The next morning all of Gryffindor house woke late. It was the second to
last
Hogsmeade visit of the year. None of the Gryffindor's could even look at
Snape without laughing at him. This did not put Snape in a good mood.
Harry was very glad that today was a Saturday and that he did not have
Snape until Tuesday the next week. He did however have Quiddich practice.
Lately he had the team working six days a week for as much time as he
possibly could. That was why when the match against Hufflepuff came up
Harry caught the snitch after three minutes. No one had scored at all so
they beat Hufflepuff 150-0.
The whole school was surprised when Dumbledore stood up at dinner two
weeks before Spring Break. "Because the Yule Ball two years ago was so
much fun we have decided to host a Spring Ball the night before you leave
for Spring Break. All third years and above may come. Dress robes will be
worn. Thank you."
A buzz broke out over the Great Hall. Everyone began talking about the
dance. Harry got it done as soon as he could "Hermione will you go to the ball with me?"
"Of course Harry, what are girlfriends for?" And she kissed him. This was
the first time that they had ever kissed in public, and the whole school saw
them kiss. Unfortunately this included Sirius. As soon as dinner he went and
owled James. The next morning while James was sitting enjoying his
newspaper he saw Sirius' owl fly in. After he read the letter he dropped it as
though it was a bomb. He went to talk to Lily.
"Is Harry allowed to date?" He asked her. She was taken aback.
"Of course not he in only 16! He is not old enough for dating; we discussed it at Christmas time, why?"
"Because he is."
"No, he can't be! He is just a kid! You and I didn't start dating until; well we were a different case! Who?"
"Hermione"
"But they are just friends!"
"Not anymore, Sirius said he saw them kiss yesterday at dinner, in front on the whole school!"
"We have to write him right away! He is not aloud to date! Not until he's is in College!"
"I know, I am not happy with him, he should not break our rules like that! I thought he was more listened better then that. He will have to break up with her right away."
When Harry received the letter from his parents he write his response quickly.
Mum and Dad, I do not care what you think. I am not going to break up with Hermione. You can't stop me from dating her so don't try to break us up. It won't work. All my love, Harry
Lily got the letter this time. "James, he says that he won't break up with her!"
"WHAT?!? He has to we said so! We will have to talk to him when he gets
home for Spring Break." So they did not write him back. Harry took that to
mean that they had given up. The day of the ball was full of excited
whispers. Four hours before it, Hermione went up to her room to get ready.
He was going to go find Ron because he needed someone to talk to when
Ron came running into the common room.
"Harry guess what? My father is running for Minster of Magic! Your father is
going to be his campaign manager!"
"That is great Ron! Who is he running against?"
"Just Fudge! I hope he wins!"
"Me too, I am sure that he will be. He will be a better Minister then Fudge."
Then they sat discussing Quiddich until an hour before the ball and they went
upstairs to get ready them selves. Hermione was ten minutes late. Ron had
gone to go meet Sarah. But when Hermione did come down, Harry could not
believe his eyes. She was wearing light purple robes. She had sleeked her
hair down again she wore it in a bun with a few curly strands of curls framing
her face. Harry thought of how beautiful she looked. He gave her a dozen
perfect red roses. She smiled as she took them.
"Thank you Harry! That is so sweet! They are so beautiful!"
"Not as beautiful as you." He said and gave her a small kiss. She took out
her wand and made them go to a vase in her room. They began walking
down to the great hall completely absorbed in each other. Harry looked very
good too. He was wearing contacts that his father had gotten him and green
dress robes that made his eyes look even greener they were. His hair
boyishly un-tidy. They walked into the hall and sat down next to Ron and
Sarah. The great hall looked wonderful but neither one of them noticed they
were to busy looking at each other. When dinner was over they were the
first ones on the dance floor. They danced a couple of songs and then took a
break. There was a camera man there to take pictures of the couples. Harry
and Hermione had several pictures taken with several different back rounds.
Harry gave the man several gallons, they would get their pictures on the
train tomorrow. Sirius kept a very close watch over the two teenagers as
they began to dance again. Later on Harry led Hermione outside so they
could take a stroll around the grounds. He had set up a special surprise for
her by the lake. He had hired several fairies to put on a small show for
Hermione. They danced and sparkled. In the end they got together and
formed the words 'I love you'. Hermione was so happy. She had never felt
this happy in her entire life. All she wanted was for this night to last forever.
