Chapter 8

"Can you believe I am getting married in two days!" Bridget squealed.

"I honestly thought you would be the last one of us all to get married," Susan said putting the last minute touches to her baby sister's wedding veil.

"Really?"

"I did too," Adora nodded.

"I figured you would never get married."

"Gee thanks," Bridget said rolling her eyes.

"Well I mean," Ginny tried to redeem herself. "You have been so rebellious your entire life and since we all found out you were a Potter, you have been the run around Potter."

"Don't I sound like the typical Hogwarts whore?"

"I didn't mean that!" Ginny said as her face turned the same color as her hair.

"What our poor Ginny is trying to say," Adora stepped up to the Bridezilla. "Before Oliver you went through guys like they were you stockings…"

"True," Bridget blushed.

"You always had guys falling at your feet," Ginny pointed out. "So I figured you would be a single gal until you got tired with the game."

"You know what's funny? I thought I would be the last Potter to get married too."

"Know it will be me," Adora sighed.

"You know Ron would have married you as soon as the two of you graduated Hogwarts, but you had to travel the world."

"Ginny, stuff it."

"Okay! Me, me, me!" Bridget yelled.

"Total Bridezilla," Susan laughed at her younger sister and then she noticed the time on the clock. "Oh shit! We need to leave now or we are going to be late for our last minute hems on our gowns."

"Let's get out of here then!" Bridget yelled and they all apparated out except for Ginny, in which she had to Floo with baby James.


"It is about time all of you showed up, you know the seamstress has been getting very impatient." Arabella told all of the girls as they showed up.

"Why didn't you try to contact us?" Bridget asked getting a little angry.

"Don't you take that kind of tone with me! Your mother, father, grandfather, and uncle would be very disappointed in you. Besides I didn't know if you all would be at Ginny, Susan, or Blaise's home. Or Adora's flat."

"Sorry Aunt Arabella."

"It's fine, but I suggest you go and apologize to the seamstress and her helpers." Bridget took her aunt's advice and walked out of the room.

"How did your date with Ronald go?" Arabella asked deciding to turn the attention to Adora.

"It was alright."

"Just alright?" Susan asked a bit disappointed.

"Alright, it was nice."

"You know you are killing us here with the details, the rest of us are boring old housewives." Ginny said beginning to gag to get a laugh out of all of them.

"Speak for yourself, I am not boring." Susan said sticking her tongue out at Ginny.

"And I am not a boring housewife, remember I am now single." Arabella said as too had to put her two knuts in.

"That's right, you are a boring widow."

"Hey, hey." Harry said walking in, "My wife shouldn't be attacking my loving aunt."

"Thank you Harry."

"No problem, but what are you guys doing here?"

"Duh Harry," Bridget said walking back into the room. "I am getting married in two days."

"Are you still on that?"

"What do you mean am I still on that?" Bridget asked getting a bit angry.

"Sorry Bridget, but you know how I feel about the guy."

"Even after Susan told you that he seems sincere?"

"You told her you went to see him?" Harry asked turning on his twin.

"Yes she did, but after Blaise told me." Bridget answered for her older sister, "I don't understand why you are still against this marriage. If you are so against me marrying Blaise then maybe you shouldn't walk me down the aisle…"

"Bridget," Arabella snapped.

"No, in fact maybe you should not even be present at all…"

"Bridget Lynn Potter!" Arabella yelled this time.

"No, no she's right." Harry nodded.

"Excuse me Harry Potter," Ginny said glaring at her husband.

"If that is what she wants…"

Ginny then handed James to his Great-Aunt Arabella, then she grabbed Bridget by the ear and Harry by the ear and pulled them each on one side of her. She first turned to Bridget, "Harry will be at your wedding and will walk you down the aisle, do you hear?"

"Alright," Bridget growled. "But he can not say another bad word about my soon-to-be-husband."

