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Chapter 2: The party & the spells

One by one, Ron, Lavender, Parvati, Dean, Seamus, Neville, & the others trickled through the door. After 30 minutes, Dumbledore walked in confidently with McGonagall, Flitwick, &, to everyone's dismay, Snape.

"Hullo Professors!" Harry said gleefully.

"Oh, call me Albus, please, you are no longer at Hogwarts. I have some matters I need to discuss with you & Miss Granger afterwards, if you don't mind," Albus replied.

"Don't mind at all Pro- I mean Albus," Harry felt strange calling the Headmaster by his first name.

After everyone sat around & talked for a while, Harry called them all into the dining room for a special feast. The tables were covered with every food imaginable. Pork, beef, chicken, rice, vegetables, you name it & it was there. There were glasses of water & butterbeer all over the table also.

"Attention everyone!" Harry called out, tapping his fork on his glass of water. "I'd like to propose a toast! For the professors!" he said, holding his glass of butterbeer towards the area where the professors sat.

"For the professors!" everyone echoed.

After plowing through all 4 courses, the graduates slowly stood up, making their way to the dance floor Harry had set up in one of the rooms. Soft music wafted through the air, luring even Snape to the floor. Slowly, Harry made his way over to where Hermione sat, patiently waiting.

"May I?" he asked holding out a hand.

"Of course," Hermione replied.

The two waltzed around the floor gracefully, never bumping into anyone, but still in their own little world, gazing into each other's eyes. When the music stopped, Harry grasped Hermione's hand with one of his, while reaching into his pocket with his other. Everyone gasped when he pulled it out.

"Hermione Elizabeth Granger, will you marry me?" Harry asked, grinning widely, slipping the ring from inside his pocket onto her finger.

Hermione smiled the biggest million-dollar smile anyone had ever seen. "Yes Harry," she said. "I will."

Looking down at the ring on her finger, Hermione's heart jumped. It was a golden ring with a very large diamond in the center & a smaller diamond on each side of the larger one. It was truly the most beautiful thing she had ever laid eyes on.

Three hours later, everyone began to slowly leave the party, until only Harry, Hermione, Albus, & McGonagall were left. Hermione had wanted to go to her house in order to start planning for the wedding right away, but Harry had said no, so that they could find out what Albus wanted to tell them.

"What is it you wanted to tell us sir?" Harry asked.

"Do you remember in your 5th year when I told you that you are the heir of Godric Gryffindor & that Ms. Granger is the heir of Ravenclaw?" Albus asked.

"Yes, why?" Harry asked curiously.

"Well, you know that Voldemort was the heir to Slytherin, but now that he is gone, we thought that the Slytherin line was gone forever. But as it turns out, he had a daughter, Alicia. She is now the heir to Slytherin," Albus said.

"Yeah, but what does this have to do with anything? Harry asked curiously.

"The four founders of Hogwarts originally placed the spell on Hogwarts that has kept it protected all these years. It has been 1000 years, & the spell needs to be replaced, & it takes all of the four heirs to be complete. We thought that Hogwarts would collapse, because we knew that Voldemort would never help us, & when you defeated him, even though we were incredibly thankful, we were also distraught because Hogwarts might not have survived. Now that we have found Miss Riddle though, the spell will be able to be performed. If you could please study this spell for your part of it," he said, brandishing a strip of parchment for each of them with an incantation to learn, "everyone would be very thankful. Oh, & congratulations on your engagement," he said on a lighter note.

With that, Professors Dumbledore & McGonagall apparated with a small *pop*. "I'll see you later Harry!" Hermione said, kissing him lightly on the cheek then apparating back to her house.

With a swish of his wand, Harry sent all the furniture back to its places, the rooms back to their original colors, & the party decorations into thin air. Jogging up the stairs to his bedroom, Harry smiled, knowing that sometime soon, Hermione would be living in the house with him. He got dressed as fast as he could, then hopped into his clean bed. With it being his first day to actually live in his own home & sleep in his own real bed, outside of Hogwarts, it was the best thing ever. The Dursleys never gave him his own bed, much less one this comfortable, much less even this clean.

The next morning, Harry woke up refreshed. He was about to wander downstairs to eat his cereal for breakfast, when he remembered the instructions for the spell that he had left on his dresser. He picked it up, then went down to eat. Studying the parchment, he ate his cereal slowly. He was supposed to tap any wall in the castle & say the incantation on the parchment. The spell looked simple enough to perform, but he decided to practice it anyways.

Tapping the wall nearest to him he said, "Invicto magia, proteger el territorio de intrusiones."

Suddenly, the wall glowed a reddish gold, then faded back to the regular color.

"Oh, how bloody brilliant of me!" Harry said sarcastically to himself. "Godric must have used the spell on his own house to protect it, since it did use to be his. He must have, because the spell is only supposed to work on places that already had the spell placed on them! Now I placed the spell on my own house! I guess I'd better get everyone else to do theirs on it so that nothing goes wrong or anything."

They had already planned to go to Hogwarts later that day so the spells could be renewed, so Harry guessed he would just ask them to come over & fix the stupid spell on his house.

Later, he apparated to right outside of the school grounds, then walked up to the front entrance. Walking up the steps really brought back memories. After finding the stone gargoyle, he gave it the password, (Chocolate Frogs), & walked up the winding stairs to Dumbledore's office.

"Hello Mr. Potter," Albus said.

Harry saw Hermione sitting in a giant blue armchair waiting, with a nervous 6th year boy on a fluffy yellow couch, & a girl Harry didn't recognize was lounging on a green recliner, but she must have been that Alicia person that Albus told him about. She had mysterious sapphire blue eyes with a twinkle of mischief, long black hair with red streaks flowing down her back, & was slim & tall. All of the four heirs instantly sat up when Harry walked in.

"Okay, now that everyone is here, we can get started," Albus said. "Miss Granger, you first."

Hermione said her incantation, then went the Hufflepuff, & Alicia. Harry was last.

"Invicto magia, proteger el territorio de intrusiones," Harry said quietly.

Like at Godrics Hollow, the wall glowed reddish gold that faded slowly, then came back out along with blue, bronze, yellow, black, green, & silver, which faded back eventually as well.

"Um, I have a rather strange question to ask of you all now that we are finished," Harry said, feeling really stupid.

"Yes, Harry?" Albus asked.

"Well, when I was practicing the spell, I sort of accidentally performed it on my house, which used to be Godrics, so now I think all of you need to go do yours on it so that my house doesn't collapse on me," Harry explained.

"Ah, yes," Albus said. "We can floo from here right now then. That is, if you all don't mind," he said, turning to the other 3.

"Not at all," Hermione said.

The Hufflepuff & Alicia nodded their heads.

"Lets be off them!" Albus said.

They all grabbed their floo powder, shouted out, "Godrics Hollow!", & jumped into the fire that was cracking merrily in the corner.

After arriving back at Harry's house, everyone again said their incantations & left. Now, Godric's Hollow would be completely safe, as well as muggle-free. Not that Harry really minded, but it was a nice precaution anyways.

Finally, it was time for Harry to begin his new job, Seeker for the Chudley Cannons. He apparated to the field where they were to practice, dressed in his Cannons practice robes, along with his new broom, the latest Firebolt 1000. When he got there, all the other players except for the keeper were there. Finally, he arrived too & practice began.