Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
A/N Sorry it took so long for me to update but I have had a lot of delays.
I will try to update more often but if I don't please don't give up on me.
To make it up to you chapter 9 is super long. Enjoy the story.
Chapter 9 The End of an Interesting Year (part two)
The End of the Year Ball was only a week away. The last Hogsmade visit of the year was in session. The girls were shopping for their outfits for the ball and finding some for the men as they were shopping for `other' things. Of coarse that was just an excuse to not go shopping. The boys meanwhile entered the Three Broomsticks which they hadn't visited all year as they were a bit busy.
Madam Rosemerta came up to their table. "Well look who finally decided to visit. Good to see you. Ok who is the kid? Last time I checked no one had a son." she caught sight of Sirius holding Isaiah.
"It's not mine before you even ask. It's Ron and Hermione's or one of them any way." Sirius said catching Rosmerta's confused look.
"The others are having an all girls shopping spree courtesy of our wallets." Ron said before she asked where the girls were.
"Correction Ron they just walked in." Harry stated as he stood and made his way to Cho and Lily. He took the bags from Cho and kissed both of them.
Madam Rosemerta looked at Harry confused when he took the baby from Cho and sat down. Hermione dumped Cassandra on Ron's lap before sitting down. Hope sat in her favorite seat next to Remus. "Hi Unky." she cheerily greeted. "Mama bought me a pretty dress for Saturday. Mama said I get to go. Will you dance with me Saturday?" she began talking very fast.
"Of coarse Princess" Remus answered turning red and glaring at Sirius who was making a whipping motion.
Madam Rosemerta went and got a bunch of butterbeers. "So do I get names or should I make some up?" she asked.
Harry quickly ran through everyone for her and smiled at the shocked look that crossed her face when he introduced Cho and Lily.
"My God Harry she looks remarkably like your mother. Why except for her chin and the fact that her hair is a little darker she looks exactly like your mother." she managed to point out. "I never thought I'd see the day you lot would be responsible much less be responsible for children." she shook her head at Sirius' hurt expression.
"Do you know how hard it is to find you guys? You would think it would be easy as most of you are know all over the magical community but no you disappear when I want to find you." A voice called from the door.
Everyone turned to find Tonks making her way towards them. She came up to Remus and kissed him. Harry's eyebrows went up and as he looked around realized he wasn't the only one. Sirius looked more shocked than anyone but his shock soon wore away and left him rolling on the floor laughing. The others burst into laughter when Remus put a silencing charm on him.
"I have my secrets just like the rest of you." Remus stated simply pulling up a chair for Tonks.
"I don't have any secrets Uncle Remus. Who is she? You will still play with me right?" Hope asked close to tears.
"of coarse I will. Her name is Tonks and I'm sure she will play with you if you ask real nice." He quickly reassured her then began his introductions. "For those of you who don't know this is Tonks, Tonks you know almost everyone but as a refresher the idiot on the floor is Sirius, who I think is better without his voice. This little princess is Hope, Hermione, Ron, their twins Cassandra and Isaiah, Harry, his wife Cho, their daughter Lily, and of coarse Madam Rosemerta."
Harry was the first to find his voice. "How long have you two been together? I mean why didn't I find out? I thought we were friends."
"So are me and Padfoot but I sure wasn't going to tell him. We have been dating since about a month after you got married. About two months short of a year now."
Sirius shot him a betrayed look. After a few more minutes of catching up Remus took mercy on Sirius and removed the charm. The moment he did Sirius jinxed Remus for payback. Remus' hair now matched Tonk's bright pink hair. Everyone laughed and Tonks whispered in his ear, "I kinda like it like that. Should we have everyone match?"
Remus grinned and nodded. Soon the whole group, kids and all, had bright pink hair. The jinx was found by James and lasted a week. The Maurders had never bothered to look for the counterjinx as they never thought that it would be used on them. Even Hermione didn't know how to remove it. Now the lengthy curse had backfired. Those who were teachers were going to have to give exams with hot pink hair and pray that it would wear off by the time the ball started. Poor students trying to concentrate on exams when their teachers had distracting hair.