"While Bridget is present," Ginny popped in to satisfy both Bridget and Harry. Then she turned to Harry, "You will quit talking crap on Blaise until at least after the Honeymoon. You will go to this wedding, even if you think the marriage is doomed, you will walk her down the aisle." Then she turned to Bridget and Harry, "The two of you will like it. Got it?"

"Fine," they both said through gritted teeth. "Now hug and Harry take James and get out of here."

Once Harry was gone, everything was okay with the girls again.


Bridget had Susan, Ginny, and Adora over bright and early on the morning of December 1st, 1999. Ginny, Susan, Adora, and Arabella were all helping Bridget get ready for today, her wedding day.

Harry had been grumbling all morning and Ginny snapped at him and left the baby with him. She warned him that if he grumbled once at Bridget or tried to changer her mind she would not talk to him for a month and that he could sleep on the couch downstairs for two months.

The wedding would be in Arabella's beautiful garden in the backyard.

There was a knock at the door as the girls were putting the finishing touches on the lovely Potter Princess. Arabella left Roselyn and Breeanna playing on the floor with their dolls and had Lily in her arms as she went to answer the door.

"Who is it?"

"It's me," Harry spoke up. "You girls have got ten minutes and we need to see you outside Bella for some last minute details. I was wondering if you could watch James for me until I am back sitting down with you."

"Of course, just a minute though." Arabella said through the door and she turned back to her nieces. "Susan, can you watch the girls?"

"Sure, why?"

"Harry said they need to see me in the garden for some last minute details."

"Oh no!" Bridget cried, "What's wrong with my wedding?"

"Don't cry," Ginny said sternly. "I have been working on your makeup for much to long for you to wash it all off."

"Yeah," Susan said to Arabella as she reached for Lily. "Go ahead."

"I'll come with you," Adora said to Bella. "Merlin knows that I am better with a wand then most of those people outside."

"True and if they need me then they most likely need you too."

Arabella and Adora walked out of the room and Ginny's nose curled up, "I think someone needs changing Susan."

"Yeah," she sighed. "I just smelled her, in fact I will get the girls to go to the bathroom before the ceremony starts as they are in it."

"But I don't have to go bathroom, Mummy."

"Maybe not now Breeanna, but you will have to later on and you can not leave Aunt Bridget's side. So I am changing Lily's diaper and you and Roselyn will go potty before we start the wedding, understand me young lady?"

"Yes Mummy."

"Okay Susie."

Bridget's makeup was done and Ginny was re-curling some of Bridget's fallen curls, "You look so beautiful."

"No where near as beautiful as you looked at you and Harry's wedding."

"I don't know, I think we pretty much have a tie."

"Can I tell you something without you freaking out at me?"

"Of course Bridget, we are best friends, you know you can tell me anything." Ginny said slipping Bridget's veil over her face and then pulling a chair up and sitting next to her best friend. "What's wrong?"

"I don't know if I can truly go through with this."

"What?"

"I don't love him, I still love Oliver, and I think everyone is right, I will never eventually fall in love with him."

"You loved him once…"

"He has changed and I have changed," Bridget pointed out.

"Yes and when you were first with him he was a Death Eater and he has swore to you that he isn't anymore. He was cheating on you left and right and he has been faithful to you, right?"

"As far as I know, but I am just scared."

"Everyone is scared before they get married."

"But Ginny I have this feeling in my stomach, what if Harry and Ron and Draco are right? What if I am making the biggest mistake of my life? I know you, Susan, Adora, and Bella are not really keen into me marrying Blaise."

"You need to stop worrying about how we feel about him and how you feel about him."

"He is nice and pleasant to me."

"Do you think he will take care of you."

"I do Ginny," Bridget nodded. "I really think he will."

"So what is the problem?"

"I don't love him, I still love Oliver."

"Love, Oliver is dead. He has been dead for months…"

"But they still haven't found his body."

"They most likely never will thanks to Autumn, you know how she loves to make us Potter suffer."

