Chapter 24: Pictures
December 22, 2019; Present
As everyone sat around the kitchen in number 44 eating lunch, Goldy came through the back door holding an old shoe box.
"Hey everyone," she said cheerfully. "I've been instructed to keep you all entertained by Ginny. So," she made a sweeping motion with her arm and propped the box open, "pictures!"
"We're going to look at pictures?" Hermione asked.
"You and Ron are taking the kids from the present over to Ginny and Harry's while I keep everyone entertained."
"We are?" Ron asked, his mouth full of food.
"Don't talk with your mouth full, Ron," Hermione snapped, sounding so much like Mrs. Weasley that the twins snickered.
After they left, everyone sat around on the various couches and Goldy used a spell to make a picture bigger when it's laid on the side table. She laid one down of Ginny and Harry snogging in the Gryffindor common room when they were teenagers.
"I thought I'd start things interesting," Goldy grinned at the revolted look of the Weasley brothers and Ginny and Harry's blush. It didn't help that the picture was moving, making it look that much more not innocent.
Goldy pulled it off and replaced it with a picture of what Hogwarts looked like after the Battle of Hogwarts, 1997. Everyone grimaced.
Next, she replaced it with a picture shortly after her birth. It was always her favorite baby picture. In it, Remus was holding her, Tonks was holding Reese and Andy was holding Teddy.
She then showed various pictures of the Weasley women and Luna in St. Mungo's with their babies after just giving birth in order. Fleur (Vic), Audrey (Lucy), Luna (Frank), Ginny (James), Angelina (Fred), Fleur (Dom), Luna (Alice), Hermione (Rose), Ginny (Al), Angelina (Roxy), Fleur (Louis), Audrey (Molly), Hermione (Hugo), Ginny (Lily), Luna (Ly & Lorcan) and Luna (Alex).
She also showed the wedding pictures in order.
"They look really happy," Molly I said begrudgingly, looking at Bill and Fleur's wedding picture.
"Oh, look at Perce," Molly I squealed at Percy's wedding picture.
The twins rolled their eyes though they had to agree. He looked happier than they ever seen him.
Next was a picture from George and Angelina's wedding. He was twirling her around on the dance floor and in the picture she threw her head back laughing. Both George and Angie smiled.
In the next wedding picture, Ron had one hand on Hermione's waist and the other one was wrapped around hers as they cut the cake. He was looking down at her, beaming while she smiled at the camera.
Goldy put the picture of Harry and Ginny's wedding up next. It was her favorite. Neither Harry nor Ginny was looking at the camera. They, like Angie and George, were dancing but it was slower and more peaceful. The whole picture, they didn't look away from each other's eyes. Professor Dumbledore smiled. Harry looked truly untouched by the war in this picture. Minerva smiled too, reminded of a different wedding with a man with unruly black hair and a redhead with a fiery temper.
Afterwards, Goldy showed less monumental pictures. Reese, Goldy and Teddy running around a backyard with Harry and Ginny chasing them, Victoire and Teddy sitting up in a tree laughing, Reese and Steve eating ice cream, Reese reading a story to James, James pushing Al into the water outside of Shell Cottage, Ginny reprimanding him, Fleur with Louis on her lap, Ginny and Hermione in a bar looking mildly drunk (that got a few chuckles), Ginny and Harry outside in patio chairs, Ron and Hermione bickering, Bill and Fleur laughing, Audrey and Percy hugging, George, Angie and Charlie smiling, Molly sneaking up behind Lucy and pulling her chair out so she sat on the floor, Dominique and Alice laughing at something, Frank with Lysander, Lorcan and Alex, Hugo and Rose reading, Hugo and Al playing chess, Lily on Amy's lap with Danny pulling her hair as she stuck her tongue out at him, Roxanne chasing Fred, Bel as a baby being held by Ginny, Molly I and Arthur with their arms wrapped around each other, Minerva shaking her head irritably at James and Molly I, Arthur, Bill, Fleur, Charlie, Percy, Audrey, George, Angelina, Ron, Hermione, Harry, Ginny, Victoire, Dom, Louis, Lucy, Molly, Fred, Roxanne, Rose, Hugo, James, Al and Lily in the backyard of The Burrow ten years ago, all touching in some way. Goldy didn't leave it up long enough for them to notice who was missing.