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Chapter Forty – Five
Harry placed the bags on the table smiling as Ginny flopped on the chair opposite,
“This was your idea you’d better not be over the decorations already, we have to put them up yet”
“We can use our wands for that” she held up her new one, Harry had brought her refusing to let her pay by telling her it was a gift for saving his life.
“You mean I can use my wand, were not at school and your not of age”
“So you keep reminding me” She smiled as he pulled tinsel from his bag, it was silver and bells clung from it ringing at he took it out and levitated it so it hung over the fireplace.
“Somebody has too, I can’t have you taken to wizard court over using spells, you already had a warning about the one in the leaky cauldron when you stopped Ron cursing me, if you get another one they won’t be so nice”
“Neither will my parents when they find out I want to move in here”
“I wondered when that thought might come up” he emptied the bag onto the table and used his wand to hang the decorations all, silver, green and red around the room before sitting next to her at the table.
“When do you want to tell them?”
“Preferably never just to avoid the argument, but how about Christmas day, there not allowed to get angry then and if it’s in front of people they won’t act up, or at least we know my Dad won’t”
Harry looked surprised “Christmas day? Are you sure? I’m mean the witnesses to my murder might be useful but what if we told them after there are only five days and I think they’ll need time to adjust like when we go back to school”
“Hmm” she sighed leaning her head over the back of the chair, “I want to get it over with”
“But I don’t think Christmas day will be the best idea”
“Ok, Ok” she sighed moving her head back up, “Boxing day then, the day before we go back?”
“Ok and It will be fine I promise and if they say no, we can wait until you come of age its only few months into your seventh year”
“And then they’ll say I won’t concentrate on my newts in the holidays if im living here”
“Are we just finding more of there excuses for you not to live here or are they their legitimate reasons?”
“Im going to say for there reasons, I want to live here I just don’t think they’ll like the idea” she smiled
“I think Ron will be the main problem, but if we tell him when Hermione’s there he’ll probably be more rational about it, I think he just misses her and that’s why he’s been a pain”
“Well that just leaves mum I think she’ll be happy as long as don’t spend nights here which just defeats the purpose”
Harry let out a sigh and slid down his chair slightly, “Ok lets make a list of witnesses - sorry guests to our Christmas party and then we can just copy the same piece of parchment and send them off” He took out a quill and parchment from a draw.
“Hedwig’s not going to be able to take them all” Smiled Ginny,
“I can send patronus’s too and we can just invite people, im sure no one will pass up an invitation from us”
“Ok, well we can just tell my family, Tonk’s and Remus, Caleb and Willow, and the Madam Pomfrey have been invited already as well as Hermione of course and you told the quiditch team and Neville on the train”
“So there’s the rest of the Order, the Creevey’s, the aurors I met at the prison – Jack, Liam, Cadence, Reece, Laura, what about your friends in your dorm?”
“What you really want Tisha, Spence, Emily and Kate here?”
“Well there your friends aren’t they?”
“Yes but are you going to invite Seamus and Dean?”
“Seamus yes, how do you feel about Dean coming?”
“Fine if he doesn’t cause a fuss”
“We’ll see about him, but don’t you want your dorm mates here?”
“Yes, and Luna and Maria”
“Maria?”
“You know Maria, she’s Luna’s and mines friend in Hufflepuff”
“Oh erm… ok” he shrugged not remembering, “what about there families? This is going to be huge and expensive, what was I thinking”
“Well just them, I mean we don’t know there families and were not likely to ever see them again so why invite them just so they can eat the food?”Said Ginny nudging him in the ribs as he wrote down names,
“You have a point, let’s make it plus one” He said nudging her arm back as she replied “Ok that works out better”
“How about inviting Tori Bloom?”Said Ginny as she watched as his head jerked up from the parchment smirking as he replied,
“We can’t have Dean’s ex glancing evils at him, it’s one or neither”
“Tori then, she could do with a party having to put up with Mr obsessive”
“Ok and Seamus will most likely bring Lavender, or not come at all if were not asking Dean, Tori and someone, Luna and her dad might bring each other or someone, then there’s Kingsley, Mad Eye, the Hogwarts Professors, Madam Pomfrey, Cadence, Laura, Jack, Liam, Reece, Caleb, Willow, Remus, Tonks, four from our quiditch team, your family, Hermione and her parents, the Creevey’s, Neville and his uncle and Gran, Mrs Figg, Maria, Emily, Spence, Kate, Tisha, people from the order who want to come and last but not least Hagrid” Said Harry reading them all off the paper, “That’s a lot of people for this little house”
“It will be fine, people can conjure there own chairs and there’s a lot of space in the drawing room and living room and there’s the doors in between so people can walk about”
“Hagrid’s going to have to sit in a corner and not move it will be packed”
“It will be fine and Hagrid will have fun just like we will”
“Im going to have to just trust you on that aren’t I”
“Yes you are Mr Potter” she grinned and kissed him as Kreacher walked in holding a large flat envelope in his hand.
