Chapter three

The day after Harry's first recording, everyone was excitedly talking about the offer the producer had offered Harry. He wanted to record a whole album with Harry, to be released later in the year.

'Like I told Ginny, I never thought of doing it professionally, it was just something I liked to do.' Harry looked around at everyone.

'Think about it Harry, that's all. Even if you don't need the money, you could donate it if you wanted.' Liam said.

'Alright, I'll think about it,' Harry said and they all started talking about the fund raiser.

That evening after the others had left, Harry, Ginny, Charlie and Katie were sitting down to dinner discussing some of the plans for the wedding.

'Ginny, I was wondering if I could ask you something?' asked Katie nervously.

'Of course you can Katie, what's up?' Ginny said looking at her new friend.

'Well, I was wondering if you would be my maid of honour?'

'Me, you want me to be your maid of honour, oh Katie, of course I will,' Ginny stood up and hugged Katie.

'I know we haven't know each other for that long, but you've become my closest friend.'

Harry and Charlie looked at their woman with smiles on their faces.

'Now we have to work on our dresses, when can we go have a look?' Katie asked Ginny.

'Well, when is your next day off from rehearsing, we can go then if you want to.' Ginny suggested.

'That will be great, thanks Ginny

'Harry,' Charlie said looking at him. 'Will you be my best man mate?'

Harry looked at Charlie in surprise, 'Me, I always thought you'd probably get Bill.'

'I always thought that too, but I've come to think of you as my closest friend Harry, we've been through a lot together and it wouldn't feel right with anyone else.' Charlie said.

Harry got up and hugged Charlie. 'I would be honoured Charlie, I really would.'

'And one more thing Harry, could you sing for us at the wedding, the one we dance to?' Katie asked him.

'You know I will, we'll go through some songs and you can tell me which one you want.' Harry smiled at his soon-to-be sister-in-law.

The four of them had gone over some of the preparations, things either of them wanted and not wanted. They had started writing down who would be on the guest list, of course a lot of friends of Charlie's from Romania, and some of Katie's that she had from the orphanage that she kept in touch with. They discussed everything until they all drifted off to bed.

That night when Harry and Ginny were in bed after making love, they had talked about the offer. 'Harry, you are always happy when you sing, I don't see why you don't want to do it.'

'I'm just not sure I want that as my life Gin. Yeah I enjoy singing and playing, but to do it professionally, I just don't know.'

They both drifted off to sleep with the offer in their minds, still holding each other tightly.

Charlie woke the following day, feeling that everything was finely started to fall into place. They had a date for the wedding and it was going to be held at the Burrow. Ginny was going to be Katie's maid of honour and Harry was the best man. Charlie had really wanted Harry as best man, and he was so glad he agreed. He also told his mother he was going to get it catered, she wasn't too happy about it but he told her he wanted his mother to enjoy the wedding, not worrying about the food. She had finally agreed, and all the other arrangements had been discussed, now they just had to get to them.

Charlie looked down at Katie realising how happy he was that they had met. He hadn't been this happy his whole life, and couldn't wait until Katie and him moved into their own house. Katie had told him she didn't want to move in until after they were married, and Harry and Ginny agreed she could stay at their place until then. Charlie wasn't happy about her not moving in but he understood, she wanted to start her new life from the moment she married Charlie.

Charlie left her sleeping and went to have some breakfast. Harry was sitting at the table lost in his thoughts.

'Morning Harry,' Charlie said clapping him on the shoulder.

'Oh morning Charlie, I didn't hear you come in.'

'Harry, everything alright mate?'

'Yeah, Charlie, Ginny and I talked for a long time last night about the offer, she thinks I should do it, but I just don't know.'

'Let me ask you something seriously Harry.'

'Sure, ask me anything.'

'You enjoy singing, don't you?'

'Yeah, you know I do.'

'You enjoy playing, don't you?'

'Yeah, it keeps me calm. When I'm upset and always makes me feel better.'

'Well, I don't see the problem Harry, your good, really good. You should use that and your name, imagine how much you're albums would make and you can donate it to anything you want. I see your face when you sing Harry, it's peaceful, you look happy. That there says to me that you are meant to do this.'

'Ah, thanks Charlie, Ginny said a lot of that same stuff to me last night and you both make a lot of sense. But you know me, I don't like the spotlight and if this album does do well, I'll have to perform at lot more. Don't get me wrong I love performing just not being the centre of attention.'

'Yeah I know Harry, but this is a different sort of attention that you're used to.' Harry looked quizzical at him. 'Before you had people staring and talking about you because you were, what were some of the names, oh yeah, the boy who lived, the chosen one, undesirable number one, the saviour of the wizarding world. If you do this, you'll just be Harry Potter, singer extraordinaire.' Charlie chuckled at the scowl that came to Harry's face. 'It will be different Harry, and you said yourself that even though you enjoyed teaching, you can't go back to that and you didn't want to be an auror anymore, because you have fought enough dark wizards to last a lifetime. So you can either become a hermit and stay home all the time, or get your arse into that recording studio and do something with that great voice you've got.'

