Chapter 19: Past Sins
Severus was summoned the night after the match. The order members at the house were therefore surprised when he stumbled in a half hour later bloody and in pain. Hermione gasped and jumped to her feet to help him sit down. She led him into the sitting room and gently laid him out on the sofa. "Oh Severus, what did he do to you?" She asked as she gently moved his hair off his face where it had been stuck with blood and sweat. "Remus went to get Albus and Poppy. Is there anything I can do?"
"Water," he choked out. His voice was strained and he was completely parched. He could barely see and his body ached and burned all over. He grimaced in pain as she gently raised his head and held the glass of cool water to his lips. He thought she had spilled some of it but when he looked up at her she was crying. He couldn't believe she was crying for him. No one had ever cared enough about him to cry when he was hurt. It was an entirely new experience for him.
Hermione finished giving him the glass of water and started on cleaning off the caked on blood and sweat with a damp cloth Harry had brought her from the kitchen. She gently bathed his face, neck and hands as they were the only unclothed part of him. She didn't want to risk hurting him by taking off his robes before Poppy got there. She knew the medi-witch knew a spell to de-robe him and hoped it was painless. She gently took his hand in hers to try and offer any comfort she could while Draco and Harry went to his room to find a change of clothes for him.
Albus and Poppy hurried into the room to tend to Severus. Poppy was glad to see that Hermione had given him water and cleaned off his face. He held tight to her hand in pain as Poppy levitated him to the only bedroom on the main floor so she could tend to him in privacy. He wasn't the type of man who enjoyed being the center of attention. She was actually shocked that he hadn't yelled at Hermione to stop fussing over him. She even noticed that he was the one gripping tightly to the girl.
Hermione kept his hand but turned her back to him as Poppy disrobed him and cleaned up his legs before magically putting him into the pair of black silk pajama pants that Draco had handed her. She then instructed Hermione to help her clean and disinfect all the slash marks and wounds along his back, chest and arms. Albus came in to speak to him while they were cleaning him up.
"What happened to earn you this treatment?" Albus asked sadly.
"I am not making good enough progress on getting Ginny with Xavier. He didn't think that a public hug and a dinner date was enough to get Harry upset. He had heard bad news from the other death eaters on the progress of their recruiting and was already in a foul mood. I actually got off lightly compared to the rest as I had actually made progress. I am unsure of why but his efforts to recruit in other countries are failing. He mentioned that he had lost almost all support at both Beaubatons and Durmstrang. He believes there is a resistance group set up there someplace and is allocating resources to find who the head of his opposition is and eliminate them." Severus told him.
"What did he do to you?" Albus asked gently
"Crucio, slicing hexes and then another round of crucio." Severus told him.
"Crucio on an open wound!" Poppy squeaked, "No wonder you look worse than normal. If this was getting off easy, what did he do to the rest?"
"He kept the slicing hexes off of vital areas of my body. He kept his hexes to my torso where many of the others had them across their face, entire body and some delicate areas. Crucio makes an open cut feel like it is melting, like someone pours liquid fire on your skin. I cannot image that pain on my face or in other places." Severus told them. "I was also only hit with two small doses of the curse. The others were not so fortunate. He even threatened to take back Wormtail's silver hand."
Poppy finished treating all his wounds and magically put the matching black silk shirt on him so he was fully clothed. He was still stiff and sore and would be in pain until they could dope him up with potions. "We will get you to your room and I'll have Hermione, Draco and Ginny brew any of the potions you don't have on stock here." She told him as the two women helped him out of the bed. Remus and Charlie had to basically carry him up the stairs as his legs were too weak to support his weight for that long. They placed him in the middle of his four poster bed on top of his green satin sheets.
Poppy instructed them of all the potions they needed and Hermione handed her all but two of them. They did not have any of the special wound salve he needed to heal the wounds without scars or the potion to fix any internal bleeding. The internal bleeding potion was actually on their list to brew that week as it was needed for the hospital wing supplies for the year. They already had all the ingredients and she set out making that first as she sent Draco to go buy the ingredients they needed for the wound salve. She instructed him to buy enough for a large supply both for the hospital wing and for headquarters as well.
Harry played errand boy, Ron and Neville were with Colin and Dennis in the greenhouse and Ginny was assisting her with the potion. They had just finished the potion and prepared the ingredients they did have for the salve when Draco returned. He had another two bags with him that he refused to tell them what they were and took them into Severus' room. Poppy gave him the potion and checked his vitals before instructing Hermione how to administer the salve and instructed her to give him dreamless sleep afterwards before heading back to her hospital wing.
