Disclaimer: I don't own the original characters but some of their spouses and all of their children are my own creations.
Summary: The war is over, things are slowly recovering from years of fighting and while the last of the Death Eaters fight a Gorilla war Harry Potter's eldest child embarks of her first year at Hogwarts. But sadly someone wants to be the new Voldemort…
After Voldemort (the title may change if I can think of a better one. Suggestions welcome.)
Chapter Two; The Journey And The First Night.
They had all agreed to meet on the Platform at 10 giving them plenty of time to say goodbye to each other and plenty of time for any of them. So at 10:20 the last of the five families arrived, Fred's family of course. This year there were 16 Weasley's or honorary Weasleys attending Hogwarts, one of them being Head Girl.
"Now have all got your lunches for on the train?" Charlie asked his large group of children going this year, 8 out of 10. They all nodded, the older ones main attention focused on finding their friends.
"There's Harriet and Laura!" Ellen cried suddenly, grabbing her trolley and rushing away, waving over her shoulder at her family.
"Bye dad, bye daddy," Emma said before following the eldest of the three. Elizabeth hugged her parents quickly before following her two identical sisters. Charlie and Johnny stayed serious for a few moments before bursting into giggles at their triplet's antics.
"You older ones have to look after the new ones," Jessica, Bill's wife told all of the children calmly, "Especially you Adrienne, you are after all Head Girl and you too Oddette, sixth year Prefect." Oddette nodded.
"Yes mother," Adrienne said shyly, looking down at her Head Girl badge, she'd been shocked and surprised to get the position, she wasn't exactly the most out going of students. More people were arriving so the family decided to get their children's baggage stored and then get the children on the train.
"Hold on Robert," Charlie warned his youngest son who was on his back, smiling around in wonder and amazement. The large group moved off, Charlie pushed Conner's trolley for him with Robert bouncing on his back.
"You first years should stick together until you make your own friends," Angelina said to them in a very mothering tone. The five 11-year-olds nodded and moved closer to each other. "Try and get a compartment to yourselves as well, that's always best."
"Stop fussing Angel, they're Weasley's and Potters, they'll be fine," Fred told his wife, putting his arms around her waist. "Won't you kids." They nodded a bit more enthusiastically this time. "Well let's bid them a final farewell and get them on the train."
Lillian hugged Harry tightly around the waist and refused to let go for a good few minutes and when she did she turned and hugged James and Cedric for just as long. Conner hugged both his fathers tightly and had to wipe his eyes when he broke apart from them to hide the tears from his brothers and cousins because they would laugh at him. David didn't hug his parents but had to wipe many tears away.
"Write as soon as you can," was a comment all of the parents said, a comment to which all of the children nodded before they began to pile onto the train, the first years a little slower.
"Here's an empty one," Lee said, quickly opening the door and rushing in before anyone else could. Lee and Liza sat close together, their faces pressed against the window as they looked for their parents. Conner helped Lillian to put their bags up on the rack before they too stood and looked out of the window. David sat down, hugging his bag tightly to him.
"Aren't you going to wave goodbye?" Liza asked him. He shook his head, wiping his eyes. He was already feeling homesick and really didn't want to go any more. "Fine."
"There they are!" Lillian cried and they all started waving hard at their parents. David watched them and as the train began to pull out of the station he could no longer help it, he rushed to the window crying and waving.
"It won't be that bad David, you've got us," Conner said to his cousin, hugging him gently once their parents were out of site. "We'll look after you and tonight we can all write to our parents and tell them how we are." David nodded but continued to cry, wiping his cheeks pathetically.
"I miss my mummy."
"It'll be alright, we'll all be in Gryffindor and we'll probably be in the same room!" Conner said happily, "It's a Weasley tradition isn't it, we're all Weasley's. My whole family was except for my dad because he didn't go to Hogwarts, he went to another one no body's ever heard of because it's in Romania."
"I still miss mummy. And daddy."
"I know, so do I. Hey do you want to look at this great book daddy got me on Dragon's, it's got moving pictures that show all the detail of the dragons scales."
"Alright."
Lillian pulled out her bag of sweets from her pocket and pulled out a strawberry lace, putting the end of it in her mouth she began to eat it slowly watching the world go by the window. Lee and Liza, very much like their father in almost every sense bar looks were already planning tricks and pranks on other students, their cousins, their new teachers and poor old Mrs Norris who was amazingly still alive and meowing.
"Right first years into the boats please," Hagrid said loudly, smiling down at the little children in their Hogwarts robes. Some of them looked so frightened the half giant felt sorry for them. "No more than five in a boat."
"Boats? Water? No, no, no, no," a girl started to gasp being Lillian. She turned and found a smaller girl with dark red hair shaking terribly, tears falling down her freckled cheeks. "Not water, I can't…no."
