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Forever and Always ...
Soon July came and it was the wedding day. The wedding was due to take place at sunset . By early morning, Malfoy Manor was already busy with preparations.
The house elves had done a wonderful job making the Manor glitter brightly with magical fairies lights all over the Manor.
Ron apparated to Malfoy Manor two hours before sundown, accompanied by the dozen Aurors for the assignment. He assigned them certain instructions about their duty and do their patrol around the perimeter of the wards . Then he checked around the ground and felt ensured that everything goes smoothly.
Very soon, the guests began arriving an hour later, all Apparating outside of the Malfoy Manor gates decorated with beautiful vines. The gates were opened but the gateway was warded against anyone without an invitation. Most of the guests were eager to mingle and socialize, and see the famous wedding of Harry Potter and Ginevra Malfoy.
Upon arrival, they were directed to the large white open tents at the back of the manor opposite the side of where the actual ceremony was to take place by the Weasley brothers ,
Several reporters were invited as guests, and Luna had convinced Ginny that those reporters were sincere and they were warned to bring any Quick Quotes Quill . Most of them were from Witch Weekly, Daily Prophet, Quibbler, and some others too.
The minister of magic Kingsley arrived with his Aurors bodyguards and he shook the proffered handshake from Lucius and Arthur. He had agreed to Harry and Ginny as their oficiator.
Soon most prominent high socialite families (friends of the Malfoy family) arrived. Lucius greeted them cordially and introduce them to Arthur and his family.
All of Harry and Ginny's school friends came and mingle with the Weasley family and talking mindless conversation waiting for the wedding to begin.
Then Amelia arrived with her niece Susan and Justin Finch -Fletchley. Lucius saw Ron greeting them.
Amelia saw Lucius and gave a nod and a friendly smile to him. He almost smiled at her but then he saw Ron staring at them. He then changed direction and decided to go and meet Ginny.
At Malfoy Manor, in her bedroom, Molly put the final touches on Ginny's hair, and then said, "There. Now you can look."
Ginny stood in front of the full-length mirror in her bedroom decked out in her ivory wedding gown. It was a beautiful full length bridal dress with elegant V-neck and pleated waist detail to flatter her shapes in sophisticated satin. And their ivory color enhanced her pale complexion and made her hair flame-bright.
She turned to Molly and murmured, "Thanks, Mum."
Harry had given her a beautiful set of jewelry which once belonged to his mother, Lily Potter. She felt overwhelmed and honored that he would let her to wear his mother's jewelry .
She wore the ruby locket around her neck . It's his way of telling that his mum would have wanted her to wear it for the wedding.
She then slipped the earrings into her ears. She knew that it make her look beautiful.
"Oh, dear. You look beautiful." Molly pulled Ginny into a hug. "This is the right thing for you. It's good to see you so happy again."
"Very true! "Came the voice from behind. She turned around and saw Lucius Malfoy standing near the door.
"Really?" Ginny asked hopefully.
"You look truly like a princess.." He walked over and kissed her cheek, before he held out a small box. "This is from me to you for everything you've done."
He nudged her to open the box...
Ginny opened the box and her eyes widened. Inside was a beautiful diamonds bracelet. She knew that it's belonged to the Malfoy family ...
"Father. It's so beautiful but..."
"Shh...Don't say anything. This is our family heirloom which had been passed onto the daughters during their wedding. Well at first you became our daughter in law and now you are my daughter in all but blood. I am giving it to you so that you could pass it to your daughter when the time comes."
Ginny's glistened eyes met his and kissed him on his cheek. "Thank you. And I would take care of this and pass it onto your future granddaughter. "
Lucius had tears in his eyes, hearing Ginny say that he will still be grandfather to her and Harry's children too. He hugged her carefully so not to spoil her wedding gown.
She told him to put the bracelets onto her wrists and he agreed .
"I am going to check on Harry. Okay. " He said, as he turned to leave the room..
Ginny turned sideways and saw Luna, Mary ,Hermione ,Hannah and her mother with smiles on their face, having seen the emotional scene of Lucius and Ginny.
