Taking a sip from the tumbler she'd been nursing, Amelia then gave Arthur some more shocking news. "There's going to be stories hitting the papers on Thursday, and I guarantee you they are all true, that may see your Molly changing her opinion of Dumbledore. The rumours of him casting compulsion charms on Hogwarts professors is one hundred percent true, Minerva needed to go to St Mungo's to have them removed. Hogwarts has lost six professors, three of them Heads of House, and its Healer. Harry Potter has effectively left Britain, and actively seeking Italian citizenship for himself and his betrothed. Since he's also spending a small fortune in Italy building a new school, I don't see their Ministry refusing his request. You know what's happening at Hogwarts next term, both Dumbledore and Fudge desperately need that tournament to be a success - it may be the only thing that saves their jobs."
Of course Arthur knew about the Triwizard Tournament, it was one of the other matter's mentioned that had him staring at his eldest son for some answers. Bill eventually obliged.
"There's no way the matter with Ginny will be resolved before September. She was in contact with that vile thing for ten months, and then left for a year after her mind being messed with. The mind-healer she's seeing reckons it could take a year for Ginny to fully recover from this, and she might never recover fully if she returned to Hogwarts. Ginny will be attending the Potter Institute, at least for next year, that's simply non-negotiable dad."
If sending Ginny to Hogwarts hampered or stopped her recovery, Arthur couldn't really argue with that. Bill then continued with what he knew would be the much harder sell. "Ron of course wants to attend the same school as his best friends, and the twins are begging Headmistress Sprout to let them go there too. Those will be decisions for you and mum to make. When the story breaks about Ginny though, and it will, where you send those three to school will determine how the public - and Harry - sees your part in this. Sending them to Hogwarts would certainly be seen as condoning what Dumbledore deliberately did to our Ginny."
"Why is Harry's opinion so important?"
"Dad, Ginny stays in Harry's house - will be attending his school - and he is scarily protective of her. No harm will come to Ginny while Poppy and Harry are there. Dumbledore deliberately did that to Ginny not to help her, but to stop news of what had happened inside Hogwarts getting out. You just said Ginny didn't mention it all last summer, Dumbledore did that to her."
The knut finally dropped for Arthur. "Your mum and I will need Harry's permission to visit his house - to see Ginny."
"Unless Harry approves a portkey for you, there's no other way onto his property - his wards are unbelievable. That portkey will only work for whoever it's issued to. I have one but it wouldn't let me take you there with me."
"I'm desperate to see Ginny, she she's alright. What do you want me to do?"
Amelia let out a sigh of relief as she could once more help Harry, she was pretty bloody useless with the horcrux this morning. "We're only buying time here, Arthur, time that Harry needs to carry out his other plans. On Thursday, the country will discover that Harry Potter is prophesied to face Voldemort, and only one of them can survive. I recently heard the prophecy myself in this very room with Harry and his family, the firewhisky bottle came out that day too. Nothing is more important than the final defeat of Voldemort, so we don't want him having to fight the Ministry, Dumbledore and the Weasleys at the same time. To help Harry I managed to get Fudge off his case. Thursday's headlines will see Dumbledore being far too busy trying to save his own skin to bother about anyone else. You can help by not having Molly demanding her children come home at once, hopefully giving us the time we need to accomplish what we must."
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