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Molly welcomed the children home and they sat down to tea and biscuits. Harry showed them the first of the letters.
"Ooh, Harry that would be so amazing. Being an Auror at only sixteen would be an excellent reference for your future," Hermione said.
Ron nodded and said, "You'd be able to use all kinds of neat artifacts too."
Harry shrugged and said. "The answer to that one can wait. Ginny, the Queen has invited us to the ball for the Winter Equinox. Do you want to go?"
She nodded happily and kissed his cheek.
Then Harry took out the next letter and began to read.
Harry Potter,
After you came to speak to me, I knew why my daughter thought so much of you. All her letters and the first few weeks she was back her eyes lit up at the mention of you. She told me how nice you were to her even though she was just a first year Slytherin. She mentioned how nice your uncle was when she faced the Boggart and you spent time with her making sure she did it right. Even her worries about her mum were tempered by you.
I've been sent into hiding. I've been receiving death threats and now that my Angie is gone, I can't stay in this house. The headmaster knows how to reach me and I plan to ask him to pass along this letter. I have a large favor to ask of you. I know that you're only a few years older than Angie is but if something happens to me… would you be willing to accept becoming Angie's godfather? I know this is a lot to ask. I don't expect an answer tomorrow.
I do know that from everything I've heard from the headmaster, my daughter, and a few of my friends in England that you are more of a man than anybody is that has been born in the last thousand years. You've faced your enemies and everyone else's and never gave up.
I know this is a lot to ask of you but I had to. I want my daughter to have a perfect life if something happens to me.
-M. Morrow
The women were crying softly as he read. When he sat the letter in his lap Ginny put her head on his shoulder and her tears stained his cloak.
"Harry, we'll all support you in your choice," Hermione said. Ron nodded.
Molly spoke, "Harry, you do what you think is right for you, Ginny and Angie. Not just her and not just yourself."
"Mum's right Harry. You need to make a decision on that after a lot of thought."
"If I brought her into our lives there's no guaranteeing that she won't lose someone else. I've already allowed one person into my life like that. And this would make her a target."
Molly interrupted him. "Harry, if you took her in then disappeared from her life she'd still have that time with you to cherish in her memories. Just like we all would. Don't push someone away because of what might happen to you. Allow them in so they have the memories of you to cherish forever."
Everyone nodded and Harry looked pensively into the fire. No one spoke as Harry concentrated and made up his mind.
Albus and Arthur came into the house. They both started to speak when Molly shushed them.
She looked at Harry then dragged the two adults into the kitchen for a whispered conversation.
Harry turned to his wife and whispered in his ear. "You think I should do this?"
She nodded and he sighed. Harry spoke out loud, "You can come in now."
"Have you made up your mind Harry?" Albus asked.
Harry nodded and said, "Yes, I've decided on two of the letters."
"The ball and Auror training I assume?"
"No, Angie and the ball. Ginny and I will attend the ball and I'll accept becoming Angie's godfather. I still am not sure about the Auror training. Can you let Mikal know?"
Albus nodded and he and Arthur stepped outside to speak. Molly called the children to dinner and stepped outside to speak to her husband and the headmaster. A few moments later all three came back in and joined the children for dinner. Harry was silent throughout most of the dinner as he ate. He glanced at Ginny and she smiled encouragingly at him. She reached down and traced on his leg I-T-S- an arrow pointing up —2-U.
Harry nodded and grasped her hand. "Arthur, I don't want to. When I'm done with school, I want to spend time with my family and work on stopping Tom. Even if I had no duties as an Auror, it would make me answerable to people who don't share my views. If I do defeat Voldemort, I want to be able to have the life I want afterwards. I wouldn't be able to if I was at the beck and call of an organization."
Arthur nodded. "Albus thought you would choose not to. Harry, no matter what you do with your life we'll all be proud of you." Then he grinned at his daughter, "Especially Ginny."
She smiled and nodded and they all finished their dinner.
Harry and the others flooed to Dumbledore's office. Harry spoke to Fawkes and asked him to relay a message to the Queen tomorrow night. Fawkes trilled happily and Harry took his wife's hand and walked back to their quarters.
He spent the next three hours grading papers and went to bed almost an hour after Ginny did. He watched her sleep for a few minutes before he kissed her then drifted off, clutching her to him.
Harry woke up and grinned at his wife. She was watching him sleep. "Do you know what my first memory of you is?"
"Me putting my elbow in the butter?"
He chuckled and said, "No, it was you telling your mum what platform it was and asking if you could go. Then you running after the train half laughing half crying. I wished I had someone that cared about me as you cared about your brothers. I watched you until the train went too far and I couldn't see you anymore."