They went back inside for the last dance of the evening. At the end of the
dance Harry kissed Hermione passionately. Sirius was amazed at how much
in love the couple was. He had followed them everywhere and recorded
everything that happened on a wizard camcorder at Harry's request. Harry
was going to edit it and then give it to Hermione as a two-month anniversary
gift. After the ball they walked back up to the common room. They kissed
one last time before they went to bed. They both had wonderful dreams
about each other the whole night.
The next morning everyone woke up happy. They ate breakfast and boarded
the Hogwarts Express. Hermione sat on Harry's lap on the train. The
pictures from the ball came around about half way through the trip. Both
Harry and Hermione were pleased at their pictures. They were kissing in
several of them. Then they started making out right their on the train. Ron
came into the compartment after going to get Sarah.
"Oh get a room you two!"
They laughed and separated. They had a great time on the train they
laughed and kissed and had a great time. When the train came to a stop
they were all disappointed.
"I will miss you Hermione and will write you everyday!" Harry said and then
kissed her very long and passionately. At the very start of the kiss was when
James walked on to the platform. He was furious. They should not be
kissing that way, not at their age!
James made his way over to them and cleared his throat. They separated
and said good-bye. James helped Harry with his trunk and they made there
way out to the car. For while they drove in silence. Then James decided to
speak "Harry you are not allowed to have a girlfriend" he said.
"What so you can date in school but I can't! I talked to Sirius about it you
and mum started dating when you were 15, so why can't I date when I am 16?"
James thought about this for a while. "Because we were more mature then you two are."
"WHAT? You two hadn't been through anything difficult except detention! I have gone against Voldemort four times! We have created something that only one other wizard has done! We are going to be on the National Quiddich team and have been accepted to the best College available to wizards! And you say that we are not mature enough to handle a relationship!" Harry retorted.
James was stumped he couldn't think of any other reasons for Harry not to date.
"You just can't..because your mother and I said so." He said lamely. Harry rolled his eyes.
"I will not break up with Hermione unless you or mum can come up with two good reasons why I shouldn't."
Once again, James had nothing to say. They sat in silence all the way back
to the house. Lily greeted Harry with a hug when he came in.
"Mum, I already told dad that if either one of you can come up with two very
good reasons I won't break up with Hermione, even then I might not because
I love her." With that he went up to his room. Lily was in shock she had no
idea what just happened. Harry could not date they had said so! Because
he was not sure if his parents wanted to talk to him or not he had Penny
bring him his dinner in his room. So far Harry had convinced Penny to stay
home while he was at school, but whenever he came home she begged to go
back to school. That's what happened when she brought Harry his food.
"Okay Penny, I give up you can come to school with me!"
She nodded happily. "Master Harry will be glad to have Penny with him sir he will!"
"Penny please once again call me just Harry, I hate it when you call me master it makes me feel like I am slaver. And are you still sure that you don't want to be paid or have days off?"
Penny just gave him look and left the room. Harry sighed and ate his food.
When he was done he wrote a letter to Hermione and sent off Hedwig.
The next day Sirius and Remus came. Harry had answered the door and
when he saw Sirius he said, "I see enough of you at school." And slammed
the door. Sirius knew that Harry was just kidding and walked in the front
door with Remus.
"What about me, just 'cause you see Sirius everyday doesn't mean I don't
get my greeting." Remus pouted. Harry ran over and gave him a hug.
"Sirius did you bring the tape?"
"Tape what tape? Oh this tape. You couldn't possibly want this tape." He teased.
"Accio tape." Harry grabbed the tape. "Thank you for doing this for me Sirius, you're my favorite god-father!"
"I am your only god-father idiot!"
"I know, that is why it was safe to say." With that Harry left to go edit the
video up in his room. He was busy making it perfect when James came into
his room.
"Even though we don't approve of it, your mother and I have decided that you can date Hermione."
"Good, because no matter what you said I wasn't going to break up with her. Will you watch this for me, I want it to be perfect."
