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Harry walked into his sister's room early that morning, despite being warned by Mrs. Weasley that she needed sleep. Apparently vampiric births were the most painful pregnancies known to mankind till date.
And they were never born in ones and twos, they were born as either triplets or quadruplets.
His sister was almost giving her life for him.
She was sleeping and she looked so unwell. Once again she was sleeping in her fetal position and it was more out of pain this time than protection. When he entered she awoke abruptly and looked at him.
"Hi." she said as he sat down on the bed.
"How're you feeling?" he asked her gently brushing the hair back from her face.
She grinned "Like a complete bed head which won't do because tomorrow is Christmas. Bill and I have to go shopping today."
She got up slowly and pulled herself into a sitting position.
"How long did you know about this!?" exploded Harry.
"The prophecy?" she asked him, calmly replying "Ever since Dumbledore got in touch with me."
"And you didn't bother to tell me?! WHY???"
"Harry," she said gently reaching for his hand. "Neither did you know me very well, and you are still coming to terms with what our father did."
"Yeah." Harry said darkly "What father did."
"Harry, don't tell me you still haven't forgiven him."
He looked at the expression on her face and said "I don't know Nikita...I mean....I really don't know."
"Tell me would it make a difference to you if we had the same mother as well?" she asked him, not angrily but with tenderness, as though talking to a young child.
"No...yeah...no...alright, I'm confused." said Harry unsure of himself once more "Why didn't you tell me about you and Bill?"
She opened her mouth to speak but -
Crack!
"Hello, dear sister in law. How are our nephews and nieces this morning?" asked Fred cheerily. He and George shoved Harry aside slightly and jumped onto her bed.
"Oh they're good. Behaving themselves today. Y'know, I can hold this against them for the rest of their lives." she grinned evilly and Harry poked her arm and mock scolded "Ah hum, you're supposed to be the mother remember?"
"Hey, that reminds me, it'll be so cool to have Vampires for nephews and nieces...right Harry?" grinned George rubbing his hands together conspiring already.
Harry didn't feel so sure, especially when he saw the look on George's face.
Nikita laughed "Will you guys relax? They're not even born yet!"
"Well, you have to plan in advance for kids these days." said George conversationally. "Would you and Bill mind very much if we take the kids under our wings for the joke shop?"
"Er...don't agree to that!" warned Harry. "They can't be trusted, these two..."
"Don't worry Harry, I'm one step ahead of you." said Ron's voice from behind him. "Hey, you two may bully me in school but no nephews and nieces of mine are going to be testers, vampires or not!"
Fred sneered "Well, Ickle Ronniekins is getting brave!"
"Yeah. We'll see how brave he is in school."
"Hey, that's it you two, stop picking on him!" said Bill walking in, wearing a black shirt, jeans and black dragon skin combat boots.
Harry found it hard to believe a guy who looked like this was going to be a father, down to his silver neck chain, fang earrings and long hair.
He brought a silver goblet with some healing liquid in it "And by the way, you lot, why are you troubling my fiancée so early in the morning?"
He came over and handed the goblet over to her. Taking a long draught, she sighed in relief, feeling her pain disappear.
"Feeling any better, love?" he asked her gently stroking her cheek with the back of his hand. She nodded and smiled up at him.
Harry was still getting used to this sudden change of events and suddenly embarrassed, he looked away.
Hermione and Ginny appeared giggling in the doorway soon after. Between gasps they said "Tonks is going to" giggle giggle "ask Remus to be her date to" giggle giggle "to be her date to her family's Christmas eve tonight."
"Yeah..." muttered Ron looking at his brother and Harry's sister, still not quite believing they were getting married. "You two seem to be passing that love bug around."
It didn't help that he turned and looked straight at Hermione who blushed a bright vermillion under his gaze and immediately walked out saying something along the lines of 'Potions homework.'.
"Ron, you git, you scared her off!" said Fred, poking Ron in the ribs to make him yell out.
"Hey, you should take a hint on how to handle girls from Bill, I mean what other good is a brother whose getting married anyway?"
Bill was about to through a pillow at George, but instead was pulled back and kissed by his fiancée.
"Oh, he's good for plenty other things, let me tell you that." she said slyly.
The ewwwws that followed after that sent everyone into splits.
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"Um Harry, who are you talking to?" asked Nikita as she stepped into his and Ron's room, fully dressed for Christmas in a green fitted sweater and a pair of freshly laundered jeans. On her head she wore a red woolen hat on which little green elves were dancing round and round.
"No one" said Harry darkly, giving the portrait of Phineas Nigellus a cold stare.
Ron sniggered as he looked up at the now empty portrait.
"Merry Christmas!!! I thought I'd give my gifts in person!" she jumped on Harry's bed and the springs creaked. She put her hand into her bag and pulled out a little gift that inflated when she put it on the floor.
It grew till about ten times its size and then stopped.
Harry leapt off his bed and tore some of the wrapping paper away. When he finally got to the present he began to guess what it was.
It was a book.
A book of tantric spells that could not be detected by ministry eyes.
"You know how the Dursleys always tell you that you can't use magic on them because you'd be expelled? Well, tantric spells can't be detected and can be used by underage wizards at anytime, any place. I'll teach you all I know."
Harry grinned. This was by far the best Christmas gift ever given to him. Giving her a hug he told her "I can't tell you how glad I am that you gave this to me."
"Don't mention it."