"Tonks, Remus wanna help with my exams. The more people the better. You can work together if you'd like. After all you've already messed up their concentration." Harry suggested figuring he could use the help.
"Ok. I'm here all week. I'm here because Remus is staying for the ball so I should be here with him. It will give me something to do all week." Tonks said thoughts turning to the upcoming Saturday.
"Ok I owe you that at least as I'm responsible for the distraction." Remus Grinned. "Hey all your judges have pink hair! I really should stop bringing that up, but its funny-" Remus was stopped when Hermione put a silencing charm on him.
"That's better. I don't like to be reminded I was caught off guard. Anyway we better be getting back or we'll be late for dinner. I'll take the jinx off when we get back to the castle." Hermione commented getting up and putting a spell on the bags making them small enough to fit in her pocket as she scooped up Isaiah.
They made their way back to the castle making small talk and found that they were rather late to dinner. Peeves was holding a water balloon that he was planning on dropping on Professor Snape when he came out when they came through the entrance. He dropped the water balloon on himself in shock at their hair.
"Hey peeves." Remus greeted in his newly restored voice.
They entered the Great Hall which immediately went silent. Harry caught Professor McGonagall's stare. "I think we're in trouble" he wispered to the others. Cho giggled softly. No one else could hear her laugh though over the sudden noise of all the students talking at once.
They took their seats as if nothing were unusual and Cho leaned over and whispered to an amused Dumbledore. "Sirius jinxed Remus we laughed Remus jinxed us."
Dumbledore continued to look amused.
**That Monday, Harry's Exam, 6th Year, All Houses**
"Good morning class. Today is your final exam. When your name is called you will be tested by one of the judging pairs. All of the examiners conveniently have pink hair," Harry shot a glare at Remus, "Any questions before we begin?"
Immediately hands went up.
"Any questions not pertaining to the examiners hair color?" Harry said as he shot another glare at Remus.
One hand remained up.
"Sir, who are the other examiners? I mean we know you and your wife and Professor Black but who are the others?" a boy asked.
"Oh yeah I should introduce the examiners. First my wife Cho, as you mentioned Professor Black, Mr. Ronald Weasley, this is Tonks, and one time Professor Remus Lupin." Another glare.
"Are you the same Mr. Lupin that my parents speak so highly of, as does the current DADA(Defense Against The Dark Arts) teacher?" another boy asked.
"Um. I don't know about the thought highly of part but yes I taught here once. Now you need to start your test so I shall report to my station."
Remus was just starting to think the test was about to start when Harry called to him. " Why don't you tell them why we all have pink hair?"
"Fine I jinxed everyone after Mr. Black jinxed me and they laughed. Well everyone but Tonks she just likes her hair like that. Now I will be seeing the chasers at my table so when you are called go to your positions table hence I'm grading chasers, Mr. Black is doing beaters and Mr. Potter is doing Keepers and seekers if you are interested." Remus made his way back to his spot with Tonks while Harry and Cho took their spot leaving Ron and Sirius to hurry up and do the same.
The exams went smoothly the whole week and soon enough it was Saturday. Everyone in the little group was outside enjoying the little picnic they had decided to have before the ball. The girls had decided to get ready in the Potters little apartment like room so Harry's stuff was stashed at Sirius' place where the guys would get ready.
"Come on girls. Let's get ready. See you later boys.Tonks said standing up and picking up Cassandra. They headed off taking Isaiah, Cassy, Lily, and Hope with them leaving Harry to stare after them confused.
"It's only one! The ball doesn't start till seven! What do they need six hours for?" Harry asked Ron utterly perplexed.
"Have you not figured out not to try and figure out girls yet? It took Hermione three hours to get ready by herself for the Yule Ball. Add the time to get the kids ready and you get six hours." Ron answered turning his attention to Sirius and Remus' fight.
"You should have told me that you had a girlfriend! We are the last of the Maurders, we should stick together and tell each other everything."
"I didn't tell you because I knew how you would respond. Look how you did when you found out. I wasn't ready to deal with your constant teasing. I still don't want to deal with it but you would have figured it out eventually." Remus gave am exasperated sigh.
