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What Would You Do?	By : snapeisthebest Category: Harry Potter AU/AR > Slash - Male/Male Views: 3351 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-What Would You Do?
- 2-two
- 3-Three
- 4-Four
- 5-Five
- 6-Six
- 7-Seven
- 8-Eight
- 9-Nine
- 10-Ten
- 11-Eleven
- 12-Twelve
- 13-Thirteen
- 14-Fourteen
- 15-Fifteen
- 16-Sixteen
- 17-Seventeen
- 18-Eighteen
- 19-Ninteen
- 20-Twenty
- 21-Final
- 2
- 3
- 4
Several hours had passed since Harry and Hermione finished their chat in the kitchen. They had spent around 3 hours talking before being shooed out by Mrs. Weasley so she could prepare lunch for the houseful she currently had.

Harry now sat in a worn leather chair in the sitting room thinking over his talk with his best friend. Hermione wanted Harry to tell Dumbledore about how strong he really was. Harry refused, of course. This is when he explained to her about not trusting the headmaster or most of his followers. She'd already known about the prophecy and what had happened to Dumbledore's office when Harry was told. Everyone who knew what happened that day when Harry blew up the headmaster's office put it off to emotionally enhanced accidental magic. Hermione knew better.

She had been with Harry helping him learn spells and other useful things he might need to know in order to defeat Voldemort. No one else was trying to teach him anything, so she did her best from the books she specially ordered with the help of The Twins. Naturally, she got to learn loads of stuff too.

In one of these books, Hermione had come across a spell that could be cast to determine the strength of a person's magical core. Hermione had Harry do the spell on her to help convince him. Her core was a very bright light gray bordering on white. She, too, was shocked to learn she was almost as powerful as Morgana herself. But nowhere near as powerful as Harry.

Harry was shocked to learn that his core was bright silver tinged with gold and white. According to the book, this meant his core was stronger than Merlin and Morgana Le Fey, the most powerful wizard and witch to ever have lived. Merlin's core was gold while Morgana's was white. Harry didn't want to believe that he was or even could be the most powerful being since the first wizard.

Lunch was uneventful for the most part. At least as uneventful as can be with all Weasleys present. By supper time, Harry's party was going strong. Molly Weasley had truly outdone herself. Because so many people were expected, she had set up a buffet style meal with enough food to feed Hagrid for a month. In addition to the food, she had spelled the sitting room bigger to hold all the people that had shown up. Most of whom, Harry had no clue who they were. The ones Harry did recognize were his year mates from Hogwarts, most of the Order, and of course, a few from the Ministry. The others he couldn't remember ever having seen before.

Even though almost every seventh year student and quite a few professors were at the party, Harry kept mostly to himself. Watching; trying to determine who out of all these people he could trust. Harry knew for certain he could trust Ginny, Fred and George. He knew he could trust Fred and George because he, Harry, had tricked them into eating some of their own candy. It was a new product designed to help couples out who were too shy to tell their partners how they felt about each other. The chocolates had been laced with a variation of Veratiserum, the Twins own concoction. Once they ate the chocolate, Harry questioned them about how they felt towards him. After several questions Harry decided they were genuine with their feelings. He also learned they shared everything with each other. He also knew Neville was trustworthy, as he had proven that throughout the years. The tidbit of information he had told Harry about Ron was just the icing on the cake.

Fudge was here and kept trying to corner Harry. Hermione and The Twins did their best to run interference. It gave Gred and Forge an easy target to prank. Currently, they were being occupied by their mother. Hermione was talking with Ginny and the minister was heading straight for Harry. Quickly looking around for an escape, Harry spotted Ron going out into the hall. Barely dodging Fudge, Harry followed. As soon as Harry stepped into the hall, he saw Ron disappear into the kitchen; his curiosity was piqued, Harry followed. He could hear voices coming from inside. One was definitely Ron's, the other was too soft to be able to tell.

