Chapter 6: Welcome Home
Later that day a press conference was held in the wizengamont room at the ministry.
"Sir?" asked one reporter, "what can the Prophet quote you on?"
To this Harry simply answered, "I want everything I say today released in press"
The reporters got their quills, ink, and paper ready to write down what Harry said.
Harry had been extremely careful to make sure that Rita Skeeter didn't get word of this conference.
And to his satisfaction, she hadn't shown up.
Harry began his story, taking breaks every few sentences to allow the reporters to catch up to him.
"I have some good news, and some bad news.
The good news is, that Lord Voldemort is finished for good.
But… the Wizarding community isn't safe yet.
Many Death Eaters still roam freely, and they will still be killing.
Bellatrix Lestrange
has been cleared of all Death Eater charges…"
Harry had to
stop here because of a roar from the press, Harry held up a hand to
silence them and then continued.
"She has been cleared because she turned to our side before the Dark Lord fell, saving my life, and the life of my wife who was long thought dead.
On another note, we have reason to believe that Voldemort has two successors.
The first one is a baby, I won't name the mother, for her own safety.
And the second, it pains me to say, is, Ronald Weasley."
"England's Keeper?" someone asked.
Harry nodded and then continued.
"We're going to begin hunting Weasley as soon as we leave this press conference,
As for the baby, we don't think that it's any danger unless Voldemort raises it, and he's dead.
Also on the note of Bellatrix Lestrange, you are not to treat her with any difference that you treat me.
She is now a member of the DML and is not to be criticized or ridiculed.
I think that's all except for a few minor notes that my secretary will be glad to fill in for you."
Harry nodded his goodbyes as he packed his papers, Lavender Brown rushed into the room to fill in those minor notes.
Harry excited the large room, hearing the buzz of reporters, and seeing Colin Creevy's camera going off.
As he exited the room, he linked arms with a waiting Hermione and led her to the atrium.
"We're going to have to tell Luna about this you know" he said, and she nodded softly.
"But first I have something to do, and you'll have to come with me" he said to another nod.
And after 3 seconds they had apparated to a huge mansion on the outskirts of London.
Harry banged on the huge front door, that was almost as big as the ones at Hogwarts.
After a second Harry could hear footsteps and, "No Celia I'll get it".
The doors swung open and a tall young woman with flaming red hair her head out.
"HERMIONE!" Ginny squealed, and flung herself at Harry's wife.
"Who is it dear?" they heard someone yell from upstairs.
"Harry Potter!" Ginny yelled.
After a minute someone could be heard trudging down the stairs.
"Come in, come in!" Ginny squealed.
Harry walked in and stood face to face with the blonde hair and icy eyes he had made enemies with so many years ago.
"Draco" Harry said.
"Harry" he replied, nodding.
"I see you found Hermione, we'll let them catch up and we can talk in my study" Draco said.
Harry followed him silently, thinking.
He didn't know if Malfoy could really be trusted, but he had delivered Snape to Harry.
And Ginny had married him, and he trusted her judgment.
Malfoy threw open the doors to his study, and situated himself behind a large desk.
He flicked his wand and a chair appeared, he motioned Harry to sit.
Harry sat down silently and looked at Draco.
"Harry you know I've been cleared of all charges…" he began but Harry held up a hand.
"It's not that, I trust you, I just want to ask you a few things" Harry said.
Draco nodded and Harry began.
"Do you know anyplace Voldemort might have hidden out, besides that French island I mean" he asked.
Draco shook his head, "Why, I thought you killed him" he said.
"Ron, Ron turned to the dark side, he's the new dark lord" Harry said.
Malfoy looked at him as if he thought Harry was joking.
"I'm not joking" Harry said, solemnly.
"Weasley, that Ron, Ron Weasley is the new dark lord?" he asked disbelievingly.
Harry nodded slowly.
"Sorry Potter, I can't help you, but I can fund the hunt" he said, pulling out a checkbook,
"all expenses covered, how much you think your gonna need?"
They spent the next half-hour setting up funding for hunting Ron.
Harry walked out of Malfoy's study, shook his hand and called for Hermione.
"Coming!" she yelled and ran into his arms.
Ginny laughed, "Will you two quit acting like newly weds? You've been married for 11 years!" she said.
