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Chapter 8.
"Harry...will you marry me?" Draco looked straight into Harry's eyes as he said this. Harry looked like he was about to burst with joy; he hugged Draco tightly and whispered a 'yes' in his ear. Draco smiled at Harry and gently pushed the ring onto his finger. The ring was silver; there were two different gems in the centre of the ring. In the middle was a diamond and either side of the stone there were two big emeralds.
"Oh, there is one more thing, look in the band of the ring," instructed Draco. So Harry took the ring off and looked, what he saw there brought tears to his eyes. It read: Harry, I'll always love you. Draco xx
"Oh Draco it's beautiful and I love it," with that Harry placed a very passionate kiss on his lips. Just then Ron and Hermione walked in and asked, "Are you two talking now?"
"You bet! Draco and I are going to get married!"
Ron and Hermione ran over to Harry and Draco and embraced the two, they were well and truly happy for them.
"When's the wedding?" asked Ron.
"I don't know, we haven't had any time to talk about it yet," replied Harry.
"Well, I don't mind when we get married as long as we do get married. I love you Harry," and with that Draco offered Harry a very charming smile.
"I love you too Dray," Harry then leant in and placed a soft kiss on his lips.
"Oooohhhh, I'm so happy for the both of you. This is going to be so exciting!!" Hermione was practically bouncing up and down with joy. Harry, Ron and Draco just chuckled, it seemed like everything was finally going to be ok and a good thing too.
"Hey guys, we'll leave you now so you can talk about the wedding and stuff, we'll see you at dinner."
"Has it been that long already?" Harry asked.
"Sure has. Come on 'Mione," and with that Ron and Hermione left the two lovers alone.
"So..."
"So?"
"When do you wanna get married Harry?"
"As soon as possible."
"Ok then...how about...when school breaks for the summer?"
"Yeah, why not but that means we don't have much time to organise things."
"We'll do it and we've got Ron and Hermione to help us don't forget."
"How can I? 'Mione will kill us if we don't let her help us," both men chuckled at this.
"Draco I hope you do realise that we've only got one month and nineteen days till school breaks for the summer holidays," stated Harry matter-of- factly.
"You're joking."
"Nope."
"Well, we better get to work...hey maybe we could ask Dumbledore to marry us. What do you say?"
"Yeah why not," replied Harry with a grin.
That afternoon Harry and Draco did a lot of talking about the wedding and if that wasn't enough good news Albus also informed them that Lucius was taken by the Ministry and was sent straight to Azkaban. Harry and Draco soon met up with Ron and Hermione to talk to them about the wedding plans. Hermione was more than looking forward to the wedding and couldn't stop bouncing with excitement.
"I think I should go and talk to Dumbledore about the wedding."
"Would you like me to come with Dray?"
"No it's ok, you stay here and try your best to calm Hermione down. Anyone would think it was her wedding all over again," with a chuckle Draco left Harry's study to make his way to the headmasters office.
Draco soon reached the door of the headmaster and knocked. He waited patiently for the command to tell him to enter and sure enough it came in a matter of seconds. Draco entered the office for the second time that day and looked the headmaster straight in the eyes he could tell that Dumbledore already knew what was going on before he even opened his mouth to speak but he spoke anyway.
"Professor, Harry and I have decided to get married and we were wondering if you would do the honours and marry us?" Draco asked politely.
"Of course Mr. Malfoy. I would be honoured to marry the two of you."
"You would?!" Draco asked rather surprised, he thought he would have to beg or something. Well, that confirmed it for him Dumbledore was a truly generous man.
"Of course I will," replied Dumbledore with a warm smile.
"Thank you sir."
"Is there anything else?"
"Erm...I don't think so."
"How about you have the service here, on the Hogwarts grounds. It would be lovely, don't you think?"
"Oh that would be fantastic! Thank you ever so much sir!" Draco replied. By now he was totally overjoyed. With a smile at the head Draco made a move to leave but Dumbledore asked him to say for one moment.
