Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

When they did meet back up, in front of Ollivander's, Ginny was smiling lightly and Harry had a
straight face on and kept patting his jacket pocket, as if to make sure something was still there.
As they were walking back to WWW to Floo back to number 12 Ginny suddenly said, "Oh, bloody
hell, we forgot to get something for Charley."
"Oh, right," said Harry, looking around wildly as if something would just pop out of one of the shops.
"Well, what's he into?"
"Quidditch," said Ginny thoughtfully, "at least when he was at school that's what he was into, that and
Dragons." She frowned, "But now, I'm not really sure."
Harry and Ginny started walking back up the alley and when they passed Madam Malkin's Robes for
All Occasions Harry saw a pair of self warming dragon hide gloves that would be perfect for somebody
working in cold temperatures like Charley was. They bought them and were soon on their way back to
WWW to go home.
They arrived at the shop and realized that George and Angelina, who were in Africa visiting Angelina's
parents, weren't there.
"Well, we could just apparate," said Harry.
"With all this crap," Ginny said, indicating the bags in both their arms with a nod of her head, "no way,
our arms will be ripped off or the packages will break."
"Well it's that or we walk all the way back to the Leakey Caldron," Harry said. He looked pointedly up
the street that by now was crowded by witches and wizards who had forgotten or, like Harry and Ginny,
had procrastinated about their Christmas shopping.
Ginny sighed heavily, "Alright, I'll apparate, but if anything breaks…"
"We'll use a repair charm on it," said Harry, quickly cutting her off. Harry quickly turned on the spot,
and with a jingle and a pop he was gone.
"Harry Potter," Ginny muttered to herself, "what do I see in him?" and with that she too turned on the
spot, concentrating completely on number 12 Grimmuald place, and with a similar jingle and pop she
was gone. She arrived just inside the door, to a curtained Mrs. Black.
Ginny saw the curtains try to pull themselves open but they couldn't, almost as if the curtains had been
sealed down the middle. Looking around she saw Harry starting to go into the basement dining room.
"Harry," she called out, "what happened to Mrs. Black?"
"She died a long time ago Gin," said Harry, unable to avoid the opportunity to poke fun at his
girlfriend.
"No, you know what I mean," said Ginny, indicating the sealed curtains.
"Oh, that," said Harry, playing dumb, "Kreacher said that he was getting annoyed with Mrs. Black's
ramblings. And since the portrait can't be taken down he found 'other means' to shut her up."
"Oh," gasped Ginny quite surprised at the elf's actions, "I thought he loved that portrait."
"He did, but then we started being nice to him, and his views… changed," said Harry with a smile as he
went down into the dining room.
Ginny followed him down there and the two of them spent the rest of the day wrapping presents the
muggle way. Harry taught Ginny, who quickly learned, and soon was wrapping presents faster than
Harry could.