"So you two have been dating for a year? You planning on Proposing to her?" Sirius liked putting Remus in the spotlight.
"A slight problem with that, Padfoot. If she were to marry me she would risk getting hurt during one of my transformations. I swore I wouldn't marry her until I find a cure for this curse I have. I might be able to in a few years though because they have this new treatment out that supposedly cures werewolves. Sadly it is extremely expensive and with me barley able to find jobs it will take a while to save up." Remus looked sad. He quickly changed the topic. "So Padfoot do you have a date for tonight?"
Harry tossed Ron a note. It read: Remus' Birthday is soon I think we just figured out what to get him.
"As a matter of fact yes I do have a date. We've been dating for a month now and um... she agreed to come tonight. Her name is Emerald." Sirius said avoiding Remus' eyes.
Remus' eyes widened in shock. "Did you just say Emerald? As in James' ex- girlfriend Emerald. Didn't she hate you? You used to pick on her and then doubled her misery when she broke up with James. What could ever make her like you enough to no curse you on sight much less date you?"
"That's the one. We met a week ago in Hogsmade. She was shocked I was allowed within ten miles of Hogwarts and almost fainted when I told her they let me teach here. I apologized for being such a jerk when we were in school and she forgave me. Been dating ever since."
"Back up. You apologized for something? When did Hell freeze over?"
"My Dad wrote something about that in the journal he gave me. Let me see,... ah here it is 'I broke up with Emerald today after i found her kissing Sirius in the common room. She swears it was nothing but I'm not sure I believe it. She looked happy and Sirius had a look that was a mix of confusion, panic, and pleasure.' You were making out with your best friend's girlfriend?" Harry looked at Sirius in shock.
Sirius looked as if he was trying to remember. "oh yeah. Actually that was this blokes fault." He pointed at Remus who smiled sheepishly, "We were playing truth or dare and he dared her to kiss me. I think he was trying to get James and her to break up cause he knew James had a crush on your mum. You shouldn't complain cause no matter how miserable James was he wouldn't break up with her for fear of being called a heartless jerk. He would've never hooked up with your mum if we hadn't interfered." Sirius finished as if that justified everything.
"Guys i hate to interrupt but if we want to pick up the girls on time we better go get ready." Ron spoke up from his spot as he stood and began to head inside.
The guys all got dressed in their best tuxedos with the exception of Sirius who chose to wear his dress robes.
When they were ready they went to Harry and Cho's almost apartment rooms where the girls were and knocked on the door. The door magically opened reviling three beautiful women. The men were shocked into silence.
Sirius, who would be meeting his date downstairs, caught sight of the children. Hope was dressed in a beautiful pink dress that was trimmed in red and made her look like the princess that Remus always said she was. She wore the tiara on he red hair, which was pulled up neatly leaving curls hanging down, as if to point out the fact that she was a princess.
Isaiah was wearing a little tux to match Ron and Cassandra wore a little frilly dress. Lilly wore a lacy white dress and a matching bow in the little hair she had.
Tonks, who had changed her hair to straight long dark red as apposed to her normal spiky pink hair, had her hair styled so it looked nice but not overdone. She wore a red dress that went up and tied behind her neck. Her hair was up enough to show that it was backless and opened as far as the small of her back.
Hermione wore a black dress that (to Ron's delight) was quite tight. It was spaghetti strapped and had a slit on the right side that went to mid thigh. She had straightened her hair and put it in the elegant knot she had wore to the Yule Ball.
Cho wore the changing color formal that Remus had bought her. It was strapless and tight fitting with a complicated pattern on the top half. The bottom portion had no design but had a slit to mid thigh on both sides. She had chosen to make it dark blue matching the stone in her wedding ring. Her hair was up in a complex knot except for two strands of curls that hung on either side of her face.
All the girls had matching jewelry and makeup to complete the look and when the guys finally found their voices the girls were taking their arms.
They met Sirius' date who wore purple dress robes and had her brown hair loose about her shoulders. No one noticed, except for Sirius, as they were staring at their "dates".
