The next day, Harry got up late. He remembered all the miserable things that happened the night before, and with a new horror realized that Ginny's marriage was at noon today. He got ready, and as he set out, he saw Luna coming up to him, he said curtly,

"I am never marrying a wretch like you who has ruined my entire life, go and marry Seamus if your heart so desires it, marry and trick other people, but not me."

"Harry no!" she said but he had apparated.

He landed up in the church. No, it was too early. No one had arrived yet. He saw Lavender and asked her where Ginny was.

"Diagon alley." Said Lavender.

Harry couldn't apparate in the church, so he ran all the way to Diagon Alley, checked in every shop, but he couldn't find her. But the Flourish and Blotts shopkeeper said,

"Ginny Weasley? Yep. Came in a couple o' minutes ago to look for a book called Unfogging the Future. She apparated.'

Harry ran out of the shop. He thought and thought about where Ginny could go…it was getting quite late already. Oh yes! She would have obviously gone home!

He apparated to the burrow. He saw Mrs. Weasley staring at him shocked and then a severe expression came on her face.

"Why are you here? To gloat?"

"No…I have come to marry your daughter!"

"Marry? After ruining her life?'
Harry bowed his head.

"Forgive me, Mrs. Weasley. But I must see her." He said apparated to Ginny's room.

There she was, arrayed in a beautiful white long gown, with red roses in her hand, and Harry could see that her face was streaked with tears.

"Ginny!" he cried and held out his hand.

She turned around instantly. Moment she saw Harry, she turned away.

"Now what Harry?" she said quietly.

"I now know you didn't have an affair with Dean…I came here to tell you how sorry I am…and ask you to be my bride…"

Ginny gave a mirthless laugh.

"Oh, so you caught on. Took you long enough."

"Ginny, please don't do this to me…"

She turned around with fury in her eyes.

"Do this to you? After all those accusations, insults and humiliations? You never loved me Harry…if you couldn't even trust me!"

"No Ginny don't say that…I loved you too much…not too wisely…" he started but she cut him off.

"Yes! I see how much you trust me! Even when I told you my cousin was here, you thought that I was having an affair with Dean! But no more explanations. I am getting married today…Harry."

"You don't love Dean!" Harry cried in anguish.

"He loves me a lot…my cousin died…and then he fell in love with me, and asked me to marry him. Bye Harry." She said and locked the door.

Harry could hear faint sobs coming.

He walked all the way, Ginny's voice playing inside his head…Ron's pounding voice in his head…

He was a miserable wretch. He didn't deserve to love anyone, or to be loved anyone…he deserved to die…a painful and torturous death.

He went to his house. It had started raining heavily. Harry went to the balcony and looked at the hard concrete floor. He stayed like that in a daze for hours and hours…finally it grew so dark…that he made his decision…he took out his wand, and was about to curse himself, when someone threw the wand away from him.

It was Ginny.

She was wearing a black dress, which he had liked so much. Her hair was open.

"What were you thinking!"

"You didn't marry?" Harry asked, pinching himself to make sure it wasn't a dream.

"Marry someone else when there is only one I love?" she said and took his hand. They hugged and kissed each other in the rain and in the wind in which hope and memory blew.