Chapter 10: Welcome to the Potter Mansion
December 19, 2019; Present
"Hey, Ally. Hey, Frank," the man walked into the room and people were stunned to see and older version of Luna step in after him.
"Hey," Luna said vaguely.
"Hey, Neville, Luna," Ginny said.
"Neville?" Augusta asked, incredulous.
"Hello, Augusta," Neville said. A little girl, around five, crept into the room and tugged on Neville's sleeve. The little girl has long, wild blonde hair and big, round ayes. Neville grinned, leaned down and swung the girl into his arms, making her giggle.
"Ginny, Harry told me to tell you that he'll be home late. He's talking to Kingsley about the situation we seem to have gotten ourselves into," Neville gestured towards the people from the past.
The door opened and two identical twins, wildly blond with big eyes and round faces, ran in, one of them was squealing, "Ally! Frankie!" and ran at Alice first then hugged Frank. The other twin hid behind Luna. He peeked his head out curiously, then when seeing people watching him, ducked back down. Luna smiled and leaned down to pick him up. When she did so, he immediately hid his face in her crazy hair.
"I think you all know me and Luna," Neville said, "and for the people who don't know, we got married."
"Did we?" Luna asked, slightly surprised. Neville gaped as Augusta sized Luna up.
"Yup, this," he pointed to the girl in his hands, "is Lexi, she's five. This is Lorcan," he pointed to the boy that had been hiding behind his mother and then to then to the twin in Frank's arms, "and this is Lysander. They're eight."
"Well, why don't we go down to the Den and talk," Ginny suggested.
"OK," Angelina said. They all filed out of the room.
"Oh, wow," Ginny gasped as they exited the room. There were seven doors along the side of the hall they came out of and five on the other. The walls had intricate patterns running seamlessly all the way down the long hallway and there were names engraved into several doors. Glancing to her left she saw the names Reese, Ted and Sara and glancing to her right, she saw the names James, Albus and Lily. She frowned at the sight of the first three names.
Hermione, seeing her hesitation, explained, "They're your God-children." Ginny nodded. The rest of the group was still ogling the large house as Ginny opened the door at the end of the hall. It didn't have a marking on it and when she opened it, she revealed a closet with towels and facecloths. Thinking older her had lost her marbles, Ginny raise her eyebrows. Ginny grinned at her and opened another door at the other side of the closet.
"Ginny and Harry live here?" George asked, amazed. Angelina nodded.
The newly opened door revealed a passage to the stairs that led to the living room. Ginny marched across the huge living room and walked through a large opening on the wall with beautiful symbols no one but the future people seemed to understand. There were also complicated patterns of dragons, stones and cloaks carved into the wall. They entered a slightly smaller room that Ginny assumed was the Den and Ginny motioned them to sit down. There weren't enough beautiful leather or cloth couches to sit in so many of the kids sat on the floor. There was a large Television that Harry had insisted they get in the corner next to the popcorn machine that Arthur gestured to excitedly.
Catching Ginny staring again, Hermione murmured "Welcome to the Potter Mansion."