James sat and watched the video, he was amazed at how much Harry and
Hermione were in love.
"How did you get all these shots?"
Harry grinned. "I hired my own personal camera man named Sirius." James
nodded to show that he understood. "You should show that to your mother, she would love to see it."
"Okay, will you go get her?" James left and came back several minutes later
with Lily in tow. Lily watched the movie and had tears in her eyes
afterwards.
"That was wonderful Harry, Hermione will love it! You are so much more romantic then your father!"
"Hey I am still in the room!" James pouted. "More romantic is he give me
more romantic." He leaned over and gave Lily a long passionate kiss.
"Dad, it is time for me to say that I am still in the room and no child should
have to see their parents do that, it is just gross."
"Deal with it Harry." James kept kissing Lily hard on the lips. Harry groaned
and left the room. He went down to the kitchen where he found Sirius and
Remus.
"Oh, hi Harry where are your parents?" Sirius asked him.
"Upstairs making out on my bed."
"Ewww, you would think they would have more tact then that. But once they get started kissing there is no way to stop them I remember that time in our seventh year when."
"Yes?" Harry asked eagerly.
"Well they were making out pretty late at night and fell asleep on James' bed. The next morning Remus and I snapped several pictures of them. They were horrified when they woke up to our camera flashes."
Harry and Remus snickered.
"Anyway I am going for a drive. Please tell mum and dad for me, I should be back in three hours." Harry left Sirius and Remus wondering where Harry was going.
Harry got into the car, because he now had contacts he could wear sun
classes and he loved it. He drove over to Hermione's house that was only
about a thirty-minute drive from his house. Mr. Granger was the one to answer the door.
"Hi Harry! Where is Ron?"
"Ron? Ron is at his house why?"
"I thought that he was going with you and Hermione to dinner."
"Yea dad he is, we just have to go get him, right Harry?" Hermione said giving Harry a look.
"Right, well we better hurry to get to Ron's house." The two left. Hermione had never seen Harry's car.
"Harry did you steal your dad's car?"
"No this is my car, I got it for Christmas."
"Wow." Was all that she could get out.
"You know you look awfully nice for going out with Ron and me."
Hermione blushed. "Sorry about that, they wouldn't let me go unless I said that you would both be there. So where are we going?"
"You will see." Harry pulled up to the best restaurant around. It was a
muggle place even though Harry still brought his wand with him. Hermione
was very happy to see the restaurant.
"Oh Harry, I love this place! It is my favorite restaurant!"
"I know."
They walked into the restaurant. The waiter behind the reservations desk
gave them a skeptical look. "You have to have a reservation to be here." He
said in a snotty voice.
"Potter, reservation for two." Harry said. The waiters eyed got wide.
"I am so sorry Mr. Potter of course come this way." Harry rolled his eyes
even muggles knew that the Potters were very wealthy because of his
mother. Harry had reserved the best table available. It was private up in
the top of the building with a skylight so you could see the stars. The walls
were also glass and had a lovely view of the city below.
"Harry this is wonderful! I like the normal part of this restaurant but this is incredible.
A waiter came and offered them a list of wines.
"That is quite alright. We are not old enough to drink. But Hermione is to
have whatever she wants." Harry said. Hermione gave him a glowing look.
They ordered their food and had a wonderful time. Since it was their
anniversary Harry had a dozen red roses delivered to their table. After they
ate Harry had arranged a private dance for just him and Hermione. He
magically set up a dance floor above the ground and put on slow music. The
waiters knew that they were not to come up to the room no matter what.
Harry twirled Hermione. After five songs Harry stopped the music and got
rid of the dance floor. He made a large screen TV appear.
"This is your real anniversary gift." He muttered in Hermione's ear.
Hermione sat there and watched the video. By the end of the video she had
tears in her eyes just like Lily had she loved Harry so much.
"How did you do that?" She asked wiping away the tears.
"Magic." Harry kissed her very passionately. They stayed up there for
another half hour kissing and whispering to each other. Then Harry said that
he needed to take Hermione home. She was very disappointed.
"But I haven't given you your gift yet."
"You are my gift." He said. She blushed.
"It is not as much as this but I think that you will like it." She pulled out a book.
