NOTE: Special thanks to all those readers who still continue to support me. Right now I have two fic on the process. This one and the prequel of this story. The other prequel is not that much its short and kinda sort of romantic. Both fic can stand alone.
Hunted by Memories
CHAPTER 15: REVELATIONThe Weasley family is known to wizard's realm as one of the biggest family that ever existed. They are known to many things, they are famous for all the things that they have done during the war. They are a close friend to Harry Potter, and considered them as his own family. The Weasley is a good family and their reputation is never been stained. Young wizards respect the Weasley family. It is a family of seven, including Harry Potter. But those wizards and witches who were born before the war knows that the Weasley family is hiding something about their family history. Something that is forbidden to discuss even inside the family. Molly and Arthur Weasley had once had daughter. A girl named Ginny. It is forbidden to discuss anything that has to do with her, she had been forgotten. She had done a mistake, a mistake for marrying a Malfoy- the heir to the Malfoy fortune. It was a terrible mistake that until the day that Ginny and her husband died, all her family could ever feel are regrets. Regrets, for not understanding her. Twenty years ago, she died. That was everybody thought, not until this night that Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy appeared in Hogwarts claiming everything that had been denied to them twenty years back.
The dinner starts at seven thirty, the presence of the Headmaster is very much required. But the Headmaster is not in the Great Hall; he is up into his office. The dinner had go on without the Headmaster, however inside the Great Hall there was a commotion. There are foods everywhere for the visitors, but most of them are not eating. They are talking, gossiping about the Weasley and Malfoy family. Not an hour ago, Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy appeared in front of the Great Hall. An appearance that gave quite a stir to everybody. How is it possible that Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy are alive?
"Molly…Molly… can you hear me?" it was Professor Snape calling Molly Weasley. The Weasley and Malfoy family are currently inside the Headmasters office. Half an hour ago, Ginny and Draco appeared in front of the Great Hall, Marcus Flint, Bill Weasley and Hermione Granger Weasley are all surprised. Except for Pansy Wood Parkinson, she knows that her friends are alive. For she is one of those people who helped them to flee the wizard's realm. Hermione fainted upon seeing her sister in law in front of them. It's not only Hermione who fainted but also Molly Weasley.
"Where am I?" ask Molly as she regains her consciousness. She was inside of an unfamiliar surrounding. Molly's eyes traveled as she saw her family looking at her as they have a surprise look among their eyes. Her husband, Arthur is holding her arms. Charlie and Bill's head are both staring at the Malfoy's. Percy doesn't look like all right. Fred and George had never been look so serious. Ron is currently hugging Hermione, and the only person that is not part of their family that is there standing with them is Harry Potter.
"You're here inside my office" replied Professor Snape as he walks towards the Malfoy's. Narcissa Malfoy and Lucius Malfoy are both standing at the left side of the room. Ginny and Draco however are sitting in front of them. The only people in the room that looks calm are the Malfoy's.
"What happened? I saw a ghost Severus… a ghost. Its my little girl" said Molly.
"Its not a ghost Molly, what you've seen is not a ghost. Its your daughter, it's the real image of your daughter" finishes Professor Snape.
"What do you mean?" ask Molly feeling confuse. Ginny stood up from her chair and walked towards her mother.
"Its me mother, that you saw" Ginny said standing in front of her mother face to face. Molly looks at the tall girl standing in front of her. It cannot be, her daughter had died twenty years ago. It cant be her daughter, sure she look like an adult version of her little Ginny but that does not mean that it's her daughter whose standing there in front of her. Although the way she speaks and the way she move it can't be denied that it was same as the way Ginny moves and speaks.
"It can't be, you are an impostor! My daughter died twenty years ago" Molly said as she shook her head as tears fell from her eyes. "Arthur, whoever this girl is, send her away. It's been so long, Ginny's memories are still hunting me. Have I gone mad?" she added as she broke into Arthur's arms.
