The Amulet of NaRuin

By JaBootiekins

Chapter 10

Day of Day's

Light streamed through the window next to Ginny's four poster bed in the fifth year girls dormitory. Ginny knew that fifth year was supposed to be hard, but Ginny found it to be annoying more than anything else. With all the training at Grimmauld and Harry showing her how to reorganize her mind Ginny found her classes extremely easy. It probably helped that immediately after re-organizing her mind Ginny read all of Hermione's notes from first year to the ones that the ink had barely dried on. Well, more like she skimmed them and her new thought process committed it to memory. Ginny smiled wickedly. It really wasn't fair to the other fifth years that she got to retain all the information that Hermione ever thought to write down. You could teach a class from Hermione's notes alone. Ginny had also read, okay skimmed, all of her textbooks and even a few of Harry's.

Harry, now he was an interesting topic. Sure, he had flirted with her all summer, and she with him. Marriage was a bit much though. Wait wasn't it supposed to be today? Hold on a minute Ginny, calm down, breath, just breath. Ginny almost had a heart attack. Harry hadn't mentioned it at all since that night. Come to think of it the bloody git hadn't even proposed yet. Ginny sat up in bed and crossed her arms, a stubborn look on her face. No way was she going to marry Harry if he didn't ask properly. Just because it was their destiny to get married didn't mean that all the formalities didn't need to take place.

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Harry sat in Dumbledore's office. It had been a long night for both the boy-who-lived and the headmaster. The efforts had paid off though and every thing was going according to plan.

"You better drink this and straiten your robes my boy. First impressions are quite important." Dumbledore handed Harry a pepper-up potion.

"This is hardly a first impression." Harry stated while taking the potion. He immediately felt much better.

Harry had left this task till last. It was one of the scariest things Harry had done in his life so far, but the day was still young.

"Ready?" The old man asked.

"As I'll ever be." Harry replied. The Headmaster threw some floo-powder into the fireplace and shouted, "Headquarters." With a swirl of Green and Pink he was gone. Harry followed behind him.

Molly was quite surprised to see the headmaster and Harry.

"Well, hello. Good to see your finally getting some meat on your bones Harry. Have a seat and I'll make some tea." Mrs. Weasley went about making tea while Dumbledore slipped out of the kitchen. He returned shortly with Mr. Weasley.

"What's this all about?" Arthur was asking Dumbledore when he spotted Harry.

"Mr. Weasley, Mrs. Weasley, I need to discuss some very important matters with the both of you." Harry stated as Dumbledore preoccupied himself with a rather old pot on top of the china cabinet.

"Please sit down." Harry offered to the only family he had ever known gesturing widely with his arms. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley shared a look as they sat cautiously at the kitchen table.

"I don't know where to begin so I guess I'll have to start at the beginning." Harry went about explaining his bloodlines, Seth, Analese, Gaurdians, Protectors, everything that had happened during the summer. He ended by telling about the last time he visited Seth with Ginny.

"So Ginny and I are supposed to get married not some time down the road but, today." Harry took a deep breath and bowed his head. At no other time in his life had Harry talked so much, revealed so much about himself. Not even when explaining his various adventures to Dumbledore did he share himself as he did now.

"I do want to make one thing very clear though." Harry raised his head and looked Mr. Weasley straight in the eye. "I have loved your daughter since the day I met her. I know that we are young, probably too much so, but I would have it no other way. No one is guaranteed much time in days like these, as you both know. I would like to ask you for your permission to marry your daughter." Harry continued to stare into Mr. Weasley's eyes. To everyone in the room Harry appeared to be calm and confident. Harry's heart was beating a mile a minute though and he held his breath waiting for an answer.

It was Mrs. Weasley that spoke. "Harry that is a lot to take in at once. Can you give us a moment alone please?"

Harry stood and walked to the Parlor. Too nervous to sit back down he paced back and forth.

"You did very well." Harry hadn't noticed Professor Dumbledore following him.

"I don't know. I don't think it came out right." Harry ran his hand through his hair. It was then that the Weasley's entered the room. Once again Harry's heart was trying to escape through his ribs.

"Sit Harry, I have a few questions." Harry had never seen Mr. Weasley so serious. Then again if some hooligan came up to him and asked out of the blue for his only daughter's hand in marriage Harry would probably already be on his way to Azkaban for murder, or at least severe dismemberment.

