CHAPTER 9: Escape from the Burrow
Ginny heard a door upstairs open, so she opened her bedroom door and moved out onto the landing just as Harry came down the stairs. At seeing each other, gentle smiles and blushes touched their faces.
"I need a hand Harry" and Ginny turned her back to him, revealing to Harry her exposed back. The zip on her dress was all the way down. "Can you do me up? Hermione's busy doing her make-up."
"Sure Gin". Harry moved close to her, but before closing her dress Harry gently ran his fingers down her back, leant forward and kissed between her shoulders and up to her neck.
Ginny, taken by surprise at Harry's gentle act of love, let out a gasp and then a quiet sigh.
"Harry, you'll…..you'll start me off again. We haven't got the time to…"
"Time to what little sister?
Ginny and Harry jumped at the sound of George's voice. He had also come down the stairs behind Harry but much quieter. They had not heard him. Harry immediately moved away from Ginny, his hands dropping to his side.
"George! Oh, I was…..I was….."
"Huh! George…I…I…oh, I was just getting Harry to zip my dress up. It….It was stuck. I..I..didn't want to make it worse" stammered Ginny, both and Harry blushing furiously.
George had a mischievious grin on his face and was rolling his eyes at them.
"Oh. THAT'S what you were doing, Harry. Obviously a new method of sorting a stuck zip out that I haven't heard about. Licking and kissing the ladies back first! Need to try that one on Angelina, see if it works! I wonder if she would have the time for…..whatever it is that you haven't got the time for Gin?", as he laughed and bobbed his head side to side with a silly look on his face. Although both going red again, even Ginny and Harry had to smile at the comical expression.
"George, I….I…."
"It's all right Harry." Said a suddenly serious George. "And no problems from me, you two. Or from Fred either. This is yours and Ginny's stuff. We are not Ron. But a word of warning. I wouldn't let Ron or mum and dad catch you. They might let you get away with a strawberry jam covered kiss at a party but they would hit the roof at you getting touchy-feely on the stairs!... Or in the bathroom?!" George had a wicked, all-knowing grin on his face. "And on that note, I will leave you two love-birds to…..fix a stuck zip! Bye"
As George left them, the two young lovers looked at his back and then in shock at each other.
"Ginny, did I just hear right, that he…."
"Harry! He knows, George knows. About us. He….He….But how?" Then they jumped again as yet another voice, very similar to the first, cut in.
"Ah, amazing what magical listening ears can detect" as Fred walked by them, "illicit goings on all over the place. Terrible, terrible. Very naughty indeed. Good job that running water masks a lot of the sound." Fred then stopped walking past them and turned, looking at them both. "But another word of warning, Ginny and young Harrikins, from a well behaved big brother who never gets into mischief. Running water didn't mask ALL the sound. Be careful you two. No more here at the Burrow, ok?" And he gave them a stern look. Not getting an instant reply, he repeated, "I said, ok?"
Harry and Ginny, highly embarrassed, both nodded.
"F….Fred.."
"George and I switched the ears off very quickly, Ginny. We did not listen in. Even we two would not do that to you both. What's private is private. Let's just say that we will leave it at you too having a lark around in the shower, as friends sometimes do. OK? Now, if it had been Ron in there….Well..! Oh, we did switch the ears back on when we heard the two girls giggling and laughing. Sounds like they are BOTH impressed with you Harry!"
Ginny giggled and Harry blushed bright pink.
"And you still haven't fixed the stuck zip, By!"
Ginny and Harry looked at each other in amazement.
"Did I just hear what I thought I heard?" asked Ginny. "Both the twins…. what has happened between us….they know about us but have ok'd it? They are good with it!"
"Yeah,….I think so Ginny..but just not here. And they only know a little bit about us in the shower this morning, not yesterday. I..I think they'll be alright".
"And I thought I was being careful" sighed Ginny. "I can't get away with bugger all in this house. Too many bloody brothers!"
Harry replied quietly, "Well, like you said yesterday, at least I am not a brother. Now let me go back to doing that zip!"
A touch of the back, a zzzzzzip, and a kiss later, and they made their way downstairs for the wedding day.
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The guests stared then gasped in fear as Kingsley Shacklebolt's deep voice echoed from the panther patronus: "THE MINISTRY HAS FALLEN. SCRIMGEOUR IS DEAD. THEY ARE COMING".
As the Death Eaters arrived, Hermione grabbed Harry and Ron and apparated away.
"HARRY!" was all Ginny could shout as she was then grabbed by Bill and Fleur Weasley and she too was apparated away.
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