CHAPTER 21

"I'm really beginning to get annoyed with leaving this place. Every time I get settled in with you we have to leave again," I complained as I magically brought my bag downstairs.

"I could have done that for you," Harry said as he brought his own down.

I didn't get a chance to reply as Mrs. Weasley yelled for us again, "Hurry up, we've already got Hermione and Ron's trunks loaded."

"Why can't we just Apparate or use a port key?" I asked Harry again as he took control of both of our trunks.

"You know that it's because both you and Hermione are pregnant," Harry told me again. I rolled my eyes as I followed him out the door, but he continued, "Anyways, it gives them another reason to give us a ministry car. They would anyway, just because I'm bloody Harry Potter," he muttered as he levitated our trunks into the trunk of the car.

"Hey," I said taking his hands, "I happen to love Harry Potter and I won't hear you say a bloody word against him," I said, leaning closer and kissing him. I knew he rolled his eyes, but I wasn't watching.

"Hurry up the both of you and get a room why don't you," Ron said from the back seat of the car.

"Yeah, what ever," I said climbing in before Harry. He sat next to me and I was surprised at how good Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Harry and I fit in the backseat, especially since Hermione and I were pregnant. I realized the seat must have been magically enlarged as we started driving. The car also seemed to move in between traffic.

It wasn't long before we reached the Burrow, from where we were going to floo to Hogwarts. We would have gone from Grimmauld Place, but McGonagall said something about not wanting to alert to alert the ministry about it directly because it could be found out by a spy from the ministry. If that happened, well, it wouldn't be anything good.

When we pulled to a stop Ginny, followed by Harry got out and Harry helped me out. Once Ron and Hermione got out of the car we took our trunks and went into the house, while Mrs. Weasley supervised, making sure none of us dawdled.

When we had finally gotten our stuff out of the trunk Harry and Ron set them down next to the fireplace.

"I'll just send these ahead," Mrs. Weasley said and with a wave of her wand the trunks disappeared. Then she took a pot of green powder off of the mantle and held it out to the five of us, "Who's going first?" she asked.

"I will," Ginny offered, "Where are we going?"

"McGonagall's office," Mr. Weasley replied.

She took a handful of the powder and threw it in the fire before following it into the fire. "McGonagall's office," she shouted before disappearing into a flash of green flames.

Ron went after her, then Hermione and finally Mrs. Weasley turned to me with the pot of floo powder. I took some and threw it into the fire before stepping into the now green flames. "McGonagall's office," I shouted before throwing a last glance at Harry before I started spinning furiously. I had to tuck my elbows in so they didn't get scraped on the rough brick. Finally I felt myself slowing, which was good because I was starting to feel sick. I stopped suddenly and fell forward onto a hard stone floor. Ron helped me up and out of the way as Harry came through.

I brushed some of the dust of me and fixed my glasses as I looked around. I realized that Ginny had already left, as had Hermione and Ron. 'But Ron helped me up...' I thought to myself as I looked around. Then I realized that it must have been Zabini because he was the only other one in the room.

'We're not in McGonagall's office,' I heard Harry think.

'No were not,' I thought back, "Where are we?" I asked Zabini.

"Just in an unused classroom," he shrugged.

"Well, we'll just be leaving now," Harry snapped, taking my arm and leading me to the door.

"You can leave, I want to talk to Amy," he said, still remaining calm.

"What makes you think I'll allow you to talk to her?" Harry retorted, anything but calm.

Zabini was about to say something else, but I said something first. "It's okay Harry, he won't do anything, but anything you can say to me Blaise, you can say to Harry."

He sighed, "Fine," he said before turning and sitting in a chair. I gave a pleading look to Harry and he sat down next to me.

"What do you want Blaise? I'll listen for a little bit, but not for long," I said as I leaned my head on Harry's shoulder.

"Well, you never gave me a proper chance to apologize for what you saw," he started, but Harry interrupted.

"You mean for her walking in on you cheating on her?" He shouted as he stood. I pulled him back to his seat and made sure he calmed down before speaking, "It's okay Harry, let him explain, no more interruptions."

"Well," Zabini continued, "I am sorry for that. I just couldn't help it. She cornered me in that room. I know I shouldn't have done anything, but…" he trailed off into memory. I raised my eyebrow at him and he continued. "Well, I'm sorry. I never had any attention of hurting you."

"Not that I don't appreciate it, but why are you telling me this now?" I asked.

"Well, I haven't been able to speak to you before now. I just thought that you'd possibly speak to me again if I got to explain. I don't expect things to be like they were. I just didn't want to know that we left school, possibly to never see each other again, with you hating me."

"I never hated you," I protested, "I was just angry with you," I paused a moment, "Very angry with you and hurt, upset that you would do something like that to me, but most of all I was hurt." I decided to stop there because he was beginning to look very uncomfortable. Harry seemed to be getting angrier the more I said and I knew it was because Blaise had caused me that much pain

'Harry, I'm fine. If I hadn't broken up with Blaise I would have never been able to get with you,' I thought to him.

