Harry Potter: Chosen's Angel

Chapter 8: Oh, What A Lovely Weasley

"What is your favorite magical creature?" Harry asked Ginny, cocking his head to the side a bit curiously.

"Pygmy puffs. They're so small and cute and I love them for it." Ginny told him with a smile.

"Alright. Your turn for a question then." Harry answered with a nod of his head.

"Same question to you. What's your favorite magical creature based on your time at Hogwarts?" Ginny asked.

"I like owls. They're intelligent, dependable… Well, my owl is, anyway. I'm concerned for your family's owl, honestly." Harry answered, biting his tongue at remembering the… unfortunate number of times the Weasley's owl nearly bashed its brain in on his window.

Ginny giggled at that. "Owls aren't magical creatures. They're just birds. Well trained birds, but still birds." She explained to him.

This made Harry pause for a moment. "Centaurs then. One saved me last year. Story for another time." Harry said, trying to brush potential concern aside.

Ginny nodded. "Fair enough. Your turn." She told him.

"What's it like having siblings?" Harry asked.

"I love them, but they're so annoying sometimes! Sometimes, I wonder if I'm the only one of my siblings who was born with a brain!" Ginny groaned, but with a small smile.

"What about that… What was his name again, Prissy?" Harry asked, though kicking himself for blanking on the name.

Ginny cracked up laughing at that. "Prissy! That's a good one!" She giggled uncontrollably.

"Wait, that's his name?" Harry asked, a hint surprised.

"Wait… you're not making fun of him?" Ginny asked, stifling her giggles.

"Should I?" Harry asked curiously.

Ginny began roaring with laughter at that, struggling to not collapse to the floor. "Oh, dear lord! That's even better! I am definitely going to call him 'Prissy Percy' from now on!" She cried out before falling back on her bed.

"Are you okay? Should I be concerned?" Harry asked, looking down at her.

"Prissy fits him so perfectly that I just can't help but laugh! I think I'm gonna pee!" Ginny roared out with laughter.

"Please don't do that. You'll run out of clothes at this rate." Harry said with a sigh.

Once Ginny finally got her giggle fit under control, she smiled and looked at him. "Next one for you. How did you learn you had magic?" She asked him, trying to keep from bursting into laughter again.

Harry was left a bit surprised when she asked that one. "Well, it was at the zoo. We all went to the reptile house and there was a python. The rest of them went on and I was just there talking with it. Then it responded to me and left its enclosure before it slithered off. It scared the folks so bad Dudley, and his stupid friend jumped into another snake enclosure. It was quite funny." Harry explained, which caught Ginny off guard.

Ginny had to visibly hold herself back as she mentally pictured that scene. "You trapped them in a reptile house enclosure…?" She asked, snickering.

"Technically, it was the snake that did that. Though I got blamed for it regardless." Harry replied.

It was at that moment that Ginny lost it. She broke into a fit of laughter as she slapped her hand on the bed, trying to keep herself under control. "You…! Trapped them…! In a snake enclosure…!" She roared with laughter as she tried to get herself under control.

Harry gulped a bit watching her laugh her head off. "Are you okay?" Harry asked concernedly.

Ginny just laughed even harder as she rolled off the bed to the floor with a loud thud, trying desperately to get her giggle fit under control. "By the Muggle queen, that is hilarious!" She let out, struggling to breathe.

"I think I broke her…" Harry said nervously, rubbing the back of his neck, wondering what to do.

"Dear, I think it came from upstairs." Came the voice of Arthur Weasley from downstairs.

"Don't worry, mum, dad! Harry was just telling me a hilarious story!" Ginny called out, trying to get her laughter under control.

"You two get down here! Your food is getting cold!" Molly yelled from downstairs. "Or so help me by Gryffindor's Ghost, don't make me come up there!"

"Coming, mum…!" Ginny giggled as she got back up.

With that, the two rushed back down. The entire family was sitting back at the table when they arrived. Though the stern visage of Molly brandishing a wooden spoon likely contributed to that. The spread before them looked somehow even better than before. Soon ushered back to their seats, the family restarted the breakfast experience. Slowly but surely, they began talking again, as if the food fight had never happened.

"Well, you two were up there for a while." Ron said to Harry suspiciously before stuffing his mouth with toast.

"Just talking to get to know each other better after I got the butter off my shirt." Ginny explained with a smile.

Ron raised his eyebrow at that. "Like what? Did he see you indecent?" Ron asked, jumping to conclusions that got both Ginny and Molly on him.

Ginny blushed and glared at him. "Of course not, Ron! Harry was a perfect gentleman!" She snapped at her brother.

"Ron, not at the table!" Molly yelled, brandishing the spoon like a weapon.

"So no blackmail material? Aw crud!" Mafalda said shaking her head.

"Mum, you're the one that wanted me to always protect my sister!" Ron yelled at his mother.

"Protect her, not jump to conclusions about your best friend!" Molly snapped back, pointing the spoon in Ron's face threateningly.

"The sad part is that I'm used to people accusing me of things." Harry sighed with a shrug.

"I don't know how to respond to that." Mafalda said, breaking the silence caused by Harry's statement.

"We don't know how to talk to him when he says things like that…" The twins said in stereo.

"You're not the first." Harry said to try to comfort them.

