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Chapter Two: The Wedding, Interrupted.
"Wake up, Harry. We need to help Mum prepare for the wedding," said Ron as he shook Harry with a spell he had just discovered.
"Huh, what?" said Harry as he woke up, and then he realized. Today was the day of Bill's wedding. "Oh. The wedding's today, isn't it?"
"Yes, now get up, so we can help my mum. She needs all the help she can get, and she isn't too happy that Percy's not coming. He's still being a prat."
"I'll be right down." Ron hurried downstairs, and Harry got up and made his bed with a flick of his wand, got dressed and went down to join in preparing for the wedding.
"Thank goodness you're here, Harry," said Mrs. Weasley almost as soon as Harry had stepped down onto the first floor of the Burrow. "After all the times I've told Bill, Charlie, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny, not to wait until the last minute, I've done it myself. Can you help set up the chairs outside? Ron's having a little trouble, and I'm afraid Fred and George are the cause of it. Why Bill and Fleur wanted an outside wedding, I have no idea." As she was saying this, Harry noticed, that Ginny was preparing beautiful bouquets of flowers, without magic of course since she was still underage, and thought that the flowers were almost as beautiful as Ginny, but then he caught himself and headed outside. Sure enough, Fred and George were making trouble for Ron.
"Stop it guys!" said Ron. "Mum's going to kill us if we don't get these chairs and tables set up!"
"Expelliarmus!" shouted Harry, pointing his wand at Fred and George whose wand flew out of their hands in an arc.
"What did you do that for?" asked Fred.
"We thought you had a sense of humor," added George.
"I do, but now's not the time for jokes and games," said Harry. "Your mum is running around worrying that we won't get anything done in time."
"Thanks," said Ron as Fred and George Apparated to their wands. Harry was sure they had only Apparated to annoy Ron, seeing as their wands were only a few feet away.
"Now, let's get this set up," said Harry, and he cast a spell that caused the chairs and tables to be all positioned neatly in their respective positions under the wedding tent and the reception tent. "There, that should be good, assuming Fred and George don't play any more of their pranks, but just to make sure," and Harry gave a wave of his wand and said a spell Ron had never heard before.
"What did you just do?"
"Just a spell to prevent Fred and George from doing anything to the tables and chairs. At least until the reception."
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Mrs. Weasley had just realized what time it was, and fretting. The guests were to be here any second and Muriel hadn't shown up yet with the goblin made tiara and no one was in their dress robes yet. "Fred, George, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, and Harry. It's getting late. You should change into your dress robes as soon as possible," she said. Where is Muriel? she thought as she was about to go and change into her dress robes, but then she heard a knock on the door, and she rushed over to answer it. "Oh, Muriel. You're here! Come on in. Do you have the tiara?"
"Yes, Molly. I'm sorry I'm late, but I ran into some trouble. I'm convinced that new conductor they have on the Knight Bus doesn't understand English. I ended up all the way in Hogsmeade. Then I ended up in Ireland. Finally, I just told Ernie where to go, and he got me here the fastest I've ever seen him drive. I should have learned to Apparate. By the way, here's the tiara."
"Thank you, I'll go give it to Fleur," said Mrs. Weasley as she ran upstairs to the room where Fleur was getting ready. She knocked on the door and said, "Fleur, Great Auntie Muriel just arrived with the tiara I told you about."
"Come in," said Fleur. "I can't wait to see how lovely zat tiara is." With those words, Mrs. Weasley came into the room and handed Fleur the goblin-made tiara, and almost immediately, Fleur placed it on top of her hair and sure enough, it did look lovely on her hair. "Thank you, Mrs. Weasley."
"You're welcome," said Mrs. Weasley as she ran out of the room to her and Mr. Weasley's room in order to change into her dress robes. Seeing Bill on the way, she said, "Bill, you look wonderful in those. Remember, you aren't supposed to see Fleur until the wedding. It's bad luck for the bride and groom to see each other before the wedding."
"Mum, that's a silly little superstition," responded Bill as he ignored his mother's warning and opened the door to the room were Fleur was getting ready and as soon as he saw Fleur, he said, "You look beautiful, Fleur."
"Bill, what are you doing? Eet is bad luck for the bride and groom to see each other before the wedding," said Fleur.
"Oh not you, too. That's just an old superstition."
"Are you sure eet is? After all, a lot of what Muggles consider superstition--," but before Fleur could finish her sentence, Bill kissed her passionately.
It seemed that time had stood still until Mrs. Weasley yelled, " Everything's set. Everyone to their places! Harry, you're with Ginny, Ron you're with Hermione,…"
As Mrs. Weasley continued placing everyone for the wedding, Harry looked at Ginny and said, "You planned this didn't you?"
"Actually, it was Hermione's idea," said Ginny as she blushed.
"Ginny." Harry had said Ginny's name in such a tone that told Ginny that he didn't believe her.
"Okay, it was a combination of our ideas." Then Harry realized it. Ginny had suggested that Mrs. Weasley place Ron with Hermione and Hermione had suggested that Ginny and Harry should be placed together.
Girls are very weird, thought Harry. "Ginny, don't you remember at the end of last school term? Dumbledore's funeral?"
