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Chapter Thirty Seven
“She’s all ready to go guys, slept through the night, everything looks great and she’s back on track crying for her mummy” The healer said with a smile,
Ginny picked her up smiling “She misses her Daddy and sister too” she cradled her carefully kissing her forehead,
“Do you know what might have caused it?” Harry asked taking him to one side watching Ginny with Patience as she stopped crying,
“It’s from something on your hands most likely scenario; did either of you do any gardening and then not wash your hands properly?”
“No – we’re really careful and we haven’t been near soil, we don’t have pets or anything like that near them, our owls have a coop outside but they fend for them selves”
“You left them in the care of someone that does?”
“Only – her mum, right, she was de- gnoming while we were there the day before yesterday, she changed there nappies and gave them a feed”
“There you go, but its ok and next time there’s something wrong just let us know and we’ll fix them right up for you” he smiled patting Harry’s shoulder “Can never be too careful”
“Hmm – thank you” he shook his hand, best not to tell Ginny the possible reason it would just make her angry at her mother.
***
“All good” Ginny said walking through the door with Patience to Sophia sitting on the floor with Faith watching her lying on the mat trying to reach for the mobile above her,
“Fantastic” she smiled sitting up properly,
Harry put the bag down and sat on the couch with a yawn, “How’s she been?”
“Perfect little angel as always, there’s not much they can do wrong yet Harry”
“Hmm” he smiled thinking about what it would be once they were walking and talking and drawing on walls,
“I got an owl from my mum” Sophia started “She wants to meet up this afternoon; she wants to see you as well”
“I can’t leave the-”
“- Yeah you can we’ll be fine” Ginny cut in “Go on”
“What is it about?”
“Dad” she rubbed her forehead and Harry saw the look in her eyes he saw so often in his Godfathers, worry trying to hide amongst the brown.
“Ok, where does she want to meet?”
“Her place, she has something’s to show us”
“Alright”
“Can I ask you something Ginny?” she turned round “About your family?”
“Go ahead”
“Why don’t other families like you – I get the whole pure blood thing, I’m supposed to be some special thing according to crazy Voldie theory and my blood lines but why did my mother say Weasley’s are not to be trusted the first time she met Charlie?”
“We’re blood traitors, the Whyte’s are and were pure blood and they don’t like us because although we’re just as much there equal when it comes to the red stuff we don’t want to roast muggles on spits and torture them to be our slaves” she gave Patience to Harry and sat down, “The Whyte’s and the Weasley’s have never gotten along – ever just the same as the Blacks, the Malfoy’s and any other pure blood families even if they don’t believe in the rubbish about being pure we’re also too poor for them, we don’t have the money and the connections but we have the blood”
“It’s medieval its – it’s like something out of a film – it’s just wrong” Sophia started “I mean so what about money, you guy’s love each other, I can guarantee non of them like each other if it’s just all about money and blood and breeding other little pureblood monsters”
“And every few generations there are people in their family that turn against the idea – Sirius – and they get kicked out of the family, it doesn’t matter if your mum has chosen the muggle life you need to ask the reason why she did it, then you’ll know if she believes in what she’s been told, but by the fact she didn’t like Charlie I’d say it’s been pretty much bred into her and she can’t change it now”
“Brilliant” she sighed “I’m the daughter of a traitor and a deserter”
“Sirius was a good man and I’m sure you mother was good woman too … once” Harry added with a grin, she punched his arm, “You can’t help who your family is but you can add whoever you want to it alright”
“Alright”
“Word’s of wisdom straight from the village idiot’s mouth” Ginny said with a grin,
“Oi – be nice” he said with a smile “You two are going to be such a bad influence on my girls”
Ginny coughed,
“On our girls” he rolled his eyes “Still a bad influence though”
“At least they won’t be all crazy about blood lines, they won’t hate what they are and they’ll have great parents for ever” Sophia said with a smile “I mean they might be a bit fierce with a Mum and Auntie like us but they’ll be brilliant” she said sticking out her tongue at him,
“Ugh, I’m so not looking forward to them being teenagers now” Harry added putting a happy Patience beside her sister on the mat, they looked at each, there little arms and hands reaching, then touching and then gurgling contentedly.
