A/N Just wanted to say stay safe and Happy Easter to all who celebrate it. Happy Sunday to everyone else. Stay safe and take care of you and yours. Thanks for all the reviews, it amazes me so many of you are reading this.

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On to the story

Ch. 30

Friday 9 September 1998

The next morning, the family decided to go home for the weekend since they had the Alliance dinner to worry about Saturday. Jaime decided to come with them.

When they apparated into the entrance hall, Jaime looked at the picture of Padfoot and Teddy sleeping and burst out laughing. "Where is that cute dog playing protector?" she asked. They looked over at the photo Dobby had taken months ago and pointed to Sirius. He promptly changed into Padfoot. "Oh my!" she giggled as she bent down to pet him.

"If you keep petting him, he'll stay that way. He loves it." Nev warned.

She got up and grinned as Sirius turned back. "That is why we have no cats in the house!" He exclaimed as they made their way to their rooms to change.

Jaime went to the bedroom right next to Sirius'. She noticed that Harry and Hermione shared a room as did Neville and Luna.

"I'll wait for you out here so you won't get lost." Sirius smiled as they went into their own rooms.

She went inside to discover a huge bedroom beautifully decorated with a king sized four poster bed with matching nightstands and shelves in the walk-in closet. The room was done in all shades of blue. There were French doors that went out to a balcony. When she went into the bathroom, she saw a shower that could hold three with four different shower heads and a tub nearly the size of the spa in her mom's backyard.

When she had changed into muggle clothes, she really didn't want to leave the room it was so nice. However, she did leave and ran straight into Sirius. "Oh! I'm sorry." She apologised as his arms came around her waist.

"No problem, love." He smiled down at her. Being this close to him and being able to smell his cologne mixed with grass and diesel, was nearly intoxicating for her. She just relaxed and curled into his arms.

"You're comfy." She took a deep breath as he chuckled low in his throat. She knew she shouldn't be succumbing to not only his smell but his beautiful body. The problem was that Sirius was her dream man: passionately loyal to his family, kind, caring, loves learning even if he refuses to admit it, sarcastic, great sense of fun and a great sense of humour and he happens to have that amazing British accent. To a California girl, raised by educators who believe in family, he was damn near perfect. But in her experience, there was always something wrong with the "perfect" guy; he's married or gay, he has an overbearing mother, or a crazed ex, something was wrong. She couldn't just let herself enjoy and explore this relationship because he was too perfect.

"Yeah. People have told me that before." He laughed as he let her go and took her hand. "Let's go see who's done." He took her up two flights of stairs to a perfect replica of Harry's drawing room.

"Hey." Hermione greeted them as she summoned a Coke for herself. She was sitting on the sofa curled into Harry. "Do you want a soda Jaime?"

"Of course." She smiled as one came to her. "I notice you have a lot of muggle appliances both here and at school. Is one of you muggleborn?"

"That's me." Hermione laughed. "When the war was over, Sirius wanted a house that was mainly muggle and I wanted to live near my parents, so we bought the house next door to my childhood home."

"Oh." Jaime thought for a moment as Nev, Luna, Dora and Teddy joined them. The boys and Dora began playing pool. "I had heard that the British Wizarding Population did not accept muggle electronics, or for that matter, change well."

"Oh, that reputation is well earned." Dora laughed.

"Well, then, why do I see all sorts of muggle things at Hogwarts?"

"Well, that's our fault." Luna laughed. "Hermione and I decided to create a rune and charm system that will let muggle appliances work in magical areas."

"Yeah. We converted some mobiles and computers and other devices to run on magic and started a company." Hermione added. "We need to check in with Fleur today, Luna."

"Yeah. I suppose."

"What our brilliant girlfriend and fiancée haven't told you," Nev laughed. "is that they are extremely smart and can invent anything you can dream up."

"What started off as a school project is changing our world in ways we can't see yet." Sirius contributed. "What are you two working on now?"

"We're trying to come up with our own Gameboy. We can rune and charm current Gameboys but we want a wizarding version and that's hard. Like I said, we need to talk to Fleur." Hermione got up. "Let's go Luna."

"We need to go check on the orphanage and the nursery." Harry added as he and Nev got up as well. "We'll be home around five. Then we can have dinner and a movie tonight."

HP

When Luna and Hermione got to the office building that MIT rented, they were surprised to learn that Fleur had rented out two floors. They found Fleur's office where they expected and knocked on the door. Fleur waved them in and got off her mobile as she came around the desk.

'Ello. Ow are my favorite inventors?" she grinned at them.

"Great." Hermione grinned back. It was really nice having girlfriends now, she thought. "We have an Alliance meeting tomorrow, so we came home today. I'm thinking we might do it as much as we can. The Madhouse has become home in the last few months and I missed it."

