-1Chapter 5

Part One

The Great Hall was filled with giant pumpkins that glowed with an eerie neon green in the dark they had been craved out to serve as little dining booths. They cut out windows in the top half of the pumpkins then cut out doors out too make it appear as if they were gasping in fright and the pumpkins were bewitched to gasp as they opened and closed the door. Bats were flying everywhere and the walls were decorated to look like a deep, dark, and very foreboding Forest. When you got close enough to them you could hear a werewolf howling.

Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione went to their table and the boys pulled out the chairs for their dates.

"Why thank you Sir." said Ginny in a slightly sarcastic tone of voice.

"It is an honor Mam." replied Harry with an equally mocking tone.

"So what's new with you guys? We haven't talk in forever." said Hermione

"oh not much just working on the Head boy and girl duties and thinking about how we are going to decorate the great hall for Christmas and our wedding." replied Ginny

"Yeah and we are thinking about who or grooms men and brides maids are going to be." added
Harry.

Then Ron spoke up "Oy mate ain't you supposed to pick out a best man and maid of honor or something like that?"

"Well I already know who my best man should be it's just a question of will you agree to it."

"Um duh of coarse I will Harry why didn't you ask sooner?"

"Well maybe it's because I have been busy all week and the fact I thought it would be obvious I would want you to be."

"Yeah I suppose it is. So is it safe to assume Hermione is the Maid of Honor."

"Ron that's for them to tell!" said Hermione who was looking aghast that he would ask them that.

"Hermione It's not a big deal" said Ginny "and besides I was just going to ask you any ways. So would you like to be my Maid of Honor at our wedding?"

"Oh Ginny I would be honored no pun intended. By the way have you figured out what you want to wear in the wedding?"

"No not really we really don't have that much money because I don't think me and Harry should spend too much of his money on this."

"Ginny don't you ever wake up at night and find I'm not there?" said Harry with a smirk it looked real odd in the green light almost sinister.

"No why?" said Ginny with worry in her voice.

"Well good then you don't know about my job working at the twin's shop as their testing assistant. Or this."

He pulled a small red velvet box out of his pocket went down on one knee and opened it. Inside was a gold ring with a very rare stone in the shape of a heart. The stone was a passion stone which changes colors between you and your partner's most defining color. It was flashing deep red for Ginny's hair and Emerald Green for Harry's eyes.

"I was thinking I should do this right. Ginny Weasley will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?

Ginny had tears in her eyes. "Yes as I said before I will."

She was now crying non stop. Ron started making Gagging noises. Harry just ignored him he reached for Ginny's hand to put the ring on and she looked at him with an odd mixture of wonder and annoyance on her face.

"What's wrong Gin?"

'Well one this is my right hand it's supposed to go on the left one."

"Oh sorry." Looking kind of sheepish he reached for her left hand.

"And two isn't that ring a little big?"

Now Harry just smiled at her while continuing to put the ring on her finger. When it went onto her ring finger it started glowing with a white shimmering light and split in two right down the heart and through the bottom of the ring. One half closed around Ginny's finger becoming a thinner banded ring with half the heart it was bright Emerald green. The other half proceeded to form around Harry's ring finger into a thicker banded ring with his half of the heart glowing a deep bright red.

"Harry Potter you have explaining to do." said Ginny looking very stern.

"The twin's have been paying me 20 galleons to let them test their new products on me at their apartment in Hogsmead. That was enough to buy the ring within a month. I have been saving the rest to help pay for our wedding and such. Then yesterday, I got an owl from Gringgotts saying that there was an account set aside by my grandmother that wouldn't open until I became engaged. They say that the interest earned with the original amount totals up to 30 thousand galleons." Harry sat there laughing at the expression on their faces.

"Harry..." Said Hermione "That makes you the richest wizard in the world not counting professional Quidicth players. Well, two of them anyways!"

Ron just looked dumbfounded and Ginny was speechless. That however soon changed and Ginny and Hermione started thinking of things for the wedding now that they knew what kind of resources they had. Things like "Oh we could get a harp player to do the March." and "We will have to buy the best jewelry for the bridesmaids and some really nice tuxedos for the boys." Mostly there was lots of giggling as the girls were fully engrossed in their conversation. After a while watching the girls, Ron leaned over to Harry and whispered in his ear.

"You NEED to meet me in the bathroom in five minutes."

It seemed Ron meant business, so soon after Ron left Harry excused himself from the girls and went to the bathroom to meet Ron. He seemed nervous-no, anxious when he talked to Harry.

"So you're why they wouldn't let me go to work on weeknights?" it was half question half statement

"Huh? What do you mean? Oh, with the twins. Yeah, I am."

