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"Hey Hermione!" Ginny asked as the group, ten-minutes-later, sat around the table, once again.
"Hermione?" Ginny asked again.
"Maybe she finally went to sleep," Fred and George teased her, and Ginny swatted at them happily, as the group all watched laughing as Fred and George tried to dodge her hands.
The group was still laughing, but slowly it died down and from the room their was a flash of light and then a voice from the shadows of the room rang out.
"So this is what happens when I leave you alone for a few hours..." An amused voice said, a voice that Ginny immediately recognized, as she happily ran towards the voice.
"Harry! Hermione! Ron!" Ginny shrieked, in what she was ashamed to say was a very girly-just-been-saved-by-a-tall-dark-handsome-hero-let-me-Swoon-now-way, but she really could care less in that moment as she practically flew across the room and into the waiting arms of her hero and soon to be husband...as long as they got out of here soon and made it to the wedding...
Harry's arms encircled her, lifting her off the ground and even spinning around a few times as Ginny over-come with relief kept her face burried into his neck...
Which was how she noticed that...
A- It had gotten really, really quiet...Like someone give me a pin now so I can drop it on the floor now, since this is a very rare moment of silence and I'll be able to hear it...
B- Sine she had burried her face into Harry's neck, Ginny could very well see a very shiny, cut that ran along his neck and down towards the hem of his shirt...it even had that looking-like-it-could-still-start-bleeding-very-red-kind-of-look-to-it...
"Harry?" Ginny started, stepping away from the warmth of Harry's arms...and completely ignoring the stunned face, and dropped jaws of the people around them...
"Yes, Love?" Harry asked, shifting a little uneasily as he caught her staring at his cut.
"Don't you think you have enough scars, already!" Ginny said calmly, in a deadly-cheerfully-calm-voice, as Ron inched away from his sister. Ginny seeing him inch away turned towards her brother..."What did you do?" She said accusingly, as Hermione stiffled a laugh and Ron laughed nervously.
"Well see...we were on a mission with some new Auror...and they may have been a little..." Ron started staring at Hermione for help, which Harry chuckled at the way it reminded him of Ron and him always looking towards Hermione for help during their Hogwart's Years.
"They were a little bit in Aw, Ginny." Hermione said, her laughter turning into snickers as Harry ran a hand through his hair nervously.
Ron nudged Harry,"Yeah, They were meeting the Chosen-One over here after all..." Ron trailed off as Harry looked even more uncomfortable...
Ginny laughed, she couldn't help it...Harry being a great Head Auror comes easy to him.
...Being a leader...easy for him too...
...Dealing with his Fame...not-so-easy...usually making him feel uncomforable, slightly annoyed if he couldn't get anywhere...and uneasy if Ginny was with him and she started glowering at all the girls fawning over him.
Yeah, she was the master of the glaring look after months of dating Harry.
But now the only glares coming her way were from the past people in the room...and well their glares were more like shocked-beyond-words-type-of-glares...
And then there was Ron still looking nervously at her, as if he thought she might curse if for not being injured like Harry was...
But it was Harry...The guy she was marrying tomorrow...and the guy who seemed to get into way to many near-death-situations...
He was either going to make her a very rich and young widow...or cause her to die early from panic-attacks over him...
Her musings were interrupted when she felt Harry stiffen next to her as he surveyed the room...Ron next to Hermione seemed to be leaning into her for support as he looked at Fred...
For a moment Ginny wondered if Hermione had even bothered to tell the boys where she had wound-up in the past but then Harry's lips were brushing by her ear making her shiver as he whispered to her..."Hermione told me where you ended-up...but..." He seemed to trail off, lost for words...a vulnerbility only she had ever really seen Harry be...Reaching over she grasped his had in her, squeezing it once before just leaving it there in his hand, feeling his hand wrap around hers...
Letting him know, she was here for him...
A thought seemed to wander it's way to her as she stared around the room at the adults...their past selfs already in bed...
"Harry,are we going to have to wipe their memories," She whispered and smiled sadly at his nod.
Squeezing his hand once more, she let go to address the still stunned crowd...
"So I guessed you now know who I'm marrying..." she trailed off.
"Who Hermione?" Fred asked as the others seemed to come out of their shock and laughed as well.
Nobody noticed Ron stiffen alittle at hearing Fred laugh again along with George...sending him a sympathetic glance, Ginny gave him a small smile, that said, "I'd forgotten how it was to hear them laugh at the same time, too..."
The wierdness and sadness of hearing the echo of two voices had still not gone away and she had been here for a couple of days now...
