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Happy Surprises
"I want this in mural size! We can hang it up right there instead of that abstract painting!"
Harry handed her a mug of hot coco as he slid into bed beside her. The photos from the shoot earlier that day were spread out across the bed, and Ginny was laughing at his boxers photos.
"I hope you get these boxers." She giggled.
"They're in my car still, I think."
"Wow, these are so good."
"Thanks, I'll have you know that the entire team of stylists was eyeing me the entire time."
"Oh, you probably flirted with them." She muttered, laughing slightly.
"Hey, I actually told them that I was engaged."
"Because I care so much." She laughed, still absorbed in the photos.
"It's 'cause you know you're the only one for me." He gushed humorously, leaning over and kissing her on the cheek.
"Yeah, yeah. They were probably staring at your muscles."
"One had a thing for my scars. So, what did you do today?"
"I took a television to The Burrow today."
"How long did your dad stare at it?"
"He was beginning to drool when I left."
Harry laughed, sipping his coco. "I was thinking that maybe we could go on a little trip next weekend before my birthday."
"Where?" She looked up at him.
"My friend Dieter-from America, remember him? He owns a pretty little island in the Caribbean, and he's trying to sell it. I told him if he let us go there a few times and see how we like it, I'd buy it."
"An island?"
"Yeah, it's only like five by five miles, about a mile or two off the main island. I don't know what that is in kilometers, but still. Think you can get a day off of work even though it's only your first week?"
"I won't have to work Fridays. Harry, you want to buy an island?"
"Why not?"
"Isn't that expensive?"
"I dunno. And I really don't care." He shrugged.
"All right. When do you want to go?"
"I was thinking we'd leave Thursday after work and come back Sunday night."
"Sounds good." She grinned, eager for a vacation.
"Well, I'm going to bed, big day tomorrow." He kissed her before rolling over beneath the sheets.
"I love you."
"I love you too." He yawned.
Ginny smiled, shaking her head. She collected the photos and put them on her nightstand. She waved her wand, turning the lights out and rolled over beside her fiancé, finally feeling just how tired she was, and how excited she was for tomorrow.
***
The Weasley family was gathered in the living room. Ginny had arrived moments earlier, feeling that Harry would be fine without her, but her family wouldn't.
"Now, what is it that we have to watch about Sky?" Her father asked.
"Yeah and why is he going to be on muggle television?" Charlie asked, still there visiting his son.
"Because he's having an interview, because he's a musician in the muggle world." Hermione told them, having been informed of everything when she visited Harry and Ginny earlier that morning at the Manor with Ron.
"Musician, really? My future son-in-law's a musician?" Arthur wondered aloud, the only one among the family who remained relaxed about the situation.
"Look, Ginny, we better be finding out a lot about this guy in this interview, because if you're marrying him, we need to know who he really is." Bill had his daughter Michelle curled up in his lap.
"You will. And I want you to know that we actually dated in my fifth year at Hogwarts."
"What? He went to school with you?" George asked.
"It's on." Ginny turned the television on. The picture came up perfectly; Harry had done a series of complicated charms allowing it to work despite all the magic in the air.
A cheerful brunette appeared on the screen. She was sitting in a bright yellow armchair and in a matching chair beside her was Sky.
"Hi, I'm Meredith Wells, and I'm here with Sky, a new up-in-coming singer who has recently touched charts with his soon to be mega-hit Everything's Magic. Hello, Sky."
"Hi, Meredith."
"Is that…?" George asked, looking at the familiar raven-haired man on the screen.
"Now, you are brand-new to the music scene. Your album dropped less than a month ago and already you have paparazzi following you. How does it feel to be such an overnight success?"
"Well, at first it was a bit odd, but at this point, I'm kind of almost used to it. I mean, I'm fairly comfortable when it comes to being in front of a camera."
"Yes, you recently signed a deal with Run A Way Fashions, and you did a shoot just yesterday for them. We actually have a few photos that they sent us."
"Oh no." He laughed uneasily.
Ginny suddenly burst out laughing. "You might want to cover your children's eyes. They may not want to see Uncle Harry half naked."
"What?" Her mother burst out just as a photo showed up on the screen. It was one of Ginny's favorites, of him in the green boxer shorts.
The photo vanished and Harry was almost blushing. "My fiancé is probably laughing at home right now."
"Now why is that?" The host smiled.
"She says I'm too comfortable when the camera's in front of me, but when it comes time to talk about it I crawl into my shell." He told her, embarrassed slightly.
"Why, you are an excellent underwear model." Meredith laughed. "So, what brought about modeling? Do you plan on making it a bigger career?"
"No, it started out just being a typical shoot for posters, CDs, and stuff like that. Then Run A Way Fashions came to me and I just went with it."
"This is your first album, how do you feel about it and the songs on it?"
He sighed. "Well, each song is different. Everything's Magic is very up-beat, kind of love song. Then, there's Sweep The Nation, and Learning to Fall. I also really love Before it's Too Late, which is a perfect love song in my opinion. It's really an eclectic mix for me."
"What other music would you like to later explore possibly?"
