An Unwanted Marriage, But An Unexpected Love

An Unwanted Marriage, But An Unexpected Love

After Barty had paid for their meal and wine, he led Hermione back to the ally way they had first arrived in, earlier on that evening. They apparated just outside the anti apparation wards. They walked up to the Burrow, and noticed the living room light was still on.

Hermione checked her muggle watch, and discovered it was only ten to nine. She shrugged and leaned into Barty’s side, as his arm around her shoulders tightened slightly.

They noticed the door instantly opened, and to their surprise, not only Ginny answered the door. Also standing on either side of her, was Sara-Jane and Blaise.

Hermione beamed “Sara-Jane, Blaise, what are you both doing here, and when did you get here?” Sara-Jane grinned and replied. “My mum talked to Mrs. Weasley through the fire place. They both agreed I can stay here until we return to Hogwarts. It gives me a chance to get to know my husband to be.”

She added with a brief laugh “My mother said it would be practice. She said if I can be in his presence constantly for a certain amount of time, without wanting to dismember or kill him, then she recons our marriage might last, that neither of us with end up in Azkaban for homicide.”

Everyone except for Sirius started sniggering, while Sirius pouted, before exclaiming sarcastically “Ha, a bloody scream your mother is, a bloody right ole scream.”

Ginny added as soon as they had all managed to calm down “And as you known, mum and dad are spending the night out for their anniversary, doing Merlin knows what. I don’t even want to begin to imagine. So they won’t be back until morning.”

She and Ron shuddered a the mere thought of what their middle aged parents could be getting up to all on their own, even as they spoke. They daren’t think too much about it. They still needed to sleep. And on top of that the less they knew the better and more likely they were to have healthy future sex lives with Harry and Blaise.

Blaise added “And I got here an hour ago, I flooed here with my trunk.” Sara-Jane continued “So we are being left in the care of Barty, Sirius, Remus, and Tonks. Barty, Remus, and Tonks are here to make sure Sirius doesn’t doing anything underhanded, or so Mrs. Weasley said.”

Barty and Hermione entered, and Barty closed the door behind them. Sara-Jane asked nervously. “What did Mrs. Weasley mean by underhanded. What exactly is my fiancée supposedly capable of. And what am I getting myself into by marrying him?”

The wizard in question came into view, pouting as he did so. “She was just kidding, I don’t plan on anything. Well, at least nothing major scale anyway.”

Barty laughed, while Remus let out a long suffering sigh, and rolled his eyes in exasperated affection for his best friend and fellow brotherly Marauder.

Hermione laughed and said “Don’t worry. I am engaged to a man I’ve been led to believe is capable of creating just as much chaos. We’ll suffer it out together, that I guarantee.”

Ginny chuckled as she placed her hand on Sara Jane’s shoulder, and commented mock sympathetically. “I’ll join you and help. I’m promised to the son of a man who was capable of causing havoc with the supremely best of them.”

Ginny sighed, then smiled and turned to Hermione “So do tell, how was tonight. And where did you go?” Hermione replied “We went into Diagon ally, to a restaurant Barty likes to go to. It was nice, definitely a place I could never afford to go to on my own.”

Hermione slipped her arms out of her jacket with Barty’s help. It was then, when the diamonds on her ring glistened, catching both Ginny and Sara-Jane’s attention.

Ginny quickly grabbed a hold of Hermione’s left hand, and let out a squeal of delight. She held up Hermione’s hand and said “Oh wow, it’s gorgeous. So he finally proposed?”

Hermione smiled and flushed, as everyone turned to look at her. Harry, Ron, and Tonks were grinning happily and knowingly. Barty shook his head in amusement, and went over to join his fellow marauders, removing his jacket on the way.

Blaise smiled at Hermione and said “Congratulations Hermione, I’m happy for you.” Hermione returned the smile, before a glistening caught her eye.

She turned to Ron and beamed approvingly at him, as she took hold of Blaise’s left hand. She commented “Ron, I thought you were going to wait for the beginning of the new school term before asking.”

Ron smiled and shrugged, as he replied “I decided to ask earlier then I had originally planned. She was right here, and I had the ring, I thought why not ask her now. And thankfully she accepted.”

Hermione studied the ring. It was simple but beautiful. It looked liked it had cost Ron all of his savings, that he had been saving since he was fourteen.

It was a simple but beautiful heart shaped pure white diamond, mounted on a golden band. It was not overly extravagant or expensive as her ring and Ginny’s ring was. But it was still lovely.

Hermione turned to Sara-Jane and asked “So, what about you, has Sirius finally given you a nice shiny and pretty rock of your very own, yet?”

Sara-Jane flushed, as she held up her left hand. And there resting perfectly on her left hand, was a sapphire square flanked by 2 princess-cut diamonds, mounted upon a pure white gold band.

Remus grinned and said “It seems we all had the same idea. We’ve all been busy properly claiming our women.” Tonks, who was sitting playing a game of chess with Ron, had looked up and grinned, as she held up her left hand.

She was wearing a ring that had five circular stones that were a mixture of white diamonds and emeralds, mounted upon a pure white gold band.

Sirius had given him the stones and band as a gift. Then Remus had magically used them to make Tonks a ring. Tonks loved the fact Remus had made it, and had not just gone and bought one.

She loved that about Remus, he was not like other men, and not because he was a werewolf either, seeing as he no longer was. As during a death eater attack, Remus had been hit with some strange and unknown spell or hex.

The result was, that said spell or hex had destroyed the wolf inside of him, getting rid of it permanently. Meaning now Remus was able to get work like everyone else.

That he was no longer under the laws or said laws applied to him. That in the past had prevented him from getting a job and marrying and having children like everyone else. But now he was free to do all of those things and more.

And of course now he was no longer a werewolf, Remus was no longer afraid of the full moon, and was able to enjoy and bask in its beauty. He could also wear and touch silver without suffering from burns and silver poisoning.

Although, he did keep the werewolf’s senses, such as sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. Those sense in were particularly sensitive during the time of all the full moon. He was also studying to become an animagus. He was merely weeks away from achieving a full transformation.