"I always thought I would love the man I would marry. Harry and you adore one another, Susan and Draco too, my mother and father were so smitten with one another, and Aunt Arabella and Uncle Sirius were so happy together. I am not in love with him and I do not want to be miserable for the rest of my life."

"If you are not happy with him Bridget then we will get you an annulment, okay?"

"I don't know…"

"Blaise has money and his family is one of the oldest Wizarding families, like yours. Your children will have the best life and some of the most wonderful opportunities. I feel like I am pushing you into this."

"No you are not, I think I just have cold feet."

"We all do," Ginny smiled remembering the day she married Harry and how frightened she had been and her mother had calmed her down. "Don't you remember me on my wedding day? I was a total mess."

"That's right," Bridget's eyes lit up. "You were so scared and Harry and you are happy, right?"

"I never thought I would be so happy and James has brought so much more love between us and our marriage, which I never thought possible."

"Them maybe I should try to get pregnant as fast as I can so that I will finally fall in love with him and come to terms with Oliver's death."

"If you think that is the best."

"Thanks Ginny you are the best," Bridget said hugging Ginny. "You are right I will be happy and maybe not get the happily ever after that I wanted, but I will be just happy enough to deal."

"Right," Ginny said as she felt the total opposite of what she had been saying.


Roselyn and Breeanna had already walked down the aisle throwing flower petals here and there, as they were the flower girls. Draco was sitting on Bridget's side holding baby Lily as Susan was one of Bridget's bridesmaids. Arabella was sitting next to Draco with baby James in her arms as Harry would walk Bridget down the aisle and Ginny was Bridget's Maid of Honor. Ron was sitting with his family as Adora was also a bridesmaid.

After the flower girls went, then Adora walked down the aisle followed by Susan and then Ginny.

"Ready?" Harry asked turning to see the beautiful vision that was his little sister.

"As ready as I will ever be."

"You know you can still get out of this."

"Harry stop, please."

"I am just trying to look out for you."

"I know that but stop."

"Bridget I have a feeling that he is still a Death Eater."

"Harry stop," Bridget said giving him a glare of death.

"Bridget…"

"You know what Harry?" Bridget snapped, "I am so sick of you at this moment! You are not a Seer, that is Adora's job and if she had seen something horrible coming she would have warned me."

"But Adora doesn't see everything in advance."

"Do you or do you not want to walk me down this damned aisle!"

"I do."

"Then shut up!"


The Wedding went alright, as well as you could expect it to be when the majority of your family is against it. Unfortunately the reception was not as peaceful as the wedding ceremony had been.

Harry had had too much Firewhiskey and at his speech he totally upset Bridget.

"To the happy new couple…wait…let me rephrase that…the newly married couple."

"Harry!" Ginny hissed at him as she was baby free for once, there was a daycare set up for the young parents just outside of the reception.

"She never loved you, I just want you to know that."

"Harry Potter!" Ginny yelled this time as she tried to bring him down into his seat.

"Ginny no!" Harry yelled and Bridget wanted to die…no she wanted to kill Harry Potter. "She only ever loved Oliver Wood and I know you have something to do with his disappearance and death."

"Potter," Blaise said standing up from his wife. "I will not allow you to humiliate me and my wife at our wedding reception."

"You are a Death Eater and some how you have hypnotized my baby sister into thinking you are a good guy and into marrying you. In fact she only married you because you were the first person to ask her since Oliver died."

"Harry James Potter!" Bridget stood up with tears rolling down her face, "That is it! Never and I mean never try to contact me again. You are dead to me."

"Bridget!" Harry tried to protest.

"You will not do this to me, I have no brother. Blaise let's go, we are married and I will not sit here and hear the both of us being disrespected by this man I have never met."


Bridget and Blaise Zambini were in the Bahamas for a month on their Honeymoon, and they had decided to stay in the tourist part of town, which meant Muggles. Which meant they were cut off from the Wizarding world. Bridget had told her family not to contact her at all unless someone in the family died, excluding Harry.


