Chapter 38

Harry and Hermione returned to Britain with Alex, via the Russo's IPP. They had thoroughly had enough of muggle transportation.

Harry wasn't sure where they should live for now. His godfather's house was still really creepy (though that was where they were currently staying) and his parents' house was still a ruin. But Harry really didn't want to buy another property. That just wasn't his thing, owning more than he really needed. The trip had been a splurge because Harry loved Hermione and he wanted to share some luxury with her.

He and Hermione decided to drop by Bill and Fleur's and introduce them to Alex and ask Bill what he thought. Bill had always seemed like the most sensible Weasley son, and Harry trusted his advice as much as he did Arthur's-who was up to eyeballs in work at the Ministry. Harry sent a message to Bill from #12 Grimmauld Place with his new owl, a large beautiful Golden Owl named Horus.

Alex was thrilled with England (especially shopping in London). She skipped along beaming radiantly, dragging a giggling Hermione by the arm along the beach. The crisp sea air at Shell Cottage was making her feel all tingly inside again and she began to wish that she and Hermione could just make out with Harry on the beach.

"Maybe later," Harry told Alex with a grin. He had heard her thoughts. He, Hermione and Alex had been hearing each other's thoughts more and more frequently over the last week. And it was hard to resist each other. It must be the Triune power really kicking in Harry thought. He needed to talk to Bill before they went for a romp though. That's why they were here he reminded himself, and Bill was expecting them.

They were almost to Bill and Fleur's front door. Hermione and Alex glanced at each other wickedly. Harry didn't notice, as he was trying very hard to focus on what to discuss with Bill. Hermione and Alex both put their arms around Harry who was walking in between them, and they began kissing him vigorously. He couldn't resist and began kissing them back.

The door to Bill and Fleur's house swung open and Ron stood there in sullen shock, staring at the two girls snogging Harry at once. He hadn't expected to see Harry at all, much less see this.

Ron began to turn purple while George held his sides laughing in the doorway behind him. George was laughing so hard that he fell on the floor, tears of mirth streaking his face. That bloody git had invited him, Ron thought furiously.

Bill face-palmed while Fleur looked away, smirking.

"BLOODY FUCKING HELL!" Ron swore loudly, and he disapparated in a rage.

THE END?

End Notes:

**I'm considering a sequel, and if you're interested in seeing one, please let me know in a review. :)

**I must apologise to Ron fans. I tend be a Harmony shipper (except in my canon compliant one-shot). But surely I could have treated him better?

But come on... You all know that's exactly how Ron would behave under the circumstances he was dealing with in this Harmony setting:

He had accepted that he had blown his opportunity with Hermione and still wanted to be friends. But he still can't help feeling jealous. Anyone would, and Ron already has issues.

It was Ron's own fault that he did't go with Ginny and George. If he had, he would have realised that as Minister of Magic, his father could get them free International Floo Network passes. (I had a couple of paragraphs with this info, but it disrupted the story flow, so I brutally chopped them. I figured that it was all implied anyway).

Though it wasn't Ron's fault when George-being true to the dickish side of his own character-had arranged a bombshell to drop on an unsuspecting Ron.

And it wasn't Ron's fault that the bombshell was the in-your-face revelation that his best friend now had two hot girlfriends who couldn't keep their hands off Harry.

So all in all, I feel that Ron's character is presented in a balanced manner and true to his established nature. As I addressed at the beginning of Part 2, the characters more or less wrote themselves, even to the point of determining their relationship arcs. In a way, I had very little to with it, except to type it out and edit it.

Author Notes:
**On the occasional deliberate use of alliteration, I am a fan. Some people reading may notice a couple of deliberate alliterative passages in what I think are appropriate scenes (humorous scenes, or-more rarely-poetic scenes). But I noticed at least one unintentional alliterative passage, which I have yet to revise.

**I tend to edit as I write, which is a bad way to get any serious writing done. This time I made more of an effort to just write, and edit afterward. And it worked in terms of actually completing a story in record time. But I find that even after going through this 5 or 6 times, I keep seeing things that I want to change.

Editing includes pulling up an online thesaurus and making sure that you aren't using the same or similar words too often. But as I didn't edit during the initial writing, I had to do it after. I keep finding passages in which I used the same or similar words, and I haven't revised them yet. But there IS one instance intended to be mildly humous, in which I used the same word intentionally.

Editing also includes ruthlessly chopping out passages-often several paragraphs or even sometimes pages-which either: disrupts the flow of the action, relays unnecessary or repetitive information, is purple prose, or is an out of place scene which belongs in another section-or just poorly written. It's hard, sometimes you can write a really nice passage of prose which is one or all of the above. It's just got to go. In any case, I think I managed to eliminate all of the unnecessary passages before press-time.