"I can't believe I have to spend the evening with Malfoy." Harry said as he fixed his tie in the mirror. He was happy that Daphne's parents were much more open to muggle fashion as Harry was not a fan of dress robes. If he had to meet the Greengrass' and deal with Malfoy, he wanted to be dressed in something he was comfortable in. And he never knew that being in a suit would something he considered comfortable. "As if meeting your parent's isn't enough."

"Astoria promised me that Draco will be on his best behavior. Besides he's going to be with his soon to be in laws. He doesn't want to have them dislike him a couple weeks before the wedding."

Harry's eyes widened as he turned to face his girlfriend. "When we get married, I am going to have Draco Malfoy as my brother in law."

Daphne's face stayed passive when she heard Harry mention marriage but inside she felt her heart skip a beat. She hadn't said I love you to him yet, even though he had told her multiple times. Daphne didn't think that she really needed too. She knew how she felt and she showed Harry by doing things for him. Not because she needed too, because she wanted too. And Harry hadn't said anything about her not saying those three little words.

"Married huh?"

"Well I know neither of us are in this relationship to just past the time. And I love you in a way I have never felt before." Harry wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her close to his body. "So yes, married."

Playing with the hair on the nape of his neck signaling that he needed a haircut soon, she nodded her head. "Well I think I'll be okay with that."

"Good."

Their kiss was soft and meaningful. Both expressing their love for one another.

"Are you ready for this?"

"If I can face Voldemort, I can face your family." Harry said to hopefully help encourage Daphne, before landing a soft kiss on her forehead. While their outing to see Hermione and Ron went well, they both knew that it was only the start. The second they told the rest of the Weasley's that Harry was back, who knows what was going to happen. And that was only his side of things.

Now they had to see how Daphne's side was going to take the news. Along with dealing the preparations for Astoria's wedding to Malfoy.

Hearing a clear of a throat, Daphne turned to face her parents, Astoria and Draco.

"Mum and dad!" The blonde exclaimed as she saw her parents. There were only a few people that she didn't need to show her Ice Queen persona. Her parents had never seen the persona. The only family member that had was Astoria, yet it was never directed towards her. Tracey was the next and finally Harry. Draco still received the looks but they weren't as icy as they once were.

After the hugs and smiles, Harry watched the Greengrass' face turn serious when they caught him. While Harry wanted to shove himself into his pants pocket, he knew he had to stand tall and be the Harry Potter they all read about. Even though that wasn't the true Harry Potter.

"Mr and Mrs. Greengrass it's nice to finally meet you." Harry said as he stood next to Daphne. "Daph has told me all about you and the travels you've been on."

Both parents shook Harry's hand with confused looks on their faces. The last they heard of Harry Potter was the article in the Daily Prophet where Ginny Weasley cheated on him. And wondered where he disappeared too. Not that it was actual news, but anything that happened to Harry Potter was written for the whole world to know.

And now they found him with their eldest daughter who had been living in America. And the looks of it they were clearly together.

"Mr. Potter." Cyrus Greengrass greeted as he gave his daughter a look. Wondering why his daughter didn't tell him before they appeared. While Astoria was an open book, Daphne kept most things to herself. The difference between the two sisters.

"Please call me Harry. Mr. Potter makes me feel like I'm back at Hogwarts getting into trouble." The dark haired wizard said as Daphne pulled him down on the couch.

Nodding his head in response as his wife did the same. "Well then Harry, I was just wondering how this happened? Daphne doesn't share much about her personal life."

Harry mentioned everything that had happened after they met at the Blackberry Cafe. From Harry showing up from to Daphne's fashion show to Daphne leaving her date with Trey to find him. "I know you are thinking that I am rushing into a relationship with Daphne after everything that happened with Ginny Weasley. Being with Daph has made me the happiest I've ever been."

"Good to hear." Astrid Greengrass said as she looked directly at Harry. The moment he saw Daphne's parents he knew exactly where Daphne got her looks. She was the spitting image of her mother. Astrid Greengrass had golden blonde hair that rested right below her shoulders along with the icy blue eyes that would stare into your soul. While he knew that looks weren't everything, he was still happy that Daphne would stay beautiful if they spent the rest of their life together.

"This is the very first time Daphne has ever brought a man home. And even though you are the Savior of the Wizarding World, I am going to tell you the same thing that I told Draco. I am not going to completely trust that your relationship is stable until there is a ring on both of your fingers."

Taking Daphne's smaller hand into his larger without loosing eye contact with Astrid. Their fingers intertwined as he responded. "I wouldn't expect anything less."

"Why do I feel like Potter got off easy compared to me?" Draco asked seriously as he looked at his soon to be mother in law.

"Because everything comes easy to me, remember Malfoy?" Harry replied with a small smirk resting on his lips. Remembering one of the many, what you could call conversations, they had during their years at Hogwarts.

"Now boys do not make me rethink your relationships with my daughters." Astrid warned in a jokingly way.

After taking a sip of his wine, Cyrus decided to join in with his wife. "Oh love, let the boys have their fun. Soon they will be brothers."

