Chapter 16 Wisdom of the Heart

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Author's Notes: Onnnce again to Katie, girl, cheer up! School will be starting next week (oh my god!! I will be starting in two weeks!! O__O) Once again, thank you for beta-reading this chappy!

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That, Ginny remember two months later, was one of the best nights in her life. Smiling she touched the ring in her hand. Everything was so perfect! She and Harry Potter, her long life crush, were engaged, more in love than ever. Even though she knew that lots of things would change after that, she also knew that the upcoming things were going to be more interesting than her whole life togheter.

Ginny got up from the couch she was sitting, and walked to the small table in the kitchen. She found Harry there making dinner. She loved when he did that, he looked so concentrated that it felt rude for her to taking out of the cooking-world.

Ginny decided it was better not to do so, so she sat in one chair of the kitchen, and grabbed a paper they both have been writing some time ago. She read it to herself. It was the Guest-List to their wedding, which they decided would be one month after Harry's birthday, on August 31st, they both had agreed that it was the best date, and it was in Summer, Ginny's favorite Season, so they were both really satisfied with the date.

"Don't you want to invite someone else?" Harry asked not looking at her. She smiled.

"I don't think so.. I mean, we've got the most important people. But, are you sure you don't want to invite the Dursleys?" she said this in a very unsure tone. Harry turned around with a disgusted face. "Even though I invite them, they sure are not going to come. So it's the same"

"Yeah.. but.." Ginny wasn't sure why she was saying this. "I mean, they've raced you, and like it or not you are the way you are because of them.. Harry, they could have left you out in the street"

Harry sighed, he had never looked at it that way, and he had to admit that even though he hadn't liked his time at the Dursleys, he wouldn't be the person he is right now. He owed them something, something really really really small. Ginny was right.

"Fine" Harry groaned. "But only the three of them. And we must specify in our wedding invitations that it's going to be a Wizardring Wedding, ok?"

Ginny giggled and wrote down the Dursley's names.

"And…" she said after some quiet seconds. "What are we going to do about Ron?"

"Invite him, of course" Harry sat down next to Ginny, who didn't look so sure of whether inviting Ron or not. He could see she was confused, for one side she didn't want to upset Hermione, and in the other she wanted her brother to be there.

"Ginny" Harry told her, putting his hand ontop of hers. "I know what you are feeling, I have my same doubts, but it's not fair that my best friend, and most important your brother, is not here on that special day. We'll invite them both, I want him to be my best man. So both of them will have to swallow their prides and get along, at least for those days"

Ginny nodded. "You are right. It's our day, not theirs"

"That's right" Harry nodded smiling. He said nothing else and went back to preparing their food. He was swallowed again by his own thoughts. Were they doing the right thing in inviting Ron and Hermione? It was so unfair that he had to have those doubts! Why couldn't just they behave their age? It didn't matter that Hermione had always been the one with the brains, she had always been really childish around Ron. Well, they would have to like each other for 24 hours, Harry thought sharply. He didn't have much relatives, and most of his guests were friends, five or four from Hogwarts and then some of his Quidditch team. He was also inviting both, Sirius and Remus with their families, and some teachers from the Hogwarts staff, just like Dumbledore, McGonagall and even Snape, although he didn't know why he was inviting him. And now the Dursleys, although he was sure they wouldn't come. He would send them a magical souvenir, though. That only thought made Harry giggle. But, his list of guests was nothing like Ginny's.

She had so many friends, so many relatives…! It was like twice of Harry's guests, and even a little more! It didn't fit in Harry's head how could someone have SO many relatives and friends. He almost passed out when she told him that she wasn't inviting some people, because she knew they were not going to make it, and others because she said she wasn't close enough to invite them to her wedding. That's good, I guess. Harry thought to himself. It was going to be an awsome day…

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Ron was sleeping peacefully in his bed, when he was abruptly woken up by something. Better said someone. Or both. Turning on the light in his nighttable, he rubbed his eyes with the back of his hands and then got up from the bed. He wondered for some seconds what was the noise that had awoken him from his dream, but he then realized.

Ron walked to the living room. He glared at the fireplace for some seconds. Closing his eyes a little bit, trying to recognize the face in it, he yawned.

Who the hell was that? It was 4 in the morning, and he had to wake up early tomorrow! Wait! He knew those traits… black haired hair, messy black hair, with something in the forehead… glasses, a big smile… he had to be…

"Harry?!" Ron said surprised. He came closer to the fireplace. Harry was smiling brightly, but he wasn't alone. "Gin?" Ron rubbed his eyes, just to see if this was a dream.

"What are you doing here, at..?" he glared at his wristwatch. "Four o'clock in the morning?"