"Are you afraid of water?" Lillian asked kindly. The girl nodded, her gasps for air getting worse as the other students got calmly into the boats. "Well we have to get to the castle this way because we're first years and my daddy says this is the best way to see the castle for the first time. It's perfectly safe. Are you muggle born?"
"Yes."
"Well that explains it. The boats are magicked so they're perfectly safe. Do you want to sit with me?" she asked kindly. "My names Lillian Potter, what's yours?"
"Wendy Brown, I've always been afraid of water, swimming, boating but most of all drowning," Wendy said shyly, noticing that all the other students were in the boats and they were waiting for them.
"Come on, you can sit with me and Conner and David, you'll be perfectly safe," Lillian promised, going to the boat where her two cousins waited. After a brief moment of hesitation Wendy followed and sat next to her on the wooden seat. Wendy was still trembling and gasping for breath so Lillian took her hand gently. "Look at the castle, like I said my daddy said it looks brilliant." They all looked up and gazed in wonder.
"Wow, it's well cool," Conner said in a breathless tone.
"Yes it is," Wendy agreed, her fears disappearing. They talked quietly as the boats docked and then they walked together up to the castle, pointing out magical and amazing things that they passed until they were on the steps outside the great hall where a rather strict looking wizard waited for them.
"I am the deputy head master Professor Snape." Whispers spread around the students, Snape was very famous now that Voldemort was dead, he'd been a spy for both sides at one point but in the end had betrayed the Dark Lord, allowing Harry Potter and his team to kill the once great Dark Lord. "When you enter the hall you will be sorted into your houses."
He turned and pushed the doors open easily. The children followed him, noticing that he walked with a terrible limp. They gasped as they saw the ceiling for the first time and all the floating candles. The group of red-heads seated together on the Gryffindor table began to cheer as they saw their siblings and cousins, Lee and Liza waved back.
"Are they all related to you?" a boy asked in shock.
"Yup," Lee said happily. The group came to a halt before the mini-stage where a woman was waiting with a scroll, even though she was now Headmistress McGonagall still liked to read out the sorting ceremony herself.
"When I call you're name you will come forwards, I will place the hat on your head and you will be sorted into your house," she said with a small smile, "Adkins, Brian." The boy beside David flinched and then walked slowly up to the stool, flinching once again as the hat was placed on his head. It took a few moments to decide,
"GRYFFINDOR!" Clapping broke out as he ran to the table filled with Gryffindors. The sorting continued at a regular pace except when every now and then the hat would take longer to decide upon like for instance it took nearly five minutes to place Dragon, Finn in Hufflepuff. Wendy had ended up much to Lillian's delight in Gryffindor, hopefully she would end up there too.
"Malfoy, Hector." Another of Voldemort's men to desert him had been Draco Malfoy, followed soon by his lover Blaise Zabini and together they had fought for Harry in many of the battles (Blaise pregnant at the time, Draco was not happy when he found that out later.) Now they had three children, Hector being the youngest and Draco was Godfather of Lillian.
"SLYTHERIN!" Hector's smile was completely genuine and innocent as he walked over to his two older brothers who congratulated him quickly. Soon it was Lillian's turn.
"Potter, Lillian." She walked slowly, looking back at her cousins quickly before sitting on the stool. The hat fell down over her eyes and a voice began to whisper in her ear,
Ah Potter's girl, very much like you're father aren't you, kind, loyal, true…you'd be good in Hufflepuff however one aspect of you stands out just as it did your father and his father before him, your bravery and that puts you definitely in…
"GRYFFINDOR!" The cheer was almost deafening to her as she ran down to the Gryffindor table where she was pulled into bone crushing hugs by most of her adoptive cousins. Five more people were sorted and then they had reached the W's, now Lillian watched with her fingers crossed.
"Weasley, Conner." Conner walked calmly up to the, or at least he looked calm, inside he was as nervous as anything. The hat easily covered his eyes, it nearly covered his mouth and then he heard the voice,
It's surprising you don't feel suppressed or over shadowed coming from such a large family but you're love for them is great. I'm sure you would be pleased to hear me tell you how much like your father Charlie you are. Follow your heart and it will lead you to great things while you are in…
"GRYFFINDOR!" Conner's brothers and sisters whooped loudly and congratulated him in a big group hug, leaving him red in the face from both lack of breath and embarrassment.
"Weasley, David." David was trembling terribly as he walked up to the stool and closed his eyes even before the hat was placed on his head. He visibly jumped when the hat began to speak to him,
There is no need to be afraid of me, I am only a hat after all. I can see that you are rather shy and self conscious however you are truly one of the Gryffindor Weasley's, you will just have to wait until you find the thing where your bravery comes out in and this will only happen in…
"GRYFFINDOR!" David was still shaking as he was hugged by his cousins and sat low in his seat as the sorting ceremony continued.