She smiled and tears ran down her face. "You do Harry. You do."
"I know Mrs. Potter. I love you."
They kissed and he held her as they watched the sky brighten outside their window.
They got up and dressed. They walked down to the great hall for breakfast and Harry said, "My next memories of you are you seeing me then shrieking and peeking out at me from behind your door."
She grimaced and swatted at him. He smiled and pulled her into a hug. He was kissing her when he heard Snape's oily voice.
"Mr. Potter, public displays of affection in areas other than common rooms or outdoors are not allowed at Hogwarts."
"Snape shut the fuck up before I rip your black heart out and use it as a door stop." He turned to Snape and his aura flared out from him.
"Do not dare to speak, do not dare to move, do not dare to exist without my express permission. You interrupt me with my wife ever again and my rage will know no bounds."
Snape's eyes widened as he saw the literal emerald flames in Harry's eyes. Harry stepped towards Snape and watched him back up against the wall. "Everyone else knows not to anger me. Why don't you get it yet? I killed Draco and I didn't even try. Do you think killing you wouldn't be just as easy? Your old master screwed up trying to kill me."
Harry reached out his hand and traced a lighting bolt down Snape's cheek. The skin darkened and crisped as the mark burnt into his skin.
"I could torture you in a thousand ways that would make even Tom Riddle ill."
He pulled away his finger, the mark disappeared, and Snape slumped to the floor.
Harry turned to his wife and took a few deep breaths. "I'm sorry Gin. I didn't mean to lose control."
Ginny's eyes were wide. She hesitantly took his hand then brought it up to her face. She kissed his palm and said, "You do as you must. Just try not to do it in front of me anymore? I'm not hungry anymore."
He nodded. "Neither am I Gin. Meet me in my office. I need to speak to Snape for a moment."
She nodded and walked away. Harry stood over Snape looking down at him. "Snape, don't even think of running to Albus. I've seen the future. I know what Riddle has planned for you. Do you want to know? Do you want to see what is done? I saw so much of the future. I saw everything. Why do you think I have white hair? A minor but of stress as a staff member? Hah, you see your own son with his feet resting a stool made of your own skin and it will send you over the edge. So bear witness, if you ever speak in my presence again without my leave a little pain will be the least of what I do to you."
Harry turned and stalked off. His movements were oddly feline and smoother than most human movement. He reached his class and walked through the room to his office. Remus was sitting in a chair talking to his wife.
"Hi uncle Moony," he said as he crossed over to his wife. He sat down in the chair she vacated and pulled her down on to his lap.
"Ginny told me what you did. Next time let Sirius and I know so we can be there?"
Harry grimaced and Ginny asked him, "What did you talk to Snape about after I left?"
"I told him I could tell him what Voldemort would do to him. I told him what I would do to him."
Ginny wound her fingers through his and kissed his knuckles.
"How come you're here Moony?"
I didn't see or smell you at breakfast. I thought you might be here."
Harry nodded then grinned slightly as he said, "My senses are stronger than yours now."
Remus laughed and said, "I doubt that."
Ginny looked at Harry. She didn't know he'd been overdosing himself on sensory acceleration potions.
"Actually, I started dosing myself with potions halfway through the summer. I'm at the point where I can hear like a bat, see like an eagle, and touch a page and read it. I take a counter potion once a week so it's not so overbearing."
Ginny and Remus were shocked. They both started sputtering questions.
"I need any advantage I can get. Ginny noticed my eyes changing shape over the summer and I slowed down my consumption."
"You told me it was an after effect from a spell you messed up," Ginny huffed.
He kissed her neck softly and said, "I have to do whatever it takes to win this war. I need to win it before death eaters walk openly in the streets with witches and wizards cowering in the shadows."
Harry's watch buzzed. He looked down and saw that Ginny's first class started in ten minutes. "Better go to class. I'm not allowed to write excuses for you. If I could, I'd ravage you right now after kicking the old guy out."
Remus grinned and said, "I hope you two are planning on making me a great uncle soon." He walked out of the room while Ginny picked up her bag.
Harry watched her go with a sinking feeling. He wouldn't see her until bedtime. Both of their lunchtimes were different today and he had to grade the quizzes during dinner that he was going to give the seventh years later today.
Harry sat on his desk and watched the students who elected to take Advanced DADA walk in. this class didn't require a book and they were expected to leave their books in a cupboard outside the room. All they needed for this class were their wits and their wands.
"Today we're going over last year's class load. I want to do at least ten more things than we accomplished in this class last year."
Fawkes flew into the classroom just before he left for his herbology session and took the letter for the Queen.