"Oh, is it SO late?" Ginny bit her lower lip, feeling guilty. Ron nodded a little asleep.

"What are you doing here?"

"Well, Ron…" Harry started. He smiled at Ginny and Ginny smiled back. Harry then looked back at Ron. He gulped. How was he supposed to tell him? Harry didn't know how Ron would react, he protected his little sister very much. He had been so angry when he found out about Harry and Ginny's relationship that he hadn't talked with Harry for over two weeks. Those days had been lame. And now? All of the sudden, Harry felt more terrified than ever. All of the sudden, he pictured himself as a small little man, just like the size of a pixie, and Ron with the size of Hagrid, yelling at him, and grabbing him by his robes, angrily.  He then put Harry in his mouth and ate him, not without saying 'This is for taking my sister away from me, Potter!!' Gulping again, Harry wondered if it was possible that a curse traveled via fireplace. He had already lost the will to tell Ron about the engagement, and, worst of all, give him his invitation to the wedding.

Harry felt really small and helpless, while wondering why did they have to wait that long until he and Ginny decided to tell Ron about this.Why?!

"You know, Ron?" Harry said nervously. "This thing can wait. See you later, pal, sorry if we woke you up!"

Ron realized that Harry was about to leave, but Ginny stopped him. "Where are you going, Harry? We have to tel him! He's my brother! He has to know! Besides, don't you want him to be your best man?"

Harry froze, so did Ron. He sure was asleep, but he understood the meaning of those words. Why did Harry want a beast man?

"Harry, c'mon, we have to tell him!"

Harry sighed. Ron frowned. "Harry? Why the hell do you need a beast man? Isn't it dangerous?"

It took a few seconds for both, Harry and Ginny, to realize what Ron had said. A beast man? Ginny was the first one to crack laughing, followed by Harry. Ron gave them a confused look and waited for his friends to stop laughing. What was so funny? And worst of all, why the hell did Harry want a beast?! Hadn't he already had many problems with beasts and everything, and he now wanted another beast more?

"Hey! I mean it!" Ron stated a little angry.

"Ron… we… we didn't say… beast man!" Ginny said through tears. "I… I… sorry, that was too much… but… we…we said, 'best man'!"

"Best man?" Ron asked more confused. "Why do you need a best man?"

This time, both Harry and Ginny stoped laughing and looked at Ron giving him a really meaningful look. They were all quiet for several minutes. Why was this hard for Ron to understand? Ginny rolled her eyes.

"We're getting married, Ron!" she sounded frustrated.

This time it was Ron's turn to crack laughing. When he realized his friends weren't laughing with him, he froze.  He looked from Ginny to Harry and from Harry to Ginny, his eyes wide open.

"W..what?"

Harry laughed nerviously. "That's right! Ginny, I, engaged! It's on August 31st, see you then Ron!" he, again, tried to escape, but Ginny grabbed him from his clothes and didn't let him go.

"August 31st? Engaged? Best man?" Ron mumbled still shocked.

"That's right, Ron" Ginny said calmly. She showed him her hand. "Harry and I are engaged. We are getting married. On August 31st"

Ron said nothing for some seconds, he got completely blocked out. "Is this true, Harry?"

Harry swallowed saliva again, and slowly nodded his head. "Yes, Ron, it's true"

Again, an uncomfortable silence filled the room. It was broken by Harry, whose voice was trembling. "Do..do you want to be our best man? Not our beast man, our best man" Harry laughed nervisouly.

"When… when did this happen?" Ron asked, his eyes still wide open.

"On.. New Years Eve" Ginny answered. Bad idea.

"I'm sorry?"

"What?"
"I'm sorry?" This time Ron didn't soun surprised, but… recentful. "You, you've been engaged for two months and you didn't even tell me?"

"Ron…"

"No, Ginny, I'm your brother, I was supposed to know! And you, Harry, I'm your best friend, hwo could you do this to me? You should have told me months ago!"

"Ron, we didn't tell it to no one apart…"

"Apart from who? The rest of the world?" he snapped.

This time Harry sighed, but not frustrated, but angrily. Why did Ron had to be such a jackass? He was supposed to be happy for his sister and best friend, not behave this way!

"Look, Ron, nobody knew. Not even Sirius. Only your parents, and Charlie and Bill, nobody else! They all found out one week ago!"

Fighting with Ron in the middle of the night, was not something that they both liked doing. It was useless. There was no way they both could fix this, Ron needed time to think.

"Harry, I don't care. I'm your best friend. I'm your brother! You want me to be your best man, but don't even tell me when you got engaged?!"

