Ice Skating -A Harry Potter Fanfiction

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Previously in Chapter three;

"I've finished my homework Harry!" She said, tucking her parchment back into her bag. "I'll just go and pop it up stairs and I'll be back down and ready to go!" Harry replied with a quick "OK", and Ginny ran up the dormitory stairs, put her homework away and ran back down.

"Well it was nice meeting you all." Harry said to Ginny's friends once Ginny had returned from upstairs. "And it was nice to see you again Helena." He said, taking Ginny's hand in his own.

"See you tomorrow!" Ginny said to all her friends. They all replied with a mer "see you tomorrow", and with that Harry and Ginny left the common room, hand in hand and walked up to Professor McGonagall's office.

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley stood outside the Headmistresses office, Professor McGonagall's office, hand in hand, ready to floo to the Weasley's family home, to spread the news of their engagement. They had already gone up the stone gargoyle's steps, the password being 'Sherbet Lemon' and were now waiting for Professor McGonagall to give them permission to enter. Harry had mocked on the door a minutes before and they wee just beginning to wonder what was taking her so long, when she answer.

"Come in!" She said, in her strict but fair voice. Harry opened the Headmistresses office to find her sitting in her chair behind the most extravagant looking desk, pulled over by paper work, looking extremely tired. Harry was about to open his mouth to speak but she answer his question for him. "Of course Potter, go ahead and use the floo network. What time will I expect Miss Weasley back?"

"Around 6pm Professor, if that isn't too late?" With a quick shake of the head and a reassuring smile from McGonagall, Harry added, "Thank you Professor!"

"How many times Potter! Please, call me Minera!" She said, smiling warmly now.

"I will if you call me Harry, Minera!" He said, a hint of cheekiness in his voice, that Professor McGonagall clearly picked up on as she answered almost to quickly for Harry's liking.

"I taught you for 6 years, you will always be the misbehaving, loud mouthed, bad tempered Potter to me!" She said, giving him a glare that said, do-not-answer-back-to-me! Harry smiled towards her again, before taking a stronger grip on Ginny's hand, pulling her towards the fireplace, collecting some floo-powder from a pot on the side and flooing to the Burrow.

A loud bang and the sound of a clutter when Harry and Ginny hit the floor of the Burrow, told every other member of the family that they had arrived. This was clear to see because my the time Harry and Ginny had stood up and had dusted themselves off from the soot, the whole family were surrounding them. Harry was immediately launched into a massive Hagrid-sized hug from Hermione and was shortly after being fused and prodded by Mrs Weasley. Ginny on the other hand, received a few nice warm hugs and started chatting to her sister-in-law, Fleur, and her brother, Bill, almost instantly. She could here the conversation between her mother and fiancée very faintly behind all the chatter of the Burrow.

"And you are sure you can look after yourself!" Said her mother.
"Yes, Mrs Weasley." Replied Harry.
"Your eating enough aren't you?"
"Yes, Mrs Weasley."
"So your managing OK?"
"Yes, Mrs Weasley."
"And work and Auror training is going OK?"
"Yes, Mrs Weasley.
"Oh please Harry, call me Molly for heavens sake!"
"OK, Mrs W- Molly!"

Ginny thought this seemed like an appropriate moment for her to intervene on their conversation, so she accused herself for the conversation with Fleur and Bill and made her way over to her mother and Harry. She approached her mother and gave her a warm hug before slipping her hand into Harry's and saying;

"I hope your not interrogating him mother!" A smile playing across her face.

"Of course not," She said, smiling at Harry and Ginny in a motherly expression. She was clearly happy about Harry and Ginny being together. "I was just making sure he was copying alright, you know, living on his own. I did it for all my children and I'm not leaving out Harry!" This made Harry's stomach turn over with joy hearing Mrs Weasley call him her child. Ginny also smiled at this.

"Worried he can't survive without me for the rest of the year while I'm at school?" Ginny asked cheekily, grinning ear to ear. Her mother gave her a small glare and turned back to Harry.

"Well I'm glad you are copying alright Harry. Do come round if you ever need us won't you?" Harry nodded and Mrs Weasley walked off, back over to the kitchen and started magically peeling carrots and potatoes, while happily reading 'The Daily Prophet.' Harry then greeted Ron with a brotherly hug and was pulled into a conversation with him and George about the soon to be Qudditch World Cup. Meanwhile, Ginny was quietly talking to Hermione in one corner of the room.

"So how are you Ginny? N.E. year treating you bad?" Hermione asked, trying to engage an absentminded looking Ginny into conversation.

"School is, well, getting really difficult, but I'm still managing to keep in order all my school work and homework. Harry helped me and Helena finish one off about thestrals a couple of minutes ago." Ginny now seemed to Hermione, very cheerful. She always sounded cheerful when she was talking about Harry.

"Oh I see. Well at least you're managing to keep on top of things, I couldn't get Harry or Ron to at least open a revision book, let-alone finish their homework on time in our O.W.L year!" Ginny laughed at that. She again seemed to smile again at the mention of Harry's name, but soon looked concerned again.

"Are you alright Ginny?" Hermione asked, making her voice into a whisper so now one else could hear their conversation.

"Er, yeah. I'm fine. Just thinking about my N.E. coming up. I'm a bit worried about failing them, you see." Ginny looked quite worried indeed, "I need good N.E. to get a good job, so you see, it's worrying me!"