Harry took it and looked inside. There were pictures of Hermione, Ron, and
him from all their years at Hogwarts. The sorting ceremony in their first
year. Harry's first Quiddich match. Everything that had happened was in
this book. He loved it.
"How did you get all these pictures? Before we were even friends in our first year!"
"Magic." She said repeating Harry's words. They kissed one last time and
headed downstairs. Harry was given the bill, which was very high but he did
not mind. They walked hand in hand out of the restaurant. They were about
to get into the car when they met the most unlikely person.
"Harry?"
"Dudley? Is that you?"
Harry vaguely saw the face of his cousin. He had lost a lot of weight. He
was still over weight but he was a lot smaller then when Harry had last saw
him.
"What are you doing here?"
"Mum and Dad took me here to celebrate me being home for the spring.
Harry, I would like to say that I am sorry for being so mean, I hope you will
write me while you are at school." Harry was speechless. Was that Dudley?
He wanted to ask 'Who are you and what have you done with my cousin?'
but stopped himself.
"Sure."
"Dudley come on honey it is time to go inside. What is he doing here?" Petunia asked.
"I was eating dinner. And I would like to introduce you to my girlfriend
Hermione." Hermione shook their hand and smiled. "It is nice to meet you
at last, we better go Harry, and we are two hours past when you were
supposed to go home." Harry gasped.
"Yeah, bye Dudley, Aunt Petunia give my regards to Uncle Vernon." Said
Harry fully regaining his voice back. Both his cousin and aunt looked
surprised at the car that Harry left in. "Are you going to be on time
Hermione?" "Yes, don't worry about me; I hope your parents go easy on you. Thank you
so much Harry this has been the best night of my life."
"Hermione it could not have been so great without you, hopefully if my
parents don't kill me I will see you later." He walked Hermione to the door
and gave her a kiss on the cheek and left to go face his parents.
Authors note- Wow isn't this amazing two chapters in two days! A couple of things about this chapter- One incase you didn't remember Sarah is Hermione's sister who is a year younger and in Ravenclaw. Two, I hope you didn't think my love scenes are too corny. I am not a romance writer and never will be. Thank you again for the reviews. ~*Meggles*~
Hogsmeade visit of the year. None of the Gryffindor's could even look at
Snape without laughing at him. This did not put Snape in a good mood.
Harry was very glad that today was a Saturday and that he did not have
Snape until Tuesday the next week. He did however have Quiddich practice.
Lately he had the team working six days a week for as much time as he
possibly could. That was why when the match against Hufflepuff came up
Harry caught the snitch after three minutes. No one had scored at all so
they beat Hufflepuff 150-0.
The whole school was surprised when Dumbledore stood up at dinner two
weeks before Spring Break. "Because the Yule Ball two years ago was so
much fun we have decided to host a Spring Ball the night before you leave
for Spring Break. All third years and above may come. Dress robes will be
worn. Thank you."
A buzz broke out over the Great Hall. Everyone began talking about the
dance. Harry got it done as soon as he could "Hermione will you go to the ball with me?"
"Of course Harry, what are girlfriends for?" And she kissed him. This was
the first time that they had ever kissed in public, and the whole school saw
them kiss. Unfortunately this included Sirius. As soon as dinner he went and
owled James. The next morning while James was sitting enjoying his
newspaper he saw Sirius' owl fly in. After he read the letter he dropped it as
though it was a bomb. He went to talk to Lily.
"Is Harry allowed to date?" He asked her. She was taken aback.
"Of course not he in only 16! He is not old enough for dating; we discussed it at Christmas time, why?"
"Because he is."
"No, he can't be! He is just a kid! You and I didn't start dating until; well we were a different case! Who?"
"Hermione"
"But they are just friends!"
"Not anymore, Sirius said he saw them kiss yesterday at dinner, in front on the whole school!"
"We have to write him right away! He is not aloud to date! Not until he's is in College!"
"I know, I am not happy with him, he should not break our rules like that! I thought he was more listened better then that. He will have to break up with her right away."
When Harry received the letter from his parents he write his response quickly.
Mum and Dad, I do not care what you think. I am not going to break up with Hermione. You can't stop me from dating her so don't try to break us up. It won't work. All my love, Harry
Lily got the letter this time. "James, he says that he won't break up with her!"
