Looks a little sheepish as she takes on a puzzled expression...

I am glad you all liked the first one. I have seen many of those Wrong BWL stores and they kind of bugged me as they seemed almost incomplete or, they had James and Lily automatically have Harry's forgiveness or deny he ever existed.

To be honest I really do not know what else to say but that you guys kind of demanded a sequel...well I hope this works...

I do not own Harry Potter

What is Happiness? 2

Harry said goodbye to Arthur, who was at this moment on his way to his parents and his brother. His wife of 10 years and counting beside him on their porch swing, he eventually found his head in her lap as she runs her fingers through his messy black hair.

"Are you sure its time Harry? Ginny whispered quietly. Her eyes on her husband, her ears twitch for the slightest sound from her children, Brittany and the twins were playing in their front yard as their youngest daughter Amanda was asleep on the other swing beside them.

Worn out from her daddy swinging her around in his arms...

"It's too late to back out now..."

"That's not answering the question Harry..." Ginny said softly. "And you know what I meant by was it time..."

"Yes I know...I'm ready...or as ready as I will ever be..." Harry replied as he plays with the braid of her hair. Over the years since they had left, Ginny had allowed her hair to grow out, to just above her waist. Constantly in a braid or ponytail, she knew how much her husband had loved playing with it in bed...

Or just in general...

Their memories of their time here in the United Sates were peaceful and happy. When they had found out Ginny was pregnant with Brittany. The first thing Harry had gone out and done was buy the biggest house he could find, with the money he had received for killing Voldemort. Thanks to Arthur who spoke for him, the Weasely Patriarch had the money deposited into an account at Gringotts in his name.

He had always wanted a house filled with laughter and love. Something he was so very much denied when he was younger... The money he hadn't touched went straight to that...

The house he had bought had 6 bedrooms, three and a ½ bathrooms a living room, study, kitchen, cellar, and most importantly a giant yard for his children to play in. Harry was delighted as the wizard he had brought it from was a big quidditch fan, and low and behold he had seen the man's pride and joy.

Needless to say Ginny, was more then pleased at the house when Harry had showed it to her. In fact she was delighted...

Hermione on one of her visits was also taken with the house and had all but fell on the floor in amusement at the scene of Harry flying around with his newborn baby daughter on the field.

At the moment, Ginny had told her that she and Harry wanted their friend as Brittany's godmother. So of course in response, Hermione had gone from amusement to panic and yelled at her best friend to get her god baby down off that broom.

To this day Harry never lets her live it down, when she comes to see her goddaughter.

The twins of course had their favored Uncles Fred and George as their godparents. The two older Weasely had men were absolutely delighted that their little sister had a set of twin boys. That they could totally corrupt...

Needless to say every time they were able to take a vacation from running their joke shop, you could see Ginny sharpening her wand skills with various hexs for which to nail them with.

Quiet little Amanda had Neville as her Godfather. It was love at first sight for both when they had seen each other, when she was a baby. Harry for a while was afraid he would never get his daughter back from his friend and fellow prophecy child...

And this newborn baby...Thomas was going to have someone no one really suspected from school as his godfather. Harry had managed to establish a friendship with Draco Malfoy. Having run into the blonde last year at the Salem institute, the two had once again started the famous Potter-Malfoy feud, with Draco having accepted the potions job there. But within the first few hours Harry had asked a simple question...

What was the feud about in the first place?

The blonde was admittedly puzzled as he had no response to it whatsoever.

That's when it began...and soon Draco and his wife Pansy had Harry and Ginny over with their children who mingled and played with the three Malfoy kids constantly. Brittany was best friends with 10 year old Andromeda and the twins gave Draco and Harry headaches as their wives reamed into them for their corruption of the only Malfoy son 6 year old Alexander.

Who apparently loved pranks just as much as they did! Amanda and their two year old daughter Carina Malfoy were being spoiled rotten by Narcissa who after her husband's death in Azkaban.

She had almost withered away with loneliness until the birth of Alexander 6 years ago, from which she came to stay with her son and his wife, to help Pansy take care of her children.

To be honest if anything it was Narcissa Malfoy, who convinced Harry that it was time for him to see his own family again. She loved the fact that his children had started calling her Grandma Narcissa, but she had felt that the title rightfully belonged to someone else...