Ginny stared at her; all she can see from her mother's eyes is guilt. She look away, she can't bear looking at her mother like this. Her eyes wanders around the room, she looks at her brothers one by one. They can't meet her eyes. She can't guess what's running inside their heads. Ginny shook her head as she put her right hand into her face. Then she feels her husband's presence at her back. Draco places his hand on top of her shoulder, Ginny turned as Draco put her arms around her.
"Oh, Derek…" Ginny said muttering her husband's other name.
"Ssh.. Don't cry now. This is what you want and you're not going to give up now. You're the one who told me that our children deserve to know about their roots" said Draco as he comforts his wife. "Be strong" he said in a whisper. Draco looks each one of the Weasley's and they are looking at him.
"Both of you are alive then?" asked Ron to both Ginny and Draco.
"They are both impostor Ron!" insisted Molly to her son.
"The Weasley's are not lucky when it comes to female child. So does the Malfoy, they are not lucky when it comes to children. It had been said that every female Weasley that had been born has this unique birthmark that can only be found among the female Weasley child in every hundredth generation. Among our generation, since Ginny Weasley is the only girl in your family its only her who have that birthmark" said Draco as he start to unzip Ginny's dress revealing her back. The Weasley's are all looking at Draco, wondering what is he trying to prove. Arthur and Molly look up at them, watching her unzip Ginny's dress. Harry is standing at the corner studying the two people in front of them.
"The dead body that you found twenty years back, don't you ever wonder where is Ginny's birthmark?" asked Draco.
"The bodies are about eighty percent damaged" replied Harry, of course he knew. He was the one that's been called to see the body when the news came to them that Ginny and Draco are dead. "Member of the family are not allowed to confirm the body, they might can't take what ever they will going to see" he added.
"That's no wonder that everyone assumed that we were dead. Everything went well according to my plan" said Draco casually as he look at Harry Potter, his old enemy. Harry Potter still looks the same, only that he had grown up and looks so mature. "Ready?" he asked as he finished unzipping Ginny's dress, and he unhooks her bra. "This is the Weasley mark" finishes Draco as he showed them the red mark on Ginny's back. It was red mark; it can be easily recognized as one of a Weasley mark because it is unique. It has a unique shape that looks more like a heart shape.
The Weasley stared at Ginny's mark for about five minutes. Molly is beyond shock, its only Ginny who bears that mark . Before each one of them could say anything, Draco zips back his wife's dress.
"I told you, it's going to be alright" Draco said to Ginny as she turned around to face her family.
"Ginny…" said Molly as she stood up from her chair and ran into Ginny's direction. She was about to hug her but Ginny steps back. Molly gave her daughter a surprise look. There was something different about her daughter.
"No, mother…don't hug me. Let me the one who hug you" said Ginny as she hugs her mother. Her mother that she never saw for twenty years, her mother that she misses so much.
"Oh…Ginny, its really you. You've grown up and matured a lot. I never thought that a day like this will ever come again" Molly said as she started to cry. She holds her daughters face and studied it for a while. "Im…Im so sorry, sorry for everything. I suffered for twenty years…"
"Its all right mother, the past is past" assured Ginny to her mother. "I've forgiven all of you long time ago"
"Arthur…" Molly called her husband and reach for his husbands arm. Arthur walks down to their spit and hug his wife and daughter. All of the people in the room are watching them.
"Father" all Ginny could ever say and she hug her father so tight.
"My little girl…" said Arthur fighting the tears in his eye.
Ginny broke from her father's embrace and look to his husband. Draco is watching them dramatically; finally all of Ginny's burdens are finally going to disappear. He smiled at his wife. "Draco…" calls Ginny. "Father…my husband Derek, I mean Draco" said Ginny as she reaches for Draco's hands.
"Hi, Mr. Weasley" said Draco casually, looking at Arthur Weasley. Arthur is looking at Draco; it was more like studying him.
"Welcome to the family, Draco Malfoy" said Arthur to his son in law. Draco stared at Arthur Weasley intently. Its great hearing those words, after all these years. After twenty years, it was just now that he heard those words coming from his wife's father. "Come, both of you. Your brothers are waiting" said Arthur as he walk with Ginny and Draco heading to where the rest of the Weasley family.
