October 31st, 2001

Arthur Weasley gazed out the window to his kitchen. He had lived a life fraught with pain, losing a child does that to someone, no matter how many others there are, but today was going to be a special day. He was going to give away his little girl to the person of her dreams. He had watched as Harry had grown from a boy into a man and had watched as their love blossomed deeper than all of the other relationships that the two had had.

He gazed out into the garden, taking in the sight of all the decorations, and felt content in the fact that he was now going to walk his little girl down to the man she would marry.

"Daddy?"

Arthur smiled as he turned around and drank in the sight of his beautiful daughter in her wedding dress. Apparently the two had agreed on the wedding day because they felt that there had been enough pain on this particular date in Harry's life. It had been a long time since she had called him Daddy, and he couldn't help the smile that fixated on his face.

"I just want you to know Ginny that, no matter how long you live, or how much you grow, you'll always be my little girl."

His daughter grinned at that as she walked the rest of the way over to her father and took his arm in her hand.

Even though she was the youngest she was the second to get married in the family. George hadn't been the same since Fred's death, Charlie was still chasing after dragons, Percy seemed to be married to his job, and Ron was going to marry Hermione next summer.

"It feels like a bit of a fairy tale, the kind I always imagined when I was a little girl."

Arthur grinned as they began to walk towards the kitchen door before he responded.

"I must say, I never thought that it would be true when you said you were going to marry Harry Potter when you were six, it seems I was mistaken though."

Ginny blushed at that, he sometimes enjoyed gently teasing all his children, just to keep them grounded.

"Well, I'm glad I decided to fall in love with Harry Potter the person, rather than Harry Potter the fairy tale."

Arthur smiled once more at that, they would be out of the house soon, and all too quickly he would be giving his little girl away to a man he respected and thought of like a son already.

"You'll be good for each other, just remember that you love each other, and everything throughout the years will be worth it."

Ginny smiled at her dad, reassured by his words.

"Well then what are we waiting for, my next adventure awaits!"

With that said, he led his daughter towards her future husband.

Hello and welcome to Life Is But A Dream. In case you haven't realized by now, this is going to be a drabble type of story that spans time throughout the Harry Potter world. I'll be jumping all over the place writing whatever catches my fancy whenever I feel the urge. Will this story be as popular as my other two recent ones, probably not, but it is going to be fun to write nonetheless. I'll consider this a success if I have even one review or favorite or follow for this story. This is going to be a different story than what I usually write, because it's going to try and capture the Human experience within the chapters, after all as Lewis Carroll said, "Life, what is it but a dream?"

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