hey sorry for the wait but know i have a driection to go with the story thanks to my friends and my lil cousin. so one more time the canon characters belong to JK Rowling. i wish i owned this series because i would be able to afford anything in the world but hey at least Rowling can enjoy her life now. so hopefully i will have the nice chapter up in a day or so but don't except the one after that till after next when the new movie will be out.

Chapter Nine

The Dinner

Mrs. Weasley was not angry but she complained all through lunch that Ginny and Harry are too young to get married. Even through she had done this argument a several dozen times already she thought she needed to do it again. "I mean really what's the rush. Ginny's only 17 and Harry you just turned 18, you have years to get married."

"Mum, please listen." Harry began but Mr. Weasley finished. "They have the right to decide for themselves, Molly. Besides Harry has the same look in his eyes that Bill had in his when he told us he was getting married. So there is no point in continuing this argument." He looked up in time to see that Mrs. Weasley had been glaring at him before turning back to the stove. Fleur entered the kitchen than saying, "Mrs. Weasley let me help you with something, please."

Molly turned and said with a smile, "No dear everything is almost done for lunch. How are you feeling this morning?"

"Oh I'm feeling fine this morning and I want to thank you all for not telling Bill about this yet. 'E'll find out soon enough when 'e comes 'ome for good. Although I am curious about what you told Bill last night about my collapse yesterday afternoon."

Molly laughed, "After you told me that you didn't want him to know yet, about the baby, I decided that I would tell him the healer said you collapsed because of exhaustion. Since you were helping me out so much lately." Fleur laughed at this and said. "'E believed that?"

"Mum I forgot to mention last night but Harry and I won't be home for dinner tonight." Ginny said to take the heat off her poor bother who wasn't even there to defend himself.

"Why won't you be home tonight for dinner?" Molly asked.

"My grandparents want to get to know me better and are currently staying in Ottery St. Catchpole. They want to get to know me or so they say." Harry said kindly trying to avoid an ugly argument between mother and daughter.

Molly deflated a bit before she said, "Of course they want to get to know you Harry there are seventeen years worth of your life that they don't know about. But why does that mean that Ginny must go as well?"

Before Harry answered Fleur interrupted saying, "Of course they want to get to know 'er she is the girl their grandson is going to marry." Fleur's statement ended the argument, so at five o' clock Harry and Ginny were setting out to go to the village.

The village of Ottery St. Catchpole was beautiful for its small size even through many wizarding families lived on the outskirts of the village; the village itself had a vast population of muggles. Harry broke the silence, "You know as beautiful as this village is I still per for Goderic's Hollow. Anyway are you ready?" Harry asked squeakily as they came to the one small Inn in town.

"As ready as you are." Ginny said as she pushed open the door.

"Harry, Ginny welcome come in come in." Mrs. Potter and Evans said waving them over. The inn had a small dining room for its guest Harry's grandparents were sitting there waiting for them. "So Ginny you told us yesterday that you were in love the moment you meet Harry, why?"

Ginny blushed redder than her hair before saying, "Well at first it was because he was famous but as I spent more and more time with him I knew that Harry was good purely good. So you could say he fascinated me from the moment he walked into my life through my brother." Harry just stared at her, she had never told him what it was about him that she loved and now to hear that she loved him for something that was not all together true hurt worse than if she had said that she loved him only because he was famous (even if he knew that it was a lie) it would have been better. Harry would allow Ginny to say what she wanted for now. His grandparents would know who he was eventually. The dinner went smoothly until the women wanted to know how and when Harry fell in love with Ginny and who he had dated before her. Harry turned red but before he could respond Edward Evans said, "Now, Annabelle the boy is obviously embarrassed. He doesn't have to talk about it if he doesn't want to." Edward turned towards Harry saying, "then again this piece of information is better said now than later when the women are planning your wedding this year."

Harry looked to Ginny before he spoke, "Well I was rather dense when it came to my feelings. I suppose I started to fall for her when she and four others helped me at the Ministry even when I didn't actually realize until I…um….uh…walked in on her kissing her boyfriend after Quiditch0 practice one night." Harry laughed remembering before continuing, "I had a voice calling for his immediate removal from the team but the thought passed as I had to save her from her brother who didn't like walking in on his sister snogging anyone." Ginny and the other women laughed but the men stayed quiet until Harry asked, "Something wrong?"

Edward just shook his head while Thomas Potter said, "We were just thinking back to seeing our own sister being snogged, right Edward? I didn't find it any more pleasant than Ron or you did." Harry stared so his feeling of hating Dean had been correct. This dinner had been great but Harry still didn't really know his Grandparents so he asked, "Mr. and Mrs. Evans what did you do before you fled the country with Mr. and Mrs. Potter and vice versa?"

Harry's grandfather's looked nervous and their looks told this to Harry, who immediately looked at his knees till Ginny placed her hand on his arm. It took Harry a moment before he looked at Ginny and sighed before turning to his grandparents waiting for an answer.

Edward began, " Harry, before my wife and I went on the run I was a doctor at the local hospital and my wife was a surgeon at the same hospital."

Harry became teary eyed at the thought of his grandparents being too good and noble. 'No wonder Mum ended up in Gryffindor.' Harry thought. His Aunt wouldn't talk about her parents so not even Dudley knew them and all because they liked and accepted that Lily was a witch.

Edward continued, " You know that's probably why Lily became a Healer. Before she found out she was a witch she wanted to be a surgeon like her mum." Edward looked over at his wife. Thomas decide that he would start his story.

"Well you see, Harry myself like your father was an auror and your grandmother taught at Hogwarts. She taught an elective that after we fled the country it was discontinued, Pureblood Etiquette. Dumbledore didn't think it was a good idea, even thought it helped the

muggle-borns understand the world much like muggle studies helped half-bloods and purebloods understand the muggle world." Thomas looked over at his wife before looking down at the plate of food that had just arrived. The conversation turned to money and Thomas said, "Harry I assume you been down to the family vault correct?" Harry shock his head. "Then you will probably get a letter from the goblins requesting a meeting." Harry pulled out an envelope saying, "They sent me this after I returned home today. It says the want to meet with me tomorrow. Why they couldn't just talk to me today is beyond me. I mean if it was about the break-in you think they would want to get this over with."

"HARRY JAMES POTTER, do not tell me you broke into Gringotts!" Harry's Grandmothers' yelled in unison.

Harry looked so terrified by the two women that all Ginny could do is laugh. "Sorry, love but you can walk calmly into deaths arms but are terrified of your grandmothers." Ginny continued to giggle and the men joined in.

Edward sobered up first and said, "Really why be afraid of two women when you faced Voldemort and lived."

Harry shrugged then answered his grandmothers, "Grandma yes, I broke into Gringotts because that is where one of Tom Riddle's Horcruxes were. A Horcrux is an object were a piece of a soul is encased." His Grandparents gasped.

"How many did he make?" Antoinette asked breathlessly.

"He intentionally made six but unintentionally made seven. I was the unintentional one." Harry replied in a low tone. After dinner was over the Evans pulled Harry aside. " Harry please, tell us Petunia's address. We want to meet our other grandson, Dudley. Please." Harry pulled out a spare piece of parchment and asked for a pen to write down the address for them. Before he left he wished them luck with their son-in-law.

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