HP Life after Hogwarts
Chapter 21
Facing the Past
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Draco finds out the answer to a question and the fates of the Slytherin are decided.
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Hogwarts Hospital Wing
"I thought that they were all in hiding." Hermione frowned down at the face of Millicent Bulstrode. "Why would any of them resort to choosing a fate like this?"
"Revenge comes to mind or them wanting to best Harry or Draco." Ginny narrowed her eyes at Pansy Parkinson.
"Anyone who craves the ways of dark magic would see this as a step up. Not that Crabbe or Goyle would know any better…" Luna sighed. "But this is drastic even for those of Slytherin."
"Harry is going to want to test them, so these twelve could find themselves in Azkaban." Wills had taken down the names of the muggle boys that were recuperating in the other ward. "There are six families, five of them who are muggle, that are going to be happy to have their sons back."
"Donavan Clearwater is Penelope's little brother and has been missing or thought dead since he disappeared just days after end of term last year." Hermione walked into the frontward and looked down at another boy asleep in a bed. "Her family kept it hush, hush, but she told me about him during a visit to St. Mungo's when Harry was still fighting off the aftereffects of the final battle.
"He went missing after his second year at Hogwarts. I remember Dad talking about it with Mum." Ginny nodded. "They suspected foul play and blamed it on Voldemort's followers."
"Uncle Albus is personally telling his parents. Charlie went to tell Penelope and Percy…" Hermione heard others entering the Hospital wing.
"Rory it's only a flesh wound!" Mac's growl echoed into the ward.
"I don't care Mac! Now sit down so I can take a look at it!" Rory snarled back. "Aunt Gene, would you please double check Daddy's arm while I fix Mac's leg."
"I knew it! Someone got hurt…" Lily rushed passed the girls. "James!" She clutched her hand to her chest in fright.
"Now Lil's it looks worse than it is." James hated being fussed over as much as his son did. "Rory worked her magic on it so all will be fine."
"Well done Rory. This is top-notch healing." Gene praised her as she rebandaged James arm.
"Thanks Aunt Gene." Rory basked in her Aunt's praises. "We only had two minor injuries Mac's leg, and Daddy his arm."
"Thank Mab." Lily was relieved to hear that.
"Harry's okay?" Hermione blinked back tears of relief.
"Yes, baby sister, he's fine as are Draco and the others." Rory smiled at her.
"This campaign was a smashing success." James was beyond satisfied with their nights work.
"How are the boys that we saved?" Rory looked up at her mother.
"In perfect health and after they have their memories altered will be able to live normal healthy lives. The vaccine counters all side effects on muggles, so they won't even have any aftereffects from their ordeals." Lily smiled at her daughter.
"That's true, but it does occasionally have some aftereffects on various wizarding metabolisms." Gene added.
"True, but none of them are bad." Wills walked into the ward.
"Max was saying something about saving innocents?" James arched a brow at his daughter.
"Six." Rory nodded, "Five muggle boys and one from our world."
"We only have one missing young lad and it's been over a year since anyone has seen him. Are you saying that he's been a werewolf all of this time?" James frowned.
"It's Wereboy dad. He's barely thirteen and yes Donavan Clearwater is sleeping in a bed in the other ward." Hermione nodded.
"Well then thank the powers that be for small miracles." James got up to go check on all of them.
"There's more Daddy, but these twelve are far from innocents." Luna stood nearby with Ginny.
"Oh and why do you say that?" James walked passed them and into the ward.
"Where are they?!" Harry stalked into the Hospital Wing.
Everyone stared at him in surprise, it seemed that for a night that had gone off like clockwork he wasn't smiling like James, no instead he was downright livid.
"Son is there a problem?" James arched a brow at him.
"Problem?! Oh, there won't be a problem after I deal with twelve former Slytherin my way!" Harry snarled. "No one tries to poison my dragons and gets away with it!!"
"Lower your tone!" Poppy hissed at him. "This is the Hospital Wing!"
"They don't belong here and should be taken to St. Mungo's and kept under guard!" Harry conjured a dagger and used it to slice into two of his fingers. "And this will prove it to all of you!!"
