A/N: Look who decided to show up! I know I am very late with this chapter, but this is my sixth try to it. I was never satisfied enough with the result, so I had to start from the top each time. Plus, you know life happens and I learnt that University mergers are a huge pain for the students. Yes, I am talking to you University of West Attica! Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter. Please let me know what you think.

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Chapter 10

Harry and Ginny arrived back at Privet Drive, shortly before dinner time. They took off their disguises and Harry was about to make some quick dinner, when his mirror vibrated. Startled, he called for Ginny who was playing with Hope to join him. Once on his side, Harry answered. The face of Fleur Delacour-Weasley appeared, much to their surprise.

"Oh, I am so grateful that you are alright." She sighed relieved.

"Hello, Fleur. Where is your Dragon from?" Harry asked.

"China. Yours?" the blond replied.

"Hungary." He smiled. "It's good to see you, too."

"Hey, Fleur." Ginny smiled at her sister in law.

"Hello, Ginny. I have called you because I have found a way to solve your problem." She smiled,

"Really?" Ginny's eyes widened.

"Oui. There is a Veela ritual that ca bond you together, as a marriage ceremony would do, without any parental permission or anything else." She explained.

"Well, Fleur, you have a very interesting timing." Ginny laughed.

"Oh?"

"Harry asked me something today." Ginny smiled broadly.

"What did he ask?" Bill's voice came from the background.

"He asked me to marry him, actually."

"What?" Three male voices exclaimed together.

"The twins are there?" Harry asked.

"Oui, oui. Congratulations to you both ! I am so happy for you." Fleur beamed at them.

"Yes, congratulations little ones." The twins said together.

"Looks like you were right, love." Bill said to his wife.

"Of course, I was!" she huffed playfully. "But we need to see about the details for the ceremony."

"How about we host it here?" Bill suggested. "We are under the Fidelius, it doesn't get much safer than that."

"Yes, that is a good idea." Fleur nodded.

"We can meet with you to bring you to Bill to give you the secret." George said.

"When?" Harry asked.

"Maybe the day after tomorrow?" Ginny suggested.

"It works for us if it works for you." Fred said.

"Do you know were Harrods is?" Harry asked.

"Yes." They said together.

"How about we meet you by the doors, around ten o'clock. We will approach you, as we will be disguised."

"That should work." George agreed.

"Thank you, guys. You have no idea how much this means to us." Ginny said grateful for her family.

"It's our pleasure, Ginny. Now I need to prepare. Have a good night."

"Night." They ended the call.

"Gin, are you okay with all that?" Harry asked.

"Oh, Harry, don't worry. I am. although yes, ideally, I would not get married out of necessity, it doesn't matter all that much who is going to be there or the flowers or the guests. All I care about is that I am marrying you. don't doubt that."

"I love you."

"I love you, too, silly." She smiled lovingly at him. "Do you think we can get wedding bands? Not anything over the top. Just simple rings. It's all I really want."

"We can definitely get rings. We will go tomorrow and get them." Harry assured her. he was not going to deny her something that simple. And truthfully, he would like to get rings, too.

"Thank you. Now, how about we go make some dinner, because I am hungry?"

"Let's go feed you."

The next day, they spent their morning looking for rings. They went to a few stores but ended up finding their rings in a small shop in an alley. The bands were 3mm wide, yellow gold and on the inside of each ring was a tinny diamond. Ginny loved them, so they got them. Harry even managed to get something more for Ginny, without her noticing, with the clerks help.

When they went back to the house, they saw a man looking over at #4, in a suspicious manner. Harry had seen him a couple days ago, too. They called Kreacher who informed them that wizards like him had been seen by the house elves outside all his properties. They decided it was too much of a coincidence and decided to leave the next day and find a new place to stay.

After lunch, Ginny sent Harry to the makeshift office in the dinning table to do some work and she tackled the task of packing. It's not like they had a lot of things, really. She started with their clothes and then she packed most of the books, leaving out only those that Harry was using, in his research to destroy the Horcruxes. She also packed most of Hope's things as well.

The next morning, they made sure that everything was packed and that the house looked just as the Dursleys left it, before leaving themselves, from the back door. Harry even cancelled the wards he had set up.

