This one is pretty fluffy b/c thats how I roll. :P A couple of people have asked me where I got Aurum from in Madam Aurum. In Latin, Aurum means gold.
After going through darkness Harry felt his feet hit solid ground. When he opened his eyes, he saw Ginny smiling back at him still holding his hands. She let go and threw her arms around him. They only had seconds to enjoy the embrace before.
BANG
Harry and Ginny looked at the burrow wondering what was happening. But as both of them were withdrawing their wands and about to run forward, they got their answer.
George had set off a large amount of fireworks from the joke shop.
Red, blue, purple and gold creatures were dancing in the air.
Evidently, George had been outside waiting for their arrival.
At the sound of the fireworks going off everyone started pouring out of the front door. Harry and Ginny stuck their wands back in their robes and started making their way towards the approaching crowd.
The whole Weasley family and Hermione were there. Everyone stopped in front of Harry and Ginny, beaming.
"Well?" George said.
Ginny smiled, looked at Harry and held out her left hand.
Instantly the two of them were wrapped into several arms.
Everyone was hugging them, and hugging each other. Bill, Percy and Charlie were shooting red sparks in the air with their wands.
Fleur was bouncing Victoire in the air. Mrs. Weasley was hugging Harry so tight he thought his lungs would collapse, while Hermione and Ron were kissing.
"Congratulations" said George hugging Ginny.
"Now, we'll be expecting plenty of children from the both of you."
"George! Harry's only just asked me, we haven't even got that far!"
But to her mind came the image of her and Harry sitting on a couch playing with a baby, she shook her head laughing and hugged George again.
"Well now, this calls for a celebration!" said Mr. Weasley.
Everyone made their way back to the house where Bill summoned several glasses and poured a hefty measure of mead in each. He waived his wand and all the glasses went flying in to everyone's awaiting hands.
"To Harry and Ginny" said Mr. Weasley, raising his glass.
"To Harry and Ginny." Everyone repeated.
They all drank, smiling through their glasses. After downing several bottles of mead, everyone went to work on setting up the tables outside in the garden, while Mrs. Weasley and Fleur started working on dinner.
"Harry, do you want me to send an owl to Hagrid to invite him to dinner tonight?" asked Ron placing chairs under the tables.
"Sure" said Harry.
"Well, I'll go get Pig and be right back." said Ron.
He returned a few minutes later with a roll of parchment and a very excited Pig. He scrawled a few lines, rolled it up and attached it to the owl's leg.
"Take this to Hagrid." He said. The owl hooted and fluttered away.
"Hopefully he doesn't get lost." said Ron.
When they finished with the tables it was mid afternoon.
"Do you want to play a game of Quidditch?' asked Ginny.
"Yea" said Harry, Ron and Hermione.
Harry went and got four brooms from the shed, while Ron got the Quidditch set.
They walked to a nearby valley so they wouldn't be seen by nearby muggle's.
Harry and Ron set up the pitch while Ginny and Hermione were talking about Ginny's ring.
"You and Hermione against me and Ginny." said Ron when he and Harry had finished.
"Okay" said Harry.
Hermione, Ginny and Harry mounted their brooms and kicked off, while Ron released the Snitch.
He placed the quaffle on the ground, directly under the three of them.
"Now we're going to play a nice clean game, no kicking, no hitting, and no hair pulling-- or snogging" he added looking at Harry and Ginny.
"You've been out of the loop a long time Mr. Potter." said Ginny smiling.
"Just don't be too sad, when I beat you."
"HA!" said Harry. "We'll see."
Ron mounted his broom, pointed his wand at the quaffle, mouthed a charm and kicked off to join them.
With then seconds the quaffle jumped off the ground and in to the air. Ginny caught it and headed towards her and Ron's end of the pitch, she threw the ball towards the hoop. But out of nowhere Harry flew up and blocked it, passing the ball to Hermione.
"I'm not that out of the loop." He said looking at Ginny.
She just shook her head laughing and followed suit.
They played for a better part of an hour before; at last Harry saw it fluttering at the opposite end of the pitch.
He took off chasing it; Ginny saw it too and was only a millisecond behind him.
They raced side by side, looking straight ahead at the prize. Then for some reason, Harry took his eye off the snitch and looked at Ginny.
He smiled, her hair was blowing in the wind and he could smell her flowery sent. Lost in the moment he completely forgot what he was after, until he heard Ginny shout.
"I've got it!"
They flew to the ground and dismounted their brooms.
"I told you I would beat you Potter." said Ginny.
"That you did." said Harry, but he knew if he hadn't got side tracked he would have gotten it instead.
"Ron, what do you think we should make the losers do?" asked Ginny.
"Hummm" said Ron, scratching his chin with his finger.
He was about to say his answer, but then he saw Hermione with her hands on her hips raising her eyebrows. "Nothing" he said quickly.
They packed up everything and headed back to the burrow, the sun was just starting to set when they reached the garden.
"Alright there 'Arry?" asked Hagrid.
"Never better." said Harry, giving Hagrid a hug.
"I can't b-believe you're getting married. Seems like only yesterday I delivered your Hogwarts l-letter." Sobbed Hagrid, dabbing his eyes with one of his table cloth sized handkerchiefs.
"Yea, time has flown by." said Harry.
"Is everyone ready to eat?" asked Mrs. Weasley, from the kitchen window.
"Yea" They responded back.
