Life Sucks, Then You Die: The Next Generation – Rating T
Part 01 – Potter Manor, Molly and Padfoot
Summary – Based on Radaslab's Life Sucks, Then You Die, we catch up with the children of Harry and his wife Hermione and Neville his wife Ginny, along with some of their families as they are about to be sorted on their first day as Hogwarts Students.
Pairings – Harry/Hermione/Multi, Neville/Ginny/Multi
Warnings – If you haven't read Radaslab's story, Life Sucks, Then You Die, you may not understand some of the places, characters and themes.
- LSTYD: The Next Generation -
Potter Manor, Spondon, Derbyshire, England
31st August 2006
The end of the war had been tough for the Head of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter, Lord Harry Potter and his family, his wives Hermione (Granger), Rosie (Rosier), Gabrielle (Delacour), Luna (Lovegood), Katie (Bell), Daphne (Greengrass), Michelle (Robins) and his consort, Lady Hannah Abbot of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Abbot, the headship of which she took over from her mother upon the birth of her son, Charles Abbot.
Born to James Potter and Lily Evans on July 31st, 1980, Harry James Potter was the only son of the couple. A month before Harry was born, a prophecy was made by Sybil Trelawney, a Seer who was attending an interview with the then Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore.
On Halloween 1981, disaster struck for the Potters as Peter Pettigrew, who was acting as Secret Keeper whilst the Potters were hiding out, sold them out to Lord Voldemort. Upon discovering the treachery by Pettigrew, Sirius Black, a friend of James, Lily and Pettigrew and Godfather to Harry, he raced to the cottage where the Potters were living. Upon arrival he was met by Rubeus Hagrid, gamekeeper at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Under instructions from the Headmaster, Hagrid took Harry to his Uncle and Aunt, Vernon and Petunia Dursley. Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress, along with Dumbledore, was waiting for Hagrid at the Dursleys house, where for 10 years they treated Harry as nothing more than a house elf.
The toughness didn't help because of looking after the children that was given birth to in Harry's forth year, done because of a betrothal contract made by Dumbledore in 1982, which, if it had taken affect, would have forced Harry to wed Ginny Weasley, with the use of Love and Fertility Potions to be used if the need required. Ginny however, was in love with someone else and so, with the use of Time Compression, stopped Dumbledore's plans in their tracks.
The 1994 TriWizard Tournament was one of the problems for Harry and his wives, as convicted Death Eater, Barty Crouch, Junior went into Hogwarts as Alastor Moody, a former Auror turned Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. However, thanks to a Map made by Remus Lupin, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black, and some ingredients stolen from the potions cupboard of Professor Severus Snape, Crouch Junior was found out on the day of the TriWizard Tournament's final event. This, however, did not stop Voldemort's return. His snake, Nagini, got hit by a severing curse by Harry prior to his leaving a graveyard where Crouch Junior had programmed a Portkey, the TriWizard cup, to go, in order to facilitate the return of Lord Voldemort. This was the start of the removal of the Dark Lord's Horcruxes.
After a year and a half of finally getting rid of the remaining Horcruxes, the Dark Lord, Voldemort, turned up at Hogwarts in order to battle against Harry Potter. This battle was seen as the climax of a 15 and half year Blood Feud between the Potter family and Tom Riddle, the birth name for Lord Voldemort, starting with the targeting of James and Lily Potter, then their murders, and concluding with the final death of Voldemort. The final battle went well for Harry, his wives and the Order, who were using the North Wing at Hogwarts as a headquarters, mainly as the South Wing was used as apartments for Houses Potter and Longbottom, and the North Wing became disused, having no need for it because of the lack of students requiring it.
Upon the early completion of their NEWTs in 1996, Harry and his wives spent the majority of the following years living in the South Wing, due to the convent that was agreed upon when Harry, Hermione, Neville and his consort Susan claimed their birthright as Founders Heirs.