They had breakfast at a little bistro before heading to Harrods to meet the twins. They were in their usual disguises and Harry could see the twins' eyes on them, even if they did try not to stare. They were probably confused by Hope, who was curled in Ginny's arms

"Fancy seeing you here." Harry grinned when they were in front of the two Weasleys.

"I could say the same." George said, hugging his sister.

"You look dashing." Fred said following him, while George hugged Harry.

"What did we give you when we came to the shop a few days ago?" Ginny asked.

"A mirror." They replied together.

"With what did you need help?"

"The trace." The couple said together.

"Smashing, now that that's out of the way, we should be going." George said.

"The wise one is waiting for us." Fred added. "I'll apparate you, young lady and George will take you, young man." He grinned.

"But first, who is this little one?" George asked, letting Hope smell him.

"This is Hope, she is our puppy." Ginny said.

They found a quiet street and the twins apparated them to Bill's location. They arrived in a beach with white sand and clear blue waters. Bill was waiting for them, looking at the sea deep in thought. George cleared his throat to let him know they had arrived.

"Banana" he said.

"Avocado." Fred said.

"Olive." Bill said back.

"Eggplant." George said.

"Tomato." Bill said and nodded his approval.

"Did we miss something?" Ginny asked confused.

"Just a code, Gin" Bill embraced her. "I missed you."

"I missed you, too." She pulled back.

"You got a dog?" he asked amused.

"Well, Harry had her when he took me from Hogwarts. Her names is Hope." She introduced the pup who was smelling Bill.

"Thank you for looking out for her, Harry." He gave the other man a bro hug.

"No need to thank me, Bill."

The curse breaker nodded and gave them a slip of parchment each, telling them the secret. When they memorized it, he burned them and led them inside.

"We are back, love." Bill called to his wife.

She came down the stairs and stood with her wand trained.

"Sapphire" she said.

"Emerald."

"Diamond"

"Diamond." Bill said and with a nod, Fleur took the final step and embraced the couple tightly. Then for the next few minutes, she spoke in French and nobody could keep up with her. she gushed over Hope, who seemed to love the attention, before turning to them.

"Ginny needs to get ready, now." Fleur announced.

"Ready?" the younger woman asked.

"Ginny, this might not be the full blown Weasley wedding, but I will not have you getting married in your jeans." Fleur said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. The redhead girl nodded and set the dog down, to let her explore.

"And we got Harry's dress robes from Hermione." Fred said.

"They're in the room on the first door on the left, on the first floor." Bill said.

"We'll meet down here in one hour." Fleur said and guided Ginny to her bedroom.

Harry followed Bill's instructions and went up to the spare room. On the bed, Fleur had laid his black dress robes that must have been freshly washed. No sign of the day the Ministry fell were on them. He changed in to them carefully and folded the clothes he was wearing. When he was ready, he rejoined the Weasley men in the living room. They too had changed in dress robes.

"Hey, Bill? Could you give this to Ginny?" Harry asked his future brother-in-law, giving him a thin box. "I'd do it myself, but I'm not sure Fleur will like it if I did."

"Sure." He said, smiling knowingly. He took the box and went upstairs to give it to his wife for his sister.

"So, Harrykins" George started.

"How do you feel about marrying"

"Our sister?"

"Nervous. I'm probably not good enough for her, she could do so much better than me, but for some reason she loves me and shoes to marry me." He replies fidgeting with his robe. "I just want to make her happy."

"Damn, that's a good answer." Fred sighed.

"Yeah, Harry. We wanted to threaten you a little, but after that …." George shook his head.

"Dude, not cool. Now we can't brag that we threatened the hero with bodily harm.".

"You do realize that if Ginny hear you, you are dead, right?" Bill asked rejoining them.

"She can't hear us." The twins grinned.

"Ginny loved whatever was in the box. They didn't let me see."

"Thanks, Bill." He said gratefully.

"So, what's your plan? I mean after today, because Fleur has specifically said 'no gloomy talk on their wedding day'."

"Well, we need to find a place to stay. Death Eaters have been snooping around my properties and the place we were staying, so that's priority number one. Then I was thinking of destroying some of the artifacts I have found that are vital for the defeat of Tom."

"We know you're looking for Horcruxes." Bill said.

"You do?"

