Chapter 18: The Wedding

Harry set up a Floo  network connection between his house and the Weasleys'.  It should be safe since he wasn't adding his house to the entire network, but just directly to the Weasleys' fireplace.  On morning of the wedding, Harry and Colin gathered in front of their fireplace. 

They were dressed normally, Harry in jeans and a t-shirt and Colin in a skirt and a blouse.  Colin rarely wore jeans anymore.  Their wedding apparel was already at the Weasleys'.  The wedding wouldn't be until 2:00 PM. 

Mrs. Weasley had invited them for breakfast, and after eating meals prepared by Kreacher they were ready for a good meal.  One could never tell what kind of surprise he might find in a meal prepared by Kreacher.  If Harry wasn't exact in his instructions, Kreacher might insert something unpleasant among the other ingredients.  Because of specific instructions, he couldn't put anything in that would poison them or make them sick, but Harry had found that, "nothing that doesn't taste good," could be too broadly interpreted.

When he'd found worms in his food, Kreacher had said, "Birds like them."

Colin might be good in bed, but she was no cook.  Her mother had never anticipated she would some day be married to a man.  Beside, her mother had been a muggle and would have taught her the muggle way of cooking.  Harry would rather take a chance on the meals Kreacher prepared than see his wife cooking the muggle way.

Mrs. Weasley had prepared a feast: eggs, sausages, fruit, pancakes with fresh butter and syrup, anything one could have wanted.  It was the best meal Harry had eaten since he'd last been at the Weasleys'. 

Everyone remarked about how pretty Colin was -- except for Dennis who wasn't pleased to be exchanging a brother for a sister.  He had been taking a potion which supplied male hormones and -- except for his genitals -- was a normal fourteen year-old boy, even having gone through puberty since Harry had seen him last.  His voice had changed and he had grown.  He was already as tall as Colin who was two years older.

After breakfast, Harry had gone up to Ron's room with him to talk.  Colin was spending some time with her brother, trying to convince him they she was still the same person underneath.  She wasn't really, Harry knew.  She had changed, but her brother wouldn't want to think so.

Once they were alone, Ron said, "I can't believe you're going to marry Colin."

"You're still thinking about the Colin you knew at Hogwarts.  She's changed.  She's not anything like she was."

"You call him, she?"

"Doesn't she look like a girl?" asked Harry.

"Yeah," said Ron.  "She's got nice tits --oops."  Ron clamped his hand over his mouth.  "I guess I shouldn't have said that about your -- wife."

Harry laughed.  "That's ok.  I think she's got nice tits, too."

"I thought you'd marry Ginny," said Ron.

Harry looked away, the smile fading from his face.  "It wasn't meant to be."  Ginny was the only one he'd ever told about the potion.  Ron wouldn't know the real reason he hadn't married Ginny -- or at least, hadn't asked her to wait for him.

"She's preggars, you know," said Ron.

"Ginny's pregnant?" said Harry, hearing it for the first time.  He felt as though someone had grabbed his heart and was squeezing it in his hand.

Who was the father?  Had Ginny found someone new?  Why would she get pregnant while was still at Hogwarts?   She would have to leave the school before having the baby.   Hogwarts had no provisions for babies.

Could it be his?  Could Ginny have become pregnant by him?  She'd said she was using the protective spell, when her mother had asked back at Hogwarts.  That only left the time they'd spent together at the Burrow.  But she'd said nothing.  Wouldn't she have asked him first?   If she had, what would he have said?

No.  He would have said no.  Having his child would have only put Ginny in more danger, and would have put the child in even greater danger.  Voldemort would do anything to get his hands on Harry's child.  What would he do, if Ginny were having his child?  Could he still marry Colin?  Wouldn't his responsibility be to Ginny and the child?

"Is Ginny going with someone?" Harry asked, half hoping she'd fallen in love with someone else -- half hoping she hadn't.

"No," said Ron.  "It's Dean's git,  I told her she should abort it.  She'll have to leave Hogwarts.  I even told her I didn't want any of Dean's git calling me uncle, but you know how stubborn she is."

In a way, Harry was relieved it wasn't his child.  He could marry Colin.  If it had been his, he didn't know whether he could have -- but Ginny pregnant with Dean's kid?  She'd come to his bed, making him love her again, carrying Dean's kid?

  She had to have known.  Any witch would have known whether she was pregnant -- and she would have become pregnant on purpose.  Ginny had chosen to have Dean's child -- but had come back to him when he had his genitals restored.

She was a slut!  She had wanted Dean when Harry didn't have a cock she could use; and she'd wanted the Great Harry Potter, when she thought he was once again a whole man. 

How would she have explained the child to him, if he had taken her back?  Would she have lied, saying it was his?  Or would she aborted it without telling him she'd been pregnant?

She had betrayed him with Dean; then cheated on Dean with him, while carrying Dean's child.   What decent girl would do that?  Maybe that's when he stopped loving Ginny.  Until then, he still did.

"So she's going to have Dean's baby?"

"Yeah," said Ron.  "Even mother wanted her to abort it, so she could stay in school -- and you know how much my mum wants a grandchild -- but she wouldn't.

"Is she going to marry Dean?" asked Harry.

"No," said Ron.  "That's the funny part.  From what I've heard she won't have anything to do with him."

"Why's she having his child, then?

"I don't know, Harry," said Ron.  "I don't know why girls do any of the things they do."

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Colin was beautiful in her wedding dress.  Both Mrs. Weasley and Hagrid cried.  "It jus seem like yesterday when yeh was startin at Hogwarts," said Hagrid after the Wedding, "now yer married."