Harry finished the day off with a lesson on herbology with Professor Sprout. The class was a lot more fun with only him and her. She kept flicking pea pods at him when he answered questions wrong and he would stick his tongue out at her every time she missed. He no longer had to replant or prune. Most of his lessons were theoretical and they walked around while he picked and harvested ingredients he would need throughout the year.
"You can go now Harry. And don't forget your bet."
He grinned as he walked out the door. She had a bet with him about Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff point averages for this season on the pitch.
When he got back to his quarters Ginny was doing her homework while Ron and Hermione were bickering on the couch. Harry cocked an eye. The potion was wearing off and he went to his bathroom to take some more. He came back and sat down by Ginny.
Whatever they were doing before they came here I wish they had taken a shower," he whispered to her.
Hermione turned to Harry and said, "Ginny said you've been boosting your senses with potions."
Ron nodded and said, "Why? You can just change and sniff around."
Harry grinned and said, "Wouldn't it be a bit weird for someone to change into a lion in the middle of Muggle London to follow a trail? Besides, if I don't take a potion to lower my senses I can tell when a couple has been getting randy somewhere before they came to visit their friends."
Ron's eyes widened and Hermione blushed. Harry snickered and said, "I air a general garment and you two look as if it were a perfect fit. Anything to confess? …Ginny, did you know that your brother has asked a certain bushy haired prefect to marry him?"
Ginny widened her eyes and looked at the two. "Really?"
Hermione nodded and Ginny jumped out of her chair to hug her.
Ron looked at Harry dangerously and Harry looked back at him haughtily. Then they both broke into laughter.
For the next hour, the four sat around the fire talking and laughing. Ron and Hermione left for the dorms after ten and Harry and Ginny sat in front of the fire softly talking.
The month of September passed with Sirius coming back to the castle once a week to pass on any info he found. Halfway through October Harry and Ginny were on Oxford Street shopping for her gown. Harry had gone to a wizarding shop that sold suits. His three-piece suit kept Ginny giggling. When she had told him what she was laughing about, he had almost decided not to get it. He hoped he wouldn't hear any James Bond jokes from the Muggle borns that saw it at the castle.
"How do you know about Ian Fleming, Gin?" he had asked while she tried on gowns in the third store they looked.
She peeked her head out of the fitting room and looked for the sales clerk. No one was near by so she replied, "Mum had a huge crush on him when I was little and she used to read us his stories. Well, some of them at least." She giggled and said, "She always left out the good parts where he killed people or got the girl."
He grinned and she came out to twirl in the gown for the woman helping them when she came by.
By the end of the day, Ginny had finally narrowed her choices down to three of the gowns. All had emerald in them somewhere. She obviously liked to make sure she had something on that matched his eyes. Most of her socks were green and her favorite bra was emerald lace. Harry liked it too. Mainly because it had a front fastening and was the easiest to get off of her.
Ginny sent Harry to go pick up her shoes and other items she had bought for the ball. He was counting out the money he had had changed to muggle bills and grinned at her choice of undergarments.
Harry walked back to the store she was in and she was sitting on a chair obviously frustrated.
"What's wrong?" he asked her.
She pointed at the three gowns. All cost over one thousand pounds. "They're too expensive."
Harry laughed out loud. "Ginny, ten thousand pounds wouldn't even put a dent in my trust fund. You can get all three if you want."
The sales consultant heard him and started whispering with the other people working there.
The woman walked over and said, "Miss?"
Harry turned and said, "That's Lady Virginia."
The manager overheard that and rushed over. "Sir, our store is at your disposal for your wife. Is there anything we can get you to make your shopping any easier?"
Harry shook his head. He was watching Ginny decide when he heard a voice. "Sir Harold?"
He turned and saw one of the Ladies In Waiting from when he had been knighted.
"Yes? I never did get your name."
"You can call me Maggie. We were told you were on Oxford Street and they sent me to make sure you didn't have any problems since you're not used to… society functions."
Harry nodded. "You can call me Harry; this is my wife Ginny."
She smiled as Ginny said hello. The two women talked while Harry watched. She looked at Harry's bags and told him that he needed to wear the tie of his Order. Harry nodded and asked where he could buy one. She told him and they continued with Ginny's shopping.
That night Harry gave the suit and gown over to Dobby. He had adopted them as his master and mistress and had been seeing to their welfare to the exclusion of almost everything. Dobby promised to have them cleaned and restored to them on the morrow.
Ginny was giggling over Harry's suit again. "Take me to bed Mr. Bond."
Harry laughed, picked his wife up, and carried her to bed.