James looked into the ward. "The one with your mark on her cheek is familiar, but the others not so much. Although, some of them do look like younger versions of my former classmates…"
"Those twelve are the spawn of the Deatheaters and as black as they come!" Harry stalked into the second ward.
"Well, in that case go ahead and test them. Whoever is left gets to spend their remaining days at Azkaban that's after we make them talk of course." James wasn't about to stand in his way.
"I want to watch." Draco growled softly. "If they poisoned Pen then I want to watch them suffer for it."
Ginny walked over to put her arms around him.
"It's almost a given that at least ten of them are more than capable of such a crime. Now as for Crabbe and Goyle, I would think that they were merely following the orders of their master or mistress, since Millicent and Pansy are here as well." Hermione walked over behind Harry and put her arms around him.
"Hey, now what's all the…" Ron came to see why they hadn't returned to the family wing and stopped in midsentence when he saw who was also with them in the ward. "Were all of them?"
Harry and Draco nodded.
"Harry is about to test them." Luna was not in a happy mood. "They think this lot poisoned the dragons."
"Then make them suffer!" Ron snarled.
"Oh, I second the motion. Either you do it or I will personally take great pleasure in breaking them in half!" Charlie had just walked in with Tonks. "Dory scratched her arm. She says that it's nothing, but I want it looked at. Percy and the others are on their way."
Harry went about going from bed to bed. He cast Silencio so they couldn't scream, bound them to the bed to prevent any chance of escape, and then ran his fingers down their arms. All of them were guilty. Only Crabbe and Goyle were reformable the marks on their arms were barely visible. Pansy, Marcus, Montague, and Millicent were beyond the second stage and were not even dust in minutes. The other six were stage two, which meant a one-way ticket to a cell in Azkaban. Their marks continued to burn just like Kahn's and Shin's had, so they weren't long for this world. "Draco it looks like Crabbe and Goyle aren't as dark as we thought." Harry looked over at him.
"We'll see what's what after they give them the Veritaserum, but a few months in Azkaban won't hurt them." Draco frowned at the two eighteen-year-olds cowering under the covers. "They blindly follow anyone who keeps them fed and protected."
"Just like their fathers, were always under Lucius's thumb." James rolled his eyes. "I guess some things never change."
"Those six lured the innocents to Greyback and young Donavan saw them. That's the reason he got turned. They treated the five muggle boys like house elves and made Donavan their pet." Harry didn't need Veritaserum to find out what they'd done. He used Legilimens to get the answers that he wanted to know.
"Don't walk through their minds. You don't know where they've been." Hermione wrinkled her nose in distaste.
Harry focused on Crabbe and Goyle. "These two tagged along like lambs to the slaughter and that's how they ended up getting changed. They were also amusing to have around, so Greyback allowed them to live. Neither of them has taken a life and they sought out the monthly potion to keep from wolfing out and hurting innocents. It looks like these two have some intelligence after all." Harry left that ward to go check on Donavan. "Poor kid was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Greyback was in a fury over the loss of Voldemort and wanted payback. Donavan was following something that he had seen near his house and it got him in hot oil."
"I've adjusted his memory so he won't remember any of it." Albus walked into the ward with Max. "None of the six will."
"So how many of the twelve passed?" Max saw the blood streaming down Harry's arm from the cuts on his fingers.
"Uh, Mate? You might wanna heal your fingers now." Ron had also taken in just how deeply he had sliced his fingers.
"What?" Harry was focusing on Donavan and not on anyone else. "Oh yeah, that…I got sidetracked…" Harry concentrated on his hand and it instantly healed.
"Six are going to headquarters to be interrogated, four were too far gone, and two are just mindless morons." Draco bit out the answer to Max's question.
"You okay there son?" James placed a hand on Draco's shoulder.
"Yeah, Dad, I'm just great…" He snarled bitterly. "There's nothing like having your past come back and nearly bite you in the arse! No…I'm not going there…I'm not dealing with this again! Throw the lot of them into Azkaban for all I care! I just want to take a shower and turn in!" Draco pulled Ginny closer to him and vanished from the ward.
