Chapter Twenty One - Anniversary and Recollection
Just gone lunchtime the next day, everyone was fully packed and ready to head off back home. The whole group was so sad to leave the island they had called home for the past week, but they were also looking forward to getting back to their homes, as some in particular were very keen on being apart from their siblings after a week of total mayhem.
"Can I just say before we all leave" Harry said to the group aloud as they had just gathered together in the apparition clearing "Thanks for such a brilliant birthday present. I've loved every second of being here with all of you."
Everyone smiled at him "You're most welcome Harry, it's fair to say I think we all enjoyed ourselves didn't we?" Mr. Weasley said aloud to the group who all made noises of agreement or nodded their heads. Mr. Weasley smiled "Certainly a holiday to remember" he glanced at his watch, "Okay portkey activated in ten seconds!" he called and everyone made sure they had a finger on the same translucent crystal they had used to arrive on the island.
The portkey activated and they all found themselves outside The Burrow in a matter of seconds. The group said warm goodbyes to eachother before they each apparated back to their own homes.
It was now well into the evening, almost getting dark, Harry and Hermione arrived inside 'Potter's Place' with Lily and deposited all their bags and luggage in the hallway.
"Right first of all!" Hermione said after handing Lily to Harry, "Got to get our clothes into the wash, unpack everything, then we can relax."
Harry bounced Lily gently and rolled his eyes at his wife, "Hermione why don't we have a drink or something first before doing all that?"
"It's alright Harry you can if you like; I want to get it all done now out of the way."
Harry smiled at her "Hermione Potter. Always organised."
"And what is wrong with that?" she asked teasingly.
"Nothing at all, I love the fact that you are organised. Somebody has to be around here."
"Well I'm glad to hear it" she said with a grin and kissed him briefly.
So Hermione got herself busy putting all the washing on, Harry made a cup of tea and chilled out in front of the television. Lily was now having, what would have been, her afternoon nap. But as it was gone 7:00pm she would now hopefully sleep till at least 10:00pm.
"You know this time difference is going to really confuse her" Hermione said warily as she glanced down at Lily in the bassinet, "Looks like we might be in for a few restless nights till she gets back into her normal routine again."
Harry nodded "Yeah more than likely. Hey least I get tomorrow off work, I have to adjust too."
Hermione giggled "Great! You can help me with the housework then."
Harry raised his eyebrows in alarm "Oh please no!"
Hermione rolled her eyes "Men honestly!" she grinned "Don't worry we won't be doing any housework, my parents are coming over in the afternoon, you remember."
"Oh yeah of course! Great, me and your dad can go to the pub in the village and have a beer!" he said excitedly.
"Not if my mum has anything to do with it!" Hermione responded with a laugh. Harry laughed too and shook his head.
"Actually I'll just call them to let them know we are back home, and then I think I'll go have a bath."
"Might join you if your lucky" Harry replied cheekily.
Hermione giggled and left the room.
After Hermione had made a phone call to her parents, both her and Harry had a bath, got themselves dried and changed into pyjamas.
"You know I am not the least bit tired" Hermione said to Harry as she laid Lily down in her cot in the nursery.
"Yeah me neither" he replied "So what do you fancy doing?"
Hermione gave a last look at Lily asleep, before taking Harry's hand and they went into their bedroom.
"Let's just talk" Hermione said simply as she got into bed.
"Talk?" Harry asked, before giving it some thought "Yeah…suppose we could. Anything in particular you want to talk about?"
Hermione shook her head "No not really, just anything and everything!"
Harry got under the covers next to her "Alright" he said "Umm well … let's start from the beginning, tell me about you Hermione."
Hermione gave a frown and a small laugh "Me? You know all about me."
Harry shook his head in disagreement "Actually I don't really, yeah I know most things, but not stuff about your childhood and what you were like growing up, that kind of stuff."
Hermione gazed at him attentively with a surprised smile "You - you would really like to know all that?"
Harry smiled and took her hands "Yeah of course I would! Go on tell me all about the young Hermione Granger."
Hermione smiled and looked very excited and eager to begin and so started to talk. Harry and Hermione talked for hours upon hours, sharing childhood secrets, dreams, stories and anything else they could think about. Harry certainly, learned so much more about Hermione that he had never known before. For instance, he never knew that her grandparents lived out in Australia and he also never really understood Hermione's fascination with books until now.
