AFTER ACTION REPORT 5

Author's Note: I don't own any of the characters, as if I did then Ron/Hermione would have started far earlier.

Hogwarts

Lunch had given Harry a few chances to think about the rest of his story. To him there wasn't much left to tell but he knew that the others would have their questions. As he ate Harry could feel several pairs of eyes staring at him. He again knew not where Ron and Hermione had snuck off to though he still guessed that wherever they were the two were together and would show up in time to get some food in them before joining him for the rest of their story. Harry didn't feel that there was terribly much left for him to tell, as in his mind much of what was left had occurred in front of most if not all of those that were present to hear what had happened to them. There were only a few little bits and pieces left to tell in Harry's mind, though he guessed that if he opened up the floor for questions it would take days. Ginny, seated beside him, had bit her tongue and held her questions back the entire time and for the first time in a very long time he couldn't wait for her to unleash them all, if only so that he could spend as much time with her as possible. Being apart from her for so long had taught him just how much he had come to care for if not love her. Hagrid had spent the break catching a bite to eat and feeding Fang, his enormous boarhound. Harry wasn't sure that he could eat another bite of food when Ron and Hermione had slipped back into the room behind him and sat down opposite he and Ginny, both looking like the cat that had just eaten the canary. By the time that the four returned to their seats they were the last ones to arrive and Harry was set to begin.

"Hagrid will be happy to know that the dragon got us well clear of Gringott's and London, much later when it flew low enough to drink some water we jumped off…and it flew off and left us alone…thankfully," Harry announced to the group with a quick sweep of his gaze before he turned his full attention to one of his oldest friends, hoping that he would be able to relax about the current condition of the dragon in question.

"As far as we know it's still out there somewhere…again…not eating us," Ron grinned along with a very relieved smile as he reached over and laid a hand on Hermione's shoulder before she managed a small smile.

"We did our best to recover from the ordeal before Harry got the idea to go to Hogsmeade, so we all got under his invisibility cloak and disapparated," Hermione explained with a bit of a nervous edge to her words before she gave a shudder at the memory of Voldemort's actions at Gringott's and how it had affected Harry and how worried she and Ron had been.

"Big mistake…they knew the moment that our feet hit the ground, barely had time to breathe before that bloody alarm went off," Ron laughed darkly as he tried to keep a sneer from his face as he pulled his hands back and clasped his hands together in front of him, finally clamping his jaw together tightly at the end.

"A wise precaution I must admit…even though it was their side that thought of it," Kingsley calmly stated, sounding as if he were reporting on the weather or what he had for breakfast that morning, before he caught the odd look that Hagrid was giving him and adjusted his tone a bit to try to head off any awkward situation.

"Thankfully Aberforth rescued us, gave us something to eat and drink and then told us about his family history, about what happened to his sister Ariana, it was so sad…," Hermione rushed to continue rather than admire the forward-thinking of Voldemort and the Death Eaters as she tried not to blush or become too emotional at the story of the youngest of the Dumbledore's.

"It's so sad, he and Albus were so close for so long…to have never gotten themselves sorted out…tragic," McGonagall bemoaned the circumstances with an almost wistful look in her eyes before she dropped her chin down to her chest to collect herself as Harry thought that her eyes appeared to be wet.

"Y…yeah," Percy almost whispered along in agreement as he went very green with a look at the different members of his family seated around the room before a great and fearful shiver wracked his body and he swallowed hard.

"Aberforth hooked us up with Neville who got us back into Hogwarts and told us what the Carrows were doing, how they were really treating the students, we had to do something," Ron explained with a couple of quick nervous glances over at Harry and Hermione so that he could see from their expressions if he was forgetting anything.

"So Ron came up with the idea that the rest of the DA could help us find the last horcrux even if they didn't know what it was," Harry said with a quick nod to Ron before he turned back to the assembled group and tried to sound as confident as he could even though he was still a bit uneasy that they had included so many in their search.

