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Sorry for posting again I am just so grateful! My new book is a fantasy about our protagonist who wakes up in a medical clinic without any memories! You can follow him on his quest to find himself and find out why he is being chased by the king's army. It is a strange and new world, hopefully unlike anything you have ever seen! I am taking my time with it and I pray I won't disappoint any of you! Thank you all so much, I am forever grateful.

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Today was the day, the day they had looked forward to, and dreaded all the same. On one hand he liked Susan a lot, and she him. And on the other hand, they weren't ready, they weren't ready in the slightest. But they had agreed to one thing, they would carry out how they did now even after the ceremony. They would take it slow… Well as slow as they could, both of them knowing the stipulations and what they would have to do sooner rather than later.

But that was for another day. The ceremony was to happen at sunset, which had always been a dream of hers. And he was still yet to know where exactly he would be getting married. The ceremony was to take place at 8:30PM and he had been given a portkey that would take him there at 6:00. Currently it was 5:57 and he couldn't have been more nervous.

He had been told he would be joining the rest of his party at the location and all of his things were there waiting for him and he had nothing to worry about. That got him thinking about Susan, she was great. She had planned most of this herself, all the while dealing with the situation better than he ever imagined someone could. She kept her mind open to him and didn't at least openly hate him for his reluctant part in this situation. But despite all of that he liked her, he harbored a small crush on her which was hilarious considering they would be Mister and Missus Potter. She was what he had always hoped for growing up, she was clever, kind, funny, caring, and everything in between. She was like him in a way, losing her parents in the first war and she understood his pain in ways others had only claimed to. She understood being alone, at least in part due to her having no siblings like himself. The more and more he thought the more they had in common, not least of all both of them being stuck in the same situation at the moment… and the rest of their lives.

He needed somebody to talk to, he needed to figure out what he would do.

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Susan's day had been a lot more stressful, the bride getting ready was hours of preparation. She had do get makeup done, her hair, her nails, as well as checking on all the preparations. Luckily she had a team of girls more than willing to help her. Hannah, her cousin Laura, cousin Sara, and her friend Abigail Thompson who was a Hufflepuff in her year that she considered her second close friend. Also joining them was Hermione Granger who wasn't there for her, but there to prepare. But she had to admit she did have an ulterior motive.

She wanted to talk to Hermione about Harry, she wanted to ask for advice about Harry as well as clear any air that was between them. So, she waited until the rest of her friends and family took a scheduled step out of the the room to make her move.

"Hermione?" Susan asked softly.

"Hmm?" She replied.

"Well I was hoping I could ask you something?" Susan asked hesitantly.

"Sure." Hermione answered simply.

"Well, I don't want to beat around the bush, because you're smarter than that. Do you like Harry?" Susan blurted out. Hermione paused, and looked shocked from the question. But her eyes did avert her gaze and she began to worry and fear for the worst.

"I do, more than just a friend, as you might have guessed." Hermione answered uncomfortably.

"I'm sorry Hermione, I didn't ask for this. I'm just doing the best I can." Susan replied apologetically.

"I'm not mad at you, and it was just a crush. Everybody has crushes and they come and go. Yeah, I'm a bit sad that I won't have a chance. But above all I want to see him happy. So, here's my advice, listen to him, Harry will say less than he means. But listen to him, his gut is usually right and even if it isn't… someone has to catch him when he falls. Ron and I are going to be there for him, I just hope you're okay with that because Harry is my family and Ron's too. He needs us, but I think he needs you too. Trust him to do the right thing, he's not the smartest, he isn't that tactical even, but his heart is true." Hermione cautioned her, a single tear running down her cheek.

"Thank you, Hermione, I promise that I'll treat him right." Susan promised.

"Thank you." Hermione said taking Susan into a hug.

The two hugged, Susan really was sorry she was marring the girls crush. She only hoped that the brown-haired girl wouldn't hold it against her and that they could possibly become friends.

"By the way, the venue… you really do listen, he's going to love this." She said, motioning out of the nearest window overlooking the body if water.

"Thank you, I thought he would." Susan replied with a smile.

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"She did really good," Harry said, tears threatening to fall when he looked to his four-poster bed. This place had been his home since he was eleven, and he had never thought of it like this. But it was the perfect place for the ceremony.

He had arrived at Hogwarts, wide eyed. When he took the Portkey, he never would've imagined that he would be standing at the school. His groomsmen were waiting for him and they lead him toward the boy's dormitory where they changed into their dress robes. Unlike the girls however they finished dressing in less than a half hour and it left them with over an hour to kill.

