Harry climbed out of his bed happily and went straight for the shower. After he was cleaned up and dressed, he headed for the living room.
When Harry came out of his room, his dads were in the kitchen drinking tea and trying to wake up.
"I want to ask Hermione to marry me." Harry said, entering the kitchen.
His dads looked up from their tea, a bit bewildered. "Are you sure?" Sirius asked.
"Yup. Absolutely." Harry answered.
"Your father and I will have to talk about this first, before we can give our permission." Remus said.
"I figured, that's why I told you now. I'd like to purpose soon, and I figured you two would need time to think." Harry explained.
His fathers nodded, impressed that their son was thinking ahead, even if it was only a few days ahead.
Harry said goodbye to his fathers, for the day, and headed to meet Hermione and escort her to breakfast.
When they met outside Gryffindor tower, Hermione's eyes were still red and puffy, and it was quite obvious that she hadn't gotten much sleep, which made Harry feel about guilty when he thought of the pleasant dreams that he had the night before.
"Good morning love," Harry said gently as he took her hand.
"Morning," Hermione said, her voice sounded a little depressed and it was obvious that she wasn't going to be as cheery as Harry for a little while.
"We have to tell everyone," Hermione said quietly. "I have to move out of my Head Girl rooms today, and tonight at dinner I think Dumbledore will have to announce the new Head Girl. I packed all my personal things last night and the elves are supposed to move them to a new set of rooms down the hall from where I was."
Harry stopped in the middle of the hallway and pulled Hermione into a tight hug. "We'll start with Ginny and Luna and we can go from there, ok?"
Hermione nodded, tears shining in her eyes, and they continued to the Great Hall.
Harry stopped her once more just outside the giant doors. "I'm sorry Hermione. I'm really sorry. I'd go back in time and use a spell or something if I could, but I would never change making love you to. I love you so much, and we're going to love these babies more than anything in the world. I know it changes our future a lot, but we'll get through it, I promise you that."
Hermione threw her arms around Harry's neck and hugged him tightly. "Thank you. I think I needed to hear that," she whispered.
Harry kissed her cheek and they headed into breakfast together.
Sitting down beside Ginny, with Harry on her other side, Hermione ate a piece of dry toast and drank a cup of tea quietly.
Ginny gave her friend a pointed look, but didn't say anything.
"I need to talk to you after last class today," Hermione said quietly. "Harry and I will meet you in the Room of Requirement at 3."
Ginny nodded, very curious about what was going on, but figured that she had some idea, so rather than questioning her friend, she just agreed and got up to head to her first class. "I'll see you then, I've got Potions first thing this morning, and we all know how bat-boy gets if anyone is late."
The red-headed witch's joke brought a small smile to Hermione's face, and she and Harry waved goodbye to their friend, and Hermione watched, slightly green, as Harry gulped down the rest of his breakfast so that they could get to Defense class on time.
Harry and Hermione reached the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom with two minutes to spare and the other students had just began to trickle in the door. Remus stood in the front of the classroom, marking students names off his attendance sheet as they came in the door, and nodded to Harry as he and Hermione entered. Sirius waved from behind the desk. The couple smiled at Harry's father as they headed to their seats. Class was always more fun with Sirius was in attendance.
The bell rang and Remus called the class' attention to the front of the room. He began a short lecture on nonverbal shield charms and jinxes. He and Sirius then demonstrated a nonverbal duel for the class, before putting them to work in pairs.
"Hermione, Harry, I'm sorry to interrupt your practice," Remus said, before they even got started, "But I need the two of you to run an errand for me."
Harry looked at his father quizzically, but Hermione seemed to fully understand and headed straight for Remus' desk.
Remus handed her a note and said "Your instructions are on the note. Go on out into the corridor and read it, then get busy," he instructed.
When the couple closed the classroom door behind them, Harry took the note from Hermione and opened it.
It read:
Harry and Hermione,
I'm sorry to have to send you out of class, but I couldn't very well take the chance on Hermione being stunned, even though I'm sure your shielding spells would have been flawless, I just didn't want to take the chance on my grandchildren.
Go on to Hermione's new rooms and get everything put away. They are two doors down, in the same hallway as the Head Girl rooms, and the password is Popping Poppet.
This parchment will turn to ash as soon as you finish reading it and tap it with your wand.
Love
Remus
Hermione looked at Harry, who had finished reading the parchment at almost the same time as she did, and when he nodded, she folded the note back and tapped it with her wand, and just as Remus had said, it turned into a cool pile of ash in his hand, which he brushed away.
"Shall we then?" Harry asked, dramatically holding out his arm for Hermione to take.
"Why, yes." Hermione replied, equally dramatically. "We shall!"
The couple took off down the hallway toward Hermione's new rooms, eager to see what she would have.