“Master Potter this just arrived by owl upstairs”
“Oh, thanks Kreacher” He took it and read the address and the warning “Do not bend” He knew immediately what it was and stood up quickly leaving Ginny in shock. “What is it?”
“Just something I ordered, I’ll be right back” he sprinted across the room to the door and up the stairs to the bedroom next to his own. He turned around to make sure she hadn’t followed him and then opened the envelope. He opened the note on top of the pile of photos carefully and read quickly,
Hey Harry, here is the photo you asked for, I had a feeling you wouldn’t want it to move so I did it in a muggle solution and I didn’t know what you wanted it for so I did a few copies in black & white, colour and a few different sizes. Colin.
He looked through them and it was the perfect picture he wanted for the purpose. He picked out a small black and white one and put the others back in the envelope hiding them in the draw and pulled open the second draw to find the hidden little black box. He put the photo next to it covered it up again and wandered back down stairs smiling.
“What was with the cloak and dagger stuff Harry?” Said Ginny suspiciously,
“Im not talking” he grinned “You’re just going to have to wait and find out”
“Don’t tell me that has something to do with my Christmas present? You know I hate surprises”
“Well I think you’ll like this one” he sat down next to her at the table,
“Hmm” she grumbled unconvinced
“Gin” he smiled
“I’m going to have to trust you aren’t I”
“Yes you are Miss Weasley” He laughed and leaned in to kiss her,
“Oh no” She smiled her hand against his shoulders as she pushed him back “Your not getting any thing until you tell me”
“Then it’s not a surprise” he folded his arms and sat back “You can’t deny me kisses, I’ll go mad”
“See now that’s what I’m hoping for” she stood up and walked out of the door into the hallway and inside the living room to sit on the couch.
He hesitated for a minute and then followed her, “I’ll be ok, I’ll find them somewhere else” he grinned “I’m sure Cho’s still single” He stood in the door way leaning against the frame,
“You wouldn’t dare” her face was soft but her eyes where blazing in anger,
“Oh wouldn’t I” he smiled
“You know I would hex you to pieces before I let that happen and let you near her” She stood up and walked over to him her wand drawn, a sultry smile on her face, “If you so much as smile at her I’m sure Ron would have something to say”
She was standing in front of him now and placed her free hand at his chest, her wand still pointed at him, but he just grinned
“You know full well I’ll never look at another girl again, now I have you nothing else will ever even compare” he put one arm round her waist and the other took her wand from her hand and placed it on the table next to them.
“So will you tell me Harry?”
“Christmas day you’ll find out” he smiled placing his free hand on her cheek and pulling her in as she moved closer, when there noses almost touched as they leant in to kiss Ginny moved back and Harry smiled,
“Then no kisses” she grinned and turned away sitting down on the couch
“But does that mean I can’t kiss you?” he smiled sitting beside her and nuzzling her neck with his nose as she giggled, “No it doesn’t” and she giggled even more as his lips pressed against her neck before giving in and taking his head in her hands, kissing him fiercely “You might be able to hold off but I can’t” she smiled kissing him again and wrapping her arms around his neck.
They were just getting into it and Ginny’s newly acquired t-shirt was on the floor beside them as someone coughed behind them. They froze in shock and Harry’s head was the first to peak over the top of the couch and see there guest as Ginny grabbed the t-shirt pulling it on.
*****
Mrs Weasley sat in the kitchen pairing socks as Ron walked in, still sulking still thinking about Hermione, Harry & Ginny as he grabbed bread from the cupboard and began to make a sandwich. He always ate more when he was angry and right now a bacon sandwich was the cure.
