Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

Chapter 38
Ron had originally thought that starting to plan his and Hermione's wedding was a good idea, after all,
they needed to do it eventually. But then they had started, and he'd changed his mind. There were too
many things to consider. The invitations, the colors, the guest list, the food, the time, the place, the
decorations, the music, the list went on and on.
Hermione's mother had defiantly taken some of the strain off by organizing everything. She had a list
for everything. She had pushed them into planning right after they had had lunch on the first day, and
they had been working ever since.
It was now the second, and last day of his and Hermione's visit, right after lunch and still the only
things he and Hermione had come up with were the date, July 17th, a Saturday, they agreed to have it at
the Burrow, and they had started a guest list, which included all their school friends and both their
families so far. Now they were trying to expand the guest list.
"I think we have to invite our teachers, all of them," said Hermione stubbornly, absolutely refusing to
take no for an answer.
"Why, that's adding another 40 people to the guest list, and we already have 150 people with my family
and yours," said Ron.
"Well we can't just invite Hagrid and McGonagall with out inviting the other teachers; they've helped
us just as much as Hagrid and McGonagall."
"Yeah, but do you really want Lockhart at your wedding?" asked Ron.
Hermione hesitated, Lockhart had been their Defense against the Dark Arts teacher in their 2nd year, he
had caused more trouble than teaching and had eventually memory wiped himself, with a charm meant
for Ron. "Ok, maybe not all our teachers, but at least the ones we have now."
"Fine," said Ron giving up. He added Slughorn's, Flitwick's, Sprout's, and the Aquos' names to the list.
"You know that Slughorn will want his autographed don't you?"
Hermione moaned, "yeah, and then he'll put it in the scrap book he has with all the famous wedding
invitation's he has."
Ron just stared at her, his mouth hanging open. "I was kidding,"
"I'm not," said Hermione. "He showed it to us 6th year at one of his parties. He has all these invitations
that are signed by the bride and groom, it's scary what he keeps."
"Who's Slughorn?" asked Hermione's father.
"He's our potions teacher," Hermione sighed, "and he's kind of a fame follower. He picks the best and
brightest students at the school and treats them really well. He has parties that he invites his old
students that are now famous to and introduces all the current students to the old. Basically it's his way
of making sure that he has some part or another in the fame of almost everybody. He can then use it to
gain little things for himself. The thing is he doesn't want fame himself, just to bask in afterglow of
others fame. But he holds real power, just as he can set the course for somebody, he can destroy them
too, all he has to do is tell his old students that the student is a bad egg, and wham that person cant go
anywhere in the wizarding world."
"Oh," said Mr. Granger, not really able to formulate more to say.
"Well, we're inviting him, so we don't have to worry about him black listing us," said Ron.