Latest Site Notices

Ron&Hermione(L) · 09-15-2010, 08:23 PM

Great post

Little Trooper · 09-17-2010, 01:24 AM

Love it great post.

KatielovesHP · 09-17-2010, 09:37 PM

Oh blimey, the end was a shock!! :O
I didn't expect that

Great post, I'm glad Daddy Potter knows now

lilly_luna · 09-30-2010, 02:10 AM

Chapter Eighteen
“What?” Harry said “But then she’d – she’d be” no there were times when it could skip, but it was almost impossible if one of your parents was magical.
She stood up “I’ve been away from our world for a long time Harry, I took Sophia to America to get away from it all before - before it got too much, she’s not magical at all, I don’t use it – she doesn’t know about that world, the war, the pain the problems magic has caused me. I met her step father there, we married and came back, I knew I didn’t want to come back into your world, there was too much lost – but I never tracked him down, I didn’t want to tell him, we’re happy”
“You can’t deny what you are for ever”
“You don’t know me”
“I know what you are, your own daughter doesn’t”
“I’m not a witch, that part of me is dead”
“What’s your name?”
“Wendy Davis”
“What’s your real name?”
“Gwendolyn Whyte”
“Black and Whyte” Harry muttered
“He made that joke too” she said with a small smile,
“You’re a witch Gwendolyn Whyte and you can’t deny that – how did Sophia end up a squib?”
“Don’t call her that, she’s normal, not being magical is normal”
“You sound like my Aunt”
“And”
“I hate my Aunt”
“You know who killed them didn’t he?”
“Voldemort killed my parents, but he didn’t kill Sirius”
“Who did?”
“Bellatrix, his cousin – how have you avoided this for years – living in a magical village?”
“I placed a spell blocking all forms of magical media, I’ve stopped my house, myself and anything to do with me being recognised by the ministry, there are ways to avoid it – I’ve changed my name, my life no one knows”
“No one but me and I’m famous in my world”
“Don’t tell me there was another war”
“You didn’t notice the signs; you didn’t notice the destruction or my face on the papers as we were murderers on the run”
She looked at him “We?”
“Myself and my fiancée”
“You’re the Harry that saved her last night and I didn’t see it before”
“Yes, but how did you not see, even in muggle papers”
“I don’t buy papers, we don’t have a TV – Sophia has these things I won’t have anything to do with it”
“Are you going to tell her about our world?”
“No, she doesn’t need to be exposed to that, she’s not magical at all, and she doesn’t need to feel like she’s missing out on something”
“Does she know Sirius was her father?”
“She knows my husband isn’t, but she thinks of him that way, Sirius didn’t know”
“Her name is Sophia Black”
“Her name is Sophia Davis, Sirius didn’t want to know me and he didn’t want to know her”
“He would never have left you two”
“You didn’t know him well”
“I did, he became the father I never had, he was my Godfather, I had two years with him before he was taken and he left me everything because you didn’t tell him he had a daughter”
Just then the front door opened and she walked in with a school bag on her back and uniform on “Hey mum” she plonked the bag on the floor and walked into past them into the kitchen. She stood there, paused and then came back out – “Harry?”
“Hey” He waved, “Happy birthday”
“Thanks – you’re early though”
“Yeah about that – I can’t make it, so I thought I’d come round and have that drink now” he smiled
“Sure, you know what lets go out, I’ve got time before the party right?” she asked her mum,
“Yes, not long though”
“We won’t be, I’ve got an appointment I need to keep” Harry said looking at her,
“Sure” Sophia smiled “I’ll just get changed, I only have to wear this for a few more weeks and my half days make it even less” she walked up the stairs throwing her bag on her shoulder,
“You won’t tell her?”
“That’s your job” Harry stood up “I knew Sirius just as you did, he was a good man, if he knew – if he knew he would have been a great dad, you just didn’t give him a chance”
“He wouldn’t have wanted to know, he just wanted to fight”
“And he did until he was set up for murder and jailed for twelve years”
“That’s why he never made any contact… he never tried because – what have I done?”
“You should never have shut yourself off from our world, you’ve lost more then you’ve gained”
“I still have my family”
“And I do to now, I’ve been without and it’s made my life miserable, now I have a fiancée, a baby on the way and I’m finally not alone anymore – you’ve taken away someone important from her life and she doesn’t even know it!”
“I’ll tell her, give me time to – I can’t just spring it on her, on her birthday”
She went quiet as Sophia came down the stairs
“Hey – you ready?” Harry asked,
“Yeah, let’s go” she smiled and fished out her purse, phone and keys from her school bag “See you in a bit mum”
“OK sweetheart”

They walked talking to a café, Harry could see the similarities now, the long brown hair, the smile even the eyes.
“Yeah, things kind of got complicated but I didn’t want to let you down” Harry smiled “My fiancée kind of found out she was pregnant and didn’t want to tell me” he shrugged,
“What – whoa – congrats – I mean that’s -”
“Yeah I know”
“So Harry’s going to be a daddy”
“Uh huh”
“Indulge me with the details then, you gotta be happy even if you’re surprised?” She said as he opened the door for her and walked into the café,
“I am, it’s a shock, it’s more a shock she was scared of telling me”
“She had her reasons I’m guessing, it doesn’t make sense she wouldn’t tell you, your way to much of a nice guy”
I’ve killed people, I hate people, I’m not so nice came to the front of his mind but his mouth said “You don’t know me that well”
“My mum seems to”
“Yeah I found out something about her – she knew my parents, apparently we played in the garden together at some point when we were kids” he said laughing and sitting down at a table, “She recognises me because I look like my dad”
“That’s weird – I mean we’re were in America when I was a kid”
“I don’t think it was a lot of times”
A woman came over with a smile and a note pad, “Happy birthday Sophia!”
“Thanks”
“So who’s your friend?” she looked at Harry, he glanced at her blush,
“Harry, this is Maria she runs this place, Maria this is Harry – he saved me last night”
Harry cringed “Way to embarrass me”
“You did but, you pulled me out the way of a car”
“Looks like you found yourself a hero”
“He’s getting married Maria, he’s just having a drink with me cause he can’t stay for my party”
“Married – you’re only about twenty” Maria said with a smirk “I think someone’s fibbing”
“Actually I’m seventeen” he said with a small smile and took out his wallet “And this is Ginny my fiancée” he showed her a muggle picture of her waving at the camera the wind blowing red strands of red hair around her face framing the picture,
“She’s lovely” Maria smiled “I almost can’t believe it”
“Let’s see” Sophia reached for it and a coin fell out onto the floor, “She’s beautiful, how did you manage to get her?”
“Her brothers my best friend” he shrugged “And I’ve saved her life a couple of times too” he smirked but she reached down and picked up the coin.
“What’s this?”
His eyes widened “Just a collectable coin” he reached for it and she handed it over “I keep it for good luck” he put the galleon away and Sophia asked for a strawberry milkshake and Harry asked for a coffee,
She glanced at him “You worn out?”
“Just a little” he sat back in the chair “It’s a lot to take in”
“I can see there’s something else with you its strange”
“Hmm, I don’t know – what is it?”
“You’re worried”
“I am, huh”
“Ha I may not know you that well but I can tell your face easily, that wrinkling in your forehead gives it away”
He touched his forehead self-consciously, his hair moved and she spotted the scar,
“What’s that from?”
“The house – when it landed on us”
“Oh – it’s weird, the shape”
“Yeh, the lightening bolt, at least it’s something cool”
“Not something lame like a square”
“Right” he laughed,
“Sorry – my mind went blank” she giggled shaking her head “It’s hard to think under pressure”
“Yeah, I know what you mean” his thoughts drifted to Ginny and how she would have done it to get that bruise up her side, the purple and pain she was in…
“Harry – Harry are you ok”
He looked up “Yeah”
“Look you shouldn’t be here, you should be with her”
“I don’t think I want to go back there for a while”
“You could tell me what’s happened; you don’t have to ever see me again after this”
He was still staring at her in silence when Maria brought over there drinks, she smiled up at Maria and she left before asking what was going on and turned to Harry again,
“Course I wanna see you again, hell I saved your life you’ve got to at least be my friend”
“You don’t live round here”
“It’s easier then you think for me to get here” he muttered,
“Why do you say stuff like that?”
“Huh”
“You say strange things, a lot like my friends actually”
“Friends – you have friends?” he smirked,
“Don’t change the subject” she said sipping her milkshake as he took a drink from his cup,
“I’m not I’m just surprised you have friends”
“I’m throwing a party in a few hours, of course I have friends – but back to you, my friends are triplets and there all like you, they all say things that don’t make sense”
“It’s just me” he shrugged,
“Right and so, you and Ginny apart from the obvious do you want to tell me what’s going on?”
“I don’t know if it’s right for me too – she’s – she hasn’t taken the news of a baby well”
“Ahh so you’re here why?”
“I can’t deal with seeing her in the way she is and I wanted to speak to someone completely uninvolved with the mess and I figured I could throw in a happy birthday since I said I’d go back to the house”
“You should go back but if you can’t I guess I shouldn’t say anything”
“That doesn’t make any sense” he sighed “She – she did something stupid, dangerous and stupid and you don’t want to know because I know it will disturb you and ruin your day so I’m going to leave it”
“Tell me”
The fact he could tell her and then wipe her memory came to mind but then he figured the ministry would nab him for performing magic on a muggle – but then technically she did have magical blood running through her veins – he stopped himself thinking about how much he sounded like Voldemort… no he couldn’t tell her,
“Tell me Harry, you can you know, I won’t judge”
“She didn’t want the baby so much she threw herself down the stairs to try and – and”
“HARRY!”
He looked up “Oh erm hey Cara” then he stared there were three of them,
“What are you – oh Sophia you – hold on how do you guys know each other?” said Cara,
“You didn’t mention you know Harry Potter Cara” said Daria,
“Yeah kept that one real quiet” Anna added,
Harry cringed and covered his eyes with his hand “Guys – Sophia”
“Oh yeah, it’s easy to forget muggles don’t know your famous” Daria said rolling her eyes as Cara elbowed her in the stomach,
“Famous – muggles -what – guys I’m missing something huge here”
“Famous at our school” Anna added subtly,
“But your older then him – you guys don’t go to school anymore”
“But we were there for years while he was – is – you are aren’t you?”
“I’m going back for this last half year maybe unless I get offered a place somewhere else” he winked and they knew he meant the ministry,
“So this school you guys go to?”
“Just like any other school, I just play the school sport really well”
“He’s so modest” Daria smirked and got elbowed again by Anna as the triplet that couldn’t keep her mouth shut,
“Daria” Cara complained and sighed “Anyway you still haven’t told us how you two know each other”
“I went jogging last night, forgot I was in the road and he pulled me out the way of a car”
“Not as much of a big deal as she makes it out to be”
“He saved my life, he’s having a drink on me to say thanks”
“No not a big deal at all” Anna smirked and this time it was Daria’s turn to elbow her,
“He’s getting married to a Weasley” She pointed out,
“Hold up, you know his fiancée too?”
“We know of her and her family”
Harry frowned at her, “You sound like a Malfoy when you say that”
“Ouch” Cara said,
“Yeah that’s like comparing us to snakes bile” Anna said crossing her arms,
Sophia looked at them,
“You could have been kinder” Daria added “I mean it wasn’t meant like that”
“And you could learn to take a joke” he said with a smirk,
“We could…”
“We’d better go” Cara added pulling Daria and Anna with an arm each,
“Right, see you later – oh and I know what you weren’t telling me the other day”
“You do?” she looked at him “I mean you found her?”
“Yeah, hiding at her parents, great news hey?” he grinned but his eyes were tinged with worry,
“Yeah, yeah really great” she smiled back,
“Tell!” Anna and Daria said together,
“Oh no, I can’t that’s up to him” Cara said,
“Not yet hey, give it a bit longer right Cara?”
“Yeah, wait until it’s certain ok”
He nodded,
“See you later alright”
“Yeah”
“And Harry – take care won’t you” she said walking back, waving with one hand and pulling her sisters with the other,
“Don’t worry, see you later”
“See you later Sophia” Daria added, with a grin,
“Bye guys” she waved in reply, “Now explain Harry” she turned to him firmly and he knew what about,
“Look I shouldn’t have said anything”
“You need someone to talk to and by the sound of things all you’ve got is her family and you can’t tell them anything without it getting back to her, so talk to me”
“She’s just confused”
“Confused enough to know she doesn’t want a baby?”
“She’s thought about it, she wants to do this now, I’m going to help her, and we’re going to be a family”
“Are you sure you want this?”
“Yes”
“But what about her, doesn’t she have a say in what happens?”
“It’s not in her to – to, even if she wants nothing more to do with it the baby will always have me, I can’t abandon my own child and once she comes to terms with it she won’t either”
“You going to be able to support her, your child, you’re still at school”
“I don’t have long left; I have a guaranteed job and money left to me by my parents”
“What about her?”
“She still has this half year and if she wants’ next year too”
“She’s younger then you are?”
“Seventeen in a few months, just after I turn eighteen – don’t say I’ve screwed up both our lives already please” he said taking a sip from his cup,
“I wasn’t going too, it’s just you guys seem to be doing everything so fast”
“Getting married was because I got a second chance at life, I got a second chance to be with her when we both thought I wasn’t going to make it”
“You we’re sick?”
“I got hurt; I died, I was in a coma for a while”
“Why is everything so complicated with you?”
“It would be a lot easier if I could tell you the truth about certain things but I’m not allowed, I promised”
“You promised my mother didn’t you, you know things about me not even I know – you know stuff like what on earth a muggle is?”
“Yes”
“And you and the triplets all have something weird about you – like – like”
“Go on guess, and then I won’t get in trouble”
“No – no - that can’t be – but I’ve seen that gold coin before, the one you said was for luck, my mum had one”
“Yep, with a reason I can’t tell you”
“You’re all part of something, that’s how my mum knew your parents, why can’t you tell me what’s going on?”
“There are rules I can’t break” he pulled out his wand and put it on the table “You’ve seen one of these before though haven’t you”
“My mum has one, it’s in her draws, she doesn’t know I snuck in and opened the box when I was nine”
“You know what it is?”
“A stick” she smirked “Cause you guys are fruitcakes” she smiled “I know you are hiding something”
“Like I said unless you figure it out”
“But wands and cloaks, is it some kind of cult?”
“A bit bigger then that” he put it away and looked at her,
“So that would make you what, a warlock and witch”
“Try again”
“A… A wizard”
“There you go; warlocks are different – more powerful, older and wiser”
She laughed “I know your not joking; I know you’re serious, I believe you but that would make my mum…”
“You’ll have to ask her that question” he replied seriously,
“But my dad he’s not or I would be”
“There are times when it can skip, your dad – your real dad was”
“You know who my father is?”
“I can’t tell you”
“You promised her”
“Yeah, you have to ask her” he stood up “I have to go now, I’m sorry I’m leaving it like this but you should know your dad would have loved you if he had known you”
“Don’t go, tell me more please” she stood up “You can’t just tell me something like that and walk away”
“Happy birthday Sophia, have a great party” he walked, she shouted
“Harry you can’t leave it like this!”
The room went quiet, everyone was staring at the two of them, and Harry turned back to her.
“You know too much already, I shouldn’t have said anything at all its better for you talk to her about it”
“She won’t tell me, you can, you know him – you – you can tell me where he is so I can find him and get to know him”
“I can’t”
“Why not, why can’t I find my dad?”
“His names Sirius Black”
He walked back and hugged her briefly “Thankyou” she kissed his cheek and he walked away, “Harry” she called but got outside and he was gone,

