Flashes from life
Ring
Harry Potter
The moment a man hears his child is engaged to be married, is possibly the saddest moment in his life. It's always so sorrowful for a father to understand that the baby he held just yesterday has really grown to be a man or a woman.
Harry Potter had lived through these news once – slightly flushed James and her girlfriend-for-four-years had told about their engagement just seven months ago – and he had sincerely hoped he wouldn't hear Albus or Lily telling this thing for a long time. Harry had believed he was safe, because neither of his younger ones dated anyone at that moment.
Or so he had thought.
Now he was sitting at the dinner table, looking at his second son eyes wide and mouth hanging open. This would have been more James' style - to come home peacefully for a Sunday dinner and tell just as peacefully that he was engaged with someone he had never even introduced to his parents. But still it had been James who had made sure his family knew of his girlfriend long before any proposes, and Albus, who had surprised his whole family.
Though, Harry decided while looking at his other children, Lily didn't look surprised at all. And something in James' face told Harry very clearly that he, also, had known, if not about this engagement, then at least about his girlfriend.
Al smiled sheepishly, touched gently the thin ring in his left hand before telling his parents the whole story of his and Poppy Zabini's relationship.
Feel free to guess who are Poppy's parents and what they think of their daughter's engagement. :)