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Harry Potter was having a pretty peaceful life right now. Well, as peaceful as you can get being the man-who-conquers or the boy who lived twice or some other word misnomer people liked to refer to him by.
He had gotten his mastery in Defense Against the Dark Arts and was teaching DADA in Hogwarts. His friends were married and thriving and his love life was never better. He has been dating his girlfriend Ginny Weasley for 10 years.
They started dating when he was 16 and she was 15 and have been going strong ever since then. Harry would like to say that they, “technically” broke up while Ginny liked to reiterate that Harry was being a prat so they were “technically” still together. Honestly, They both didn’t really care to count how long they were actually together.
Harry was currently 25 and Ginny 24 when Molly started hinting at the both of them getting married. At this point, everyone was joking saying Harry was going to take forever.
Somehow Ron manned up and got engaged to Hermione for two years and got married the previous year. It was a lovely fall wedding and Harry was the best man while Ginny was Hermione's maid of honor. Harry did not want to admit that he shed a few tears at the wedding and had a lot of fun.
Kids and marriage and the 4 story house with a picket white fence wasn’t really a goal that Ginny and Harry had set themselves out for. Ginny hadn’t really felt the need to wear a shiny rock to prove that she was Harry Potter’s wife as the Prophet liked to say. Ginny wasn’t in a rush to have the big lavish wedding that she knew her mother was going to throw and obsess over every single detail for her.
She would know because she did the same thing when Bill got married, when Charlie got married, when Fred and Geroge got Married and when Ron got married. All their closest friends either were already engaged, married or had a baby on the way.
Case in point Hermione and Ron, Bill and Fleur and so on.
Of course Harry and Ginny had talked about engagement and marriage and babies and they simply weren’t in a rush like everyone expected them to be. Ginny loved her career as the chaser for the HolyHead Harpies and Harry loved his job as a teacher. He tried the auror thing out for a year and quit because he did not want to spend the rest of his life chasing villains and dark lords.
He liked his life with Ginny but the next coming events were things he did not imagine happening. But he was harry potter so why was he surprised
It all started like this
1 year ago
It was a calm day and it was summer vacation with Harry being on break and Ginny not having her match until the next week. It was currently nightfall and Harry was sitting on the couch with the telly on but he was skimming through a book in his hand.
Ginny was currently laying upside down on the couch humming to herself. It was peaceful in a way with just the two of them relaxing and weren’t in the busy hustle of life. Harry glanced at his girlfriend and smiled amused thinking, “Wonder what she thinking about”
Ginny was humming lazily while the clock above them ticked at a steady pace. Harry noticed that Ginny was about to say something but was simply just laying there thinking of words to say. Sometimes Harry saw a little of Luna Lovegood's mannerisms in her. Just floating through everything that’s going on and not minding everything that ever was.
“Harry” Ginny asked with a smile on her face and amusement coloring her tone
“Yes, love?” Harry asked tentatively because you never know with this one
“What if we just go married without telling anyone and then just walk in waiting for how long it’ll take for them to notice” Ginny asked grinning
Harry couldn’t help but chuckle, “You have wicked ideas, I love it”
Ginny asked, “So let’s get married today, not like it’s hard”
Harry looked at her shocked, “you mean right now”
“Yeah why not, I mean we’re gonna get busy and then we won’t have any tiiiiimee” Ginny whined playfully
Harry sighed exaggeratedly, “Fine let’s go get married”.
Ginny giggled and sat up grabbing Harry by the hadn who was asking confused, “Shouldn’t we change?”
Ginny thought for a moment, “nahh”
Harry fondly rolled his eyes and they went to get married. It was the easiest thing that Harry himself has ever done. He thought he would feel some sort of shaky nervousness but he didn’t. He was basically getting married to the love of his life. The person who stood with him at his worst and brought him to his best.
It was a very simple ceremony and Harry could not ask for anything better. Ginny changed her mind and put on a simple white dress while Harry tugged on a white button shirt and pants. They walked into the muggle courthouse smiling excitedly.
In an hour Ginny Weasley was now known as Ginny Potter.
Harry was confused as to why she took his name but Ginny smiled genially at him and stated, “There’s a million other Weasleys to carry on the name but not a single potter but yourself, I’d reckon I’d like to become the second”
Harry couldn’t help but beam at his girlfr- no wife
Ginny never really saw the need for a wedding ring
“I’m already married to you why must a ring showcase that”
But she decided they had to know somehow
When walking into the jewelry store the man working in upfront stated, “An engagement ring too polish yes?”
Ginny took great relish in stating, “No we’re here to buy a wedding ring for both of us”
Harry rolled his eyes while grinning amused looking at the shocked man.
The man cleared his throat and took out the rings from the protective case. Both Ginny and Harry peered down at the cases, humming and hawing dramatically. Ginny would mutter, “I like that color”
While harry would respond back, “babe your mother would murder me if i got a ring like that for you”
Ginny grinned, “It has a certain touch too it”
Ginny giggled but put the ring down and perused some more with Harry giving sarcastic commentary along the way. It was quite funny to see the shopkeeper's face turn redder and redder with each passing insult to the rings.