"Me too." Luna agreed. And they were off talking about the business.

HP

At the Orphanage, Harry really didn't have enough time to properly spend with Penny right now, so he snuck into Venus' office to have a chat. He eventually made it in and took off the invisibility cloak so they could talk.

"So, that's how you get around the castle and Auntie doesn't know!" Venus exclaimed laughing.

"Please don't rat me out?" He pled.

"Of course not. Auntie can't know everything now, can she?" She shook her head. "So, I assume you're here to talk business, yes?"

"Yes. I don't have time to stay but wanted to check in. How's it going? Have classes started yet?"

HP

Meanwhile, Sirius and Jaime were out on the grounds exploring. "So, what do you think of the place so far?" he asked.

"It's wonderful. It's just so surprising to me that you decided to buy a place that all of you could live so close together. It's great but I can't imagine living this close to my family." She smiled.

"Yeah. Most people think we're crazy but Harry and I haven't had the chance to be a family yet. Yeah, sure, I spent the first 15 months of his life absolutely doting on the kid but after that there was nothing. I didn't lay eyes on him again until he was thirteen." He said solemnly. "Then I only saw him occasionally through the war. When it was over, we decided it was time to be a real family and of course that meant his girlfriend Hermione too. So, when we saw this place, we couldn't resist. Three houses, each with their own individual plot on the property, and close to each other and the Grangers, it was perfect."

"You really love those two, don't you?" She enquired.

"Them and Nev and Luna, yeah." He grinned. "I think that when Luna and Nev marry, I'm going to build them a house here as well." Jaime just smiled and shook her head. "What?"

"I think it's cute. How you're looking after those boys."

"It's what James and Frankie would want me to do." He shrugged. They had finally gotten back to the terrace outside the kitchen.

"Does this stone terrace go all the way around the house?" She asked.

"Yeah. Do you like it?" He returned, sitting down on the bench swing as he patted it in invitation.

"I really love this place. It reminds me of the calendars I had as a young girl of English countryside. This is more beautiful than I could have imagined."

"Why are you here, Jaime? Why come to Britain? You could have gotten a job anywhere in the states with your degrees. Why here?" This question had been burning through him the past few weeks and he felt he needed to know.

"Well, I got this job, you see." She smiled at the irritated look on his face. "Look, I needed to get away. After the last few years, I needed a new start. I put my heart and soul into getting my degrees. While I was doing that, I got involved with someone that I shouldn't have." Sirius wrapped his arm around her and she leant into him "He needed more help than I could give. We broke up a few years ago but I found I was still brooding. So, I decided I wanted to restart my life somewhere I, mostly, knew the language and that would be interesting to live. I've always enjoyed English history, so I decided to look into Hogwarts."

"Is there anywhere that you would particularly like to see?" he asked.

"I would love to go to Hampton Court." She grinned.

"Let me talk to the family and maybe we can go there soon." She squealed and hugged him tightly.

"That would be awesome!" she grinned. He turned toward her and put his hands on her cheeks as he brought her face up to look at him. He bent down and kissed her. When she opened her mouth to him, he pulled her closer and delved deeper into her mouth.

She made a mewling sound as she ran her hands through his hair and gently pulled on it. He growled as his mouth went to explore her creamy neck and her hands went under his shirt to feel the muscles that she had dreamed of the past few nights.

She pulled herself onto his lap and straddled his waist. She pulled his mouth back to hers and enjoyed the sensation of his hands roaming her body as his lips made her move as close to him as possible. In the process she felt his hardness underneath her.

"Oh Siri. You're amazing." She groaned as she moved again, just to feel his hardness so close to her. Her hand moved from playing with his hair to unbuttoning his jeans. "I want you."

He pulled their lips apart. "I want you too." He groaned as he leant his forehead against hers. "But we can't do this here, now. I won't just shag you because we get too excited. I want it to be right for both of us."

"But we will soon?" She asked hesitantly. Gods, I am a 32-year-old woman acting like a teen. What is wrong with me? Begging for sex with a man that I met not three weeks ago. She thought to herself as she got off him.

"Sooner than you can imagine, love." He laughed huskily.

HP

"Hey, is anyone home?" Yelled Harry as he apparated into the entrance hall.

"In the kitchen." Sirius pitched his voice as Harry came in.

"Is anyone else home?"

"No. Just Jaime and me. Dora took Teddy to see Brianna and the girls and Nev haven't gotten home yet. How'd it go with Venus?" Sirius responded.

"Great. We're going to go by tomorrow and see the kids. Apparently, each kid has asked for us. Penny's been making a nuisance of herself. Every picture she's drawn in preschool has her and me doing something together." He laughed.

