Hogsmeade Kiss Chapter 30: Til Death Do Us Part, a harry potter fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. The wonderful JK Rowling does! I wish I did, then I'd be rich! Just kidding! Please don't sue me for writing a fan fic that I really hope you enjoy!

(A/N:D)

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"MUM!" Lily shrieked, running down the stairs. Her hair was a mess and she had about twenty binders and magazines in her hand.

Jennifer chuckled. "Don't you remember when I was freaking out over our wedding plans?" she asked Robert.

Robert smiled. "Oh yes, I often escaped to my friends house because you were going to strangle me for choosing the wrong color of roses."

"Well at least James escaped at the right time," Jen sighed. It was November and James had decided to stay for a month longer. But, he found out as the wedding date drew closer, the more agitated Lily got. So he decided that he would go ahead and move into Sirius' flat, but promise to visit her every day to help with wedding plans.

"Mum!" Lily said, bursting into the library. "The lady who was designing my dress said that she couldn't possibly have it done by the wedding! And then she said she only has one bridesmaids dress and she doesn't have enough time to duplicate it! And we only have two weeks before the wedding! Two weeks!"

"Calm down! Isn't the designer a muggle?" Jen asked.

"Yeah, so what?" Lily asked.

"Well just take the bridesmaid dress, your half completed wedding dress, and the designs and take them to a wizard designer. She would have it done quickly," Jen said logically.

Lily's face broke out into a smile. "You're brilliant!" She gave Jen a kiss on the cheek then said, "I have a few errands to run See you later!" And with a pop Lily disappeared.

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It was a week before the wedding and Lily and James were holding each other in the middle of the church they were getting married in. Lily and James decided to go with the tradition to be separated a week before the wedding. They weren't allowed to see each other until they meet at the alter. It was also wizard tradition to meditate for a whole day before the wedding, focusing all your energy on the one you love. That way when you see each other at the alter, your love for one another would be stronger than ever.

"I love you," Lily whispered, tilting her head to kiss him.

"I love you back, more than anything," James murmured. They stood in that embrace for a long time, only thinking of each other.

"Sirius is going to come bursting in and pulling us apart with a crowbar if we don't hurry up," James said.

Lily laughed. "He doesn't know what a crowbar is. But he'll probably just curse us." They were in silence again, then Lily said, "I'm going to miss you."

"I'll miss you more," James said, then kissed her again.

Sirius flung open the church doors and quickly headed down the aisle. "As best man it is my duty to make sure everything goes to plan, and to do that you two need to separate for a week!"

Lily clutched James tighter. "I will only be thinking of you this whole week, I'll have mum and Marissa do the rest of the wedding planning."

"I will try my best to get out of Sirius' death grip and see you," James said.

"We're not supposed to," Lily said, although she didn't care.

"That's it!" Sirius yelled. "A bloody week! It's not that long! Just say goodbye and do all that lovey dovey mushy gushy stuff and get out!" Lily and James just smiled and stayed there, connected to each other. Sirius groaned and pried James' arms off Lily then dragged him down the aisle. "You want to stay here now, but in a week you'll be begging me to run to Africa," Sirius grumbled. Lily laughed and grabbed James' hand, running to keep up with them.

Marissa walked in the church and saw that James and Lily were having a little trouble saying goodbye. "Come on Lils, we have to go pick up the dresses," she said sweetly, also prying Lily's hand from James and rushing her out of the church.

"I love you!" Lily called out.

"I love you back!" James said, his voice echoing through the silent church. "I'll see you in a week? Same time, same place?" He asked, giving her a lopsided grin.

"Hmm, I might have a date with a gorgeous messy haired guy with glasses then, but I'll try!" Lily laughed, waved at James one last time and disappeared around the corner.

James sighed, his head hanging low. "I miss her."

Sirius rolled his eyes and dragged him away. "I'll say it again, a week from now you'll be in the dressing room, begging me to take you to Africa."