"It's Crabbe and Goyle." Harry growled softly. "Those two are the morons with the faint marks on their arms."
"That part of his life ended a year ago last July and he hasn't revisited that part of his life in his mind since then." Albus sighed.
"Like it or not they were once his best mates." Ron hugged Luna to him. "It must be rough seeing them again…knowing what became of them."
"Where's our Donavan!?" Agnes and Asher Clearwater had arrived.
"Agnes, Asher he is going to be fine." Albus led them to his bed. "He's sleeping."
"Mum is it true? Is Donnie alive?" Penelope had happy tears in her eyes.
"Yes, honey he's alive." Agnes hugged her daughter.
"Well done you two." Percy smiled at Harry and Rory.
"Rory rescued him." Harry yawned tiredly. "We got the honor of capturing Slytherin."
"Thank you so much for finding our son." Asher was beyond words.
"I was happy to do it." Rory didn't mind in the least when Agnes hugger her.
"We've adjusted his memory, so he will not have any memory of his year and so many month ordeal. It will be easier on him that way. My spell will make certain that we are the only ones who will know the truth." Albus was tired and relieved that things would go back to normal now that the danger had passed.
"Oh, thank you Albus." Agnes burst into tears. "My baby…"
"Will he be all right, Professor?" Penelope asked softly.
"It will take time for him to readjust, but yes he will be fine." Albus nodded.
"I will do all of you one better." Merlin appeared. "I will give him his year back and it will be as if this never happened."
"As always First-Grandpa has a brilliant solution to this situation." Harry smiled.
"No young one should have to endure that in his life." Merlin growled.
"It is often the young and the innocent who suffer in this world." Mab appeared next to him.
"Thank you…" Agnes was in tears again.
"Yes, thank you for doing this for our son." Asher was also crying happy tears.
"No thanks are needed. Family takes care of ones family." Merlin and Mab performed the spell.
"Now everyone will just think the lad is sick with the flu, only those in this room will be any the wiser." Mab smiled at the three of them.
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(Harry and Hermione's Quarters in the Family Wing)
"I'm beat. I could sleep for days." Harry forgot how using his blood to test others drained him or that using AK drained him as well.
Hermione pushed him into the bathroom. "Shower first and then you can recharge."
"I miss our girls." Harry yawned as he went about taking his shower.
"Daisy is entranced by them and the girls adore her as well. She's been helping her parents look after them." Hermione got ready for bed.
"Daisy and Dani are kindred spirits." Harry smirked. "I can only imagine what mischief those two will get into when Dani is older."
"So would you like to talk about it?" Hermione asked when he was finished with his shower and had focused on shaving.
Harry's eyes met her own in the mirror. "Talk about what? I thought we were discussing Daisy."
"Have you gotten to the point that you are just able to shut off your emotions, complete a mission as violent as this one, and then turn them back on as if nothing has happened?" Hermione crossed her arms and scowled at him.
Harry continued shaving, as if nothing they were discussing was important, and chose to ignore that remark.
"Answer the question; it isn't a difficult one to answer. Are you so desynthesised by everything that physically killing dozens of things, who were once mortal has no effect on you whatsoever?!" Hermione followed him into the bedroom.
"Ya know what Hermione! Yeah! I guess I am! They were evil, we dealt with them and that's the end of it!" Harry was not in the mood to analyze anything let alone his feelings. He was tired and wanted to sleep.
"You should at least feel something other than it's your duty or your job!" Hermione wasn't ending this until he got out some of his pent up feelings.
"Hate comes to mind! Satisfaction that justice was done and those four aren't even dust in the wind! I should have dealt with them all last December or at least got that poor kid out of the hellhole that he was in!" Harry, who had been fluffing his pillow, tore it in two sending feathers flying in all directions. "They tried to poison the Dragon colony in an attempt to make them clear out of the forest! Pendragon nearly died because of them! I should have hunted them down when they came up missing on the student roster at Durmstrang!" He tore another pillow apart.
