CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Love Fool
After a long exhausting week, Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco all sat down under the calming tree with the five seven month olds. All were now eating baby food, and they could sit up on their own now, and stay sitting up. Draco had started seeing Lily and the others, which he felt for some reason, were his own every weekend. He participated, in feeding, holding, playing and everything else a normal parent did, other then getting them to sleep. Harry seemed to understand Draco's need to take care of Lily when he could, and was rest assured, that if something were to happen, Draco would be a good father. Plus he could use all the extra help he could get, for all five of the children had started to crawl. Well sort of, they would more like slither around, with the bottoms in the air, but they got to where they wanted. Julie had surprised everyone and even managed to stand up holding on to the couch once. The babies had also learned new words, and the teens were more the willing to get them started on talking. At night they would walk around the Gryffindor common room and say goodnight to different things. It calmed them down, and helped them with their speaking skills.
It seemed as though all the children were a little advanced for their age. One by one they would all start to master skills and move on. The trio suddenly found themselves with a massive handful.
"Mama!" Squeaked Julie, as she got up to her feet, holding on to the couch and started to carefully move across the couch before falling on her bottom. "A-wa-to-la!" She yelled at the top of her lungs at running out of couch. She then began to crawl over to where Daniel was trying to get to the fireplace, but found he could not, due to an invisible barrier. Julie decided she would try also. Soroush could be found on the other side of the room, sitting in front of a mirror, making faces and laughing. Lily and John were sitting in Harry's lap playing with rattles that had small fireworks displays on the inside, while sucking on their pacifiers. Hermione and Ron could be found in chairs doing their homework, which somehow or another Harry had finished before them both. He was as shocked as both of them, knowing Hermione was normally finished way before him. Lily dropped her rattle and pointed down, while making a growling type noise.
"You want down?" Lily spat out her pacifier.
"Yeahhhhhh!" She squalled. Harry smiled, and carefully placed her on the ground. John quickly took up all the space Lily was taking, on Harry's lap, and smiled as he too spat out his pacifier.
"Ah-so-la-ma-na!" He yelled, and shook his rattle. It was yet another Sunday in March. The children were already eight months old. The teens planned on taking the kids to the Great Hall for dinner, something none of the people in the room had done in months. The babies had not ate in the Great Hall since the beginning of the year feast. Whilst Harry, Ron and Hermione had been eating with their kids ever since they stopped bottle feeding two and a half months ago. The kids enjoyed going into the Gryffindor common room, and into the dorms, where they would get massive amounts of attention, and get to explore new places. The group had made it a habit to go outside and have a picnic under the calming tree once every week, Draco now joined them, and helped feed the kids, and read to them. They would all take turns reading, every night and every weekend picnic someone new would read a book. "Boo" Was one of the kids favourite words to say, knowing someone would always pull out a book and start to read.
That evening the group got the wiggling kids strapped into their strollers, their bags set up, and they started off to the Great Hall. Everyone got used to them not eating meals in the Great Hall, poor Dumbledore had not seen the kids since they had just started to crawl. As they all entered the Great Hall everyone went quiet. The trio smiled, as the kids started talking in there own language to each other loudly with massive smiles at being in a new place. The group walked over the end of the Gryffindor table near the teachers table, and got high-chairs up, ready to feed, they were all surprised when Draco left the Slytherin table and sat down in front of Lily, who screeched in delight, as did Daniel and Julie, who were next to her. Ginny got up and sat in front of Soroush, while Harry sat in front of Daniel, Hermione in front of Julie, and Ron in front of John. They all immediately got the food ready and started to feed them, not noticing the snickers and whispers coming from the still quite large room. Dumbledore just grinned, along with McGonagall. Snape looked like he was going to choke walked in to see Draco sitting at the Gryffindor table feeding a baby.
Before they all new it, it was time to go home. Draco looked devastated at having to spend the entire summer without seeing them. They quickly promised to send pictures. Before they got on the train, Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Hagrid helped them get situated, as they played with the children.
