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Chapter 21

Can we truly forgive?

When Harry woke up on Boxing Day, Ron was already awake and was sitting on his already made bed cross-legged. Ron had dressed in track pants and a sleeveless shirt. Brooke was also in the room sitting next to him holding his hand and stroking it. 'Okay' thought Harry. Harry sat up and noticed Hermione was sitting on the floor leaning against his bed reading a book and Ginny was sitting at the end of his bed with her head in her hands. "What's going on? You certainly looked glum and serious." Said Harry.

Ginny sighed "Were not allowed downstairs at the moment- no one is" replied Ginny. "Oh?" said Harry, raising his eyebrows. Brooke opened her mouth CRACK! CRACK! Fred and George apparated into the room and took seats on the floor across from Hermione- both looked incredibly serious and had flesh coloured strings in their hands. 'Extendable Ears' thought Harry. "As I was going to say we" Brooke waved her hand around at them "Are not allowed downstairs as we have a visitor."

Harry was mystified "Visitor?" he asked. "Yes a visitor by the name Mr Percy E. Weasley" mumbled Ron. "That's a good thing right?" asked Harry. "Its half and half. We want mum and dad to be happy again and have the family together again but….." trailed off George. "But, we can't just accept him again. He said a lot of awful things and we can't just forgive him like that," said Fred clicking his fingers. Everyone was silent for a moment. Before someone spoke, "Having him back will be hard, but you will get through it. He is genuinely sorry and he has realised the errors of his ways. He's realised his errors because of how Fudge handled the attack on Diagon Alley and other muggle towns. He also found out Fudge has taken the dark mark" said Brooke in a dreamy voice, her eyes glazed over.

"What" they all shrieked. "Are you kidding", "Get real", "Kick him out of office!" "GIT!" All their voices mixed as one as they shouted at Brooke. "It's true I saw it in my vision when I shook Percy's hand." Said Brooke. "You shook his hand? When?" demanded Ginny. "I was the one that opened the door to him. I said hello, shook his hand and led him to the kitchen" said Brooke unfazed. "How did he know where to come?" asked Fred. "He didn't, he was told to go to the square and than a letter he had received, words magically appeared with the name of this place. You don't have to worry, if they don't believe he is true to his word, they'll oblivate from his memory knowing where this place is" said Brooke in her all knowing voice.

"Why did you answer the door?" asked Ginny. "Because I knew he would be arriving," said Brooke simply. "HOW!" demanded Ron. "I saw it in my dream last night" she replied. "Why would Mrs Weasley let you open the door when she made us all stay upstairs this morning?" asked Hermione. "Because, I went down early and told her Percy had decided to accept her invitation to come. She had sent another one but didn't know if he'd come, so I thought I'd let her know" said Brooke. "Do you know anything else?" asked Harry. Brooke shook her head "No, I only saw what the spirits wanted me to see" replied Brooke dreamily.

"Did you guys find out anything?" asked Hermione to Fred and George. The twins nodded and held up the Extendable ears. "We're so glad me made these" beamed Fred. George nodded "From what we heard, Percy and Mum are crying. Percy is telling them he's sorry and something about dark Fudge. I have no idea where he could have gone wrong with dark fudge- its delicious!" said George. Harry rolled his eyes "He probably means dark Fudge as in Minister Fudge has gone to the dark side" A look of realisation swept across their faces. "Duh, your even thicker than Ron" muttered Ginny. They glared at her for a second and than smiled. "Wait there's more. Percy is begging, to be given a second chance. He said he wants to make it up to us, he wants a family again" said Fred. "His relationship with Penelope went sour when he became Fudge's assistant and Percy is really depressed" George told them.

"He's finally come home," whispered Ginny. They all nodded, the family was complete again. Over the next two days they started to slowly build a new relationship with Percy. Brooke got along the best with him because although she had heard the full story she hadn't been there. Brooke and Percy were often seen together when Percy was having a hard time fitting in. Brooke knew all about not fitting in as she never really fitted in with the Crawfield Relatives.

The night before Harry and the others had to go back to School an Order meeting was called. Harry had already known there might be an Order meeting as Brooke had told him. When Harry had entered the Kitchen at 9 O'clock all Order members were sitting down around the table. Remus waved Harry over and patted the empty spot beside him. Harry hurried over and sat down. "Thanks" said Harry. "No worries, I had a feeling you might be late," replied Remus. Harry talked quietly to Remus about Percy and the others. "There currently up in the muggle room watching a comedy movie. They're trying to do a little bonding," whispered Harry. Remus nodded understandingly.

Soon a bell attracted their attention, Dumbledore was standing at the head of the table. "This Order Meeting is called to Order." Announced Dumbledore. The order members quietened down and listened to Dumbledore intently. "As you know a Muggle community was attacked two days ago. We had 20 muggles injured- 10 were given the dementors kiss and are now in St Mungo's in a special ward and 10 muggle casualties. We had injuries on our side but no deaths thankfully. We all know that no one has recovered from the dementor kiss because there is no cure or counter spell for it. We told the select families what happened to their family members and told them at certain times we would have them visit them in our special hospital." Said Dumbledore.

"The community itself was damaged extensively and we are in the process of helping them repair their homes. We have to be careful of what we do around them, please only use spells to fix things when they are not around or are not looking. I need volunteers to go help them tomorrow. Anyone?" asked Dumbledore.

About a dozen people raised their hands, "thankyou for volunteering. I'll need you to stay behind after the meeting for a quick discussion. You'll also be happy to know that on that night we caught a total of 15 death eaters. One of them unfortunately, was an old school student, Marcus Flint. He was Quidditch Captain in his sixth and seventh year. He left school after Harry's second year." Said Dumbledore. "Such potential he had, he was smart and could have gone along way" murmured Dumbledore gravely; more or less it seemed to himself. "Professor, you know it's not your fault that they choose the path of evil. Everyone makes their own decisions and you can't stop them. They have to find their way and if they don't- there's nothing you can do" said Harry.