***
“Come on in”
They followed her inside and sat down,
“I’ve packed up the rest of your clothes and things if you want to take them with you”
“Thankyou” she sat on the couch opposite her, “I might have to come back another day, I’m staying with Harry and Ginny for a few days”
“I thought you lived together in that house”
“My friend brought my half so I could buy a home for my wife and kids” Harry replied,
She spared a shocked glance for Harry “Kids?”
“I told you they were twins mum”
She thought for a second “I vaguely remember you telling me, I was more concerned about the thirty year old in your bed”
Sophia blinked in shock before speaking, “Charlie is twenty five, as I’ve told you before, and that however, is not what we’re here to talk about”
“It is partly, as much as you’ve decided to join their family you should know our history with them, since you could do so much better and I’m looking out for you”
Harry spoke defensively, “That family happens to be a part of mine, I married into the Weasley’s and if Sophia chose’s to do the same there shouldn’t be a problem, they are a decent and loving family which is more then can be said of the Malfoy’s, the Blacks, the Whyte’s and every other pure blood family intent on destroying the muggle human race”
“Be that as it may, she can do better, but let me tell you about Sirius first”
“If you think you can turn me against my father you’ve got another thing coming”
“Your father – you didn’t even know him”
“And whose fault was that?” she muttered,
Wendy ignored the jibe, “I met your father first Harry, at school, first year – he was a Gryffindor as you know, and we’d both had no idea the other was magical up until I saw him on the train, we’d both been told to keep it secret living in the Hollow with other ‘normal’ children, I was a proud Ravenclaw, my first let down to my family of Slytherin’s”
She sat back in the seat, “They were hoping I could redeem myself by marrying up and that’s when I was first considered as a match for Sirius only they didn’t know I was seeing Jamie at the time, when they found out of course well they weren’t happy and that ended that in fourth year.
He had his eye on Lily anyway and we stayed good friends, I was introduced to Sirius officially at a party but we already knew each other pretty well, I was one who knew about all there transformations – Remus included, I forgot to ask Harry how is he?”
“He’s good, married with a little boy”
“Good - good, I always hoped he would find someone who could cope with his – his condition”
“Condition, what do you mean?” Sophia asked looking to Harry for an answer rather then her mother,
“He’s a werewolf”
“Oh – oh ok then…”
“I’ll introduce you sometime, you’ll like his wife, and she’s like you hilarious but without a concern for age when it comes to love” Wendy frowned, “She told him she didn’t care and it took a while of persuasion, he’s what – a good ten years older and there happy” Harry said staring at her as Sophia smiled smugly beside him,
“And Peter, little Peter Pettigrew, what happened to him?”
“He betrayed my parents to Voldemort, he’s dead, he’s the reason that Sirius went to prison, and he went after him only no one knew he was a rat. The vermin cut off his finger, killed thirteen muggles and Sirius got the blame while he escaped in the sewers”
“Oh, oh my god, but he was their friend, it was the four of them always, inseparable”
“Not so much a friend that he got them killed, Sirius thought he was protecting them by telling them to switch secret keeper to Peter at the last minute only non of them knew he’d been working for him for months – lets not talk about it now, I don’t want to remember and this is about you telling her the truth” She nodded and Sophia took his hand, squeezing it reassuringly,
“Anyway – it was expected that we would begin seeing each other, me and Sirius, and apart from being friends with him neither of us had any idea of what both our sets of parents were planning until the party that day. It was my birthday, my fifteenth birthday and out of them – the group of boys, he was the only one invited, the others weren’t good enough apparently, and he told me as his present to me he would give me a kiss, one kiss – and that’s how it started. Parents were thrilled of course, it had gone to plan perfectly only I didn’t know that he was doing because he was told to not because he wanted to” she looked out of the window,
“When he wasn’t seeing his friends he left his parents house in the morning, he’d come to see me and go home just before dinner and it was old fashioned, I even had a chaperone in my older sister – she was a Slytherin, already dating the popular Slytherin boy whereas me and him were the outcasts, the disappointments pushed together because of blood and nothing else, until one day when he left his parents home for good.
