Disclaimer: Characters created by one, J. K. Rowling.
Copyright: I'll take plot, thanks ;) Sorry if any one else has used, it came from my mind whether someone else thought of it, I can't account for.
Rating: PG-13 - (just in case) I wouldn't let my ten year old go see someone kiss and make-out, would you? If you would, you're sick! Anyway....
Summary: HxHr. This story is post school. Three words and a grey mist were all that were left. Many years later and the mist was still there, in the crevices of her brain. Haunting her, ea. time she stepped inside the walls of the occurance. One more floor, floor one, inside the Earth.
Story Type: Fliclet 2-3 chapters
Title: Translucently Opaque
Chapter Title: The Relatives
In the middle of night Hermione awoke. She could hear Harry's soft breathing beside her. She smiled, remembering where she was and pulled away slightly from Harry's grasp. She sat up and began thinking on the task as hand. How on earth would she explain to everyone how it was exactly that she had a seven year old daughter, with Harry no less. She was only nineteen, two years out of Hogwarts. Seven years ago she was only twelve for heavens sake.
All of a sudden, she felt a hand caress her face and she looked down. There was an awake, smiling Harry beside here. She relaxed and smiled back.
"Hey baby... whatchya thinkin' about?" he asked sleepily.
"What we're going to tell everyone about Amy," she replied. Harry sighed and sat up beside her, wrapping an arm around her waist.
"Well, we definetely can't tell them we had her, and then I left to take care of her or something like that," he stated tiredly. Hermione shook her head.
"Well how about this? We tell them that at the beginning of sixth year, we eloped on a Hogsmeade trip. Then, you found out you were pregnant a month after I left. During the pregnancy period, you simply used concealment charms, and afterward, you used my invisibility cloak to hide the child during your time at Hogwarts. Then, for the actual birth, you got a muggle to help you, and erased his memory afterward? And as for why I left and then came back, we'll say I went to fight Voldemort, took me three years, and then I came back and found out you had a baby. As for the date of our marraige, we'll get married at a muggle place, and bribe them to change the date of when we were married, and then erase the person's memory?" Harry suggested. Hermione laughed and nodded.
"Sure that'll work, but what about our muggle relations?" she inquired. Harry shrugged his shoulders.
"Tell them about the eloping thing, and then, we'll say that we adopted the kid. We'll just have to make sure that no muggle doctors get a hold of any of Amy's blood for DNA testing reasons," he answered. Hermione nodded and yawned.
"That should work, glad you could think of something. Now if you don't mind, I'm going back to sleep. Night Harry," she stated quietly, sliding back under the covers. Harry chuckled and slid down with her back under the warmth of the covers. Hermione shivered slightly as his breath tickled the nape of her neck. She could faintly hear rain pouring outside. Just as she was about to drift into her slumber again, she felt a tugging at her side. Hermione turned over and found Amy's face next to hers.
"What is it Amy?" she asked quietly. She watched as Amy shivered slightly. Thunder cracked and Amy gave a small 'yelp'.
"Can I sleep with you guys tonight?" she asked quietly, her voice cracking occasionally. Hermione smiled and nodded, knowing why the girl wanted this. She too had been afraid of thunderstorms when she was her age. Running to her parents was the best comfort. Hermione scooted toward the edge of the bed and let Amy crawl in between her and Harry. Thunder cracked again and Amy gave another yelp. Hermione put an arm around the girl and whispered that she'd be okay. Amy gave a small nod and relaxed into Hermione's embrace. After a couple minutes, Hermione smiled as Amy's breath became even and calm. She closed her eyes and let herself fall into the same deep slumber.
"Hey Mione," came a deep voice. Hermione's eyes fluttered open and found Harry beside her.
"Where's Amy?" she asked sleepily. Harry smiled.
"I carried her back to her bed," Harry answered. Hermione nodded sleepily and let herself sink back into the bed. "So how did your first bit of mothering feel?" he asked softly. Hermione smiled.
"It went okay, I think she's starting to trust me," she replied happily. Harry smiled and pulled Hermione into his embrace.
"You'll make a great mother," he whispered. Hermione smiled.
"I hope so," she stated easily. "So do we want to take care of the marriage papers today?" she inquired. Harry nodded and sat up, climbing out of the bed.
"Yep, but before that, I think breakfast is in order," he stated happily. Hermione nodded and watched as he walked over to his dresser. He pulled out a new set of boxers, a pair of pants, and a t-shirt. Hermione turned over and heaved a sigh into her pillow. After a minute or so had passed, she heard the tap running, meaning Harry was brushing his teeth. Groaning, she clambered out of bed and stumbled out the door. She gently made her way to the fireplace and searched around for the floor powder. Eventually she found a small bag and emptied a small handful into her open palm.
