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Chapter 14: What is UP with Pravus?
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After their week long honeymoon, it was time for Harry to get back to Hogwarts. He returned and went back to the normal schedule. Ginny stayed at Hogwarts with him and helped with different classes. Everything was going smoothly for a while until a fateful day when at lunch one Saturday before a Quidditch match between Slytherin and Hufflepuff, Harry recieved what seemed to be the most interesting owl. He couldn't place the familiar slanted writing, but was surprised to read its contents.

Dear Harry,

I don't know exactly what is going on, just that there is a new prophecy. This letter is bewitched to go to you at a time of need. You may not even know the time is dangerous. The new prophecy is not concerning you, but your children. As of right now, January 21, 1997, no one knows of the prophecy. It will be reported to the Ministry, but they will not know who it concerns for years. I am telling you this for the reason that you need to know. Protect your children. Do not tell anyone of this letter. You were always right. That family is not good. Remember to choose your friends wisely.

Albus Dumbledore

Harry stared at the parchment for a while, scanning over and rereading it several times.

"Who's the owl from Harry?" Ginny leaned over to read, but he snatched it away so she could not see.

"Ginny, it's from someone. I can't believe it! I can't tell you who it is from or even what is in it. I wish I could though. I hate to keep this a secret. Let's just go back to our chambers and just rest."

"Harry, I want you to know. I trust you. But if you're doing anything to hurt me, yourself, or our future children, let me just say one thing... You better not!" Harry kissed her on the top of the head and they went back to rest for an hour before the Quidditch match.

"Harry! Watch out!" Harry looked up to see the Slytherin Seeker, Pravus Malfoy speeding towards him. He heard a buzz near his ear and realized what was going on. He ducked and swore that Pravus had a look of disappointment before he caught the snitch and raced back to the center to be congratulated by the Slytherin team.

"Woah, Harry! I thought he was going to crash in to you!" Harry, Ginny and the rest of the teachers laughed, then made their way down the spiral staircase to return to the warm castle.

Harry started moving towards Hagrids hut when Ginny called to him.

"Harry! Where are you going?" Harry turned around to face Ginny.

"I'm going to see Hagrid. You wanna come?"

"No! And you can't go either!"

"And why not?"

"Because, I was speaking with Madame Pomfrey today, and we need to go to the Hospital Wing for a sonogram. Harry, we're going to find out whether we're having a boy or a girl!" Harry smiled and ran back to his wife. He placed his arm around her waist and they walked up to the castle.

"So you two, before you begin, do you want to know the sex of your child?" Madame Pomfrey had Ginny in a hospital gown and laid her on the bed.

"Yes." They replied simultaneously.

"Okay, just lay back and I'll begin. Harry here's a chair so you can sit." Madame Pomfrey conjured up and chair on the other side of the bed from herself and waited till he sat to begin.

"Okay, this is what I'll do: I'm going to wave my wand a speak an incantation. On your stomach area, depending on the gender and how the baby's feeling at the moment, something will show up. Sometimes its little footprints walking across, sometimes its bunnies hopping around the top, and one time I even saw an apple! The afore mentioned 'something' will either be in a blue color or a pink color, showing whether it's a boy or a girl." Ginny and Harry nodded signifying that they understood and Madame Pomfrey began.

"As mulheres de Velho, une trazer esta alegria de família.

Ajude-nos saber se uma menina, ou um rapaz.

Mostre-nos em, o próprio meio de falar,

Mostrar nos o sexo, em azul ou em cor-de-rosa." (A/N: Translation at the bottom)

Harry and Ginny stared at her abdomen and were amazed at the multitude of colors protruding from her abdomen.

Finally the mixture calmed down and left Harry and Ginny puzzled. There was one symbol, consisting of two circles in a Venn diagram-like shape. One circle was blue, the other pink. Madame Pomfrey understood the reason for multi colored symbols, just not why it was a symbol instead of the usual child-friendly animals.