Sixteen and on his own he left in the school holidays and came to see me before anyone else, he told me what his parents had done, why he was seeing me and then as much as he didn’t like the idea of forced marriage for blood he did in fact like me, like me more then he expected he would. He left to stay with the Potters and I didn’t see him again until we went back to school. I was told not see him, not to speak to him and I followed the rules, the plan was over with, he was out of bounds I was to focus on a different more profitable target”
Wendy looked at Sophia “Your father used me and I used him, we were together at that time for nothing more then our own parent’s amusement, for the importance of blood purity, and the prospect of money and power”
Neither Harry nor Sophia had anything to say on the topic so she continued,
“Two years later we met again, I was working as a healer and he came in with a friend who’d been crucioed within an inch of his life, he came back the next day and asked me out for a drink. I’d moved out of my parent’s house, I’d decided to live without there influence and I spoke to James and Lily often via owl but never in person. We met up for a drink, it ended up I stayed the night and the next day we went to see James and Lily. Loved up and happy I saw what I wanted with Sirius but I then I saw the way there were talking about what was going on too, people going missing, people found dead, the dark mark and whispers about an evil in our world. Naively I joined the order with them” she moved to the draws, taking out one and then a false backing within it and lifting out the wooden locked box. She took out a picture and handed it to them,
“I think you might have seen this before Harry – that’s me” she pointed to the one member beside Sirius whom he’d never been able to place, only in his copy Sirius didn’t happily kiss her cheek and squeeze her to him as she smiled, she smiled at the camera and waved and Sirius did the same.
“You changed your hair, your face, that’s why I never recognised you”
“Subtle things to hide, I came back to the Hollow and settled as a muggle nurse with Michael, I didn’t have a muggle identity so I created one”
“Back to you and him” Sophia muttered staring at her father in the photo,
“So one thing let to another, we were engaged soon after and both attended your parents wedding, maid of honour and best man” she took out another photo, the four of them, Lily in white, the two men in suits and her in a dark blue dress standing half embraced with Sirius as his parents held each other happily smiling at the camera.
“I found out I was pregnant with you only I never got the chance to tell him – it was going to happen on our wedding day, my gift to him only we never got that far, he left to go on a mission two days before, he came back broken and we had an argument because I wanted to leave, he asked me why and I couldn’t tell him, I knew it wouldn’t change his mind so I left instead and I never spoke to him again – I hid you from everyone under spells, I introduced you as my niece to James and Lily and saw you for the first time” she looked to Harry “Just like your father of course, and the day I left for America I wiped all trace she existed from there memories, you wouldn’t remember anyway you were only both months old, so now if I had taken her there, it was just me and we’d all talked and drank tea instead”
“You could have told him, he would have left! For you and her he would have left, he knows when not to fight” Harry said angrily, “He wouldn’t have stayed”
“Yes he would have because he didn’t want to leave James, Lily and you behind, they wouldn’t leave either, they wouldn’t be scared from their home, and they wouldn’t apparate out of the country to save themselves and you”
“No they fought him face on and died they didn’t hide until it was there only option to do so, they didn’t stand a chance but you – you ran and hid as soon as you got the chance, you joined the order to fight and then you go into hiding” Harry finished still fuming as she turned her attention to her daughter,
“For Sophia, everything I’ve ever done has been for you Sophia”
“You could have told him, you could have given him a chance and you didn’t”
“I – I – I”
“You didn’t even try!” She stood up “Is there anything else you’d like to add before we go?” she said as Harry joined her,
