Disclaimer: I own the plot, Jeannette Lawrenceson, Nicole Pearson,
Michelle, Mark & their two kids, Charlie Johnson, Jeramy Ludwigon, Hope
Evans, Greg Martin, Laura Bell, and Thomas Spinnet.
A/N: Here's the Sequel to 'Order of the Phoenix' Harry's sixth year. Hope you all like it, there's another story to come out here soon as well that's a Sequel to this one.
Harry Potter and the Year of Changes
Chapter Fifteen: Christmas Day and Getting Back to School
The next morning everyone woke up slowly and made their way down to open presents. Charlie and Lindsey had opened presents earlier with Molly and Arthur and then left with Lindsey's parents and her sisters. They were planning on visiting with their family that day as well. Harry had snuck downstairs without Ginny and helped Molly with breakfast. Lily came in the room and kissed Harry's cheek, as she was no longer tall enough to kiss his forehead.
Ginny finally came down, only to see Harry and Molly laughing as he managed to burn yet another stack of pancakes. Ginny walked up behind him and put her arms around his stomach. He smiled, turned around and kissed her deeply. Molly hit Harry teasingly and reminded him just as the next batch started to get done, "Harry, the pancakes!"
Ginny and Harry laughed and they finished making breakfast for everyone together. They all squeezed into the small living room to open up presents. Harry and Ginny opened their gifts from Mrs. and Mrs. Weasley first, they were as always a sweater that Mrs. Weasley made herself, sweets, and for a small change this year they gave them each a photo album and some film for Harry's camera.
Sirius and Lily gave them both a Firebolt2000, the newest broom on the market, and the fastest. Ginny carefully opened the small box from Harry. Inside the box was a necklace case, which she opened to reveal a gorgeous gold heart shaped locket. When she opened up the locket she smiled as she saw a picture of her and Harry together, smiling and holding one another close. She looked up at Harry and kissed him long and hard, then whispered in his ear, "Thank you."
Harry smiled and kissed her back, "No Ginny, thank you."
She smiled back, "For what sweetums?"
He kissed her again, "For making me the happiest man on the planet."
Ginny blushed and kissed him back, "I love you Harry."
"I love you too Ginny."
She handed him a small envelope and smiled as she said, "Now, open your present!"
He laughed and said, "Alright cutie."
He opened the envelope to see two tickets and a small perfumed piece of parchment fall out. He picked up the tickets and saw that they were tickets to a Quidditch game, staring Viktor Krum as the seeker. Harry looked up at Ginny in disbelief, an official Quidditch match? He couldn't believe it, Ginny smiled at him and said, "Well don't forget to read the note with the tickets sweetums."
He smiled and read the note quickly, Ginny had written it herself.
"Harry, I hope you like your gift sweetums, you and I will be going to the game the day we get back from Greece. Your mum helped me arrange everything, it's just you and me for a week in Bulgaria. I love you Harry, Merry Christmas. Love for always, Ginny"
Harry didn't say anything, he pulled Ginny to him and kissed her long and hard. Sirius chuckled at the two of them and said, "Alright you two, break it up. We've got enough babies around here right now."
The rest of the day went by quickly, Bill left with his friends before dinner. Percy, Penelope, her parents and Draco's mum left shortly after dinner. Hope and Draco went to bed shortly after they had left, Hope smiling away at Draco pulling him up the stairs quicker. Ginny, Harry, Molly, Lily, Arthur, Fred and Katie were busy talking about plans for Harry and Ginny's wedding. Lily, without thinking asked Harry, "So have you decided who your best man will be?"
Ginny gasped and Harry's eyes were tear filled within seconds. Harry barely managed to say, "Ron."
Harry got up and went up to Ginny's room, Draco and Hope were making a lot of noise, but he paid no attention. He lay down on Ginny's bed and cried into one of the pillows that smelled just like Ginny. Ginny didn't know what to say or do, but Molly looked at Ginny with a tear running down her cheek and said softly, "Ginny go up after him."
Ginny nodded and left as Lily started crying to Sirius, "I didn't think about it, I just assumed."
Sirius cut her off and pulled her close, "Lily you wouldn't have thought about it, it's okay."