November 5 was extremely foggy and Harry didn't want to roll out of bed. His wife was hogging the covers and he almost ripped them off of her when he remembered he was a wizard. He grinned and started to cast a warming spell on himself. Then he decided not to, snuggled up to Ginny, and kissed her shoulder repeatedly. She murmured contentedly and he slipped his hand down between her legs.
Ginny awoke with a shriek. Harry's cold hand was on her thigh. "Harry, your hands are freezing."
He grinned. "I know. Someone hogged the covers."
She sighed. "Well now I'm awake. Guess we should get up."
"Uh-uh, we're staying in bed. No reason for us to get out is there?"
"Actually, yes. You have Quidditch and I have detention."
"Humph, shame I cant be the one who runs your detention. You'd be in trouble a whole lot more."
She giggled and kissed him.
"I need to find a good seeker. I graduate this year."
She looked down at him. "You're going to do it?"
He nodded. "I'll still be teaching here until you finish. I don't know what I'll do after that though. Albus and I are going to discuss my options. He hinted he'd like me to stay on."
Ginny was getting dressed while Harry watched. He grinned at her as she buttoned her blouse. "Let's go get some breakfast."
He nodded and the two walked down to the hall. Harry and Ginny were sitting at the head of the table when the Quidditch team surrounded them.
"What are we doing today Harry?" one of the new beaters asked.
"I want all of you to work together better and we'll be holding the seeker tryouts. I need someone good to replace me next year."
They all nodded and Harry continued, "We'll be holding the seeker tryouts again next week. Ginny did quite well over the summer so whoever wins will go up against her with the backup team."
Ron grinned at Ginny as she blushed. She kissed Harry's cheek and ran off to Professor Flitwick's room. She had a four-hour detention with him.
Harry and the team walked out to the pitch. Harry sat astride his Firebolt and watched the six people he had trying out. He had them catch and release the snitch and tabulated their success.
At the end of the practice, a third year had caught the snitch three times. Everyone else had caught it once except a fourth year. He hadn't caught it at all.
Harry congratulated the third year and spent the next hour cleaning up and repairing the field.
Harry and Ron were walking back up to the castle when a first year came running down and puffed out, "Ginny collapsed."
Ron and Harry dropped their equipment and ran. Harry snarled and changed. He flew into the hospital wing.
He changed back and started towards Ginny's bed. Poppy tried to stop him and his aura pushed her against the wall.
"Ginny, what happened? Are you okay?"
Ron walked into the room and Hermione strolled in a few minutes later as Harry held Ginny while she cried. Poppy pulled herself off the floor and approached the bed. She glared at Harry and gestured for him to follow her into the office. Hermione and Ron joined Ginny on the bed.
Harry strode into the room and glared at the nurse. Her face paled before him.
"Mrs. Potter had an allergic reaction to the potion she was taking. She can no longer take the preventative potion or it may cause sterility."
"Is she going to be ok?"
The nurse nodded and Harry sagged. "I thought it was worse than that. There aren't any side-effects from the reaction are there?"
Poppy shook her head and Harry walked back to Ginny's side.
Ginny sobbed as she said, "I'm sorry Harry. Mum said there shouldn't be a problem but"
Harry cut her off. "Shhh, Gin all I care about is if you're ok." He held her and whispered to Hermione what had happened. She nodded and took Ron off to the side to tell him.
Harry was holding Ginny and rubbing her back. She sniffled into his shoulder, "We agreed to wait to have a child though. Now I can't take the potion and the charms aren't effective on Weasley's."
Harry smiled softly, "I wouldn't mind having a child. I just made the suggestion to you to make you feel better."
She looked at him and sniffled again. Harry wiped her nose for her and then kissed away her tears. "Really? I told mum I wanted a baby as soon as possible."
Harry grinned slightly. "Well that's ok with me but there are other ways to do birth control. Muggle ways and magical for men. We can decide when you're out of here."
She smiled wanly and buried her head in his shoulder still sniffling. Ron and Hermione came back over and sat with them. Harry stayed with her until she was released the next morning.
Molly and Arthur arrived later that morning and they were sitting with Harry and Ginny. Arthur and Harry were sitting over some of Harry's paperwork and talking about muggle birth control. Harry wasn't exactly comfortable with it but it was making Arthur feel better.
Molly and Ginny were in the bedroom talking when Arthur asked Harry, "What are your plans for the summer?"
Harry closed his eyes for a moment then opened them. "I was thinking about hunting with the Marauders."
Arthur frowned. Wizards didn't hunt. "Hunting what?"
Harry's eyes hardened. "Death Eaters. I need information and I can get it from them."
Arthur shuddered at the fire in Harry's eyes. He was glad he wasn't Harry's enemy.