Half and hour later, she came back through the fire place, in fresh new clothes, with clean teeth, and damp hair. Hermione grinned as the smell of freshly made biscuits, and bacon reached her. As she entered the kitchen she saw Harry in a blue apron and approached him from behind. After sliding her hands around his waist and dropping her chin onto his shoulder, the sight of eggs, bacon, gravy, and biscuits caught her eye.
"Shall I set the table?" Hermione asked quietly. Harry shook his head and turned around with a grin. He brought his wand out and muttered a heating spell.
"I think that can wait, don't you?" he inquired. After cetching his meaning, Hermione nodded. She kissed him slowly and softly before leading him the the couch. The sat side by side for a few minutes, kissing eachother every now and then.
"Do you want to have kids 'Mione?" Harry asked casually. Hermione blushed and nodded. Harry nodded his head lightly.
"How many?" he added. Hermione laughed.
"Oh, I dunno, six?" she stated quietly. Harry tilted his head a moment in quiet thought.
"How about nine?" he whispered. Hermione smiled and nodded lightly, kissing him softly.
"So, you wanna explore the house?" Harry asked quietly. Hermione nodded and they made their way to the stairs. Making sure to skip the first step, they made their way up. Just as Harry was about to apply pressure to one of the knobs, Hermione stopped him and shook her head.
"Let's do this the old fashioned way," she stated gently. Harry smiled and nodded. Once at the top of the second floor, they started opening a door. Inside was a bedroom.
"I devoted two whole floors to bedrooms," he stated shyly. Hermione laughed.
"But that's twelve bedrooms, not counting... ours. I hope that means we have five bathrooms?" Hermione stated with amusement. Harry blushed and nodded.
"There's extras, incase of, you know, guests," he stated quietly. Hermione laughed and nodded. They decided to skip to the fourth floor. The first door they opened was a large library. With over half of the shelves empty. Hermione gazed in wonder and then snapped her fingers.
"That reminds me, my boss gave me the rest of your order to deliver to you, it's in my back pack in... your room. And we need to find something for Amy to do today while we're settling in and moving things and such," Harry grinned at her statement and pulled her to another room.
"I went shopping while you were gone with Amy," he whispered. Upon stepping in, Hermione gaped. It was a large and spaceous room, with a beautiful mural of the country side on all the walls, the floor, looked like a green and grassy yard. To the right there were several racks with brooms and other things needed for flying. Hermione walked over to the brooms to inspect them.
"Don't worry, I got a fairly slow model for Amy," Harry said proudly.
"I intend to make a flyer out of that one," he concluded. Hermione shook her head and they left the room. The last door on the floor was empty mostly. There were a few chairs, a table to the left, and perfectly soft carpet on the floor. Hermione looked at him curiously.
"Ah, you see, this room, I have guarded well, with many spells. The eyes of the ministry, nay, not even wise old Dumbledore, may see into this room. I intend this to be where our children practice their magical skills when their older," he stated happily. Hermione grinned and hugged him.
"Of course, I'm planning on filling the library, the flying room, the halls, this room, the downstairs, and a couple other rooms we haven't seen yet, with pictures. Just like at old Hogwarts so that we can have sources of information. That way, we'll be able to know when someone's muddled a charm or some such nonsense," Harry grinned. Hermione nodded her approval. Upon leaving, they went to the end of the hallway to make their way up the set of stairs that led to the next floor.
"Top floor, just so you know," Harry stated happily. The first door, held Harry's room so they skipped it. Upon entering the next door, they found a large and beautiful bathroom. The next room was filled with all of Harry's old nick nacks from school.
"Now about your little knot system, how about we make that a touch simpler. The first step, at the bottom is a gooey mess, and I think we should keep it that way, but, the knots I don't like," Hermione stated simply making her way down to the first floor again. Harry laughed. Eventually, they reached the bottom floor. Hermione began to survey the wood paneling to the right of the stairs. After a moment, she tapped her wand against one of the knots in the wood, muttering something under her breath. She smiled and lowered her wand.
"I think this is more, what I had in mind," she stated happily. She gently tapped the knot with her fist three times, and an open door appeared. Looking through the door, Harry saw the hallway on the fifth floor. He muttered something about witches and let her continue. Hermione grinned at his reaction and walked back to the steps. Slowly, the door faded and was replaced by the wood paneling again. Hermione stepped onto the second stair and found a knot on the wood paneling there as well.
"See, how about one of those doors for every step upto the fifth one? The second step door will take you to the second floor, the third step, to the third floor et cetera. And at the top of every floor have a small box with a knob inside for every floor. To open the box, you knock on it five times. This plan I believe is simpler than yours, and will help our children to learn to count," Hermione stated happily. Harry laughed and nodded. Then he began to walk up the rest of the way to the stairs.
"I think I'll only ever use then door for our floor, other than that, I think I'll keep to walking up stairs," Harry stated jovially; Hermione nodded with a laugh. After a moment, Harry knocked on one of the doors, then, opened it. He saw Amy still sleeping. He walked over to the bed and gently nudged her.