"Draco, this is Charlie and Bill" said Arthur, introducing his son's to his son in law.
"Please to meet you" said Charlie first then Bill.
"Ginny, come here" said Bill and Ginny hugs brothers. Percy, Fred and George welcomed Draco perfectly good and gave Ginny a warm hug.
"Ron" it was Ginny. Ron was looking down at the floor, unable to look at his sister.
"Ginny" said Ron as he breaks his embrace from Hermione as he hugs his sister so tight. It had been twenty years; his little sister's memories had never stopped hunting him. Now that they found out that she did not die at all, it feels great that all his guilt will come to an end.
"Ginny, I'm so sorry for all the things that I've done to you in the past. Please forgive me"
"That's ok, Ron" said Ginny as he hugs Ron. She had missed them so much.
"Malfoy, thank you for taking care of my sister. For giving her a good life" said Ron to Draco.
"Not a problem, Ron" Draco said as he shook hands with Ron. It was a moment of forgive and forget, until it came down to Harry. Draco held his hand to shake hands with his long forgotten enemy and Harry obligates to shake his hand with Draco.
"I believe it would also be nice if the elder Malfoy's and Weasley's shake each others hands as well" said Professor Snape. The senior Malfoy's walked over to the Weasley's and shake their hands "Everything is done, we might as well go back to the Great Hall to continue eating our dinner" he added as they all followed him to the door.
"Jet has always been Mom's little favourite" stated Destiny to the Weasley family. Both the Malfoy and Weasley family, together with their friends are all eating on the same table. It was a nice view; a family feud between the Malfoy and Weasley had finally long gone.
"Yeah, right!" snorted Jet "Well as you see, its not like she's not dad little pet" Jet objected.
"Same thing with us" confessed John, not a while ago he learned that the McBride's are actually their cousin and that they were really a Malfoy's not McBride. That they are the children of their long lost aunt. "Well, Reigh always gets away when it comes to Dad"
"Mom, really like John because he got her brains" said Reigh.
"That's not true, you will always be my little girl" objected Hermione to her daughter's statement. "Well you always have your dad's attitude, his attitudes that attracted me the most"
"Yeah… yeah" said Reigh playfully.
"So, are you guys dating someone at the moment?" asked Ron to Jet and Destiny.
"Well Uncle Ron, I only have my eyes to this beautiful lady beside me" said Jet as he put his arms around his girlfriend. Frank and Vince are currently talking to George's son named Justin.
"Oh I see, what about you Destiny?" asked Hermione.
"Um…" said Destiny, how could she tell them that she is in love with James Potter?
"Well, Aunt Herm, my sister like someone right now but this guy doesn't have the courage to ask her out" volunteered Jet, answering the question that is meant for his sister as he throw a look at James Potter's direction.
"And who would that be?" asked Fred naughtily to his nephew. "Tell me who he is Destiny and we will recruit him as our tester to our joke shop.
"Father! Why don't you just leave it the kids!" objected Fred Jr. "Don't listen to him, guys. He and Uncle George can really go crazy sometimes"
"Why don't you let them do it, Freddy Junior" teased Justin, he is George's son. He inherited his father's attitude, unlike his cousin Fred Jr. he works at the shop together with his father and uncle.
"Justin, Fred. Stop that!" it was Rain, the oldest among the Weasley cousins. She is Charlie's daughter.
"Yeah, stop that!" said Fiona, Bill's daughter.
"I heard you're a good Quidditch player, Jet" commented Terra, Fred's daughter.
"I like Quidditch I could play it well, but not as much as James Potter could" replied Jet humbly.
"You beat me on our last match" said James.
"Only because I promised dad to win that match. Destiny is far more better than me"
"Wow! You play Quidditch?" asked Harriet, Harry's daughter.
"Yeah, but I quit"
"Did you taught them how to play Quidditch, Draco?" asked Bill to Draco.
"No, they've learned it on their own. I haven't practiced any magic for seventeen years now" Draco admitted as they all look at him with a surprise. It was far from the Draco Malfoy that they used to know. This Draco Malfoy in front of them seems like a new person.