"... By the sounds of it, we won't be the last." Ron said sympathetically to his best friend.

"Probably not. But that's a problem for Future Harry." Harry said before biting into an apple.

"Alright, let's all try not to let our guest get the whole mood down." Percy said, trying to move the conversation along. Only for Ginny to ruin what little good he was attempting.

"Not his fault, Prissy." Ginny told her older brother with a grin, causing the rest of the men in her family to nearly choke on their food in laughter.

"What did you just call me?" Percy asked in an oh so offended tone.

Ginny giggles. "Prissy. It's what you are, after all." She said with a smirk, giggling as she took a bite of her own breakfast.

"Are you making fun of me?" Percy asked, his temper began to rise.

"I doubt you'd know if it bit you in your rear." Ginny answered with a smile, causing veins to pop on Percy's head.

"You gonna take that, Percy? What do you think, George?" Fred asked, looking between the two male Weasleys expecting an answer.

"I am not prissy. What about me is prissy?" Percy asked, offended.

"If the robes fit, wear 'em, Prissy." Ginny sassed her brother.

This caught the family off guard, so bad Arthur snorted into his tea. The twins laughed so hard that they shot hot tea from their noses, leaving them screaming in pain from the boiling hot tea coming out of their nostrils. Molly rose from the table to scold them; however, she was cut off by other members of the family before she got the chance.

"Okay, now I see the family resemblance! You are definitely my cousin, Ginny-Winny!" Mafalda cackled like a hyena.

Harry smirked and chuckled. "Ginny-Winny?" He asked her, trying not to laugh at the girl's expense.

"Mafalda, stop embarrassing me!" Ginny wailed, turning to look at her cousin furiously.

"NEVER! TOO FUN!" Mafalda shouts out loud.

"This burns so much…!" George screamed out while still laughing.

"But it's worth it! I've never been so proud of little Ginny…!" Fred screamed with pain and laughter as well, finishing his brother's sentence.

"Can you all stop!?" Ginny yelled, exasperated by her family's insanity.

"Pass the Jam, please… Prissy…" George asked his older brother, getting his giggling under control as he tried to cool down his nostrils.

"I think you mean 'Prissy, please'." Ron said with a smirk, which got Harry chuckling from his friend's joke.

Percy glared at the spectacled boy at that. "I blame you for this…" He said, passing George the jam.

"What did I do?" Harry asked confusedly.

"I don't know, but I know you had something to do with this…" Percy grumbled as he buttered his toast.

"Alright. We all had our fun for the morning." Molly growled at the lot of them.

"Yes, we've all had our fun. Especially at Prissy's expense." Fred chortled.

"I will end you. And I'll make it look like a bloody accident." Percy growled at his brother.

"You'll die trying, Priss!" Fred laughed out.

"Enough! Finish breakfast and clean up, you lot!" Molly roared, which finally brought the chaos to heel.

"Yes, ma'am!" The rest of the table barked back before working on eating.

Molly let out a sigh. "Thanks for the help, Arthur." She said, turning to look at her chuckling husband.

"Oh, come now, Molly. You have to admit that was funny." Arthur told her with a grin.

"It would have been if there wasn't a bloody food fight in my dining room." Molly said before heading off to do dishes.

As each and every one of the Weasley's finished their breakfast, they added their dishes to the growing pile. Molly cast the cleaning charm upon the growing pile to get the process going. Percy walked past Harry as he walked to the sink, giving him a horrid look as he went. Harry knew that look well from his family. Percy was not pleased with him. Once he was done, however, Potter got up and dropped his plates off, before joining Ginny in the living room.

"Your family is pretty funny, Ginny. I thought only Ron could be that funny." Harry said to her with a warm smile as he sat down on the couch next to her.

"Believe it or not, Fred and George are the funny ones." Ginny told him with a smile as she made some room for him.

"Though I think Percy doesn't like me much." Harry said with a sigh.

"He doesn't like anyone that much. Even us. He's always been a weird one, to be honest. And complaining, oh the complaining. Like how we aren't rich and all that. Gets bloody awful after a while." Ginny replied with a groan.

"It makes me regret not getting to know the twins more outside of Quidditch. They're really funny." Harry said with a smile.

"Don't tell them that. They'd never shut up about it." Ginny said with a sigh and a small smile.

"You love them, don't you?" Harry asked.

"Of course I do. Families bicker and they fight, sure, but you don't get to choose family. And it's really not that bad. I wouldn't change them for the world." Ginny said with a smile, leaning back on the couch.

Harry did not say anything further to that. It made him think back to the Dursleys. Damien he liked, but the other three… He figured it was like what Ginny said. He did not get to choose them, only figured out how to make it work. All this was broken when the distinct flash of a camera went off. This caused the two to jump slightly, to see Molly in the doorway to the kitchen with the moving picture forming.

"MOTHER!" Ginny yelled embarrassedly, her face turning as red as her hair.

"Oh, come now, Ginny! How could I not capture such a precious moment for years to come?" Molly told her daughter with a smile.

"Give me that!" Ginny yelled before rushing off at her mother to get the photo, accidentally knocking Harry to the floor.

Harry could not help but chuckle on the floor at the sight before him. Maybe Ron whisking him away from home was not a terrible idea after all…