'That's pretty much what I said to him.' Ginny said coming up behind them. She bent and kissed Charlie on the cheek, then sat on Harry's lap. 'I don't know if I convinced him though.'

'Well, let me ask you this Ginny, if I was performing and some girl throws herself at me on stage again, what will you do?'

Harry saw her scowling and he knew she wouldn't like it. 'Well, if you had protection to keep the girls off of you, then I think I'd be alright. I mean I wouldn't like it, but I know you come home to me, and I'll probably be there anyway and hex any girl that did that.'

'Now that's my sister, the one who bat bogey hex's people or just punches them out,' Charlie laughed, Harry scowled at him, until he heard Ginny break up laughing.

'You would be alright with it Ginny, if I did this, I mean really?' Harry said, and he could feel that she was happy for him to do this. 'You really want me to do it don't you, I can feel it Gin.' Ginny nodded and Harry's heart felt like it was going to burst. 'Mrs. Potter, you are the most amazing woman on this planet, you know that.' Harry kissed her fiercely and hungrily, until they heard voices coming from behind them.

'Are they still at it, doesn't anybody do anything else in this house apart from snog and shag.' Liam said as him, Patrick and John walked into the kitchen and sat down.

'I'm kissing my wife who happen to be the perfect woman, leave us alone.' Harry said and went back to kissing his wife.

'While their doing that, I'll go see if Katie's awake yet, I'll be back in a moment.' Charlie said getting up and walked into his room. Katie was still on her stomach, so Charlie walked over and sat down beside her. He ran his hand down her back, very slowly. She moaned as her body came awake, before her mind did. 'Baby, you awake,' Charlie said softly. She moaned again and rolled over and Charlie looked at her exposed breasts, feeling himself getting very aroused. 'Katie, the rest of the blokes are here to rehearse. Come on baby, wake up.'

Katie opened her eyes and looked up at Charlie. 'I love you, you know that.' Katie said and sat up wrapping her arms around him and pulling him towards her as she lay down again. 'Hhmmm, this is nice.' she said still half asleep.

'Katie, everyone is waiting for you to start rehearsal, we haven't got time for this. Come on, wake up.' Charlie laughed.

'Oh, alright, but I'd rather you wake me up.'

'I would love to baby, but their all out there waiting and then we have to get to planning the rest of the wedding, that is if you still want to marry me, that is.'

'Of course I do, okay, I'm awake, and almost up, tell them I'll be out in a moment. I need a shower to wake me properly.' she released Charlie and sat up, throwing her legs out of the bed, standing up and stretching and bending her body.

'Bloody hell, they can wait,' Charlie said and grabbed her and pulled her down on top of him, kissing her madly and running his hands all over her naked body. 'You did that deliberately didn't you,' Charlie said between kissing her.

'Uh huh,' she said and straddled him. 'But you could get your clothes off you know, I'm getting very hot here.' she said. Charlie flipped her onto her back and stood up, stripping his clothes off as fast as he could. He picked her up and took her into the bathroom and stood her in the shower while he turned the water on, then picked her up and she instantly wrapped her legs around him, letting him enter her.

'Oh, you finally made it, I was wondering what was taking so long, until we all heard it.' Liam said smirking at Charlie and Katie, everyone laughed.

'Alright let's get out and start to learn those last few songs,' John said and he went to get up.

'Hold on a minute will you, I'll like to say something,' Harry said looking around. 'I've decided to take the offer to make the album.'

'That's great Harry,' everyone shouted then started patting him on the back.

Harry looked at Ginny and saw she was smiling hugely and had tears in her eyes. Harry pulled her into her arms before turning back to everyone.

'But only if you blokes will back me, I've come to care about all of you and we play really well together, what do you say?'

Katie, Liam, John and Patrick all sat there stunned. 'You mean that Harry, you want us?' Liam said.

'Yeah, I do, so what do you say?'

'Wow, Harry, that will be so great, of course we will.' John said. 'What do you know, Harry Potter and the Phoenix Flames.' everyone burst out laughing.

Everyone went into to rehearse while Charlie and Ginny sat at the table with all the paperwork on Katie's orphanage.

'I think I've found who left Katie at the orphanage Ginny, look at this,' said Charlie pushing some parchments towards her. 'Do you want to come with me today and speak with them?'

'Yes I do, let's hope they can shed some light on who Katie is,' Ginny saw Charlie looking very hopeful. 'Don't get your hopes up yet Charlie, not until we speak with them. Come on, let's go tell them we're going out. Harry knows I'm helping with this, but what are you going to say to Katie?'

'I don't want to lie to her but I don't want to tell her anything until we have some information, so I thought I'd tell her I'm going to visit Bill or George, what do you think?'

'Yeah, that will work, we'll say we're going to see George and Ron at the shop while everyone here is rehearsing, and if we have time we can visit George and Ron.'

Ginny walked over to Harry and whispered in his ear, he nodded then kissed her fiercely. Charlie told Katie what he was doing and she threw her arms around Charlie kissing him for the longest time.

'When are they going to stop do you think?' Liam said standing and waiting to get back to rehearsing.