"You're snarling over potion long ago spilled. You had your sights fixed on the larger prize not on a handful of missing Slytherin and that's as it should have been." Hermione used Reparo on the pillows.
"I know that, but it still smarts." Harry grumbled.
"If it bothers you so much then just imagine what's going on in Draco's mind." Hermione crawled into bed.
"Guilt over Crabbe and Goyle… The others can all rot for all he cares." Harry got into bed and forced his mind to relax.
"Are you feeling better now?" Hermione cuddled up against him.
"Yeah, loads better; as usual you know exactly what I need." He closed his eyes and focused on sleep.
"That's right Wolfe and I always will." She also settled off to sleep.
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Draco stood out on the terrace, glaring at the hunter's moon. "Why do I care what's to become of Crabbe and Goyle! That part of my life is over not to be even a distant memory!!"
"They were your friends for a very longtime, so of course you still have feelings towards them." Ginny walked out onto the terrace.
Draco conjured a heavy cape to put around her shoulders. "You'll catch a chill." He bundled her up.
"You could catch one as well standing out here brooding into the early morning hours. It's in the past there's nothing that you can do to change it." Ginny crossed her arms and scowled at him.
"Look Ginevra seeing them again…well, I wasn't bloody ready for that! Those two imbeciles may be brainless half-whits, but they should have known better!! They are cowards who only act tough, so why in grandfathers name did they…" Draco snarled in frustration. "You know what! I don't care! They made their bed, so they can rot in hell in Azkaban for all I care!!" His frustrated snarl echoed for miles. "They betrayed me to their fathers sixth year, so they deserve to rot in a cell!!"
"Draco if that were true then their marks would have been vibrant. Pansy and Millicent or any other Slytherin could have sent the message." Ginny wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her cheek against his t-shirt covered back. "Those two can't help being followers. It's all they know. No one has ever taught them differently."
"I'm happy now with my new life. Let someone else try to reform them." Draco clenched his hands into fists. "Why should it be eating me up inside like this…"
"You help others now, so it's impossible for you to push this aside. There has to be some hope for them…I mean they used what feeble intelligence that they had to seek out a Potions Master who could make the Wolfsbane potion every full moon." Ginny continued to hold him in a loving embrace.
Draco turned around to kiss her before sweeping her up into his arms and carrying her back inside. "I'm going to tuck you and our precious cargo into bed then I'm gonna have a chat with Vincent and Gregory."
"Dragon it's nearly three in the morning." Ginny let him tuck her in.
"They'll be transferred to St. Mungo's first thing tomorrow, so I have to do this now." Draco changed into his normal Auror uniform.
"Oh, now that'll make them talk." Ginny wrinkled her nose at him.
"It makes a statement." Draco kissed her.
"Yeah, like mine is bigger than yours…" Ginny muttered as he was leaving.
"What was that Peaches?" Draco turned to narrow his eyes at her in challenge.
"Nothing Dragon just come back as soon as you can. We miss you." She pouted adding the trigger word that usually brought him to his knees and running to the loo.
"Nice try Red, but I took the potion this morning." Draco vanished from the room.
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"Harry?" Hermione blinked sleepily at him. "Where are you off to at three in the morning?"
"I can't sleep." Harry lied it wasn't him that couldn't sleep it was Draco. "So I thought some fresh air was in order."
"Very well go check on Draco, but then come back to bed." She pinned him with a knowing look.
"What gave me away?" He grinned sheepishly.
"The Auror uniform at three in the morning…" Hermione yawned. "So where is he anyway?"
"About to chat with the prisoners in Hospital Wing, so I thought I'd back him up." Harry popped a Wakie-Wakie Nougat into his mouth and instantly became energized and awake. "Now this invention is brilliant. I feel like I've slept a full eight hours. Be back in a bit." He vanished.
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Avery and Fin now fully recovered from their ordeal were standing watch in front of the Hospital Wing entrance.
"Sorry kid, but the answer is no." Fin frowned at Draco when he walked up to them.