"Draco...after the Ministry informed me that your father..." at this Draco visibly flinched but Dumbledore continued. "You know that your...I mean to say that Lucius is now in Azkaban well the Ministry have also decided that he should receive the Dementor's kiss," here Albus stopped and studied Draco's face but Draco's face was void of any emotions what so ever.
"Thank you for informing me sir," was all Draco said and again he made a move to leave but Dumbledore stopped him.
"Draco...are you ok with this?" concern was evident in Dumbledore's blue eyes.
"To tell the truth sir I couldn't be more happier. I'm finally going to get married to the man I've loved for so many years and Lucius isn't here to spoil that for me," replied Draco with a small grin on his face.
"Well, if that's all you may return to Harry and your friends."
"Thank you sir," and with a nod Draco left and made his way back to Harry's study.
Draco soon reached Harry's study and filled them all in on the news of Lucius and the fact that they could now have the service here at Hogwarts. Harry was overjoyed this meant that the students could also attend the wedding, which Harry was really happy about too. The four friends talked well into the night about the wedding: who should be invited, what food to have, what to wear and so on. Ron and Hermione left a little while after midnight; Harry and Draco decided to follow their lead and made their way to their bedroom for a goodnights sleep.
As time passed Harry and Draco had a few fallouts over the wedding plans but that was to be expected and don't forget that the making up was a lot of fun to say the least. The 20th of July was fast approaching and Harry and Draco still had to send the invites out to their guests.
"What are we going to do Harry?" Draco asked sounding and looking very worried.
"Don't worry Draco I've got it all taken care of," replied Harry looking very proud of himself.
"Oh really?"
"Yes. The whole of Ron's family will be coming so naturally I had Ron tell them all. Then I wrote to Sirius and Remus the very next day after you proposed to me and the rest of the school know too so that wasn't very hard..."
"You forgot my friends, form muggle London remember?"
"I was just getting to that. Anyway I wrote to them too and I got replies back from them all just the other day," replied a very happy looking Harry.
"Luck Smith?"
"Yes."
"Scott Lea?"
"Yep."
"Jess Thomas?"
"Yeah."
"Lee Jackson?"
"Of course."
"And don't forget Terry."
"He is coming, how could I forget him? If it wasn't for him we wouldn't be together, would we?"
"That's true. I own him a lot."
"I can't believe it, we're going to be married in just two days. I'm so excited."
"Me too, I'll be your husband," and with that said the two embraced and shared a very heated kiss.
(The wedding!!)
The 20th of July had finally decided to show itself. It was a very hot and sunny summers day, the blue sky was clear of any clouds, the birds were singing merrily and the guests were sat outside waiting for the service to begin. There were two sections of chairs, on one side at the front sat Draco's friends and on the other side at the front sat Harry's friends and godparents. At the very front was a white wooden arch covered in lilies of all colours and in front of that stood Albus Dumbledore himself waiting to marry the two young men. Albus was dressed in white elegant robes that had gold embroidery on it; he stood there looking down the aisle waiting for Harry and Draco to appear. In no time the wedding march began to play, everyone stood up and turned to look at the couple, gasps ran through out the congregation as they saw what the two men were wearing they looked truly beautiful.
Draco was dressed in an elegant white suite, the top button of his shirt was left open, and his hair was left natural and not swept back like he used to have it. He also wore a ruby red robe, which was held together by a lion broach, which was gold and had rubies for eyes. Harry wore an identical suite to Draco the only difference was his cloak was emerald green and was held together by a silver dragon broach, which had emeralds for eyes. The couple held hands and slowly made their way down the aisle; they both had very big smiles on their faces. This was truly the happiest day in both of their lives.
Once they reached the front of the aisle they let go of each other's hands, turned to face each other and waited for Dumbledore to start.
