Chapter 4 The house-warming party.
The next morning when she woke up, she thought she just had a very good dream about all activities from last day. But when she noticed that she wasn't with her head on her pillow, but on someone's chest, heck she wasn't even in her room, she realized that it wasn't a dream. It was just too good to be true, but it was really the truth. She had spent a rather erotic shower and night with Harry, the Boy Who Lived, the boy who saved the world from it's dark days, the boy she had admired her whole life, the boy she loved and the boy who loved her.
She kissed him gently on the cheek and stood up, just when she was dressing, he woke up too. He got up, and got dressed.
Together they went down.
"What have you two been doing??? It's 2 o'clock in the afternoon! What have you two been doing last night!?!??!?!! You didn't… you know… you didn't do IT, did you?" aunt Petunia asked.
"No, we didn't do IT," they said both at the same time.
Petunia believed them because they were both not blushing and acting very easy.
"Busy day today! We have to start decorating the house. When you are ready with breakfast, or lunch, whatever it is. You two will be doing Harry's room and after that, you could start on the spare bedrooms, because some of Aunt Marge is coming over as well as some friends, we will be having a house-warming party. And I think some people will stay at night. Just put all extra mattresses in it."
After breakfast they went upstairs to do Harry's room. But when they got there Hedwig was waiting for them.
"Harry, Dumbledore reacted to your letter." Ginny untied the letter and gave him an envelope with a Hogwarts seal, and a ministry of Magic seal. "Why is there a seal from the MOM?" asked Harry.
"I don't know," Ginny said, "just open it, I'm dying to know what it's about. You only get messages from the MOM if it's important."
Harry opened it.
Harry,
It's okay if you stay with your new 'neighbors', the Weasleys. The protection Voldemort told you about is for the whole street, since the Weasleys' house is tecnically on it is partially protected. Wednesday we will be extending the protection onto Weasleys house, that means you will be able to go there earlier than the two weeks I said before.
Professor Dumbledore
But there was more in the letter, this must be the part of the MOM, he thought.
Mr. Potter,
We are pleased to hear from Albus Dumbledore that you have met your new neighbors, and you are safe to go there. We always approve Muggle/wizard relations (like your Aunt and Uncle have with Mr. and Mrs. Weasley). We also think that everything good that happens to The Boy Who Lived is good for the Wizard Community.
Therefore we authorize you and Ginny Weasley, to use the necessary magic, to decorate the house and prepare for the house-warming party.
We would like to request you only to use magic for these occasions, and not for other things. We can't however forbid you. Because the magic that reports underage magic to use had to be shut down on you two, and will only start again next summer.
We hope you understand this, and will do as we requested.
Yours sincerely,
Mafalda Hopkirk
Improper use of magic office, Ministry of Magic
Harry showed the letter to Ginny, she was glad that Harry and she were allowed to do magic. Harry and Ginny started emptying all the boxes.
First they magiced the closets in their usual shape, because they were all taken apart. Then they started to take his clothes out. This was done quickly because Harry doesn't have many clothes.
When they were ready, they went back to Ginny's house. Where Harry showed Mrs. Weasley the letter, she was also happy that they were allowed to do magic. They were relaxing a bit, drinking a butterbeer.
Just then Mrs. Weasley asked them, "Could you put some mattresses in the Percy's bedroom? We are getting some relatives over from Holland for the night." They answered in union, "Sure."
They went to the spare bedroom and started to put all the extra mattresses in it.
There were a total of 5 mattresses on the ground. They had to use magic to enlarge the mattresses and the room, because the mattresses weren't large enough and there wasn't enough room.
When they were finished Ginny got up and said, "Let's go to my room." Ginny went upstairs and Harry followed her. In Ginny's room she opened her closet and showed him her clothes.
She had a lot of them. A few School-robes, a lot of Muggle clothes. Short skirts, longer ones, tight tops, less tight tops, sweaters, t-shirts, pants, bra's, other underwear, shoes, and a few dress robes. Everything looked beautiful.
"What do you want me to wear tonight at the house-warming party?" she said.
Harry thought for a moment.
"Ehh… this, and… ehh… this."
"Okay," she said. And she put on the clothes he picked.
"No," he said when she was dressed, "that's something for a wedding. Try this."
They tried almost all of Ginny's clothes. They had a lot of fun, because Harry took very strange combinations.
Finally he said, "This is it, it's perfect." She wore a short blue skirt and a tight blue top. "To make it even better, you shouldn't wear that bra under it," he said.
She took of the top, and then her bra. Harry looked at her for a moment. Then she put on the top again and Harry looked very happy.
"You're so beautiful," he said. She blushed.
"Should I wear make-up?"
"No, please don't, you look beautiful without it, it will only make the look less pretty."
"Okay," she said and their lips met. Harry felt like he was flying, so happy was he. He had never been in love so much. Afterwards they went back to the Dursleys, to finish up on a few things.
Ginny asked Aunt Petunia, "Is it okay if I invited some of our relatives to the party? We invited them a couple of weeks ago to our house."
Aunt Petunia thought about it for a few seconds and then answered, "Sure, the more the merrier."