They just smiled at her,
"Now, now, Ginny, if I lost you for three years I'd be acting like that too" Draco said,
"I'm sure you two want to get home and er… 'catch up' so I'll let you go".
They said their goodbyes and then apparated home.
"KIDS I HAVE A SURPRISE FOR YOU!" Harry yelled.
"DADDY! YOU'RE HOME!" Anna screamed, and the three of them came thundering down the stairs.
When they saw Hermione, they stopped dead in their tracks.
"Mommy?" Anna asked quietly, stepping forward.
Harry could see Hermione's eyes welling up with tears, and he smiled.
She bent down and opened her arms, welcoming Anna in for a hug.
"MOMMY! IT'S YOU! YOU'RE ALIVE!" Anna yelled rushing into her mother's arms.
Hermione wrapped her arms around Anna and buried her head in her daughter's hair.
"Yes, it's me, I'm home, and I'm not going anywhere, ever again" Hermione said.
Just then, Mark and Lily rushed to join their sister in hugging their mother.
Harry smiled at the sight before him.
Hermione looked like she was about to start crying, and the children looked happier than Harry had seen them in years.
"Hey! Don't I get any attention? I just braved waves, skeletons, Death Eaters, and Voldemort himself to save your mom and I don't even get a hug?" Harry said.
Hermione whispered something in their ears, and they all stood.
Harry opened his arms for a hug, but then he saw the evil grins on their faces.
"What?... Hey! Stop it!" Harry screamed as they advanced and tried to tickle him.
He rushed up the stairs and he could hear the children hollering in hot pursuit.
He rushed into his bedroom, but Hermione had already apparated there.
He rushed back out, dodging Mark and ran into the hall bathroom.
He locked himself in, and yelled, "HA, HA! YOU CAN'T GET ME IN HERE!"
Then, much to Harry's bemusement, the door swung open.
Hermione was standing on the threshold with her wand out.
"Damn" Harry muttered as the four of them jumped him.
"HEY STOP!" Harry yelled through hysterical laughter.
"S-STOP! OH! AH! STOP! PLEASE! STOP!" He laughed.
Pretending they didn't hear him, they all continued tickling him, he fell backward into the large bathtub and all
four of them followed, never letting their hands leave his sides.
When they finally stopped, the children ran off to their rooms to avoid retaliation from dear old dad.
Hermione offered her hand to help him out of the tub.
However, Harry had other plans; he grabbed her hand and suddenly pulled her down on top of him.
"When's the last time you had a bath without a hundred Death Eaters drooling over your body?" Harry asked.
She giggled, "Can't remember" she said.
"Well we'll have to fix that, and cleanse you of all that filth" Harry said.
Hermione made to get up but Harry pulled her back down.
"No need to get up" he said.
"But we have to get out and run the water!" she said.
Harry shook his head, "No problem" he said, "Just undress us and I'll take care of the water"
Hermione undressed them both and with a few incantations and waves of Harry's wand, they were sitting in a lavish hot bubble bath.
Harry picked up Hermione's shampoo and told her to turn around.
She giggled, realizing what he was doing, and obeyed.
He squirted out a decent blot of shampoo and lathered it up in his hands.
"Time to de-grime your hair and make it silky and beautiful again" he said, applying the shampoo to her hair.
When he had finished washing her hair, she washed his and then the washed each other off with soap and rinsed, before Harry leaned back against the end of the tub and pulled Hermione with him, so they were in a lying position.
"Mmm… It's been so long since I've had a hot bath and since I've lain in your arms" Hermione said.
"Harry, it's funny, but why hasn't Dumbledore come to welcome me back yet?"
Harry tensed up at the sound of Dumbledore's name.
"Well 'Mione, the thing is… well… the thing is…"
"What?" she asked.
"The thing is 'Mione, Dumbledore died about two months after you went missing" Harry said.
"What? how?" Hermione asked, shocked.
And Harry began his story…
Flashback
Harry ducked, dodging a stunner.
Even after 4 hours, the battle was still raging all around him.
No one had any idea how the Death Eaters had gotten onto the Hogwarts grounds, all that mattered was that they were there.
And they weren't alone; werewolves, giants, and trolls were helping them.
Someone had seen the mass of black robed figures marching up the front lawn, and had alerted Dumbledore.
He had sent an owl to the ministry and requested help.
Harry put every auror under his command on the job and within moments, they were at Hogwarts.