But his mind was running a million miles an hour. He hadn't even kissed a girl and he was going to be married by the end of the day.

"Mate… I know I'm not the best one to talk to about serious things… or at least I wasn't. But things are changing… and I have to as well. I know that it could be any day now that he comes… and I hope you know that I will be right there by your side. What happened in fourth year, that will never happen again. I'll be here, until the end." His red headed best friend said while stepping forward. Harry was shocked at the sheer maturity of the conversation. It sounded almost like Dumbledore in a way.

"Thanks mate, it means a lot." Harry replied simply.

"Is there anything you want to talk about?" Ron asked skeptically.

"I'm afraid, I didn't ask for any of this. And neither did she. Not only will she be in so much danger because of me, we really don't have a chance like this, and the worst part is I like her. And I could see myself wanting to be with her. But it's all different now, something could have been but now we have to. Maybe if we had known sooner. I'm afraid that if I do begin to feel something for her, it'll be because of the spells. But if I don't, then I'll live however short of life I will have unhappy." Harry admitted.

"I'll be honest mate I can only guess about how you're feeling. All I can say is Susan is a great girl, and if you feel something for her now there's no telling you wouldn't have liked each other if you had spent more time together. I know it's not what you would've wanted, but maybe look at it like a nudge in the right direction. I know it's more than a nudge, but you'll only get through this with a little faith." Ron explained in the wisest statement he had ever made.

"There's a lot I have to tell you two about. New stuff, and some things I should have told you a while ago. I can't see Susan until the ceremony, so would you please get Hermione and meet me in the common room?" Harry asked, before he had even finished Ron was nodding and making his way towards the Hufflepuff Common Room.

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"Could I steal Hermione?" Ron asked dumbly staring at the group of formally dressed women. He did his best to keep his eyes off of his mate's bride but was finding it no easy task. The short redhead's figure commanded the attention of the room and Ron smiled on his mate's behalf. Harry had it rough, and if anyone deserved to be happy it was him.

He had never really thought of Susan, only because she was in a league of her own when it came to looks. Right next to Daphne Greengrass and Fleur Delacour. She was the type of witch he figured married a family incredibly rich and lived a life of luxury.

But she had been in the DA with him and he had learned the hard way she was more than a pretty face. When he had been on the receiving end of a watered down redecto and had a bruised rib to remember not to judge a book by its cover.

After that incident he had painfully been reminded the next three weeks not to get caught staring. And it was then that he considered that maybe growing up hadn't started today and it may have even started that day. The fight in the Department of Mysteries had been another wakeup call he had received. They had charged in and had suffered for it; Hermione had been hit with a nasty curse and those brains had done a number on him. Even today he had the random headaches and the occasional nightmare of being held with a wand to his throat. In those moments he grew up, he wasn't a student he was a soldier for one Harry James Potter. At the end of the day he didn't come to be brave, he didn't come because his family would, and he didn't even come for Sirius. He came because Harry was going regardless. And those months in the DA had changed them all. While the parchment may have read 'Dumbledore's Army' they all knew it should have read Potter's Army. He was not alone in looking to Harry as more than a friend, as a leader and a protector.

Hermione looked beautiful in the black dress. She was a pretty girl, and he remembered the crush he had on her until recently. He had developed some feelings for her in their fourth year, and they had continued through most of the prior year. But through it all those feelings had faded, he remembered all of the fights they had, the pointless arguments and spats and he knew. He knew that even if she had given him a chance that it would never work, and he would just end up splintering their relationship as a trio.

He had however let his mind drift towards another witch in their year by the name of Lavender Brown. She was more his type, less bookie, less judgmental, supportive, and didn't make him feel stupid. Not that the last one was Hermione's fault in any way. But it was the truth that she could make him feel small. In the end they were just too different. He planned on getting to know Lavender better and see if they had any similarities.

"Ronald?" Hermione broke him from his thoughts.

"Hey, Harry wants to talk to us about some stuff in the common room." Ron replied simply. Hermione nodded and followed him.

"I'm sorry for you by the way, all of this. I could tell you fancy Harry, and if you don't. Well it looked like that at least, even to me." Ron said softly. Hermione stiffened and her eyes went wide at his words, and they found themselves held up in the middle of the hall.

"It is just a crush… people have lots of them. Especially on Harry, considering it would almost be hard not to. But I'm okay, I've had a lot of time to think about it, and deal with it. But I think I'll be alright." Hermione replied with her head down.