He apparated back to his house grabbed the bags and then went to the burrow. He knocked and heard Ron calling to tell him to come in. He walked into chaos.

lilly_luna · 09-30-2010, 03:49 AM

Chapter Nineteen

"Harry, where the hell have you been?” Ron grabbed his arm and pulled him up the stairs, before Molly, Arthur and all the brothers could say anything,
“Out”
“She’s gone, you haven’t seen her?”
“What, but she was ok, she was asleep”
“Hermione went up there, left to get her a drink and she was gone, we’ve been looking for her since, we couldn’t find you because you disappeared off the face of the earth for an hour and a half”
“What – can’t you track her wand?”
“She keeps moving, they can’t keep a hold on her”
“Why didn’t you send me a patronus?” Harry said stopping to look at him “It would have found me, I could have been looking”
“We did, it obviously didn’t work because you were surrounded by muggles, they don’t work then – where did you go that was so important?”
“To see someone”
“You don’t know anyone that’s muggle apart from you uncle, aunt and cousin so why would you be back there?”
“I wasn’t, I went to see a friend”
“Guy or girl – if your cheating on my sister I’m going to kill you”
“Don’t be stupid!”
“You knocked her up; you could at least stick around for a bit not just run away when she pretends to fall asleep”

Harry punched him and then grabbed him by his collar holding him against the wall
“I went to talk to the only person I could about why my girlfriend would try to kill our child, because I can’t talk to you, I can’t talk to Hermione and I sure as hell can’t talk to her about it-” Ron made to talk but Harry glared into his eyes
“- I left to get my head round the fact I’m going to be a father but the mother of my child, who I love so much I could forgive her anything, couldn’t face me to tell me because she thought I was going to abandon her, I left her for an hour and a half in her own families protection and care and you couldn’t stop her from going, you didn’t stay with her like I asked”
“We did – we looked after her, she woke up and we were there”
“You left her alone” he said viciously his hand holding on tighter,
“Harry let him go, don’t blame him, blame me” Hermione said walking over a hand on his shoulder,
He held fast,
“Let him go” Arthur said, walking up the stairs “Let him go now!”
Harry did so and stepped back “Where was the last place you tracked her too?”
“Bill’s been, there is no point going there”
“Where” he said defiantly,
“There is nothing-”
“I didn’t ask what you think about it, I asked where so tell me” he replied taking out his wand,
“Don’t talk to my father like that” Ron put in angrily,
Arthur stared at him until Harry turned to looking into his angry eyes, “Where did she go?!”
“Godric’s Hollow”
Harry stared “Where in Godric’s Hollow?
“Just to an alley way, it looks out to a café”
Harry swore and apparated to the spot he knew well, it’s where he disappeared to when Sophia came after him.
“Ginny” he muttered to himself “What did you see, where did you go?”
He pointed his wand around, trying to get a trace on where she’d been there was nothing, she hadn’t moved on unless it was on foot, unless - Sophia.
He apparated to her cottage and banged on the door,
Her mother opened it but slapped him round the face “You told her!”
“I told her to go to you!” he replied “Where’s Ginny?”
“I don’t know who you’re talking about, I just know you interfered, you’ve ruined everything I tried to protect her from”
“She needed to know” he pushed her out of the way “Sophia!” he shouted,
A man who he assumed was her husband came out to see them “What’s going on? Who are you?”
“He’s the reason she’s up there crying her eyes out on her birthday”
“What did you break up with her or something?”
“No, let me talk to her – Sophia?” he called out again “It’s Harry come and talk to me”
She appeared at the top of the stairs “She’s gone” she replied,
“Where?” he asked,
“I don’t know, she didn’t say”
“Who are you talking about?” Her parents asked together,
“His fiancée” she said exasperated “She just appeared in my room, she said she knew about us and that she was leaving you and the baby wasn’t going to have anything to do with you, you wouldn’t have anything to do with them anymore”
“Did you tell her that I only just met you?”
“Yes, she didn’t believe me, she saw the hug she watched us talk, I tried to tell her about – about why and that you know my dad”
Harry put his head in his hands, muttering “No – no – no, this can’t be happening”
“I’m sorry, I tried to tell her but she wouldn’t listen”
“You know who her father is?” Mr Davis said looking at him “How, who are you?”
“He was my godfather”
“Was?”
“He died, two years ago, his cousin murdered him in cold blood in front of me, there is no body, there is no grave, there is nothing left of him”
“What – he died and you never told me!” she shouted at her mother,
“I didn’t know myself until he told me, his world – his world is full of pain and death and misery, and I didn’t want to be a part of that, I didn’t want you to be a part of it, and look where he ended up by not leaving it”
“It doesn’t make up for the fact you never told me who he was”
“I’m sorry”
“Sorry that this stranger knows more about my father then I do?”
“Yes – now you, you need to get ready for your party”
“PARTY - YOU THINK I STILL WANT TO GO AHEAD WITH THIS!”
“Yes because it’s your birthday and we’re going to celebrate it, I love you and I’m sorry I never told you about him, but he would have hurt you”
“Harry doesn’t seem to think so”
“HARRY DIDN’T KNOW HIM LIKE I DID”
“I knew him better” Harry said angrily, “I know that he would have wanted to know her, I know if you had stood by him he would never have let you down, if he had had you, you could have stopped him from avenging my parents murder and ending up in prison for twelve years of his life – if you hadn’t have ran away from him he would have loved you”
“He wasn’t the same man back then as he was, when you knew him evidently prison changed him for the better”
“How can you think my father would have been friends with anyone completely devoid of any attachment to a child, he was a good man, you didn’t see it, you just saw that he wanted to fight, he was fighting for our kind Gwendolyn Whyte”
“Don’t”
“He was fighting for us, for Sophia, for my parents, and for every single witch and wizard in our world, he was a member of the order of the phoenix and he was fighting against Voldemort to save everything we hold dear, he fought and he won, yes he lost his life but it wasn’t in vain, he only made it easier for me to kill Voldemort”
“You – you killed him”
“You missed out on a lot Gwendolyn, shutting yourself out like you have, this-” he lifted up his hair to show the scar “- This is what’s left when your nearly murdered by a killing curse as a baby but your mother dies to save you” he lifted up his shirt to show the scars “This is all that comes from fighting evil for seven years, Sirius was the only link left to my parents and then he was murdered by his own cousin, now, by accident I’ve found the one thing he left behind only to find he didn’t even know and that makes me angry, I knew him, he was my family and he would have wanted to have been hers”
“I- I – I don’t know what to say”
“Just apologise to her, I’m going to find Ginny”
She smiled ruefully at the top of the stairs “Good luck Harry”
“Celebrate your birthday Sophia; Sirius would have wanted you to be happy no matter what happened” She nodded and he made to leave
“Thankyou” she smiled,
“World - what world - what are you two going on about?” Mr Davis said confused,
“Can I tell her first, please Michael; this isn’t how I wanted this all to turn out”
He left and drew his wand trying to think of where she would have gone, the leaky cauldron was his first choice, he ran to the bar “Tom”
“Mr Potter”
“Have you seen Ginny Weasley?”
“No, I’m sorry; she hasn’t been here at all”
“Are you sure?”
“Sure as can be Harry, I’m sorry”
“Thanks” he left and focused all his energy on sending a patronus to her watching it charge down the crowded diagon alley and disappearing into the crowd. He apparated to Grimmald place, locked all the doors, sealed the fireplace and banished Kreacher to Hogwarts. He closed the curtains, sat on the couch and put his wand with his watch on the table beside him. He called Dobby and waited for him to appear.

“Dobby” he said quietly, in the unlit room
“Mr Potter?” Dobby’s bulbous eyes squinted in the dark,
“I need you to find someone for me”
“Who Mr Potter, Dobby will look everywhere for Mr Potter”
“Ginny Weasley”
“It will be done, shall I bring her here?”
“Please”
“Alright Mr Potter, you can trust Dobby”
“Thankyou” he replied as he disappeared. He sat back into the cushions, staring at the wall. He closed his eyes to see her smiling face, he saw her holding their baby, and he saw her playing with the little girl, with the same red hair flowing behind her as she ran round the garden smiling as the spitting image of her mother.

***
She didn’t care if they tracked her, she didn’t care if they took her wand and expelled her from school from all this magic use, and she had to know where he was and why he’d leave her when he said he wouldn’t. Ginny thought he would have gone to their graves if he wasn’t at home, she apparated to the alley way he’d taken her too before, when they’d went to the graves just when they started dating. She remembered how upset he’d been, that he’d asked her especially to go with him and not Ron or Hermione. She walked out and then saw him in the café across the street. She stopped; she stared and took a step closer.

Her heart thumped fiercely in her chest, he was with another girl. She watched them talking, talking intensely and not looking away from each other. He got up to leave and she stood up to. He looked torn and the whole establishment turned to see them. He stopped and turned back talking to her, she said something that warranted him going back to hug and watched her kiss his cheek as she put a hand to her mouth trying to fight the urge to be sick.

She hid behind a bin and watched him apparate. She watched Sophia go back inside and pay after wondering where Harry had gone. He left her to go back to the Burrow and pretend with her. She felt sick, but she felt angry.

She went after her, walking behind her the short distance to the café under a disillusionment charm. She got to her house and stopped looking up to see which room and then apparated into it.

Sophia jumped and screamed stepping back swearing loudly,
“Shut up!” she held her wand furiously at her throat,
“What’s going on up there?” someone shouted,
“Nothing mum” she called down, “Ginny?” she said staring in recognition from the photo,
“How nice, you’re cheating with my now ex fiancée and you know my name, what’s yours?”
“I’m not – I’m not with Harry, you’ve got it wrong”
Ginny pointed to the bookshelf and a pile of them blew up, Sophia cringed and simpered, “Your name?”
“Sophia”
“Right and so Sophia you can pass a little message on to Harry when he comes back for you, and trust me he will, you can tell him that I never want to see him again, that me and my baby will be just fine without him and he’s not going to have anything at all to do with either of us ever again”
“Ginny you’ve got this all wrong”
“I know what I saw!” she yelled pointing and clutched her belly with her other hand taking a breath in pain looking away for second before focusing on her again, “You just tell him”
“There is nothing going on between me and Harry, I’ve known him a day at the most, he knows who my father was”
“I don’t believe you!” she said fuming “Harry and me are over!” she apparated to Mungo’s breathlessly and asked to see the woman she had before. She was told to wait, the pain subsided as she changed her face to the features of -
“Sarah Reynolds” the voice said and she got up, suddenly a stag came charging towards her and she stopped in her tracks,
“I’m here, I’m waiting, I love you, and I want you both”
She yelled out in frustration and the stag disappeared in smoke as she walked away from it.
She went inside the cubicle and the woman came out, “Sarah, your back; are you ok?”
“I’m getting stomach pains”
“Alright let me check you out, lie down”
“What could be wrong Penny?”
“We’ll soon see don’t worry” she said waving her wand over her, “Hmm… ok… right, Sarah it looks like your blood pressures elevated and your body changing as it is isn’t liking that, you need to relax, no anger, no stress”
“I found out my boyfriend was cheating, I’ve left him and my family”
“Sarah”
“I don’t know what I’m doing; I don’t know where I’m going”
“You should go back”
“I’m not”
“Then – then – come and stay with me until you get yourself sorted”
“I couldn’t”
“You could, just until you get back on your feet”
“I couldn’t put you up like that, I’ll find somewhere”
“You can stay with me, it’s fine, you need to relax and get away from it all, you can stay with me, get your life ready for your baby – are you planning to go back to Hogwarts?”
“I think I’m going to be expelled, I’ve used magic all day”
“We can sort that out, under the circumstances I think the ministry will understand”
“I don’t know if I can, he – he’ll be there and I can’t face him, seeing him there while I get bigger and everyone will know and – and” she burst into tears “I will know that he couldn’t tell me the truth, that he’s been with someone else, that the great Harry Potter couldn’t love Ginny Weasley enough to stay faithful to her even after he found out she was pregnant with his child”
She stared “Ginny Weasley?”
“That’s me” she wiped her eyes, waving her wand to return her face to normal,
“But Harry, he’s – he’s”
“He’s a cheating pig”
“Look come home with me, get your head sorted and contact your family, I’m sure there worried about you, did you tell them?”
“No, I went to find Harry, he left me sleeping and I went to find him only he was with her”
“Have you talked to him?”
“I don’t want to, I don’t want him near me and he’s not going to have anything to do with me and my baby”
“You should let your parents know”
“I will”
“Lets go, I’ll end my shift early” She helped Ginny down, and walked them out, Dobby appeared in front of her, “Miss Weasley, Mr Potter sent me”
“I don’t care”
“He wants me to take you to see him”
“I’m not going, go back to the kitchens Dobby”
“But mistress, Mr Potter does not look right, he’s all dark”
“I don’t care”
“He’s all sad, Dobby wants to make him happy and he wants you to come home, Dobby don’t know what has happened but he knows you can make it right”
“I am not going back there, tell him I don’t want to see him ever again”
“I will” he nodded and disappeared back to the darkened living room Harry was sitting in.

