Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, I am just playing in the sandbox of my imagination for a few minutes. I leave ownership and all the stress related to it to J.K. Rowling.

AN: Due to the awesome response I got from the first and second chapters I have decided to post the last chapter in the story earlier than originally planned. Thank you for all the reviews and encouragement. If you have questions that you would like answered, please feel free to PM me, and I will try and answer you in a timely manner.

AN2: I would like to make a comment to one reviewer who asked the question "The f**k did I just read?" – I would like to say thank you! Your review was by far my favorite. It was EXACTLY what I was going for.

Don

-DCM—

Harry was tired. Not just tired, Harry was weary. Bone deep, brain numbing, feet dragging weary. And what was worse, Harry couldn't sleep…at least not yet. Harry walked slowly to the doors to the Great Hall and laid his hand upon them ready to open them and slip inside. He took a deep breath closing his eyes for a moment to gather his thoughts and courage. He felt two arms slowly encircle his waist from behind, and felt someone press their head into his back and give him a reassuring hug.

"I believe in you Harry Potter." He felt another slight squeeze then the arms let go of him and he watched Luna gracefully move past him and slip into the hall.

Harry let out a breath he didn't know he was holding and walked into the hall. His face an impassive mask devoid of emotion. He scanned the hall and found most of the people he was looking for at the Gryffindor table talking intently. As he was looking Molly looked up at him and they made eye contact.

-DCM—

Hermione was mad. No mad was the wrong word. Angry, frustrated, irritated, shamed…and if she were to be honest, worried. Their plan hadn't worked. Somehow Ginny had screwed up…screwed up big time…or little time if the rumors of Ron's endowment were to be believed. She was angry with herself for agreeing to this plan. In hindsight, she should have never agreed to it. She should never had betrayed her first, and best friend. She had let her own obsession with knowledge and books override her feelings for Harry. She knew she had had a crush on him in 4th and 5th year, but had decided she couldn't compete so settled for the red headed menace. From there it was a slippery slope of one bad decision after another. She knew she was in trouble. If there was one thing she knew about Harry it was that he could pull though almost any situation in the end. And when he did, there was hell to pay for those who wronged him.

That is why she was packing in a rush. She really didn't have much to pack. Most of it was still in her mole-skin pouch. She grabbed her things and rushed down the stairs. She stopped on the landing as she saw Harry standing at the doors to the great hall. She saw Luna walk up to Harry and wrap her arms around him and whisper something to him that made him smile that secret little smile that Hermione loved to see. One she had at one time hoped would be for her alone. It was then that she knew just what she had lost. What she had lost, and if what she saw was to be believed…What Luna had gained.

Hermione watched as Harry made his way into the Great Hall. Then with tears in her eyes, she ran from the castle. When she had made it past what was left of the wards around the castle, she apparated directly to Heathrow Airport. Within four hours Hermione was on a plane to Sidney.

-DCM—

Molly was staring at Harry. For some reason she couldn't look away. Couldn't look away, and couldn't blink. It was just as she started getting really worried, that she saw Harry smile and start walking over to the group.

Molly sighed with relief. At first she thought the gig was up and retribution as about to be visited on them. She quickly turned to Ron, Ginny and Kingsley. "Mind yourself, and let me handle this and we may yet get what we want today." Ron scowled but nodded his head. Ginny looked like she was calming her nerves and Kingsley merely looked on passively.

"Harry dear! Where did you run off to?" Molly questioned as she wrapped Harry into one of her bone crushing hugs.

"Gringots, had some things I needed to take care of." Harry took a plate and started serving himself some food. "Man I'm hungry."

"Did you sleep well last night dear?"

"Couldn't sleep, so went for a walk, then decided to go to Gringots and get some things from my family vault. How did you sleep mate?" Harry looked at Ron, who was looking slightly red in the face but hadn't spoken yet. Harry decided to rub some salt into Ron's jealousy wounds. "Did you guys know I have almost ten times the gold Malfoy's family does? Crazy huh? Add in the fortune Sirius left me makes me one of the richest wizards in Europe." Ron's face was turning a nice shade of purple. 'Wow' thought Harry 'I thought only Uncle Vernon could turn that color'.

He then turned to Molly, "Guess what else I found?" Molly had by then set a goblet of pumpkin juice in front of him.