'I guess you are right, but I can't help but say I told you so. I knew there was something fishy about that Slytherin.'

'Aha, I knew it had something to do with him being a Slytherin that you didn't like me dating him.'

'No it was really because I was jealous that you were dating someone when I had been about to ask you out,' he thought. I knew that he had meant to keep that to himself.

I decided to turn my attention back to Blaise and realized that our silence must have confused him because he was looking from me to Harry uncomfortably.

"Well, we can go now I guess, I'm sure people will be looking for you," he said finally as he got up and walked to the door.

"One more question," I said and he stopped halfway to the door and turned to look at me expectantly, "How did you get us here?"

"Oh that, I begged McGonagall and she arranged it," when I looked at him with my eyebrows raised he just smiled and left the room.

"That wasn't so bad, was it?" I asked Harry as he got up.

He turned to me and held out his arm to help me up and waited until I was up and we had left the room before responding, "Yeah it was."

I just rolled my eyes as Hermione rushed up to us, "Where have you been, we've been looking for you everywhere."

"Just ran into someone, we'll tell you about it later, when Ron is around," I said and just pulled Harry along, right into the Great Hall. She reluctantly followed us and sat next to Ron and we sat across from the both of them.

I didn't talk much, but I found out soon after I had sat down that from my seat I could see Blaise. He kept trying to catch my eye and I kept avoiding his gaze. Finally I just had to give up eating all together.

"Where are you going?" Harry asked, grabbing my arm before I walked away.

"To bed, I don't feel good." It was only partially a lie because I wasn't feeling all too good about the looks Blaise was giving me.

"Alright," Harry replied, 'Room of Requirement?' he thought.

'No, I'm going to my dormitory for a while,' I replied as I walked away.

I wasn't walking long before Blaise caught up with me. He pulled me into the nearest open classroom and shut the door behind him. I watched as he waved him wand at it and I heard it lock and then I think he muttered a silencing charm but I couldn't hear him that well.

"Hey, what are you doing?" I asked.

He leaned in and tried to kiss me. I leaned back until I felt I was about to fall over backwards and pushed him away.

"Blaise, just what in the bloody hell do you thinking you're doing?" I repeated, adding a few choice words.

"Nothing you don't want," he replied leaning in again.

This time I stepped back, "I don't want this. I never said that. Blaise, I told you I'd be your friend again, not like this. I can't and I won't."

"Oh you know you want it Amy, don't deny it. I saw the way you were looking at me. You know as well as I do that you want this, just admit it. What Harry doesn't know doesn't hurt him," he said as he leaned towards me again. This time I was so shocked that I didn't move until his lips touched mine. I stepped back and slapped him.

"What the bloody hell did you do that for?" he asked angrily.

"I do not want to date you Blaise. I do not want to kiss you and after this I'm not sure I even want to be your friend anymore. I love Harry, we are married and I'm having his child. I will not cheat on him and I don't want to. Especially not with someone like you, not with anyone else either. Now, please, I'm asking you nicely, let me out of the room," I said, trying to stay calm and keep him from touching me at all.

"I don't believe you. I believe you still like me. If not you were doing a damn good job of flirting with me."

"I wasn't flirting with you, I wasn't even looking at you. I was trying my hardest not to look at you. Blaise, I'm over you, now get over me. I'll ask you once more nicely, let me out of this room," I said, with more force.

"No, not until you admit that you still have feelings for me," he said stubbornly standing his ground.

"I will not because I will not lie to you Zabini, now get out of my way," I said, reaching for my wand, but he was too quick for me.

"Stupefy," he shouted and then everything was dark.

I knew something was wrong with Amy when I asked Hermione to go up to get Amy and she wasn't in her bed. Though I pretended nothing was wrong and just went down to the Room of Requirement to check if she was there. I told myself she was, trying to assure myself, but I knew she wasn't, even as the portrait of the fat lady swung closed behind me and I was walking briskly down the hall.

Sure enough, when I walked past the blank stretch of wall on the seventh floor three times and the door popped up I opened it to find an empty room.

I rushed back up to find my trunk and when I was going through the commom room the first time neither Ron or Hermione noticed because they were snogging. Though when I ran through the second time, after getting something from my trunk, Hermione and Ron seemed to have surfaced.

"Harry, what's wrong?" Hermione asked, concerned. Ron just looked like he wanted to get back to snogging her.

"Oh nothing, just needed to send my trunk to the Room of Requirment," I lied as I smiled assuringly.

Hermione looked skeptical for a moment, but then seemed to decide that I was telling the truth, "Do you want me to send Amy's over?" she asked.

"Yeah, thanks," I replied before exiting the portrait hole once more. I waited until I had gotten around the corner before ducking behind a suit of armor and taking what appeared to be a piece of blank parchment out of my pocket, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," I said, tapping it with my wand.

I watched as the familar map of Hogwarts came into view and I searched for a dot that said Amy Bradshaw. I didn't expect it to say Amy Potter, but I was suprised to see that it did. I did a double take and found that very close by was Blaise Zabini.