"Amy," he said in a sing-song voice. After no reply, he tried again. Amy's hand came up to whack away whatever was bothering her.
"Want some breakfast?" he asked happily. Amy groaned and sat up. She shoved them out of her room muttering about changing. Hermione and Harry laughed, walking back downstairs. They noticed Amy slowly walking down the steps a few minutes later. Hermione, having already set the table during that time-period, sat down to her place. Harry sat beside her, gently taking her hand in his. After a moment, Amy sat across from them. Then, they all started hungrily grabbing food.
"You know Harry, we need a name for this place. The Weasley's house is called the Burrow; your parent's house was called Godric Hollow. This place need s something less melo-dramatic than Gryffindor Manor," Hermione stated conversationally. Harry laughed, but nodded anyway. Amy lifted her head at this.
"Who are the Weasleys?" she inquired.
"Their some old friends of ours honey," said Harry softly with a smile. Amy tilted her head to the side.
"How come I've never met them?" she asked.
"Well, you'll get to sometime this week," stated Harry grinning. Amy nodded approvingly and went back to her food.
"How about Chester Place" Hermione suggested. Harry shook his head with a small chuckle.
"But no one with the name of Chester resides here," Harry stated. Hermione heaved her shoulders and let out a sigh, tilting her head and continued thinking of names for the house.
"How about Eastview Manor?" suggested Amy. Harry raised an eyebrow, and Hermione tilted her head the other way.
"Well, haven't you ever looked out any of the east windows? It's a lovely view," Amy said with a smile, then took a bite of her biscuit. Harry and Hermione nodded after a moment.
"Sounds good, I'll change the name with the floo network today," stated Harry happily. Once they had all finished Harry led Amy up the stairs to get her started with a broom. After getting her settled there, Hermione and Harry left for Gringott's Wizarding Bank. Hermione handed Harry his key and then walked through the large oaken doors. They made their way to the register and handed the goblin there his key.
"Harry Potter wishes to make a withdrawal," Harry stated lazily. The short goblin raised one eyebrow curiously, and then took the key, leading them over to a cart. After climbing in they rode it all the way to Harry's number. They took out five hundred galleons, and then exchanged it for muggle money. Roughly four hundred pounds [AN: 400 pounds is the same as 600 dollars]. Afterward, they made their way to have lunch before going to the marraige office. They decided on stopping in at the Red Barrel cafe. Upon sitting down, a waiter came upon them. He looked somewhat scraggly, but nice enough.
"What will it be?" he asked lazily. Hermione and Harry looked down at the menus on the table and and decided on tea, and grilled cheese sandwiches. Once their food was brought, they slowly began munching on their food. After ten or fifteen minutes, Harry brought out a small blue velvet box that he had been fingering with in his coat pocket. He slowly got out of his chair and kneeled before Hermione's feet.
"I figured we should do this the old fashioned way, so... Hermione Granger? Will you marry me?" he asked quickly, flipping the lid of the small box with his thumb. Inside was a small band of white gold; fixed upon it was a medium sized diamond, with several smaller ones encircling it. Hermione held back a laugh and smiled at him, nodding. Harry stood, and pulled the ring out of the box, sliding it onto her left ring finger. Afterwards, he awkwardly sat back down and blushed. Hermione smiled at him and took his hand in hers, gently lacing their fingers together. They stayed like that for a couple minutes, before Hermione stood up.
"Well come on, let's get going," she stated with a laugh. Harry stood and they made their way outside of Hogsmeade. Once arriving, they knocked on a small official like building. The door opened up to them and they walked inside. They stepped up to a small desk with a lady behind it.
"Hello," she said tiredly. Harry and Hermione smiled good-naturedly. Just as she was about to start typing the date Harry held up his hand.
"Ummm, we have a favor we'd like to ask of you," he stated hesitantly. The woman looked up at him curiously.
"Well you see, could you put the date as April the 2nd, three years ago?" he inquired. At her scowl Hermione held up the bag of English pounds.
"We're willing to pay for the change," Hermione noted. The woman smiled and inquired how much they would be willing to give her.
"Three hunded pounds?" Harry suggested. The woman frowned.
"Five hundred" stated the woman. Hermione shook her head in disgust.
"Four hundred, and no more," she stated firmly. The woman nodded and took the bag and began typing out the specified date.
"Names?" she inquired.
"Harry Potter and Hermione Granger," said Harry happily. The woman nodded. After asking serveral more questions she handed them the marraige lisence. Upon leaving, Harry kissed Hermione fully on the mouth. Sliding on a second ring upon her finger in the process. Upon breaking the kiss, he quietly slipped a plain gold band upon his finger and smiled.
"Well Mrs. Potter, I'd say we have a visit to make with the floo network," Harry stated with a smile. Hermione grinned in return and they made their way to the ministry. Upon entering another muggle town, Hermione stopped him.
