A New Begining
A Harry Potter tale told By Rena Jo
Authors note: I want to be very clear here I am not a Harry/Ginny fan I have not been for a long time. She has always struck me as a placeholder character never getting enough scene time to warrant her and harry marrying and having children. However, for this story, I believe Ginny will work as a love interest for Harry. Also, I do not own Harry Potter though I would not mind owning even a small percentage.
For three days Harry stayed at Hogwarts helping with the cleanup and purification of the castle. During that time Ginny and Harry had reacquainted themselves with each other. They both realized the war had changed them. Which led them to where they were now. On top of the Astronomy Tower, her leaning back against his chest talking."
"So let me get this straight you used one of your brothers' temporary love potions on me?" Harry asked wondering why. "Please tell me you are Joking?"
"No, I am not?" The fiery redhead snapped twisting to face Harry "I had all the Harry Potter books that were published. You were my hero before I even met you."
"That is disturbing Ginny" Harry commented hoping he did not end up with a bat bogy for his trouble "You had to know those were stories and not real surely your mum…" he paused and thought about Molly Weasely "Never mind … Go on!"
"As I was saying I had the books and had read them all." Ginny mused look at Harry's eyes "Then I met you, Not at the Burrow but down in the chamber and you were everything and nothing like the books. I daydreamed before I met you that we would meet and be boyfriend and girlfriend."
Harry started to speak and was stopped by a finger against his lips "You sacrificed your life for me that day in the chamber" she stopped to gather her thoughts for a moment "What I daydreamed before was a pale imitation of what you kindled in my heart, Harry. I did not know if I loved you but I wanted to find out. I tried not to be a fangirl. I tried to get to know you and let you get to know me for three years I tried as hard as I could but in my fourth year I gave up. I could never seem to engage you the way Hermione did despite my best efforts." She swallowed hard "I gave you a diluted dose in hopes that I could break you out of the world that only seemed to be the three of you. I just wanted time with you. I suppose now I have gone and ruined it by coming clean."
Harry sat in thought thinking of all the guys she had dated even his roommates made him frown "No you have not ruined it. But it does take a little of the shine off the beginning of our relationship. If we are going to move forward there can be no lies or obfuscations between us the only way a relationship so going to work is by being open and honest with each other. Are we in agreement?" he asked
The question caught Ginny off guard and she paused. "If it relates to you or me in the sphere of our relationship. Yes, but sometimes some truths are not mine to tell."
Harry mulled that over he could see the reasoning "I will not be coming to the Burrow; I love your family but I need my place." He stated gauging her reaction and was surprised when she did not immediately explode "I have talked to Headmistress McGonagall she is lending me 100 elves to see to the renovation of Grimmauld Place. It should be done in a week. If you feel like visiting I would enjoy the company."
Ginny looked like she was thinking it over "Ginny, would you be my girlfriend?" Harry asked hoping she would say yes
"Well, you know I will have to check with all my other boyfriends!" She grinned impishly as Harry's face dropped into a frown "Yes you big noble lug I will be your girlfriend. Now lets got tell Mum we are going to Grimmauld Place" she then captured his lips for a sweet soulful kiss before climbing to her feet and moving down the tower "You coming to Harry?" and laughed down the tower as harry chased her through the halls until finally, he caught her outside the great hall. "Looks like you caught me!" taking his hand they went into the hall which was still in bad shape causing Harry to frown
Pulling the elder wand out of its holster he raised it much as he had seen Dumbledore during the fight at the ministry and began silently conducting magic around the hall for nearly an hour and a half until the hall was repaired and looked like it had the day, he walked in.
Ginny had seen the frown and felt him stop so did Hermione and Ron. The entire hall watched as their friend looked for all the world like he was conducting a symphony when he was done an hour and a half later, he was almost mobbed by people congratulating him but that was narrowly averted by Professor McGonagall "I am sure while Mr. Potter would enjoy the attention. We still have other areas of the school to attend to." After the crowd thinned the headmistress approached "Thank you for that Harry. It was well done."
"Yes, it was well done" an older gruff voice interrupted "Potter my brother was extraordinarily proud of you. His wish was that he had more time to teach you. I think, however, it was he who would learn from you." Aberforth said for the whole hall to hear. "Watching you just now watching was like watching my brother. It is nice to know his style of magic will live on. Stop by soon I have some things of his he wanted you to have." The old man nodded and left the great hall
"Potter while I have you here, I have a request of you." McGonagall said sad-faced "While Dobby worked here, he got close with another elf, Winky. They mated and had two elflings."
Hearing that news brought tears to Harry's eyes "Winky could you please bring yourself and your children to me?" he asked softly and was surprised when Kreacher and Winky were each holding an elflings.