She chucked Ron's gift to him and he caught it, it felt slightly silky and, well more or less like cloth.
Opening it he gave a yelp.
"An Invisibility Cloak!!! THIS MUST HAVE COST A FORTUNE! Thanks!"
"No probs." she said with a grin wondering how
He immediately pulled it on and found that it was the right size too, Ron's ankles were no longer seen from under the cloak.
Hermione came running into the room and gave her an incredibly hard hug "Thank you, thank you thank you!!!"
"You're very welcome."
"What did you get Hermione?" asked Ron curiously.
"Time turner, my own one. Don't have to rely on the school's time turner anymore." she laughed and did a little very un Hermione like jig and bounced out of the room.
Nikita turned to Ron and asked "Where's your eldest brother?"
"Dunno, why? Do you need something?"
"Yup, but only he can give it to me." she said stretching.
Ron and Harry exchanged a disgusted look "Nikita, that's just gross!"
"Yeah, too much information!" agreed Ron with an expression that said 'clearly-grossed-out'
Nikita threw a couple of pillows at Ron and Harry.
"Get your minds outta the gutter, you stupid gits! He borrowed my favorite fang earrings!"
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"You may now kiss the bride."
Applause broke out in the church as Bill softly kissed Nikita's lips.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present, Mr. and Mrs. William Arthur Weasley!" A small cheer came up from the audience and the bride and groom were the first in the car which had arrived for them.
They were headed out to Egypt for a few days just to sort things out. Then Nikita was coming back to school and Bill would be back at the order.
Since Nikita wasn't of age yet, they were taking a flight.
Harry stood watching the car disappear out of sight. Dumbledore had got out before Harry could speak to him again. Sirius was still grinning because of all the happy events. He gave away the bride that day. It was the first time he had done so.
But even though he was happy, without his sister whom he had known only for a short time, he felt...empty...
"Well. It happened." said Harry as he turned around and went back into the church...
"Of course, it happened Harry, it was meant to. You heard Dumbledore-" began Hermione.
"I know about that Hermione. I was just thinking that I might wake up and this would be some weird, highly complicated dream...." he stopped as he watched the adults apparate and the kids all of them walked over to the port key...
Hermione lay a comforting hand on his shoulder. "We're all in this together Harry. And..." she hesitated.
"What Hermione?"
She looked at him directly in the eye.
"It's high time you forgive your father."
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Soft laughter echoed through a room where the fire roared, yet never heated the cold radiated from the people within the room.
"So...Dumbledore thinks that this girl child shall give birth to my destroyers, does he? And he thinks I shall allow him to succeed? He has finally lost his senses..."
A cold cold voice in an equally cold room resounded.
The creature with the slit snake like red eyes and the pale skin looked around at his supporters. Idly he stroked the head of his snake Nagini who had slithered herself and nested there.
"A vampire child...born of a Vampire mother..." he murmured interestedly. "I would have never suspected..."
A hooded young death eater spoke up, his face in the shadows, yet not quite hiding his naiveté.
"Sire, she is quite discreet about it. And more importantly, she had Dumbledore on her side."
Just the name Dumbledore had the desired effect on the room that would make Albus Dumbledore proud. Most of the death eaters squirmed and Voldemort turned to the boy with an ugly look on his face which many on the light side would place as fear.
"SILENCE FOOL!!! Do you not know when to speak and when not to?" shouted Lucius Malfoy grabbing the boy by his collar... But Voldemort waved his hand carelessly and Lucius quieted instantly.
"So...you know this girl?" he asked the boy in his cold voice. The boy fell to his knees and kissed the hem of the dark lords robes.
"Not well sir. But I have heard -"
"Well, you heard wrong." hissed Bellatrix Lestrange. "Lord, please continue."
But Voldemort had turned away from his followers and he was walking towards a clearing in the room. Removing his wand, he created a quick spell that rippled through the room and created an image much like a screen.
"Portus Windus."
The image of a young girl with Raven hair in Hogwarts, working on her parchment with a raven feather quill that was hardly as sleek and black as her hair. She had the eyes, the hair of her father, but the rest of her was clearly, her mother.
Even as he was disgusted that she was part vampire, and not purely witch or vampire, the man within the powerful wizard that was Voldemort was somewhat astounded by her beauty.
"Azmake Vampires... Interesting... I thought that species had been destroyed long ago. Four of them you say?"
He asked the kneeling death eater, the shadow who had provided him this information. "Yes, Lord."
He looked at the girl again.
"If her children are born, they will be impossible to destroy, for there has been no spell yet created that shall destroy Azmake Vampires."
A murmur arose from the death eaters, showing the slightest twinge of fear.
"There are only two ways to deal with this little...glitch, shall I call it?" Voldemort snapped and the image disappeared in a wisp on green smoke.
"Either she joins us. Or we destroy her."
A grim sound of assent resounded around the grey stone, dungeon like room.
"Lucius." he said thoughtfully.
"Sire?"
"You have a son in Hogwarts I believe?"
"Yes, Lord... I understand what he must do..." said Lucius quick to please his master.
He turned to the death eater still kneeling before him.
"Go now. I want you to keep an eye on the child. When the moment comes, we shall compel her to join us..."
The man got up and waited for the Dark Lord to complete his sentence. Voldemort laughed softly as he turned to the death eater and whispered.
"Dumbledore has been a fool to trust you, has he not, Severus?"