Contains Ginny/Ron/Molly/Dumbledore bashing, mentions of spousal abuse and a bit of infidelity...
Harry Potter had died. That was what everybody had believed. He had died at the age of 28, a Killing Curse hitting him from an escaped Death Eater who had aimed to kill the youngest Head Auror in the history of the Ministry of Magic.
Wizards and witches of various ages were sitting in the Ancient and Noble Houses Conference Room at Gringotts, waiting for the goblin known to humans as Kicktail, to begin the reading. Ron Weasley was sitting with his wife, Hermione, who was in tears at the loss of her best friend whilst Ron was mentally counting what money he could have gained from the demise of the person who he, along with his sister and mother had conned.
Ginny Potter was sitting next to her brother, watching over her two oldest children, Albus and James, whilst her mother, Molly was looking after Ginny's daughter, Lily, along with Rose and Hugo Weasley, two more of her grandchildren.
As well as most of the Weasley family, Percy and Charlie being absent from the proceedings, there were several other people in the conference room, Daphne Zabini and her son, Cyrus, Susan Finch-Fletchley and her two children, Edgar and Amy Bones, Neville and Hannah Longbottom and a few other people.
Kicktail walked into the Ancient and Noble Houses Conference Room with a case when everything went quiet. It was then when he spoke. "Good Morning everybody, I am Kicktail, the Head of Inheritance for Gringotts Bank. I am here to announce the Will Reading of Harry James Potter, Heir Primary of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter and Head of the Ancient and Most Noble House Black.
"Now, before we begin, I need to remind you that we are on Goblin soil, meaning that following the Treaty of Settlement of 1762, created between the Goblin Nation and the Ministry of Magic, which allows the Goblin Nation to manage the banking, Wills and Probate functions previously managed by the Ministry of Magic, within Great Britain. This means that we can also punish thieves against the Goblin Nation and its clients.
"Anyway, I shall read the will of Harry James Potter. If anybody objects or disputes any item that has been bequeathed, their gift shall be declared Null and Void and split between the remaining beneficiaries.." Kicktail said, with a feral grin. As Ron rubbed his hands together, Hermione tried to remember why on the earth she had started having feelings for him when in her Fourth and Fifth year, she had fallen for Harry.
"'I, Harry James Potter, Head of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter and the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black, of sound Mind and sound Body, declare this Will to be my Final Will and Testament, voiding all previously filed Will and Testaments. This Will and Testament is dated the 17th May 2007.' This Will was handed to us nearly a year and a half before his passing." Kicktail explained to the gathered humans.
"'To Daphne Zabini, I leave you 5,000 Galleons, thanking you for being there as and when I needed someone to talk to. I will take your secret to my grave.'" Kicktail started. Daphne looked into her son's emerald orbs and knew implicitly what Harry meant. "'I also name you regent of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black. We both share a common ancestor, a certain Headmaster, so if that's good enough for the Black requirements, then that's good enough for the 'Gamot.'"
"'To Susan Finch-Fletchley, I leave you my mother's collection of journals. She and your Aunt Amelia had a special friendship and had a certain Grim not got himself in Azkaban, or a certain white-whiskered wanker not done what he had done, we would have grown up together.'" Kicktail continued, Susan, remembering about how her Aunt had told her about Lily Evans and the pursuit of two men. "'I also leave the Heirship of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter to our son, Edgar. I wish I could leave the Headship, but as the grandson of the younger sibling, I can't.'"
"'To Neville Longbottom, I leave my grandfather's notes on Herbology and Potions. They should come to you by rights Cousin. When I found out from Great Aunt Augusta that Dumbledore had lied to her and even threatened to make your life hell at Hogwarts should she pursue my whereabouts as a child, I was horrified. It was only thanks to you, the Head and of the Ancient and Most Noble Houses of Longbottom and Potter that I had found out about my heritage."
Ginny gasped at that statement. She had automatically assumed that because she and Harry had lived at the Potter family seat in Stinchcombe, a little valley near Stroud, that he was the Head of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter. But she hadn't realised that Charlus Potter was a few minutes older than his twin brother, Fleamont,
"'To Ginny Potter...I leave you Thirty Sickles...the traitor's reward. I know you and Draco Malfoy were sleeping with each other, and that Albus isn't my son... It's just a pity that Jamie won't get any more Potter siblings apart from Edgar, Amy... or Rosie.'"
Both Ginny and Ron were shocked, Ron at the fact that Hermione had had an affair with Harry and Ginny at how Harry had found out about her and Malfoy.
"'Finally, to my best friend Hermione Weasley, I leave the Stinchcombe house should she need a refuge from her husband. I've asked the Goblins to ward it against Ronald, Ginerva and Molly. Just a hint 'Mione, my love, divorce Ronald. I know all about that night, and what he did to you. I've left the memories what you gave me for the next DMLE Head to look into, just in case I can't.'"
Hermione frowned at that statement. 'How did Harry know about how Ron had beaten me that night?' she thought, and then she remembered. She had given a copy of the memories to him on the proviso that he didn't get anyone else involved. Looking at Ron, she could see his ears going redder than his hair, and she knew that she would have to get Rose, Hugo and herself to a safe place.
Eventually, the gathered parties left the Conference Room, Ron getting the traitor's reward and Molly ending up being escorted out at axe point, Kicktail summoned Hermione and her children to meet him in his office.
As he entered behind the soon to be divorced Mrs Weasley, the goblin sighed as she ran towards the raven-haired man who was sat at his desk and kissed him, before pushing him.
"How Harry?" she said as her lover wrapped his arms around her. "Why did you do it?"
"For you, my love. To save you from Ron. I couldn't live without you, and I couldn't die without seeing you and my kids together one more time. I needed to be free of that contract, and to be free I needed to die."
"But you didn't die," Hermione said, crying. "How didn't you die?"
"Would you believe that it was thanks to mum? Her protection made me immune to any killing curses, all because of her skills with runes. When I wrote the Will, however, I didn't expect that to happen."
Eventually, having verified that Ron was nowhere to be found, Harry, Hermione, Rose and Hugo left for Stinchcombe, and their new life together.
When I had started writing this, I had originally had Harry dead and buried, and that Ginny had cheated on him with Malfoy, but at the same time, he had slept with Hermione because he was in love with her, and he had slept with Daphne and Susan because both of their husbands were impotent. But then somewhere around writing Ginny's 'bequeathment', I took a bit of time away from it and if I'm honest, I got reading some fics where Moldy had won, and then one in specific where Harry had 'died, but was in fact alive and fighting back, and ended up marrying Hermione after Ron had abused her and The Noseless One had used her as a Horcrux Protector (I can't remember what the fic was called as I've read quite a few fics in the last few months).
It was then that I came back to this and changed it a bit, adding the Harry being alive twist thanks to Lily ending.
And yes, Draco did father Albus... why do you think Harry gave him Snape's name...