Immediatley the battle had broken out, a Death Eater had made the first shot, and it missed Harry narrowly and enraged his men.
Beams erupted from thousands of wands and suddenly they were in the heat of the battle.
All able-bodied castle staff was helping,
Dumbledore, McGonagall, Flitwick, Slughorn, Snape, and Vector.
Harry recognized some of the Death Eaters as they fell.
Harry was unsurprised to see Malfoy among them.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Harry roared and his curse hit a troll, knocking it over and squishing a werewolf.
"Yes!" Harry whispered, and proceeded on.
He dodged another curse and shot one of his own; "Veriverito!" a re jet of light erupted from his wand and hit a Death Eater that was about 5 feet away, the man turned into a bird.
"SQUAK!" It crowed, and Harry fought back a laugh, he had never tried that on a human before.
The battle raged for hours on end, with body after body succumbing to the oblivion of death.
Suddenly a voice hit Harry's ears harder than any he had heard that night.
It was a wonder he heard it over the shouts of the still raging battle.
"Draco… you are not a killer" came Dumbledore's weak voice.
Harry barreled toward the voice and stopped dead in his tracks.
Dumbledore was lying on the ground, defenseless.
Harry couldn't move and he wondered why.
"I can kill, I will kill you, and I will be exalted above all Death Eaters!" Malfoy whispered.
But then Harry thought he saw Draco's smirk fade into a frown.
"Who am I kidding?" he asked no one in particular, "I can't kill you, I can't kill anyone"
With that, Malfoy lowered his wand.
But then someone hurled into Malfoy, knocking him over.
"Child, always were weak!" a man's voice said.
Malfoy lay spread eagled on the grass apparently knocked out.
Suddenly the man thrust his hand into his robes and brought out his wand.
"Severus…" Dumbledore said hoarsely, and Harry understood, it was Snape.
Dumbledore's voice was full of fear, and that scared the hell out of Harry.
Snape jabbed his wand at Dumbledore, "Fool!" he cried.
"Avada Kedavra!" he whispered.
Suddenly the very air turned green, the jet of light hit Dumbledore straight in the chest, and he rose up off the grass.
His body was in an arc, as he gracefully flew above the Earth, everyone stopped fighting, and watched in amazement, as Albus Dumbledore said his last words,
"I trusted you" he whispered, before falling back to Earth.
"NOOO!" Harry screamed, and Snape looked up.
Harry tore over the lawn, tripping over the hems of his robes as he ran.
Snape ran, he ran for his life.
Harry followed in hot pursuit, "I'LL KILL YOU! YOU MURDERING FILTHY SLIME BAG!" Harry roared.
He raised his wand and tried to hex Snape as he ran.
"AVADA KEDAVRA! SECTUSEMPRA! CRUCIO! AVADA KEDAVRA!" Harry yelled out curses, but they never hit their target.
Death Eaters, trolls, giants, and werewolves who got in the way all fell prey to Harry's fury.
Harry felt as if an iron hand had clutched over his heart and the only thing he could think of was causing Snape as much pain as possible.
"STUPEFY! CRUCIO! AVADA KEDAVRA! SECTUSEMPRA! RICTUSEMPRA! AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Harry yelled as he ran, but he could not hit Snape.
Snape eventually reached the gates to the castle, Harry right on his heels.
Harry jumped for him, but he dissapparated at the last second and all Harry caught was a cloud of dust.
End of Flashback
As Harry ended his story, Hermione's hands flew to her mouth.
"We trusted him, I trusted him! How could I have been so stupid?" she squealed.
"It's not your fault 'Mione, I tried to warn Dumbledore but he wouldn't listen" Harry said.
"So Snape's still out there somewhere?" she asked.
Harry shook his head and her eyes went as wide as dinner plates when Harry told her the story of how he had tracked down and killed Snape.
When he finished his story, they got out of the bathtub and dried off with the same big blue towel.
After Harry, finished dressing he got Hermione some clean clothes and helped her put them on.
When they finished dressing her, doing her hair, and brushing her teeth, Harry twirled her around in front of the big floor to ceiling mirror in their bedroom.
"See, you look much better now, good enough to eat" Harry said playfully.
They went downstairs to find Anna asleep in front of the TV and the twins playing chess.
"You two finish up that game and get to bed" Hermione said.
"Mom!" they both whined.
