Being Parents

Telling Harry

Harry woke up bright early that August summer day. He was more excited than it is allowed at that hour. But there was a really good reason to be: Ron and Hermione were arriving from their 2 and an half weeks honeymoon in Australia. After all these years, it was still weird for them to be apart for so long. For the last 12 years they have been inseparable, especially during the war and even more after it. 

The black-haired man turned to his side to give his wife a kiss good morning only to find out she wasn’t there. He heard the flush on the bathroom and waited to Ginny to come back to bed. Moments later, there she was, with a fading smile to him, but for Harry she was glowing even more than usual. 

“Good morning, love” Harry said as she had climbed into bed. Ginny grinned and kissed him softly on the lips. 

“Good morning yourself”

“Everything ok?”

“Yes, sure!” Ginny suddenly opened a ear to ear smile and kissed him again. “Are you excited for Ron and Hermione getting back?”

“Oh, yes! I’m missing them so much! They are my best friends, and the ministry is just a bore without them!” 

Ginny laughed as how things haven’t change a bit for the Golden Trio and she felt happy about that. Normally as adulthood comes, the friendships end up fading away but her husband’s and her friends haven’t. She and Luna see each other regularly and as for Hermione, well, the two couples seem to live together as they spent so much time with each other. Ron and Harry at the office, the trio at lunch, Ginny and Hermione at shopping, Ron and Ginny playing Quidditch at the Burrow, Harry and Hermione with their interest in muggle cinema and the foursome at dinner every other night. It is safe to say they never got parted. 

The young couple got up and dressed and came down to the kitchen to find breakfast already made by their house-elf Flory, the daughter of Kreacher who had passed away a couple of years before, just after they got engaged. They lived at 12, Grimmauld Place. After the war, Harry had the place redone and they thought that for the time being, it was good enough for them. It was a bit big, but there was a room for little Teddy who liked to spend quite a good time there, Ron and Hermione had their own room as well and Harry and Ginny had there own studies (not that Ginny used all that much hers). 

Harry and Ron were working at the Auror Office at the Ministry of Magic, Hermione was at the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures and Ginny was happily playing as chaser for the Holyhead Harpies. Harry and Ginny couldn’t be better: they were happily married for over a year and stable at their jobs, earning quite good gold and more than enough so they could have a very nice financial stability. 

“So, we’ll be probably spending the day at the Burrow, aren’t we?” Ginny asks.

“Yeah, I guess. I mean I don’t think Ron and Hermione will have this urge of going home, are they? They have been together for 2 and an half weeks doing nothing more than, well, you know…”

“Shagging?”

Harry shivered and Ginny giggled of her husband’s reaction. 

“Stop it, Gin! It’s just that it’s weird to think of that! They are my best friends! Hermione is like my sister! I don’t know how you are being so cool, it is your brother after all”

“Well, it’s not like I stop to picture it, honey, but it is funnier to see your reaction to the thought than it is weird to think about it!”

“Aren’t you a teaser?” Harry started to tickle Ginny and they ended up laughing the whole way throughout the meal. After they were done, they got their jackets and went through the floo and left to the Burrow.