"We are gathered here on this glorious day to witness the marriage between Harry James Potter and Draco Lucius Malfoy. Now will the two of you please recite you vows."
"Harry, you are everything to me. You're the air that I breathe, you're the life that I need and I want to thank you for loving me because without you I'm nothing at all. You'll never know how much you mean to me but I'll try my best to show you just how much I love you from this day on and I'm going to love you til the end of time."
Looking around the congregation you could see that people were starting to cry, Draco's words were truly beautiful. It was Harry's turn next and the guests were sat there with baited breath just waiting to hear what Harry had to say.
"Draco, when I first saw you I already knew there was something inside of you, something I thought I would never find. But you proved to me that love was out there and I too could be loved and luckily you chose me to love. So I count my blessings everyday, I'm so lucky to have you and to I'm going to love you til the end of time."
That did, oh boy did that do it everyone was in tears. Remus was comforting Sirius after all his baby was all grown up and he wouldn't need him anymore but Remus told him that Harry loved him and would always need him. Hermione was in tears her best friend was finally going to be happy, he had his Draco back and that's all that mattered. And then there was Molly Weasley she was in tears too as her sergeant son was finally married and happy.
"By the power that is vested in me I now pronouns you Mr and Mr. Potter."
Collective gasps ran through the guests again when they heard this, no one thought Draco would drop his last name but Draco didn't want that tarnished name any longer then he had to. And with that Harry and Draco kissed for the first time as husband and husband.
Everyone eventually moved into the castle for the party were they ate, drank, talked, laughed, danced and had lots of fun. Harry and Draco left the party about seven in the evening so they could catch their flight to Egypt where they were to spend their honeymoon. All I can say is that they both led a very happy and eventful life after that day.
THE END!!!
A/N: That's all folks!! I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did writing it. Anyway please review and tell me if you liked it, hated it, found it all right or maybe (just maybe *fingers crossed*) you loved it. Well, I shall be waiting with baited breath to see what you all think.
Chapter 8.
"Harry...will you marry me?" Draco looked straight into Harry's eyes as he said this. Harry looked like he was about to burst with joy; he hugged Draco tightly and whispered a 'yes' in his ear. Draco smiled at Harry and gently pushed the ring onto his finger. The ring was silver; there were two different gems in the centre of the ring. In the middle was a diamond and either side of the stone there were two big emeralds.
"Oh, there is one more thing, look in the band of the ring," instructed Draco. So Harry took the ring off and looked, what he saw there brought tears to his eyes. It read: Harry, I'll always love you. Draco xx
"Oh Draco it's beautiful and I love it," with that Harry placed a very passionate kiss on his lips. Just then Ron and Hermione walked in and asked, "Are you two talking now?"
"You bet! Draco and I are going to get married!"
Ron and Hermione ran over to Harry and Draco and embraced the two, they were well and truly happy for them.
"When's the wedding?" asked Ron.
"I don't know, we haven't had any time to talk about it yet," replied Harry.
"Well, I don't mind when we get married as long as we do get married. I love you Harry," and with that Draco offered Harry a very charming smile.
"I love you too Dray," Harry then leant in and placed a soft kiss on his lips.
"Oooohhhh, I'm so happy for the both of you. This is going to be so exciting!!" Hermione was practically bouncing up and down with joy. Harry, Ron and Draco just chuckled, it seemed like everything was finally going to be ok and a good thing too.
"Hey guys, we'll leave you now so you can talk about the wedding and stuff, we'll see you at dinner."
"Has it been that long already?" Harry asked.
"Sure has. Come on 'Mione," and with that Ron and Hermione left the two lovers alone.
"So..."
"So?"
"When do you wanna get married Harry?"
"As soon as possible."
"Ok then...how about...when school breaks for the summer?"
"Yeah, why not but that means we don't have much time to organise things."
"We'll do it and we've got Ron and Hermione to help us don't forget."
