Love in Blindness

_ Love in Blindness _ Part 4

Four years later, Harry and Hermione were now married, and living in a small house in the suburbs of London. Harry had just completed auror training but since dark wizards were in a short supply those days, he had a lot of time off. Hermione was now a writer and had even gotten a few of her novels published, all of them topping the bestseller lists. Her most popular works were non-fiction novels written about the trio during their Hogwarts years, all written in third person from Harry's point of view. Currently, she had completed the book about their fourth year and was working on the fifth-year book. As for Ron, he was now assistant head of the Depart of Magical Sports and was living with his fiancée near Diagon Alley.

"Mommy! Lookit!" came the delighted squeal of a two year old boy. Hermione sighed sadly. She longed so much to be able to see her son's face or whatever it was that he wanted her to look at. She loved Jason Ronald Potter dearly but it was sometimes very difficult holding him and not being into look at the child whom was living proof of the love between Harry and Hermione.

"Mommy, lookit," Jason said as he leapt into Hermione's lap. Hermione smiled and hugged her son close.

"I wish I could, love" Hermione said. She bent down and kissed Jason on the head. Jason seemed to be waving something around in his hand. While Jason squirmed around jovially in his mother's arms, Hermione's thoughts wandered back to a time only a few months after they had graduated from Hogwarts.

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"How are you feeling, love?" Harry asked. They were walking around the lake at Hogwarts, a place that held a lot of meaning to the two of them.

"Wonderful," Hermione said. She longed to be able to see the view. "Harry, could you describe everything?"

"OK," Harry said as he wrapped his arms around Hermione's waist. "There are stars in the sky, of course. There's the Great Dipper over the lake. The moon's just risen above the castle, not quite full but close. Its reflecting on the lake very clearly which is very still tonight. It's very beautiful Hermione, though I admit, not as beautiful as you."

"Oh Harry,"

"I'm serious Hermione. I love you and I've been thinking about that a lot recently." He suddenly seemed a little nervous as he continued talking. "There's nothing I want more than to spend the rest of my life telling you how much I love you. And I've been thinking about that for some time now. So, Hermione..."

Hermione suddenly gasped when she felt Harry slip something onto her finger. She felt it and realized that it could be nothing more than a diamond ring.

"Will you marry me?" Harry finished.

After a slight pause, Hermione whispered, "Yes," then louder, "YES!" Tears were streaming down her cheeks now and a beautiful smile adorned her face. She turned around planted a strong kiss on Harry's lips. Soon their tongues were dueling and clothes were being shed as they whispered "I love you...I love you..." over and over again in between kisses. And for the first time in their lives, though far from the last between the two of them, Hermione and Harry connected with each other with everything they had to offer the other. And their love sang that night near the Hogwarts Lake.

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"Mommy." Jason's voice cut into her recollections Hermione snapped out of her thoughts. She smiled and hugged Jason close. She was also looking forward to their daughter that was due to come in about 7 months.

"Yes, Jason?" Hermione suddenly realized what it was that Jason was waving around. "Jason, is that daddy's wand?" she asked, her voice a little stern.

"Yeah!" Jason said.

"You know you're not supposed to take it."

"Oh, let him have his fun, Hermione," Harry called from the kitchen, the merriment in his voice obvious. "After all, it's still going to be years before he gets one of his own."

"That's not the point," Hermione said. "He's still too young to be waving such a thing. We both know that Jason is a very powerful wizard. The chances of him doing something dangerous are..." Hermione never had the chance to finish what she was saying, for suddenly, Jason accidentally blasted a burst of magic out of the wand into Hermione's face. She screamed and fell backwards.

"Hermione!" Harry shouted as he dove forward and caught his wife before she hit the floor. "Hermione, are you all right?"

Hermione took a few breaths trying to get her heartbeat back to normal, her eyes shut tight. "I-I'm OK," she said. "I just suppose I was lucky." She slowly opened her eyes.

And the first thing she saw was a pair of very familiar green eyes.

Shocked, Hermione blinked expecting to the eyes to be a part of her imagination and that she would be back in the darkness again. The eyes were still there, behind a pair of wire-rimmed glasses. She was looking at Harry's face, which she hadn't seen in four years. He still looked exactly the same, only older and more refined. The scar on his forehead had faded and was now barely visible.

"H-Harry?"

Harry knew. The instant she had opened her eyes he had seen the spark in those beautiful brown orbs he hadn't seen in four years. "Hermione?" he whispered, hope creeping back into his voice.

"Harry," Hermione said, tears now flowing out of her revived eyes. "Harry, I can see. Oh Harry I can see!" She flung her arms around Harry cried tears of joy and kissed him deeply. After she pulled back and spent some time studying his face before she looked up and glanced at a large mirror hanging on the living room wall. A beautiful young woman with long wavy brown hair and lively chocolate brown eyes stared back at her. Hermione couldn't believe that she was looking at her own face again, after all these years.

Hermione's eyes scanned the room, taking in everything from the white wallpaper and the aqua carpet and the various pictures of her, Harry, and Ron on the walls. She saw a picture of their wedding day and was finally able to marvel at how beautiful she had looked in the white wedding gown. Finally, her eyes rested on a small boy standing nearby, watching her with a curious expression on his face. He looked just like Harry, especially the green eyes but his hair, though messy, had her brown color.

"Jason?" she whispered.

"Mommy? What are you doing? Why are you crying" the boy asked.

More tears rolled down as Hermione drew her son into a strong embrace. "Oh, you're so beautiful," she whispered, as sobs rocked her body. But they were sobs of joy.

Harry wiped a few tears out of his eyes as he also wrapped his arms around his wife and son. "Hermione, love, are you OK?" he whispered.

"I've never been better in my whole life," Hermione whispered. "And its not going to end, right? It's going to happiness forever, right Harry?"

"Yes it will be," Harry said. "I love you, Hermione."

"I love you too, Harry." And from then on, it was happily ever after.

The End