Hogwarts Revisited

Hogwarts Revisited

by FSR

Chapter Seven

"I am not going to wear it, Hermione! It's atrocious! Charlie, stop grinning like an idiot and defend my interests!"

"Oh, no, Harry, I wouldn't dare cross Hermione."

"Some Gryffindor you are!"

Harry, Hermione and Charlie were all in Tokyo in 'Yamamoto Wizarding Wear' buying things for too fast upcoming wedding.

"Harry, but you cannot wear black."

"Why not?"

"Because it's wedding, not funeral."

"Bridegrooms always wear black!"

"Not always and, anyway, you have no bride."

"Hermione! It looks girly!"

"It does not! It's just stylish."

"No."

Charlie at that point decided to interfere.

"Yes, Harry. You'd look sexy in it. And we've got to buy the ring for Malfoy, so hurry up!"

"Maybe you'd marry him, Charlie? And I'd marry someone else. Hermione, do you want to be my wife?"

"Harry, no offence, but I have no desire to get married to gay pregnant wizard."

"I am not gay!"

"As you wish. You are still pregnant."

***

On the other side of the planet, Draco and Berth were in the same situation.

"Jerkins, are you trying to humiliate me? It's pink, for Merlin's sake!"

"It'd look perfect on you. And it's not all that pink."

"It certainly would not! And it is!"

"I am paying so I get to choose."

"It's absolutely unfair! You are supposed to be a noble Gryffindor!"

"I am!"

"Sure. And -"

"We've got to buy the ring for Harry."

"You care so much for Harry. Maybe you'd marry him?"

"He is your soul mate so marry him and be happy."

"I hate him!"

"How unfortunate. So, wedding ring."

***

Harry couldn't quite believe his eyes when he stared from the top of the stairs. Entrance Hall was not just crowded but practically stuffed. Harry closed his eyes and called his magic. He had to reopen his eyes because he sensed the presence of at least a thousand more people on the grounds.

"Berth and Hermione, you will pay for this."

They both had the audacity to grin.

***

"Didn't know you could look passable, Potter." Draco said regarding Harry's attire, which consisted of silvery kimono, white trousers and sabots on high platform. Draco himself was dressed in long red robes with sparkling stars on them.

"You, actually, look much better than you really are, Malfoy."

"Boys! This is neither time nor place for this. I am sure you'll have much to do when alone. Now, you'll both behave! Attention of the whole wizarding world is focused on your wedding. You must look perfect."

"Malfoys have perfect manners unlike some people who were raised in cupboards."

"I'll be the first Malfoy then to have bad manners."

"Stop this. Are you going to grow up? I wonder how you are going to raise your child."

"You told her, Potter!"

"Of course I did. How else could I have explained my getting married to you of all people?"

Hermione had had enough. She nodded to Berth. He nodded in return. Then they both took their respective protesting wards by hands and led them to the Great Hall. They stopped at the doors.

"Now you'll take each other's hands and walk in together. When you are asked stupid questions you are to say 'I will.' When you are asked to kiss, you will do it without screwing your pretty faces. Understood?" Hermione said all that in a dangerous, low voice, which implied 'I'll bite off your head if something isn't done exactly as I say.'

***

Professor McGonagall cleared her throat and began a speech that she had been practicing the whole day.

"We are gathered here to unite these two hearts in the bonds of magical matrimony which is an honourable estate. Into this, these two now come to be joined. If anyone present can show just and legal cause why they may not be joined, let them speak now or forever hold their peace."

Hermione was glaring at the guests as if trying to say 'Just open your mouth and I will shut it forever.'

Ceremony proceeded smoothly on with both Harry and Draco saying 'I will' only after a bit of hesitation. Draco placed a platinum serpent-shaped ring with huge emerald on Harry's finger. Harry's ring for Draco, predictably, was golden with a lion holding ruby in its paws.

"By the authority vested in me by Wizengamot, I pronounce this couple to be united in marriage. You may kiss."

Draco bent his head and kissed Harry on the lips. The next day that scene was on the front pages of every wizarding paper in the world. Nobody noticed how Draco bit Harry's bottom lip or how Harry stamped Draco's foot with a heel.

***

"Congratulations, Draco. It was very Slytherin of you to marry him."

"Thank you, Pansy."

***

"Harry, dear, take care of yourself and be happy. I hope you know what you are doing."

"Thank you, Mrs. Weasley."

***

"You won't forget your classmates, Draco, will you? I need-"

"Bugger off, Blaise."

***

"We are-"

"-giving you this-"

"-little thing-"

"-to try it on your-"

"-slimy little husband."

"Will it turn him into ferret permanently?"

"No, no, no!"

"You see-"

"-he is already-"

"-a ferret-"

"-so it will only-"

"-help him find-"

"-his real ferrety self."

***

"Ladies and gentlemen! A dance."

Harry and Draco both found themselves shoved together by too eager Berth and Hermione. A dance also looked perfect to the eyes of the public. Again nobody noticed nasty little things that just married big kids were doing to each other.

"Malfoy, we've got to disappear."

"So everyone would think we are off to shag like bunnies?"

"Something like that."

"And where are we going?"

"Home."

"Potter, you are no fun."

"I've got work to do in the morning."

"And what about honeymoon?"

"You hate me!"

"So what? I want a honeymoon."

"And where do you want to go on honeymoon."

"I don't know. Somewhere... exotic."

"Exotic? As you wish, my dear husband."

And with those words and a very evil smirk, Harry squeezed Draco's hand and they disappeared.

Author's Notes

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