Before Harry could realise what was going on, his old room mate, fellow DA member and close friend, Neville Longbottom, had already cast Petrificus Totalus on him.
Professor McGonagall, Hagrid, Miss Sivan, Mr and Mrs Weasley tried to stop Lucius and his henchmen by firing silent Stupefys, but to no avail. He dodged every shot.
Draco was too shocked to do anything, he didn't even have his wand with him. He cursed himself for having been too muggle-like for his wedding.
Blaise suddenly cast an impedimenta on him. The blond boy hadn't seen it coming as he was kneeling down to where Harry had fallen, trying to wake him up even if he was wandless.
If anyone tried to get close to Mrs Malfoy, they would get petrified or stunned by Neville.
Ginny and Luna ended up being among the petrified.
Hermione and Ron held onto each other as they hid behind the altar.
"Let's hit them from here!" The brunette whispered in a loud tone, poking her head out of the hiding spot to get a glimpse of what was happening.
Half of the guests were unable to move, others would fight.
Flashes of green and red lit up the room, all while shocked muggles didn't know where to turn.
Some of them thought it was an act and that it was part of the show - especially Rosemary Granger, who stood there, watching the scene unravel.
As Hermione was about to pronounce the words to a binding spell, a hand was placed on her mouth to prevent her from speaking.
Her initial reaction was fear, but then she relaxed when she saw that the hand belonged to Fleur.
"Don't do anything, Herrmione." the blonde girl whispered. "No need. You will see, we've got zis underr contrrol."
Hermione nodded, although she found it rather odd that the adults in the picture weren't too aggressive on the intruders.
"I won't let my son marry this scum!" Lucius' voice boomed through the venue. He had the most disgusting expression on his face.
All while Neville and Blaise kept the others busy, he grabbed his immobilised son by an arm and dragged him to his mother.
The woman sat up to touch Draco's face. "Oh, my dear, naive son. Did you really think that I'd be fine with you marrying a man? In a muggle ceremony?" She shook her head, while clicking her tongue.
"Go on, Lucius. Disapparate." Narcissa instructed.
"I'm trying, but I just can't." her husband whined. Try as he might, he wasn't able to flee the scene.
"What do you mean you can't? Let me do that!" Mrs Malfoy shouted, pushing him away to take her son into her arms.
To her surprise, she didn't succeed in it, either.
"Of course, you can not do that." said Professor McGonagall, walking towards the three of them.
A smile sat on her wrinkled face as she spoke.
Narcissa was more confused than she had ever been in her entire life. She jerked her head slightly to see that both Blaise and Neville were being held down by Hagrid.
Someone had reanimated Harry, because he was standing up, giving her the scariest of death stares.
"Did you really think that we weren't prepared for this eventuality?" said Arthur Weasley.
He, too, was smiling.
"What...?" Both the Malfoy spouses said in unison, Narcissa letting go of her son.
"We didn't exactly buy your change of heart, Narcissa..." said the Hogwarts Headmistress.
"So, I told the Ministry of Magic that something like this could take place, therefore they made it impossible to disapparate from here until after the ceremony would be terminated. This is why you're unable to leave." Harry suddenly said.
Draco, who had recovered from the effects of the impediment jinx, stared at him, his mouth dropped.
Harry's paranoias weren't really senseless, after all.
He was right, once again.
Harry's expression was unbelievably serious. His green eyes narrowed and stayed put on the Malfoys, who were listening to him while feeling defeated.
He could read his anger from where he was standing.
He wouldn't dare to meet his gaze, also, which generally wasn't a good sign.
So, Draco thought it would be wiser to just wait until the whole thing would be over.
"Oh and many of the people here who are disguised as muggles are actually Aurors who kindly agreed to supervise the event." Harry continued, raising a smile.
"Lucius Malfoy, wasn't a year in Azkaban enough for you? I'm afraid you will get more for this."
Said an apparent muggle from several seats behind. He quickly reached his target and binded his wrists together with invisible handcuffs.
Another pretend muggle did the same with Blaise and Narcissa.
Neville was left unscathed, though.
"Oh, Mr Longbottom here will not come with us, no. He told us everything. You blackmailed him into spying on his friend and later sabotaging his wedding to avoid his grandmother getting hurt by you." Auror number two said.
Everything made sense, now.
Harry could finally understand why Neville had petrified him. He felt so bad for him, his friend was very easy to manipulate and the Malfoys' cruelty pushed him to do the unthinkable.
He wasn't mad at him, not anymore. When the words "Petrificus Totalus!" had come out of his mouth, he had felt betrayed by him. But now, he could only feel pitiful for him.
After all, his grandma was all he had, he would have done anything to keep her safe.
Even if it meant engaging in criminal activity.
Also, the mystery surrounding the Malfoys knowing everything their son did, even they weren't communicating with him was solved.
Neville would refer his every move to them.
