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Hermione was down in the in the Great Hall a few moments before Ron and Harry came down. From the way that they were talking, she was almost positive that they were discussing the wedding and the baby. She wanted to give Harry some type of award for looking so surprised about everything. She wasn't to keen on Ron known that she had told Harry about the baby first.

Ron looked like he'd never slept before and Harry wasn't much better off. Hermione looked at them and realized that she had everything that she wanted here with her. She had friends that she knew would never leave her, and she was going to marry one of them. A part of her couldn't help but think that she would have a very good view in the morning for the next eighty or ninety years.

"Tired much?" she asked, smiling

"You feeling okay, Hermione?" Ron asked, very concerned

"Yeah, you?"

"Still in shock."

"It's okay Ron, it's a lot to take in." Hermione said while Harry and Ron were sitting down on the bench

"Well, guys, congratulations are in order I think."

Ron blushed a deep scarlet and Hermione put her head down, the both of them were smiling. Harry poured three glasses of apple juice and gave two of them to his two best friends.

"To Ron, Hermione and the youngest Weasly, may happiness follow you wherever you go!"

They all drank of their glasses deeply. Just as the trio was putting down the almost empty glasses, Ginny came in. Sitting unabashedly next to Harry, she helped herself to a pastry. It was no great secret that Ginny had a crush on Harry, but she had only told Hermione how deep her feelings went. Hermione had promised not to say anything to Harry about and also had given Ginny some pointers on how to attract Harry's attentions.

" 'Morning guys!"

"Hey, Ginny, I got something to tell you."

"Sure Ron. I'm in a bit of a rush though, Tamara and I are going to practice charms for exams in a bit."

Ron, who was sitting in between Hermione and Harry, cleaned his voice and straightened up.

"You know Ron, you look like Percy when you do that." Ginny observed

"I'm going to say something important, so shut it."

"What's up with him?" she mumbled to Harry

"Ginny, Hermione and I are going to get married."

"Seriously! You guys are joking! I didn't even think you two liked each other like that."

"Ginny," Hermione stated, a smile betraying her clam tone of voice, "We're also having a baby."

"So that's why..."

Harry grabbed Ginny's hand and gave it a sharp squeeze. It wasn't enough to hurt her, but she got the message to not to say another thing on the matter.

"Looks like you're going to have a sister." Harry said to smooth it all over and ease the tension that had been built up.

"Oh, yeah, Hermione, welcome to the family."

Hermione just smiled and nodded her head. She could sense that her future sister-in-law and aunt to her baby was almost filled with distain over the situation. Yes she was pregnant, but she and Ron were doing the right thing.

"See you all alter, maybe at dinner."

With that the only Weasly girl got up from the table and left to find Tamara who was in Hufflepuff. She silently wondered how her parents would react, and told herself as much as she wanted to; she was not going to send an owl to her parents. This was Ron's battle and Ginny was not about to get sucked into it.

Once Ginny was out of earshot Hermione put her head on Ron's shoulder and started to cry. She doubted that she would be crying ordinarily, but the hormones that were raging throughout her body seemed to force her to cry.

"Hermione, darling, don't cry, please?"

"Your sister hates me and hates our baby…"

"No she doesn't. It was just a bit of a shock. She goes to bed one night and the next morning her brother is getting married and her beautiful soon to be sister-in-law is pregnant."

"Yeah, 'Mione. It's okay, really. You'll always have Ron and I'll always be around, Voldermort hasn't gotten rid of me yet."

"See, you have nothing to worry about. Don't cry Hermione, don't cry."

"How are your parents going to take it? How are my parents going to take it?"

"That doesn't matter anymore. We have each other and you're going to be a family."

"Looks like the Mudblood got a "b" on a test, doesn't it, Potter?"

Draco Malfoy had just happened to see the teary eyed mother to be and couldn't let he opportunity pass.

"Malfoy, go away. We're really not interested in having to deal with your meaningless hot air."

"You'll pay Potter for having friends like these. You know that the Dark Lord is going to get is revenge. I'd watch your back if I were you."

"You've been saying that for seven years not, don't you think its time to get a new line or two?"

With one last scowl Malfoy and his two goony sidekicks left the Great Hall.

"Harry, we don't even know when the wedding is going to be, but I'd like to ask you something." Ron said, rubbing Hermione's shoulder.

"Shoot."

"Will you be my best man at the wedding?"

Harry was quite stunned and didn't know how to respond.

"Wouldn't you want to have one of your brothers?"

"Harry, we've been through more together than all my brothers combined."

"I'd be honored Ron."

"Well that settles that then. Hermione, I was thinking about something."

"What?"

"This weekend is a Hogsmead weekend and I was wondering if you'd want to go shopping for a ring there. In Muggle Studies they said that the guy buys the woman he's going to marry a ring, and I want to give that to you."

"No Ron. We need to save for the baby. With the money from the ring we could buy a crib and a ton of baby clothes"

Harry took this as he queue to leave the table and he did so very quickly. He was their friend, but they were now the team and he was the sidekick. They needed to work their problems out and he didn't want to be a bother to them. Life was finally falling in place, and Harry couldn't wait for the ride to begin.