My Best Friend and Roommate

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Chapter Four

July 2000

It has been three months since Harry proposed, and Hermione was busy with the plans. She was doing it by herself with very little help from her mother and Mrs. Weasley. She had threatened them to let her do most of the planning or she and Harry would elope to Las Vegas to get hitched. So far they were behaving. A September wedding was planned just two days after her birthday. A bridal/birthday party was planned on her birthday. Hermione was currently on the floor in the living room looking over several wedding catalogs that laid on the coffee table. She was trying to pick out a wedding cake, and she had four different ones in front of her. She sighed out as she leaned back onto the couch. The door opened, and Harry walked in finding his fiancee in distress. \"Hey, I\'m home,\" he said smiling. Hermione turned around to see his huge grin.

\"What are you smiling about?\" she asked.

\"I got the invitations sent out both by Muggle and Owl mail.\" Hermione gasped in delight as she pulled out a pad with her \'Wedding To Do Stuff\' list, and crossed off \'Send Out Invitations\'. \"That takes care of the invitations.\"

\"Finally,\" Harry said pulling off his coat. \"So, what are you up to?\" he asked.

\"The cake.\"

\"I thought Molly was baking one.\"

\"She is, but she wants me to pick it,\" she said, \"Trouble is I have four that I like, and need help deciding.\"

\"All right.\" Harry sat down on the floor with her, and she went over each cake design and why she liked it. Finally after fifteen minutes, they decided on the three layered cake with white icing and Gryffindor colored roses. Hermione thought of asking Neville for a flower arrangement for the cake, adding that under the flower list that she needed to order.

\"Did you send an invitation to the Dursleys?\" she asked.

\"Well, I thought about it long and hard, and decided to send one just to Aunt Petunia,\" he said as she snuggled closer to him. \"She and Dudley are the only ones I\'m related to by blood. I\'m only related to Vernon by marriage, thank Merlin.\" Hermione chuckled as she wrapped her arms around Harry\'s neck. \"I\'m not going to expect her to come though.\"

\"If she comes then we\'ll put her on my side of the family with all the Muggles.\"

\"Well, she is my aunt, but if she does I\'d rather let her decide which side to sit at.\"

\"All right,\" Hermione said grabbing her list again. Harry skimmed over it to see she still needed a wedding dress as well as bridesmaids gowns.

\"Still looking for dresses, huh?\"

\"On the contrary,\" she said, \"Mum is taking me as well as my bridal party and Mrs. Weasley to Paris to get dresses.\"

\"You\'re going all the way to Paris for a wedding dress?\"

\"I want the dress to be breathtaking, and Mum knows a French dress designer who makes the most gorgeous dresses,\" Hermione said, \"She says princesses all over the world come to Paris just to buy a dress from her, wedding or not.\"

\"Sounds expensive,\" he said.

\"You sound like you\'re worried about the price.\"

\"No, I gave you free will of my vault to pay for this wedding. Is this designer muggle or a witch?\"

\"A Muggle. We\'ll have to exchange enough galleons for the dresses, with some shopping on the side.\" Harry chuckled. \"I find hard to believe that the wizarding world hasn\'t caught wind of this wedding.\"

\"Well, you\'re only going to Neville for something for the wedding. Everyone else is Muggle because half of our guests will be Muggle,\" he said, \"And we\'ve asked the wizards not to let their invitation leak out.\"

\"Don\'t forgot that the press can\'t come because Muggles are being present.\"

\"The press doesn\'t know,\" he said, \"The only Ministry person who knows where the wedding is Arthur. Even the Minister doesn\'t know.\"

\"It\'s going to take a miracle to pull off this wedding without Skeeter getting wind of it,\" she said. Harry looked over her list again, and saw that she had booked the church.

\"You got the church?\" he asked. Hermione smiled.

\"Yes, I did. My pastor is so pleased that I finally got myself the man I want to spend the rest of my life with,\" she said, \"He wants to meet you. Preferably before the wedding.\"

\"Okay,\" he said, \"Let\'s go now.\"

\"Now?\" she asked.

\"Now,\" he said grabbing her hand. Hermione barely had time to grab her coat as Harry pulled her out of the flat.


Hermione pulled Harry into her childhood church to find her pastor was speaking with a woman who worked in the church They. \"Pastor Will,\" she said. The pastor looked up, and smiled as he saw Hermione walking towards her with an young man behind her. \"You said you wanted to meet Harry before the wedding, and this is Harry.\"

\"Hi, Pastor Will,\" Harry said extending his hand.

\"Harry, it\'s a pleasure to finally meet you,\" Will said, \"You are all Hermione talked about as she booked the church. Harry this. Harry that.\" Harry chuckled as he shook hands with the man that was going to marry him and Hermione.

\"Pleasure to meet you, Father.\"

\"Oh, it\'s Pastor or Reverend. You call a pastor \'Father\' when he\'s Catholic.\"

\"Right,\" Harry said.