"Well I'm still sorry about it. I don't reckon it feels any good." Ron said with a hand on her shoulder and a small squeeze.

"Thanks Ron." She said taking him in a small hug. Ron patted her on the back uncomfortably doing his best to comfort her.

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The Golden Trio had assembled in the common room. A familiar sight to any who accommodated the house.

"There have been some changes… since the Hall of Prophecies and it has been long enough. There are things that you guys need to know." Harry said gravely.

"Well lay it on us mate, can't be much worse than before." Ron laughed nervously, prompting Harry to continue.

"Well you guys know about the prophesy now, but there is something else. Something newer. Remember when I told you guys about 'the power he knows not'" Harry started.

"Yeah mate I do; I also remember seeing you go all lightning and killing that masked loon. Nice job by the way. And I'm no Hermione, but I reckon that was the power." Ron said sheepishly, realizing his interjection.

"I would have to agree with Ronald… for once. If that wasn't the powers, then Voldemort is in trouble." Hermione said with a rare laugh when using his name. Ron only flinched slightly which was a warm welcome.

"And that is why I called you two here. I talked with Dumbledore and he went over my memory and we talked. He said that I am an elemental, the first in hundreds of years apparently. Well we weren't sure at first, but I did some meditating and eventually I was able to enter the spirit world and I talked to Merlin, who was an elemental. He told me to boil water, and then come back." Harry explained to his two friends who seemed to take a moment to take in what they had been told.

"I have only seen elementals mentioned, never really caught my attention. But I know they had a connection to the four elements. I know they could bend them to their will in ways unlike wizards. I know that they can heal fast. Other than that, I don't know." Hermione said in a voice that told him that she would spend her time after this reading up on him as much as she possibly could.

"Well what you said is basically all I know as well." Harry said.

"Well that is… awesome mate! That was so cool when you shot the lightning! I was hoping you would be able to teach me, but I guess not!" Ron laughed.

"Does Susan know?" Hermione asked when Ron had finished.

"Not yet, I haven't told her much, not as much as I should anyway. But I plan too, just not now." Harry answered honestly. Hermione nodded and a silence settled over them.

"Well for now… worry about the redhead who is out there and actually excited. As far as I can tell at least. It is her wedding day, even if she didn't ask for it." Hermione said with a tinge of something Harry couldn't quite place.

"She's right mate, things aren't perfect, and they never will be. But that doesn't mean you can't try to be good." Ron said uncharacteristically wise. Hermione looked to him in shock, considering his emotional range could generally fit into a teaspoon.

"Thanks Ron." Harry said as the three of them looked between one another. And then they burst out laughing.

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It was time for the meeting of the Bones and Potter legacies. It was a moment that had been long awaited by their ancestors, that had come too fast for the young heirs.

Which is why he understood the jitters inside his stomach, he knew that this was it. The dawn before new light and a new life.

He liked Susan; of that he was sure. When he was with her, he felt like… himself. It was like when he was with Ron and Hermione. But this was different, she wasn't yet a part of his crazy life. But it was on the horizon, and he could only have hope that she was ready to endure the incoming storm.

Unlike Ron and Hermione, she understood what it was like without your parents, and feeling aloe being an only child. She knew war better than most, she knew loss.

They had bonded over it, and it had helped them both. And now they would be bonded for the rest of their lives, in his case could be pretty short. But that was okay, for the first time in forever he felt a level of confidence, this new power could level the playing field.

But he pushed those thoughts from his mind. It was his wedding day and he was looking over the crowd of people who had attended by the Black Lake. He could see the Weasley's who waved to him. Both of them had replied from his invitation with confusion, but as they promised they did not tell them the true reason behind the union, he had simply said that he had fallen over his broom for her and that they were going to be married. He also included that he thought of them as his direct family and that he plead for them to not ask questions because he couldn't answer. Ron told them more of the same and as far as he could tell things were still good between them.

His other guests, mostly teachers and a few fellow students also looked confused. Except for Hagrid who was bawling his eyes out at his table next to Fang who was napping the evening away. Remus peered over at him from the Tonks table where Harry had placed him so they could get the hint. He smiled at his honorary nephew and Harry smiled back at his last true line to his parents and Sirius.

And then the music started playing, a piano enchanted to play itself. A beautiful melody struck him like a phoenix song. He looked to his right and winked at Dumbledore who smiled back and pointed above them. Looking up he noticed that Fawkes was singing right above his very head on the arch. He imagined it was a sight to behold. But it couldn't compare to the woman that approached him.