"Drink up Harry dear, you look thirsty." Molly had to work to keep her hands from shaking. She wasn't sure if it was nerves because of their hastily put together plan, or the thought of all that wealth. If Harry would just drink the juice she had just spiked with amorentia, they would be set.

Harry brought the goblet to his lips. Molly held her breath. Harry stopped and looked at her. Harry suddenly got a look on his face as if he had just realized something. Molly's heart seemed to stop beating in her chest. "Guess what else I found at Gringots?"

"What is that dear?"

Harry pulled the marriage contract out of his pocket and handed it to Molly. "It seems that Ginny here and I are contracted to be married!" Harry smiled. Molly started sweating…wait a minute…Harry smiled?

"Yes dear, you are contracted with our little Ginerva."

"Why didn't you say anything…mum…?" Harry looked at her closely.

'Did he just call me mum?'

'Did he just call mum mum?'

'Uhg, my mouth tastes like dragon dung, did I just call her mum?'

Molly smiled, this was going better than she could have hoped for. "Well dear, we had hoped that you and Ginny would fall in love naturally and there would be no need to mention the contract. So we decided to just not say anything and see what happened." Her explanation was rushed and Harry could tell it was made up on the spot, but he let it slide. He was just getting started and didn't want to play all his cards just yet.

"Oh, okay." Harry went to take another drink of his juice. Molly again held her breath. He stopped once again. This time he had a small frown on his face.

"What is it Harry dear?" Molly watched as he set the goblet down on the table.

"Well the goblins seemed to have some problems with the contract."

"Problems? What problems?" Molly kept looking at the goblet hoping he would just drink the damn potion so they could get him to sign the contract thus giving them access to his vaults.

"Well, it seems that only a Lord Potter can sign for the Potter side of the contract, yet Dumbledore did, so they said that made the contract invalid. That and you signed it mum, when it was supposed to be the head of the Weasley house that signed it, they said that also made it invalid. And of course the names used were wrong."

"Wrong?"

"Well, Ginny's full name was used, Ginerva Molly Weasley, but it was made for Harry James Potter. Which makes it invalid."

"But that is your name Harry." Ginny popped up and Ron frowned at him in confusion.

Harry once again picked up the goblet and held it close looking deeply into the juice inside. "Actually my given name is Harrison James Potter." Kingsley felt like he could face palm right there. How could Albus miss that one?

Harry smiled and drank deeply from the goblet. Molly's smile was wide, and everyone at the table seemed to sigh in relief.

"The goblins were quite angry when I said I didn't care." Harry looked around at his friends. "And that I was considering signing the contract anyway."

Molly knew she had this in the bag now. The little runt had drunken from the goblet with the amorentia. Now she just had to get him to sign the contract and set a date for a quick wedding. She didn't want Harry getting wind of the rumor of Ginny being pregnant.

"Shall we have a summer wedding then Harry? Why don't you come stay with us at the Burrow and we can start planning?"

"Sure we can have a summer wedding!" Harry seemed excited. "I'm not sure what the rush is, Ginny and I both need to graduate, and I'd like to finish a mastery in DADA before we get married." He looked at Ginny whose face seemed to be getting more and more pale while he spoke. Harry took the contract and seemed about to sign it when he stopped. "Just think Ginny, all the parties, we can attend. You'll have to go on my arm of course! Can't have my fiancé going with someone else. Think of the fancy parties and formal balls! We'll of course be on the cover of all the newspapers and magazines! The boy-who-lived and the girl that caught him!"

Ron did a double take. Most people thought he was pretty thick, and in truth he was. But to hear Harry call himself the boy-who-lived made a warning bell start ringing in his head.

"I figure at least a three year engagement. We'll have to throw lavish parties in the Potter mansion once it is rebuilt! It will be the social event of the season!" Harry was gushing.

Ron looked at Harry. Gushing? Why was Harry gushing? Another warning bell started going off in his head.

"No Harry, I don't want a long engagement. I think we should have a quick quiet wedding…the sooner the better…" Ginny spoke up looking more and more nervous. She kept glancing at the contract in his hands and the quill had had poised over the spot for Lord Potter to sign.

"Of course it must be a long engagement. As Lord of the Potter and Black houses, I need time to socialize with my peers. Three years is the minimum for our engagement. Anything less would be an insult to my beautiful fiancé!"