\"Have you decided on what kind of flowers you wanted, Hermione?\" Pastor Will asked.

\"Yes,\" Hermione said, \"I\'m bringing my florist tomorrow so he can see what the church looks like.\"

\"Excellent.\" They talked for another few minutes before Hermione\'s cell phone went off. It was her mother who wanted to talk to her about her and Harry\'s honeymoon. They said goodbye to the pastor, and walked out of the church.

\"Mum and Dad are paying for the honeymoon, Harry,\" Hermione said, \"It\'s their wedding present to us.\" The two of them were driving home in Harry\'s car.

\"But you did tell them we want to go somewhere in America, right?\"

\"Yes, I did. \"

\"Somewhere fun, too, because I\'ve never been anywhere fun when I was a kid besides the Quidditch World Cup.\" Hermione looked over at her fiancé, and smiled. She took his right resting on the gear shift, and gave it a small squeeze.

\"Don\'t worry about it. They\'ll have you in mind.\" Harry sighed. \"Drop me off at their place, will you?\"

\"Sure,\" he said and made the turn to her parents\' house.


\"DISNEY WORLD!?\" Hermione shouted. Her two parents nodded from their spots at the kitchen table.

\"Well, you said he never went anywhere fun,\" Emylee said.

\"But Disney World?\"

\"Sweetie, a lot of young newlyweds like you and Harry go somewhere fun,\" Adam said, \"We were thinking how much you two could have fun outside instead of inside.\"

\"Wha ..?\" Hermione glared at her father. Emylee chuckled at her daughter being speechless.

\"Your father and I also booked the reception hall.\"

\"And the hotel room for your wedding night,\" Adam added.

\"Dad,\" Hermione said turning bright red. Emylee and Adam chuckled at their daughter\'s embarrassment.

\"You think we\'re bad,\" Emylee said, \"Wait until your bachelorette party in September.\" Hermione groaned.

\"It\'s a bridal shower, birthday party, Mum.\"

\"Not to them, honey,\" Adam said, \"From what I hear, Harry was a popular boy in Hogwarts.\"

\"All the girls wanted him and all the boys wanted to be him,\" her mother said.

\"Not all the boys and girls were the same back then, Mum,\" Hermione said, \"Some of them hated Harry.\"

\"Oh, like that Draco Malfoy character you told us about?\" her father asked. Hermione nodded.

\"Hasn\'t said on nice word to Harry or me for that matter at all.\"

\"Makes you glad that you\'re keeping the wedding a secret until after you get back from you honeymoon,\" Adam said. Hermione nodded.

\"Don\'t forget, Hermione,\" Emylee said, \"This weekend we\'re going to Paris so you and your bridesmaids can get fitted for your dresses.\"

\"I know, Mum. I got it marked. Mr. Wealsey\'s getting all the paperwork taken care of so we can portkey there and back.\"

\"We\'re spending the whole day in Paris, dear. It\'ll shock your wizarding friends.\"

\"It\'s all they talk about,\" Hermione said, \"So, Dad, while Mum and I are going to Paris with the girls what are you going to do?\"

\"Well, I was thinking of taking Harry and his boys to a local football game,\" Adam said and Hermione\'s eyes lit up.

\"That sounds great.\" She then caught the time, and stood up. \"Oh, I better get to the flower store. Neville waiting for me to discuss flowers for the wedding.\" Adam and Emylee gave them a kiss goodbye, and she Apparated in front of them.

\"I\'m never going to get used to her doing that.\"


The coming weekend was busy for both the bride and groom to be. Hermione and her bridesmaids, along with Mrs. Weasley and Mrs. Granger, portkeyed over to Paris where Mrs. Granger took them to the dress designer. The woman, Madame Michela, was nice to all, and even fitted Mrs. Weasley for a new dress. After getting fitted for the dresses, Michela told them they would be ready in five weeks. At least a week before the wedding, and that they could pick them up. They still had plenty of time to do some shopping and sightseeing before going back to England.
Harry and his groomsmen and Mr. Weasley spent the day with Dr. Granger at a local football game. They all had a good time which most of it was spent explaining the game and the rules to Mr. Weasley, Ron and Neville. They ate as much food as they could or what their stomachs would allow them. After the game was over, they headed to a Muggle bar and grill. When Hermione got home, she was shocked to find the flat empty. \"Harry?!\" she called out. She put her shopping bags down, and went into their bedroom. She chuckled softly finding him fast asleep on his stomach. She pulled off her shoes, and climbed into bed with him. He whimpered in his sleep as he rolled over, and put his head on her lap. \"Harry?\"

\"Hmm?\" he answered sleepily.

\"Did you have fun?\" she asked running her hand through his hair.

\"Uh, huh,\" he mumbled.

\"Go ahead and sleep, babe,\" she said, \"It\'s only going to get more tiring than this.\"

\"Umm, hmm,\" Harry said smuggling closer to his bride to be.

NEXT CHAPTER: THE WEDDING!!!