Robert James Potter was getting restless over the wait he had to endure for the day that he, along with his sister Lily, his various half-brothers and sisters, and the family friends the Longbottoms and Blacks would be eligible to start as part of the latest batch of new students to board the train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Sitting up in his deckchair, he looked to see Lily with The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1 in her hands. He looked over at the Quidditch pitch to see his dad doing a Wonski Feint, hoping to fool his friend, fellow TriWizard Tournament competitors Viktor Krum and Cedric Diggory into crashing. Harry pulled up at the last moment on his Firebolt X when a shout came from the edge of the pitch.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER! GET OFF THAT BROOM NOW IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE!" Robert looked to see who was shouting to find it was his father's consort, Lady Hannah Abbot.
"Don't be too hard on Harry, Hannah." Robert heard his mother, Lady Hermione Potter, the first wife of his father's, say. "It's the thrill of being free on a broom that Harry loves. Plus he wouldn't do anything too bad...would he?"
"Sorry Hermione, it's just he scares me when he does stunts like that. I'm worried that he'd fall and break something." Hannah said, shivering at the memory of the first match of their first year, the Gryffindor versus Slytherin hell match in which Harry had a buckling broom thanks to their Defence Against the Dark Arts, who was possessed by Lord Voldemort.
Hermione turned to Robert with a questioning look. "Did you pack all of your stuff ready for tomorrow or did Lily or one of the girls help you?"
"My stuff is packed...kind of...I had to...err...Lily did it for me." Robert replied, going as red as his sisters namesake's hair. "That sister of mine even made me pack my copy of Hogwarts: A History."
"Well it is a quite important book Robert. You never know when you need it." Lily shouted across the patio. "I'll put mine in my bag so I can refer to it as necessary."
"Surely though I could just borrow a copy from the South Wing library?" Robbie replied. "You have half a dozen copies there, plus a dozen in the School library, plus dad said that there was a first edition written by Godric Gryffindor himself."
"You're just like your father Robert. He never wanted to read Hogwarts: A History either. Don't rely on the library in times of crisis as they always run out quite quickly." Hermione said, sitting down. "I remember the one time I needed my copy of it once but I didn't get chance due to all of the DADA books I was required to pack."
"Was that when you had a crush on that faker, Flophart?" Michael Potter asked. "Uncle Nev told me that you did the same year that some of your classmates was accusing dad but you and our other mums believed him when he said he wasn't the Heir of Slytherin."
"I did not have a crush on Flophart. I, however, had a massive crush on your dad!" Hermione said, getting angry. "And I still love him even now! Anyway, are you ready to visit your Grandparents and your Uncle Jason and Aunt Jennifer?"
"Yes mom. Before we go, I just have one question. How come our Uncle Jason and Aunt Jennifer are the same age as us?" Robert asked, looking slightly confused.
"Because your grandmother suffered from stress, working hard at the dentistry practice, it made her unwell until she spent a year off work, a year under a thing called Time Compression anyway." Hermione said, grabbing her travelling cloak. "Your dad needs to visit somewhere before he arrived at the house of Granddad Granger."
Round on one of the sides of Potter Manor, Charles Abbot and Delilah Potter were lazing around the extensive grounds when they came upon a snake.
"Greetings young hatchling" The snake said in parseltongue. Both Charles and Delilah looked at it and smiled.
"Hello Mr Snake. Have you noticed the Wrackspurts round here? They're invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy, I thought I felt one zooming around here." Delilah said to the snake, who turned around and headed away from her. She turned to Charles and smiled. "Maybe he had a infestation of Wrackspurts too. I think I will look at mom's notes," she said, skipping away.
Charles looked at Delilah and muttered to himself. "Don't change sis. Don't change for anyone."
The Burrow, Ottery St Catchpole, Devon, England
31st August 2006
Life after the battle of the century took its toll on the Weasley family. Suffering initially from the lies and trickery by former Hogwarts Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, who tricked the matriarch and patriarch into signing a betrothal contract between their daughter and Harry Potter, the betrayal, and subsequent death of their middle son, Percy, followed by the scandal caused by their youngest son, Ronald, caused when, trying to attack the wife of Lord Potter, Hermione (Granger) Potter, but instead hitting his businessman brother, Fred, it took several people to repair the reputation of the family.
