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**Chapter 6**

Does Love Conquer All?



Once outside the pub, Harry turned to them and said, "Well let's go."

They all apperated about ablock from Harry's house, the order had quit using it after Voldemort's defeat. Soon after that Harry moved his Aunt Petunia in with him.

As they walked closer to Grimmauld Place it started to take its place between the houses on each side. Before they went in Harry told them that Aunt Petunia might be asleep. They opened the door and to Hermione's dismay there were no heads of dead house elves on the wall. Nor did the portrait of Mrs. Black scream any more.

"Harry you have done some redecorating I see," she said.

"Oh yeah, Remus helped me figure out most of the sticking charms that Mrs. Black had placed on all her things. Moody took down the elves. Tonks burned the umbrella stand," Harry answered her as they went into the drawing room.

When they got in the drawing room Aunt Petunia was sitting in a chair reading the Daily Prophet. She put the paper down in her lap at the sound of them entering the room.

"Evening Harry, I hope you all had a lovely dinner," she said as she got up to hug each of the girls.

"Yes Aunt Petunia, we did thank you," Harry answered his aunt giving her a light kiss on the cheek. "Anything interesting in the/ Prophet?/"

"No but Luna did afabulous report on Werewolves in The Quibbler. It would make Remus proud," she said. "Can I get you anything before Igo to bed?"

"No thanks Aunt Petunia, have a good evening," Harry said as his shook his head.

"Very well I will see you in the Morning. Oh, by the way Ginny your owl, Humperdinck is here, he is up stairs with Hedwig. The letter he brought is on the desk," she said as she made her way up stairs.

"Thanks Aunt Petunia," she called to her.

"Man, Harry it still seems so weird to have your Aunt Petunia here and talking about wizarding stuff," Ron said shaking his head as he and Hermione took seats on the sofa.



"Oh Harry I love the drawing room when did you do this?" Hermione asked looking around. Everything was clean the walls were a deep tan he had redone the floors, added some new rugs and updated furniture. He had the tapestry of the Black Family restored to have Sirius' name on it. He was working on one of The Potter Family and the Evans Family.

"Well if you would come by more often you would know that we have been working on it for about a six months or longer," he said sarcastically to Hermione.

"Oh I know Harry but Ihave been so busy at the hospital lately and with the wedding coming up and all," she was apologetic.

"Hey Harry can't talk he hasn't been by the apartment in two weeks or more," Ron said.

Ginny was reading her letter while they were going on back and forth. It was from her brother Bill.



Ginny,

Heard the news, hope all is well.

I, Sara and the kids will be coming in for the wedding.

Tell Harry soon, the sooner the better. Owl me if you need anything.

Oh we will be leaving tomorrow just popped in for the day.

Love Bill



She closed the letter and stuck it in her purse.

"Who was that from Ginny?" Ron asked.

"Bill, he said he will be in for the wedding and hopes all are well," she answered him in a shaky voice."Um, Harry can I speak with you in the kitchen please?" Ginny asked Harry.

"Sure," he said looking at her narrowing his eyes.

Ron and Hermione didn't mind being left alone they had not seen each other all week. Harry followed Ginny into the hall and then into the kitchen. She sat down at the long table.



"Could you please shut the door Harry?"

He closed the door behind him and joined Ginny on the bench.

"Ginny is there something wrong with Bill?" He laid his hand on top of hers.

"No, no - there's nothing wrong with Bill," she said. Then she looked Harry directly in the eyes swallowed hard and began to speak. "Harry, Ihave something to tell you." Butterflies were jumping in her stomach.

"What is it Ginny?" She could see the concern in his eyes.

"It's so difficult to know where to begin," she said letting out a long breath. "So I will just say what Ihave to say, and please keep an open mind as I am telling you this okay."

"Okay." He squeezed her hand tighter.

She began telling him about the prophecy and her trip to Descartes. She told him what Taliesan had told her, about being an Animagus, Dobby and Winky the necklace, and most important how she felt about him.

They sat there for what seemed like for ever before he ever said any thing. He got up from the table and walked to the icebox, got out a beer and asked Ginny did she want one. He leaned up against the counter and slid down into the floor with his knees pulled to his chest, propped his elbows on his knees holding his beer in both hands looking down at the floor, he let out a long slow breath. He looked up at her; she could feel the tears in her eyes. She knew this wasn't what he was expecting to hear, but still she thought it could be worse. He had said Dumbledore had always told him that even though he defeated Voldemort the battle between good and evil will always have many wars.

"Well I guess the only thing to do is ask Ron and Hermione would they be the godparents of our children." He smiled at her. He sat his beer down got up and walked over to Ginny and knelt before her, took her hand in his and said, "Ginny Weasley would you marry me and be the mother of our children and promise to love me forever?"

Tears were now streaming down her face. "I will Harry Potter. I will."

He reached up and wiped the tears from her face and kissed her ever so sweetly. A knock came at the kitchen door. It creaked open Ron poked his head in he was confused by what he saw.

"Is every thing all right mate, you two have been gone an awful long time," he said as he came on in the kitchen followed closely by Hermione.

"Ginny, I went ahead and sent Humperdinck home with a note to mom and dad," Ron said walking closer to them.

"Is everything okay between you two?" Hermione asked softly.

"Everything is just fine Hermione, just fine." Harry looked back into Ginny's eyes.

"Let's go back to the Drawing Room, Ginny and I have something we need to ask you two." Harry got up and gestured towards the door.

Hermione looked at Ron and shrugged her shoulders. Ron was as confused as she was. He looked back at Hermione and widened his eyes.

They all went back to the drawing room and got comfortable when Harry put another log on the fire.

"Okay what is the question?" asked Hermione impatiently.

