Chapter ten

That night, Harry and Draco talked a lot, it was late by the time Draco kissed Harry, but smiled when Harry kissed him back, so for the rest of the night and following morning they snogged a lot, but still talked, getting to know each other in a completely different way than either of them thought of before.

After some breakfast, a few more kisses, Harry and Draco slipped through the fence from his house to Harry's home. Minerva was waiting for them as they stepped into the house.

'Gawain and Kingsley will be here shortly. They kept asking me what this was about and why did I want to meet them here.'

'There about to find out and I know Gawain is going to subject me to a lot of tests to prove it's me, but I'm ready for it.'

Just then there was a knock at the door, Harry stepped into the laundry to give Minerva a chance to explain. She opened the door to allow the two men in then showed them to the living room.

'Now what's this about? You said something about Harry's death,' Gawain said.

'It is, but not what you think. Draco found out something, so he put together some plans. Now when we tell you Gawain, we don't want Draco punished, because what he did was save someone's life and help uncover the plot to kill Harry.'

'Okay, so keep going.'

Minerva looked at Draco, 'I was taken by Lestrange, they wanted me to join them. I couldn't escape, they had enchantments around the property. So I decided to play along until I could find a way out and hopefully hear what they might be planning. It took a while, but they wanted me to kill someone. I have never killed and I knew I couldn't, especially not who they wanted. They even threatened to kill me, so I told them I would. What they didn't know was I made it look like I killed him, but I actually killed a snatcher called Dodge, he was vicious, sadistic and very cruel. I had him petrified first, then force polyjuice potion into him. When he changed, I killed him so Lestrange and the others believed I killed the person they ordered me to. This man I was supposed to kill was safe, I had him hidden and unconscious so he wouldn't accidentally get seen. Then I heard why they wanted him dead apart from the obvious, they had been contacted and offered ten million galleons and an international port key to get away if they killed him. I found out who wanted him dead, so I started to investigate, I got some proof. When he woke, I explained, we contacted Minerva and put together some more plans and got the proof that his death was planned.'

'So even though you killed, it was to save this person. I do know who Dodge was, I heard some of the things he did. He would have gone out fighting and could have killed a lot more people. He loved torture, especially children, he did that in front of their parents, so I probably won't press charges. So are you going to explain who this person was that you saved and what does it have to do with Harry's death?'

'Because he saved me,' Harry said standing behind them all.

Gawain and Kingsley instantly had their wands in their hands, 'If you are really Harry, you know I have to make sure,' Gawain said.

'Yep, you explained that during my training. I had to prove it to Minerva, she knows things about me that no one else does. So first Gawain, I can tell you something, then you can perform any test you want. Okay,' Harry sighs, 'I told you I was learning to become an animagi, but I learned to change into two animals, I was trying for a dog like Sirius, but ended up a phoenix, then I learned to become another animal, a spider, you said to keep it between us so I could use it. You were able to work around the registration of the second animal because I did register the phoenix.'

'Harry, blimey,' Gawain said, but closed his eyes, 'I still need to check, but I already know it's you.'

'I know, so go ahead,' Harry stepped closer and held his arms out and let Gawain perform a few revealing charms over him then saw him smile and nod to Kingsley who hugged Harry making him laugh, 'It's me Kingsley and when this is over, I've got something to say to you about that blasted statue.'

Kingsley laughed as he let Harry go, 'Blimey Harry, we saw your body, it was sent to us along with your phoenix feather wand. Mrs. Weasley even told us the watch you had on was the one she gave you that belonged to her brother that died in the first war, it was your wedding ring as well.'

'I took Harry's wand, the watch and the ring and put them with the fake Harry,' Draco shrugged.

'Good thinking. Okay, let's get on with who planned this and why,' Gawain said and the group sat down again.

'Okay, first is this, Draco got pictures and information,' Harry handed over the file, 'Then Minerva went to see her, I was a spider. After Minerva left, I stayed and listened. I got every bit of information I could, enough for the Wizengamot to allow you to use veritaserum on her to get the truth, the full truth.'

Gawain and Kingsley both read the file then they looked at Harry, 'Ginny, she contacted death eaters, asked them to kill you but make it look like they were doing it because you killed Voldemort and working as an auror you deal with death eaters,' Gawain looked up at Harry, 'Shit, but why would you're wife do that?'

Harry handed over another file, 'For this.'

Again Gawain and Kingsley read the file, 'Money, and a hell of a lot of money. Harry, if you have all this, why do you bother working?' Gawain asked.

'I love my job, I always wanted to be an auror. Money meant nothing to me, as long as I got by, I was happy. It seems Ginny wanted more than I did, she first mentioned a large house not long after Minerva explained what I had. I told her I wanted to live here, I wasn't keen on having a big house. It was after we were married that Ginny mentioned another house again, something for all our kids. See before we were married Ginny and I spoke about having about four kids, Ginny said she would only go to four, no more. Coming from a large family she didn't want a lot of kids, so I agreed with her even if I would love a lot of kids. Anyway, after we were married, she came to me one day and said she changed her mind, but to have more kids we talked about the need for a bigger house, one with enough bedrooms but also have enough room so everyone could have some private time. Now while I was at her house yesterday, I listened to everything then did a bit of investigating. I found out she had seen a healer to make sure she could never have kids, none. Because of her age, the healer refused to make it permanent, but he would give her a potion that would last six months and if she still felt the same she had to go back to see him. It was all for the money, the large house and all the jewellery she's bought since my so called death.'

Gawain and Kingsley sat there listening to everything Harry said. What he heard while spying on Ginny would be the most important evidence at her trial. So even if she tried to talk her way out of it, Harry's memory of what he had seen and heard would be enough to convict her. Then Draco explained where the death eaters were, so Gawain needed to put together plans to capture those, but knew it couldn't be done before Ginny's trial, she couldn't find out about Harry in case she tried something else to kill him. If they went after the death eaters now and any escaped, then not only would Ginny's life be in danger, but anyone close to her and Harry, so that had to wait for the right time, but at least Gawain knew where they were and could put some people out there to keep watch, but in secret from everyone.