Morag · 09-30-2010, 05:51 PM

Oh trust Ginny to jump to conclusions! She reallyy has to talk to harry if they want to make things work. I like Sophia and hope she learns more abouther father and the wizarding world!
PAMS!
Soph x

lilly_luna · 10-03-2010, 06:02 AM

Chapter Twenty

“Mr Potter”
“Dobby”
“She will not come”
“Did she say why?”
“She said she doesn’t want to see you, Dobby is sorry”
“It’s not your fault Dobby, where was she?” he reached for his wand and conjured a glass,
“Mungo’s Hospital, she was with a woman”
“Thankyou Dobby, you can go now”
“Are you certain Mr Potter?”
“Dobby, go back Hogwarts please and, look after Kreacher will you”
Dobby nodded and disappeared, he pointed his wand at the cupboard and a bottle of fire whiskey floated out to rest beside the glass. He poured it by hand and reached for the glass, taking a sip. She wasn’t going to come back, he wasn’t going to go after her, and he would just wait. He gulped the glass and poured another downing it in a single mouthful.
He sat back into the couch, twisting round so he was lying down and looked up at the ceiling, taking the bottle instead of the glass.

He had just woken up when there was banging on the door and threats from Ron’s mouth.
“Harry let us in here or I’m gonna blow the door off the hinges”
He ignored it, Ron could try, Harry was a better wizard and he knew it.
“Harry please” It was Hermione this time “Open the door, we’re worried about you”
He ignored it again and there was a loud bang as they tried to force there way in. Harry raised his wand, muttered something and instantly doubled the protection around the house.
“Harry please, it’s been days”
He hadn’t moved but to go to the toilet, the bottle and several others lay on the floor as he sat up.
“GO AWAY!” He yelled,
“Harry let us in now!” Ron said “Ginny’s still missing!”
“She doesn’t want to be found”
“What happened?” Ron asked “Harry let us in and tell us what has happened”
Harry swore at them and got up. He walked to the door and pointed his wand “You don’t leave and I’ll curse the living day lights out of you both, I don’t care anymore, I give up with her, I can’t do this because she won’t let me”
“Harry, don’t give up” Hermione sighed
“Go home, now”
“Please”
Harry twitched the wand in his hand and the door glowed red “You come near this house again and I swear I will kill you both” he heard there apparition and lowered his wand, it dropped to the floor and so did he. He put his head in his hands and sighed rubbing his temples. He got up and walked to the kitchen pouring out water and then boiling the kettle with a flick of his wand, he made a mug of coffee and set himself up on the couch again sipping it slowly, so when she freaked out over Sophia she didn’t go home.

She went to Mungo’s, she was with a woman she knew but that had been days. He glanced at his watch; three days apparently, hmm he only remembered missing one not three. He yawned and drank his coffee rubbing his eyes and considering a shower. Was there much point, she wasn’t coming back since she ran away from him over something she didn’t even wait to see the truth from. She wouldn’t believe him; she wouldn’t give him a chance to explain anything. He sent out another patronus to her and waited.

Ginny poked the bowl of porridge and yawned,
“Ginny, how are you feeling?”
“Fine, he’s obviously not bothered for my whereabouts or he got the message to stay away”
“You don’t look fine, are you ready to see your family yet?”
“Not yet, I don’t think he will have told them what he’s done and it’s his responsibility”
“Ginny it might be better for you at home”
“I’m sorry for annoying you with this; I’m just going to go”
“Ginny if you’re not ready it’s fine for you to stay here”
“No, no look I’ll just go”
“Ginny stay, it’s fine”
“I still don’t know what to do; I thought things would be clearer by now”
“Give yourself a chance to get over it” She smiled, but then the stag charged to the kitchen,
Ginny looked up at it and put her head in her hands as it spoke “You didn’t give me a chance to explain, stop hiding because it’s not what you think, let me know you’re ok, that our baby’s ok because I love you and I miss you”
“He sounds – well he sounds miserable Ginny, maybe he’s telling the truth, what did you see?”
“I saw them talk, I watched them hug and she kissed him”
“You don’t think because she kissed him it wasn’t what you now believe?”
“I don’t think so”
“Maybe you should give him a chance, just one, let him tell you what he has to say”
“Nothing could change my mind, he’ll just say he loves me that he’ll do anything and I’ll fall for his rubbish just like I always have”
“What if he’s not – I mean what if he’s not lying, what if what you saw wasn’t what actually happened?”
“I can’t let him – he talks to me and I’ll forget what he’s done, he’s said it before we don’t argue, he just gives in, I’ll just give in to him, I’ll look at him and, and I’ll just end up kissing him or something”
“Your scared of forgiving him for something your not even sure he’s done” Penny said with a sigh “Why not talk to him but I’ll be there and you tell him to bring someone and we’ll sort this out”
“What do I say to him?”
“Tell him what you saw, let him explain and then decide what to do”
“You think – I mean you really could believe he is telling the truth?”
“If what you’ve said about him the three days you’ve been here and not stopped talking about him, I can believe anything” she smiled “I think you should give him a chance”
“Can – can he come here, if I go back there I think I might end up staying”
“Sure, and tell your brother to come, let him know your ok”
“Not him, I’ll ask Hermione, he’ll just get angry”
“Who ever you want lets just get this sorted out hey?” she smiled,
“Yes” she sighed “Erm… shall I send him an owl?”
“How about I send him a patronus, quicker and you get in less trouble”
“Please” she smiled, Penny raised her wand and a small silvery sparrow flew out sitting on the table, she sent it with a message and smiled as it flew out the window.
“Yours is beautiful, mine changed when I – when I realised I loved Harry, it’s a doe or I think it is unless I hate him so much its changed back”
“I didn’t know they could change”
“Yeah, we found that with our friend, hers changed to the same as the guy she was pining for, it took him a while to get over himself and his worries and finally start seeing her, he thought he was too old and too – too much of a werewolf for her, she didn’t care, still doesn’t, they’ve got a little boy now”
“You should be able to work this out”
“I don’t know”
“Just wait and see”

He sat on the couch and saw the sparrow approaching, it passed through the window and sat on the table a woman’s voice speaking to him,

“Ginny is staying at River Side cottage; she wants to see you in half an hour come here and explain” he jumped up and ran up the stairs to the shower. He washed and changed and combed his hair, brushed his teeth and put on new clean clothes. He checked his watch and stepped into the fireplace. He stepped out into a kitchen to find Hermione and the woman sitting there drinking coffee,
“Tell me the truth Harry; you weren’t cheating on her were you?”
“Don’t be stupid of course not, I love her, Sophia is a girl I just met – I met her by accident, I pulled her out the way of a car and then it turned out she is Sirius’s daughter”
“And you were kissing her because”
“She gave me a peck on the cheek because I told her who her father was, that was it, Ginny overreacted over something she saw, she wasn’t in the room, she didn’t think to ask and she hasn’t given me chance to explain until now, where is she?”
“In the living room” Penny said,
“Who are you?”
“Penny Joplin” Ginny’s healer and friend” she stepped in front of the door to stop him from going in, “We’re coming in to, she wants us there”
“Fine, just let me in there – now”
She stepped out the way and opened the door,
“Ginny” he said relieved, she was sitting in an armchair facing the window and away from him, he knelt down in front of her “You’re ok?” he asked,
“I saw you” she said simply stroking his cheek with her fingertips, “I saw you with her” she was crying again and her hand went to her face to try and hide her tears,
“Ginny I would never ever cheat on you, I couldn’t do that to you, and I wouldn’t” he reached to hold her hand “I won’t ever – it’s an impossible thing to even consider that I would because I love you so much I can’t hurt you like that”
“Who is she?”
“Sirius’s daughter, I literally only just met her and completely by accident it turns out that’s who she is”
“How is that even possible?”
“It’s complicated”
“I’m not going anywhere”
“I went to my parent’s graves, that day you left me the first time, then she was jogging in the middle of the road and stopped in front of a car, I pulled her out of the way and we got talking and I walked her home – she invited us to her party to say thanks and then I went to see her again and ended up speaking to her mother. We got to talking and she revealed that she is in fact magical, she knew my parents and she knew Sirius really, really well, then Sophia came home and we went to the café and I accidently told her who her dad was after promising her mother I wouldn’t, she hugged me and I told her his name – she needed to know and she kissed my cheek saying thankyou”
“Why did you go to see her?”
“Because I wanted to talk to someone, and I figured I could wish her happy birthday while I told her we wouldn’t be going to her party because I didn’t want to leave you for too long, she’s just my friend – she wants to be yours too unless you feel like going round there and shouting at her again”
“Why couldn’t you talk to me?”
“Because I needed someone outside this whole thing so I could get my head round it all, you scared me with – with what you told me Ginny” he didn’t want them to know what she’d tried to do but he knew they did apart from Penny, “That kind of thing isn’t easy to take in, Ron’s not going to understand, Hermione would just tell you what I said-”
Hermione butted in “I would not”
“Yes you would and you know it” Harry looked up at her “You’re her best friend just like your mine, that’s why you would and don’t get me wrong its good your there for her and you guys talk but I don’t have anyone outside our relationship-” he turned back to Ginny “- that I can talk to and that she can talk to me, I can tell her about her father and she can help me help you”
“So there was nothing going on, I mean – I mean”
He nodded his head “Nothing”
The tears flowed more freely now and she threw herself on him in a hug, “I’m sorry I didn’t – didn’t believe you, that I didn’t give you a chance”
“Don’t apologise Gin, just come home” he was crying now “Please, Gin, come back”
She stroked his face and kissed his lips, his cheeks, his eyelids and wrapped her arms round his neck “Take me home”

KatielovesHP · 10-03-2010, 12:54 PM

Aww, sorry I missed a few. Great posts!!

Ron&Hermione(L) · 10-04-2010, 07:33 PM

great chapters

Morag · 10-04-2010, 08:07 PM

Aww I'm so glad things are ok with them...for now!
PAMS!
Soph x

lilly_luna · 10-05-2010, 09:53 AM

Chapter Twenty – One

He lay there watching her wake up. The yawn on her lips, her eyes blinking and adjusting to the light. Her arms were stretching, reaching for him as she murmured his name. “Harry”
“I’m right here” he leant down and kissed her,
“Hmm” she smiled pulling herself up to lay on his chest “I love you” she mumbled,
“Love you too” he whispered in her ear and kissed her forehead, running his fingertips along her cheek “It’s time to wake up though Gin”
“Why?”
“Because we have to go back to school”
“Urgh”
“Gin, come on, it’s been weeks and you said you wanted to go back, I’m coming with you”
“But we won’t get to see you” she mumbled one of her hands travelling to the tiny pronounced bump between her hips, “And I’m still – Urgh” she got up and ran to the toilet, he followed her
“You’ve still got morning sickness” he stroked her hair, moving it out of the way and holding it as she vomited again he wasn’t grossed out with it like he was the first time “But it will pass soon”
“And then there are the months of getting massive”
“Your getting caught up in what’s going to take ages, Gin you can’t just stay here alone for months, I’m sure Luna and everyone are waiting for you to get back, you said you were ready”
She brushed her teeth and sat on the toilet seat looking at him, “Are we all packed?”
“Yes”
“Then how are we getting to the station?”
“I booked a taxi since apparition just makes you projectile vomit” he smiled “I don’t think Ron would appreciate it a second time”
“He did throw away that jacket right?”
“He said no matter how many times Molly washed it, zapped away the sick and gave it back to him he wasn’t going to wear it again – it went to a muggle charity shop”
“So I guess I owe him one…”
“I sorted it don’t worry”
“Harry”
“Just a jacket, and it’s kind of my fault hey” he grinned sitting beside her on the edge of the bath and reached to lift up her cheek so she looked at him, “Shall we get dressed now then?”
“Ok” she smiled and took his hand as he helped her up. “But…”
“Hmm” he said turning to her as they walked,
“Do we have time to...?”
“Uh huh” he smiled at her little,
“Cause you know once we’re at school” She put her arms round his neck, “There’s like no where that’s private, and we’re not going to have anytime with all these exams”
“Yeah, yeah” he smiled kissing her softly, “And the fact you’re going to be so tired carrying around a baby, a load of books and busy being sick has nothing to do with it”
“Are you saying that because I’m going to turn into a tired, fat whale it’s going to put you off?” She said removing her arms to fold them at her chest,
“I think your going to be glowing, gorgeous and pregnant” he leant into kiss her “And nothing will stop me -” and again “- from finding you as beautiful as I always have”
“Sure” she mumbled
“You keep that complaining up and we’re going to run out of time”
“When’s the taxi coming?”
He glanced at the clock behind her “An hour and a half”
“Time enough for – last minute packing” she grinned running past him and into the bedroom,
“No you don’t” he laughed, reaching for her waist and pulling her into a kiss.

***
They reluctantly got into the taxi, or at least Harry made Ginny get in the taxi while he put the trunks in the boot and the taxi driver smoked and coughed watching him and then trying to chat up Ginny while he went inside for the owls, “Harry come on” Ginny hissed urgently out the window to him and gestured her head to the driver as he send Hedwig off to fly there as one less thing to carry. He got in and looked at the meter, he’d had it running the whole time and sighed, the guy wasn’t going to get a tip at this rate.
They arrived and Ron was there waiting with Hermione ready to help take the trunks
“Are you ok Gin, you look a little – peaky”
“Just a bit – his crazy driving combined with that smell – what the hell is that?” she sniffed miserably,
“That pie stand I think” Harry said hugging her too him,
“It’s gross” She heaved,
Hermione grabbed her arm and led her too the public toilets, Harry looked at his watch, “We’ll take the trunks and put them on the train, we’ve got time to go and meet them on there way in, she’ll be a while”
“At least it wasn’t my good jacket and hair again” Ron muttered,
“Yeah I think you missed a bit, there’s a chunk of carrot still in there” Harry smirked,
“Oh real funny aren’t you” he said as they dragged the four trunks, with the three animals on top,
“I’m hilarious”
“Wait up, it passed” called out Hermione with Ginny holding her hand and holding her nose with the other. Harry turned, laughed, and they waited for them.