"WHAT?!? He has to we said so! We will have to talk to him when he gets
home for Spring Break." So they did not write him back. Harry took that to
mean that they had given up. The day of the ball was full of excited
whispers. Four hours before it, Hermione went up to her room to get ready.
He was going to go find Ron because he needed someone to talk to when
Ron came running into the common room.
"Harry guess what? My father is running for Minster of Magic! Your father is
going to be his campaign manager!"
"That is great Ron! Who is he running against?"
"Just Fudge! I hope he wins!"
"Me too, I am sure that he will be. He will be a better Minister then Fudge."
Then they sat discussing Quiddich until an hour before the ball and they went
upstairs to get ready them selves. Hermione was ten minutes late. Ron had
gone to go meet Sarah. But when Hermione did come down, Harry could not
believe his eyes. She was wearing light purple robes. She had sleeked her
hair down again she wore it in a bun with a few curly strands of curls framing
her face. Harry thought of how beautiful she looked. He gave her a dozen
perfect red roses. She smiled as she took them.
"Thank you Harry! That is so sweet! They are so beautiful!"
"Not as beautiful as you." He said and gave her a small kiss. She took out
her wand and made them go to a vase in her room. They began walking
down to the great hall completely absorbed in each other. Harry looked very
good too. He was wearing contacts that his father had gotten him and green
dress robes that made his eyes look even greener they were. His hair
boyishly un-tidy. They walked into the hall and sat down next to Ron and
Sarah. The great hall looked wonderful but neither one of them noticed they
were to busy looking at each other. When dinner was over they were the
first ones on the dance floor. They danced a couple of songs and then took a
break. There was a camera man there to take pictures of the couples. Harry
and Hermione had several pictures taken with several different back rounds.
Harry gave the man several gallons, they would get their pictures on the
train tomorrow. Sirius kept a very close watch over the two teenagers as
they began to dance again. Later on Harry led Hermione outside so they
could take a stroll around the grounds. He had set up a special surprise for
her by the lake. He had hired several fairies to put on a small show for
Hermione. They danced and sparkled. In the end they got together and
formed the words 'I love you'. Hermione was so happy. She had never felt
this happy in her entire life. All she wanted was for this night to last forever.
They went back inside for the last dance of the evening. At the end of the
dance Harry kissed Hermione passionately. Sirius was amazed at how much
in love the couple was. He had followed them everywhere and recorded
everything that happened on a wizard camcorder at Harry's request. Harry
was going to edit it and then give it to Hermione as a two-month anniversary
gift. After the ball they walked back up to the common room. They kissed
one last time before they went to bed. They both had wonderful dreams
about each other the whole night.
The next morning everyone woke up happy. They ate breakfast and boarded
the Hogwarts Express. Hermione sat on Harry's lap on the train. The
pictures from the ball came around about half way through the trip. Both
Harry and Hermione were pleased at their pictures. They were kissing in
several of them. Then they started making out right their on the train. Ron
came into the compartment after going to get Sarah.
"Oh get a room you two!"
They laughed and separated. They had a great time on the train they
laughed and kissed and had a great time. When the train came to a stop
they were all disappointed.
"I will miss you Hermione and will write you everyday!" Harry said and then
kissed her very long and passionately. At the very start of the kiss was when
James walked on to the platform. He was furious. They should not be
kissing that way, not at their age!
James made his way over to them and cleared his throat. They separated
and said good-bye. James helped Harry with his trunk and they made there
way out to the car. For while they drove in silence. Then James decided to
speak "Harry you are not allowed to have a girlfriend" he said.
"What so you can date in school but I can't! I talked to Sirius about it you
and mum started dating when you were 15, so why can't I date when I am 16?"
James thought about this for a while. "Because we were more mature then you two are."
"WHAT? You two hadn't been through anything difficult except detention! I have gone against Voldemort four times! We have created something that only one other wizard has done! We are going to be on the National Quiddich team and have been accepted to the best College available to wizards! And you say that we are not mature enough to handle a relationship!" Harry retorted.
James was stumped he couldn't think of any other reasons for Harry not to date.
"You just can't..because your mother and I said so." He said lamely. Harry rolled his eyes.
