A Comedy of Errors- There's no End Without an Error
Hermione laughed a little after hearing what had really happened. "Sorry, Harry, I shouldn't have been so accusing like that. I hope this has taught you a lesson on trusting our dear friend Ron with important documents. Anyhow, if I catch you kissing another girl again, explanations or not, I would be very mad and slap you across your face."
"Awe... Hermione, that's harsh!" pouted Harry as he closed up the distance between him and Hermione. "Come on, not even a friendly peck on the cheek from a friend?"
Hermione found herself drowning in the depth of the emerald pool in front of her. "Well, I... I guess. But... no hugging at the same time like today."
Harry grinned. He always knew he could win with Hermione. Unlike Ron, when ever he got into a little argument with Hermione, he could always have his way if he chose to. He moved even closer towards the muddy Hermione sitting in front of him (not that he was any better). Lightly, Harry brushed his lips against Hermione's mud covered face.
"Harry...," gasped Hermione as she felt the light brush. She tried so hard to turn away. She wanted to punish Harry a little more. However, as if she had been petrified, Hermione couldn't even turn her neck.
"Mmm... Muddy 'Mione, I like it," Harry sniffed Hermione's muddy hair.
"Harry!" groaned a helpless Hermione as Harry advanced upon her.
Grinning, the equally muddy Harry pulled away. "I was just joking! Much as I'd love to spend my entire night with you, my fair lady Hermione, I don't feel obliged to stay in this hole all night long. Care for a ride?" Harry stood up and extended a hand towards Hermione.
Hermione smiled shyly, "Oh, my knight in shiny amour Harry. Much as I'd love to go for a ride with you to the land where our beautiful dream lies, I do not feel obliged to fly on a broomstick. My fear for height would over-take me in the mid way... oh!"
Too late, Harry had lifted Hermione into his arms (honeymoon style) and sat astride his broomstick. Smiling down at Hermione once more, Harry kicked off in a bam.
Harry could feel Hermione tighten her hold. She buried her face into Harry's chest, not daring to look down. Harry smiled as he slowly pulled Firebolt to a halt. "Hermione, look! It's beautiful up here. We are sitting a the mist of the fluffy white clouds. Look, there are starts dancing around us. Just open your eyes and look."
Hermione clung tightly on to Harry as she risked a peek. "Oh my!" she gasped at the bewildering sight.
Harry had taken Hermione way up high in the sky. They were in the sky above the Forbidden Forest and near the lake. Just as Harry had described, clouds and stars were dancing around the couple. Owls could be heard in distant.
"Told you it's pretty up here," Harry whispered softly into Hermione's ears. He gently caressed Hermione's back. Then he spotted something down below. Softly, he chuckled.
"What is it?" asked Hermione curiously.
Harry pointed towards the lake. There, Ron and Luna stood quietly, leaning against each other.
A smile crept over Hermione's face and she snuggled contently towards Harry even more. "That's so cute!"
Harry reminded himself once more of what this date was supposed to be about when he cleared his throat nervously, "Um, Hermione?"
"Hmm?" answered a close-eyed Hermione, who leant back and was almost sitting on Harry's lap.
"Hermione, I know this hardly seems fit. You know, with all the accidents happening today. Ron should never have out the wrong card into the wrong envelope. Hedwig should never have given you the wrong thing. You should never have had to listen to Ron by the lake. I should never have let Luna kiss me by the Quidditch pitch. We should never have gotten into our mud fight with Malfoy and cover ourselves in mud," Harry glanced down at the muddy Hermione and his torn robe. "But, Hermione, the only reason that I have asked you out here tonight is that...." Harry began to fumble furiously in his robe.
Hermione could sense what was coming. She smiled and was waiting for the famous "marry me, Hermione" line and even a possible "I love you". However, what she heard instead was definitely something she had never expected to hear in her whole life.
"Oh MY GOD! I can't believe it!" exclaimed Harry in frustration. "This is awful! How could this happen? How did it happen? This can't be happening! Oh no!"
Hermione opened her eyes in alarm. "What is it, Harry?"
Harry groaned as he pulled his ripped in half pocket out of his robe. A large hole could be seen visibly on it. "The ring! I must have lost it during the mud fight! What ever have I done wrong to deserve all these... these accidents on my one truly special night? Oh, Hermione, I'm sorry...."