"My, oh my they have gotten so big, and can now talk. You three have been keeping them to yourselves way to much, they can say words already." Dumbledore grinned.
"We're sorry. I guess we have been so busy, we completely forgot to bring them to you to see." Ron stated, letting the kids crawl and walk holding on to the benches around their large train car.
"Can you believe the last time we were on this train, they were only a month old, and would cry every three hours. We were miserable, and tired." Hermione laughed. The three shook there heads and smiled. The train whistled signalling that they would be leaving in five minutes. The teacher bid the group goodbye, and left the car. The teens quickly gathered up the ten month olds and got them strapped into their car seats, much to the kids dislike. Their screeches and cries could be heard in the cars ahead of them. The teens quickly gave them their pacifiers and toys, and then sat down themselves. Finally the train started. Once it got to a normal speed, Draco walked in, and helped let the kids loose. The trip home was uneventful; the movement of the train had the kids snoring within an hour. They only woke up for lunch then again for dinner. They felt the train start to slow, and the teens quickly got the now wide awake children back into there seats, as they picked up their carriage and got everything ready to be transported. The train slowly came to a stop at King Cross station, and with the help of Ron's brothers and Sister, plus the train staff, they slowly stepped off the train with large smiles, pushing their children in their strollers. As they walked out, the kids started squalling, and reaching out. All of them yelling "Out!"
They had only all gotten off the train when they were suddenly embraced in large hugs from Mr. and Miss. Weasley, and Mr. and Miss. Granger.
"My, oh my! They have all gotten so big!" Miss Weasley smiled looking at them all.
"Out! Out!" The kids were still screeching lifting there hands up.
"Not right now, later." Hermione responded to them all, this is not what they wanted to hear however as they all started to cry. Harry handed them each a pacifier, and toys, which they had to stop and pick up every once in awhile when the kids would throw them in a mad fit. What normally would be a ten-minute walk out of the station, turned into a thirty-minute walk, and all three teens were at the end of their string.
"Well, I see they are all a handful. I'm not sure how you got through the year." Mr. Granger stated, lifting them into car seats.
"Where are we going?" Harry asked noticing that his two were just put in the Granger van.
"Ah, you did not get our owl. Well, we just could not split you up, like we did for half of last summer, so you and Ron will be staying at our house for the first month and a half, then you will go to the Weasley house for the rest of the summer." Mrs. Granger explained. "Mr. and Mrs. Weasley will take your things to our place. All you kids need to do is get the babies together, and ready for transport, we only live half an hour away." The trio nodded with large smiles. They had not been looking forward to being split up again. The children slept all the way to the Grangers, and were once again wide-awake the minute the car pulled into the driveway. As soon as they were taken out of the car, they started making noise. Julie and Daniel started crying, at being somewhere unfamiliar, while John, Soroush, and Lily squealed in excitement. They walked into the large house, Hermione guided them to the Nursery, where they let the children loose, as they helped set the room up.
The month went quickly, and, before they knew it, Daniel, and Soroush could make full short sentences, with the others not far behind. But it was Thursday, June tenth that Ron would put in his baby book. It was a warm afternoon; the trio sat on the couch watching TV while the kids sat beside them, taking their naps. John woke up only an hour after they fell asleep.
"Dada, I hunwe." He stated, with half open eyes.
"Well what do you want to eat?" Ron asked getting up and heading for the small kitchenette and pulling out the baby-food containers. Her turned around to see John climb off the couch, and stand up holding on to the couch. John looked to be concentrating really hard, Ron and the trio just watched. Suddenly John let go of the couch and took a step. The trio's gasp could be heard all over the house. John took another step, then another. After taking five steps, he fell on his bottom. Ron ran over to him food forgotten, cheering. He scooped up his son, and twirled him around, tears running down his cheeks.
"You walked! You walked!" He yelled, Hermione, and Harry stood behind them, grinning.