"Guys!" Sirius half shouted getting their attention. "This is Emerald. Emerald this is Remus, you know him of coarse, Tonks, his girlfriend, Ron, James' son's best friend, Hermione, Ron's wife and another of Harry's friends, their kids Hope, Isaiah, and Cassandra, Har-"Sirius was cut off when Emerald gasped.
"James! But you died didn't you? Was that just a rumor?" She began to question Harry suspiciously.
Harry shook his head. "No it wasn't a rumor. I'm Harry, James' son. This is my wife Cho and our daughter Lily." he finished Sirius' introductions.
"We really should be getting inside the Ball is about to start." Cho said gesturing to the Great Hall.
They went in and searched for a table that would fit all of them. They could not find one and did not want to separate. Dumbledore noticed their problem and came over. "If you'd like the children can come sit with me. I would be delighted as would my date." He winked as Harry did a double take.
At the Table Dumbledore gestured to sat Professor McGonagall, Mad-Eye Moody (who was looking shocked to see Tonks there and in a dress), Kingsley (sitting rather close to Professor McGonagall, and to Harry's surprise Ms. Figg. She smiled and waved at him.
"Fine by me what do you guys think?" Harry asked the rest of the group. They all nodded in agreement even Tonks who added quietly "Moody and Kingsley are doomed. Poor unsuspecting Blokes." Dumbledore headed back to his table with Cassandra and Isaiah in his arms and Harry with Lily trailing close behind and Hope holding Harry's hand.
"Hello everyone. Hello Ms. Figg it has been a while hasn't it?" He greeted the table.
"Apparently. Why wasn't I invited to your wedding young man?" she asked as she hugged him warmly careful not to hurt Lily.
"Sorry about that. I was not really concerned with who attended just that I got married. You three don't know the kids so I'll give a brief introduction. The oldest here is Hope, Ron and Hermione's daughter, Isaiah and Cassandra, (he gestured toward the two now in floating hi-chairs) are their twins, and this Little one," he said as he handed his daughter to Dumbledore, "is Lily my daughter who seems to think Dumbledore's beard is a toy." this brought laughs from Mad-eye, who the kids were staying far from, and Kingsley and a glare from Ms. Figg.
"Not only do you forget to invite me to your wedding but you don't even tell me you have a daughter. I'm hurt all those years I took care of you and you don't even tell me important things like this." Ms. Figg began to get ticked at Harry.
"I'm so sorry. A lot of people don't know. This year has just been so hectic. Cho was kidnapped during her pregnancy, Lily has nightmares about me getting hurt not to mention she almost died during birth. I've had a lot on my mind and informing people about me having a daughter was not exactly top of my list. I better rejoin my wife before she gets mad. It was really great seeing you again." Harry hurried off and rejoined the others who were curious about who exactly she was.
"She used to watch me when the Dursleys were out. I didn't find out she was a squib until the summer after fourth year." he said quickly noticing Emerald kept looking at him.
"You look exactly like James with the exception of your eyes and scar of course. Your hair even stays messed up like his." she told him as she continued staring.
"Yeah I get that a lot. Let's eat." Harry said feeling a bit uncomfortable.
They ate having a light hearted conversation about everyday things. Soon the tables were moved aside and the music began to play. Harry, still uncomfortable from the stares, stood and asked Cho to dance. She took his hand and they made their way to the dance floor.
"She was making you uncomfortable wasn't she?" Cho asked as they began to sway to the music.
"Yeah. Oh, we found a gift for Remus' birthday." He whispered in her ear quickly explaining what they had in mind.
"Cho agreed that it would be a great gift and looked over at Remus and Tonks who were dancing a few feet away. They looked so happy together.
Remus on the other hand was thinking how lucky he was just to have Tonks as a girlfriend and wishing he could have her as more. Tonks looked at him wondering why he was so sad. It wasn't visible to everyone else but she could see it.
Everyone's thoughts and conversations were interrupted by a very loud crash. The guests looked around to see what had caused it. Ron and Hermione turned red when they saw the problem.
The twins had gotten a hold of a wand and had stuck Sirius to the wall toppling tables the whole way. Sirius looked shocked and then embarrised when everyone started laughing.
It made a wonderful end to the school year.