Draco and Ginny helped Hermione finish preparing and measuring the ingredients so all she had to do was add them at the right time. She researched during the 20 minutes it had to simmer and then added the final ingredient and dished it into containers to cool into a gel. She had decided to stay upstairs and research for the rest of the night so she would be close by if he needed anything. She wanted to find the cure more now than ever after she saw the condition he came back in.
"I'll have to take off your shirt to apply the salve," she told him sitting next to him on the bed. "It is cooled enough to work but should still have enough warmth not to be uncomfortable during the application." She told him as she helped unbutton the shirt as his hands were shaking.
"The worst side effect for me is the shakiness," he told her. "A potions master cannot afford to have shaky hands."
She applied the gel to each of his wounds on his chest and arms. The salve had to be kneaded into the healed cut. She could see the faint scars beginning to fade already and smiled at him. She finished up with the wounds on his back. She saw a patch of skin that looked differently from the others and ran her fingers over it. "What is this?" She asked curiously.
"A permanent glamour charm," he told her realizing she wouldn't stop pestering him until he told her. "It covers a tattoo I got one night when I was younger and my friends and I had too much to drink. I put that part of my life behind me and so I covered the tattoo with a permanent glamour."
"Why do you hide it when no one sees you without your shirt?" She asked him as she again ran her fingers over that area before he rolled back over to face her.
"It is easer than having a constant reminder of the pains of my past. I have enough reminders of my mistakes without another permanent one on my body," he told her as he looked at the dark mark on his arm. "No glamour in the world can cover this one," he told her sadly. "But I shouldn't be allowed to forget. It makes me fight even harder to win this war."
"Will you tell me?" She asked him quietly. They had become friends over the summer but she wasn't sure they would ever be close enough for him to tell her of his past.
"Yes, but only parts. No one needs to hear of the atrocities I was forced to perform in my youth." He told her sadly and motioned that she should get comfortable as it was a long story. She knew he needed to talk as he had told her the night Colin and Dennis were attacked that he was immune to dreamless sleep potion. He needed some distraction from his thoughts so he wouldn't dwell on the pain. "I had a hard childhood. My mother was a very proud woman. She was best friends with the queen and a member of a very pure and noble family. Her parents married her to my father because the Snapes are the next highest family after the royal family. My father, Satori Snape was a horrible and abusive man. He beat both my mother and me and was envious of my mother's friendship with the queen. She spent most of her time away from the house leaving me to be raised by my father and the house elves. The only emotion he ever showed me was contempt. He was an early follower of the dark lord, before he was even the dark lord and I was only allowed to associate with children of his other associates.
"My mother died when I was in my 4th year of school. My father started programming me to be a death eater from that day on. I joined without thinking for myself the day I graduated. I knew next to nothing about what was going on, I just did as my father commanded. I was much like Draco in that respect except that I had very few friends. After Hogwarts I actually made friends with a few boys that were at the university with me. They were my first real friends because when you grow up in Slytherin you only ever have acquaintances. My friends at university were some of the most intelligent minds I'd ever met and my first years there were the best I had ever had. We each got tattoos one night when we had too much to drink, the next night I went to a dark revel and found that my friends were going to be murdered since they were not purebloods. None of the death eaters knew I was friends with them. I tried to warn my friends but they didn't believe me. Would you believe it if a 19 year old told you there were maniacs out to kill you for the sole purpose that your blood was not pure enough? They were each dead by the end of the week and I knew I had to do something more drastic. That was when I went to Albus and turned spy.
"I got hit with a stray hex at a meeting the following week and was in the infirmary for a week, it was during the meeting I missed while I was in the hospital that they planned the attack on the Potters. I never knew Wormtail was a death eater. The tattoo reminds me of all the people I failed to protect, so I cover it. They were the first people I ever cared for other than my Grandmother and I didn't do enough to protect them." His voice had a hoarse raspy quality to it by the end of his tale and Hermione had silent tears on her face.
"You warned them though," Hermione said wiping her tears. "A true death eater would have just stood by and watched them get murdered. You attempted to help them and that shows that you truly are a good man. When this war is over you will have paid your dues to society for the evils you committed in your youth. I and the rest of the students are given the choice between the dark and the light, you never had that option. I know there was no one championing the side of light back then because the light didn't realize they were at war. When faced with the tough decision to turn away from everything you had been taught by your father, you did, you made the right choice."
