(A/N) Please don't kill me! I can't put Hermione's story in yet because I still need them to go shopping. Well now for the REVIEWS!

Blondishbrownish: Well I'm sorry, I like Harry and Ginny together too, but you'll find out why Harry couldn't marry her in this chapter, and you'll find out why he did marry Parvati in the next chapter. About Ron, this is RW/HG! I swear they will be together, and you'll find out what happens to Cho.

Sballluvr5: I'm sorry; don't kill me, next chapter, I SOLEMLY SWEAR, Hermione will tell her story

Xzaire: Okay, the can can is a dance that they do in Paris, and they put one leg out at a time….. I think, and you'll find out about Cho, and I had a lot of things to do but at least I'm updating NOW!! Heehee

Twilight Author 488: Thanks for reviewing, and I'm glad you like it!!!

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Chapter 8: Shopping!

By: Medha Gupta

"Harry?"

"Yeah Ron?"

"What do you think of Hermione?"

"She's changed a little."

"A LITTLE!?"

"Fine, A LOT! Are you happy?"

"No! I need to know what happened to her, I swear I'll kill the bloody git that hurt her!" Harry looked at Ron; he was shocked that Ron was acting like this. If Harry didn't know any better he'd say that Ron still liked Hermione, but he can't like her he's already married. Harry remembered when they were a couple, they were so great together, and they ALMOST even stopped biting each other's throats off. Yep, they were Hogwarts's dream couple. Then Harry remembered the fight.

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Harry was lying down on his four poster bed thinking about the day. Dumbledore had called him to his office and told him that Voldemort had been sighted, and Harry might be called to fulfill the prophecy. Suddenly there was a lurch in his stomach, "Shoot," he thought, "I forgot to eat dinner!" Harry put on his invisibility cloak and went down to the common room. He was going to go out to the kitchens when he heard a sob. It was Hermione, and she was crying and Ron was pacing the room looking ashamed.

"Ron, how could you?!" She asked between sobs

"For the last time, Lavender snuck up on me!" Ron insisted stubbornly

"And did she force you to play along?"

"NO!"

"Well you looked like you really enjoyed it! I thought you loved me."

"I did! I mean, I do!" Ron said knowing Hermione was right

"I really loved you, but no, you had to have Miss Beautiful You just couldn't keep me, I knew this was too good to be true, well, all I can say is that these 5 months have been fun, and things aren't working out between us."

"FINE!" Ron screamed. Hermione flinched. "Sorry, I am sorry." Ron said when he saw Hermione crying. "Look, maybe we can give this relationship another chance." He said.

"We can't."

"Well, I don't want to stop being friends."

"Look Ron, we can still be friends, but not a couple."

"Ok, fine"

"Good and you can run after Lavender, I won't get mad at you, but let's tell Harry first thing in the morning, he should be the first to know." Little did they know that Harry was standing in the back feeling guilty, and hungry.

"Hermione?" Ron asked while Hermione was leaving, she turned around, her eyes glistening with soon to be tears.

"Yes Ron?" She asked in a shaky voice

"Is this it?" Ron asked with a deep feeling of dread somewhere in his stomach

"Yeah." Hermione said with tears falling down her face, she still cared about Ron, no matter what she would always have that feeling towards him.

"Can I have a hug?" Ron asked, he felt so guilty about kissing Lavender, he didn't want Hermione to find out, at first, now he knew that he shouldn't have done it.

"No."

"Please." Hermione came closer and she hugged him., he hugged her back, kissing her on the forehead. When they parted they were no longer a couple, they were two separate people, friends, yes, but they no longer had a commitment to love and be loved.

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Harry sniffed a little remembering it. Ron left to talk to the twins and so Harry was alone for a while. He looked at skiving snack boxes while he wiped his eyes, then he felt a small boy run into him. Harry looked at the little boy, he looked no older than five and he had flaming red hair. "Just like a Weasley." Then Harry saw that the little boy was crying.

"What's wrong big guy?"

"I've got a boo-boo!" Harry looked at the little scrape, then he pulled out his wand and fixed it when he heard a familiar voice.

"Percival Ignatius Arthur Weasley Junior, Where are you?" He called. Harry knew the voice, it belonged to Ron's brother, Percy. Percy walked to their isle. "Junior, you don't run into different stores without telling daddy first."

"But Daddy, they have toys here."

"Anyways, you don't talk to strangers, you could have been hurt, and don't waste this nice man's time." He picked up Junior and then Harry spoke up.

"He wasn't bothering me. I'm fine Percy."

"Harry?"

"Yeah?" Harry answered, he was still mad at Percy and he didn't want to get on Ron's bad side either. Oh well.

