Moving Forward ch24
"Whoo! Go Teddy! You can do it!" Harry cheered for the stands. The Bathesda Wyvern the Snidget league team The Dragons sponsored were playing Balycastle Bogarts. Teddy was playing keeper. His little man was big for his age. At seven years old he was 4'7" and shooting up like a rocket. He was very fit as well. Every morning he would drag himself out of bed to go running with Harry. He'd normally do two laps on the park, then sit on the swings as Harry did sixteen more turns around the park.
Muggle school had been hard on Teddy. Having to hide who he was, soon earned him the reputation of a liar. When the teacher accused him of starting a fight with three older, much bigger kids who had a history of bullying, his accidental magic had blown out every window in the room. Even after an obliviation and firm talking to from Harry, the teacher seemed to hate his son.
He had brought up the issue of there being no magical primary school in Britain in a meeting with George who suggested talking to Fleur. Victoir was just starting to home school maybe she would let Teddy join.
Now every morning after their run Teddy flooed to shell cottage. On the afternoons Harry didn't have practice, he'd go and tutor the kids in maths and basic magical theory. He was also teaching them the basic meditations needed to connect with their magic. As a metamorphmagus Teddy needed this to control his morphing and it wouldn't hurt the part Veela any either.
Harry had had to learn the meditations for his masteries. Now practicing with the kids so often he was seriously considering learning the animagus transformation. He had seen him form, he didn't know what it was though. He assumed it was some sort of magical creature it looked like an English Bulldog with antelope horns. He thought about asking Luna but he really didn't want to hear he was the elusive crumple horned snorkack.
Back to the game Teddy had stopped fifteen on the eighteen shot on goal. Harry was so proud of him. The snidget league had a two hour time limit with breaks every thirty minutes. They were in the final quarter and Teddy's team was up sixty points. Harry really wanted to tell the seekers the snitch which was three times normal size, was hovering ten feet up on the right side of the opposition goal. That's where it had been the whole game. In Snidget league the snitch stayed in place, it was about learning to spot it.
The only positions in Snidget league that were really similar was chaser and beater. The keeper only had to guard two rings twelve feet off the ground. The beaters hit a soft rubber ball that carried a mild stinging hex. You'd know you got tagged by a bludger but it couldn't knock you off your broom. The quaffle was a little smaller and had a mild sticking charm on it.
The Snidget league rules and equipment were becoming very popular amongst lesser skilled players of all ages. Both the Americans and Canadians had started Snidget leagues.
As the buzzer rang out Harry stood to cheer both teams, but mostly Teddy. He thought he might host a seeker training camp for the kids next year.
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Wedding planning was not fun. His soon to be Father-in-law was a dick. What kind of man tells his daughter that a wedding dress makes her look fat. He shot down nearly every plan they made. When he insisted that they change the venue Harry had drawn his wand. His parents and Grandparents had been married in that "Shitty little chapel"
Lavender's mother was great though. Between her and Andy, Lavender would get her dream wedding. Harry only had three requests. They have it at the Godrics Hollow chapel, He would wear a muggle tuxedo with overrobe and that Hermione be a bridesmaid since she couldn't be his best man. Lavender had had no issues with any of it.
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Harry had had a confrontation with Ron once already. He had been drunk and causing trouble at Harry Potter's a sports bar and swing dance club named after him. He was also a frequent visitor as he was teaching Lavender swing dancing. The confrontation had been very short because when Ron drew his wand and started to fire a reducto the Gardens wards stunned and bound him. Aurors were on scene only seconds later. Harry had heard Ron had gotten himself six weeks in ministry custody for smacking an auror.
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Andy Tonks loved her boys. Harry was hers and she wasn't giving him back Nana Nana poo poo. Lavender Brown she wasn't so sure about. She obviously loved Harry and was really trying with Teddy. Thruthfully she was a better match for Harry than Remus had been for Nymphadora, but something about her bothered Andy. Maybe it was just the thought of losing her boy to another woman. She wasn't going to be a monster-in-law but she'd be keeping an eye on Miss Brown.
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Healer Mitchell Jacobs would never regret befriending Harry Potter. Only a year out of healer training, he was head healer of the Bathesda Hospital. Sure it was only a sixteen bed emergency medical center but he was the boss. Unless he severely fucked up his healing career had no limits.
Harry had also introduced him to the love of his life, Hermione Granger. Mitchell didn't think he would meet anyone as driven as himself. Not only didn't his girl have far reaching ambitions, she was caring and compassionate. He smiled whenever he thought about her. Now to pick out a ring. He'd asked Dan and Emma for permission over a month ago. Time to find his courage and ask Hermione.
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Hermione Granger cursed the name of Harry Potter. He had no idea the amount of parchment work was required every time he got an idea. She had been pleased when he started buying up every house elf he could get his hands on. He had offered them all freedom, only two of the fifteen hundred had agreed. So, he ordered the rest to never punish themselves. Never allow anyone to hit or curse then. To report any abusive behavior towards them to the head elf of Elf services limited. He set up a vault that all elves in his employ has access to and told them that he would happily project anything nthey wanted for themselves. He might not have been able to give them freedom but he was making real change.
Elf services limited provided all of the food delivery in the Gardens. Did most of the cleaning. Rented out cleaning, cooking and child care services all over the isles and loved every minute of it. Harry had even appointed Dobry president of the company.
That was her problem. Elves weren't recognized as a people. Animals don't have to pay taxes but employees and businesses do. Now Hermione Granger had to convince the stuffy old biddies on the Wizengamot that elves were people. This was what she had studied law for but… Damn you Harry!
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Gnarlfang looked over the Potter accounts. The Gardens had been open a year next week and had recouped nearly half of it's initial investment. With the hotel now open, the Amusement park would see the Gardens turn a profit by the end of summer.
Perhaps Harry Potter was part goblin. He should have known this Potter would be the one to turn things around for his family. He had planned the first successful break in, since the founding of the bank. Gnarlfang would never tell him but the Goblin Nation as a whole had been impressed. Three teenage wizards, who hadn't even finished school had robbed a high security vault and gotten out alive. What warrior wouldn't be impressed at the sheer gaul.
The Gardens had been a windfall for the goblin nation. Apprentice made junk that normally would have been melted for scrap was being sold to stupid wizards at exorbitant prices. They were happy to pay as though they were buying a masterwork of gold and jewels. The Potter engagement ring that was a masterwork.
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Ron Weasley sat brooding in his cell. This was all Potter's fault. First he refused to give me credit for my part in killing Voldemort. Then he stole that mudblood Granger from me. He even fucked off to Australia to be with her. He insults my sister. Gives sex toys to his sister-in-law. And no one does anything about it. Then the bastard ruined my quidditch team. Blue and copper what kind of colors are that for a uniform? Now I'm stuck in this cell all because I needed to give Harry Potter what fore. Fuck you Harry Potter!
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