Chapter Four
Wedding Bells and Jinxing spells
"Hey mate! Guess what mum says you're aloud to come home today."
Harry opened his eyes partially and saw Fred Weasly looking at him, Harry then yawned "W…WH … what?"
"You're coming home today mate!" Said Ron smiling
"Ron!" Harry opened his eyes wide and sat up strait in his bed.
"Sorry I didn't come to see you yesterday; I was sort of feeling a bit skirmish after seeing all your blood and everything."
Ron's face and ears went extremely red, and he began apologizing again, Harry told him that he understood and when Ron would not keep quiet Harry eventually yelled at him to shut up.
"Morning Harry dear, are you feeling better?" Mrs Weasley came into the room; "Well anyway dear Healer Rigby said it's all right to take you back to the Burrow."
Harry smiled and was glad he was going to go back to the Burrow.
He got up; changed into some clean clothes Mrs Weasley had given him and walked out St Mungo's with a huge grin on his face, as he was leaving the young healer that had treated him the previous day, walked up to him and said, "Well Mr Potter, it was an honor to meet you!" He took Harry's hand and shook it.
"Thanks." Said Harry curiously
The Healer continued to shake his hand, and finally Mrs Weasley said, "Healer, you can let go of Harry's hand now, I would like to take him home!"
"Oh sorry." He said, going very red
He let Harry's hand go and as Harry walked out, he could see the Healer waving good-bye to him bashfully.
The sunlight hit his face violently; Harry then looked at Mrs Weasley and said, "Mrs Weasley, how exactly are we getting back to the Burrow?"
"Well dear, I organized for a muggle taxi to come and fetch us, they'll drop us in the village and we'll walk from there. It should be here in a few minutes."
And sure enough, five minutes later the taxi came and they were all on their way back to the Burrow.
The drive back was very uneventful indeed. Finally, after ten minutes they arrived at the village square near the Burrow.
Mrs Weasley didn't know how to pay the man in muggle money and by mistake gave him a hundred pound note instead of a twenty, "Oh well," she said as the man sped of in his taxi smiling broadly, "Arthur's much better at this stuff than I am."
She then frowned at Harry and they began to walk to the Burrow. The path back to the Burrow was familiar as Harry and the Weasley's had all walked this way when they went to the Quidditch world cup exactly three years ago.
Finally, the Burrow came into view and Hermoine, Ginny, Charlie, Fred and George were all waiting outside to welcome Harry back.
They all had a delicious breakfast consisting of eggs, French toast and cereal. After breakfast, Mrs Weasly asked them all to help clear up, after clearing up Mrs Weasley told them to come outside as they were all going to prepare for the wedding, which was in four days.
"Ron, Charlie you two start getting the canapé ready, the instructions are over there, it might take a while since it does come from a muggle shop."
"Okay mum!"
"Ginny, Hemoine please go and get the tables ready and when you're done doing that you can go pick the flowers and fruit."
"But Mrs Weasley if we pick the flowers and fruit now wont they die and go off?" asked Hermoine
"Don't worry about that dear I'll put an ever lasting spell on them so it should be fine."
"Mrs Weasley what can I do to help?" asked Harry
"Oh no Harry dear you don't have to do anything you've gone through enough, I think you can just relax."
"Mrs Weasley I'm fine, I promise besides I want to help!"
"All right now Fleurs family and Arthur's mother and father are arriving later so you can go help Fred and George set up Percy's bed room and their own, they'll be sharing with you and Ron until the wedding and they'll go back to their shop, and Hermoine, Ginny and Fleurs sister will share a room."
Harry went upstairs into Percy's room and looked around, he had never seen it before, there were books all over it and there were papers on the desk, it seemed very neat, not like any of the other Weasley's rooms.
"Hello Harry." Said the twins slyly
Harry looked at them suspiciously, "What are you two up to?"
"Doesn't he remind you of mum George?"
"Yeah he does Fred, what are you playing at trying to be like mum?"
"Spending too much time with ickle Ronnie the prefect I say!"
