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As Harry and Ginny walked along the hall together, hand in hand, Harry knew that he had never been this happy and he somehow knew that all his times with Ginny from now on would feel like this. Perfect. Even if they were fighting, he knew that he would never have to worry about it.
"Ginny, what kind of ring do you want?" Harry asked shyly.
Ginny gave a frustrated sigh. "Potter, would you please give it a rest? I know that you're always trying to do the noble thing and all, but it's just a ring! But I also know that you're going to keep annoying me, so I'll say that we can go look after you get out of the hospital. Now stop asking!"
Harry smiled. Ginny was still being Ginny. She was completely stubborn, outgoing, and could get frustrated very easily. She's perfect, Harry thought. Ginny must have noticed him staring at her because she finally said, "Would you stop staring at me? If we're getting married, then you'll have plenty of time to stare over the years!"
They both laughed and they arrived at Professor McGonagall's room. Ginny knocked quietly. Harry looked at her. "How come you didn't knock when you came to my room?" he asked. Ginny rolled her eyes. "I didn't think I needed to you git! After all, I had just been there a few minutes before and you were still out cold."
Harry was about to retort, but then the door opened. There stood Professor McGonagall, looking strict as ever. Her facial expressions were sharp and cold, but they lightened considerably when she saw who her visitors were.
"Potter! You're awake! I assume that it was Ms. Weasley who found you? She's been in there for hours each day." Professor McGonagall smiled mischievously at Ginny, who blushed considerably.
"Oh, she's been in there for hours at a time, huh?" Harry grinned. Ginny stuck out her tongue at him. They went into McGonagall's room just in time to hear a loud CRACK!
Harry and Ginny spun around and saw that an attendant had just apparated into the room as well. Professor McGonagall looked very cross again.
"Haven't I told you that I'm fine? I don't need you popping in here every two minutes! I have visitors!"
The nurse turned to McGonagall to say something back, but she stopped short when she saw who the visitors were. The nurse went very pale and then regained her color again very quickly.
"My gracious!" she exclaimed. "Harry Potter! You've woken up! Oh my. I must go inform the head of the hospital immediately. And then I need to contact your family and tell them the news." The nurse said all of this very fast. Then she ran over to Harry and gave him a huge hug. "Thank you," she said quietly and then hurried out of the room.
Harry stood there in shock of being hugged by a stranger, but Ginny was howling with laughter and even Professor McGonagall couldn't hide a smile.
"What on earth did she hug me for?" Harry asked aloud.
He expected Ginny to answer, but McGonagall beat her to it. "You'd best be getting used to that, Potter. It's going to be happening a lot more than you could even imagine. You've defeated the Dark Lord for good."
This time Harry was shocked to see McGonagall get very teary eyed and rush over to hug him. In fact, she hugged Harry so tight that he could barely breathe. He was about to say something about this when McGonagall finally let go. She looked at Harry again and he saw that a few tears had run down her face. "Your parents would have been so proud, Potter, so very proud."
That reminded Harry of something. The nurse had said something about contacting his family. Who was she talking about?
"You know, that nurse said that she would have to contact my family. Who was she talking about?"
"She was talking about all of us! Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, Lupin and the rest of us Weasley's! Have you honestly gotten thick enough to think that you aren't family? Well, if you have forgotten that you're like another son to my parents, then I guess you'll be reminded soon enough won't you?" Ginny smiled at him and winked.
Harry was confused. "What d'you mean I'll be reminded soon enough?"
Ginny smiled again. "I mean that it'll be legal soon, won't it?"
Then Harry understood. When he married Ginny, he really would be related to the Weasley family. Harry smiled broadly.
"What on earth are you two talking about?" McGonagall said suddenly. Harry had forgotten that she was there.
"Oh! Professor, you don't know, do you? In fact, no one does! Well, erm, actually…" Ginny rambled on and actually began to look rather nervous. Harry knew that she wanted to tell her family first.
Harry desperately tried to think of something to say when a series of loud voices were heard outside the door.
"I need to go in first…"
"Why do you need to go in first? I'm his best mate…"
"All righ' you two, yeh both can hold on…"
"EVERYONE QUIET! I'm going in first!"
With that Mrs. Weasley came bursting through the door, followed closely by Mr. Weasley, Hagrid, and Ron who was holding Hermione tightly around the waist. Then followed Fred, George, Lupin, Tonks, Bill, Charlie. It was lucky that the room was so big, because it would have been impossible to fit all of them in a normal sized one, especially since Hagrid was there.
When everybody finally got through the door, they all rushed to Harry. He was smothered by hugs and was actually getting worried that he wasn't going to be able to breathe. After about five minutes of hugging, they all seemed to settle down.
They all talked for a while until, much to Harry's dismay, Professor McGonagall brought up the conversation that had been happening before everyone came in. Everyone in the room looked at Harry and Ginny.
"What's going on you two?" asked Mrs. Weasley.
Harry looked at Ginny awkwardly, but she gave him an encouraging nod. "Well we've got a bit of an announcement to make, don't we Harry?"
Everyone turned their direct attention to Harry.
"Well, are you going to tell us what's going on or not?" asked a now very impatient Mrs. Weasley.
Then, at the same time, Harry and Ginny made the news public.
"We're engaged!"
Harry had never realized that a room could go so silent all at once.