Somehow they managed to get a compartment and sat relieved. He wrapped his arm round Ginny and she snuggled into his embrace, “I hope your not to busy to hold me like this when we get to school”
“You worry to much” he said with a smile and kissing her forehead as the train started to move,
“It’s strange to be going back don’t you think?” Asked Ginny of Hermione and Ron,
“A bit” Ron shrugged,
“I can’t wait, to think of all I’ve missed, what we have to catch up on and all those that have muggle parentage that weren’t allowed to come back that are now, we’ve got so much to do that it’s going to be so hard to-”
Harry gave her a look that said to keep quiet and his eyes glanced at Ginny’s face and back to hers, so she got the idea that talking about how much work they were likely to have, wasn’t going to help her current mental state - already being anxious about a whole load of other stuff…

“It will all be fine” Harry said firmly “There will be work to do but not so much that there won’t be time to spend with you, and I’m pretty sure we should be ok, we’ve got Hermione’s brains on our side and I think McGonagall and the rest of the teachers aren’t going to give us a hard time since we pretty much saved the wizarding world in the five months we missed”
Ginny considered what he said, tried to reassure herself and then closed her eyes trying to imagine what their baby looked like now and what she would become.

The minutes passed, she was comfortable in his arms, comfortable enough to fall asleep and he hadn’t moved an inch except to stroke her hair once within the first few minutes of her thoughts,
“I think she’s asleep” Ron said and she didn’t move so they would assume so,
“Nope, she’s awake” Harry said quietly “She makes that face when she’s off day dreaming” she could hear the smiling in his voice, “And her eyes are moving more then they do when she’s asleep”
“Aww, you watch her sleep that’s so cute” Said a nearly unfamiliar voice until she recognised it as being Lavenders,
“More like gross, I don’t wanna know that kinda stuff” Seamus groaned,
She must have been asleep at some point, she didn’t remember them coming in the compartment,
“There engaged dumb-dumb, when you live with someone you watch them sleep, you watch them eat, you watch them doing everything so you know them inside out just like they know you”
It sounded like both Ron and Seamus had made vomiting gestures so Ginny opened her eyes, “Lavenders right guys, get over yourselves if anything you should be jealous of Harry, he’s getting something neither of you two are”
“Urgh!” they groaned simultaneously,
“Idiots – he’s getting a relationship where he has such a connection with the other person he knows things about them that are minuscule – that’s special, and it’s not what you two are thinking” she smirked “Although -” Harry put a hand over her mouth to stop her going any further, her eyes smiled and she turned her head to look at him saying that she wouldn’t add anything to that sentence. He released her mouth and Seamus stood up,
“I’m going before I puke, you coming Lav?”
“Hmm, ok, lets go” She sighed “See you guys later”

They said there goodbyes and then the food trolley came round, they had been expecting a visit from some Slytherin’s even if they weren’t of the Malfoy variety but it seemed non would come.
“Are you sure Ginny?” Harry said for the third time,
“Perfectly sure, we’re not hungry” she shrugged,
The trolley lady looked slightly bewildered when Ginny said we’re not I’m and Hermione caught on saying,
“We’re good”
Harry realised what she was saying and gave in just getting an extra two pumpkin pasties in case ‘they’ changed there mind.

“You’re talking as if your two people Gin it’s going to give it away, I thought you wanted to tell when your ready?”
“It just comes out”
“We just need to be more careful if you want it to stay secret at Hogwarts a little longer”
“I know, I know” she mumbled as they changed into there uniforms, the blinds down in the compartment and Ron and Hermione off to find empty toilets to change in before it got too busy.
She pulled her shirt on doing up the buttons, she paused a hand on her stomach. She was just standing there in her shirt, tie and underwear her palm pressed to her baby,
“What’s wrong are you ok?” Harry asked his head escaping through the opening in his jumper,
“Uh huh, just-”
She took his hand and placed it where hers had been, “There’s really a baby in there, a life, it’s strange knowing, and she already feels like such a part of me”
He stared “She?”
“Every time I think of what she looks like, I see a girl, with my hair and your eyes”
“That’s really weird”
“I know”
“No its weird cause that’s what I see too” he replied, “Always”
“What?”
“That’s what I see, but you two are in our garden playing, she has hair just like yours and you’re chasing her, playing in the garden”
“You think we’re right, you think it might be a girl?” she asked in earnest,
“Maybe” he shrugged and pulled her into a hug, “Either way I’m happy”
“Hmm, I think I’d like a girl though”
“Just don’t be disappointed if it’s a boy will you” he smiled,
“I won’t” she pouted as there was a knock on the door,
“You guys changed yet?”
“Yes” Ginny called before Harry could stop her, he let go and blocked the door,
“No” he called out “Ginny your missing something” he said to her with a smile and she looked down
“Oh – hold on” she laughed pulling on her skirt, “– erm Harry, do you know enlargement charms?” she said undoing the zip, it was just a bit too tight,
“Yeah” he pointed his wand and the skirt released her an inch so she could do it up comfortably,
“That’s so depressing” she sighed opening the door,
“Just think of all the clothes you can buy for her ok” Harry whispered stepping aside and sitting down,
“It’s a girl?” Hermione said excitedly, walking in,
“Hermione” Harry replied as Ron closed the door, “We’re trying to keep the fact that there’s even an it quiet remember”
“Oh, yes, sorry” she mumbled sheepishly but became excited once again “But you know it’s a girl?”
“Nope” Ginny smiled settling beside Harry again, “But we just worked out that when either of us thinks of what the baby might be we imagine a girl” She shrugged, “Red hair, green eyes”
“You’re going to have to think of names soon, times going to pass so quickly” Said Hermione as Ron sat in silence listening and brooding over the topic of conversation,
“I don’t know” Harry shrugged, “I’ll leave it up to you Gin”
“I like the idea of your parent’s names”
“What- you do?”
“Well there going to be a Potter aren’t they, so why not chose there grandparents, it’s tradition to include them in both our world and the muggle world”
“I did just say I’d leave it up to you, but I might change my mind, isn’t weird to name a kid after dead relatives?”
“They’ll never be forgotten and with your genes he’s either going to be mistaken for you or James anyway or the red hair will probably only hit a girl so she’ll look like Lily”
“Never thought of that, great our kids are going to look like my dead parents”
“Harry you look like them” Ginny said smirking at him, “And are you planning more kids anytime soon, because I think I’ll have to have something to do with that decision”
“I think we should aim for seven” he joked, Ron got up and left as Hermione and Ginny laughed, he stood up and made to walk out after him but Ginny grabbed his hand,
“Leave him to be grumpy”
“I want to know what he’s grumpy about” Harry said trying to pull away gently,
“He’ll come back once he’s taken his anger out on a Slytherin or something”
“I’d rather he punched me then get in trouble for hitting someone that doesn’t deserve it”
“Cause you deserve it do you?” she asked trying to keep him there in the conversation,
“I think so, I’m the problem”
“No, it’s that you’re with me, that’s his problem and he’ll have to get over it”
“Can’t I just talk to him?” He freed his hand and she sat back,
“Go ahead, get a black eye and see if it solves anything”

“Ron” he said going after him “Ron wait a minute mate” he squeezed past a group in the way, but got grabbed and asked if he would sign stuff and tell them how he killed Voldemort. He tried to get away,
“I can’t right now”
“Please”
“Ron wait up” he called down but the door between carriages opened and shut,
“Look guys, I’ll talk to you at school” he got away and followed him to the back of the train; right to the last carriage and the door that led to the small gated outside section on the end of the train.

“Ron – what’s wrong?”
“Nothin” he muttered, leaning against the rails looking out at the landscape passing them by in the dark,
“You wouldn’t walk away if there was nothing wrong and you’ve eaten as much as Ginny has, which is another thing that indicates to me that my best friend is annoyed about something”
“Nothin” he muttered again,
“You can tell me you know”
“Can’t”
“So there is something” Harry said triumphantly and leant on the rails in a similar pose, “Cause Ginny say’s your just annoyed about me and her but I don’t think that’s it”
“It’s not”
“So what then”
“You and Gin got there before me and Hermione ever even told each other we liked each other” Ron sighed “You guys are moving fast, your planning a life but me and Hermione – it’s hard enough to – to – she won’t even kiss me unless we’re completely alone and its as far away from either of our houses as possible”
“Oh it’s that”
“She won’t even tell her parents we’re a couple, they know since we’re together all the time and Mum and Dad have figured since the first time I went to dinner at her place, it’s not that it makes me like her any less its just frustrating that you two can be so open and all over each other – your having a kid making it that you two are closer then anything, but me and her are just stuck, and I know it’s just her nature, she’s not big on displays of affection like you guys and neither am I but for her to let me hug her in public takes a lot of work”
“She just has to get used to the idea, she saw you kissing Lavender the whole of Sixth year, and she’s not going to be the same as that”
“I want more then just a friendly smile and her holding my hand when no one’s watching”
“And what happens when you talk to her about it?”
“I did it once and she didn’t talk to me for two days”
“Ouch, ok so…”
“So, you ever had any problems with Gin apart from the obvious?”
“Not like that – we just clicked”
“Maybe me and Hermione aren’t so right?”
“Don’t be stupid you’ve been nuts about her since second year, you just have to try and talk to her again, she may not want to hear it but girls like it if you tell them stuff” he shrugged “Try and explain just don’t be as blunt as a brick about it” the train started to slow as Ron stood upright,
“How’d you know it was the way I said stuff to her that annoyed her?”
“Cause the way you talk to most people your about as pleasant as a leg lock”
“Great, the only person that I’m really trying with – apart from you guys, and I still manage to mess it up”
“Just don’t go in all annoyed about it, let her talk, let her tell you why she is the way she is and go for a compromise not a win alright”
“No wonder you and Gin get along, you understand girls – freak”
“It comes from years of watching Aunt Petunia’s TV lovey dovey drama shows while I clean the house”
“There are some times where I wish I was you and others where I’m glad I’m not you know” Ron laughed,
“Clobber me to death with the brick why don’t you” Harry smirked and led the way back in as the train came to a stop at Hogsmeade.

“Harry I can manage it” but she giggled even as he lifted her up into the carriage at the waist, after she tripped on the first step and only kept her balance because Hermione was behind to steady her.
“You know full well a gentleman helps his lady into the carriage sis” Ron said holding his hand out to Hermione who took it with a smile and stepped inside.
“So you guys are finally dating then?” Ginny said looking at Hermione for the answer, as the carriage started to move
“Yep” she smiled keeping a hold of his hand “I guess with how crazy things were we forgot to tell you”
“Well it’s not that obvious” Ginny shrugged, “Your – well your not like me and Harry”
“What, the whole attacking each others faces whenever the opportunity arises?” Hermione said with a small smirk,
“Exactly” Harry said “And I mean we can see the fact your nuts about each other because we’ve known you years but everyone else…”
“We don’t need big displays of affection in front of everyone though, do we?” she said and turned to Ron,
“No, but some affection would be nice”
“So this isn’t good enough then?” Hermione held up there hands looking at him, “What would you like Ron, for me to suck your face off like Lav- Lav?” she said angrily letting go and moving away from him on the seat,
“Can we not do this now?”
“We only didn’t do it last time because after two days in silence I forgot what I was angry about”
“Can we talk later, not when we’re in a cramped carriage with our two best friends who don’t need to hear us bickering?”
She didn’t reply,
“So you’re going for the silent treatment again, wonderful” Ron muttered, and sat back in his seat, “Because you know that such mature behaviour for a prefect”
Hermione crossed her arms,
Ron spoke again “I’m not going to apologise-” Harry kicked him “I’m not going to apologise for wanting recognition of our relationship to people, I want that recognition, it doesn’t even feel like anything’s changed between us” he added, “That’s why I left the carriage, that’s what I’ve spoken to Harry about because I can’t tell you because you won’t listen”
She kept silent, tears falling down, Ginny got up and pushed Ron out of the way to hold Hermione in a hug and Ron was forced next to Harry,

“I did what you said” Ron whispered,
“You butchered it – ‘I’m not going to apologise?’ – what was that?”
“You told him to upset her?” Ginny started angrily,
“No” Harry sighed, patting Hermione’s hand, “I told him to talk to her about it because otherwise it’s going to get between them, I told Ron not to be so – so ham fisted about it”
“I tried, is that not enough for any of you” Ron muttered, folded his arms and made to look out the window.
“I’m sorry alright, I’m sorry I don’t feel like I have to be all over you constantly to prove how I feel, like Harry and Ginny that are either running away from each other or jumping into bed, sorry that I don’t want to sleep with you cause I’m not ready for it but your annoyed your little sister was and got knocked up by your best friend before you could even get me to kiss you! I’m sorry I’m not willing to throw myself at you just because you want me too!”
“It’s not that I want” Ron said frustrated “I just want you to show you actually like me in public, a kiss once in a while would be brilliant, for you to let me hold your hand or give you a hug in front of people”
Ginny got up and sat on Harry’s lap, leaving Hermione coldly, they sat staring at her,
“What?” Hermione said looking at them,
“Nothing just the spiteful stuff you threw in about your best friends” Ginny said bitterly, “I suppose you don’t think that me and Harry should keep our baby either”
“I didn’t say that”
“You don’t need to”
“Fine, you know what, I don’t think you should have, I don’t think you’re going to cope with the huge fact you spent the first month hating your baby and then before that actually tried to kill it, an Harry, well he just wants to recreate what he missed out from his own parents! – I don’t think you can do this and your baby would be better off dead or adopted then in your dangerous hands”
Ginny leapt up slapped Hermione and went for her to hit her anywhere she could, Harry grabbed her pulling her away in the cramped space, struggling as Ginny swore, and called her various names half crying half fierce in anger.

The carriage stopped but no one moved for a few seconds,
“Gin, come on sweetheart” Harry said holding her small shaking frame to him as he clambered out of the carriage,
“I’m sorry” Hermione said,
“Don’t” Harry said leading Ginny up the steps and to the rest of the people walking in the great hall.
“Ron?” Hermione started,
“Leave it out, you said it ok, it’s done, the damage is done, just fix it” He replied getting out of the carriage. He held out his hand to her and helped her out of it before letting go and walking up the stairs to go in after them.