"I'm open for anything, really. This being my first album, I really had no direction with it, and I think that my next one will either be harder rock or softer, more pop kind of music. I'm really just starting and don't know where this is going to take me."
"Well, you go on and explore, I'm sure we'll all love it. Now, we have a few questions here sent it by your fans."
"I have fans?" He asked, mocking shock.
"Of course." Meredith looked down at her index cards. "Casey from Surrey asks, Is Sky your real name, or is it a nickname, if so, then what is your real name?"
"I was waiting for this question. Yes, Sky is a nickname I got about four years ago, when I moved to America. My real name is Harry James Potter."
"It is Harry!" Charlie's mouth fell open.
George looked at his little sister. "You're engaged to Harry?"
Ginny held up the ring in response, and at that moment her mother burst into tears.
"Where did you grow up? This is from Henry of Manchester."
"I grew up in Little Whinging, Surrey, with my aunt, uncle and cousin." Harry answered thoughtfully. "But I went to a boarding school in Scotland from once I turned eleven and I went there until I was seventeen and graduated."
"The next question is from Heather of London. I recently saw you live in concert and noticed that you have 'Teddy' tattooed on your wrist, who is Teddy and why did you tattoo his name?"
Harry held out his wrist, showing it to the host and the camera which zoomed in on it. "Teddy is actually my godson. He's about four years old."
"That's wonderful. We have one last question from Jenny of London. What inspires you the most in life?"
"Er, I dunno. My fiancé, Ginny, obviously. My family and just my past experiences, such as school and friends, things like that."
Meredith smiled. "That's all the time we have for now, but up next, Sky, or should I say Harry will be performing his song Sweep the Nation."
A commercial came on and Ginny muted it. "He went to America?" Her mother cried.
"And played Quidditch for four years." Ron muttered.
"So you talked some sense into him when you all found him at the camp?" Bill asked.
"Ginny was the only one that knew for a while, then Hermione found out and I found out the night before we came back." Ron told them.
"Why didn't you know?" George asked, surprised.
"The prat had goggles or sunglasses on all the time and he never took that bandana off. How was I supposed to know? Ginny only knew because she went home with him the first night at that club."
"Ronald." Ginny gave her brother a glare that immediately silenced him.
"I knew he wasn't dead, but still, it's a relief to know that he's okay, you know?" Charlie said.
"And a relief to know our sister wasn't crazy. So you and Harry dated when you were in school?" Bill asked.
Ron snorted, "They were snogging in her room the day before your wedding. And I'm sure that wasn't the only time. Even though they claimed they were broken up and yet I find them snogging, again. You know, it was bad enough to see you doing it all over Hogwarts, but really-"
Ginny stood up, facing her brother. "One, Ron, we were not snogging all summer, thank you very much, it was just on his birthday." She smirked. "Second, yes we were broken up, but that doesn't mean we didn't still have feelings for each other. We only broke up because he was too busy with Voldemort and was too noble to put me in harms way, which was the stupidest things I had ever heard in my life. And third, we did not snog all over Hogwarts. It is not my fault that you have a bad track record when it comes to walking in on me."
"It started with catching you with Corner-"
"Michael and I weren't even kissing!"
"Then it was Dean, which apparently just made Harry sit in his bed all night trying not to rip Dean limb from limb. Then you two don't even tell me you fancy each other and you just start snogging in front of the entire Gryffindor House-"
"Hey, Harry hadn't even told me! I was going to give him a hug!"
"That was not a hug!"
"No, it certainly wasn't." They were both standing up, facing each other.
"Then the rest of the year everywhere I look you two are snogging or going off to snog, or coming back from snogging-"
"Just because you tended to walk into deserted corridors and classrooms-"
"I asked you to not do it in public-"
"We were not doing it in public!"
"I don't like thinking of my baby sister doing things with my best mate." Ron told her.
"Wanna know what we do together now, huh?" Ron's eyes went wide and his ears turned bright red.
"That's what I thought."
She flipped her hair over her shoulder and sat back down, un-muting the television for Harry's performance, and ignoring the looks her family was currently exchanging.
"And now, here's Sky with Sweep the Nation!" The announcer shouted.
Ginny smiled at the screen as Harry appeared with his guitar. She glanced and saw most of her family smiling. This was good, there was very little screaming and crying. She looked at her mother who had silent tears falling down her face. She knew it was only a matter of time before her mother would be surrounding her with flowers and fabric samples for the wedding, something Harry and Ginny hadn't even thought about yet.
Molly turned and saw her. She got up and sat beside her daughter, taking her hand and giving it a gentle squeeze. "My baby's getting married. I am so happy that it's Harry, Ginny."
"So am I." She whispered.
"Now, why wasn't I told about you two when this first started, hm? I am your mother and have a right to know when her fifteen year old daughter has a boyfriend."
Ginny rolled her eyes. "Mum…"
"No, you should have told me, Ginny."
"Just watch Harry, Mum." Ginny smiled at her mother, who kissed her forehead before directing her attention at her future son-in-law.
Ginny sighed, this was good. Everything was going well. And in Ginny's mind, they could only get better.
