The characters of the Harry Potter universe belong to Ms. Rowlings, and I'm borrowing them for my own imagination.
Chapter 14 - Family Album
"Bill, what are you and Fleur looking at?" His mother asked as she walked into the living room followed by the twins. They had all come for dinner that evening, and they were just waiting for Arthur to arrive home from work.
"The family album. There is a picture in here that I have never seen before." Bill said.
His mother came and sat on the other side of him and looked at the picture. "Oh, that. I don't even know why I put it in there. Your first Christmas at Hogwarts I wanted to give you a picture of your siblings so you could have it with you at school. This was the first take." The picture was of his siblings sitting on the couch by age. Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny. "As you can see, Ron was very squirmy, and Percy, I don't know if he was trying to hit Ron or settle him down, but Charlie got angry at him for swatting at Ron and dragged him off the couch. Charlie broke Percy's nose, and I was so mad I put a silencing charm on them both for the rest of the day. As you know, you got a much different picture."
Bill still had the picture he got. Ron was sitting on Percy's lap and Ginny on Charlie's with the twins in between them.
"If I tried to stop them by swatting a spider away when they were torturing Ron, I would end up with a broken nose." Bill mumbled to himself remembering his conversation with Percy earlier in the week. Bill began to examine the picture more closely.
"Mum, I don't think Percy was trying to hit one of his brothers." Bill said.
"What?" His mother asked.
"See there what George is holding." Bill said.
"A spider. George, you were teasing Ron with a spider?" His mum accused.
"Mum, it was fourteen years ago." George said.
"I punished Percy for no reason." His mother said.
"Not like he was punished a whole lot as a kid." Fred said.
"We did feel bad that Charlie broke his nose." George said.
"We weren't aim to bug Percy at the time." Fred said.
"It was just an added bonus." George finished.
"Hey, what are you all doing?" His dad asked as he entered the living room.
"Mum was telling me about the time when they took this picture." Bill said holding it up for his dad to see.
"Oh, that is when Ginny broke Ron's arm." His dad said.
"What?" They all responded.
"See, when Charlie drags Percy off the couch, Ron is already off balance. Well, our Ginny never wants to be out of the action, so she shoved him and there, see falls right off the couch." Arthur pointed out.
"Percy noticed that Ron was favoring his arm right away, but Ron wouldn't cry or complain for fear of being teased and called a baby. Unfortunately, Molly had punished him and Charlie with a silencing charm. When I got home that evening, Percy gave me a note that on the outside said 'please read'. On the inside it said, 'Don't tell Mum, don't want her to feel bad, but I think Ron's arm has been broken since this morning. Please fix it. No one else knows.' So I checked him out and fixed his arm. The next day I sat down Percy and discussed what happened privately, and we kept it a secret ever since." His father explained.
"None of you knew that Ron had a broken arm?" Bill asked.
"No." The twins answered in unison.
"Oh, my poor baby." His mum said.
"Percy took on all that responsibility of protecting Ron, and not hurting anyone's feelings. Did we ever protect Percy in the same way, or at all?" Bill asked beginning to believe what Percy had said to him was true.
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"If his fellow Aurors could see your father sitting on the floor playing with blocks with a seventeen-month-old girl, they would be shocked." Percy said as he helped Audrey clean up the dinner dishes.
"He has a lot of experience with raising me." Audrey said.
"It is just not the aura he gives off at work." Percy commented.
"You're not a stiff as the way you appear either." Audrey said.
"Thanks." Percy said then frowned to himself.
"You are still thinking about that visit from your brother." Audrey commented.
"More like, if something happens to me, Ron will get custody of Molly. She is going to live with all these people who are her family that she has never met. She won't have you or King or Oliver around her constantly. People she is familiar with and loves." Percy confided.
"Maybe there is a way for her to meet them, but still keep her safe." Audrey said.
"How?" Percy asked.
"Pictures in a photo album. You can do a photo album for Molly with pictures of her family. Have a different page for each person. As you show her the new page, you can tell her stories. She loves picture books and stories. Each time you add a new person, you can review the others with her." Audrey suggested.
"You think that would work." Percy asked.
"Yes, and I think Molly would love hearing about them and see their pictures." Audrey said.
"I have pictures at my flat and in the vault that I could use. Could you get me a photo album, one that would be easy to add to?" Percy asked.
"Sure. I think you will like the project as well." Audrey said.
"Yeah, I think I will. I want to start with Molly, Penny and her parents. People that I want her to know that she will never meet again in this life." Percy said ideas popping in his head.
"Don't forget to include yourself. She loves you so much. Always remember that. You are a good dad, Percy. I know, because I have one." Audrey said.
"Thanks." Percy said and blushed slightly.
"Come on, lets go see if the kiddies will let us play with them." Audrey said.
Percy laughed as he followed her into the living room.
TBC