"No, he has no idea. I can't believe that he is the one everybody thinks is the savior of the wizarding world. How stupid can people be?! I mean, really, he's not all that great. Sometimes I wish you had just let him befriend Malfoy. Never mind, I wouldn't even wish him on that bastard. How much longer am I going to have to pretend that I'm his friend? It's getting harder and harder everyday to be around him so much. When will that house of his be ready? The quicker he is gone, the better I will feel. Maybe he'll take Hermione with him. Someone should tell her that know-it-all is not attractive."

Harry couldn't hear what the other person was saying as they were talking too softly. He got a pretty good idea by what Ron said next.

"Really? Alright!!! So, this is it for him then? Your plan will be done this year? How will you get him to kill You-Know-Who? More important, how are you going to kill him?" all asked in what Harry thought to be one breath. "Please make it as painful as possible. I really want to see Potter suffer. Always thinking he is better. At least I know my parents. Can I have his house?"

Another reply too soft for Harry to hear was given to Ron.

"Yes, I see. The Black Family home would serve you better than me. Will I at least get something for all I've had to go through because of him?" Ron asked whomever it was he was with. "I understand. I'll see you at the next report, Sir."

Harry then heard footsteps coming towards the door from inside. Turning around, he ran smack into the last (or maybe first) person he wanted to.

"Eavesdropping now, Potter? One would think that by now you would avoid invading another's privacy." Severus sneered at Harry. "Obviously not."

"How many times am I going to have to apologize for that? All last year, every class, every meal, every time I passed you in the halls and every other time I saw you, I apologized to you. How much more do you want?" Harry solemnly asked. Hoping to finally get Severus' forgiveness for looking uninvited into his pensive back in fifth year.

"The point, Mr. Potter, is..." Snape started with a glare, "invading a person's privacy is a show of disrespect towards that person. If you bothered to show your Professors, or friends, the proper respect they deserve, you would not have to apologize." Severus finished with a smirk as he motioned towards Ron.

"You were spying on me?" Ron asked heatedly. Harry could tell the redhead was doing his best to control his temper.

"So what if I was? Spying is far better than what you've been doing for the last 6 years." was Harry's response. Trying not to lose his cool as well; especially in front of Severus. His love needed no more reason to hate him.

"I have no idea what you're talking about, Harry. The only thing I have done for the past six years is be your friend." Ron yelled as he noticed several people coming to see what the commotion was about. "Your BEST friend!"

"No, Ronald. THAT would be me!" Hermione stated, glaring at Ron, as she walked up to stand beside Harry closely followed by Fred, Ginny, and George.

Once Harry had determined he could trust them, he told The Twins what Neville had said about Ron. It seems they had suspected something like that one day when Ginny had come to them crying. She had overheard Ron having a tantrum and threatening to kill "that Potter bastard" himself. Since that day, Fred, George and Ginny were wholeheartedly on Harry's side. The Twins had told Harry about it the day he had tricked them and Ginny has been a part of Harry's trusted ever since. Later on, he also tested her. Just to be sure.

"WHAT!? No, you're not. I am Harry's best friend." Ron stated matter-of-factually.

"Really? Then you should be able to answer a few questions about him." came Ginny's voice from somewhere behind Harry. Harry noticed Snape was watching the exchange with much interest. He showed no signs of stopping it either.

"Fine. I know everything there is about Harry. Being his best friend and all." Ron said with confidence. He had to study everything about the prat to pull off the whole friend thing after all.

" 'K, what is Harry's..." George started.

"...favorite color?..." Fred continued

"...animal?..."

"What does he..."

"...want to do with..."

"...his life after school?"

"Why does he..."

"...wear clothes that..."

"...are way too..."

"...big for him?"

Ron grinned to himself. 'This is going to be so easy. And to top it off, Potter will look like an ass to everyone by the time I am finished.'

"Red is his favorite color. His favorite animal is Buckbeak, the Hippogriff, because he belonged to his godfather Sirius Black before he died." Ron relished in the hurt look on Harry's face at the mention of Sirius. 'So easy to upset him. And HE's the savior.'

