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Can You Keep a Secret?	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 28184 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 6
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Title: Can you keep a Secret?
Authors: kusanobabe05 [kusanosakura] and socia0307
Pairing: DracoxHarry, Theo Nott/George, Arthur/Molly, ?xCharlie, BillxFleur; implied past RonxHermione/present RonxLavender
Fandom: HP
Notes: Compatible up to the bathroom scene between Draco and Harry in Half-blood Prince- minus the Ginny interest. After that is completely AU…
Warning: drarry gets rather aggressive so be warned.

Chapter 29
When Molly arrived in Minerva’s office she was edgy, furious and wavering on the edge of tears.
How had she fallen? She wanted to be a good mother and she had tried so hard to be despite being young for it…
Was it her fault? Had she shamed her children because she’d gotten pregnant young? Had she overcompensated due to her teenage pregnancies and become a controlling mother bear?
How could Bill think that he and Charlie were ashamed of letting her down?
She would always be proud of her children for doing well, even if they had dangerous careers.
She winced, while she hated that her babies were a Cursebreaker and a senior dragon keeper, they were both brilliant.
Molly really just wanted them to be happy…
Fleur really was a wonderful girl who loved Bill and wanted to be a good wife for him, she hadn’t liked Fleur because she thought the wealthy Delacour heiress was toying with him.
Perhaps, Draco wasn’t her first choice for the son of her heart but he was very good for Harry and wanted the best for the poor boy.
She didn’t know much about Theo Nott but the look in his eyes when he was with George and his siblings made her see that he was a good man at heart despite being the son of Oran Nott. She knew when George was with him, he was happier then he’d ever been and she’d never stand in the way of that.
Molly wondered absently if he was protective of Gracie because he failed Ginny her First Year at Hogwarts.
While all her babies were precious to her, Ginny was her princess. Perhaps, she’d spoilt her and gave her along with Ron more attention because Bill was there to pick up the slack with the older boys.
There was such a tight bond between Bill, Charlie, Percy and the twins…
Had she prevented, though unintentionally, Ron and Ginny from be close to them?
Ron spent all of his time with Hermione and Harry but when she realised how lonely in miserable Ginny had been that year, it broke her heart.
She steeled herself and sat primly but her face was set in a mask of distain.
Ginny skipped in and threw her arms around her, “Hello mum.”
“Ginny let go. I’m not in the mood to be bamboozled.” Molly glared.
Ginny flinched, stumbling back with her bottom lip trembling.
“No theatrics either. Honestly, I’m really starting to consider how bad of a mother I really am right now. I’m thoroughly disappointed in the both of you. You Ron, I thought I taught you to respect girls. Hello Lavender, I’m sure you’re a wonderful girl and welcome to the family but my son is an twit.”
“Hey! I used contraceptive charms.” Ron sputtered.
“Obviously you didn’t read the fine print, they aren’t always effective.” Molly frowned, “Are you taking contractive potions?”
Lavender nodded.
“Then you really are as foolish as your grades imply.” Minerva muttered. “Mixing the two causes them to cancel one another out.”
Lavender swallowed, “I told you that I had it under control! Why didn’t you trust me?”
Ron glared, “This is my fault? Sex was your idea in the first place.”
“Says the boy who was always trying to get under my skirt.” Lavender whispered shakily.
“So we’ve established that Ron’s child is a result of his foolishness and Ginny…” Molly’s eyes narrowed, “I know I taught you not to steal.”
Ginny flinched, “I wasn’t stealing.”
“Oh really? So why was Nina taking love potions from Fred and George’s shop?”
“That shop belongs to all of us! I was only taking my share. It’s not like they noticed.” Ginny stamped.
“That shop is in their names not ours.” Molly said icily, “While I may not approve of their quitting Hogwarts and not attending graduation, I have to admit that I was a fool not to trust them. They weren’t wasting their time with rubbish; they clearly are brilliant unlike the pair of you. Stealing from family I can’t even fathom it.”
“You stole dad.” Ginny said with a stubborn chin.
Molly flinched, “I didn’t mean to, but I couldn’t help loving him anymore then he could help loving me. My getting pregnant was an accident and my brothers were horrified, Fabian was going to beat your father up and they were best friends. I had to beg them not to, telling them it was just as much my fault as it was his. Gideon didn’t want to bond Arthur anymore then your father wanted him, it was something your grandfathers cooked up. My brothers tried to convince them not to file the betrothal contract, it had already been done by the time I ended up fainting during my potions exam. I wasn’t a thief and I didn’t set out to be a scarlet woman. If you put one more toe out of line, I’ll,”
“You’ll do what? Smack me?” Ginny retorted.
Molly gave her a knife edged smile, “Oh no, I won’t touch you Ginevra Weasley. I’ll sign over custody of you to my least favourite person in the entire world, my mother-in-law.”
Ginny predictably paled, “You wouldn’t…”
Molly’s smile sharpened, “I would. She raised three boys; men like your five oldest brothers, while admitting she was right and I was wrong will be painful I’ll do it if only to save you from ruining your life! What would you do if you actually managed to get yourself pregnant because your drugged lover pulled a stunt like your idiotic brother here?”