"You look like hell." Avery growled. "So go back and snuggle with your wife."
"All I want to do is chat with two of them." Draco hadn't planned on there being any guards.
"Look kid we sympathize all right, but we can't let you pop in and physically chat with the lot for a few minutes and that's all there is to it. They'll get theirs after facing the Wizengamot Council. Now go back to bed." Fin pointed towards the corridor that lead back to the Grand Staircase.
"The six of them can rot in hell for all I care! I just wish to talk to Crabbe and Goyle!" Draco was beginning to lose his patience.
"Draco, it's all right. We knew that you'd be wantin payback for them betraying you during your sixth year, but we're under orders." Avery sighed in frustration.
"Move aside." Harry appeared beside Draco. "Or I will make you move."
"Now look you two we are under your father's orders now clear off." Fin raised his wand as did Avery.
Harry though of sleeping dust and it appeared in his fisted palm. "Nighty night gents," He brought his hand up to his face and blew the silvery dust into their faces.
The two guards were now unconscious.
"That ones new." Draco arched a brow at him as he opened the door.
"I bent the rules for you." Harry walked into the wing and blew the sleeping dust over at a snoozing Poppy. "So do you wish complete privacy or not?"
"It wouldn't hurt." Draco cast an Imperturbable Charm over the area just outside the first ward.
Harry walked into the first ward and blew sleeping dust over at Donnie's bed and his snoozing family. "All set here."
Draco continued into the second ward. Their father and Uncle Sirius were snoozing in two chairs in the center of the aisle.
Harry blew sleeping dust in their faces. "They know us all too well don't they." He continued into the third ward, but the muggle boys were already gone.
Crabbe and Goyle were snoozing there instead.
"Have your chat. I'll make sure no one interrupts." He went about blowing dust into six faces trying their best to ignore the pain caused by his mark.
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Draco stepped into the third ward and stared over at a now awake Crabbe and Goyle cowering under their covers. "Enough of that you morons," He scowled. "I'm not going to hurt you."
Crabbe reluctantly did as he was told. "That's what ya do now ain't it?"
"Yeah, uh, ain't it?" Goyle echoed.
"I hunt the darkest of Dark wizards not mindless drones who blindly follow anyone who offers to feed them." Draco narrowed his pewter gray eyes at them.
"We ain't stupid."
"We know what happens ta blood traitors in a school like Durmstrang." Goyle glared at him.
"We chose ta save our necks." Crabbe nodded.
"By blindly following Pansy and the rest of that lot into Fenrir's lair," Draco paced in front of the beds. "Oh yeah, you idiots, that's what I call saving your sorry necks!"
"We didn't know what Montague and Flint were up ta, just that they wanted us ta meet them about somethin." Goyle's face flushed a bright shade of red.
"No you wouldn't then would you. I mean that would mean that what little intelligence you had…No forget it! I'm here to get an answer to one question."
"Yeah and what's that?" Goyle scowled.
"Who sent word to the others on the eve of Voldemort's doom?!" Draco demanded bitterly. "Who sent them after my arse by letting them into the dungeons!?"
"It wasn't us!" They exclaimed in unison. "We never betrayed you not once!"
"Our Pops knocked us out that night and when we woke up you were gone." Goyle frowned.
"After it was over our Mum's dragged our families off ta Europe." Crabbe" nodded.
"You've taken care of us since we's was two." Goyle shot him a hurt look.
"We weren't allowed ta send letters or stuff, cuz you was dead ta all of us now." Crabbe finished.
"No just not a sheep anymore." Harry growled. "The only blood traitors or rubbish like that are Dark wizards and those who blindly follow them. That blood traitor nonsense the Deatheaters were spewing out is a bunch of tripe and got them all killed or in Azkaban. Is that where the two of you wish to end up as well?"
Crabbe and Goyle dared not utter a word and shook their heads no instead. All the rumors were true. Harry was now two years older and a force that no one wished to piss off.
"Draco is my brother now. It was his choice, no one adjusted his memory. He made the decision on his own." Harry wasn't in the mood to be tactful. "We were both tired of fighting."