"After Harry left with Luna to go to the Ravenclaw common room because Ginny kept Cho from accompanying him Ron and I were left with a problem, even if we found the horcrux we didn't have a way to destroy it, then Ron had a brilliant idea," Hermione began to add before Harry could get another word in edgewise as she kept calm and only caught sight of at first a lightly glaring Ginny out of the corner of her eye before the youngest Weasley then tried to look as innocent as possible and as if she had no idea what Hermione was talking about as between them Harry appeared to be visibly uncomfortable.

"Well…what was it, don't leave us in suspense," Charlie remarked with an amused grin as he could see by the fact that Ron was the only one seated on the other side of the room that wasn't blushing or trying to act like something important hadn't just been said before Hermione cut in.

"We…Ron and I…used a broom to get into the Chamber of Secrets and pulled the teeth from the jaws of the dead basilisk, I destroyed the cup since Ron and Harry had already had the honor, it…fought back but…Ron was…," Hermione started to answer before she momentarily stopped as she went a bit pink in the cheeks and then hurried to go on and hope that no one else in the room saw as she spoke of her destruction of one of the last of the horcruxes.

"After what the locket did I wasn't about to let Hermione face it alone, there was no telling…," Ron stated sharply with a fierce look of determination in his gaze as he balled his hands up into fists and gritted his teeth before Hermione managed to get him to calm down by sliding a hand under his shirt and rubbing small circles on his back with the palm of her hand before she spoke up.

"We got through it…together, that's what's important, but the next part I think that Harry should be the one to explain," Hermione quickly added with a proud and relieved smile, that she showed only to Ron, as her gaze never left his as she spoke and Harry hoped that no one would interrupt their little moment.

"Thanks…I'm sorry everyone, I had to let Voldemort kill me to get rid of the last horcrux, the one that he never meant to make, I never meant to hurt anyone…really," Harry grumbled a bit after several silent moments as he had cast a quick look around the room to judge everyone's reactions to Ron and Hermione's words before he'd launched into his own, not totally sure if Hermione was being kind to him or just making him tell the part of the story that she didn't want to tell. At the end he could only manage a weak smile of apology as he turned to Ginny and tried to admit how truly sorry to her he was, as he could still hear her scream at the sight of what she thought was his dead body ringing in his ears whenever the subject came up.

"And yet you did, jerk," Ginny spat out angrily as she crossed her arms across her chest and snapped her head away from looking anywhere near Harry for a few moments before she turned back just enough to watch him out of the corner of her eye. Harry could see her fighting back the urge to cry at the memory and knew that he had to pick his next words carefully.

"I'm sorry Ginny, to you most of all…I never meant to…I never wanted to hurt you like that, if you let me I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to you," Harry said flatly with as much regret and honesty as he could muster up as he took a lot of relief in the fact that when he laid a hand on Ginny's knee she didn't brush it off but rather laid a hand over his and gave it a squeeze.

"I'm going to hold you to that," Ginny declared with such an intense look in her eyes that sent a very strong shiver of fear down Harry's spine as he knew full well that she meant every word and with the hexes that she could cast he knew that his fears were more than justified.

"And if she doesn't then we will," Hermione added under her breath with an all too sweet smile as she reached a hand over and took hold of Harry's arm, going so far at the end as to lightly dig her fingernails into his arm, just enough to cause a little bit of pain though not enough to draw blood, the smile never leaving her lips. Harry knew that she was not a witch to be trifled with.

"Be that as it may Mr. Potter the question now becomes…what next," Kingsley sagely wondered aloud with a curious raising of only one of his eyebrows and an odd expression as he crossed his arms across his chest and looked back and forth between Harry and Ron and Hermione, hoping that one of them would answer him sooner rather than later.

"Well…next we…," Harry tried to answer before he really had an idea as he could feel every eye in the room on him and he had to admit that he was getting a bit nervous when Hermione stepped up.