"Where's Teddy and Victoire?" Harry asked and Ginny had to hold back a shock as Remus immeditially answered him with the answer of them being asleep...and then turning to look shocked at Harry...
Ginny could practically tell what they were thinking...looking at this man who was clearly asking something and yet they were complelled to answer immiditially as if he were in-charge...The air around Harry seeming to crackle with power and authority...of being someone who should listened to and obeyed...the air of someone who was oviously a fighter, a leader and a Hero...
In-fact, Ginny could feel the adults really eye them now...and see Hermione: taller, her budy hair now just pretty curls falling down to the middle of her back, her large brown eyes full of intelligence...of knowledge...
Ron: Tall, with an air of command as well, not so much as Harry but of someone who should be listened to, his red hair slightly longer, but only so that his hair slightly fell into the view of his eyes...
Harry: Tall, shorter than Ron but almost his height, but even shorter he gave off the air of being the leader of the three, the one to be listened to and to be obeyed...
All three had the air of someone to be listened to, respected...and most of all they looked more relaxed then they every did in their teen-years...easy smirks and grins on the boys, more laughter and smiles...Hermiones smile full of promises the future would hold...
Yes, Ginny knew what they were seeing...No longer Kids but adults that had fought in battles and wars...and by their laughter the War must be over...
But she could also tell that they could tell as they looked at the people from the past with some sadness, that oviously that War had come at a cost.
A cost they have yet to know...
Pulling on Harry's hand, Ginny urged Harry to sit down at the table with everyone, motioning for everyone to sit and for Hermione to pull Ron over as well...
But before Ginny could pull Harry into a seat, he was heading towards the door of the kitchen.
"Harry?" Hermione called, a question in her voice and Ginny could tell worry as well, as if she was scrunchying both Harry and Ron, getting ready to comfort in-case either of them couldn't deal with seeing past faces of the people they care about now dead.
"I'm just going to check on my Godson and Niece, Hermione." Harry said in a teasing voice, his eyes warm and sending a message towards Hermione that said he clearly knew she was ready to leap into action if Ron or him became distraught...His smile held a thank-you for her, one she understood even if he didn't voice-it.
These types of little conversations and looks that seemed to often pass between "The Golden Trio" told Ginny how tight the bond they shared was...and though maybe at one time she had been jeolous of the way they could communicate so easily, she now saw it as what it really was...Their true friendship shining through in a way that novody could break.
Trying to politing slip her hand away from her mother's grip, as her Mum continued to eye her engagement ring Happily and qith squels of delight from both Tonks and her, Ginny sent a pleading look towards Hermione, who gently untangled their hands, much to the surprise of Molly who looked-up at her future daughter-in-law.
"Sorry, but Ginny must want to check on Teddy with Harry, after-all they are the GodParents..." Hermione said gently.
"Wait...GodFather?" Sirius asked, with a bark-like-laugh.
"Moony! You named Harry GodFather!' Sirius said happily.
"Of course," Remus said with a laugh. "And let's hope he does a better job then you!" Tonks teased, though they didn't seem to notice that the comment made Harry wince slightly.
"Hey! I am a great GodFather! Right, Harry?' Sirius asked, turning towards his GodSon who still stood in the doorway of the kitchen.
"Right." Harry said firmly, and with a slightly sad comment, though if anyone from the past noticed, thay did not comment.
"See!" Sirius said, cheerfully, while tickling Tonks, who leaned towards Minnie and Dumbledore to get away from his hands.
Fred and George laughed, easily taking-up a few Jokes, that had their mother groaning and their father trying to hide his laughter from his wife.
"It seemed like any normal Family Dinner that they had during the Trio's fifth year...and yet...people here would die in the next couple of months...and in the following years..." Ginny thought to herself as she walked towards Harry and let him lead, her, Hermione and Ron up-the-stairs and towards the room that Victoire and Teddy were currently sleeping-in.
Opening the door to the two's room, Ginny followed Harry into the room, feeling a rush of warth at the affectionate smile that instantly appeared on his face at the sight of the two children curled-up together on the big bed.
"I'm surprised Bill hasn't come in here to seperate them." Ginny teased and shivered as Harry chuckled softly next to here, his breath at the back of her neck sent delightful chills down her spine. Feeling his arms wrap around her from behing, she snuggled against him, her hands coming up to inter-lock with his hands as they locked around her stomach.
His head resting on her shoulder, the two looked down at the peacefully sleeping children.
"Where did Hermione and Ron go?" Ginny asked, noticing for the first-time that they were not in the room with them, for by now Ron would have made a comment about shielding his eyes from their Love, though he's the exact same Lovey-Dovey-Way with Hermione.