"Weasley, Lee." Lee strolled up calmly, a huge grin plastered on his face the whole time, only growing wider as the hat was place don his head,
Another set of Weasley twins and so like your father and Uncle you are. Therefore it is only right that you and your sister go in…
"GRYFFINDOR!" Lee gave his own whoop of delight and gave Liza a high five before sitting down by David at the table and slapping him on the back.
"Weasley, Liza." Liza was as calm as he twin had been, even going so far as to give him the thumbs up before the hat covered her eyes,
How similar to your twin you are in all bar gender and you seem to feel guilt a tiny bit more than him but like I said to him you both definitely do well in…
"GRYFFINDOR!" This cheer was the loudest of them all, the Weasley's definitely held the record for the more people from one family with the same name in the same house now. They sorted the last two students and the McGonagall called for silence.
"It is my duty as Headmistress to inform you that the Forbidden Forrest remains forbidden," she looked directly at the Weasley's then who smiled back innocently at her, "No magic is to be used in the hallways and lastly that while we encourage friendly competition between houses fights will not be tolerated. Now that that is out of the way please dig in," she clapped once and the tables filled with every food the new students had ever known.
"Go on, she said dig in," Craig said jabbing Conner in the stomach with his elbow lightly. That snapped them into action and they began to load their plates with as much of the luscious food as they could.
"Don't eat so much you're sick," Oddette warned them, "I did that in my first year and it didn't half spoil my first night." Some of the food returned to the trays in the centre of the table but not much as the whole school continued to stuff their faces.
"The password is Napoleon, you know like Napoleon Bonaparte in muggle history," the kind prefect said to the first years as the portrait swung open, they'd barely just gotten over the moving stairs and now they had the common room to marvel at with it's comfortable couches and roaring fires, tapestries that stretched to the high ceiling and a rug carpet that looked so comfortable Lillian wanted to remove her shoes and socks to just feel it beneath her feet.
"A real fire!" one of the muggle borns gasped in surprise bringing chuckles from everyone else, "I've never seen a real fire like that up close, we only have radiators in our house."
"Well you're going to see a lot more fires and abnormal things while you're here," the prefect said cheerfully before pointing to the stairs. "The dormitories are there, girls to the right, boys to the left, top floor for both. You're things will already be by your beds and don't be frightened if the rooms look to be the size of a cupboard from the outside, remember Magic." She smiled kindly at them once more before she exited the common room to find her own friends.
"Come on, let's go and see what the dorms like," Lillian took her new friend Wendy's hand and pulled her towards the narrow staircase ahead of the rest of the students. The prefect had been right, the room didn't look like it was going to be that big from the outside but inside it was…well huge! The room was square and one wall two HUGE wardrobes for them to share and a dressing table with a mirror. Four beds were up against the wall opposite with a window above two of them and on the last wall was another door.
"Cool," Wendy said as Lillian went and opened the other door revealing a small bathroom, nothing too elaborate. "We have an en suite?"
"Looks like it, oh my beds under a window!" Lillian said cheerfully. Wendy's was the one to the left of hers and Liza's to the right which she calmly jumped on once she ran through the door, followed by a chubby girl at a slower pace.
"Hi I'm Maggie, Maggie Breslin," she said with a cheery smile and a very prominent welsh accent while she pushed her dirty blonde hair behind her ear, "Quite a walk up all those stairs wasn't it? Well my mum'll be pleased, she wanted me to loose some weight." They all laughed, Maggie more tan the rest because they would have thought she'd have been embarrassed about something like that.
"Shall we unpack?" Wendy asked.
"Yeah, looks like we get half a wardrobe each, that's cool," Liza said as she grabbed her cloak and hung in up on the right side of the left wardrobe. "This sides mine ok?" The others nodded and began to unpack their cases, chatting happily about their homes and the schools they'd been going to until now.
Wendy was the third of four children and the only witch so far for the family, her older two brothers were muggles but there was a possibility of her younger sister being a witch too. She lived in Swanage, Dorset and had been attending the local school until now and was gifted with very good mathematical skills but cursed with an uncontrollable fear of water. Maggie came from Wales (Lillian couldn't pronounce or spell the name of her village which made cheerful Maggie laugh) and also from a large family, all of whom had magic except for their parents.
"I have three older brothers and one younger and an older and younger sister," she said pulling out some pink pyjama's from her trunk. "All of them have been to Hogwarts so far, still are some of them. We're a little spread out age with, eldest is 24 but anyway they were all Ravenclaw's and Hufflepuff's. I'm the first Gryffindor." They continued to chat while they changed into their pyjama's and long after the lights had gone out, by the time they actually went to sleep the four girls knew each other pretty well.
A/N This is by the way going to be a rather long story by the way with about 10 chapters of varying length per year at Hogwarts. Just warning you that it may take me a while.