Chapter thirteen

'So, you and Hagrid?'

'You know it was Hagrid that came to tell me I was a wizard when I was eleven, right?'

'I knew Hagrid took you shopping for your things, but I didn't know he told you that. So you had no idea what you were before Hagrid went to get you?'

'No, nothing, strange things used to happen and I had no idea why. Those people wouldn't tell me anything, they were trying to stop me finding out. So anyway, he explained what I was then took me shopping. When I saw the way everyone acted around me I had to ask Hagrid why. The look on Hagrid's face made me a bit scared. He was angry at the Dursley's because they kept me in the dark about everything.' Harry sighed, 'He felt sorry for me. So we sat down to have some lunch when he explained about Voldemort and my parents. As he said, he couldn't tell me everything, but more than I ever knew. He bought me Hedwig as a birthday present, even made me a cake. I'd never had a cake before or a gift and the way Hagrid looked at me and talked to me, I don't know, I just took to him straight away. He was the first magical person I met, he showed me I wasn't a freak and I was someone worth knowing. He treated me like he wanted to be my friend and he liked me, I never had that before, not once, so Hagrid will always be special to me.'

'So you didn't have any close friends as a kid?'

'I had no one Charlie. They made sure I wasn't liked or I was someone no one would want to know. The things they said, the way they treated me, I really believed I wasn't a person people would like, I was strange and I was a freak. That was my life so I just went with it.'

'How wrong they were Harry, now look at how many friends you have and it's nothing to do with the chosen one and all that. Your friends really like you for you and since I've gotten to know you more I've realised why, you're such a nice person, caring and a little overprotective. But what you said about Hagrid telling you about your parents, did you know anything about them?'

'Nothing, not even their names, they refused to tell me. All I did get out of them was they died in a car crash, which was my fault, they were drunks and no hopers, that's how I supposedly got the scar.'

'I can't believe those people, fine they didn't like magical people but to keep the truth from you and lied to you was just wrong. I suppose when you got to Hogwarts you read about what happened?'

'No, Hermione did, I didn't want to. It's not something a kid wants to read, how his parents were murdered. So unless I needed to know something, I never touched those books. It's like with me, I stopped reading any newspapers or magazines because I was in them all the time and so much that was written about me was lies. So Hermione would read them and if I needed to know something she would tell me, otherwise I didn't want to know. Why are you asking about all this Charlie? Not that I don't mind telling you, I'll tell you anything, I'm just curious as to why now?'

'Mum, she thought we might be rushing into this bonding ceremony. But I explained to her how it's like we've been together all our lives. But it made me realise that there's a lot about you I don't know. We might love each other, sense things about each other and we can't be away from each other, but we don't really know each other, not that much. So I figured while I'm stuck on this sofa we might as well talk. I can tell you more about my life in Romania and growing up at the Burrow and you can tell me all about your life as a kid, before I go as my stag and make those people pay for hurting you.'

Harry smiled, 'I love you Charlie,' he chuckled, kissed Charlie, then put his head back against his chest before they sat there talking about their lives as children and how different they were. They spoke about how much Charlie was loved and cared for and how Harry got no affection at all, so different but those differences seemed to make their relationship perfect in every way.

Over the next week Harry was home with Charlie he was never more than a few feet from him. Hermione and Ron dropped in a lot, sometimes the aurors did after work, all the Weasley's apart from Ginny dropped in to see how Charlie was feeling. Hermione explained that she showed the book to Ginny but it seemed she didn't believe it, she even accused Hermione of lying, of adding those pages to the book.

Molly stepped into the house to see Harry and Charlie kissing, but it was a very heated kiss that told her those two men wanted to go further but until Charlie was healed fully they had to restrain themselves.

'Sorry to interrupt.'

Harry and Charlie pulled apart, 'Hi mum, we weren't expecting you.'

'I dropped in on my way after seeing Ginny, you're father and I have been talking about what to do about her during the ceremony.'

'It seems nothing will make her see sense. I know she's hurt and I'm sorry about that but Charlie and I belong together, she has to understand that nothing can change that.'

'We know Harry, but I need to tell you both this and even though I don't want this for one of my children, she has brought it on herself,' Molly sat down in the armchair facing Charlie and Harry, 'At first your father was going to bind her, petrify her and seal her in the bedroom so she couldn't disrupt the wedding.'

'Okay, that could work than dad could reverse the spells after we've left, but there's more, so just tell us.' Charlie said.

'One of the healers overheard her say that she was going to get Harry back if it was the last thing she did, she even said she would…'' Molly sighed.

'That she'd kill me,' Charlie said.

'Yes, now the healer had no choice but to report what he heard to the aurors. I know you should have been told Harry but Kingsley thought he'd give you a few more days before having to deal with this.'

'Anyone proven to make threats, especially against someone's life will do a minimum of three years in Azkaban. Now if Charlie's attack is added to that then she'll get longer, I would say at least ten years.'

'Yes, Kingsley explained how it works and even if you two didn't press charges, she still will go before the Wizengamot.'

'Has she been told yet?' Charlie asked.

'No, he was going to but thought if Harry explained it might make her realise. Harry's the object of her obsession, if she hears this from him she might finally realise that Harry wants her gone even if we know it's not true, in that sense Harry. We know you don't want any of this and we know you would not have hurt her if you knew.'

'No, I don't even though I'm still angry at what she did to Charlie. So did Kingsley say when he wanted me to tell her?'

'When you go back to work, he told the healers to tell Ginny she has to stay longer. So you will go with a couple of other aurors, tell her what she's being charged with and that she is being arrested, questioned then taken to the holding cells until her trial,' Molly sighed.

Charlie and Molly could see Harry was concentrating on something, 'Could you do it Harry?'

'Do what?' Molly asked looking between her son and the young man she had thought of a son for years. She could tell that Charlie knew what Harry had been thinking about and it made her curious but it also showed her part of this connection Charlie and Harry had since they became Morphixen's. Now she just had to wait until they told her what was going on.