"I let my hate of the world grow when I was in school. The marauders made me an easy target for the Slytherins as well. I was so full of hate when I left Hogwarts that when my father promised me power and revenge I took it. I am still not sure that I wouldn't have made that same choice even if I knew what I was getting myself into." He told her quietly.
"We can drive ourselves crazy or depress ourselves by playing the 'what if' game but the fact is you chose the right path in the end. You just took a little longer than some to get there. Stop punishing yourself and start living again." She told him squeezing his hand before getting off the bed and tucking him in for the night. "Now clear your mind and only focus on the good things. Then you'll have pleasant dreams. Good night Severus," she said kissing his cheek and heading out of the room to her own bed.
"Good night Hermione," he told her faintly as he fell asleep with pleasant dreams in his head for once after a meeting. He had been surprised how easy it had been to open up to her. It took Albus years of prying to get that much information out of him and here he had just gone and offered it to her. She now knew him better than anyone else and the thought was both frightening and exciting. He had a chance for a true friendship, something he had with very few people.
Gabrielle rushed into Hermione's room at 4 in the morning; Hermione had just fallen asleep 2 hours before and still had all her research notes spread around her bed. "Hermione, wake-up! I think I may have found it, a way to hold off the dementors. I need your help with the modification. Come on!" The little veela bounced on her friend's bed clutching a book and two scrolls of parchment.
Hermione rubbed her eyes and smiled at Gabrielle. "Fine, let's go sit and we can have breakfast since we obviously are not going to be sleeping anymore." She said with a smile and hurried over to join her in the sitting area.
"See this is a protection charm that forms a bubble or dome of protection around a given area. This particular charm allows the caster to infuse it with whatever type of elemental magic protection they deem necessary. I thought we could modify it to infuse a patronus or the element of it at least. This should allow for a stable field of protection that lasts longer and takes less magic than a patronus." Gabrielle told her and they set to work on the details. Gabrielle had two scrolls full of tiny notes on how to infuse the patronus. She had already mastered the protection charm and they just needed to figure out how to mesh the two.
"The problem is that the patronus is unique to each individual caster. We need to be able to have this uniqueness in the shield as well. It is the force that keeps the dementors at bay. It wants to protect its caster, like a guardian angel. We need to somehow modify it so the patronus becomes caught in the shield and stays powerful and protects the people inside the bubble." Gabrielle said later.
"What about the patronus spell itself? It has two parts, expecto as in to expel or force out or away and partonum which signifies what you are projecting. Could we modify the verbiage to not expel the patronus to but to shield ourselves with it?" Hermione asked.
"That's it!" Gabrielle said with a smile. "Combine the wording from the original spell with the wording from the protection charm. What about 'Contego Patronum'?"
"Let's go try it," Hermione said as the girls hurried down to the training area where there was enough room to cast the charm. They performed the wand motions of the protection charm and used the incantation Gabrielle invented. "You do the honors... it's your charm."
Gabrielle focused on the memory of Draco proposing to her and performed the charm, "Contego Patromun" she yelled and a large bubble was placed around them. It was visible where the original protection charm was not. It was made of the same silvery white substance of a patronus and was moving. They practiced it a few more times with growing success. You did not need to sustain it with your wand as long as you made a conscious effort to keep it in place. Their longest attempt lasted almost a half hour and it hadn't drained them of their power like a real on does.
"We need to inform the headmaster. Perhaps he or professor Flitwick could enhance it more, although I doubt it. That was great work Gabrielle!" Hermione said hugging her friend. "You are great with charms."
"Charms are my specialty I think." She replied and they hurried over to the fireplace to floo a note to the headmaster since it was still before breakfast and they didn't want to disturb him.
"I'm going to go check on Severus. I'll meet you in the kitchen when I'm done," Hermione said and skipped out of the room. Solving a problem was a rewarding experience in itself, solving one that could save so many lives was even better.
"Hermione, its only 7:30 what are you doing awake?" He asked as he sensed her enter the room.
"I should ask you the same question," she said with a big grin. "How are you feeling this morning? Is there anything I can get you?"
"You are never this annoyingly perky in the morning, why chose today of all days to torture me this way?" He said obviously feeling better since his sarcasm and sharp tongue had returned.
