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My Poor Mate

Chapter 1: Enough!

The war was finally over...

However it wasn't without its cost. Sirius had been one of the first casualties during his fifth year, the next great loss had been Dumbledore at the end of sixth. For his seventh year he hadn't returned to Hogwarts in favor of hunting down the horcruxes with his two best friends supporting him the whole time.

Even Draco had helped to put an end the war by acting as a spy for them and leading them to the horcuxes that he knew about. Granted that they didn't know it was him, the letters had been signed Mr. Ferret, a code name created in honor of the Marauders that his godfather, Severus had spoken of. At first they hadn't known it was him until the letters had suddenly stopped coming and Harry had walked to his death. Just before the killing curse had hit him, Harry had seen Draco laying beaten and bloody at the far end of the clearing. According to Hermione and Ron, Voldemort had then proceeded to gloat Draco's efforts had been in vain before leaving him to die from his wounds. Ron had then apparated to the school to warn them while Hermione stayed behind to heal the then unconscious Draco enough to side along apparate him to Hogwarts so that Madam Pomfrey could take care of him.

With Voldemort mortal once more, none of the students left to face him were as scared of him and were able to hold their own until Harry unexpectedly came back from the dead and defeated him. After that they discovered that Bill, Charlie, Percy, Ginny, and Molly had perished from the Weasley family. Remus and Tonks had also died along with his great-grandmother Andromeda, leaving baby Teddy in Harry's care. From the DA Katie Bell, Michael Corner, Terry Boot, Dean Thomas, Marietta Edgecombe, Parvati Patil, Cho Chang and Seamus Finnigan had died.

Right now Harry was holding Teddy as he stood before Dobby's grave on Shell Beach, the epitaph reading 'Here Lies Dobby A Free Elf'. He was paying his respects to the brave house-elf that had painfully attempted to save his life once only to die when he succeeded in saving his life a second time. "Hey Dobby. I just wanted you to meet my godson, Teddy, he is growing so fast and I have absolutely no clue what I am doing. When Tonks and Remus asked me to be his godfather I didn't think that they wouldn't live to see the end of this bloody war..." Harry trailed off as tears started to make their way down his face. "I can't stay here anymore Dobby, I need to leave. There's something that's calling out to me, I've always felt it, ever since I was a small child. I used to call back, begging it to help me but no one ever came. I think that I need to be the one that goes to it. I hope that you are happy wherever you are Dobby and I promise to come back to visit every once in a while so that you won't be lonely," Harry assured the dead elf.

As the sun began to set Draco apparated behind him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Come on Potter, your friends are losing minds with worry, wondering where you've disappeared off to with your godson," Draco informed him.

"Grab on Mafoy," was Harry's only reply, knowing that he wouldn't be able to make it on his own, and side along apparated all of them home to the burrow.

After the war Harry, Hermione, Draco, Teddy, Neville, and Luna had moved in and Fred and George had moved back. Winky had bonded with Harry and helped him with taking care if the baby and doing all of the housekeeping. It was with no doubt that none of them would've lasted long on their on their own without her. She was probably the happiest out of all of them, she had all the work that she could've dreamed of, got paid a galleon a week, had one day off of her choosing every week, was free to have her own personal life, had her own room, wasn't allowed to punish herself, was gently corrected if she made a mistake, and was treated with the same respect as any other human.

When everyone saw the state that Harry was in, they let him have his space instead of converging on him. Neville and Luna opted to help Winky set the table while everyone else washed up for dinner and Harry put Teddy down for the night. As everyone ate (Winky also had a place to sit at the table as well) there was a tense silence in the air. Suddenly Hermione slammed her fork down and stood up abruptly. "I can't take this anymore! I'm sorry, it's not you guys, but there are just too many..." Hermione trailed off as Ron placed a hand on her arm, gently guiding her to retake her seat.

"We understand Hermione, there are too many memories here, and I think that it's getting to all of us," Ron soothed.

"Perhaps it is time for a change in scenery," Luna suggested.

