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Chapter Ten

Reunion

Harry gasped for breath as the person hugging the four of them retreated. Harry couldn't believe his eyes. He gave his leg a hard pinch, to make sure he wasn't dreaming. It hurt, clarifying that it was real.

Molly Weasley was standing there, bold as brass, very much alive.

"Mum!" Ron shouted, throwing his arms around her.

"Ron! I've been so worried! I thought you had been killed! When we heard that the Dark Mark was over Privet Drive!"

Then, the hallway door opened, and Arthur, Bill, Charlie, Fred and George Weasley all entered, all very much alive, as was Fleur, who followed them.

"You were dead!" Harry exclaimed.

Mrs Weasley blushed.

"Well, when Ron walked out, we figured that Voldemort would make an attempt to try and get you lot into a trap. So, I set the twins a task. I got them to make exact replicas of us, and make sure we could control them from afar. So, after they made them, we left the house, and waited. Then, Voldemort appeared, Pettigrew and Snape in tow, and they entered the house. They killed Arthur's duplicate, then proceeded to kill the rest of them. We used them to convince the Death Eaters that they were the real us, so they killed them and destroyed the house. We then came here."

She looked at her sons with a sort of furious pride. Then, she turned to Harry, and bowed her head.

"Harry dear, we're all really sorry for the way we treated you when you got off the train last month. And for making you think we were all dead…"

Harry smiled, the first real one in a while.

"It's alright Mrs Weasley."

She then gave a cry, and swept her entire family up in one massive hug. Fred and George were trying and failing not to look pleased with themselves. So, as Harry understood it, they had created exact replicas of the entire family, and had Voldemort bump them all off, giving the Dark Lord the impression they were all dead. Harry smiled, and was happier than he had been in months to be back with his family at last. Eventually they all broke apart, and the Weasley's all turned to Percy.

"Hello mum." He said.

The family all looked at each other, and they all hugged each other again.

"We forgive you Perce!" Fred and George shouted in unison.

It seemed to be the day for forgiveness. Then, another door opened. Ginny stepped out. Harry's heart leapt at the sight of her. He smiled at her, but she just turned away, and went to hug Ron, Percy and Hermione. She then retreated upstairs. Harry looked reproachfully at where she had vanished, and Hermione patted his shoulder. But, his family was back together. Ron pulled apart from them.

"We thought you were all dead! You made me and Harry into a right state!" he said accusingly.

Abruptly, he and Percy started to laugh. Hermione and Harry joined in. Eventually, they were all laughing.

"Why didn't you contact us?" Hermione demanded, but with a wide smile on her face.

"We thought you were dead too remember? We thought you had died in the attack on Privet Drive!" Mr Weasley said.

"So, both parties have been alive all this time, and neither got in contact?" Percy asked, stupefied.

Mrs Weasley was laughing very hard.

"And to think! I wanted Fred and George to go to the Ministry! If it wasn't for them, we all would have died!"

The laughter echoed deeply into the house. It was the best Harry had felt in a long time. It was just lacking one thing…

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"Mum was going frantic. She kept saying 'he died hating us!' or 'he died and we never made it up with him!'" Charlie explained at dinner to Ron and Harry.

Harry and Ron giggled, Hermione joining in.

"Well, no wonder. We were all completely horrible to Harry. We deserved what we got." Mrs Weasley said happily.

"We understand why you did it mate. We just aren't happy about it." Fred explained.

Harry looked down the table at Ginny. She was determinedly avoiding his gaze. He knew she would be angry. But totally ignoring him, that he wasn't expecting. Hermione was sending shrewd looks in his direction. He didn't like that look, and by the look of things, neither did Ron. He was looking between them, an expression of dread on his face.

"Hermione, we're really sorry about your parents." Mr Weasley said.

Hermione nodded.

"Hermione, what happened to you?" Fred asked.

"We thought you were the sensible one." George accused.

"Meaning?" Hermione asked in confusion.

"What on earth possessed you to go out with Ron?" Charlie asked incredulously.

Harry couldn't help it. He just burst out laughing, Percy, and Fleur joining in. Hermione looked amusedly outraged, while Ron just looked furious.

"Ve thought that you were ze brains of ze outfit." Fleur said, wiping her eyes.

Hermione suppressed a grin, and even Ron grinned a little. Mrs Weasley laughed, and was then distracted by the fireplace glowing green. Lupin and Tonks emerged, deep in conversation.

