Harry sighed and slumped back into his seat tiredly as McGonagall interrupted him, again, to talk over him when he tried to say something. So far the Headmistress, Molly, Moody, Tonks and Hestia Jones had interrupted them every time they had tried to say something, the rants that they were letting out quite impressive.
They were all getting quite bored and fed up, this meeting that they had been ambushed with right in the middle of having their supper after they had managed to avoid the forewarned meeting for two weeks. They had looked up from their plates to realise no one else was eating and that they were surrounded by Order members.
Then they had quickly started in on them, and really Harry had zoned them out five minutes in as they had started shouting over each other, everyone trying to get their points across. Some of them were worried about their safety, some of them were worried that Harry was risking himself before he was needed - though of course they didn't phrase it like that - and others were just worried that they were doing something to endanger the war.
Sighing again he looked to Hermione and Ron to see them looking as fed up as he was, and Ron's ears were a little red showing that he was feeling the same anger Harry was. Charlie looked like he was a second away from nodding off, Bill and Remus however were sitting straight backed and paying rapt attention to the rant going on around them like they were about to sit an exam on it at any moment.
"We have the Malfoys hidden in the library," Harry said calmly and grinned when a deadly silence fell in the room.
"That is not funny Harry!" Molly scolded after a moment.
"Oh he's not joking, they're up there now," Hermione smiled sweetly.
"You...have to be joking!" Arthur spluttered.
"Nope, they needed to get away, we granted them asylum," Ron nodded, suddenly looking a lot happier. Charlie, Remus and Billy were gawping at them unable to believe that they had just blurted that out.
The silence this time lasted a lot longer as the Order gawped between all of them, most of them looking between Harry, Ron and Hermione and Bill, Charlie and Remus as though hoping the other three were going to tell them it wasn't true.
"Wonderful, now that we have your attention," Harry smiled standing up and straightening his shoulders and looking around the table. "Now, have you perhaps considered the fact that we have not told you what we have been doing because what we are doing is extremely important and the less people that know about it the better. If we needed your help we would have asked for it, we are not doing this to try and upset anyone, but Dumbledore left us something important to do, and right now getting it done is the most important thing, we have to put that before everything else," Harry said softly.
"And what would you know about what is the best thing to do, you are just a boy," Hestia scowled. The Order all blinked when Harry's eyes went hard as he looked sharply at Hestia.
"What would I know, would you like to compare experience? How many times have you faced off against Voldemort and lived to tell the tale? How many times have you survived and beaten one of his plans? I tell you what, say his name, first time without stammering and I will consider sharing what we are doing," Harry raised an eyebrow watching them all flush slightly.
"You are a boy!" Whoever shouted that had them all flinching when Ron slammed his hand down on the table standing.
"But he's old enough to kill V...Voldemort for you,"
The silence this time was heavy with guilt and uncomfortable looks as they could not deny the truth of his words.
"You think you can distaste to us what we should tell you, you think you know better than us, know better the decisions we have to make. We have been fighting this war for longer than many of you, we have been fighting this war and making these decisions for years. We have a way to defeat Voldemort, and we are doing everything in our power to see it through. The help we need from you is not to hinder us," Hermione said softly, also standing and looking around the group.
"You can not do this by yourself!" Molly fretted.
"Mum, I know you are worried and you want to protect them, but they aren't doing this by themselves. And truly they don't really need that much help, they more than have everything under control," Bill admitted softly.
"They have things under control, a scary amount of control, but its under control," Charlie nodded.
"They're very good at what they do," Remus nodded.
"The Malfoys?" Moody frowned his eye going nuts as he clearly tried to find them.
"We have all the information on them, and we made an informed decision, they are going to stay where they are until you get used to them being here," Harry said firmly.
"They are a danger," Molly frowned.
"No, they're not. They have realised the mistakes that they have made, they have realised that they are in danger with Voldemort and that he is not the right choice, they want away from him..." Ron paused and glared the others into silence when they all tried speaking over him. "They want away from him, but they also want to help defeat him. They have been supplying us with valuable information, information Remus, Bill and Charlie have been passing onto you,"
Harry sighed and dropped back as the arguments, complaints and rants started up around them once again.
"Well, that was an interesting twist," Harry grinned as they traipsed up the stairs wearily.
"What?" Bill asked.
"I never thought I would see Ron Weasley defending the Malfoys so strongly," Harry laughed.
"Be quiet...and don't tell them!" Ron huffed.
