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The school week had passed by fairly quickly; most of the students couldn't stop talking about their upcoming weddings or what married life would be like. The teachers soon found it near impossible to accomplish anything with the incessant chatter, all except Professor Snape, the students learned to say nothing of the weddings and such in his class lest he deduct 100 house points. Many of the students offered their condolences to Persephone, all of which she shrugged or laughed off. But soon it was Saturday again and a Hogsmeade weekend was scheduled.
Persephone woke up fairly early that Saturday morning, which was unusual for her, and did her morning routine. Sticking her wand in the front pocket of her faded black jeans she wandered down to the Great Hall and grabbed an apple off of the table before sitting down beside Hermione and eating it.
After breakfast the students ran up to their rooms to get their cloaks, money, etc. and then left for Hogsmeade. After Persephone wandered around for most of the day, near about mid-afternoon she found Hermione and Ginny in a small dress shop.
"Hey." She said, as they turned around.
"Hey Sephie," Hermione replied, "Which dress looks better on Ginny, the red or the blue?" She held up the dresses to Ginny's smaller frame.
"Hm, have you tried a purple one?"
"I hadn't thought of that," Hermione turned and walked through the shelves.
"What about you Sephie? You here buy a dress too?" Ginny asked.
"No, I've got one in my trunk that'll work just fine. So, ready to become the new Mrs. Malfoy?" Persephone laughed at the look on Ginny's face.
"What about you, ready to become the new Mrs. Snape?" Ginny taunted back.
"The Ministry's insane." Persephone commented dryly, "So if you don't even want to marry Malfoy then why are you buying a dress?"
"It is going to be my only wedding."
"That fucking sucks."
Hermione reappeared just then, holding a pale purple dress, which Ginny instantly grabbed and then ran into the changing room. Hermione laughed and took a red dress off of a rack before she went into the changing room herself.
Ginny came out of the changing rooms first and twirled in the thin gown, the back had a large cut down it that went down almost to her tailbone and then sort of folded to the sides and the bottom flared out when she twirled. The top part was rather plain but had thin shoulder straps and a slight v-neck.
"Ginny you look amazing!" Persephone exclaimed.
"You really think so?"
Hermione stepped out of the changing rooms rather tentatively; she looked at Ginny, "Ginny, that dress is so pretty on you."
"Well if mine's pretty, yours is gorgeous, Hermione." Ginny said.
Hermione looked down, the dress had several sequins on the top and the skirt fanned out almost like a bell shape. It had thicker straps and a straight cut across the top.
"I'm not so sure." Hermione said.
"I'm sure about both of you, now go buy them so you can wow your…soon to be husbands. Fiancé's, whatever."
Ginny and Hermione laughed but ended up buying the dresses. They left the store soon after and wandered over to the jewelry store.
"So, am I right in saying that isn't going to be anything like the Muggle weddings?" Persephone asked as they looked around the store.
"Well, it could be," Hermione said, "Just the marriage law weddings are going to be different."
"Kind of figured." Persephone picked up a necklace with rubies in it. "Hermione that would work good with your dress." It was a thin gold chain with a single flower on it; the middle of the flower was black and the petals red.
"Wow," Ginny said. Persephone handed it to Hermione who held it around her neck. She walked over to a mirror and looked at it.
She smiled, "I have some ruby earrings that would work with this too." Hermione said. Walking over to the cashier she paid for it. "Are you two going to get anything?"
"No, there's nothing here that would work with my dress." Ginny said, as they walked out the door.
"I have some stuff in my chest that will work with my dress, well…sort of anyway. You know Ginny, I have an amethyst set I could lend you, and it has a necklace and earrings."
"I couldn't…"
"Sure you can, I'm not using it."
"All right."
"Now we need to figure what to do with Hermione's hair."
"What's wrong with my hair?"
"Nothing that can't be fixed with several hours work and a few choice spells." Ginny muttered.
Persephone laughed, "Come on, let's get back to the castle."
"No, honestly, what's wrong with my hair?"
"We'll show you Hermione don't worry."
The three laughing girls were soon back at Hogwarts and sitting on Persephone's bed, "So where's your dress Sephie?" Hermione asked.
"Oh right!" Persephone sprung off the bed and walked over to the end of it, she opened up the trunk and threw half a dozen small things onto her bed before she pulled out a large square box and a light blue dress. Unfolding it she held it up against herself. It had a v-neck that went to just above her cleavage and flared out at her waist. "It looks like it should fit." She then laid the dress on her trunk, picked up the box and walked over to Hermione and Ginny.
Opening the box she pulled out a smaller wooden box with a purple marking on it and handed it to Ginny. Ginny opened the smaller box and picked up the necklace it had a simple silver chain and a teardrop, which had the amethyst in it; the earrings were the same teardrop shape.
"Sephie it's so pretty." Ginny said.
Persephone smiled, "Glad you like it."
Ginny smiled again, "What does yours look like?"
"My wh-oh! My necklace!" Persephone reached over the side of the bed and rummaged through her trunk, she pulled out a round box, opening it she passed it to Ginny. Ginny held it between herself and Hermione; it had a simple silver chain with seven small teardrops hanging off of it. The earrings were of the same silver and lighter sapphires.
"Pretty." Ginny said, handing the case back to Persephone.
"Yea, and they actually match my dress." Persephone got off the bed and repacked the round box as well as her dress.
"I can't believe we're getting married in a week." Hermione muttered.
"I never really thought I'd actually get married." Persephone said, lying down on her bed. "Well, I did for a bit of sixth year but then that idiot Jason…" She trailed off, rolling her eyes and shaking her head.
"He was a prat." Ginny said.
Persephone laughed, "Yea, he really is."
"It's time for dinner." Hermione said, looking at her watch.
"All right." The three girls got up and left the dorm, they walked down to the Great Hall and sat together. Persephone picked at her food again and she left the Hall most of the way through dinner yet again. Staying up late she did most of her homework and went to bed.
Sunday was pretty boring. Persephone slept in, finished her homework and then had a fairly lazy day; she stayed up late finishing Moonheart by Charles de Lint and ended up getting in about 5 or so hours sleep.
The ending's pretty bad but honestly, nothing happened on Sunday so I just put it in here. Next up is Wednesday, probably, and then the wedding! Please R&R!