"They were my escape route" Hermione said openly "I could just read and read and I just felt like I was in another world and all my problems were too far away to reach" Hermione said beginning to look sad. "I never had any friends when I was younger" she admitted tentatively "I mean there was this one girl, Molly her name was, we were sort of friends for about a year but then she moved away and we lost touch." Harry could tell Hermione was beginning to get upset. "They used to bully me Harry" Hermione said miserably "All the kids in my class at primary school, none of them liked me. I was always the girl left on my own in the playground" she said tears now falling down her face "I had no one to talk to, no one to have fun with, I just hated it. I wanted more than anything to be friends with someone!"
She burst into tears and Harry hugged her tightly to him, and rubbed her back as he shushed her calmly. Forcing himself to hold back his own tears, which were threatening to show at hearing this confession.
Hermione cried into his chest for a few minutes, before leaning out of the hug and looked at him with still watery eyes. "I used to cry myself to sleep some nights; I felt that unhappy" she admitted as she took Harry's hands again "I've never told anyone that, not even my parents."
"Why?" Harry asked softly.
"Too ashamed, embarrassed, I don't know." She gave a shaky sigh "But as I got older it got slightly better" she said trying to perk herself up "I buried myself in my books and reading, I didn't care that the other kids called me the bookworm or whatever, as long as I had my books and of course my parents then I was somewhat happy."
She gave a very minute smile "All changed when I got to Hogwarts, I always knew there was something different about me, compared to all the other kids. I was so excited when I realised I was going to be learning about magic and getting to perform magical spells. I also thought that once I had got there that things would be different, that I would make friends straight away" she gave a short pause and looked at their linked hands "Got that slightly wrong."
Harry looked at her with a horrible feeling of guilt in his stomach "I'm so sorry Hermione" he said as he cupped her cheek and she gazed back up at him, "I'm so sorry for the way we treated you those first few months, it was uncalled for."
Hermione gave another smile "It's alright Harry, I forgave you many years ago for that, you saving me from that troll more than made up for it."
Harry grinned sheepishly "It was me you know" he admitted shyly "It was me who thought of sneaking off to rescue you from the troll."
Hermione's eyes widened in surprise "Really, how come you've never mentioned that to me before?"
Harry grinned, embarrassed "I don't know really, just never felt it mattered that much."
Hermione beamed and wrapped her arms around his neck "Well it matters to me" and she kissed him.
When they parted they smiled at eachother, "It's all different now" Harry said happily to her "You've got all these people around you who love you for who you are Hermione. You've got the Weasley's, Tonks, Lupin, Teddy, all your work colleagues, your parents and of course and most importantly you've got me and Lily."
Hermione beamed at him "Oh I know, I'm so lucky! And I'm grateful for each and every one of you, day after day."
Harry smiled "So you're feeling okay now, no more crying yeah?"
Hermione gave a giggle "Yeah no more crying, feeling so much better now."
Harry smiled with relief and cuddled her close to him.
They heard Lily begin to cry and Harry and Hermione laughed.
"I thought I said no more crying?" Harry said as Hermione got up off the bed.
She grinned "Hey she's like me; she's too stubborn to listen."
Harry laughed strongly and was still laughing when Hermione returned with an upset Lily in her arms. Harry immediately stopped.
"You think it's tea time don't you eh sweetheart" Hermione cooed to Lily and bounced her to try and quieten her. Hermione fed Lily and the baby calmed down considerably. Hermione walked around near the bed rubbing the baby's back, "Harry would you mind getting me a drink, I'm a bit thirsty."
"Yeah course" Harry said and rushed off downstairs, when he returned Hermione was in the nursery changing Lily.
"Here let me finish doing that and you can have your drink" Harry said as he handed Hermione the drink of water and he began to finish changing Lily.
"Thanks" Hermione said gratefully with a smile.
"She should sleep right through now" Hermione said as Harry placed Lily in the cot a few minutes later after he had rocked the baby to sleep.
"You say that now" Harry said with a grin as he watched Lily sleep.
Hermione laughed, came closer and rested her chin on his shoulder "Very true. I've gone and jinxed it now haven't I?"
Harry grinned as he turned around to face her "Yep you certainly have Hermione Potter" and kissed her cheek.
It was now gone 11:30pm and Harry and Hermione returned to bed, this time not to talk but to sleep, and sleep they did.
They didn't awaken until 10:05am the next morning; Lily had surprised them both by sleeping all the way through. The two of them got dressed, Hermione showing off her brilliant tan by wearing a white vest top and a denim skirt with flip flops, along with the silver locket.
