Explain Please

Ron and Hermione went down to the dungeons without Harry and Draco. Harry had said that Snape might be able to explain why Ron was pregnant, and the two trusted him to be right. They also hoped that Snape could do something about it. They really didn't know what. Ron couldn't bare the thought of terminating the pregnancy even if he had only known about it for half an hour and it hadn't exactly been welcome news. It was still a life inside of him. An innocent life that had nothing to do with how it was conceived.

He was knocked out of his thoughts when Hermione banged loudly on the door to Snape's chamber. Ron couldn't understand why they were there and not at his classroom. Shouldn't he be teaching a class by now? Their class? He wanted to point it out to his girlfriend but was afraid that she would get mad again so he kept his mouth shut.

After a few seconds the door opened, to Ron's big surprise, but not by Professor Snape. In the doorway stood his lover, also know as Ron's little sister Ginny. She stared in shock at her brother and his girlfriend before turning around when she felt an arm go around her waist.

"What are you doing here, Ron?" she asked quietly while Severus attempted to pull her away from the door.

"What am I doing here? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in class? Why do you only wear a sheet?" Ron growled dangerously.

"What my... mistress... does in my chamber is none of your business, Mr. Weasley." sneered a low voice from behind the red headed girl.

"Mistress?" all three shouted at the same time.

"Is that all I am to you?" Ginny asked with a pout.

"Of course not, love." said Severus and kissed her gently to calm her. "You are my everything."

Ron pushed himself inside before they got any further into the discussion on what Ginny meant to his greasy Potion Master. Snape took a hold on his arm and tried to force him out but Hermione stopped him.

"Wait! We didn't come here to fight. We came to get some answers!" she said calmly but firmly.

"Answers on what, Ms. Granger?" he snapped with venom in his voice.

"Like why Ron's pregnant but he has not been sleeping with a wizard or taken a potion!" Hermione snapped back.

"Oh, he has taken a potion alright. He just didn't know it." Snape said in amusement.

"What!" they all said again but for different reasons. Ginny out of surprise to find out Ron was pregnant, Hermione and Ron out of surprise to know that he had taken a potion.

"Oh, yes. It was in Mr. Potter's pumpkin juice about a week ago. The day that Mr. Potter and Draco disappeared for three days. It was a fertility potion that would make sure that Draco became pregnant. It's hard to make such a young vampire pregnant." Snape said in his teaching tone. "It was not designed for a human, much less you Weasley. And it seems it was strong enough on a human that sexual contact was the only thing needed." Snape was amazed that it had been that strong.

"Why would you want Draco to become pregnant?" Hermione suddenly asked.

"A child of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy would be very powerful Ms. Granger. It would be a great asset in the war." the professor said matter-of-factly.

"Are you telling me, that you think Harry would agree to this!" Ron suddenly shouted.

"No." Snape said bluntly. "That is why Dumbledore has a family of powerful wizards in West Midlands that is waiting for it." His voice held sadness that the three teenagers didn't think he had in him.

"He would take the child away from two vampires?" Hermione asked, not believing what she was hearing.

"Yes. He planned on telling them that it was stillborn, dead at birth. It's not uncommon with vampires." Snape said a bit too calmly.

"And you're okay with this!" Ginny almost shouted.

Snape had walked over to a bookshelf and now he threw the books off the shelf that was at chest height to him. They fell to the floor with loud bangs.

"NO I'M BLOODY NOT OKAY WITH IT!" he shouted into the wall refusing to look back at them. "I told the old fool that he was crazy trying something like this! Harry would rip his throat out before he knew that the damn brat was even in the room!"

"Calm down Sev!" Ginny pleaded.

Severus held out his arms and she went to him, allowing him to enclose her in his arms.

"Do you think I would wish it on anybody to loose a child, Gin?" he murmured in her ear and she shook her head.

"No, not after Kristiana." she said quietly.

"Okay, back to me please!" Ron said when he saw Snape's hand go under the sheet his sister had around her body.

"What about you? You took the potion, you'll have to carry the child to term. End of story, case closed." Snape snapped at him.

"Fine. I won't bring it up again. But there is still this one little thing that bothers me. Magic can't get to it. How are we supposed to know if it's alright or not?" Ron asked a twig of anger in his voice.

"We'll do muggle examinations then. There, fixed. Now get out!"

Ron and Hermione quickly left. Their visit to the Potion Master has raised more questions than they received answers for, however they had gotten the answer to the question they went there for. They had found out how Ron became pregnant. But why would Dumbledore want to take Harry's child away? He would be devastated to know that the child had died at birth. Draco would most likely kill himself for his inability to protect his young and Harry would follow shortly thereafter. It didn't make sense! Harry was the key! The key to killing Voldemort! Why would Dumbledore want him gone?

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Sorry for the short chapter! Next chapter will be a time jump forward about three months. A lot will happen, and not all will be good...

Until next time! TTFN!