Okay due to the over whelming response to the first chapter I decided to start on the next one... So here it goes...

Chapter two

::Another change::

Harry, feeling much more confident, made his way back to the school. He now had a whole proposal to plan...

Harry and Ginny met in the Room of Requirement that night near 7pm. Harry had sent a beautiful red dress up to her room earlier. She stepped into the room and heard a sharp intake of breath. She felt two strong arms encircle her waist. He lightly kissed her neck.

"You smell good..." he murmured. She shivered under his touch. He traced her arm with his hand. Then he took her hand and led her over to a table in the center of the room. He pulled out her chair and she gracefully sat down.

"How way your day Gin?" he asked taking his seat.

"Oh okay I guess... Hermione helped me with that stupid essay for Snape. Honestly he can be such a prat. And Hermione and Ron are in sort of a little tuff over certain words my dear Ronniekins chose to describe her favorite professor with. I never knew he had such a colorful vocabulary." She grinned. "But I finished the essay and started my HUGE project for defense against the dark arts! Goodness is Sirius trying to kill us! Sheish..." Harry chuckled.

"How about you?" she asked taking a bite of the Salmon Dobby set in front of her.

"Oh it was very good. I visited my vault with Remus and Sirius." Harry said not stating the details. Ginny saw that he obviously didn't want to go into great detail so she let it go.

"I'm really enjoying this year. I even ran into Moaning Myrtle the other day. She said that she's been seeing a ghost counselor. She mentioned that a lot of ghost's have a hard time coming to terms with their deaths." Harry said and Ginny giggled.

"I remember her. A bit off the deep end if you ask me."

"Yeah when I went down the chamber for you she told me that if I died I could share her toilet with her." They were now laughing so hard that Ginny slipped and fell out of her chair. This only fueled Harry's laughter. He stood up and went to help Ginny but tripped over her feet and landed on her. Then they heard the door open.

It was Ron and Hermione and they were well... occupied to say the least. Ginny cleared her throat pointedly and they sprang apart.

"So I take it you two aren't fighting anymore?" Harry asked holding back laughter.

They both turned beet red and Ron muttered something.

"What was that?" Ginny asked putting a hand to her ear.

"Um no we made up..." Hermione said in a very small voice.

"More like made out..." Harry whispered to Ginny as they stood up. This caused her to double over in a silent fit of giggles. Ron and Hermione looked at them uneasily. Harry and Ginny finally regained composure and headed for the door. Ginny stepped out into the hallway and Harry called back to Ron and Hermione,

"Be Safe!" You could almost feel the heat from their blushed.

Sometime later Harry was working on his transfiguration essay. Ginny had gone to bed a few moments earlier. Now only Ron, Hermione, and Harry remained in the common room.

Ron let out a yawn and stood up. "I'm headed to bed." He said giving Hermione a quick kiss. He disappeared up the boy's stair case.

"Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Hum?" he grumbled.

"Do you know why Ron is acting so weird?"

"Is he? I didn't notice."

"Well I don't blame you. You and Ginny have been wrapped up in you own little world since you started seeing each other-"Harry cut off Hermione.

"I'm asking her 'Mione." He stated plainly.

"Huh?"

"I'm going to ask Gin to marry me."

"Oh my gosh Harry this is wonderful!" She squealed. "Let me see the ring."

He pulled out the small black velvet case that he had picked up earlier. She opened it and gasped. It was a silver band with a square cut diamond in the middle. It had princess cut rubies on both sides then small emeralds next. It was perfect. Harry took the ring back and tucked it in his pocket.

"I'm going to go talk to Ron." Hermione said standing up. "Oh and she'll say yes Harry I know she will..."

Harry returned to his essay as Hermione went up the boy's staircase.

A little while later he heard shouting. He got up and went upstairs. Hermione and Ron were standing at opposite ends of the dorm room screaming at each other.

"YOU JUST DON'T GET IT DO YOU?" Hermione yelled.

"WHAT'S THERE TO GET?" Ron shouted back.

"I'M YOUR GIRLFRIEND AND I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHY YOU'VE BEEN ACTING SO WEIRD ALL BLOODY WEEK."