“I may have snogged them but damn it mummy I only slept with one!”
“I’ll bet it was Cormac McLaggen,” Minerva mused, “He was found with his hand under your skirt and wasn’t begging us to rescue him…”
“You drugged all those poor boys, why Ginny?”
“I was trying to make Harry jealous!” Ginny said petulantly.
“Ginny, you can’t force him to feel something for you that he can’t. Harry sees you as a sister, you can’t change that and I won’t let you do that.” Molly said sternly. “One more indiscretion, one and you’ll be pulled out of Hogwarts and Minerva can have you dropped off by elf at Wellesley Hall. In fact, I’ll be writing the letter before I leave. I obviously failed you Ginny and for that I am sorry. I’m glad that the Gryffindor team is suspended because you both need to buckle down and study. If you don’t have Exceeds Expectations in most of your classes at the end of the year, neither of you will be getting your Hogsmeade privilege’s back and I don’t want to hear anything about Quidditch from either of you.”
Molly took a deep breath before turning to smile at Lavender, “I meant it, I’m looking forward to having another granddaughter. Welcome to the family as messed up as it is. I may seem harsh but I really do want the best for them.”
Lavender tearfully hugged her, “I was so worried you wouldn’t like me…”
Molly smiled even as she hugged the girl back, “I’ll send Nina over with some ginger biscuits and a blanket or two for the baby.”
“I want biscuits.” Ron pouted.
“The only persons I’m making biscuits these days are for the persons carrying my grandbabies.” Molly said icily. “Now you have studying to do, don’t you? Your pre-NEWT exams are coming up and I will not tolerate you failing to study. Lavender if you feel any morning sickness dear just nibble on one of those biscuits I’ll be sending or ask for ginger tea. It will help you feel better.”
The girl nodded and then pulled Ron out of the room with her.
Leaving a still petulant but not ashamed Ginny behind.
“I mean it Ginny, behave.” Molly admonished.
Ginny stomped away childishly, “I hate you!”
Molly waited until the door shut before sagging into a chair. “That was so hard…”
“But ultimately necessary.” Minerva said quietly. “I’ve watched my brothers and their spouses as well as my nephews and nieces come down harder on their kids when they get out of line. Thankfully, not for the same reasons though. Hopefully, your strictness helps them. They are both capable students but they lack their elder brothers’ work ethic. I know you’ve complained about their OWLS and marks but they were excellent students. If they both were more responsible out of class we might have made one of them a prefect, likely George. He had the second highest marks in his year, he was right behind Hadrian Pucey and Brecc Montague.”
Molly flinched, “Then why would they let me think they only had like Seven OWLS between them. Tell me did they sit their NEWTS?”
“Mary Lynette Weasley they left during Ronald’s Charms exam, of course they sat their NEWTS. Just because they refused to attend Graduation doesn’t mean they didn’t graduate. I owled them their certificates after I returned to Hogwarts, I’m surprised Albus didn’t give them to you like he bullied us into making Ron a prefect in the first place. His grandfather made him give it up as soon as he heard his marks and knew of the pregnancy.”
“So who is the new Gryffindor prefect?”
“Albus absolutely refuses to let Harry have it and well with his situation and absence, it wasn’t possible. I thought Harry deserved his due to his obvious maturity and I thought it would make him closer to Hermione. The best laid plans often go awry,” the Transfiguration Mistress shrugged, “I gave it to Dean Thomas, he looked like he was hit with a shocking spell when I told him. He does have the third best marks overall, between Malfoy and Nott surprisingly enough.”
“As painful as it is to admit, Ron should never have been made a prefect. It wasn’t the making of him at all, I think the authority went to his head worse then Percy.” Molly rose unsteadily after writing the threatened note and handing it to the Deputy Headmistress, before she had Nina return her to Ivy Hall.
She could already feel a headache coming on; she picked out a knitted baby blanket and filled a small tin with her biscuits from yesterday before sending Nina with them.
Pausing to cast a spell that would make the tin unopenable to Ron, she knew her son well and he would not be able to resist her biscuits. Best to prevent him from eating them so Lavender could especially when the girl needed them more.
XooooooX
Harry was bored.
Draco was with his mother and Remus was still grading their assignments from the other day.
So he’d decided to help Fred and George pick up places to set up their labs in exile…
Draco had taken over the very large potions lab in the cellar preparing it since he was apparently at the level of a NEWT brewer anyway he’d taken over Harry’s tutoring, which Harry allowed George to take a corner of it for his own brewing.
They found a nearby empty room that might have been a lab at one point due to the number of protection spells inside that Harry told Fred they could have for other projects.
“Thanks for sending Remus to help us get set up.” Fred said quietly. “I don’t know if we ever told you that before.”
Harry snorted, “As if you didn’t deserve me to sic a Marauder on you. I would have given you money for the shop regardless of winning the Tournament or not.”
“Marauder?” Fred stammered.