"Harry wants to be an Auror after graduation and settle down with a nice, beautiful witch, my sister, and have a big family. As for his clothes, he doesn't want to spend his money on new clothes when he can spend it on other things. Besides, it's not like he cares what he looks like anyway." Ron finished smugly.

Harry looked around at everyone who was listening. (Which appeared to be almost everyone at the Burrow.) Judging from the looks most of them were giving him, they all thought Ron's words to be true. Harry gave a loud sigh and looked at Fred and George and nodded sadly. He didn't want to have to do it this way. The twins then turned to Ginny who grinned mischievously and handed them the box no one noticed she had been holding.

"In this box is a brand new WWW product. It is called 'Love Me, Love Me Not'. You know like picking the petals off a flower thing. You pull petals off a flower petal saying 'he loves me, he loves me not' in turn until they are all gone. What it does is this: you give a piece of chocolate to someone and then ask them questions. They can only answer truthfully." Ginny started to explain.

"Sounds like Veritaserum." Severus stated calmly even though he was intrigued.

"Yes and no. With Veritaserum, the person can't NOT answer a direct question. Not so with Veracity. A person can only speak the truth but can also choose not to answer at all." Ginny further explained.

"Very impressive. Where did you find the potion?" Snape asked genuinely curious.

"We invented it." was the chorused reply from the Twins.

"Ah, of course. You two were always more than adequate in my class" If Snape were affected by that information, no one knew. His mask was still firmly in place.

"Back to topic, people. Harry, Ron and Hermione will each get one right before they answer their questions. The effects of the potion only last a few minutes so the questions will come fast guys." Ginny finished as she turned to face the three to be questioned.

They all nodded.

During Ginny's explanation, Harry felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned and followed the arm connected to it up to a concerned looking Remus. Harry smiled sheepishly at him and gave a one shoulder shrug.

"Who's first?" was asked from the crowd.

"How about Hermione?" Luna suggested from not too far away from them. Although she was a little (OK a lot) strange, Harry had trusted her from the very beginning. It was just a feeling he had deep in his core that he could.

"Harry?" Hermione looked him in the eye. Harry looked around, momentarily meeting a few people's eyes. When he made it to Severus, he lingered a little longer. Harry's breath hitched as onyx met emerald and he shivered ever so slightly. Remus, with his werewolf senses, noticed the slight difference in Harry's breathing and the shiver. He followed where Harry was looking to see what had caused such a reaction in his godson.

'Severus Snape! Oh Harry, you have some serious explaining to do.' Remus looked back at Harry and gave his shoulder a gentle squeeze to get his attention. As Harry turned to look at him, Remus noticed the look of longing and love in his eyes that disappeared as Harry's eyes came to Remus'. Now, there was a pleading look in Harry's eyes. Remus instantly understood. 'Harry's in love with him.' His wolf whimpered in delight at this thought. Not about who but, just the fact.

Harry felt the squeeze and hesitantly broke contact with Severus to look at his godfather. At first, he saw confusion and concern in Remus' eyes. Then understanding. 'Oh shit! Remus knows. I didn't want him to find out yet. And certainly not like this.' He gave the man he loved like a father a shaky smile before turning to nod at Hermione's question. It had only been a minute but seemed like a lifetime looking in those eyes.

With Harry's approval, Hermione went first. She stepped over to one of the Twins, who gave her a piece of the candy. She felt no different as the chocolate was swallowed.

"Now remember, if a question is answered, it's the truth." Fred stated as Hermione swallowed the candy he had given her.

"Hermione, will you answer the same questions we asked Ron?"

Hermione took a minute to look around at everyone there. She was happy to note looks of concern on some of their faces. It's good to know the group is here for support. Harry needs it.

"First, Harry's favorite color is Emerald green, the color of his mother's eyes. The only thing he has of hers. Second, he doesn't have ONE favorite animal, he has three. A stag, a large dog and a wolf. Each representing one of the true marauders, his father and godfathers."

Hermione began her answers.

Harry, who had been stealing glances at Severus while Hermione talked, noticed the glare the dark man sent Remus when she had mentioned the marauders. One more thing he hates me for. Harry sighed at his depressing thoughts.