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It was a quiet Thursday afternoon on December 7th, 1978. There was a light snow falling around a church in Hogsmeade. The church was made of stone and it sat on small hill. There was a garden behind the church, full of every beautiful flower imaginable. In the middle of the garden was an oak gazebo, and behind it was a fountain. The garden had a charm on it so whoever stepped into it, it would feel like spring even though snow was still falling gracefully.

Inside the church was a pianist playing a soft tune for a congregation of people in the pews. In the middle of the altar a minister dressed in robes of gold stood, a Christian bible in his hand.

In a back room of the church stood a beautiful woman in front of a three-way mirror. She had soft red hair done up in a complicated and elegant bun. She had the most beautiful sparkling green eyes, full of happiness and love. She was wearing a clean white off the shoulder dress, with stitching and beads around the top half of the dress, which was fit tightly around her torso. The bottom half slowly fanned out into a bell shape and touched the floor. She had a veil that fit into her bun and was gently set around her shoulders and trailed out five feet behind her. She had a bouquet of flowers in her hand, all were roses and had the exact same shade of green as her eyes and also had the most beautiful blue roses you have ever seen. She had a diamond ring on her hand and a diamond necklace placed delicately on her neck.

She had two other women in the room with her. One had tanned skin and stand out violet eyes. Her dark hair was done up in a half bun, which also looked complicated. She had on a three-diamond band on her hand, and was subconsciously twisting it around her finger. She had a zirconium choker around her neck. She was wearing a blue dress the exact same color as the roses in the bride's bouquet that shimmered when she moved. The dress had spaghetti straps and was tight around her waist and down to her hips, then fanned out a little. The bottom dragged across the ground. She was holding a bouquet of five bloomed roses that were the exact color of the bride's eyes.

The other had chocolate skin and honey brown eyes. Her black hair was also done up in the same half bun. She was wearing no rings, but a small diamond bracelet and silver heart shaped locket, which she was fiddling with subconsciously, thinking of the worries of someone she loved deeply. She was wearing the same blue dress as the other woman and also the same green bouquet of bloomed roses.

There was an older man sitting in a chair in the dressing room. She was watching the bride, his little girl, as she twirled about in front of the mirror and giggled. Rob smiled and let silent tears slip down his face. He remembered when he used to tuck her into bed at night. He remembered when she bruised her knee for jumping in at the shallow end of the pool and she asked him to kiss it and make it better. He remembered when she got her letter to Hogwarts, and how scared he felt at the prospect of his Lily Billy getting married.

Lily admired herself in the mirror. "Can you believe I'm getting married? I'm getting married today!" Lily said, spinning around more.

Kiah laughed. "Calm down Lils, now do we have everything?"

Lily giggled and nodded. "Do you have your vows memorized?" Marissa asked.

"Of course!"

"Then let's go through the checklist. Something old?" Kiah asked.

Lily pointed to her veil. "This veil was mum's at her wedding. Check!"

"Something new?" Mara asked.

"The dress of course. Check!"

"Something borrowed?" Kiah asked.

Lily poked her foot out of her dress. "These heels are yours Kiah. Check!"

"Something blue?" Marissa asked.

"Two things. My garter and my bouquet. Check!" Lily said.

"Good! Now you get to panic about getting married," Marissa said, winking at Kiah.

Lily stopped twirling around and frowned. "I never really worried about getting married, but now that you say that . . . " Marissa just laughed and worked on touching up Lily's make-up.

In James' dressing room was a lot of tension. Lily's mum, Jennifer, was in the room with James, since his own mother wasn't there to escort him down the aisle. James, meanwhile, was pacing back and forth across the room. Jen smiled at this. She knew how nervous he was.

Sirius and Remus were sitting in chairs in the dressing room, looking at their friend, worried about his condition. He was pale and shaking and muttering his vows under his breath.