'We're leaving, you can play uninterrupted now,' Ginny said smiling at Harry as she and Charlie left the room. 'Come on Charlie, let's get going. Oh, do you want to put the rest of those away,' Ginny said pointing at all the parchment.

'Yeah, I'd better, I'll be back in a minute,' he said and took everything back into his room and locked it away in his desk, he came back and Ginny and him left.

They had apparated to a small pretty village, they made their way to the farm house with the people who had taken Katie to the orphanage. They went up to the main house and knocked on the door. A friendly elderly looking woman answered smiling.

'Hello, are you Mrs. Cronwell?' Charlie asked her.

'Yes I am young man, can I help you?'

'I hope so. My name is Charlie Weasley and this is my sister Ginny Potter,' then Charlie had gone over everything he knew about them taking Katie to the orphanage.

'Oh, I'm glad she's okay, I wanted to keep her, but I just couldn't afford to keep both of them, she was such a sweet little thing.'

'Both of them,' Ginny said.

'Yes, her brother, Karl, he was older than Katie and since we could only keep one, we thought he might be a great help on the farm for my husband. He loves it here and enjoys working alongside Billy, that's my husband.

'Does he remember he's sister, Mrs. Cronwell?' Charlie asked.

'Oh yes, he always speaks about her, wondering if she was alright and where she was. He thought of trying to find her but didn't want to disrupt her life if she was happy, he's such a nice young man.'

'Do you know what their last name was Mrs. Cronwell, you see, I'm marrying Katie very soon and she's never known who she really is.'

Mrs. Cronwell looked very uncomfortable and didn't look like she was going to answer.

'Please Mrs. Cronwell, could you tell us what you know?' Ginny said looking at her.

'Alright, but before I do,' she looked at Ginny, 'Would you mind me asking about your last name first.'

Ginny was surprised by the question and wondering what that had to do with this. 'I'm married to Harry Potter Mrs. Cronwell.'

'Okay, since everyone knows who Harry Potter is and you seem like nice people, I'll tell you. Their mother, Carol gave them to me to hide, because she didn't want their father's evilness near them, they were such sweet loving children and she knew he would turn them to be like him, she didn't want them influenced by him. That's why he killed her, he wanted to know where she had taken his children. She was able to keep her thoughts from him and he was never able to find out, thank god.'

Charlie and Ginny looked at each other wondering who Katie's father is. 'Who was their father Mrs. Cronwell?' Ginny said looking very apprehensive.

The old woman looked at them sadly and a little worried. 'You-know-who.' she said simply.

'What?' Ginny said standing up looking shocked, she looked back at Charlie and saw he had the same look on his face.

'We can't tell her, Ginny. We can't tell her that ever, it would destroy her.' Charlie said.

'If I may, Karl thinks his mother was my sister, and that she never told us who their father was, I never wanted him to know either, so I understand. If you would like to tell Katie the same thing, my husband and myself would tell her that we're her aunt and uncle.'

They sat discussing everything and decided to do just that. Charlie and Ginny left and apparated home, when they appeared in the deserted lane, Charlie had sat down heavily on the ground and put his head in his hands and he cried.

Ginny went to her brother and wrapped her arms around him, 'It's okay Charlie, I know this was a shock, but everything will be okay.' She held him until he's tears dried up. 'Are you alright Charlie?'

He slowly got to his feet, 'Yeah, I…I really don't know what to think at the moment.' Charlie walked over and stood at the side of the lane.

'We have the information we can tell her, that's all we can do, but Charlie you know I'm going to have to mention this to Harry. I can't keep something like this from him, not after everything, but he loves Katie, he won't think any less of her because of who her father was.'

'I know Gin, he has to be told, but can you let me do it while you take Katie somewhere. I don't want her accidentally overhearing this and Harry, this is going to be a shock for him and I know you'll need to be with him after, but let me, please.'

Ginny thought for a minute, she knew what Charlie was worried about. That this information might just be too much for Harry and he might slip.

'Alright Charlie, I'll take Katie to look at dresses this afternoon and let you talk to Harry. I know what you're worried about Charlie, I am too. I don't want anything to make Harry go back to drinking, talk to him very carefully, if you need me back in a hurry send me a patronus and I will come straight back.'

'Okay, let's head in, I want to wash up first, I don't want Katie to see that anything is wrong.' Ginny hugged Charlie tightly, then they walked through the wards and into the house. 'I'll be out in a moment,' Charlie said and went into his bathroom, washing his face and trying to make himself calm down. 'If ever there was a reason for a drink, it was this.' He knew the real reason he wanted to be the one to talk to Harry, first so he doesn't lose it and also so Harry could help him through this as well. He took a deep breath and put a smile on his face and walked out of his room.

'Let me tell Katie we're going to go shopping for her dress and I'm sure all the boys won't really mind, come on Charlie, put that smile back on your face until we leave.' Charlie nodded and they walked out to the shed.

Ginny walked straight over to Harry and kissed him while he was in the middle of playing, while Charlie did the same with Katie. Ginny turned to Katie.