"We rest, rebuild…and try to move on…as best we can," Hermione replied as she appeared to just then be fully comprehending the breadth and width of the task before she tried to finish her answer with a bit of a smile, hoping for something positive.

"Correct, which is just one of the reasons that we will need your help, all three of you and…," McGonagall started to offer up with an optimistic but reserved tone as she looked the three over carefully to scrutinize their reactions to her offer before she was cut just short.

"I'll be glad to help after I…," Hermione started to quickly answer with a happy but nervous expression as she began to fidget noticeably in her seat and only stopped when Ron looped an arm around her and gave her a one armed hug.

"After we get back from Australia with her parents," Ron interjected with more than a fair amount of confidence as he momentarily ignored the look of surprised on Hermione's face before he leaned over and whispered something into her ear, causing her to blush deeply and have to bite her lip to keep from tearing up.

"Where with who…," Percy blurted out while looking thoroughly confused before he turned first to McGonagall and then to his parents, hoping that any of them would be able to explain Ron and Hermione's responses to him in plain simple English.

"Before coming to the Burrow for the wedding Hermione…well she…," Harry tried to answer for her though as he spoke he suddenly found that his voice began to falter and then totally fail under the intense looks from everyone in the room, not least of all McGonagall and Kingsley.

"I wiped my parents memories, I made them completely new identities as Wendell and Monika Wilkins and made them forget that…they…forget all about me…," Hermione replied as she tried to speak slowly and calmly while explaining what she had done to her parents, with a hint in her voice of what Harry knew was her pleading with them to understand at least a little bit of her reasons for having done what she did and that it was something that weighed very heavily on her.

Harry could see almost every reaction possible in the faces of those seated in the room. He could see Hermione drop her head and tear up while Ron looked very serious but also worried about Hermione. McGonagall bit her lip and Harry could see her flexing and releasing her fingers in an attempt to keep her composure while Percy and George appeared deathly serious with twin scowls. Hagrid did his best to hide his tears and Bill and Fleur both looked very uncomfortable. Beside him Ginny had turned rather glum and a bit green. Mrs. Weasley could only be described as being caught between two emotions, anger at Hermione having been forced to go to such extreme measures and sadness at how much it must have hurt her to do it.

"Then she had them move to Australia…to make sure that they were safe," Harry rushed to add before anyone could get a word in edgewise as he shifted his seating a bit to try to get a bit more comfortable before Ron cleared his throat and sat up straight.

"Once we've recovered a bit Hermione and I are going to find them, restore their memories and bring them home," Ron stated, with a quick glance and smile over at Hermione, as Harry could tell that he was trying to look at everyone sitting around them but his gaze somehow got to his parents faces and then never left.

"What," Ginny exclaimed before her mother could as she very nearly jumped up out of her seat and glared at Ron first and then at Hermione, appearing as if she felt that she'd been left out of some grand adventure all over again.

"I have to get them back Ginny…I have to…," Hermione replied with a very heartfelt and pleading look in her eyes and tone to her words as she first turned to Ginny and the two young women locked gazes for several moments before that gaze was turned towards Mrs. Weasley momentarily, almost imploring her to stay silent.

"I know but…," Ginny tried to object softly, looking a bit defeated but conciliatory as to she knew that the decision was out of her hands, before she nervously sat back down with her face as red as the setting sun.

"This isn't going to be like our trip Ginny, we're not going to be under a constant threat of attack…," Harry commented as he tried to calm her down a bit while making the trip sound far easier than the search for the horcruxes, hoping that she wouldn't be angry at him all over again.

"We…," Ron whispered a bit harsher than he had wanted to across Hermione to Harry as she looked back and forth between the two, feeling almost as if things were beginning to spiral out of control and she wasn't sure just how to regain her lead.

