Harry got back, expecting to find Hermione playing with April in the living room, but no one was there. He walked upstairs and saw April sitting on the floor of her room. When she saw her father, she ran over to him.
"Daddy, Daddy!"
"What is it April? What's wrong? Where's Mommy?" He looked down at his daughter who was now in tears.
"Uncle P-Percy was here, and then him and M-Mommy went to talk and then I heard Mommy yelling and then they were gone." She was crying so hard that it was getting hard to understand exactly what had happened. He thought about the meeting, and put everything together.
"He was gone in France for two years, there were Death Eater camps there. He got back right before Hermione did." He ran downstairs and they Flooed to the Burrow.
When everyone saw Harry, clutching his crying daughter in his arms, without Hermione right behind them, nobody moved.
"Harry, what's wrong? Where's Herm-" James looked at his son and tried to hope that it was nothing bad. Maybe, she had a bad dream, and wanted to see her Grandparents. He thought.
"Claire, can you take her upstairs into Ron's room and make sure she's okay?" He looked over at Bill's girlfriend and she stood up.
"Ya, of course." She reached over and took April. "It's okay, sweetie. Why don't we go lay down in Uncle Ron's room okay?" They walked upstairs and Harry made sure that he heard the door close before he told everyone what he thought happened.
"Look, Mrs. Weasley, I know that you, and everybody else in this room isn't going to wanna believe me, but I think I know who the traitor is and your gonna have to trust me." He looked at Molly and she nodded.
"When I got back, I went upstairs to look for April and Hermione, and all I found was April, crying in her room. All I got her to say, was that…that-"
"What happened dear?" Molly looked at him.
"She said that Uncle Percy came to visit, and he and Hermione were talking in the hallway. Then she heard Hermione yelling, and a pop, like they apparated somewhere. I thought about this, really hard, not wanting to believe it but I think, no, I'm positive, that-"
"No! No, don't say it! It can't be true!" Molly ran out of the room and outside, with Arthur at her heels.
"Harry, if this is some kind of a joke, then it's NOT FUNNY!" Fred stood up.
"And what in the bloody hell makes you think that our brother, prefect, head boy, goody-too-shoes Percy is the traitor?" George was standing up too.
"Think about what Snape said in the meeting today, when he was trying to pawn it off on Hermione-"
"So that's what it is, you don't want the blame on your-" Fred was yelling again.
"Will you knock it off! Honestly, do you think that this is something I would lie about? If you don't believe me, then ask my daughter that just saw her Uncle take her mother away!" He was yelling so loudly that he was sure Arthur and Molly heard him because her sobbing suddenly got louder. "Now, like I was saying. It all stopped completely when Hermione was in St. Mungos after she had April. Where was Percy the past two years?"
"France!" Bill stated very loudly.
"And where is one of the largest known Death Eater camps?"
"France." Ron muttered.
"Think about the little things that he's done in the past years. I just thought about it now, but what about Luscious Malfoy? He just happened to kill himself under Percy's watch? Then Malfoy just happens to try and kill Hermione and Sirius when they went into the veil again. Look, I'm sorry to have to say this, but it has to be true." He looked around and saw that inside, everyone believed him but didn't want to admit it. "And I'd bet you anything that Hermione figured him out, and that's when he took her."
"Wait a minute." Mr. and Mrs. Weasley walked in the door. "Harry, did you ever take down that muggle camera that we put outside April's door when she was born?" Harry smiled slightly and then apparated back to Grimmuald Place to get the camera.
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Harry came back, camera in hand no less than 2 minutes later. He murmured a spell, and suddenly, the picture was being shown on the wall of the living room of the burrow. Everyone sat there and watched, Harry slightly cringed, because he was reminded of when they all watched Hermione die after the graduation ball.
It showed Hermione walking up the stairs calling for April and then seeing Percy standing there. They watched as the two stepped into the hall, and Hermione questioned him being there, the wheels turning in her mind. They could tell she was thinking about it because her eyes were transfixed, and she was biting her lip.
"It was erm, amazing how the Order stayed together and on task while you were in St. Mungos. Never fell apart, stayed strong and did what they had to do until you got back." They saw her smile, as she figured it all out. Everyone else in the room figured it out as well.
She asked him where he had been the past couple of years, and when he said France, she asked him if he had seen many sights.
"Erm, no not really. Too much work to do."
Then they watched as she offered to take his coat and he dropped his notebook as he drew his arm away. She went to help him and grabbed his left arm, revealing the Dark Mark. A tiny squeal could be heard coming from Mrs. Weasley.
"You! I knew it! And all this time, you worked with the Order, trying to help, when all you were doing was spying!"
"I…I…I didn't mean to-"
"Oh, you didn't did you? So it was all a big misunderstanding? I bet it was a misunderstanding when you KILLED Luscious Malfoy so he could be there to kill Sirius & me when we went back through the veil! That was all an accident too right?"