Mrs. Weasley laid the table with the feast she cooked and everyone sat down and began filling their plates.
"Have ze two of you picked a date for ze wedding?" asked Fleur.
"Not yet." said Ginny. "But I was thinking about sometime this spring. What you think Harry?"
Harry finished chewing his chicken and said. "That sounds fine with me. That should give us plenty of time to plan."
"I think a spring wedding will be lovely." said Hermione.
"Have the two of you thought about where you would like to hold the ceremony?" asked Mrs. Weasley.
"Probably right here mum." answered Ginny. And Harry gave an approving nod.
"The Orchard will be lovely in the spring time. I'm sure it will be beautiful." said Mrs. Weasley.
"Whose owl is that?" asked Ron, pointing at the sky.
"Looks like the ones who bring the Daily Prophet. said George.
The owl zoomed down, dropped its delivery on the table and stuck out its leg for payment. Mr. Weasley put a Knut in its little pouch and the owl flew away.
He opened the copy of the evening edition of the Daily Prophet and chuckled.
"Looks like the secret is out." He said, passing the paper around the table.
When it finally reached Harry, he saw a picture of him and Ginny with their arms around each other on the front page. The headline above the picture read:
The boy who lived, to wed.
He scanned down underneath to read the article.
Your Daily prophet can confirm that Harry Potter, the boy who defeated He-who-must-not-be-named. Has asked Ginny Weasley, daughter of Arthur and Molly Weasley for her hand in marriage. Our source tells us that he asked Ms. Weasley earlier this afternoon. Mr. Potter was also spotted in Diagon Ally yesterday coming out of Madam Aurum's carrying a ring box with his friend Hermione Granger. Though the couple has not made a formal announcement,Rest assure that our source is reliable. Mr. Potter has been involved with Ms. Weasley since his days at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. We at the prophet wish Mr. Potter and Ms. Weasley good luck and offer our congratulations.
"So that's what you and Hermione were doing yesterday" said Ginny laughing "I knew Hermione wasn't buying a broom."
"Yea and you almost caught us." said Harry, laughing himself."I can't do anything, without it making the front page."
"Well, you only overthrew Voldemort countless times and survived. Rescued me from the chamber of secrets and saved the wizarding world so many times I've lost count. And single handily defeated Voldemort. Oh and you survived the killing curse twice."
"Well if you put it that way." said Harry, grinning.
Night fully engulfed the burrow, so Mr. Weasley lit the lamps that were floating in midair with his wand.
Mrs. Weasley brought out cake and everyone tucked in to it.
"Mum this is great." said Ron, through mouthfuls of cake.
Hermione just shook her head at him.
After everyone was finished eating, they started cleaning up. Ginny and Harry went to pick up dishes but Mrs. Weasley stopped them.
"You two, go for a walk. I'm sure you have some things to discuss."
So they said good-bye to Hagrid and marched off through the orchard.
They found a nice moon lit spot under a tree and they sat down.
Ginny leaned against Harry and he wrapped his arms around her. For a while they just sat there just enjoying each other's company.
"Harry" said Ginny, breaking the stillness.
"Can I ask you something?"
"Anything" he said.
"When did you actually start liking me?"
"I don't know" he said. "I think I liked you for a while. I just never realized it until that day me and Ron caught you and Dean Kissing. When I saw him kissing you, it took all of my power not to jinx him."
Ginny laughed.
"You know how you told me earlier, that the day I kissed you, was the day I changed your life."
"Yea" Harry said.
"Well you changed my life that day too. Because the moment your lips touched mine, I've felt like I was complete."
She sat up straighter and looked him dead in the eyes.
"When you, Ron and Hermione were gone looking for the Horcruxes, and things were getting really bad with the death eaters. All I would have to do is curl up on my bed, think of you, and all would seem better."
Ginny had never shared this piece of information with Harry. Neither one of them had talked about the past with each other; all they had done so far was to look to the future.
"I thought about you a lot while I was gone too." said Harry.
"A lot of times I would take out the Marauders Map just to stare at your dot. When I found out that you had gotten caught trying to steal Gryffindor's sword I almost went crazy hoping that you were alright."
Harry closed his eyes thinking of the moment he thought he was about to die.
"When I walked in to that Forrest and I thought I was about to die, the last thing that I thought of before Voldemort hit me with the killing curse, was you. You were all I could think about."
Harry had never told a living soul that.
He had told Ron and Hermione what had happened, but not what he was thinking of.
Ginny looked up in to his eyes, Harry could see that they were filled with tears.
He reached up and placed both of his thumbs under her eyes and wiped them away.
"That part of our lives is gone forever. All we need to do is look forward" Harry said lifting her chin with his hand.
He leaned in and began kissing her.
Ginny reached up and placed her hands around his neck pulling him closer to her. Harry responded by wrapping his arms around her back.
As he did this Ginny leaned back, pulling him on top of her.
They kissed for several minutes before Ginny broke their lips apart.
"I love you Harry Potter." she said. "I love you too Ginny Wea--"He stopped. "Potter"
Ginny smiled.
Harry lifted himself up and pulled Ginny in to an embrace as he leaned against the tree.
"So what month do you want to have the wedding?" Harry asked her.
"I think in April. That way it won't be too hot or too cold."
They sat there for three hours talking about plans for the wedding.
Until finally Ginny felt asleep wrapped in his arms, Harry moved so that he could get his arms under her back and legs. He lifted her up and carried her back to the burrow.
