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Chapter 11

My Name Is Sorrow and Joy

Hermione quickly threw her cloak over Ginny as Snape scowled down at the still half naked Ron. "You are going to be lucky if you don't get the kiss for this." Snape flicked his wand twice, sending the silent alarm to all of the teachers.

"Draco, where's Draco?" Ginny's panic ridden words broke through the silence like a blade.

"What do you mean?" Ginny tried to move, but pain racked through her body. "Ginny what do you mean?" Snape's voice seemed almost hysteria for him.

"He was with me, in the Great Hall, he wouldn't have left me alone. Ron had to have done something to him." Ginny winced through the pain and headed for the door, only to have her legs collapse below her. Hermione and Snape rushed to Ginny and caught her arms before she fully connected with the floor. "I have to get to him." Ginny refused to pass out even though her body was cringing away from sitting on the floor.

"Don't worry Ginny we'll find him." Hermione turned towards Snape, and he motioned that it would be taken care of. Hermione was wrapping the cloak back around Ginny as Dumbledore, McGonagall and Flitwick walked into the room, their mouths agape as their collective gaze fell on the half naked Ronald Weasley.

"What happened here Severus?" McGonagall's gaze was going to the hooks on the walls, and the contraption they had freed Ginny from.

"Why don't we go to more comfortable chambers and get Miss Weasley some clothing? When she is more comfortable I'm sure we can discuss what occurred." The teachers nodded, and Dumbledore conjured some clothing for Ginny from thin air, then led the male teachers from the room. Hermione helped Ginny into her clothing while McGonagall surveyed the room closer, and flicked her wand towards Ron, effectively clothing him once again in his trousers.

"Ginny are you sure you are okay?" Hermione was now holding a clothed Ginny by the shoulders, and leading her towards McGonagall.

"I just need Draco, I need to have him by me when I say this." McGonagall over heard, and passed a questioning gaze.

"Where is Mr. Malfoy now Ginevra?" Ginny's eyes snapped to hers.

"I don't know, Ron must've hid him somewhere."

"I'm sure Professor Dumbledore will find him, so lets go up to his office." The walk to Dumbledore's office was longer than Ginny had ever remembered it. The stares that she was getting from students while McGonagall floated Ron's body down the halls were filled with shock and some even horror. As they approached the gargoyle McGonagall said the password and it jumped to the side, the spiral staircase appearing and leading them towards the office.

The first thing Ginny saw as she walked through the door was the silvery blonde hair that was attached to Draco pacing along the side of the room. "DRACO!!" Ginny ran to him, not caring the half of her teachers were in the room, and pulled him into a tight hug. "I was afraid Ron had hurt you." Draco pulled away from her to stare in her honey eyes.

"Me, you were afraid he would hurt me?" Ginny only nodded and placed her head back against his chest while his lips brushed her hair.

"Miss Weasley, I know that this is going to be difficult to do, but I was wondering if you would be able to tell us what happened?" Ginny turned towards Dumbledore, but refused to leave the circle of Draco's arms. That was when she noticed that it wasn't just teachers that were in the room, but also two Aurors, as well as the Minister of Magic and her parents.

"MOM!" Ginny ran to her mother, throwing her arms around the crying woman. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..." Ginny's muttered apologized caused confusion to rise among the room as to why the youngest Weasley was apologizing for something that wasn't her fault. The family hugged for what seemed like an eternity before Ginny finally turned to Dumbledore again. She was determined to make them take this situation at face value, and not let them forget what had happened.

"Professor, I don't think I can tell you exactly what happened, but how about I show you. Do you have a pensive?" A large stone pensive floated gracefully across the room, and landed on Dumbledore's desk without a sound.

Ginny drew her wand and pulled a long silvery thread from her temple, then deposited it in the dish. The adults all walked closer to the dish as Ginny walked back towards Draco, pulling him toward the couch with her. As the adults one by one dipped into the pensive Ginny turned once again to Draco. "I don't want you to see what happened, I don't want you to have to see me like that." The hurt in Ginny's eyes was desperately apparent to Draco as he held himself back from running to the desk. He sat on the end of the couch so Ginny could lay on her stomach with her head on his lap. It took almost 2 hours for the adults to come out of the pensive, and there were mixed reactions from all. Dumbledore tried to keep his stoic form, but a frown kept attempting to mar his expression, while Snape sneered at Ronald Weasley's motionless form. Ginny watched as her mother crumbled to the floor in sobs while her father fought between anger and sorrow. The Minister looked outraged, as did the two Aurors, but the most surprising of all of them was McGonagall, whom without a word turned towards Ronald and unbound him.

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Harry and Seamus sat in the boys dorm, neither had spoken since Ron's less than timely interruption. "I think you need to tell me what the hell Ron was talking about." Harry wasn't asking Seamus to explain, but telling him to explain what Ron had said.