“Yep, he’s Moony if you couldn’t figure it out.” Harry inwardly flinched, “Dad was Prongs, Sirius was Padfoot and Pettigrew the rat was Wormtail. That’s right you called them your gods or something.”
Fred swallowed, “I knew Remus was brilliant but he was a Marauder? Merlin…dunno why I didn’t guess. It was around the time he would have been a student too…”
“I guess you wouldn’t have remembered what names were on the file that you nicked it from.” Harry teased.
Fred looked sheepish, “That’d be why there was a codicil to his will that gave us money as an investment in his name…”
Harry frowned, “What do you mean?”
Fred conjured chairs and told Harry about how they’d been using the investments…
XooooooX
Arthur had already sent a note to his secretary, informing them that he’d be a little late. He flooed to The Burrow, feeling the tingle but not attack of the wards some that felt as if Bill cast them.
Arthur might not be in the running for father of the year but he was proud of what his older five boys had accomplished…
Swallowing what meagre pride he still had, Arthur took from floo powder from the flowerpot on the mantle, stepped into the floo and called out, “Wellesley Hall.”
He appeared in the Receiving room, which also functioned as a front parlour.
Arthur sighed, making his way up to his father’s study ignoring the welcoming squeaks from the family’s elves.
One of the elves or the Hall itself had informed his father or his arrival.
“Arcturus, I would say it was a pleasure but what brings the prodigal son home?”
Arthur flinched, “Good morning father, it’s been a while…”
“To what do I owe the pleasure?” Septimus Weasley asked.
“Well…there is the small issue of my apologies. I know that we parted on bad terms but I did try to be a good parent. I may have been a workaholic but I’ve recently learned that I somehow managed to fail both my youngest children.” Arthur admitted like a chastised schoolboy.
“So you learned about Ron’s child then.” Septimus muttered darkly.
“Bill’s twins, Charlie has a lover, Percy was imperioed, George is being courted by the Nott heir, Ron is going to be a father and Ginny is a rapist.” Arthur groaned collapsing in the chair in front of his father’s desk.
“So why are you here?”
“At least one Death Eater came after our family specifically and we’re defecting from the Order.” Arthur admitted in a grumble.
“So you want us to put our issues aside and stand as a family? What has made you decide to abandon the great Albus Dumbledore?” Septimus said boredly.
Arthur shifted nervously, “It’s Harry, we let him nudge us into making him family. Yet each year we were made to let him go back to his Muggle relatives who beat him. When the twins mentioned it, Molly was furious with them so she didn’t listen. When she thought it through she asked Albus and he lied. We know how much family means to a Weasley even if they don’t always agree with your choices, you never did insist that Molly terminate her pregnancy.”
“I won’t.” Septimus glared, “She may not have been who I chose for you but, she was of a proper rank in society and was at least a member of the family we wanted to join blood with. We may not have liked Mary but it was you not us who cut ties.”
“You picked a fight with Molly just after the news of her brothers’ murder, of course we were furious.” Arthur retorted.
“That was foolish of us and we have tried to repair the breech, but you two chose to be stubborn.” Septimus sniffed. “We did our best to reach out to the boys when they were of age and graduated by paying for William’s Apprenticeship, donating to the dragon preserve to help Charlie get accepted there and putting in a good word for Percy at the Ministry so Bartimus hired him.”
“All of which I am extremely…grateful for.” Arthur said through clenched teeth.
“Who all in the family will need to take refuge here?” Septimus sighed.
“Myself, Molly, probably Ron and Ginny over the summer.” Arthur admitted defeatedly.
“Ronald is joining the Brown family so he’s their problem.” Septimus said sternly. “What about the twins?”
“I believe that for the moment they are staying with Harry, once Oran Nott has been stripped of his title then his eldest Theo will be taking custody of the estate and he will move to the Nott family seat with his siblings and George.”
“I see, so the reason you’re under fire from the Death Eaters is not because you’re a bloodtraitor its because George is in a relationship with the Nott heir. Interesting, I take it you knew nothing?”
Arthur flinched, “I work a lot…”
“I was busy with the Wizengamot and the Board of Governors but I still took the time to consider your futures and your prospective Bondmates. Yet that is neither here not there, you are my son no matter your choices and I will extend the protection of our wards to you, your bonded and any of your offspring that need it.” His father said sternly.
Arthur felt the tension in his shoulders vanish at that announcement. “Thank you father.”
“For what it is worth, I am proud of what you have accomplished.”
Arthur rose staggering to his feet, “Thank you…I really ought to be getting to work even if I sent a note to my secretary letting her know I would be late.”
“Yes, yes can’t have that. I’ll inform your mother about your returning to the Hall. I’m sure she’ll be pleased even with the extenuating circumstances.”
Arthur bowed before scrambling out of the study and making straight for the floo he’d arrived in taking it to the Ministry.
That was the most nerve-wracking experience since he’d had to face both his father and Molly’s to take responsibility for her accidental pregnancy that resulted in Bill…
Arthur was going to throw himself into work and hope to Merlin that things looked up later…

What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?
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