"Can't let you two go running off without me…besides…I'm the reason that you had to send your parents away Hermione, it's only right that I help fix it," Harry did his best to laugh back through his answer with a warm smile as he looked to them both in the hope that they would understand that wherever they were going he was going with them, feeling that it would be weird to split up, even if it was only for a few days or a week or two at most.

"So…Australia…guess I'd better pack," Ginny remarked softly with a faint hint of amusement in her voice as the corner of her lip began to curl up into a smirk as she turned to the trio and gave them then a warm smile and a nod of her head.

"Huh," Harry grunted a bit in shock and surprise as he whipped his head around to look at Ginny, who kept the smile on her face until she half turned her head towards her mother, who was looking very much less than thrilled at the idea.

"Oh no you're…," Mrs. Weasley started to object angrily as she bolted up to her feet and balled her hands up into fists as she then took a quick step forward just as Ginny rose to speak.

"Don't think that I'm letting you three run off without me again…besides someone needs to keep Ron from making a complete fool of himself," Ginny argued sharply with a less than pleased expression, not quite unlike her mother's as Harry got an eerie flash-forward to what his future may look like and he didn't hate it, before Ron cut in.

"Hey," Ron shot back with an annoyed frown as he was about to get started with a much more elaborate defense of why she could not come with them before Hermione grabbed his arm and dug her fingernails into his arm just enough for it to be painful but not enough to draw blood.

"The four of you are not going anywhere unless I say…," Mrs. Weasley snapped as she strode forward until she was about a few steps in front of her husband before he could figure out what to say.

"I'm sorry dear but…," Mr. Weasley nervously said with a clear stutter to his words as he got up and hurried forward until he managed to pull a slightly fuming Mrs. Weasley back towards her seat even though it was clear that in her mind the talk wasn't over just yet.

"Just wait till after Fred's…after his…please…," George finally said after several silent moments in the room while trying to hold back the tears before he managed to steel himself and sit up straight, though his eyes were visibly wet.

"Of course," Hermione instantly replied before she choked back a large swell of emotion at George's request and was helped greatly by Ron slipping an arm around her waist and pulling her close, leaving Harry to be glad that the telling of the majority of their story was over and done with.

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Roughly Three Years Later-Hogwarts

Harry had not been back to Hogwarts in almost a year, and that had only been for the dedication of a few more statues to those that had lost their lives in the battle that had become the final defeat of Voldemort. He had seen many of them go up during his seventh year at Hogwarts, which to his great relief was one that he got to share with Ron and Hermione and Ginny along with several others. Professor then Headmistress McGonagall's request for them to attend their final year had worked. Fearful parents had relented and allowed their children to return to Hogwarts since the Golden Trio were going to be there. Ron and Hermione had been granted Head Boy and Head Girl, though Harry had not been upset by it in the least. Everyone had tried to figure out why and the debate wasn't finally settled until Bill had guessed that it had been done that way so that it would make moving forward easier on everyone.

He had guessed that if Harry and Ginny wanted any real amount of privacy together then it would behoove them to have Ron out of their hair. Ron and Hermione had grown much closer over the summer as the four had taken only a week to retrieve her parents and restore their memories. Though it had taken a fair bit longer than that to smooth things over about what she had done to them in her rush to protect their lives from Voldemort. The birth of the Granger's first grandchild almost nine months to the day from Ron and Hermione's wedding day, an event that the pair had intentionally kept as small as possible. The ceremony had taken place less than a year after the pair had graduated from Hogwarts and Harry had served as best man and Ginny as maid of honor. Harry and Ginny's wedding had taken place a few months later, only put off so that it wouldn't cause any problems with anniversary celebrations of the defeat of Voldemort.

"Any ideas where Ron and Hermione are, I hope they're not late," Harry commented with a slightly uneasy frown as he stepped out of the castle and looked all around, not seeing his two best friends or anyone else that had specifically invited for the event.