The three of them burst out laughing.
"OI! What are you three doing up there, telling stupid jokes or working?" shouted Mrs Weasley's voice.
"What do you think mum!" answered Fred scowling, "since when has it been forbidden to talk while you're working."
"FRED WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT BACK CHATTING ME!"
"Um, sorry mum," shouted Fred quickly
"That's better, now more work and less talk."
They took out all the mattresses, got out the linen and set the beds up. (Using their wands as they were all over the age of seventeen.)
As they were going down stairs, an interesting question popped into Harry's head, he looked at Fred and said, "Is Percy coming for the wedding?"
Fred looked at him with a grimace, "Well, I don't think so, see mum sent him an invitation and he sort of didn't reply, he sent the invitation back all ripped up, mum was of course crying for ages again but I thinks she's gotten over it."
"So they still haven't made up?"
"Well yeah," said George interrupting Fred, "We saw him in Diagon Alley a few weeks ago, of course he saw us and waved strangely, but Fred here threw a bunch of dungbombs at him -"
"He was sprinting away so fast that we didn't even get a chance to say hello and put a curse on him."
The twins smiled menacingly, "When mum found out, we were a little worried that she was going to chase us around with her broom for trying to hurt her ickle Percy, even though they're not talking!"
"But she ended up laughing with us and we didn't get into any trouble!"
"I think she felt bad about laughing afterwards though." Ron had appeared at the end of the stairwell, "She kept telling dad that Fred and George were so stupid doing what they did, even though she had laughed as well."
"Always got to spoil our amazing moments, don't you Woni!"
They all went downstairs; it was three o'clock in the afternoon and they were all starving.
"All right you lot lets have some lunch." Said Mrs Weasley
She prepared Salami and tuna sandwiches, with salad and a choice of either Pumpkin or Orange juice.
They ate their lunch quickly and afterwards Harry, Ron and Hermoine went up to Ron's room.
Harry had been itching to talk to Ron and Hermoine all day. They all sat on Ron's bed, they did not speak for a few moments and finally Harry broke the silence, "I thought of something," he said slowly, "I think I know who tried to kill me."
"Who Harry?" Hermoine said nervously
"Snape!" spat Harry anger rising through him suddenly.
"Snape?" said Hermoine, "Harry as much you hate him, why would Snape appear at a home where half the family is in the order."
"I dunno, but it makes sense doesn't it, he hates me!"
But isn't there suppose to be a battle between you and V-Voldermort personally?" asked Hermoine
"Yeah, but still maybe he sent Snape to weaken me or something?"
"Harry, as good as you're theory sounds, I don't think its possible."
"But the question is who was here and what -" Harry broke off, "did any of you just hear that?"
"No Harry." Said Hermoine worriedly
"Hear what mate?" said Ron
"Something just doesn't fell right." Said Harry nervously
He went to Ron's door and as he got there Bill burst into the room, "BILL what the bloody blazes are you doing?" said Ron angrily
"Oh um…. Oh yeah mum wants you to come down for tea." Grinning sheepishly, he then left the room hurriedly.
"What was that all about?" said Hermoine
"Dunno he's been acting really funny lately." Answered Ron
"Oh yeah I was meant to ask you," began Harry, "Where was he on Wednesday night?"
"Still sticks to the same answer, but I really think its weird, anyway come on I'm bloody starving!"
They all went downstairs; Tonks, Kingsley and three blond people were sitting at the Weasley's table. Harry recognized the little girl and lady at the table; it was Gabriel, Fleurs' sister who he had saved in his fourth year and Fleurs mother who looked very much like a Veela. The man must be Fleurs father; he had very white blond hair and a pale but handsome looking face. For a second Harry thought that it was Lucius Malfoy but saw that he looked a lot like Fleur, he had her blue eyes and face but her beauty definitely belonged to her half Veela mother.
"'Ello 'Arry!" said Gabriel
"Hi."
"I knew we wod mete again soon!"
"Yeah, well I guess you were right then." Replied Harry awkwardly
"Fred, George, Ron, Ginny, Harry, this is Mr and Mrs Delacour."