"How can I? 'Mione will kill us if we don't let her help us," both men chuckled at this.
"Draco I hope you do realise that we've only got one month and nineteen days till school breaks for the summer holidays," stated Harry matter-of- factly.
"You're joking."
"Nope."
"Well, we better get to work...hey maybe we could ask Dumbledore to marry us. What do you say?"
"Yeah why not," replied Harry with a grin.
That afternoon Harry and Draco did a lot of talking about the wedding and if that wasn't enough good news Albus also informed them that Lucius was taken by the Ministry and was sent straight to Azkaban. Harry and Draco soon met up with Ron and Hermione to talk to them about the wedding plans. Hermione was more than looking forward to the wedding and couldn't stop bouncing with excitement.
"I think I should go and talk to Dumbledore about the wedding."
"Would you like me to come with Dray?"
"No it's ok, you stay here and try your best to calm Hermione down. Anyone would think it was her wedding all over again," with a chuckle Draco left Harry's study to make his way to the headmasters office.
Draco soon reached the door of the headmaster and knocked. He waited patiently for the command to tell him to enter and sure enough it came in a matter of seconds. Draco entered the office for the second time that day and looked the headmaster straight in the eyes he could tell that Dumbledore already knew what was going on before he even opened his mouth to speak but he spoke anyway.
"Professor, Harry and I have decided to get married and we were wondering if you would do the honours and marry us?" Draco asked politely.
"Of course Mr. Malfoy. I would be honoured to marry the two of you."
"You would?!" Draco asked rather surprised, he thought he would have to beg or something. Well, that confirmed it for him Dumbledore was a truly generous man.
"Of course I will," replied Dumbledore with a warm smile.
"Thank you sir."
"Is there anything else?"
"Erm...I don't think so."
"How about you have the service here, on the Hogwarts grounds. It would be lovely, don't you think?"
"Oh that would be fantastic! Thank you ever so much sir!" Draco replied. By now he was totally overjoyed. With a smile at the head Draco made a move to leave but Dumbledore asked him to say for one moment.
"Draco...after the Ministry informed me that your father..." at this Draco visibly flinched but Dumbledore continued. "You know that your...I mean to say that Lucius is now in Azkaban well the Ministry have also decided that he should receive the Dementor's kiss," here Albus stopped and studied Draco's face but Draco's face was void of any emotions what so ever.
"Thank you for informing me sir," was all Draco said and again he made a move to leave but Dumbledore stopped him.
"Draco...are you ok with this?" concern was evident in Dumbledore's blue eyes.
"To tell the truth sir I couldn't be more happier. I'm finally going to get married to the man I've loved for so many years and Lucius isn't here to spoil that for me," replied Draco with a small grin on his face.
"Well, if that's all you may return to Harry and your friends."
"Thank you sir," and with a nod Draco left and made his way back to Harry's study.
Draco soon reached Harry's study and filled them all in on the news of Lucius and the fact that they could now have the service here at Hogwarts. Harry was overjoyed this meant that the students could also attend the wedding, which Harry was really happy about too. The four friends talked well into the night about the wedding: who should be invited, what food to have, what to wear and so on. Ron and Hermione left a little while after midnight; Harry and Draco decided to follow their lead and made their way to their bedroom for a goodnights sleep.
As time passed Harry and Draco had a few fallouts over the wedding plans but that was to be expected and don't forget that the making up was a lot of fun to say the least. The 20th of July was fast approaching and Harry and Draco still had to send the invites out to their guests.
"What are we going to do Harry?" Draco asked sounding and looking very worried.
"Don't worry Draco I've got it all taken care of," replied Harry looking very proud of himself.
"Oh really?"
"Yes. The whole of Ron's family will be coming so naturally I had Ron tell them all. Then I wrote to Sirius and Remus the very next day after you proposed to me and the rest of the school know too so that wasn't very hard..."
"You forgot my friends, form muggle London remember?"