Ginny made it in the room, yelled at Draco and Hope to cut it out they were already pregnant for crying out loud, and then she laid down next to Harry and wrapped her arms around him. Ginny could tell he was crying, he turned around and pulled her closer to him wrapping his arms around her and crying as she pulled his head onto her shoulder. They lay like this with Harry crying for quite a few hours.
Lily and Sirius peeked their heads in to say goodnight, along with Molly and Arthur as they went off to bed. Katie's parents and her little sister left that night, Katie and Fred went with them. Allison's parents left with her brothers and their girlfriends when Katie's parents left. Ginny and Harry spent that night holding each other, crying and talking about Ron.
The next morning Sirius, Lily, Hope and Draco left and went back to Godric's Hollow. Fred and Katie came back later that week, and they started to spend a lot of time planning their wedding. Ginny and Katie spent a lot of time looking through dress designs together looking at ones that would look good on Katie and ones that would look good on Ginny.
Everyone was very careful not to bring up anything about the wedding party other than the bride and groom themselves. Fred and Harry tended to end up out on their brooms flying around with George and Allison and getting into trouble with Mrs. Weasley. Fred and Katie had decided that the following year they would get married the day after Christmas.
The week leading up to going back to Hogwarts passed quickly, Harry and Ginny spent a lot of time with Fred and Katie, George and Allison, and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. Percy and Penelope came over for dinner a few times that week, so did Lily, Sirius, Hope and Draco. Soon it was time to go back to Hogwarts. Molly and Arthur had a doctor appointment to for Molly so they couldn't take them.
Katie and Fred volunteered, after all it would be the perfect opportunity to announce their engagement to anyone they still knew at Hogwarts. When the four of them finally got to Platform 9 ¾ they nearly ran right into Hermione and Jeramy who were kissing like they never would again.
Fred, Katie, Harry and Ginny laughed at them, Hermione and Jeramy immediately blushed and stopped kissing, thought they didn't stay more than an inch apart. Hermione looked shocked to see Katie there and said, "Katie Bell? What are you doing here?"
Katie smiled and held up her finger revealing her ring, and Fred grinned from ear to ear as Katie explained, "I'm dropping off my future brother and sister in law for school! And at the rate you two were going I'd say there's to be yet another happy wedding to be arranged soon!"
Hermione blushed, smiled and said, "Oh, not just yet. But maybe someday."
Katie, Hermione and Ginny giggled, but soon stopped when it was announced that the train would be leaving soon. Everyone hugged and said their good- byes to Katie and Fred. They all pulled their things onto the train, and quickly found an empty compartment. Harry and Jeramy got their stuff up and situated while Hermione and Ginny went off to look for everyone else.
Eventually they returned with Parvati, Neville, Hope and Draco. The bunch of them sat and talked about their Christmas Holiday, Ginny told everyone about Fred and Katie being engaged. Parvati and Neville announced that his parents were starting to remember things that they hadn't before, like the day Neville was born. Hope and Draco finally spoke up, Hope was sitting on Draco's lap when she said, "Draco and I have something to announce as well."
Harry and Ginny shot uneasy looks at one another, not knowing that they'd decided to tell everyone. Hermione glanced from Harry and Ginny to Hope and Draco and noticed there was severe tension between the four. Draco moved his hands to Hope's tummy and smiled at everyone as Hope said, "Draco and I are having a baby."
Neville had a look of pure disgust on his face, Parvati and Hermione gasped, Jeramy looked rather confused and Harry and Ginny smiled weakly at one another. Hermione was the one that finally managed to say something, "Isn't that a tad dangerous for you to do Hope? I mean after all you-know- who is back, he's got one thing on his mind and that's to get at Harry any way he can. Don't you think him attacking Harry's sister and her unborn child would be a good way to do it?"
Hope nodded at Hermione, "I know he might try, but he'd go after Ginny before he went after me."
Ginny lashed out at Hope this time, "I've just about had it with you Hope, you know how talking like that makes Harry feel. Both of us warned the two of you to knock it off because it was dangerous for either one of us to be pregnant with Voldemort out there, you two obviously ignored our warning. You know that Harry can't protect you when he's busy taking care of his mum, her baby and me. That's why we told you two to quit, this is just too dangerous."