So every time Harry came by to visit with Ginny and the children who had play dates with the Malfoy kids, she would show him articles of his family. That was how he knew of Arthur being made Minister of Magic 6 years ago. How his brother had married Cho Chang and that he had a niece...

Or that every year on the day he killed Voldemort, a silence was held to honor him...and led by his family...

Who missed him every year...

Therefore it came as a surprise to the Malfoys when Harry had approached Draco and Pansy at this more recent visit with Ginny beside him. Explaining what he was going to do, Draco had smiled at him and simply said good luck...

Grateful for the blonde's well wishes Harry had turned the tables on him, by asking him to be a godfather to his and Ginny's baby. Pansy being the first to know smiled as her husband's jaw dropped before closing again in a bright smirk.

"You know Potter somewhere out there; my father has got to be rolling in his grave. I will be happy to be a godfather to your baby...just to have him do it for eternity."

"I knew you would Draco..." Harry chuckled.

That was two weeks ago...

"Daddy! Daddy! DADDY!"

Startled out of his thoughts, much to his wife's amusement, he finds Ethan and Daniel looking at him with hopeful expression on their faces.

"Can we go flying Daddy?"

Chuckling, he looks at them and Brittany who despite trying not to look hopeful has an expression akin to begging on her face. "All right, all right...just let me go get my broom guys..."

"YAY!" Their yells waking up their little sister, who appears to be disgruntled, Harry whirls her onto his shoulders, much to her surprise as the three elder Potter children take off for the shed in the back.

"What are we doing Daddy?" Amanda asked.

"Going flying honey...want to come on Daddy's broom with him?" Harry smiled as he asked the sleepy but very much awake now child at the mention of the f word...

"Yeah!"

With that said, he kisses Ginny who manages to get up with his help. The red headed woman smiling lovingly, as her husband disappears into the side yard, heading towards the back. She herself goes into the kitchen to start an afternoon snack...

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Potter Family Home England...

Having found out that it was a Portkey set to go to the States in three hours, Lily for the first time rushed in a panic to gather some things alongside her husband James, who was desperate to see Harry and apparently 4 very active grandchildren. Sirius and Remus both had immediately flooed back to their shared flat to gather some stuff of their own.

Whereas Anthony and Cho had left Tanya in Winky's car long enough for them to do the same thing. Both parties ready to return about an hour before the timer counts all the way down, they waited for the elder Potters to get their act together.

"James are we sure...?" Lily asked softly. "Are we sure that we shouldn't just leave him be? He's happy...he's happy now."

"We have nothing to lose by not going to see him Lily." James said as he wrapped his arms around his wife. "Wouldn't it be better to say that we at least tried to see him...tried to reconcile with him then to not and always wonder?"

At that moment, Lily looked at husband and smiled in acceptance. It was at that moment, that the Book began to glow. Signaling that only a few minutes was left on the Port key timer. Nodding his head, he and the others picked up the book.

Tanya held on to her father tightly as she reached out to the book with the others. The little girl only having used a Portkey once before was frightened. But as she understood that she would be getting to meet her Uncle Harry and his family, she had gathered the courage she needed to touch the book.

The others handling it as well, they simply wait and the second the glow stops...

A Familiar tug is at their navels...

Fifteen minutes later...

They land with a little bit of a thump outside a house around mid afternoon in Salem. A porch swing on the front, worn with use as the cushions are flat somewhat, they gather their things nervously.

Approaching the door now, they see the toys and bicycles and what could only be an owl stand next to a cat bed, which has a sleek black cat staring up at them with gold eyes. Stretching out nonchalantly, the feline moves into the home through the pet door set up for it...

A few minutes later...a woman who is most obviously a Weasely and at least 8 months pregnant approaches with a soft smile on her faces.

"Come in..." Ginny said softly. Her belly round with her pregnancy, the Potters and the others can't help but admire the warm and inviting atmosphere of the home and of the woman who had essentially saved their son in his school years.

"Where...where's Harry?" James asked as Ginny asked a house elf named Dobby, who had come with the Harry and Ginny, to show them to their rooms. As she herself showed Sirius and Remus the couches that could be turned into beds.

"He's outside on the Quidditch Pitch with the children flying..." Ginny said with amusement as four older men light up. "I hope you like Chili. Harry has developed a taste for it and it's his and the boys favorite dinner."

"What is chili?" James asked curiously.

