Hi there, me again!

It's been nearly a month now since I posted the previous chapter and I'm really disappointed, that no-one reviewed this story.

I go on posting though, there are some more chapters ready. Hopefully someone will have mercy sometime and review this.

Chapter five is a rather short one, so I'm posting six as well.

The disclaimer can be found in chapter one.

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5 Wedding at the Weasleys

Harry awoke after another dreamless sleep, because the voices of his two best friends drifted over to him. Harry couldn't help but grin. There were the two of them arguing again. This time it was about awakening him or not.

"You can stop that discussion now!" he exclaimed, startling them both, "you already managed to wake me, you know."

The emerald eyes sparkled as he saw their faces.

"Bloody hell, Harry, you shocked us!" Ron exclaimed. "We came over to take you to the Burrow. Mum's completely fussy and overexcited. She fears you wouldn't make it in time for the wedding."

Hermione and Ron waited for Harry to get dressed in his dress robes, Hermione had brought for him. The three of them went to the headmistress' office and Harry sent his best friends ahead through the headmistress' fireplace. He had a short conversation with McGonagall and informed her of the things Malfoy had told him. She again asked him, what he thought of Malfoy's behaviour. He gave her his opinion that Draco seemed to have been totally honest and have truly changed his ways. After their conversation he also flooed to the Burrow, where the wedding of Fleur Delacourt and Bill Weasley was to take place that day. Harry was curious how a wizarding wedding would be. Not, that he had seen many muggle ones to be able to compare…

The burrow's backyard was very nicely and ceremonially decorated with lots of white flowers and green vines. Harry felt as if he had suddenly entered the Elven Realm of Lothlorien from the book Lord of the Rings, which he had recently read. He went through the decorations in a dream-like state and only slowly started to perceive the other guests.

There was the complete Order of the Phoenix, some goblins from Gringotts' Wizarding Bank and a group of French talking people, Harry imagined being Fleur's friends and family. He was astounded to see Neville and Luna with Mrs. Longbottom and a man, he supposed was Mr. Lovegood. The bride was nowhere to be seen and the groom looked really nervous. Bill's scars were still clearly visible but had already faded a lot. The Boy-Who-Lived looked around but couldn't spot Percy anywhere. That git still seemed to avoid his family.

Every one took a seat and the ceremony started. Charlie as Bill's Best Man stood beside his brother when first the two bridesmaids Ginny and Gabrielle walked down the aisle. They were followed by Fleur, who was brought to the altar (could it be called that? It surely had nothing to do with the churchly altar.) by whom Harry supposed was her father. The wedding wizard held a nice bonding ceremony at whose end the bond he had produced with his wand was transfigured into the two identical white golden bracelets, the newlyweds were to wear from now on as a symbol of their bonding.

After the ceremony everyone clinked glasses with Bill and Fleur at the reception. It was a dark red sparkling drink, Harry had never tasted before and he was eager to find out, what it was, because he liked it very much. So he moved through the crowd to stand beside Ginny and asked her about the drink. So he found out, that it was cherry champaign, which was traditional at wizarding weddings, because of the cherry being heart-shaped. Ginny also enlightened him about Neville's and Luna's presence. Bill and Fleur had decided to invite them because of their fight alongside Bill at Hogwarts.

Suddenly Gabrielle and Fleur came running in his direction. Both hugged and kissed him and then dragged him with them to meet their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Delacourt both thanked Harry again for rescuing Gabrielle during the Triwizard Tournament. Mrs. Weasley chose that moment to call everyone to the banquet and Harry was very grateful to be freed from the French family.

The banquet was very festive and lasted for hours. There was every sort of delicacy one could imagine as well as many different sorts of wine and champaign. At last a huge wedding cake, an ice cream bomb and a large variety of other desserts were dished.

After the banquet the newlyweds opened the dance and Harry found himself a quiet corner, where Ron accompanied him at once, both keen to avoid dancing. Poor Neville was not as lucky and had to dance with Hermione, Ginny and Luna in turn. But he didn't seem to mind at all. Neither did the twins who danced with every female present. The goblins had left the feast as soon as the dancing had begun. To Harry it seemed that they weren't keen to have to dance as well. Ron accioed a bottle of cherry champaign and two glasses into their dark corner and the two friends drank together another glass of that tasty liquid.

Suddenly there were apparition cracks and a commotion started, the wards began howling and everyone drew their wands at once. Stunners flew in all directions and Harry and Ron moved quickly under the table to crawl into the direction of the attack. They recognised several hooded and masked figures fighting against the wedding guests. Harry couldn't identify many of them. He saw Remus fighting one Death Eater a little aloof from the rest and suddenly he saw long black hair coming out under the hood of one Death Eater. Bellatrix! Not thinking twice Harry ran over to her and started throwing stunners and hexes in her direction but he didn't seem able to get her. She noticed his attack and dodged all curses. She turned around and Harry tried to stun her again, when she laughed her cackling laugh and yelled "Crucio!", her wand pointing directly at him. A pain, not unknown to him by now, hit his body and he fell to the floor at once. He bit his lips not to cry out aloud.

After what seemed to last for ever the pain ended as abrupt as it had started and Harry sat up. He saw Bellatrix disappear with a crack and with her all Death Eaters, who were not stunned or dead, disapparated as well.

Moody, Shacklebolt and Tonks were the first to gain some survey over the situation. They bound the disarmed and stunned Death Eaters and took off their masks. Some other order members were looking after the injured. It seemed that only two Death Eaters had died and luckily none of the wedding guests. However Mrs. Longbottom, Mr. Delacourt, Luna, Alicia, Fred and Charlie

were seriously hurt and had to be transported to St. Mungo's.

Rabastan Lestrange, Goyle senior and Amycos as well as three Death Eaters, Harry had never seen, were sent to Azkaban. Fenrir Greyback and the brutal-looking Death Eater, who had accompanied Malfoy to Hogwarts and whose name seemed to be Ruffian were killed during the attack. It seemed, Remus had made it a habit to carry a silver dagger with a wooden hilt around, just in case he would come to face Greyback. And he had thrown it mercilessly to finish the werewolf off, who had infected him with his lycanthropie.

"He will never again infect children on purpose," was his only comment.