The Trouble With Weddings

A Harry Potter Fan Fiction Story

Authors Note: Harry's story and the package will be explained and you will learn something new about our characters, Enjoy!

Chapter 16:

Pain comes in many forms, hurt, loss, physical, and the emotional scaring that so many people refuse to talk about. It can tear you down and rip you apart, if you let it. After all of the years, and the pain that I have encountered I don't think I have ever felt anything like I do at this moment. I closed my eyes for a second and I tried to push aside the pain.

" What are we waiting for lets apparate there and get this package" Draco looked back and forth from me to Ron. Neither of us wanted to say anything, but I knew I had to, I had to explain to Draco about what happened.

" We can't apparate there" I sighed I turned a way slowly from seeing Ron's worried face to look at Draco. " Harry puts a magical shield around his property. You have to get there by knowing where your going" This was painful to see how we all had turned out after all of these years.

" I don't understand?"

" Then why don't you go this doesn't concern you Malfoy!" Ron shot daggers his ways and I could feel the tension. I couldn't focus on this right now.

" Ronald stop it he is coming, if you want to come as well fine, but you two will not fight, we cant go in there fighting." I pulled Draco down into an alley, and Ron followed. He stood facing me.

" Wait Hermione, I will come with you if you want me there, and tolerate Weasel, but what is going on?"

" Hermione!" Ron looked at me begging me to not let Draco in.

" Shut up Ronald!" I snapped and grabbed both of Draco's hands. He could feel how bad I was shaking. " I'll tell you everything." Draco nodded. " Well after the war, you know everyone had changed in many different ways. Harry has been affected my Voldemort since birth, and had to endure loss all of his life. He never wanted to be famous, or be the boy who lived, and the chosen one, but he had to be strong. For all of his life he had to be strong and not even his friends noticed how much he was slipping until it was too late. There was one person who did notice, and he wouldn't let her in. It hurt her the most. Ginny and Harry had a great love that could touch any one's soul, but it was doomed from the start. Harry tried to ignore the fact that he was changing. We had flash backs from the war, but his were more vivid. It was like he was reliving them, at the worst times. Ginny thought that she could help him with a spell, to block the painful memories, but it back fired and night after night He would hurt her, and then disappear for hours and sometimes days to find what he thought was not over. I heard the screams, and …"

I looked at Ron and remembered how it had hurt every time he would tell me to ignore it ,and just let them be. That was Ron's solution to everything to just ignore it and it might go away. He could never admit that they both needed help.

" Harry was slowly losing his mind. Ginny loved him so much until it hurt her." I watched Draco's face ,but I couldn't read it, and I needed to know what he was thinking. Ron just stood with his back against the wall staring into space, no doubt reliving the same memories that I was.

" So , wait Potter went insane after the war, and took it out on his girlfriend?" Draco looked disgusted.

" It's deeper than that" I tried to explain. Ron scoffed and looked at us, and slowly walked toward Draco.

" You really want to know what happened?" Ron stood inches from Draco, and he looked like he had so much hatred in his eyes. " Harry saved the world, and I know to you that seems like the biggest annoyance but he was fighting to be normal again, so he went out to find himself you see. He had always wanted to be an Auror, and in order to do that he had to find himself again." Ron crossed his arms across his chest, and Draco just stared at him, unmoving or saying a word. " He left Ginny, but he swore to her that he would get better ,and prove to her he loved her. I watched my sister cry herself to sleep for months, She lived her life in auto pilot, until she started to slowly get put back together, buy your best friend. I don't know what Harry has to give Ginny, if he knows about the wedding, or if he is even better , but I know this is hard for everyone so that is why I am going."

I stared at Ron breathing really hard. He cared? He really did care? All of these years he had always told me to ignore it, when really he was hurting just as much. I stood there staring at him, and Draco turned to me and pushed a strand of hand out of my face and behind my ear. His touch instantly snapped me out of it.

" Shouldn't we tell Blaise?" Draco looked at both of us and we both shook our heads.

" No, Blaise cant know, until Ginny wants him to." I whispered.

" He's my Best friend Hermione"

" Yes and Ginny is mine, and so was Harry, so I have to go." I let a single tear fall down my cheek. " I need to there with me Draco, I need to you keep me from losing it, its going to be hard, but I need you" I pleaded, and he leaned he head down to mine, and kissed my forehead gently, and pulled me into a hug. Ron turned around and shouted.

" Are we going or what?" I nodded and looked at Ron, who looked back at me over his shoulder. If I didn't know any better I could have sworn that he looked hurt. Was it really affecting him to see me with Draco, just like I had wanted it to?

I pulled my wand out of my back pocket and pointed it at the wall in the ally behind us. I whispered the incantation, and suddenly a bright white light appeared on the wall and soon created a door.

" Here goes nothing" I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and we entered through the bright door, and it disappeared behind us.