"It's a meat and bean soup honey...you might like it..." Lily replied. "It just might be a little spicy at first..."

"Ooohhhh..."

It was at that moment, that Tanya had peeked out from behind her mother's back. Having seen the room, the little girl was almost afraid of the red headed woman with the sweet smile. "Hi little one..." Ginny smiled at the little girl, who stared at her with fear and curiosity

"Hello...Are you my Aunt Ginny?"

"Yes I am sweetie. What if I take you and your Mommy and Daddy, as well as everyone else, to the backyard so you can meet you cousins and your Uncle Harry."

Looking up at her mother with a hopeful expression, Cho nods her head, and the little girl offers hers to Ginny, who smiles warmly as she takes it.

Gesturing for the others to follow her, four men and two women walk towards the back of the house. Children who are laughing and screaming with joy are heard and Lily, almost stops in fear. Ginny senses this whispers something to Tanya who giggles and runs ahead following the directions she was told.

"I can't..." The older woman said terrified. "I can't see him and have him reject me."

"He won't..." Ginny responded to her mother-in-law's worry. "Harry wouldn't have allowed my father to give you the Portkey if he didn't want to see you."

"But..."

Walking towards her, the men wisely back away as an expression only a Potter wife can give is now directed at the oldest of the Potter women. Cho agreeing with Ginny's tactics gladly aides the pregnant woman, by linking her arms with Lily on one side as she takes the other.

"Don't..." The woman pleaded, as she looked towards her husband for help. James on the other hand, although he feels the same way his wife does, trudges on. His hope that to see his son...

Was more then anything he could dream of...

So as he and his wife are finally out the door, they are in awe at the sight of two boys on brooms, being supervised as they play on the field with a toy snitch that their father had given them. Harry's back to them at the moment, it is Tanya who races up with Brittany who sees them first.

Brittany, who looked much like her mother, but with darker red hair, had their father's eyes.

"See Brittany, that's my mommy and my daddy! And there's Grandpa and Grandma and Padfoot and Moony..." The older girl listening for a moment tilts her head in a way that makes Lily smile. It is much like that of her husband when he finds himself checking things out.

Finally, spying Anthony, Brittany finds herself looking at him and her daddy and then back again in confusion. "Your Daddy and Uncle Anthony are identical twins like your brothers Brittany..."

"Ohhhh...okay!" The little girl responded. Looking at them, as she holds on to her child sized broom, Brittany just shrugs and takes off for the field with Tanya in hot pursuit. Handing her cousin an extra broom, the older of the Potter grandchildren starts teaching her cousin how to fly.

As this was going on, the men look to find Harry flying down with a three year old bright red headed little girl in his lap. The two boys coming down beside him, James could hear them protesting that they still wanted to fly. But for once Harry doesn't disillusion them as he points to the older Potters standing alongside their mother.

With Amanda now perched on his shoulders once more. And two dark haired twins racing towards them alongside him, everyone finds they are nervous like schoolchildren all of a sudden. Cho who was a Quidditich player herself, smiles as she and Ginny hastily retreat, the red headed woman handing her own broom over to her sister-in-law. Cho takes up supervising the flight of her daughter and her niece.

While Ginny, takes a seat in the chair beside the field to watch and to giggle...

"Are you..."

"Really our..."

"Grandpa..."

"And Grandma?"

Their voices moving in tandem, with one another, everyone looked to Harry who had a sheepish grin on his face, as Amanda looked cross on her Daddy's shoulders.

"I'm telling Mommy you were doing that again!"

"Doing what!" Daniel the twin by James stated with irritation.

"That twin talking thinking that Uncles Fred and George do!" The little girl said in frustration. "It's annoying!"

"Well we weren't" Ethan replied as he stuck out his tongue.

"Talking to you!" The two boys said in unison.

Watching this sibling banter, Anthony looks at Harry, who finds himself shaking his head. Tentatively he reaches out on a bond that he has not felt or used in many years to find it open...and waiting.

//Harry...//

//Hey Bro...// Harry sent as he looked at his brother. Relief flows over Anthony's features and for once he ignores all propriety and hugs his twin for all that he is worth. Amanda giggling at the event finds herself being swung over and down, where she looks at them with bright hazel eyes.

Finding herself by an older man with kind brown eyes, she takes her little three going on four year old self, to see him. For he reminds her much of her favorite Uncle Neville, with the sheer gentleness she exudes.