"Gabrielle had a big breakthrough and she and I may have found a new way to fight the dementors. I say that is cause for celebration so just ignore my perkiness. And you didn't answer my question." She told him still smiling.
He was relieved to hear there may be a solution to the dementor problem. "I am fine, Poppy will be here soon I'm sure to check on me as well. I am just going to rest here. Would you mind bringing my research materials in here?" He asked her. She retrieved his notes and a few books for him to look through and headed back down to see if the headmaster had arrived yet.
"This is a remarkable breakthrough, your hard work and dedication to the cause will save countless lives. Thank you," Albus said as they stood in the middle of the protective bubble he had conjured. "We will have an order meeting later so you can demonstrate your new charm. I suggest you document your discovery and record it with the ministry so that you can get credit for it."
"I think you need to name it Gabrielle," Hermione said beaming at her friend for her accomplishments. "And I think the first people we should teach the charm to should be Colin and Dennis as they are the main reason we decided to find a new method to hold off the dementors."
"I was thinking of just calling it a Patronus Shield," Gabrielle told them. "Is it ok to show the boys? I know they haven't really been informed of the order or our part in the war. I don't want to risk the information falling into the wrong hands."
"I think this is something we can allow out, we need as many people to know this charm so they can protect themselves." Albus told her, "I am also going to talk to Colin and Dennis today about the Order. They have recovered enough from their loss to hear it now."
Albus had finished explaining the order to the two boys who had just lost their family to the dark. "Is there anything you would like to ask me now?"
"Why didn't you let Harry tell us earlier? We would have willingly helped you in any way possible." Colin asked with a sad look on his face while he wondered if it would have spared his family.
"You are both underage and I couldn't risk telling your parents to ask for their permission. You were to be told once you were 17 and then initiated at that point." Albus answered truthfully. "The same is true for Hannah and Justin, although they will be of age once they return to school."
"Will we be allowed to join now?" Dennis asked him. "I know I am young, but I am a fully qualified wizard and able to help. We have always been on your side of the fight, now we just have more reasons to help."
"Yes, you will be initiated tonight if you wish. Gabrielle has just finished her first assignment and I want her to show it to you both. You should spend the rest of the day in the training area brushing up on your skills and getting to the same level as the rest of the order. Hermione can help you with all the rules and protocols. I am sure I don't need to tell you that the Order is completely confidential and you are not allowed to speak of it to anyone that is not a member." Albus said before sending the boys off to the training area.
The order meeting went quickly that night and everyone seemed happy to have Colin and Dennis join them. Gabrielle was praised for her work on the Patronus Shield charm and reassigned back to work on a way to kill Voldemort. They then all headed into the training area to learn the new charm. Gabrielle, Hermione, Albus, Colin and Dennis were able to split the remaining order members up to teach them. "Professor McGonagall, your wand movements are not precise enough," Colin said timidly.
"You're in the order now; you can call me Minerva when you are here." She told him and sharpened her movements and was able to successfully cast a shield. "In fact, you can call all the teachers by their first names while you are here at headquarters or if we are in private at headquarters."
Colin and Dennis just nodded and realized that their friends had been calling the headmaster Albus since they arrived. They were finished with teaching their group when they heard Hermione from across the room. "Damn it Severus, you're not recovered yet, go back to bed. We'll teach you the bloody charm when you're better!" They turned to see her yelling at Professor Snape! They waited for the inevitable reaction of him biting her head off and were surprised when it didn't come. They were even more amazed that the other teachers chuckled at the scene instead of chastising Hermione for disrespect and bad language.
"Language Hermione," Severus drawled. "I don't know how you expect to be chosen for head girl if you have foul language like that." He smirked as she narrowed her eyes at him. He so enjoyed pushing her buttons.
"I will be even less likely to get the position when I stun you and tie you to your bed until you are fully healed," she shot back earning a snort of amusement from the gathered order members.
"Fine," he sulked moving to sit on one of the couches in the room. "I won't cast the charm and I'll rest, but I'm not going back upstairs yet." Everyone then returned to their charms after the fun was over.
"How is it that he never listens to me like that?" Poppy asked Minerva with a shake of her head. "Not that I miss having to be the one to listen to his complaining!"
"Hermione is more stubborn than he is and he knows it. I think he realized it's not worth the effort to argue with her, especially when she's right," Minerva said and laughed when she saw the odd looks the Creevy boys were giving her. "I guess we forgot to mention that Severus has gotten to be friends with Hermione and Remus and has become much more tolerant of Harry and the rest of you." She told them.