Hope was fuming with anger at Ginny and spit out without thinking, "Yeah that's why you two risk it almost every night too, isn't it Ginny? What happens when you get pregnant?"
Ginny didn't wait to hear anymore, she got up and left the compartment crying and pushing away the tears angrily while she thought to herself, 'I know she's right, but it's different, I'm not throwing myself at Draco Malfoy. He's a Death Eater's son for Merlin's sake. Harry wouldn't let anything happen to me, or our family.'
Harry shot an angry look at Hope, "You know damn well what will happen when she gets pregnant, it's different. Ginny's with me, not putting herself constantly within Voldemort's grasp the way you are. Did you think about that Hope? Or were you too busy enjoying your Death Eater family?"
Harry didn't wait for a response and got up and followed Ginny out of the compartment leaving Hermione, Jeramy, Neville and Parvati feeling very out of place. Harry found her after a few minutes and pulled her close to him, gently wiping away her tears. Ginny cried into Harry's arms, and he held her close trying to comfort her. He whispered in her ear, "It'll be okay Ginny."
She smiled and looked up into his eyes, he was much taller then she was now. Ginny said quietly, "Hope's right Harry, we shouldn't keep risking having a baby. It's too risky right now."
Harry cut her off quickly by saying, "Ginny what happens, happens. What happens if Dumbledore's wrong about training Owen, Lisa and I for killing off Voldemort? I'm not going to let him control our lives and whether or not we have children based on whether or not we'd be in danger because we already are."
Ginny nodded and said, "You have a good point, but I don't know, we should at least wait a while to see if this works though. I just don't want you- know-who to be able to hurt you worse than he already has."
Harry kissed her and lead her to another empty compartment. They sat in the compartment cuddling and kissing. They sat staring out the window and talking about their plans for the Valentines Day Ball and the Quidditch team. Harry said since Hope wouldn't be able to play anymore he was putting Laura Bell into the games and taking Hope off the team.
Finally the train stopped, Ginny stayed in the compartment while Harry got their luggage to a carriage, he waved for her to come out, and he'd made sure that they had a carriage to themselves. She hurried out, and he helped her into the carriage. Ginny just wanted to be left alone for awhile yet. Hermione and Jeramy helped them get their luggage up to the dormitory, Hermione whispering to Ginny not to worry about it.
Their first day back went by quickly. Harry and Ginny got dirty looks from nearly everyone in Slytherin, they assumed that Draco had told everyone about their reaction to Hope being pregnant. During Ginny's last class of the day Slytherin and Gryffindor were in the same class. Several of the Slytherin girls were whispering, giggling and pointing at Ginny. After class one of them came up to her and said, "Congratulations on the baby Ginny, too bad Potter won't be around to see it," she and the other Slytherin girls ran away giggling away.
Ginny cried and ran off to find Harry, she didn't have to run far he was in the next hallway coming to find her. She ran straight into his arms and sobbed to him about what the Slytherin girl had said. Harry pulled her chin up to look in his eyes and kissed her gently before saying, "I'm not going anywhere Ginny. I'll always be with you, and only you."
Ginny smiled and kissed him back before they headed off to lunch. The rest of the week the entire school seemed to be under the impression that Harry and Ginny were having a baby, even though they weren't. Harry and the entire Quidditch team did their best to put a stop to the rumors, but they were quickly getting out of hand.
One day after a Transfiguration class he asked Professor McGonagall to help them stop the rumors that had absolutely no truth to them at all. She complied and said that she would make an announcement to the Prefects to put the rumors to an end, and that anyone that approached Harry or Ginny about the rumor would be given a detention.
Soon though the weeks went by and the Gryffindor team had nearly killed the Ravenclaw team on the Quidditch field, 400 points to 10. Harry was thrilled that Oliver Wood, Fred, Katie, George and Allison were at the game. Oliver was beaming with pride as he congratulated Harry on the excellent training. Harry smiled and said that while he may have trained, it was merely the talent that the Chasers had that allowed them to be doing so well.
Ginny, Lavender, and Laura blushed when Harry said that. Katie was beaming with pride as well, her sister being every bit as good of a chaser as she was. There wasn't a doubt in anyone's mind that the Gryffindor team would win the Quidditch cup, and that the Gryffindor house would benefit from all of their hard earned points with winning the House Tournament that year.