"Calm down mate!" Sirius said after a few more minutes of tension.

"What if she says no at the altar? What is she suddenly changes her mind and bolts out of there? What if she's already running to Mexico?" James said, close to hysteria.

Sirius was about to say something, but Jen stopped him. "Nerves, all men before the wedding have them. Let him be."

There were a few more minutes of James pacing when he suddenly stopped and turned towards the groomsmen. "Maybe I should move to Canada. Yeah, then I could go ice fishing." James got a dreamy look on his face. Remus and Sirius shared a knowing look and rushed over to James.

"Jamsie if you move to Canada you won't have any honeymoon. That would be disappointing..."

"James, Lily would be heartbroken. Do you want to do that to her?"

"Oh Canada! Oh Canada! Uhhh... Blah blah blah blah blah blaaaaaaaaaaah..."

"Sirius can it, we are trying to calm James not put him in coma,"

"Remus that hurt!"

"Whatever. James, you've loved her forever. Do you really want to just walk away now?"

James stopped and paused. "No, I guess not. Ok I'm calm . . . I'm cool . . . " James was now taking deep breaths.

There was silence for a while and then Sirius started getting bored. Sirius getting bored was NOT a good thing. "OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH CANADA!"

Remus groaned and started searching for his wand, thinking of putting the silencing spell on Sirius. James started shaking again so Remus was content in kicking Sirius and then going over to James. Jen was covering her mouth with her hand, trying not to burst out laughing.

The pianist stroke up the wedding march in the background. Sirius stopped singing and stood up straight, ready to do his tasks. James, who was finally calming down, started hyperventilating. Remus conjured a paper bag and stuck it on James' mouth, telling him to breathe. When they had to go out Remus threw the bag aside and began walking.

Back in Lily's dressing room they all heard the wedding march start up. Kiah lined up in front, then Marissa, then Lily and her father, Rob. Lily let out a deep shuddering breath as her hands started sweat. Rob patted her arm and smiled at her. Lily gave him a weak smile.

"Lily Billy, you've grown up so fast," Rob said through a tearful smile. Lily felt tears coming to her eyes but shakes them away and calmly walks out the dressing room.

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As the wedding march started everyone in the congregation turned around. James is seen walking arm in arm with Jennifer, Sirius and Remus behind him. When they reached the podium James gave her a kiss on the cheek, a quick thank you, then stepped up to the altar, exhaling a deep breath.

The miniature bride and groom walked down the aisle, holding hands. They were Sirius' twin cousins, Jasmine and Joel Black who were four. Jasmine was wearing the exact look alike to Lily's dress, only smaller and without the long train. She was holding two flowers, a blue and green one.

Next the ring bearer walked forward, Kiah's nephew Caleb who was six, prestigiously holding a satin pillow in his hand containing two rings with Latin inscriptions on the side. He was taking his job very seriously and slightly bowed before James. The congregation laughed and James gave a weak smile.

Everyone in the congregation cooed when they saw the little flower girl walk down the aisle. It was Marissa's cousin, Alvina. She was one and was just learning how to walk. Alvina was throwing flowers every which way and laughed when the flowers floated back down. She kept tripping and falling over her dress but giggled when she did and slowly stood back up. The congregation chuckled at this and it even caused James to calm down some. When she got up to podium her mom walked in the aisle and picked her up.

The piano strikes up and the congregation turned around to see Lily walking down the aisle. Both James and Lily felt a loss of breath. Lily knew everyone was watching her but for a moment she forgot all that and just focused on James as she walked up the aisle. All of their pent up love from the week earlier burst out, and the people in the room could feel it. All James wanted to do was hold Lily in his arms forever and never let go. Lily's face was glowing as she made her way towards James. He was wearing a muggle tux with black robes adorned over it instead of a jacket. He had a blue flower pinned to his pocket, the same blue that matched his eyes perfectly. Their eyes never broke contact as Lily neared the podium

Lily reached the podium and kisses her dad. "I love you, daddy. I'll always be your little girl." Lily whispers in her father's ear. Rob had more tears reach his eyes. Lily walked up the steps to the podium, gave her bouquet to Marissa and then turned to James and took his hands in hers. They both looked deeply into each other eyes, each seeing love reflected in them.