"Well, you see Ron and I had a bit of a thing, I wouldn't really call it a relationship, especially since I was technically dating Ginny." Seamus looked anywhere but at Harry. "But I trusted Ron, I can't believe he did it, I just I tried to stop him Harry I really did. When Ginny lost her memory I thought for sure that he would just drop it, but then he started to talk all crazy. I swear Harry I tried to talk him out of it, but you know Ron, once he has his mind set on something you just can't talk him out of it." Harry placed a hand on Seamus's arm.

"What did Ron do?"

Seamus looked up towards Harry before he started telling him what happened with Ginny.

"Ginny and I had been talking about our relationship a bit, and we both agreed that we were ready to take the next step." Harry's grip on Seamus's arm grew tighter but he nodded for him to continue. "I thought that maybe if I just shagged her then all these things I've been feeling would go away. So when we met in the room of requirement I thought we were both ready to have a go." Seamus took a deep breath he wasn't ready to tell Harry this quite yet, but it didn't seem he had a choice. "What Ginny didn't know was that I had already started something with Ron, we had been 'seeing' each other for a few weeks. He had talked me into letting him watch me and Ginny together, I don't know why I agreed to it, I guess I was so smitten, I just I don't know."

"Anyway, Ginny and I were kissing, and I started to undo her skirt when she backed off. She kept saying that she was sorry, but she didn't love me, and she just couldn't. I didn't really understand why she kept saying it when you said that you had slept with her before." Harry's head dropped, and he stared at his lap.

"I may have over exaggerated a bit in what Ginny and I did together." Seamus brought Harry's chin up, as his face grew very serious.

"You didn't sleep with Ginny?" Harry shook his head, and Seamus's face grew very confused, then angry. "You didn't sleep with Ginny!!! Oh Merlin, that means that Ron Oh, Oh shit. You and I need to go right now and talk to the head master. I have no idea what Ron might do now." With that Harry grabbed Seamus's arm, and pulled him back down on the bed hard.

"No, you are going to tell me exactly what happened, then we'll go tell who needs to be told. NOW START TALKING!"

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Ron's unbound form thrust upward on instinct, then he was levitating three feet off the ground with a tight golden rope squeezing tightly around his entire body. "You, my own Gryffindor, how could you!? When they get through with you I hope you never see daylight again. You don't deserve it!" This was the first time Draco had seen McGonagall really let go on someone, and he knew that he never wanted it to happen to him.

"Minerva, let the Aurors take care of this, I know that they will punish him accordingly." With a nod of her head McGonagall relinquished her hold on Ron to the Aurors. "I trust you gentleman will take care of this matter, and we will hear from you soon." The minister stepped forward as the door to Dumbledore's office burst open.

"Professor!" Harry screamed as he ran into the room dragging a very sad looking Seamus behind him. "We have to tell you some…" Harry stopped speaking as he saw one of the Aurors aim a wand at Seamus and bind him as well. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" The minister turned towards Harry as he advanced on the Auror, drawing his wand.

"I would advise against that young man, as he is an accomplice to the beating and rape of this woman." Harry just continued staring at him.

"I know that, what you don't know is what happened between the two of them I would assume. Seamus knows what you don't, and we were on our way up here to tell Dumbledore of Ron's plans, though it seems Ginny has gotten her memory back." The minister looked towards Seamus carefully thinking over the situation.

"I suppose there could be a deal made, if he agrees to bare witness against Mr. Weasley then I will pardon him of his sentencing, though it is imperative that he be removed from the premises, and expelled for the institution immediately." The minister nodded to the Auror who released Seamus, and simply took him by the upper arm. "We will be holding your son at the ministry until his trial, and as it is evidence we will keep the pensive under protection as well. It should be enough to get him the kiss without Miss. Weasley's statement in person. We'll try to wrap this up without to much press involved." Mrs. Weasley's wails grew louder as they started to drag Ron towards the fireplace.

"Please, please not Ron, not my angel." The words were repeated over and over again, and they were starting to get on Ginny's nerves. How could her mother be protecting him still? She knew that she had always come second to Ron; her mother was simply breading her to be another household slave.

"Not Ron? How can you say that mom? After you saw what he did to me, how could you still be protecting him?" Ginny's face was a look of outrage. "You saw, you saw what happened to me, and yet when your only daughter gets beaten and raped by your 'angel' of a son you still want to protect him." Ginny shook her head at her mother. "I remember everything as though it were yesterday, and I remember how things go." Everyone had turned their attention to Ginny and the no longer crying Molly. "Ron does something wrong the twins get blamed, or Bill or Charlie for not watching him. Ron hurts himself and it's all tears. You always loved your precious Ronald; he's your pride and joy, the momma's boy of all mommas' boys. I don't understand it, I know that I wasn't expected, but wouldn't that make you happy. You would think that you would at least care about your only daughter, but no, it's Ron that you care about that most. Well that is after Percy decided to leave the family." Molly started to open her mouth, but Ginny turned away from her. "Take me back to my room." Ginny took Draco's hand and they left headed for the door. Just as Ginny was about to cross the threshold to the staircase she spoke for the last time to her mother. "Don't expect me to come home, I'll send someone to collect my things. Goodbye Mother."

