The Witch and The Hunters

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

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Eyes widened at the obvious meaning to the name change.

"Dean's not my boyfriend, he's my husband."

"You're married!" Mrs. Weasley shrieked.

"Yes, and we have been for six weeks."

"But you've only been together two months?" Angelina spoke in confusion, a crease appearing in her forehead.

"Yes, it was an unexpected bonding, but we wouldn't change it if we could. We're happy."

"You can't possibly be stupid enough to marry someone you barely know," Mrs. Weasley blurted out.

Hermione narrowed her eyes, as did Dean.

"Thank you for the vote of confidence, Mrs. Weasley," Hermione snarked. "I'll have you know I know Dean very well, better than myself in fact. And I'm not stupid. I love Dean."

"You loved Ryan."

Hermione winced and Dean stiffened beside her. "That was below the belt," Hermione said, and even the others seemed to agree with her, judging by the looks they sent Mrs. Weasley's way. "Dean is not Ryan. He would never lay a finger on me."

"The only reason he's married you is for your money," Ron smirked cruelly.

"Oh, shut up, Ron," Harry sighed, and everyone looked at him in surprise. "He didn't marry Hermione for her money. I've spoken and met with Dean many times over the last few months and I've known about their relationship since day one, but Hermione didn't want to jeopardise anything and wished to keep it a secret. Dean's a good man and he'd kill anyone that dared to even look at Hermione the wrong way. He loves her, any idiot can see that. And he didn't know about her financial status until I told him about it, as I wanted to see his reaction to it. He doesn't care; he honestly couldn't care less about her money. As for their marriage, it was an unexpected bonding."

"Bonding?" Bill frowned, catching onto the word and eyeing the couple up.

"Bonding," Hermione nodded, and she lifted her left hand and Dean did the same, seeing the many pairs of eyes widening, before the women in the room appeared to melt in their seats with sighs.

"We're fated, and the bonding occurred during our first night together. We've been married for six weeks and we only discovered the news a few days ago, but we're both happy and we wouldn't change it for the world."

Ron started laughing.

"Oh, Merlin, this is priceless. You didn't have a choice in marrying her? Well, it makes sense; after all, no one would ever want to marry her of their own free will."

Ron stumbled back with a cry of pain and his hand pressed to his shoulder as blood began to seep from the bullet wound Dean had put in him. Gasps rang out and they jumped in their seats, but the gun had been silent due to Hermione's Silencing Charm on it.

Mrs. Weasley ran to Ron as he cowered on the floor and everyone stared between Ron and Dean to stunned by what had just happened to do anything. Hermione calmly made her way over to Ron, pushing him onto his back despite the fact he tried to push her away.

"Oh stop being a baby, Dean shot me the first time we met. If you want it to heal, I have to have a look at it."

Ron glared at her but removed his hand, whimpering in pain and allowing her access to the area. She ran some scans, before rolling her eyes and she conjured up some potions and gave them to Ron, before bandages sprung from her wand and wrapped around the wound.