"I've never felt more alive than in this past year and two and a half months. I'm free of all the tripe that my biological father tried to shove down my throat. I've a family that loves me, friends that give a damn about me, a wife who I love to distraction, and a son on the way. Yeah, I'd say I scored O's across-the-board by giving up the dark side and embracing the good side of magic." Draco flashed his newly earned Auror badge. "Oh and I love my career as an Auror."
"Congrats little brother," Harry clapped him on the back. "We'll go out and celebrate with the guys this weekend." He hugged him
"Yeah, I just got it this evening. I just forgot to pin it to my robes. I haven't even shown Gin yet." Draco hugged him back.
"You two really are on the up and up?" Goyle gapped openmouthed at them.
"It's okay ta be, uh, good?" Crabbe stared at them in disbelief.
"Yes boys, it's okay not to cause others bodily harm." James growled from behind them.
"Now if you can change your ways then maybe the Wizengamot Council might only give you a week or may be less in Azkaban." Sirius growled.
"Uh, yeah we can change..." Crabbe gulped.
"Would we be able ta see Draco again?" Goyle asked.
"Yeah, I think we can arrange that." James nodded. "Now excuse us will you these two and us need to have a chat."
"Sure we're beat. It's nice ta have a warm bed again." Goyle yawned.
"Yeah and real food," Crabbe agreed.
"Rest well boys you get to stay for a while. Those six in there are going to face the Wizengamot Council, be interrogated, and then it's straight to Azkaban." Sirius grabbed Draco by the back of the neck.
"I'll see the two of you later." Draco nodded as best he could with Sirius having an iron grip on his neck.
"Yeah, we're doing a lecture on werewolves for Uncle Remus' classes, so later." Harry ignored his fathers iron grip on the back of his neck.
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"Oh, now let's not get ahead of ourselves Junior now let's go." James led him out of the ward.
"Move your arse." Sirius wasn't happy either.
"I'm going." Draco winced.
"How is it possible? The dust should have made you sleep for hours." Harry found to his shock that they were all in the Pendragon Wing Common room and that his father and Uncle had ported them there.
"One has to inhale first and the two of us can hold our breath for an extremely long time." James growled darkly.
"Draco needed to chat with Crabbe and Goyle. No harm no foul. Neither of us roughed up the other six. I used sleep dust on the lot of you. It worked on everyone, but you and Uncle Sirius. We're adults now not kids and are beyond petty things like that." Harry stared into his father's furious hazel eyes.
"I've been driving Gin crazy pacing our room or the terrace. I needed some answers." Draco sighed in frustration.
"He chose now, because he assumed that all of them would be taken away first thing in the morning."
"We both knew that all of this would dredge up memories that weren't so nice and that's why we made the decision that we did." Sirius paced in front of them.
"You both didn't trust us?!" Harry narrowed his eyes at them. "That smarts big time knowing that both our father and our Uncle think so lowly of us."
"It's not that way at all. We think highly of you two, but we also have to consider the circumstances as well. The two of you were beyond upset a few hours ago." Sirius hated being the boss in situations like this.
"Yeah, you're right we were beyond upset and had damned good reason to be! That doesn't mean that it was gonna trigger anything in either of us!" Draco wasn't any happier than Harry was.
"Lower your tones you two. I am still your father, regardless whether I'm the boss, or you're out of the nest." James wasn't in the mood to be challenged by his sons.
"Fine father or is it sir?" Harry kept his tone low. "I'm going to bed, because you two are making this into some big attempt at insubordination or better yet us going to take out Slytherin in an act of revenge."
"ALL I WANTED WAS TO CHAT WITH GREGORY AND VINCENT TO SEE IF THEY WERE REFORMABLE OR NOT. I COULD CARELESS ABOUT THE OTHER SIX! I JUST NEEDED AN ANSWER TO WHOM BETRAYED ME THAT NIGHT! WHO LET THE DEATHEATERS INTO THE DUNGEON TO MURDER ME! NOW THAT I'VE GOT THAT ANSWER AND AM FINE WITH IT. CAN WE GO TO BED NOW OR ARE YOU GOING TO GROWL AT US SOME MORE?!" Draco lost his temper and roared that at them.