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Ginny and Draco entered the room still hand in hand, and it wasn't until then that Ginny cried. The dam holding back her tears finally broke and she collapsed on Draco in sobs. She held onto him with all of her might, her arms linked around his torso as he cradled her body in his arms. He whispered soothing sounds around her, and held her tight. It was a good hour before the tears finally stopped, and Ginny looked up from Draco's now soaking shirt. "I need to get him off of me." With that Ginny turned from Draco and headed for the bathroom. She shut him out for the first time since the incident to think.

As Ginny filled the bath with warm scented water she started to process what had happened, and what she was going to do. The bubbles floated almost over the top of the tub as she lowered her sore, bruised body under the water. The only slightly warm water felt like needles being dragged across her skin. Grimacing through the pain she continued to lower herself until her knees hit the bottom of the tub. She kept thinking of how much Draco had helped her, and wondered how far he'd be willing to go in the future.

She was without a home, without a mother, maybe a father, at least her other brothers would stay wither her. She hoped that Draco would understand her motives, maybe help her, and hopefully not run from her. She finished her soaking her muscles and scrubbing her skin then lifted herself from the tub. As she went to grab a towel she caught sight of her back in the mirror. Her normally creamy skin was covered in blackish purple bruising. The bruise covered from her lower back to her thighs, but it wasn't sore, at least at the moment. She made her decision at that moment, and wrapped the fluffy green towel around her.

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Draco went straight to his bedroom as Ginny closed herself into the bathroom, he knew what he was going to do, even though his father would kill him for not telling him first. What most people didn't know about Lucious Malfoy was that he wasn't actually an evil man. He did what Voldemort told him in order to live, and save his family. He had given Draco every tool he could in order to stay out of service, a way to run, a good education, and one thing no one else knew about. Draco pulled out his magic mirror that he kept hidden in the back of his closet. The largest magic mirror ever built, and it held more significant properties as well. The mirror that was encased in his closet had a twin in his father's private study at Malfoy Manor, and if you stepped through the mirror with the proper incantation you would find yourself exiting through its twin. Of course there were locking spells so one didn't interrupt at an inappropriate moment, but it was quite an efficient way of travel.

Draco stepped into his mirror, and out into his father's study. As his foot hit the ground a house elf popped into existence right beside him. "How may Missy help Little Master?" Draco grimaced at the name, but crouched down a bit towards the creature.

"Where can I find my father?"

"Master is in the garden with the Mistress, shall I tell him you've arrived?"

"Yes, and have him and my mother meet me in the Library as quickly as possible." Tiny elf bowed to the floor then popped out of existence again as Draco headed towards the library.

Draco had just come through the main entrance to the library as Lucious and Narcissa strode elegantly through the side door. "Draco darling, what are you doing here? Not that it isn't great to see you, but shouldn't you be in school?" Draco kissed his mother on both cheeks, before his father enveloped him in a quick hug.

"Well there is a special reason for my visit, and I'm sorry that I don't have much time, but lets have a seat and I'll explain everything. I've told you about what's been going on with Ginny lately, but there are a few details that you don't know. "

Draco sat with his parents and started to give them an abridged version of the last 2 days, he had already told them most of what was happening with Ginny, but he had a few favors to ask.

As Draco finished he noticed the small nods that transferred between his parents before his father spoke. "Of course we'll help, in every way we can." Draco stood and thanked both of his parents. "Draco let me see you to my study, I have something for you." Draco bid his mother goodbye, then disappeared into the hall behind his father.

"What is it you would like father?" Draco watched his father cross the room to his desk before pulling a key from his pocket.

"This is something that your grandmother gave to me to give to you when the time was right. I think it's the time to give it to you now." Lucious stood and handed Draco the package before giving him a final hug, and waving his wand toward the mirror.

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Ginny opened the door to Draco's room like she had so many times the past week, intent on asking Draco if he would help her. The sight that came upon her was one she had seen only a few times before, and none of them before her accident. Draco was pacing the room looking anxious, and nervous even. There were mumbled words coming from him as his head shook back and forth. He was holding something in his hand, but Ginny couldn't quite see what it was with the angle she was at though.

"Draco?" The hot blonde jumped almost a foot as she spoke. "What're you doing?" Draco faced her, a nervous smile playing upon his face. "I…" Both of them started. "You go first." Draco nodded at Ginny's request then walked closer to her, taking a deep breath as he took her hand in his empty one, as the other stayed hidden behind his back.

"I know that you and I have been together under some less than wonderful terms. I know that we haven't had a lot of time to get to know each other. I also know that I don't care about any of that. I don't promise that we wont have problems, and I don't promise that at one point one or both of us wont want to fly to the hills, but do promise that this is the most important question I will ever ask you." With that Draco dropped to his knees in front of Ginny, and she finally saw what he was holding.

AUTHOR NOTE: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know it's been forever, but I've had finals, and a new boy, so here it is, the second to last chapter I think. So the next will come soon… I promise.