Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

"Right…muggles. Didn't you say you had friends who had one magical parent and one muggle parent?"
"Yes." Said Hermione hesitantly, seeing where her father was going. "But they all had different ways of
doing things. Some of the magical parents didn't tell the muggle parents that they were witches or
wizards until after they were married. Others had muggle style weddings. But the ones who had wizard
style weddings didn't have the muggle portion of their family there."
"Oh," said Mr. Granger, his face falling. He looked at Hermione, "dear, you know you're the only
grandchild for both sides of the family, and you know that no matter what, we'll support you in what
you chose. We know you've decided to embrace the magical world, and we support you in that, but it
would mean a lot to your grandparents to be able to be at the wedding of their only grandchild."
Hermione's face fell also, "yeah, I know." She looked at her parents, then at Ron. She knew Ron would
support her either way, and so would her parents, but having to choose felt like tearing herself apart. It
was true that she has spent almost 8 years of her life as a witch, but before that she had lived as a
muggle, doing things by hand, with out magic. It felt like no matter what she chose, she would be
betraying a part of her self, and a part of her family.
Ron, seeing the anguish in his fiancé's face, spoke up at this point, "There could be a way to have
people there, but it means that they'll have to be put under a spell which could be a bit dangerous to
them."
"What is it?!" asked Mrs. Granger, excitedly.
Ron looked at both Mr. and Mrs. Granger slowly, "it's a type of memory charm," he said, waiting to see
their reaction. When they didn't immediately look like they were about to reject it he continued. "What
it does is it modifies a person's perception of an event. What we would have to do is modify your
family's perception of magic."
"How?" asked a now skeptical Mr. Granger. It wasn't that he didn't believe it was possible, he had seen
Hermione do some amazing things with magic, and it was more that he was afraid for his family's well
being.
"Well we'd have to keep the magic to a minimum," said Ron, "but even if we did that they're still going
to see some magic. Basically what the charm does is it erases the memory of the magic and replaces it
with a plausible muggle alternative."
Hermione stared at Ron in utter disbelief. "Ron, where did you learn about this?" she asked
"I talked to Flitwick a few weeks ago." He said. "I knew we were going to have to start planning soon,
and I knew this problem would come up eventually. I asked him if there was a way for your family to
be there and not have to get their memories completely wiped afterwards. He told me about this spell;
it's called the perception spell."
"Well why didn't you mention it before?" asked Mrs. Weasley.
"Because its side effects are dangerous and the spell is really hard to perform." Said Ron
"Well how dangerous?" asked Mrs. Weasley, "if the side effects are like the memory charm we had put
on us than it'll only be a bit of memory loss"
"No, it's not just some memory loss, there's a chance of death if the spell isn't performed right. The way
Flitwick explained it was that the muggle's brain has to supply the images to 'hide' the magic and if the
spell isn't done properly the brain gets over worked and basically explodes inside the skull." Ron's tone
was sad through out his explanation, he knew Hermione well enough to know that if her parents didn't
want to take the risk of the perception spell than the choice between a muggle and wizard wedding
would tear Hermione up. and that even if she was able to choose, the choice would tear her up inside