"Next, Harry doesn't think he will live much past school so, he has no idea what he wants to do should he survive. I, for one, think he is very foolish for having such thoughts." Hermione then shot Harry a glare that was almost Snape-ish. Almost.

"The ONE thing you did get right, Ron" the glare was now on him, "was that if he does survive, Harry wants to marry and have a family."

Losing the glare, Hermione said the last part as she looked her potions professor straight in the eye. And smirked.

Looking around, Remus noticed a glint of something in Snape's eyes that wasn't there before. Was that concern? or maybe something else entirely. He also noticed looks of shock on some of the faces around the room. Obviously those that only knew the-Boy-Who-Lived; not Harry.

"As far as Harry's clothes being too big, he had no choice. His muggle relatives hate everything about magic, especially Harry, and 'refused to waste their hard earned money on a worthless freak'. So, he had to wear his cousin's old clothes, or go naked." Hermione finished.

Never before had the mask of one, Severus Snape dropped. Until now. Severus was caught off guard by that last comment; he unintentionally let his mask fall (if only for a few seconds) as the picture of a very naked Harry Potter flicked through his mind. 'THAT is definitely something to think about later. Alone. Maybe while in bed. Or in the shower. Or both. Yes, both is good. No, no, no, no, no! Severus you will NOT think like that about Harry Potter. Not anymore. You know you have to present him the the Dark Lord in a little over a month. Nothing can ever come of thinking like that. Soon he will be gone forever.' It took everything he had to keep his mask this time as his heart clenched at these last thoughts.

"OK. I'm ready." Harry's voice brought Severus back to the situation at hand.

While Severus was lost in his thoughts, a couple of other things were going on.

As Hermione told everyone how the Dursley's felt toward Harry, Remus started growling; loudly. This caused everyone to quickly back as far away from him as possible; everyone except Harry and Hermione. Harry because the wolf was currently sniffing his cub to reassure itself there was no harm. She wasn't quite sure why, but Hermione felt she needed to be exactly where she was to help calm Remus. Neither moved until Remus was calmed.

Ron, not wanting to eat the chocolates, was trying to slip away. He wasn't quick enough though. Spotting his little brother trying to weasel his way into the kitchen, Charlie grabbed him and held him in place. Ron briefly struggled in his brother's grasp. Giving up when he remembered his brother was a dragon tamer.

"You started this, Ron. Don't think you are going to slip away before we find out what brought this about." Charlie told him with his best Molly glare. Merlin knows Charlie had seen THAT enough to duplicate it. Bill, also noticed what Ron was up to, and moved to block the door.

Others who had also noticed moved to block the other escape routes. They all wanted to know what had happened to the friends.

It was only after Remus had calmed some that Harry snuck another glance at Severus. The dark man had a far away look in his eyes. Harry doubted if anyone else even noticed. Snape's sneer was firmly in place. Only if you had studied the man would you be able to tell the difference in his eyes. Study the man Harry had. Every chance he had had for over a year now. He had started feeling something other than hate for Snape since before he looked into the man's memories. It was only this morning that he realized what it was. The descriptions of being in love in all the fairy tales and other books Harry had read were precisely how he felt towards Severus. Plus a lot more.

Only when Remus gave Harry a reassuring nod, did Harry proclaim he was ready for his turn at answering. All eyes were on him now. Even the ones he wanted most to see him, the real him. Dark pools of loathing. Harry hoped one day those sparkling onyx gems would shine with another emotion when they were turned on him.

George walked up to Harry and offered a chocolate. Wanting everyone to know the truth, he only hesitated for a second before taking one and eating it. Savoring the flavor, Harry momentarily closed his eyes. A look of pure bliss on his face. This did not go unnoticed by a certain dark haired man who was wishing he could put a look like that on the Golden Boys face. Only he wouldn't use chocolate. But, then again....

"Harry, can you tell us who is right?" Ginny asked after a few minutes, giving the potion time to take effect.