Harry of course didn’t mean any of it and Ginny found it hilarious either way
They finally decided on a teal sapphire ring that had leaves circling it. Ginny picked the color because it reminded her of Harry's eyes just a little. After paying for the selected ring the shopkeeper looked relieved for the two of them to be leaving but ginny then stated, “let’s get a ring for you too”
Harry gasped dramatically, “for meee?”
Ginny fondly rolled her eyes, “yes for you”
They spent another hour there carefully picking up each and every single one of the rings and finding the tiniest faults with it because their reservation for dinner wasn’t for another two hours. From there they were planning on going home and celebrating. And then tomorrow was a Weasly family dinner with everyone in attendance.
Ginny had bets running on who was going to see the rings or notice first.
Harry had 10 galleons on Luna while Ginny had 10 on her hawkeyed mother.
Finally, Harry also decided on a ring that had a teal band running through it.
“I wanted it to match” Harry explained excitedly
Ginny fondly rolled her eyes while controlling her giggles
After finally paying and actually leaving to the shopkeeper's relief, Harry and Ginny went to dinner. It was a place they rarely went to and only for special occasions. To get a reservation you had to plan months in advance but Harry and Ginny were stickin rich and also a potter owned this restaurant or whatever and they were allowed to walk in whenever and eat for free.
The sight it probably was to walk in with people dressed to the nines while ginny and harry had on comfortable clothing. Ginny was judging the clothing when being walked to their table.
“That does not look comfortable” Ginny motioned over to the woman in a skin-tight dress.
Harry hummed in agreement ad they finally sat down at their table.
Harry sighed, “I’m beat”
Ginny agreed, “Who knew something as simple as getting rings and signing some papers was that stressful”
Harry grinned, “I wouldn’t say stressful, it was fun actually”
Ginny beamed at him, “It was wasn’t it”
Harry then asked, “I think in the distant future maybe we should do the bonding ceremony”
Ginny thoughtfully agreed, “I think so too, we also might get some heat off of us from just popping a ring on our fingers and calling it a wedding”
Harry had the fake falsetto voice, “How dare you get wedded without your family”
Ginny couldn’t help but cackle out loud
So they sat there eating there weight in fancy food and just sitting there talking and talking and more talking.
Harry felt finally at peace with his wife sitting and eating dinner. Who knew something like that would cause him so much happiness?
Harry was always stuck in some dangerously dangerous situation that almost killed him or his family and best friends.
Ginny absentmindedly picked Harry’s hand and started playing with the fingers. (not in that way ya nasties)
Harry couldn’t help but fondly smile at her in love.
“Yeah this is the life I dreamed of sitting in that cupboard all those years ago” He thought to himself content.
present-day
Harry and Ginny were idly walking around as they got ready for the Weasley Sunday Dinner ™ . They haven’t seen everyone else for a week because they basically were offline from the world and went to America for their “fake but kinda real honeymoon” as Ginny would like to say.
Harry tugged on another buttoned-up shirt which a light blue and Ginny matched him with a pretty blue dress that Luna gifted her. Harry forgoed the suit coat and tie because he didn’t see the need to be that fancy.
Ginny was looking at her hair in annoyance because she just wasn’t in the mood to brush it. Harry walked and gently took the brush from her and started on a fishtail braid. How Harry knew how to braid? Well, when he was younger and Hermione sometimes needed help with her own hair, Harry would look up books in how to do different hairstyles.
Harry actually kind of liked the hairstyles and slowly figured out a way to grow his own hair out. The Dursley despised it but Harry absolutely loved it. It also made his hair a little more manageable with the skeezy hair products that actually worked.
After harry finished, Ginny turned him around and put a simple bun for him which harry didn’t mind at all.
After everything was ready but took a deep breath and walked through the floor after calling out, “The Burrow”
Harry still absolutely hated floo travel but dealt with it unfortunately.
They saw the burrow in chaotic chaos as usual and half the kids running too them
“Aunt Ginny” Victoire or “Vicky” came running towards them
“Uncle Harry” Teddy shouted excitedly with his hair turning a brighter teal
All the others came as well with all of them laughing and giggling while catching up. All sat in the living room and Ginny made sure too show off her ring but no one seemed to pay attention.
Both Harry and Ginny looked at each other with a bemused smile on their faces.
Soon the room was awashed with chatter and gossip until the dinner bell rang.
Then it was a stampede outside to get to the chairs and Harry and Ginny just calmly walked outside with their arms swinging.
Ginny sat down next to her niece Vicky while Harry sat next to Teddy.
Both were chattering both of ther ears after not seeing there favorite family members for a week.
Everything was going normally until luna cut in serenly with, “Congratulations Harry and Ginny”
Everyone looked at the couple confused
Ron asked, “What do you mean congratulations luna”
Luna looked surprised, “They didn’t tell you”
Hermione looked frustrated, “Ask us what”
Ginny cleared her throat and exclaimed proudly, “We got married”
Molly Weasley shouted, “WHAT”
Before she could start shouting luna stated, “No, I was saying congratulations on you baby ginny”
Harry and Ginny looked at each other surprised
“Huh no wonder you hated the smell of vanilla” Harry muttered
“I honestly got sick of it” ginny replied back
Molly looked like she was about to get a heart attack while everyone else was confused and happy.