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Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

Harry watched his closest friends messing about in the lounge of Grimmauld Place, his gaze fixed on one in particular. It was so nice to see her smiling and laughing, it was a rare sight these days for any of them to smile and laugh as the war came ever closer. But tonight they were gathered to belatedly celebrate their graduation from Hogwarts only weeks before, this had been their first opportunity to celebrate, and as Headquarters had moved to Hogwarts for the summer they were free to use Harry's home for the evening.

Harry's gaze skimmed around the room, looking at Ron, Luna, Fred, George, Ginny, Neville and Hermione all laughing together. He really had to sort himself out, it was getting ridiculous the amount of time he spent every day thinking about her. He'd tried before to tell her how he felt, but every time he seemed to lose his nerve, it was getting rather pathetic.

Hermione caught his eye, and Harry felt a blush creep across his cheeks as he realised he'd been caught staring at her. She tilted her head, looking at him. She smiled and he smiled in return before heading out to the kitchen to get some more snacks, with 4 Weasley's around you always needed more snacks.

Harry walked through the large kitchen and opened the pantry door, perusing the items inside. He knew the moment she entered the kitchen and smiled to himself, he always knew it was her.

Hermione walked over and stood behind Harry, her arms loosely around his waist, her chin resting on his shoulder.

"Hey you, anything interesting in there?" Spoke the voice he so loved to hear.

"Hey you." He said softly in reply.

"You ok tonight Harry?" Hermione asked. Harry was silent for a moment as he considered her question.

"I actually am…tonight. It's like, well, I can almost imagine that Voldemort doesn't exist and we're all just friends relaxing together." Harry turned to look at Hermione and saw her smiling sadly.

"Me too." She replied quietly. "Maybe we're just being given a glimpse of what our what our future could be."

"Do you think we all have a future then?" Harry asked earnestly, suddenly needing to hear the answer to the question he was really asking. Hermione looked at him intensely, knowing exactly what he was really asking.

"You are going to survive Harry." She said simply.

"Do you really believe that?"

"Yes. And I have to believe it. I have to imagine us all in the future - happy - and it wouldn't be happy without you…" She spoke hurriedly, suddenly avoiding his eyes as she trailed off into silence.

"Sometimes, at night, I let myself imagine what it could be like. I try so hard not to let myself be drawn in, but it's almost like looking into the Mirror of Erised, I see our lives once this is all over. It's dangerous - I shouldn't be losing focus on the fight - if I do then I will die."

Hermione reached out and took his hands linking their fingers together, gently tugging at his hands, they sat on the floor side by side, their backs leaning against the kitchen wall, hands still entwined.

"What do you see? What are we all doing in this future then?" Hermione asked, her curiosity getting the better of her. She watched as Harry leant his head back against the wall and closed his eyes, a wistful smile on his face.

"Well, Ron will be eating us all out of house and home, of course blaming it on his training for Quidditch as he'll no doubt be playing for the Cannons. Neville and Ginny will get married and start an enormous family in true Weasley tradition. You'll be working at the Ministry, probably reorganising everything as an Unspeakable, then after a few years you'll be teaching at Hogwarts and inspiring hundreds of students to read Hogwarts: A History. We'll all have evenings like this, and Sunday's at The Burrow like we used to all those summers ago." Harry opened his eyes and blushed a little as he looked across at his best friend.

"And what about you Harry? What's your happy ending?"

Harry looked up into those warm chestnut eyes and decided to go for it; it was time to show some of that famous Gryffindor courage he'd been lacking for the last six months.

"Me? Well, maybe I'll finally get around to telling you just how much you mean to me. Just how perfect you are - and, how much I love you. Then, if that goes well then we could live happily ever after, and if it doesn't go well, then, I'll just have to call you up a thousand times a day, and ask you to marry me in some old fashioned way, until you realise that I could never be happy without you, and hopefully you'd come to feel the same about me, if you hadn't hexed me into oblivion first…"

There was a few seconds of stunned silence as Harry realised he'd just blurted everything out and practically proposed to his best friend on the kitchen floor, and Hermione looked up at him, her eyes wide with shock. After a moment she smiled shyly and Harry's heart suddenly seemed to start beating again, at least she didn't appear to be angry with him. They remained in silence as Hermione gently reached her hand up and brushed Harry's messy hair away from his forehead, exposing the famous scar, her hand then moving to cup the back of his head and pulling his face towards hers and gently placing her lips on his. Hermione could feel the enormous smile spreading across Harry's face as she deepened the kiss, eventually pulling away to rest her forehead against his own, green eyes staring intently into brown ones.

"I love you." Harry repeated quietly, his hand holding hers tightly.

" I love you too." Hermione replied with a grin. Harry replied by pulling her into a bone-crushing hug as she laughed delightedly, and buried her face in his shoulder.

They were interrupted at that moment by the unmistakable sound of Ron's voice yelling from the next room.

"Did you two get lost in there? I thought you were bringing more snacks - I'm starving here!"

Harry laughed and released Hermione from the hug, extending a hand and pulling her gently to her feet so they stood face to face.

"I guess we'd better find him some snacks before he starts eating the furniture." Hermione said with a shy smile, her eyes never leaving Harry's. The snacks were forgotten for several moments however as he kissed her again, and when they parted she was breathless but grinning like the Cheshire cat.

They quickly gathered some food together and started to head back across the kitchen when Hermione spoke his name. Harry paused and turned to look slightly over his shoulder questioningly.

"You…you wouldn't have to call me a thousand times a day, I think you'd be ok with my first answer." She said quietly, yet clearly. Harry turned fully to look at her, a smile spreading across his face.

"I haven't asked yet." He teased softly, smiling at her.

Hermione's eyes widened before she grinned and stuck her tongue out at him. Harry chuckled, and walking the few steps between them he kissed her once more before ushering out the kitchen, as they entered the lounge Ron lunged at the food, taking it eagerly from Hermione as she sat back down, and Harry spoke again.

"I will though."

Hermione looked across at him in surprise, as did everyone else in the room, curious as to what Harry was talking about.

"Will what?" Ron asked through a mouthful of Pumpkin Pasty.

"Propose to `Mione." Harry replied matter of factly, causing Hermione to blush, Ginny to squeal, and Ron to spit Pumpkin Pasty over the unfortunate Luna.

"Did we miss something?" Neville asked with a raised eyebrow as Harry took his seat next to Hermione on the sofa, with a cheeky grin.

"You could say that." Hermione laughed before Harry kissed her once more and their friends yelled with delight.

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Based on `Every Little Thing She Does is Magic' by The Police

Though I've tried before to tell her
Of the feelings I have for her in my heart
Every time that I come near her
I just lose my nerve
As I've done from the start

Every little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on

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