Hermione sorted out the now completely washed, dried and ironed clothes that they had taken on holiday and put the things away in the wardrobe. All the other things were put away too, leaving the house exactly like it was before. Harry and Hermione ate a light lunch before Lily also had her feed.
"Oh your parents are here" Harry said as he glanced out of the living-room window and saw them get out of the car. Hermione put the burping cloth over her shoulder and laid Lily against her. Harry went to greet his in-laws. "Heya" Harry said happily.
"Hello Harry darling, how are you?" Joanna said as she hugged him.
"I'm very well thank you."
"Hiya son" David greeted enthusiastically.
"Hey David, you both okay?" he asked them.
"Smashing thanks" David replied.
"Great! Hermione's in the living-room go right on in" Harry instructed after shutting the door behind them.
Hermione was pacing the room rubbing Lily's back, but stopped when she saw her parents enter the room.
"Mum! Dad! It's so nice to see you!" she greeted brightly.
"And you darling! How's our gorgeous little grand-daughter?" David asked.
Hermione and Harry smiled "Yeah she's good, you can hold her in a minute just let me finish sorting her a second."
Her parents and Harry watched as Hermione carried on rubbing Lily's back.
"Did you guys have a nice holiday?" Harry asked David and Joanna.
"Oh yes it was lovely thanks. Fantastic weather, nice and relaxing" Joanna replied. Harry smiled. "Looks like you two had a good time aswell, you both look very tanned!" Joanna continued.
Hermione grinned "Oh yes it was fantastic! Had a brilliant time" she looked back at Lily "Ah good girl!" she used the cloth to clean Lily's face.
"Did she get me?" Hermione asked Harry who looked at the back of Hermione's shoulder and chuckled "Yeah she did, I'll clean that" he waved his wand and Hermione was completely sick free.
David and Joanna grinned "Messy business babies are aren't they?" David said.
Hermione grinned "Ah its nothing, we're both used to it. She's got sick on us so many times now I've lost count."
David laughed and Hermione kissed Lily's forehead "Okay which of you wants her?" Hermione asked cheerily towards her parents.
"Ooo me please darling" Joanna said keenly.
Hermione smiled "There you go sweetheart, look it's grandma!" she cooed to Lily as she placed her in Joanna's arms.
"Ooo hello my little darling! Haven't you gotten bigger eh?" she played with the baby's fingers "Me and grandad missed you while we were away; we brought you some nice presents."
Hermione and Harry smiled "Oh you didn't have to mum!" Hermione said.
"Well we wanted to. We want to spoil this little one rotten, yes we do" she cooed to Lily and looked back up at her daughter and Harry "We got you both something aswell."
"Oh that's so nice of you thanks. We got you both stuff too" Harry told them.
After the exchanging of holiday souvenirs which included a gorgeous little yellow dress for Lily, that had been especially hand-made. Hermione's parents showed them their holiday snaps, which in turn reminded Harry and Hermione to show theirs. "Oh and you'll never guess what Lily did a few days ago, she showed us her first smile!" Hermione said joyfully.
"Awww bless her! What made her smile?" Joanna asked.
"Here let me show you, hopefully she's in the mood to smile" Harry said with a grin and David handed Lily over to him.
They were all sitting closely enough so that Harry could lay Lily in his arms and the others could watch as Harry used his free hand to tickle Lily's tummy and thankfully she did smile at him. Hermione gleamed with happiness and Hermione's parents looked on proudly.
"That's so sweet!" Joanna said excitedly "Does she do it when anybody tickles her?"
Hermione shook her head "Only when Harry does it" Hermione surprisingly didn't sound at all downhearted by this, in fact she laughed "I think Lily's a daddy's girl alright" and she grinned.
Hermione's parents smiled.
"Hey lets try her with you two, see if we can get a smile from her then" Harry said and handed Lily to Joanna and both of Hermione's parents tickled Lily's tummy, just like Harry had done, but neither of them could get her to smile. Hermione laughed "See I told you. She loves her daddy don't you eh sweetie?" Hermione cooed to Lily.
An hour or so later, Harry approached David while Hermione and her mother were out of the living-room.
"Hey David, fancy going for a beer?" Harry asked his father-in-law, who immediately grinned.
"Now you're talking my language!" he gave a small chuckle "Quick let's escape before either of the woman notice we have gone."