“Ronald don’t use the last of the bacon will you” He took out the plastic bag, four pieces left, he took out two, “There’s still two slices left” he replied and began to fry it using his wand to light the flame under the pan. He didn’t want his mother to cook him a sandwich he was capable and it would take his mind off things, but he knew if he was in the kitchen he was in his mother’s domain and open to her scrutiny and her questions.
“Has Ginny been in contact with you?”
“Were not currently on speaking terms”
“Harry?”
“Were not currently on speaking terms” he repeated
“Has Hermione?” She said as if throwing it in casually at the end thinking he wouldn’t notice.
“Yes, she’ll be at Grimmald Place for Harry’s Christmas Party”
“His party, I almost forgot do you think they’ll need help with the food?”
He knew she was already thinking of recipes and ways she could ‘help’ whilst keeping an eye on them.
“Probably, I don’t know” he took the bacon out of the pan and put it in between the two slices of bread added a smear of tomato ketchup and began to eat,
“I was thinking of inviting Harry over for dinner today”
“And” Said Ron sitting down, he couldn’t eat standing up,
“Well I’m very busy and will have too start cooking soon, so I was wondering if you could go and ask them”
“He’ll be busy with Ginny, can’t I send an owl or patronus”
“Go in person, it’s the only way to get her to come back and bring him with her so we might all be on better terms”
“I don’t want to go”
“You’ll do as your told Ronald Weasley, tell them they have an hour and then we’ll be expecting them” she paused and then said “And you can tell Ginny she is to stay here tonight, I want to talk to her without him attached”
He shook his head and mumbled to himself, “Ronald” she smiled to herself “Thank you”
He finished his sandwich and walked out to the garden. He pulled out his wand and apparated to the front door of Grimmald place. Kreacher opened the door and shuffled away to the kitchen leaving Ron to find them.
He looked down the hallway and headed along the doors were all open and it didn’t take long to find them. He coughed, focusing his eyes on the fireplace in front of them and setting his face to stone.
*****
“Ron!” Said Harry in surprise,
“What are you doing here?” Said Ginny as her head joined Harry’s looking over the back of the couch,
“Harry is invited to dinner at the Burrow as your guest, I’ve been sent to tell you to be home in an hour for it and that you’re not allowed to stay the night here again”
“What Mum can’t stop me from staying here?”
“She can and she is” Ron’s voice was lifeless, his face blank and his expression unreadable. “You have an hour”
“You can tell mum I’m not coming back to the burrow then, I’m staying here”
“One hour” Ron replied and walked back down the hallway and out the front door.
Harry sat up properly as Ginny stood up and began to get mad.
“How can she say that? How can she send him here to do here dirty work and think that I’ll listen to him?”
“Gin” Said Harry but she ignored his calm voice,
“She can’t stop me from staying here, I mean what will she say when I tell her I moving in here with you?”
“Gin” Harry repeated a little louder as she paced while talking, she ignored him again, “If she wants me back she’ll have to come and grab me herself, I’m staying here tonight whether she likes it or not”
“Ginny!” he said loudly and stood up holding his arms out, stopping her in her tracks, “Just listen to me for a second ok”
She nodded her head as tears began to fall from her eyes, “Please Gin don’t cry, its going to be fine”
He pulled her into a hug “Your mums just doing what she thinks is best for you”
“I know what’s best for me! You’re what’s best for me” He wiped her tears away with his thumb and smiled, “But mums don’t think that boys are what’s best for girls especially if there sleeping with them”
“They don’t know that, it’s not like we told them”
“I think they figured it when you didn’t go home last night and by what Ron’s probably told them about us” Said Harry
“I don’t care what they want, I want what we want and I’m not going to give up until we get it”
“Neither I’m I Gin, but we need to make the effort to follow there rules or what we want might never happen. I think going to the Burrow for dinner is a great idea, and I think you spending one night there will make up for us telling them on Christmas day
“What changed your mind?”
“You of course” he smiled and kissed her forehead, “And anyway I think you’ll want to get a change of clothes for the next time you want to stay over, cause if you keep taking my t-shirts I wont have any left”
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RIP JD Salinger
Last edited by lilly_luna; 02-17-2009 at 05:37 AM.
Reason: just the last line lol
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