"Did you have somewhere in mind Luna?" Neville asked curiously.

"No... I was thinking that Harry should choose our destination. After all, he is the only one out of us that knows where he wants to go," she announced causing everyone to turn their attention on him.

"You know that you're not getting rid of us that easily mate," Fred told him.

"Yeah, you're family, we go where you go," George finished.

"Is that why you were at Dobby's grave Harry?" Draco demanded, and everyone went quiet in anticipation of the answer.

"Yes, I was saying goodbye to everyone and explaining to them why I wasn't going to be around as often anymore. I was going to ask if all of you would like to come with me after all of the paperwork was finalized. I already bought a house big enough for all of us and everything," Harry quickly placated his family.

"Harry, how long have you felt this way?" Arthur finally spoke up.

"For about a month or so, I want to raise Teddy away from all of the fame, I want him to have a normal childhood; not having to feel the pressure of being 'Harry Potter's son'. But if you guys are going to come with me, I am warning you now: the place that I chose is a small town that doesn't even show up on the map, so it can be guaranteed that nothing ever happens," Harry smirked cheekily, it was the closest that he ever got to a smile these days when not playing with Teddy.

"We understand mate," Ron gave him a wane smile, knowing just how broken his best mate was.

"This place sounds perfect Harry, where is it?" Hermione asked getting excited.

"Not telling and don't even bother trying to ask Winky, she had no idea that I was planning on this," Harry quickly cut off the scheming plans undoubtedly coming from the twins if the way that they were looking at the poor house-elf was anything to go by.

"Harry, you wound us," Fred started.

"We would never do anything to upset the poor elf," George continued.

"She works very hard every day as it is," Fred.

"If I didn't know any better I just might believe you, as it stands if you harass her in any way I just might have to show everyone that one photo of you guys getting tangled up in-" Harry was then interrupted

"NO!" Both twins shouted.

"What? What is it?" Arthur asked, having never seen the twins so worked up before.

"Who would have thought it?" Fred.

"Sweet innocent Harry capable of blackmail," George.

"You should know that I come from a long line of pranksters, in fact my father was one of the marauders," Harry commented offhandly.

"I didn't know that the Potters were pranksters," Draco mused.

"Not many know since we don't usually get caught, the only reason that I know is because I've been reading some of my family's old journals," Harry informed them.

"Well that would certainly explain why some of the pranks at school went unclaimed," Hermione

"Winky, I need to ask you something," Harry changed the subject.

"Harry Potter can ask anything of Winky," she replied.

"Now I ask this not because I don't want you to come with, but because I don't want to force you into anything. I was wondering if you would like to come with us, wherever it is that I have decided that we are moving?" Harry asked.

The elf immediately perked up at this and smiled happily, "Winky would follow Harry Potter to the moon if he lets her."

"Then it is settled, Winky you may start moving personal belongings to the new house starting tomorrow, we leave at the end of the week. If it is all the same for everyone I think that we should make this trip the muggle way. The place that I have chosen is in the muggle world, although there is a magical community nearby if we run into any trouble," Harry suggested to which everyone agreed.
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Alice was in the middle of getting ready to pounce on a deer when she was hit by a vision. Edward and Jasper were immediately aware of it and changed direction, alerting everyone else and they all gathered around her. When she came out of it she had a very confused demeanor. "What did you see Alice," Edward asked, voicing everyone's question.

"Something really good and something really strange. Carlisle, is it possible for a vampire to become mentally unstable?" She asked gaining everyone's curiosity but she wouldn't allow anyone to know what she saw, she was even reciting the Egyptian alphabet backwards in her mind to prevent Edward from reading her thoughts.

"I do not believe so, is there someone that we should be concerned about?" He answered.

"No, it seemed to be good as well just really strange," Alice assured.

"So let me get this straight, you saw something that is going to be really good and something that is both really good and strange," Rosalie asked and at the pixie girl's nod she continued, "Do you mind giving us any details?"

"Eleven people are moving here to Forks in a week's time," Alice answered and wouldn't give them anymore details after that.
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