"After that, we can find a place to have a picnic and call Dobby to bring us a picnic basket and blanket.
It took him only a moment to see the wisdom of what she suggested and reply, "That is a wonderful idea, Luna. How about we go tomorrow?"
She happily smiled back and replied, "It's a date." "So, decided on a place for your date, yet?" asked Sirius.
"Well," said Harry. "First, tomorrow morning I'm taking Luna to visit my parents' graves in Godric's Hollow. Then she's taking me to visit her mother's grave in... well, I don't even know where it is. Then we're going to find a spot... Luna assures me she knows of one on her property... where we're going to have a picnic.
"Once there, we'll call Dobby to bring us a picnic basket and blanket. I don't know how long we're going to be, but we'll be back well before dinner."
"That sounds..." began Sirius. "Actually, have you ever been to your parents' graves?"
"No," he sighed. "The Dursleys were never interested and Dumbledore kept such a tight leash on me I knew even asking to go see them would be refused." Sirius sadly nodded and said, "I'd offer to come along, but I think this is something the two of you should do together without me there. Is that alright with you?"
"Yes, of course," Harry replied in a voice that showed his surprise he thought his godfather thought he'd be upset with it.
"Good," said Sirius. "I really should visit them again, but it was too dangerous for quite some time. I did only a couple of weeks before you turned up."
Harry thought about that before what his godfather was telling him dawned on him. "You visited them on Hallowe'en, didn't you."
It wasn't a question.
Sirius sighed and replied, "The day after, actually; All Hallows' Day."
Harry softly smiled back and said, "It's okay. And, thank you for visiting them." The next morning, after eating breakfast and trying to read a book while he waited for the time he and Luna planned to head out, Harry finally set it aside with a sigh of combined frustration and disappointment in himself.
From her own book, Luna looked up and smiled. "Nervous?"
Harry was a few moments before he nodded. "I'm taking a girl to meet my parents, before then taking said girl to go meet her mother."
With a knowing smile she said, "Actually, as they are spirits, all three of our deceased parents know about us. This is more for us than for them."
A little shocked, Harry asked, "Y-you mean they've seen us..." and made a gesture that he thought indicated engaging in sexual intercourse. She laughed and said, "You can ask it, Harry. You want to know if they have seen us having sex?"
When he sheepishly nodded she, still smiling, said, "I do not believe so, no. I believe they have some awareness of what is happening back here on the mortal plane, but it's not like they're standing there, watching us.
"That's why we go to their graves. It's the place where their current... existence... can more closely touch our own. There, I believe, they will be more aware of us and that we are trying to communicate with them."
He nodded, somewhat relieved his parents, especially his mother and... far more importantly... her mother, had not watched them having sex. If his father had watched them having sex, though... they'd be having words. Finally it was time to go, though Luna had been adamant that Harry dress for combat for the day.
"Why?" he asked.
"Until the current unpleasantness is dealt with, you need to be ready to defend yourself," she explained. "As you're with me, you should also be defending me if I get into trouble."
He frowned back a little and said, "Luna; I don't know if you know it or not, but you're now a great deal faster and far more capable than you were a couple weeks ago. And, a couple weeks ago, I didn't consider you a slouch with a wand.
"I doubt you'd have any problems dealing with another attacker unless it was Riddle himself or someone getting in a cheap shot from behind. I think even Bellatrix LeStrange, when she lived, would be unable to stand up to you now.
"As for multiple attackers... do we need to take you back down to the duelling room and watch you tear apart the four training mannequins again?"
She smiled and said, "It's nice of you to say so, Love. However, you're still supposed to stand ready to defend me against all threats."
He gave a snort of amusement and said, "Fair enough." And went and got dressed.
When she joined him soon after he entered their room, she smiled as she saw him about to don his muggle combat boots. "Try the dragon-hide boots on, Love. You haven't worn them yet."
Without a word, but with a slight shrug, he put on the Welsh Green boots that went so well with his dark green robes he'd already donned.
Once he stood and started to move about in them, he realised just how comfortable they were.
"Very nice," Luna sultrily said. He turned to her with a grin and cheekily said, "And I bet the clothes look nice, too."
She giggled. "You look like the proper lord, Love," she grinned. "I heartily approve."
As he affixed his wand holster to his forearm and, as usual, over the upper part of the kara kesh and gave himself a last check over in the dresser's mirror in the corner, which didn't comment as Luna now refused to have ones that talked back to her in the room, she said, "Carry that Zat-gun thing, too."
Harry didn't even ask why. He walked over to his bed side table, slid the bottom draw open and pulled the Zat'nik'tel out. Then holstered it on his left hip in the snap draw holster he fashioned for it, just under his robes. He treated the Zat' as a right-handed weapon he could draw and hold, when needed, in the left.
Before he even had a chance to ask, she said, "Just in case." Luna had dressed before Harry headed up to change and was dressed in a similar style witches upmarket casual robe that, with the flick of a button at the collar, released a magical 'zip' down the middle of the front to drop open into a rudimentary witch's unarmoured combat robe. Underneath she wore slacks and a blouse that couldn't be seen until the front 'zip' was released.
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