I decided to get my invisibility cloak and checked to make sure Ron and Hermione were very close to each other before sneaking past them to the boys staircase for a second time. I took my cloak out, sent my trunk to the Room of Requirement and threw the cloak over me before venturing to the common room again. Neither Hermione or Ron seemed to have noticed anything at all had happened, even when I practically knocked over a chair.

It took me way too long to reach the door that I knew she was behind, but maybe that was just me. I tried to listen at the door, but my cloak was proving to be a problem. Finally I just took it off.

I stood, pressing my ear against the door, but heard nothing. I knew this was not a good sign. I tried to open the door, but found it was locked. I got out my wand and unlocked the door. It was a bad idea, when I got through I felt my wand fly out of my hand.

I looked around the room and didn't see Zabini, but I saw Amy and I ran over to her. When I saw she wasn't moving I immediately thought the worst, but I realized that she had just been stunned. Then I realized that I didn't have my wand and that Zabini had to be in here. I turned to find him standing in the doorway with his wand and my own in his hand.

"Give it back Zabini and let us out of here now," I said, trying to stay calm.

"I don't think so Potter," he sneered.

"You know what Zabini, I think you'll agree much more when I'm done with you," I had inched closer to him while I was talking and now I jumped and tackled him. It had obviously startled him because he didn't move out of my way. I felt him hit the floor and I grabbed my wand and jumped up almost as spontaneously as I had tackled him.

I held my wand right in front of his face as I muttered Expelliarimus. I caught his wand and wasted no time before kneeling down next to Amy. I did not turn my back on Zabini though.

"Enneverte," I said, pointing my wand at her. I watched as her eyes fluttered open and she had a look of terror, then she realized I had woken her up and she looked utterly relieved, "Are you okay?" I asked.

She nodded, "Yeah, thanks," she said as she sat up.

"Let's go," she said, her gaze avoiding Zabini.

I helped her up and led her out the room, then turned to Zabini, "Stay away from my wife, Zabini. I don't want you talking to her, or even looking at her. If you do, you'll regret it, do you understand me?" I asked, anger filling my voice.

He didn't say anything, just nodded and I threw his wand back to him before slamming the door behind me. I turned and Amy rushed into my arms.

"Let's get to our room, then we can talk," I whispered into her ear and I felt her nod into my shoulder before I let her go. I put my arm around her waist and pulled her close to me as we walked.

When we reached the seventh floor we walked back and forth across the blank stretch of wall three times and a door appeared. We walked into our room and she went digging through her trunk.

"I'm going to take a shower," she explained when she noticed I was watching her. Then she disappeared into the bathroom.

I dried my hair before leaving the bathroom. I found Harry dozing as he sat up on the edge of the bed. I walked over to him and kissed him before pushing him back onto the bed.

"Hey," he said, leaning into my kiss, but not laying down. He stayed sitting, "We have stuff to talk about."

I sighed and sat next to him, "I guess you're right," I agreed.

"What happened, for starters?" he asked, pulling me close to him. I knew I was tense and realized there was no reason to be, he would understand. I relaxed into his side and looked up into his startlingly green eyes before telling him what had happened since I left the Great Hall. He was silent and I was avoiding his eyes, though occasionally I felt his eyes on me.

"I love you so much," I added before taking a huge breath. I had only taken three breaths through my whole description of the evening.

He was silent for a moment and I kept avoiding his gaze. Finally he sighed and pulled my chin up so I would be looking into his eyes, "I know and I love you, too," he said before kissing me. "Now, let's go to sleep, we have lessons in the morning," he said finally laying down.

"Now, wait a minute," I said and he sat back up, "How in the world did you know where I was?"

"Oh, that," he said shortly, "Well, I have a map that shows me Hogwarts and all the people in it," He paused and got up, going to his trunk a moment later he had pulled a blank piece of parchment and a silvery cloak out of his trunk.

I immediately noticed the cloak for what it was, "You have an invisibility cloak?" I asked, slightly curious why he hadn't told me this before.

"Yeah, I do. It's proved itself useful in the past," he replied. He set the cloak aside and pulled the parchment in front of him. I was about to ask about it but he started talking first, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good," he said as he tapped his wand in the middle of the parchment. From the point his wand touched many lines spead like wildfire and I soon noticed it was a map of Hogwarts. I also noticed that there were dots everywhere with names next to them. I looked around, but couldn't find what I was looking for.

"We're not on here," I pointed out.

"Wow, you figured out what it was without me even telling you. Yes, I know we are not on here, the Room of Requirement isn't on here," he replied.

"Well, you weren't exactly thinking to yourself," I admitted, while continuing to examine the map.

"Oh," he responded, "Well, can we go to bed now?" he asked.

"I guess," I sighed, handing him back the map.

"Mischeif managed," he said, tapping the map with his wand and the map disappeared leaving a blank piece of parchment again. He safely stowed both the map and the cloak in his trunk again before returning to bed with me.