George and Fred gave them another case of Arse Fucking Lube as a wedding present.

"What was that?" asked Mrs. Weasley, as Harry quickly tucked the present away.

"Oh, just one of George and Fred's little jokes," said Harry.

Hermione kissed both Harry and Colin on the cheek.  "You make a pretty girl," she said to Colin.

"She is a girl," said Harry.

"I -- I didn't mean anything," said Hermione.  "It's just a little hard to get used to the idea.  The last time I saw Colin, he was an obnoxious boy.  Now he's a sweet -- and pretty girl."

"She," said Harry, for the umpteenth time that day.

"She," said Hermione.  "I didn't mean anything about it, Colin.  I'm just having a hard time remembering to call you, she."

"That's ok, Hermione," said Colin.  "I don't mind.  It's Harry who makes such a big deal about it." 

"SHE," said Dennis, "stole my brother.  I had a brother last spring.  That's not my brother."  He said it as if some body snatcher had replaced his brother with an alien creature, like in a muggle movie Harry had once seen.. 

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"Why do you still use the name, Colin?" Hermione asked, when the two of them were alone.  "Why don't you change to a girl's name?"

"Harry likes Colin; and I've been called that all my life.  He fell in love with me as Colin.  Why should I change it just because I look like a girl?  The only thing's that's different is that I have these now.  Colin placed her hands under her breasts, lifting them up.

"It's more than that, Colin.  You've changed.  You're not the silly little boy you used to be.  You've grown up."

"I don't think I ever knew how to act like a boy.  I never felt like a boy, so I had to act like I thought one would act.  Acting like a girls seems to come natural.  I just relax and act like I feel.  Besides, knowing Harry loves me helps.  I don't have to run around making a fool of myself trying to make him love me."

"You don't miss being a boy.  You're not sorry you were neutered?"

"I don't miss being a boy, but I wish I hadn't been neutered.  If I hadn't, I could have had a TS potion and be a real girl.  That's the only thing I regret -- that I can't be a real girl for Harry."

"He seems to think you are.  He keeps telling everyone to call you she."

"Don't you see?  If I were really a girl, he wouldn't have to tell that to everyone.  I'm afraid he's trying to convince himself as much as anyone else."

"He loves you, Colin.  Anyone can see that."

"Yeah, I think he does -- but I was his second choice."

"What do you mean?" asked Hermione.

"He loved Ginny first.  He came to me because she cheated on him with Dean.  He doesn't think I know, but I do.  He even made love to her when we stayed here last spring.  I saw her sneak up to his room.  I didn't say anything because I knew I'd lose him, if I did."

"You were lovers before that?"

"He made love to me the first time at Hogwarts.  We were sleeping together when the Infantiliamus spell reversed itself.  He made love to me that night."

"Then he cheated on you with Ginny, and you still loved him?" said Hermione.

"I've loved Harry since the first moment I saw him.  I think I loved him even before that, but I was a boy -- a silly little boy.  I didn't know how else to act around him.  At least he paid me some attention when I pestered him, even if it was to tell me to go away." 

"I knew he was screwing Ginny while we were here.  I cried myself to sleep at night -- and played my Colin role during the day.  I didn't know what else to do. I was glad Ginny wasn't going to be here.  I didn't know how Harry would feel if he saw her.  I was afraid he wouldn't marry me, if she said she wanted him.  Ginny still has a hold on him."

"I don't think you have to worry about Ginny," said Hermione.  "She's going to have Dean's baby."

"But, he was neutered.  How can that be --"  Colin paused -- "you mean she was already pregnant when she was sleeping with Harry?"

"Yes," said Hermione.  "Ginny said she was pregnant with Dean's child.  She had to be already pregnant."

"Is she marrying Dean?" asked Colin.

"No," She sees him at school, I guess.  They're both in Griffindor; but I'm sure they're not going together."

"Why would she have his kid?  No witch gets pregnant by accident.  Even I know that.  Why would she get pregnant and then not marry him?"

"Maybe she didn't want to marry a eunuch."

I'd marry Harry even if he didn't have a cock -- even if we were both eunuchs."  Of course, she had.  She knew Harry was only going to have a cock for a few more weeks.  He'd told her about the potion.  He'd also told her about the dildo spell, and she would let him use it; but her orgasms came from knowing she pleased Harry.  She didn't know if she could have one, if he didn't.

"Oh," said Colin, looking inward.  "You asked me if I was sorry I'd been neutered.  I am -- but if I hadn't been, I wouldn't be Harry's wife.  I'd still be a boy, and he would be with Ginny or some other girl.  I'm sorry I can't be a real girl, but I'm not sorry about anything else.  I'm luckier than Dennis and the other boys who were neutered, anyway."

"How do you mean?" asked Hermione.

"They're boys with no penis or testicles.  What chance at happiness do they have?  Potions can make them look like boys, but -- without cocks they won't be.  They can't make love to a woman.  If they were smart -- and lucky -- they'd find a man like I did.  They'd take a feminizing potion and grow tits.  I might not have a vagina, but I make Harry happy."

"You have changed, Colin"

"It's love that did it, Hermione -- Harry's love.  It's all I ever wanted.  When he made love to me the first time, I realized that there was a way I could express my love for him -- and he could for me.  I only wish I had known about the TS potion and had taken it my first year at Hogwarts.  Maybe Harry would have liked me better as a girl; but my parents were muggles and didn't know about such things -- and even if they had, probably wouldn't have wanted their son to become a girl.