"I was just getting to that. Anyway I wrote to them too and I got replies back from them all just the other day," replied a very happy looking Harry.
"Luck Smith?"
"Yes."
"Scott Lea?"
"Yep."
"Jess Thomas?"
"Yeah."
"Lee Jackson?"
"Of course."
"And don't forget Terry."
"He is coming, how could I forget him? If it wasn't for him we wouldn't be together, would we?"
"That's true. I own him a lot."
"I can't believe it, we're going to be married in just two days. I'm so excited."
"Me too, I'll be your husband," and with that said the two embraced and shared a very heated kiss.
(The wedding!!)
The 20th of July had finally decided to show itself. It was a very hot and sunny summers day, the blue sky was clear of any clouds, the birds were singing merrily and the guests were sat outside waiting for the service to begin. There were two sections of chairs, on one side at the front sat Draco's friends and on the other side at the front sat Harry's friends and godparents. At the very front was a white wooden arch covered in lilies of all colours and in front of that stood Albus Dumbledore himself waiting to marry the two young men. Albus was dressed in white elegant robes that had gold embroidery on it; he stood there looking down the aisle waiting for Harry and Draco to appear. In no time the wedding march began to play, everyone stood up and turned to look at the couple, gasps ran through out the congregation as they saw what the two men were wearing they looked truly beautiful.
Draco was dressed in an elegant white suite, the top button of his shirt was left open, and his hair was left natural and not swept back like he used to have it. He also wore a ruby red robe, which was held together by a lion broach, which was gold and had rubies for eyes. Harry wore an identical suite to Draco the only difference was his cloak was emerald green and was held together by a silver dragon broach, which had emeralds for eyes. The couple held hands and slowly made their way down the aisle; they both had very big smiles on their faces. This was truly the happiest day in both of their lives.
Once they reached the front of the aisle they let go of each other's hands, turned to face each other and waited for Dumbledore to start.
"We are gathered here on this glorious day to witness the marriage between Harry James Potter and Draco Lucius Malfoy. Now will the two of you please recite you vows."
"Harry, you are everything to me. You're the air that I breathe, you're the life that I need and I want to thank you for loving me because without you I'm nothing at all. You'll never know how much you mean to me but I'll try my best to show you just how much I love you from this day on and I'm going to love you til the end of time."
Looking around the congregation you could see that people were starting to cry, Draco's words were truly beautiful. It was Harry's turn next and the guests were sat there with baited breath just waiting to hear what Harry had to say.
"Draco, when I first saw you I already knew there was something inside of you, something I thought I would never find. But you proved to me that love was out there and I too could be loved and luckily you chose me to love. So I count my blessings everyday, I'm so lucky to have you and to I'm going to love you til the end of time."
That did, oh boy did that do it everyone was in tears. Remus was comforting Sirius after all his baby was all grown up and he wouldn't need him anymore but Remus told him that Harry loved him and would always need him. Hermione was in tears her best friend was finally going to be happy, he had his Draco back and that's all that mattered. And then there was Molly Weasley she was in tears too as her sergeant son was finally married and happy.
"By the power that is vested in me I now pronouns you Mr and Mr. Potter."
Collective gasps ran through the guests again when they heard this, no one thought Draco would drop his last name but Draco didn't want that tarnished name any longer then he had to. And with that Harry and Draco kissed for the first time as husband and husband.
Everyone eventually moved into the castle for the party were they ate, drank, talked, laughed, danced and had lots of fun. Harry and Draco left the party about seven in the evening so they could catch their flight to Egypt where they were to spend their honeymoon. All I can say is that they both led a very happy and eventful life after that day.
THE END!!!
A/N: That's all folks!! I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did writing it. Anyway please review and tell me if you liked it, hated it, found it all right or maybe (just maybe *fingers crossed*) you loved it. Well, I shall be waiting with baited breath to see what you all think.