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This is the next part of Christmas, which will consist of Christmas dinner and then some mistletoe. The next chapter begins the drama…hehe.
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Christmas Dinner"That's the last of them." Harry said looking under the tree where one present still sat.
"What about this one?" Mrs.Weasley asked picking it up.
"Oh right I almost forgot." Harry said slyly looking at Ginny who obviously hadn't.
"No one else did Harry. What did you get Gin-Gin?" Bill asked curiously.
"Why don't we let her open it and find out." Harry decided taking it from Mrs.Weasley and handing it to Ginny.
"Thank you Harry." Ginny said obviously relieved to finally get the present.
She carefully removed the golden wrapping earning her several glares from her brothers who just wanted her to open it already. When she opened it to find a box about a foot by a foot with nothing on it she opened it to find a second smaller box. Having a feeling where this was going she opened it to find a third, and then a fourth until she came to a long slender velvet box.
"Go on Ginny." Hermione urged as Ginny just stared at it.
She opened it to find a necklace with three intertwined rings one was gold, one was red, and one was green.
"Harry its gorgeous." Ginny gushed.
"Harry what does the third one mean?" Hermione asked curiously.
"What?" Ginny asked.
"The Gryffindor colors but what's the third one mean?" Melly explained.
"Well I think it's the color of a fresh pickled toad but I'm not sure." Harry teased gently as a reminder of her first year.
"Harry that wasn't me." Ginny said blushing madly.
"Sure Gin." Ron said sarcastically.
"What are you three going on about?" Mrs.Weasley asked.
"Nothing." Ginny lied quickly.
"I think it's something." Bill said earning him a glare from Ginny.
"What is it dear?" Mr.Weasley asked.
"Just a singing valentine I didn't send Harry in his second year." Ginny said.
"Then who did?" George asked.
"I don't know, why don't you tell her boys?" Hermione urged.
"Gred do you have any idea what dear Hermy is talking about?" George asked.
"Why no Forge I don't, do you?"
"No clue."
"Hermy," Fred began.
"Why don't," George continued.
"You fill," Fred said.
"Us in." George asked.
"I wish you two wouldn't do that." Melly said.
"And I as hoping I wouldn't have to tell them." Hermione said faking sadness.
"Tell us what?" Harry asked.
"That it was Fred and George who sent that valentine." Hermione said.
"Ha. I knew it." Ginny yelled.
Fred and George hung their heads.
"Gred and I," George began.
"Would like to offer," Fred continued.
"Our sincerest apologies." George finished.
"It's okay boys." Ginny said patting Gred or was it Forge on the shoulder.
"That means the green ring means nothing." Ron said dumbly.
Harry sighed.
"It doesn't mean nothing. Even if I didn't send it that valentine was a big part of our history." Ginny said tugging on Harry's hand.
Harry's face lit up and Remus laughed at Ginny's tactics and the banter of the teens.
"Time to have a snowball fight!" Bill announced standing up.
"Magic?" Fred asked hopefully.
"Only if you're using it with snow, nothing else." Charlie said standing as well.
"Cool!" Ginny said, snowball fights were her second favorite part of Christmas.
"Who's in?" Bill asked.
Bill, Charlie, Fred, George, Ron, Harry, Ginny, Remus, Mr.Weasley, Lee, Katie, Alicia, Angelina, Melly, Fleur, and with some convincing Hermione climbed out of the portrait hole all with their cloaks. The two captains were Mr.Weasley and Remus.
"Let's choose teams." Harry suggested.
"I pick first." Remus said excited he hadn't had a snowball fight in 20 years.
"Okay." Mr.Weasley said resignedly.
"Bill." Remus claimed.
"Charlie." Mr.Weasley said next.
"Harry."
"Ron."
"Hermione."
"Ginny."
"Melly."
"Fleur." Mr.Weasley said.
"Alicia." Remus said.
"Angelina." Mr.Weasley claimed.
"George." Remus exclaimed.
Both Fred and George moved over to Remus.
"Welcome to the team Katie." Mr.Weasley laughed.
"Well Lee what team do you want to be on?" Remus asked.
"Katie or the twins?" Lee pondered. Both twins were glaring at him from one side, and Katie was from the other.
Lee moved over to Katie, "Sorry guys you just don't have the benefits she does."
Everyone laughed and then started the fight.
"Harry, Bill, Fred, George start the offense. Everyone else start the fort. Then we all attack strong, play by the rules." Remus warned.
"Lee, Charlie, Ron, Katie, Angelina offense go now. Fleur, Ginny and I will build the fort. Play by the rules." Mr.Weasley urged his team moving off to the lake to pick a spot for a fort.
