Hello everyone.
My friend and I were thinking about what I could potentially write next, and thus this story was born.
This will be a collection of fifty moments in the missing 19 years between the Deathly Hallows and the epilogue, and a few from beyond. We hope you all enjoy, "The Life We've Dreamed of."
Disclaimer: All rights go to J.K. Rowling. I own nothing but the plotlines.
Daddy
"Hi, Uncle Harry!" Teddy squealed excitedly, running through the door. Harry chuckled and caught him.
"Slow down, there, Teddy," he said, looking down at his four year-old godson. "Where's your grandmother?"
"Outside!" he said. "Aunt Ginny!" He ran towards Ginny, who had come out from the kitchen.
Andromeda Tonks chuckled and brought in Teddy's small bag. "Thank you for taking Teddy. It will be so wonderful to get away for a week. I forgot how much work children could be!"
"Don't worry, Andromeda. We love having Teddy here. We're going to have a lot of fun, right, bud?"
Teddy, who had reappeared next to Harry, nodded enthusiastically. "We're gonna play lots of games, watch ten movies a day, and eat lots of pizza!" He picked up his bag and ran to his room.
Harry chuckled. "Have fun in Hawaii, Andromeda."
"Is your fort done, Uncle Harry?" Teddy asked, hiding behind a mass of pillows and blankets. He made a hole which he could talk through and launch ammo from.
"Almost done, Teddy!" Harry was really struggling. He could barely get his pillows to stand up, and the fort had collapsed twice already. When he finally made a decent pillow fort, he announced, "I'm ready! Start the catapults!"
Teddy started launching rolled up socks through the opening of the fort. They collided with Harry's pillow wall, but it held.
Harry, throwing fairly lightly, started his attack with small, lightweight plastic balls he'd Transfigured from cotton balls. One of Teddy's pillows fell down on top of the boy. "I'm still in!" he cried, fixing the pillow. "ATTACK!"
"Teddy, Harry, dinner is rea-" Ginny was cut off by a rolled up pair of socks that landed in her mouth. Another one hit her in the face. Harry gasped. Ginny hissed, "You'll pay for that one, boys!"
Teddy laughed in delight. "Uncle Harry, get over into my fort, quick!" Harry crawled over and into Teddy's mass of pillows. Ginny got onto her knees and occupied Harry's fort, surveying the plastic balls with delight. "Oh, these'll be great." She pulled out her wand and Transfigured them into stuffed animals. Big stuffed animals.
Meanwhile, on the boys' side, Harry was taking stock of the ammo. Teddy had a few socks left. He Transfigured them into pillows. Gin will never see it coming, he thought evilly.
Teddy officiated the match. "Each side with launch five times, and only one side can shoot at once. Whoever's fort collapses first loses!" he crawled back next to Harry.
"Hey, Gin, ladies first!" Harry shouted through the opening. Teddy giggled, looking at the pillows they were going to throw.
"You're going to regret that, Potter!" She used her wand to launch her stuffed koala bears first. As they soared through the air, Harry quickly cast a shield charm on their fort. The koalas bounced off harmlessly.
"You have to do better than that, Gin!" He quickly launched a few of the pillows. He could see Ginny's expression of shock as her fort wobbled.
"Oh, two can play at that game!" She waved her wand and the stuffed animals doubled in size. "ATTACK!" They soared through the air, colliding with the pillow wall. The fort trembled as koalas battered the front wall. One rained down through the blanket roof, but their fort still stood, barely.
Harry levitated three pillows and sent them towards Ginny's fort, high speed. Two of them made the wall move, and the third knocked the top two pillows of her fort to the ground.
"I think Ron would be better at this than you, Gin!" Harry teased. He shouldn't have.
"THAT'S IT, HARRY! ATTACK, MY KOALAS!" All ten of her leftover stuffed animals flew through the air. Harry shot pillows back and intercepted the koalas, knocking them to the floor. But before he could reload, Ginny had launched herself at the fort, screaming, "PILLOW FIGHT!"
"Ahhh!" Harry and Teddy both yelled. Soon, a full blown pillow fight was being fought in the Potters' living room.
Teddy laughed the loudest of the three. "Get her, daddy!" Harry dropped the pillow he was about to use to hit Ginny. She dropped her pillow too, and stared at Harry. Her look plainly stated, What do we do?
"Teddy?" Harry asked tentatively. He wasn't really sure how he wanted to accomplish it, but he needed to make sure Teddy knew that Harry was not his father.
"Yeah, Harry?" he asked. He looked a little upset at the sudden stop in their game. "What happened?"
"Well, you called me daddy. I- I'm not your father, even though I'm very close to you," Harry began. "Your mother and father were very brave people, and they died to make the world a better place for you. I want you to always remember them." They'd explained what happened to Remus and Tonks before, but how could any four-year old understand?
"So I have no daddy, or mommy," Teddy said. Tears were coming to his eyes.
"Teddy, your mommy and daddy will always be with you, and one day, you will see them. I never got to meet by mommy and daddy either," Harry said softly.
Teddy sniffled. "You didn't?" he asked.
Harry shook his head. "But I always knew they were watching over me, just like your parents are watching over you."
Ginny broke her silence. "And, Uncle Harry and I will always be there for you, just like your grandparents, and Aunt Hermione, Uncle Ron, Uncle George, Aunt Angelina-"
Teddy giggled. "Uncle Ron eats a lot."
Harry laughed. "He sure does, Teddy. How about we go eat some pizza, and then we can watch a movie?"
"Okay, Uncle Harry."
Author's Note: Here are the birthdays of the children that we figured. We tried to make them as accurate as possible and stick to canon. Please review with comments, questions, and opinions.
KIDS BIRTHDAYS:
Teddy- April 7, 1998
Victoire- May 2, 2000
Dominique- June 8, 2002
Molly II- December 23, 2003
Louis- July 3, 2004
James- April 1, 2005
Fred II- May 27, 2005
Rose- March 14, 2006
Albus- July 31, 2006
Roxanne- February 4, 2008
Lucy- March 27, 2008
Hugo- May 7, 2008
Lily- August 18, 2008