"Don't worry I am sure that they would be equally horrified," Bill chuckled wrapping his arm around harry as they reached the door to their bedroom.
"You are sure that they can't get into the library? You know that they are going to try," Remus frowned looking up to the floor the library sat on.
"Its blood warded, I have made sure that they all fully activated," Harry nodded smothering a yawn.
"Alright, bed, we will meet tomorrow in the library, destroying the necklace has wiped it out of Harry, never mind out 'meeting' down there," Bill said firmly turning and leading his partner into their room to a chorus of good-nights.
Harry yawned and allowed Bill to lead him over to their bed, sitting him down and helping him out of his clothes. With a soft groan he flopped back onto the mattress, all fight going out of him. He hummed happily as Bill kissed his thighs before his strong hands started massaging Harry's feet.
"You were amazing down there!" Bill said softly. "Sometimes..."
"What?" Harry frowned when Bill paused.
"Sometimes I wonder why you are with me, you're an amazing person and I am just a scarred curse breaker from a small family. You...shine so brightly sometimes that..." Harry stopped him by sealing their lips together gently.
"I hate when you talk like this," Harry sighed brushing his fingers down Bill's face. "No matter what you think about yourself, to me, you are just an amazing man, who I love," He said softly.
"I love you too," Bill smiled slightly looking at the green eyes that were looking intently at him.
"That's all that matters," Harry said firmly.
"I'm sorry yourself just so amazing to me sometimes, I wander what you see in me," Bill admitted quietly, but he pulled Harry even closer.
"You do realise that I think the same thing don't you, I wonder what you see in a skinny teenager with a target painted on his back and more issues than you can shake a stick at, when you could have anyone that you wanted," Harry snorted.
"Well most of that is complete rubbish and as to having anyone I want, there is only one person that I want," Bill said softy.
"Good, we're in agreement then," Harry smirked pushing Bill so he fell back on the bed and straddled his lap.
"So you are just going to leave us wondering how long all of this is going to take then?" Draco groused from where he was sitting near their research area glaring balefully at them.
"Yes, is all this secrecy really necessary? We can't even leave the room!" Lucius huffed motioning to the board with all of their information written across it, and smothered heavily under secrecy charms.
"We aren't even sharing this with the Order, so yes it is necessary. Besides this information is something no one but us and Voldemort will ever know about," Harry said firmly.
"The Order don't even know about it?" Narcissa asked curiously.
"They know that we are doing something to help defeat Voldemort, but that is all. This information, the fewer people that know about this the better," Hermione sighed tiredly.
"Its that bad?" Lucius frowned looking between them.
"He's more of a monster than you could have imagined," Bill grimaced thinking about what Voldemort had done to ensure his existence.
"Are you close?" Narcissa asked hopefully.
"Close?" Ron asked.
"To defeating him," She clarified.
"Yes actually, we are," Harry smiled.
"There is actually something that you can help us with. Nagini, I want you to tell me everything that you can about her, when she leaves Voldemort's side, where she is with him, is there any time she is vulnerable especially," Hermione reeled off picking up her pad and pen and moving to sit by the Malfoys.
"Nagini?" Lucius asked slowly.
"Nagini," Hermione nodded firmly.
"Also we need you to draw up plans for your manor and mark out the different places V...Voldemort is likely to be, where the Death Eaters are likely to be, entrances and exits, any secret passages, everything that we need to know to get in and out of that place," Ron added.
"You need to get into the manor?" Lucius frowned.
"We need to get in and get our hands on Nagini," Remus nodded.
"Very well whatever we can do to help," Narcissa nodded and grabbed a few pieces of parchment, immediately starting to draw up plans of the manor with Draco.
Harry closed over the secrecy charm, leaving out the Malfoys and Hermione, before turning to the others.
"To go after Nagini though, we just need to break into Malfoy manor, manage to avoid getting caught by Voldemort and all of his Death Eaters and then get our hands on Nagini and kill her without her biting us, and get back out without being caught," Harry listed.
"And we need a plan for V..V...Voldemort before we go after Nagini, because when we kill her he is going to know that we are up to something and guess that we have a hint on what he has done. We can't risk him making any more horcruxes," Ron frowned.
"Well we have a battle plan then, and we're close to the end. Once we have a plan for V..V...Voldemort I think we need to tell the Order that we are close to being ready for an attack, we are going to need their help," Remus suggested.
"That is true," Charlie sighed nodding.
"Right, lets finish this then," Bill smiled hopefully.