"Of course, I do, Harry, but I thought it out. Dumbledore—"
"Believed love is the greatest power in the world," Harry interrupted Ginny before she could finish her sentence, and Harry again started to wonder if he had done the right thing. I'd do anything to make sure she lived. I can't let Voldemort take anyone else I'm close to. He took away my parents. He took away Sirius. He took away Dumbledore. He couldn't allow him to take Ginny.
"Good. Everyone's in their place," said Mrs. Weasley as she went to get Bill and Fleur. When she noticed Bill wasn't in his room, she muttered, "He better not be where I think he is." I told him it was bad luck for him to see Fleur before the wedding. Sure enough, Bill was still with Fleur. "William Weasley! I told you not to see Fleur before the wedding. It's bad luck! Now come with me."
Bill knew when to obey his mother, and this was one of those times, so he left Fleur saying, "I'll see you in a few minutes."
In about five minutes, the wedding started with Fleur's sister Gabrielle and a red-haired and freckled face boy Harry didn't recognize but was sure was related to the Weasleys. Gabrielle sat down on the bride's side naturally, and the red-haired boy sat down on the Groom's side. Then came Hermione and Ron, both blushing. Ron was so red, Harry couldn't tell where his face ended and his head began. They both sat down on the groom's side. Then came two more couples that Harry didn't recognize, both sitting down on the bride's side, and then Ginny and Harry came up the aisle and sat down on the groom's side. Then came Charlie, who Harry assumed was Bill's best man, followed by a young boy with the wedding rings. Next, Bill and Mrs. Weasley walked down towards the wedding arch. Finally, Fleur herself walked down the aisle with a man Harry didn't recognize. When she reached the arch, an old wizard came to the other side, and cast the levitation spell on the book he was holding. "We are gathered here today, so we can watch these two join in holy and magical matrimony for love is the most powerful. Do you William Weasley, take Fleur Delacour to be your wife, for better or worse, richer or poorer, 'til death do you part for all that is magical in this world?" said the wizard.
"I do," responded Bill as he placed a ring on Fleur's finger. He still had his scars from Fenrir Greyback's attack, and had started to appear a bit more canine in appearance. While Ron and Hermione were with Harry at Privet Drive, Harry had asked how Bill was doing, and Ron had told him that he was doing as fine as he could. He still had the scars, and actually appeared more canine, especially on nights of the full moon, but he never did truly transform into a werewolf.
"Do you, Fleur Delacour take William Weasley to be your husband, for better or worse, richer, or poorer, 'til death do you part for all that is magical in this world?"
"I do," responded Fleur as she placed her ring on Bill's finger.
"If there is anyone that objects to the union of these two people, please speak now or forever hold your peace?" The wizard paused for a few moment to allow anyone that wanted to object to speak. When nobody spoke, the wizard said, "By the power vested in me by the Ministry of Magic, I know pronounce you warlock—" But before the wizard could finish, several loud cracks, and several wizards wearing black robes had appeared.
"Deatheaters! Here!" exclaimed Mr. Weasley as he drew his wand. "This is outrageous! Get the children out of here!" He continued as nearly everyone else drew their wands, including Ginny. Meanwhile, Mrs. Weasley had cast her patronus and had sent it to notify the Order they needed help.
"Get Potter," screamed one of the Deatheaters whose voice sounded so familiar to Harry.
Snape! thought Harry as he drew his wand. "Murderer!" He screamed as he tried to hex Snape, but Snape stopped all the spells.
"And make sure that the Weasley boy and the Mudblood Granger aren't near him or each other!" barked Snape. "At all costs!"
It was an all out battle! Curses and hexes were flying everywhere including a few death curses, but luckily no one was hurt. Harry cast a few stunning spells at the other Deatheaters, and they immediately fell down as stiff as a pole. Then there was another loud crack, and another Deatheater appeared and said, "Reneverate."
This new Deatheater's voice sounded familiar to Harry too. This Deatheater was none other than Bellatrix LeStrange, the murderer of Sirius, but before he could do anything, Ginny went running towards her, but the only spell Ginny could think of was the bat bogey hex, and she used it. Professor Slughorn was right, it was one of the best bat bogey hexes that a person could ever cast, but it didn't last for long, for Bellatrix LeStrange said the counterhex, and the bats disappeared. "So lil baby Potter has a girlfriend now," snarled Bellatrix LeStrange.
"Yes, I do," said Harry without realizing what he was saying, "and I'd gladly die for her if it meant her life. Petrificus Totalus!" With that spell, Bellatrix LeStrange collapsed.
Then Snape grabbed Harry and shouted, "I've got him! Do as you please to the rest!" Then he Disapparated right before Mad-Eye Moody arrived on the scene.
"Reneverate!" shouted Narcissa Malfoy, and Bellatrix LeStrange was able to move. "Kill the Auror!"
"Oh no you don't!" shouted Fred as George threw down some of their Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder. With the Deatheaters' confusion, Mad-Eye Moody, the Weasleys, Fleur and Hermione Disapparated away from the Burrow with Ginny Side-Along Apparating with Hermione.