Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

Chapter 54: Ron and Hermione's Wedding Day: Part 1: Hermione
The next two weeks went by as slowly as two weeks could. To the four friends it seemed like the days
dragged on for ever. They were working almost non-stop for 15-20 hours a day planning the weddings.
Ron was usually at George's shop from 10 in the morning to 8 at night, and when he got home all he
wanted to do was collapse on a the couch. But he knew that he'd be forced up if he did that, and
sometimes being forced up from a comfortable chair after a hard day was worse than not getting into
the chair in the first place.
So almost every day Ron would come home, eat his mother's amazing meals and then help Hermione,
Mrs. Granger and his mother plan his and Hermione's wedding. Usually all he did was agree with
Hermione's decisions on things like food, flowers, colors, and seating arraignments.
The great thing about the grueling schedule was that in only a week and a half the whole wedding was
all but planned. They had a guest list with all the people who had R.S.V., they had a seating chart, they
had food choices, and Hermione's mother said that the dresses were all but finished.
Ginny, who was helping with some of the things, noted that much of the planning that was being done
for Hermione and Ron's wedding could be applied to her and Harry's. They would be having almost
identical guest lists, minus Hermione's family. As Hermione and Ron picked flowers, colors and food,
so did Ginny and Harry. The result was that on the day before Ron and Hermione's wedding, Ginny and
Harry had their wedding half planned already.
The night before the wedding Hermione found her-self lying awake on a cot in Ginny's room. She and
Harry had switched rooms for the night. However much she told her parents she wanted to be part of
the magical world there were certain muggle superstitions that she still held. She refused to let Ron see
her for at least 24 hours before the wedding. This meant that she had to switch rooms with Harry for
the night and had spent her day avoiding Ron by spending the day with Ginny in London. It was a
small sacrifice, considering just how much time she and Ron would be spending together during their
honeymoon in Paris.
Harry had complained, saying that she could just as easily stay in George's empty room. Hermione had
immediately said that both she and Ron needed to be kept under watch for the night, just to make sure
one of them didn't sneak off. Ron had tried to be helpful by putting a blinding spell on himself, saying
that there was no reason he could be around her. After he walked into the second wall he changed his
mind, took the blinding spell off and agreed to have Hermione stay in Ginny's room.
Neither she nor Ron had slept with out the other in over a year, and tonight Hermione was finally
realizing just how much a part of her sleeping Ron had become. With out his slow rhythmic breathing
to lull her to sleep, his strong arms wrapped around her and his warm body pressed up against her
Hermione had a hard time getting comfortable.
Ginny was having trouble falling asleep also, for the same reasons as Hermione. Ginny and Harry
hadn't slept separately for over a year also. Now, the two girls stayed up late talking about their
respective fiancés.
By Midnight Hermione realized that she had to get some sleep or she would be in no shape to go to her
own wedding. She picked her wand up from the small bedside table that had been set up for her and
pointed it at temple. She muttered a quick sleeping spell, and gave it just enough juice so that she woke
in six hours, fully rested. As the spell hit her she instantly felt drowsy. She put her head down and fell
asleep before her eyes were fully closed.
Ginny, who was in need of sleep just as much as Hermione, decided on a more conventional approach;