'Katie we're going to go shopping for your dress, I'm sorry boys but I have to call it for today, we're running out of time and we need to get Katie fitted.' Ginny said as cheerfully as she could.

Harry looked at her with raised eyebrows, he knew something was upsetting Ginny but she just shook her head at him and mouthed "later" to him. He nodded.

'We still have a couple of songs to work through,' John said.

'I know but I really have to do it now, sorry, come on Katie, let's go.' Ginny said and went over and stood in front of her. 'Time will run out and you won't have a dress Katie, is that how you want to walk down the aisle to marry my brother.' She said dropping her lip at Katie.

Katie smiled at her, 'Alright, can we pick this up tomorrow. It won't hurt, so come on, what do you say?' she said to the rest of the members of her band.

'Alright, there's some things I've got to do anyway, so we'll call it a day.' Liam said and everyone started packing up their equipment, then said their goodbyes and headed out.

'I'll see you when you get back and make sure your dress is sexy, so I can rip it off you on the wedding night.' Charlie said picking Katie up and kissing her very passionately, putting all his love into it.

'You'll rip of anything I wear, even if it's a sack,' she kissed him back fiercely.

'You've got that right,' Charlie grinned.

'Come on you two, you can get to that later,' Ginny said standing there looking impatient.

Katie walked over to Ginny and they left, Harry instantly noticed Charlie's face change from smiles to apprehension. He walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder.

'Charlie, what's wrong mate, your white a sheet, come sit down.'

'Can we go outside Harry, I really need to talk to you but I'd like to be outside right now.'

'Come on,' Harry said and they left the shed and walked down to their chairs down under the large tree. 'Now what's going on Charlie, you're really starting to worry me, you don't look good at all.' Harry sat there watching Charlie as he tried to pull himself together. 'Charlie, talk to me, what's going on.'

Charlie took a deep breath. 'Alright, you know how Ginny's been helping me with trying to find out about Katie's background.' Harry nodded to him. 'Well, we found the people who had taken her to the orphanage.'

'That sounds like good news Charlie, but from your look I know it's not, keep going.'

'We spoke to this very nice lady, Mrs. Cronwell. She said she wanted to keep Katie, but couldn't afford to keep both, Harry. Katie has a brother, Karl, couple of years older than Katie.' Charlie stood up and started pacing.

'Well isn't that good for Katie Charlie, I don't see the problem.'

'God if ever there was a time when I need a drink, this would be it.'

Harry got up and stopped his pacing, 'Charlie, what's wrong?' Harry was really starting to worry now if Charlie was talking about having a drink. 'Just tell me and let me help.'

Charlie nodded. 'Mrs. Cronwell told Karl that his mother, Carol Bowlman was her sister, she wasn't. She took her two children to Mrs. Cronwell to hide them, to keep them safe and away from their father. She didn't want him to influence them. Karl doesn't know who his father was, and I don't want Katie to ever know either, it would destroy her if she found out, so please Harry, no matter what, you can never tell her, ever.'

Harry saw that Charlie looked frightened, and this made Harry apprehensive and he didn't know why. 'I won't tell her, don't worry, now who is her father Charlie?'

Charlie looked very seriously at Harry for the longest time then nodded. 'Voldemort.'

Harry stood there in complete shock, then collapsed into a chair staring at his feet. Charlie walked over to him and knelt in front of him.

'I know now what you mean about a drink, I…I don't know what to think right now.'

'That's why I told Ginny I wanted to be the one to tell you. I knew this would be a shock for you to hear, and since I wanted a drink after hearing it, I knew you probably would too.'

Harry looked up at Charlie and noticed his hands were shaking, he stood up and went over to him. 'Charlie,' Harry said putting a hand on his shoulder. 'Come on, sit down, it will be alright mate, come on.' he pulled Charlie back to the seats. 'You know you can't Charlie, you taught me that.'

'I know Harry, I just don't know what to do. I really need one right now Harry, I mean really need one.'

'Charlie, listen to me, you can't. You told me what you were like, just like I was. So please remember, Katie is going to need you, especially when you tell her she has a brother. That is going to be one hell of a shock for her, you have to be strong Charlie, for her, think of Katie. I love you and will do anything to help you get through this but you can't have a drink, not now, not after everything you've done to get yourself free of it.'

Charlie took a deep breath. 'Yeah, I know Harry, that's the other reason why I wanted to be the one to tell you because I knew I just might need you here to help me as well.' Charlie shook his head and stood up again. 'I'm not going to Harry, but I'm glad you're here with me, if you weren't I don't think I could have stopped myself having one.

'I'll be here whenever you need me Charlie, you know that.' Charlie nodded.

They both sat talking about everything Charlie and Ginny had found out and how they were going to go about telling her about her brother but never letting her know about who her father was.

When Ginny and Katie got back, Harry and Charlie had both calmed down and saw that the girls were very excited, and very giggly.

Ginny went straight over to Harry, looking him in the eyes. He could feel that she was worried about how he took the news. He sent his feelings back that he was okay. Harry kissed her fiercely, so she knew he was doing okay, but not perfectly. Harry jerked his head and Ginny got up and they went into the library.

