Posted: 19 October, 2009

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Chapter 5 - Picking Floo Addresses

Three weeks later, Harry Apparated to LongGood Nurseries then headed inside, finding Neville and Luna together in the office doing paperwork.

"Harry!"

Luna's cheerfully greeting was accompanied by a hug and a smacking kiss on the lips. Used to her enthusiasm by now he just smiled, though he did throw Neville an assessing glance. The blond man just rolled his eyes at his long time girlfriend's behaviour and gave his own greeting.

"Hello Harry, what are you up to?"

"Oh, yes," Luna said. "I heard you were going to open an orphanage and school for the underprivileged. It's a lovely idea."

Taking a seat on the couch as Neville served tea, he explained his less than effective start before finding Tracey Davis, and all that had happened since. Both were interested to hear all the details.

"Barnaby's crew only took two days to do all the repairs, and then the day after that one of his men – Craig – sat down with me and we went over all the details on the warding. I had Davis there for that meeting actually, to make sure it would all be within required standards, and then the next day Craig and his apprentice did the actual warding."

"And it all went smoothly?"

"Perfectly Luna. Next thing I need to do is connect the Floo, but I still don't know what to call the places. That's why I came – for some advice and suggestions."

"Oh, can I pick the names?" Luna asked, clapping her hands and bouncing in her seat excitedly. "Can I please?"

"What did you have in mind?" Harry asked, wisely withholding agreement.

"How about…" She hummed thoughtfully. "Oh, I know! 'The Kiddie Pen', and 'The-School-Which-Is-Not-Hogwarts'."

"Those are…" he struggled for a word, "interesting ideas, but not quite what I'm looking for."

Luna pouted.

"How about 'The Potter Children's Home'?" Neville suggested. "It sounds friendlier than saying orphanage."

"I really don't want it named after me," he objected. "But I do like the 'children's home' part. It sounds less severe than 'orphanage'."

"Well, what's the place called now?"

"The school grounds are called the Camden Estate, and the deed for the orphanage grounds was never changed from Greenfield, the original name before the houses were built there."

"So how about 'Greenfield Children's Home'?" Neville said and Harry nodded.

"I like it. And I can use 'Greenfield' for the school's boarding house too. Now I just need a name for the school."

"Fairchance" Luna supplied abruptly. "Because that's why you're starting the school – to give a fair chance to those who would otherwise miss out."

"Fairchance," Harry repeated to himself, thoughtfully.

"The Fairchance Academy," Neville said.

"And you can use a portmanteau GreenFair as the overall project title," Luna added.

Harry smiled. "It's perfect," he said.

..ooOOoo..

After leaving the nurseries Harry went directly the Department of Magical Transport at the Ministry and arranged to have Floo connections to the entrance halls of "Fairchance Academy", and the two largest homes at Greenfield: "Greenfield Children's Home" and "Greenfield Boarding House".

Once that was done, he owled one Kitty Pinkerton, recommended to him by Luna Lovegood. Kitty was one of the Quibbler's lead investigative journalists, and his purpose for contacting the woman was to track down prospective children for placement at either Greenfield or Fairchance.

Miss Pinkerton took precisely one week in her search, and returned to Harry with two lists. One gave names of thirty-eight orphan and foundling children under five, twenty-two between five and ten, and twelve from eleven to under seventeen. The second list was for the schooling side of things, and included an additional fifty-four children who, for financial reasons, were likely to go without education.

If this was not enough, Kitty also provided a profile for each child named, with their situations, address and contact information, personal details, and photograph included. Needless to say, he was both overwhelmed and pleased by the results of the investigator's work. He paid her a bonus for a job well done.

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