When they were downstairs having a drink, somebody rang the bell. Harry went to the front door to open it, and Ginny followed him.
Ginny saw who was standing outside; it was her whole family from Holland.
Harry noticed that they were all redheads.
"Hallo, hoe is het ermee?" she asked all of them. Harry wondered what she said, Ginny saw his face and said, "I said: 'Hello, how are you doing?'
You will have to get used to me talking Dutch today, but I will translate most of it for you. Maybe you'll learn a bit of it." Harry agreed. She started to introduce Harry to everyone. "Dit is Harry Potter." She told here family.
"DE Harry Potter?!?!?!" said someone, probably one of Ginny's uncles.
"DE Harry Potter? Degene die Je-weet-wel heeft verslagen???" said the man.
Harry knew what he said. He asked her if he was THE Harry Potter, the one who defeated You-know-who. They were all looking to his forehead, but they couldn't see his scar. He pulled away his hair a bit, and everybody started pointing at him.
"Het is waar dat hij een litteken heeft, echt in de vorm van een bliksemschicht." They were all exited. "They said: It's true he has a bolt of lightning scar," Ginny translated.
"Is hij het vriendje waar je moeder het over had?" asked a little girl, she turned out to be Ginny's little niece.
"Ja, Harry is mijn vriendje. Hij is het beste dat me ooit is overkomen. Jullie spreken toch wel Engels? Harry verstaat geen woord Nederlands, is het goed als we Engels praten? Dan kan Pieter het voor de kleintjes vertalen."
"Okay," said the man.
"I told them you don't understand Dutch, and I asked them to talk English when you are around. Pieter, my uncle will translate it in Dutch for the kids who don't speak English yet. I also told them you are the boyfriend my mother told them about." Translated Ginny. "I'm going to kill my mother!" she whispered in Harry's ear.
"Very nice to finally meet the famous Harry Potter! I'm Pieter Wemel," said Pieter. And then he told Harry who everyone was. Ginny had three little nieces, 2 nephews, 3 uncles and aunts and 4 grandparents. Harry couldn't remember and even pronounce the names, because it were all Dutch names, like Gert-Jan, Eline, Robert-Jan, Arthur (Ginny's grandfather, her father was named after him) and there was a Kleine Jantje, which means Little Johnny.
Ginny asked, "Where are the others?"
Pieter answered, "They went to pick up Ron. So they will be coming a bit later."
At six o'clock, someone rang the bell so Harry stood up to open the door. Through the little window he saw a lot of red hear, a little brown.
He opened and he saw the whole Weasley family, Ron, Ginny, Fred, George, Percy, Bill, Charlie, Molly and Arthur. Hermione was also there. He was surprised about Hermione; he didn't know she was invited.
"I invited her because she was staying with us. I also thought it wouldn't matter because our relatives where invited as well, so we brought her with us," said Molly.
Harry took them to the living room, and introduced Ron and Hermione to the Dursleys. Ron and Hermione didn't like them. They brought a few cases of Butterbeer, It was then when the Dursleys noticed that they are wizards, because Petunia noticed the wands of Arthur and Molly sticking out of their pockets. She immediately told Vernon. They both looked like they wanted to kick the Weasley out of their home, but didn't because they would make a scene and more importantly there were a lot of them.
They talked for hours. Everyone enjoyed the evening. There were little snacks. Dudley drunk a few butterbeers too, Vernon and Petunia were furious with him, because he was drinking wizard drinks.
Harry went to the toilet, nobody noticed him. Everyone was laughing, talking, dancing.
When he was sitting on the toilet, the music suddenly stopped and everyone started to scream, someone ordered them to be quiet. Harry quickly left the toilet and put his ear to the door and listened.
He cast a spell on the door to see trough it. He saw someone standing with Ginny's neck in his one hand; he was choking her neck. In his other hand he hold a wand.
It was Dudley Harry looked stunned.
"Where's Harry Potter?" He demanded, "Harry Potter, show yourself if you don't want me to break her neck." Dudley stood with his back towards the door. Harry quietly opened the door and pointed his wand to him.
"Let her go! You don't want her. You want me. Let's keep this a little bit fair. Let's battle, only you and me! The one who defeated Voldemort 4 times, against a very fat, ugly, person, who is supposed to be Muggle, who never told his parents, because he knew they would kill him," Harry said.
Dudley let go of Ginny and she ran to her mother, who hugged her.
"Dudley, stop it!" screamed Vernon furiously.
"Why do you want me? Are you jealous of me because I date Ginny? I thought you agreed with me when I told you to get over it!" Harry yelled at Dudley.
"No, it's not that I'm jealous. My master, the Dark Lord wanted me to kill you. Now I will."
Harry yelled, "Expelliarmus." Dudley did the same, at the same time. The two spells hit each other and flew somewhere else. Towards Ginny's grandfather, He was also holding his wand, just as a lot of other people. His wand flew away.