"Harry, Ginny. This is most unusual that this symbol arose. I understand some of what has just happened, but you must know that I am not all-knowing. It may just be something they were feeling. I am not sure, but I wouldn't worry too much about it."

"Wait! Madame Pomfrey, did you say... 'something they were feeling'?" Harry looked at Madame Pomfrey and Ginny looked up with the same expression of shock on her face.

"Well, yes. Harry, Ginny, you're going to have twins. One boy, one girl. Congratulations!"

Harry smiled and hugged his smiling wife tightly.

"Harry! We're... we're going to have... twins! Oh my. At least my mum had Bill, Charlie and Percy to look after themselves when the twins were born. They helped around the house and everything! We... we have to do it by ourselves! Oh my..."

"Ginny, we won't have to do it by ourselves. We're going to have lots of help from family and friends! Hey, think of it in a good way. If we ever need a babysitter, hey! We're at Hogwarts! A place full of students! And my niece, Lucy, would probably be thrilled to help. Ginny, everything's going to be great!"

"Okay, Harry. Let's go back and write my parents and Miranda and the Dursley's and Ron and Penny, and Hermione and Fred, and Bill and Fleur, and-"

"Come on Ginny, we'll let everyone know. We don't have to list them all!" Harry and Ginny laughed and walked back to their chambers.

Harry and Ginny spent the rest of the evening writing letters to friends and family who they thought ought to know. Finally after writing the word 'twins' for what felt like the hundredth time, it dawned on Harry.

"This must have been what Dumbledore meant by 'children'!"

"Harry? Did you say Dumbledore said something about children?"

"Oh! Did I say that out loud?" Harry thought of something quick to say. "Well, uh yeah. When I was still meeting with Dumbledore in Sixth year, he mentioned something about my children in the future. I wasn't really listening, it's just that word stuck. It's probably nothing." Harry went back to writing and before long, they were done.

"Okay, Harry. First letter to my parents." Harry tied the letter to Hedwig's leg and she flew off. They got Ginny's owl and tied a similar letter to Varian and off he went to Miranda's house. After sending many letters, Harry and Ginny laid down on the bed and rested from a very eventful day. Just as they seemed to be falling asleep, someone flooed in their fireplace and they shot up, startled.

"Ginny! Harry! My baby's gonna have twins!" Harry and Ginny saw the familiar woman with a head of red running towards them to give them a big hug. "Oh my gosh! I'm so excited! I'm so proud of you! Ginny!" Molly hugged Harry and kissed him on the cheek then gave her daughter a huge hug and a kiss on the cheek as well.

"Ginny, your father's coming as soon as he gets home from work. I've left him a note. Fred and George owled me as soon as they got your owl. They were just as excited as I. They will be over later to give their congratulations. I haven't heard from Ron, Bill or Charlie, but I'm sure you'll hear from them as well." As if those words were the magic words (no pun implied) the fireplace spat another person out, Bill. Then another and another, Charlie and Hermione.

"Look Bill! It's our little sister, all grown up! Can you believe it?"

"Nope, Charlie! I remember just like it was yesterday when we had to go to Mum to get a bat-bogey hex taken off for doing something to her!"

"Oh wait, dear brother of mine! It was just yesterday!"

"Oh come off it you two!" Ginny smirked at the boys as if they were acting like the twins. "You know you deserved it!" This caused a round of laughter and Ginny walked over to hug her two eldest brothers. Then she saw Hermione and they began screeching and smiling and hugging and crying. The crying came mostly from Ginny, but Hermione let out a little here and there.

"Ginny! I'm so proud of you! I'm so excited that you're going to have twins!" Hermione hugged her soon-to-be sister-in-law and then moved to hug her best friend too.

"Harry! Congratulations goes to you as well! I'm so excited! Just think you two, in a few months, you'll have a little Harry and a little Ginny to hold in your arms. You'll make great parents! But I must be off. I told Fred I'd meet him at the shop before we left for a little extra wedding planning. Good-bye!" Hermione walked up to the fireplace, stepped in, threw down the floo powder and yelled 'Wizards Wizarding Wheezes' and erupted in a swirl of green flames.

