Harry Potter And The Betrayal

Once Dumbledore arrived, Dantes cast a spell to create a visible stopwatch and said, "The clock will start the moment Dumbledore begins the duel and when the alarm sounds the duel is ended, understood, Mrs. Weasley?"

She nodded her understanding.

Dantes glanced at the Headmaster, "Are you going to close the doors to give us some privacy, Dumbledore?"

"No, There is no reason too." Dumbledore told him.

"Very well," Dantes aimed his ash grey wand at the doorway and made an arcing gesture. A bolt of white energy hit the keystone of the doorway arch and a barrier shimmered into being. "That will ensure that no students can enter the Great Hall while the duel is in progress. For their own safety and ours."

Dumbledore nodded, pleased that the man at least cared about the students who went to his ancestor's school. "If you are both ready?"

Dantes nodded.

Molly said, "Lets get this over with."

"Bow," Dumbledore requested and when they had done so, he counted, "Three… two… one."

Both duellists immediately shouted, " orbis pigmento " before dodging for the nearest barricade.

The paint balls of red and green impacted on the shields that Dumbledore had placed a few inches from the walls of the Great Hall to protect them from paint splatters. A student passing by the Great Hall heard the shouting and stopped to watch then realised he was watching a very unusual duel and hurried to get a few of his friends so they could see this as well.

Molly and Dantes darted around firing paint ball spells at each other. Some of them made contact, but not all. The floor and barriers were soon covered in paint.

Molly kept an eye on the clock Dantes had thoughtfully provided, and waited for her chance. She would only get one shot at taking down this man who insulted her honour.

As the time started to run out and Molly was well covered in paint, she saw her chance. Pointing her wand at Dantes, she whispered, " Stupify ."

The beam of red light struck Dantes and he collapsed. Harry seeing the deliberate attack by Mrs Weasley, pointed his staff in her direction and shouted, " Incarecerous! "

Ropes wrapped themselves tightly around Molly before anyone else in the room had a chance to react, sending her crashing to the ground.

"Your wife has forfeited her honour, by breaking the terms of the duel." Harry announced.

"I did not!" Molly retorted as Arthur went over to free her. "I never agreed to them! I fought a proper duel and took down my opponent!"

Dumbledore looked at Molly surprised. He never would've expected her to cheat. "Molly, I am afraid that I must agree with Mr. Potter. Having heard the terms that were stated, when you challenged Lord Ravenclaw during Fudge's trial before the High Council and the fact that you did not disagree with them at that time, you were bound to honour them or tell him before the duel began that you would not."

Arthur looked at his wife in surprise, his eyes wide as if he was seeing her for the first time. "Molly," he hissed, "if you were not going to accept the terms you should have said so before the duel started. Not only have you have betrayed the honour of the Prewitts, but the Weasleys as well. I agreed to the terms on your behalf as was proper and never once did you say that you would not abide by them." Arthur shook his head as if to wipe the memory of what his wife had done from his mind. "I am ashamed of you, Molly. Today you showed me that you do not believe in honour, something that we taught our children was one of the most important things they had. I don't know how you will be able to face our children when they learn what you have done. Did you even think of how this will affect them? How people will react to them when they learn who their mother is and what she has done. You have also dragged us even further than ever from any chance of reconciliation with Harry, given he too has seen that you are without honour."

"You're a fool Arthur if you think we have a chance at reconciling with that boy." Molly spat as she struggled with the ropes binding her. "He's a lost cause and in your heart you know it. The only question remaining is how much damage is he going to do before you admit it to yourself."

Dumbledore shook his head sadly. He never thought he would see Molly Weasley sink so low as to violate the terms of a duel. He went over and pointed his wand at Dantes, "Enervate."

Dantes looked up in confusion. "What happened?"

With a thoughtful look on his face, Dumbledore opened his mouth to reply but before he could say anything Harry chimed in, "Mrs. Weasley cheated. She used a Stupify spell on you to knock you out."

Sitting up Dantes looked over at Molly Weasley not with a hateful or angry expression but with an expression that proclaimed louder than words that he knew she was a woman with no honour and that her actions had just confirmed it.

Getting to his feet Dantes walked over to where Molly had been brought to her feet by her husband, still bound by the ropes Harry had placed there.

Removing his wand from the pistol grip he pointed it at her. "Be grateful, madam," Dantes said in calm almost deadly tone of voice, "that I do not attack those unable to retaliate. You have proven you and your family are without honour. By violating the terms of the duel, you have forfeited what little honour you ever held. From this day forward, your dishonour will be plain for all to see when they look at you."

A bolt of grey light left Dantes wand and hit Molly. The ropes binding her vanished, but as both Arthur and Dumbledore watched the word: dishonoured was written across her forehead in red letters.

In the silence that had fallen on the Great Hall after Dantes' spell hit Molly, they all heard the sound of voices near the door way and that was quickly followed by scurrying feet. Dumbledore looked up to see children disappearing from the Great Hall entry way.

"Told you, you should have closed the doors." Dantes commented to Dumbledore as he gestured at the keystone to remove the barrier. "Word of Molly Weasley's dishonour will spread far and wide before you can stop it."

"And unfortunately added to what Ginny has already done by attacking Luna," Harry put in. "The Weasley name may be only a little higher on the scale than the Malfoy name, by the time this makes the rounds."

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