"I will not break up with Hermione unless you or mum can come up with two good reasons why I shouldn't."
Once again, James had nothing to say. They sat in silence all the way back
to the house. Lily greeted Harry with a hug when he came in.
"Mum, I already told dad that if either one of you can come up with two very
good reasons I won't break up with Hermione, even then I might not because
I love her." With that he went up to his room. Lily was in shock she had no
idea what just happened. Harry could not date they had said so! Because
he was not sure if his parents wanted to talk to him or not he had Penny
bring him his dinner in his room. So far Harry had convinced Penny to stay
home while he was at school, but whenever he came home she begged to go
back to school. That's what happened when she brought Harry his food.
"Okay Penny, I give up you can come to school with me!"
She nodded happily. "Master Harry will be glad to have Penny with him sir he will!"
"Penny please once again call me just Harry, I hate it when you call me master it makes me feel like I am slaver. And are you still sure that you don't want to be paid or have days off?"
Penny just gave him look and left the room. Harry sighed and ate his food.
When he was done he wrote a letter to Hermione and sent off Hedwig.
The next day Sirius and Remus came. Harry had answered the door and
when he saw Sirius he said, "I see enough of you at school." And slammed
the door. Sirius knew that Harry was just kidding and walked in the front
door with Remus.
"What about me, just 'cause you see Sirius everyday doesn't mean I don't
get my greeting." Remus pouted. Harry ran over and gave him a hug.
"Sirius did you bring the tape?"
"Tape what tape? Oh this tape. You couldn't possibly want this tape." He teased.
"Accio tape." Harry grabbed the tape. "Thank you for doing this for me Sirius, you're my favorite god-father!"
"I am your only god-father idiot!"
"I know, that is why it was safe to say." With that Harry left to go edit the
video up in his room. He was busy making it perfect when James came into
his room.
"Even though we don't approve of it, your mother and I have decided that you can date Hermione."
"Good, because no matter what you said I wasn't going to break up with her. Will you watch this for me, I want it to be perfect."
James sat and watched the video, he was amazed at how much Harry and
Hermione were in love.
"How did you get all these shots?"
Harry grinned. "I hired my own personal camera man named Sirius." James
nodded to show that he understood. "You should show that to your mother, she would love to see it."
"Okay, will you go get her?" James left and came back several minutes later
with Lily in tow. Lily watched the movie and had tears in her eyes
afterwards.
"That was wonderful Harry, Hermione will love it! You are so much more romantic then your father!"
"Hey I am still in the room!" James pouted. "More romantic is he give me
more romantic." He leaned over and gave Lily a long passionate kiss.
"Dad, it is time for me to say that I am still in the room and no child should
have to see their parents do that, it is just gross."
"Deal with it Harry." James kept kissing Lily hard on the lips. Harry groaned
and left the room. He went down to the kitchen where he found Sirius and
Remus.
"Oh, hi Harry where are your parents?" Sirius asked him.
"Upstairs making out on my bed."
"Ewww, you would think they would have more tact then that. But once they get started kissing there is no way to stop them I remember that time in our seventh year when."
"Yes?" Harry asked eagerly.
"Well they were making out pretty late at night and fell asleep on James' bed. The next morning Remus and I snapped several pictures of them. They were horrified when they woke up to our camera flashes."
Harry and Remus snickered.
"Anyway I am going for a drive. Please tell mum and dad for me, I should be back in three hours." Harry left Sirius and Remus wondering where Harry was going.
Harry got into the car, because he now had contacts he could wear sun
classes and he loved it. He drove over to Hermione's house that was only
about a thirty-minute drive from his house. Mr. Granger was the one to answer the door.
"Hi Harry! Where is Ron?"
"Ron? Ron is at his house why?"
"I thought that he was going with you and Hermione to dinner."
"Yea dad he is, we just have to go get him, right Harry?" Hermione said giving Harry a look.
"Right, well we better hurry to get to Ron's house." The two left. Hermione had never seen Harry's car.
"Harry did you steal your dad's car?"
"No this is my car, I got it for Christmas."
"Wow." Was all that she could get out.
"You know you look awfully nice for going out with Ron and me."
