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- Chapter twenty one: Another proposal -

Mrs. Weasley came in with a steaming hot ovendish.

"Dig in dears. Made by our Ginny and Hermione!"

One of the twins was first to take some. Ginny, who sat across from Hermione and on the other side of Draco, kept glancing at the two of them. She poked him in his side.

"Mal- Draco...what were you and Hermione doing just now? Are you two really...you know...did you two get together? She won't say. But you guys are all huggy all of the time." She whispered

Draco smiled and whispered something back. Her eyes opened wide.

"WHAT?"

All the others stared at her and she blushed heavily.

"Sorry...don't mind me." She said, a tone of embaressment in her voice.

Draco surpressed a wide grin. Hermione stared at him, but smiled as she saw Ginny's nerveous and embaressed face. She guessed what the conversation had been about.

Meanwhile, everybody had finished their meal and mrs. Weasley had gone to fetch the desserts. When everybody had a small plate of pudding in front of them, Harry stood up.

"Before we all start on this delicious looking dessert, I'd like to have your attention. I have something important I want to get off my chest. This question has been waiting in the back of my mind since our graduation, waiting until I had the actual guts to ask it. And for a while I thought I had waited too long, that it was too late. But now, I seem to have gotten a second chance and this time I won't let it slip away."

The others stared at him expectingly. Draco had a look of wonder on his face, as if his mind was slowly putting two and two together. Hermione's mind had been a lot faster. She saw Harry turn to her. This couldn't be happening!

He smiled and took something out of his pocket. He slowly got to one knee and offered her a little box.

"Hermione Granger, will you marry me?"

His eyes sparkled. Someone gasped, probably mrs. Weasley.

Hermione clasped her hand to her mouth, she didn't know what to say to him.

Harry still smiled, but suddenly his smile disappeared as he saw something sparkle on her finger. His eyes turned angry. He got up, threw the box on the table and stormed out the diningroom.

You could have heard a pin drop. No one moved. Hermione suddenly ran out the door too. Another moment of silence, until Draco ran after Hermione, carefully closing the door behind him.

The others looked at each other with confused faces.

Mrs. Weasley was the first to break the silence. "What just happened?"

A murmer filled the room until Ginny softly coughed.

"I know." She said.

Immediately everybody looked at her.

"Harry asked Hermione to marry him, but she was already wearing a ring."

"What?!" George said unbelievingly. "But how...who...what?"

"Draco had asked Hermione the same thing...and she had said yes. Because, well, they had gotten together during their time in hiding..."

She looked at the confused faces and sighed.

"Hermione is marrying Draco, not Harry." She said patiently.

It took a while before it seemed to dawn on them. Then they understood.

"What the hell!"

"Harry, please wait!"

"You could have at least had the decency to tell me you were engaged to that Malfoy!" He shouted as he walked away from her.

"But it was only-"

"When? How long have you been engaged?"

"Since just before dinner. If you had listened, I would have told you."

He shot her an angry look.

"In front of everybody A complete fool!"

She looked back at him with angry eyes. "Yeah well you didn't really listen, did you! I told you time and time again that I didn't want you near me and still you just kept on putting your arm around me!"

At that moment Draco ran into their arguement. He looked from Harry to Hermione and back again.

"Is everything okay?"

"Oh shut up Malfoy!" Harry spat.

Hermione's face was red with anger. "Don't you talk to him like that! You're jealous! You can't stand the fact that for once you didn't win. I'm not in love with you anymore and I'm not marrying you either! And I'll tell you this: At the moment, you're nothing more than a spoiled little boy, who didn't get his way. Running away like that. I love Draco and I'm marrying him because he's a sweet and mature person, who actually cares for other people than himself."

Draco smiled at this, but looked away, unable to face Harry after this. Harry stared at Hermione. She had hit him where it had hurt.

"You have no idea, Hermione, no idea how much I love you. And no idea how much you've hurt me."

Draco stepped up behind Hermione and wrapped his arms around her waist. Hermione closed her eyes for a second.

"And you have no idea how much I love Draco." She said, turning around and taking Draco's hand.

Harry watched them go upstairs. He looked at them angrily and punched his fist against the wall. A light cough surprised him.

"Oh, hey Ginny."

"Hey...are you okay?"

He sighed. "No...no. I made a fool out of myself. Not just back there, but just now. I should have listened better. I'm such a jerk."

Ginny took two more steps in his direction. "No, you're not. You're a real nice person, a caring preson. That's why I- we like you. You've just been hurt, that's all."

He looked at her. "Thank you Ginny. You're nicer than I deserve."

He pulled her into a tight hug. "Thank you."

"Come, let's go into the livingroom. Let's just sit down and talk. Let the others think and say what they want. You need to calm down and get your head together."

Harry shook his head. "No, I'll just go to my room."

He dully walked up the stairs.

Okay, I know this is a really short chapter...and I'm so sorry about that! But the next one is really really long! (Because I put two shorter chapters together and made them one.) But I hope you liked the chapter anyway!!!

CinderBeauty: Thank you!!! [hugs]

CrazyCruzet212: I'm glad you like it, but I'm nor writing a sequel. I think it's best to leave it the way it is. And besides, there are still two chapters to go! So, you'll see (I hope) why I don't plan on writing a sequel. Thanks for reviewing :)

Mojo the Rock Chick Munchkin: hehe, poor Harry? Hmm, I'm not sure I agree...writing Harry this way made me hate Harry for a while...but I guess you're right. It is pretty sad for Harry. Anyway, Harry's back in my good book, so the next fic I'm writing about him won't be one with an evil or dislikeble Harry...

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Dark Angels: I'm leaving for Danmark this Thursday, so I probably won't be able to read your feedback before I return from my holiday. But I'm glad you got it. (I mean to say; I'm glad I didn't send it to the wrong email adress :D) But I can't wait to read what you think about the first chapter, the second and third one are on their way. I think there are about...eight, yeah, eight chapters...

I'm soooooooooooo glad so many people like this fic so much! It makes me happy :D I don't think I'll update before Thursday (unless, of course, I'm drowned in reviews :D) so this is probably the last update for a week or two. I hope you all have a great holiday! I'm sure I will have one, even though I gotta miss a lot of people and the weather's gonna be...less than average...(I mean, come on! Just look at the weather charts...Danmark and Holland aren't really two countries with exotic temperatures, are they...) But I KNOW I'll enjoy it anyway. So, I'll see you in a week or two, baibai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [hugs everyone tightly]
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