"Draco, you would let these man incarcerate your own mother? Please, tell them I just wanted to look out for you!" Mrs Malfoy pleaded, sounding desperate.
But Draco wasn't going to fall for it, not anymore.
"I'm afraid I can't. You were just about to kidnap me. You are no longer my mother, if you betray me this way."he spat, looking impassive.
Narcissa's eyes widened greatly as she was being taken away to a location of temporary custody.
Draco watched as his parents were forced out of the room, thinking that it would probably be the last time he'd see them. He felt as if they had just died, right in front of him.
They were going to snatch him away to do Merlin knew what to him, so he didn't feel remorse.
Additionally, he didn't break down and cry like he would have done on other occasions, he just stood there.
He turned around to see Neville break into a sob and fall at Harry's feet.
"I'm so sorry, Harry! They threatened me... to kill my grandma if I wouldn't help them with their plan! I never meant to hurt you... oh, man, I should go to Azkaban, too!" the boy said in the grip of his sobs.
"Oh, Neville.. no, you shouldn't." Harry said, bending down to look at him. "What they did to you was atrocious and they will pay for it." he extended his hand for the other boy to hold.
Neville nodded, then he grabbed his friend's hand, as he helped him up.
"It's something many of us would have done to protect the people we love." Harry expressed.
His forgiving abilities were uncanny, Draco observed. His husband to be was usually mistrustful, but, if he valued a person worthy of forgiveness, even if they had done the worst thing one can imagine, he would give it to them.
He would be marrying a truly amazing person.
One by one, all the attendants were woken up and set free from the petrification.
"Wow, that was some show!" Hermione's grandmother squeaked, clapping her hands slightly.
Muggles' memories would have been modified anyway, though, as some of them had actually been jinxed.
"Oh my God, are you alright?" said Hermione, leaving her hiding spot and running to Harry.
"Yeah, I'm Ok, not one scratch." Harry said, giving her a reassuring smile.
"Oh Thank God!" Hermione pulled her friend into a tight a hug, then she moved her attention to Draco. "Draco! Are you Ok? Are you hurt?" she cried out in a worried tone, all while taking his face in her hands.
"Yeah, a bit um.. aghast, but I'm fine. All thanks to Harry, I guess." said Draco, smiling at the to other boy, who didn't return the smile, though.
"Oh, Heavens, are all magical weddings like this?" Mrs Granger asked Hagrid.
Her daughter's wedding had turned into a battlefield right before her eyes not many minutes before, it was her right to be completely shaken.
"Oh, this is technically a muggle weddin'. If you had seen a real one in our world, boy, yeh probably woulda fainted from the shock." The half-giant chuckled.
"Oh, babe, you're Ok!" said a stuttering Ginny. She flung her arms around her girlfriend, wrapping her into a firm embrace. "I was so scared that something had happened to you!"
The two girls had been immobile throughout the whole ruckus, lying by each other.
However, Ginny had been unable to look at Luna, so she didn't know whether she had been simply petrified or fatally harmed in the fall.
"Ah, Gin Gin, I'm super fine. I worried about you, too. I feared you were dead and the Gordonds of Death were coming for you!" Luna muttered.
"Oh, I love you!" Ginny whispered, then she kissed her girlfriend with passion.
Both girls were finally relieved that they were fine and that the nightmare was put to and end before anyone got seriously hurt.
"Now," Miss Sivan's voice interrupted. "I say, if everyone is alive and well, that I give you all five minutes to recover from the shock, then, we carry on with this thing."
"Oh, that's our cue. Let's go back to the altar, guys!" said Hermione, letting go of Draco's face. She grabbed her dress and walked towards where Ron was standing. She turned around to motion for her friends to follow her.
But they didn't go right away.
Harry wasn't looking at his lover, not yet. He was not moving and he was merely staring at Hermione while she walked.
Draco felt the tension in the air, it wrapped them both so tight, almost chocking them.
He knew why Harry was acting like that, but he had to put a stop to that as soon as possible.
He had to look at him to marry him.
He took a breath, then he shyly placed a hand on Harry's shoulder.
"Babe, I should have listened to you... I was just fooled by my mother's ways... I should have known it was too good to be-" he began, but the boy with the messy hair interrupted him.
"When will you ever listen to me?" Harry said sternly, turning around to finally face his lover. "Lucky I was suspicious, think of what they could have done to if I hadn't been!"
Draco gulped, feeling guilty. Harry's look contained a strong disappointment and he knew he had caused it.
"I know... I'm sorry..." he replied, looking down at his feet. The look the other boy gave him cut through him so violently that he had to look away, in order not to be burned by that look that he hated. He knew he deserved it, but it still hurt him to an extent.
"They could have wiped out your memory of me! Or... Merlin knows what else!" Harry scolded, worriedly.
Draco set his gaze back on him. His future husband was crying.
