Ch. 17

Severus asked, "Hermione is pregnant too?"

Hermione hugged Lyra; as both girls were having a time of their life, talking about possible names for their own children. Harry was blushing in a chair that he was in; really trying not to think about how his best friend had gotten pregnant by their potions teacher. He was just not having a good day. Then also picturing Tom being a Dad; was a picture that he could really not see, it just turned out the babies were nothing more than little snakes. It really sickened him out.

Tom saw that Harry was nearly green and then saw what was going through his mind. "Potter; my children will not look like that, thank Heavens for that."

Lyra looked from Tom to Harry and asked, "What did he picture?"

Tom wrapped his arms around her, "Don't worry about it wife; no matter what anyone thinks, we will have normal children."

Severus was standing and mumbled, "Children? Babies?" No one could really blame the Hated Potions Master for the way he was acting, no one really pictured him being married and having kids, it just did not go together.

Tom growled, "Severus! Put yourself together man, you will be a father of your own brood, but you will not help Mrs. Snape by acting this way for the next nine months you know."

"Yes, my Lord. Sorry, my Lord," answered Severus, he seemed to have gotten out of his little brain freeze that he was in. He put Hermione in his arms and rubbed his arms over hers, "Thank you, for making me a father of your children, my dear."

Minerva asked, "Should we tell anyone else outside from this room about the children?"

Tom answered, "No. Dumbledore would just use the information against everyone who is involved, and I don't want him saying one thing and then hurting Lyra just to have the baby die before the birth. No; I just don't take that kind of risk, when there are lives that could hurt here."

The transfiguration professor sighed, "I agree with you, Tom. I guess I don't know how he would act when he is desperate for things to work for him than against him."

"If Lyra or Hermione were not having children, I wouldn't care so much," stated Severus. "But since there are other lives that are coming, I don't want to chance them not being harmed as well."

Harry sadly asked, "What could we do now? How are we going to end the war?"

Tom stated, "Like I said, I will get a hold of Lucius and through him the board of directors and then we could have Dumbledore thrown out of the school. Then we will go from there, we could send home letters of information of what Albus truly wanted to war to on for ages, when I want to end the war now; since there is nothing for me to go against anymore. Have you heard anything from the Order, Potter?"

Harry fished out two letters and scanned them as he answered, "Author Weasley wants to have a meeting with you Tom, same with Remus Lupin; before they talk to the other Order members about ending the war. Remus also said that he would like the list when we do have the meeting with them, to show them that you do mean about ending it. They also would like the Snapes to be there, as well as your wife, Tom. They want no funny business and they believe that he won't have such thoughts with Lyra around."

When Harry looked up at Tom, Tom said, "They're right, I won't do any kind of funny business with Lyra around; plus she would know when I am lying or not. But warn them that if they ever tried to use Lyra against me or harm her to get to me, then I could end their life or the life of their loved ones."

"I'll let them know, and I also told them that I will be at the meeting. I don't want to be left out of anything anymore; I can't handle any more secrets or hidden quotas that I don't know about."

"Understandable Potter; just do me one favor though."

"And that is Riddle?"

"Keep my Lyra safe for me, if anything happens to me."

"Will do, Tom."

"Good."

That was how the meeting ended that night; with Harry Potter, Tom Riddle, and Minerva McGonagall, with Severus Snape, Hermione Snape, and Lyra Granger-Riddle watching the whole thing. That night Tom did not stay the night with his wife; he managed to kiss her goodnight and tucked her in though, with Nuada watching over her.

xXx

Across the castle in the Headmaster's office; Headmaster Dumbledore was in his office with Ronald Weasley with the whole Weasley family, none of the red heads looked happy about being called into Hogwarts nearly in the middle of the night. Everyone who was either the parent or older brother to the young man, had either yelled or spoke of ways to hurt him, for talking the way he had done with his so called best friend; Hermione Granger-Snape.

Mrs. Molly Weasley was crying, "I had thought you better than that Ronald; now you will be coming home with us, and I will find you a wife that will not put up with sort of behavior from you."

"I thought you wanted me to marry Hermione in the first place mom," asked a bewildered Ronald Weasley.

Arthur growled, "That was before we found out that she was already married and now we have to find another muggle-born for you, and maybe from another country after the things that you have said tonight. Now the whole school would be against us."

Fred and Gorge spoke as one, like the loved to do, "Thanks a lot Ronikins. We are going to have to find our own wives in other countries after what was said tonight, against Hermione." Fred went off to ask, "Are you secretly friends with Malfoy or something, just you can get to Harry?"

"No," growled out Ron. "Why would I be friends with that little creep? I have put up with Harry's bad dreams, his growing fame for a long time; I just want some of that fame too. That's all that I want! I should have called Hermione a Mudblood, while I'm at it. At least I would be kicked out of the school for something."

