Chapter fourteen

Kreacher was waiting for Harry at his home in Godric's Hollow, Harry smiled, nodded then the old elf made tea for everyone.

'Blimey Harry, I can't believe our sister did that. You know, we wondered how she bought that bloody big house.'

'When I found out about what my mother left me, I asked Ginny not to tell anyone. Everyone knew about my other vaults, from my parents and Sirius, so if we bought anything people would think it was from there. But my mother's aunt was very wealthy, she left everything to my mother who left it to me.'

'So that's what you found out that day, when you went to see Minerva?' Hermione asked.

'Yes, sorry I never told you everything. But there were a few letters from my parents, so that's what I told you it was about.'

'So Draco, how did you save Harry?' Neville asked.

Harry smiled then took Draco's hand, 'It's fine, Gawain said no punishment for what you did.'

'So when did this start?' Seamus nodded his head towards the two men's joined hands.

'A few days ago, Draco admitted he has liked me for years, but knew or thought he knew nothing would come of it. So staying with him over the last few weeks, we got to know each other and I found Draco to be a very nice man, so I wanted to see if this might work. By the way, he had no idea about my money, plus he's wealthy as well, so I know he's not after that,' Harry smirked making everyone laugh.

'No, I'm not, I'm just after that cute body.'

'Well, I am divorced now, maybe you will get to see it. Now how about tell everyone you're part in all this?'

Draco nodded, but kissed Harry first then faced all his friends and started to explain everything, from when he was taken to how he killed a snatcher after making him change into Harry, how he had Harry unconscious at his home. He went into every bit of details even admitted how long he had liked Harry for.

'So Draco contacted you Minerva, then you contacted Gawain and Kingsley?' Hermione asked.

'Yes, when Harry first stepped out, I thought something was going on, that it was a cruel joke. But Harry told me something that only one other person knew, so I knew it was him. Once Harry as his animagi heard what he needed, I contacted Kingsley and Gawain.'

'When we first saw Harry, we had our wands on him. I saw Harry's body, helped Gawain test his wand to prove it was really his. But then Harry told Gawain something and even though he knew it was Harry, he did some spells to reveal anything suspicious or wasn't quite right, there was nothing, it was really Harry. So they explained what had been going on.'

'Yes, but that statue goes Kingsley, I did tell you never to do that but you did, after I died,' Harry scowled but everyone laughed.

'Minerva is having it moved to Hogwarts, it will stand beside Albus Dumbledore's tomb. So it will be away from Godric's Hollow, but it will stand Harry. Now as you said, life is full of disappointments, so live with this one, it stays,' Kingsley said.

Harry grumbled under his breath making everyone laugh again, 'It's not like I can really stop the minister for magic now can I?'

'No, you can't,' Kingsley smirked.

'I'm glad his not, but Draco is getting away with killing someone, why is Gawain allowing that?' Neville asked.

'The man I killed, a snatcher, but he was just as evil as Voldemort. His specialty was torture, but he tortured children in front of their parents. Mr. Robards knew of this snatcher, he knew this bloke would go out fighting, torturing and killing more people. So as he said I actually did a great service but also used that to save Harry and uncover the truth about what Ginny had done.'

'I still find it hard to believe our little sister would do that,' Charlie said, 'I know she always got anything she wanted, we spoiled her being the only girl with six boys, but to go as far as murder,' Charlie shook his head.

'It seems like she couldn't bring herself to kill but she was comfortable with getting others to kill. All the years I've known her, the time we'd been married, I never knew she had this dark side. I know everyone has a bit of dark in them, but usually it will never make them do anything like kill or even hurt someone. It could be as simple as being cruel with words or actions. I've seen that a lot since I became an auror,' Harry sighed.

'Why didn't Ron come back here?' Cho asked.

'I think he's in shock right now Cho. Ron and I had this big argument when Ginny bought that house. I thought it was wrong no matter what Ginny said, Ron like always supported his sister, even against his wife,' Hermione said sadly.

'What did Ginny say about buying that, because we all thought it was strange?' Neville asked.

'She said she couldn't live here because of the memories, first Harry's parents were murdered in this house, then her husband died. She also said that because of who Harry was she wouldn't get any privacy. She made a real convincing argument, but she could have bought a normal house and had enchantments placed around it, like the fidelius charm, but she bought a mansion, that seemed to go a bit far,' Hermione said.

'Then she started to ignore everyone, mum kept asking her to come stay at the Burrow, she shouldn't be alone during this time, mum even tried to get her to just come for dinner. That's when Ginny said she had Kreacher cooking for her and she wanted to be alone during this time, her time of grieving. She had us all believing her, she cried a lot, well, when we saw her. But during the funeral, I tried to hold her, she said she didn't want anyone to hold her, she was going to show how strong she was, that she could say goodbye to Harry without help,' Charlie shrugged, 'She was convincing Harry.'

'After finding out everything Charlie, I realised how good at acting she was. I knew she could always fool your parents, I'd seen her do it. But Draco showed me all the papers and magazines about my funeral, she stood out straight away, but I knew about what she had done by then. Everyone else had someone to help them, support them, Ginny stood alone. I studied the pictures of everyone, sorry, but I even studied all of you Weasley's,' Harry gave them an apologetic smile, 'I wasn't sure if others were involved or not.'

'Don't apologise Harry, she is our sister, for all you know we could have been in on it, which we weren't by the way,' George chuckled making everyone laugh.

'I know you weren't, that's why Gawain asked those questions. He actually asked me if I wanted to question her, but I knew I wouldn't be able to hold my temper.'

'I need one question answered,' Hermione said stiffly.

Minerva and Kingsley both chuckled as they stared at Harry and knew he had worked out what his friend wanted to know and she was probably going to give Harry grief over it as well.