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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They were just finishing up the final steps on their potions when there was a knock on the lab door. When it opened, Terry Boot stuck his head inside and said quietly, "Professor Wilmot, the Headmaster would like to see Harry Potter as soon as possible."
Wilmot nodded, then she told Harry, "Mr. Potter, since class is almost over, I will grade your potion on what has been done up to this point. If you would like to try and get the grade for the completed potion, you can come back to redo the potion after classes today."
"Yes Professor," Harry turned off the fire under his cauldron and them gathered up his equipment and went to join Boot who was waiting by the door.
"What did you do to upset Dumbledore now, Harry?" Boot inquired. It was well known that these days the only time the Headmaster asked to see Harry was when he had done something to annoy him.
Harry shrugged. "I have no idea. I haven't done anything that could even remotely be considered a problem since the duel between Mrs. Weasley and Lord Ravenclaw and that was several months ago. And that would only be a problem if you were a Weasley."
Boot nodded in agreement with that last statement. Ron Weasley had been avoiding Harry like he had the plague since the duel where his mother dishonoured herself and Gryffindor House by breaking the agreed upon rules of a duel. What no one had been able to figure out was why she had done it. That was a tactic the Slytherins would've used not someone from Gryffindor. Surely beating Dantes wasn't worth the loss of someone's personal honour.
When they arrived at the gargoyle guarding the Headmaster's office, Boot said, "Pepper imps."
The gargoyle slid aside and Terry told Harry, "Go on up, he's waiting for you."
Harry shrugged and headed up the stairs, wondering what the meddling old coot had in mind now.
As soon as Harry had entered the office, he was knocked into the nearest wall by a strong slap to the side of his face.
" How dare you take advantage of my daughter like that, " Harry heard a voice he recognized as Molly Weasley's yelling at him. "Haven't you done enough damage to my family? Percy is in Azkaban because of you . The twins won't speak to or even see us, because of you . And now you have to take my baby girl's innocence and get her pregnant. We should have left you in Azkaban."
Harry managed to get out of the way of the woman's flailing arm, long enough to cast, " petrificous totalis ."
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