's hand tightly as they walked around. Eventually, the noise got too annoying, and they went back inside.

They played games the rest of the day with Ron and Hermione, and discussed the recent Quidditch World Cup. Kingsley had helped to quickly organize it. The final was coming up in a week, between the National Teams of two countries Harry had never heard of: Malawi and Senegal.

That night was Harry's birthday dinner. In preparation for it, the magical boundaries had been slightly expanded, and Aurors had been placed around the edge of the boundaries to keep people away.

The dinner began at 7:00 in the evening. The whole Weasley family was there. A lot of other people had come too: Professor Mcgonagall, Hagrid, Andromeda, Teddy, the Patil twins, Neville, Luna, Dean, Seamus, Oliver, Angelina, Alicia, Katie, Lavender, Cho, and even Professor Slughorn, though Harry only invited him because he was sure Slughorn would probably try and come anyway.

Everyone was in a party mood, were excited to be able to wish Harry a Happy Birthday in person, and they were all thrilled to hear he was on Chocolate Frog Cards.

Near the end of the dinner, Harry stood up in front of everybody and said loudly, "Excuse me, everyone. I have an announcement to make." Everyone looked up at him. Ginny, who was right behind him, came up beside him and took his hand, smiling.

Harry looked at her, and nodded. She nodded back. It was time to tell their friends.

They all looked at everyone. Then, Ginny lifted her hand, so everyone could see the ring. Before anyone could really react, Harry said, "Me and Ginny are engaged."

There was a second's worth of silence, then the table erupted in cheers. Everyone who was not a Weasley came running up to congratulate them. Harry and Ginny just smiled through it all, happy to know their friends were supportive of them in this.

The rest of the night was a bit of a blur. When he went to bed that night, Harry smiled, feeling like he had just had one of the best birthdays of his life.

I think I'll stop right there.

I hope this chapter is good. I wrote a lot of this around midnight, and I was kinda rushed to finish it before going to bed.

I hope my description of Harry on his Chocolate Frog card wasn't too bad. It will change when some life changing events come up. If you guys have any ideas on how improve the description, let me know, and I might change it.

Well, I'm not in the mood for much more chit-chat, so let's stop right here. Please review, and be excited for the next chapter.

Raptor2216 out.