Looking around the room, his eyes fell on a very nervous looking Ron. This particular redhead looked scared to be so close to the two that were beside him.

"Hermione" was the simple reply Harry gave.

"But, why would Ron lie?" someone in the crowd asked. Harry thought it sounded like Dean Thomas. Harry didn't answer.

"What, exactly, did he do to you for the last six years?" Snape asked almost civilly. Hoping it wasn't what he thought.

Hearing that voice made Harry snap his head around to look at the owner. Harry was surprised to see a completely blank look on Severus' face, but genuine curiosity in his eyes.

When Harry's green met his love's black, Harry wanted the man to know. If no one else heard him he didn't care.

"Well, you see, I was informed at the end of my fifth year that Ronald Weasley hated pretending to be my friend and couldn't wait for Voldemort to be gone so he would be rid of me." Harry barely contained his tears as he said these words. The whole time he had been looking into Severus' eyes as if he were only talking to him.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT????" was shouted from a door way at the end of the hall. The people parted to reveal a VERY pissed off looking Molly Weasley. Her and Arthur had been saying their good-byes to some of the adults and came in just in time to catch what Harry had said.

"Sorry, mum. We..." Fred started with a mischievous grin

as he looked at Ron, who had paled drastically.

"...were testing one of our..." George noticed several people quickly move out of the way.

"...new products on Harry..."

"...and Hermione..."

"...and Ron."

"What new product? No one was hurt, were they?" asked Molly temporarily forgetting what was said. She was a mother after all and there are a lot of children here.

"Yes, Harry was hurt" Hermione said, causing Mrs. Weasley to turn and shoot one of her best glares at her twin sons. "Not by the chocolates, by Ronald. And not today." she quickly continued before Fred and George got in a huge amount o f trouble.

"Indeed." stated Severus as he turned his gaze towards their hostess. "It would appear that the youngest male of your abundant clan has been lying to us all for six years. It seems he hates pretending to be Mr. Potter's friend and..." he turned back to look at Harry, "can't wait to be rid of him', I believe is what was said." Severus finished, reluctantly taking his eyes from Harry's.

"Is this true? Did you really say those horrible things about our Harry?" Molly asked looking disappointingly at her youngest son.

Since the first time they met him, all the Weasleys had taken Harry in and loved him as their own. Well, obviously not all.

"Well, young man? Answer your mother! NOW!!" Mr. Weasley stepped in, furious. He didn't lose his temper often, but he did NOT like to see the woman he still desperately loved upset. Especially when it involved family. This was like turning on your own family. Arthur Weasley valued family over everything. Being such a loving father, it pained him to see his children at odds with one another.

He and Molly had tried to raise their children to love and support each other through anything that happens. Which is the main reason why it hurt so much for Percy to leave. Like his father said to him "Being ambitious is great, but it's better when you can share your accomplishments with those you love." Arthur tried to instill this into his own children. Doesn't seem like he did a good enough job with some of them.

"Dad!" Fred and George called to him.

Arthur turned and glared at his twin sons, scaring a lot of people around. You don't stay married to the same person for all these years and share SEVEN kids with her and not pick up a few things.

"We only wanted..." George began to explain.

"...to give our darling..." Fred emphasized.

"...little brother a chocolate."

"See, it's laced with..."

"...a mild truth serum."

"Once he takes it, he..."

"...can refuse to answer, but not lie."

"He better not refuse" Arthur stated firmly as he took

one of the candies from Fred and walked to Ron, who looked a little scared.

"Here, Ron. For the sake of the family and your standing in it, eat it."

Arthur didn't like to threaten his children, but he needed to know if one of them was being as deceitful as implied.

Ron hesitantly ate the chocolate. He may hate Harry Potter, but he loved his family. He did this for them. (You just keep telling yourself that Ron!) Molly stood anxiously waiting. She had heard the answer Harry gave Snape and couldn't believe that HER child could do such a horrible thing to another person.

"Now, Ron. Will you please answer your mother's questions?" his father asked as calm as he could, afraid of what they would be.

"Yes" was barely whispered.