"Heh…yeah, Mum would blow her top if they were late, especially since they've been gone for so long," Ginny chuckled back with a warm smile as she shook her head to allow the warm breeze to blow the hair out of her face as she linked arms with Harry and leaned in to give him a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Yeah, Henry must be walking already…wonder if he'll even remember us," Harry agreed softly as he couldn't help but remember the steady stream of pictures that Hermione had sent him ever since her son's birth showing every stage of his development. He had long wondered if she had a kept a logbook detailing every step of Henry's growth, as he felt that it was something that she would do.

"They were only in Germany for one month and then France for the last six, Minister of Magic Kingsley's big plan to bolster cooperation between the various Ministries," Ginny explained as she tried lightly to push Harry off of the path and into the muddy area surrounding it, though only in jest, as Harry grinned back at her and pushed back with a twinkle in his eyes.

"I'm just glad that he didn't ask me…us to do it," Harry admitted as a slight blush started to creep up on his cheeks as usually he was all for undertaking special jobs from Kingsley though he had found that many of them entailed using his fame to help bolster people's confidence in the restructured Ministry.

"I just think that they wanted to put some distance between themselves and Mum, ever since they moved into that little cottage between the Burrow and the Lovegood's she's visited them like every day she could, it was driving Hermione around the bend," Ginny joked softly as she copied Harry and kept looking around hoping to spot Ron and Hermione while acknowledging without saying it that she was glad that she and Harry didn't live to close to her parents.

"Probably why she agreed to go on the trip," Harry laughed back as the pair shared a short fit of humor before they collected themselves and stopped briefly underneath one of the few small trees in the area.

"That works, but why do you think they're with Hagrid now," Ginny snickered under her breath as she turned them both until they were facing each out and she leaned up and gave Harry a quick kiss before he answered her.

"It's the only place left really," Harry shrugged with a relaxed smile before he broke free of Ginny's grasp just long enough to slip his arm around her shoulders and pull her close as the pair started to head off towards Hagrid's hut.

Harry kept the pace slow as they made their way towards the small hut, that had been slightly enlarged since the final battle with Voldemort, as he wasn't in that big of a rush to find his friends just yet. As soon as the hut came into view Harry knew that he had been right about where Ron and Hermione were. Both looked to have been treated well by their trip as the pair appeared to be healthy and happy, if not more than a little tan. Harry thought that he could see some signs of some of Ron's skin peeling under the collar of his shirt, guessing that his old friend had stayed out in the sun a little too long recently. Ron sat on the second step from the bottom with Hermione sitting in between his legs on the first step and while she was busy helping Hagrid, his hands on her bare shoulders.

"Harry…Ginny," Ron called out with a wide grin and a wave as he spotted Harry and Ginny crest the hill and come into view as Hermione could only smile and force herself to continue on her task.

"Fat lot of good you're doing, Mum's going spare looking for the three of you," Ginny shot back as she tried to both sound and appear angry at her older brother through her grin though she soon found it impossible and couldn't help but openly smile as she truly was glad to see them.

"Oh," Hagrid mumbled softly as he suddenly looked very guilty while Henry couldn't have cared less and was just finding it odd to be held by such a very strange man to him.

"I think that he meant us Hagrid, Mum knows that you wouldn't miss the party for anything…," Ron stated with a relaxed expression as he half turned to Hagrid before he leaned down and wrapped his long arms around Hermione's upper half, making it impossible for her to continue shucking peas until he let go, though she didn't look upset during that time.

"Sorry Ginny, we just came to have a nice little chat with Hagrid and then he had some peas that he needed some help shucking so we…so I offered to help him and Ron…happily agreed to help," Hermione admitted with a slightly guilty and embarrassed look to her as she set the peas that she had been working on down and then leaned back up against Ron.

"And Henry," Harry offered up with a sly grin as he crossed his arms across his chest and dared Ron to come up with a reason that the pair couldn't have left Henry with his grandparents.