"they went to earse the memories of the younger us, and Bill and Fleur who are already sleeping...and I saw your Mum and Dad head-up-stairs as well, when we came in here..." Harry explained.
"So were leaving now?" Ginny asked.
"No, but soon, Hermione is also putting a charm on them to make them sleep-in-late..." Harry said and trailed off, letting Ginny put-together the Plan.
"Ah, so the goodbye we'll be saying to is Remus, Tonks, Sirius, Dumbledore and Minnie...?" Ginny asked, though stopped herself from continuing when they heard a slight thud coming from the hallway and then a few muffled curses that came from Ron and scowling that came from Hermione.
"I believe that was Minnie heading to bed, and Ron I guess decieded to get the sleeping-charm over and done with as she was walking to her room." harry said with a quiet laugh, careful not to wake the still sleeping children,as Ginny giggled as well.
"Probably didn't want to see her in her night-gown..." Ginny said with a laugh, as Harry had to burry his head into the side of her neck, as he chuckled, her whole body vibrating with his laughs.
"I guess that leaves just four people to say goodbye to, soon..." Ginny said and then something dawned on her.
"That's sweet of you, to give Tonks and Remus a chance to say goodbye to Teddy before their memories are obliviated as well." Ginny said as she sat on the edge of the bed, pulling Harry on the bed with her.
"Oh, I assure you, I have a selfish reason as well." Harry whispered in her ear, as he took her hand, his thumb making circles on the back of her hand.
"Oh, I know...but I like when your selfish..." Ginny said and then blushed as Harry raised an eyebrow at her.
"What I mean is that you deserve to be selfish, sometimes," Ginny said, her blush still noticiable in the dark.
Harry smiled softly down at her, his eyes full of Love and affection, the look that she most Loved to recieve in this World.
"Thank You, Ginny," He whispered as he kissed the curve of her neck, the tip of her nose, her forhead, down to nip lightly at her chin and to both her cheeks...and to finally to lightly kiss her softly on her lips, and she thanked Merlin that they were sitting or else her trembling would have caused her legs to give-out.
"Thank You...For what?" She asked, finally able to collect her thoughts a few minutes later.
"Thank You For being here, for dealing with me, for staying by my side, for agreeing to marry me...for loving me..." He said, his lips doing the same trail as he had done just minutes before, and then doing the same thing a third time as well, this time his lips stayed longer on her lips, his kiss more firm and deep.
She felt his true feelings in his words and his kiss, and she kissed him back with as much Love as she could put into a kiss, before they broke a-part, both a little out of breath.
"I love you, too, Harry." Ginny whispered as he leaned his forhead against hers.
He chuckled all of the sudden,"Well thank Merlin they haven't wokenup, yet, or we would have to explain something else to them." harry teased.
"Yeah, I'm not really ready for the kissing talk, because then those two, curious as ever, will start asking even more questions leading to something else." Ginny said with a laugh.
"Yeah, Let's make sure there around ten or eleven before we have that talk...and since Teddy is two-years-older that Tory, he'll probably explain things to here, or Bill will...or better yet Fleur will," Harry said with a wiry smile, as Ginny giggled.
"Do you think we'll be explaining things to our own kids...one day," Ginny asked shyly and somewhat hesitant, but couldn't help the bright smile that came to her face when Harry answered.
"Of-Course," He whispered in her ear.
Standing, the two exited the room, with a finale look at the two still peacefully sleeping children on the bed, before the exited into the hallway, closing the door to the room behind them without a sound.
Joining Hermion and Ron on the stairs, the four of them quietly made their way to the kitchen.
"Did you obliverate their memories of us being here?" Harry asked Hermione.
"Yes, and I did the sleeping-charm as well," She answered before launching into fFull-Plan-Mode.
"We'll spend about five-more-hours-here, and then it will be Eleven O'Clock, at night," Hermione said.
"Then we'll obliverate the last four's memories of us being here, and then arrive back in out time, for the Wedding, though when we arrive back in our-time, it will once again be Eight O'Clock at Night in our-present...and then the next Day will be the Wedding," Hermione said, waited for everbody to nodd, before puching the kitchen-door open and entering the room, with us, following behind.
Taking a seat at the table, the eight of us here together...drinking Hot-Coco from some mugs and staring at each other, muching on cookies Molly had made after dinner that Day...
Feeling warmth and happiness as she sat still next to Harry and looked at all the people around her.
...Staring around, Ginny watched as conversations around the table began...