"I'm sure you will be fine Ginny! You're one of the smartest witches I know. Just ask anyone, especially Harry, you are clever enough to get good N.E. !" Hermione said, trying to be reinsuring.

"I'm sure your right. I'm just worrying about nothing. I've got things to be happy about know, anyway!" She said, covering her left hand with her right.

"And what's that meant to me, Ginny?" Asked Hermione, surprise clearly written all over her face.

"You'll find out soon enough!" She said winking and grinning to herself. Hermione just looked even more confused but this. Obviously Ron didn't tell everyone after all. "Come on Hermione, let's go and mingle!" Hermione even laughed herself at the mood Ginny had just transformed into. One minute she was worried, the next she was over the moon. Ginny grabbed Hermione by the hand, and she could have sworn that she felt a ring on it, but instead got dragged away to talk to the boys, while Ginny went and helped her mother prepare dinner in the kitchen.

When everybody sat down for dinner a good half an hour later, Ginny thought this was a great opportunity to tell everyone the news, especially since they were all close enough to hear. She whispered in Harry's ear for his thoughts and he nodded in agreement, knowing that Ginny could pop with excitement if she didn't tell everybody now. Harry changed a nervous glance towards Mr Weasley and he returned it with a merry smile and a small nod. They were ready to tell everyone. Ginny made a small coughing noise in her throat and this made everyone stop abruptly. All eyes now staring up at her, she started to speak;

"Harry and I have an announce meant to make!" There were smiles all around the table as people realised what Ginny was about to say. A gasp was even heard from Mrs Weasley's mouth. Mr Weasley had obviously kept this a secret from her, like Ron did with Hermione. Harry looked stunned at. Mr Weasley, but he just laughed and waved for Ginny to continue. "Harry and I are engaged!"

Rounds off "congratulations" and hugs across the tables were shared between the engaged couple and their family. Everyone seemed very happy for them and Mrs Weasley couldn't contain her excitement of the news that she would have enough wedding to plan. George laughed at this.

"You don't know what you've got yourself into mate!" He said, looking at Harry with a worried expression. "I'll give you a piece of advice," His expression now turned to a smile, "Run from the room if you ever hear the words, 'Wedding Plans', OK?" All the table who had stopped talking to listen to George were now all laughing, while Harry insured him that he would do just that. This earned him a playful slap on the head from Ginny's direction and more giggles all around. They all ate their lunch, chatting happily and laughing at some jokes that George and Ron had come up with. They had a massive meal of Turkey with roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips, green beans, couchettes, Yorkshire puddings and gravy. Once they had all finished there first courses, they all tucked into a scrumptious lemon tart that Ron had with many layers of cream and ice-cream. No one could quite believe how much he was eating, especially Hermione.

"Do you ever stop eating Ronald?" She complained, looking at him disapprovingly. Ron finished chewing and swallowed his food which was in his mouth and then began eating.

"Hermione, really? You and Harry," he said, sending a point and a smile in the direction of Harry, "were with me 24/7 for nearly a whole year! Surely you know I could eat a horse for breakfast!" Harry and Hermione laughed at this, but the others stopped and stared at the golden trio. They never talked about their time away in hiding, as it was a sad time for the three of them, so the mention of it today made everyone stop and stare. Harry, however, thought it was about time they shared some of their stories.

"You nearly ate a deer one time, remember Ron? But we had to settle for normal meat!" Ron laughed out loud at this. He was finally free to talk about his memories while himself, Harry and Hermione were in hiding. After a couple of shared stories about the horcruxes and the tent they shared, everybody felt a lot happier about the year that nobody discussed. It was one of the first times Ginny had ever heard Harry talk about it before. She made a mental note to ask him again later.

It was around 11:30 when everyone had finished there food and had helped tidy away and wash up. Everyone know found themselves sitting in the settees and armchairs in the Weasley's family home, drinking some butterbeer and firewhiskey and talking about normal things like Quidditch and work, or in Ginny's case, Quidditch and school. The test of the afternoon was pretty relaxing. Harry and Ron played numerous amounts of chess and exploding snap games, Ron winning most of the time and every other family member where either watching them play or where in conversation. George was talking to Bill, Percy, Charlie and Mr Weasley about the Weasley's wizard wheezes and Ginny was in conversation with Fleur, Audrey, Mrs Weasley and Angelina and Hermione about Wedding plans. Victoria however, Fleur and Bills child, was trying to dismantle the fire place. Harry was now stuck at check mate, against Ron.

"I think I've got you there mate!" Ron said smirking.

"I'll find a way out." Harry replied, screwing up his face in concentration.

"Listen mate," Ron said, looking for Harry's eyes. When he met them, Ron continued to talk. "You will be good to her won't you? No messing about or anything?"

"Of course Ron. I love Ginny very much, which I'm sure you already know. I wouldn't of asked her to marry me otherwise!" Ron smiled at this, but then quickly frowned again when Harry managed to move his chess piece out of Ron's check mate. "I told you I could find a way out!" Harry declared, smirking from ear to ear.

N/A: One more chapter to go I think, then the story will be completed!:) thank you for the reviews. Please no hate comments. Thanks for all the nice comments on all my other stories, I really appreciate them! I'll update soon! Thanks;)3x