Chapter 21 Double Delivery

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Harry

"You little arse..." And he sprang forwards and punched Malfoy in the face. "You traitor!" Harry yelled, "you gave us away! You told your dad where we were! I'm going to kill you!"

Draco clutched at his nose which was gushing blood like a waterfall. A very red waterfall. Harry felt two pairs of hands pull him away, he tried to free himself when a third pair grabbed him, he knew the third pair was Ron's. Ron held him round the chest to stop him from fighting. Harry felt anger boil his face.

"Why are you stopping me?!" He cried, "Malfoy betrayed us!"

"Harry," Ginny said softly, "he didn't, it was all a trick, he was supposed to have the ministry get there before Voldemort was resurrected but he was too late."

Harry swallowed his anger, he held out his hand to Draco, "sorry."

Draco shook it, "me too."

Harry felt his anger flicker like a candle in the wind, then extinguish completely. Ginny rubbed his arm and they told Ron about Andromeda, Harry noted that Ron had tears in his eyes but didn't mention it.

"Can we adopt Teddy?" Ginny asked, knocking Harry off guard.

"What?" Was all he was capable of saying.

"Well, you are his godfather and he has no other family left," his wife reasoned, "he'll be able to have a good life here, with us."

Harry struggled with himself, he really did want to adopt Teddy. But the constant danger the young boy would be in, and if he got killed it would be all Harry's fault.

"Right," Hermione's voice broke his train of thought, "Harry. Living room. Now."

Deciding not to argue with Hermione, especially now she was hormonal, Harry followed her into the dark living room. With a flick of her wand, Hermione lit the lights and she folded her arms across her chest and looked at Harry.

"I know what this is about," Hermione said sternly.

"Really?" Harry tried to fake innocence, "because I don't."

The bushy haired woman sighed, "you don't want Teddy to get hurt, but if you leave him to be up for adoption, he could go anywhere. He might even have relatives like yours and, no offence, but I'm so thankful the ministry moved them to a different safe house."

Harry ran his fingers through his hair, "yeah, but-"

Hermione stopped him, "no, it's not your fault. None of this is."

Harry smiled slightly, he wrapped Hermione in a hug and kissed the top of her head lightly, "thanks."

Hermione squeezed him a little tighter.

"You're welcome, Harry."

"You're amazing, you know that?" Harry murmured into her hair.

"Always the tone of surprise."

Ginny

"Damn it! GINNY! HARRY! WAKE UP!"

Ginny bolted up as fast as her swollen stomach would allow. Harry leapt from the bed and ran out of the door, Ginny could hear him thunder there and back. He stopped in the doorway with a pale face and said, "Hermione's water just broke."

The red head got up out of bed and changed quickly, she wanted to be there with her friend the whole time. Helping her. She scooped James up from his cot and hurried downstairs to meet the soon-to-be parents. Hermione was huffing and panting through the contractions and Ron was supporting her. Hermione let out a whimper at an evidently painful contraction. Harry rushed down with messy bed hair and his shirt crumpled, his glasses slightly lopsided on his nose. He waved his wand and a silver stag appeared, Harry said that the baby was on its way and then the patronus vanished. He looked up, "let's go."

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