"Do what your mother says" Harry said.
The grumbled something to the effect of, "All right"
When they packed up the chessboard and left Harry started laughing.
Hermione smiled, "What?" she asked.
"You… You've only been back three hours and… and you're already being bossy again" he laughed.
"Excuse me?" she asked indignantly.
"Sorry" Harry replied, kissing her tenderly on the lips.
"Mmm… apology accepted" she said.
Harry nodded and smiled.
"Can you remember the last time I made love to you?" he asked.
"So long… can't remember... years no sex… fuck me" she whined.
Harry just laughed.
"SEX NOW!" she yelled playfully.
Harry didn't need to be told twice, if he waited too long she might hex him.
Harry picked her up and carried her up the stairs to their bedroom.
He laid her gently down on their king size bed and then shut the bedroom door.
"You might want to lock it and put a silencing charm on it" Hermione said with a slight smile.
Harry locked the door and then pointed his wand at the handle, "Muffliato" he muttered.
He then walked over to the bed and crawled on top of Hermione.
"Hurry Harry, I've waited to long to feel this again" she whimpered.
Harry nodded, and leaned down to unbutton her blouse.
Soon enough they were both naked, and Harry was leaning over Hermione, supporting his weight on his elbows.
"Beautiful" Harry said, while absentmindedly playing with her breasts.
She giggled, Harry smiled, "It's been so long since I've heard you do that" he said, nuzzling her neck.
"Harry" Hermione said.
"Yes my love?" he asked.
"Make love to me" she said, giggling again.
Harry leaned his head into her chest and brought one of her breasts into his moth.
"OH!" she moaned as he began to make gentle suckles here and there.
She started grinding her pelvis against her hips and groaning, Harry could tell she was getting restless.
However, he was not going to give in so soon.
Harry flicked his wand at the stereo and Vanessa Carlton came on.
He flicked his wand 3 times and it came to Pretty Baby.
"Remember our wedding song?" he asked, and she just moaned.
You light me up and then I fall for you
You lay me down and then I call for you
Stumbling on reasons that are far and few
I'd let it all come down and then some for you
Harry slipped himself inside her eliciting a delicious moan.
"Move" she said.
Pretty baby don't you leave me
I have been saving smiles for you
Pretty baby why can't you see
You're the one that I belong to
Harry began to move, experiencing pleasure beyond all pleasure, perfection was in his bed once again.
I'll be the embrace that keeps you warm
For you're the sun that breaks the storm
I'll be all right and I'll sleep sound
As long as you keep coming round, oh pretty baby
His gently moves began to get harder and faster, and Hermione's moans grew more frequent
And I know things can't last forever
But there are lessons that you'll never learn
Oh just the scent of you it makes me hurt
So how's it you that makes me better, oh
Pretty baby don't you leave me
I have been saving smiles for you
Pretty baby why can't you see
You're the one that I belong to
Why can't you hold me and never let go
When you touch me, it is me that you own
Pretty baby the place that you hold in my heart
Would you break it apart, again?
Oh, pretty baby…
And with a load moan from the both of them, they climaxed just as the song ended.
Harry collapsed on top of Hermione, and absentmindedly played with her hair.
"Welcome home 'Mione" he said.
A/N:
Ok I think that was definitely the longest chapter so far.
Just a little note,
I am working on a few projects that you might want to check out when they're finished.
I'm working on a fan-art Wedding Picture of Harry and Hermione.
I'm working on an Emma Watson fan Video- and the opening scene is
Daniel and Emma dancing, the song is Pretty baby.
I'll be hosting them on my website when it's finished.
It's a tripod website and I'm sure it will be pretty good.
I'm also working on a fan-art photo album that goes with this story.
I've finished a few of them,
Harry killing Voldemort
Harry laying on the bed at the hotel with "Isandorf" sitting at the end of it
Harry teaching mark how to fly
Harry attempting to commit suicide
Harry and Hermione at Romancers Peak
So when I finish the site I'll post them.
Hope you liked the chapter!
I'll post more soon!
I'm also working on a one shot prequel to the first story in Hermione's perspective.
(Well it's done I just have to post it)
Thanks to readers and reviewers alike, I'm sure you'll like this chapter.
The next one's going to be a bit dark, it's called,
Seed of Darkness.
Ok, bye! I gotta' take Felecia shopping now!