"But to attack the Weasley's funeral…" Lupin was saying.

"Where did Harry and the others go?" Tonks asked in concern.

"They said they were coming here. We haven't seen them since the attack."

"Poor souls. To attack a funeral for their family…"

"Poor Molly would go off her nut if that had happened to anyone in her family…"

They were both totally oblivious to Harry, Hermione and the Weasleys.

"It's good that Percy finally got over himself. About time he made up with his family." Tonks said.

"I just wish Molly and Arthur were there to see it. There would have been floods of tears."

"There were." Mrs Weasley said.

"Evening Molly. As I was…what!" Lupin stopped in shock, just registering that the Weasleys were all sitting beaming in front of them. Tonks burst out laughing, as Lupin stuttered about being made a fool of.

"It's good to see you Remus." Bill said.

Tonks was rolling around on the ground now, still cackling her head off, kept amused by the expressions on Lupin's face. The others in the room all started laughing too. Lupin gave up trying to fathom it out and started too. Tonks, who had regained some mode of functions, chucked some floo powder into the fire, and called for other Order members.

It wasn't long before they were all there. Hagrid scooped them all up and crushed them in an almighty hug. McGonagall didn't have enough hankies to dry up her tears of happiness. It soon became a full fledged party, with many recountings of Fred and George's family replicas, and many sniggers at how Voldemort would react when he found out he had been outwitted by a couple of pranksters. The Weasleys, except Ginny, had forgiven Harry and Harry had forgiven the Weasleys, except Ginny. They all eagerly anticipated the next days Prophet which would be reporting the Weasley's deaths. The family was back together. Fleur was still eager to get on with the wedding, now that the family was back together. She said her grandmother would be arriving soon with her sister, and was eager to get back on track. Moody welcomed them all back with a few songs sung with marvellous gusto.

Harry watched the proceedings, and turned, and was surprised to see Ginny standing behind them.

"Hello." She said softly.

"Hi." He said, awkwardly.

She looked at him. She smiled nastily.

"See. I would have gotten killed. And that was without you being with me."

"Ginny…"

She rolled her eyes, and Harry felt ashamed to see tears brewing in them. Why were girls so damn difficult?

"I didn't mean to hurt you."

She snorted in mirth.

"Didn't mean to hurt me? You broke my heart!"

The others had all stopped, and were all watching the proceedings, most with great interest, their heads going back and forth like watching a tennis tournament.

"You broke my heart! Or did you think it wouldn't hurt me that you were dead!?"

"Never bothered you before!"

"Of course it bothered me! Why do you think I was so miserable after I broke up with you?"

"Because you're a self centred git, and only care about getting your feelings hurt!"

"Fine, it would have hurt me. But I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I got you killed. I care for you too much!"

"You've got a funny way of showing it!"

"I knew that when you were dead, I wouldn't be able to fall in love again! What do you say to that?"

"You love me?"

"Loved. Past tense."

"Then you aren't the boy who lived. Someone's made a mistake. If you're greatest strength is being able to love, you do it pretty poorly!"

"You're unbelievable!"

"No more than you!"

"Give me a break! I can't face life without you Ginny. Well, I couldn't. Now I see who you really are!" he was speaking at random, trying to hurt her.

He had.

SLAP.

His face whipped around, his cheek stinging.

"How dare you Potter!"

"So it's Potter now is it? Not Harry? Just Potter."

"What do you expect me to do? Go back and pretend everything's fine and dandy? You broke my heart!"

"And you broke mine!"

"We're even then!"

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

She stormed from the room, crying furiously. Harry followed a second later, doing exactly the same thing. Then, the others heard two distant doors slam. Fred whistled.

"He didn't mean that did he?" he asked Hermione.

"Of course he didn't. And neither did she."

"Well, that's the end of their relationship." Percy said bluntly.

"You give up too easily Percy." Ron scolded.

There was a glint in his eyes, matching the one in Hermione's.

"What are we going to do?" Mrs Weasley asked excitedly.

"Come off it. You can't seriously think they're going to get back together after this. Harry said he did it to protect her." Bill said.

"And Voldemort's attack puts a hole right through that theory. And I don't think. I know. We're all going to play Cupid." Hermione said, grinning.

With that, the Weasleys and Hermione huddled, and plotted how to get Harry and Ginny back together.

Who thought I had killed them off?

Will the Weasley's get Harry and Ginny back together? Read on to find out!

Thanks to shadowmon for pointing out that chapter 10 had gone awol.