'Did you work out your dress baby?' Charlie asked Katie as she sat on his lap.

'Yep, and you will definitely want to rip it off, probably before the ceremony is over.'

'Well, that's got my mind wandering, care to give me a hint?' Charlie said as he gripped her head and pulled her lips to him. He kissed her hungrily, until they were both breathing heavily.

'No, it's a surprise, and Ginny's going to help me make sure you don't see it until the day.'

Harry led Ginny onto the couch in the library. 'That was quite a big bit of news wasn't it?'

'Are you alright Harry, I mean with Katie, knowing who her father was?'

'I love Katie, it doesn't matter who her father was. She is nothing like him, she's a sweet person, and she loves Charlie, that's all that matters to me.' he pulled Ginny into his arms and held her.

'I know Harry, but it's still got to bring up some bad memories for you when you look at her.'

'No, I didn't see him at all when I looked at Katie just now, I saw Katie. It's fine Ginny really, I was worried about Charlie though, he almost lost it when he told me. He was talking about having a drink, I calmed him down though and he's fine now.'

'I knew you wouldn't think any worse of Katie, Harry. You are too good a person to do that, and I knew you could keep Charlie calm, that's another reason why I love you so much. With everything he put you through, you still see the good in people no matter who their parents might happen to be.' she snuggled up to Harry and they sat there for the longest time just holding each other.

'Charlie, I want to do something, can you give me about half an hour then come into the shed please.'

'Alright, you know I can't resist you, go, I'll come in soon.' Katie kissed him again and got up and went to the shed. Charlie got up walked to the library, seeing the door opened he peeked and saw it was alright. 'Can I come in for a moment?'

'Course you can Charlie,' Ginny said and sat up.

'You doing alright now Charlie?' Harry asked him.

'Yeah, I'm fine Harry, don't worry. I know I lost it there for a bit, but I'm good. I was wondering when I tell Katie about her brother if you will be there too. I'm not sure what her reaction will be.'

'Of course we can, you don't need to ask.' Ginny got up and hugged her brother. 'When are you going to say something?'

'I thought after dinner, she's in the shed now planning something and told me to come in soon. I hope she can handle this, she's had such a hard life.'

'I'm sure she will, she's got a brother Charlie, I know if I found out I had a sibling, I would be over the moon,' Harry said with a touch of sadness in his voice.

Ginny sat back down next to Harry and pulled him into her arms. 'I can't say I understand, growing up with a heap of brothers, but I know what you're feeling. But just remember, they might not be blood but you do have brothers now and Hermione as a sister and you're about to have Katie as a sister as well.'

'I know Ginny, and I love every one of them. They are my siblings, and I'll always be grateful for having them in my life.'

Katie sat at Harry's piano, hoping he wouldn't mind. She started playing a song she remembered as a child. She saw the sheet music when Harry showed Ginny all of it in the seat. It took her a few times to get it right, but she thought it sounded good. She noticed Charlie walking in and he came over to her.

'Hey, alright to come in now?' Charlie said smiling at her.

'Yep, right on time, can you just sit there for a minute, I want to play something for you.' Charlie nodded and sat down watching Katie. She started to play then she started to sing, Charlie had never heard her sing by herself before, she was always just backup when she sang with the band. He sat there staring at her, she had a wonderful voice, and she was singing just for him. He now knew how Ginny felt when Harry sang to her.

Harry and Ginny had heard the piano being played and then heard singing, they walked in and saw Katie singing to Charlie. The made their way over and stood at the end of the piano, listening.

When she finished Charlie picked her up and kissed her passionately. Harry and Ginny looked at them then at each other.

'Katie, that was beautiful, I never heard you sing by yourself before, your voice is great.' Harry said.

Charlie put Katie down and they looked at Harry and Ginny. 'I've haven't been able to for a while,' she turned to Charlie, 'Did you like it Charlie?'

'Of course I did, I was thinking while you sang that now I know how Ginny feels when Harry sings to her. You have melted my heart Katie, I love you.' Charlie said and pulled her into his arms and held her.

Harry and Ginny left them alone and went to the sitting room. 'She has got a wonderful voice, she should sing more often.' Ginny said as she sat down with Harry.

'Yeah, she should, I might talk to the boys tomorrow about having Katie do a few songs at the concert.' Harry thought for a moment, then he turned to Ginny. 'Gin, if it's alright by you, there's this song I know, it beautiful, but it's sang as a duet, a man and woman, I'd like to sing it with Katie at the concert, it's just…' he hesitated.

'It's just what Harry?'

'Well it should be sung to each other, you know I love you but if you wouldn't mind, I'd have to sing it to Katie and she to me for the song to really be right.'

'I wouldn't mind Harry, remember, I can feel how much you love me. So I think it's a great idea, we'll run it past Charlie and Katie later.'

'I do love you sweetheart, with all my heart.' he leaned over and kissed her hungrily and knew she could feel how aroused he was getting. He pulled away and looked at her, she was smiling at him.