"Harry, can we get your hair cut?" she asked slowly. Harry laughed and nodded. So they did that first. Hermione quickly ran her fingers through his hair and smiled. He had bangs once again covering his famous scar, which was good as they didn't want his name on the newspapers until after they talked to their friends and family. Nodding her approval, then then made their way to the ministry floo network office. After filling out all the papers they went back home. Upon entering they were quickly attacked by a hug from Amy.
"You're BACK!" she yelled happily.
"Yep, so did you have fun? Find something for lunch?" Harry inquired. Amy nodded. Hermione leaned over and whispered something in his ear. He nodded with a small nervous smile.
"Do you want to go meet some of mummy and daddy's friends today?" Harry asked Amy softly. Hermione blushed at the sound of her being called a mother. Amy nodded with a smile.
"Alright Amy, can you say The Burrow?" Harry asked gently. Amy nodded and repeated the two words. They walked over to the fireplace and explained to Amy what she had to do. Hermione stepped in first, then Amy, then Harry. Once they were all in the kitchen of the Weasley home, they started dusting themselves off first.
"Mrs. Weasley?" Hermione called through the house. After a few minutes, Ginny, Ron, Mrs. Weasley, and Lavender walked down the stairs. The three girls exchanged hugs with Hermione, and Ron shook her hand firmly.
After a few minutes of friendly conversation, Mrs. Weasley noticed Harry and Amy standing behind Hermione. Harry was now holding Amy. He was standing hip-shot, with Amy gently sitting on the side of his hip. His arms wrapped around her. She was hiding her face in his shoulder.
"Well now, who's this Hermione?" Mrs. Weasley asked cheerfully. Harry nervously smiled.
"Hello mum," he stated quietly. Mrs. Weasley raised an eyebrow at this and looked towards Hermione. Hermione however, stayed quiet.
"Mum?" Mrs. Weasley whispered to herself. Ron coughed after a minute.
"Harry?" he wheezed. Harry smiled and nodded, putting Amy down. Amy ran over to Hermione and wrapped her arms around her right leg, hiding her face in her stomach. Ron came over and wrapped Harry in a strong hug.
"It's been a while," he whispered, stepping back. Harry nodded. Ginny shrieked and wrapped Harry in a deep hug. She quickly stepped back and stood by her mother. Lavender smiled at him softly and shook his hand, before Mrs. Weasley motioned for him to come over. They embraced, and then Harry stepped back and laced his fingers with Hermione's. Ginny looked softly at Amy and then met Hermione's eyes.
"Is she yours?" she asked quietly. Hermione hesitated for a moment before nodding. Ginny smiled softly and kneeled before the small girl. She extended a hand.
"I'm Ginny, what's your name?" she asked with a smile. Amy turned her head to look at her and whispered softly.
"I'm Amy," she stated proudly.
"Well hello Amy," stated Ron good-naturedly.
"Who's the father?" inquired Lavender. Hermione and Harry shared a glance at eachother before facing the crowd. It was at this moment Harry spoke up.
"Me," Harry stated quietly. It was at that moment, Mrs. Weasley fell back in a dead faint. Ron chuckled softly before looking back up.
"So how old is she?" he asked.
"I'm seven!" Amy said loudly. This brought everyone's attention to Hermione and Harry.
"Seven?" Ginny breathed. "How?" she asked quietly. Hermione began their explaination they had come up with the night before. Afterwards, there was a small silence, which was soon broken by a male's voice coming in the room.
"Ginny? Is something wrong? You've been gone a while," came the voice. A tall blonde man came into view who was holding a small red headed child. His eyes followed Ginny's gaze to Harry and Hermione and the small girl.
"Well hello Hermione," he stated cheerfully.
"Hello Malfoy," Harry stated firmly.
"Potter?" he inquired confusedly. Harry nodded with a forced smile. This banter continued on, while Harry found out that Draco and Ginny had gotten married, and Draco found out about Hermione and Harry. Hermione looked down at her watch and found it nearing six o'clock and quietly excused themselves. Harry, Hermione, and Amy left the room and entered the kitchen.
"I think we need to see my parents next, and then Dumbledore, Harry," Hermione stated shakily. Harry nodded, and they made their way to the Granger Residence. upon reaching the door, Hermione knocked uncertainly. After a momoent, her mother and father came to the door.
"Well hello dear, who's this?" her mother asked happily.
"Well mother, father, meet your granddaughter, and son-in law," she stated nervously.
"WHAT!?" her mother shreiked.
Author Note: I'm only guessing on the exchange rate for galleons into pounds. Right now the value of gold is about $395 per oz. And considering that Harry spent 30 galleons on the three omnioculars, that didn't seem to fit... So, talking this over with my sisters, we decided that 1 Galleon would be about $1.20. And $1.20 is equal to 80 pence. Hope your enjoying, please review. Thankyou
Kostami Amino
Copyright: I'll take plot, thanks ;) Sorry if any one else has used, it came from my mind whether someone else thought of it, I can't account for.
