"Harry mate, you alright? You look a bit shaken." said Ron looking at his best friend with worry.

"I think I'm gradually hearing what happened at St Mungo's." Harry said to Ron's astonishment.

"Who did you hear? asked Ron with a hint of desperation.

"I'm not sure yet, but the tone was positive." Harry recalled rubbing his eyes.

Ron was unusually first down to breakfast today and he saw a familiar looking owl in the weary shape of Errol tapping far too furiously, considering his old age, at the window with a letter tied to its legs.

Upon reading the letter, Ron yelled in Harry's direction,

"Get down here quick Harry!"

"Morning, Ron." as Harry appeared from nowhere with a whoosh.

"How can you apparate already?" asked Ron completely forgetting about the letter for the moment.

"It was only a short distance so it didn't use up a lot of my magical capacity." replied Harry.

"Anyway read this from Dad," said Ron as he thrust the letter into Harry's hand.

"We should go and see Luna first," Harry responded with an air of disbelief.

Exactly like the day before, Kreacher helped them apparate to Luna's house, although it was spitting with rain today, so the duo had to Impervious their long-sleeved shirts.

Harry knocked on the door and just like last like last time there was no response much to the surprise of the duo.

Ron opened the door and saw a small piece of paper with slim writing lying on the dining table.

Harry and Ron

I'm at the Burrow.

See you there.

Luna

"How in Merlin's pants did she know that we would come here first?" Ron queried in awe.

Harry didn't need to reply as he knew Luna too well.

"Is it walkable?" Harry asked.

"Yeah it doesn't take too long."

Harry followed Ron out of the door and by this time the raining had subsided so they were able to expose themselves to the warm summer breeze although the ground was still damp.

Ron was clearly forgetting the route to his house as Harry felt like they had passed the same hills several times.

After a couple of hours, they had finally reached within touching distance of the Burrow as they saw an oddly shaped silhouette approaching them which presented an air of familiarity to the duo.

Harry put the Invisibilty Cloak over the pair of them and crouched down to avoid anyone seeing their feet.

"How were we not detected by the enchantments?" questioned Harry as they passed into the confines of the Burrow.

"I think we're still part of the Fidelius Charm or something like that," replied Ron.

"Well Ron here we are," said Harry nervously as he saw Mrs Weasley entering the front door, levitating a bouquet of flowers.

Suddenly Ron heard a disturbance in the garage and he instinctively dragged Harry to it, at the same time dangerously exposing their feet. Ron peeked through the window to ensure only Mr Weasley was in the garage and then knocked.

"Come in," was the reply.

"Dad it's us," whispered Ron as he took off the Invisibilty Cloak.

"Good to see you two again," said Mr Weasley as he took a break from examining a 6 speed manual gearbox.

"Luna's here but Ginny's not here yet," he continued.

"Mr Weasley, do you mind taking us in?" requested Harry.

"Sure, no problem I was just going to go get a cup of tea from the kitchen."

Harry and Ron ducked under the Cloak at the same time taking care to follow closely to Mr Weasley. Mr Weasley opened the door and for Harry in particular, there she stood.

Oh how much Harry had missed her long mane of red hair and of course all of her curves, with the one he missed most being her radiant smile. Vivid memories came back to their days together in Hogwarts as well as walking in Ottery St Catchpole's majestic landscape with clasped hands. Harry was immensely tempted to just bowl her over and kiss her soundly but knew in the long run this was not advised.

Ron pointed towards Ginny's face and Harry saw that she was smiling. But was it a real smile? Or did he see flecks of unhappiness in her eyes?

Harry was disturbed from his thoughts in the form of a silent gasp from Ron.

Together their eyes fixated upon a certain Hermione Granger who looked slightly different from the last time they saw her. Her hair was no longer bushy but had been straightened out and tied in a bun, also the lips which Ron had dreamt about meeting his own with, were now an unnatural shade of rose red.

Harry felt the ground tremor as he saw Ron's face turn a violent shade of purple, which reminded Harry of Uncle Vernon having one of his rants, as Harry had suddenly noticed he himself was shaking and his hands were clenched in fists.

"How dare someone do this to the people they loved!"

Mr Weasley must have noticed the duo's anger as he took a small glance to his left, as he sat by the dining table with Molly and Hermione and Ginny opposite and Ron were trying hard to listen to their conversation as they were hindered slightly by the cloak, trying as hard as possible to not make any sounds.

"So are you two all set for the wedding?" asked Mrs Weasley genially.

Ginny and Hermione nodded their heads in agreement, but Mr Weasley was frowning slightly, although he did his best to manage a strained smile.

"Are you sure that you are marrying the right men?" Mr Weasley asked and at the same time taking a slight glance at Harry and Ron, which was of course thin air to the rest of them.

"Arthur! cried Mrs Weasley in can you say something like that!"

Ginny and Hermione looked on slightly awkwardly, whereas Arthur merely raised his eyebrows as if to say, "let's see what happens then."

Harry and Ron saw Luna serenely gliding into the room as if she had heard nothing at all and the duo made their way towards her, giving Mr Weasley a prod on his left leg as they went past.

Luna guided Harry and Ron to Charlie's old room which she was staying in, two floors above the dining room.

"Do you see their faces?" Luna asked the duo.

"Of course we did!" asked an utterly bemused Ron.

"She meant their reactions to Mr Weasley's rhetorical question Ron," said Harry in a rather Hermione-esque patronising way.

"Wha-oh I see, they looked a bit awkward but that could be because of dad asking the question," Ron replied.

Harry looked thoughtful as he attempted to recall what had happened. He saw Mrs Weasley's reaction in the conversation so he knew where she stood. He couldn't read a lot from the expressions on the faces of Ginny and Hermione but their reactions were definitely not positive, causing a ray of hope to burn through his doubts. Ron looked bemused at Harry's gradual smile as he couldn't figure anything about Ginny and Hermione without them saying anything, despite his mum's reaction to Mr Weasley slightly brash question.

Just then Harry heard footsteps approaching the door and quickly covered the Invisibility Cloak over his and Ron's heads then darted into the corner of the room with Luna pretending to make her bed whilst covering Harry and Ron whom she couldn't see.