'Soon, my sweet Harry, it's nearly dinner time and we have to be here for when Charlie tells Katie.' she felt his disappointment but he nodded. Harry pulled her back into his arms and held her, he still couldn't get enough of her.

Charlie and Katie came in and sat down opposite them, 'How long before dinner?' Charlie asked, and Harry and Ginny knew why he was asking.

'About half hour, I wanted to ask both of you something.' Harry said looking at them.

'Go ahead Harry,' Charlie said.

'Well, after hearing Katie sing, you're amazing Katie, I wanted to do a duet with you at the concert, there's just one thing though.' he looked at them wondering if it would be alright with Charlie. 'It's supposed to be sung to each other like lovers.' he waited for a moment. 'I spoke to Ginny and she's fine with it, but I was wondering how you both would feel?'

Charlie looked from Harry to Katie. 'What do you think Katie, I know you love me and that Harry loves Ginny, so I'm okay with it.'

'You really want to sing a duet with me Harry?'

'Yes I do, you will be amazing Katie. So you want to do it? I could show you the song I'm talking about if you want.

'Yeah, I would like that Harry, could you show me now while we have a bit of time.'

'Yep, not a problem, but,' he turned and looked at Charlie and Ginny. 'You can come in now if you want cause I'm just going to show Katie how it goes. But when we rehearse this, I don't want you both there. As soon as I start to sing and if I see Ginny I'm going to be singing to her, not Katie, and I'm sure Katie will feel the same way if you were there Charlie, and it's gotta look good when we sing it.'

'That's fine Harry, I understand,' Ginny said kissing him.

'Not a problem, come on, let's see what you're going to sing to my fiancée Harry?' Charlie smirked at him.

They all got up and made their way to the shed. Harry sat down and started singing, when he finished he looked up at all of them.

'Well what do you think?'

'I think it's beautiful Harry, really nice. I would love to sing that with you,' Katie turned to Charlie. 'You don't mind, do you Charlie?'

'No, I don't mind,' he smiled and pulled her into his arms kissing her passionately.

Harry turned to Ginny. 'Well, what do you think Gin?'

'It's beautiful Harry, you should do it.' she went over and sat on Harry's lap. 'It will be very nice,' she said looking into his eyes. Harry thought he felt a bit of jealousy there.

'You're sure, if you're not comfortable, I won't.'

'I'm sure, really.' she kissed him hungrily again, then looked back up. 'Why don't we get cleaned up for dinner.' she stood up and Harry followed her, they stopped and looked back at Charlie and Katie. 'Are you two coming?'

'Yeah, we're coming.' Charlie said.

They all enjoyed a nice dinner and talking about the wedding plans again, when they got up and went into the sitting room. Harry and Ginny could see Charlie was very anxious about telling Katie his news, so they sat and talked for a bit until they could tell Charlie was ready to talk to Katie.

Charlie turned to Katie sitting on the couch. 'Katie, I have something to tell you that's really important.'

'Alright Charlie, what do you want to tell me?'

'Well, Ginny and I have been researching your background, trying to find some information on your past and your parent's, I didn't want to say anything before now so you wouldn't get your hopes up.'

Katie was stunned, it sounded like he found something. Her breathing got very heavy as she sat there. 'You…you found something Charlie?' she asked, her voice shaky.

'Yes, we did,' he saw Katie's eyes widen. 'I met with the woman who took you to the orphanage, nice old lady. She said she would have loved to keep you but she couldn't afford to, um, this is going to be quite a shock Katie, are you okay?' she nodded but didn't say anything. 'Alright, she said could only keep afford to keep one of you to help on the farm.' he waited to see if she caught on, Harry and Ginny sat there watching Katie as well. 'You have a brother Katie, he lives with them.'

Katie looked shocked then tears came into her eyes. 'I…I have…a brother?' she asked as she broke down in tears. Charlie pulled her into his arms and held her why she cried. He rubbed her back as she sobbed into his chest. Harry and Ginny watching knowing she was happy but also knew why she was crying. Katie looked back up at Charlie. 'Can I see him, does he know about me?'

'Yes, he knows about you, and always wondered how you were, but didn't want to disturb your life in case it upset you. And you can see him whenever you want to.' he held her again as her tears started again. 'The woman Mrs. Cronwell, well she was your mother's sister Katie, you're aunt.' she broke down in tears again, so Charlie held her tightly until her cries stopped. When she pulled back and looked at him. 'Are you alright Katie?'

'I'm fine, it's just that, I have a brother and an aunt,' she sniffed.

'And an uncle, I never met him when I was there,' Charlie said.

'An uncle as well, oh Charlie, thank you,' she started crying again harder than before.

Charlie looked at Harry and Ginny and he jerked his head towards his room. They nodded. He picked Katie up and took her into his room and lay down with her in his arms, holding her tightly until she had calmed down.

Ginny could sense Harry's sadness, and stood up holding her hand out to him. He took her hand and got up and followed her upstairs to their room. As soon as they closed the door, Ginny kissed him fiercely and passionately, running her hands down his front until she came to the bulge in his jeans. She heard him suck in a breath but kept kissing her. She pulled away and led him to the bed, and sat him down, while she undressed very slowly in front of him.