By the time it was time to go to the Weasley's all five of the children were avid walkers. None of them could walk very far, but they would walk for as far as they could, whenever they could. The baby-books were rapidly filling up. Time seemed to speed up and before the group new it, the date was July, thirty-first, two thousand four. Harry was now officially seventeen, and the quints were officially one year old. The little one's did not quite understand why they were celebrating, but they liked it. A small piece of chocolate cake was placed in front of all of them. Forgetting their spoons, the kids dug in with there hands, sticking fist fulls in their mouth, all over their face, head, necks, bibs, high-chair tables, and even the ground. All of them grinning, and trying to eat as much as they could as fast as possible. The teens let them have their fun for once, and decided that they would just have a large clean up later. They were eating outside with the rest of the Weasley family, plus the Grangers. Presents had a whole table to themselves. Each parent opened the presents to their kids finding all sorts of baby toy's and books, both magic and muggle. Harry got some books of his own, a new dress robe from all the Weasley's. Some jokes from George and Fred's, joke shop, but what stopped him short was the note from Ginny Weasley. The two had been spending a lot of time together lately, she came in and helped take care of the kids, and she and Harry had been taking hikes through the woods, with both Daniel and Lily, in backpack type baby carriers. Harry carefully opened the letter, making sure no one but Ginny noticed, he smiled as he read her words.
Dear Harry,
I know you have a lot on your mind, you have two one year olds, your Quidditch team captain, your either a prefect or head boy this year, plus you have NEWTS to get ready for. However, I am going to ask you this anyways. I liked you the minute I saw you. At first, it was weird to be around you, but now it just feels natural. I feel like my 'like' for you has grown quite a bit, and I wanted to know if you would like to go out with me? I know you are a year ahead of me, but I have a surprise I have not told anyone yet, last year I asked Dumbledore if there was a way to skip a grade, he told me that very few had done it, but if I really wanted to, and worked really hard I could. The reason you barley saw me last year, was because I was learning both fifth and sixth year work. Although I have not gotten a confirmation on whether I am going to be a sixth year or a seventh year this year, I know that no matter what I want to be with you. So please look up now, look into my eyes and nod if you do. If you don't just smile, and turn away. I will be sad, but I will completely understand. Oh and let us keep my year status quiet until I find out. Thanks!
Love
Ginny
Harry just sat there reading the note over and over again, in shock. He thought back, and replayed all the time he spent with her, and after ten minutes, he smiled to himself, and found he liked her too. Slowly he looked up and into the eyes of Ginny, and then nodded. Her worried face went from shock to pure delight within a second. She quickly got up, ran over to Harry pulling him into a hug, which he hugged back, before either of them could think they began to kiss, a long, deep, passionate, first kiss. Everyone stopped whatever they were doing and starred, mouths hanging open, and eyes wide. After around half a minute the two pulled away, in shock at what they had just done. They stared into each other's eyes, and noticed how quiet it had suddenly gotten. They both slowly turned and looked at the large group of people still looking at them. Harry and Ginny just smiled, and gave out a small laugh. Fred broke the silence.
"Finally! Could the two of you taken any longer to get together?"
"Really, it was quite obvious you two liked each other, always sneaking out into the woods together." George added on, with a smile. Everyone seemed to come out of their shock, Harry and Ginny found themselves getting pats on their backs from everyone. They did not get to say anything however because suddenly four owls zoomed in, dropping letters in the four teens hands, before leaving. Slowly they each opened their letters.
Dear Mrs. Weasley,
We are proud to tell you that you got full marks on your OWLS, and have succeeded in passing both fifth and sixth year, in one. You have been made Prefect, and will be starting this year as a seventh year. Please note that the school year will start on September the first.
Deputy Headmistress
Professor McGonagall
Ginny shirked with delight at the same time Hermione did.
Dear Mrs. Granger,
We are pleased to tell you that you have been made Head Girl this year. Please note that the school year will start on September the first.
Deputy Headmistress
Professor McGonagall.
Ron and Harry were still Prefects. Ginny ran over to Harry and handed her note to him. He read it, and quickly picked her up with a shout of delight, and swung her around.
