Chapter eleven, The Showers
When Ginny and Hermione came home, Molly quickly herded them upstairs and told them
"DO NOT COME DOWN UNTIL I SEND FOR YOU!"
Of course Hermione and Ginny were suspicious and both had questioning looks on their faces, one of the unspoken rules at The Burrow was, if Molly tells you to do something you do it.
As the girls sat up in Ginny's bedroom, George took his mom to the side and said,
"Mum, I invited one of my own friends to the shower. I hope that's okay."
Molly replied, absent mindedly,
"Yes, yes. Uh that's great, can you grab a couple more chairs, and place some of Ron's old toys in the corner? You know, the toys from when you were little? Their for little Teddy to play with during the party."
In a few minutes all the guests started to arrive and they were greeted with the normal burrow living room, but everything had been moved so that everything faced the old brown couch which Molly had changed to be a lovely cream white and set in front of the couch was a rectangular shaped table with a tablecloth that was half white half cream pink, and this was where Ginny and Hermione would sit. To the left of the couch was a recliner for Ron to sit in. There were four tables to sit at, the first two tables had a creamy pink table cloth on them, another table had a baby pink table cloth, and the fourth table had a baby blue table cloth on it.
After everyone had sat down, Molly stood up in front of all the guests and said,
"Okay, well, Hermione and Ginny are upstairs, and remember, they don't know that you are all here, so be quiet!"
Then Molly sent Ron upstairs to get the girls. When Ron got up to Ginny's bedroom, the door was closed, so he knocked a few times, Ginny opened the door. Neither person spoke, as had been the norm between the two since Ron's big blow up at the news of Ginny's pregnancy. Then Hermione broke the silence by saying,
"Ron, isn't there something you wanted to say to Ginny?"
"Yah." He mumbled in reply. "I'm sorry that I burst out like that. It's just that he was my best mate, and you, your my little sister," turning to Hermione "Did I say it right?" he asked unsure of himself.
"Yes." She said with exasperation. To Ginny she said "Uhh, their like children!" she said as she playfully hit Ron.
"Well, uh, mum wants you guys down stairs, uh something about the table settings at the wedding or something." Ron told the girls.
As the three came down the stairs Hermione was saying to Ginny, "I don't understand the confusion, the colours are light pink and cream. I already agree with Molly that I wanted light pink wizard hats with cream trimming and a matching wand."
"Well" started Ron. "I guess they…"
As he started to say this they reached the living room and Ron was interrupted by all of the guests shouting
"Surprise!"
As the group shouted this both Ginny and Hermione reached for their nonexistent wands, pointed their "air wands" at the crowd and Hermione shouted
"Duro!" while Ginny shouted,
"Bombarda!"
George burst out laughing and fell to the floor.
"IT WAS REALLY NOT THAT FUNNY GEORGE!" shouted Ginny.
"I MEAN THOSE SPELLS COULD HAVE INJURED EVERY ONE, AND THEN I WOULD NOT HAVE ANY ONE FOR MY WEDDING ENTOURAGE!" ended Hermione.
This just made Ron start to laugh.
"Your wedding?!" Ron squeaked out between bursts of laughter. "And that's the worst thing that could happen in this situation right?!"
At this Molly foresaw a large argument, and cut in saying
"Ron why don't you show Hermione and your sister the special couch up front?"
After the three guests of honor had sat down Molly again stood front and center, explaining what would happen next.
"As you may know, Ginny is pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. Ginny, Hermione and I have selected several names, but we need your help selecting the middle names. The names we have chosen suitable for the girl are; Minerva, Amy, Mae and Nymphadora. For boys names we have chosen; James, Albus, Harry and Arthur."
At this time, Madame Maxime, or Olympe, asked "Vat vill be the babies' virst names?"
Ginny stepped in to answer, "I've decided on Molly and Fredrick,"
In response to this Molly burst out in tears, as she was not aware of this decision before.
"Dear goodness, I, I, I don't Know what to say!" Said Molly.
At this statement everyone in the room burst out laughing as this had never happened before.
In the middle of this laughter and chattering, there was a loud crack coming from the middle of the room. There was a hush across the room as a boy with scraggily black hair appeared in the place were the sound had come from.
"Hello mates!" Said Harry, as if he could save the world, disappear for 6 months and then come back with no explanation.
As everyone surrounded Harry, there was much talk. Ron went up to Harry to say,
"Where the bloody hell were you?!" and without waiting for an answer, "Really mate, my sister? You know you could have done so much better. You know mate, she snores, she can't cook and she's partially crazy!"
As Ron said this George popped up and said "She's only crazy cause you (gesturing to Ron) dropped her on her head when she was a baby! So where have you really been Harry?"
But Harry wasn't able to answer that either because right at that minute Hagrid had picked Harry up and looked like he might not let him go, till Molly came over and yelled at Hagrid that if he didn't set Harry down he would suffocate, which was funny because as soon as Hagrid set Harry safely back on the ground Molly swept Harry into a bear hug that was equally as crushing. As soon as Molly let go of Harry, Hermione was there yelling at him, saying
"Now that you're here, Ron is going to want you to be his best man, and I'm going to have to rearrange EVERYTHING!"
As Harry was saying, "Wait, you and Ron are en-"
Ginny pushed Hermione aside and gave Harry a long passionate kiss, then almost robotic like; she jerked away from him and slapped him on the face.
"WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE ME, EVERYONE, LIKE THAT!? WE ALL THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD, KILLED BY VOLDEMORT!" at this word everyone still flinched.
Ginny then hugged Harry, and then again she jerked back saying,
"We all deserve an explanation as to why we thought you were dead!"
Then Molly came up to suggest that everyone sat down and let Harry answer these questions one at a time.
So they all sat down, and Harry began to tell his story.
"Well, I guess I should start when I killed Lord Voldemort. So after I killed him, I realized that it would probably take awhile for all the death eaters to be caught, and until they were all in Azkaban it wouldn't be safe for me, so I went into hiding. So I went to live in the muggle world of America, but of course I could only stay in one place for awhile and then I'd have to move, so I lived in this very remote place called the state of Texas for a couple weeks till I forgot were I was and used magic to pour myself some tea and then I moved to Alaska. I stayed in Alaska the longest, and I thought I was pretty safe until I saw some people kill an Eskimo with the killing curse, so I hightailed it out of there before they found me."
At this remark, everyone looked at Harry unsure of that, and his reply
"I'm sorry, I picked up some American terms while I was there, it just means that I left fast."
"After Alaska I lived in Toledo Ohio for awhile, and then George wrote me to say I was going to be a father, so here I am!"
At hearing this Ginny got up and quickly waddled over to George with her arms outstretched as if to strangle him, as she screamed,
"YOU KNEW THIS WHOLE TIME AND DID NOT TELL ME!"
As Ginny was yelling this, George ran to Molly and stood behind her as if trying to hid and pleaded,
"Mum, please protect me!"