Harry sat there watching Ginny slowly striptease for him and he could hardly control himself. When she was finished she stood right in front of him and pulled his head towards her chest. Harry opened his mouth taking one of her breast into it, sucking hard, as his hand lowered until it was between her legs. He rubbed her slowly until he could feel her losing control. He got up and sat her down while he took his clothes off.

Charlie held Katie until she finally got herself under control. When she did he sat up looking at her. 'Katie, I'm taking you tomorrow, Harry already talked to the boys and they understand, they be here the next day. Harry and Ginny are coming with us as well.'

'Oh Charlie, how can I ever thank you, you found my family.'

'Why don't we get out of these clothes and into bed and I can hold you better.' she nodded and they both stood up taking their clothes off then climbing back into bed. Charlie held his arms out for her and she cuddled into him as his arms came around and held her. They never spoke again, and fell asleep holding each other.

Charlie woke with Katie in his arms and remembered what had happened last night. He smiled hoping Katie got on well with her brother. He got out of bed and went into have a shower, when he came out she was sitting up in bed waiting for him. He walked over and sat beside her.

'You okay?' Charlie asked.

'Yeah, just excited, I can't wait to go.' she said almost bounding up and down.

Charlie laughed. 'Well, why don't you go have a shower and then we can get breakfast and go.' she nodded and jumped off the bed, she kissed him and ran to the bathroom, she stopped and turned.

'I love you so much Charlie, and can't thank you enough.' she smiled at him.

'You don't have to thank me, and I love you too babe, now go, shower.' she nodded and went into to shower and Charlie walked out to the kitchen. Harry and Ginny were already sitting there.

'Morning,' Charlie said sitting down.

'Morning,' they both said.

'Is Katie awake Charlie?' Ginny asked.

'Oh yeah, and bouncing up and down, she so excited.'

'Well as soon as she eats we can go if you want.' Harry said while he was eating his own breakfast.

'Yeah, that's what I told her, and she literally bounced off the bed and ran to the shower.'

Harry and Ginny laughed when they saw Katie practically run into the kitchen and they all saw how excited she was.

'Morning,' she said and kissed Charlie.

'Morning,' Harry and Ginny said together.

'Looking forward to meeting you're family Katie?' Ginny asked.

'Oh, I can't wait Ginny and I can't thank you enough for helping Charlie find them, really.'

'You don't have to thank me, I'm glad I could help.'

They all sat and watched Katie pick at her food, knowing she was just too excited to eat. Charlie looked at Harry and Ginny, nodding to them, they nodded back smiling. He turned to Katie.

'You ready to go, baby?'

Katie jumped out of her seat. 'Yep, all ready.'

Everyone laughed and got up as well. 'Kreacher, we'll be gone most of the day, just let us know if anyone called when we get home.'

'Of course Master Harry, have a nice day,' he said bowing.

The four of the walked out past the wards and Harry put his arms around Ginny so she could apparate them to where they were going and Katie held onto Charlie. They all turned and were gone. They arrived in the little country village and Charlie led them to the farmhouse. He knew Katie was nervous so he held her tighter. He knocked on the door.

Mrs. Cronwell answered smiling at Charlie and Ginny, then her eyes widened when she saw Harry. She looked at the girl Charlie had his arm around.

'Oh Katie, it's so nice to see you again.' she pulled Katie into her arms giving her a hug. 'Come in, please.'

The four of them followed Mrs. Cronwell inside to the enormous kitchen, he indicated for them to sit. 'Now, Katie, I haven't told Karl yet, I wanted him to be surprised.' the old woman could see Katie was very nervous. 'Would you all like something to drink?' she got nods all around. She got up bustling around the room and bringing over a tray with tea for all of them. She poured them tea and handed one to each of them.

'Thank you Mrs. Cronwell,' Harry said as she took the cup from her.

Everyone else said thank you as well. 'Oh please call me Helen, I can't help but say, that's it's nice to meet you Mr. Potter, I've heard so much about you, and I can't thank you enough for what you did.'

'It's Harry, it's a pleasure to meet you as well and you don't need to thank me.' Harry nodded to her, he was used to people looking at him even if he didn't like it. Ginny gave his hand a squeeze, she knew he still got uncomfortable.

'Now, why don't I go get Karl and Billy, that's my husband,' she looked at Charlie then at Katie. 'You're uncle dear,' Katie nodded. 'I'll be right back.' she walked outside and the four of them sat in silence.

Charlie could feel Katie's hand tremble. 'It's alright Katie, you don't have to be scared.'

'I know, I'm just so anxious to see him, a brother, I still can't believe it.' Charlie put an arm around her as the door opened again. Katie stiffened in Charlie's arms.

Harry and Charlie stood up to meet the new arrivals. 'Billy, Karl, this is Charlie Weasley, his sister Ginny Potter and her husband Harry Potter,' he instantly saw their eyes widened, 'and this lovely young woman is Katie, you're sister Karl.'