“Only that I loved him, I still love him and I never meant to hurt him or you”
“You did” she walked to the door, “I’ll come round for the rest of my stuff in a few days” She went to the door, “Don’t mention your dislike of Charlie to me again, don’t talk to me about my father again and don’t try to make contact with me for a few weeks” she left and Harry took her hand apparating them to his house. She started to cry and he pulled her into a hug,
“It’s alright Soph”
“No, no it’s not” she sobbed “She had a chance to tell him, to save him and she didn’t use it – I can’t forgive her that”
“I know how you feel” he hugged her a little tighter “Don’t worry about it, don’t dwell on it, a special girl told me not to dwell on things I can’t change and I’m still here, you need to do the same – Ginny’s always right”
She laughed lightly holding on to him, “Ok”
“Sometimes parents do silly stuff and it changes everything and you wish that – that one decision was made so they were with you instead of gone but then you realise you wouldn’t be where you are – I wouldn’t have found Ginny, I might have ended up friends with a Malfoy and gone to Slytherin if I hadn’t met Ron by accident – if I hadn’t have had to find my own way to the train to Hogwarts – there are things I’ve missed and things I’ve gained instead, you may not have Sirius but you’ve got me, and your mum and our families – you’ve got Charlie and he loves you to bits”
“I know, I know – I just wanted to know him, to have my dad where Michael was just the awkward stand in”
“Did he even try?”
“No, he flaming tried it on with me though – mum doesn’t believe me of course thought I was making it up to get at her, but when she told him she was a witch and he was intent on finding how similar I was to my mother, he thought it would be a good idea to try and kiss me – that’s when it came out I was a witch too, she was angry with me or she never would have told me”
“You just wander around hypnotising guys then” he said jokingly and she punched his arm,
“Hey count yourself lucky you didn’t or Ginny would have killed you, like you kept saying sooo many times when I first met you”
“She would have killed me for even considering it” he let her inside to Ginny sitting on the couch, looking scared holding a twin and George pacing around holding the other, two wands in his hand and a wide eyed, crazy look on his face.
Ginny looked up, “Harry!”
“Shut up!” he pointed his wands at Harry and she went quiet starting to cry from her already red eyes,
“George – George what are you doing?” Harry said carefully,
“It hurts so much to be away from her” he mumbled “She’s in my head always in my head”
“But she’s here now so you can give me Faith and talk to us”
“No – Sophia has to come with me”
“That’s not going to happen unless you give me my daughter first” Harry replied as Faith started to cry,
“You’ll trick me; I can’t have that so I’m going to take her with me too”
“George don’t please, I’ll come with you, I promise, I’ll go anywhere just don’t hurt Faith”
“She’s my niece I’m not going to hurt her!”
“Then give her to Harry and I’ll come with you”
“Sophia I can’t trust you”
“Yes, yes you can” she took a step forward and Harry moved to Ginny,
“Don’t!” his wand moved to Ginny, Harry stepped back hands up, “Get back against the wall”
He did as he was told,
“George you’re not thinking straight – some ones been giving you a love potion” Harry started,
“No - that’s not right” he was pacing again,
“Yes, yes it is, think about it George” Sophia added “It’s not supposed to hurt is it, when you love someone it’s not supposed to hurt so much”
“If it didn’t hurt it wouldn’t be real”
“Yes, yes it would, you would be happy and smiling and with me and it wouldn’t hurt, love doesn’t hurt unless it’s not right”
“This is right” he started angrily,
“No it’s not George and you know that, you know deep down inside that this isn’t right”
“I’m right!” he yelled torturously “I love you, and you love me and we’re going to be together and if not, if you say no, no one else can have you, I won’t let anyone else have you”
“George” she said warningly,
“If I can’t have you no one else can” his hand raised the wands to her chest. There was a pop, a scream and a flash.
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RIP JD Salinger |