Chapter 12: The Unanswerable Question
December 19, 2019; Present
KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.
Ginny jumped up in the middle of George's story about the latest product for Weasley Wizard Wheezes. She walked down the hall past the coat closet and lavatory and into the entrance hall. She pulled open the door and came face to face with a beautiful Witch with flowing blonde hair.
"Fleur! Come in, come in," she beckoned her in then walked back down the hall towards the Den.
"'Ello, Ginny, I got your owl, ze kids are back?"
"Yeah, Louis and Nikki are upstairs and Vic is in the Den." They entered the Den and everyone looked up.
Hermione smiled, "Hi, Fleur."
"'Ello 'Ermione." Hermione looked at their friendly encounter and frowned. Since when did she like Fleur?
Someone knocked on the front door again. "Hermione? Can you get it? I'm tired." Hermione laughed but got up to answer the door anyway. Besides the few murmurings coming from the hall, all was quiet again. Hermione pattered back in again and Molly and Arthur were shocked to see older versions of themselves enter the room. Molly had a fair few wrinkles and her hair was almost completely gray while what was left of Arthur's hair was all gray.
"Hello," Molly said.
"Hey, Mum," Ginny greeted. Arthur smiled and nodded. They sat down, quite awkwardly and looked around. When no one said anything, Molly cleared her throat.
"So… I wondered, as you're going to have to Obliviate us anyway… can you answer a few questions?" Molly asked.
"I suppose… but some things we won't tell you because it will be too hard to explain. Uh, what do you want to know?" Hermione asked, looking questioningly at Ginny, who nodded covertly.
"Is You-Know-Who gone?" Ron asked.
"Voldemort? Wow, he hasn't been called that in years. Well, yeah. He's gone for good," Ginny looked at Dumbledore and something no one really understood passed through them and Ginny nodded once.
"How?"