A/N: Here's the Sequel to 'Order of the Phoenix' Harry's sixth year. Hope you all like it, there's another story to come out here soon as well that's a Sequel to this one.
Harry Potter and the Year of Changes
Chapter Fifteen: Christmas Day and Getting Back to School
The next morning everyone woke up slowly and made their way down to open presents. Charlie and Lindsey had opened presents earlier with Molly and Arthur and then left with Lindsey's parents and her sisters. They were planning on visiting with their family that day as well. Harry had snuck downstairs without Ginny and helped Molly with breakfast. Lily came in the room and kissed Harry's cheek, as she was no longer tall enough to kiss his forehead.
Ginny finally came down, only to see Harry and Molly laughing as he managed to burn yet another stack of pancakes. Ginny walked up behind him and put her arms around his stomach. He smiled, turned around and kissed her deeply. Molly hit Harry teasingly and reminded him just as the next batch started to get done, "Harry, the pancakes!"
Ginny and Harry laughed and they finished making breakfast for everyone together. They all squeezed into the small living room to open up presents. Harry and Ginny opened their gifts from Mrs. and Mrs. Weasley first, they were as always a sweater that Mrs. Weasley made herself, sweets, and for a small change this year they gave them each a photo album and some film for Harry's camera.
Sirius and Lily gave them both a Firebolt2000, the newest broom on the market, and the fastest. Ginny carefully opened the small box from Harry. Inside the box was a necklace case, which she opened to reveal a gorgeous gold heart shaped locket. When she opened up the locket she smiled as she saw a picture of her and Harry together, smiling and holding one another close. She looked up at Harry and kissed him long and hard, then whispered in his ear, "Thank you."
Harry smiled and kissed her back, "No Ginny, thank you."
She smiled back, "For what sweetums?"
He kissed her again, "For making me the happiest man on the planet."
Ginny blushed and kissed him back, "I love you Harry."
"I love you too Ginny."
She handed him a small envelope and smiled as she said, "Now, open your present!"
He laughed and said, "Alright cutie."
He opened the envelope to see two tickets and a small perfumed piece of parchment fall out. He picked up the tickets and saw that they were tickets to a Quidditch game, staring Viktor Krum as the seeker. Harry looked up at Ginny in disbelief, an official Quidditch match? He couldn't believe it, Ginny smiled at him and said, "Well don't forget to read the note with the tickets sweetums."
He smiled and read the note quickly, Ginny had written it herself.
"Harry, I hope you like your gift sweetums, you and I will be going to the game the day we get back from Greece. Your mum helped me arrange everything, it's just you and me for a week in Bulgaria. I love you Harry, Merry Christmas. Love for always, Ginny"
Harry didn't say anything, he pulled Ginny to him and kissed her long and hard. Sirius chuckled at the two of them and said, "Alright you two, break it up. We've got enough babies around here right now."
The rest of the day went by quickly, Bill left with his friends before dinner. Percy, Penelope, her parents and Draco's mum left shortly after dinner. Hope and Draco went to bed shortly after they had left, Hope smiling away at Draco pulling him up the stairs quicker. Ginny, Harry, Molly, Lily, Arthur, Fred and Katie were busy talking about plans for Harry and Ginny's wedding. Lily, without thinking asked Harry, "So have you decided who your best man will be?"
Ginny gasped and Harry's eyes were tear filled within seconds. Harry barely managed to say, "Ron."
Harry got up and went up to Ginny's room, Draco and Hope were making a lot of noise, but he paid no attention. He lay down on Ginny's bed and cried into one of the pillows that smelled just like Ginny. Ginny didn't know what to say or do, but Molly looked at Ginny with a tear running down her cheek and said softly, "Ginny go up after him."
Ginny nodded and left as Lily started crying to Sirius, "I didn't think about it, I just assumed."
Sirius cut her off and pulled her close, "Lily you wouldn't have thought about it, it's okay."