A/N A bit long but it was hopefully worth the wait. Please Review I need the encouragement. The next chapter won't take so long to post so keep reviewing.
Chapter 9 The End of an Interesting Year (part two)
The End of the Year Ball was only a week away. The last Hogsmade visit of the year was in session. The girls were shopping for their outfits for the ball and finding some for the men as they were shopping for `other' things. Of coarse that was just an excuse to not go shopping. The boys meanwhile entered the Three Broomsticks which they hadn't visited all year as they were a bit busy.
Madam Rosemerta came up to their table. "Well look who finally decided to visit. Good to see you. Ok who is the kid? Last time I checked no one had a son." she caught sight of Sirius holding Isaiah.
"It's not mine before you even ask. It's Ron and Hermione's or one of them any way." Sirius said catching Rosmerta's confused look.
"The others are having an all girls shopping spree courtesy of our wallets." Ron said before she asked where the girls were.
"Correction Ron they just walked in." Harry stated as he stood and made his way to Cho and Lily. He took the bags from Cho and kissed both of them.
Madam Rosemerta looked at Harry confused when he took the baby from Cho and sat down. Hermione dumped Cassandra on Ron's lap before sitting down. Hope sat in her favorite seat next to Remus. "Hi Unky." she cheerily greeted. "Mama bought me a pretty dress for Saturday. Mama said I get to go. Will you dance with me Saturday?" she began talking very fast.
"Of coarse Princess" Remus answered turning red and glaring at Sirius who was making a whipping motion.
Madam Rosemerta went and got a bunch of butterbeers. "So do I get names or should I make some up?" she asked.
Harry quickly ran through everyone for her and smiled at the shocked look that crossed her face when he introduced Cho and Lily.
"My God Harry she looks remarkably like your mother. Why except for her chin and the fact that her hair is a little darker she looks exactly like your mother." she managed to point out. "I never thought I'd see the day you lot would be responsible much less be responsible for children." she shook her head at Sirius' hurt expression.
"Do you know how hard it is to find you guys? You would think it would be easy as most of you are know all over the magical community but no you disappear when I want to find you." A voice called from the door.
Everyone turned to find Tonks making her way towards them. She came up to Remus and kissed him. Harry's eyebrows went up and as he looked around realized he wasn't the only one. Sirius looked more shocked than anyone but his shock soon wore away and left him rolling on the floor laughing. The others burst into laughter when Remus put a silencing charm on him.
"I have my secrets just like the rest of you." Remus stated simply pulling up a chair for Tonks.
"I don't have any secrets Uncle Remus. Who is she? You will still play with me right?" Hope asked close to tears.
"of coarse I will. Her name is Tonks and I'm sure she will play with you if you ask real nice." He quickly reassured her then began his introductions. "For those of you who don't know this is Tonks, Tonks you know almost everyone but as a refresher the idiot on the floor is Sirius, who I think is better without his voice. This little princess is Hope, Hermione, Ron, their twins Cassandra and Isaiah, Harry, his wife Cho, their daughter Lily, and of coarse Madam Rosemerta."
Harry was the first to find his voice. "How long have you two been together? I mean why didn't I find out? I thought we were friends."
"So are me and Padfoot but I sure wasn't going to tell him. We have been dating since about a month after you got married. About two months short of a year now."
Sirius shot him a betrayed look. After a few more minutes of catching up Remus took mercy on Sirius and removed the charm. The moment he did Sirius jinxed Remus for payback. Remus' hair now matched Tonk's bright pink hair. Everyone laughed and Tonks whispered in his ear, "I kinda like it like that. Should we have everyone match?"
Remus grinned and nodded. Soon the whole group, kids and all, had bright pink hair. The jinx was found by James and lasted a week. The Maurders had never bothered to look for the counterjinx as they never thought that it would be used on them. Even Hermione didn't know how to remove it. Now the lengthy curse had backfired. Those who were teachers were going to have to give exams with hot pink hair and pray that it would wear off by the time the ball started. Poor students trying to concentrate on exams when their teachers had distracting hair.
"Tonks, Remus wanna help with my exams. The more people the better. You can work together if you'd like. After all you've already messed up their concentration." Harry suggested figuring he could use the help.