Harry never finished his apology. He suddenly found Hermione's mouth pressing against his.
"Shh!" soothed Hermione. "It's all right. There's no big deal. It's all right."
Harry pulled away gently. "Hermione, I... I was going to ask you to marry me tonight, but all these accidents just ruined it. I've even lost the most important thing of all. I'm really sorry. I guess you will never forgive me now."
"I do," answered Hermione as her tender gaze met Harry's eyes.
"P... pardon?" asked Harry in an almost inaudible whisper.
Hermione locked her chocolate eyes with Harry's green ones. "I do," she repeated. "I want to spend the rest of my life with you as your wife. We will be together forever."
Harry's gloomy heart soared with joy. Hermione accepted even though he didn't have an engagement ring. He pulled Hermione close to him and lifted her mud stained chin under the moonlight. Slowly, Harry leant towards Hermione's mud stained face and they shared a loving passionate kiss.
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As the happy couple kissed away up there in the sky, they were totally unaware of what was happening beneath them. They didn't know that their strange appearance in the sky had aroused the entire castle. Students, professors, caretakers, ghosts, house-elves and even owls and other animals all rushed out of the castle to get a better view of the famous Harry Potter's proposal.
By the lake, there were also two pairs of muddy couples, who were covered in just as much mud as the two above. Ron, Luna, Draco and Ginny held hands in excitement as more and more people rushed outside.
"Mr. Weasley!" exclaimed Professor McGonagall. "What happened to you six?"
Dumbledore placed a hand on McGonagall's shoulder. "This isn't the top priority at the moment. I think we should all focus our mind on the getting together of the to-be most famous couple of the century and remember this memorable date. It's not every day that you see the Boy-Who-Lived proposing to the love of his life."
Now rushing towards the lake, was Collin and his camera. Nimbly, he took all the photos he could of Harry and Hermione's kiss.
Finally, the couple above pulled away.
Upon seeing the content smile on Harry's face, Ron screamed, "He did it! She accepted!"
The whole school cheered, apart from the evil Slytherine that was. Even Draco cheered for Harry and Hermione, his two arch-enemy for seven years, on Ginny's behalf.
Many people got their wands out and began to fire fireworks around the couple.
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Harry and Hermione were shocked by the amount of noise the school made the minuet the broke from the kiss. In fact, they were so shocked that they lost their balance on the broomstick.
"Ah!" Harry and Hermione screamed together as they fell in an uncontrollable speed. Fireworks flew past them and they headed towards the lake, hand in hand.
Splash! The couple fell head first into the icy cold lake.
Our camera genius Collin even managed to capture a shot just before Harry and Hermione landed in the lake.
"Nice dunking performance, Potter!" yelled a laughing Malfoy, who was pinched by Ginny painfully for this comment.
"Brrr!" Harry's head popped back to the surface of the lake along with Hermione's. The pair swam ashore as soon as possible, not wanting to end their life together as fish food in the Hogwarts lake.
Dumbledore snapped his fingers and conjured two large warm woolen cloaks for Harry and Hermione. "Alas, much as I would love to leave you alone for some more romantic moments, Romeo and Juliet, you two must see Madam Pomfrey immediately."
The whole school cheered for them once again as the pair disappeared through the castle door.
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Later in the Hospital Wing, Harry and Hermione curled up side by side on a bed, sipping on a warming potion from Madam Pomfrey.
"You know, this has to be the most unique proposal ever happened in the entire history of the world," said Hermione thoughtfully. "I've never read about any thing like it."
Harry grinned at Hermione's usual reference to books. "No, I'm sure there hadn't been anything like it."
Hermione smiled sweetly at Harry. "Well, I'm sort of glade that the first couple to experience this happened to be us. I don't think I would ever forget this super special proposal."
"Neither," agreed Harry whole heartedly. "I have a feeling that the world won't ever forget it either."
The two exchanged a knowing grin as they leant towards each other and kissed once more.
"Oh yeah," reminded Harry as they broke apart, "remember to remind me that I still owe you an engagement ring as soon as we get out of the Hospital Wing."
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