I hope you enjoy this part. I'm enjoying exploring the Weasley's and what they did during the wizarding war more than I ever thought I would. I will get around to more Harry and Ginny though. I pretty much always write romance so it's coming.
Harry had wanted to kiss Ginny while they had been outside, but he was all too aware that they were being watched by Bill and Charlie who were pretending to drink pumpkin juice while standing at the Kitchen window and talking. Something Harry had never seen them do before. But also by the fact that there were 2 Auror's just outside the wards, it was strange. They had pretty much admitted to still loving each other but nothing had yet been said about being together again.
Due to the fact they couldn't walk far without leaving the wards they returned to the house and both caught a few extra hours sleep. Harry once again napping on the cot in Ginny's room everyone not wanting to argue with anything Ginny suggested today, also thankful that as long as Harry was near her she seemed to actually be able to sleep without dreams.
The meeting with the celebrant had gone well, and the most of the afternoon after he had left had been taken up by working with the device he left behind called an Imagizer. It would scan the magical photo's they had of Fred and then project them almost into a full size holographic image. There was a mixture of wonder and tears at almost seeing Fred again to laughing hard at the strange things him and George were doing in most of the images. Harry wondered just how he could buy one of the magical Imagizers for the Weasleys so that they could view these memories whenever they wanted to. With every image there was laughing among all the family of the stories that went behind them. Hermione, Fleur and Harry all felt like they learnt a lot more about their adoptive family than they had known before.
Harry had also been surprised when Ginny had jumped up at one stage run up stairs and then returned with an album filled with a mixture of Magical and Muggle photographs. She sat back down and ran a hand over it. Looking up at Harry, "It's what Colin made me when he found out you wouldn't be returning to school. He called it my memory book." She explained. Opening it, and pulling out some of the Quidditch photo's of Harry from his second year on that also had Fred and George in them. After handing them to Ron and Hermione who had taken charge of the Imagizer she handed the rest of the album to Harry. "I know he used to annoy you with taking photo's all the time. But this was my way of thinking of you over the last year. Much like the map was for you." She whispered.
Harry took it feeling strange knowing that the person who had taken the pictures was now dead. He could almost feel his hands shaking. Colin and his brother had never questioned that Harry was a hero. They had believed in him always. As much as it had annoyed him, Harry now felt touched. He opened the album to find many photo's of himself, right from his second year through to his 6th. There were some very special ones of him and Ginny together at the end. Harry knew he had been happy and almost walking on a cloud in the few weeks he had spent with Ginny at the end of his 6th year. He just had no idea it had also been written all over his face.
George who was admiring one of Colin's photo's Ron and Hermione had just put through the imagizer suddenly sobered up. "I haven't talked to Dennis, I haven't even thought about him. There was only him and Colin as children in his family." He said suddenly frustrated.
"Oh, you're right." Hermione exclaimed. "I should have thought of that as well. What must his muggle parents be going through?"
Harry looked up at the comment, then back at George. "They were still both at school?" He half questioned. "Dean wasn't he couldn't attend without being arrested."
Ginny nodded. "Dean left pretty early in the piece. It was after that Fred hired the witch who could forge papers. The Cleevys were the first to get theirs."
George hung his head. "We thought we were doing the right thing. I wonder if they would have been better back with their parents and hiding out."
Ginny shook her head. "They choose to stay. Colin's photography helped heaps. Thanks to him we have a record of what was really happening at Hogwarts this last year."
Hermione reached over and placed a hand on George's leg. "Colin wasn't even meant to be in the battle. Mcgonnagal told him he had to leave when she made all the underage wizards go. They argued, and she refused to let him and Dennis stay."
Harry nodded. "I remember. I also remember seeing his body being carried in and thinking he must have snuck back in somehow."
Molly was wiping her eyes again. "So much loss and yet so much freedom won." She muttered wiping her eyes with a handkerchief. "And when I think of that little baby of Tonks and Remus's growing out without parents. Why it almost breaks my heart."
"We should go and see the Cleevy's." George stated next. "Harry, Ginny and I should at the least."
Molly whipped her eyes again. "I'm so proud of you and Fred and to think I spent so much time worrying that you would never make something of yourselves." Bursting into tears, she glanced once more at the son who looked so much like the one she had lost and ran out of the room.
"I think dinner may have to be a help yourselves as well tonight." Arthur sighed getting up to follow his wife.
"Don't worry we'll cook something." Hermione told him. "Mrs. Weasley is always looking after us. It's time we looked after her."
"But Mum's cooking is so much better than yours." Ron complained.
"No said you had to eat it. You can get your own." Hermione spat back.
George smirked. "That's more like it. Fred would be happy knowing you still fight as well as being sickly sweet."
Hermione, Harry and Ginny were all working on Dinner when Kingsley stepped out of the fireplace, bringing with him a huge sack which he placed on the table.
