A/N: This is during the summer between six and seventh year. About one week before school starts up again.
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"Mr. Granger sir?"
"Now Harry, I told you to call me Dan."
"Yes, alright Dan. Umm, I want you to know that I am very serious about my relationship with Hermione. I am asking your permission to ask her to marry me, not now mind you. I was thinking of asking her after school starts, I already have the ring it was my mum's."
"Well, guess Emma was right. There was an ulterior motive for your visit here this summer. Other than spending time with your girlfriend I mean. Harry, I want you to look at something, the girls won't be back for several hours still." Dan got up and walked into the livingroom; he took a large photo album down from the mantle and handed it to Harry. "We have kept every letter that she has sent us while in school. They are all in here, in order of course. She routinely sends us weekly updates. You will notice one thing, from her very first letter to the last, each one starts similarly with: Mum and Dad, Harry… She always mentions what you are up to first, then goes on to whatever else she wanted to tell us. You are certainly the only boy she has ever paid any attention to, almost had to put a ruddy restraining order on Krum. Imagine an eighteen year old asking a fourteen year old girl to come live with him for a month. The nerve, well she finally seems to have set him right anyway."
"Umm so is that a yes? Sir?"
"Yes Harry, you have our blessing to ask her. She has become so very happy since you two started going out, best friends make the best couples. Emma and I are the same, sure we have our differences but we can see both sides so we work it out."
"Thank you, I have always tried to make her happy."
"That you have son that you have. Go read some of those letters, just put it back on the mantle before they get back. She would be rather embarrassed to know you read them."
Two hours later Harry put the book of letters back on the mantle, she was pretty open in her letters to her parents over the years. Having known her so well for so long he could read into everything, probably better than her parents because he had lived through everything she had written them about.
He saw a flash of white on the back porch, it was Hedwig. He headed out to her, noticing she had two large official looking parcels. Dan looked up from his dental magazine he had been reading but went back to it when Harry headed out onto the porch. "Hey girl, how have they been treating you at Hogwarts?" He quickly untied the parcels from her legs and stroked her chest feathers. Hedwig hooted affectionately at him then hopped onto his forearm. Harry walked her inside and took her to the perch, then refilled the water bowl for her. She settled down after a long drink of water and went to sleep with a contented hoot.
"What did she bring?"
"Oh" Harry pulled the parcels out from his pocket and looked at them. They both had the Hogwarts seal on them, one addressed to Harry, and the other to Hermione. They had received their school letters nearly three weeks ago so this was something different. "Well one for Hermione and one for me, since they used Hedwig I will guess it is something pleasant. I think we just got made Head Boy and Girl. I'll wait for her to get back though before opening mine."
"Congradulations then and you're already thinking like a husband." He gave Harry a wink before going back to his magazine.
Blushing profusely he placed the parcels onto the counter, where Hermione would see them and went to get his swimming trunks on. Two minutes later Harry was swimming laps lazily in the pool, thinking about what had just happened today. Hermione had been very worried when she had only gotten a school letter, no Head Girl badge. She had written Harry and asked if he had been made Head Boy. He didn't really care about himself but knew she would be terribly disappointed if she was passed over. Knowing that they would have their own set of rooms now changed a few of his plans for the coming year. They wouldn't have to sneak around to find places to snog. Add to that the conversation with Dan earlier and he was feeling rather content with life currently. Just that nagging Voldemort problem to deal with and all would be well. Professor Dumbledore thought Voldemort was laying low, last year he had tried to use the Dementors to raid villages. Then Hermione had discovered a way to destroy them instead of just making them run off. Voldemort was left with only Bellatrix and Wormtail to do his bidding currently. He was surely recruiting new Death Eaters but they hadn't heard anything at all during the summer.
He was laying on his back floating in the water when a bikini clad Hermione flew over him and canon-balled into the water next to him. Her loud scream of joy told him she was rather happy. As the water crashed over him he couldn't help but smile, nothing better than having a happy Hermione. He stood and snatched her into his arms under the water. She was struggling to fix her top; he brought his lips to hers before bringing just their heads above water. He also twisted so he was blocking Hermione from anyone looking. Once her arms went around his neck he pulled back a little. "Welcome home dear, did you have fun shopping with your mum?"
She wrapped her legs around his waist. "Just fine Harry, just fine. Do you think we got Head Boy and Girl?"
That's my girl he thought, straight to what was on her mind. "That's my guess, wonder why they waited so long, normally that comes with the letters."
"I bet they had trouble with the board approving you and held mine until they could send them together."
He thought about that for a moment, "Most likely, why am I always the controversial one?"
She stretched up and lovingly kissed his scar. "That's why love, you're a marked man, my man!" She brought her lips back to his and kissed him possessively. When she pulled back she told him "You know we're going to have our own rooms then, oh."
The last oh was from him grinding his bulging trunks against her.
She whispered into his ear. "You'll have to sneak into my room again tonight, I'll take care of that umm problem for you love." She looked over his shoulder "Took you guys long enough to get your suits on."
Harry quickly started thinking about Snape in a dress instead of his bikini clad girlfriend.
"We were just giving you two some time alone dear." Harry heard Emma say as he scooped Hermione up and tossed her into the deep end her squeal of protest was cut off as she landed. He quickly dove after her.
An hour later they all headed inside for dinner. When they had all changed, Dan and Emma were getting dinner ready, Harry and Hermione finally opened the parcels from Hogwarts. Head badges fell out into their hands and they grinned at each other mischievously before opening the letters.
"Congratulations you two, well done!"
"Thanks Dad, what a relief."
Harry's grin widened. "Oh no, now she will be insufferable, the meek Hermione is gone for sure now."
She looked stunned at him for a moment before she protested. "Meek! Since when do you want me meek Mister Potter?"
Harry started laughing heartily at her expression. "Never Hermione, never." He saluted her "Yes Head Girl, thank you Head Girl."
She couldn't take it anymore and started tickling him; he promptly fell onto the floor writhing. She followed him continuing to tickle him mercilessly. "Take that Mister Potter."
Dan and Emma Granger peered over the counter at the two teens rolling around on the floor.
"Remind you of anyone Dan?"
Dan wrapped his wife in his arms before replying. "Maybe, I think I remember something like that about twenty years ago in your parents' house." He tenderly kissed his wife.
When they pulled apart she grinned at him "Smart man." Then pulled him into another tender kiss.
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A/N: The next chapter of Summer is still a ways off. This is the weekend I move into a new house, so I don't have time to sit and work on it currently. Hope this bit of fluff will help tide you over. My internet connection goes away in an hour; hopefully it will be up tomorrow at the new house. Please read and review, as always thanks a lot. For those of you curious, Yes I used the same parents for Hermione as I have used in Summer, couldn't think of a reason to develop different personalities for them when the ones in my head still fit here so well.
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