"Yes, Harry Potter sir?" Winky squeaked out. Harry then took a knee so he could look into Winky's eyes
"Thank you for coming Winky." Harry replied and then after drawing in a breath "Dobby lost his life saving us from the forces of Lord Voldemort. It would be both my honor and pleasure if you would come live with me. My home would be your home." He said in short sobs "I am so sorry Winky if I had known I never would have asked him"
Winky closed the distance wrapping one of her small arms around Harry's neck she hugged him whispering words of comfort in his ears "I have a request Harry Potter sir" Harry nodded his head
There were gasps around the hall the audacity of house-elf making any kind of request of a wizard was unheard of "Winky be wanting to bond and be a proper house-elf."
'Hermione is going to kill me' "If that is what you want then you shall have it. However, both you and Kreacher are both to be properly uniformed A suit for him and dress for you. Furthermore, neither of you are servants you are a valued member of my family Kreacher from now on you are Kreacher Black and Winky and her children have the surname of Potter."
Across the room, Hermione had initially been stewing Harry knew how she hated the slavery of elves and then he cut her off at the knee's making them members of the family "Ooh that boy"
"He got you pretty good Mione" Ron admitted chuckling for the first time in days.
Molly sat a silent vigil by her son Fred. She now looked at her children and surrogate children they were all grown up what with Ginny being of age coming in august. "Mrs. Weasely, Molly, Mum" she heard before turning her head and seeing Harry look sheepish "Sorry been trying to get your attention for a few minutes!"
"Yes Harry?" she asked her expression still grief-filled.
"Mum you have offered shelter for my entire time at Hogwarts" Harry began hoping she would take it well "I know that the Burrow has been destroyed. I am taking a hundred house elves to Grimmauld Place we are hoping to take a week and refurbish it from top to bottom. Once that is done it would be my honor for you and your family to stay with me until the boys and I can finish rebuilding the Burrow."
Arthur looked like he was going to decline when bill and Charley both whispered something and he calmed "Thank you Harry we accept." Molly began to weep again reaching out to each child in turn even Hermione, Harry, Luna, and Neville
"Let's get this done" Harry nodded to the brothers Weasely handing Bill two parchments "Thank you Bill for smoothing things over with the goblins.
"No problem little brother." The Older man replied apparating out.
"I am going now. I hope to have accommodations for you done by tomorrow" He said crossing the room and taking Ginny in his arms and returning the gentle kiss she gave him "Come tomorrow I want to have a family dinner." With a quiet pop, he apparated away.
The next several days went by quickly and Grimmauld place was transformed from a dark forbidding place to a home filled with light, love, and laughter. On the fifth day though the laughter came to an abrupt end
It was midday and Molly was working on the hallway with the black family tapestry Ginny had noted that part of the tapestry had been hidden and was in the process of moving a chest of drawers away from the wall with Hermione when molly came back "What do you girls think you are doing?"
"Harry asked us to take the tapestry down Mum" Ginny answered, "so we are in the process of doing that."
"You cannot remove the tapestry it is attached by a permanent sticking charm." Molly said quickly too quickly for both the younger women's taste "Now just put the chest of drawers back and we can move on"
"Oh hey guys," Harry said coming into the hallway seeing them struggling with the chest "Why are you not using magic… the ministry office of detection is currently out of commission "Reducio" Harry shrinking the chest of Drawers surprised the girls and opened a small window for molly to try to hide something she had found
In a flash her wand was out blasting the tapestry at a point on the lowered left of the wall unfortunately Molly had forgotten she was not the matriarch of the family and her spell ended up blasting her back into the wall knocking her out and breaking most of the bones in her body Harry summoned a house-elf "Go to st mungo get a healer we need one now the floo address is Potters Pad'
Ginny turned to the spot where her mother had aimed there on the wall for all to see Delphini Amaryllis Potter born April 9th, 1998 Bellatrix Lestrange and Harry Potter "Voldemort did more than steal your blood Harry" Ginny stated pointing at the tapestry. "I can see why my mom might have hidden this now."
Two healers came in and started working on Molly "Kreacher I need you."
"Yes, Master Black" Kreacher responded
"Do you know about this?" Harry demanded Kreacher approached the tapestry and the color drained from his face "No master I did not know. I felt a new life Join our family but I was serving at Hogwarts as you commanded. I thought it was Mistress Lupin but I was not able to investigate."
"Can you find her" Harry's mind was close to shutting down from equal amounts of fear and anxiety "what do I do? I don't know anything about raising children"
Ginny put a calming hand on his shoulders "What do you want to do Harry. No one is saying you have to raise her. What do you want to do?"