The minister begins, "Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate the joining of marriage of James Harold Potter and Lily Amara Evans. If any of you have seen them together you know immediately that their love is everlasting. I knew when I first met them that this love they have created between each other is an undying flame that will never be extinguished, not even after death. I ask the great Lord above to bless these two people for eternity.

"James . . . " James broke eye contact with Lily to look at the minister. "Please repeat after me. I, James,"

"I, James,"

"Take thee Lily,"

"To be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love,"

"I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever,"

"I will trust you and honor you,"

"I will love you faithfully,"

"Through the best and the worst,"

"Through the difficult and the easy,"

"What may come I will always be there."

"What may come I will always be there,"

"As I have given you my hand to hold,"

"So I give you my life to keep,"

"So help me God."

James smiles as he finishes and squeezes Lily's hands. Lily smiles and squeezes back. "Now Lily, repeat after me," The minister begins, "I, Lily,"

"I, Lily,"

"Take thee James,"

"To be my husband, my partner in life, and my one true love,"

"I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever,"

"I will trust you and honor you,"

"I will love you faithfully,"

"Through the best and the worst,"

"Through the difficult and the easy,"

"What may come I will always be there."

"What may come I will always be there,"

"As I have given you my hand to hold,"

"So I give you my life to keep,"

"So help me God."

Lily smiles as tears well up in her eyes when she finishes. James silently wipes away the corners of her eyes with his thumb. "Now exchange the rings and say your personal vows to each other, starting with James," the minister says.

James turns around to see Sirius smiling broadly, handing James the ring. Only someone who knew Sirius as well as James does knew that he was dying to play a prank or yell/sing something. James gave him a look that plainly said, "Don't-you-even-think-about-it" and turned back to Lily. He slipped the golden band with three diamonds in it on Lily's small finger.

"Ever since you came into our compartment on the train to Hogwarts, your beauty took my breath away. Then through the year I got to know you and I loved you even more. I've always known you were the one for me. Every time I see you my heart goes crazy and I still can't believe I was so lucky as to have found you. If anything ever happened to you I wouldn't be able to live. Lily, I love you. You've heard me say it over a million times to you, over and over again, so have Sirius and Remus and Peter, which they remind me about constantly." James grinned over to his best men, then turned back to his bride. "But I love you. I love the way you almost trip when you're in a hurry walking down the stairs. I love the way you mess up your hair when you're stressed, studying for a test. I love the way you smile at me from the Quidditch stands. I love the way you nod and say yes when you're so into a book you don't notice I'm there. I love the fact that you can be a teacher's pet and a Marauder at the same time. I love you, every single part of you. I love you."

James never broke eye contact with her. Lily had tears streaming down the side of her face.

Lily quickly wiped her eyes and turned around to face Marissa. Mara gave her a beaming smile and Lily saw she had tears shining in her eyes. Mara then gave her a gold band. Lily turned to James and slipped the ring on his finger.

