Chapter twenty
Hermione was not able to afford to return to Hogwarts. Ginny found out that she had made a deal with her parent's. She worked part time for them at their dentist clinic, they would help pay for her muggle education. She would live at home but she would have to pay for her room, and cook her own meals. No one was sure if they would ever see her in the wizarding world again. They did know that Hermione had not seen Ron. Her parent's had stipulated she was never to have anything to do with Ron, or the wizarding world. Once she finished her education and got a full time job, she could do whatever she wanted since she would not be living with them. No one was sure if she would stay in the muggle world of if she would return to the wizarding world after finishing her muggle education. They did know that since some stories had been leaked about how Ron and Hermione had basically spied on Harry for Dumbledore as well as hurting his education that if Hermione returned to the wizarding world, no one would trust her. It might end up that no one will hire her if she did return.
Ron had tried to get a better job, but after seeing his owl scores, he never made it out of maintenance. Since he only earned minimum wage, he was still living in Arthur's shed and still had to pay for his mother to cook and clean for him. To this day Arthur still hadn't found out if Ron had spied on Harry and if he had deliberately stopped Harry learning. Arthur was determined to find out, he just wasn't sure how long it would take. He thought if he didn't get the answers soon, he might just resort to using veritaserum on his youngest son.
Over the first two years after the death of Voldemort, the new governors worked on a lot of major changes at Hogwarts. There were now more subjects, and two teachers for each subject. The head of house was no longer a teacher, they were like a councillor that was available at all times. Strict rules were brought in regarding bullying so within a month three students had been expelled. Those three students were from old pureblood families who supported Voldemort, and had family members in Azkaban. After they were expelled, some pureblood students left Hogwarts and enrolled in Durmstrang. The other purebloods realised if they wanted to remain at Hogwarts then they would have to change their ways. They decided to just do their work and stay away from everyone. Filius Flitwick ended up headmaster with Pomona Sprout as deputy headmistress.
Harry and Ginny went on to pass all their NEWTS with all o's. They got married a month after their tests. Just as the wizarding world celebrated when baby Harry beat Voldemort, and when Harry, Ginny, Charlie, Connie, Tim and Amelia beat him for the final time, every one celebrated. This time they were celebrating two of their hero's marriage. They were happy for Harry Potter and his new wife, Ginny Potter.
The Potter's took two months off to have a honeymoon. When they returned Harry had surprised Ginny by organising a tryout with the Holyhead Harpies. She made the reserve team and was told she would end up playing on the main team no later than two years. Harry began training to be an auror. Connie and Tim were his instructors. Since they knew about his power, which was protected by secrecy oaths, Amelia thought this way Harry could incorporate his power into the training without anyone else finding out. Amelia had it planned that all trainee's or junior aurors would be teamed up with a senior auror. She already organised for Tim to be Harry's partner, even after he had finished training. Harry and Tim ended up great friends, and even though Tim was Harry's immediate boss it didn't affect their friendship or working relationship.
Harry and Ginny remained close friends with Neville and Luna. Neville was now engaged to Hannah Abbott, so even though it may take them a while to trust the Hufflepuff, Harry and Ginner were friendly with Hannah. Luna ended up dating a man who also seemed to have a gift of seeing animals no one had ever seen before. They married before going off on a world tour in the hope to find proof so people would see that these animals Luna and Rolf spoke about were real.
Connie and Charlie ended up marrying, after Charlie decided to give up looking after dragons and taking on the job of care of magical creature's teacher at Hogwarts. Charlie stayed friendly with Hagrid, but refuse to allow any type of dangerous animal into Hogwarts that could harm a student.
Bill end up marrying Fleur and within a year, she gave birth to their first child, a girl they called Victoire. Molly slowly came around and became friendly with the French woman.
Percy never ended up making it back to the minister's office, and stayed a junior assistant in the department of magical cooperation. He also never apologised to his parent's and was never invited to the Burrow for any family event, like a wedding, birthday or birth of a child.
The Weasley twins shop ended up a huge success. They opened another shop in Hogsmeade then began to branch out to other countries. Fred went on to marry Angelina, and George married Alicia.