Harry stilled "I want to find her and make sure she is raised well" he responded quietly "Kreacher Find Little Delphi and then tell me where she is I am getting my little girl back."
Ginny smiled and looked at baby teddy and thinking of a little girl with Harry's hair and eyes made her smile "You are a good man Harry Potter"
"That speaks of great Maturity my lord black," Andromeda Tonks said approaching from behind Ginny depositing teddy into Harry's arms brought a sense of peace and quelled the anxiety attack he was having "Spend some time with teddy and find your center."
Harry entered the sitting room and was joined by his friends after a bit Arthur and Bill Weasely came in "Lord Black My wife did something disturbing to you today she tried to hide a member of your house from you. What do you ask in recompense for this crime?" Arthur asked
Harry looked thoughtful for a moment "Two things, First I would like Permission to court Ginny." Ginny's quiet gasp made him smile.
"The second Lord Black?" Arthur asked
"To treat young Delphi and Teddy as grandchildren," Harry asked sincerely "Delphini is not at fault for the circumstances of her birth. I want to prevent the rise of dark witches. If I can do that by offering a loving home it is a small price to pay." Seeing his response had made people start to think. I will have Words with Madam Weasely when she returns."
Shortly after Kreacher returned "I found Young Miss Master, she is at Rowle Manor"
"Can you take me there Kreacher?" Harry asked only to be disappointed
"Yes, Master Black I can" Kreacher admitted "However" little miss …her bassinet is in a closet she was alone dirty and crying."
"A closet…" Harry ground out an edge of something Ginny could not identify crept into his voice and the temperature in the room dropped "Take me there please." A moment later they were in a small dark room Harry could hear weak cries coming from behind a closet door. Silencing his feet harry made his way over to the closet. The smell that him when he opened the door made him gag "Kreacher can you Bathe her, and feed her I am going to investigate the house." Harry breezed through the house it was eerily quiet till he came upon a well-appointed sitting room with an older woman hanging from a makeshift noose. Harry calmly went back to check on Little Delphini "Madam Rowle has hanged herself let us get little one away from here. Take Delphini back to the manor I will join you there momentarily"
After Kreacher left Harry cast a Patronus "Minister Shacklebolt IF you would be so kind as to join my family for dinner tonight at headquarters there is much we need to discuss" he apparated back to Grimmauld Place.
As he walked into the foyer he heard an argument "Ginny, Give me the child" He heard Molly Weasely growl "I will not have that thing underneath my roof."
"Then it is a good thing this is not your roof. Tom Riddle stole my blood and then sired little Delphi here. Through no fault of her own, she is here and I am all she has" he was interrupted by Ginny whispering in his ear as she handed him the little girl
"We are all she has, Mum. You send her away or judge her for who her parents were you are no better than a death eater" Ginny admonished her mother "Maybe you should return to Hogwarts Mother" the last was said in the coldest voice any of them had heard her use ever.
"No daughter of mine will speak to me like that" Molly's wand a stinging hex flew faster than anyone expected catching ginny full in the face. Two things happened Arthur weasely broke his wife's wand and Ginny screamed in pain falling to her knees sobbing in pain Molly had barely missed her left eye."
"Dad, I think it would be best if you took mum back to Hogwarts. I will not have her treat Ginny like the Dursleys treated me" Harry said to the older man "Go before I do something I will regret later."
Arthur nodded "I am sorry for this son. You are right no child should be held responsible for the sins of the parents." The man said sadly as he turned to address the thundercloud that was his wife "Molly weasely you have brought shame and disrepute onto the house of weasely. You will take time and think about your actions. You are to go back to Hogwarts and help Madam Pomfrey tend the wounded. You are to speak to no one of this so I have said so it shall be"
Molly looked mutinous. Arthur turned to Harry and Ginny "I will be going with your mother. I am sorry for what she has done. Take care of Ginny for me." Arthur asked of harry before escorting his wife back to Hogwarts.
"Come on Ginny I can heal that," Hermione said gently leading the crying girl upstairs.
Harry was left with Ron, Bill, and Fleur. "Mate are you sure you want to do this? Kids are a big responsibility."
"Yes, Ron I do. I look at the parallels of mine and Tom Riddle's lives." Harry nodded to them "It was the grace of your family that prevented me from becoming just like Riddle." He snuggled the girl whispered to her an act that made Fleur smile and takes Harry and the baby into a hug.
"You are going to make a great father 'arry" Fleur gushed at her friend "You have picked this up quickly"
"Thank you Fleur" Harry replied hoping she was right because he seriously had no clue what the future would hold for him and this beautiful little girl.
Author's note the second came from 13828929/1/Blood-of-the-Enemy by Geovanni Luciano