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Chapter seven The Daily Prophet

The next morning Harry came sleepily into the kitchen. He stumbled over some chair legs and finally plumped into one. Mrs. Weasley set a cup of coffee in front of him and he smiled gratefully. Ginny and his parents laughed.

"Not a morning person, Harry?" James asked.

"No not really but someone decided it was a good idea to wake me up at this crazy hour!" Harry took a sip of his coffee.

"Well we have lots to plan, Harry. The earlier we get up the faster we get started." Ginny flicked her wand and summoned something from the other room. A few seconds later a big box came soaring in and landed with a "thud" on the table in front of Ginny.

"Plan for what?" Harry took another sip of coffee and stared at the box curiously.

"Duh. The wedding." Ginny opened the top of the box and pulled out a stack of brochures. "We need to pick a place. Any ideas?" Ginny flipped idly through the stack, sorting them into piles.

"How about Hogwarts?" Harry asked after a few minutes. Ginny looked up at him and slowly a smile crept over her face.

"That's a wonderful idea Harry." Ginny walked over to her fiancé and kissed him deeply. He placed his hands on her waist and returned the kiss. Molly, Lily and James smiled to each other but otherwise made no hint that they were aware of the couple.

That is until Sirius came grudgingly down the stairs.

"Oi, I usually don't start my morning by walking into a kitchen where my godson and his fiancé are making out." He plopped into a chair and Harry and Ginny pulled quickly apart.

Suddenly Dumbledore flooed into the kitchen.

"Good morning all. Molly I hope you don't mind me stopping by all the time, but all of my favorite students are currently here."

"Not at all, Albus. In fact Remus and Tonks are stopping by for breakfast your welcome to stay too." Molly started bustling about with pots and pans.

"Thank-you. I think I will." Dumbledore nodded and sat in a chair. Second later Lupin and Tonks came into the room.

"Morning everyone!" Tonks said brightly and waved. They too sat down at the table. Soon the rest of the Weasley family sat down at the table and started eating.

A tawny owl soared into the open window and dropped the Daily Prophet in front of Harry, who picked it up and flicked it open to the first page. He was startled to see himself, Ginny, Sirius, Dumbledore and his parents. The whole front page seemed to be about him, again. One big headline at the top of the page read,

THE POTTER FAMILY GROWS

Then there were three articles with separate headlines, the first one said,

THEY'RE ALIVE!

It seemed that only Harry Potter was left of the Potter line.

Now the Prophet has discovered that Lily and James Potter,

the parents of Harry, have come back from the dead. At

first they were suspected as Death Eaters in disguise, but

after examination and the use of veritaserum by Minerva

McGonagall, then Harry Potter and finally the Minister

of Magic himself, it is discovered that they are indeed

Lily and James Potter. Two others came with the

Potters. One was the famous Sirius Black and the

other was ex-headmaster of Hogwarts school of

Witchcraft and Wizarding, Albus Dumbledore. Albus

Dumbledore explained what happened was the result

of some ancient magic and for a full explanation see

page 2.

The next one was,

HE'S CLEARED!

With the recent appearance of Lily and James Potter,

Sirius Black and Albus Dumbledore they have now

told the real story of what happened the night when

the Potters were killed. It was not Black who killed

all those people in the street but Peter Pettigrew.

Peter Pettigrew was the one who sold out James

and Lily to You-know-who. Then Pettigrew set

Black up and transformed into his illegal

animagus, a rat and left Black to go to Azkaban.

With this story told by James, Lily and Dumbledore

Sirius Black was cleared of all charges by the

Minister of Magic.

Then the third one read,

NEW ADDITION!

It was announced yesterday that Harry Potter and

Ginerva Weasley are engaged to be married. The

couple have been dating for three years and are

two out of the four members of the 'awesome

foursome'. We have also been told by our sources

that Ginny is in fact not able to have children and

didn't tell Potter until the ring was safely on her

finger. As far as we know the couple is still

engaged but we will keep you updated.

"That Bloody-" Harry shouted a few more choice curse words that I'm not going to repeat as he stood up and slammed the newspaper on the table. Mrs. Weasley gasped and dropped the cup that had been in her hand.

"Harry, of all the boys in my house I never expected to hear you say those things. Ron, maybe but not you." Harry ignored her and gave the paper to Ginny who gasped, then when she was done she was blushing furiously.

The rest of the family read the articles and had the same feelings as Harry and Ron voiced the same words too.

