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CHAPTER 18 - No more war

Albus Dumbledore couldn't believe it. Lord Voldemort was finally dead. After all the years of hardships and, more importantly, unnecessary deaths he was dead. In a final battle two nights prior to this day, Harry Potter had killed him.

Dumbledore thought of the Weasley family who had been hit hard over the past few years by the war with Voldemort. Percy Weasley had joined Voldemort's supporters to the whole family's surprise. An even bigger surprise came one night when two death eaters arrived at the newly married Ron and Hermione Weasley's flat. Ron and Hermione overcame the death eaters and held them until ministry officials could claim them to take them to Azkaban. When the ministry officials arrived and removed the death eater's masks, it was revealed that one of the death eaters was Percy Weasley. Ron was still trying to get over the fact that his own brother had come to his house to kill him and his wife.

Charlie Weasley had fought to his death.

The rest of the Weasley family had all fought at different times during the long war. On the night that Harry killed Voldemort, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Draco Malfoy were all by his side. Unfortunately, Draco had been hurt the worst and was currently at St. Mungo's Hospital with Ginny sitting by his side. Draco was in a coma and the doctors did not know if he'd come out of it. Ginny has been spending every day with Draco, holding his hand and talking with him. She firmly believes that Draco will come back to her.

As he thought of the Weasley's, he thought of George Weasley. George was actually his nephew. George had married his niece in order to safely bring her from America to England. The two had actually ended up falling in love with each other. When he had made his niece go into hiding it wasn't without a lot of resistance on her part, as she wanted to be with George. Neither his niece, nor George had ever gone through with divorce proceedings. He wondered if George would come to him looking for Cecily now that the war was over. He got his answer the next day.

Dumbledore was leaving his office the following day when he ran into George Weasley in the hallway.

Dumbledore smiled, "Hello George."

George shook the older man's hand and said, "Where is she?"

"Let's go up to my office" offered Dumbledore.

"Lead the way."

George's insides were turning over and over. After three years, he was finally going to be able to see Cecily again. He was so anxious he thought he might choke Dumbledore if he tried to stall George from seeing her.

"How are you George?" Dumbledore asked.

"Fine, how are you Professor Dumbledore?" George asked but was thinking 'don't drag this out, please!'

"I'm doing well, thank you. How are you parents and the rest of your family?"

George sighed and said, "Everyone is doing very well, thank you. We're still trying to get over Percy's actions; Ron is still dealing with that. Ginny spends every day at the hospital with Draco."

"Draco is a brave young man."

"Yes, he is Professor."

Dumbledore seemed to be sitting and thinking about something when George broke his concentration.

"Now, about my wife Professor. When can I see her?" George asked.

"I expected you to show up the morning following Voldemort's death George." Dumbledore said.

"Well, we all wanted to make sure Ron, Ginny and the rest of them were ok first. I've been spending time with Ginny too to make sure she's ok."

Dumbledore nodded and said, "I fully understand George."

"So, where is Cecily?" George asked finally.

Dumbledore sat there for what seemed an eternity before answering. He then said, "George, I haven't seen my niece since that morning after you and she had that day together that your father and I permitted."

"What do you mean Professor?" George asked anxiously.

"Cecily asked me endlessly to see you one more time since she and you never got to say goodbye to each other. Your father informed me you were doing the same. So I told her she could see you on her last day here. She had to agree to leave immediately the following morning and she did."

"I know all this, but I don't understand how you haven't had any contact with her since that day!" George was starting to get frustrated and it was beginning to show.

"George, the only way I knew to protect my niece was to make her vanish from everyone she knew and that included myself. I knew Voldemort and his followers would be watching me so if I had had ANY kind of contact with her, she'd have been found and killed. It's broken my heart to not know how she is or where she is, but I believe it was the only thing to do."

George looked at the older man and dropped his head. He then spoke so quietly that Dumbledore had to strain to hear him. "You were my only connection to her. Now what do I do?"

Dumbledore stood up and walked over to where George was sitting. He put his hand on George's shoulder.

"Well, dear boy, I'm hoping she'll be in touch with me as soon as she hears of Voldemort's death. When I do hear from her, I promise you that I will let you know."

George stood up and said, "That's all I can ask of you Professor. Thank you."

Dumbledore shook George's hand and watched him leave.

The following week Dumbledore received an owl with a letter from Cecily. She would be arriving at Hogwarts to see him in two days. She had lots of things to tell him and show him. He was quite delighted as he read the letter and couldn't wait to owl George Weasley to tell him the news. However, as he got to the end of the letter, he frowned at the sentence that said: "Uncle, DO NOT tell George I'm coming to Hogwarts. I'll explain when I'm there."