"As I sat down to try and put my feelings for you into words for these vows, I found I simply couldn't. So I am going to try and do my best right here," Small laughter was heard inside the church and James smiled at her with his lopsided grin she loved so much. She took a deep breath and began again, "You have no idea how much I care about you. If anything were to happen to you, I wouldn't be able to go on. You are the center of my world. I love you so much James. Everything about you. I love that look in your eyes after you've pulled an amazing prank. I love the way you laugh at the stupid things Sirius does. I love the way your hair sticks up all over the place. I love the way you look at me every day, with your eyes so full of love that I can't believe I am so lucky to have this. I love the way you care so much about others. I love you with every fiber of my being. Words cannot even begin to describe my love for you. All I know is that I love you more than life itself. James, you were meant for me. I was born to mess up your hair even more. I was meant to embarrass you by tickling you in front of your friends. You were given to me to cuddle with by the fire. I was given to you to go on walks holding hands around the lake. You're the one I'm supposed to spend hours getting ready for. Especially when it annoys you and you tell me I'm beautiful when I just roll out of bed. My lips were meant to be against yours. Your hand was custom made to fit in mine. I love you so much. And I will for the rest of my life and more. I love you James Potter, you're the one I'm meant for now and forever. I love you."

By now James had small tears in his eyes. He looked over at Sirius expecting him to make fun of him for crying, but he wasn't, Sirius had an intense look of pride and joy shining in his hazel eyes. The look that Sirius and James shared showed a bond that no one that was stronger than anything, even death. James looked at Lily and they exchanged a secret smile. They turned to the minister for the next part of the ceremony.

The minister smiled and said, "From the power invested in me, I pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride." James and Lily smiled. James grabbed her waist and she wrapped her hands around his neck. James then pulled her into a kiss. The whole congregation started clapping. They finally pulled apart and James pulled Lily in the air and spun her around.

"We're married!" They both said at the same time. Marissa gave Lily her bouquet back and Lily entwined her fingers around James'. They started to make their way down the aisle and smiled graciously at everyone applauding for them, even though their thoughts were only on each other.

Marissa and Sirius linked arms and made their way down the aisle behind James and Lily. "I love weddings. I can't wait until I get to do my own," Marissa said, lost in a daydream. Sirius gulped audibly and started sweating.

Remus and Kiah followed behind Marissa and Sirius. "This is so romantic," Kiah said, sighing and looking at Lily and James, who were walking so close together that James kept stepping on her dress.

The wedding party made their way out into the garden, feeling warmth spread through them even thought there was snow all around them. "Did anybody see Peter in there?" Asked Remus.

"Oh, he owled me today and said he was coming to the reception instead," Sirius said. The photographer came bustling into the garden and ordered everyone to stand in certain positions.

In the first picture Lily and James were in the middle, with the maid of honor and best man to their right and Kiah and Remus to their left. Then the miniature bride and groom, flower girl, and ring bearer were all lined up in front of them. Lily was leaning against James chest and James had his arms around her waist. Remus and Kiah were holding each other and smiling at the camera, as were Sirius and Marissa. The photographer took a few pictures of that, then ordered the children to line up in a certain order and the adults to leave.

The children's mothers took their kids out to where the congregation stood on the sidewalk, ready to throw rice at the couple. The remaining three couples took dozens of pictures in different poses.

"I think I'm blind," Sirius said, blinking his eyes heavily.

"I think I blinked," Remus said.

"The pictures move, you won't be seen with your eyes closed," Lily said.

"How much longer do we have to smile?" James said, wearing a wide grin.

"Not much longer, now bridesmaids and groomsmen go to the walkway, you're done for now," the photographer ordered.

"See ya mate!" Sirius said to James, holding up seven bags of rice. James groaned and waved bye, relaxing his smile for a minute.

The photographer ordered a few more poses and then hurried off to get to the empty reception room to take photos.

James and Lily stood there gazing into each other's eyes, off in their own world, kissing every now and then.

Lily soon said, "Can you believe we're married?"

James smiled. "Not really, it will probably kick in at the reception. We better go outside. I'm sure Sirius can't wait to throw rice at us." Lily smiled and started walking outside holding James' hand.

"Wait," James said, taking out his wand and muttered a warming spell. "It's really cold out there."

Lily gasped. "When it's snowing it's cold?" Lily said sarcastically. Then she smiled and kissed James. "Thank you dear."

"Anytime honey."