"Ok. I'm here all week. I'm here because Remus is staying for the ball so I should be here with him. It will give me something to do all week." Tonks said thoughts turning to the upcoming Saturday.
"Ok I owe you that at least as I'm responsible for the distraction." Remus Grinned. "Hey all your judges have pink hair! I really should stop bringing that up, but its funny-" Remus was stopped when Hermione put a silencing charm on him.
"That's better. I don't like to be reminded I was caught off guard. Anyway we better be getting back or we'll be late for dinner. I'll take the jinx off when we get back to the castle." Hermione commented getting up and putting a spell on the bags making them small enough to fit in her pocket as she scooped up Isaiah.
They made their way back to the castle making small talk and found that they were rather late to dinner. Peeves was holding a water balloon that he was planning on dropping on Professor Snape when he came out when they came through the entrance. He dropped the water balloon on himself in shock at their hair.
"Hey peeves." Remus greeted in his newly restored voice.
They entered the Great Hall which immediately went silent. Harry caught Professor McGonagall's stare. "I think we're in trouble" he wispered to the others. Cho giggled softly. No one else could hear her laugh though over the sudden noise of all the students talking at once.
They took their seats as if nothing were unusual and Cho leaned over and whispered to an amused Dumbledore. "Sirius jinxed Remus we laughed Remus jinxed us."
Dumbledore continued to look amused.
**That Monday, Harry's Exam, 6th Year, All Houses**
"Good morning class. Today is your final exam. When your name is called you will be tested by one of the judging pairs. All of the examiners conveniently have pink hair," Harry shot a glare at Remus, "Any questions before we begin?"
Immediately hands went up.
"Any questions not pertaining to the examiners hair color?" Harry said as he shot another glare at Remus.
One hand remained up.
"Sir, who are the other examiners? I mean we know you and your wife and Professor Black but who are the others?" a boy asked.
"Oh yeah I should introduce the examiners. First my wife Cho, as you mentioned Professor Black, Mr. Ronald Weasley, this is Tonks, and one time Professor Remus Lupin." Another glare.
"Are you the same Mr. Lupin that my parents speak so highly of, as does the current DADA(Defense Against The Dark Arts) teacher?" another boy asked.
"Um. I don't know about the thought highly of part but yes I taught here once. Now you need to start your test so I shall report to my station."
Remus was just starting to think the test was about to start when Harry called to him. " Why don't you tell them why we all have pink hair?"
"Fine I jinxed everyone after Mr. Black jinxed me and they laughed. Well everyone but Tonks she just likes her hair like that. Now I will be seeing the chasers at my table so when you are called go to your positions table hence I'm grading chasers, Mr. Black is doing beaters and Mr. Potter is doing Keepers and seekers if you are interested." Remus made his way back to his spot with Tonks while Harry and Cho took their spot leaving Ron and Sirius to hurry up and do the same.
The exams went smoothly the whole week and soon enough it was Saturday. Everyone in the little group was outside enjoying the little picnic they had decided to have before the ball. The girls had decided to get ready in the Potters little apartment like room so Harry's stuff was stashed at Sirius' place where the guys would get ready.
"Come on girls. Let's get ready. See you later boys.Tonks said standing up and picking up Cassandra. They headed off taking Isaiah, Cassy, Lily, and Hope with them leaving Harry to stare after them confused.
"It's only one! The ball doesn't start till seven! What do they need six hours for?" Harry asked Ron utterly perplexed.
"Have you not figured out not to try and figure out girls yet? It took Hermione three hours to get ready by herself for the Yule Ball. Add the time to get the kids ready and you get six hours." Ron answered turning his attention to Sirius and Remus' fight.
"You should have told me that you had a girlfriend! We are the last of the Maurders, we should stick together and tell each other everything."
"I didn't tell you because I knew how you would respond. Look how you did when you found out. I wasn't ready to deal with your constant teasing. I still don't want to deal with it but you would have figured it out eventually." Remus gave am exasperated sigh.
"So you two have been dating for a year? You planning on Proposing to her?" Sirius liked putting Remus in the spotlight.
