September 21= find out if its a boy/girl
October 5 = baby kicks
March 1 (year later)= baby due
HERMIONE POV
It was 28th of July. 4 days before the wedding. And because of that she had barely gotten to say a few words to either Harry or Ron about finding the Horcruxes.
Molly Weasley had made them busy with preparations for the wedding and sent them to do different things.
And here she goes.. Hermione saw Ron's mother walking about.
"Hermione, could you be a dear and help Ginny and Fleur organize the flowers for the wedding?".
"Sure, Mrs. Weasley."
She appeared soon to see Ginny putting flowers into a pot. Fleur was supervising.
"No! No! You 'ave it all wrong! 'zey must go on thee right side!". Bill's fiancee bossily pushed Ginny out of the way to arrange them herself.
Ginny rolled her eyes at Fleur and then whispered "Phlegm" to Hermione. Fleur didn't seem to hear at all, or see because she was too busy in her work.
"So what are you getting Harry for his birthday?" Ginny inquired, excited suddenly.
"Oh!" it had sort of slipped out of her mind since she had been preparing for the Horcrux thing.
"We can go to Diagon Alley and get something. Maybe from Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes".
"That sounds good. When do you think your mom can let us go?"
"Never. But we can leave right now. Fleur is too busy with 'er 'ectic situation for zeh wedding, 'ermione" Ginny did her Fleur impression.
Hermione smiled as well as Ginny. Even though they knew now that Fleur really loved Bill, they could still have some fun behind her back.
Hermione and Fleur walked on out to Diagon Alley without anyone noticing, everyone was too busy preparing for the wedding.
They first went to Wizard's Wizarding Wheezes, because Ginny wanted to see Fred and George.
Sure enough when they entered the store, Fred was talking to a young girl about some WonderWitch products.
Their shop assistant, Verity, was putting together a display shelf of some new items.
Fred soon saw them and called George up.
"Hey! What -" George started.
"- Brings you here?" Fred ended.
"Just browsing. Hermione hasn't bought Harry a gift for his birthday" Ginny reported.
"Oh, want to see our new items?" George offered.
They beckoned to come over to the display shelf that Verity had been working on.
"Its our new and exclusive ear products stand!" George proudly proclaimed.
" 'ear 'ear! " Fred joked.
There were Goblin ears, and many other fabulous works of magic.
Ginny stayed looking at those while Hermione thought of something. She would get Harry something for when they hunted the horcruxes.
Hermione quickly spotted a Sneakoscope. How effective are these?" she asked.
"Very effective. It's our best kind." Fred said, as the object began whistling.
Fred looked coldly at a boy browsing the shop, that soon reluctantly put back an object that had been hidden underneath his shirt.
The Sneakoscope immediately stopped whistling.
"I'll take it" Hermione announced, as she forked over the money.
"Look over here!" Ginny instructed.
She came over to look at what was so interesting.
Ginny was pointing at some WonderWitch products, more specifically one that was labeled "Fat Reducer".
Hermione read the definition. "Make yourself look slim to your beloved. Works for 24 hours each vial. 3 vials each box."
"Does this actually make yourself skinny or just appears like it?" Hermione wondered out loud.
"Its sort of like an invisibility cloak for your stomach fat" Fred answered.
Ginny looked at the warning on the back.
"It says it doesn't work for pregnant witches though. That's too bad" she looked wistfully at Hermione, obviously thinking that Luna couldn't use it to hide her pregnancy.
"GINNY?!?! YOUR -" George started.
"- PREGNANT?!?!" Fred ended.
Ginny's brothers' faces immediately turned to the color of their hair, red.
"NO. Do I look FAT to you??"Ginny bellowed, with her arms folded across her stomach.
George looked away. "Sheesh, someones on their monthly time of acting pissed"
This time Ginny's face turned red and she led Hermione out.
While they were walking to the Burrow, Hermione suddenly stopped walking.
"Oh, Ginny, I've just thought of something that can help Luna hide her pregnancy!"
LUNA POV
Meanwhile, Luna had been trying to reason with her father. "At least look at me!" she begged.
He did so and hugged her tightly. When he was done he explained his actions.
"You look so much like your mother" Luna's father sighed and had a sad look in his eyes.
"But she would never do a thing like that!" he said and immediately turned back to the my-not-married-daughter-is-pregnant look.
"I.. I'll put it up for adoption." Luna wanted to keep her baby so much, but it would be hard to raise him/her at her age by herself.
"No grandchild of mine is going to be given to some other people!"
"Then what can I do?"
"You can tell me who the father is"
A Slytherin pure-blood that would probably want me to kill the baby.
"Neville Longbottom." Luna lied.
Something in her eyes must have made betrayed her smooth voice, because her father did not look like he believed it.
"Are you sure?"
"I'm not a slut! I've only done it once"
"And who is this young man I'm going to have to kill?"
"Draco Malfoy"
"It couldn't be, stop trying to lie to me. I'm your father!"
"I'm not lying. But he doesn't know and I don't plan on telling him"
An owl came to their house and Luna was relieved of having to talk to her father. She opened the letter.
I've found a way to hide the pregnancy from everyone else for when Hogwarts starts. It will be hard, and you have to bring your dad. Come to The Burrow as soon as you have finished reading the letter. - Hermione
"Ok, lets go" her father announced as he read over the letter.
Luna took his hand and closed her eyes. She hated apparition.
CRACK. A loud noise was followed by the worst sensation. Luna felt as if she were being forced through some tiny tube.
They were now right in front of the door of The Burrow. Too close, in fact. They repositioned themselves a bit more farther.
Mr. Lovegood tapped on the door. Ginny opened it.
"You're here, already? That was-"
She didn't get to finish the sentence, because Luna was suddenly running to somewhere in the house.
The bathroom, so be specific. After a few horrid minutes, hours it seemed, of retching in the toilet Luna came to Ginny's room.
Hermione, Ginny, and her father already were in there. Luna sat on Ginny's bed, waiting for Hermione to start.
"All right. Well, I was thinking that we could all be Luna's secret-keepers, by use of the Fidelius charm. Whoever is not secret-keeper or who has not been told about the secret cannot locate the hidden secret, even if they are staring right at it. Which means that when Luna goes into Hogwarts and even when her pregnancy would be showing everyone else won't be able to see that but us." Hermione explained.
"Meaning nobody will see her get fatter?" Ginny questioned.
"Its technically not fat, but yes" Hermione answered.
"And even if we do tell someone the secret, they can't tell anyone else. So if perhaps Draco finds out-" she carried on.
"Which hopefully he won't" Luna interrupted.
"-Then he won't be able to tell anyone, even if he really wanted to" Hermione continued as if she hadn't heard Luna.
"It's genius!" Mr. Lovegood couldn't help to burst out.
"But complicated" Hermione frowned at the book that she was holding (Understanding of Complex & Powerful Spells).
"Mr. Lovegood, you would have to do it. We're not allowed to do magic outside of school yet" Ginny looked wistful.
-Awhile later-
Apparently, Luna's father was good at charms as he had managed to do this one.
"Well, I'm glad thats over with" Luna sighed, and the rest agreed.
Maybe this would be easier than she had thought it would be!
Hope you enjoyed it! R&R, please. Sorry for the delay, but it took awhile for me to think of the Secret-Keeper thing.
