Fighting for love - Severus Snape fanfiction (BOOK TWO of A Magical Muggle)

Chapter 5

Ana appeared in the middle of the kitchen of the Burrow and took a deep breath. She couldn't help but not smile as she realized how much she missed that welcoming and heartwarming house - the noises of the pans in the stove; the smell of food and the lavender scent air freshener that Molly loves to spray her house with; the cozy ambiance of the cluttered house. That was what a family house should feel like - no matter how luxurious it might be, if it makes you smile and miss it, it's home.

"Weren't you supposed to be helping you dad and your brothers?" Ana asked George, who was eating an apple while sitting on the couch and laughing at Molly's scolding on the upper floors. Hermione and Ginny could be heard too.

"Don't be a marplot. It's more entertaining in here," he said, getting up to greet her with a kiss in her cheek.

"I bet. I can imagine Severus boredom when he meets your brothers," Ana joked but she actually felt sorry for him. Anyhow, he was the one that offered himself to help them.

"Don't worry, I will take care of him," George said as he prepared to disapparate.

"That's what I'm worried about," Ana laughed as she started climbing up the stairs.

Knocking on Ginny's bedroom, where all the noises were coming from, Molly smiled nervously as she opened the door. Ginny had left the shower, her hair was damp and she was covered in a white "bride" robe.

"Good morning," Ana greeted, kissing Ginny in cheek and hugging her.

"Good morning. I'm glad you're here. Can you please calm down my mom? She's making me regret not running away and marrying in some kind of crazy building in Las Vegas as muggles do sometimes and showing up 8 months later pregnant."

Ana and Hermione released a laugh at Ginny's seriousness and Molly's shocked expression.

Hermione grabbed Molly by her arm and took her out of the room, convincing her to prepare breakfast before the wedding was canceled because the bride and the bridesmaid starved to death.

Ginny and Ana turned around and looked at each other with amused expressions.

"Are you ready?" Ana asked.

"I think I've been ready for years," she assured her. Giggles erupted inside the bedroom, as they both knew how hard it has been for Harry to pop the question. After Hermione gave him hundreds of lectures about the future, about having a family, he finally was convinced that, as they were meant to be together, Ginny deserved to be taken properly as a wife. Ana knew what Harry's worries were and why he took years to ask her hand - his everlasting disrupted family heritage, the fact that everyone blood-related to him that he loved had died because of him - but, eventually he came to turns that it was not his fault and that Ginny was well aware of it when she decided she wanted to spend the rest of her life making him happy. Harry loves Ginny, he was just afraid that signing a paper meant she was vulnerable and exposed to danger as he lived his whole life.

Fortunately, he grew some balls during a vacation in Thailand.

"Thank you, Ana. You've always supported our relationship and you showed me how strong love can be," Ginny said, referring to Severus and her relationship. That moment, Hermione entered the bedroom, quickly shutting the door behind her. "And thank you, Hermione, for being so patient about me and Harry and for giving me strength and telling me to bide my time."

Hermione walked closer and hugged her.

"As far as I'm concerned, you two were meant to be together, since the beginning."

"What about you and my dunderhead brother?"

Hermione laughed nervously.

"What about it?"