Our Gang (Sort Of):
Rose blinked and blinked again. This was not England and this was not anywhere near she would have thought Voldemort would be. There were children, on a stage that was clearly made by children, it was cute and the children were cute as well. She knew them, Spanky, Alfalfa, Porky, Buckwheat, Stymie Darla and Mary Ann were all there. She watched the play for a bit and saw Voldemort on the edges of the play. She vanished him and set out to find out why she was in America of all places. She came to a bakery and went in to find an old woman who was called grandma having tea with…. Lucius Malfoy? She drew her wand and grandma drew hers at the same time.
"What is going on?" Rose asked.
"When I heard that this town might vanish I had to help." Lucius said, "I was bored and had to leave England for a time, that dark lord there was making it hard for me to have a good life."
"So I take it you never joined Voldemort?" Rose asked the expensive muggle suit wearing Malfoy.
"Heavens no! Very bad for business, if it were found out I joined a dark lord, well I would loose not only a lot of money but connections and my network. Dear Draco has been making friends here, you know of the Our Gang?"
"I do, yes I do know of them." Rose replied, "and Voldemort will not be a problem."
"Good, I thought Lord Potter was to take care of him?"
"Well I am the huntress."
"Ah, well that is good." Lucius said, "anyway I am here and decided to help out, but it was the gang that really came through as grandma here said they would."
"They raised the money I needed to keep this place going." Grandma said, "but I still don't have anyone to hand it down to."
"Well, I was harsh to you." Another man said walking in, "but you had to really want to save it, not just you, but people from this town. I grew up here and I was saddened to see a lack of care." The too rich looking blinding white teeth, perfectly tanned man with bleach blond hair said, "I was harsh but I had to be as for who could inherit, the gang, yes they are a bit, well annoying but they love this town and you, and both Lucius and I will gain good publicity for this."
Rose just stared, this was getting weird, she had destroyed Voldemort as she had promised but why was she still here? Her answer came when Harry walked through the door in a crumpled suit, hair wild and took a seat at a table and smiled when grandma handed him a plate with scones and pushed a jar of jam and clotted cream to him. Harry ate and sat back looking content and happy. Rose could feel the happiness in the town, how it seemed like it was rejoicing.
"What is this place?" Rose asked, "to this world?"
"A small town, those are getting rare." Harry said, "and what Ray Kaye here proposed was rather mean but it worked, and proved this town deserved to be saved, the whole thing with grandma owing $10,000, well that was not true, and now she has $20,000 to help remodel this beautiful place."
"It is part of my reviving the downtown of this town." Big Ray said grinning, "there will be apartments over the stores and not for the rich, these are for those working in my car factory, we make the Oods."
"Okay, never heard of it but then I am not from here." Rose replied, "green I am taking it?"
"Totally, so green town, investors in the form of Lucius and Harry here."
"Yea, I invested, might as well what else will I do? I got kicked out of Hogwarts and fled before my wand could be snapped and here I am with friends, still have to defeat Voldemort."
"I did that, the huntress here." Rose replied.
"Oh thank you." Harry said.
At that moment Ginny Weasley came in, she was clad in a stunning modest gown of emerald green. Emerald green looks good on everyone but on a red head it is stunning. The skirts came to a couple inches above her ankles and were full skirts, a close fitting bodice showed off her narrow waist and a modest neck line and ¾ sleeves made for a charming gown. She had her hair up, pearls around her neck and for earrings and simple brown heels on her feet. She smiled at seeing Rose and turned to Harry.
"I love thrift stores, and I only had to alter it a bit." Ginny said, "I do like this town, we should settle here."
"What happened in England?" Rose asked.
There were frowns all around and a tale of betrayal, magical blocks, potions, murders and worse came forward. Everyone who could had fled after Harry had been expelled and the ministry was ruling over nothing at the moment. There was an international bounty for Harry's head but there was another bounty to keep him safe that was far more money. That and the reward for Voldemort's head and the heads of the ministry were far higher as well.
"So now what?" Rose asked.
"Stay here, have some fun or you could go take care of the ministry." Harry said.
"Yes I could, I will deposit the money in your accounts." Rose said, "after all I am you sort of."
Rose popped out, and found the ministry in a meeting, with a snap of her fingers she bound them and send them to Geneva to be tried. She went to collect the money but found the goblins had taken care of that and put it in Harry's vault as she was technically a form of him. They were sneaky but were not evil, they had been ages ago but had changed and like being good and sneaky business people. At the end of the day the bottom line was their goal and that was goblin rebellions were fought over, and keeping their basic rights too.
When she came back she saw Ray's son, Junior working with the Our gang on the stage, he had books and plans spread before him and everyone was looking them over. They grinned as this was going to be fun, the old barn would make for a better stage and be indoors and best of all it would not need to be tore down! Ray walked up and looked at the plans, it was clear they were drawn by children but they were detailed.
What would you say if I turned that barn into what you want here?" He asked, "you could help by doing your plays to raise money, I have seen how you are able to do that."
"Yeay!" The gang shouted.
"Good, then get to work." Ray said turning to Rose, "they are rough around the edges but point them in the right direction, well I do hope to see them working for me in the future, and this town is going to be the best small town in America when everyone here is done with it."
"Yea, and I love it here, not England but it will do." Harry said, "it will do nicely."
Rose smiled and realized now her time here was done. She left with a puff of pink (and really why pink) and left a happier safer world behind her.