It was the world's largest party backstage. They had bought out the whole of Honeyduke's and Madame Rosemerta had given them kegs of Butter Beer.

Everyone was loudly laughing a talking to each other. Harry, Hermione, and Lauren were the center of attention.

"And to think," Lauren said to them, "We'll have to do this all over again next week."

"I dunno." Harry said. "This part is fine. It's the acting part that's hard."

Hermione felt someone tap her shoulder. She turned around and saw a short man holding a camera. "Excuse me! I'm from the Daily Prophet and wanted to know if I could take a picture of you for the accompanying article."

Harry searched the room and bellowed "Ron! Get over here!"

Ron ran over and got into the picture with them. After it was taken, Hermione hugged the two of them tightly.

"Aww," Lauren said. "The Trio, together again."

"Were we ever apart?" Ron asked.

Lauren never had a chance to answer the question, because Molly had launched herself onto the three of them.

"Oh! You did a wonderful job! I'm so proud of you!"

"Mum, get off!" Ron said. "Why don't you go find Ginny?"

Molly's eyes formed into angry slits. "Oh, that's right; I need to talk to that girl."

"That wasn't very nice, Ron." Arthur said.

"She was going to find Ginny at some point tonight." Ron shrugged. "Might as well get it over with."

Harry looked over his shoulder and saw Molly yelling at Mrs. Weasley. Luckily for Ginny, it was so loud that you couldn't hear anything.

"Hey," Harry said to Hermione. "How's it going?"

She smiled. "I'm not sure. I'm just kinda happy."

"I think we should tell them." Harry said. "We might as well."

"Okay," Hermione winked. She wrapped an arm around his neck and brought his face towards hers.

It took a good two minutes before the hundred people in the room noticed their two leads making out in the middle of the room.

Justin was the first to notice, but he didn't say anything, waiting to see if anyone else would.

Ginny looked up from her mother's berating and gasped. "Oh my God!"

Everyone looked at the direction she was pointing at. The silence was broken by Lauren's shriek of "Ron, quick! Who bet on opening night?"

Ron scrambled for the list. Harry and Hermione broke apart, both of them looking confused.

"What list?" They said together.

"Here it is!" Ron yelled. "Okay, for opening night, we have Prof. Sinistra." She let out a greedy giggle and came forward.

"Wait a minute!" Hermione screeched. "You had a bet going?"

The entire cast nodded. "Who was in on it?"

"Well, Lauren, Sirius, the teachers," Ron listed.

"The teachers?" Harry asked, his eyes bugged out. "The teachers were betting on our love life? McGonagall and Dumbledore, and," His voice went very high, "Snape?"

"Yup." Ginny put in.

"Oh God," Hermione whispered, leaning into Harry, who looked shell-shocked.

"So," Ron said, coming forward. "I'm glad you two finally got together, and tonight of all nights."

"Actually…"Justin and Sirius said.

"This happened a while back." Hermione finished.

Now it was everyone else's turn to look surprised.

"What?" Lauren asked, "When?"

"Back in October." Harry said.

"That long?" Lavender screamed. "How could you keep this from me?"

"We're not exactly close." Hermione said softly.

"Close, schmose!" Lavender said. "This is important gossip. People needed to know!"

Ron was staring at Harry and Hermione. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Later." Harry said. "Suffice to say, Voldemort."

"Ah."

Lauren looked down at the list. "Okay, October. When in October?"

They looked at each other. "Kinda early in the month."

"Okay, early October was….Sybil?"

Professor Trelawney drifted up. "Yes, I was crystal gazing one night and saw the two of them together. Am I correct in saying that this began in the Great Hall, late at night?"

Hermione's eyes widened. Harry just said very, very quietly, "Damn."

Everyone smiled.

Lauren looked around and said. "We all have money to give you Sybil; we'll do that in a minute."

Harry looked over at Hermione. "I'd say this all worked out okay."

Hermione gave him a quick kiss. "I'd say it did."

"Ron seems to be taking it well." Harry said.

"I was worries he wouldn't." Hermione sighed. "I'm sure there will be problems."

"Yeah, there will be." Harry whispered. "But I'll always love you."

"Come what may?"

"Come what may."

The Probable and Complete End