Rating: PG-13 - (just in case) I wouldn't let my ten year old go see someone kiss and make-out, would you? If you would, you're sick! Anyway....
Summary: HxHr. This story is post school. Three words and a grey mist were all that were left. Many years later and the mist was still there, in the crevices of her brain. Haunting her, ea. time she stepped inside the walls of the occurance. One more floor, floor one, inside the Earth.
Story Type: Fliclet 2-3 chapters
Title: Translucently Opaque
Chapter Title: The Relatives
In the middle of night Hermione awoke. She could hear Harry's soft breathing beside her. She smiled, remembering where she was and pulled away slightly from Harry's grasp. She sat up and began thinking on the task as hand. How on earth would she explain to everyone how it was exactly that she had a seven year old daughter, with Harry no less. She was only nineteen, two years out of Hogwarts. Seven years ago she was only twelve for heavens sake.
All of a sudden, she felt a hand caress her face and she looked down. There was an awake, smiling Harry beside here. She relaxed and smiled back.
"Hey baby... whatchya thinkin' about?" he asked sleepily.
"What we're going to tell everyone about Amy," she replied. Harry sighed and sat up beside her, wrapping an arm around her waist.
"Well, we definetely can't tell them we had her, and then I left to take care of her or something like that," he stated tiredly. Hermione shook her head.
"Well how about this? We tell them that at the beginning of sixth year, we eloped on a Hogsmeade trip. Then, you found out you were pregnant a month after I left. During the pregnancy period, you simply used concealment charms, and afterward, you used my invisibility cloak to hide the child during your time at Hogwarts. Then, for the actual birth, you got a muggle to help you, and erased his memory afterward? And as for why I left and then came back, we'll say I went to fight Voldemort, took me three years, and then I came back and found out you had a baby. As for the date of our marraige, we'll get married at a muggle place, and bribe them to change the date of when we were married, and then erase the person's memory?" Harry suggested. Hermione laughed and nodded.
"Sure that'll work, but what about our muggle relations?" she inquired. Harry shrugged his shoulders.
"Tell them about the eloping thing, and then, we'll say that we adopted the kid. We'll just have to make sure that no muggle doctors get a hold of any of Amy's blood for DNA testing reasons," he answered. Hermione nodded and yawned.
"That should work, glad you could think of something. Now if you don't mind, I'm going back to sleep. Night Harry," she stated quietly, sliding back under the covers. Harry chuckled and slid down with her back under the warmth of the covers. Hermione shivered slightly as his breath tickled the nape of her neck. She could faintly hear rain pouring outside. Just as she was about to drift into her slumber again, she felt a tugging at her side. Hermione turned over and found Amy's face next to hers.
"What is it Amy?" she asked quietly. She watched as Amy shivered slightly. Thunder cracked and Amy gave a small 'yelp'.
"Can I sleep with you guys tonight?" she asked quietly, her voice cracking occasionally. Hermione smiled and nodded, knowing why the girl wanted this. She too had been afraid of thunderstorms when she was her age. Running to her parents was the best comfort. Hermione scooted toward the edge of the bed and let Amy crawl in between her and Harry. Thunder cracked again and Amy gave another yelp. Hermione put an arm around the girl and whispered that she'd be okay. Amy gave a small nod and relaxed into Hermione's embrace. After a couple minutes, Hermione smiled as Amy's breath became even and calm. She closed her eyes and let herself fall into the same deep slumber.
"Hey Mione," came a deep voice. Hermione's eyes fluttered open and found Harry beside her.
"Where's Amy?" she asked sleepily. Harry smiled.
"I carried her back to her bed," Harry answered. Hermione nodded sleepily and let herself sink back into the bed. "So how did your first bit of mothering feel?" he asked softly. Hermione smiled.
"It went okay, I think she's starting to trust me," she replied happily. Harry smiled and pulled Hermione into his embrace.
"You'll make a great mother," he whispered. Hermione smiled.
"I hope so," she stated easily. "So do we want to take care of the marriage papers today?" she inquired. Harry nodded and sat up, climbing out of the bed.
"Yep, but before that, I think breakfast is in order," he stated happily. Hermione nodded and watched as he walked over to his dresser. He pulled out a new set of boxers, a pair of pants, and a t-shirt. Hermione turned over and heaved a sigh into her pillow. After a minute or so had passed, she heard the tap running, meaning Harry was brushing his teeth. Groaning, she clambered out of bed and stumbled out the door. She gently made her way to the fireplace and searched around for the floor powder. Eventually she found a small bag and emptied a small handful into her open palm.