Harry gave a laugh and the two of them managed to reach the front door before they heard a loud cough.
"And where do you two think you're going?" Joanna asked whilst folding her arms and raising her eyebrows.
Harry could've sworn he was looking directly at Hermione, rather than her mother. Now he knew where Hermione got that look from.
"Uhh" David began to say "Just for a walk."
"No they're not, they are going to the pub" Hermione said as she appeared next to her mother from the kitchen, with a smirk on her face.
"Oh Hermione!" Harry moaned, annoyed.
The two women laughed "We will allow you both to go only if you promise not to get drunk, and to be back in two hours" Joanna told them.
"That's a deal" Harry replied and the two men made a quick exit and shut the front door behind them.
Hermione and her mother laughed "What are they like honestly" Joanna said with a grin, going back into the kitchen with Hermione.
"Mad the pair of them" Hermione said with a giggle.
"So come on then darling, tell me more about this fabulous holiday of yours?" Joanna said happily.
The mother and daughter chatted happily and prepared dinner while Harry and David were at the pub in the village. The two men returned just before dinner was ready.
"Ah here they are, back at last, you were gone longer than you promised" Joanna said as she cuddled Lily in her arms.
"What you on about, we've only been gone about…three hours" David told her after he had checked his watch and realised they were indeed late.
Hermione laughed "Well dinner will be ready in a few minutes, bet you're hungry?" Harry nodded avidly in response.
They all ate their dinner before settling in the living-room, with David the one holding Lily in his arms. Hermione returned from the kitchen with cups of tea for all of them, when Lily began to cry.
"What's grandad done to you eh?" Hermione teased as she came over.
"Oh thanks very much" David said sarcastically but grinned and handed Lily to his daughter.
'"You're hungry aren't you sweetheart" Hermione cooed to Lily and for the first time David stayed in the room as Hermione fed Lily. She was sitting in the armchair with Harry sitting, balanced, on the arm of the chair and looking down at Hermione feeding their daughter. Harry took Lily after she was finished as Hermione sorted herself out. He burped her before making sure she was content and happy. "I think its time for someone's beddie byes" Hermione cooed to Lily, who looked very sleepy.
"I'll take her up if you want" Harry offered.
"Okay thanks honey" Hermione replied. Harry soon left the room with a nearly sleeping Lily in his arms. Returning back down ten minutes later and he cuddled up to Hermione on the sofa.
"Is that her settled now for the rest of the night?" Joanna asked them.
Hermione smiled "Yeah she'll sleep right through now till about 7:00 tomorrow morning."
"Bet you're glad of that eh?" David said with a chuckle.
Harry laughed "Oh yes extremely glad!"
"Looking forward to going back to work tomorrow Harry?" Joanna asked.
"Nah not really" he gave a smile "Would much prefer to be here with my two girls" he said as he looked down at Hermione, who beamed at him and lent up and kissed him. David and Joanna looked on happily.
"Alright you two, we'll leave you to it" David said with a smile as he got up along with Joanna.
Harry and Hermione said goodbyes to them before Hermione's parents drove away.
"Come on you. Bed." Hermione ordered "Got to get enough sleep for work tomorrow."
Harry laughed "Yes sir!" he teased and saluted to her.
Hermione gave a laugh and a playful smack on the arm, before they both headed upstairs to bed.
Three days later, Harry came home from work looking very chirpy indeed. "Hermione, I'm home!" he called from the hallway.
"I'm in the kitchen" Hermione called back, Harry joined her in the kitchen and she smiled as he came over to her "Hey Harry" he kissed her "Have a good day?" she asked kindly.
"Yeah pretty good, how about you?"
"Yeah the usual you know nothing too exciting" she grinned, then frowned as she noticed Harry had his hands behind his back.
"What you hiding Harry?" she asked.
Harry grinned "Well you know a while ago we were talking about what we were going to do for our anniversary?"
Hermione smiled "Yes I remember, we thought about going away somewhere."
"Ahuh so I talked to a few people and how do you fancy a weekend in a country retreat up in Yorkshire" and he showed her the brochure he was hiding behind his back. Hermione took it from his hands and beamed at him, "Oh Harry! It sounds perfect!" she said excitedly and flicked through the brochure briefly, before placing it on the kitchen counter "Is Lily coming with us?" she asked.
Harry smiled "Of course she is, I'm not having us leave her with your parents for a few days, you'll only worry yourself sick over how she's doing all the time. Plus I thought it would be really nice for three of us to be alone, it will be our first sort of family holiday…only shorter" he added.