A Death Eater had just left from torturing Oliver Wood, Autumn was not doing her daily duty because she was pregnant again with the spawn of Neville Longbottom and had been very ill. Neville was committing mayhem with all of the Death Eaters out of his inner circle, minus Blaise Zambini who was probably on his Honeymoon with Bridget now. That stung Oliver to the heart, she was married now and there was nothing he could do about it.

Oliver had not been chained up in a while, it didn't amuse Autumn anymore. Once Oliver didn't hear anymore footsteps and saw that the door was still ajar, he knew this was his only chance to escape alive.

Oliver snuck out of his dungeon room and looked around and used his cunning hearing. He knew that security would be really low tonight because of the big raid today to celebrate Bridget marrying Blaise. Step one in their sick plan had started. They were going to eventually turn her against her family where she would not speak to any of them and once she thought they hated her, Blaise would show his true colors and keep her captive.

Oliver's Auror training come in handy as he was getting closer and closer to the exit. Turning down corridors and once he was almost there he felt his heart rise into his throat and had to go and hide in what looked like an empty cell.

Autumn was not obviously feeling too ill today as she had just come down the stairs to play her favorite game, torture Oliver. The walk was another five minutes to his cell, as he was in the very far back and Oliver was almost at the exit. Behind Oliver he heard an exhale.

Oliver's heart rose into his throat as he turned around to see a person he never expected to see. "You!"

"Yes me," he said smiling from ear to ear.

"You are suppose to be dead."

"Yes," the guy nodded. "As are you."

"But…but…"

"I know it has been a while, but I have been here since before Harry brought Voldemort down. Because of that I got horrible torture for a while."

"Well is she…"

"Yes she is in fact dead, he had to kill her in front of me. He never really killed me, but just took me captive and gave me to Voldemort. I have been here since then."

"But…but you have been here for three years now."

"Unfortunately I have, look we will have to talk about all of this later on. We have to get out of here before she knows you are gone."

"Yes she should know any moment now."

"You know the way out of here?"

"Of course I do."

"Why aren't you locked up?"

"The guard got sick right before he was going to lock me up."

There was a scream in the background.

"She knows," the man said.

"Yeah."

"We have got to get out of here."

Oliver and the man began to run down the corridor to their freedom and before they left the man grabbed something but Oliver didn't have time to look and see what it was.

Once they were out of the fortress Oliver turned to the man, "How are we to get out of here now? Yes we are out of there, but they will eventually know we are out on the grounds and come for us. We have no wand, portkey, or Floo Powder."

"The guard dropped this as he got sick," the man said pulling a wand out of his pocket. "Hold on to me and we will apparate out of here."

"Brilliant idea!"

"I would not be out here if it was not for you, we should go see Dumbledore he will help us out."

"Dumbledore is dead, but we can go see the Minister he will know what to do."

"Who is the Minister of Magic now?"

"Arthur Weasley."


Arthur and Molly Weasley were only entertaining one guest and Arabella Black had left twenty minutes ago. Arabella had been telling them how she was still very terrified for Bridget's safety, especially now that she was married to Blaise Zambini.

Arthur and Molly Weasley were just about to go upstairs to bed when they heard a familiar, 'pop.'

"Someone just apparated in," Molly's eyes got wide as she whispered to her husband in the kitchen. The sound had come from their living room.

"Impossible," Arthur shook his head. "Only Ministry officials know all the complicated details to get here or family. It is too late for family to be here and the ministry would have contacted me via Floo Powder."

Something broke onto the floor and Molly's eyes lit up and Arthur told her to stay put as he went to check in on the other room.

Then she heard a scream…

"Arthur!" Molly screamed back as she ran into the room, "You would think you had seen a ghost."

"Make that two," Arthur said turning to his wife as she entered the room and she know knew why he had screamed.

"Merlin," she fell onto the couch. "How…how…"

"Exactly," Arthur nodded turning back to the two men standing before him. "How is it possible that Oliver Wood and Remus Lupin alive and standing in my living room?"