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"Oh Merlin." Ginny heard Harry draw in his breath sharply.
"Who did this? Who charmed our watches?" Ginny spat out as she attempted to move away from Harry, tugging her hand away from his but to no avail.
Ron and Hermione hurried over to see what was the matter.
"I don't believe this." Ron muttered, smirking.
Sirius wore an identical smirk on his face. Zedka looked incredibly amused by this turn of events while Hermione struggled to hide a smile, seeing Ginny's furious expression.
"I love this, I tell you. The wedding has not even started, my family hasn't even arrived yet and pandemonium has already broken out." Zedka sighed, with mock exasperation unable to conceal her warm grey eyes dancing with mirth.
"If only Moony were here." Sirius laughed, echoing Zedka's own thoughts.
"I don't think it's charmed." Freda commented, bemused.
"It's just stuck."
Ginny let out a growl of frustration as she tried for the second time to tug her wrist from Harry's. This time she did it too harshly for she nearly yanked Harry's arm out of his socket.
"Hey! Woman! Stop!" He yelled out, in protest, massaging his arm.
"Sorry Harry."
"Try and remove your watches." Hermione suggested.
"Brilliant!" Harry crowed, struggling to undo the clasp only to realize that was what was stuck with the clasp of Ginny's watch.
"My, my, what a nice situation." Ron smirked some more.
Ginny knew exactly what was going on in his sick head. Using her other free hand, she smacked him on his shoulder. Harry simply shot him a death glare that could rival Hermione's own.
"You two are stuck till we can figure out how to remove it." Freda announced the already obvious verdict.
"Then how am I going to get ready?" Ginny whined.
"You have seven hours till the wedding, Gin." Harry consoled.
The use of her nickname did not unnerve her, as it should. Instead it sent a warm rush through her, one that even butterbeer could not give.
"I have an idea. Why don't you come down to the living room? Fred and Geroge might be able to figure something out." Ron suggested.
"And if all else fails, Remus will think of something. He always does." Zedka added, with the faith and confidence one always has in the love of their life.
Ginny's eyes had widened in horror.
"Fred and George? They'll never let me live it down."
Harry's face fell as well at the prospect of merciless teasing about his awkward situation with Ginny.
They did not have a choice though.
As they made their way down back to the living room Sirius who was walking behind them, murmured, loud enough for both of them to hear,
"You two seem to have a knack of getting entangled together, eh?" He teased.
Ginny blushed to the roots of her hair while Harry acted as if he had not heard Sirius.
Ron entered the living room first, followed by Srius and then Ginny and Harry.
It was George who noticed their hands stuck together and he elbowed Fred, nodding towards them, which to the twins' credit, from a certain angle almost looked as if Harry and Ginny were holding hands.
"Well! It's about bleeding time!!" Fred crowed much to Harry's chagrin.
"Thought you two would never get your act together!" George added.
Ginny looked boiling mad. Remus, thanks to Sirius' whispered update in his ear, stifled a laugh.
"Their watches are stuck together." Ron explained, biting back a smirk.
"Oh." George actually looked mighty disappointed.
"Yes, you two dumb pricks." Ginny snarled at them.
She was close to wits' end. This was not how she imagined the day to go. Sure some things would not go according to plan; there would be drama and nerves, typical of the hours before a wedding.
If she had known that she would forced to be within a few inches radius from Harry, she would have skipped this wedding. That was sod's law for you - it dictated that you wound up stuck with the person you spent all your time avoiding.
"Blimey, Gin. We were just joking." Fred put his hands up in the air as if surrendering.
Ginny simply glared. Harry looked as expressionless as it was possible for someone who was standing a bit too close to the woman he much desired.
"Any ideas how to rectify this problem?" Sirius asked, glancing curiously at Harry.
Remus noticed this and raised his eyebrow questioningly at Sirius upon catching his eye. Sirius shook his head slightly, indicating a private discussion at a later time.
"He could use Redcuto." Ron offered, biting into an apple he had snatched from the fruit basket in the dining room.
"You'll smash their hands." Remus stated.
Ginny, upon realizing that this brainstorming for solutions would take some time, sat down in an armchair.
"How about me?" Harry's voice broke into her thoughts.
"Oh!"
She glanced up at him, feeling her neck grown warm at how adorably dashing Harry looked, with a smile tugging at his lips as he attempted to frown in an intimidating fashion at her but to no avail.
"I need to sit." He explained, bemused.
"Sorry."
She flashed him a sheepish smile before moving toward the couch and sitting beside Remus who was in deep discussion with the twins. Harry sat down right beside her.
With no space between them at all.
"Harry, you're squashing me." Ginny complained.
She hated her personal space being invaded especially by someone who made her pulse go a bit faster than it normally did. She could not move further away from him, as she would end up in Remus' lap if she did that.
Unfortunately, her loud complain attracted the attention of the rest of the smirking occupants of the room.
"Sorry." Harry attempted to move from her, only pulling her hand towards him.
"Forget it you two, just cosy up." Sirius offered suggestively.
Now it was Harry's turn to shoot him a death glare.
"Look, why don't we put our hands in the middle, on the couch. In that way we can sit comfortably." Harry nodded in agreement to Ginny's intelligent suggestion.
"We could cut the watches apart." Remus said.
Seeing the looks of bewilderment, he continued,
"Use a muggle scissors-"
Muggle raised, Harry knew exactly what Remus was talking about and cut him off,
"No way! This is made of pure dragon hide leather!" Harry waved his hand around for emphasis.
"Hey!" Ginny yelled in pain.
"Sorry." He shot her an apologetic smile, a very sweet smile, Ginny could not help note.
"We could use a pliers or something. I have a muggle toolbox. Sirius, could you help me get it." Remus stood up, looking pointedly at his best friend who instantly took the hint.
"Yeah, okay." They walked out of the living room.
The moment they were out of the earshot from the rest, in front of the storeroom,
"Harry's got it bad for Ginny." Sirius stated softly, as Remus unlocked the door with his wand.
"I figured."
"No, you didn't see what I saw."
With that Sirius proceeded to tell Remus what had happened that morning.
"Weren't there really close some time back during Hogwarts?" Remus frowned thoughtfully.
"Lumos." Sirius shone the light from his wand around the musty storeroom before responding,
"I think so. Harry used to talk about her quite a bit during his sixth year, I think."
"It stopped after a while though." Remus continued a sudden scheming shine in his brown eyes.
Sirius liked that look in his fellow Marauder.
"You think we should re-ignite whatever they had?"
"Something like that." Remus muttered glancing at the floor, where the toolbox lay.
"Forget the toolbox?" Sirius pointed to the red and white toolbox, with visible distaste.
"Forget it." Remus stated, sealing their wonderful plan to give their marauder protégé a nudge towards the lovely path of love.
A/n:
Yes, I forgot to put the disclaimer in for the previous chappie but that conversation was inspired by Little Women..Some bits of conversations in the future chappies will be inspired by movies and books as well..
Btw the watches stuck together idea I got from the Swatch advertisment..don't know if you have seen it..its different though..this guy and girl are snogging and their watch gets stuck so VERY different context
I refuse to believe that Sirius is dead..so he is alive and kicking in this story..
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Do let me know if you think this chapter is too short..and even if it is, does the content make up for it..or is this chapter very blah..i feels its very blah..am very self critical.so ciao for now..but if I added more, I would not be able to end it nicely..so live with it..next chappie will be more exciting promise..
Next chapter - Harry and his feelings, Fred eating mayo? And more awkward Harry Ginny situations.MUAHAHAHA.
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