Invitation Only ~ Fred Weasley

TWENTYTHREE

The revelation of Sirius actually being Viola's dad shocked everyone at the dinner table. Fred stayed absolutely silent throughout the talk about it while Sirius sent him the occasional death stare. Viola kept tugging his hand under the table to reassure him and to shield him. Even though she had made herself very clear, that Sirius had no business interfering with her dating life, she suspected him to not keep his word.

All of a sudden, the door to the kitchen was slammed open and Arthur came storming in.

"Harry..." he panted, completely out of breath. He had clearly been rushing to get home. Everyone looked at him.

"He... Cast a patronus... dementors in Little Whinging. Dumbledore... at the ministry... they expelled him." He panted and clutched his hand to his chest and sunk down on a chair.

"What?" Sirius shouted and stormed up. Both Hermione and Molly put their hands to their mouths.

"They expelled him?" Ron asked in shock and both Fred and George were too shocked to speak.

Arthur shook his head. "Dumbledore made them pull it back. It will be decided at a hearing." He said and took a big sip of water. Sirius stormed out of the kitchen.

"Sirius, I already sent an owl to Harry!" Arthur yelled after him, but he was already gone.

"Arthur, what happened?" Molly asked with caution and placed a dinner plate in front of him.

"Two dementors appeared and attacked Harry and his cousin, Harry cast a patronus charm and now the ministry wants him expelled." Arthur said as he gently clapped his wife's cheek.

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The rest of the evening, everyone was tense. They worried about what was going to happen to Harry and how he must be feeling at that moment. After dinner, the members of the order held a meeting. Viola and the twins were crashing in the twins' room and Ron, Ginny and Hermione were in Ron's room.

Viola sat on the floor with her back leaning against Fred's legs who was sitting on the edge of the bed. George were writing down something to their skiving snackboxes experiments. Viola had her legs crossed and she was scribbling down notes for Fred who was trying to do inventory of their products. Occasionally, Fred would bend over and kiss Viola on her forehead or play with her hair. It was nice to be like this with Fred out in the open.

"Freddie, have you thought about the nosebleed nougat thing I told you about?" George asked from the table.

"Yea, but I don't see how we can produce the antidote." Fred said and were fiddling with some of those colourful fudges that Viola would never dare to eat. She had heard all about how Harry's cousin had eaten one of those and how it had ended.

"I wonder what's going to happen to Harry now." Viola said without having really listened to the twins' conversation.

"Dumbledore will save his ass, no doubt." George said and looked over as Fred bent over and placed a kiss on Viola's forehead.

"All right, I'm stoked that I don't have to keep your secret anymore, but keep the PDA to a minimum, please." He said, smirking and rolled his eyes. Fred chuckled and grabbed Viola's head and urged it back and placed a big and wet kiss on her lips. He fake moaned against her lips and Viola chuckled and did the same thing. George started retching and both Fred and Viola started laughing.

"The more you bitch about it the more lovey-dovey we will be, Georgie." Fred said and George groaned.

"What happened to that Ravenclaw girl, you were seeing?" Viola asked George and he visibly blushed. "You never told me her name."