"You know what, Ron?" Harry snapped. "I'm so tired of your egocentrism! It always has to be you, you and you! Ginny and I had a hard time doing this, preparing everything, and we both decided to tell you in person the news when he could have send it via owl. We had our reasons to wait so long, and if you don't like it, then fine. Do what the hell you want. I want YOU to be my best man, not anyone else, but if you can't even accept the fact that Ginny and I are getting married, or the fact that it took us so long to tell you, then I'm sorry pal, there's nothing I can do"

Ron mumbled something that Harry didn't hear.

"You know what, Ron? Do what the hell you like, I'll be honored if you came to my wedding. I LOVE your sister, and you, right now, are ruining everything. This was supposed to be a happy moment, but you ALWAYS have to ruin everything. Just, let me know when you have grown up"

And with that Harry's face dissapeared from the fireplace. Neither of them had realized that, but Ginny had already long gone.

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"Gin? Are you there?"

Harry went straight to his room, where he found Ginny crying in their bed. He mentally slapped Ron, and himself for behaving like little kids.

He sat in the bed, next to Ginny, whose head was under a pillow. He started doing small circles in Ginny's back, trying to calm her down.

"Are you ok, love? I'm…sorry"

Ginny's head appeared from under the pillow. While sitting straight in the bed, she put her arms around Harry's neck and cried there, making Harry feel so miserable. It was all his fault. And Ron's. Why the hell did Ron have the speciallity to ruin every little moment? God!

"Look, Gin… I..I didn't mean to-"

"Why does he have to be such a jackass? Damn it!"

Harry gave her a kiss on her head. "Everything's going to be ok, Gin…you don't have to worry"

"But…why? Why, Harry, why? This was supposed to be a special moment, he was supposed to be happy for us! Not be angry at us!"

He didn't know what to say, so he hugged his fianceé tighter. "Look, Gin, everything's going to be ok. Don't worry. Ron is just a jackass, but don't worry. Everything's going to be ok"

"But, Harry! I want him to be your best man! I want him to be in my wedding! This is so not fair! Why am I always the one that has tu suffer the most?"

"Gin, look at me, look at me" Ginny raised her head up and looked at Harry's big green eyes. "We both know Ron,  he's really stubborn, and he obviously was hurt because of our desition…"

"But, Harry! The only people knew about this were the people that were in New Years Eve! Why does he have to be so… so…so SO!"

"I don't know, Gin" he whispered. "But don't worry, everything's going to be ok"

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Two weeks passed after their argument with Ron, they hadn't told anyone about it. Ginny was still mad at him. Neither of them thought Ron could be so stupid when he wanted to, but, as Harry told her, this wouldn't last forever. Although he wasn't so sure himself.

On the night on Monday, while they were eating, their heard something coming from the fireplace in their living room. Harry got up and went straight to it, just to find Ron's head floating in it.

"What are you doing here?" he asked to the read-headed person infront of him.

"Look, Harry, I came to appologize" he looked ashamed.

"Apologize for what? Or, better said, to whom?" Harry was unusually cold.

"Harry, look, I know I've been a jackass I just… look, I haven't had a really good week, and I guess that was… the last thing I had expected. I know I was bad-"

"Bad? Only bad? You were awfull, Ron" Harry interrupted him. "Do you have any idea of what you said the other day?"

"Look, I didn't come here for you to tell me how lame I was, ok? I know I was bad! I came here to apologize, I'm really happy for you guys, I…I just didn't know how to react.."

"Thank you, but there's another person you have to apologize to"

"Who?"

"Ginny"

Ron nodded. Harry called Ginny, who came seconds later to the living room. When she realized who Harry was talking to, her face changed inmidiatly.

"What are you doing here, Ron?"

"Look, sis, I came here to apologize..I've been really bad and I.. I feel awful"

"You should be" she said shrugging. "What you did was horrible"

"I know, Ginny" Ron ansered embarassed. "I..I came here to apologize and..to ask if the best man position was still vacant"

Harry, who had been frowning ever since Ron had appeared in the fireplace, smiled. So did Ginny.

"Of course you can, you silly" she said playfully. Ron smiled satisfied. They were silent for some seconds, then, Ginny was the first one to speak. Playing with her feet, she told to her brother. "But you should really control yourself. Think of the way you hurt the others with your reactions, instead of screaming at us, you know?"

Ron nodded, more ashamed. His face the same color as his hair. "You are right, sis"

"Ron, why do I have the feeling that you are only saying yes to make me happy?"

"No! I swear I'm not doing that!" Ron snapped.

"Mmmm" Ginny doubted for some seconds and then smiled to her brother. She then walked away to fetch something.

"Promise me you will take care of her, right?"

Harry nodded embarassed. "Don't worry, Ron, I love her more than anything in this world"

Ron looked suspiciously at his best friend.

"I mean it" Harry said nodding slowly his head.