"Well that's the mail we think you should probably actually read sooner rather than later." He sighed. "I was asked to bring it over with the timetable we've been working out for Harry, Ron and Hermione over the next week. Before Ron and Hermione leave for Australia."
Bill and Charlie who had been sitting at the kitchen table raised their eyes at Ron who was sitting with them. Ron had been roped into peeling some vegetables. But after setting the peeler to work magically had pretty much sat back with a butter beer.
"Mum might let you sleep together in a room with the door open after all you two have been through but going on a romantic holiday together might be taking it a bit far." Bill advised.
"We're going to get Hermione's parents, and having to take two Auror's with us. I would hardly call it a romantic getaway." Ron explained but couldn't help turning a little red at the fact at the eyes of his two oldest brothers were on him.
Just then Percy also came through the fireplace with another large sack. "Here's the rest of the mail, and Ron and Hermione's travel Itinerary." He added unaware of the conversation.
Charlie looked at his brother who was always the sensible one. "You knew they were heading to the other side of the world together?" He asked.
Percy looked at him. "Its ministry business and they are both 18. Well over the coming of age."
Bill coughed. "Mum had issues with Fleur and I sharing a bedroom when we were engaged. In fact she didn't let us the first time I brought her here."
Charlie sniggered. "I've never even dared try and bring someone to stay here. I reckon Ginny and Ron have the right idea hooking up with people Mum's had pretty much living here for years. It's a little hard for her to kick them out."
Kingsley was eyeing up Percy with an intrusting look across his face. "Percy do your family know about your current, am…ahhhh….living arrangements? Because I know your mother and she doesn't like not knowing what her children are doing."
Percy turned bright red. "Well it's been a little busy….a lot going on…..I hadn't talked to them for a long time…..I…..well I'm an adult."
Everyone now had stopped what they were doing and looking at Percy. Rather wide eyed.
Ginny was starting at him. "I know that look. You're living with someone aren't you? I remember when I walked in on you kissing that girl in my first year. You were just that colour then."
"You're living with a girl not you're engaged to or married too?" Ron whistled. "I can see it now. 'Percy Weasley that's not the way I brought you up, you need to make an honest woman of that girl, and here I was always thinking you were the more sensible one of the family.' " Ron finished with an almost perfect impression of Molly.
Kingsley slapped Percy on the back. "Sorry mate. Sort of dropped you in it. I better be off now." He said turning back towards the fire place. Then after grabbing some Floo powder turned back towards everyone. "You'll all actually like Audry. She's been good for Percy." Before stepping into the fire and dropping the Floo Powder and calling out. "The Ministry."
"How come we're still on the Floo network if we need Auror's outside?" Harry suddenly asked.
Hermione looked at him. "It's a closed network. We can get to and from Kingsley's office, and to the chief healer at St Mungo's. We can go anywhere but no one can return here except from those two fireplaces."
Harry nodded at her. While the Weasley siblings continued to look at Percy.
"So what's this Audry been doing for the last few days while you've been staying back here again?" Ginny asked.
"She's at home. I…." He paused. "I want you all to meet her. She made me see sense. That family is important, and that my career isn't everything. She's a little different."
"Different?" Ron asked.
Percy ran a hand through his hair. "She works in the Department of….." He paused. "She works for Dad." He finally spat out.
This news caused even more wide eyes.
"And Dad has no idea?" Bill asked astounded.
Percy shook his head. "She hasn't been too pleased with my attitude. She likes him. She likes Dad a lot."
"Oh boy I can't wait for you to come clean with Dad." Charlie shook his head. "I know who you're talking about, their new assistant who we wondered last September if she had been hired to spy on him." Charlie laughed. "You're living with someone who Dad's been sharing information with after she saved the Department from all being arrested."
Bill whistled loudly. "It was you. She got that info from you. Dad was being careful after that tip off in the lifts that time. But she saved some important Order work. Dad couldn't work out how she knew such top level stuff. But she helped no end several times."
Percy sat down, and put his head in his hands before looking up at Bill and then to Fleur. "I'm sorry I couldn't come to your wedding. I really wanted to, I just. Well Umbrigde was tipped off that the ministry would fall. I knew then that she had lost it I….I suppose I saw the error of my ways. But I also saw a way I could help. When Audry started working for Dad I got to know her on purpose. But well it turned, it turned out she kept me going. She made me believe I was being helpful. I made Umbridge believe Audry was spying for me, when…well…..the truth was I was the spy, and Audry was the informant."
"Oh Percy." Ginny exclaimed rushing over and hugging Percy, kissing him on the cheek. "I can't wait to meet her. She sounds. Well she sounds perfect."
"Even if she shares Dad fascination for muggle electrical things?" He asked.
I always wanted to know what made Percy turn back to his family or when he realised he was on the wrong side. So I made it up.
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