"No! I really want a quick and small wedding Harry! We don't need anything fancy."

"Of course we do! We need time to show the world that we are the perfect couple. We need to build the excitement. With enough anticipation people will be clamoring for tickets to our wedding!"

"I want to get married now!"

"Ah Ginny! Are we having our first lovers spat? A long engagement! My decision is final! Nothing is too good for my fiancé." Harry once again went to sign the contract.

"Harry! We have to get married quickly! I'm pregnant!" Everything in the great hall went silent. It seemed that everyone was listening.

Harry looked over at Ginny. She realized what she said, but it was too late. "We need to get married quickly for the sake of our baby!"

Harry looked at her, a small smirk of triumph played on his lips. "Our baby miss Generva?" Harry set the quill down. "And when did we have sex?"

Ginny was scrambling "Last night silly"

"I was at Gringots last night Generva, so perhaps I should be asking, who did you have sex with last night? And how do you know you are pregnant already? Did you take a fertility potion in the hopes of trapping me into getting married to you?"

"Harry dear, we did it for your own good." Molly knew the gig was close to being up, and hoped this last ditch effort would pull things back from the brink.

Harry looked from Molly to Ginny and back slowly. "My own good?"

"Ye...yes dear, your own good." Came Moly's stuttering reply.

"Oh"

Just when it seemed to Molly that she had managed to pull out a miracle in this hair brained plan, the doors to the Great Hall slammed open and in walked Tiberius Odgen and eight aurors. Molly looked at Harry and saw a lop sided smile play across his face.

Harry took the quill and saw him write on the contract. He then rolled it up and handed it to her with a dead look in his eye. She unrolled the contract and in the place he was supposed to sign, she say the word "REJECTED".

"What is this?" She was starting to screech.

"Molly Weasley, Ginerva Weasley, Ronald Weasley, Kingsley Shacklebolt!" You are all under arrest for attempted line theft, conspiracy to commit fraud, and illegal use of potions, including amorentia."

"You can't arrest me! I'm the acting minister!" Kingsley hoped bluster would get him free so he could make a run for it. He slowly started reaching for his wand.

"You were the acting minister until this morning when the Wizengamot voted you out for abuse of powers, and voted me in. Aurors arrest him."

Kingsley made a move for his wand but was stopped when he felt a wand pressed firmly under his chin. He looked down to see a pair of glowing green eyes looking directly in him. "Never mess with the son of a marauder Shack."

"You played us didn't you?"

"From the beginning"

"You'll never prove it."

"Oh look! I have a recording crystal that recorded your entire conversation from when Ron first came down to breakfast that I had placed under the table!" Luna smiled and held a crystal she had stuck to the underside of the table earlier. "How convenient!"

"I'll take that Miss Lovegood" He took the crystal and walked over to Harry. "Thank you for your information Lord Potter. I apologize for this situation, and promise to make sure it isn't repeated."

"Thank you for your help minister. Let me know what I can do to help ensure the cleanup at the ministry goes well." Harry was relieved someone with some morals was finally in office. But then again, he had thought Kingsley would have had morals too. Perhaps he would need to keep an eye on things to make sure nothing else happened. He watched as the Weasleys were also disarmed and had magic inhibiting cuffs placed on them.

"Happy Potter? Stupid attention whore!" Ron spat at him.

Harry looked back at him impassively. "Yes, yes I am."

"Harry! Love! Don't let them arrest me! We are meant to be together!" Ginny was getting desperate. Harry ignored her and turned to Molly. Her face was red and she was struggling with her captors.

"I should have never taken you into my home! I treated you like a son and this is how you repay me?" Her rant was sharp and her voice bitter.

Harry merely smiled at her and waved as she was led away. He turned to Luna who was standing next to him and surprisingly holding his hand. When did that happen? "So what are your plans this afternoon?"

"Going on a walk around the lake with you. Snogging in the forbidden forest, then falling asleep in your arms."

"Sounds like a plan to me!" They started walking towards the doors. "What are your plans for the rest of your life?"

Luna smiled "Making little Potter babies!"

Harry's smile just got bigger. He then had another thought. "Just Potter babies? What about Black babies?"

Luna looked at him. "That's Daphne's job…"

"Daphne?!"

Luna just smiled.