Half and hour later, she came back through the fire place, in fresh new clothes, with clean teeth, and damp hair. Hermione grinned as the smell of freshly made biscuits, and bacon reached her. As she entered the kitchen she saw Harry in a blue apron and approached him from behind. After sliding her hands around his waist and dropping her chin onto his shoulder, the sight of eggs, bacon, gravy, and biscuits caught her eye.
"Shall I set the table?" Hermione asked quietly. Harry shook his head and turned around with a grin. He brought his wand out and muttered a heating spell.
"I think that can wait, don't you?" he inquired. After cetching his meaning, Hermione nodded. She kissed him slowly and softly before leading him the the couch. The sat side by side for a few minutes, kissing eachother every now and then.
"Do you want to have kids 'Mione?" Harry asked casually. Hermione blushed and nodded. Harry nodded his head lightly.
"How many?" he added. Hermione laughed.
"Oh, I dunno, six?" she stated quietly. Harry tilted his head a moment in quiet thought.
"How about nine?" he whispered. Hermione smiled and nodded lightly, kissing him softly.
"So, you wanna explore the house?" Harry asked quietly. Hermione nodded and they made their way to the stairs. Making sure to skip the first step, they made their way up. Just as Harry was about to apply pressure to one of the knobs, Hermione stopped him and shook her head.
"Let's do this the old fashioned way," she stated gently. Harry smiled and nodded. Once at the top of the second floor, they started opening a door. Inside was a bedroom.
"I devoted two whole floors to bedrooms," he stated shyly. Hermione laughed.
"But that's twelve bedrooms, not counting... ours. I hope that means we have five bathrooms?" Hermione stated with amusement. Harry blushed and nodded.
"There's extras, incase of, you know, guests," he stated quietly. Hermione laughed and nodded. They decided to skip to the fourth floor. The first door they opened was a large library. With over half of the shelves empty. Hermione gazed in wonder and then snapped her fingers.
"That reminds me, my boss gave me the rest of your order to deliver to you, it's in my back pack in... your room. And we need to find something for Amy to do today while we're settling in and moving things and such," Harry grinned at her statement and pulled her to another room.
"I went shopping while you were gone with Amy," he whispered. Upon stepping in, Hermione gaped. It was a large and spaceous room, with a beautiful mural of the country side on all the walls, the floor, looked like a green and grassy yard. To the right there were several racks with brooms and other things needed for flying. Hermione walked over to the brooms to inspect them.
"Don't worry, I got a fairly slow model for Amy," Harry said proudly.
"I intend to make a flyer out of that one," he concluded. Hermione shook her head and they left the room. The last door on the floor was empty mostly. There were a few chairs, a table to the left, and perfectly soft carpet on the floor. Hermione looked at him curiously.
"Ah, you see, this room, I have guarded well, with many spells. The eyes of the ministry, nay, not even wise old Dumbledore, may see into this room. I intend this to be where our children practice their magical skills when their older," he stated happily. Hermione grinned and hugged him.
"Of course, I'm planning on filling the library, the flying room, the halls, this room, the downstairs, and a couple other rooms we haven't seen yet, with pictures. Just like at old Hogwarts so that we can have sources of information. That way, we'll be able to know when someone's muddled a charm or some such nonsense," Harry grinned. Hermione nodded her approval. Upon leaving, they went to the end of the hallway to make their way up the set of stairs that led to the next floor.
"Top floor, just so you know," Harry stated happily. The first door, held Harry's room so they skipped it. Upon entering the next door, they found a large and beautiful bathroom. The next room was filled with all of Harry's old nick nacks from school.
"Now about your little knot system, how about we make that a touch simpler. The first step, at the bottom is a gooey mess, and I think we should keep it that way, but, the knots I don't like," Hermione stated simply making her way down to the first floor again. Harry laughed. Eventually, they reached the bottom floor. Hermione began to survey the wood paneling to the right of the stairs. After a moment, she tapped her wand against one of the knots in the wood, muttering something under her breath. She smiled and lowered her wand.
"I think this is more, what I had in mind," she stated happily. She gently tapped the knot with her fist three times, and an open door appeared. Looking through the door, Harry saw the hallway on the fifth floor. He muttered something about witches and let her continue. Hermione grinned at his reaction and walked back to the steps. Slowly, the door faded and was replaced by the wood paneling again. Hermione stepped onto the second stair and found a knot on the wood paneling there as well.
"See, how about one of those doors for every step upto the fifth one? The second step door will take you to the second floor, the third step, to the third floor et cetera. And at the top of every floor have a small box with a knob inside for every floor. To open the box, you knock on it five times. This plan I believe is simpler than yours, and will help our children to learn to count," Hermione stated happily. Harry laughed and nodded. Then he began to walk up the rest of the way to the stairs.
"I think I'll only ever use then door for our floor, other than that, I think I'll keep to walking up stairs," Harry stated jovially; Hermione nodded with a laugh. After a moment, Harry knocked on one of the doors, then, opened it. He saw Amy still sleeping. He walked over to the bed and gently nudged her.
