A New Beginning

Diagon Alley

     "Well, we should make our way to Diagon Alley to find decorations and what we're going to wear," said Hermione, holding out her hand so the four of them could aparate together. With a snap, they were right outside of The Leaky Cauldron. They walked in and greeted the bartender, Tom, and then walked out to the back and opened the brick wall into Diagon Alley. "Should we go to visit George at work?" Ron suggested. They all agreed and walked into Weasley's Wizard Wheezes to find him. Ginny ran up to him and gave him a hug when they saw him, Harry loved how close Ginny and George were, especially after Fred's death. "Guess what?!" Ginny exclaimed and when George clearly didn't know what was going on she held up her hand, showing off the ring on her finger. George's eyes went immediately to Harry and he shouted, "finally! This has been her dream since she was te-" Ginny shoved her hand over George's mouth to stop him from talking. Harry knew though, he remembered the morning that he arrived at the Weasley's his second year and how Ginny was awestruck seeing him sitting at their kitchen table next to Ron. After a few minutes of chatting Hermione piped up, "we've got wedding shopping to do so we better head out." The four of them made their way out of the shop and down the alley toward Madame Malkin's Robes for Every Occasion to pick out nice dress robes for Harry, Ron, and the rest of the groomsmen. Hermione and Ginny left to go search muggle shops for decorations and dresses. They found a shop called, "The Perfect Day" that sold wedding dresses. The two walked in and were greeted by an energetic employee named Alana. She took Ginny into the back to measure her to get some ideas of what dress. "You're very tall," Alana noticed. "Yup," said Ginny, a little annoyed that she had to point this out. "Oh no," said Alana, obviously picking up on Ginny's tone. "Being tall is a good thing, you can have a long, elegant dress." This made sense to Ginny. After they had found a perfect botanist and the perfect dress for Ginny they started looking for the perfect pair of shoes. This was a difficult task since Ginny had such big feet but Hermione reminded her that they could just use an extension charm to make them fit her. Finally, they found a beautiful pair of deep blue heels, they bought them and headed back to the Leaky Cauldron where they had agreed to meet Harry and Ron. "Thank goodness we're done, I was worried we would have to come back to Gringott's to get more money," Hermione said with a sigh of relief. The four of them separated back to The Burrow.