Karl gaped at his aunt then at Katie, he looked at her. 'Katie, is it really you?' he walked over to her as she stood up very close to Charlie. 'Oh Katie it is you,' he hugged her tightly and everyone saw he had tears in his eyes. He pulled back and looked at his sister.

'I remember you,' Katie said and burst into tears, Karl pulled her into his arms again and held her.

Bill walked over and shook everyone's hands. 'It's a pleasure, Mr. Weasley, Mr. Potter, Mrs. Potter. My goodness when Helen said we had guests I never dreamed it would be you.' he said looking at Harry.

'It's a pleasure to meet you Mr. Cronwell,' Harry said as he shook the man's hands. Everyone sat down, as they watched Karl and Katie.

'Karl, why don't you take Katie outside and you can talk for a while in private,' they nodded.

Katie turned back to Charlie, 'I won't be long, and she bent down and gave him a kiss.

'Is this your boyfriend Katie?' Karl asked looking at Charlie.

'Yes and no, he's my fiancée Karl, we're getting married next month. Will you come to the wedding, and you to Aunt Helen, Uncle Billy.' she said getting excited again.

'I'd love to come to my sister's wedding,' he hugged her again, 'Let's go outside and talk.' they left the room and went outside.

'That's so nice, of course we'd love to come to your wedding Charlie.' Helen said smiling at everyone.

'Karl's always talking about his sister Katie, I'm thankful you were able to find us and bring them back together.'

'I'd do anything to make Katie happy sir, she's the most important thing to me and I'd do anything for her.' Charlie said earnestly.

'I can see that young man, and please it's Billy.' he nodded to Charlie. 'Now Helen told me she mentioned to you the real story of those two.'

They all nodded, 'If I may,' said Harry, 'But how did their mother end up with Voldemort, he wasn't the type to love anyone or care about anyone but himself and power.'

'Well, from what I learned from Carol, that's Katie and Karl's mother. You-know-who imperius a lot of woman to get them pregnant, he wanted to have his own children as death eaters. Carol was able to fight it off after a while and that's when she came here, I was friends with her parents and nobody knew about us, so the kids were safe here.'

'He was deliberately getting woman pregnant under the imperius curse,' Ginny said looking shocked.

Harry felt her disgust, Ginny knew technically Voldemort was raping those women and he stiffened, gripping her hand tightly in his.

'Yes my dear, he wanted an heir army of death eaters but thanks to your husband here, he can never do that again to any other woman.' Helen said smiling at Harry.

'Do you know if Carol mentioned other woman she might have heard about, maybe their names?' Harry asked, his voice slightly shaky.

Ginny could feel Harry's anger and disgust at hearing Helen's words, and felt him grip her hands very tightly, she gripped his back letting him know she was there.

'No, I'm sorry Mr. Potter, she never mentioned anything about those other woman, except the Lestrange woman, who let herself get pregnant to him.' Helen said shaking her head.

'Bellatrix let him…' Ginny said again looking shocked.

'Yes, she did, she might have been married but she was willing to do anything for him, so she got pregnant.'

'She's got a child out there somewhere?' Charlie asked just as shocked as the other two.

'Yes, I don't know where or who the child was with when she got sent to Azkaban. Carol never mentioned anything, but he would be about Karl's age I would say.' she noticed Karl and Katie walking back towards the house. 'Oh the young ones are on their way back in.'

Karl and Katie came in holding hands, Katie sat down next to Charlie and Karl sat down next to her. Harry had a thought.

'Katie, why don't you invite Karl to the concert next week. He can stay at the house after so you can see each other some more.' Harry said smiling.

'What concert?' Karl asked, looking at Harry then Katie.

'Well, the band I play with are doing a fund raising concert and Harry is performing as well. We're trying to raise funds to build a wizarding orphanage. Would you like to come Karl, it'll be fun.'

He looked over at his aunt and uncle and they nodded. 'I would love to Katie,' he turned to Harry. 'I didn't know you could sing Mr. Potter.' said Karl looking a little awed to be in his presence.

'Please, it's Harry, and yes I do, well, I have a few times, but I like to help and when Katie told me her idea I wanted to do anything I could, so we've been rehearsing at my house for a couple of weeks, getting ready.'

'Harry has a magnificent voice Karl, you should hear him. He also plays the piano and guitar as well, and he's very good.'

'I would love to hear you Mr…Harry,' he said a little embarrassed. 'Would…would you play something, we've got an old piano in the sitting room.' he looked excited.

Harry could see he looked excited, and decided he would. 'Alright, lead the way Karl.' Harry said and everyone got up and walked into the sitting room. Harry sat at the piano testing the keys, then started singing a nice quiet ballad. When he finished he stood up looking at everyone as they clapped him.

'Thanks,' Harry said a little embarrassed.

They all walked back to the kitchen and the Cronwell's insisted they stay for lunch and Katie had talked Karl into coming over the next day to watch them rehearse, everyone had a nice lunch then took a walk around the farm. Charlie thought how he loved this woman and could see her smile growing more and more as her and Karl got to know each other.