Molly Weasley, the family matriarch, was worried for a period of time, after she found out that the person who she loved as a seventh son, Harry Potter, had found out about Five Thousand Galleons that she had withdrawn from his Trust Vault at Gringotts in order to try and comply with the betrothal agreement, one that, once she realised the complete terms, found that she was unable to agree with. She eventually took out her temper on Albus Dumbledore, sending the mother of all Howlers when she found out it was the betrothal that caused her to miss her own daughters wedding and the birth of her first granddaughter, Hermione Luna Longbottom, the daughter of Ginny and Neville Longbottom. It took the combined efforts of Harry Potter, Sirius Black and her son-in-law, Neville Longbottom to calm Molly down after the upset she was enduring, and to forgive her for the withdrawal of the money.
Molly stood in the doorway of the kitchen at The Burrow, watching her eldest grandchild, Hermione, play as a Seeker on the family Quidditch pitch against her mother, who was, for a season whilst she was waiting for the results of her Mastery in Charms, a player for the Holyhead Harpies, playing alongside her Aunts Angelina and Alicia, the wives of her Uncles Fred and George. Suddenly both Hermione and her mother, Ginny, dived almost vertically from a great height, before Ginny levelled off, raising her hand in the air.
"Ginny told me earlier that it will be hard for both her and Neville from tomorrow afternoon as they'll both be our Hermione's Professors, and parents too." Arthur said, hugging his wife. "In a few more years, it'll be really quiet for us here at The Burrow when we see our little angels leave for school."
"Has Harry flooed yet?" Molly said, hoping to talk to her pseudo-son.
"He said he'd floo later when he is not getting nagged by his wives." Arthur said, smiling. It's too hard looking after his wife. Too hard at times, but he loves it.
Number 12, Grimmauld Place, London, England
31st August 2006
Number 12, Grimmauld Place, was formally the summer home of the late Walburga Black, mother of Sirius Orion and Regulus Arcturus Black. After the transference of the winter home of Walburga Black, by the then Lord Black, Arcturus Black, to Lucius Malfoy, as part of the dowry when he married Narcissa Black, sister of Andromeda and Bellatrix Black.
The current Lord Black, Sirius Orion Black was the son of Orion and Walburga Black, born on November 3rd, 1959. A member of Gryffindor house at Hogwarts, he became part of a group called the Marauders, four classmates formed of Remus Lupin, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black. The four of them had a knack for rule breaking and mischief making, who had a detention record that was second to none, even the Weasley Twins, who claimed to be the 'heir to the Marauders', could not beat their detention record.
By the Marauders fifth year, Black, Potter and Pettigrew secretly became unregistered Animagi in order to help their friend, Remus Lupin, who suffered from Lycanthropy, having been bitten by rouge Werewolf, Fenrir Greyback, a Death Eater who was under the control of Lord Voldemort.
Upon leaving Hogwarts in June 1978, Sirius and James Potter joined the Ministry of Magic as Aurors, working under Alastor 'Mad Eye' Moody, a Senior Auror in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
In 1980, a prophecy was made by Sybil Trelawney, a Seer, which referred to one of two children, both of them being born at the end of July. In order to protect them, James Potter, who married Lily Evans, upon leaving Hogwarts, in August 1978 and fellow Auror, Frank Longbottom, who married his girlfriend of four years, Alice Smith, went into hiding in houses protected by the Fidelis Charm. James and Lily chose Sirius to be their Secret Keeper, whereas Frank and Alice chose fellow Auror, and family friend, Fabian Prewitt, brother of Molly (Prewitt) Weasley.
Days before Halloween 1981, Fabian Prewitt, along with his twin brother Gideon, was murdered as they took part in an Auror raid. Fabians wife, Marline (McKinnon), and his son, Jonathan, was murdered by Death Eaters mere days before. Gideon, however, was a bachelor and did not leave any wife or children behind. Upon the recommendations made by Albus Dumbledore, both the Longbottom and Potter families changed their Secret Keepers. Peter Pettigrew became the Potters Secret Keeper and Barty Crouch, Junior, son of then head of the DMLE. Unbeknownst to both families, both Secret Keepers were in the employ of Lord Voldemort.
On Halloween 1981 Lord Voldemort visited the Potter family, in order to eliminate their son, Potter made a stand in order to allow his wife to escape with his son, getting killed in the process. Voldemort then went upstairs, where Lily was protecting Harry. Voldemort murdered Lily, who sacrificed herself to protect her son. He then turned to Harry and cast the Killing Curse, which reflected back, destroying the Dark Lords body.