Hermione , Hannah and her mother felt dazed on their face, surprise to see for the first time, Lucius Malfoy showing fatherly affection in front of them . Luna and Mary weren't surprised at all.
Luna was her matron of honor, while Mary , Hermione and Hannah were her bridesmaids. They were wearing green color dress and it was incredible for them .
"I am feeling jittery in my stomach. " Ginny admitted.
"Oh that's the normal feeling. I bet you that Harry must be worried and nervous thinking such insane thoughts that you will change your decision and leave him alone." Hermione try to reassure her.
She was alright with Ginny choosing Luna as her matron of honor and her as bridesmaid because Luna is best friend of Ginny since Hogwarts.
There was a small gasp from the doorway and Ginny turned to see her brothers standing there.
Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, and Ron and every single one of them had an identical look of awe on their face.
Ginny grinned and raised her eyebrow at them. "Hello brothers!"
"Wow,Gin Gin..You look so gorgeous" exclaimed George.
"Harry is a very lucky guy. " Said Fred.
"You truly look like an angel, Ginny." Bill said. He came forward to greet her with a kiss on her cheek.
"I always wonder how you look the first time when you married Draco. But now I got my answer. You are truly beautiful," Charlie murmured when he look at his sister with wonder.
Percy said, "He is a good man and treat you like a princess."
"Yes, Harry will be thrilled and will thank his lucky stars once he sees you. "Ron said.
Then she hugged each of her brothers in turn and she passed her message to Ron, "Tell harry that I love him and he need not worry at all. I won't change my mind." Ron nodded and all left her room.
After some time, Severus and Arthur entered her room as since it was time for her to go downstairs.
"Are you ready, dear? Ready to take a big step again? "Severus asked, hugging her tightly and kissing her forehead.
Ginny just nodded again and hugged him tighter. The sensation of déjà vu she felt was extremely strange. .
She remembered Severus asking the same thing before her first wedding, and she answered in the same way she had then.
"Yes, it's a big step. I am ready to take faith and start my life again."
"Good," Severus beamed. "That's all I wanted to know."
Then he left the room, giving Arthur a chance to speak to her. He went to inform Lucius and others that she will be coming downstairs anytime.
"Incredible. The most beautiful woman I've seen, apart from your mother in my life." Arthur said softly and ready to take his daughter downstairs.
"I love you, my precious daughter. I know that Lucius would love to take you down the aisle. And I was prepared to let him do it but then he told me that I didn't get the chance last time and I should take you down to aisle."
"Oh dad!" She hugged Arthur and he kissed on her forehead."I love you."
"But then I made a compromise with Lucius to deal with this." Arthur whispered to her.
"Really? How?" She asked, secretly wanting Lucius also to lead her down to the aisle. After all it was because of him and Severus that she decided to take a leap of faith and date, fall in love with Harry.
"You will see. "He replied. "Come on, Let's go marry you off to Harry. "
Ginny took a deep breath before leaving her room.
Meanwhile Harry stood in front of the mirror , fully dressed. He wore an ivory shirt ,ivory vest and black tux. He was placing his tie around his neck , tying into a knot.
Ron stepped into the room and said," Mate,are you ready? " Ron said.
"Yes, I am now. " He turned around and sat on the bed and bend to tie his shoe lace.
"Did you meet Ginny?" He asked.
"Yes,Just came from meeting her ." Ron replied.
" How did she look? Not changing her mind ? I am scared that She will change her mind and don't love me and..." Harry trailed off, groaned and ran his hand through his hair, making it messier.
"Ah, mate. I understand how you feel. You are lucky that I have her message for you.." Ron smirked.
Hearing that Ginny had sent some message for him, he jerked his head up and urged Ron to speak further.
"She said that she still loves you. And you don't have to worry at all because she is not going to change her mind."
"Really." Harry felt relieved having heard her words from Ron. He smiled happily.
"Yeah, Ginny looks so beautiful. We were so impressed." Ron said cheerfully.
Lucius and Severus came to check on Harry. "Ah, it's time to go down. Are you ready?"
