The Same World
by Healer Pomfrey

All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.

A story with small, daily updates! COMPLETELY AU! Partly OOC.

It is my story, and I intend to write it the way I want it. If you don't like it, go and find something else to read or write your own story to your liking!


While Connie made her way to Hogwarts to take her tests in all core subjects in the morning of New Year's Eve, Harry and Sirius took the Floo to the Ministry of Magic for Harry's first Wizengamot meeting that would hopefully end with the election of a temporary new minister.

Sirius as his godfather introduced Harry as Lord Potter to the members of the Wizengamot. Dumbledore seemed to be outright angered, however, apparently knew that there was nothing that he could do about it, when Griselda Marchbanks informed him that Lord Potter had taken up his votes for the Gryffindor-Ravenclaw and the Slytherin-Hufflepuff families as well as for the ancient and noble house of Potter.

'Of course he's pissed off,' Harry thought in amusement. 'I have now three votes, and he has only one left.'

Several small points were discussed, before Sirius finally proposed a vote of no-confidence against the Minister of Magic.

'Just finished Transfiguration and Herbology, and I think I managed both,' Connie thought to him, just when the vote took place.

'Well done, what's next?' Harry thought back, as he raised his hand in the open vote.

From the corners of his eyes, he saw how Cornelius Fudge was slumped in his seat in defeat.

"Any suggestions for a new interim minister?" Augusta Longbottom spoke up, causing Harry to rise from his chair.

"Amelia Bones," he suggested according to his discussion with Sirius, Remus and Tonks on the previous evening.

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By the time Sirius and Harry left the Wizengamot, Connie had already passed four of the five tests, Amelia Bones had been elected as new interim minister, and she invited him and Sirius for a small, private conversation in her office.

"I'd like to invite the two of you and Connie to my short-noticed New Year's ball," she said, smiling. "All invitations will go out later tonight."

When Harry and Sirius voiced their agreement, she added, "On that occasion, I wish to make sure that Connie will receive the Order of Merlin first class for the demise of Voldemort."

"Amelia," Harry replied, sighing. "I really appreciate it, but I can tell you now that she won't accept the reward if Professor Snape doesn't receive the same."

"Probably yes," Amelia said in understanding and promised, "I'll see to it."

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"I passed all but Potions, but Professor Snape said it was all right, he was going to give me extra lessons, so that I'd manage the OWLs at the end of the school year," Connie blurted out in clear excitement, when she returned to Hogsmeade, where everyone was waiting for her, more or less impatiently.

"Let the party begin!" Sirius shouted, causing everyone to cheer.

"Happy New Year, Connie," Harry whispered a few hours later, when they were standing in front of their shop on the main street together with a few other couples, observing the fireworks that the Weasley twins were putting up over the lake. "I love you, and I'm very, very proud of you."

"Thank you, Harry. I love you, too," Connie replied, before Harry silenced her by capturing her lips with his mouth.

Epilogue

Two and a half years later, Connie beat Hermione to the best NEWT results of the year, closely followed by Harry on the third place. It was then that Harry and Connie decided to play a greater role in the policy of Hogwarts, considering that they were the owners.

Harry first dismissed the Board of Governors and replaced it with the School Board, for which he elected Amelia Bones, Adrian Greengrass, Arthur Weasley, Amos Diggory and as representative from Hogwarts Severus Snape.

The first act of the School Board was the dismissal of the headmaster with the explanation that he was too old to efficiently lead a school with hundreds of small children, which had become evident when he employed a professor who was possessed by Voldemort, employed another teacher without noticing that he was under the effect of Polyjuice potion and stuck to a prophecy that was no more than the desperate uttering of a fraud trying to gain a job.

"The School Board further decided to assign Connie Potter the task of the new headmistress," Snape continued to inform his colleagues. "Congratulations Mrs. Potter, I hope that you'll accept the position."

After a moment, during which everyone looked at Connie in clear approval, while she shot Harry an anxious glance, he continued, "Harry Potter has been chosen as professor for the new subject of Computer Science. Harry, I hope that you will also accept the position."

"I will," Harry replied, smiling.

"Professor McGonagall," Connie spoke up, questioningly, "do you agree to remain the deputy headmistress?"

McGonagall gave the best student of her latest seventh years a proud smile. "If you're sure that you don't want your husband to take over the position and want me to fulfil it, I will. I understand, however, if you…"

"No Professor," Harry threw in. "Connie doesn't need me, she needs you with your decades of experience."

Connie nodded, before she turned to Snape. "In this case, I will accept the position."

'Thank Merlin,' Connie thought to Harry. 'As the headmistress, I should be well able to look after our children until they'll be ready to attend some kind of school.'

'Children?' Harry asked in confusion.

'Yes, Poppy told me this morning that I'm pregnant,' Connie informed him. 'Don't you remember the night after our last NEWT exam?'

'Oh, that's great,' Harry replied, grinning, once that realisation set in.

"Mr. Potter, will you enlighten us as to what's so funny?" Snape suddenly asked, quirking an eyebrow.

"Only if you promise to call me Harry now, considering that we're now colleagues," Harry replied, smirking, before he informed his colleagues that Connie was very happy to be the new headmistress.

"I owe everything to Hogwarts… and Harry of course, but it's Hogwarts who gave me my magic and allowed me to be part of your world. I will never forget that, and I promise her to always act in her best interest," Connie spoke up, seemingly happy.

"It's the same world, Connie," Harry reminded her, smiling, while their colleagues applauded, obviously agreeing that the members of the School Board had made a good choice.

The End

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