Okay, now we're seriously only a couple of chapters left after this one. We have to do the healing process, Dumbledore's funeral, the wedding, and the Epilogue. So probably about 4 chapters left. :o( It seems like just yesterday I posted the first chapter…(sniff sniff)
Chapter 28
Hermione's POV
Seeing Cassidy in that embrace almost made me tear up. She was changing. Dumbledore was dead. Harry might not make it. I'm getting married. To Ron! Suddenly tears tugged at the corners of my eyes. Sniffing, I tried to wipe them away and be strong for the teenagers that were falling apart in front of my eyes.
"Mione? C'mere." Ron wrapped two reassuring arms around my shaking body. The tears really came then, but it was half for the fact that I could do this again without Parvati breathing down my neck about it. I wonder where she is right now…
Parvati's POV
Sitting on my couch alone in my living room, I sighed contentedly as I popped another piece of popcorn in my mouth, watching the news and wishing my boyfriend would get back from Hawaii. Suddenly, I saw something on the Wizarding News Around the World (WNAW) that caught my eye.
"This just in, Voldemort has been vanquished. I repeat, Voldemort is no more! A group of unnamed Aurors and teens currently attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were reported to have tracked down Voldemort in an attempt to save a 16 year old girl, Cassidy Anne Granger from a kidnap, only to find that it was Voldemort doing the kidnapping. There are no deaths reported yet, but 3 of the group were seriously injured…" he kept talking, but his voice faded inside my head.
"Oh my god…Ron."
Lindsay's POV
This can't be happening…daddy has to wake up…I need my daddy. I'm not ready to have him leave! Suddenly, I thought of Cassidy, her whole life being without a father…and never meeting her real one until she was sixteen. And my dad was sort of her dad throughout her whole life…I mean, they'd known each other since Cassi was born, and dad had watched Cassidy for Hermione like a million times when we were little. She could call him dad and he probably wouldn't give it a second thought!
Not that I'm jealous, I mean, I love Cassi like a sister, and I love the fact that we spend so much time together. It's great! But sometimes I had wished that I could have my daddy to myself…mom said it was natural for me to feel that way, but I felt really bad afterward and promise myself that I'd never think that again. And I haven't…until today.
"Dad? Daddy please wake up!" I said quietly, taking his hand in mine. Mom stood by me, tears clouding her usually sparkling and beautiful blue-gray eyes. I walked over to her and enveloped her into a big, warm hug, which was when we both lost it and went into hysterics.
At around 1:00am, I was roused from a deep sleep because I heard something in the darkness.
"Lindsay? Katie? Are you there?"
It was dad.
Harry's POVI felt as if my head was throbbing so hard that it was going to fall off. Lindsay threw herself on top of me, making it worse.
"Hey, Linds? Do you mind? I can't breathe." I joked, and she giggled nervously before breaking into racking sobs again.
"Hey, hey, sweetie! Calm down, it's okay. Daddy's here." I stroked the top of her head reassuringly as Katie's head rose off her pillow. She did exactly what Linds did when she saw me. I rolled my eyes at how emotional girls were.
Parvati's POV
I Apparated to Hogsmeade as fast as I could, running the rest of the way up to the Hospital Wing. (Trust me, by the time I got there I needed a hospital myself.)
"Ron? Where is he? Tell me where he is!" I shrieked as I burst into the dark infirmary. I found a few faces looking up at me. They were surrounding an occupied hospital bed, a young woman who I didn't recognize in the dark (was it Hermione?) had thrown herself around the bed's occupant.
"Ron isn't here. He's with Herm-" but the person speaking was cut off as the door was thrown open, and Ron and Hermione walked through and straight to Harry. Hermione took one look at him, and as Katie lifted her body off of him, burst into tears. I could tell it was taking all of her strength not to drop on top of him also. Harry must have noticed too, because he smiled and said
"C'mere, Mione. It's okay." He said, and she dropped into his arms sobbing as if he had died.
I looked around at Ron, who had just spotted me. He went chalk white and stepped away quickly.
"Ron? Are you okay?" I asked, moving toward him. Hermione pulled herself away from Harry to look at me. I stared right back at her.
"Hermione? Do you mind if I steal Ronald from you for a minute? I promise it won't take long." I let her see daggers in my eyes as if to say 'I let you have him and if you don't let me talk to him I can take him right back.' Hermione didn't look that threatened, but let us go anyways.
"Ron, what happened?" I asked, looking him in the eye. He kept trying to avoid me eyes. He looked above my head, to my left, my right, anywhere but at me. I grabbed his face with both my hands and pulled it toward me so that we were forced face to face. He turned bright red (A/N: lol Meaghan sound like someone we know?) and finally looked at me.
"What happened?" I repeated.
"Voldemort kidnapped Cassidy. We went to save her, and Dumbledore… Dumbledore he…holy crap…he's dead…but Harry killed Voldemort, and Harry went into a coma…and Shane…was unconscious, but then we…" I cut him off with a kiss. He hesitated for a second before pushing me away.
"What are you doing? Hermione and I are together! You dumped me! What are you doing?" His face was bright red again and he was staggering backwards as if I had just slapped him.
"Ron, I still love you! You don't know how hard it was for me to break up with you like that! I thought you didn't love me anymore." I walked up to him and touched his cheek lightly. He grabbed my hand and held it so that I couldn't do anything else.
"Of course I loved you! I proposed didn't I? I'll always be in love with Hermione. We had our first child together. If she hadn't come into the picture, I definitely would've married you. But now that I've seen her and kissed her again, I know that we were meant to be together. I love her now. And don't do that again!" He roared as I moved toward him to kiss him again.
"Tell me to my face that you don't want to be with me." I said, looking him square in the eye.
"I don't love you. I don't want to be with you. I love Hermione. We're getting married. I proposed to her." He said firmly. Shocked, I stepped backwards. I took one last look at Ron's determined face and turned and ran.
Okay, four more chapters! Can't wait everyone I'm on a roll finally! Hoping to get at least two more written today but don't plan on it. Anyways, review my wonderful fans!