Harry grinned broadly, thinking about Ginny. "I've never been more ready for anything else in my life."
Harry stood in front of the doors into the great beautiful garden lawn.
He began to make the way down to the pathway and upto the front and entered the beautiful gazebo decorated with arch shaped group of flowers. He admired Neville's skill at decoration.
He looked around at the people there. He greeted many school friends on the way .
The Media was calling theirs the wedding of the year.
Harry knew it was the wedding of his life, the only one he would ever have, and he thanked the fates that had led he and Ginny back to each other.
Lucas and Derek made their way up the aisle each carrying a satin emerald green pillow with one ring on it.
They walked up slowly, looking around with curious look on their face. They smiled brightly when they noticed Harry waiting for them to reach the front. They wore their little Tuxedos . Teddy was following them a bit behind too.
Andromeda was sitting at the front with Blaise . He was holding to his son's hand . Molly and the rest of the Weasley brothers were sitting on the other side.
Victorie, Dominique, Molly, Lucy came one by one, each wearing their beautiful white dress and carrying a small basket of lily petals. They were throwing the petals, walking down and waved at Harry before going to stand in their place next to the boys.
Harry smiled softly as he watched Neville and Hannah , followed by Fred and Hermione , George and Mary , Ron (Harry best man) and Luna (Ginny's matron of honor) make their way down the aisle.
When all reached the front and took their respective places and smile at Harry.
He took a deep breath and fixed his gaze on the back of the Manor where the bride would arrive. What he saw took his very breath away.
There stood his beautiful Ginny on the arm of her dad.
"Merlin, she's gorgeous," he breathed.
"Hang in there, mate," Ron encouraged. "Just keep breathing."
Ginny began the walk down the aisle, her dad holding her arm.
She knew that the decorations were knew that she was walking down the stone pathway from the back of the Manor through the gardens, down into the beautiful garden lawn and to reach towards the gazebo.
Her eyes were lost in the emerald green ones standing inside the gazebo.
There were gasps around as people saw her. She was beautiful.
"I am the luckiest man alive." He whispered to himself. But Ron heard him.
"And don't you forget it, Harry. She loves you with all her heart." Ron said, watching his sister walked down the aisle.
As Ginny and Arthur walked down more than halfway the aisle, Lucius strode forward to take his turn taking Ginny the rest of the way to Harry.
So this was a compromise dad made with Father. She thought.
Everybody gasped surprised at this slight change and see the formidable Lucius Malfoy smile and reached out to hold her hand and walk the remaining way to the gazebo. And Arthur followed them and joined Molly .
She came up to stand next to him, her whole face lit up with happiness when Lucius handed her to Harry with a slight warning to take care of his daughter or else.
And the two gazed at each other for long moments, as their fingers entwined.
Harry was overwhelmed and happy that his Ginny standing with him in front of the officiator.
The wedding began as usually do with the welcoming of the guests to witness the joining of two people who were bound together by love.
"I understand you two have written vows to share in front of your family and friends," Kingsley went on to say.
Harry stood before Ginny," God has given us a second chance at happiness and love, I stand here today to give you my love, to give you my heart and my hope for our future together. All I know is it has made my love for you deepen more and more. I knew that I could not imagine life without you in it. You and our boys are my every breath, my every heartbeat, my every reason for life. I love you and my love for you are endless and eternal. You are my life."
Tears welled up in Ginny's eyes and she fiercely blinked them back. He had sounded so wonderful, so beautiful.
She stared directly into Harry's eyes, a huge smile on her face. "Harry I have known love once before. I thought my heart would never heal after losing him. But you came in my life and gave me a new hope and healed my heart. I can never tell you how much joy you brought in our life. I thanked God for giving me you as my soul mate. Yes, you are my destiny, my very heart. You're the one I was destined to spend my eternity with. My past is my past; my future is with you and our boys.I love you too."
The next twenty minutes were a blur, and later, all Harry could really recall was gazing into Ginny's brown eyes, and feeling joy.
The minister joined their hands where their rings already shone, pronounced the union complete.
