A New Home, a Not-So-Secret Meeting, and Secrets? Are Revealed
The Burrow, July 30, 1998
“Ginny? Are you here?” A girl’s voice asked in the new room, filled with books and a cat bed.
“Yeah! How do you like Hermione’s room? I designed it myself!” Ginny said coming from the en-suite bathroom.
“Are you okay?” Parvati asked, pointing to Ginny’s aloe covered scars that were shrinking by the second.
“The bloody cat! How did you survive so many years with him?”
“I’m still asking myself that. Maybe he just misses his Human?”
“Maybe? Let’s…”
“Emergency AWS meeting in the kitchen now! Make that AWSAA!” George screamed running down the halls and up and down the stairs.
“Alright! Need help sounding the alarm?” Ginny yelled back.
“No!!!!”
“A what now?”
“And AWS meeting is a meeting of All Weasley Siblings. While OWS is for Bill, Charlie, and Perc, while YWS is the Twins, Ron, and me, and the mostly unknown TMWS, the Trouble Making Weasley Siblings, namely the Twins and Me, With Charlie, and even Bill on occasion. Ron on the weeks when he gets a Howler from Mom, too. AWSAA is All Weasley Siblings And Associates. And Hermione and Harry were officially added to AWS years ago.”
“Cool?” Parvati said, mumbling ‘What I’d expect?’ under her breath. “Any idea what’s going on?”
“Nope, but it sounds like it's time to raise some hell! Eek!” The toughened and fierce Quidditch star shouted.
The girls walked downstairs seeing that the now giant kitchen was filled to the brim including three faces who technically shouldn’t be there.
“Kingsley and I got Wizengamot to make a few exceptions now that Hogwarts is nearly complete.” Percy said, referring to the fact that Narcissa Black-Malfoy, Gregory Goyle, and Draco Malfoy were sitting at the table. Besides Kingsley himself, and the rest of the Weasley family, including Fleur and Gabby, both Lovegoods were present, as were Neville, Hannah, Susan, Cho, Oliver, Marcus, Viktor, Terry, Michael, Anthony, Seamus, Dean, Justin, Ernie, Millie, Tracey, Daphne, and Astoria. Andromeda brought Teddy, and the Headmistress took the day off.
“Alright, what’s happening?”
“The Beetle Bitch did some shit, and we need to rectify it. And by some shit, she has completely destroyed us.” Ron said.
“As a precaution, during the war, Fred and I devised a charm that can create a basic Marauder's Map for any location. Hence the blank parchment on the wall. Will some time, and Ginny, Harry, and Hermione’s help, I could actually create one for the house.”
“Marauder’s Map?”
“Harry will tell you at some point, but it’s basically a map that tells you where everyone on the property is.”
“The map never registered the Marauders in their other form though, did it?”
“Sort of. It showed them with their nicknames Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. Unless of course, one was aware of their identities. We just thought that was Scabbers previous name. In this case, it would show either the Beetle or Skeeter, though I’d think it may depend on her current form.”
“A way to make sure of eavesdroppers. Is that why some of our old friends and McLaggen aren’t present?” Justin asked.
“Better be safe than sorry, right?” Draco replied.
“So what exactly did the Beetle do this time?”
“Well… She’s used the same picture in three articles. Mrs. Malfoy…”
“Narcissa,” she said pointedly.
“Narcissa and Kingsley talking at the gates of Malfoy Manor. They’re, ‘What Secrets Are The Malfoy’s Still Trying To Hide?’, ‘Threats Between the Newest Minister and the Newly Acquitted Black!’,
and ‘Does Kingsley Not Trust His New Aurors?’! Fun, right?” Charlie spoke.
“Oh, and we also have ‘Slytherins and Gryffindors Friends? What is the Malfoy Heir’s Plot?’, ‘Death Eater Sighted Near Hogwarts! Is It Safe For Our Children To Return???’, and my favorites, ‘A Death Eater Outside and A Death Eater Inside? Is the War Truly Over?’ and ‘Where Have Our Heroes Gone? The Golden Trio Not Seen In Public In Months! A Love Triangle Gone Bad or Have They Been Captured and Killed?’ The Beetle is most definitely a Bitch!”
The dozens of faces, most of anger, a few of murder, quickly turned into an eruption of angry shouts and curses.
“We can’t hurt her. She won’t quit. I vote that the Sunday Quibbler shows tomorrow's plans, and I think, everything else that has happened this month.”
Everything immediately became quiet when a few pops of apparition was heard along with someone using a conjured garbage can.
Half a dozen variations of “What the hell?” ensued outside. Ron ran outside and had the very same experience that befell both Hermione and Harry earlier, except it was doubled. His scream of “Bloody Hell!” was so loud that all the members of AWSAA quickly ran outside and joined in.