Harry had hold of Ginny, her eyes red and tears still falling as they sat she just wouldn’t eat or talk,
“Gin, you need to eat something”
She shook her head,
“For me, please” he whispered “For her too”
She gave in and poked the mash potato with the spoon, Harry scooped some out for her and put it on her plate,
“What’s wrong with her?”
“She’s fine” Harry snapped back at Pavarti,
“Just asked”
“Well don’t - please” he said adding chicken Ginny picked at miserably,
Professor McGonagall stood up and walked down the aisle between the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw to walk to them and speak in a whisper to them,

“I think in your current position it would be prudent for you to leave now, I understand what you are going through so I will send up food and organise the quest quarters for your use, your belongings are already there”
“We want to try and keep this between ourselves for now, we don’t want special treatment” Harry said he could feel the eyes of the school on them, the silence,
“Please Harry” Ginny said quietly, “I don’t, I don’t think I can bear – I can’t have her near me or I will kill her”
Harry closed his eyes, sighed and gave in “Where is it Professor?”
“There are allocated quarters near each house, yours is down the corridor, the picture of three girls dancing”
“Thankyou” He helped Ginny up and led her out, Ron followed on but Harry stopped him “She’s going to be fine, we’re in the guest quarters, I’ll come and see you later when they’re settled”
“You’re doing it too” Ron said with a smile,
“What?”
“You’re talking like she’s two people” he leant forward and kissed Ginny’s forehead “I’ll see you later”

He led her up, she was shuffling, and so he picked her up and carried her.
“It’s going to work out; she’s your best friend”
“Not after that” her arms held on tighter “She – she can’t be my friend after bringing up – using us as a basis – she didn’t consider what she was saying, what her talking about our baby like – like, I said I was sorry for trying to, I know it was a mistake”
“Gin, don’t talk about it”
“I should though, I – I have to cause it was a stupid, horrible, dangerous thing and I’m so sorry Harry, I really am”
“I know” he brushed her hair behind her ear holding her cheek “I know Gin”
He walked in oblivious of his surroundings but was aware there was only one bedroom; the damage already was done he thought and carried her in plopping her carefully on the king size bed.
“But my uniform” She said attempting to sit up,
“Leave it awhile” he pulled the blanket over her “Just relax, don’t think about it”
“Then you’d better come here to” she patted the bed beside her, he lay down and wrapped his arms around her waist from behind her, his chin resting on her shoulder,
“Don’t think about it” he whispered in her ear, “Its not important now, we’re past that”
“But it is, this is why, because I couldn’t love it, I couldn’t love my own baby”
“You’ve come round, you were just scared, Hermione doesn’t understand so don’t listen to what she said, I know your getting used to the idea, that you want this, that your imagining your baby just like I am”

I know I don't comment much but i do appreciate you guys! - I tend to leave it to the story and hope you guys enjoy it as much as i do writing it lol I'm not very good at talking to peeps at the best of times so i'll leave this awkwardess now ... :-)

Ron&Hermione(L) · 10-05-2010, 08:43 PM

great chapter

and Hermione was evil!

Morag · 10-05-2010, 09:45 PM

Don't worry about replying to our comments. It's all good. I can't believe Hermione! She was a ... well words I can't use on SS! OMG, your description of little "She" Potter is exactly the same as me. I'd love them to have a little girl...so cute!
PAMS!
Soph x

KatielovesHP · 10-06-2010, 04:00 PM

Aww great post!! I'm not sure if Hermione was evil or just showing feelings that she maybe should have kept to herself!!

K xx

Morag · 10-10-2010, 08:34 PM

I can't wait for your next Chapter!
S x

Little Trooper · 10-11-2010, 03:40 AM

Hermione is being words I can't say.

Can't wait for more.

lilly_luna · 10-12-2010, 07:17 AM

Chapter Twenty Two

Harry left her to sleep and tucked her in carefully as the knock sounded on the door and he got up to answer it.

“How is she?”
“Asleep” he ran a hand through his hair and sat down,
“Maybe it was too soon, maybe it would be better for her not to come back to school at all”
“She wants to be here and I can’t leave her at home”
“What if she stayed with her parents?”
“I can’t leave her; we’ve had some problems – some – I can’t leave her because she gets worried that I won’t come back”
“Alright, what about you two both just go home; we’d send you the work, would that be easier for you?”
“Honestly it’s not being at school that’s the problem; we were fine until – until Hermione upset her”
“If you don’t want to tell me its fine Harry” The professor started a hand on his shoulder as he shrunk into his lap “There are things I can help you with and things I can not”
“With the baby and Hermione and Ron’s issues and with finding out about Sophia – Molly did tell you, didn’t she?” Harry asked,
“Mrs Weasley did, I’m as surprised as the rest; it is not easy to hide from our world, and to hide a child is even harder”
“So with everything on top of finding out she was pregnant and thinking I would leave her because of it and then thinking I was cheating, and now getting here only to have Hermione say things I could never have imagined coming out of her mouth and upsetting her even more, I can’t leave her and I can’t leave her alone”

He got up and checked she was still sleeping through the half open door,
“Harry, it shouldn’t be like this”
“Then what shall I do?” he sat down again “What can I do to help her because everything just seems to be getting worse – Hermione has made this worse by telling her she shouldn’t have kept the baby, by putting her own insecurities with Ron on us”
“Hermione doesn’t seem like the kind of person to say that”
“She did, in the carriage on the way here, Ginny slapped her, went to attack her, she hasn’t stopped crying until she fell asleep”
“You need to go home; this situation is not good for her”
“I would take too much to get back, she can’t apparate and floo powder makes her faint, we can’t use magic”
“Stay until the Easter break, if things don’t get better by then, the train will be taking students home”
“I’ll try” he yawned,
“Harry get some sleep, if you’re not up to class tomorrow give yourself some time and ease yourself into it”
“Better just to throw myself into it”
“But you won’t be any use to her worn out” she replied standing up “You need any help, need anyone to talk to I am here, your teachers are here for you, we may not have had anything like this here ever before but it is something that we have to work together to help”
“Thankyou” he said as she left, and rubbed his forehead with his fingertips.

He watched her sleep, sitting in the chair until she woke up a few hours later,
“Harry” she mumbled, “Harry”
“I’m here honey” he lay next to her and she snuggled into his chest,
“Don’t leave me” she sounded still half asleep,
“I won’t, I promise” he stroked her hair crying “I’m not going anywhere”
“Good” she mumbled and fell into her slumber once more,
He kissed her forehead softly and turned off the light with his wand falling asleep exhausted beside her.

***
“Ginny?”
“Hmm”
“Are you ready?”
“Yes” she came out of the bathroom, looking a little worse for wear, and sat on the couch beside him,
“Are you sure?”
“It was bad but I think I’m ok now”
“The professors understand if you don’t go to class”
“I have to go to class; people will get suspicious after last night”
“We can just say you’re ill”
“No, no I’m fine”
“But being in there that long, you don’t look well sweetheart, and I’m worried about you”
“I’m fine”
“You keep saying that and I still don’t believe you” Harry said shaking his head and reaching to hold her cheek “What she said to you, it’s still there, its hurting you and you need to stop thinking about it”
“I can’t, she doesn’t want our baby to be alive, she said that – she – she would rather my baby was dead then we attempt to raise her”
“She wasn’t thinking”
“No for once she got straight to the point and said what was on her mind without messing around”
“I don’t think she really meant it”
“Of course she did or those words wouldn’t have come out of her mouth” She held her stomach and heaved “Arghhh”
Harry panicked not knowing what to do “Gin!?”
“Something’s not right”
“We have to get you to Poppy”
Ginny looked down, “NO!” there was red clinging to her skirt and down her legs her hand on her belly,
“Oh god” Harry started “Just – just breath Ginny ok, - Dobby!” he yelled helping her lie down across the couch, he appeared “Bring Madam Pomfrey here – now”
“Yes Mr Potter” he disappeared,
“Harry” she called to him “She’s not going to make it is she” Ginny was crying now,
“Don’t say that” he knelt down in front of her stroking her cheek as the elf and nurse appeared, she passed out,
“Gin – Gin - Ginny!” she didn’t move,

McGonagall appeared behind Poppy –
“Harry?”
“She’s bleeding” he said not taking his gaze from Ginny his hand on top of hers on her belly,
“Has he been sick this morning?” Poppy asked,
“Worse then before”
“How many months is she?”
“About two”
Poppy asked one more “Any other problems?”
She had stomach pains but that was weeks ago, Mungo’s said she was fine”
Poppy mixed three potions together on the table and moved Harry aside gently to pour the liquid down her throat,
“We need to get her to Mungo’s”
“What’s wrong?”
“She – she – I can’t be sure but she might have miscarried”
“NO!”
“Look we just need to get her there, the potion has stopped the bleeding, it should help her but I can’t do anymore for her then that”
Harry lifted her up carefully,
Professor McGonagall was muttering something with her wand around the room, “Let us go, Harry” she put her hand on his shoulder and he felt the pull on his navel holding on to her.
“Ginny Weasley, sixteen, two months pregnant, bleeding – I can’t do anything more at school” Madam Pomfrey said but both her and McGonagall waited in the reception as the healer said,
“Bring her in” He led the way for Harry into a room; “Put her down” He waved a wand over her, while asking “Who are you?”
“Her fiancée”
He turned round, recognised him and then went back to it, “Well, Madam Pomfrey just saved her life”
He breathed a sigh of relief “But the baby”
“Her blood pressure is too high” he moved to mix another potion “She is suffering from a haemorrhage, I can stop it, but it doesn’t mean this pregnancy will go ahead”
“What do you mean?”
“Look I can do what I can but there’s no guarantee she will reach the full term, this could endanger her life Harry and your baby - you could lose them both” he poured a vile of something silver between her lips,
“What do we do, what are our options?”
“You can either end this now or wait and see and we do what we can when the time comes”
“I have to talk to her”
“She won’t wake for a while”
“Can I stay?”
“Of course, she should be fine now – I’ll send someone in to change her clothes”
Harry nodded staring at her and holding her hand, McGonagall came in,
“Molly and Arthur are on their way”
“Uh huh” he didn’t move,
“Harry, can I ask what he said?”
“We have to end it now, or wait for it to possibly kill her”
“I’m so sorry”
“She won’t, I know she won’t, you know she won’t”
“But if it’s -”
“- she won’t; not now she knows she wants it” He stroked her pale cheek with his fingertips “I’m scared I’m going to lose her, I’m going to lose them both and I can’t let it happen, I thought we’d be ok, that there wouldn’t be anything else and now its like we’re just not allowed to be happy”
“Don’t think like that”
“There isn’t any other way; I’m going to lose one or both”
“Harry! What’s happened?”
Molly rushed over, standing the other side and taking Ginny’s free hand patting her hair softly, Arthur stood in the doorway reluctant to come in, a worried, fearful look on his face.
Harry spoke calmly “She haemorrhaged – the baby – we – we have to make a choice”
She gasped, “No, but there wasn’t anything – she’s been fine”
“We thought she was – now it seems Hermione’s getting what she wants” he said bitterly,
“Harry” the professor said warningly,
“Keep her away from us” he said “I’m going to take Ginny home when she wakes” he replied as McGonagall left the room,
“Come back to the Burrow” Molly started, “You don’t need to hide”
“We’re going home”
“Don’t do this”
Harry was trying to get through to her “She won’t want to, she’ll want to come home so that’s where will go”
“She needs looking after”
“I’ll look after her; you really think I’m going to leave her alone ever again after this, she’s not leaving my side”
“You’ll smoother her”
“She told me not to leave her, I promised her, I’m not going to let her down” Harry said angrily “I’m not going to lose her”
Molly looked at him for a few moments and then turned her attention back to Ginny, “What do you mean Hermione’s getting what she wants?”
“Leave it Molly, you don’t want to know” he replied holding Ginny’s hand to his lips to kiss it softly,
“Tell me’”
Harry refused to say another word until Ginny woke three long hours later,
“Harry! Harry!”
“Gin I’m here”
“Is she ok?” Her hand instinctively went to her lower stomach as if she’d be able to know,
“We need to talk but first you both need to rest”
“Both, she’s ok?”
“Gin, you need to rest”
“Tell me Harry”
“Ginny!” Molly said coming back in, “We were so worried”
Ginny didn’t look away from Harry “Tell me”
“We have to make a choice Ginny”
“Harry” Molly said butting in “Don’t”
“She wants’ to know” Harry said “She needs to know, it’s her choice to make”
“It’s not a choice, nothings changed” Ginny said firmly “Take us home Harry”
“Not yet” Harry said holding her cheek to make her lie down, “You need to rest”
“Please Ginny, be sensible”
“I’m giving her a chance mum, she’s going to make it, and I’m not giving up on her when she hasn’t left me yet”
Molly kept going, “You’ll die Ginny; I can’t let you do this”
“It’s not up to you, its up to me and Harry”
“I can’t lose you Gin” Harry said staring into her eyes,
“You won’t” she smiled weakly touching his cheek with her hand,
“You haemorrhaged, the Healer said you either won’t last the full term or if you do they’ll try to save you, I can’t leave your fate up to chance”
“Don’t; leave it up to me, I can’t let her go” She replied looking back just as intently,
“Ginny” Molly tried to plead with her again, “Don’t do this”
“I can’t lose her now” she rolled over to face the other way holding Harry’s arm around her, he sat beside her stroking her hair gently as Molly walked out in tears.
“Ginny” Ron’s voice sounded in the small space, she didn’t move Harry turned to look,
“Is she ok?”
He nodded “We just have to be patient and see what happens”
Ron sat down in the chair “The baby?”
“Still fighting” Harry replied,
Ginny murmured “She’s going to win” and held his arm tighter to her,
“Hermione’s here”
Ginny’s eyes closed,
“She’s not welcome here” Harry said angrily, “She shouldn’t be within a mile radius of my family”
“She wants to apologise”
“She doesn’t deserve a chance, you’d better take her back to Hogwarts because if I see her -”
“She’s been your friend for years; don’t do this now over a mistake”
“My fiancée and our baby nearly died, I don’t care if she made a mistake, I don’t care if she wants a chance for an apology I don’t want her anywhere near us”
Ron dismissed it and kept going “Mum said you guys are going back to Grimmald place; why not go to the Burrow?”
“Because it’s not my home anymore” Ginny replied, “Our home is with Harry”
“You’re not being sensible, Mum can look after you”
She turned to sit up and face him, keeping Harry’s hold on her, curling into his embrace comfortably “Harry can look after us, if I go back to the Burrow I’ll just have both Mum and Dad say that I’m stupid for going along with this, that I should get rid of her to save myself and I’ll find myself believing them – trusting them until I do it and I’ll hate myself for not giving her another chance to survive”
“Why would mum be telling you that?”
“Because there’s a chance that by having my baby it could kill me”
“Then why the hell are you still doing it”
“Why is Harry the only one that understands I can’t, I won’t murder my baby when she’s fighting to live as it is?”
“Because he’s as stupid as you are, a few weeks ago you didn’t want this just as much he wanted it, what would change your mind?”
“I was just scared, I’m not anymore, I’m sure I want this, I want Harry and me and our baby to be a family”
“You won’t be a family if you’re dead!”
“I’m not going to die”
“You just won’t believe it when you’ve got him feeding you lies and fantasies”
“I’ve told her nothing but the truth, she knows what she want, she knows the risks, I’m doing what she wants because I love her, you think I want her to die – of course I don’t but she’s not going to listen and I’m not going to force her to abort our child because she doesn’t want to do it, this is her choice, its not mine, its not yours and its not your parents”
“She’s my sister, she’s not your blood, she’s going to die having your child and you think I could forgive you letting her go ahead with it! You say you love her, stop her making the biggest mistake of her life by killing her self for your child”
“GET OUT!” Shouted Ginny, “GET OUT AND STAY AWAY FROM ME!”
“Ginny calm down” Harry soothed her, his hands on her cheeks looking into her eyes, “Ignore it, ignore him”
“That’s right, just ignore everything that’s reasonable, that’s trying to save your life”
“I’m ignoring him because I know that if I pay attention I’ll kill him” he said still looking into the chocolate brown eyes as the tears fell from them, “I love you, I’m going to stay with you no matter what you chose to do, you’re my everything Gin”
She yanked him forward into her arms, wrapping her arms round his neck, closing her eyes and whispering to him,
“You’re my everything and so is the baby you’ve given me, I’m not giving her up”
Ron walked out as Ginny’s eyes opened; she kissed him and lay down against him on the bed, securing his arms around her. There was nothing like a Harry hug and right now she needed it him to hold her for so long it ached when he didn’t, when his skin wasn’t in contact with her own, when she couldn't smell him around her, when she couldn’t look into his eyes and see that everything was going to be ok.