"Mom, dad...family, friends...everyone, I have an announcement to make, for those of you wondering, I got full marks on my owls..." There were shouts of congratulations and many hugs before she could go on. "I have also been made prefect..." Once again, she had to wait. "But what has really got me excited, and is what I have been trying for, I have been moved up a grade, I am now a seventh year!" She hopped up and down, as everyone stood there with their mouths open for the second time in thirty minutes.
"Wow, honey. How did you manage that?" Miss. Weasley asked with a grin.
"A lot of hard work mom, ALOT of hard work. Hermione, did you get, what I think you got?" Ginny asked. Hermiones' smile got even bigger then she already had it.
"Yep! I am head girl!" There were loud shouts from everyone, as she too got a bunch of congratulations and pats on her back. Before they new it, the day was over, and they had some major cleaning up to do. Harry and Ginny gave all five kids baths, while Hermione and Ron helped everyone else pick up the yard and house.
Ron and Hermione sat down on the living room couch together to take a short break before going upstairs to the kids.
"Boy I miss our Nannies. You just don't know how much you depend on them until you spend three months with out them." Ron stated, leaning back, putting his right arm over his face.
"I know, I had no idea I would miss them so much, but at the same time, I am loving every minute spent with our kids...well almost every minute." Hermione copied Ron's actions, and gave a yawn. "I can't believe Harry and Ginny finally got together."
"Yeah, I know. It's about time." Ron replied. "I'm just glad they finally did it. Say, Hermione?"
"Yeah?"
"Would...would you like to go out with me?" Ron whispered. Hermione sat bolt up, her eyes wide. Had she heard correctly? Did Ron Weasley finally ask her out?"
"Yes!" She exclaimed, finally finding her voice. Ron smiled relived.
"Good. Let's go up-stairs and rescue the other two love birds." Ron smiled standing up and helping Hermione up. They walked up the stairs hand in hand. The rest of the Weasley and Grangers watched them from the dining room with large smiles on their faces.
"There all growing up so fast." Mr. Weasley moaned. Miss. Weasley and Miss Granger could only nod, as tears ran down their faces.
End of story two...
After a long exhausting week, Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco all sat down under the calming tree with the five seven month olds. All were now eating baby food, and they could sit up on their own now, and stay sitting up. Draco had started seeing Lily and the others, which he felt for some reason, were his own every weekend. He participated, in feeding, holding, playing and everything else a normal parent did, other then getting them to sleep. Harry seemed to understand Draco's need to take care of Lily when he could, and was rest assured, that if something were to happen, Draco would be a good father. Plus he could use all the extra help he could get, for all five of the children had started to crawl. Well sort of, they would more like slither around, with the bottoms in the air, but they got to where they wanted. Julie had surprised everyone and even managed to stand up holding on to the couch once. The babies had also learned new words, and the teens were more the willing to get them started on talking. At night they would walk around the Gryffindor common room and say goodnight to different things. It calmed them down, and helped them with their speaking skills.
It seemed as though all the children were a little advanced for their age. One by one they would all start to master skills and move on. The trio suddenly found themselves with a massive handful.
"Mama!" Squeaked Julie, as she got up to her feet, holding on to the couch and started to carefully move across the couch before falling on her bottom. "A-wa-to-la!" She yelled at the top of her lungs at running out of couch. She then began to crawl over to where Daniel was trying to get to the fireplace, but found he could not, due to an invisible barrier. Julie decided she would try also. Soroush could be found on the other side of the room, sitting in front of a mirror, making faces and laughing. Lily and John were sitting in Harry's lap playing with rattles that had small fireworks displays on the inside, while sucking on their pacifiers. Hermione and Ron could be found in chairs doing their homework, which somehow or another Harry had finished before them both. He was as shocked as both of them, knowing Hermione was normally finished way before him. Lily dropped her rattle and pointed down, while making a growling type noise.
"You want down?" Lily spat out her pacifier.
"Yeahhhhhh!" She squalled. Harry smiled, and carefully placed her on the ground. John quickly took up all the space Lily was taking, on Harry's lap, and smiled as he too spat out his pacifier.
