Finally Potter
Chapter thirty three
Monday night arrived and Ginny was sat in her flat with a glass of wine in her hand. April and Hermione had joined her and April too had wine in a glass while Hermione was sticking to lemonade.
"I can't believe you're finally getting married Ginny. It seems like only yesterday we were in Hogwarts and you had a massive crush on Harry and he was blind to it."
"Don't remind me that was so embarrassing. Do you remember that singing valentine I sent to him?"
April laughed as Hermione scrunched up her face and the first began to speak.
"I remember that the cupid thing sat on him in the corridor. I was heading to potions through the corridor and we all stopped to watch."
Hermione still had her face scrunched up and then laughed happily.
"His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard.
I wish he was mine, he's really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord."
Ginny groaned she couldn't believe that Hermione had remembered the stinking poem. But she and April were laughing so hard that Ginny thought they were going to chock.
"He was so embarrassed he pouted for most of the day and it didn't help with Fred and George. They kept jumping out and singing lines of it, and Peeves that must have been his favourite song for the entire year."
"Yes yes I get it; I was a sad little girl with a huge crush on a guy I had no chance with."
"But you did have a chance with him."
Ginny nodded at April's words but smiled at Hermione.
"Not when I was in Hogwarts. I was Neville's and Harry was Luna's and I really loved Neville, part of me still does. But now I belong to Harry and I can't believe I'm marrying him tomorrow."
She grinned as Hermione picked up a chocolate and popped it into her mouth.
"Its strange how life turns out isn't it."
April raised an eyebrow at Hermione and so the girl continued.
"I mean think about how you thought your life would turn out when you were a kid. I was going to be a doctor and I was never going to get married. And as for children I never even considered that they could be part of my life."
"Yes but that was when you were a muggle Hermione. What were your plans when you came to Hogwarts?"
The woman looked up at the ceiling and grinned.
"I was determined to make something with my life and that was it. I wanted a good job and for years I thought that would be an Auror looks like I had that wrong. From about fourth year I knew that I had feelings stronger than friendship with Ron but I still didn't think I'd end up married to him. And as for children, well I didn't even plan on having them. That is not until the moment I was stood in front of Lucius then I realised that with Ron maybe I wanted children."
She shrugged and Ginny hugged her gently, careful not to bump her stomach which was now formed in a tiny bump. Ginny looked at April though and smiled.
"I always planned that I would be famous, that for once I would out shine my brothers. Being the youngest means that you tend to get overshadowed and I wanted to show everyone that just because I was a girl didn't mean I was second best, or seventh I suppose in my family."
She closed her eyes and imagined how she had pictured her life.
"I was going to be a writer, a reporter. I was going to be top reporter for the prophet dishing all the important stories that needed to be told. Help to bring people to justice and have everyone know my name. I was going to have the perfect husband that loved me and would do anything for me. We'd have two children and my husband would sacrifice his own career to take care of them."
April laughed and looked around.
"Ginny you are famous, you're brothers haven't outshone you and you've proved that women can do as well as guys. You did help to bring people to justice and you've got the perfect partner Harry loves you more than anything else in the world."
Ginny nodded as she picked up a chocolate at the same time as Hermione. April smiled at them.
"I was going to be a dancer. My mother took me to the muggle ballet and I fell in love with it, I use to have lessons and everything. I decided that I wasn't going to be a witch I would turn my back on that world and be a muggle dancer. Obviously that didn't work."
She laughed as she took a sip of wine. Ginny looked up at the picture of her family that she kept over her fireplace and smiled.
"It is strange how nothing turns out the way you think it will. But on the bright side that makes life exciting. I can't imagine what my life would have been like if it were different. There's been sad times but there are so many happy ones ahead that I don't think it matters."
Hermione looked at her watch and then back at her friends.
"Its eleven come on lets get some sleep we've got an early start tomorrow."
Okay I now have exams starting next week so not sure when the next update will be.