lilly_luna · 10-12-2010, 07:20 AM

Chapter Twenty Three

“Are you comfy?”
“Yes – Harry, stop fussing please” she smiled reaching for his hand to caress her cheek, “I love you but your driving me mad”
“I’m sorry, I just don’t want your mum to have an excuse to abuse me for not taking care of you two properly”
“She hasn’t been here in a month; she’s only coming today because you asked her too”
“You told her not to come round until she’d come to terms with it Gin, I don’t think she has, I don’t think she will but she has to see your alive as much as she’s trying to avoid it”
“I don’t see why she’s been sending round Dad to do her dirty work; she should be annoying me herself”
“She doesn’t want to see you like this” He said carefully,
“What pregnant, happy and loved up with the best boyfriend in the world looking after my every whim?”
“I mean tired -” he kissed her softly “- pale, pregnant-” he kissed her once more as there was a knock on the door “- and bedridden”
“Couch ridden now” she smiled as he walked to the hallway leaving the door open to open the front one to Molly, Arthur, Ron and Bill.
“Hello”
“Harry” Arthur said walking in as Harry stepped aside to lead them in, - she brought back up then –
Harry made to sit next to Ginny; she sat up patting the space seeing him approach as everyone else took up the couches,
“She shouldn’t be sitting like that, give her some space” Molly started immediately and Ginny reached for his hand to pull him to her in case he attempted to follow her mothers orders in their own home.
“Harry can sit where he wants and he wants to sit with me”
She turned so her back was to his side and his arms around her protectively, her knees bent under the large purple blanket.
“You should be lying down”
“I’ve been lying down for the last month, I’m allowed one day-”
“- You should be in bed”
“- Mum, if your planning to complain for the whole time just go home now”
Harry’s head moved down of his own accord to rest on top of hers, and he whispered to her “Behave”
“I am” she said with a small smile “So Bill, how are you?”
“Fine little sister, you?”
“We’re good” she nudged Harry with her elbow “This one’s been looking after us, I’m not even allowed to brush my own teeth”
“Slight exaggeration there Gin” he smirked,
“It’s just so they get the picture I hardly do anything for myself anymore”
“Glad to hear it” Bill smirked “So Harry you been kept busy then?”
“It’s for a good reason” he smiled as Ginny stroked his hand with her fingers, “I’m doing this for her”
“You know Ginny; you’ve got him wrapped around your finger”
“He doesn’t mean me silly – when he says ‘her’ he means her” she said looking down and patting her tiny baby bump gently, “You too Gin, you know what I mean”
“Of course I know Harry” she turned to kiss his cheek, “I know you inside out”
“It’s a ‘her’?” Molly said slightly wobbly as if knowing the sex had an influence over her daughter doing this,
“Maybe, I mean when we both talk the baby it ends up being ‘her’ and when we imagine her – even at the beginning we both imagined a girl”
Molly didn’t say anything else,
“Hmm a niece, I could get used to the thought” Bill said with a grin, “But if it’s a boy will you be annoyed?”
“Honestly we’re not fussed as long as they survive” Ginny said wrapping her arm around herself, holding Harry’s their as well and trying not to cry.
Harry felt her body shaking a little and whispered to her “She’s going to be fine” A small smile appeared on the edge of her lips, “She’s going to be perfect like her mummy”
They watched in the quiet before Ron started in the silence
“Harry”
“Yes” he replied watching Ron’s attempt to talk while looking at his feet,
“Hermione”
Harry shut down, his arms twitching holding her to him even more protectively then the moment before,
“Harry” Ginny said calmly, “It’s ok, he can say her name”
“No it’s not” he said coldly “You told them what she said?” he asked Ron, as his feet shuffled on the floor his eyes still staring at them intently,
“No”
“Right then, so we don’t bring her up” Harry replied “You tell them, she tells them and then we might talk”
“Why can’t you just tell them?” Ron muttered
“Because it’s up to her or you, you want to tell them Ron?”
“Well no but…”
“You’re still dating her right?” Ginny asked, Ron nodded “Well then do it because she doesn’t stand a chance without it”
“Can’t you just forgive her?”
“NO!” shouted Ginny and made to get up throwing off the cover, “I can’t ‘just’ forgive her!” Harry’s arm was still there and he walked her into the other room closing the dividing doors as Molly tried to come in.

“Gin”
“I’m fine” she started to walk back and forth across the wooden floor boards holding her stomach, “She’s fine, and I don’t want to talk about it”
“Your pacing like a fruitcake sweetheart, calm down” he said sitting a the table watching her, there was no point in stopping her, she would get there by herself.
“I’m calm” she stopped and sat on his lap “See” she held his hand to her heart; it was racing under his fingertips but slowing down as she breathed. He calmed her like nothing else, his arms around her, his comforting warm embrace and his familiar smell, “I love you”
“Love you too” he stroked her hair,
“I want them to leave” she said curling into him “I think I’m going to lie down for a bit, don’t worry I’m just -” she yawned “- a bit tired”
“Alright” he smiled, “Let me take you up though”
“Wouldn’t have it any other way”
He lifted her up gently and walked through the other door and up the stairs. Bill appeared at the bottom of them,
“Is she ok?”
“Asleep” he said pausing on the step “I’ll be right back”
“Ok”
He nodded carrying her up the rest of the way,
“Thanks” she mumbled “For everything Harry”
“Stop saying thanks alright” he laid her on the bed and tucked her in “Cause you don’t need to” he kissed her “Now sleep”
“Hmm” she sighed, yawned again and closed her eyes.
Harry apparated down to the living room door,
“Harry, what’s going on?”
“Nothing, she just gets worn out quickly”
“This is ridiculous, she should be at home”
“She is at home, he’s happy, she knows you can’t deal with this – you are the only one by the way”
She stood up pointing angrily “Don’t you dare Harry Potter”
“She’s my fiancée, she’s having my baby and she’s living with me, you still don’t think any of this is happening, you think it’s happening too fast live with it because it’s going ahead without you otherwise”
“None of this should ever have happened!”
“She hears you say that and she’ll never speak to you again”
“You’ve got her brainwashed into your nonsense, when she dies for your baby never mind us forgiving you, what about you forgiving yourself for killing her”
“SHE’S NOT GOING TO DIE, HAVE A BIT OF HOPE FOR MERLINS SAKE, YOU’RE HER MOTHER NOT THE GRIM REEPER”
Molly raised her hand to slap him, but his hand caught it with his seeker reflex’s “You don’t have the right to touch me, this is my house, and now I’m asking you to leave Molly” She stepped back in shock,
“You’ll kill her Harry; I’ll never forgive you that”
“Get out now” he said firmly “Before you force me to throw you out”
Arthur took her arm watching his face carefully; Bill was at the door pulling Ron with him. They left and Harry was already up the stairs as the door closed. He lay down beside her,
“Are you ok?” She rolled over to face him,
“Don’t you dare die on me Gin” he replied running his fingertips over her cheek “Because I can’t live without you”
“I’m not going anywhere” she kissed him softly “I promise, I’m never going to leave you”
“Their gone Gin, your mother – she nearly slapped me, I’ve screwed it up with them”
“Forget about them, we’re all the family we need” she wrapped him in her arms “You’re my everything, your baby only adds to that, I don’t care what they think, this is all that matters” There hands joined to envelop there baby bump, “We are happy, we’re in love and we’re having a baby, what more do we need” she smiled “I’ve got you two, I don’t need them”
“You do though, look what I’ve done I’ve made a mess”
“Shhh, Harry, its fine – I think we need to sleep now” she snuggled up closer to him and closed her eyes. He sighed and closed his own trying to clear his mind, trying not to think about the worst case scenario.

***
“Harry it’s time to go”
“I’m coming” he said with smile “The taxi here?”
“Yeah” she stood at the door hands on her four month old bump, “He’s taking a phone call” she rolled her eyes,
“Hmm – alright, lets go” he closed the door behind him leading her down the steps,
“Ehh she’s not having the baby right? – I don’t do mess in my cab”
“I’m not due for a while yet” Ginny frowned as Harry helped her in,
“Drive carefully alright, or you’re not getting paid” He said with smirk and got in the back seat beside her.

They got to the leaky cauldron eventually, and she pulled Harry’s hoodie on before they got out of the Taxi to hide the bump, but they were stopped before they even got to the way out of the small pub.
“Harry”
“Don’t Bill”
“Their worried alright”
“We’ve got an appointment” Ginny pulled on his arm as he spoke trying to get him to move,
“Just talk to them”
“Not a chance in hell Bill” Ginny said firmly “I’m not speaking to any of them until they apologise, I don’t need there spite, neither does Harry and neither does our baby” she hissed trying again to pull Harry away, he moved with her but Bill reached out and grabbed her wrist,
“Ginny think about what you’re doing to them, they love you, there just worried”
“Let go of her” Harry said as Ginny stared him down, Bill refused, “Let go” Harry said again drawing his wand pointing it at Bills chest, the whole bar turned to look,
“I don’t want any trouble” Tom said coming out from behind the bar “So lets calm down”
“Tell him to get his hands off my fiancée and we’ll get going” Harry muttered,
“I’m her brother; I just want her to see sense”
“I can see it without you having to force me to William” Ginny took her arm back as Bills grip loosened in shock,
“What has he done to you?” Bill said staring “You’re not Ginny anymore”
“Harry isn’t doing anything but support my decision to keep our child” Whispers gathered around the room, “Yeah that’s right people I’m pregnant” she smiled squeezing Harry’s hand that was in her own.
“We have to go – we’re going to be late” Harry muttered his eyes only on her and then the only escape near to them,
She nodded and started walking pulling him along behind her,
“Ginny give them a chance” Bill called out,
She stopped and turned back “When they don’t want me to abort my baby I might consider it”
They walked out and eventually ended up in there appointment with Penny.