"Stupefy," Harry yelled. "Crucio," Dudley yelled at exactly the same time. Both spells stopped each other and disappeared. The battle lasted at least 5 minutes, and a lot of other people were hit. Fortunately no one was hit by one of the Unforgivable Curses. Harry knew none of them, but Dudley used the Cruciatus curse a lot, Harry stopped all of them. Then they both yelled the Expelliarmus spell again, but this time, they passed each other, and both Harry and Dudley were hit. Both their wands flew away; Dudley's flew towards his parents. Vernon caught him. He snapped it in two halves, his wand gave a very lout, high sound, Harry was wondering for a while what a cry of a Mandrake would sound like, now he knew, but it didn't kill him. Then the sound stopped, and Dudley's wand was broken. Harry's wand however flew right towards Dudley. It flew right into his wand hand.
He pointed it towards Harry.
"So this is how the famous Harry Potter comes to his end, at a party, with all his friends around him, his girlfriend crying. Killed by his own nephew, whom he thought was a Muggle, but was a Death eater for the Dark Lord. Avada Kedavra!" he yelled. There was a bright green light. But nothing else happened.
When Harry opened his eyes again, he saw Dudley lying on the ground, dead.
He held Harry's wand in his hand, he still had his mouth opened from saying the killing curse. Then Harry noticed something strange. He walked towards him. Nobody else did that, because they thought it was a trap. When Harry took his wand back, he saw Dudley was holding it towards him self. In all the confusion about the fight, he didn't notice that he held the wand the wrong way and killed himself.
Arthur Weasley came towards Harry and Dudley's body. He looked shocked. He murmured something and looked at Dudley.
Petunia was crying. Vernon had fainted.
Ron, Hermione and Ginny ran to Harry and hugged them one by one. Ginny was the last one.
"I was so scared, I thought you would die," she was cried.
She let go of him and went to Dudley. She gave him a hard kick on his face, and in his stomach. Suddenly, the hand he had held her with before changed color.
He turned Silver. His hair was going into his head, al his fat disappeared, and his face changed.
It was Wormtail, silver hand and all.
"Polyjuice potion," Harry said.
"Yes, it is," Arthur agreed. Suddenly one of the Weasley's relatives yelled, "Peter Pettigrew! He's dead!"
"Of course he is, he just killed himself," Ginny said, irritated about the stupid words of her mother.
"No, that's not what I mean. He's been dead for 14 years!!! Sirius Black killed him, remember?"
"No, he wasn't," Harry said.
"He's speaking the truth," said Ron, Hermione, Molly and Arthur, who all knew what really happened. Molly must have told Arthur this summer, after she saw Sirius in the Hospital at Hogwarts.
"Everybody thought that Sirius betrayed my parents and Peter tracked him down the next day, and Sirius killed him. It was they other way around. My parents and Dumbledore knew that Voldemort was after them. Dumbledore suggested using the Fidelius Charm, they agreed and used Sirius Black as their secret keeper. But just before the spell was performed, Black said that they must take Peter Pettigrew as secret keeper, who was also a friend of my father. Voldemort would go after Black and nobody suspected Pettigrew to be the secret keeper… Even Dumbledore didn't know.
Pettigrew turned out to be a servant of Voldemort, and he betrayed them. That's how my parents died. Sirius, who came to our house, and saw our bodies, realized what Peter must have done. And he tracked him down. He found him the next day.
Pettigrew, who was holding his wand behind his back, blew up the street and killed a lot of people, he cut of his finger, and turned into a rat. He was an Animagus. Just as my father was. Sirius thought he was dead and laughed. The ministry came, and placed him in Azkaban. Pettigrew went to live with a wizard family, to be honest, he was Ron's rat Scabbers."
Everybody except Ron and Hermione looked astonished. Nobody knew about this. Molly and Arthur knew, but didn't know how it happened. And Ron's family also looked shocked because they never knew about Scabbers.
When everybody was left, only the Weasleys, Hermione and the Dursleys were still there.
The Dursleys were shocked; they wanted to know where the real Dudley was.
Five minutes later, the doorbell rang. Arthur opened. It was Mad-Eye Moody and some other aurors. They came inside, and looked surprised to see Wormtail. The probably didn't know about him either. This time it was Arthur who told the story. The aurors believed him. They took Wormtail, and left to the ministry.
"I thought Moody was retired?" Hermione said.
"He was, but after last year, he realized he missed it, and he came back," Arthur said, "Harry you can come with us if you want to."
"I'm not leaving Ginny, no discussion possible about it, so of course I will come along," Harry said, nobody protested to it. Ginny hugged him, and they kept holding each other, she was still crying. Nowhere else, not ever with her parents, she felt safe. His warm body, his muscles, her head lying on his shoulders, she didn't want to let go of him.
"I knew you wouldn't, but do the Dursleys agree with it," Arthur said.
"Of course he can go, we want him out if the house now, he let our son get killed," Petunia screamed.
Arthur went up to the attic and magiced Harry's stuff into Harry's now magically enlarged trunk, and floated it downstairs. Arthur then said, "Okay, Everybody let's leave the Dursleys alone."
They all got up and left the house, when they got home, they went to bed. Ginny and Harry slept almost immediately. She fell asleep with her head on Harry's body, she felt safe with him near. He fell asleep right after that, with his hand around her as if he hugged her.
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