"Ah-so-la-ma-na!" He yelled, and shook his rattle. It was yet another Sunday in March. The children were already eight months old. The teens planned on taking the kids to the Great Hall for dinner, something none of the people in the room had done in months. The babies had not ate in the Great Hall since the beginning of the year feast. Whilst Harry, Ron and Hermione had been eating with their kids ever since they stopped bottle feeding two and a half months ago. The kids enjoyed going into the Gryffindor common room, and into the dorms, where they would get massive amounts of attention, and get to explore new places. The group had made it a habit to go outside and have a picnic under the calming tree once every week, Draco now joined them, and helped feed the kids, and read to them. They would all take turns reading, every night and every weekend picnic someone new would read a book. "Boo" Was one of the kids favourite words to say, knowing someone would always pull out a book and start to read.
That evening the group got the wiggling kids strapped into their strollers, their bags set up, and they started off to the Great Hall. Everyone got used to them not eating meals in the Great Hall, poor Dumbledore had not seen the kids since they had just started to crawl. As they all entered the Great Hall everyone went quiet. The trio smiled, as the kids started talking in there own language to each other loudly with massive smiles at being in a new place. The group walked over the end of the Gryffindor table near the teachers table, and got high-chairs up, ready to feed, they were all surprised when Draco left the Slytherin table and sat down in front of Lily, who screeched in delight, as did Daniel and Julie, who were next to her. Ginny got up and sat in front of Soroush, while Harry sat in front of Daniel, Hermione in front of Julie, and Ron in front of John. They all immediately got the food ready and started to feed them, not noticing the snickers and whispers coming from the still quite large room. Dumbledore just grinned, along with McGonagall. Snape looked like he was going to choke walked in to see Draco sitting at the Gryffindor table feeding a baby.
Before they all new it, it was time to go home. Draco looked devastated at having to spend the entire summer without seeing them. They quickly promised to send pictures. Before they got on the train, Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Hagrid helped them get situated, as they played with the children.
"My, oh my they have gotten so big, and can now talk. You three have been keeping them to yourselves way to much, they can say words already." Dumbledore grinned.
"We're sorry. I guess we have been so busy, we completely forgot to bring them to you to see." Ron stated, letting the kids crawl and walk holding on to the benches around their large train car.
"Can you believe the last time we were on this train, they were only a month old, and would cry every three hours. We were miserable, and tired." Hermione laughed. The three shook there heads and smiled. The train whistled signalling that they would be leaving in five minutes. The teacher bid the group goodbye, and left the car. The teens quickly gathered up the ten month olds and got them strapped into their car seats, much to the kids dislike. Their screeches and cries could be heard in the cars ahead of them. The teens quickly gave them their pacifiers and toys, and then sat down themselves. Finally the train started. Once it got to a normal speed, Draco walked in, and helped let the kids loose. The trip home was uneventful; the movement of the train had the kids snoring within an hour. They only woke up for lunch then again for dinner. They felt the train start to slow, and the teens quickly got the now wide awake children back into there seats, as they picked up their carriage and got everything ready to be transported. The train slowly came to a stop at King Cross station, and with the help of Ron's brothers and Sister, plus the train staff, they slowly stepped off the train with large smiles, pushing their children in their strollers. As they walked out, the kids started squalling, and reaching out. All of them yelling "Out!"
They had only all gotten off the train when they were suddenly embraced in large hugs from Mr. and Miss. Weasley, and Mr. and Miss. Granger.
"My, oh my! They have all gotten so big!" Miss Weasley smiled looking at them all.
"Out! Out!" The kids were still screeching lifting there hands up.
"Not right now, later." Hermione responded to them all, this is not what they wanted to hear however as they all started to cry. Harry handed them each a pacifier, and toys, which they had to stop and pick up every once in awhile when the kids would throw them in a mad fit. What normally would be a ten-minute walk out of the station, turned into a thirty-minute walk, and all three teens were at the end of their string.
"Well, I see they are all a handful. I'm not sure how you got through the year." Mr. Granger stated, lifting them into car seats.
