AN - We are taking a jump in time.
Lucy Weasley has just graduated with a degree in disaster management.
Al Potter graduated one year before with a magical law degree.
Hugo Weasley is one year away from graduating as a Doctor of Dentistry.
Lily Potter is in the neonatal residency program at Johns Hopkins, with 2 years to go.
Fred Weasley is retired from quidditch and in his first year of internship to be certified as a magizoologist.
James Potter is an owner/player of the Chudley Cannons.
Rose Malfoy, ne Weasley, has retired as a player and was co owner of the Cannons and their conditioning coach.
Roxanne Weasley/Jordan is retired from quidditch, married to her longtime love, Leeann (Lee Jordan's oldest child), learning the Weasley family business, with an eye toward eventually replacing her mum, and six months pregnant with twins.
Teddy Lupin is thriving as the chief training officer for the aurors. His wife Victorie, has expanded her magical farms and branched out into state of the art healthy supermarkets. Their twins are about to return to Hogwarts for their second year.
Molly Scamander, ne Weasley, was head of the greatly expanded memory project. She had hired Lorcan Scamander, (Luna and Rolf's son) fresh from Hogwarts. Lorcan had inherited considerable literary talent. In the process of writing a textbook or two together they had fallen in love. Just that past June they had wed.
Al leaned back in his chair, pushed his glasses up and rubbed the bridge of his nose. His latest case was as an advocate for a pair of siblings.
Their mother and father were moderately famous cabless stars.
Their fans had eagerly followed their intense romance then marriage four years ago. They were now just as eagerly following their very public divorce.
Both sides were attempting to use the press to garner sympathy and support. Accusations of infidelity, emotional abuse and child neglect had been leveled by and against each.
Neither parent was willing to negotiate custody if their two and three year olds.
Magical child services stepped in quickly when the neglect charges came to light. As part of that procedure, a barrister was appointed as the children's advocate.
It was part of the pro bono work Al did. His office manager gently fussed that Al often spent more money and time on his "free" services than he did on the work that paid the bills.
Al knew it was all bluster. Jo Miller was a middle aged, highly experienced legal assistant who was as dedicated to making a difference as her boss was.
Al had decided to go the harder route. He opened his own practice, instead of becoming a junior associate in an established firm.
Jo had worked with his Aunt at the ministry. Hermione suggested that the two should talk. It only took one meeting for Al to know Jo was exactly who he needed.
He offered her a significant increase in salary and benefits. She snapped up the opportunity. So far they had made a pretty good team.
Al was currently living at 12 Grimmauld Place. It was a convenient London residence. His mum was busy most days and weekends at Hogwarts.
She had given up her job as a commentator with Uncle Lee. She did double duty as the flying coach and transfiguration professor.
His da also spent most of his nights in Scotland. They had found a secluded bit of land, complete with it's own wee loch.
A sturdy stone cottage had been built first. Every summer, it seemed, his mum oversaw a new building project.
Just finished had been a pool and spa, inside, what appeared to be, an old bank barn. In reality it was a brand new building. In addition to the pool and hot tub was a gym, changing rooms and a small kitchen/bar.
Tomorrow Al was heading up for the weekend. James had been dating Maggie Creavy for a couple of years now.
He had popped the question and Saturday was the engagement party.
Lily had managed to wrangle five days off and should be at Grimmauld place right now, having taken the potion to help her sleep and adjust to local time. Hugo had picked her up at the international portkey terminal. Al wondered if his sister had liked the motorbike ride through London.
Hugo, ever the tinkerer, had restored a 1940's muggle military bike with a sidecar. Plausible deniability kept Al from asking exactly what magical enhancements had been made.
Before he and Lily headed to Hogsmeade tomorrow evening, they were looking at the buildings on either side of 12 Grimmauld Place.
They had both come on the market recently.
Al was renting his current office and frankly it was a dump that had been given a quick "renovation " to get it rented.
Lily would need an office after she came back to London that was near St. Mungo's. Grimmauld place was also near the Ministry, where Al spent a lot of time during cases.
It made sense for them to convert one of the houses into a mixed use office building. Their mum and da had offered them number 12 to live in.
Al knew that someday they would both marry. Living together then would be awkward and crowded. It made sense to buy the third building then renovate it too.
They could combine the back gardens, be a short walk away from work and, hopefully raise their children together.
James was firmly planted in Chudley and their folks in Scotland. Hogwarts' current defense against the dark arts professor was retiring after this term. Soon the magical world would know Kate Finnegan would become the new chief auror and Harry Potter was becoming a professor. The family was gearing up for major, but exciting changes.
Teddy chuckled silently, so that was what Lily and his boys had been up to when they disappeared Sunday. He knew he really should confiscate the seemingly blank piece of parchment, but the marauder's son in him could not.
Instead he tucked the map back between the lining and wall of Art's trunk. Apparently Lily, granddaughter of James Potter had passed it on to Remus Lupin's grandsons. The marauders would once again terrorize the school. He wondered how the boys would share the legacy gift. Art was a Ravenclaw and Harry a Gryffindor through and through. He was sure they had it all worked out. Ted only had one problem left, did he tell the boy's grandma Ginny or leave it to her and her fellow professors to figure out.