Because of the way Ron behaved, he was always asked to leave the Burrow or remain in the shed if Harry and Ginny were there. He only tried to join the family once, but the first time he said something nasty to Harry, Arthur made him leave and forbid him from ever coming to the house again. It was from then on that Molly would send his washing and his dinner down to the shed. It was just lucky that Arthur had worked on a small bathroom with just a shower, toilet and sink, which happened to be in the same section of the shed where Ron's bed was.
Arthur did finally get the answers he wanted, when he spiked Ron's tea with veritaserum. It was as they suspected. Albus paid Ron to spy on Harry and disrupt his learning. Albus also promise to get Ron onto the Chudley Cannon's quidditch team, as keeper. Hermione was also paid but she was also promise some of Albus's books from his private collection when he died. Neither ended up receiving what they were promised and were now not welcome by family or friends, or anyone else in the wizarding world. Hermione was turned down for every job she applied for so she eventually returned to the muggle world, for good. Ron still blamed Harry for everything including the shitty life he was living now, but he did realise that he was never going to get a better life, so he began drinking. One day, when Ron was drunk, he saw Ginny and attacked her. He said Ginny was the reason Harry deserted his true friends, she was to blame. That was the first time Ron ended up in Azkaban. He ended up going to Azkaban five different times, the last time was when he attempted to use the killing curse on Harry, so Ron was sent to Azkaban, for life. He would die in prison.
When a few of the purebloods that had lost their parent's due to Harry, Ginny, Amelia, Tim, Connie, Mad-eye and Charlie tried to cause trouble, they found themselves doing weeks, to months in Azkaban. They were forbidden from working at the ministry, or opening any type of business. They finally realised that they could not remain in England so they went back to Bulgaria which still support the dark arts and they often had dark wizards that they would follow. They hoped one day that their new leader could get rid of the people in England that had run them off.
No one ever heard from or saw Hermione again. No one bothered to find out where she was or what she was doing. If a magical child turned up at Hogwarts that resembled Hermione in any way, the child would be watched. No one would do anything to the child for what the mother did, they would just keep an eye on the child to make sure that Hermione hadn't lied to the child. They wanted to make sure if Hermione did have a magical child that he or she didn't start any trouble.
Arthur and Molly had turned all their spare rooms into guest rooms, but they all had cots for the babies being born into the family. They would end up with nineteen grandchildren, even if they never saw Percy's two son's. Remus and Tonks's three children also spent a lot of time at the Burrow, none of them end up infected with lycanthropy.
By the time Ginny was ready to retire after having a brilliant career with the Holyhead Harpies, Harry had become the head auror.
Harry and Ginny went on to have four children. One thing Harry said was he would like to incorporate his parent's and Sirius's names into his children but not have them named after them. Ginny came up with the idea of naming any girls they had after flowers, like Lily.
Orion James Potter was the first child born, who had Harry's eyes, and red hair but much darker than the Weasley hair. It was Lily Potter's auburn hair. Charlus Neville Potter, Charlie for short, was named after Harry's grandfather and Ginny's brother. He had the dark red hair but Ginny's brown eyes. Both boys loved to fly, and were a lot like their father on a broom.
Jasmine Luna Potter and Holly Lily Potter were twins, born three years after Charlie. They had the auburn hair, and green eyes, but their facial features were a mixture of Harry and Ginny.
All four of the Potter children had Ginny's good eyesight and not Harry's abysmal eyesight.
Harry was sitting in his office at home staring at the pictures on the mantle above the fire place. He kept thinking how perfect his life was, how to him at least, he had the perfect life. He had a beautiful and talented wife, and four wonderful children. He was close to all his in-laws and to the children that had been born into the family.
'From when I first found out I was a wizard to now, my life has completely changed. I went from having no family and only a couple of friends, to a very large family and those old friends ended up my enemy. Life can be strange and unusual, at time.' he smiled as he stared at the waving pictures of his parent's and godfather. He didn't know how, but he knew they were watching him and he knew they were proud of the man he had become.
Harry Potter might have begun his life as the boy who lived, to being one of the saviours of the wizarding world. But he ended up with exactly what he wanted. He had a family. He had a wife and four children. He had parents even if they were his in-laws. He had brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews and he had some great friends. Yes, Harry Potter had everything he always hoped to have.
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