Hermione blushed. "Sorry about that, they wouldn't let me go unless I said that you would both be there. So where are we going?"
"You will see." Harry pulled up to the best restaurant around. It was a
muggle place even though Harry still brought his wand with him. Hermione
was very happy to see the restaurant.
"Oh Harry, I love this place! It is my favorite restaurant!"
"I know."
They walked into the restaurant. The waiter behind the reservations desk
gave them a skeptical look. "You have to have a reservation to be here." He
said in a snotty voice.
"Potter, reservation for two." Harry said. The waiters eyed got wide.
"I am so sorry Mr. Potter of course come this way." Harry rolled his eyes
even muggles knew that the Potters were very wealthy because of his
mother. Harry had reserved the best table available. It was private up in
the top of the building with a skylight so you could see the stars. The walls
were also glass and had a lovely view of the city below.
"Harry this is wonderful! I like the normal part of this restaurant but this is incredible.
A waiter came and offered them a list of wines.
"That is quite alright. We are not old enough to drink. But Hermione is to
have whatever she wants." Harry said. Hermione gave him a glowing look.
They ordered their food and had a wonderful time. Since it was their
anniversary Harry had a dozen red roses delivered to their table. After they
ate Harry had arranged a private dance for just him and Hermione. He
magically set up a dance floor above the ground and put on slow music. The
waiters knew that they were not to come up to the room no matter what.
Harry twirled Hermione. After five songs Harry stopped the music and got
rid of the dance floor. He made a large screen TV appear.
"This is your real anniversary gift." He muttered in Hermione's ear.
Hermione sat there and watched the video. By the end of the video she had
tears in her eyes just like Lily had she loved Harry so much.
"How did you do that?" She asked wiping away the tears.
"Magic." Harry kissed her very passionately. They stayed up there for
another half hour kissing and whispering to each other. Then Harry said that
he needed to take Hermione home. She was very disappointed.
"But I haven't given you your gift yet."
"You are my gift." He said. She blushed.
"It is not as much as this but I think that you will like it." She pulled out a book.
Harry took it and looked inside. There were pictures of Hermione, Ron, and
him from all their years at Hogwarts. The sorting ceremony in their first
year. Harry's first Quiddich match. Everything that had happened was in
this book. He loved it.
"How did you get all these pictures? Before we were even friends in our first year!"
"Magic." She said repeating Harry's words. They kissed one last time and
headed downstairs. Harry was given the bill, which was very high but he did
not mind. They walked hand in hand out of the restaurant. They were about
to get into the car when they met the most unlikely person.
"Harry?"
"Dudley? Is that you?"
Harry vaguely saw the face of his cousin. He had lost a lot of weight. He
was still over weight but he was a lot smaller then when Harry had last saw
him.
"What are you doing here?"
"Mum and Dad took me here to celebrate me being home for the spring.
Harry, I would like to say that I am sorry for being so mean, I hope you will
write me while you are at school." Harry was speechless. Was that Dudley?
He wanted to ask 'Who are you and what have you done with my cousin?'
but stopped himself.
"Sure."
"Dudley come on honey it is time to go inside. What is he doing here?" Petunia asked.
"I was eating dinner. And I would like to introduce you to my girlfriend
Hermione." Hermione shook their hand and smiled. "It is nice to meet you
at last, we better go Harry, and we are two hours past when you were
supposed to go home." Harry gasped.
"Yeah, bye Dudley, Aunt Petunia give my regards to Uncle Vernon." Said
Harry fully regaining his voice back. Both his cousin and aunt looked
surprised at the car that Harry left in. "Are you going to be on time
Hermione?" "Yes, don't worry about me; I hope your parents go easy on you. Thank you
so much Harry this has been the best night of my life."
"Hermione it could not have been so great without you, hopefully if my
parents don't kill me I will see you later." He walked Hermione to the door
and gave her a kiss on the cheek and left to go face his parents.
Authors note- Wow isn't this amazing two chapters in two days! A couple of things about this chapter- One incase you didn't remember Sarah is Hermione's sister who is a year younger and in Ravenclaw. Two, I hope you didn't think my love scenes are too corny. I am not a romance writer and never will be. Thank you again for the reviews. ~*Meggles*~