"I could have lost you!" The Gryffindor weeped, looking up and swallowing a lump in his throat to keep from bawling.
"But you didn't, I'm right here! Because you were cautious and this saved me." The Slytherin said in a reassuring tone. He cupped Harry's face in his hands and locked his eyes with his. "You saved me. Like you always do. And I can't wait for Miss Sivan to pronounce us married."
Harry's soulmate's words didn't help him in his fight against crying hysterically.
His body trembled as he let out hiccups of broken sobs.
The taller boy pulled him into the most stringent hug they had ever shared, rubbing his back to soothe him.
Harry had calmed him down many times with this method, it only made sense for Draco to return the favour.
"I swear, you will kill me one day. You gave me a massive scare out here. Now, I want to marry you even more than I did before." said Harry, once he recollected himself.
"Then let's go to that altar and let's get the fuck married." Draco said when pulling away.
Only a few minutes later, the two couples were once again standing on opposite sides of the altar, Miss Sivan right in the middle.
"Well, where were we? Ah, I had just asked Mr Ronald Bilius Weasley and Harry James Potter if they agreed to take Miss Hermione, in Ronald's case, and Mr Draco, in Harry's, as their lawfully wedded spouses." The fairy lady picked up from where she had left off.
With a movement of her fingers, she raised a flute in the air and the instrument began playing itself.
An harmonious and soft music pervaded the whole room as four hearts beat faster than those belonging to anyone else in the vicinities.
"I do, more than anything." Harry said in a croaked voice.
"I do." said Ron.
"So, for the power invested in me by the French Ministry of Magic, I now pronounce the people on my left as Husband and Husband and the people on my right as husband as wife."
After exchanging their rings, Ron kissed Hermione and Harry captured his now husband's lips with his own.
This was their best kiss so far, Harry thought. It was sweet, soft, but also full of love. It was their first kiss as a married couple, so it was, by far, their most special one.
He felt their bodies and souls intertwine completely as they became one thing only.
The feelings Draco experienced in that kiss were hard for him to describe. It was their first kiss after the whole disaster of not long before, so it made him feel safe, calm and at home.
His thoughts wandered back to their first kiss ever, under the big tree.
It had been rough, completely emotionless and full of only lust.
It was nothing compared to this new touch.
Ginny and Luna hugged while crying freely.
Their best friends were finally married and that had been too emotional to handle.
Ginny wondered if she would ever marry the girl in her arms.
One day, she would have definitely done that. But, in that moment she felt too young for that big step.
But it didn't mean she never would have felt ready.
Watching their friends confirm, once again, their undying love for each other made her think of her relationship with that blonde girl. She had jumped, head first, into that new thing that she had been afraid of for so long. That had been the best thing she had ever done.
Now she got to call the most amazing girl in the world her girlfriend. Someday, her wife.
All the people in the room applauded and whooped, many of them crying in happiness.
"Me little midgets growin' up so much!"Hagrid's enormous tears almost flooded his seat.
Hermione's parents held hands as their little girl became someone's wife. They had been skeptical at first, regarding her now husband, but, seeing their daughter so happy, they finally accepted their union completely.
There wasn't a single Weasley in the room who had dry eyes, not even Percy.
When Hermione and Ron pulled away, they were both giggling.
When Harry and Draco did that, their eyes exuded pure happiness and excitement.
Draco could barely believe it. They were husbands and they would be for the rest of their lives together. There was nothing that he looked forward to more. Simply growing old with the love of his life was something that he couldn't wait for.
After Hermione threw her bouquet, who Ginny promptly caught, Molly declared it was time to dance.
Before that could happen, though, the brunette felt it was time to make an announcment.
"Before we can all engage into this dance, Ron and I need to tell you something... We're having a baby!" she shouted.
Her parents knew that already, so, of course, they didn't act too surprised. But they were happy to become grandparents so they cheered for her.
"What? Oh, that's marvelous! Grandma of two in only one go!" Molly exclaimed excitedly.
"And I'll be a grandfather! Congratulations!" Arthur added.
Everyone else in the room congratulated the pair, then the dancing officially began.
As Harry held his husband close, he could have sworn that had never known this level of delight in his life before.
It was almost too much to handle.
"I can't believe this! You're my husband!" Draco squealed.
"I can't either! It feels like yesterday that we hated each other..." Harry responded, raising his head to look at the other boy.
While dancing with him, he had kept his head rested on his chest.
"And now, look at us! Married!" The blond boy said excitedly, accentuating the word 'married'.
"The best decision we ever made, my love." Harry mused.
The best decision Draco had made was agreeing to becoming Harry's boyfriend, that had sucked him into a world full of emotion like he had never felt before.
He had completely drowned into him and he didn't want, for anything in the world, to go back to the surface.
A/N: Second to last chapter, y'all :( so sad that there's only one more, but everything comes to end.