"He's always loved Hagrid after all…," Ron reminded Harry with a tone that all that heard it knew well for it was a tone that Ron would only use when he was not telling the whole truth and trying to get whomever he was speaking with at the time to just ignore that little fact.

"True, but Hermione…did you lose your ring," Ginny replied, playing along for the fun of it, before she noticed that Hermione wasn't wearing her ring and immediately thought the worst.

"Definitely not, it's here…I just don't wear it on my finger if there's a chance of losing it," Hermione answered with a slow shaking of her head before she brushed her hands off on her dress and then delicately pulled a thin necklace out from underneath the top of her dress and looped into it was her wedding ring.

"We're not late for the party are we, we should still have a few minutes," Ron continued, as if he had either seen or heard nothing or hadn't been worried about whether Hermione had lost her wedding ring or not, before he again encircled her with his arms, giving her a soft hug.

"Not yet Ron, but your Mum was worried that you would be, said something about a big surprise that you two had," Harry countered after taking a deep breath and setting his hands down onto his sides before he noticed that Hermione had suddenly become very quiet and almost scared though he couldn't understand why.

"Oh…that…yeah, well…surprise," Hermione replied softly with a visibly nervous look to her as she tried to get up but seemed rooted to the spot before she tapped Ron on the leg and he helped her to her feet with an odd amount of effort and a strangely happy grin. It was then that Harry noticed that her face looked fuller and she appeared to be moving a bit differently. It wasn't until Harry glanced downward that he saw both of her hands on her stomach and he figured it out.

"You're pregnant," Harry exclaimed loudly in shock and surprise as he very nearly tripped over his own feet while beside him Ginny did her best not to laugh openly at her husband.

"Again…but…but I thought that you…," Ginny shot back with a slight stutter to her words and wide eyes as she struggled to come to grips with the news as she struggled to get her thoughts in order and not get ahead of herself before Hermione cut in.

"That we were going to wait a bit before adding more, yes…so did I…, but Ron…," Hermione replied a bit to warmly to be completely happy about the turn of events at first before she couldn't keep it up and began to beam with pride, the sign of a woman extremely happy about being a mother and loving that she was going to have more children before long.

"Not my fault, we'd gone to the beach and Hermione got that skimpy new…and I…," Ron blushed through his response as he shrugged his shoulders with a very brief look up at Harry and Ginny before his gaze locked firmly upon Hermione, looking her up and down as if remembering her wearing much less than she was now.

"Couldn't help himself," Hermione answered for him at first with an almost irritated scowl before she couldn't keep it up and she seemed to blossom under Ron's gaze if not outright shiver with an ever growing smile as she leaned back against him and he once again wrapped his arms around her.

"You've got some dirt on your nose, by the way, did you know," Ron whispered softly into her ear with a wide grin, before he gave her neck a quick peck, as his hands dropped down to Hermione's baby bump and set themselves there, showing no interest in moving them anywhere else.

"Mum will blow her top," Ginny happily laughed as she reached a hand up to wipe away a happy tear from her eye as Harry laid a supportive hand on her shoulder and smiled at her as he tried to keep from tearing up as well at the news, at least momentarily before the pair rushed forward and hugged Ron and Hermione.

"Hopefully not, partly why we came back…she'd have murdered us if the babies were here without her even knowing about them," Ron uneasily answered with a quick shared look with Hermione as the two could very much envision how Mrs. Weasley would react, and it was something that both were very keen to avoid.

"You're right but…wait…babies…you mean," Harry said softly with a slightly uneasy frown as he reached up and lightly scratched the back of his neck before Ron's words fully penetrated his mind and his eyes went about as wide as his mouth.

"Yeah, Madam Pomfrey just told us…guess we just needed some time to come to terms with it," Ron sheepishly answered with another hug of Hermione as the pair couldn't help but grin happily as several feet behind them Hagrid was trying not to become too emotional at the news given that Henry was beginning to squirm.