"They have extra offense stay strong guys. Watch out for the heavy attack from Katie and Angelina I don't know how they spelled those snowballs but it's good." Remus coached.
"You mean like this?" Harry asked casting finite incantatum over the snowballs and then spelled his snowballs to quickly zoom at the girls hitting them both in the faces repeatedly.
"That works." Said the twins repeating that on the boys snowballs and catching them by surprise then casting a reductor curse at the part of the fort that had already been built.
"Hey!" Ginny called indignantly.
"It's all part of the game sis." They called as they sent her, Fleur, and Mr.Weasley flying back at least 50 feet so they would have to walk back to get a start on rebuilding without magic as Harry charmed the area to be unmagicable and casting protego over theirs so the same thing wouldn't happen.
When they reached the area where they were to build their fort and tried repairo to fix it and it wouldn't work Ginny glared evilly at Harry.
"What?" Harry called innocently.
"This could only be the work of you Harry Potter." Ginny called and as she went to cast finite incantatum he used expelliarmus on the three builders catching their wands and leaving them not only defenseless but magically withdrawn as well.
"Harry Potter!" Ginny called angrily.
"It's a game dear sister." Bill announced quickly disarming Charlie and Ron rendering them without magic.
"Ya, ya." Ginny said starting to help build the fort.
"We're dead." Katie and Angelina announced as they too were disarmed.
"I'm the only one left with magic!" Lee asked bewildered losing his focus and costing is his wand to Remus, the only one who had noticed in time.
"Not for long." Hermione yelled laughingly. She quickly cast a spell bringing the whole opposing team together in a circle and Harry finished the fight by tying them together.
"We never had a chance." Charlie hung his head sadly.
"Nope." Harry said returning their wands and releasing them he grabbed Ginny's hand quickly transfigured her shoes and his into skates and pulled her onto the lake.
"Harry!" Ginny screamed happily this was the best part of Christmas, skating.
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"Thank you Harry." Ginny said brushing off her pants skirt and releasing one hand so they were holding hands properly. She began skating, Harry by her side.
"How did you fall?" Harry asked teasingly.
"I wonder." Ginny said accusingly.
"Are you implying that I pushed you just so I could help you up and then warm you up?" Harry asked.
"That depends Harry how exactly did you plan on warming me up?" Ginny asked skating around so she was facing him.
"I think you know." Harry said.
"I do, and if what I think is true than yes Harry that is what I was implying." Ginny said.
"Good." Harry replied kissing her deeply and they both lost balance falling to the ice and laughing hard.
"Good going Harry." Ron said skating past them quickly with Hermione.
"Thanks Ron." Harry said glaring at him kissing Ginny on the cheek struggling to his feet and then helping Ginny up for the second time in 5 minutes.
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"Pass the chicken!" Ron called to Harry from two seats away.
"Here." Harry said passing it to Charlie whom passed it to Ron.
"Thanks." Ron said.
"I'd like to make a toast." Albus said tapping his fork on his goblet making a deep clanking sound.
Everyone turned his or her attention to him raptly.
"To Harry Potter for his courage in facing the dark lord, to Severus Snape risking his life for our knowledge, to Minerva McGonigal for her rapt attention to the students needs during this dark time, and to everyone else for their individual parts they play in this dreaded war."
Everyone clinked glasses and Ron stood up.
"I would just like to say that I'm wishing for this war to be over just like everybody else. My whole family is in deep, with everyone except Ginny and I in the order. Me being best friends with Harry, Ginny dating Harry. Our whole family is caught up in this mess and I just hope that sometime soon, I would like to have my life back, with all family members still alive." Ron said sitting down.
"Percy Weasley is not in the order." Severus said coldly.
"Nor is he in this family." Bill said his eyes dark.
Fleur stood up and cleared her throat.
"I would like to zank you all for accepting moi zand Bill zand I have zome newz." Fleur held up her left hand and everyone saw a ring that she had tucked the diamond into earlier but now they saw the small but elegant diamond sitting in the gold band.
"Oh congratulations!" Everyone called.
Next Tonks stood up and said, "I have something to tell you all." She paused, "This is new to Remus as well FYI. I'm pregnant." She finished placing hand on her stomach.
"Really?" Remus asked hopefully.
"Yes." Tonks said. Remus leaped up and kissed her briefly before running to their room and coming back with a bouquet of roses.
He handed them to her and she picked up the card and a small box that was with it. She gasped and read the note.
"Remus?" Tonks asked her voice shaking slightly.
"Open it!" Remus said knowing she had read the note and saw the question.
"It's empty!" Tonks cried.
