Chapter 27- The Pains of Dress Fittings

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"Za, shut your mouth." Lilith ordered, Victoire's beauty having no effect on her as she had already seen her before.

"But- she's so-" Sanya gaped at the incandescent beauty on top of a slight platform, in a white dress, Madam Malkin's pins and tape measures flying around her.

Scorpius seemed to be in a similar state, till Lily shoved him out of the bridal section to where the Groom and the other males were waiting.

"I'll throw you out too." The redhead threatened and a smile crept up on Sanya's face, as she tore her eyes away from Victoire.

"Really?"

"Or you'll be made to stay here for longer, as I am." Dominique snorted, her mascara lined eyes only softening once she saw Aggy in a peach dress.

"You're the Maid of Honour." Victoire said in a lilting tone, brown eyes mirthful. "You HAVE to stay longer."

"Don't see why, you're the bride. Where's Maman anyway? She loves to be at these things."

"She's gone with Papa to Romania to get Uncle Charlie, didn't she tell you?" Louis asked, holding up thing after thing- his fitting had already been done- cringing every few moments as a pin hit him.

"Girls-" Madam Malkin spoke, drawing the siblings' conversation to a close and the attention of Lucy, Lily, Lilith, Sanya, Susan and Rose. "There are some dresses set aside for you there- Louis, dear-"

Ginny gaped as old Madam Malkin, who was now a crone in regards to both appearance and personality, bestowed a flattered and true smile upon the seventh year Badger- before she remembered that her nephew, too, had Veela blood.

"Go on." The once-Harpy pushed him a little and gestured at the girls to follow him. "Don't pick anything too obscene, Teddy's hair will be quite enough to drive Mum into an early grave."

"Aunt Gin!" Rose gave a scandalised look at her, but then laughed at Ginny's sheepish smile. The other girls, laughing as well, followed Louis to the back of the shop, where dresses of every size, colour and cut awaited them.

"This one!"

"You can't just pick out the first dress you see! Don't you want one custom made?" Ginny queried, inspecting the dress her daughter pulled from the rack once the boys had been set free. Unsurprisingly, they hadn't hung about picking out tuxes and had already been set free into Diagon Alley.

"But I like it! Please, Mum!"

"I suppose it's quite nice- pink, though? I can't remember the last time you voluntarily picked pink!"

"I like it." Lily replied with a shrug, "Now can I catch up with the boys?"

Ginny gave an exasperated sigh. Not that she could scold her daughter- she'd been exactly the same at her age.

"Don't you want to wait for the others?"

"I'm sorry, I don't love you guys that much." They youngest redhead spoke, apologetically, receiving shrugs in return.

"We don't blame you." Sanya reassured her.

"Take the freedom while you can." Lilith added, nodding encouragingly.

"Stick with the boys! And remind them they best not be in the Leaky Cauldron!" But her daughter was already out the door.

"You girls seen anything you like?" Ginny asked after an eye roll, turning to the others.

"Would this be okay?" Lucy spoke up, sliding a knee length, near-turquoise summer dress off a rack.

"It's not very fitting for a wedding, Lucy." Susan spoke up, her brow furrowed.

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