Ginny was a nervous wreck with the waiting, they had spent some time with Neville's gran before meeting up with her brothers. They were all here except Percy who was bringing… She didn't know what to call him, dad was now Harry, biological father sounded clinical, Arthur or Mr Weasley sounded even worse.
She would just have to wing it, glancing down at her 'Ginny Potter' bracelet she silently promised to keep her temper. Percy walked in the room with the other guest and she immediately lost it.
"YOU BASTARD! How could you do that to us? Me, your one time daughter, Harry and Hermione who looked up to you." Ginny drew her wand and aimed a curse but her wand turned into a rubber chicken.
"Have you lost something Gin?" asked George while twirling her wand round his fingers.
"Can't have you hexing our guest now, can we?" laughed Fred
"Purely a precaution, you'll get it back later," said George, joining his brother laughing.
Ginny had her face in her hands crying when she heard the sound of laughter change to gobbling, she moved her hands to see two red-headed turkeys and an enraged Neville Longbottom.
"No one treats my Ginny like that," he raged. Grabbing Ginny's wand from where George had dropped it, he then proceeded to change Arthur Weasley into a skunk.
Ginny wrapped her arms round Neville while speaking to her brothers, "your presents are under the tree, I'm sorry but I'm not ready for this, I may never be ready for this. I'm Ginny Potter now and if I ever meet the bitch he married, I'll kill her. Blue lagoon."
With that they vanished leaving the three eldest Weasley boys stunned.
"Well that went downhill fast," said Charlie.
"Guys, I can understand changing the skunk back but can you give me a good reason why the twins shouldn't remain as turkeys for the rest of the day?" asked Percy.
Bill and Charlie both smiled at the splendid idea their younger brother had come up with.
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Neville and Ginny appeared in the Grangers garden, the little redhead crying in her boyfriend's arms.
"I'm sorry, but as soon as I saw him I wanted to hurt the bastard as much as he hurt me. Does that make me a bad person?" the distraught young witch asked.
"Not to me it doesn't," answered Neville, "you were trying to bat bogie hex him, not cast an unforgivable. Look what I did and that was just because they upset you, does that make me a bad person?"
"Oh Nev, I thought you were wonderful," she said before giving a practical demonstration of just how wonderful she thought he was. Wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him down into a deep kiss, oblivious to the people watching.
"If I don't find out what happened in the next thirty seconds someone is going to be so grounded," growled Harry.
"Sorry dad, just thanking my boyfriend for sticking up for me, you should have seen him, he was brilliant," said a non-crying Ginny.
They eventually got the story of the shortest Christmas dinner in history as Ginny tried to apologise to Harry.
"I tried to think before acting but the result was still the same," she said.
Harry just smiled, "I don't know how we would act either, Molly would at least need St Mungo's."
"Neville, what spells did you cast to transform them into animals?" asked Hermione.
Neville looked puzzled, "I didn't really cast any spells, I had my wand and was so angry that my magic did the rest. I don't even know a spell to do that."
"It might be a side effect of the magic we passed to you through Ginny, we'll try some tests in a few days. Since you obviously didn't get to eat Christmas dinner, I think we have enough for you to join us," said Hermione.
They had a great dinner and an even better time, laughing and joking with each other as the snow fell around them. The heating charm kept them warm as the garden was the only one in the south of England with snow on it.
Ginny and Neville had to leave and get ready for the ball, Neville couldn't believe the Potters weren't going to be there, Ginny was less than impressed with the news they would be going home with Neville's gran after the ball.
Both teens cheered up considerably with the news that they would be joining Harry and Hermione on a tropical island tomorrow, staying for the rest of the school holidays.
Ginny was ecstatic with the news that Emma was Pregnant, though had trouble getting her head around the fact that the baby would be her uncle.
After they left, no one wanted to go back inside and sat in the garden, watching the enchanted snow, thinking the only way this could be better was with a few children running around.
It was time for Harry and Hermione to leave, promising everyone would be together for New Year. The Grangers would be busy selling their practice and seeing friends before joining them. Amanda was going to wait until after she'd stayed there for a few days before making any final decisions.
After much hugging and kissing, Harry and Hermione left for their new home.
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Later that evening, the young married couple were to be found walking barefoot along a deserted moonlit beach, the sound of the waves in the background.
Harry had an idea and, with a snap of his fingers, Hermione was dressed in a ball gown while he wore dress robes. Music started playing as Harry asked his wife to dance.
After a few minutes he said, "can I ask you something?" he took her nodding as a yes so asked, "do you regret not going to the Yule Ball?"
"Oh this is much better," she beamed "now its only fair that I ask you a question. When you changed my clothes, was leaving me without underwear deliberate?"
"Oh hell yes!" he answered.
"I was hoping you would say that," with a smile as bright as the moon, she pulled her husband down onto the sand.
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