"You have to say yes first." Remus whispered moving over to her.
"Yes!" She cried jumping into his arms.
When he let her go and she was stranding on her own again he took out a ring and placed it on her left hand. After everyone had settled down slightly Ginny stood up.
"I would like to propose a toast to Harry Potter. He has gone through more by the age of 17 at his last year of Hogwarts then anyone should have to in their lives. Before he came here he went through 11 years of torture with the evil Dursley's." Ginny spoke with venom dripping form her words. "In his first year not only did he save Hermione form a troll but he also saved the philosophers stone from V…Voldemort. In his second year he saved me form the evil soul that is now Lord Voldemort but was once Tom Riddle an innocent student here at Hogwarts. In his third year he went back in time and saved two innocent lives, and in his fourth year he completed every task in the triwizard tournament and he completed them well. Only to be taken by a portkey to not only see but participate in the return of lord Voldemort. In his fifth year he lost his godfather but managed to survive being possessed by Lord Voldemort only by feeling the love that he had shared with his godfather. In his sixth year he suffered with his best friend and my brother being put in a coma by someone who was after him and then having the death of that person – Peter Pettigrew – on his shoulders. And now in his seventh year he has suffered from severe posttraumatic stress and wasn't even allowed to leave for Christmas and the year isn't even over yet. If that isn't brave or courageous, or incredible, or amazing, or unbelievably scary then I don't know what is." Ginny finished tears running down her cheeks by this time.
All at once the whole room was clapping for Harry – even Ginny through her tears. Harry was sitting there completely stunned. He then turned to Ginny whipped her tears away and kissed her passionately.
"Thank you. Thanks to all of you. I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without you're support, honestly." Harry said sadly.
"Harry?" Mrs.Weasley asked suddenly.
"Ya?" Harry asked snapping out of his reverie.
"Yesterday you said that the person you loved had saved your life except she just didn't know it yet." Mrs.Weasley said.
"Ya?" Harry asked not getting the question.
"How did Ginny save your life?" Mr.Weasley finished for his wife.
"Ya?" The twins called form the other side of room they had finished with their catcalls.
"Tell us Harry." Hermione said.
Everyone was staring at him intently but none more so than Ginny.
"Which time?" Harry asked.
"What?" The whole room shouted as one.
"Starting with my second year…" Harry began but was cut off.
"Didn't you save her life?" Fleur asked.
"Yes but after she had woken up and before Fawkes had healed me I was almost gone if I had let go than I would have been dead. And I didn't take it for what it was then but when I saw her scared face I knew I had to hold on." Harry said quietly so that people had to strain to hear him.
"Harry…" Ginny trailed her hand on his shoulder.
"At the ministry when Voldemort possessed me and everyone automatically assumed it wasSirius that I was loving enough to block him out they were wrong. I knew that Voldemort didn't understand love so I thought of Sirius but it wasn't working. I automatically thought of my parents, but with no clear memory of them it wasn't working either, next I though of each of friends downstairs none working until I saw Ginny's face then 2 seconds later Voldemort was out of my body pushed out by my love of Ginny. I was so scared about what this revealed that I never said anything about liking her until this year." Harry finished but he was tearing up so he turned away form the group and rushedout of the portrait hole grabbing his cloak as he went.
"I'll be right back." Ginny said grabbing her cloak and following him quickly.
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When Ginny got outside she saw Harry skating around on the ice so she transfigured her shoes into skates and took off after him. She skated over to him and took his hand. He pulled away so she grabbed his shoulder and turned him towards her.
"What's wrong Harry?" Ginny asked softly.
"How am I supposed to do this?" Harry asked crying.
"Do what?" Ginny asked gently.
"Defeat him, when I'm to scared to love you." Harry said.
"Harry what's so scary about loving me?" Ginny asked almost in tears herself.
"I don't know how to love Ginny. The Dursley's never loved me, I never loved them my life is so loveless I can't even explain why I love you so much." Harry said.
"You don't have to explain it you just have to know it, right here." Ginny said placing a hand on his heart.
"Thanks." Harry whispered.
"And what was that about defeating Voldemort?" Ginny asked.
"I'm to only one who can. 'Neither can live while the other survives' 'born to those who have thrice defied him' 'the one with the power to vanquish the dark lord'." Harry explained.
"The prophecy." Ginny whispered.
Harry nodded.
"How long have you known?" Ginny asked.
"Fifth year." Harry said.
"How could you not tell me?" Ginny yelled skating away, but she skated onto a melting ice patch and fell through screaming as she went down.
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I love this chapter and I hope you did too. I was crying at parts. Tear…tear.
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