Sirius arrived on the scene and, noticed his godson was alive, grabbed him, intent on taking him to the house that he lived in to protect him. However Rubeus Hagrid, Gamekeeper at Hogwarts, was outside the cottage where the Potters were staying at. Hagrid had arrived to take Harry to the Dursley family, who was his Aunt and Uncle, following the orders given to him by Dumbledore. Dumbledore did this, contrary to the Will made by James Potter in September 1981, which stated that if Lily and he were dead, Harry should reside under the care of Sirius, the Longbottom family, or Abbot family.
Upon leaving Harry to the care of Hagrid, despite attempts by Sirius to retain him, Sirius took off, heading to hunt down the Potters Secret Keeper, Peter Pettigrew, acting on a hunch that Pettigrew had defected to the Death Eaters. One gas explosion later, Black was given a one way ticket to Azkaban, without a trial as he was arrested under the Emergency Acts of 1980.
Everyone had assumed Peter Pettigrew had been dead until Sirius saw a photograph of Pettigrew, in his rat Animagus form, in the Daily Prophet, on the shoulder of the youngest son of the Weasley family, who had won a competition to visit Egypt in the summer of 1993. Black decided at that time that he would release himself from Azkaban upon his own recognizance, heading to Hogwarts to try to get hold of Pettigrew.
In July 1994, after waiting around Hogwarts in his Animagus form, Padfoot, Sirius spotted Pettigrew, however he as being known to the Weasley as Scabbers, a rat who was the pet of Ronald Weasley. Black approached as Padfoot, dragging Weasley and Pettigrew to the Shrieking Shack. After a heated confrontation, which was joined by Black's childhood friend, Remus Lupin, his godson, Harry Potter, and Harrys friend, Hermione Granger, Pettigrew was revealed as the true Secret Keeper.
Pettigrew, unfortunately for Sirius, Remus and Harry, managed to get away, leaving Dementors to almost Kiss both Sirius and Harry. However, thanks to the efforts of Harry and Hermione, and the use of a time tuner, Sirius managed to get away, riding on the back of a condemned Hippogriff, Buckbeak.
In April 1994, during the events of the TriWizard Tournament, Sirius remained on the run, until he was invited by Harry, Hermione, Neville Longbottom and Ginny Weasley, along with their friends, and in Harry and Neville's case, their wives, to spend some time in the South Wing of Hogwarts. There, while in the South Wing, he met widow Marilyn Abbot, an officer at the DMLE who worked for Amelia Bones. During his time in the South Wing, some of which was spent under Time Compression, Sirius married Marilyn Abbot, and together they had a son who they named James Black, named after the father of his godson, and best friend.
In May 1995, thanks to the pressure that was made by the Ancient and Most Noble Houses, which included Abbot, Bones, Longbottom and Potter, Sirius finally underwent his trial, the one that he was supposed to have before November 1982, as per the conditions made by the Emergency Acts of 1980. It was in this trial that he was finally acquitted of all charges, thanks to evidence provided by the wives of Harry and Neville, testimony by Lupin, who had been announced as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor for the 1995/6 school year, Ron Weasley, Harry and Hermione. The case was helped by the accidental disclosure of Pettigrew's identity by one of the backers of Minister Cornelius Fudge, Death Eater Lucius Malfoy. This led to Fudge being sacked from his position of Minister, to be replaced by Amelia Bones.
In September 1997, Marilyn gave birth to a second son with Sirius, who he named after his late brother, Regulus, who had been discovered to have tried to bring down Voldemort from the inside. Marilyn, who by this time was the replacement for Amelia Bones as head of the DMLE, was responsible for the DMLE capturing 64% of the remaining Death Eaters who had survived both the revival and final death of Voldemort.
By June 2001, Sirius and Marilyn celebrated the ascension of Marilyn to the post of Minister of Magic, having been elected to the post after Amelia Bones retired. At the same time, Marilyn discovered she was pregnant with a daughter, however this joy was short-lived as she lost the baby because of an attack led upon her and Sirius, led by the son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, Draco.
Harry walked out of the Floo at Number 12 to see Sirius checking through his old Hogwarts trunk.
"Hey pup." Sirius said, getting up from the floor. He hugged Harry then led him to the sofa. "How's the kids?" he asked.