“It’s looking good guys” she smiled “There’s only a small amount of-” she paused “- let me just- hmm” she paused and squinted,
“What is?” Ginny said urgently peering at the screen,
“This is a clot” she pointed to a dark area on the ultrasound “It must have been too small to register before but now – there’s potions we can give to sort it out, its not going to have a major affect unless it doesn’t dissolve”
Harry spoke as Ginny’s grip on his hand became more apparent, “And if not?”
“Then we have to go in, we’ll have to organise something with a muggle doctor”
“You mean surgery?” Harry asked
“Surgery – you mean cutting me open”
“Yes”
“But those doctors, they mess around that’s why I’m here, I’m not a muggle I’m a witch, surely there’s something the healers can do?”
“Ginny, these doctors are Witches and wizards, they know what there doing, they’ve trained as both for this reason – when there’s nothing else magic can do”
“But this is only in case the potion doesn’t work right”
“Yes”
“So we just have to give the potion a chance and if it doesn’t work…”
“The surgery will be to clear the clot, but if that doesn’t work it will be to – to”
“To-”
“This is hard because I know you guys – but it will be to remove the baby”
“What but you said everything would be fine?!” Ginny said
“Look it will be if this works and if not the baby could still survive this early on, because it would take weeks for the potions to start having any affect”
“I’m only four months as it is”
“The surgery would have to be after the sixth month milestone, we’d be keeping you in hospital, keeping a check on you both and doing what we can”
“She’s not going to be cut out of me Harry” Ginny said angrily
“Ginny please”
“No”
“Ginny, this is all if the potion doesn’t work” Penny said “For now the only thing I can do is tell you the sex if you want to be sure”
“Yes” They said together,
“Well I’d say congratulations but you already know – it’s a girl”
“I told you” she smiled as Harry kissed her forehead,
“You did” he replied, stroking her hair thinking about there situation.
“Guys I’m going to organise the potions” she replied cleaning the goo off Ginny’s stomach with a wave of her wand and printing out the scan and handing it too them. Harry held Ginny watching her stare at the black and white image running her fingertips over it, “It’s not going to come to that Gin” he spoke feeling her in his arms,
“You don’t know that” she cried into his embrace, “I don’t know what I’ll do if – if, I can’t think of her not being now, she’s so real”
“The potions going to work”
“And what if it doesn’t – they can’t – I won’t let them”
“If you don’t you both won’t make it”
“I’m not going to choose my own life over my child’s Harry”
“I’m asking you to see that you can both be with me if you let the doctors do there job”
“You can’t force me”
“I can’t – but your mother is your next of kin and who do you think she’ll chose if something happens and you can’t make that decision, I don’t have a say in what will happen, you don’t have a say she’ll be in complete control”
“You’re my next of kin, you’re my family”
“Not really I’m not, not if she decides what happens to you and our baby – that’s your decision”
“Will you do as I ask Harry; will you let me do this my way if anything happens?”
“I can’t”
“Please Harry, will you?”
“I don’t know if I can choose not to save you Ginny”
“Please Harry, make that choice for me, do what I want and I’ll be happy”
“I’ll do what you want”
“So will you marry me?”
“Gin”
“Marry me, and then you can look after us in case something happens”
“You want to do this now?”
“Yes, and then if something does happen – if I don’t make it I’ll be yours, I’ll know your mine and it will be permanent”
“I don’t know what to say to that Gin”
“Say yes, please just say yes” she replied holding his cheek and looking into his eyes,
“Yes”
“Thank -” he cut her off with a soft kiss, “Today Harry” she murmured “I want to be yours today”
He nodded as Penny came back in,
“Alright, here’s the potion – one teaspoon a day for a month – you have stopped morning sickness right?”
“Yes” Ginny said wiping her eyes “Just nausea with smells and the cravings now”
“That’s a good sign that everything’s kept going even after the haemorrhage, I think she’s going to be ok Ginny”
“Uh huh” she smiled weakly taking Harry’s hand,
“Your all booked in for next month – I just have to measure-” she pointed her wand at her stomach as a tape measure came out recorded the width before Ginny pulled Harry’s hoodie back on snuggling herself into it encased in him.
Harry led her out to the busy street “Gin lets go home first, I want to talk to you”
“I’m sure I want to do this Harry, if your not then say it”
“I do, I just want to talk”
“Alright”
They caught the knight bus back, Harry sat her down “Ginny”
“Harry”
“I want to see if you want to do this properly, and I’d thought you’d like a chance to actually wear a dress on your wedding day”
“You mean you came back so I could get changed cause you don’t think I’d forgive you for not giving me the big white wedding you wanted too” she smiled, “It’s not about the big fuss anymore then it’s about my mother not giving us permission, I’m going to be yours, I want to be yours and I want you to have the opportunity to have a say in our family life when I can’t”
“Ok” he said with a small smile,
“I love you; please just tell me if you don’t want to”
“I do, let’s do it; we’ll need witnesses though”
There was knocking on the door,
“Leave it” Harry said,
“Go on, we’ve got time, I’m going to find a dress” she smiled. Harry went to the door as there was banging again,
Harry stared “Cara, Sophia what?”
“She lied to me, she bound my powers – I went to Cara, she brought me here, you’re the only one that’s told me the truth Harry, what am I supposed to do now?”
“I – I”
She swore “I’ve come at a bad time haven’t I, I can see it on your face - I’ll just go”
“No – wait – come in; you’ve actually come at the perfect time”
The two girls looked at each other,
“You can be witnesses, Ginny’s picking a dress, you help us and I’ll do anything for you guys”
“What?” Sophia said,
Cara squealed and jumped on him in a hug,
“Harry?” Ginny called down “Who is it?”
“Cara and Sophia” he called back as Cara released him,
“You talk to Sophia, I’m going to help the bride!” she grinned sprinting up the stairs,
“So she bound your magic, I didn’t know it was possible”
“So your getting married today” She smirked, “It is a bad time”
“No, you see we’re doing it so I can look after them, I can protect them from her mother”
“You seem to be doing a lot of that, mothers are dangerous, I bet Ginny’s going to be the only decent one on the planet”
Harry didn’t say anything, he was considering that she might not make it through the birth let alone to raise there daughter,
“How pregnant is she now?”
“Four months, we’re having a girl before you ask – but your problem, so she unbound you?”
“Yes, it came out in an argument, we were just getting through it all, Michael stayed with her dealing with the fact she’s a witch and then she tells me when I turned two I changed my pet cat to a rock statue that’s in the garden and she knew she had to protect me by stopping any magic from me at all!”
“Wow, so you’re not a squib after all, I was wondering how it was possible with the Black family’s genes” he smirked,
“What about my family?”
“Let’s just say the only decent member of that family was your dad hey”
“Oh god, I’ve inherited the worst family in wizarding history haven’t I?”
“Yeah but I’m guessing now your officially magical your really rich now too – the Black family as well as being crazy evil are also mega rich and filled with old blood – your wizarding bloodline is like pure – like blue blood in muggles”
“Great – hey it means I can move out though and I don’t have to be all pompous do I?”
“No - You’ll have to go to Hogwarts though”
“She mentioned that”
“I can set up a meeting with the Headmistress if you want”
“You’ve got enough to deal with at the moment”
“This will be a welcome distraction and I’d like to help you – I’ve finished school now, and with Ginny being house ridden”
“House ridden?” she asked worriedly “What’s happened?”
“There have been some problems with the baby, but lets not do this now” He stood up hearing her footsteps on the stairs and her laughing as Cara talked to her,
“We will talk Harry, I’m gonna be there for you just like you are for me” she said patting his shoulder tentatively,
“Thanks”
“So what do you think?” Cara said presenting Ginny in a white summer dress, emerald ribbon at her waist showing off the bump “We had to change the colour – she can’t get married in red polka dot, and the green was her idea”
“Gorgeous” Harry smiled walking towards her and taking her hands “I couldn’t marry anyone more beautiful” Ginny’s hands moved theirs to her more pronounced baby bump, “She’s happy, she’s moving” she grinned,
“Whoa” he said holding his hands there, “She’s amazing”
“So you’re getting hitched today; any guests or just witnesses?”
“Just witnesses” Ginny smiled as Harry let go to put his arms around her shoulder, “How are you Sophia?”
“Good, I’m a witch apparently and I’m homeless” she grinned “But I’m going to inherit a fortune from my ridiculously rich but evil family”
“Ahh your officially a black when you know there history” she grinned “and as for homeless why don’t you stay with us?”
“I couldn’t”
“Yes you could, we’ve got like three empty rooms, and I could do with a girl to talk to – Harry is brilliant but I’m at a loss for more company at the moment”
She glanced between them “But your friends from school?”
“We’re not speaking, some things just aren’t worth it” she smiled a little as Harry squeezed her to him gently, “So Harry you know where to get married in Diagon alley?”
“The ministry – there’s a whole department, and we can show Sophia the best place in our world”
“What the ministry of magic?” Cara smirked,
“Nope – Fortescues ice cream shop” Ginny grinned,
“I was thinking more along the lines of the Quidditch emporium but hey” he shrugged, “Lets just go”
“But I can’t – I mean I don’t have a stick thing”
“You don’t have a wand, we’ll sort you out at the ministry to, you have to be registered – my dad works there, and you don’t need a wand to come with us we’ll take you – just not in a magical way unless you want spew in your hair?” she smiled up at Harry,
“She’s just a bit like a vomit volcano when we apparate, so we’ll take the knight bus”
“Nice” Cara smirked “And I don’t think Sophia will like apparition anyway – she nearly threw up when we got here but she was too angry”
“The bus it is” Harry grinned, “And off we go”
“Ah – not you just yet” Sophia smiled “Your not anywhere near decently dressed to be getting married Harry – you will be when I’m finished” She grabbed his arm “Come on, show me your wardrobe”
Ginny giggled watching and sat down on the couch, “I want to see this”
“What’s wrong with this – it’s clean”
“Nope” Sophia pulled him up the stairs, “Shirt and trousers not jeans and T Mr Potter”
They eventually got to diagon alley, making there way through the crowded pub once more only this time to be stopped by Tom, “Mr Potter”
“Tom”
“There’s someone upstairs looking for you”
He turned back “Who?”
“A Miss Whyte”
“We haven’t been here” Sophia replied as Harry nodded to her,
“She’s missing someone and she fits her description” Tom said gesturing to Sophia,
“You know me Tom; would I do something wrong unless it was to help someone else?”
“I’d say no but I’m weary of you now, you said you’d die and here you are standing before me”
“That I was not expecting – but being alive is a bonus Tom - don’t you think, and me the one that killed him – you don’t think I could do with a little favour right now when we’re trying to hide and we need help and you might just let me owe you one?”
“Go on then” Tom grunted “Be off with yah”
They left hurrying down to the ministry “Might not be time for a chocolate fudge sundae to celebrate hey Gin” Harry smiled as they walked inside,
“I tell you what we’ll find something better to do” she grinned “I think we’ll be ok”

KatielovesHP · 10-12-2010, 02:41 PM

Great posts!!!

K xx

Little Trooper · 10-12-2010, 04:04 PM

Great post. Ginny can't loose the baby and she can' t die. Harry would die with out her.

Morag · 10-12-2010, 08:02 PM

Aww I'm so happy they are getting marrried! I hope nothing bad happens to Ginny or the baby though. Molly has to realise that her input is sometimes not always for the better. I love your Harry! You write him so well!
PAMS! I hope we don't have to long of a wait!
Soph x

lilly_luna · 10-13-2010, 09:56 AM

Chapter Twenty four

“I’m sorry that’s the law Miss Weasley”
“But I’m living with Harry – I’m not in any relationship with my family, they won’t give me permission”
“That’s the law”
“This is for my baby’s life, I can’t have my mother controlling that, this is because I love him and I don’t want to lose that because of some stupid rule”
“When you’re of age you can marry him”
“I might be dead then!” She yelled, “Please”
“Just one parents permission Miss Weasley”
“Come on Gin” Harry said an arm around her reassuringly “We’ll get it”
“They won’t, not if they know why”
“Then we find a way”
“I’m sorry to be a pain but how?” Cara asked “I mean when you say find away you’ve either got to age her a year or persuade her parents”
“Aging her wouldn’t work you know that” Harry said “So we do the next best thing” Harry led them to a lift and pressed the button for the fifth floor,
“Dad” Ginny said, “We can’t go to him, he’ll just tell her”
“Your dad will do this”
“How do you think he will – what do you plan to do use an unforgivable because there’s not other way?!” She hissed as the doors opened and people stepped out so they were the only four in the lift,
Sophia had already figured that the questions could wait so she kept quiet but Cara wasn’t so easy to leave out,
“Harry you can’t seriously be considering imperiousing him?”
“If I have to” He said his eyes focused on the door,
“Harry, it won’t count anymore if it’s you controlling him then if it is done and they think she’s seventeen”
“Seventeen…” Sophia mumbled confused,
“Seventeen in our world – you’ve been of age a year already” Harry said still staring at nothing “I’ll talk to him first, I’ll make him see sense”
“And if that fails” Ginny muttered,
“Gimme a chance and then you can try” they walked out and got to his office door, “You need to stay here, Cara, Sophia stay with her, make sure she doesn’t come in”
“I’m not a dog” She said angrily as he let go,
“Gin, I’m doing this for you, don’t get mad at me, do as I ask please” he leaned to kiss her forehead but she grabbed his cheek to kiss him properly as he made a move to walk away. She looked into his eyes for a second before he stepped back and watched him knock on the office door before walking inside.

“Harry”
“Mr Weasley”
“What do you want?” he carried on rifling through papers,
“To ask you to do something for your daughter”
He looked up “You have five minutes”
“I need you to give your permission”
“For...”
“For us to get married”
“You have my permission you have Molly’s it’s just on the condition you wait until she is old enough”
“She might not last that long”
Arthurs passing glance became a stare “What?!”
“We went for a scan today; there is a clot, a potentially dangerous clot that could kill them both, so we need your permission today”
“No”
“If you don’t she will never forgive you, if you don’t Molly has control and she won’t follow Ginny’s wishes”
Arthur was getting angrier “Ginny’s wishes!”
“This clot could require muggle surgery, it would mean cutting our Daughter out of Ginny, she doesn’t want that – I want to do what Ginny’s wants – not to say that I agree with it, I’d do what I could to save her if she would let me”
“You’re going to let her die!”
“I’m giving her what she wants, what she needs to get through this, even if it means I’m going to lie to her to save her”
“What?”
“I can’t replace Ginny with anyone or anything else” Harry started “I’m not going to lose her – I’ve got to save her if it means losing our baby, if it means she can’t forgive me for that so be it, as long as she’s still alive I can chose to kill our baby over letting her die”
Arthur looked at him in shock “Harry do you know what you’re saying?”
“Of course I do”
“If she survives and you’ve chosen against her, she won’t ever forgive you”
“I don’t expect her to; it’s for her own good”
“How long does she have?”
“Another month for the potion to work and try and clear the clot and if not at six months they’ll go for the surgery to give her the best chance of survival but if something happens between now and then, Molly is in control – if she thinks Molly has killed her baby she won’t ever get over that, it’s better that’s its me that takes responsibility then she lose her mother”
“You’re willing to give her up, give your baby up to save Ginny for us”
“Yes”
Arthur’s eyes closed, he kneaded his forehead with his knuckles and took a deep breath
“You want me to lie to Molly?”
“For her own good - this is for Ginny, for her piece of mind and so that if anything should happen I’m hers and she’s mine for life before it’s too late”
“I’m due a break, how long do you need me for?”
“Half an hour at the most”
“Let’s go”
“Thankyou -”
“Save it Harry, this is for her and her alone”
“- Thankyou from her because I don’t think the words will come until this is all over” he finished and opened the door,
“Dad”
“Ginny” he wrapped her in a hug careful of the bump “You’re – you look beautiful” his hand stroked her cheek “You look ready and so – so pregnant” he smiled looking down,
“She’s still growing just you wait”
“A girl, you know for sure?”
Ginny nodded, “She told us today”
“So Harry has said you need my permission”
“Yes, did you agree?” She stepped back wary that if his decision was not what she wanted to hear,
“I did, you are sure you want to do this now?”
“Like you said dad, I’m ready – what did Harry say to you?”
“He told me the truth”
“What do you mean the truth?” Ginny looked between them, Sophia and Cara were looking at Harry too,
“I told him that I loved you and we wanted to do this before anything happened” Harry answered,
“He appealed to the one thing that has any effect on me besides my wife and sons – my little girl” She smiled as he hugged her again “So let’s go before I’m chained to the desk again” he checked his watch and led the way to the lift.
“But mum”
“Don’t worry about her, she doesn’t need to know just yet – until you give her the wedding you both want”
“But”
“Ginny, today is for you and Harry, when you want to do it with fuss it will be your mother’s day”
He too was considering the fact she might not make it that far but to let her know the real truth was to hurt her.
He conjured a bunch of white roses handing them too her, “Now lets get you married”
She held her fathers arm as he led her down the aisle of the small room to Harry standing in front of the table with the official, Cara and Sophia on the left side waiting for her with smiles. Harry turned his head to look at her, to see all his hopes pinned on the one person he loved most in this world and was trying not to lose. Arthur took his hand and placed Ginny’s in it, “Look after them”
Harry nodded as the celebrant began and Arthur moved to stand beside Cara and Sophia watching with silent tears falling down his cheeks.

