Daddy's Little Princess

Repercussion

July 2nd

Although she fell asleep easily her dreams were everything but innocent. She never had dreamed about anyone like that and she feared about blushing fire red the next time she saw him.

It was his fault, who allowed him to be such a fantastic kisser anyway. It could hardly be legal. The great hall was filled to the brim with people, many families had stayed the night to be with their injured family members. It wasn't long after she took her place at the table next to her family, that once again chaos erupted. The owls began delivering the Daily Prophet and the people were reading, focused solely on the paper. A few with frowns, others nodding along or discussing it with their bench neighbours.

"Mum?" Her mother turned and answered the unasked question.

"Well, Rita Skeeter couldn't wait to publish yesterdays events and she was more than happy to have inside information." For the first time in her life Ginny could see the smile of a prankster curl around her mothers lips. Fred's smile before he turned her hair green. George's smile after sticking her favourite doll on the kitchen ceiling. Gwen's smile when she had summoned her first cookie.

"Now tug in." She put the freshly sliced apple in front of Gwen.

"No! Don't want apple, want pannycakes." Ginny sighed, inwardly getting ready for a fight.

"Good morning." She turned so fast, that she would have fallen of the bench if his arm hadn't curled around her waist. She blushed in a second, mumbling a good morning back at him. Thankfully he didn't kiss her, but he didn't remove his hand either.

"Mo'ning, Hawwy." He kissed Gwen's forehead and stole a piece of apple from her plate. Her eyes went wide when he popped it in his mouth.

"Mmh, this is good. I love apples, there the best." Gwen looked back at her plate and reached for one slice. She munched on it and smiled at Harry.

"Yeah, apple gweat, you wight Daddy Hawwy." Ginny sucked in a breath, oh no, oh no no no. Harry's hand squeezed her waist, the only sign that he heard what her daughter had said. Her family was engrossed with the article, so she wouldn't have to face the red-headed inquisition.

"You don't want to miss this." Harry said quietly.

James Potter, Sirius Black and a few others were walking into the hall.

"Who are they?" She asked not looking away from the twelve men.

"The board of governors." He answered, grabbing toast and jam. A man with long blond hair, that was tied back with a black bow took a step forward and unrolled a piece of parchment. He cleared his throat and began reading.

"Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore the Board of Governors have voted for the sake of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the safety of the students and staff that you will be put on probation. It was decided in order to honour your years of work and dedication to give you the time span of six months to decide for your school career or your political achievements. We, the governors, can no longer tolerate the fact that you are clearly overwhelmed with your double track occupations of leading this school and be a full time politician. It has come to our attention that more and more work is piled on your Deputy. That is no longer acceptable.

By the end of these six months we await your answer if you choose to stay headmaster or Chf. Warlock of the Wizengamot along with chairmanship of the International Confederation of Wizards. If you fail to hand in the papers on time, or you can't prove the improvements in your work, we will hand out an Order of Suspension, with the time limit of two weeks, after which we will execute the resignation immediately." He rolled the parchment pack up and levitated it over to Dumbledore who took it after a minute with shaking hands.

"Lucius, surely this is a misunderstanding."

"I highly doubt that, just because my son wasn't injured yesterday doesn't mean I don't care about the other students. It was your duty to make sure the new magical generation is delivered safely home. We don't pay this high tuition for nothing."

"All of us have signed this Order, it is legal and will be followed through, as Headmaster you are bound to, unless you choose to hand in your resignation now." Another blond man said, this one with short hair.

"That is Lord Greengrass." Harry told her. "He had two daughters on the train yesterday, they are still in the hospital wing."

"We won't deny you that option, Albus."

"And that is Lord Abbott. Hannah's father. She was able to leave after Alice healed her." The grim looks on the mens faces showed the anger they felt easily.

"I don't think this is necessary, gentlemen." James laughed icily, a sound that send a shiver down Ginny's spine and Harry pulled himself closer to her, radiating warmth like a roaring fire.

"This is long overdue. One question, Dumbledore. Have you told your students what you did yesterday, once Auror Moody informed you about the attack?"

"James, my boy-"

"Cut the crap. You are at fault for the injuries on these kids. Because you didn't send help, we had to fight the death eaters alone. We nearly didn't bring Remus back in time to heal his badly bleeding wounds." Ginny looked around, apparently they hadn't known about their favourite teacher being injured so severely. The whispers started again, accompanied with looks and pointing.

"I heard he will heal completely." Dumbledore tried again.

"We still had to fight on our own and protect them at the same time. My godson had to duel both Lestranges at once." Sirius shot him down again and all eyes turned to Harry. Ginny lowered her eyes not liking the attention. Her thoughts were chasing each other quickly, she had heard about them and she could only hope that he faced the males and not Bellatrix as well. She grabbed his hand, reassuring herself that he was fine.

"Think over your options, this is your last chance." Frank said and the governors left.

Enjoy!