"Why did he listen to Hermione and why is he hurt?" Dennis asked her.
"Hermione and he are working on potions projects together. They developed a potion that blocks the Imperious curse at the end of last year and are working on a cure for the other unforgivables. They have spent every day this summer working together and she will be his potions assistant next year so they can continue their research." Minerva told the boys.
"Severus works as a spy in the Dark Lord's inner circle. He was punished for not making good enough progress on some task given to him. That's why he's hurt. Hermione was the one to tend his wounds after I got him stabilized." Poppy said.
"So Professor Snape pretends to be a death eater to gather information?" Colin asked with wide eyes. "Isn't that dangerous?"
"Yes, he risks his life every time he goes to Voldemort's side," Minerva said. "We each have a role in this war and that is his. Without him we would not have any information and wouldn't be able to protect as many people as we do. The attack on your family was not discussed with the circle, it was something Voldemort planned by himself and we were unable to stop. Now we have the names of the next targets thanks to Severus."
"So those people can be warned and taught the Patronus Shield then?" Dennis asked trying not to cry at knowing there was nothing they could have done to stop the attack on their family.
"Yes, it is the only way we can protect them and keep Severus' cover," she told them.
Dennis and Colin were invited to join the game that night. "Our group just keeps growing! These games are going to take forever!" Ron whined earning a smack from Hermione. The twins had left with their girlfriends again and everyone else was in a quiet mood. Kingsley had to go back to work so he couldn't join them either.
"How about I Never?" Remus asked breaking out a few bottles of firewhiskey and some butterbeers. "I think we could use a bit of relaxation and there are no dares involved!"
"I'll start," Charlie said and said, "I have never been in a battle of any kind." The only ones not to drink were Draco, Fleur and Gabrielle as the rest had fought off death eaters at one point in time.
"I have never been in love," Snape said softly. It wasn't a startling revelation, just sad that a man that was almost 40 had never experienced love. He was startled when Hermione did not drink along with Dennis, Colin and Charlie. Ron gave Hermione as sad look as he finally realized that she never was in love with him. Luna and Neville smiled at each other as they realized they had just admitted they loved each other in a way.
Remus grinned and said, "I have never set anyone on fire," he looked at Hermione's pale face and laughed as she realized she would have to tell Snape. She was the only one who drank and they all laughed at her story, even Severus who looked shocked that a first year had the nerve to set his cloak on fire.
Tonks was next, "I have never had a crush on one of my teachers or one of my students." She said and laughed at Draco as he scowled at her when he took a drink along with Hermione, Ginny, Dennis, Colin, Luna, Neville, Charlie and then surprisingly Severus. Severus refused point blank to tell who it was and if it was when he was a student or a teacher.
"I have never liked Care of Magical Creatures classes," he said and smirked at the golden trio as none of them drank, in fact none of the students that had the class with Hagrid drank and all looked sheepish at having revealed they didn't like their big friend's class. "I knew you were full of it when you said his classes were brilliant," Draco said victoriously. "I like Hagrid and all, but he just wasn't cut out to teach."
Hermione scowled at her friend, more so because she agreed with him. "I have never wanted to have sex with anyone." She said and smiled as everyone other than Dennis took a drink, she knew she could get them all that way.
"You've never thought about it?" Ron asked her shocked.
"I thought about it but never wanted to do it. I think it would just complicated things and I always believed that I would only have sex with someone I really loved. I even promised my mum that I would wait until I was married." She said and tried to pretend she didn't hear the groan of frustration from Charlie who obviously had wanted her to answer differently. Poor guy was wrapped around her little finger!
Ron thought hard about his answer and grinned at Hermione again, "I have never stolen anything from a teacher." Harry chuckled at the look Hermione was sending and even more when Severus looked shocked that he hadn't drank. Remus and Draco had to drink and saluted each other on their cunning before the teachers all gasped as Hermione drank and then refused to meet Snape's eye.
"Spill..." He told her pretending to be upset. When they had played the first truth or dare game Hermione and Harry had both taken the alternate dare than to answer that question and he had wondered why.
"I stole ingredients in my 2nd year to brew Polyjuice to trick Draco into thinking we were Slytherins so he would tell us who the heir of Slytherin was." Hermione said timidly. "I never would have stolen them but I had no other way of getting them."