"I am going to ask you the same questions that my Dad asked me before I got married and I want you to be very honest." The look in Mr. Weasley's eyes was uncommonly serious.

"Okay" Harry managed to reply.

"What is the most annoying thing that she does?" Mr. Weasley asked.

Harry just stared at him like he had three heads, and tried to come up with an answer.

"She eats like Ron."

Mrs. Weasley smiled.

"What is the second most annoying thing?" Once again Harry had to stare at Mr. Weasley. This had to be a joke, but Harry thought for a while and replied. "She went to the Yule ball with Neville."

Mrs. Weasley let out a laugh.

"One last question, are you prepared to live with her for the rest of your life and accept that you will never change any of that."

Harry took the time to seriously consider this question even more than the first two. "I am willing to live the rest of my life loving the fact that I can't change her. She is perfect the way she is." This time it was Mr. Weasley that laughed as he took Harry into a big hug followed by Mrs. Weasley.

"Always knew that you were going to be a Weasley. Though technically Ms. Weasley will become a Potter" Dumbledore said as he shook Harry's hand.

"Now we don't have much time I need to get this wedding planned." Mrs. Weasley said exasperated.

"I've already taken care of everything Mrs. Weasley. Invitations are already made and ready to be delivered the moment that Ginny accepts my proposal, if she accepts. Owls were too much of a risk so I set up alternative means. Yours should arrive along with formal dress robes if Ginny says yes. It has all the details. So now the only thing left is to ask." Harry informed them.

"Oh, Harry call me Mum, or at least Molly."

"And me Author, or Dad which ever you prefer son."

"Okay, but I need to get going I'm sure Ginny's remembered what today is supposed to be by now." Harry said and with one last round of hugs and hand shakes both Harry and the Headmaster where back at Hogwarts.

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Ginny was in the Great Hall eating breakfast when Harry found her.

"Hey Weasley, you want to go for a walk by the lake?" Harry was hoping that by using her last name that she would get the hint and come without causing too much fanfare.

Ginny looked up at him in a way only she could; with both contempt and caring. "Not till I'm done with my breakfast, Potter. Sit down and eat you look awful."

Harry spent most of the meal mesmerized by Ginny. With every second he was even more positive that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her, however long that might be.

Breakfast lasted years for Harry. Ginny could feel his eyes on her but decided to punish him for waiting to propose. She took her time and waited until she saw Ron entering the Great Hall before having pity on Harry.

Down at the lake Harry walked with Ginny in silence until they reached a spot about half way across from the school. Harry loved the view from here. The castle strong and solid stood against a blue sky the same reflected in the lake making it appear as if the two were one.

Harry was nervous. His palms were sweating and he didn't think he could talk around the huge lump in his throat. He gazed into Ginny's eyes and suddenly found himself on one knee.

"Ginerva Molly Weasley, I love you, and will love you until the end of days. Will you do me the honor of being my wife?" Harry held out a beautiful emerald and ruby ring.

"Oh Harry of course I will." She all but whispered.

Harry slipped the ring onto her hand.

"Where did you get it?"

"It was my mom's. Dumbledore gave it to me this morning."

Ginny had silent tears running down her face. Nothing could have made her happier than for Harry Potter to be proposing to her with his mother's ring.

"I've already taken care of everything for the wedding, should you say yes." Harry was trying not to get his future wife angry at him. Ginny smiled.

"There was never any doubt that I would say yes."

"Speak for your self." Harry laughed as he embraced Ginny.

"Did you talk to Mum and Dad?"

"Yes, we have their blessings." Harry was now hugging Ginny from behind, both enjoying the view.

Ginny let loose a now all too familiar sly grin. "How about the boys?"

Harry's grin in reply was just as devious as any the Weasley twins could ever muster. "Thought they might fancy a surprise. Still have to ask Ron to be my Best man though."

A familiar voice from behind made the two turn. "No you don't mate."

Ron stood holding hands with Hermione. He held up the roll of parchment that Harry had given him the day of Joslurhen's wedding to Neville. "According to this it will be a double Wedding. Hermione has already got permission from her parents and Professor Dumbledore has made all the necessary adjustments to the wedding."

Harry knew that the look on Ginny's face would be one that Ron would treasure forever. She sputtered, "What about Mum and Dad?"

It seemed that today sly grins where catching. "To quote the greatest wizard of our times, 'I thought they might fancy a surprise'."

Harry couldn't help but laugh out loud. Everyone else soon followed.