"Okay. That's it. I will definitely be bringing her to the Quidditch games this year." Sirius laughed

"Who's Penny?" Jaime asked.

"An orphan who's taken a liking to Harry. She's this cute little red head who just loves him. It's so cute."

"Talking about Penny?" Hermione asked as she and Luna came in the kitchen.

"Of course."

"I told Venus we'd come for a visit tomorrow." Harry kissed his fiancée.

"Sounds lovely."

Soon everyone was home and they were enjoying a Friday Night Movie Night. They decided to watch Terminator 2, which Jaime owned and loved.

HP

Saturday, 12 September, 1998 Crawley, UK

The next morning, Harry woke up with Teddy like normal but Hermione woke up as well. As they were all walking down to the kitchen, Teddy was doing a lot of babbling to himself.

Harry put him in the swing as he started breakfast. A few minutes later, Jaime came in. "Can I help?" she asked.

"Make the bacon, please." Harry asked.

"Of course." She went to the cold box and got it out. Then as she found the skillet, she remarked "Everything is in the same place as your flat. Is that Dobby's doing?"

"Yes. Dobby is utterly amazing." Hermione grinned. "I love the little guy."

"I can see why." Jaime chuckled. "So I understand from Sirius that you two met on the Express your first year but didn't start dating until this last spring, what changed?"

"I saw him die." Hermione replied softly. "He came back but that was my wake-up call." They began to discuss the war and how everyone handled it. Eventually the other members of The Family joined in and contributed their own recollections. For a historian, getting all these primary sources talking was an amazing privilege.

As they all finished breakfast and went up to the game room, Jaime suggested. "You should all write this down. Tell the story from your perspective." As Harry began shaking his head and everyone else started laughing she said. "I know you don't like the publicity, Harry. In fact, I know you hate it. However, as a historian, what you and your friends did is amazing. I'm not just talking about a book centered on you Harry. I'm talking of starting when your parents went into hiding. Telling everyone's story. Telling about Sirius' arrest and imprisonment, your placing with your relatives and not knowing you're a wizard to meeting Ron, Hermione, and Neville. To how you three defeated Voldemort at the end of year one to brewing Polyjuice in year two-which is an incredible accomplishment, to all of your stories. I'm thinking of talking about the DA last year and how you and Luna ran it, Neville. Basically, a book that tells your side so people and future historians know the truth."

"Who would want to write it?" Hermione asked.

"I would love to. But we could get a ghost writer if you don't like that idea."

The four young people looked at each other. "We could do it one time and never have to relive it again." Neville thought aloud.

"She knows us and is becoming part of the family. She wouldn't Skeeter it." Luna added.

Hermione and Harry looked at each other. Jaime could see they were talking without using words. After several minutes of this behaviour, Harry looked at Jaime. "If you're willing to do it. I want everyone's story. This is not about me but about us. I may have held the wand that killed him but a lot of people did more than their share to rid the world of that bastard." He looked at his fiancée. "If it wasn't for this beauty, he'd still be alive. If it wasn't for Nev killing Nagini, he'd still be alive. If it wasn't for Ron, he'd still be alive. Do you understand?" Harry looked directly at Jaime. "I'll trust you to tell it but I want the whole truth put out so I only have to answer these questions once and I can refer everyone to the book to get their information."

"You do realise that you'll have to sit down and be interviewed by me, right?" she asked, knowing how he felt about the press.

"Only you." He said firmly.

She smiled brilliantly at him. "Thank you, Harry." They both stood up and Harry took her hand to shake it when she brought him in for a bear hug.

"Jai-nee—breathe" He got out.

"Oh. Sorry." She grinned as she let up. "The historian in me is doing backflips, cartwheels and any kind of gymnastics it can think of right now. I'm going to need to go through archives of the Daily Prophet." She paused a minute to take a breath. "I wonder if there's enough information about the First Blood War to write a book as well."

They spent the rest of the day playing pool or in the pool telling stories about their experiences. By that evening, when everyone went to get ready for the Alliance Dinner, Hermione, Luna and Jaime had a basic outline for each book.

HP

That evening, they ate the meal first while the heirs caught up. Most of them had gotten permission from the Headmistress to go off grounds that night because she was there herself.

"Do we want to present our ideas on the upper and lower house system to the group here tonight?" Bill asked.

"Why wouldn't we?" Daphne Greengrass asked.

"I'm just worried we're asking for too much change too fast." Bill replied.

"I'm afraid if we don't do it now, they won't listen. Right now, they're actually listening. I think we should at least broach it." Ernie MacMillan offered.

"You're making sense Ernie." Robert McGonagall, Malcolm's son, confirmed.

"Okay." Nev stood. "Vote. Aye to talking about this tonight is lit. Nay is unlit."