"Call me Migel." Said Mr Delacour
He held out his hand and they all shook it, Mrs Delacour seemed to either not speak English or was very unimpressed by the Weasley's.
"'Xcuse my wife she is not felin so 'appy today."
Suddenly a squeal came from behind them, Tonks and Kingsley were standing with their wands out and Fred and Harry had yelled. But their panic disappeared when they saw Fleur running to her parents and hugging them.
"And I thought Hermoine was mental." Whispered Ron who was grinning broadly.
"Hey!" said Hermoine angrily looking at Ron
Everyone started laughing and Harry could have sworn he had seen a smile flicker onto Mrs Delacour's face.
The day had finally come; there was tension and excitement in the air, the Weasley house was very busy, Mrs Weasley was shouting at the twins who in the rush of getting ready for the wedding knocked over the main wedding table, spilling food and flowers everywhere. Mrs Weasley was not impressed at all and had to rearrange the table for the third time. Ginny and Gabriel looked beautiful in dress robes of lilac with real butterflies fluttering around them. They both were holding a bunch of flowers and Mrs Weasley was using her wand to change their different hairstyles. They looked in the mirror and would tell her how they wanted their hair to look. Harry watched Ginny's hair chance from long to short, in a pony, and to a bun.
"Mate I think you should get into your dress robes." Said Ron coming to stand next to him.
"Yeah, I better."
They both went upstairs and got dressed both looking very handsome in what looked like muggle suits. They went downstairs to help finish off the remaining preparations when there was a knock at the door.
"Goodness me that must be the Pismire."
"What's a Pismire?" asked Harry
"He's what muggles have at their wedding, l think they're called maynerstar."
"You mean minister." Said Hermoine who came into the room
"Yeah whatever. Well anyway like a mynistar marries muggles, in the wizarding world a Pismire marries wizards and witches."
"Wow I always wandered how wizards got married. I mean I saw pictures of my parents wedding but never knew exactly how they got married."
All the guests started arriving and everyone was starting to get very excited. Mr Weasley started getting worried because the band had not arrived yet. Then the best surprise of all happened, secretly Fred and George had the Weird Sisters to play at the wedding and when they knocked on the door and Fred and George brought them into the kitchen, Mr and Mrs Weasley nearly fainted. They set up their equipment, Ron watching with awe as nothing or anyone as famous had ever come into his house. He finally got their autographs and ran upstairs to put it on to his wall.
All the Weasley's (besides Mr and Mrs Weasley and Bill) and all the Delacour's (Besides Mr and Mrs Delacour and Fleur) (All the extended Family had arrived earlier that day.) went outside. Harry sat down with Hermoine while the families went to sit in chairs by the Canopy. The Pismire called for silence and announced, "Welcome everyone, family, and friends to the wedding of two very fine people who I would like to call out so we may begin the ceremony. Bill you first."
Bill came out in suit dress robes, and with Mr and Mrs Weasley, who was crying silently, and they walked together to the Canopy. Then Pismire called Fleur and she came out with her parents in a beautiful pink and lilac dress with white flowers around her waist. They went to the canopy and waited. Then the Pismire said, "Please take out you're wands so I may bound your marriage."
They took their wands out and he began to chant a spell. A blue thread of light issued from Bill's wand and a gold thread from Fleur's. "Do you take each other to be husband and wife through good and bad, happy and sad?"
"We do." They both said, and suddenly a blinding Yellow light and loud bell connected the two wand threads together.
"Your vows have been made and I am happy to say you are now husband and wife, wizard and witch you shall stand together as one, through the dark days that shall lie a head in our world. Congratulations Bill and Fleur Weasley!"
They kissed and cheers exploded from everyone, Harry's last day of peace was turning out to be great.
Everyone was eating, drinking, laughing and enjoying themselves. Bill and Fleur, Harry and Ginny, and Mr and Mrs Weasley were dancing happily to the Weird Sister's music.