"Mum's going to be upset that she didn't have the right days on either of our marriages." Ginny said between fits of giggles.

"'bout that, I made a couple bets with your brothers and the pay off will go to you and Hermione as an engagement present." Harry wanted to make sure that the rest of Ron's life with Hermione was, shall we say, very comfortable. Harry was just thankful that Hermione convinced Ron that presents related to a wedding could not be refused. This gave Harry all sorts of ideas.

"Did you get her a ring yet?" Ginny asked almost reading Harry's mind.

"I've saved up and borrowed a little from the twins and got her a ring but only the one. I'll have to wait and get her a proper wedding ring in a year or two." Ron's ears were a little red as Hermione proudly showed off the tear drop ruby set in gold on her hand.

"No sister of mine is going to wait two years for a wedding ring. You and I are going to get our rings right now. Girls, you need to go to the room of Requirement so that you can start getting ready." Harry kissed Ginny on the forehead and dragged an indignant Ron back up to the castle.

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"Harry I really can't let you buy my wedding rings." Ron protested as he followed Harry up yet another pathway.

"I'm not buying the ring, just the materials." Harry smiled as he pushed Ron into an unused class room.

"What are you going on about?" Ron didn't need an answer though as he looked around and saw a mound of gold on one of the tables. Next to it was an assortment of jewels.

Harry walked around to the table and started to separate the jewels into piles.

"Harry whats going on?" Ron asked drawing nearer the table.

"We're going to make our wedding rings. It's a simple spell really. Most people just find it more convenient to buy a finished ring than go through the hassle of buying all the materials and putting them together themselves. Here," Harry handed Ron a large diamond. "Pick out all the jewels, then what type of metal that you want."

They worked in silence for a few minutes.

"Ron you can use more if you want. They're not going to bite you, you know." Harry pushed the pile towards Ron adding one final Ruby to his own.

"Harry, I can't take all this." Ron had only the diamond Harry had given him and two small sapphires.

"Hermione deserves the best Ron. She already has the best Groom, hopefully the best wedding, now all she needs is the best ring. I know that you want to give her the best. Let me help you." Harry looked deep into Ron's eyes willing him to agree.

An intense internal struggle went on inside Ron. "Alright, but only for Hermione."

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"Ow! What do you think you're doing back there?" Ginny snapped as Winky pulled and twisted her fiery red hair.

"You must look good for Master Harry Potter. Winky make sure that Mistress Weasley looks good." Winky squeaked as she continued to pull twist and pin Ginny's hair.

"Yeah, you want to look good don't you?" Hermione said as she applied Lana Lue's No Frizz Curl Maker to her hair.

Ginny threw the closest thing to her, a hair brush, at Hermione. Ginny missed her mark spectacularly because of Winky pulling her hair in an impossible angle.

"Oh Arthur, I just can't believe how beautiful the robes he sent us are." Mrs. Weasley exclaimed while gently caressing her crimson robe with white embroidery along the cuffs and around the hem.

"Let's get going I don't want to be late." Mr. Weasley wasn't sure that he could believe that this was the day his little girl was getting married.

Dumbledore stood in the Great hall where the head table should be. It had taken some quick spell work to transform the hall. Now pews stood as far as the eye could see. White flowers seemed to flow from the very walls. An arch drenched with lilies stood just behind the aging man.

Now this is something I wish Lily and James could see, Dumbledore thought. Dumbledore stood as still as a statue, lost in memories and what ifs as guests started to arrive. None of them knowing why they just decided to come to Hogwarts in their finest dress robes. Only the Weasley and Granger families had received formal invitations.

Once the hall was full and the conversation had reached a dull roar Dumbledore raised his hands and there was silence. Harry and Ron walked down the center isle and took there positions. In a matter of seconds the wedding march came out of a small piano in the far corner. The guests gasped as they realized what they were witnessing.

Ginny and Hermione entered side by side. There white gowns the example of simple elegance. The vows took away everyone's breath as first Harry and Ginny then Ron and Hermione professed their love and made the ultimate commitment. The marriage ceremony was over so quickly that Mrs. Weasley didn't have time to recover from her shock at Ron and Hermione's surprise marriage to protest the union. It was planned that way. As the entire Hall stood for the married couples to exit, the pews vanished and the atmosphere changed. Even though the same white flowers hung everywhere it was clear that the reception had now begun.

The only problem being that the Brides and Grooms were now absent.

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