Chapter 23: Reactions of the Weasley Family

A/N:Disclaimer in first few chapters!

Molly stood up, following Hermione out of the kitchen and into the sitting room. The mother of seven watched as the young woman poured the silvery substance into the basin-like structure. Hermione beckoned the older woman forward and gestured for her to dunk. She smiled and nodded, knowing she wouldn't like what she would see but that it was necessary.

Gasping at the cold feeling when she put her head in, Molly watched as she was placed in a cafe she recognized as 'The Wizard Hut'. She could only watch on in horror as her youngest son strided towards a dark-haired woman that was not Hermione. She saw Ron kiss the lady and ran towards him in a rage only to slip right through him, not noticed at all. In her temper, the red-haired woman couldn't hear the things her cheater son was murmuring to his mistress. What she did hear, however, shocked her to the very core.

"When are you going to leave that ugly cow, sweetheart?" the snobbish beauty crooned.

"Soon, love, I promise." Ron cooed right back, twirling a strand of silky black around his index finger.

More scenes like this one followed, each one leaving Molly more angry than the last. When she eventually emerged from the pensieve, Molly Weasley was red with anger and shame. She noticed the brunette witch standing patiently beside the pensieve. Molly walked over to her and simply wrapped her arms around the younger witch in a hug.

"I'm sorry, honey!" Molly moaned into her hair. "I don't know where I went wrong with my son."

"It's alright, Mrs Weasley," Hermione reassured. "I've gotten over it."

After a few minutes, her anger had gone down to a simmer and she let go of Hermione.

Molly Weasley entered the kitchen to see her twins trying to dispel the tension in the room. Her presence drew many questioning stares from the surrounding family members. She ignored them though, instead focusing her attention on the cause of all this.

"You selfish, arrogant, cheating pig, Ronald Weasley!" she hissed and with a quick flick of her wand, she turned her son into a pig.

"I am ashamed to call you my son," she continued, taking a threatening step towards pig-Ron. The pink animal snorted in fear. "You cheated on the most fantastic woman on this planet. She loved you with all her heart and how did you repay her? By CHEATING on her! She was about to become part of this family for real and you blew that chance. I've always treated her like a daughter and I still will." At this stage, Molly was chasing the pig around the house, trying to catch him. Finally, she cornered him and grabbed him , holding him up by his tail.

"I think we will be having pork for dinner," she announced.

"I won't believe it until I see it!" Ginny protested stubbornly.

"Then go in there and see it for yourself!" her mother snapped, still glaring at the pig even as she set him down and turned him back into a human. Once Ron was himself again, he scramed to his feet, feeling his body and checking if it was real. Breathing out a sigh of relief, he flopped down onto the sofa, paling as Molly shot daggers at him.

A tense silence descended on the room as they awaited Ginny's return. After about 15 minutes, the woman in question arrived back into the room and, boy, was she fuming. Wasting no time on words, Ginevra Molly Weasley grabbed her wand from the table and shot a Stinging Hex at her brother who yelped in pain. This was quickly followed by the red-head's famous Bat Bogey Hex. While he was flapping about, she shouted "Levicourpus!" causing his body to get jerked up into the air by his ankle.

As their brother's face began to get red with humiliation, Fred and George snuck out to take a look at Ron's memories.

"Ready, Forge?" George asked his twin, slapping his shoulder.

"As I'll ever be, Gred" Fred replied, grinning at Hermione who stood to to the side. The siblings saluted her just before diving into the memories leaving the brunette to laugh quietly.

When they rose out of the pensieve, they each were supporting identical murderous expressions.

"Oh, little Ronniekins is going to pay!" Fred said darkly, cracking his knuckles to emphaisise his point.

"Oh yes he shall," his twin agreed. "But-don't you think we should-"

"-prolong the pain? Yes." Fred finished the sentence.

For five minutes, they devisied a plan on how to humiliate their brother. Whispering in each other's ears, they were well aware of Hermione's curious expression.

"We're not giving anything away, Mione," George muttered in her ear as he hugged her tightly.

"It would ruin the surprise!" Fred cried jubilantly, shoving his twin out of the way in order to give her an equally tight hug.

"Pretty please?" the witch pouted, trying and failing to use her puppy dog eyes to extract informatione.

"Sorry, old bean! That trick won't work on us! they called out over their shoulders in unison as they exited the sitting room.

"We have the perfect way to humiliate dear Ronnie," Fred announced to the room upon their arrival to the kitchen. As his twin proclaimed that they were going to put Ron through his paces, George rubbed his hands in glee.

Mr Weasley was the last to pay a visit to Ron's mind and was gobsmacked at what he saw.

"How could you, Ron?" Arthur admonished while shaking her head in disappointment. Ron paled and hung his head in shame. The red haired male finally saw the errors of his ways but it was too late. He glared up at Draco maliciously as the man wrapped his arm around Hermione's waist.

He would get her back, no matter what.

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