Harry, Ron, Hermoine, Luna, Neville, Ginny and the Twins stopped dancing and got up to go for a walk through the garden. They settled themselves down by a patch of grass under a tall oak tree away from the wedding as they felt like just talking privately. They all got into a deep conversation about Quidditch and how the Chudley Cannons beat the Tornados in the Quidditch League final a few days ago, when Ginny spotted something very weird.
"What's that?"
"What's what Ginny, what are you on about?" said Ron
"Over there," she pointed
Everyone turned around and saw a mass of black cloaks coming towards them.
"What the…?" said the Twins
"They look like a bunch of people in black clothes with hats." Said Hermoine
"No way, what would they be doing here?" said Harry
"Who?" said Ron
"Those aren't just people in black cloaks, THEY'RE DEATH EATERS!" yelled Harry
"Ginny, Hermoine, Luna go find Lupin and Kingsley and warn them, tell them what's happened and to get all the guests out of here."
"But Harry…" said Ginny
"NOW!"
"The rest of you get your wands out, we're going to have to hold them off."
They all took out their wands and started running towards the Death Eaters ready for battle.
"Why would Death Eaters be here exactly?" said Ron worriedly
"They must have known somehow about Bills wedding and somehow knew that you're family are really good friends with the Order and that most of them would be here, they probably thought that this would be a perfect opportunity to take us by surprise and try get rid of the Order."
Ginny and Hermoine saw Lupin dancing with Tonks and began to yell his name, "REMUS!"
He turned around and stopped dancing, "Where have you lot been, you should be… What's wrong?" He said looking at their panic-stricken face.
"There Death Eaters coming this way," panted Hermoine
"We have to get everyone out of here and you better alert everyone else from the Order."
Lupin smiled, "Is this a joke Hermoine? Did Fred and George put you three up to this? And anyway why would Death Eaters be here?"
"NO! Look over there can't you see, there Harry, Neville, Ron and the others are trying to hold them off."
The smile from Lupins face faded and he realized that they were in trouble, "Hermoine I need you, Ginny and Luna to go and help Mr Weasley get everyone to leave, I'll send sparks to call the rest of the Order."
But it was to late, suddenly more Death Eaters, inferi and dementors arrived, surrounding them. Everyone started screaming and there was chaos everywhere.
Lupin sent up red sparks to call the other Order members and a huge battle erupted, immediately the rest of the Order arrived to join the fight. Harry, Ron, the Twins, and Neville, and soon Ginny, Hermoine and Luna continued fighting the Death Eaters, dementors and Inferi. "Remember what I told you in fifth year, Expecto Patronum and think of a really happy thought to get rid of the Dementors." Yelled Harry.
"What about the inferi?" screams Neville
"I dunno, just try and stun them and they're really scared of fire so just use a fire conjuring spell!"
"Thanks Harry." Said the others in reply
Out of the corner of his eye, Harry suddenly spots Snape through the explosion of different jinxes, he knocks out the inferi that he was battling and begins to run after Snape.
"Harry where are you going?" shouted Hermoine
"I'm going to get Snape!"
"You can't go alone, wait I'm coming with you."
"No Hermoine, this is between me and Snape, it's to…"
"Don't you dare say dangerous, aaah.."
A killing curse had just come Hermoine's way.
"Be careful Hermoine!" cried Kingsley who now just shot the Death Eater with a stunning spell.
"Alright Hermoine you can come but let's get going otherwise we going to loose him!"
Hermoine and Harry began sprinting in the direction of a cluster of trees, "I think he and Bellatrix went in there." He pointed
"Harry are you sure its safe?"
"Hermoine this is the Weasley's garden remember?"
"Oh yeah right, well then come on."
They plunged strait into the trees, and something to Harry seemed very strange. He and Hermoine took out their wounds and whispered, "Lumos."
The tip of their wands lit up and they carried on walking through the trees. "Keep your wand up and be careful, Snape probably knows we're here."
"Stupefy!" said an angry voice
Harry watched in horror as Hermoine dropped to the ground, "HERMOINE!"
