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"So where were we?" Harry asked, sipping his tea.
"You were about to tell us about this mystery girlfriend of yours." Sirius chirped.
"Oh that!" Harry blushed again, Lily made an impatient noise and Harry blushed some more. This was really odd! He felt awkward telling his parents and grandparents and Godfather about the love of his life. Harry ducked his head, shaking it slightly before saying "Her name is Ginny Weasley."
"No way! Not Molly and Arthur's daughter, Ginny Weasley!" Sirius exclaimed "Merlin's pants! All of you stayed at Grimmauld place together. By the way, good choice Harry, that girl is spitfire." Sirius and Harry grinned at each other.
"I remember Molly and Arthur," his mother said thoughtfully "They had a son Harry's age, what was his name? Rupert?"
"Ron. His name is Ron, mum and he is my best friend. Actually more than my best friend, he stuck with me through everything. He is family now."
"So, Ginny is Ron's baby sister" James asked grinning.
"Didn't he attack you for stealing away his sister? Elder brothers are mighty protective."
"Dad, Ginny has 6- had 6 elder brothers, one died during the war. I have been threatened by all of them, and a second time as all of them felt that they had to threaten me on behalf of the sixth brother. And I survived. But it was pretty easy because they had already adopted me as family, so they weren't all that scary." Harry grinned.
"So what is she like?" Lily asked keenly.
"She is really great. No Sirius, I did not notice her till I was 16 and she was 15. I didn't even know I liked her. She had always been Ron's kid sister for me but then in sixth year, she started dating my dorm mate, and Ron and I found them kissing behind a tapestry as we returned from practice and I wanted to kill something. That's when I knew that I liked her. It took me a lot of time after that to ask her out."
"So, how did you ask her out? Your dad came up with the most ridiculous ideas to ask me out."
"I didn't ask her out, she is a chaser and I was the team captain. But I had detention during the quidditch finals and so I missed the game-"
"WHAT!" James, Sirius, Charlus yelled together.
"How can you miss the final match?
"I mean I agree that you had to be a troublemaker but couldn't you at least save it for after the match"
"How can my grandson be stupid enough to risk serving detention during the quidditch finals?"
"What were you thinking Harry?"
"Well, obviously Pads he wasn't thinking, even we were careful enough to steer clear off pranks near a match-"
"HEY!" Harry shouted, "I didn't do it on purpose alright! I didn't prank someone, I don't go getting into trouble; it usually finds me. I just did something really horrible, I will tell you later, and I deserved the punishment." Harry said looking ashamed. "Now should I continue?"
Sirius, his grandfather and father looked like they wanted to say a lot more on the subject but one look from Lily and Dorea silenced all of them. "Continue Harry" Dorea added kindly.
Harry shook his head "So, anyways, I missed it and served detention, Ginny played seeker instead of me and when I returned to the tower the fat lady wouldn't tell me what the outcome of the match was. Well, when I entered, the common room was alive and noisy. We had won the quidditch cup as well as the house cup." Harry grinned as James, Sirius and Charlus cheered, Lily and Dorea rolled their eyes but smiled fondly.
"Well, there I was standing in the noise, and Ginny came running to hug me and I kissed her, in front of the entire house, I just kissed her." Harry said, covering his face with his hands and shaking his head in disbelief as Sirius and James wolf whistled, Lily smacked James' arm, Charlus looked on amused and Dorea shook her head.
"Well moral of the story is, that after that we just started going out. Though I had to end it at the end of the year, after Dumbledore's funeral because I was going on a mission and I needed to protect her. We got together a month after the war. She is going back to school in September. The castle is still being renovated but it should be functional by then."
"So, she waited for you through the war?" Lily asked; Harry nodded.
"And you haven't taken her out on a date yet?" Harry shook his head "Well, I never had to. She is not really into Madam Puddifoot's; in fact she hates it more than I do."
Dorea made a sound which was somewhere between exasperation and annoyance. Lily exchanged a look with her and shook her head.
"Harry James Potter! Here is an amazing girl who readily sat out an entire war, hoping, believing, praying that the two of you would have a happy ending. You have been in a relationship with her for a total of 6 months or more and you haven't taken her out on a date yet? You are worse than James when it comes to women."
"But mum-"
"No, don't you dare mum me. This is no way to treat your girlfriend."
"You know I used to own the Dragon Fire restaurant, I think a friend of mine is running it now, I am sure she would be happy to reserve a table for you"
"We still own the restaurant Grandma. The current manager, Mr. Shelby has offered to permanently reserve a table under my name."
"Well that's settled then, you can take her for a date there"
Harry gaped at his grandmother and smiled, "That's a great idea Grandma, thanks."
"Harry, buy her a pretty dress, and some jewellery to go with it, we have a lot of jewellery in the vault and here in the Manor too, and you can match it with the dress and gift it to her. All of it would be hers anyhow, should you choose to marry her. Treat her like the princess she is Harry." His mother said. Harry smiled.
"And Harry if it's not too much to ask, I would like to meet her. Not today or tomorrow but before she goes back to school. Think that would be okay for you?"
"Sure mum, anything." Harry checked his watch, the watch that once belonged to Fabian Prewett. It was almost 5:00. He got up reluctantly. "Ugh Mum, Dad, I should get going. I am currently staying at the Burrow with the Weasleys, they will get worried. I will come back tomorrow and tell you about everything."
"So, how do you plan on going back Harry?" His father asked
"Umm… probably walk out of the perimeter and apparate from there."
"You are a Potter, the anti apparition wards are for non-family people. You can apparate in and out of the Manor at will, you are Lord Potter now. I would however suggest, getting a floo connection with the Burrow. You can go straight to the ministry from here; put in an application to connect the floo network with the Burrow. It shouldn't take more than a few hours, you can apply today and it would be done by tomorrow."
"Okay, I will see you tomorrow then. I will be here after breakfast."
"We will wait for you; Harry."
"I am looking forward to seeing you again too. Love you all"
And with that Harry turned on the spot, leaving behind a soft pop.
AN: I could end the story here or continue writing about the tour of the Manor, Ginny meeting everyone else, Harry's wedding and about the next gen, till we reach the epilogue mentioned in Deathly Hallows. Please give me your opinions and ideas on what is it that you want. I will wait for a week, because I need time to write further chapters, if I don't get any response. I will end the story here.
Hope you enjoy reading it. Read and Review please. Happy Reading.