Harry drew her into his arms and just looked at her for a moment, before whispering, "You have made me the happiest man in the world, Ginevra Potter."
With that, he leaned down and kissed her, her arms slipped around his neck and she sank into him. He pulled back a bit, grinning from ear to ear and she grinned back.
Ginny laughed. "I love you too,Mr . Potter ." She kissed him again softly before their hands entwined and they turned towards the crowd.
With smiles, the new Mr. and Mrs. Potter turned to greet those who had come to witness the marriage, at long last, of Harry Potter and Ginny, who owned his heart.
Lucas and Derek ran towards them, Harry lifted them easily and swung around.
"Dad. Love you..." They both kissed on Harry's cheeks and then did the same to Ginny. "Love you too mum."
"Oh I love you too..." They said together, grinning from ear to ear, eyes shining with happiness.
Together, hand in hand they walked down the pathway and over into the gardens. All school friends came around them to congratulate the couple.
"Congratulations." Susan greeted them with a smile.
"Thank you. and You are glowing. Are you?" Ginny replied and shot a knowing smile at her.
She nodded and told Ginny that she is two months pregnant and Harry wished Justin and her a hearty congratulations.
"Neville, you have done a wonderful job with the flowers and plants around and the gazebo too." Harry thanked him.
"Anything I can do for helping out a friend." He smiled . He was holding hands with Hannah.
"So when are you getting married to Hannah?"
"Probably next year." He replied. Hannah look fondly at him.
"Finally mate, Join the club of married men." Ron gave a pat on his back. Harry simply grinned widely .
Bill and Percy came around with their wives and gave their congratulations to them.
"Ginny, You look gorgeous . " Blaise , Luna joined them too.
"Thank you,Blaise. Where is Carlo?" Ginny hugged him tightly and looked around.
"He is with his grandfather over there."
"Ginny , Harry. Come on. Its photo time." Luna dragged them away.
After tons of pictures, they headed into the house for the reception.
The music began in the ballroom as Harry and Ginny took to the dance floor for their first dance. They had chosen 'From This Moment On ' by Twain.
It was a perfect evening, and Harry held Ginny gently as they swayed around the dance floor . Everybody else joined the dance.
Harry danced with Mrs. Weasley, Hermione, Fleur, Penelope, Luna, Mary , Lavender, Hannah, Parvati and Padma Patil, and Andromeda . There were others too, but it became a blur.
Ginny danced with her dad, Lucius, Severus,Blaise, brothers, Neville, Seamus, Terry, Justin finch-Fletchley, and others too.
She danced with her sons and Teddy and Jason too.
Finally, sometime after midnight, he was dancing with Ginny again, and it was the last dance of the night for them. He held her close as they swayed to the music of the songs ' Always and Forever ' by Heatwave and 'Truly Madly Deeply ' by Savage Garden.
Lucius was standing beside with Severus, watching them danced for the last time.
"What are you thinking?" Severus asked.
Andromeda came by and stood with them.
"Just thinking..." Lucius was staring at them with a nostalgic smile.
"Are you feeling the same as I am feeling right now?"
"Yeah...just remembering the past and what am I going to do once she leaves Malfoy Manor?" Lucius said with a melancholy smile.
"Well you will be able to meet her regularly at office and the boys can come often as much they can. Nothing has changed. Just like how we used to visit her at Boston." Severus replied.
Lucius and Severus glanced at each other, nodded that they will visit her often as they can.
"Don't you forget that Harry had added the Manor floo access to their Potter Manor floo network so you can visit them anytime you want. "
"Happy now." Andromeda asked, smiling slowly at seeing the men' eyes lit up at hearing this bit of news.
When the song ended , Hermione found Harry and Ginny and they said their goodbyes to everyone.
They were ready for the night to end. Lucius, Severus, Arthur,Molly,Andromeda, Luna,Blaise, Ron and Hermione ,Mary and Paul walked them out of the hall.
"Enjoy your Honeymoon." Luna told them as she hugged them goodbye. "Call us when you get home and we'll get together for dinner."
"We will." Ginny promised her.