"My goodness, aren't you one of the aurors?"

"Yes, I am."

"Good, good." He looked at Harry and then Ron came not noticing his brother.

"The twins said that they knew a place that would do everything and—PERCY!" Shocked was an understatement for Ron, he was stupefied to see Percy of all places at Zonko's, and then he found his tongue. "Well, well, well, Percy at a JOKE shop, I've seen EVERYTHING. What is this world coming to?" Ron was turning red with anger

"Ron, can't we put all of our differences aside, it's been 12 years."

"No, you've been too bloody ignorant, and stupid to even care what has happened to us!"

"Well, I say."

"You don't even care that your sister is really sick, and she probably will never get better." Now it was Percy's turn to turn as red as possible. Harry remembered how sick Ginny was, she was hit by a spell, and no one knew what it was. It ended up paralyzing her from her shoulders down, she couldn't sit or stand.

"Isn't there a cure?"

"Well, we wouldn't know, Mum and Dad are dead broke, and you weren't even THERE when Ginny needed all of her brothers."

"Oh, so she is at the Burrow?"

"Yeah."

"Ok, well, um, bye Ron, nice seeing you Harry." And with that he left.

"What a prat." Ron said to Harry.

"Your parents are broke?" Harry asked

"Yeah, but they won't accept money even from me." Ron said knowing that Harry would want to give his mom and dad money. Harry always wanted to help them out as much as he could, so he thought about what to do, then Hermione came in.

"Hi guys!" She said looking bright and cheerful.

"Hermione?"

"Yeah Ron?"

"Please tell us what happened to you, I won't tell anyone." Ron asked looking desperate.

"You know that I can't tell you yet, I'm not ready to tell anyone. Can you please stop; the more you ask the more I will delay telling you." Hermione said. Harry noticed that it was a little awkward so he said, "Let's go now." Then they all left the shop and started walking arm in arm.

"So Ron, where are we going?" Hermione asked

"Well we are going to a new place; it's called Madame Natasha's Dress Robe Plaza. It does everything, from the dress to shoes and other stuff that you need." Hermione gulped, this wasn't going to be cheap.

They apparated over to Gringotts and then got a cart. They went rumbling down to Harry's vault first, and it was PACKED with money. There were gold galleons, silver sickles, and bronze Knuts. Harry grabbed some gold and silver and shoved it into his bag and then they went to Ron's vault. It was slightly bigger than Harry's and it had more silver, so he took some money and shoved it into his bag. Hermione was getting nervous and she finally said, "Let's go now, I mean I really don't want to make you guys late for your appointment."

"Nonsense," Ron said "We still have 30 minutes. So don't worry 'Mione."

"Okay, fine." She said.

"Okay, Mr. Goblin lets go down to her vault." Ron said. The Goblin sneered and then they went down to Hermione's vault. They had seen Hermione's vault before, but nothing prepared them for what they saw. The vault was small and it had cobwebs. There were about 20 sickles and one Knut. She put 10 sickles in her bag and one Knut. Ron felt terrible; Hermione was embarrassed just because of him. He couldn't believe that he could do this to her. He thought about the vault on the journey up, His family had never been this broke before. When they got back up, Ron had to use the restroom.

"Hey, Hermione"

"Yeah Harry?"

"I'm sorry"

"For what?" Hermione knew what Harry was sorry for, but she also understood that Ron and Harry would NEVER want to embarrass her.

"For, embarrassing you and if you don't want to tell us your stories then you really don't have to."

"No, Harry, do you think you could come over tomorrow?"

"Where?"

"To my room."

"Okay, I'll bring Ron."

"No, don't, he will start interrupting and start making death threats."

"Can I at least bring Parvati?"

"Why? Oh ok fine." Hermione said as soon as she saw Harry do puppy eyes. They found a bench and sat down, 10 minutes later Ron came looking refreshed.

"Took you long enough." Harry joked. Ron just glared while Hermione laughed. They all left and apparated over to the Plaza and it was HUGE. It was a beautiful building with black marble and iron wrought doors. Two men opened the doors, and Hermione felt really uncomfortable this wasn't going to be 10 sickles and 1 knut. They went over to a giant waiting room with a fountain of a centaur shooting an arrow up at the sky, and there were magical stars all around. Ron told them to sit down and he went to the receptionist desk. Pretty soon, a person called for Hermione. She got up and went while someone was inspecting her and looking thru catalogs of dresses, and separates. She pulled out a magic tape measure and then said.

"Hi, I'm Roxanne, and I will be the person to fit you for your dress. How do you pronounce your name, Hermy-own?"

"No, Her-my-oh-nee, and how will I pay for all this?"