There was a collective gasp. By now half of Gryffindor house was crowded into the boy's dorm and not one had ever heard Hermione curse.

"I HAVE NOT BEEN ACTING WEIRD!"

"YES YOU HAVE TOO.

"HAVE NOT"

"HAVE TOO"

"HAVE NOT

"HAVE TOO"

"HAVE NOT"

"OKAY THIS IS JUST CHILDISH." Hermione finally said calming down a bit. "Obviously you don't feel the same as me so maybe we just shouldn't be together..." she said holding back tears.

"OH BLOODY HELL 'MIONE! I WANT TO BE WITH YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING! GOD HERMIONE I DON'T WANT TO BREAK UP I WANT TO BLOODY MARRY YOU!"

There was a ringing silence. Everyone in the room was holding his or her breath.

"Really?" Hermione asked in a shallow whisper with tears streaming down her face.

"Oh God Hermione, yes! YES! More than anything I want you to be Mrs. Weasley. I want to be the mother of my children. I want you to yell at me about not reading Hogwarts: A History and house elves every night as we get into bed." Ron was slowly walking over toward Hermione. "I want you to be happy, Hell I want to be happy. So what do you say Hermione?" he asked taking her hands. "Will you marry the man with the emotional range of a teaspoon?"

"Oh Ron... Yes you insufferable git! Of course I'll marry you." She cried flinging herself into his arms. He spun her around. When he finally set her down he ran over to his trunk and dug around in it searching for something. Finally he straightened up and walked back over to Hermione. He opened the small box and pulled out a ring. It was gold with one princess cut diamond in the middle. He slipped in on her finger and then kissed it.

The whole room broke into thunderous applause. (with some random cat calls from Dean and Seamus) Then the door opened. In the door stood Professor McGonagall is a scarlet and gold dressing gown and curlers in her hair. She looked murderous.

"Would someone mind telling me why half of my house is in the 7th year boy's dorm at midnight?" she asked, her voice deadly calm. No one spoke. "Well?" she asked again her lips thin.

"Professor Ron and I were just having a little disagreement." Hermione answered in a very small voice.

"And this little argument roused the whole of Gryffindor?"

"Well I kind of unexpectedly proposed to Hermione." Ron said going very red.

Her face softened. "Ah yes. That is something that would cause an all might uproar form all Gryffindor's. Now everyone please return to your OWN beds." and with that she let a rare smile show before turning to leave. Harry would have bet his firebolt that he heard her muttering something about young love.

"Well congrats guys!" Harry said walking over to Hermione and Ron as everyone filed out of the dorm.

"You really mean that Harry? You're not mad?" Hermione asked anxiously.

"Nope I'm ecstatic." He replied.

"Well I should be getting to bed." Said Hermione pointedly. Ron and Harry nodded and Ron gave Hermione a kiss.

"Love you" they both said. Then Hermione left the two men/boys standing in their dorm room.

"Eerrrrr." Ron said.

"I Ummm...." Harry responded. "Okay I better just say this... I'm going to ask Ginny to marry me." He anticipated Ron's reaction. Ron's eyes flashed but then softened.

"Harry do you love her?"

"With all my heart Ron."

"Would you die for her?"

"In a heart beat."

Ron nodded.

"Then you have my blessing. I know you love her very much and there is no doubt that she feels the same."

"Thanks Ron"

Harry still had a lot to do before he turned in. He returned to the common room to work...

Ginny woke early on Sunday morning and stretched in bed. She rolled over and found a note form Harry it read:

To love is to allow all to write upon your soul like an open book...
It is to open yourself to pain, sorrow...
To joy, elation, rapture...
To love is...
Selfless

Gin I love you so I took the liberty of arranging a sort of day trip for you and Hermione to the Hogsmead Hotel and Spa. I will be in touch. Enjoy!

With my love,

Harry

"Oh yes..." She thought. "Today is going to be a very interesting day..."

Okay everyone! That's it for this chapter. I really had fun reading all the wonderful reviews I got. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed. This chapter I'm shooting for 50 reviews. I'll update once I reach my goal. I know I have 91 people who automatically receive an alert when I update, so if those people and more could just say good job or you suck, I would grovel at your feet for forever. Now go review!

XoXoXoXo,

Lain