"You better take care of her, Potter, be careful with her, treat her like the girl she is-"

"Woman, Ron" Harry interrupted him.

"What?"

"She's not a girl anymore, she's a woman. She's my woman. The woman of my dreams. I will never ever hurt her"

Ron wondered what Harry had just told him. When had Ginny stopped being his little sister and became a woman? Everything was so changed… but he knew, he knew that what Harry had told him was the entire truth. He loved his little sister and would do no harm to her. He trusted Harry, and he knew that Ginny wouldn't be better with Harry than with another men. He trusted him. And he couldn't be more happy that his little sister was getting married to his best friend.

"Here" Ginny said handing him the invitation to the wedding with some sticks for the fire. "The invitation, and you have other things so you know where you have to sit and everything"

"Thank you sis" he smiled at both of them. "I have to get going, see you later. Thank you and… I'm sorry"

"Bye Ron, thank you too"

"Bye brother"

And with that Ron's face dissapeared from the fireplace.

He smiled as he opened the invitation. NO matter how old Ginny was, she would still be his little sister.

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Now, I did my part, you do yours! Review!!

13Kris: I'm really glad you enjoyed my story, even though it's a R/HR H/G!

Sanomeh: Wellcome back mijuju ^^!!! Woa! I actually missed you! I'm so glad you are back, and with a new pen name! So you liked the chapter? Thanks! I really like the name Allyson, Ryan I don't, but I like the name Bryan, besides Bryan Adams is my favorte artist, but I didn't want to put his name, so I deleted the 'R' ^_^ I like other names better, but… anyway! ^_^ What names do YOU like? (apart from Ryan, of course…! :))

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FaerieDust:  I would have been funny… but, don't worry, Ron and Hermione will meet again, although I'm not sure if it will be funny…*evil grin*

HarryPotterFan17:  I'm going to send you an email later with the update thing! Don't worry! :)

luza: are you from spain or latin america? I'm telling this because the 'jajaja' we use it, not the english-speaking people! I found that strange… if you are write my in spanish! :)

Silver Dragon Princess: AHHHHHHH! THANK YOU!!! I found it so cute that you wrote your review half spanish half english! And you wrote it almost perfect! It's not 'me LO encanta' but 'me encanta' but thank you!!:)

mini veela: don't worry, he'll appear again someday, maybe at the burrow, maybe at some different place! But Ron will find out… how? You'll too find out! ^_^

Jeru: Ayyyyy! Mi reviewadora (je!) en castellano! Como anda el tiempo por Chile? Espero que bien! Aca ayer hizo una tormenta francamente hermosa (basta de calor! Que empieze el otoño! Me gustan esos dias que vas con bufanda por la calle pero con un solsito hermoso!) Yo ya extraño el invierno, no me gusta mucho el calor. El verano me gusta, pero me parece excesivamente largo y como que no... en fin...!

Me entere del flaco que hizo la traduccion ilegal de Harry Potter, jejee, que idolo! Pero igual, Jeru, no te atajes, porque no te olvides que en España tambien hablan español,y se supone que es un pais del 'primer mundo' (odio esa definicion) y tampoco esta. Es que las traducciones tardan mucho en hacerse, no te lo tomes como un ataque personal y yo creo que si la JK Rowling fuera chilena, argentina o española sacaría tambien el libro en castellano y dps habria que esperar MESES para tener el libro en otros idiomas. Es asi. Aparte la espera tampoco es tan mala. Nosotras todavia tenemos las dudas de lo que va a pasar. Pero posta, no te lo tomes como un ataque porque no lo es. NO te olvides que de ultima podrian haberlo traducido y venderlo solo en España (que es el mejor pais de habla hispana, economicamente hablando, claro) pero no lo hacen, pq no esta traducido. Y claro, si quisieran venderlo en Latinoamerica bueno, lo tendrian que vender solo en Chile y Argentina (increiblemente, todavia nos prestan algo de atencion...:/) pero enserio, loca, no te lo tomes como algo personal porque no lo es.

En estos dias me voy a leer tus fics, pero ese James/Remus no me llama NADA, no me gustan nada los slash! Voy a leer ese fic, esa trilogia, que me dijiste, pero te tengo que hacer una pregunta, es slash? Pq  yo estuve buscando de Remus/OC Sirius/OC (pero personajes chicas!) y encontre muy pocos, uno que encontre era traduccion y otro nunca lo terminaron... no tendras alguno que recomendarme? En castellano, claro!

Bueno, Jeru, me voy despiediento! En estos dias me leo un par de tus fics fics! Bechote enorme! HOY VOY A VER PIRATAS DEL CARIBEEEE! AMO A JOHNNY DEPP! Y A EWAN MCGREGOR! (el no esta en esa peli, pero igual ^_^)

Bechote!!

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