"Yeah Ginnyyou have been acting weird today, not to mention you changed your whole look. Why did you do that?" Ron grimaced at his sister.

"Ronald. We can't hear what they have to say if you don't close your mouth."

"Thank you Hermione."Ginny said.

"Now what we are going to say may come as a shock to both of you. Please just listen as Ginny told me with an open mind. Okay?" Harry was looking at Ron.

Ron could really over re-act sometimes.

Ginny started telling them as she told Harry. When she finished Ron was sitting up he had a very intense but confused look on his face. Hermione on the other hand had a fingernail in the tip of her mouth.

"So the question is,"Harry started and took a deep breath, "would you two be the God parents of our children?"

After a bit of stammering from Ron, "Ye . .Yea. . .Yeah . . .Yes of course."

"Ginny, do you and Harry really think all of it is true?" Hermione said very calmly.



"Well I didn't until Iwent to Descartes. When I talked to Taliesan she did not try to convince me one way or the other. She said I would do what I felt was right in my heart," Ginny said.

"Well I have had some dealings in prophecy before."

"Harry would you be asking Ginny to marry you if you hadn't heard this?" She looked at Harry not blinking.

"Well actually I was planning on asking Ginny to marry me at yours and Ron's wedding. This just speeds things up a bit."

"Oh really I did not know that you two were that serious." Ron gave Harry a protective brother look.

"Well Ron some things are not your business," Ginny said, her eyebrows lifted.

"I just thought my best mate would tell me that's all," Ron said defensively.

"You don't tell me everything about you and Hermione do you Ron, not that I want to know," Harry said now standing.

"No . . . I guess not . . . sorry," he said as he got up to join Harry at the bar.

Harry grabbed himself another beer from the ice chest. Ron just poured him a straight up Firewhiskey.

"Want something Hermione, Ginny?" Ron asked turning to them.

"Water for me," said Hermione. "I have to go to work tomorrow at noon."

"A butter beer for me, warmed please," Ginny said.

Ron warmed the butter beer with his wand, and then handed the two girls their drinks. He went to sit down on the couch behind Hermione.

"So little Dobby is going to watch after you. You better hope he does better for you than he did Harry, in our second year," Ron said pulling his lip to the side and raising his eyebrow.

"Honestly Ron you will never pick up a book just to read will you?" Hermione looked over her shoulder at him.

"What?"

"Dobby was enslaved when he tried to help Harry, so no matter how hard he tried he just couldn't make it work like he wanted it too. Now once Harry tricked Lucius into freeing him, he was able to send Lucius to make him disappear, which mind you is a very powerful magic to do inside of Hogwarts grounds," she huffed out.

"Yeah, right, I forgot."He rolled his eyes looking at Harry. Harry gave a slight chuckle.

"So you believe it then,"said Hermione once again.

"Yes Hermione I do," Ginny said looking at Harry.

"Me too, besides it could be worse," Harry said.

Ron was sitting there with a pondering look on his face.

"Reckon' who will be the Dark Power this time. Probably Malfoy." He let out a snort.

"No it will be much worse than Draco Malfoy, Ron, much worse. . ." Hermione said very seriously.

"Like who?" Harry said."You got anybody in particular in mind."

"No not right off the top of my head, but I bet Dobby does," she said looking at Ginny.

"Why do you say that,"Ginny said.

"Well the necklace he gave you is something that a house elf gives his master when he senses great danger," she said. "It is like an Amulet sort of only it has real powers."

"Like what," Ron asked then took a drink of his Firewhiskey.

"Well it is hard to say they can do so many things house elves can." she said to Ron.

"Well look, after you get off work tomorrow we will all meet back at The Burrow, okay," Ginny said. "I am really tired right now."

They all headed up stairs. Harry got them all clothes to wear. He gave Ginny and Hermione a pair of his smallest P.J.'s and Ron the biggest he had.

"They will probably be too short mate," Harry said handing Ron the clothes.

They all changed into their P.J.'s and Ron looked like he was wearing a pair of Capri's.

"Oh go on have a good laugh," he said

They went into Harry's bedroom.

"Sorry mates this is the only bed I have. I haven't got to fixing up the other bedrooms yet. Aunt Petunia's is the only one we have done yet."

"Harry are you a wizard or not," Hermione said rolling her eyes. "Cubilatium."She flicked her wand and another bed appeared.

"Well how are we going to do this," said Harry feeling kind of awkward. He didn't want to crawl into bed with Ginny with Ron right there, that just wasn't fair to either of them. And he DEFINITELY did not want to listen to Ron and Hermione snogging the rest of the night. Ginny could tell that Harry was thinking the same thing she was.

"Hermione and I will take your bed Harry," Ginny said nodding in the direction of his bed. "You and Ron can take this one." She took out her wand and said "SplitatiumDos" And the one bed became two.

"Thanks Ginny I don't think I could stand Ron's flailing all night," Harry said.

"Hey," Ron said defensively.

"Harry do you have another scent you could put in here I can really smell Aunt Petunia's perfume," said Ginny making a dreadful face.

"Sure how about this," he sprayed what he had worn earlier in the evening.

"Oh can we turn on the radio, I like to listen while I go to sleep. Oh and put it on the Enya* wave that's what Ilike." Hermione said in a directing manner.

"Anything else your majesty?" Ron said bowing to her.

"Yeah be quiet and turn out the light," she bossed him back.

They all lay down with wandering minds. It wasn't easy for them to fall asleep. Ron fell asleep first, because it was near impossible for them to sleep after he did. Harry finally put a silencing charm on him.

"Thank you," Hermione and Ginny said at the same time.

Harry's mind was full. He kept rethinking the night's events in his head. Finally with the picture of Ginny being pregnant in his mind he drifted off with a smile on his face.





*I do not own Enya.