Birthday Party
Ginny awoke that morning still tired she had only gotten three hours of sleep but when she opened her eyes she noticed Hermione sitting on the end of her bed, realizing this was what had woken her she sat up. Just then Hermione noticed Ginny was awake jumping a little as she popped up in bed "sorry Hermione I didn't mean to scare you" Ginny said "oh its my fault I just needed to talk to you" she replied "is something wrong?" Ginny asked with a concerned look on her face "well its just that I woke up last night and found you & Harry missing I know its none of my business what you were doing but both of you are my closest friends and I don't want you rushing into something your not ready for." "Nothing happened Hermione we just went for a swim together" "till three in the morning?" Hermione asked skeptically "we just lost track of time" "ok I believe you, I'm just trying to protect you, Harry may be my best friend but he is still a guy" "I know Hermione he promised we wouldn't do anything I'm not comfortable with" "okay but this can't happen again I was really worried about you two" they hugged for a few moments before Hermione said "now we better get downstairs before they start breakfast without us you know how Ron gets when we make him wait for food." They both started laughing and walked downstairs arm in arm.
Ginny peeled off at Ron's door to wake Harry. Ginny pecked Harry on the cheek feeling this was an appropriate way to wake him up, reluctantly he opened his eyes to see Ginny fully dressed sitting in a nearby chair filed with laundry "what are you doing here?" he asked "waking you up for your birthday breakfast of course" "I feel like I just went to sleep" Harry replied drowsily "we did" Ginny smirked "that wasent a dream I had?" Harry asked "no it was real alright" Ginny said, by the way "happy birthday, I think I would rather give you your present up here than in front of my whole family" "you didn't need to get me a present Ginny last night was enough" "By the way Herminie noticed we were gone so we had a little chat this morning, she isn't going to tell on us but from now on lets be a bit more careful" Harry nodded in agreement the last thing he needed was the whole weasly gang beating him up for their little tryst last night. "It's not much but here you go she handed him a package" he ripped open the wrapping to find a set of quills that wrote whatever you said so your hand wouldn't get tired, some parchment that was bewitched to only allow the writer and the reader to read it, as well as a picture with both of them holding hands by the lake that Colin Creevy had taken. "Its perfect Ginny I love it, now I can write you dirty letters and not have to worry someone else might read them." "I look forward to reading those" she said coyly "Now leave those up here we better go downstairs before every one gets suspicious" Harry stopped "but first I think your forgetting my birthday kiss" they started snogging passionately when Ron entered the room his jaw dropped to the floor letting out a shocked gasp Harry turned to him and said "morning mate" after a long silence Harry decided to lighten the mood by making a joke saying "we really need to work on your timing issues" after seeing the contemptuous glare he got after making the comment he knew it was a little too soon to joke so he backed off changing the subject to food and with that they all headed down to the kitchen for breakfast.
When they arrived downstairs they were greeted by a shower of streamers and a serenade of happy birthday. Mrs. Weasely made her specialty pancakes with strawberries and whipped crème on top, Harry's favorite. After everyone had enough to eat they decided it was time for Harry to open presents even though he argued that he didn't need anything. George gave Harry some of the new joke shop inventions which included a pair of two way mirrors, a room in box that George said was modeled after the room of requirements, and a box of toffee that would counteract any of the skiving snack boxes so that no one would be able to skip his class. Ron gave Harry a large box of chocolates and Hermione gave him a defense against the dark arts book. Mrs. and Mr. Weasley gave him a wall clock similar to the one in the kitchen that instead of telling time told the whereabouts of everyone in their family including Hermione. He thanked everyone profusely for the gifts finally turning to Mrs. Weasley giving her a big hug.
After all of the festivities had subsided he asked if it would be alright for himself and Ginny to go shopping for Ginny's school supplies. Mrs. Weasley who was now busy taking care of Teddy agreed and with that they disasperated to diagon ally. When they arrived Ginny asked, "So where to first?"
"What makes you think I know." "Well you are the one who planed this thing"
"We have to go to Gringotts first to get some money out of my account."
"Are they going to let you in after what you did to their bank the last time you visited?" Ginny joked
"I hope so I hadn't even thought about it."
I was just kidding, they will probably just add another security goblin to our detail or something, Harry still looked uneasy but proceeded through the revolving door and into the bank. He noticed the large hole in the floor sectioned off by a force field; his cheeks flushed a little reminded of the destruction he had caused, suddenly he was approached by an angry looking goblin Mr. Potter I have been instructed to give you this letter by the proprietor of this institution. Harry opened the envelope carefully unfolded the letter and quickly read the contense, nodding in assent to the request that he be accompanied to his vault by no less than three goblins to insure that there would be no further intrusions. At last they were joined by security and they all boarded the cramped railway car and speed off into the dark underground caverns of the bank. "Vault number 65" exclaimed one of the goblins after a long winding journey through the darkness. Harry felt the oppressive dirt above him weighing down on him "we must be very deep" Harry whispered to Ginny.
"I've never been this deep before my brother told me that the smaller numbered vaults were typically the oldest and thus the deepest he also mentioned something about them being the largest."
The goblin did a series of complex knocks on the door of the vault before it swung open reviling the largest stacks of gold Harry had ever seen he could almost hear Ginny's jaw drop at the sight of it. Okay get as much as you need for your school stuff and some extra spending money too if you'd like. He saw her wide eyed state of shock so he decided to ask if she was alright, Ginny nodded but without much enthusiasm. Listen Gin, I plan on spending the rest of my life with you which means this is your money too. "I couldn't possibly take your money Harry."
Ginny said after finally composing herself to grasp what was happening. "Look at this room of gold I couldn't possibly use it all in one lifetime let alone both our lifetimes. Come on Ginny please."
"I suppose your right… I still don't feel right about it but if it will make you happy I can't argue with you any longer especially not on your birthday." They both grabbed two bags of gold, Ginny's slightly smaller than Harry's to make up for her uneasiness and they left the vault which clanged eerily behind them.
Back at the surface they ran into Bill who had gone back to work recently, he stopped them to chat and say happy birthday and before either of them knew what was going on they were both being ushered into his office.
"I can't believe you got in here especially after what you did to the bank, about half of the goblins think your actions were for the greater good the other half want your head on a platter for what you did, but anyway the reason I called you in here was to give you your birthday present."
Bill handed him the sloppily wrapped present which Harry graciously accepted. Harry unwrapped it to find a dragon skin wallet it was a beautiful dark chocolate color.
"I thought you could use some place to keep your money safe and it has direct access to your bank account as well as anti theft device so you won't have to come down to the bank as often, especially now with all these hostile goblins around."
"This is brilliant Bill it's just what I needed thank you sooooo much!"
Bill had some important business to attend to so Harry and Ginny left the bank to go shopping.