"Speaking of babies…very glad that I won't have Mum all to myself tonight," Ginny joked after a few more hugs between the two pairs with a sly glance in Harry's direction as her whole face turned as red as her hair and Hermione caught on quickly and her eyes got wet as Ron looked on in confusion.

"What," Harry nervously and awkwardly stuttered as he then swallowed hard and tried to get his brain to work slow enough that he could process fully what was actually going on and what it really meant.

"Surprise," Ginny whispered loudly while looking very excited but nervous smile as she fully turned towards Harry before she couldn't help but scream a bit as he flung himself at her and the two shared a few moments that they would remember for the rest of their lives.

END OF AFTER ACTION REPORT 5

Author's Note: Thanks again to everyone for reading and reviewing this and the other chapters. As always reviews, comments, and questions are always welcome. I still can't read Hermione with anybody but Ron and vice versa, I find it funny how people forget or overlook that Hermione is just as bad about calling other characters names and the like that she then scolds Ron for doing, like calling Pansy a cow and as thick as a concussed troll and Umbridge evil. I still love the idea of what happened with Hermione telling her parents about all that happened after she changed their memories, then how Bill explained how Ollivander came to be with him when he moved him to Aunt Muriel's house. I find it funny that Ron and the twins must have been driving their dads car during the summers for Ron to be so adept at driving it that he didn't seem to even give it a second thought, and all of that as a twelve year old along with him knowing how to pick locks the muggle way and Hermione not liking horses.

I always found it nice and interesting the amount of physical contact between Ron and Hermione in the seventh book, just that there was a lot more of it than in previous books, or seemed to be. I wish that we would have seen Hermione's house and her reaction to how she viewed the Burrow when she first went there, and how Hermione greeted Ron before each school year, as we only saw Hermione hug Harry after something bad had happened to him, otherwise she greeted him normally. I think that given how Rowling wrote romances in the books that Harry and Hermione would not have worked after fifth year given that with all of the prefect stuff taking away from the rest of the storyline it would have only been Harry and Hermione and then after Ron left in the seventh book it would have been just them again and those times would have been open to romance and either nothing would have happened until after the series ended or just in what she didn't show us.

With Ron and Hermione it played perfectly into allowing Harry to do his own thing and visit one on one with the various teachers and such, and otherwise Ron truly would have just been a sidekick of a character, which in the end makes the books a lot like Dawson's Creek, though Joey and Hermione and Pacey and Ron being the parallel's character wise but without the other romance. Glad that Rowling didn't have a romantic triangle and we fans didn't have a big team Ron versus team Harry kind of thing like Twilight. I just think that Rowling could have included a lot more romance stuff into the books without it getting in the way. Most of anything between Ron and Hermione would not have to be included besides the times that Harry saw any of it. I'm also beginning to wonder if or when they should remake the movies, though sticking closer to the books than the ones that we've already had did, as it's been closing in on twenty years since the first movie and a lot has changed so that they could do the movies better than they did.

Then again if they did I would expect a great many Harry and Hermione fans getting upset that they'd added Ron and Hermione scenes that weren't in the first movies and then they'd be surprised that those "added" scenes were actually in the books As for this chapter if I were in Ron's place then there'd be no way that I would have let Hermione go to Australia without me, not saying that she wasn't capable of rescuing her parents or couldn't do it without me but after Fred's funeral I'd think that Ron would want a chance to get out of the Burrow and support Hermione, not to mention try to figure out if they were in a real relationship or not, then not sure that Ron would have wanted to be an auror given that the job seems to be a lot like their time spent on the horcrux hunt that Ron didn't seem to enjoy very much. I think that a seventh year with the four would have been a fun time for them, something new for them all to have a year at Hogwarts and not have to worry about being attacked at every turn. And still think that Ron and Hermione should have had more kids, like five kids in total. Thank You.