Harry watched Andromoda and Teddy disappear into the floo network. He was was still waving after they disappeared home. He quickly turned and passed through the Weasley kitchen and he stepped back outside, the first thing he saw was the banner.

It was hanging between two trees, as it was flapping in the wind and hanging by only one surviving thread now. The banner said "Happy 31st anniversary".Mr and Mrs Weasley had really been married 31 years!

It seemed like such a long time. The party had moved outside due to the unexpected heat of the summer and only a few stragglers were still here, all the couples with children had made their excuses and left citing bedtimes.

Ginny had disappeared, Harry presumed to avoid her mother asking her to set a wedding date again, Ron and Hermonie were standing by the food table, Hermonie glancing at Ron as he took another jam doughnut.

"Don't eat another one, What have i told you about nutrition?"

Between further gulps Ron spat out

"What, but it's got fruit in it!"

she laughed and rolled her eyes, she had given up trying to tell Ron to do anything more than once.

Mrs Weasley was clearing up the plates and taking them though to the kitchen. Mr Weasley was sitting reading a book. Harry spotted Ginny sitting in the shadows of the garden, shaded by the edge of the woods, watching everybody else going around their business.

Nobody was looking, or they just hadn't spotted her hidden by the trees. Harry headed towards her, sitting behind her, threading his arms around her waist pulling her towards him.

"Knut for them"

he said moving his hands and sweeping her hair across one side of her face and kissing the exposed part of her neck.

"I was thinking about what we're going to do for our 31st anniversary"

" What did you decide?" he said mock seriously.

" I was thinking about a party in our garden like this with all our children around"

"Our children?"he asked, eyebrows raised

"Yeah. A boy and a girl"

"What makes you think we're going to have children?" he asked, she laughed

"Because we both want them and you can't resist me" she grinned.

" Thats true" he said kissing the back of her neck again. She looked into the distance

" I like the names James and Lilly"

"Gin, you don't need ..." She hit her elbow into his chest

"If you say anything except what nice names they are I'll hex you into next Tuesday"

He spotted her wand sticking out of the back pocket of her jeans and jokingly grabbed it. All the other women had worn dresses but that would made everybody far to happy, so cut off jeans it was for Ginny.

"If you can catch me that is" he said.

He stood up an ran away further into the secluded area of trees.

She quickly caught him up and wrestled him to the ground. Holding his arms above his head with all her weight, although she was more than certain he wanted to be caught.

"Potter you can never win. Now you will get one of my severest punishments"

She didn't think severest was a word, but it didn't really matter. He was pretending to struggle and get away. He screamed

"Help"

"A kiss"

she announced leaning down and kissing him, her long hair covering both their faces, when she came back up she was holding her wand again.

"My punishments always work" she cooed.

" I thought you refused to make plans"

He said looking straight into her big brown eyes. He had obviously been referring to their previous conversation which had been successfully halted by him, and she had assumed had been forgotten.

"I don't. But a girl can dream, besides I didn't mean tomorrow, in a few years time"

He traced the line of her cheek with one finger.

"I can't think of a better dream to have, sounds perfect" he said smiling. "I'm never going to work you out am I?" he said.

" If you could life would be just to boring" she said.

He kept stroking her cheek and looked deep in contemplation. She stuck out her tongue, a tactic she used often to distract from what was happening when she felt things were getting to "heavy". He smiled back, moving his hand away. He took this a warning to change the conversation.

"Why were you hiding?" he questioned

"You know, mum really wants us to set a date. Now Ron and Hermonie's wedding is out of the way, I've got nothing to distract her with and she's quite insistent"

" I wonder which of her children she passed that onto?" he questioned.

" You must be thinking of Percy" she said , half jokingly.

" Ah, that's who i'm thinking of" he smiled back.

"Have you got any ideas ?" he said.

He really wasn't fussed when and where they got married, just that they did.

"I've been thinking and..."

She stopped speaking abruptly and sat up, pulling her legs towards her waist, leaving Harry still laying on the ground. He wasn't the most perceptive person in the world but her knew what this meant and it seemed like she was scared of what she was about to say. It was quite rare that she would do this, she usually just said would she thought, but on certain occasions she would be apprehensive.

"This isn't going to be popular is it?"

He pulled himself off of the floor to meet her. The playfulness that had previously been around them had been zapped out of the air. He touched her arm, she jumped slightly.

"What are these things?" he said.

" I don't want the ceremony here at the burrow, this is my family home, it isn't a special place to me. I was thinking by shell cottage overlooking the sea. Mum's gonna go spare though."

"And the other thing?"

He knew there was something else or she wouldn't of acted like this. Something he wouldn't like.

"I think you should at least invite your family, they are your only surviving relatives"

"Gin, I don't want my aunt and uncle there, you know how they treated me when I was younger. They wouldn't come anyway"

He said that a little more forcibly than he had imagined. He was certain that they wouldn't come anyway.

"Now that I have a choice, I'm having nothing to do with them"

He said turning and facing the opposite direction Ginny's mind rang with memories of Teddy's tantrums but neglected to mention this.

"What about Dudley? You said before you left that..."

She was struggling for the words she wanted to say something about him treating Harry better, it wasn't exactly the truth, but he knew would know what she meant. Before she could get the words out, he started to speak

"I'll will go and speak to him, invite him if i think he can be civil. How's that for a compromise?"

"Sounds pretty good to me" she smiled.

"Only for you" he said,

He turned back and kissed the top of her nose. It was true, anybody else asked him to speak to his relatives and he would be so upset he would probably avoid them again at all costs but for some reason he could see her reasoning behind asking, maybe he was biased. It didn't really matter, he'd meet Dudley once and he'd refuse to come to the wedding and then everything would go back to normal. If he gave her one little thing . He'd only have to put with Dudley for an hour, tops, before Gin hexed him and they left, what's an hour out of his life?

"You're mother may be less easy to convince" he said.

At that point Hermonie 's cough rang out through the trees and she appeared drawing ever closer.

" We weren't sure where you'd got to. It's getting dark and Mr and Mrs Weasley hadn't seen you for a while"

It had been obvious that she knew they were there and the cough was a warning in case they were doing something she wouldn't want to see. Ginny went to look at her watch, not realising she wasn't wearing a watch at all. She pretended to scratch her arm instead and smiled. Harry stood up and said

"We're coming "

He stood up and gave a hand to Ginny to help her stand up. As they chatted on the way back to the burrow, his mind wandered back to the thought of having to spend a hour in the company of Dudley, but that was another day.