“I do”
“I do”
“You may now kiss your bride”

lilly_luna · 10-13-2010, 09:59 AM

Chapter Twenty Five

“Aww congratulations!” Cara grinned hugging them both, Sophia being pulled into the embrace, Arthur was standing away from them watching but Ginny found his arms,
“Don’t cry Daddy”
“I’m just – just happy you’re happy”
“I am happy, we’re both happy” she said reaching for Harry “So please don’t stay mad at Harry”
“I’m not angry with him” He said coldly,
“Yes you are” Ginny pouted wrapping herself around Harry’s waist as much as she could manage,
“He’s not” Harry said looking him in the eye “He’s just in shock, it did happen quickly Gin”
“Hmm” Ginny said “But do you have time to have a drink with your new son?”
“I had better go sweetheart” He wiped his cheeks and kissed her forehead “I will be round tonight”
Ginny questioned him “Just you?”
“Just me, your mother, she’s not in the right place to see you again so soon”
“Ok”
“She will get there”
“Mmm” she said as Harry held her as tight as was comfortable for her, “You can have a drink with him then, then”
“Alright” He smiled and walked away,
“You think he’s ok” Ginny asked watching him go,
“I’m sure he is, I just don’t think he likes lying to Molly about it”
“Guy’s come on – let’s celebrate!”
“We’ll do it later, for now lets sort out Sophia” Ginny said pulling away to hold his hand, “I want out of here it’s stuffy in this place and she’s hungry”
“Alright” He smiled,
“That was a shotgun wedding if I ever saw one” a voice said walking away from the room. Harry knew that drawl, he knew the horrible voice and the creature it belonged to –
“Stay here” he said angrily drawing his wand and walking out after him,
“Harry don’t do it” Cara said warningly,
“Who was it?” Ginny said looking to him but he was gone,

“Malfoy” Harry said pointing his wand at the blonde boys back, the woman with him turned around too,
“Potter” he smirked, “Meet my girlfriend”
“Does she have a name or is she just the latest one?”
“Erm…” He grinned,
The girl slapped him and folded her arms against her chest “My names Juliet, Mr Potter, and I’m his ex girlfriend” she walked away but Sophia came out to replace her by Harry’s side,
“I’m the compromise” she said as Harry turned to look at her as if to ask why she was here,
“And who are you?” Draco said looking her up and down,
“No one for you to look at like that” she replied taking a stance to stare at him disgustedly,
“Your family” Harry replied, “Your fathers, cousins’ son – not Bellatrix but Narsissa, her sister”
“Wow, I really don’t like the idea of that” She replied, “Cousins with someone who looks like a ferret – I don’t like it one bit”
“What?” Malfoy said “There’s no way she is related to me – she looks like a mudblood”
“She’s Sirius’s daughter Malfoy, get used to the idea that all that money is hers now”
“I won’t allow it!”
“She is legally entitled there’s nothing you can do, she’s a Black and what was his and your dear Auntie’s is hers now too”
“Your little wedding won’t stay quiet if you plan on helping her”
“Go ahead; the only person you should be worried about is your father in prison Draco, because you should be in there with him and I’m not going to stop hunting you down for something so I can get you a family cell”
“Who’s her mother?”
“Gwendolyn Whyte”
Harry saw the look of shock on his face “Scared Draco”
“She – she’s pure, pure as they get just like the Malfoy’s and Black’s, how on earth did Sirius the traitor manage that?”
“The same way the good guy always gets the girl Malfoy – you do anything to screw up and I’ll make sure your locked up for good”
“And how do you plan to do that Potter?”
“Try and imagine me with a long black cloak, my wand taking you to the Aurors office to be processed by my boss”
“You working here” He laughed “Well the world has gone mad without the dark Lord’s influence”
“No – it’s just getting back on its feet, your master’s dead, you need to deal with it and join the right side”
“I’ll never betray my blood” he smirked “Just you wait and see what we’ve got in store and your little friend will find out what it is to be pure soon enough”
Draco walked away Harry lowered his wand,
“You’re going to have to explain what that was all about at some point”
“It starts with one boy and ends with living death, it will take a while but we’ll tell you everything you need to know”
“Right, lets get me a wand so I can zap the living crap outta that jerk first”
“Sure”

They walked back in, “Harry you and Sophia sort out stuff, Cara’s going to come home with us” she rubbed her belly, “We’ll have something to eat and maybe invite some people for dinner to celebrate”
“Gin, it’s not right for me to leave you on our wedding day”
“Go on, help our friend and we’ll get a room ready for her
“You’re sure”
“Yes” she smiled tiptoeing up to kiss him “There are something’s only you can explain and they can’t wait, go ahead we’ve got tonight to talk, to have fun and to tell”
“You’re ready to let everyone in?”
“Yeah – so bugger off already – the sooner you go the sooner you come back to me”
“I’m going, I’m going” he smiled going for one last kiss and ended up making it three more, the last being when Ginny started to giggle and Cara pulled Harry away.

“And sign here” the woman pointed to the parchment, Sophia did as she was told, “And your officially recognised as a witch, congratulations”
“Wahoo” she laughed “Lets get me some magic”
“A wand first, then the meeting with McGonagall, you can’t use magic yet and you don’t know about spells and potions so we’ll educate you on that next”
“So where do I get a wand – like just rob a tree branch?”
“We go shopping” Harry said “We’ll buy you a wand, not steal one from the bowtruckles”
“Erm…”
“They look like stick insects, live in wand trees and eat wood lice”
“Right and what do I buy a wand with?”
“Your dad left me everything that was his, it’s yours now, you’ll have your own vault in Gringotts later and as another thing the house is yours”
“No”
“Grimmald place is yours Sophia”
“Nope, that’s yours to do with what you want, he left it to you – that’s his gift to you”
“If he’d have known you -”
“- but he didn’t, that house is yours sell it, keep it, burn it to the ground, it’s yours”
“Think about it at least”
“Nope, yours, your helping me, when I have no idea what I’m doing it’s a gift so take it or once I figure out how to curse you I will” she grinned as they walked out into Diagon alley “And Gringotts is?”
“Sorry, wizarding bank, and Olivanders is over here – the wand shop”
The familiar purple cushion with a singular wand was reassuring to Harry. If this shop ever closed again he’d know the end of the wizarding world was near.

“Mr Potter - so nice to see you, may I?” He held out his hand and Harry handed him the familiar instrument with a smile “I see your taking better care of it since last time we met, a fine wand if I ever make another to rival it I’ll let you know, I do still wonder what became of it’s brother” he handed it back,
“It was burned along with him I’m led to believe, I can’t be sure though, I would have thought it would have been returned to you being it’s maker and all”
“You forget we do not have the same customs as the Goblins, Mr Potter”
Sophia looked at him mouthing “Goblins?” to which he just grinned,
“And who is your friend?”
“Sophia” She said holding out her hand, he shook it,
“Strange, I must say, you have the air of your father about you now I notice, but Sirius was always full of secrets”
“He didn’t know this one; you know who my dad was just by looking?”
“I could tell you your mothers name if you’d like, but it tends to be off putting” Harry held off from laughing watching her face as she replied,
“Things are strange as it is, you could tell me if you think you know”
“As clear as Black and Whyte” he smiled knowingly turning to walk into the rows of boxes.
“He’s good” she grinned as Harry nodded sitting in the chair watching,
“Your mother was willow, nine and a half inches with a unicorn hair, nice and supple excellent for charms and the like but her real talent was Herbology and potions, your father on the other hand, eleven inches, mahogany with dragon heartstring, he was a transfiguration man”
“Transfiguration?” she said turning to Harry,
“Turning something into something else” he pointed his wand at his hair and changed it to blonde and then back again,
“Sweet” she peered around as Olivander came back,
“Birch, eight and a half inches, unicorn hair”
“Erm…”
“Your wand hand?” she shrugged and waved her right one and he handed it to her “Now just” he gestured with his hand to wave it,
She did and there was a loud bang and green smoke before he abruptly took it back,
He handed her another and another and another until it came down to the last of three more to find it. “Cherry, nine inches, phoenix feather” Purple sparks bloomed to dance in the air surrounding her for a few moments and then fading into nothing,
“That was a sign” he smiled “Of magic long held captive”
“It’s been eighteen years in the making” Harry smirked standing up, she jumped on him in a hug,
“Thanks Harry, for everything”
“You can say it when you can turn a turtle into a teapot”
“I’d be able to do that?”
“If you follow in both your parents’ footsteps you’ll be brilliant – your dad was one of the only guys to be able to transform in an animal ever and he learnt it while they were still in school”
“What did he turn into?” she asked,
“A dog, big black dog called Pad foot” he grinned remembering “Seven galleons right?” he asked taking out his wallet,
“Yes Mr Potter”
She stared “Hey what you doing?”
“Happy birthday” he smirked handing over the money before she could stop him,
“I’m gonna pay you back – it’s been months since my birthday”
“Shut up; let’s get you a book – guide to magic to give you a background before we get into the heavy stuff”
“You mean your history”
“Yeah my history – See you in a little while Mr Olivander”
“I’d say about Eleven years” he called with a smile.
Harry led the way to the book shop and she stared standing in the doorway looking around, “Come on” he walked to the counter,
“My friend needs a magic guide for dummies – the basics; she’s new to our world”
“New – she’s got to be more then seventeen”
“Late bloomer, so the book?” he said to avoid more talk,
“Sure, sure, over here” he led them to a bookshelf, “There you go, guide book for first years and squibs, perfect for a newbie”
“My Hogwarts books should cover everything right?” he asked,
“Yes if you’ve got them from first year to seventh”
“Then we’re set, so we just want this”
“Can I offer you a suggestion?”
“What?” Harry said putting the book on the counter, the man waved his wand and a book floated down from the top floor,
“Madam Moppets guide to magical children”
“Word travels fast” he muttered,
“I’m guessing the leaky cauldron isn’t the best place to tell a secret” the man grinned,
“I’m not taking the book, how much is this one” he said coldly, rifling through his wallet for galleons,
“I’ll get it”
“You don’t have wizarding money Sophia, we’ll go to the bank” he added watching the man stare at the wedding ring on his finger, the silver circle gave away everything, “Merlin, look I’m gonna start cursing everyone that doesn’t keep there mouth shut, just sell me the book and I won’t make it so you have to spent a few months in Mungo’s”
“Four galleons” he replied holding out his hand “I won’t say a word”
“Yeah because I really believe you” he handed over the money and took the book, and then they made there way to the bank,
“Griphook, hi”
He looked up from the desk “Mr Potter and the madam?”
“A Miss Sophia Black”
“Black – there hasn’t been a Black in here since – well Mr Sirius Black, and his cousins - but his cousins, there vaults have been seized – do you have proof?”
She handed over her birth certificate she brought just in case,
“Well Miss Black, it seems you’ve inherited quite a fortune, we’ll have to organise it with the Malfoy’s of course and it could take a few days”
“I wanted to know how much Sirius put in my vault and give it to her – it’s hers now”
“Nope – Harry we’ve discussed this already, he left it to you”
“Because he didn’t know you exist”
“Alright then he was like your dad right, and he was mine, so we were his kids and so we get half each”
“Your letting me have the house, I can’t take your money too”
“Then we sell it and half it too – you’re my brother, he’s our dad, we’ll go halves on everything if it will make you feel better”
“But – but”
“You’ve got a baby, she’s going to be my niece, look after her and look after your wife” she said quietly but firmly,
“But-”
“Harry, this is what he would have wanted, us, together getting along and being family, this is what families do when there not lying or stabbing each other in the back or dying on us”
“I give in” he sighed, and she grinned hugging him,
“Alright, I wore you down, lets sort this out” she went back to Griphook, “We’ve worked out that of what my dad gave Harry, we want to split it and put the half in my new vault and leave half in his”
“That can be done by the end of today”
“Thankyou, now we want to sell a house – you can help?” Harry asked,
“That was quick decision; you don’t want to tell Ginny?”
“We were going to sell it anyway, she won’t mind, I’ll tell her when we get back”
“Your not doing well with this whole honesty thing, you don’t think she might want a house to raise the baby in?”
“We’ll find one”
“The time it sells she’ll be ready to pop”
“I’ll tell her tonight and come back tomorrow if it makes you feel better”
“You’re going to tell her that on your wedding night?”
“Seriously – you want to not criticize every decision I make today Sophia, because it’s starting to annoy me”
“Let’s go home before you bite my head off again ok”
“Please – I need sleep alright, I’m sorry for getting so – so – let’s just go” he sighed and rubbed his head,
“Sure” she replied his hand reaching for hers, “Let’s go”
He took out his wand and apparated them both to the front step, “Don’t say anything to her will you”
“Not a word”