She bend down and told her sons to behave well and not to trouble grandfather,Uncle Severus , Aunt Andy . They nodded and kissed her on the cheek . Lucius put his hands on their shoulders as they watched her and their new dad go .
"Come and visit Boston too." Mary yelled at her.
They all saw her wave before they apparate away for some time alone before leaving on their honeymoon.
Harry picked Ginny up in his arms, carried her through the door when they arrived at the Potter Manor, and upstairs to their bedroom.
Later that night, Harry held his new wife to his bare chest as they lie on their bed in their new home. He couldn't believe finally his Ginny, his love was sleeping in his arms, and it would be this way from this point forward.
"Forever and always ." He whispered to himself.
"I know she is mine." Harry said with a smile. "You'll always have a piece of her heart, Draco Malfoy but now she is mine in heart, body and soul."
With that he drifted off as well. From where above in the afterlife, Draco Lucius Malfoy smiled down on his first love Ginny with Harry, happy that they had found one another.
They honeymooned for a week in Australia before returning to England briefly to collect Lucas and Derek. Teddy had stayed with Andromeda.
From there on, they spent their rest of the month touring around the world , to Disneyland, Paris,Germany,Italy , then last to Boston for a little revisit to Mary and Paul 's home, and the boys showed Harry the place they had been living since last eight years.
Three months later,Ginny just came back from meeting Aunt Andy, smiling widely thinking on how to tell Harry. She quickly thought of an idea.
Lucas, Derek and Teddy were spending their weekend days with their grandfather Lucius and Uncle Severus at the Manor.
Harry had gone to Gringotts for his investments business.
Ginny was busy making Harry's favorite foods, she was so engrossed in cooking; she didn't realize that Harry was sneaking behind her.
He then wrapped her from behind and whispered to her ear,"Hey what's the special occasion that you are cooking all my favorites' foods?"
She tried to turn around but he held her tightly, burying his face in her red hair, inhaling her smell.
"Yeah I am. And I have good news. "Ginny said, feeling excited.
"Really? What good news? " He asked, trying to think of any reasons of getting good news.
"New contracts at office? Lucius finally admitted of liking Amelia? Well we already know that Severus and Andromeda are together. But they don't say anything to confirm about it. "
Ginny hummed to herself and told Dimple, the elf to arrange the dish on the dining table.
"No , No and No!" She said . "I went to meet Aunt Andy at St. Mungo's today." She was arranging the plates on the table.
"Oh what happened? You alright? You have been sick the whole week." He asked in concern, he stopped her from moving around and took the rest of the plates and laid on the table.
"No, no, I'm quite well." Ginny assured him , and smiling in a secret way .
"Then what is it? "
"Alright. will tell you but first close your eyes for a sec." She urged him . He narrowed his eyes at her , trying to search something on her features.
"Okay. Okay." And he close his eyes.
Ginny put her gift in front of him and told him to open up his eyes now.
Harry blinked up as he saw a small baby shirt in his hands.
There were the words on the shirt,"WORLD BEST DAD" and then look up at her . She was smiling and touching her stomach with her hand .
"Is that what I am thinking? Are you? "
"Yes. I am pregnant, Harry." She whispered, and he stared at her covered stomach.
"Wow, I am going to be a dad?" He muttered and looks at her with awe.
"Yes." She grinned.
"When?"
" June or early July next year."
"Brilliant. " He said with awe.
"Other than us, who knows about the baby?"
"Just Aunt Andy . I am just three weeks pregnant. "
"When should we tell everyone?"
"We can tell everyone during the family gathering. For now I just want to enjoy our happy news with you,"
" And we will tell our boys too once they come back by Monday. "
Harry threw the tiny clothes on the chair and pulled her into her arms,laughing delightedly and spun her around. She was holding onto his shoulders before he set her down.
He kissed her firmly and dropped to his knees and rested his ears against her stomach, one palm placed tenderly nest to his face.
"Hello in there, little one." Harry said softly, his eyes prickling with delighted tears. "I'm your daddy."
Ginny let the tears fall above him.
A/N: Soon they will get a new addition into the family. Two more to go.
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