Disclaimer: ifI had wrote HarryPotter, Iwould not have chosen to end it like JKR. Fred would be alive and I would have written an eighth book...
Guest: Hermione is her usual self. She is nineteen (or past twenty with her time-turner experience). I hope you'll like this chapter ^^ Thank you for your review :D
It took them several hours to relate seventeen years. She could not believe what had happened in their lives... Especially for Ron! When she had "disappeared", as she now called it, the barriers separating the houses had fallen. More than the end of the war, especially for Slytherin and Gryffindor. Harry had explained how Malfoy, Ron and he had forged the links existing between them now. Ron was more than pressing on the fact that the "ferret" and himself were not friends and never would be, to what Harry had just shrugged. Ginny had later explained that their pride prevented them to admit they spent almost all their free time together drinking firewhiskey or butterbeer and talking about Quidditch and their children. This friendship, which despite what they said was one, had helped to bring together the students of Hogwarts. After all, if a Weasley, a Potter and a Malfoy could reach to an agreement, everyone could do the same.
Thus, the lines separating the houses became more blurred, so much so that it was not uncommon to see students from different houses sharing their meals at the same table. Dumbledore would have wept for joy if he had been alive and Snape would probably have grumbled in a corner. Harry and Ron spent a considerable amount of time with Malfoy, usually on the Slytherins' territory, pressing the blond with questions about his findings, if they could explain where Hermione had land and in which state. Along the way, couples had appeared like Luna and Blaise Zabini or the most unlikely and controversial of the lot, Ron and Pansy Parkinson. Ron had told Hermione that both of them did not know how they ended up together. Pansy had from the beginning of the term taken Harry aside and told him she did not regret having tried to sell him to Voldemort, she was scared at that point of the battle and just wanted everything to end. No matter what happened to the others as long she and her mother were fine. Regarding her father, she did not care. She even thanked Neville for helping to send her creator where he belonged "behind Azkaban's bars."
Ron and Pansy had spent more time together and one thing leading to another, they had ended up naked in Ron's bed for the third Sunday in a row. Ron had then asked Pansy if they were together, and when she had answered in the affirmative they had celebrated it their own way. At this point Ron's story, Hermione had looked at her two friends, making them understand that the details of Ron's sex life made her more than anything else feel like vomiting and Harry had tapped her shoulder, stating that Ron was better than Pansy. Ginny had added, becoming slightly greenish, that Pansy loved details and she had told her things that still gave her nightmares... In short, that spring day 99, Ronald Weasley and Pansy Parkinson became a couple and also incidentally conceived a child.
Hermione had trouble to believe it when he had told her he became a dad so quickly. But when talking about Ron and Pansy, a priori it was the norm. They were on their sixth and last child according to Pansy. "Never gonna let Ron make his own Quidditch team!" Ginny had reported. She was anxious to meet this new Pansy . "New" was not the right word, "mature" seemed to fit more. Soon six children... She imagined her, so very pregnant and with a herd of redheads running around. Maybe there were one or two with black hair in the lot... She could not help but mentally compare Pansy to Mrs Weasley. Ginny was nothing like her mother, without any malice for Molly. But seven children could kill a body after all...
The lives of her friends turned more or less as planned. The other surprise being that ultimately Harry and Ginny were not together! They were indeed back together at the end of the war, but had realized later that they were not made for the long term, namely marriage, babies and company! As a parting gift, they had bought matching rings to remember their history and that they were better friends than lovers. Harry became an Auror for a while and soon realized that it was actually not for him, he had then joined Oliver Wood's team, Puddlemere, before joining two years later the Appleby Arrows , which was the best team ever since. They had won several times in a row the European Quidditch Cup as the club had never won one and for nearly a decade the one of the League. He had also joined the National Quidditch team and had won the last World Cup.
"I am retired now Hermione, I just play for fun." Harry explained. "No, I always played for fun, I play as an amateur with family and friends. I love to annoy Draco, nothing funnier than seeing his face when I catch the snitch!"
"Even worse than before!" Ron interjected, laughing.
"But you can soon see us play, the Department of Magical Games and Sports along with the one of International Cooperation have decided to set up an All-Stars Quidditch Cup." Added Harry.
"A what?" asked Hermione.
"An All-Star Game, how to explain ... Each continent will form two teams, made up of the best Quidditch players he has. Whether they are professional or not ... The tests are next week and the competition will begin in June and will last throughout the summer."
Hermione had looked at the sparkling eyes of her friends and shrugged, which had brought a pillow fight and some tickling ... Just as before! Ginny had added later, after the last fight, eyes twinkling and cheeks turned pink with laughter and effort "It's not because I am more than thirty that I can't act like a child ... as long as my children are not there to see it! "
"Speaking of kids" Had then told Hermione "if you're not with Harry, who's the lucky guy? Don't you have a ring?"
Oddly enough, Ginny had blushed and Hermione did not understand why her friend was turning tomato each passing second. Her friend finally lifted the spell that made her ring invisible, it was three gold rings intertwined.
"Did I say something wrong?" Asked the brunette.
"In fact Hermione" Harry said "something happened during your... disappearance..."
"That means?"
"It means that there is not a lucky one, but two of them." Ron said without beating around the bush as usual.
"Huh?" Was the only word that could cross Hermione's lips.
