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Would I Approve?

Ginny laughed as she shot another bat boggy hex into the tree. She was sure that a couple of hexes had missed George, who had taken to hiding in the evergreen tree when he saw Ginny coming at him, but the sheer number that she had cast meant that he was hit by at least one.

It was the afternoon after the wedding and she had finally tracked down George to the Burrow.

"Okay, Ginny, Stop." Shouted George from somewhere in the tree above her. She shot another hex at the sound. "Ginny, please stop."

"Only once you promise." Ginny yelled up at him. This had been going on for about ten minutes and Ginny was thoroughly enjoying herself.

"I am only doing it to protect you. You don't know what that bloke's intentions are." George said, peaking his head out of the cover of the tree. Ginny shot another hex at him and he quickly dodged back in.

"You are the one that doesn't know what his intentions are! You do not even know the guy!" Ginny shouted at him.

"Well then tell me who it is, and I can tell you his intentions."

"I am not going to tell you. And I already know his intentions; they are the same as mine." Ginny was shouting even louder now, and had worked herself up so much she was red in the face.

"Just stop hexing me." George pleaded with her.

"Not until you promise." Ginny yelled back pointing her wand at the tree again.

"Ginny, what are you doing?" She dropped her wand and whirled around at the new voice. It surely meant that she was in trouble.

"Daddy." She said sweetly as Mr. Weasley walked up to her. "I didn't know you were home."

"Obviously. You wouldn't be stupid enough to attack one of your brothers with your mom and me home. So, who is in the tree?"

"Dad, tell her to stop hexing me." George's voice rang out from the tree.

"Only after you promise." Ginny yelled back again.

"Alright, enough of this." Mr. Weasley told them. "Give me your wand Ginny." She thought about refusing, but his look told her that she would be in more trouble if she did. Reluctantly she handed it to him. "Come out of the tree George." He came out cautiously at first and then faster once he saw that Ginny was no longer armed. "Alright," Mr. Weasley continued once George had joined Ginny and him. "What is all this about? And hurry up and tell me before your mother gets home. I don't want to have to tell her."

"Ginny just came over here and started attacking me for no reason." George told him with an air of innocence. Mr. Weasley just looked at him while Ginny huffed.

"No, I tracked him down here after I found out that he slept at my flat last night and bothered everyone I know trying to figure out where I was. And then I started hexing him after he wouldn't promise to mind his own business." Ginny told her dad hoping that she hadn't said too much.

"Alright." He paused and looked at his two children. Ginny was bright red and obviously really annoyed. George had soot marks all over him, probably from the hexes. Ginny must have shot some good ones at him. Although, George probably deserved it, he mused. "Ginny, we will be talking about where you slept last night later. George, why won't you leave your sisters life alone? You don't have any right to know what she is doing."

"Of course I have a right to know, she is my baby sister and I have to protect her." George told him surprised, surly his dad would want his baby protected.

"Just because she is your little sister does not mean she is little. You don't have to protect her, she can watch out for herself."

"Dad, she is sleeping with some bloke and won't tell anyone who it is. She is going to get hurt." George protested.

Mr. Weasley sighed. "Getting hurt is part of life. I don't want to see her get hurt any more than you do George, but she has to experience things for herself. You don't need to beat up every guy that she looks at to protect her." He paused and George opened his mouth to protest more, so he continued on. "Your mother had two older brothers. Now were would we be if they would have beaten me up when she looked at me? None of you would be here. Now leave your sister alone." He said with a final tone.

"Alright, fine." George said. His dad didn't tell him what to do often, so when he did, he needed to be listened to, at least at the time. "I have to get back to the shop." He said and turned on the spot and disappeared.

"Would you like to come in for some tea?" Mr. Weasley asked Ginny. "And maybe some conversation before your mother gets home?"

Ginny just smiled up at her dad. They were going to discuss this more, she knew, but she also knew her dad would understand. Or at least, she hoped he would.

Once she and her dad were settled inside at the kitchen table with steaming tea in front of them, her dad started with the question she knew he would start with.

"So, if George slept at your place last night, were did you sleep?"

"At, um, my boyfriends." She said in a whisper.

"I didn't know you had a boyfriend. Who is he?"

Ginny looked up from her cup. She felt bad about this, but they had a deal not to tell anyone. "I can't tell you that. We are not ready to tell everyone we are together."

Her dad didn't say anything at that. He just looked at her for a while. He took a sip of his tea. "Okay. I can live with that. For a while. When will you be ready to tell everyone?"

Ginny was surprised that he didn't push her further. But then again, that wasn't her fathers way. Her mothers, definitely, but not her father's. "I don't know. We just got together and we want to see how it works out before we tell people." She smiled a little at that, knowing that Harry would do anything to make it work out.

"You're in love with him aren't you?" Mr. Weasley asked her suddenly.

"Is it that obvious?" Ginny asked him surprised.

"Yes it is. Is he in love with you?"

"Yes he is. He told me last night."

Mr. Weasley smiled at her. "Would I approve of him if I met him?"

"You do approve of him." She told him softly.

"So it is someone that I know?"

"Yes, but I am not going to tell you who."

"The only thing that I need to know is that he makes you happy and I will be fine with him."

"Thanks, daddy." She told him and leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.

"You know," he started after a long silence between them while they sipped their tea. "I always thought you and Harry would be together, in the end."

Ginny was surprised, of all her family, her dad was the only one not pushing her and Harry together. "Did you?"

"Yeah, that look you got when you thought about your boyfriend, it's the same look you would get when you thought about Harry when you two were together. That's how I knew you are in love with him."

Ginny didn't say anything to this, she just drank more of her tea. Although she shouldn't be surprised, her dad did always watch her closer than he seemed to.

They finished their tea and she helped him clean up.

"So you are not angry with me about spending the night with him?"

"No, I am well aware of the way your brothers spend their nights, and it would be hypocritical of me to get mad at you for something that your brothers have been doing for years. Although, I am going to assume that you and he spent the night playing exploding snap."

She smiled at this. "Thanks dad."

"Also," he continued. "I am not going to mention this to your mother. It might be wise for you to not mention it as well. You know how she wants you to be with Harry."

"Okay. I won't mention it. I have to get going. I am going Christmas shopping with Padma."

"Christmas Shopping? You haven't finished that yet?"

"No. You know I always procrastinate. Bye dad." She gave him another kiss before heading out and disapperating.