Even though Harry had this revelation earlier in the day, he still choke on his wine and luckily he wasn't alone with Draco doing the same. It was different hearing it coming from the father of his girlfriend. The father he just met.

Harry looked over at the tall dark haired man at the front of the table. His eyes even though they weren't icy blue like Daphne's, he could still feel the serious look Cyrus was giving him.

"But now that we are on that subject. If you two do decide to get married what will you do for work? From the papers it seems as if you left your position at the Ministry."

Nodding his head, Harry felt Daphne squeeze his hand before he answered to the man in front of him. "I took a leave. I didn't fully quit the Aurors. So I still have a position and even if I did fully quit, I am sure they would take me back in a heart beat."

"Being who you are, I'm assuming?"

"Something like that." He mumbled with a sour look on his face as he took a sip of his water. Making everyone at that table give the Savior of their world questionable looks. Harry noticed them and he wanted, needed, to explain. But he didn't know where or how to begin. "Honestly Daph and I, when we get married, we wouldn't have to work with the vault I have sitting in Gringotts. Hell, even our great great great grandchildren wouldn't either. So you don't need to worry if your daughter will be well taken care for."

"Which is something I have been doing myself for the past few years, if you hadn't noticed father." Daphne said raising an eyebrow at her father to give him one of her own Ice Queen looks.

"Daphne I am not worried about the money you two will have. I am more worried, now, about the fame Mr. Potter has. Clearly he isn't a too big a fan of it."

"I'm not, never have been." Green eyes meet grey when Draco looked up from his plate. "Even though people thought I got into trouble just for attention."

Before Draco could respond, Cyrus made sure he stayed in control of the conversation. His eldest daughter who never batted an eye at any boy in her life brought home the most famous in their world, he had to make sure she was going to be taken care of. Mainly for her safety.

"Yes I do believe I remember a few of the headlines the Prophet published. You are still in some of those headlines. Especially right now, since no one knows where you went."

"I am well aware of that, sir. But if it would make you feel more comfortable, I have a friend who works for the Prophet who will gladly write an article about everything that has happened from my point of view."

"I worry about a lot of things, Harry. But yes putting a statement out there would be beneficial for my daughter's name. I don't want her to get dragged through the mud because someone is jealous."

"Believe me I do not want that to happen either. I will write an owl to Paraviti the second we get home."

Nodding her head in agreement, Daphne put in her two cents. "And we also don't need my and Harry's relationship overshadowing Astoria and Draco's. Its their big day, not ours."

"Yet." Astoria said wiggling her eyebrows at her sister and her boyfriend. Who the latter was trying to hold in his laughter, while the former was giving her a glare.

"Astoria, please be serious." Astrid said giving her daughter a soft glare, the one that always frightened her daughters when they were children. But now with her daughters grown and getting into serious relationships, the look didn't do what she wanted it to do.

Shaking her head, Astoria felt Draco place his hand on her thigh. "Mum, dad, no matter what precautions you put out, people are still going to gossip and say things about Daphne and Harry's relationship. Just like they did to me and Draco. What they are still doing."

"This situation is different."

"It is going to be different." Draco cut into the conversation. "Its not just a reformed Death Eater getting married. This is about Harry Potter and his break up with Ginny Weasley who people are just now finding out about. This is going to be much worse."

Shocked that Malfoy was even giving his two cents, and that he actually agreed with him, Harry added on, "I love the Weasleys they are family to me, but the public loves them as well. I can't just smear Ginny, even if she cheated on me. The statement will help, but Daphne and I will have to deal with the backlash we will get from it."

"We are prepared for this." Daphne said looking at both her parents, "Harry wouldn't have come with me to this wedding if we weren't prepared. We will just being giving our side of the story and the public will think whatever they want to think."

"I'm glad you two have thought of this." Cyrus replied with a curt nod. With the buisness side of the evening done, and the answers he wanted were satisifying, he stood up and looked at his daughter's gentleman callers. "Now boy I have some fascinating muggle cigars that I bought from Cuba, if you would like to join me in my study as the women would probably start talking about what needs to be done for the wedding."

"Now Harry I don't want you to think that I was giving off the impression that I don't want you to be dating my daughter." Cyrus said after the men sat in silence smoking their cigars. "It's just Daphne never brought a boy home during Hogwarts. And the first time she does.."

"It's me." Harry said finishing Cryus' thought. "I really do understand where you are coming from. And I know you had to deal with the same thing with Malfoy and Astoria. Trust me I will take care of the press. I have some friends in very high positions within the Ministry."

"I know, but I'm not talking about the press right now. I am wondering what your intentions are with my daughter."

Harry glanced over at the blonde who was hiding his smirk behind his cigar as he watched his soon to be father in law questioning his school nemesis.

Flicking the ashes off his cigar, giving him time to think about what he wanted to say. "I love her. She's the most important person in my life. The only way I don't see me marrying her is if she decides she is tired of me. I will even let her ask me if it comes down to it."

"If the day ever comes that you will be proposing to my daughter, you have my blessing."