Ron, surprisingly, was the one who explained everything. The war had claimed many lives and unfortunately, many witches were victims of it. It had took approximately one year to the Ministry to understand the magnitude of the situation and another one to legalize polyandry exclusively. Each witch was therefore strongly encouraged to take several husbands. Hermione then asked if quotas had increased and Ginny revealed to her that in 2003, teams of St. Mungo's with the help of a Potion Master, the one who had taken Draco as an apprentice, had developed specific potions: one that men had to take allowed to produce more sperm with the correct chromosome and the other one was took by the women induced the egg to accept only the seed carrying the chromosome decided. It was therefore decided that more girls were needed, one to be born before producing a boy. It was therefore decided that more girls were needed, one to be born before producing a boy. Thus, Ginny' ring made sense. She had two girls and two boys with ... Slytherins! She had married Theodore Nott and Blaise Zabini. The announcement of the redhead second husband led to more questions from the brunette.
"But was he not with Luna?" She asked.
"No, they broke up at the end of the school year because Blaise wanted to start a family and Luna wanted to see the world. She married seven years ago" Continued her friend "She met her husbands while traveling. One, Rolf, is the grand-son of Newt Scamander and the other one is a former Durmstrang students you know well!"
"She married Viktor?" Inquired Hermione, dumbfounded.
"Yep, she has twins with Rolf and a girl Viktor. She is five months pregnant with another girl whose Viktor."
"What are her children's names? Please tell me Luna refrained from giving them improbable names!" She begged.
"She named the twins Lorcan and Lysander and Milena for the little girl." Harry interjected. "My future goddaughter will be called Aneliya" He continued proudly. "You should expect to become godmother soon Hermione!"
"Hey! She will be the godmother of my unborn child first!" Ron exclaimed.
The conversation had then resumed on the lives of her friends. Harry was alone currently, but had wooed a woman or even more on every continent while traveling with his teammates. He had dated Fleur's sister, Gabrielle, a few years ago. She was now married to Dennis Creevey and they had three little girls, the last one being a few months old. They had met through Harry, about a year after he and Gaby had split up, and were immediately hooked! The fact that both of them had a passion for photography had certainly helped! Ginny had chosen a different path than the one all had predicted. She had not joined the Harpies despite a more than enticing offer but turned towards the interior design. Pansy and were the heads of 'Sweet and Lovely' and were the best in the industry. They had many customers including some very known as the Weird Sisters as well as the most popular band of the moment, the Lethal Lady whose lead singer was Padma Patil. Her sister, Parvati, was a sentimental author well known in the world, whether wizard or Muggle. She had dethroned Barbara Cartland without regard and had brought to light supernatural romances. Anyway, while renovating the interior of Mrs. Zabini, courtesy of Pansy's influence, Ginny had met Blaise and Theo. One thing leading to another, Elio and Chiara Zabini as well as Tristan and Eleanor Nott had joined their lucky parents.
Hermione was also pleased to learn that Neville married Hannah Abbot and was Hogwarts Herbology professor while his wife had taken the Leaky Cauldron. The couple lived happily upstairs with their daughter Alice. Seamus and Dean were married to Lavender who had become the equivalent of Anna Wintour and preached fashion from her column in Witch Weekly. Her husbands owned several pubs which were going smoothly in both worlds. The conversation went back to Ron who had announced that after being an Auror, he'd prefered to be a househusband following his wife's success and was very happy to raise his children!
Hermione smiled in bed thinking of the many births, Ginny had wrote them so that she does make a wrong move inadvertently. Between her friends and the Weasleys, the wizarding world had produced many children:
Bill + Fleur = Victoire (2000), Dominique (2004) and Louis (2006)
Percy + Audrey = Molly (2001) and Lucy (2005)
Georges + Angelina = Fred (2002) and Roxanne (2004)
Luna + Rolf = Lorcan and Lysander (2013); Luna + Viktor = Milena (2010) and Aneliya (expected in 2016)
Draco + Astoria* = Lucia (sept.2009-nov.2009) and Scorpius (2011)
Hermione stopped on this line. She could not help but cry for the little Lucia, who had died barely being two months old. She pondered the fact that Malfoy's wife name was crossed, could it be that she died too? She promised to ask her friend and resumed her reading.
Harry, mentor and godfather of Ted"Teddy"Lupin (1998)
Ron + Pansy = Iris (1999), Fabian and Julian (2004), Violet (2008), Arthur (2011) and the unborn baby planned for late 2015. Pansy wants the surprise for this one!
Blaise + me = Chiara (2003) and Elio (2007); Theo + me = Eleanor (2005) and Tristan (2009)
Hannah + Neville = Alice (2006)
Lavender + Seamus = Aileen (2004); Lavender + Dean = Erin (2006)
Gabrielle + Dennis = Aurore (2011), Constance (2013) and Adele (2015)
She put the list on her bedside and settled down to sleep, she had some work to memorize everything and she had little time to do so. In two days she would join family and friends again... She wondered what her parents had become and vowed to find out. Maybe Harry could help?
* Astoria's name was scratched but I have not been able to do it with Download manager.
Long chapter(in my opinion), I hope you enjoyed. We learn more about everybody's life. Only the bolded names in the list are"real"as the underlined year of birth (see wiki HP). Other names have been chosen by myself, for Blaise Italians origins, medieval for Theo (as regards for Ginny and Percy who have names of that period), Bulgarian for Viktor, French for Gabrielle and Irish for Seamus and Dean.
So,tell me what did you think! And regarding Ron? Did you expect him to be a househusband? What do you think of the All-StarGame?
Next chapter, family reunion, meetings andHermione's future... The story will begin to earn his M rating the chapter after that one.
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