Ok people, I'm very ummm....EXCITED about this story. I was supposed to write it with someone else. But this someone didn't actually get the plot. You know who you are mate.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything of J.K. Rowlings.
1982
January 18th
Crack
A middle-aged red haired couple appeared in front of a grey old looking building with a large arched gate and a few brown trees near the doors. They stood for a moment, staring at the small blue sign hanging crookedly on the top of the gate, which read:
'Wizemginton's Orphanage For Magical Children'.
"You don't have to do this if you don't want to." The woman whispered to the man.
He looked into her reassuring eyes and his face softened.
"No, I'm fine Molly. We are supporting a child, are we not?" he smiled, "but please try to choose a girl. We've just about had enough of the boys at home."
Molly laughed and pulled her husband into the orphanage.
The first thing they saw was pink and blue flying balloons with wings. The next thing they become aware of was a one year old blonde haired boy holding a toy broomstick stumbling and crying down the spiralling staircase built on the right-hand side of the entrance. No-one from the party in front of them seemed to notice the distressed child.
The couple were soon rushing towards him. Molly lifted him up, cuddling as she did so.
"Oh, he's lovely." She observed. She turned to her husband.
"Arthur, this is my son"
Arthur gazed at the child in her arms.
"Well, I guess he's going to be our sixth boy." He grinned at the baby.
"He isn't going to stay this way, I'm afraid."
Arthur looked confusedly at his wife.
"Why not?"
Molly gently handed the boy to him.
"Imagine him growing up around his brothers. All of them, with red hair and blue eyes, what is he going to feel? He's going to feel alienated and left out – then he'll know that he's adopted."
Arthur stared at the baby then turned to Molly.
"You may have a point-"
"May I help you?"
The couple turned around to a waiting matron.
"What is this adorable boy's name?" Molly enquired with exuberance.
"D- No actually, that's Ronald."
The couple exchanged looks and shrugged.
"We'd like to adopt him." Arthur said with a smile.
The matron opened he mouth to say something but seemed to change her mind and closed it again.
"Very well. Come with me."
She led them down a narrow hallway and into an average sized office with a lot of certificates of some sort hanging on the walls.
"May I ask why you are adopting?" The matron asked as she took a seat behind her desk.
"To help."
"With what exactly?" The matron asked as she filled some papers.
"We don't want our future magical population to end up as death-eaters."
The woman stiffened but didn't look up.
"No-one wants that."
The three fell in a solemn silence.
Half an hour later, papers had been filled, spells had been cast and Molly and Arthur Weasley had apparated away with a red haired, blue eyed baby, whom they named Ronald Weasley.
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