"Where are we going?" Harry asked noticing that his two were just put in the Granger van.
"Ah, you did not get our owl. Well, we just could not split you up, like we did for half of last summer, so you and Ron will be staying at our house for the first month and a half, then you will go to the Weasley house for the rest of the summer." Mrs. Granger explained. "Mr. and Mrs. Weasley will take your things to our place. All you kids need to do is get the babies together, and ready for transport, we only live half an hour away." The trio nodded with large smiles. They had not been looking forward to being split up again. The children slept all the way to the Grangers, and were once again wide-awake the minute the car pulled into the driveway. As soon as they were taken out of the car, they started making noise. Julie and Daniel started crying, at being somewhere unfamiliar, while John, Soroush, and Lily squealed in excitement. They walked into the large house, Hermione guided them to the Nursery, where they let the children loose, as they helped set the room up.
The month went quickly, and, before they knew it, Daniel, and Soroush could make full short sentences, with the others not far behind. But it was Thursday, June tenth that Ron would put in his baby book. It was a warm afternoon; the trio sat on the couch watching TV while the kids sat beside them, taking their naps. John woke up only an hour after they fell asleep.
"Dada, I hunwe." He stated, with half open eyes.
"Well what do you want to eat?" Ron asked getting up and heading for the small kitchenette and pulling out the baby-food containers. Her turned around to see John climb off the couch, and stand up holding on to the couch. John looked to be concentrating really hard, Ron and the trio just watched. Suddenly John let go of the couch and took a step. The trio's gasp could be heard all over the house. John took another step, then another. After taking five steps, he fell on his bottom. Ron ran over to him food forgotten, cheering. He scooped up his son, and twirled him around, tears running down his cheeks.
"You walked! You walked!" He yelled, Hermione, and Harry stood behind them, grinning.
By the time it was time to go to the Weasley's all five of the children were avid walkers. None of them could walk very far, but they would walk for as far as they could, whenever they could. The baby-books were rapidly filling up. Time seemed to speed up and before the group new it, the date was July, thirty-first, two thousand four. Harry was now officially seventeen, and the quints were officially one year old. The little one's did not quite understand why they were celebrating, but they liked it. A small piece of chocolate cake was placed in front of all of them. Forgetting their spoons, the kids dug in with there hands, sticking fist fulls in their mouth, all over their face, head, necks, bibs, high-chair tables, and even the ground. All of them grinning, and trying to eat as much as they could as fast as possible. The teens let them have their fun for once, and decided that they would just have a large clean up later. They were eating outside with the rest of the Weasley family, plus the Grangers. Presents had a whole table to themselves. Each parent opened the presents to their kids finding all sorts of baby toy's and books, both magic and muggle. Harry got some books of his own, a new dress robe from all the Weasley's. Some jokes from George and Fred's, joke shop, but what stopped him short was the note from Ginny Weasley. The two had been spending a lot of time together lately, she came in and helped take care of the kids, and she and Harry had been taking hikes through the woods, with both Daniel and Lily, in backpack type baby carriers. Harry carefully opened the letter, making sure no one but Ginny noticed, he smiled as he read her words.
Dear Harry,
I know you have a lot on your mind, you have two one year olds, your Quidditch team captain, your either a prefect or head boy this year, plus you have NEWTS to get ready for. However, I am going to ask you this anyways. I liked you the minute I saw you. At first, it was weird to be around you, but now it just feels natural. I feel like my 'like' for you has grown quite a bit, and I wanted to know if you would like to go out with me? I know you are a year ahead of me, but I have a surprise I have not told anyone yet, last year I asked Dumbledore if there was a way to skip a grade, he told me that very few had done it, but if I really wanted to, and worked really hard I could. The reason you barley saw me last year, was because I was learning both fifth and sixth year work. Although I have not gotten a confirmation on whether I am going to be a sixth year or a seventh year this year, I know that no matter what I want to be with you. So please look up now, look into my eyes and nod if you do. If you don't just smile, and turn away. I will be sad, but I will completely understand. Oh and let us keep my year status quiet until I find out. Thanks!