"A slight problem with that, Padfoot. If she were to marry me she would risk getting hurt during one of my transformations. I swore I wouldn't marry her until I find a cure for this curse I have. I might be able to in a few years though because they have this new treatment out that supposedly cures werewolves. Sadly it is extremely expensive and with me barley able to find jobs it will take a while to save up." Remus looked sad. He quickly changed the topic. "So Padfoot do you have a date for tonight?"
Harry tossed Ron a note. It read: Remus' Birthday is soon I think we just figured out what to get him.
"As a matter of fact yes I do have a date. We've been dating for a month now and um... she agreed to come tonight. Her name is Emerald." Sirius said avoiding Remus' eyes.
Remus' eyes widened in shock. "Did you just say Emerald? As in James' ex- girlfriend Emerald. Didn't she hate you? You used to pick on her and then doubled her misery when she broke up with James. What could ever make her like you enough to no curse you on sight much less date you?"
"That's the one. We met a week ago in Hogsmade. She was shocked I was allowed within ten miles of Hogwarts and almost fainted when I told her they let me teach here. I apologized for being such a jerk when we were in school and she forgave me. Been dating ever since."
"Back up. You apologized for something? When did Hell freeze over?"
"My Dad wrote something about that in the journal he gave me. Let me see,... ah here it is 'I broke up with Emerald today after i found her kissing Sirius in the common room. She swears it was nothing but I'm not sure I believe it. She looked happy and Sirius had a look that was a mix of confusion, panic, and pleasure.' You were making out with your best friend's girlfriend?" Harry looked at Sirius in shock.
Sirius looked as if he was trying to remember. "oh yeah. Actually that was this blokes fault." He pointed at Remus who smiled sheepishly, "We were playing truth or dare and he dared her to kiss me. I think he was trying to get James and her to break up cause he knew James had a crush on your mum. You shouldn't complain cause no matter how miserable James was he wouldn't break up with her for fear of being called a heartless jerk. He would've never hooked up with your mum if we hadn't interfered." Sirius finished as if that justified everything.
"Guys i hate to interrupt but if we want to pick up the girls on time we better go get ready." Ron spoke up from his spot as he stood and began to head inside.
The guys all got dressed in their best tuxedos with the exception of Sirius who chose to wear his dress robes.
When they were ready they went to Harry and Cho's almost apartment rooms where the girls were and knocked on the door. The door magically opened reviling three beautiful women. The men were shocked into silence.
Sirius, who would be meeting his date downstairs, caught sight of the children. Hope was dressed in a beautiful pink dress that was trimmed in red and made her look like the princess that Remus always said she was. She wore the tiara on he red hair, which was pulled up neatly leaving curls hanging down, as if to point out the fact that she was a princess.
Isaiah was wearing a little tux to match Ron and Cassandra wore a little frilly dress. Lilly wore a lacy white dress and a matching bow in the little hair she had.
Tonks, who had changed her hair to straight long dark red as apposed to her normal spiky pink hair, had her hair styled so it looked nice but not overdone. She wore a red dress that went up and tied behind her neck. Her hair was up enough to show that it was backless and opened as far as the small of her back.
Hermione wore a black dress that (to Ron's delight) was quite tight. It was spaghetti strapped and had a slit on the right side that went to mid thigh. She had straightened her hair and put it in the elegant knot she had wore to the Yule Ball.
Cho wore the changing color formal that Remus had bought her. It was strapless and tight fitting with a complicated pattern on the top half. The bottom portion had no design but had a slit to mid thigh on both sides. She had chosen to make it dark blue matching the stone in her wedding ring. Her hair was up in a complex knot except for two strands of curls that hung on either side of her face.
All the girls had matching jewelry and makeup to complete the look and when the guys finally found their voices the girls were taking their arms.
They met Sirius' date who wore purple dress robes and had her brown hair loose about her shoulders. No one noticed, except for Sirius, as they were staring at their "dates".
"Guys!" Sirius half shouted getting their attention. "This is Emerald. Emerald this is Remus, you know him of coarse, Tonks, his girlfriend, Ron, James' son's best friend, Hermione, Ron's wife and another of Harry's friends, their kids Hope, Isaiah, and Cassandra, Har-"Sirius was cut off when Emerald gasped.