Ginny came back out and Harry summoned Dobby. The four had lunch in Harry's quarters. After they finished eating the four made their way down to the village.
Harry saw that the flower store had some emerald colored blossoms. He smiled as the women went into Gladrag's and Arthur followed him into the store. Harry reached into his pocket to pull out some sickles and realized all he had was muggle money. Arthur was fascinated with the bills and offered Harry three galleons for all of them. Harry shrugged and accepted. He paid for the blossom and walked back out with Arthur. Ron and Hermione were kissing on the corner of the street when they saw them.
"Hermione…"
Hermione looked up at Ron's father and blushed. "Sorry to bother you but you had a Weasley on your face. It's gone now though."
Harry broke into laughter seeing his best friend's father tease him. Ron turned red and almost stalked off when Ginny and Molly came out of Gladrag's.
Harry stepped over to his wife and gave her the blossom. She smiled sadly and hugged him. "Thank you."
"Was there anything you wanted from Gladrag's?"
She nodded then said, "I just signed your name though. Is that ok?"
"Gin, you can go buy a herd of dragons and set them free for all I care about a little money. What did you get?"
She sighed and said, "I got you a tie clip."
"Oh, I forgot to get one in London didn't I?"
She nodded and grabbed his arm. Harry saw that she was still depressed. The incident the yesterday had put her in a mood. There were moments where she was fine but so far, there had only been two in the past day. He hoped she would feel better as time passed.
The next week passed slowly. Harry and Ginny spent most evenings and nights on the couch in front of the fireplace. She cried every night and Harry wasn't sure what to say. He didn't understand why she was crying. Not being able to use the potion wasn't all that big a deal, he thought.
It was Friday night and Harry decided to risk it.
"Ginny, why are you so sad? Not being able to use the potion isn't that big of a deal is it?"
"No, it's just that… that I might become sterile from trying any other magical ways of birth control."
"Oh…" Harry said. He thought for a moment and said, "We don't have to use birth control at all if you don't want to. We've already changed the future I saw. We can change it more."
"How… how would it be changed if we had a child in the next year?"
Harry shrugged. "I can't think about it right now. I don't want you seeing the vision. And I would only see the difference in the timeline if you were pregnant or had a child. I'm not a seer. I can only see what was shown to me and how changes affect it."
"You wouldn't be mad at me if I got pregnant?" Ginny asked him fearfully.
"Ginny, you know the one thing I want most is a family of my own. I have one now. I have you. If we had a child it would only make me that much happier."
"Really?"
He smiled and kissed her nose. "Really."
"So if I was pregnant you would be happy?"
"I'd throw a party for every house out of my own pocket."
"Okay."
Harry grinned at her smile and she curled up in his arms. She had stopped crying and Harry was ecstatic.
Harry awoke the next morning to his wife's smiling face. "Feeling better love?"
She nodded happily and he started to tickle her.
Ron and Hermione walked into Harry's place. They saw Harry and Ginny sitting on the floor. Ginny was smiling radiantly and Harry was looking at peace.
"Feeling better now?"
Ginny looked up at her brother and future sister in law. She smiled happily and nodded. She leaned over and kissed Harry.
Harry looked at his watch. "Are you in the mood to try out?"
Ginny nodded and they went to change. Harry came out first and Hermione hugged him.
Harry smiled and replied, "I'm just that charming. Ron, can Ginny borrow your broom? I don't want her to use mine and have everyone citing favoritism if she wins."
Ron nodded. Ginny came out and Harry told her she would be using Ron's broom. She thanked him and they walked down to breakfast. Harry had Ron gather the team and the reserve team.
Ginny and Michael listened to Harry explain the rules. Both would go head to head avoiding the bludgers for two hours. Who ever caught the snitch the most would win one hundred points. They'd both get a restorative then Ginny would join the reserve team and Michael would join the regular team. Who ever had the most points including the goal points from the chasers would have the position.
Harry started his watch and the two took off chasing after the snitch. After the two hours were up Ginny had caught the snitch five times and Michael four time. Harry congratulated Michael first then kissed his wife. The team hooted and hollered.
After a half hour of rest and the restorative potions, the two teams faced off. After a four hour game Ginny's team won with 300 points to 290. Ron was almost as ecstatic as Harry was.
Michael congratulated Ginny and was told he would be the reserve seeker next year.
Harry had tasked Ron with the cleanup and had gone with Ginny into the forest. They found a flower filled meadow and Harry cast a few wards to make sure they wouldn't be bothered. They made love for the first time in a week to celebrate her win and the reconciliation of their problems. They didn't leave the meadow until after darkness had fallen.