"Yes, you did those things?" snapped Charlie. He couldn't believe Ron would do this.

"Yes" Ron hissed out towards his brother as Molly burst into tears.

"How could you do that to Harry?” She asked through her sobbing.

"Easy. I was approached on the train and asked to befriend 'the savior of the wizarding world'. He even told me which compartment to go in to find him. All I had to do was pretend to be a caring and loyal friend. Spying and reporting on him the whole time. Another of my jobs is to keep 'undesirables' away. Those who could influence Potter; like Malfoy. You'd be surprised how many times the ferret approached me wanting to call a truce. I was ordered to refuse every time." Ron began. "If I do the job right, when Potter defeats You-Know-Who and is 'taken care of', I will get half the value of everything that belongs to him. The Potters are an old pure-blood family with a lot of money and stuff. And now that Sirius is dead, Harry gets the Black inheritances, too. I...WE won't have to be poor anymore." Ron finished his explanation casually.

"RONALD WEASLEY!!!!!" To say Molly Weasley was pissed would be a sad mis-communication. She was pissed after Ron had spoken his first word. Her anger intensified the more he talked.

"But, Mum, if we had all that money, there would be no more hand-me-downs; no more buying second hand-not good enough books and other things. You would be able to get help for the house. The Weasley name would once again be respected!" Ron nearly shouted at his own mother.

At this point, Severus Snape looked around at all the redheads and noted the horrified expressions on their faces. 'Apparently, they don't care that much about money if the mention of it horrifies them so.'

"I can't believe you would do something like this for money. Mum and Dad raised us better than that. Your family comes first! No matter what." Bill said dumbstruck at his little brother's actions.

"Harry is family, in every sense but blood. We all agreed to that. Even you." Charlie took over.

"Family..." George began, glaring at Ron.

"...is there for you..." Fred took over.

"...when you need them."

"They take care..."

"...of each other." They finished together.

"Harry has always done all he could for everyone he cares for. Including you. Why did you really do this to him?" Ginny asked.

'The family is united in this. I would really hate to be Ronald Weasley right now.' Severus thought to himself as he saw the look of pride in the elder Weasley's eyes at his other five offspring's' words. He then turned his gaze to Harry.

Harry was standing there trying not to lose his control. He couldn't understand why Ron would do this to him. And for money, no less.

The rest of the Weasleys looked very disturbed when they heard Ron's reasons.

"You don't understand what it is like to never have anything new. YOU being the only girl, get everything fresh. It hasn't passed through five or more people before getting to you." Ron sneered at Ginny.

"Are you really so selfish and shallow that you would put your want of NEW things above the life of another person?" Molly asked incredulously. She had noticed that her youngest was pulling away from the family but didn't know why.

"Yes" Ron answered truthfully, as he was still under the influence of chocolate.

"Well then since you are so embarrassed to be a member of the Weasley family; perhaps you shouldn't be one anymore" Arthur's voice was full of pain and disappointment.

"Arthur, NO!" Molly cried, starting to sob uncontrollably. If this is what Arthur felt he needed to do, there was little she could do to stop him. Then again, maybe THIS is what would make Ron happy.

"I truly am sorry WE do not meet your standards, Ron. Your mother and I shall always love you. I'm fairly certain our children will, too." Arthur said, his voice starting to break.

Ron looked at his father confused. Then he turned to each one of his siblings meeting their eyes and seeing only disappointment. He wasn't sure if he really cared how they felt right now. He was proud of the fact that he'd finally done something for himself. That he had something they didn't.

Severus looked suspiciously at Arthur. 'Surely, he would not do THAT!!' Then, he did.

"Ronald Bilius Weasley, as Head of the Weasley family, I hereby disown you until such a time you understand the error of your ways. All members present, do you agree?" Arthur asked. His voice was barely a whisper, but it seemed to echo in the silence. Instantly, almost all the other Weasleys agreed; everyone except Molly. She knew she would never see her baby boy again if they did this. Her crying got louder and harder.