"Driving me up the wall! Robert is getting fed up of Lily trying to persuade him to pack his copy of Hogwarts: A History, even though he doesn't want to take it, and he keeps winding up little Freddie, so just before I left to come here, Hermione took her three off to see her parents, where I'll be joining them in a bit. Parvati and Pattie wanted to come over, so they could see your James and Reggie, but Padma has took them to see her parents and grandparents, along with the rest of her family, as they have a family celebration every time one of the Patils goes away to school." Harry said, ticking off his children with his fingers. "Charles and Delilah were, as I was getting ready to come over here, speaking Parseltongue to a snake. I think Delilah is just like her mom, free spirited. Michelle, little Apolline, and Gabrielle have gone to Shell Cottage to see Bill and Fleur for a bit. Gabrielle said she wanted to spend some time with her niece, Victorie, before she went to help at Hogwarts.
"David and James are visiting relatives too with their parents. David was going to see his aunt, Astoria, and his cousin, Scorpius, at the flat in Islington with James visiting his grandparents." Harry said sighing, "Then there's the troublesome twosome, Julie and Michael, who were, last I saw, trying to liberate the Map from my study. Thing is its in my office at Hogwarts, waiting for me there when I start my new job tomorrow."
"Bloody hell pup!" Sirius said, cringing at Harry's words. "I mean, you've got eleven kids going to Hogwarts tomorrow. I dread to think how Minnie is going to cope with them all!"
"I know Padfoot." Harry said, smiling at his godfathers discomfort. "What's more is that both Hannah, Hermione and Katie are expecting again. Hermione is due in April, Katie in December and Hannah in February!"
Sirius looked at Harry with a dropped jaw. He got up off his chair and headed over to the liquor cabinet, pulling out a bottle of Old Ogden's Firewhiskey.
"Merlins Beard! I'm surprised they don't chop your bits off the way you're going!" Sirius said as he sat back down, pouring the amber liquid into two glasses. "I mean, twenty seven kids. At the rate you're going, you already make the Weasley family look like a one child family! I bet old Prongs and Lils are up there, totally in shock at how many kids you've got!
"Neville is seeming to beat me you know, he's already on number thirty!" Harry protested. "And it's not my fault if my ladies love their 'Harry Time' so much! Honestly!"
"Bloody hell! Frank's lad with thirty kids. I bet his Gran is enjoying playing with them!" Sirius said, shocked at what he had heard. "Thank Merlins saggy balls that you both have enough money to support your families!"
"Bloody hell cub. I just overheard what you were saying to Padfoot. Nymph adore and I stopped after Teddy as we didn't want as much hassle as you have!" Remus Lupin said, walking into the living room. Sirius looked at Remus to say 'How did you get in?'. Remus noticed the face Sirius made and so decided to comment. "Kreacher let me in Padfoot. I bet Reggie is going to miss his brother tomorrow when James heads to Hogwarts with the rest of the batch?"
"If I'm honest with you, Reggie was a bit upset last night, as can be expected, but Marilyn spoke to him last night, and managed to calm him down." Sirius said, sighing. "James has been bust plotting with Julie and Michael over the last few weeks, and was plotting with Robert yesterday. I think we're going to see some madness from these future Marauders! I'm hesitant to say Harry that you must be brave, trying to teach the son of a Marauder."
"Think about it Sirius, if I can survive nearly a year and a half under Time Compression with two Marauders, the Weasley Twins, and two First Years who effectively apprenticed themselves to you two and the twins," Harry said, smiling. "Then surely I think I could cope with the kids!"
"Ok, sheesh, you're no fun now you're a teacher pup. I can certainly tell you are Lily's son!" Sirius said, smiling, "I'm surprised she managed to cope with all of us in the same room!"
The three of them continued talking for a short while before Harry left them to visit the Grangers, and with them, his wife and children.
- LSTYD: The Next Generation -
A/N – Story based on characters and themes introduced in JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Radaslab's Life Sucks, Then you Die with some Original Characters by myself. All rights to their various owners/creators. Some of the text was from The New Batch, written by myself, and Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by JK Rowling.
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Coming up in Part 2 – A Visit to The Granger family and also The Sorting Hat makes its choices