"I know Harry, I know, it's sad to see so many of my former students and my own peers from my time at school become death eaters. Riddle, Lucius Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle snr, Bellatrix, Peter, Rudolph, Theodore, Avery and many more" Dumbledore was shaking his head sadly. There was silence for a moment before Dumbledore spoke again, "For now we have things under control but more attacks are suspected. Severus you have a report," said Dumbledore. Severus rose from his seat, "The dark lord is very angry at the moment. I've had to make many calming draughts over the last month as ordered by Peter" hissed Severus. "It seems things are not going the way he planned. He wants something, a book I think or a writing but he can't find it," said Snape. He went on a bit more before sitting down.

"Yes there is another issue. I don't know whether it is too much to be worried about, but none the less. One Vernon Dursley is in hospital at the moment. None of you will really care about this, but you still need to be told. Vernon was harshly beaten and has sustained strangely enough all most all of the damage to his arms." Said Dumbledore. "What do you mean, damage to his arms?" asked Harry. "When I felt the wards at 4 privet drive disturbed I apparated to privet drive to find the disturbance. When I arrived I found Vernon slumped in the corner of the living room with his arms hanging limply by his sides, fractured in multiple places. He won't be able to use them for a month" said Dumbledore.

"It's about time he got what he deserved," muttered Harry. "There's more. Above Vernon were black shimmering words that read:

AS YOU SOW, SO YOU SHALL REAP!

The beatings will cease.

Signed,

THE GUARDIAN" recited Dumbledore to them.

"THE GUARDIAN? Isn't that the dude that gave you and Brooke those books, Harry?" exclaimed Remus. "Yeah it is. Strange. So whoever gave us those books, beat up Vernon to. Gee I have to find him so I can thank him" said Harry. "This is a serious matter, who ever this man is he could be dangerous. I want you to keep an eye out for someone who looks suspicious to you. I think that is all for today. This Order meeting is adjourned." Announced Dumbledore.

The dozen people who volunteered to help the muggles made their way over to him. Most people were getting ready to leave and were murmuring to themselves about "THE GUARDIAN". Harry left as soon as he got the chance and ran all the way to the muggle room. When he burst in he collapsed into a chair, trying to catch his breath. "Is everything alright?" asked Brooke peering at him over a pair of glasses. "Since when do you have glasses?" asked Harry totally missing the question. By now they where all looking at him. "Oh there not mine I was just mucking around. I quite like them, their Percy's. He's wearing contacts at the moment. Now are you alright?" asked Brooke again. Harry shivered; the glasses made her look very daunting. "Remember the books that we got from the person called 'THE GUARDIAN'?" asked Harry. "Yes" chorused everyone except for Percy.

"Well he went and broke my bastard of an uncle's arms! He can't use them for a month. He wrote a message on the wall saying, As you sow, so you shall reap! The beatings will cease. Signed THE GUARDIAN." Said Harry. "Interesting," mused Percy. "What?" asked Harry. "Well do you understand what it means?" asked Percy. "Kind of" said Harry shrugging. "I know," said Brooke and Hermione. "Well….." said Fred. "Its an old saying, sow means to plant and reap is to harvest. It's saying that the out come of your harvest depends on how well you sow it. In Harry's case it means if you treat someone the wrong way, you will find someone treating you the wrong way. You know, what goes around comes around," said Percy.

"That's deep," murmured Brooke and Hermione. "I get it. So because Vernon hurt Harry, Vernon gets the same treatment?" asked George to check he was right. "Exactly" agreed Brooke. "That guys cool and smart" said Ron. "Yeah, I wonder who it is…" mumbled Hermione. "I don't know," said Ginny who had been pretty quiet. "So how's the movie in here?" asked Harry changing the subject.

"Its Bloody fantastic. Our kind of movie" grinned Fred pointing to himself and George. Harry grinned. "So you finished the movie?" asked Harry settling properly into the couch next to Hermione. "Yeah, but we have another one" said Ron slipping a DVD into the DVD player. Soon they were all laughing their heads off. During the movie Harry couldn't help but smile at how the Weasley siblings were getting along. There were sleeping bags spread across the floor and the Weasley's plus Brooke were occupying them all except for two. Percy was sitting on the floor with the sleeping bag wrapped around him like a blanket. Fred and George were sprawled out in front of Percy and they were laughing at a joke made on the T.V. Brooke was sitting next to Percy, leaning back on Ron who was behind her. Ginny was on Percy's other side leaning against the couch in front of Harry.

"Isn't it great that there getting along" whispered Hermione nudging him in the side. "It sure is" whispered Harry back. When the movie was over, Hermione and Harry took the last two Sleeping bags and joined everyone on the floor. They had to go back to school tomorrow but they didn't care. They were up for awhile talking to each other. Percy told them about Penelope and the twins had told him they would find him another girl even if it killed them. Percy had told them he only wanted Penelope so the twins made another vow to make Penelope like Percy again. Brooke had told him that if he didn't find love with Penelope, she knew that there was someone else waiting for him.

Brooke had told them all that everyone has a soul mate and eventually find their soul mate in this life, or in the next. Hermione had slightly scoffed this statement and was about to sprout that predications were rubbish when Brooke muttered 'James' making Hermione turn bright red and shut up. When they finally fell asleep it was past midnight. All of their minds were at peace as they slept, peacefully unaware of the many dangers and complications that they would face in their school days and lifetime.