Hermione giggled and wrapped her arms around his neck "I can't wait!" she said joyously "Thank you" and she kissed him.
So on the 16th August, the Potter family headed up to Yorkshire and to the large country hotel they were staying in. The weather was beautiful and there were fields and hills with woodland walks for miles and miles. They spent the first day settling into their hotel and Hermione went for a swim in the indoor swimming pool that they had there, while Harry looked after Lily. Harry and Hermione had a beautifully relaxed evening meal before getting some well earned rest in their comfy hotel suite.
Harry woke up the next morning to the bright sunlight flooding in through the room, he looked down at Hermione asleep in his arms and smiled at her and kissed the top of her head. Hermione moaned as she began to awaken and her eyes fluttered open to look up at Harry.
"Happy anniversary, Mrs. Potter!" Harry said elatedly.
"Happy anniversary to you too!" Hermione replied back with a sleepy smile and he kissed her. Hermione soon got out of bed and walked across the room to check on Lily in the cot, luckily she was still fast asleep.
Hermione stared out of the large windows at the surrounding countryside. "Looks like it's going to be a gorgeous day. Good day for a nice long walk I think."
Harry groaned and turned over under the covers and tried to go back to sleep. Hermione chuckled and rushed back over to their bed, grabbed her pillow and started hitting Harry with it playfully, Hermione burst into a fit of giggles.
"Oi! Stop hitting me!" Harry said as he tried to move away from Hermione with the pillow. "I am dragging you outside whether you like it or not" she warned with a smirk. Harry laughed and grabbed his pillow and the two of them began a mad pillow fight.
The excitably screeches and laughter coming from the young couple were loud enough that it eventually woke up baby Lily who began crying. Harry and Hermione immediately stopped mucking about and Hermione rushed over to the cot.
"Look what you've done Harry" Hermione told him "You've woken her up."
Harry raised his eyebrows "Me? You were the one who started it."
Hermione blushed "Yeah I know, sorry, I was only teasing."
She cuddled Lily tightly to her "Sorry sweetheart, mummy and daddy didn't mean to wake you up."
Lily seemed to become perfectly content and stopped crying at hearing Hermione's soothing words. Harry came on over to join the two of them and placed his arm around Hermione's shoulders. "Well if we are going to be out exploring I think we need a good breakfast first."
Hermione laughed "Alright that sounds good to me."
Harry and Hermione both got dressed, and Hermione fed, changed and dressed Lily in a pink t-shirt with a cute denim dress over the top, complete with pink socks; she was also wearing a small hat on her head to keep the sun off. The mid August summer was surely one of the hottest for many years and so Hermione packed numerous outfits in the bag in case Lily was too hot in what she was wearing.
"Got everything?" Harry asked.
Hermione placed Lily securely in the pushchair before nodding, "Yes I think so, lets go."
Once Hermione and Harry entered the restaurant with Lily and got to their seats, Hermione found a red rose on her side of the table, she looked at Harry who was smiling. Hermione picked up the rose "Did you do this?"
"I asked one of the waiter's to do it for me" Harry told her.
Hermione smiled "That is so thoughtful, thank you" she smelt the rose before placing it down carefully. The two of them ate a good hearty full English breakfast before heading out of the hotel and down the country lane.
Harry and Hermione took it in turns to push the pram, swapping every now and again, they reached a small town where they did a bit of window shopping before reaching a very beautiful large park where they enjoyed a picnic and spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing.
"I have really enjoyed it today" Harry said as he took Hermione's hand as they walked back to their hotel.
"Yeah me too" Hermione admitted happily "Just you, me and Lily together. It's been perfect." Harry kissed her before they carried on walking, with Hermione pushing the pushchair along with her free hand.
"What are we going to do tonight?" she inquired.
"Well I was thinking maybe a nice meal, bottle of champagne then an early night?" he winked at her.
Hermione giggled, "Oh so that's what you want is it Mr. Potter?"
"Yes please!" he pleaded.
Hermione laughed and leaned into him "Alright. But only on one condition?"
"Anything" Harry said.
Hermione grinned "I would like to see my present."
Harry laughed "Fair enough, come on let's get back and you can have it."
The three of them got back to the country manor within minutes and relaxed and got ready for the evening. Hermione came out of the bathroom after a shower, wrapped in a towel and she saw Harry sitting on the end of their bed with a rather large white box next to him.
