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Harry and Ginny enjoyed the rest of their dinner, walked around some more shops, and then finally apparated back to the Burrow. There was a lot of commotion coming from inside, so they ran to see what was going on. As they reached the front door, they immediately knew what was going on. Fred and George had decided to pay a visit.
"You two just wait! Oh you will be in SO much trouble when your father gets home! Honestly! Setting off some new tricks in the house! I never…" Mrs. Weasley was red in the face and yelling at Fred and George who were doubling over with laughter.
"Mum, you must realize by now that we are going to do this periodically!"
"Yeah Mum, it's not like we can test all of our experiments in the shop!"
Harry looked around. The kitchen was a wreck. Something had obviously exploded on the walls. By the looks of it, Fred and George had let off some sort of firecracker inside of a cake. Ginny and Harry were about to say something when Fred noticed that they were standing at the door.
"Harry! How corking to see you! Mum has informed us that you have been taking our only baby sister ring shopping!" he said cheerfully.
"May we see the ring?" George asked politely. Harry was getting suspicious. Ginny held up her hand proudly to show her ring.
"Oh it's beautiful!" exclaimed Mrs. Weasley. She hurried over to Ginny to get a better look. When Fred and George came over to look, Ginny drew her hand back quickly. Fred and George's smug looks faltered slightly.
"What is it Ginny? You don't trust us to look at it?" Fred asked in a dramatically hurt tone.
"Of course, I trust you to look at it, but I do not trust you to touch it!" Ginny said reproachfully. Fred and George pretended to looked shocked.
They all had a good time for another hour or so, until Fred and George apparated back to their joke shop. Once they were gone, Harry had to endure a half hour of girl talk between Mrs. Weasley and Ginny. After a little while, Harry began to wonder where Ron and Hermione were. Had they come back already?
"Uh, sorry to interrupt your conversation, but have you heard from Ron and Hermione since they left?" Harry asked.
Mrs. Weasley began to get a little fidgety. "No, Harry, I haven't but I'm sure they'll be back soon," she said in a voice that was higher than normal.
"For heavens sake Mum, we know they're engaged! You can relax." Ginny said while rolling her eyes. Mrs. Wesley looked shocked, but very happy.
"They finally told you? I'm so glad that they did! It's been horrible trying to keep it a secret from you two, but they were just so worried that they would interfere with you being engaged…" Mrs. Weasley started on what looked like would be another endless talk, but Ginny broke in.
"Uh, Mum, they didn't exactly tell us…we just happened to see them at the ring shop and Ron said something without realizing Harry and I were there." Ginny said bluntly and Harry thought that she sounded a tad bit annoyed. Mrs. Weasley looked at them with huge eyes.
"Oh! So they didn't tell you then? You just found out?" she asked worriedly.
"Yeah, but Ron's my best mate. Don't know why he wouldn't have told me in the first place," Harry said.
They talked about Ron and Hermione for a bit longer and then Mrs. Weasley said, "You know, they want to get married soon. Maybe in about a month is what they're thinking about now."
Harry and Ginny's mouths both dropped open. "A month? And when were they even telling us they were planning on getting married?" Ginny asked.
"I think that they were planning to tell you later on this weekend, but like I was saying, they want to get married in about a month and it'll be in the backyard of course. But now that we know about Ron and Hermione's wedding, what about you two?" Mrs. Weasley looked at them curiously.
Harry and Ginny exchanged quick glances. "Um, what do you mean?" Harry asked.
"Well, when are you two planning on getting married?" Now Mrs. Weasley was looking at the both of them intently.
"We haven't talked about it yet," Ginny said very quietly, not looking at her mum.
"What was that dear? I didn't hear you," Mrs. Weasley said with a slightly excited tone.
"We haven't talked about it yet." said Harry in a very firm voice. Mrs. Weasley looked like she could leap for joy. "You haven't? Oh, we best get a move on then shouldn't we? I assume that you want to have it here at the Burrow? Or would you like to have it somewhere else? Ginny dear, have you looked at any dresses yet? You haven't? Well, you simply must look at some of the ones Hermione has seen! They're absolutely beautiful! I must say…"
For how long Mrs. Weasley talked, Harry wasn't sure. He realized how comfortable the couch was and the next thing he knew he was being prodded awake by a very annoyed Ginny.
"How can you sleep through this? Hmm? My mum has been planning our wedding for the past half hour! She hasn't slowed down one bit! She's already picking out your suit!" she said. Ginny paused a minute and gave him an amused look. "I hope you don't snore like that often."
Now Harry knew why Ron could turn so red when Hermione made a comment like this. He was about to retort when Ron and Hermione came through the door. Harry and Ginny stood up, but Mrs. Weasley went right on planning.
There was a very awkward silence. Ron was turning very red and Hermione was looking around the room avoiding Ginny's eyes. Then without warning, Ginny ran up to Hermione and enveloped her in a huge hug.
"You're getting married! I'm so so so so so happy!" she squealed. Hermione looked a bit shocked, but came to her senses quickly.
"So you're happy for us then?" Hermione asked nervously.
"Happy? Of course I am! Though I'm not sure why anyone would want to marry my brother, I'm still happy!" Ginny laughed and Ron gave her a dark look.
"Let me see your ring!" both girls said at the same time. Hermione's was a very beautiful ring. It had diamonds all around the band with a light purple stone placed evenly through them.
"Oh Hermione it's gorgeous!" Ginny exclaimed. The girls complemented each other for another minute or so and then went over to help Mrs. Weasley who was still planning the weddings.
Ron walked over to Harry and said, "We should have told you sooner, but we didn't want to get in the way of you and Ginny or anything."
Harry smiled. "Ginny's right you know. How on earth did you convince Hermione to marry you?" Ron lightly punched Harry's arm and they both laughed and talked about Quidditch until Mrs. Weasley said, "You four had better get to bed. You've got to be well rested for that ball tomorrow night!"
"Oh yeah! I'd forgotten about that!" said Hermione. With that, the two couples went up the stairs hand in hand.
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