A/N: Ok. I'm writing this right after chapter 9, so bear with me here! OK well here we go…

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Chapter 10: The Announcement

"Wow, Harry the DADA job! I bet Snape must really be furious now!" Hermione laughed.

"Yea, well… I think he'll get over it. He always does." Harry stated.

"Finished with your butterbeer, 'Mione?" Ron asked her.

"Yea. You ready to shop?" Hermione smiled at Ron.

Harry and Ron groaned. "Shopping with these two is impossible!" Ron stated.

"Yea, but it makes them happy, and that's what counts, right Ron?" Harry said to his best friend.

"Oh my god, Harry! You're going soft. Look at what my sister is doing to you! I can't believe this. You shame me, Harry."

"Oh shut up, Ron!" Harry smacked him and got up.

"Well I guess we should get shopping." Ginny said. "Hey, Harry- do mind coming with me? I still need to get graduation presents for those two" she whispered.

"Of course, darling." He said. "I'm going with Ginny. I'll see you too later." He grinned.

"Yea, I know what you're going to do. Please do go shopping and not spend all day snogging with my sister, will ya!" Ron laughed and Hermione snorted.

"Yea ok, Ron. And you don't spend all day snogging with Hermione and we'll call it a deal!"

"Hey!" Ron shouted at the two as the two left The Three Broomsticks.

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"Ok. So I got this for Ron. He is so hard to buy for. It's not like a regular Christmas- this is his graduation. I really hope that he appreciates it." Ginny said showing Hermione a desk set with a Quidditch theme. "I mean if he's working at the ministry, he'll need some entertainment, right?"

Hermione laughed. "Yes. I think he'll like it. I bet Harry helped pick that out, didn't he?"

"Yea he did, but he wanted to buy him the showing Ireland, but I knew Ron liked the Chudley Cannons. Honestly you'd think he wanted one! OH my! Maybe he did want one! Uh oh. I'll have to go back and buy one for him too!"

"It's ok Ginny. But yea, that would look funny on the DADA teacher's desk. Make all the students think he went nuts!" they both laughed hysterically. "You can get it for him over the summer and give it to him as a 'Welcome to being a Professor' gift." They both howled with laughter. "Well we'd better help you finish packing so we can go to sleep! Tomorrow is the big day!"

"Yea don't remind me. But it's ok. I'll finish packing tomorrow. I have almost everything packed. I think we should both just go to sleep."

"Ok, Ginny. See you tomorrow." Hermione turned to leave, but turned back to her friend, "And don't worry hun. It'll go great tomorrow. Ron is just a hothead. I don't think your parents will act anything like him. As for your other brothers, They are quite grown up. Ron hasn't realized he has to grow up as well. I think they will take it better. I don't believe for a second that you have anything to worry about!" She smiled at her friend.

"Thanks, Hermione."

"Your quite welcome." And then she left Ginny to be by herself.

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"Granger, Hermione!" Dumbledore shouted as he announced the valedictorian of this year's graduating class. She made this huge speech of what it meant for her to be leaving Hogwarts and how she felt that she about never come back. Everyone was in tears and Ginny was twitching in her seat. She was glad she didn't have to sit with her family, but with her fellow sixth years, rooting on the graduating 7th year class.

She wished she could be with Harry, but he was up on the podium making a speech about being a candidate for the DADA job. She couldn't concentrate on her fiancé's speech. She was too busy thinking about what she was to tell her parents after the ceremony. She saw her mother crying over in another section. She'd gone through four other graduations, one with two of her boys, and she was still a sobbing maniac at the things.

The ceremony ended and Ginny ran up to her brother and hugged him. "Congratulation's big brother!" she then turned to Harry and hugged him as well. She gave Hermione a big hug as well and said, "Very moving speech, Hermione!" Ginny went back to Harry and kissed him. "I'm so proud of you! I'm sure your parents are looking down from heaven with pride."

"Yes, I'm sure they are," came a voice from behind them. Ginny went white.

"Mom!" Ron exclaimed. Their mother came and gave them all a huge hug.

Ginny held tight onto Harry's hand. She squeezed it and Harry felt her tension.

"Ronniekins! I'm so proud of you." Fred and George came bounding up to the group. They pinched Ron's cheeks and acted like a couple of old ladies saying things like, "Look how much you've grown!" and "Oh, Seeing you so grown up makes me cry!"

"Cut it out guys!" Ron exclaimed.

Charlie, Bill, and Percy came striding up to congratulate the group

Ginny looked at Harry. "They're all here," she whispered. He nodded. It was time. She felt her insides turn inside out. Ron looked over at Ginny and smiled. That gave her a bit of reassurance.

Harry cleared his throat. He tightened his grip on Ginny's hand for a bit of reassurance. "I have something I'd like to tell you all." He looked down at Ginny and smiled. "Actually Ginny and I have something we'd like to tell you." They looked up looks of confusion. "Umm… I asked Ginny, that when she has completed her 7th year here at Hogwarts- I asked if she'd marry me." He gulped. "She said yes."

A/N: AHHHHHHHHHHH! Cliffie! Sorry! I'm tired and I have to baby sit in the morning. So nighty night all! Read and review!