"Hello. Who are you?"

"Remus Lupin..." The werewolf said with warmth at this little girl. The part of him that is Moony sniffing out the various scents and is happy as his cub has not only come back. But he came back with a mate and many little cubs of his own.

"Really? My name is Amanda Lupin Potter!" The little girl exclaimed. "We have the same name!"

"I noticed."

Holding her arms up to him, Remus is startled and immediately looks to Harry. Who smiles and nods his head. Finding himself grateful for the chance to hold this little girl, he lifts her up and smells the clean scent of innocence radiating from her. Tears are flowing down his eyes at her acceptance of who he is...

'Why you crying Mr. Lupin?"

Not able to respond, the little girl just shrugs and starts to babble about various things as Remus listens alongside Lily. The twins eyeing Sirius with impishness in their eyes tackle the older man to the ground only seconds later. The auror, caught off guard, finds himself the center of a wrestling match with two six year old terrors intent on winning,

Never before has one Sirius Black been happier.

Watching as he shifts to Padfoot, the two boys stop in awe only to find themselves immediately pounced upon, much to their delight by the now auror turned dog. Squeals of laughter and joy from their lips, James finds himself looking at his son who had disappeared 10 years ago as Anthony is pulled into the wrestling by a precocious six year old.

"Harry, I..."

"Dad..." The younger man said with a gentle smile. "A wise woman told me, that when it is time to forgive and forget it is time to start with a clean slate. Let us to do that..."

"She sounds wise...who is she?"

"Narcissa Malfoy...she is the one who convinced me Dad..." Harry said quietly as he halfway expects James to be upset. But instead he finds the older man, smiling.

"Remind me to send her a gift..." James whispered. "She gave me back my son..."

That said, Harry finds himself pulled into his father's arms, and for once tears that have been long overdue flow down both their cheeks.

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One month later...

Salem Hospital of Magic...

James, Lily, and the rest of the Potter clan come racing down the hallways of the Salem hospital to meet up with their son and daughter-in-law. Taking an emergency Portkey set up for them by Arthur Weasely, who had come along with the Weasely clan. The institute was in a little bit of chaos with all those running around,

Finally arriving outside of a room, where the twins had just come out of, the two chief pranksters of the Wizarding world, set about entertaining their nieces and nephews. While two sets of grandparents, enter in with an Uncle who was anxious.

The first thing they see is Ginny holding a baby as she hums a little melody.

"Hi Dad..."

"Harry my boy..." James said gleefully as he takes him into his arms. The dark circles giving evident that he paced like he wouldn't believe. The Malfoys beside him, James proudly shakes the hand of the godfather of his newborn grandson.

He had kept his word and had made an overture to Narcissa and her son Draco in peace. The two blondes were happy to accept it...

"Would you like to hold him Grandpa James?" Ginny said with a soft smile. The older man stunned by this nods his head sheepishly and with Harry's help Ginny transfers, the little boy into his grandfather's arms.

Bright green eyes stare at him in a cherubic face to rival that of an Angel. Red hair the same color as his mother's on top in faint little patches, he gives a toothless grin that could only be inherited from his Grandpa.

"Nice to meet you Thomas Anthony Potter..." James said softly. Ginny smiling as her husband sits beside her. Lily approaches her husband and holds the first grandbaby that she could from her son. Cooing softly, the little boy reaches for a lock of hair and gives it a little tug in fascination.

Smiling at the blonde man, she approaches and Draco finds himself holding the baby who looks up at him with curiosity.

"You know something Pansy?" The blonde man stated with amusement as he kisses his dark haired wife and unofficial godmother.

"What Draco..."

"I think that Mom knew what she was doing when she got them back together."

"How so?"

"Ever seen anyone happier?"

Looking around Pansy smiles at her husband, as she holds a new rattle for the baby in his arms... "Your right...but you know something else..."

"What?"

"I think this particular little boy is going to be the most spoiled rotten of them all. After all he's got everyone now to love him and his brothers and sisters..."

Grinning as others hears the woman's comment. Life couldn't be better that day for the family Potter. Their in-laws the Weaselys...or their new found Best friends the Malfoys...

What is Happiness?

Happiness is said to be the feeling of overwhelming peace, contentment and joy. If you were to ask the Potters? Happiness is all that and something else.

Happiness is also having no regrets...