"Harry you've been through this before. Remember when everyone thought you had gone crazy for saying Voldemort was back." Dumbledore spoke softly.

"Yes but that was me they were talking about and I learned to ignore it, but now they're hurting Ginny." Harry stood up. "I'll see you guys later." Then he went over to the fore and threw in the powder then said clearly.

"The Daily Prophet!"

"Oh. What is he going to do this time?"Ginny exclaimed.

Harry stumbled just a little into the Daily Prophet hall. He took in his surroundings quickly and spotted a desk with a middle aged woman sitting behind it.

"Hello, Welcome to the Daily Prophet. What can I do for you?" The woman said in a very high and sickly sweet voice when Harry approached the desk.

"I would like to see the editor please." Harry said calmly knowing it wasn't this woman's fault that the articles were written.

"I'm sorry but the editor is busy at the moment. I can give him a message if you would like Mister..." the woman dropped off when she realized she didn't know the man's name.

"Potter."

"Oh! Mr. Potter, I'm sorry I did not know it was you, I will see if I can get the editor now." The woman jumped out of her chair and scurried down the hall to a big oak door at the end. A few moments later and she was back.

"The editor is available, follow me." Then she led him to the office where he was ushered in and given a seat. As soon as the door was closed and it was just him and the editor, Harry jumped back up.

"I want you to put an article in the paper tomorrow with exactly what I tell you. No editing or adding or I will sue you for everything you are worth. Do you understand." The editor nodded and Harry wrote a quick article and gave it to the editor. "I will be checking it tomorrow and believe me I am quite serious. Now I want to know who you're informer was." Harry said a little more politely but still firm.

"Mr. Weasley, sir."

"Which one?" Harry asked a little stunned.

"Percy, sir." Harry breathed a little, this was a little more believable, since Percy didn't like him so much. Harry had been worried at first that it was one of the others and he couldn't believe that they would do that to him. And to Ginny most of all.

"Thank-you. I hope to not have to come here again."

"Yes, sir."

The Harry apparated to the Ministry of Magic. If he knew Percy, he would already be in his office. He was right.

Harry didn't even bother to knock but burst through the door.

"Harry!" Percy beamed in a very fake tone. "A pleasure to see you."

"I wish I could say the same about you Percy. What do you have to say about yourself?" Harry barked.

"What do you mean?" Percy asked very defensively.

"I know you gave the Daily Prophet the information about Ginny. Explain." Harry spat the last word out.

"I was given a huge bonus for the information because the Ministry is afraid you are turning out to be too much of a savior and with the engagement the two of you are the perfect couple and we can't have that." Percy said with no emotion at all except pride for the ministry.

"What?" Harry was in disbelief.

"You are too perfect, now with your parents and godfather and Dumbledore back, you had no despair in your life. So I was told to find out any dirt that would make you look not so perfect." Percy said.

"Where have you been getting this information?" Harry asked.

"Father. He has been telling me things about the family to try to keep me involved. He thinks maybe one day I'll come back. How wrong he is." Percy smiled.

"You should be ashamed. To have been raised in such a wonderful family as the Weasleys and to repay them like this. Never mind about me because I'm used to it. But Ginny, she's your sister. You're only sister!" Harry yelled with such hatred in his voice that he hadn't used since the war. Then he couldn't stand looking at the man in front of him any longer so he disapparated with pop.

Back at the burrow, Ginny was talking to all the women about ideas for the wedding. Dumbledore gave Ginny permission to get married at Hogwarts. He would make that day a Hogsmeade trip to keep all the students away. Ginny was very excited and couldn't wait to tell Harry.

Just then Harry popped back to the burrow with a very upset expression on his face.

"Harry what is it?" Ginny got up quickly and walked over to him. He pulled her into a hug and said gently.

"Don't worry, Gin. I fixed it." Then he let go and turned to Mr. Weasley. "Don't talk to Percy anymore, please. I understand what you were trying to do, but he isn't coming back. He told me so. He's the one who gave the Prophet the information about Ginny, so that he could get a bonus." Harry said disgusted. Then he explained his who outing.

"I'm sorry Harry. I'm really sorry Ginny. I had no idea he would do that." Mr. Weasley looked very pained.

"It's alright, Daddy." Ginny hugged her father. Then Sirius started laughing.

"What is so funny, padfoot?" James asked.

"I'm just picturing the editor of the Prophet when the richest man who just defeated the Dark Lord and has a wand in his hand comes bursting into his office." Sirius laughed some more and soon everyone else had joined in.