Chapter nine
Harry finished explaining everything to Charlie who was sitting there in stunned silence but Harry could tell Charlie wasn't upset with him, he was upset about his family. He told Harry he was right that she would try to curse him again and next time he might not have anyone around that would help out. Charlie had used the fireplace in Grimmauld place to floo his parents, asking them to get the family together that he had some bad news and would be there very soon. Before his mother could ask what was going on Charlie pulled his head out of the fireplace.
'Sorry about all this Charlie.'
'It's not your fault Harry, you explained everything to Ginny, but you are a lot like me, we don't want to settle down, at least not yet. Ginny was influenced a lot by mum and dad, but mum spoke to her more often, about getting married and having a family. I better get this over with, I would ask you to come and explain but I think you'd end up cursed there as well. I'll see you later.'
'Yeah,' Harry sighed as he watched Charlie leave and wondered what was going to happen now.
Charlie stepped into the Burrow to see all his family, minus Ginny, 'We couldn't get hold of Ginny, she told us she was going to see Luna,' Arthur said.
'She lied, she went to meet Harry at the Hogshead and when Harry turned his back to leave she went to curse him, Aberforth stunned her and now she is in the holding cells at the ministry being questioned by the head auror Gawain Robards,' Charlie stood waiting for the shouting to stop, 'Harry only decided to press charges because we all know what Ginny is like, she would have cursed him again. Now I need to tell you this before you go see her. Ginny decided to go to one of Harry's parties, I was there, having a good time, but Ginny only went to try and get Harry into a serious relationship. All the couples that do go to these parties have nothing to do with their partners during this time, Harry ignored Ginny, went off with a heap of people, including me. He's single, he wants to remain so, just like I do. All of you have been pushing for Harry to get serious with Ginny, you didn't care how he felt. She loved him but he didn't love her yet you wanted him in a relationship not caring about his feelings. Harry is a bachelor, like I am, that's his life and how he wants to live it. So when Harry told her that it was over even though it was never really started, she tried to curse him. It was just lucky that Aberforth saw it and stunned her before she could. Now I asked Harry what curse she used, he didn't see it as his back was turned, but he never thought to ask Aberforth what she used. Harry was becoming frustrated with how all of you were treating him just because he couldn't return Ginny's feelings. Now if you remember, it was Ginny that said she wanted whatever Harry offered, even only seeing each other occasionally and it was also going to be casual. All this is Ginny's fault, I don't blame Harry one bit and it has nothing to do with the fact I shagged him. We partied, that's it, it's what we like to do. You can't expect everyone to conform to how you think people should live, that's wrong, everyone is different, some more than others. It just seems that Harry and I are completely different to how you want to be. But Bill, you thought I was living the life I was supposed to, you said it's how I am, yet what I'm doing is no different to what Harry does. You're just pissed because Ginny wanted someone that didn't want what she did.'
'It's still not right, she wants to get married,' Arthur said.
'Fine, she can, but you can't force someone to marry her if they don't share the same feelings. Blimey, if we were like those pureblood families than all of us would have arranged marriages, Bill wouldn't be married to Fleur, Ron wouldn't be dating Hermione. You said it dad, forcing your kids to marry someone is wrong and the marriage would never work. Yet that's what you were trying to do with Harry, force him to marry Ginny.'
'Let's go to the ministry Molly,' Arthur stood up and left the house with his wife.
'So you really support Harry in this?' Ron asked.
'Yes because he's not in the wrong here, Ginny is. You might be his friend and have known him longer but I know him as well, we're a lot alike. But I will tell you this, about the people at those parties. All of them had a different life to us growing up, I seem to be the only one that had a normal upbringing. Everyone there had either one parent, no parents, abusive parents, parents that fought or they were orphans and another thing, none of them had siblings. They were raised differently than us, it makes a difference on how you look at life. I spoke with all of them at the last couple of parties and I realised why Harry fits in with them, he's like them. But it's also what Harry said, we all could have died, him more than most so why wouldn't you live the way you want even if it's not the way other's want. Harry never lied to any of us, he never lied to Ginny. I love my sister and didn't want her hurt, but she wouldn't listen. She figured if she could just hang on that Harry would change his mind, well he won't and especially now he figured out he prefers blokes. I always knew there was something different about Harry but I realised why he never worked out his sexuality, death was always on his mind, not who he wanted to fuck.'
'Alright, fine, but you don't need to swear Charlie,' Bill said, 'We all just wanted Ginny happy and she wanted Harry. None of us took Harry's feelings into this because all we saw our sister who was in love with Harry.'
'She is but he didn't return those feelings yet all of you tried to force him to. Blimey, after his life I think if he was forced into a serious relationship that he didn't want it would not have been good. For all we know Harry might have lost it completely. We know he's not the violent type, but when you get pushed too far sometimes you snap. I had this girl in Romania that was obsessed with me, she refused to leave me alone. No matter what I said to her or how often she saw me with others she refused to listen or back off. One day she decided to prove she was perfect for me, she snuck into one of the dragon enclosures.'
'What happened?' Hermione asked quietly.
'She was eaten before any of us could get to her. So you see, sometimes people become obsessed and they go too far, Ginny went too far and tried to curse Harry while his back was turned. Now I'm heading home, all of you will probably want to go see what's happening with Ginny. Right now, I don't want to see her,' Charlie sighed then left the house knowing his brothers might still try to blame Harry, but he had a feeling that Bill, Fleur and Hermione might finally realise that Harry wasn't to blame in all this, whether it will stop all the tension, he had no idea.