"Aye's have it. We'll discuss it after old business is taken care of." Nev intoned.

Sirius then gave a report about what each committee that had given their report had said. Augusta then let the Heirs know what had passed.

Silas gave a report about which committees still need to present.

Melania raised her hand and Silas called on her. She stood. "Weren't these reports supposed to be finished before summer was over?" she asked to which many of the older members started wholeheartedly laughing.

When Silas understood that she was embarrassed he said. "Mel, it's nothing to be embarrassed of. You would think that you'd be right but there is a general rule of thumb when dealing with Wizengamot. Add at least two weeks to any deadline it sets. For instance, the tax committee we formed around your ideas is supposed to present at the beginning of October. I don't expect that presentation until the end of October, beginning of November."

"Oh." She smiled.

"Is there any new business you Heirs want to discuss?" Silas asked. To Nev, it seemed that the leaders of the Alliance were now Sirius, Gran and Silas. Interesting, how they dominated the talking points.

"Yes Sir. William Weasley for those who don't know."

"The red hair makes it obvious son." Elphias Doge remarked.

Bill grinned. "Quite right. Anyway, we wanted to talk about more fair representation in Wizengamot.

"Who are we not including now?" Charles Abbott asked tiredly.

"Daddy! That's enough!" Hannah nearly shrilled.

"I'm listening sweetie." He replied fondly.

"So, here's what we are thinking." Bill began to explain.

The talk went long into the night until the Heirs had felt listened to—although nothing was decided. This made a few of the Heirs mad and they agreed to talk at school the next few weeks.

HP

The next day was a very restful day for the family. The Grangers came for breakfast and Hermione and Luna spent time in the library trying to animate a few board games. They had gotten Monopoly ready and were going to take it back to Hogwarts to let people play with it. They were working on Scrabble now.

"What really takes so long is figuring out what part of the game can be magicked and how to do those specific parts." Hermione was explaining to Jaime as she researched.

"What about creating an all magic Gameboy system. You already have the runes and charms to keep a muggle one running around magic but could you magick one specifically with wizard appropriate games?" Jaime wondered.

"I think we can create the Gameboy using magic rather than electronics but the games themselves would be difficult." Hermione answered.

"I can work on creating one or two games if you want to figure out how the Gameboy will work. It'll give my imagination a workout." Luna smiled.

"That sounds good."

"You two work well together. Did you know that?" Jaime asked.

"Yep. We've learned that." Hermione smiled. "Honestly MIT started as an extension of a school project. It grew too big for us, now we have a business manager who takes care of that side of things. You'll meet her in a little while. You know Bill from last night?" she nodded. "His wife Fleur is our business manager."

That evening they had another family dinner with the Weasley's Longbottoms and Lovegoods. Then they went back to school.

Wednesday 16 September 1998 Head's dorm

That Wednesday, the Heads were done with classes and were getting ahead on homework when Dora, Flitwick, Jaime and the Headmistress came to visit. Since their door was open, the teachers knocked and came in.

"Hello, Professors. Have a seat. How can we help you?" Hermione fluttered about cleaning up the room that only had homework or books out.

"Sit down Ms. Granger please." McGonagall implored. Once Hermione, Harry and Luna were seated she said. "Because of the number of muggleborn and half-bloods who did not start last year or did not come back for whatever year they were in, we now have an excess number of students around. As I really didn't estimate correctly when hiring this year, we find ourselves in need of help." She sighed. "We have enough students to fill two extra first year and one extra second year class in Charms, Defence, and History. Now, I know from talking with Professor Richardson and Professor Black that you three are considering getting your Masteries in those areas. Part of the Mastery completion is teaching three years of classes while getting your Mastery. What I am suggesting is that you could take these classes off our current teachers' schedules and gain credit for your mastery before you graduate. Would you like to do that?"

"I would." Luna piped up.

"Thank you, Ms. Lovegood." Filius sighed.

Hermione and Harry were doing their nonverbal communication that everyone commented on. They both nodded. "We'd be more than happy to help Headmistress. However, Luna and I may need some guidance as to how to actually teach. We've never done it before, even if Harry has."

"That is no problem." She gave a relieved smile.

"Yeah, but I've only ever taught what the students needed to know. I have no idea about lesson planning. You did all that Mione."

"Ms. Lovegood, why don't you come to my office and we can talk about lesson planning?" Flitwick offered as Luna jumped up.

"Let's go into my study Harry." Dora led the way to her flat.

"I guess that leaves us here Hermione." Jaime grinned as she put her briefcase on the table.

"Great. Can you e-mail the lessons to me?"

"Sure." She got out her computer and they began to work.

"When is my first class?" Hermione asked.

"Monday."

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