Ginny made it in the room, yelled at Draco and Hope to cut it out they were already pregnant for crying out loud, and then she laid down next to Harry and wrapped her arms around him. Ginny could tell he was crying, he turned around and pulled her closer to him wrapping his arms around her and crying as she pulled his head onto her shoulder. They lay like this with Harry crying for quite a few hours.
Lily and Sirius peeked their heads in to say goodnight, along with Molly and Arthur as they went off to bed. Katie's parents and her little sister left that night, Katie and Fred went with them. Allison's parents left with her brothers and their girlfriends when Katie's parents left. Ginny and Harry spent that night holding each other, crying and talking about Ron.
The next morning Sirius, Lily, Hope and Draco left and went back to Godric's Hollow. Fred and Katie came back later that week, and they started to spend a lot of time planning their wedding. Ginny and Katie spent a lot of time looking through dress designs together looking at ones that would look good on Katie and ones that would look good on Ginny.
Everyone was very careful not to bring up anything about the wedding party other than the bride and groom themselves. Fred and Harry tended to end up out on their brooms flying around with George and Allison and getting into trouble with Mrs. Weasley. Fred and Katie had decided that the following year they would get married the day after Christmas.
The week leading up to going back to Hogwarts passed quickly, Harry and Ginny spent a lot of time with Fred and Katie, George and Allison, and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. Percy and Penelope came over for dinner a few times that week, so did Lily, Sirius, Hope and Draco. Soon it was time to go back to Hogwarts. Molly and Arthur had a doctor appointment to for Molly so they couldn't take them.
Katie and Fred volunteered, after all it would be the perfect opportunity to announce their engagement to anyone they still knew at Hogwarts. When the four of them finally got to Platform 9 ¾ they nearly ran right into Hermione and Jeramy who were kissing like they never would again.
Fred, Katie, Harry and Ginny laughed at them, Hermione and Jeramy immediately blushed and stopped kissing, thought they didn't stay more than an inch apart. Hermione looked shocked to see Katie there and said, "Katie Bell? What are you doing here?"
Katie smiled and held up her finger revealing her ring, and Fred grinned from ear to ear as Katie explained, "I'm dropping off my future brother and sister in law for school! And at the rate you two were going I'd say there's to be yet another happy wedding to be arranged soon!"
Hermione blushed, smiled and said, "Oh, not just yet. But maybe someday."
Katie, Hermione and Ginny giggled, but soon stopped when it was announced that the train would be leaving soon. Everyone hugged and said their good- byes to Katie and Fred. They all pulled their things onto the train, and quickly found an empty compartment. Harry and Jeramy got their stuff up and situated while Hermione and Ginny went off to look for everyone else.
Eventually they returned with Parvati, Neville, Hope and Draco. The bunch of them sat and talked about their Christmas Holiday, Ginny told everyone about Fred and Katie being engaged. Parvati and Neville announced that his parents were starting to remember things that they hadn't before, like the day Neville was born. Hope and Draco finally spoke up, Hope was sitting on Draco's lap when she said, "Draco and I have something to announce as well."
Harry and Ginny shot uneasy looks at one another, not knowing that they'd decided to tell everyone. Hermione glanced from Harry and Ginny to Hope and Draco and noticed there was severe tension between the four. Draco moved his hands to Hope's tummy and smiled at everyone as Hope said, "Draco and I are having a baby."
Neville had a look of pure disgust on his face, Parvati and Hermione gasped, Jeramy looked rather confused and Harry and Ginny smiled weakly at one another. Hermione was the one that finally managed to say something, "Isn't that a tad dangerous for you to do Hope? I mean after all you-know- who is back, he's got one thing on his mind and that's to get at Harry any way he can. Don't you think him attacking Harry's sister and her unborn child would be a good way to do it?"
Hope nodded at Hermione, "I know he might try, but he'd go after Ginny before he went after me."
Ginny lashed out at Hope this time, "I've just about had it with you Hope, you know how talking like that makes Harry feel. Both of us warned the two of you to knock it off because it was dangerous for either one of us to be pregnant with Voldemort out there, you two obviously ignored our warning. You know that Harry can't protect you when he's busy taking care of his mum, her baby and me. That's why we told you two to quit, this is just too dangerous."
Hope was fuming with anger at Ginny and spit out without thinking, "Yeah that's why you two risk it almost every night too, isn't it Ginny? What happens when you get pregnant?"
