Chapter 10
Harry's magic pulled him from his chair and he was again running upstairs before he realized it.
He met Sirius stumbling downward from his rooms on the top floor on the landing of the fourth. There they found the Weasley twins, naked, tarred and feathered. Their heads appeared to have been transfigured into blocks of wood without eyes. The whole area stank of hot tar. Except for the fact they were screaming in terror they were immobilized by a beam of magic coming from the Black crest over the Heir suite.
Daphne was standing by her aunt's door, completely nude except for her Hit Witch Apprentice stole, which was nearly sufficient to cover her top, but left most of her bare. Her eyes were actually glowing green as she cast yet another curse at the twins, a beaters bat appeared in front of each of them and slammed up into their groins, lifting them from the ground and causing them to howl in renewed pain.
Harry stood there in shock for a second before scooping up his Betrothed and carrying her into their suite. Her bare flesh, and the massive amount of magic she was throwing around, made his entire body tingle, but he managed to get her to the closet and pull a robe around her.
"Stay here." He told her, making sure she was actually looking at him. When the green tint faded from her eyes and she only gave him a watery look, he couldn't leave her and instead hugged her tightly.
Then Hermione was there, joining their hug and pushing Harry out of the way. "Get them out of this house, or we're leaving." She told him.
With something productive to do, Harry gave both of them a quick kiss on the cheek and ran back to the landing.
He found the adults all standing around arguing about the twins. Ginny was huddled behind the still exhausted Hit Witch. The magic from the Black Crest had stopped, leaving the boys moaning on the ground.
"I want all Weasley's banned from this house!" He said, breaking into the argument as to what to do.
"Harry!" Marlene said sharply, her arm tightening on the suddenly terrified ginger beside her as the Black Crest glowed again.
"My Ward is permitted," he amended himself quickly. "In the last two days, each of my ladies has been assaulted in this house by a Weasley. Consort Potter has declared that we will seek safer accommodations if this is not done. We'd be safer at Malfoy Manor!"
"I, can't do that Harry." Sirius said slowly, the Black Crest going dark. "Four of them are in the Order and this is where they meet." He explained quickly, raising his hands.
"Lord Potter," Marlene said, calling their attention to her.
Ginny had gone into Marlene's room and pushed one of the chairs out for the exhausted woman to sit in. The scraping of it across the wooden floor caused everyone to pause and watch her. When she stepped out of the bedroom, the doorway flashed white and her clothes vanished.
Like them all, she stood there for a second in shock, then picked up her wand where it was clattering on the floor and yelled. "Those were the first new clothes I ever owned!" Her wand flashed and her famous bat-bogie hex hit first one twin and then the other.
Since their heads were wood, great gobs of sap stretched from their noses and then shifted into bat shaped sap, which then began to peck at their heads.
Marlene grabbed Ginny, spun her away from everyone else, and hugged her into her room, closing the door with a flick of her foot.
The slamming door managed to break the rest of them from their shock.
Nymphadora drew her wand and inspected the doorway, she cast a few spells and then poked two places along each side causing another flash of the entire doorway. Two piles of clothes materialized and fell to the floor.
She stepped back, looking down at her own clothes, which were still in place. "Dispelled it." She said in satisfaction before turning back to the twins. "You're really a nasty bit of work for a pair of sixteen year olds. I bet you'll be in Azkaban shortly after your seventeenth birthday at this rate."
Marlene's door opened. Ginny was dressed in a too-long yellow bathrobe and blushing brightly as she hugged the garment to herself tightly.
"I've dispelled it." Nymphadora told them, and then stepped into the doorway and back out, when nothing happened, Marlene nodded.
Ginny helped Marlene walk out and sit in the chair she'd pushed out earlier. The Hit Witch held her hand. "Auror Tonks, have you received your obliviation license?"
"Yes Ma'am?" Nymphadora said crisply.
Harry noticed a look of surprise on Ginny's face at that.
"Obliviate all males in this house, except Lord Potter, of the details of his Betrothed's and his Ward's nude bodies. They are to remember the incident and their parts in it. Make sure your Auror signature is in that spell, I don't want some mind healer unlocking it, thinking they had been assaulted. You may reverse the transfiguration on the twins to accomplish this."
"Yes, Ma'am." Nymphadora said and turned first to her cousin.
"Well Harry, she's gorgeous, at least I'll remember that fact. I consent to this." He said the last firmly, looking at the house crest and then met his cousin's eyes.
"Obliviate!" The Auror cast and delicately altered his memory.
"Nym, please remove my memory of Ginny's body. Unless, and until our relationship evolves it's not right for me to have this in my head." Harry said as she moved to deal with the twins. He glanced at Ginny who gave him a friendly smile in thanks.
"Of course Lord Potter." She said and paused in front of him. "Obliviate!" she cast and the pinched expression on his face relaxed.
"Thanks." He said, blinking, it was definably a weird sensation to have a memory suddenly gone.
She then turned her attention to Remus who didn't flinch as she repeated the spell on him.
Finally she stunned the twins, canceled the transfiguration on them, returning their heads to normal and dispelling the sap-bats. Unfortunately she found herself unable to cancel the tar or feathers.
Remus knelt beside one of them and propped his head up, and then held his eyes open for her to obliviate him. They then moved on to the other twin and repeated the process.
"Now, Auror." Marlene said calling everyone's attention to herself again. "You are to return them to their parent's home. With their belongings, and inform their parents that the next time they are caught in a criminal act they will be prosecuted."
"Very well Ma'am." Nymphadora said.
"I'll give her a hand." Remus said, levitating the boys down the stairs before anyone could challenge his offer.
"I don't know what to say Harry." Sirius said, looking tired. "I had such hopes for you staying with me."
"I'll ask my ladies what they want to do." Harry said turning back to Sirius.
"We can move to Castle McKinnon. If that pleases you and your ladies?" Marlene said.
"Thank you." Harry said, picked up Daphne's clothes, including her daggers and spare wands, before heading into his suite.
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Crookshanks and the black kitten he still didn't know the name of, were sitting a few feet inside the room, watching the door as though they were guard dogs. Hedwig had somehow entered the suite and was asleep on the perch near the window.
The girls were snuggled in his bed, they had changed into thick nightgowns. Hermione was cradling her lover to her breast and slowly running her fingers through her hair, while she cried softly.
He placed the pile of clothes on Daphne's bed and then changed himself, choosing to wear a pair of sweat pants and t-shirt before standing at the end of the bed to catch Hermione's attention.
When she looked up at him he pointed at either side of them and then shrugged.
She pointed behind herself and he slid into bed where she indicated. He placed a hand on Daphne's shoulder, gave it a gentle squeeze while he pushed some of his magic into her.
"Thank you, Harry." Daphne said clearly, but kept her eyes closed. "I'm sorry they managed to do that to me."
"Nothing to worry about. Nym obliviated your appearance from Sirius and the twin's minds, then she and Remus took the twins back to the Burrow."
"But I'm still in your head." Daphne said.
"Yes, but you're mine. And I do claim you as such." He said, causing his magic to surge a bit stronger, though still fairly controlled.
"Thank you." The blonde said and snuggled tighter into Hermione's arms, her tears finally abating.
The brilliant brunette turned her head and kissed his cheek. "Good boy, too bad you'll have to wait for your reward. Tonight was supposed to be a lot more fun."
Harry fell asleep to the image still in his mind of his Betrothed and how hot she looked when she was pissed.