Ginny discover's who the father is, and Dean thinks about his future, possibly abroad.
Pregnant, she gasped in shock. She was once again pregnant. At the age 36, ten years since the last one, who was he daughter Lily Luna. And she wasn't sure who the father was.
In the past few weeks, she has had unprotected sex with two different men: once with her husband, Harry Potter, the boy who lived, saviour of the British Wizarding community, her very own childhood celebrity-crush, and father of her three children, and several times with her new lover, Dean, her former boyfriend from her teen years. One would just be another addition to her family, while the other would be the biggest scandal in years would it come out.
One of the men was one she had made a vow to love, in sickness and in health, the other a man who had just confessed that he loved her.
This can't be real. This can't be.
But it is real.
How could she be so careless with her lover?
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She had to take a break from Dean to figure this out.
The next day at Prophet, she took him to side in an empty corridor and told him this.
"Did I do something wrong? Was it when I said that lo…" he stated, but she interrupted him.
"I just need some time to figure a few things out. I hope you understand"
Dean wasn't sure what was going on with her but agreed to give her more space.
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Dean loved Ginny. That was now clear, and he could no longer hide that.
He knew it was wrong. Harry had done nothing wrong, and neither had the three children.
But he couldn't help himself with it.
He wanted to her.
He did not want her to stop their affair.
In his deepest hear he wished her to leave Harry and, if need be, the children for him, even though such a wish was deeply immoral and wrong.
From all the women in the world she the one…
Dean didn't know what to do. Maybe he should move to another country again. Take some distance. He had friend in Finland, Seppo Virtnane, who had begun developing an interesting project involving magical art, and who had asked him a week back if he wanted to join it. There was a lot of money to be made. Dean said he needed time to consider, stating that he was going to be at least until Halloween to decide. Seppo said there was no hurry, but Christmas would be the final deadline.
Moving scenery might be a good idea, Dean thought. Somehow, he had oped Ginny could be different from the other women.
Ginny Weasley. Tess O'Donelly. Bonnie Warren. Géraldine Adne-Hanna Hotvedt. Ginny Potter.
Was he cursed to have blossoming relationships with beautiful redhead women that were doomed. Maybe he was not meant to settle down.
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Ginny decided she had to be sure about the situation and went to Mr Mulpepper's Apothecary, the potion-shop at Dragon Alley to buy a certain thing. Of course, she had transfigured her physical appearance, to avoid raising any suspicion. She was after all quite a famous person, being Mrs. Harry Potter and a former quidditch star for the Holyhead Harpies.
As she entered the shop, she saw an elderly man at shop-desk. It was the potioneer Mr Thaddeus R. F. Mulpepper, has been operating the shop since the 70's. Ginny remembered having visited his shop during her first school year with Ron, George, Fred, and Percy.
"Need a bottle Verum Pater" she said, being glad that no one could recognise her.
"Oh, such a situation. Alright, no questions asked" he replied, and went to back to get the product.
Ginny waited, being nervous, before he returned with a small green bottle.
"That would be eight galleons" the man said.
Ginny gave the gold and left.
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The Verum Pater was a paternity-potion, developed originally for the patriarchs of the fanatical pureblood-dynasties (like Malfoy, Black, Lestrange, Yaxley, Carrow, Nott, Avery, Flint, Bulstrode, or Parkinson) to make sure that their firstborn son and heir of estates was their offspring, but it eventually became easily accessible to everyone. One would have to take a piece of the suspected father's tissue and put it in the potion, before the pregnant woman would gulp it all down. After three minutes the stomach would glow green, just as with the graviditatis-potion.
Ginny took one of Harry's hairs from their bedroom and put it in the potion, before taking a big sip and waiting for five minutes.
Five minutes had passed. No glow. The six minutes passed. Then seven. And then eight. After ten minutes it was clear.
It was Dean's baby, not Harry's. Her affair had gotten her pregnant. And she had no idea what to do with it now...