"Oh, you don't have to Hermione (was that it?), the nice red headed boy paid for you, and he told me to tell you that it is a gift because he hasn't seen you in a long time.

"Ok."

"Now I will show you dresses, and you can pick which ones you like." Pretty soon Hermione was done, she went outside to wait for the boys, and then she saw Parvati and Cho sitting, they saw her and beckoned her forward.

"Hi Hermione!" Parvati said.

"Hi." Hermione answered

"Here to pick out what to wear?" Cho asked her and pulled up a chair for Hermione to sit in, and then Hermione sat down.

"Yeah." Hermione said

"So how've you been, you did disappear from Harry's life."

"I'm good." Hermione answered Parvati. "You really like Harry don't you?" Hermione asked

"Yeah, he is the greatest."

"But you don't even tell him the most important thing in your life, I mean come on, this will change your life." Cho told Parvati

"You mean you are..?" Hermione asked

"Yeah, I found out today, I can't believe that I am pregnant." Parvati said

"Tell him." Hermione said, Parvati was about to say some thing else but Hermione kept on talking. "Come on, he's wanted kid's forever, he was telling me the night after Voldemort was dead." (Parvati and Cho were listening.)

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"What do you think made Voldemort so evil?" Harry asked Hermione. Ron was in

St. Mungo's because he got bitten in the leg by Nagini when he was dueling Peter Pettigrew.

"I don't know, but I know this, his father never wanted him, and his mother died during childbirth, so he never known a parent's love."

"I've never had a parent's love either." Harry pointed out.

"Yeah but--"

"I can't wait till I have kids, I'll never deny them anything, and I will love them to the end."

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"Wow." Parvati said. "I'll tell Harry ASAP."

"Tell me what?"

"Well, um, I'm gonna have a baby."

"What? How?" Harry was dumbstruck when Ron put in.

"Well you see when two people love each other…"

"I KNOW that." Harry said "So are you really going to have a baby, or is this a trick?"

"No, I'm really gonna have a baby." She said.

"YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BABY??!!" Parvati frightfully nodded "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU?" He picked her up and kissed her deeply, she looked surprised for a second, but then she kissed him back. Then Ron cleared his throat, and gave Harry a thumbs up sign. Harry came up and said. "Let's celebrate at the 3 broomsticks. My treat."

"Okay." Everyone else said at the same time. When they got there, they ordered 5 fire whiskeys, and a light supper. Then Cho suggested going to a muggle thing called a Cinema. They all agreed and decided to go to one called Midnight Massacre. It was a horror movie. They bought tickets, after converting their money. Ron sat between Hermione and Cho. It was a good movie, but on all the scary parts, Hermione grabbed Ron's arm, so did Cho, on all the murder and violence sequences. When they got out Harry and Parvati were walking really fast, they wanted to be alone so they could talk about the new addition to their family. Ron then spoke up.

"I will never see a movie with you two again."

"Why?" Hermione asked

"Because, you two have left a permanent scar on my arms and it will hurt every time I go near a theater with you two."

"Hey!" Hermione said and she playfully slapped Ron.

"Stop!" Ron said and playfully slapped her back

"Ow!" Hermione grimaced in pain

"Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you." Ron said, He really was getting depressed about it, he didn't want to hurt her, but he always did; now it was physical.

"It's ok." Hermione pulled up her sleeve and then Ron saw a big black horrible bruise there. It hadn't healed properly yet, so he called Parvati.

"PARVATI!!"

"No, Ron, its ok I don't need anything." Hermione said stubbornly

"No." Cho said, "Parvati is a Healer, she can help you."

"What's going on?" Parvati asked. She looked a little annoyed that her time with Harry was cut off, but when she saw the bruise, she told them to go back to the room over at the inn.

A few moments later they all appeared in the room and Parvati looked at the bruise, which was opened up, and all orange and crusty. It looked slightly infected, but Parvati had the right supplies to heal it.

"Ok, this will hurt." Parvati said. Hermione nodded, and closed her eyes. She took out a spray and sprayed something on Hermione's arm. She cried out loud. Ron, Cho, and Harry ran and held her hands. She pulled out her wand and healed Hermione.

"Thanks." Hermione said.

"You are welcome." Parvati answered. Everyone then apparated back to their own places and then Ron was changing and he swore privately to himself that he would kill the brute that caused Hermione pain, even if it was the last thing he ever did.

(A/N) Sorry that was so stupid! Please review if you like it, but if you send me a flame I will hunt you down and kill you personally!!! (joke, you can send flames if you want)

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"Hermione, who hurt you?" Harry asked

"Promise you guys wont over react? They both nodded

"Victor Krum, my husband."