Love
Ginny
Harry just sat there reading the note over and over again, in shock. He thought back, and replayed all the time he spent with her, and after ten minutes, he smiled to himself, and found he liked her too. Slowly he looked up and into the eyes of Ginny, and then nodded. Her worried face went from shock to pure delight within a second. She quickly got up, ran over to Harry pulling him into a hug, which he hugged back, before either of them could think they began to kiss, a long, deep, passionate, first kiss. Everyone stopped whatever they were doing and starred, mouths hanging open, and eyes wide. After around half a minute the two pulled away, in shock at what they had just done. They stared into each other's eyes, and noticed how quiet it had suddenly gotten. They both slowly turned and looked at the large group of people still looking at them. Harry and Ginny just smiled, and gave out a small laugh. Fred broke the silence.
"Finally! Could the two of you taken any longer to get together?"
"Really, it was quite obvious you two liked each other, always sneaking out into the woods together." George added on, with a smile. Everyone seemed to come out of their shock, Harry and Ginny found themselves getting pats on their backs from everyone. They did not get to say anything however because suddenly four owls zoomed in, dropping letters in the four teens hands, before leaving. Slowly they each opened their letters.
Dear Mrs. Weasley,
We are proud to tell you that you got full marks on your OWLS, and have succeeded in passing both fifth and sixth year, in one. You have been made Prefect, and will be starting this year as a seventh year. Please note that the school year will start on September the first.
Deputy Headmistress
Professor McGonagall
Ginny shirked with delight at the same time Hermione did.
Dear Mrs. Granger,
We are pleased to tell you that you have been made Head Girl this year. Please note that the school year will start on September the first.
Deputy Headmistress
Professor McGonagall.
Ron and Harry were still Prefects. Ginny ran over to Harry and handed her note to him. He read it, and quickly picked her up with a shout of delight, and swung her around.
"Mom, dad...family, friends...everyone, I have an announcement to make, for those of you wondering, I got full marks on my owls..." There were shouts of congratulations and many hugs before she could go on. "I have also been made prefect..." Once again, she had to wait. "But what has really got me excited, and is what I have been trying for, I have been moved up a grade, I am now a seventh year!" She hopped up and down, as everyone stood there with their mouths open for the second time in thirty minutes.
"Wow, honey. How did you manage that?" Miss. Weasley asked with a grin.
"A lot of hard work mom, ALOT of hard work. Hermione, did you get, what I think you got?" Ginny asked. Hermiones' smile got even bigger then she already had it.
"Yep! I am head girl!" There were loud shouts from everyone, as she too got a bunch of congratulations and pats on her back. Before they new it, the day was over, and they had some major cleaning up to do. Harry and Ginny gave all five kids baths, while Hermione and Ron helped everyone else pick up the yard and house.
Ron and Hermione sat down on the living room couch together to take a short break before going upstairs to the kids.
"Boy I miss our Nannies. You just don't know how much you depend on them until you spend three months with out them." Ron stated, leaning back, putting his right arm over his face.
"I know, I had no idea I would miss them so much, but at the same time, I am loving every minute spent with our kids...well almost every minute." Hermione copied Ron's actions, and gave a yawn. "I can't believe Harry and Ginny finally got together."
"Yeah, I know. It's about time." Ron replied. "I'm just glad they finally did it. Say, Hermione?"
"Yeah?"
"Would...would you like to go out with me?" Ron whispered. Hermione sat bolt up, her eyes wide. Had she heard correctly? Did Ron Weasley finally ask her out?"
"Yes!" She exclaimed, finally finding her voice. Ron smiled relived.
"Good. Let's go up-stairs and rescue the other two love birds." Ron smiled standing up and helping Hermione up. They walked up the stairs hand in hand. The rest of the Weasley and Grangers watched them from the dining room with large smiles on their faces.
"There all growing up so fast." Mr. Weasley moaned. Miss. Weasley and Miss Granger could only nod, as tears ran down their faces.
End of story two...