"Amy," he said in a sing-song voice. After no reply, he tried again. Amy's hand came up to whack away whatever was bothering her.
"Want some breakfast?" he asked happily. Amy groaned and sat up. She shoved them out of her room muttering about changing. Hermione and Harry laughed, walking back downstairs. They noticed Amy slowly walking down the steps a few minutes later. Hermione, having already set the table during that time-period, sat down to her place. Harry sat beside her, gently taking her hand in his. After a moment, Amy sat across from them. Then, they all started hungrily grabbing food.
"You know Harry, we need a name for this place. The Weasley's house is called the Burrow; your parent's house was called Godric Hollow. This place need s something less melo-dramatic than Gryffindor Manor," Hermione stated conversationally. Harry laughed, but nodded anyway. Amy lifted her head at this.
"Who are the Weasleys?" she inquired.
"Their some old friends of ours honey," said Harry softly with a smile. Amy tilted her head to the side.
"How come I've never met them?" she asked.
"Well, you'll get to sometime this week," stated Harry grinning. Amy nodded approvingly and went back to her food.
"How about Chester Place" Hermione suggested. Harry shook his head with a small chuckle.
"But no one with the name of Chester resides here," Harry stated. Hermione heaved her shoulders and let out a sigh, tilting her head and continued thinking of names for the house.
"How about Eastview Manor?" suggested Amy. Harry raised an eyebrow, and Hermione tilted her head the other way.
"Well, haven't you ever looked out any of the east windows? It's a lovely view," Amy said with a smile, then took a bite of her biscuit. Harry and Hermione nodded after a moment.
"Sounds good, I'll change the name with the floo network today," stated Harry happily. Once they had all finished Harry led Amy up the stairs to get her started with a broom. After getting her settled there, Hermione and Harry left for Gringott's Wizarding Bank. Hermione handed Harry his key and then walked through the large oaken doors. They made their way to the register and handed the goblin there his key.
"Harry Potter wishes to make a withdrawal," Harry stated lazily. The short goblin raised one eyebrow curiously, and then took the key, leading them over to a cart. After climbing in they rode it all the way to Harry's number. They took out five hundred galleons, and then exchanged it for muggle money. Roughly four hundred pounds [AN: 400 pounds is the same as 600 dollars]. Afterward, they made their way to have lunch before going to the marraige office. They decided on stopping in at the Red Barrel cafe. Upon sitting down, a waiter came upon them. He looked somewhat scraggly, but nice enough.
"What will it be?" he asked lazily. Hermione and Harry looked down at the menus on the table and and decided on tea, and grilled cheese sandwiches. Once their food was brought, they slowly began munching on their food. After ten or fifteen minutes, Harry brought out a small blue velvet box that he had been fingering with in his coat pocket. He slowly got out of his chair and kneeled before Hermione's feet.
"I figured we should do this the old fashioned way, so... Hermione Granger? Will you marry me?" he asked quickly, flipping the lid of the small box with his thumb. Inside was a small band of white gold; fixed upon it was a medium sized diamond, with several smaller ones encircling it. Hermione held back a laugh and smiled at him, nodding. Harry stood, and pulled the ring out of the box, sliding it onto her left ring finger. Afterwards, he awkwardly sat back down and blushed. Hermione smiled at him and took his hand in hers, gently lacing their fingers together. They stayed like that for a couple minutes, before Hermione stood up.
"Well come on, let's get going," she stated with a laugh. Harry stood and they made their way outside of Hogsmeade. Once arriving, they knocked on a small official like building. The door opened up to them and they walked inside. They stepped up to a small desk with a lady behind it.
"Hello," she said tiredly. Harry and Hermione smiled good-naturedly. Just as she was about to start typing the date Harry held up his hand.
"Ummm, we have a favor we'd like to ask of you," he stated hesitantly. The woman looked up at him curiously.
"Well you see, could you put the date as April the 2nd, three years ago?" he inquired. At her scowl Hermione held up the bag of English pounds.
"We're willing to pay for the change," Hermione noted. The woman smiled and inquired how much they would be willing to give her.
"Three hunded pounds?" Harry suggested. The woman frowned.
"Five hundred" stated the woman. Hermione shook her head in disgust.
"Four hundred, and no more," she stated firmly. The woman nodded and took the bag and began typing out the specified date.
"Names?" she inquired.
"Harry Potter and Hermione Granger," said Harry happily. The woman nodded. After asking serveral more questions she handed them the marraige lisence. Upon leaving, Harry kissed Hermione fully on the mouth. Sliding on a second ring upon her finger in the process. Upon breaking the kiss, he quietly slipped a plain gold band upon his finger and smiled.
"Well Mrs. Potter, I'd say we have a visit to make with the floo network," Harry stated with a smile. Hermione grinned in return and they made their way to the ministry. Upon entering another muggle town, Hermione stopped him.