What no one had seen; was that Lucius Malfoy and some of the board of directors were in the Headmaster's office for quite some time, they had come through the fireplace a few moments ago and all thanks to Tom Riddle. They had been able to arrive at there in a matter of moments. Lucius had heard everything; he had wanted Ms. Hermione Granger gone from the school for a longest time, but he cannot do it anymore. Not when the Dark Lord wants to protect her, as long she is the wife of Severus Snape that is.

Lucius had cleared his throat, to where he had gotten everyone's attention to him, "Good evening everyone; we are here to see the verdict of Mr. Ronald Weasley would be, and what are the steps that will be followed?"

The Headmaster softly glared at Mr. Malfoy and said, "Well; tonight Mr. Ronald Weasley here had openly disturbed the peace here at the school by going after Mrs. Hermione Snape, and as the Headmaster of the school has here by suspended him from further his education here. The house-elves have been sent to his dorm room to pack all of things as we speak and he will be going home with his family."

A woman from the board of directors had made her way forward to the Headmaster, "I would like to see what had happened tonight; and Dumbledore, no filtered stuff either."

"Yes; Madam Lang," he stood up and walked over to his pensive where the rest of the directors would be overseeing his memories upon the night's events. Once all the members had seen the events for themselves, they moved back towards the Headmaster's desk and stood before the Weasley family.

"As for Mr. Ronald Weasley; I sentence you as a muggle. You will be stripped of your wand for it will be snapped in half and you will no longer be part of the Wizarding World, you will no longer see your parent again. After hearing about you wanting more than one wife, well I hate to break this to you Mr. Weasley but we are not part of Arabia or even part of the Biblical times, to where men could have more than one wife," spoke Madam Lang. "What do you say Mr. Malfoy?"

"I agree with you Madam Lang. Why would any man want to have more than one wife, is beyond me. I already spend a lot of money to make sure Mrs. Malfoy is happy, I can't imagine having two of them, I would lose more money than I have in my vaults if that were to happen," answered Lucius. "What would you thing, Mr. Nott?"

Mr. Nott; who has a son that goes to the school with Lucius' son, spoke up, "I think I would have a heart attack. Plus I know my wife; she would hate sharing me with another woman, women are creatures of satiability and if they don't have that, you are asking for a war. What is your intake in all of this Mrs. Weasley?"

"What do you more than one wife," asked Molly Weasley, "What are they talking about Ronald?!"

The Headmaster sighed, "He made a comment about you wanting him to marry Hermione than he also said something about marrying Lyra Granger as well, Hermione's cousin. Saying something about seeing if the law would allow having him marry two girls at once and for him to marry both of them, because Lyra had big hip and could give more children than Hermione but also can still have her as well," he knew he was barely making any kind of cents through the whole ordeal, but he really did not care.

"WHAT," shrieked the little red headed woman, no one in the room felt sorry for Ron that night. "Hasn't your father and I ever thought you the meaning of a loving family? Sure I had wanted you to marry Hermione, so I can have her as a daughter and have Ginny marry Harry; to have The-Boy-Who-Lived as a son-in-law. It would have been perfect, but no my son couldn't get to the girl in time. Oh well; I still have Harry to get. I will miss having my baby boy at home, for me to take care of, but I will be having grandbabies here soon."

The Board of Directors was in shock; hearing Molly Weasley using her children to get to the well knows students into their family, through marriage. Then again; it was mainly what pureblood have done through the ages, marry people who were grand into their families. Ronald Weasley was taken away from the Law Enforcement Agency; where they had wiped his brain off all his knowledge about the Wizarding World, there was no more Ronald Weasley but John Redford. A graduate student from Australia; who came to London to work on trains, and was living at a local motel as he was looking for stable housing.

The Headmaster said, "Well; I think it is time to say goodnight to everyone, it has grown quiet late."

Madam Lang spoke up, "Not yet Headmaster; but as for the Weasleys, it is quiet late and we will see you all another time if something else has come about." With that the whole Weasley family had exited out of the Headmaster office through the fireplace; once the family had left, then Lucius had blocked the floo network from working for the time being. Madam Lang spoke again, "As for you Headmaster Dumbledore; you have ran this school quiet well for many years, but for the last few years things have been come to our attention to where we cannot turn a blind eye any longer. It is time for you to step down and take your retirement at once, sir. I understand that you want to watch over Mr. Harry Potter, but things keep getting you to either pick the lives of the students over your own life; or sacrifice their lives for your own. As I see it; it is indeed time for you to step down, and allow someone else to take over the school."

Dumbledore was not at all too happy hearing about the changes, "Who would you have, as the new Headmaster around here?"

"Starting this moment on; the school will answer to Headmistress Minerva McGonagall, who you have appointed as Deputy Headmistress of this school for the last fifteen years or so. Now it is time for her to step forward and take command of this school at once. I order you to pack up everything you own and leave the castle and to never come back, do you hear me?"

"Yes, madam."

"Good."

It had taken the old headmaster a few minutes, but he had packed everything he had ever own that was in his rooms, and shrunk them all to fit into his pockets and left through the floo network; once Lucius Malfoy had activated them again. Once he was gone; Madam Lang had called Minerva into the office, who later moved all of her things into the office.