After hearing his father's words, Ron's eyes widened. He never expected this to happen. Was losing his family worth it. 'HELL YES!' Ron thought.

"Save your tears, bitch! We all know you don't really give a shit what happens as long as you can claim your pathetic 'Family loves one another no matter what' bullshit." Ron spat out at Molly.

Everyone held their breath as Molly's tears stopped and she walked over to stand in front of Ron; and slapped him. HARD! Stating a very firm "YES" as her hand made contact with pale flesh.

Ron staggered from the force of the blow. Once he regained his balance, he drew back and punched her in the face. Sending her flying backwards into a VERY stunned Harry. Ron had no time to think about what he had done as five Weasleys and several others all charged him as one.

It took a few minutes for what happened to register. When it did, Severus was stunned. He had only half expected Arthur to go through it. He never thought Molly would do it. And he REALLY never thought Ron would strike her. Even Severus knows it is a big mistake to hit the Weasley Matriarch, especially in a room full of her birthed and adopted offspring.

Regaining his senses, Severus looked to where Molly had ended up. A very panicked looking Harry was trying to calm a distraught Molly who was trying to stop the beating that was happening to Ron. Just then, Harry turned hurt eyes toward him. Severus did not like that look one bit. So, he did the first thing that came to mind. He stunned the whole pile, walked over and started separating the bodies.

Harry couldn't believe Ron just PUNCHED Molly. He didn't know what to do. Other than hold and comfort her. Harry held tight with all his strength and magic as Molly tried to get to her family. He turned to the only person he knew could handle the situation-Severus.

After everyone was apart, Severus had the older people there help him to enervate the scrappers. He then had Hermione and Remus help him to heal a very battered Ron before waking him.

As Ron woke, he was looked into the black eyes of Severus Snape and groaned as he very slowly stood up.

"I would suggest, Mr. Wea...Ronald, you leave now. Perhaps you can return tomorrow at 2:00 to retrieve your belongings" Severus said in a tone that Ron knew there was no arguing with. With his head held high, Ron looked at everyone there, turned and walked out.

Harry was surprised to see that Molly was holding up so well. But when they all heard the back door slam shut, Arthur hit his knees and cried as if it were the end of the world.

Snape, doing the second decent thing tonight, cleared the Burrow of all those who were not currently staying there.

Remus stood in the background trying not to interfere with what was unraveling before him, which was very hard to do since the full moon was the next night. The wolf was angry. All that had happened to hurt his cub, who was just standing there crying. Remus walked over to Harry and pulled him into a firm hug trying to reassure him that everything would be alright. At least he hoped so.

After several long minutes of watching the werewolf holding Harry in his embrace, Severus spoke, "In light of recent events, Potter, we will resume your lessons tomorrow. Good night, everyone." With that Severus turned and went back to his room.

"Harry, I must go now. Tomorrow is the full moon and I must go get everything ready for my transformation." Remus told the sobbing man in his arms.

"I'm sorry Remy. Will you be at the usual place? Just in case." asked Harry.

"Yes" was his reply as the two walked the over to Hermione. The wolf needed to be sure his mate was also alright. As they approached her, Remus couldn't help the growl that escaped him.

Hermione looked totally devastated as she stood holding Ginny, who didn't look much better. When they got to the girls, Remus reached out to include them in his embrace. Everyone needed as much comforting as they could get right now. The wolf whimpered as his mate latched on to him. It was so nice to hold her in his arms. He just didn't like the reason why.

Remus reluctantly pulled away from his small group. He kissed Ginny on the forehead, gave his cub a gentle squeeze and turned toward Hermione, who hadn't let go yet. She had waited four years to be held by this man. She didn't want to move anytime soon.

"Hermione, I have to leave. Harry will take over for me." Remus said with a small grin as he transferred her grip to Harry.

"I will see you in few days. And then we need to have a talk." With that said Remus gently stroked Hermione's cheek with the backs of his fingers, turned and walked out.

Hermione traced her fingers over her cheek where Remus had just touched her. The night had been full of tragedy but, maybe. Just maybe there was hope.
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