"You, you-" Percy was muttering, and then started to yell back, just as loudly, if not louder then she was. "Look, HERMIONE I didn't want to have to hurt you, but you're really not giving me any choice!"
"Oh, go ahead! Try and kill me, see what'll happen!"
"I don't want to kill you, just need to…use you."
"Well, alright then. Let me at least shut the door to April's room and put a silencing charm on it so she wont know that something's wrong."
They watched, in surprise that the Hermione they knew would give up so easily, as she walked over to April's door, said I love you, and shut the door, saying a very weak silencing charm. Then she turned around and hit Percy in the face.
"YOU ARENT GOING TO USE ME FOR ANYTHING YOU LITTLE RAT!" Percy stood up and tried to get out his wand but looked over at Hermione and saw that she had it in her hand. Sirius and Ron started cheering, earning them both a smack.
"Looking for this?" She waved it around in her other hand. "You should really be more careful about where you drop this." She looked at him and smiled. He got up and slammed her against the door. She was trying her hardest to make sure that he couldn't reach either of the wands. Everyone was dumbfounded. Sirius was laughing at how scared Percy looked of Hermione.
"Give me my wand you little bitch!" Harry started cracking his knuckles.
"Now, Percy, what would your mother say if she saw what you were doing? Who you had become!"
"Well, I don't know, nor do I care!" He spat.
"Well, I really think you should." She glared directly at him.
"Well, I DON'T! I don't care what any of them say anymore! I don't do what they ask! I am not one of them!"
"O ya? What are you gonna do? Take yourself off the clock?" She looked at where the camera was and smiled; all most as if she knew it was there. "Oh but that's right, your one of them now right?" She looked down at his arm.
"Right" He said calmly and then he smiled, and threw her down the stairs. A loud crash could be heard when she hit the bottom of the stairs and then Hermione yelling at him that he was a traitor and he should know what's gonna happen to him. There was a smacking sound, and then a POP like they had apparated.
"Oh, my god! Harry I'm so-"
"Don't be sorry, just do me a favor." He smiled. "Look at the clock." She smiled at him and knew exactly what he was talking about.
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"Let go of me!" Hermione yelled as she stomped on Percy's foot.
"Oh, shut up!" He yelled back, throwing her to the ground. "He'll be here in just a moment. Oh, and by the way, don't even bother trying to get out because it won't happen." He winked at her and slammed the door.
"Please someone, look at the clock, look at the bloody clock!"
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"Molly, where is he? Where are they?" Sirius yelled as they all ran into the kitchen.
And sure enough the hand of Mrs. Weasley's clock that read Percy Weasley was pointed on other and underneath it said, two words: Malfoy Manor. Harry ran up to Ron's room and sat on the edge of the bed. He stoked April's hair.
"April? Hunny?" She groaned slightly and squinted up at her father. "Me, and Uncle Ron, Uncle Lupin, and Uncle Sirius are gonna go and get Mummy okay? We'll be back soon." He kissed the top of her head. He told Claire that she was going to have to stay here with everyone else and that Bill would fill her in.
He got to the bottom of the stairs to see everyone standing there. Lupin and Sirius were talking to the Weasley family, telling them that they would try their hardest to bring back Percy unharmed. Meanwhile, James and Lily were fighting.
"Lily, NO! You are not coming with us! You are going to stay here with everyone else!"
"Stop making such a big fuss Dad, because you're not going anywhere either." Harry stated plainly.
"What? That's a load of-"
"No, it isn't! You are going to stay here with Mum and everyone else." When he saw the look in his eyes, he tried to reassure him. "Look, Dad, things are different now! No offense, but you don't know the way that they are now."
"Oh, and you do!"
"Yes! As a matter of fact I bloody do!" He got right into James' face. The two of them had never really fought, but there was a first time for everything, and this was it. "In case you forgot, I fought Voldemort 6 times before I even graduated Hogwarts! A week before I graduated, I watched the girl I loved more than anything die because of us, because of you!" He knew that he had struck a nerve. James and Lily thought of Hermione as a daughter and loved her just as much as Harry. "In case you had forgotten, Hermione died to save YOU! To bring you back so that I could know my parents. She knew how much it meant to me, and she basically killed herself because of it. And yes, I might have gotten her back, but I never would have lost he in the first place if-" He stopped and looked his father directly in the eye and didn't even blink. "-if you hadn't gotten yourselves killed." He turned around plainly and looked over at Ron, Sirius, and Lupin who looked just as shocked as everyone else in the room. "Are you guys ready?" He said very calmly. Like he had just said something that had been on his chest for a long time.
"Um, ya, but-" Ron stammered.
"Good. Let's go."
Lupin looked over at their best friends and simply said. "It'll be okay."
"He's just upset." Sirius gave Lily a kiss on the cheek and James a pat on the back, and they left.
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