Ginny didn't wait to hear anymore, she got up and left the compartment crying and pushing away the tears angrily while she thought to herself, 'I know she's right, but it's different, I'm not throwing myself at Draco Malfoy. He's a Death Eater's son for Merlin's sake. Harry wouldn't let anything happen to me, or our family.'
Harry shot an angry look at Hope, "You know damn well what will happen when she gets pregnant, it's different. Ginny's with me, not putting herself constantly within Voldemort's grasp the way you are. Did you think about that Hope? Or were you too busy enjoying your Death Eater family?"
Harry didn't wait for a response and got up and followed Ginny out of the compartment leaving Hermione, Jeramy, Neville and Parvati feeling very out of place. Harry found her after a few minutes and pulled her close to him, gently wiping away her tears. Ginny cried into Harry's arms, and he held her close trying to comfort her. He whispered in her ear, "It'll be okay Ginny."
She smiled and looked up into his eyes, he was much taller then she was now. Ginny said quietly, "Hope's right Harry, we shouldn't keep risking having a baby. It's too risky right now."
Harry cut her off quickly by saying, "Ginny what happens, happens. What happens if Dumbledore's wrong about training Owen, Lisa and I for killing off Voldemort? I'm not going to let him control our lives and whether or not we have children based on whether or not we'd be in danger because we already are."
Ginny nodded and said, "You have a good point, but I don't know, we should at least wait a while to see if this works though. I just don't want you- know-who to be able to hurt you worse than he already has."
Harry kissed her and lead her to another empty compartment. They sat in the compartment cuddling and kissing. They sat staring out the window and talking about their plans for the Valentines Day Ball and the Quidditch team. Harry said since Hope wouldn't be able to play anymore he was putting Laura Bell into the games and taking Hope off the team.
Finally the train stopped, Ginny stayed in the compartment while Harry got their luggage to a carriage, he waved for her to come out, and he'd made sure that they had a carriage to themselves. She hurried out, and he helped her into the carriage. Ginny just wanted to be left alone for awhile yet. Hermione and Jeramy helped them get their luggage up to the dormitory, Hermione whispering to Ginny not to worry about it.
Their first day back went by quickly. Harry and Ginny got dirty looks from nearly everyone in Slytherin, they assumed that Draco had told everyone about their reaction to Hope being pregnant. During Ginny's last class of the day Slytherin and Gryffindor were in the same class. Several of the Slytherin girls were whispering, giggling and pointing at Ginny. After class one of them came up to her and said, "Congratulations on the baby Ginny, too bad Potter won't be around to see it," she and the other Slytherin girls ran away giggling away.
Ginny cried and ran off to find Harry, she didn't have to run far he was in the next hallway coming to find her. She ran straight into his arms and sobbed to him about what the Slytherin girl had said. Harry pulled her chin up to look in his eyes and kissed her gently before saying, "I'm not going anywhere Ginny. I'll always be with you, and only you."
Ginny smiled and kissed him back before they headed off to lunch. The rest of the week the entire school seemed to be under the impression that Harry and Ginny were having a baby, even though they weren't. Harry and the entire Quidditch team did their best to put a stop to the rumors, but they were quickly getting out of hand.
One day after a Transfiguration class he asked Professor McGonagall to help them stop the rumors that had absolutely no truth to them at all. She complied and said that she would make an announcement to the Prefects to put the rumors to an end, and that anyone that approached Harry or Ginny about the rumor would be given a detention.
Soon though the weeks went by and the Gryffindor team had nearly killed the Ravenclaw team on the Quidditch field, 400 points to 10. Harry was thrilled that Oliver Wood, Fred, Katie, George and Allison were at the game. Oliver was beaming with pride as he congratulated Harry on the excellent training. Harry smiled and said that while he may have trained, it was merely the talent that the Chasers had that allowed them to be doing so well.
Ginny, Lavender, and Laura blushed when Harry said that. Katie was beaming with pride as well, her sister being every bit as good of a chaser as she was. There wasn't a doubt in anyone's mind that the Gryffindor team would win the Quidditch cup, and that the Gryffindor house would benefit from all of their hard earned points with winning the House Tournament that year.