The days went by and no much happened. One Friday, Harry had to go to London to get something for Professor McGonagall and so Ginny stepped in as his substitute.

"Good morning, class! Well, yeah. You know me. Now, we have Gryffindors and Slytherin sixth years right?" After agreeing nods from the class, she moved over to the desk and looked in the class assignment book her husband had left.

"Okay, today, we'll be learning the Patronus Spell. Can anyone tell me what it does?"

A few hands raised and she called on one.

"Yes you."

"The Patronus is a highly advanced magic that when used correctly, it acts as if it were shielding the producer and the dementor. It has no specific look. It is unique to the caster, taking shape of what their inner self feels. It is the same for each time casted, and cannot feel hurt, so the dementors can't hurt it, but it casts out a positive force so the dementor can't hurt the castor."

"Very good! Fifteen points for Gryffindor! Now, how many of you have seen a patronus casted?" Almost three quarters of the class raised their hands. "Okay, How many of you know the incantation?" Now, only half of the class raised their hands. "Okay, good. Now, how many of you have produced some of a patronus?" Now only eight or ten people were left. "How many of you have produced a full-fledged patronus able to repel a dementor?" As Ginny suspected there were only two hands left. A Gryffindor girl and a Slytherin boy, who from his unpleasant disposition, sleek blonde hair, and constant smirk on his face she suspected was none other than Pravus Malfoy she'd heard so much about from Harry.

"Now, will you two please come forward?" Pravus and a girl named Belinda walked forward. "Now, stand here and, Pravus, you here. Now of course we can't get a real dementor in here, so we're just going to see how you can do this. Now, class, the incantation is expecto patronum. Now concentrate hard on a really good memory. And it's going to need to be a really great one when in front of a dementor." After an hour, the entire class was doing the patronus really well.

Ginny was not surprised to see that Pravus' patronus was a snake. But not just any snake, it looked just like Nagini, Voldemort's snake that had attacked her father so many years ago. As the class ended, Pravus stayed behind claiming he couldn't find his quill. Once everyone was gone, he walked up to Ginny.

"May I help you?"

"Yeah, in fact you can. I was wondering, why did your husband have to put my brother in Azkaban? He never did anything. My father and mother were cruel, but my brother, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. You know, he never became a true death eater. Never completed what it was the Dark Lord wanted of him. My father just gave him a fake tattoo to make it look like he was in fact a death eater. He hated it. He came to talk to me sometimes just after Snape killed Dumbledore. Said he wished he was in another family. I'm not saying he was the best person, but he was never for Voldemort. But never for Dumbledore either. He was in a grey area, just like his eyes as he used to tell me. I just don't see why someone so innocent has to suffer when there are still people out in the world that are, let's just say, they're not the nicest of people ever." Pravus smirked then left the room.

Just before he got to the door, Ginny yelled after him.

"Pravus! Wait. I think you should know. It wasn't Harry that put him in jail. He didn't even know he was in Azkaban till you mentioned it in class that first day. They put him in Azkaban after Harry left. I just thought you'd like to know that. But I'll let Harry know how you feel. Good day, Mr. Malfoy." Pravus left as the next class came in.

'What is UP with Pravus?'

A/N: I'm so sorry it took so long to write. I got to one part, then couldn't think of anything else. In fact, this chapter's been rewritten so many times, i don't know how I'm going to get back on subject. Maybe I'll just change the rest of that timeline I made... Ooh. Don't be fooled, Pravus isn't all nice, just because he vouched for his brother. He just was wondering that stuff and needed to talk. More from him later. I have a new story coming soon. Might post it later today, maybe tomorrow. But I know I'll get it and the second chapter out before the New Year. Hope ya'll had a Merry Christmas!