"James! But you died didn't you? Was that just a rumor?" She began to question Harry suspiciously.
Harry shook his head. "No it wasn't a rumor. I'm Harry, James' son. This is my wife Cho and our daughter Lily." he finished Sirius' introductions.
"We really should be getting inside the Ball is about to start." Cho said gesturing to the Great Hall.
They went in and searched for a table that would fit all of them. They could not find one and did not want to separate. Dumbledore noticed their problem and came over. "If you'd like the children can come sit with me. I would be delighted as would my date." He winked as Harry did a double take.
At the Table Dumbledore gestured to sat Professor McGonagall, Mad-Eye Moody (who was looking shocked to see Tonks there and in a dress), Kingsley (sitting rather close to Professor McGonagall, and to Harry's surprise Ms. Figg. She smiled and waved at him.
"Fine by me what do you guys think?" Harry asked the rest of the group. They all nodded in agreement even Tonks who added quietly "Moody and Kingsley are doomed. Poor unsuspecting Blokes." Dumbledore headed back to his table with Cassandra and Isaiah in his arms and Harry with Lily trailing close behind and Hope holding Harry's hand.
"Hello everyone. Hello Ms. Figg it has been a while hasn't it?" He greeted the table.
"Apparently. Why wasn't I invited to your wedding young man?" she asked as she hugged him warmly careful not to hurt Lily.
"Sorry about that. I was not really concerned with who attended just that I got married. You three don't know the kids so I'll give a brief introduction. The oldest here is Hope, Ron and Hermione's daughter, Isaiah and Cassandra, (he gestured toward the two now in floating hi-chairs) are their twins, and this Little one," he said as he handed his daughter to Dumbledore, "is Lily my daughter who seems to think Dumbledore's beard is a toy." this brought laughs from Mad-eye, who the kids were staying far from, and Kingsley and a glare from Ms. Figg.
"Not only do you forget to invite me to your wedding but you don't even tell me you have a daughter. I'm hurt all those years I took care of you and you don't even tell me important things like this." Ms. Figg began to get ticked at Harry.
"I'm so sorry. A lot of people don't know. This year has just been so hectic. Cho was kidnapped during her pregnancy, Lily has nightmares about me getting hurt not to mention she almost died during birth. I've had a lot on my mind and informing people about me having a daughter was not exactly top of my list. I better rejoin my wife before she gets mad. It was really great seeing you again." Harry hurried off and rejoined the others who were curious about who exactly she was.
"She used to watch me when the Dursleys were out. I didn't find out she was a squib until the summer after fourth year." he said quickly noticing Emerald kept looking at him.
"You look exactly like James with the exception of your eyes and scar of course. Your hair even stays messed up like his." she told him as she continued staring.
"Yeah I get that a lot. Let's eat." Harry said feeling a bit uncomfortable.
They ate having a light hearted conversation about everyday things. Soon the tables were moved aside and the music began to play. Harry, still uncomfortable from the stares, stood and asked Cho to dance. She took his hand and they made their way to the dance floor.
"She was making you uncomfortable wasn't she?" Cho asked as they began to sway to the music.
"Yeah. Oh, we found a gift for Remus' birthday." He whispered in her ear quickly explaining what they had in mind.
"Cho agreed that it would be a great gift and looked over at Remus and Tonks who were dancing a few feet away. They looked so happy together.
Remus on the other hand was thinking how lucky he was just to have Tonks as a girlfriend and wishing he could have her as more. Tonks looked at him wondering why he was so sad. It wasn't visible to everyone else but she could see it.
Everyone's thoughts and conversations were interrupted by a very loud crash. The guests looked around to see what had caused it. Ron and Hermione turned red when they saw the problem.
The twins had gotten a hold of a wand and had stuck Sirius to the wall toppling tables the whole way. Sirius looked shocked and then embarrised when everyone started laughing.
It made a wonderful end to the school year.
A/N A bit long but it was hopefully worth the wait. Please Review I need the encouragement. The next chapter won't take so long to post so keep reviewing.