"How…how?" asked Ron with amazement.
"You see, for twenty years. We had lived in the muggle realm. Valerie…I mean Ginny and I had gotten used to it, not practicing magic and living as muggles. We had a quiet life; we learned how to live as one of them. " said Draco.
"We works and live as muggles. We used my husband's inheritance from his grandfather to start all over again. He was a fast learned, then after three years Jet and Destiny came into our life" said Ginny.
"We tried to deny about us being pure blood wizard, but the kids magical talent started to show during the first five years of their life. We raised them as muggles so they have no idea that their parents are wizards. It was then that they received a letter from a wizard school in America. I heard about that school before, and I know that a wizard realm is quite small compare to muggle world. That time Ginny and I had are still afraid that the wizard world will find out that we are alive" Draco explained.
"At that time we don't have the courage yet to face our past and our family. Draco made a research about wizard's school, then he found out about this private school for wizards. And we decided to send our children there" added Ginny.
"Uncle Draco, what is your muggle name again?" asked Crystal, Percy's daughter.
"Derek McBride" replied Draco.
"Derek McBride?" repeated Crystal as her eyes becomes bigger. "As in big time Hollywood producer Derek McBride?" she asked.
"Yeah, how did you know that?" asked Draco.
"Im a big time fan of yours, I watched all the movie that you made and directed" added Crystal.
"She always had this obsession with movie" said Percy to Draco.
"Oh I see" said Draco.
"Its almost midnight, guys. We can continue this little chat tomorrow. Lets all back to our camps and sleep" suggested Rian, Charlie's wife. The rest of the family obligated to what she said and they started to leave the table one by one.
"Jet you can stay in our camp" said Fred Jr. who had grown fond of Jet so easily.
"You too Destiny" suggested Crystal.
"Where are you going to stay?" asked Hermione to Ginny "If you want you can stay at our camp"
"Oh no, that's ok. Were not planning to stay in for the night. We have some business to attend tomorrow" said Ginny.
"Thanks for the offer, we are traveling by portkey back to the manor" added Draco.
"So you are not going to attend tomorrow's event?" asked Harry.
"Nah…I have some business meeting tomorrow with my muggle friends" said Draco.
"Its getting late, we need to turn in" said Cho.
"You can just go ahead. We might as well go for a walk" said Draco.
"Alright then" said Ron and they all walked outside the castle going back to their camps. Its only Draco and Ginny were left behind.
"Happy Mrs. Malfoy?" asked Draco to his wife as they are walking outside the Great Hall.
"Yes, Mr. Malfoy" sad Ginny with a grin.
"What are you grinning about?" asked Draco, wondering what is running inside his wife's head.
"I just remembered how you and I started dating" said Ginny.
"Oh that one" said Draco "Lets go to the greenhouse" suggested Draco.
"What are we going to do there?" asked Ginny.
"Since you remembered how we started dating, we might as well visit the place where it all started" said Draco with a naughty look.
When they arrived in the greenhouse they walked to the very back. Draco started to walk towards the plants and trying to look for something.
"What are you looking for?" asked Ginny.
"I want to know if it is still here"
"What is it?" asked Ginny.
"Come in here" said Draco and Ginny went to where he is standing. Draco showed her the letters that he had scribbled twenty years ago and there written on the wall it says : 'DRACO AND GINNY FOREVER'.
"You're crazy!" said Ginny but there was happiness in here voice.
"Ssh…don't you remember? This is the very same spot" said Draco as he seal his lips into Ginny's lips. Ginny put her arms around Draco as they shared a passionate kiss…
TO BE CONCLUDED
NOTE:
Watch out for the final chapter. I know there are some part of this fic that complicates with the book. I happened to read somewhere that Ginny' real name is Ginevra not Virginia. I just want to inquire that I started writing this fic before the 5th book. And when the 5th book had come out I stopped writing this fic, but due to some circumstances I still receives reviews from readers and that made me to continue writing.
Thank you…
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