"All right, they're coming!" Sirius yelled, "One, two, THREE!" Lily and James walked out and everyone started throwing rice at the newlywed couple. James was trying to protect Lily from the flying rice but it really wasn't working so he eventually gave up. Sirius had quite a few bags, and kept running up behind them and dumping rice on each of their heads.

A limo was parked on the curb waiting for Lily and James. They both climbed in laughing and shaking rice off themselves. James rolled down the window to wave but Sirius ran up to it and started throwing more bags of rice at them. James hurriedly rolled up the window as Lily was gasping for breath with laughter. As the limo pulled away, Sirius continued to chase it, banging on the window to where James and Lily were.

Eventually Sirius gave up. James turned to Lily and started brushing rice of her. Lily took his hands and started kissing him.

"How many bags of rice did you give Sirius?" Lily asked James.

"I only gave him one, you know, one for each person. He must have used a duplicate charm or something." James said, scratching his head. James kissed her head and asked, "Do you really think my hair is cute?"

Lily laughed. "Of course I do. It mwakes you wook so pretty!" Lily said in a pretend baby voice. James laughed then looked out the window.

"We're here. I really wish we could skip this and go to the honeymoon." James muttered. Lily sighed and pushed him out of the limo, saying a thank you to the driver. They ran to the entrance to find Sirius standing in the doorway.

"I KNEW IT!" Sirius exclaimed.

James gave Sirius a puzzled look. "Er, knew what?"

Sirius beamed. "You two were snogging in the car! I swear you two will snog until you're to old to do it any more."

Lily smiled innocently. "No we weren't. We were talking about how we are going to pay you back for the rice."

Sirius gave Lily a glare. "All right, whatever. You two weren't snogging, I believe you. But James, you may want to get that lipstick off your cheek and Lily, you may want to fix your hair," Sirius then started picking his nails as the young couple helped each other get fixed up. They smiled at Sirius then walked in.

"Fine! Don't thank me for not making yourselves an embarrassment at your own wedding reception." Sirius put a hurt look on his face, which he received glares from. He grinned and ran ahead of them.

"Ladies and Gentleman, I present the Bride and Groom!"

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Author Notes: The reception is a short chapter, like seven pages. But I was afraid to add it on here because it might've been too big and then you would have been bored halfway through it. The whole time I was editing this I was thinking something was weird then I realized I wrote it all in present tense instead of past tense! I felt really stupid…

I won't be able to update until next Tuesday because I'm going to Chicago for a week and I won't be back until Tuesday, June 20th so I'll update as soon as I get home. Unless I get a lot of reviews tomorrow for this chapter then I might update before I leave.

xx-Heartbroken: Well after Lily finds out she's pregnant she quits her job and James will stay an analyst. I mean, ALL the L/J stories have them as Aurors and I wanted to change it up a bit. There will be more Peter/Voldie stuff to come, no worries. You have to go out and rent The Notebook…I swear it will become your favorite movie. Haha yeah I exclude Peter from pretty much everything I can get away with. It doesn't make it as realistic because you would think they were all such good friends they would be hanging out 24/7 but Peter should die and I hate him in my story. Yes, Halloween is a real movie. It was supposed to be terrifying when it came out but it's not that bad. It's on TV every Halloween; you should check your local listings haha. Ummm…I put her birthday in June I think. I didn't want to put a big old birthday thing in there because I'm sick of writing birthdays haha. "Other guys would pick up on you" means a lot of other guys would flirt with her and come onto her and ask for her number and James would get extraordinarily jealous.

CASOCCERCHIC02: When I go back and edit all of the chapters, I'm going to add a scene on the train where Bri flirts with James so it won't be so random. When you say put OotP in the story do you mean the prophecy and all that? If so, then yes I'm going to put the prophecy. When I started writing this story it was right before OotP came out but I didn't want to change the whole friends thing and the girls staircase, so I just made it kinda sorta pre-OotP.

R/R so I can update before I leave!