Finally Potter
Chapter eighteen
Ginny picked up her glass and took a sip as the music played around her. She was sat in the Great Hall of the Hogwarts castle the ceremony had finished and the party had started. Harry was outside with Ron and the other boys playing a game of Quidditch.
Ginny had thought of going out with them to the Quidditch pitch but she realised that they needed some alone time, the boys needed to spend some time together to do guy things and they didn't get to have a lot of time alone.
The people in the hall seemed to be having a good time; the students were dancing to the music while the professors were mingling with the guests. Remus and Snape had seemed to have disappeared and Ginny got the feeling they were out with the others.
A finger in Ginny's nose drew her attention back to where she was, Sirius had taken a liking to her he pulled on her hair whenever he could and liked to stick his fingers in her nose or mouth. At nearly eighteen months old he was adorable his sandy hair in small spikes and his big blue eyes shining.
It seemed that he had a lot in common with his mother as today he had no nose, it wasn't something he was yet able to control but the signs were there that he was going to be a metamorphmagus.
Tonks looked tired sitting next to her and she was happily taking sips of her own drink. Hermione was next to her with Robin sitting on the next seat. Then Penelope had the next seat with little River in a basket on the table and April had the seat next to Ginny.
They didn't get to spend much time alone together and Ginny quite liked spending time with them. It was strange how they had become her closest friends and she enjoyed having girly time without Harry.
"Isn't it strange being here on this day?"
Ginny looked at Hermione, the older looked a little sad and Ginny had to agree it was a strange feeling to be here.
"Why is it strange Aunty Hermione?"
"Well Robin, you're too young to remember but when Voldemort was in power it was a very scary time and nobody felt safe. When he was defeated it was in the grounds of Hogwarts and we were all here on that day, well almost all of us."
"Why who wasn't here?"
"I was with you baby. You were only one years old and we were at home."
Ginny watched the way that Penelope gently rocked River Robin though looked like she still had more questions she wanted to ask.
"I wanted to be here, sometimes I wish I had been so that I could have fought but then I might have ended up dead. I couldn't have helped on that day anyway I was so bad you remember what state I was in, I was lucky that they let me out of St Mungo's so soon."
It was a true statement; Tonks had been captured by Death Eaters shortly before the final battle had taken place. She had been in Gringotts trying to capture the Death Eaters that had decided to attack when she had been taken along with Kingsley, Fleur and Bill. Fleur and Kingsley had been left dead but Tonks had managed to escape.
April looked around and sighed.
"I hate it, hate thinking about that day. I know I should have been involved but instead I hid in the common room with so many. I feel like I let a lot of people down, I was here and yet I didn't do anything.
"That was probably for the best, so many died April, I was lucky and so was everyone else that survived. Come on you've seen that we've all got problems because of what we did."
Ginny smiled kindly as she finished and picked up her wine again.
"Oh I'm going to go look for bridesmaid dresses next weekend, you'll all be coming right?"
"Sorry I'm going away with Remus this weekend just the two of us; Harry said he'd have Sirius for us."
"Wait you're trusting him with Sirius, you do know that Ron will be with him."
"Yep but I so need a break."
"Do I get a dress Aunty Ginny?"
"Of course you do darling, you, April and Hermione will be dressing up."
The conversations carried on long into the night as they all celebrated being alive for another day.
Just answering one thing, you wouldn't have heard about this being planned because the Minister of Magic (Dumbledore) did the planning. Every year they remember the final battle and therefore they knew it was coming but the organising wasn't all that important.