Finally Potter
Chapter fifteen
Wednesday showed itself sooner than Ginny had expected and with it her day off work. She was sat on her sofa drinking a mug of tea with a banana in her hand when a knock came on her door.
She stood up and opened it to find Harry standing there looking at some guy coming out of the apartment opposite. She realised suddenly that the man was his cousin the boy he had grown up with it.
"Come in Harry."
The other man looked at them and nodded as he turned and walked out of the building heading towards the muggle street. Harry walked into her flat and closed the door looking her up and down a sly grin coming to his face.
"I do believe Miss Weasley that you have forgotten our plans, unless you are intending to go dressed like that."
She looked down at herself she was dressed in a pair of tight shorts and an even tighter strap top. She had just climbed out of bed a few minutes ago and her hair had a fly away look that Harry's always had.
"Maybe I should go get dressed."
"Do you even know where we're going?"
"Should I?"
"Can you get the twentieth off work Harry? We'll go to Cardiff and look at flowers, rings and caterers."
She smacked her forehead and ran into her bedroom pulling through her wardrobe. Quickly she got out a pair of jeans and a cream T-shirt that had the quote 'I like men like I like my Coffee, rich' and pulled it over her head.
She found her cream boots and pulled them on and pulled her hair into a messy ponytail allowing strands to fall onto her face. She got back into the living room to find Harry eating the last of her banana drinking her tea.
"Well are you ready then Potter."
He grinned and the pair disappeared to the train station in Cardiff. When they arrived Ginny took his hand and lead him along the familiar path, passed Weatherspoons, down the arcades until they reached O'Neils the pub.
Ginny then led Harry passed the old church and through the pass that cut through its graveyard. Looking at the ground she could see the small golden numbers that indicated the graves that had once sat in the graveyard. Then pulling him into the Queen's Arcade Ginny moved down to the basement level and pulled out her wand.
"Is this it?"
"Yes, Harry just keep an eye out for the muggles."
She tapped the door three times and it swung open, quickly she grabbed Harry and dragged him through closing the door behind them. The sun shone down on them and Ginny smiled up at Harry as they began to walk around.
"So where should we go first?"
"How about the flower shop?"
She pointed to a large sign that hung over a door and they headed towards it. She laughed as they entered the shop, there was no roof on the building and the sunlight just continued to shine down onto the thousands of flowers that were on show.
A small man hobbled towards them a warm smile on his face.
"Bore da. Croeso i Caerdydd."
Ginny exchanged a look with Harry but the old man just smiled at them.
"Saesneg. Christian helpu rhain pobl."
The old man hobbled away from them and was replaced by a younger man of around thirty; he had long wavy blonde hair and bright blue eyes. He smiled happily at Ginny.
"Sorry, you'll have to excuse my tad he's forgotten how to speak English."
"What did he say?"
"Well my guess is that he started by saying Bore da."
"Yeah and something about a car."
The man laughed lightly at Harry's words and his grin widened.
"Do you mean Croeso i Caerdydd?"
"Yeah that's the car thing."
"He said good morning and welcome to Cardiff. Then Saesneg means English and he called me over to help you. I'm Christian by the way."
"Oh I'm Harry and this is my fiancée Ginny."
"Nice to meet you, so how can I help?"
Ginny smiled as she looked around.
"Well we want to try and decide what flowers we want for our wedding."
"Well then you've come to the right place, have you thought about what colours you're wedding is going to be centred around?"
Ginny looked at Harry and he shrugged but she smiled happily.
"I was thinking of white and pink."
Christian smiled at her and she could see Harry looking shocked.
"I'm not wearing anything pink!"
She laughed rolling her eyes.
"No silly you'll be dressed in black and so will Ron, but I wanted to have pink for my bridesmaids and I think that maybe the pink and white could be our main colour."
"I'm having a pink wedding."
Ginny wanted to hit him and hard but before they could carry on Christian had spoken up.
"If you would like to look at the flowers first, I think there may be some that you will like."
The man led them over to a multicoloured area and turned smiling at them.
"Okay so this is the first stop, this is the Lily area. Now the flowers I'm about to show you are called Zantedeschia but are more commonly known as Crystal Blush. These are actually white flowers which attain a pink blush. Now this kind of flower is perfect for a bouquet."
He leaned over and picked up a small bunch of flowers and handed them to Ginny, she looked at them carefully before turning to Harry he was smiling slightly and she couldn't work out why. The flowers were some of the most beautiful she had ever seen.
"I really like these, what do you think Harry?"
"They're gorgeous."
She looked at him closely knowing he was hiding something but just shrugged it away as Christian took the flowers back from her. He had a clipboard in his hand and he scribbled something down onto it before turning back to them.
"Okay so if you'd like to follow me I'll take you to look at another kind of flower now."
They followed behind him as he turned down a path on the left to the lilies and walked down about a hundred meters before stopping and pointing on his right.
"These are Phlox and the kind I'm going to be showing you are called 'Phlox maculata' or the Phlox flower power. Now these flowers are more likely to be used as a centre piece for the reception tables than in a wedding bouquet and they are a creamy white colour with a hint of pink."
Christian again handed Ginny a bunch of flowers and she knew instantly why these were better for a centre piece they were almost like a small mound. But again the mix of the colour was lovely she didn't like them as much as the first but then they could be used at the reception for something nice.
"Harry what do you think?"
"I liked the lilies better, but they're nice."
She nodded and Christian again scribbled something down before taking the flowers from them.
"Okay folks this way please."
He moved off again further down the path until he came to a small cross road and he turned left heading towards the centre of the open aired building. He stopped just off from the centre and smiled at the pair.
"These are tulips and okay they're not very uncommon but the ones I'm going to show you are special bread that for century's only wizards could get. They are known by muggles as 'Tulipa darwin hybrid' after the wizard Charles Darwin who brought them to the muggles attention, of course they think they're some hybrid whatever that is, but they are beautiful. They are pink salmon colour that gets lighter as you go down giving it a white hint."
He pulled a bunch out of the mass and Ginny smiled biting her lower lip. They were gorgeous just what she had wanted. Her mind began to place them with the lilies in her bouquet imagining herself walking down the aisle with them in her hands.
Harry was looking at her and his eyes brought her back to where she was.
"You love them don't you Gin?"
"What's not to love they'll go great with the lilies and we could use them both as centre pieces as well."
Christian again scribbled something down and smiled at the pair.
"Okay this way please."
He led them further towards the front of the shop and stopped in front of a large multicoloured area.
"These are Ixia acaulis and well they're completely white and I think could be very pretty for the reception, not the best for the bouquet."
Ginny took the flowers that were offered and she brought them to her face taking a deep breath to pick up their scent. They were pretty and she loved the way they looked.
"Okay so do you like them?"
"I do, Harry?"
"They're very pretty."
"Okay so let's go look at."
"Umm, excuse me but I think we've seen enough, unless you want to see anymore Harry?"
Ginny looked at him and he seemed to stare into her eyes and shook his head.
"No I think we've seen the flowers that we should get."
Christian looked at the pair and it was Harry that spoke up.
"We'd like those lilies for the wedding bouquet."
"Anything else with them?"
"No just them for the bouquet and if Ginny agrees, I'd like the tulips and Ixia for the reception."
Christian looked at Ginny and she just nodded and he scribbled something down.
"When is the wedding day?"
"November 7th."
"Okay so if you can give me the address we can have them delivered on the 6th."
Harry took care of the details while Ginny just stood there looking around. When it was done they left the shop to head to the next one.
Okay so now I won't be around at all next week so this will have to do until a week Monday. Sorry