"What's in there?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Part of your anniversary present" Harry replied happily.
Hermione looked extremely intrigued and came over, removing the lid off the box and lifted out a beautiful purple dress with thin straps and a tie back detail.
"Oh Harry!" she said as she felt the silk dress with her fingers "It's gorgeous!"
"Go on, try it on" Harry commented.
Hermione giggled excitedly and grabbed some heeled shoes and went into the bathroom. She returned out twenty minutes later, make-up and hair magically sorted. Hermione looked so delighted when she appeared in front of Harry wearing the dress. Harry beamed "Now that is a stunning sight!"
Hermione blushed and came over and kissed him "Thank-you. I love it, it's a wonderful dress and it fits perfectly too!"
"Your welcome sweetie and you'll get your other present later."
"Another one? Oh I'm being really spoilt aren't I" she said with a giggle "Now, it's your turn" Hermione said.
"Hermione you really didn't have to..."
"Oh shush you, of course I was going to give you something for our anniversary. Here you go."
Hermione handed him two boxes. Harry opened them eagerly, the first box contained a photo frame showing a beautiful photo of Hermione and Lily "I thought your office at work could be updated with a new photo."
Harry laughed "You're quite right. I love it thanks!" He then opened the other box and inside was two tickets to the next Chudley Cannons match.
Harry's mouth fell open "Hermione! Where on earth did you get these? These tickets are sold out everywhere! Even Ron couldn't get hold of them and you know the contacts he has!"
Hermione smirked "Oh you wouldn't like to know the trouble I went to, to get those tickets. I know you and Ron really wanted to go so now you can." Harry beamed and brought Hermione into a hug and picked her up and swung her around "Harry put me down!" Hermione giggled and he did so, "It was only quidditch tickets" she said with a chuckle.
Harry grinned "It's not just that" he began saying "It's everything you do, for me, for Lily, looking after the house, heading an amazing campaign that will make a difference. I just admire you so much!"
Hermione wrapped her arms around his neck "That is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me."
"Meant every word" Harry said sweetly.
"I love you" Hermione said whole heartedly.
"And I love you" he kissed her "Right, Mrs. Potter lets head down to dinner shall we?" he linked arms with her and Harry pushed Lily in the pram and they made their way down to the restaurant.
"Good Evening Mr and Mrs. Potter. We would all like to wish you a very Happy Anniversary" the waiter said after he came up to their table.
"Thank you very much" Hermione said sincerely.
"You're most welcome, so would you like anything to drink?" the waiter asked.
"Yes champagne please" Harry said to him.
"Coming right up" and the waiter disappeared.
The happy atmosphere was making Hermione very excited, she and Harry could not stop smiling "So would you like your other present now?" Harry asked.
Hermione gleamed "Oh yes please, thank you."
Harry grinned and reached into his suit jacket pocket and brought out a long thin box, handing it to Hermione. She opened it keenly to discover a beautiful silver bracelet with diamonds all around it and the letters H and H intertwined inside a heart shape. Hermione gasped and put a hand to her mouth "Oh it's beautiful, Harry I love it so much, thank you!" she said with tears in her eyes and reached over and kissed him deeply.
"Look on the underside of it" Harry instructed willingly.
Hermione flipped the bracelet over and engraved on the underside of the heart was the date 'August 18th 2007' her eyes brightened brilliantly in realisation and turned to look back at Harry.
"You got the date engraved!" she said unbelievably.
Harry gave a small chuckle "Of course. It was the very day we got married and we declared we would be together forever, hardly a date I was ever going to forget."
Hermione had tears in her eyes again "Oh you are just so …. Amazing!" and she kissed him again.
Harry chuckled before putting the bracelet onto Hermione's wrist for her.
"Your champagne" the waiter said as he appeared again and handed a glass over each to Harry and Hermione before leaving them once more.
"Happy Anniversary sweetheart" Harry said joyously.
"Happy Anniversary to you too and I'm sure there will be many more of them to come." They clinked their glasses; each took a sip before ordering their food.
Harry and Hermione spent the rest of the evening eating the wonderful meal, looking after Lily, and left her asleep in the pram next to their table by the dance floor when they went up for a few slow dances, only dancing less than a metre away from where they had left Lily.
The three of them eventually returned to their hotel suite, Hermione got Lily settled sound asleep into the cot before the young couple certainly celebrated their anniversary that night.