Chapter 16 - Not Earsed, Never Forgotten

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The Family of Harris Magnolia Black

Harry's Son: Teddy Shacklebolt

The Potter Twins: James Potter and Rose Zabini

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In An Alternate Universe, Life Goes On

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Teddy Shacklebolt sighed as he rocked his baby in his arms, he never thought he would have to go through this without his dad.

Without his grandmother.

And he never would have believed it would be because of his grandmother.

The only thing that didn't surprise him, was his ex-step-mother's reaction.

Rose was glaring down at her tea and James was looking off into the distance.

To put it simply; things were fucked.

Rose was the first to speak after Sonya had delivered the Auror Office's findings and left the room to take a nap, leaving Teddy with a sleeping Magnolia in his arms.

"We don't release this information. The truth never stopped the rumours and it will only make things worse…" Rose trailed off.

James rubbed his face, James who looked just like their father and seemed to bear the most weight of public opinion. "Mother was insufferable before this. How could Grandmama do this to us, to him?"

"Papa's right, he does have the worst luck," Rose said, spinning her spoon in her teacup.

Grandmama's body had been found dead on the sofa of their home while Papa's body hadn't been found at all.

And had never shown back up. No tracking charm had been able to locate him, and for months, the papers had been printing; Harry Potter Murders His Mistress; Reason? Read below for experts' speculations…

Only Papa would never have done that, something Teddy's wife, Auror Sonya Shaklebolt, had thankfully proven.

So what was the problem?

Well, not only had Grandmama killed herself, but she had either probably killed Harry Potter, or damned him to what was possibly a fate worse than death, depending on which alternate reality he had landed in.

One that he couldn't return from which as far as anyone knew, which was the way that Andromeda Tonks had discovered.

A way that required the same cost as a freaking Horcrux.

A death of a soul.

Which meant, Harry Potter of this universe would never willingly return to them; which meant, at least to them, he was dead.

Andromeda Tonks had murdered Harry Potter and herself.

Teddy was not at all pleased to be orphaned, again.

"What are we going to do?" James asked.

Rose hugged him.

"We have to get a message to him somehow," Teddy stated.

"How do you mean?" James asked.

"If it's an alternate universe if he's alive —if he doesn't realize… if he thinks it's time travel and he goes backwards in time… It won't be like a time turner, it won't be a paradox he can remember so he will think—"

Aunt Hermoine walked into the house, and picked up immediately on the conversation, "He will think we were erased from reality."

"And he will never be happy," James concluded, hugging his twin sister, tightly to himself.

"What is our story going to be? For their deaths?" Rose asked, hugging James tighter.

"They tried pushing the magic, they tried improving the Belladonna Cure and it went wrong," Teddy said.

He knew their father wouldn't want it any other way, knew that it was okay for the truth and the betrayal to die with them.

Teddy shut his eyes and failed to keep the tears at bay. When he opened his eyes, he found his daughter looking up at him, quietly observing him.

Teddy gasped, he wouldn't let this ruin him, he was a father now and he could do no less for his own daughter than the man who had raised him had.

"Your grandfather loved you," Teddy told her, letting her grab onto her finger. "Your grandfather loved you more than anything and he is going to be so proud of the woman you grow up to be. You will never doubt that you are loved."

Because that was Harry Potter's legacy, not that he had saved the Wizarding World, or escaped dragons and defeated dark lords, no. If there was one thing that defined their father's legacy it was that his children would never doubt that they were loved.

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In Plain English: Andromeda Tonks, Harris's lover, did not erase the future. Not Time Travel, but alternative universe. Although, Andromeda did kill herself and her alternate counterpart to transfer herself and Harry into this verse. Her death was delayed because her life source was energy source to power the curse not the ingredient. She died getting to see a world in which her daughter and husband lived.

The actual time travel is coming ;D

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AN: Thoughts, feedback?