"You're telling me you brewed Polyjuice successfully in your 2nd year? That is an upper level university potion that I allowed you 6th years to brew only under my supervision!" Snape said in shock that she was that talented for potions.
"Well Harry and Ron were able to turn into Crabbe and Goyle and found out that Draco had no idea who the heir was but I got stuck in the hospital wing for 2 weeks since I mistook Bulstrode's hair for her cat's hair.
"That was why you were a cat person?" He asked chuckling. "At least you were punished for the theft! But which one of you stole the gillyweed in your 4th year for Harry to use in the tournament?"
"That would have been Dobby," Harry said with a smirk. "He didn't want anything to happen to Ron and knew that I hadn't figured out the clue. The imposter Moody had made sure he planted the information in Dobby's head so he would help me."
Harry smirked at Ron before answering, "I've never gotten to 3rd base with a girl I was dating." Ginny shook her head at the relieved looks on her brother's faces and enjoyed seeing Bill and Fleur drink and then enjoyed listening o Fleur screech as Gabrielle drank as well. Charlie drank and they all stared at Severus who didn't drink and he informed them that although he had been with women they were all one night stands so he technically wasn't dating any of them. Tonks, Remus and Draco all drank and everyone stared at Ron as he turned bright red and glared at Harry and drank.
"Way to go ikle Ronnikins! We are so proud of you," Fred said while he noticed that Hermione and Ginny were both looking livid.
"You go and give me a hard time about moving too fast and look at you!" Ginny yelled, "Plus you swore to Hermione and me that nothing happened that night at the burrow! Why did you lie?"
"I didn't want anyone thinking badly of Susan," Ron said with his head down. "And when I said nothing happened I meant that we didn't go all the way."
"Yeah, you stopped just shy of taking her innocence!" Ginny growled, "Just remember that you have no authority to tell me how to act around Harry now."
The Weasley's as a whole turned to glare at Harry along with Tonks and Remus. "Hey, don't look at me like that. I plan on waiting until we are married!" That allowed them to calm down and get one with the game.
"I never got a tattoo," Bill said with a smirk at Charlie. The only ones to drink were Charlie and Snape, and they all knew the kind of tattoo that Severus had even if it gave them each the creeps.
"I have never performed oral sex," Fleur said with a smirk at Bill who looked sad at the fact. Fleur screeched again as Gabrielle grinned and took a big drink, earning Draco some words of congratulations from the boys. Remus, Tonks and Bill were the only other ones to drink and they all realized that Draco had not returned the favor to Gabrielle and that Bill had every right to look sadly at Fleur.
"I have never liked Mrs. Malfoy," Gabrielle said earning some laughs and causing Severus and Draco to be the only ones to drink.
Dennis was next and had no idea what to day, "I have snuck into a girl's room before," he told them with a shrug. He was entertained when he saw Neville, Charlie, Remus, Draco, Ron, Harry and Bill all drink.
"I never wanted to fight in this war," Colin said sadly and not a single person in the room drank. They may have all volunteered but that didn't make them want to fight. They all wanted it to be over as well.
Luna said, "I have never had a friend in my house." She smiled at Severus as he was the only other one to drink. He raised his glass in a salute to her. He had never considered any of his housemates friends; it is hard to claim to have friends in Slytherin.
Neville was next, "I never had any siblings." He was out of ideas and the last two admissions had made him sad. Snape, Remus, Draco, Hermione, Harry and Luna all had to drink; it was amazing how many only children there were in their group.
Fleur stood up yawning and said goodnight while pulling Bill from the room. Tonks and Remus followed quickly. "Come on Severus," Hermione said to him. "I'll help you upstairs."
"I am not an invalid woman," he said with bite causing her to raise her eyebrow at him until he acquiesced to her demand. "Fine, but I can do it myself you realize."
"I would never doubt you if it weren't for the fact that you have been shaky for the last 45 minutes." She said and helped him out of his chair and out of the kitchen, much to the amusement of the others.
"I hope she stops irritating him like that when we get back to school or we are going to be going without house points all year," Ron remarked to the group making them all laugh.
"I think he'd bee too afraid she would hex him if he did that," Gabrielle told them. "I think we should get them to duel and see how well they fight. She is the girl champion. I say the first fight they get into back at school we set up a duel for them."
"Sounds great, now lets get to bed." Harry said with a yawn and threw his arm around Ginny and led her to her room.