Future

Chapter 9:Apologies,Explanations,and Stories of the Future

"Ron! Harry!" Hermione gasped when she saw her boyfriend and bestfriend. She stood up quickly and walked over to them.

Just as Harry opened his mouth to speak, Ron interrupted ."Alexandria,Harry Arthur. I am sorry for acting the way I did. I shouldn't have reacted the way that I did. I know that you two where telling the truth now. I don't know why I was so harsh..."

"It's okay daddy. We understand that everything we told you must've been hard to take in." Alexandria said walking over to Ron and hugging him. Hermione smiled and put an arm around Lexi's shoulders then the three turned to gaze at Harry Arthur who stood stoically across the room staring at them.

Ron walked over to him and said,"Look,I know it might be really hard for you to forgive me and understand why I was being such a prat and I understand that. I just hope you can soon."

Harry Arthur looked at him and said,"You where a real arse d'you know that?"

Ron looked embarassed as he nodded.

"I was really angry. So much that at that moment I kind of hated you. I really did not understand why you couldn't accept us. I mean we look so much like you and mum." Harry Arthur said quite honestly. "I still don't understand. I won't pretend that I do either. But...I guess I can forgive you."

Ron and Harry Arthur shook hands and walked over to where Hermione and Lexi stood.

Harry groaned impatiently then asked in a rushed kind of voice,"Okay you two,I would really like to know what you mean when you say that I will 'sacrifice myself'. Because that is just bloody insane."

Alexandria looked at her mum and then her brother. She stepped over torwards where Harry stood,then looked down. "Uncle Harry,I----Well there isn't any easy way to tell you something so serious like this but,your the final horcrux. You have to sacrifice yourself to kill Voldemort. It is something about part of Voldemort being in you. I mean you are both parselltoungues,mum and dad told us all about the big old uproar in your second year when everyone thought that you where Salazar Slytherin's heir and how everyone except the Slytherins and mum and dad thought that you where the one hurting all the muggleborns."

"What? So I kill myself because I have a bit of Voldemort in me?! But Dumbledore said that I wasn't like him." Harry said,upset.

Alexandria looked him in the eye fiercly and said,"Your not!! He may have transferred some of his powers to you but you are NOT like him!!! "You don't kill people just for fun or because you don't like them!! You don't torture muggles and don't tear families apart! You are NOT like him!"

Hermione,Ron,and Harry Arthur stared at Alexandria amazed. No one had ever called Harry out like that before.

Harry looked at Alexandria and then torwards Hermione,Ron,and Harry Arthur. "I..I have to be alone for awhile to think about what you just said." he said walking torwards the door backwards and grasping for the doorknob blindly. When the door finally opened he hurried out,tears in the corners of his eyes.

" Harry! Don't do this!! Don't ignore your friends!! We need to talk about what you just heard!" Hermione screamed,but it was too late. Harry was already out the door.

Lexi walked over to her parents and brother and said,"He just needs to be alone for awhile. He just needs to figure things out."

"Is there anyway to save him while still destroying Voldemort?" Ron asked Lexi and Harry Arthur.

Harry Arthur nodded and looked at his father,"Yes dad there is. Through the blood ritual. We made it up last year to be able to protect ourselves,you,mum,Damien and Emalayah."

"Who are Damien and Emalayah?" Hermione asked.

"Damien is our six year old brother and Emalayah,who I call Emi is our sister." Alexandria said.

"Okay then,what is the blood ritual? How do we do it?" Hermione asked her children.

"You just make a small cut into your hand and drop it into a little goblet and you get one phoenix tear and mix it with the blood and you hold it over the person who is hurt or dead and say, 'I give part of thyself for thy greater good. To save a life who is hurt,or dead.' " Harry Arthur said staring at them.

It won't hurt you will it?" Ron asked worriedly.

"Of course it won't." Alexandria said softly. "There will be a sting of pain from the cut but other than that it won't."

"Okay then. We will do it for Harry." Hermione said,holding her boyfriend's hand and meeting her daughter's eyes. "Count us in."

"Right now that we have gotten that figured out,tell us more about the future." Ron said happily.

"What do you want to know dad? We told you that you have two other kids." Harry Arthur said,amused.

"Well I for one want to know what our jobs are." Hermione said softly,running a hand through her chestnut hair.

"Figures." Ron said.

"What do you mean by that Ronald Billius Weasley? You had better not be making fun of me!" Hermione said gloweing at him.

"Well mum your a writer. You wrote books on your adventures with Harry and you also wrote books on elf rights and books on you and daddy and books on Werewolves and other creatures people don't understand. With your power you made it so house elves get paid for what they do with either a day off,money,or clothes. And daddy you are the Minister of Magic." Alexandria said.

Hermione squealed happily. "Oh! I can't believe I helped the house elves and I am a writer! Oh and Ron you are the minister!"

"To say the least we have more money than even the Malfoys did. I mean mum, people pay alot for your books. And with dad being the minister. People think we are really spoiled." Harry Arthur said with a grin.

Lexi sighed in exasperation and said,"They don't care about that! The thing is that you guys both work from the houses we are always going out on trips and everything. A week ago in our time mum had a book signing in Canada and took all of us with her and then after the signing we went to an amusement park and then flooed home."

"Wait! Who did Ginny marry?" Ron asked.

"Aunt Ginny married Neville Longbottom they have six sons. No daughters. Ginny is a housewife and Neville is an auror." Harry Arthur said.

"Did Harry date anyone before he died?" Hermione asked curiously.

Alexandria nodded and said,"He dated Luna Lovegood. You told us how he began dating her in the beginning of May and how he said that he thought he loved her."

"Loony Lovegood?" Ron asked in shock.