"Harry, can we get your hair cut?" she asked slowly. Harry laughed and nodded. So they did that first. Hermione quickly ran her fingers through his hair and smiled. He had bangs once again covering his famous scar, which was good as they didn't want his name on the newspapers until after they talked to their friends and family. Nodding her approval, then then made their way to the ministry floo network office. After filling out all the papers they went back home. Upon entering they were quickly attacked by a hug from Amy.
"You're BACK!" she yelled happily.
"Yep, so did you have fun? Find something for lunch?" Harry inquired. Amy nodded. Hermione leaned over and whispered something in his ear. He nodded with a small nervous smile.
"Do you want to go meet some of mummy and daddy's friends today?" Harry asked Amy softly. Hermione blushed at the sound of her being called a mother. Amy nodded with a smile.
"Alright Amy, can you say The Burrow?" Harry asked gently. Amy nodded and repeated the two words. They walked over to the fireplace and explained to Amy what she had to do. Hermione stepped in first, then Amy, then Harry. Once they were all in the kitchen of the Weasley home, they started dusting themselves off first.
"Mrs. Weasley?" Hermione called through the house. After a few minutes, Ginny, Ron, Mrs. Weasley, and Lavender walked down the stairs. The three girls exchanged hugs with Hermione, and Ron shook her hand firmly.
After a few minutes of friendly conversation, Mrs. Weasley noticed Harry and Amy standing behind Hermione. Harry was now holding Amy. He was standing hip-shot, with Amy gently sitting on the side of his hip. His arms wrapped around her. She was hiding her face in his shoulder.
"Well now, who's this Hermione?" Mrs. Weasley asked cheerfully. Harry nervously smiled.
"Hello mum," he stated quietly. Mrs. Weasley raised an eyebrow at this and looked towards Hermione. Hermione however, stayed quiet.
"Mum?" Mrs. Weasley whispered to herself. Ron coughed after a minute.
"Harry?" he wheezed. Harry smiled and nodded, putting Amy down. Amy ran over to Hermione and wrapped her arms around her right leg, hiding her face in her stomach. Ron came over and wrapped Harry in a strong hug.
"It's been a while," he whispered, stepping back. Harry nodded. Ginny shrieked and wrapped Harry in a deep hug. She quickly stepped back and stood by her mother. Lavender smiled at him softly and shook his hand, before Mrs. Weasley motioned for him to come over. They embraced, and then Harry stepped back and laced his fingers with Hermione's. Ginny looked softly at Amy and then met Hermione's eyes.
"Is she yours?" she asked quietly. Hermione hesitated for a moment before nodding. Ginny smiled softly and kneeled before the small girl. She extended a hand.
"I'm Ginny, what's your name?" she asked with a smile. Amy turned her head to look at her and whispered softly.
"I'm Amy," she stated proudly.
"Well hello Amy," stated Ron good-naturedly.
"Who's the father?" inquired Lavender. Hermione and Harry shared a glance at eachother before facing the crowd. It was at this moment Harry spoke up.
"Me," Harry stated quietly. It was at that moment, Mrs. Weasley fell back in a dead faint. Ron chuckled softly before looking back up.
"So how old is she?" he asked.
"I'm seven!" Amy said loudly. This brought everyone's attention to Hermione and Harry.
"Seven?" Ginny breathed. "How?" she asked quietly. Hermione began their explaination they had come up with the night before. Afterwards, there was a small silence, which was soon broken by a male's voice coming in the room.
"Ginny? Is something wrong? You've been gone a while," came the voice. A tall blonde man came into view who was holding a small red headed child. His eyes followed Ginny's gaze to Harry and Hermione and the small girl.
"Well hello Hermione," he stated cheerfully.
"Hello Malfoy," Harry stated firmly.
"Potter?" he inquired confusedly. Harry nodded with a forced smile. This banter continued on, while Harry found out that Draco and Ginny had gotten married, and Draco found out about Hermione and Harry. Hermione looked down at her watch and found it nearing six o'clock and quietly excused themselves. Harry, Hermione, and Amy left the room and entered the kitchen.
"I think we need to see my parents next, and then Dumbledore, Harry," Hermione stated shakily. Harry nodded, and they made their way to the Granger Residence. upon reaching the door, Hermione knocked uncertainly. After a momoent, her mother and father came to the door.
"Well hello dear, who's this?" her mother asked happily.
"Well mother, father, meet your granddaughter, and son-in law," she stated nervously.
"WHAT!?" her mother shreiked.
Author Note: I'm only guessing on the exchange rate for galleons into pounds. Right now the value of gold is about $395 per oz. And considering that Harry spent 30 galleons on the three omnioculars, that didn't seem to fit... So, talking this over with my sisters, we decided that 1 Galleon would be about $1.20. And $1.20 is equal to 80 pence. Hope your enjoying, please review. Thankyou
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