"So yeah, whatever. It don't matter. That's not why I wanted to talk." Said Ron.

"Well, what did you want to talk about?"

"Harry I think I'm going to propose to 'Mione."

The words only took a second to get through Harry's mind. He gave Ron a look as if to say finally!

"Ron you're my best mate so I can assume you won't take offense to this. What the hell took you so damn long to decide?"

"I don't know Harry, but now I'll never be able to match what you just did out there."

"Don't be such a git Ron Hermione won't care whether or not you can afford to match what I just did she loves you and what ever you do she will love. Besides we both know Ginny is for the flashy stuff because she never was able to afford it. Where as Hermione wants the love more then the object because her family was never there for her."

"What do you mean? They always send her gifts over the holidays and such."

Think abut it Ron she almost always stays at Hogwarts for the holidays and stays at the burrow or Sirius's old house during the summer because her parents are gone on some trip, and where does she prefer to stay in the summer?

"I don't know where?"

"Don't be dense she loves to stay at the burrow. Now why is that?"

"Oh I don't know Harry just tell me what your trying to say."

"I'm saying that she goes to the burrow to see you because your her best mate you have been the one person who cares about her enough to stick around to see her you don't go every where around the world an only write to her once and awhile. You give her the love she has never had all you have to do is keep loving her and be there for her!"

"So when should I propose to her?"

"As soon as you can afford a ring which is now. Accio money!" said Harry waving his wand performing the spell he had learned for the tri-wizard tournament in his fourth year of school.

A small brown leather money sack came flying into the room it looked as though it was ready to burst. It landed in Harry's hands.

"Here take this mind you it's your last birthday present for the rest of your life."

He handed the bag to Ron who undid the string tying it shut and opened the sack.

"How much is in here Harry? There has too be at least 500 galleons in here.

"You guessed it 500 of them little gold buggers."

"Harry I can't take this it's yours."

"What are you blabbering about Ron? I didn't give you anything." said Harry was a grin

"You must have worked real hard at your brother's shop to earn it."

"But Harry I didn't make enough everyday to get this much saved already."

"I know that but I got the twins to agree to say that you got paid 50 galleons a week to help them and you are now getting paid that much and will be working in my place considering I don't need the extra money anymore."

"Thanks Harry!"

Ron looked ecstatic

"Don't mention it. We had better get back out there before they start to worry about us. By the way I think the girls would love it if they were to become engaged the same night if you get my drift. "

"Yeah."

As they made their way back to the table Harry couldn't help but notice that Ron was turning white and he broke out in a cold sweat. When they made it back to the table Hermione looked worried.

"Ronnie dear are you OK?"

"Ye…yeah."

As he dropped down on one knee He tried to speak but nothing would come out he was starting to turn green by now he tried again.

"Hermione I...I love you and I ... was wondering can you…? I mean would you do me the honor of marrying me."

As Ron finished he look some what relieved but that soon changed to apprehension as he waited for her answer. Hermione's breathe quickened and seemed to be trying to stop her self from crying.

"Of coarse I will marry you Ron!"

By now all eyes were on Ron and Hermione. Neither of them had been exactly quiet nor did they notice that all the tables had moved to the edges of the room leaving them in the open for all to here. Abruptly the clapping was booming from everywhere even some of the slytherins were clapping for them. Most of the teachers were surprised but not to that great of extent they had seen students propose to each other before. However Dumbledor smiled a knowing smile and thought back to a prophesy that all head masters were informed of after spending one year in office. It would soon be fulfilled and their worries would be over provided they all unlocked their hidden power. The prophesy were the last words uttered on the death bed of Helga Hufflepuff

"Two men and two women of the house of the true and brave.

One man a loyal friend and brave fighter. His Spirit of fire cannot be quenched.

The next man born a savior by destiny, a hero by choice. His spirit shifts like the wind bound only by his love for the other three.

The first woman companion to the leader and mastermind of their strategies.

Her spirit is as the ocean with all its unknowns. Only she holds all its knowledge.

The next women companion to the hero and spirit of the group.

Her spirit is as the earth appearing calm and peaceful but full of hidden wrath waiting to be unleashed like a quake.

The four shall be married in the Hall of Greatness which will be a sign of a golden age for witches and war locks alike.

They must defeat a lord of darkness in battle while in a desperate attempt to save their teacher and mentor who some will call the greatest warlock of all time.

The only thing that troubled Dumbledore was that he wasn't sure of how they would unlock their power but he had to try and train them and become their teacher and mentor in essence he must sacrifice himself in the end to win the war. But he had been ready to do that for years.