HARRY POTTER :flash forward.

Knowing they needed to balance the work with their assignments, the three plus Luna planned on starting with setting up the ward outside the Ravenclaw entrance for a few days into the next week. All three wanted to clear as much of their assignments out of the way as possible. And his wives reminded Harry he still had to work at incantless and minimal movement casting for the second task. Plus, combat for his time at the graveyard.

"There's still six weeks until the second task," he grouched.

"Then train for your time in the graveyard!" Hermione berated him right back.

"She's right," added Daphne. "You can't just rely on the fact you managed to escape last run through. You need to make sure of it. Plus, didn't you say John told you that you were supposed to heavily injure him during your confrontation there? That's the time when he's at his weakest."

"The graveyard also gives you the opportunity to kill the snake and capture Pettigrew," said Hermione. "What you want to happen there... need to happen... is you need Voldemort to run away; not you! That way, he leaves the snake behind. If you've managed to stun Pettigrew, then Pettigrew'll get left behind, as well."

"Secondly," added Daphne. "By him running away, it weakens how his inner circle looks at him. They'll know he ran. That'll tell them that you're stronger than him. It's a major psychological advantage."

"I know," he grouched. "Alright. I'll train... we'll train. I have no doubt he already knows we're at least bonded. I also have no doubt we won't be able to keep the fact we're now married a secret until then. So, he'll know you're my wives."

"Good," said Daphne. "I don't want to keep it a secret. I want everyone to know." Surprised, Harry looked to his wives. "You do?" he asked.

"Yes," both replied.

With a sigh, he said, "Then you'd best send a letter to your mothers to let them know they need to tell your fathers pretty soon, if they haven't done it already. Because, I don't like keeping it a secret, either."

Both girls grinned back, quite pleased.

"I want to tell Astoria and Tracey, at least," said Daphne. "Family and friends should find out from us; not from reading about it in the Prophet."

"Invite them up," said Harry. "Blaise and Horace too, if you trust them not to blab." Turning to Hermione he said, "And Neville and Hannah."

"We'll invite them up for Friday night," said Daphne. "But, I want to talk to Astoria, at least, no later than Friday afternoon."

"She should be told as soon as possible," disagreed Hermione. "She's family; she should know."

"Hermione's right," said Harry. "We'll need to tell her as soon as possible in case the Prophet gets wind of our marriage earlier."

"Tonight, then," said Daphne. "Astoria still hasn't really forgiven me... us... for getting engaged and not letting her know straight away."

Her husband and sister-wife nodded back. "Then let us not make the same mistake twice," said Hermione.

Astoria had missed seeing her sister in the Snake Pit. She knew she was happy with Potter and the Granger girl, but it still hurt a little how her sister now had two others more important to her in the school.

She was in the library with her friends working on an assignment for Herbology when a house elf suddenly popped in, handed her a note, and popped out again. The house elf looked familiar to her.

Opening the note, she saw it was from her sister.

Stori, Please come to our apartment. We have important news to share with you.

I love you,

Daph. xo

Astoria stared at the note for a moment and frowned. The little secret clues meant it was a real note, not written under duress, and wasn't about bad news. Her name written with the period was one, the single 'x' and 'o' was another, the comma after her own shortened form name was a third.

Thinking about it, she knew that if her sister said it was important news then she wanted her to know of it as soon as possible, and not hear it from another source.

Turning to her friends working at the table with her, she said, "I have to go. I'll see you all at dinner, alright?"

"What's going on, Stori?" one of her friends asked.

"My sister wants to see me," she replied, while packing her books and school work away. "She says it's important."

With pleas to be careful in her ears, the young girl headed for the Ravenclaw tower.

As one of the few people outside of the three who knew the password, Astoria walked straight into the apartment. Daphne and her bondmates were sitting around the coffee table working on their own homework.

As soon as Astoria entered, Daphne pushed her work away and walked across the floor to give her sister a hug. "Come; sit down," said Daphne.

Astoria, quite curious, could see from the expressions on the faces of the three that, whatever the news was, it was big. She dropped her bookbag next to the couch where her sister led her, and sat with her.

With her sister holding her hands between them, Astoria waited for her to start.

"You're aware of what the bond between us three means, right?" asked Daphne.

"Of course," replied Astoria.

"Well... Harry and Hermione are no longer your future brother- and sister-in-law," explained Daphne as she watched her sister's eyes widen in surprise. "We've sealed the bond." "That means..." petering off.

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"That means we're now married," finished Daphne. "I'm now Missus Daphne Potter... or Greengrass-Potter. We've not figured that out, yet."

Astoria gave a little squeal and immediately wrapped her sister in a hug. "I'm so happy for you!" she cried, as she pulled away again before holding her sisters hands up looking at the back of her fingers.

"No ring yet," said Daphne. "We'll have to go into Gringotts to get the Potter wedding rings, at some stage. But, we don't plan on wearing them until we actually hold a wedding in August."

"But, you're already married," Astoria said, a little confused. "Why a wedding?"

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