Title - Soul Charming (Epilogue)
Author - Spaz141
Rating - PG13
Category - Romance/Fluff
Warnings - none
Pairings -
HG/OW; HG/HP
RW/LL
GW/HP; GW/NL; GW/DM; GW/OW
Summary - I believe that a person can fall in love more than once in a lifetime and this is basically what this story is about. The main plot is borrowed from an episode of Sabrina the Teenaged Witch. Do you believe in soul mates? This is a Hermione based story from her point of view.
Disclaimer - I own nothing, not the characters, not the plot, not even original characters - I have "borrowed" it all. I have read and been influenced by so many stories if you recognize something belongs to you let me know and I will acknowledge you accordingly.
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Fifteen years plus a few weeks later - The Wood's Home
"Oliver Wood! Get over here and give me a hug. Now!" I bellow as the sexy Scotsman manoeuvres his way over to me. He gently wraps his arms around my waist and gives my swollen abdomen a gentle rub as he kisses my cheek. "How are you and the little sproglet holding up, luv?"
I smile at him, Ginny is right after all these years he still looks "shaggable." Speaking of Ginny, she soon joins us. "Oliver, don't even think about it. I am done."
"I know luv, I know. I am honoured to be the father of the six beautiful children you have given me." I can't help but sigh as he breaks away from me to give his wife a thorough snog. "We have our Quidditch team what more could a wizard want." he winks as his wife playfully socks him in the gut.
Yes. That's right; Ginny Weasley married Oliver Wood. It seems they are soul mates. After I left church that day, Ginny walked over to Oliver to see how he was doing when she tripped and fell into him. He was holding his soul charm lost in thought when Ginny's soul charm conveniently broke free from around her neck and dropped on top of his. The two charms glowed gold and melded together. After recovering from the initial shock they wasted no time. They hand fasted right there in the Muggle church's foyer. A year and a day later they sealed their union holding their baby son in their arms. There really must be something to this soul charm spell because they are so unbelievably perfect for each one really can't question them being together.
They have six amazing children four boys, Harvey, Josh, Aaron and Eugine and two girls Matilda and Olivia.
Oliver is retiring from Quidditch this is his last season with Puddlemere United after twenty-five years with the team. He even got to play for England in the World Cup a few years back.
After years as fashion editor for the Daily Profit Ginny left to start her own consulting business. She is currently stylist to many affluent people in the wizarding world including the newly appointed Minister of Magic, Neville Longbottom.
Upon learning of Ginny's sudden marriage, Draco Malfoy finally bowed to family pressure and married Pansy Parkinson. After ten years of marriage Pansy was killed in a bizarre gardening accident that the authorities decided was best left unsolved. He is raising his two daughters on his own and currently dating but has no immediate plans to remarry.
Ron and Luna added five more girls to their family, Venus, Cassiopeia, Starla, Veronica and Sabrina and a son Ron Jr. who was born last year. Its hard to believe that Celestia will be starting her fifth year at Hogwarts. Time sure does fly by.
Ron retired from Quidditch after ten years with the Cannons and he and Luna currently manage the Quibbler, which has become the must read magazine for wizards in the know.
Oliver and Ginny's impromptu marriage wasn't the only strange occurrence that fateful day. My mother after storming out of the church in a huff ran smack into Severus Snape. He skilfully caught her up in his arms preventing her fall. My dear mother then became a rare beneficiary of the usually snarky Potions Master's charm when he offered to take her to lunch in a gallant effort to help calm her nerves. Lunch evolved into an invitation to dinner that ended with breakfast the next day. To my great delight and my mother's surprise, two things happened as a result of their encounter, Severus Snape became my stepfather and about five months after that my mother at the age of forty-eight gave birth to my sister Saffron (now a fourth year Ravenclaw). I still shake my head at the memory of Severus Snape asking my permission to court my mother, the same day that Harry and I realised...
Harry and I took things slow. We dated for two years and then on my twenty-eighth birthday he asked me to be his bride. We had a very short engagement and married in a church ceremony that Christmas Eve and completed our hand fasting a week later on New Year's Eve. We made it a weeklong event, incorporating as many wizarding and Muggle customs as we could. My mother had forgiven me for cancelling the first wedding. She said just before Severus escorted me down the aisle that she always thought I should be with Harry. I asked her why she waited until now to tell me that, I still chuckle at her response, "Some things you just have to figure out for yourself luv."
A year and a day later on New Year's Day, our son Balthazar was born about four hours after we sealed our union. Our second child, a daughter, who we will name Beatrice, is due to make her arrival any day now.
After our son's birth, Harry retired from the Unspeakables deciding to be a full-time stay at home dad. He did take time out to play for England in three World Cups including the same one as Oliver, giving England its first win in 200 years. Harry has received a great deal of pressure to go professional over the years, but he always refuses. Stating that he was happy with his current position and the occasional filling in as Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts. I am so proud to be his wife and the mother of his children.
Me? I'm back at Hogwarts as a professor. After Albus and Minerva's respective retirements, Severus was offered the Headmaster position. I was flattered to learn that he would only accept the position if I joined the staff as Potions Professor. He was quoted once of saying that his stepdaughter was the only person he trusted with the deadly ingredients/inattentive students' combination that is potions teaching. With Harry's support I left my position at the Ministry and joined the Hogwarts staff. I'm the first witch to ever hold this position at Hogwarts.
Every summer we all get together for a big party at Oliver and Ginny's home before the older children head off to Hogwarts.
I feel him before he actually touches me. "I love you," he whispers in my ear as his arms wrap around my abdomen from behind.
I lean back into him, "I love you more." I know he's smiling. He kisses my neck and slowly turns me around. "One more year and then Balz will be at Hogwarts." I say with a hint of sadness, "I know you wanted a house full of children…thank you for compromising."
"Hermione, I am a contented man."
"Harry?"
"Yes luv."
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"Everything."
~ Soul Charming ~
Notes:
I know nothing about hand fasting other than what I have read in fan fiction. I have winged it so to speak.
"Bizarre gardening accident" is borrowed from This is…Spinal Tap
Thank you MWood2182, PoppyWillow and MisCard for your wonderful support and encouragement.
This is my first piece of fan fiction.