"Hermione and Ron told Kingsley. He then told me as they fall in my domain, and we put a tongue binding curse on them to keep them from sharing it with anyone else." The oldest Weasley brother explained.

"Thanks for that. We can't have the enemy know what we are up to."

They spent some time talking about Harry's mission, possible hiding places, loose plans and ways to destroy the Horcruxes. They talked about possible ways to help the Order, as many members had to go into hiding. Fred and George reminded Harry about the problems the Hogwarts students faced and that they had to do something about it, too. Kreacher was going to be a very busy elf, Harry thought.

A clearing of someone's throat broke their conversation. Fleur was glaring at them from the base of the stairs. "I think I said no gloomy talk." She glared at her husband.

"Sorry, love." He winced.

"Hmm. William would you walk Ginny down the 'isle'?" Fleur asked her husband.

"With pleasure." He stood up and went up the stairs to Ginny.

"Come on boys, let's go to the dinning room."

The dinning room had been transformed to a make shift wedding site. There were red and emerald ribbons around the room, similarly to how they had styled the ribbons for Bill and Fleur's wedding. The big table was missing and instead there was a console table across from three chairs. That furniture was decorated with the ribbons as well.

Fleur stood behind the table and asked Harry for the rings, which she placed in the middle of the it. Fred charmed a camera to fly and take pictures, while George prepared their little surprise.

Hope came in, with a big green and red bow around her neck and stood close to Harry, moments before Bill and Ginny appeared in the doorway. When he saw her, Harry almost forgot how to breath. She was breathtaking.

She wore a retro tea length dress that was made of ivory silk and had black tulle over it that added ¾ sleeves to the dress. There was a black satin sash on her waist and underneath in, on the sleeves and on the top of the dress were black lace flowers. She wore black satin pumps that had metallic leaves on the heels and had her hair up in an elegant updo. She wore very little make up and had the pearl necklace that Harry had got her around her neck. She also wore a pair of stud pearl earrings that Harry guessed were Fleur's.

Harry barely registered them walking towards him, something that made Fred and George snicker.

"Take care of her, Harry." Bill asked of him.

"I will." He nodded.

Bill kissed his sister and gave her away to Harry. "Hey, gorgeous." Harry smiled widely.

"Hey handsome." She smiled back, just as her brothers took their seats.

"Please hold each other's hands and we shall begin." Fleur said and waited for them to do so. Then she started speaking in a foreign language. A few minutes of her talking, she placed her hands over theirs, continuing the ritual. A golden light enveloped the couple's hands, underneath Fleur's. when the light deemed, she removed her hands from theirs and placed them on top of their rings, as if she was blessing them. Then again, maybe she did.

"Take each other's ring and wear them to one another." She instructed and continued.

They did so and he rinds were pleasantly warm to their fingers. Fleur motioned for them to hold hands again, as she took her wand. She placed it first on Ginny's forehead and then to Harry's. A few seconds later, a gold circlet was formed on top of each one's head and they were joined by an ivory ribbon that was tied on each circlet.

Fleur said the final words and a warm gold veil surrounded Harry and Ginny for a few seconds. "It is my pleasure to present to you for the very first time Mr. and Mrs. Potter." Fleur smiled brilliantly at them "You may kiss the bride."

Harry didn't have to be told twice. He placed his hand on the small of Ginny's back and gently pulled her to him. And he kissed her with everything he got, barely noticing the others clapping or Hope barking happily. Or the mini fireworks that went off, producing green and red confetti, curtesy of the twins.

"I love you, wife" Harry told her with a goofy grin.

"I love you, too, husband." She said with a blush around her cheeks.

After a hug of congratulations and hugs, and a little teary eye from Bill, Fleur returned the room to its previous state of dinning room, keeping the decorations and Fred opened a bottle of champagne, while George gave everyone a flute.

"To Mr. and Mrs. Potter." Bill raised his glass and the others echoed him.

"And to all of you. we would never have been able to do this without you. thank you." Harry said.

"It's our pleasure, little bro." Fred said.

"And we are not done, yet." George grinned.

"We couldn't get or make a cake in such short notice, but it was easy enough to make cupcakes." Fleur waved her wand and chocolate cupcakes with red and green buttercream flew from the kitchen to the dining table.

"I don't think we could ask for a better family." Ginny said.

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