James and Sirius had never seen him lose his temper, so this was a first.
The glass rattled in its frames, a storm was forming outside, they could hear the howling of the wind, vases on the table shattered, and torches flared from dim to daytime bright.
"Nice going Dad. He hasn't lost his temper in over a year and that was before he was fully trained by Master Chen." Harry rolled his eyes in disgust at the two of them.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DRAGON?!" Ginny made her way downstairs in a full-blown temper.
"You two are toast." Harry whistled low under his breath. "She's beyond pissed."
"Button it, Junior." James snarled.
"WELL?!" Ginny glared up at them her green eyes dark with temper.
"WHAT IS GOING ON DOWN HERE!?" Hermione stalked downstairs.
"YES, JAMES WHAT IS GOING ON!?" Lily wasn't pleased either.
"SIRIUS THIS HAD BETTER BE GOOD!?" Jenn was glaring daggers at him.
"The boys went to have a chat with two of our detainees in Hospital Wing." Sirius fought back the instinct to flee for his life and spoke up.
"The two of us know that already!" Hermione and Ginny snarled. "Now what is wrong with our guys?!"
"I'm getting to that." Sirius grumbled.
"The two of them Maraudered their way into the Wing, disobeyed orders, and then threw the rules out the window to achieve their goal!" James paced in front of them. "I'm the boss! No! We're the boss now and can't just let it slide! They disabled two of my men and everyone in the wing, minus Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, with sleep dust that had to be conjured by Harry when he thought of their needs. That's personal gain yet another rule out the frickin window!"
"Personal gain my arse! It was the gentlest way to give Draco the time that he needed to talk to Dumb and Dumber!" Harry was barely keeping his temper in check.
"I'm the one talking now, so button it!" James was on melt down as well. "Draco walked into the second ward where Sirius and I were watching our prisoners…"
"Yeah, right you were sleeping on-the-job…" Harry shut up when his father glared murderously at him as did Sirius. "Well, it's true they were…"
"Eyes closed does not mean snoring!! Instead of waking us up this piss ant here, being a smart arse with his pixy dust, decides to blow it in our faces!"
"Yeah well, it worked on everyone else."
"We were the first Marauders kid we're always prepared." Sirius snarled.
"So the two of you are smarting, because these two worked together as a team, so they could resolve an issue peacefully and without violence? It's no wonder the two of them are furious at you that is insane logic!!" Lily was not pleased.
"Lily, that's not the point! These two disobeyed orders and we can't let that slide!" James hated it when she used logic to break down the situation.
"We have to keep order in the ranks." Sirius nodded.
"I understand that line of thinking, but how is chatting with two people breaking the rules?" Jenn frowned.
"It seems to me that they had a mission to chat with those two former classmates and flawlessly carried out their objective. Their only mistake was underestimating the two of you." Hermione added her own observation.
"This is all well and good, but it's over. Draco go tuck Ginny back into bed and stay there. I'm just not going to stand here and take this anymore. We're going to bed and that's the end of it." Harry's Wakie-Wakie had burned off because of his temper and he was feeling drained again.
"Good idea." Draco pulled Gin into his arms and vanished.
"I thought so." Harry did the same with Hermione.
Jenn and Lily pointed towards the guest rooms. "You two are grounded."
"But…Son of a bitch, this bites!" James seethed stalking off to their version of the couch.
"No those two are their favorites!" Sirius stalked after him.
"No you two had a power trip and blew things way out of proportion! We will see you in the morning or when we wake up!" Lily and Jenn went off to check on their twins.
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Chapter 22
A job?
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I do not claim any of JKR's characters only that I love being able to create my own kind of mischief with her beloved characters. I do not claim any other things that are owned by other companies that I may mention once and a while in the stories...Although the original characters and ideas are mine and I loved creating them. So please review if you wish but try not to flame me too badly.
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Cindra 2004-2007