A/N: Here's part 3 of Mollywobbles. I know this story doesn't have those many followers or reviewers, but thank you very much who those of you that keep reading and waiting for the next chapter ;-)
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Mollywobbles
Part 3
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The house of Grimmauld Place was silent. Everybody was in the kitchen waiting for their friends to arrive and them all were speechless. Some because they didn't know what could be said in that situation, others because they didn't dare to break that uncomfortable silence that had been established.
At last, they listened to the front door opening and it was the leader of the group who stood up and left the room to check on their visitors.
...
"Arthur," he said, "Molly," he added, "it's great having you back."
"Is it necessary to do this now, Albus?" Mr. Weasley asked to the Headmaster of Hogwarts, not letting go of his wife's hand.
"We have already waited too long, Arthur," he replied.
"But Molly," the redhaired man mumbled.
"It's alright, Arthur," Mrs. Weasley interrupted her husband, "I understand. The sooner we start the sooner it'll be over," she sighted and the Headmaster smiled.
"Very well, then," he said with a hint of enthusiasm, "you can go ahead and wait for us in the studio."
"Molly, before we start," Albus talked from the other side of the large wooden desk where they were sitting, "I need to know that you understand why we are doing this. It's not that we don't trust you, it's only that we need to know what happened to prevent future attacks."
"I do understand," Molly responded, peeking at her husband before talking, not letting go of his hand.
"Good," he stopped for a moment, opened a drawer and took out a crystal vial with some liquid in it, "this is veritaserum," he said, "I'm going to ask you to drink it and I'll make you some questions. You must understand that we don't usually rely on this methods," he explained, "but Minerva made it very clear that legilimency might not be the correct way in this circumstances."
Molly turned around to look at Minerva, who was standing next to the door with Mad-Eye, who didn't look happy at all. Both women shared a concerned look and then the Headmaster asked for Mrs. Weasley's attention again.
"Molly, are you ready?" he asked.
She looked at her husband - their hands entangled between the two chairs they were sitting on -, grabbed the vial and drunk the liquid on one sip.
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"What's your name?" the leader of the Order required.
"Molly Prewett-Weasley," she automatically answered feeling an inner force dropping the words to her mouth.
"Will you answer my questions honestly, Molly?" he asked, obviously just giving the potion some time to achieve total effect on her mind.
"I will," she said.
"How many children do you have?"
"I have seven children, six boys and one girl."
"What about your siblings?"
"I had two brothers, Fabian and Gideon. They both were killed by Death Eaters," she answered so quickly that one would say she knew the questions beforehand.
"Where did you meet your husband?"
"In Hogwarts," she said.
"What happened the night of September 27th?" he asked that question on the same tone and speed he'd asked the others, but the rest of people in the room reacted in a very different way.
"I was tortured and raped," she said, showing no kind of emotion, letting the potion speak for her.
"Who tortured and raped you, Molly?" Dumbledore kept questioning.
"I don't know. They were four and they wore Death Eater's masks," she explained.
"Did they ask anything to you?"
"Yes, they did" she said, her voice still showing no emotion but her eyes beginning to fill with tears.
"What did they ask?"
"They wanted to know the whereabouts of my husband and the other members of the order," she said, "they asked about your future plans to fight He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and also about Harry Potter…"
"What did they ask about Harry?" Dumbledore interrupted.
"They wanted me to bring him to them," she said.
"Did you by chance agree on that?"
"No," she said.
"You're lying," Moody suddenly spoke, "tell us what you told them!" he yelled, walking towards them, resoundingly hitting the desk with his punch.
"She can't lie, Alastor," McGonagall reminded him, "don't be silly."
"You know there are ways to avoid the effect of veritaserum," Mad-Eye pointed out, "she's lying to us."
"She's not!" Arthur stood up to be at the same level of the auror, but he ignored the man.
"They tortured you," he insisted, bending over Molly, one arm at each side of her, his entire body invading her space, "they ripped your clothes off, they humiliated you…"
"Alastor, please," Albus also stood up from his chair.
"Those savages raped you in your own house," he kept going, completely ignoring the other three voices in the room, "why wouldn't you give them what they want? Is it maybe that you didn't want them to stop? Maybe you enjoyed it… Maybe it was all fake…"
Mr. Weasly suddenly grabbed the auror by the neck of his robes and pushed him away from his wife. Not letting go, he fetched his wand, but soon he felt the tip of Moody's wand on his neck.
"I wouldn't dare, Sir." he said, and Arthur retired, defeated, back with his sobbing wife.
"I was protecting my family," she was saying on the arms of Minerva, "I did want them to stop but I wasn't going to send them after Arthur, or Bill, or Charlie… They could have harmed anyone I love if I'd said anything," her voice was trembling, broken by her cry, certainly free from the potion's effects, "that's why I remained silent while they..."
"It's alright, Molly," Minerva tried to calm her down, "we're not here to judge you, and we trust your word, right Albus?" the professor looked at her headmaster in the eye.
"We can't risk anything, Minerva," he said as if he was sorry for not agreeing with her.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I think we should use legilimency," he said.
"No!" both Minerva and Arthur replied.
"...just to be sure," Dumbledore added, "I'll owl Severus and he'll be here immediately."
"Severus?" Arthur wondered.
"He's the one with more knowledge and experience with this kind of magic, Arthur," Dumbledore said.
"He is one of them," Mr. Weasley pointed out.
"That is a serious accusation, Arthur," the Order leader explained, "I ignored it when the incident in the hospital because of the circumstances, but I might not let it go the next time," he spoke clearly, "I trust Severus completely and anyone who doubts his loyalty must have proofs of it before saying it aloud." After that, Dumbledore left the room and so did Moody with him.
"What incident in the hospital?" Molly asked suddenly, once they were alone, to Minerva, who looked at Arthur, thinking he should be the one to tell his wife what happened and not her.
Later.
He had asked to be alone with her in the kitchen and they were sitting in opposite sides of the table. They'd been in silence for a long while, when he decided to take out his wand and rest it on the wooden border between them, a quick movement that startled her.
"I'm sorry," she apologized for her impulsive response.
"It's ok to be scared, Molly," he said.
"Not from you," she replied, "you saved my life, Severus."
TO BE CONTINUED...
