Chap 8
"Lily, we're back!" called James.
A woman with flaming red hair came out of the kitchen drying off her hands with a checkered towel.
"James, Sirius, is that you?" she called.
" Yeah and we brought guests. I hope you don' mind." Said James moving out the way so that his wife, Lily, could see who they had brought. Through the door stepped Arthur and Molly Weasley, Sirius, Ron, Fred and George Weasley, Ginny and then apprehensively Harry. Lily's lips immediately started quivering when she saw her son. She started to step towards him as if to run and fling her arms around him but stopped. Harry looked down and mumbled as low as he could "I'm sorry."
Those two words however softly said were all that Lily needed before she ran to, grab, hold, and hug her son while sobbing. While Harry could keep a cool face in front of Voldemort and under the Crucio curse, he couldn't in front of his mother. He soon joined her in sobbing while trying to hold her tighter to him crying softly, "Mom." "Mom"
"Do you think we've lost her?" asked a very scared Moody who was by then hiding behind a large potted plant.
"How does she keep finding us?" asked Tonks who was hiding behind a trashcan and trying her best to blend in using her Metamorphamagus powers.
"Oh, nice aurors, where did you run off to?" called out an overly joyful Henrietta the Mediwitch.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"So…," said James.
"So….," said Harry.
As the awkward family sat in tense silence, Lily busied herself by making tea and snacks.
"Sugar?" she asked.
"No thanks." Said James
"Crumpet?" said Lily.
"ummm…no thanks Lily." Said Sirius with nods in the negative from the other guests.
"Oh…Okay." Said Lily a little put out that her attempt to break the ice didn't work.
"Soo…," said James.
"So…." Said Harry.
"ARR!" said Ginny jumping up.
"I am sick of you guys dawdling in your make-up session. You've been found, you hugged, you've cried and been forgiven. Now hurry up and tell them your bloody plans for the future and why you did all that stuff and lets go! I'm tired and I want to go to bed." Yelled Ginny at Harry.
"Yes dear." Said Harry in voice of child who had just been punished.
"I didn't mean to make everyone completely damaging upset about me leaving." Said Harry.
"Harry, why did you go? Why didn't you tell us what you had planned and see if we could help? We've been fighting them, you do know that don't you?" said James
"That's exactly why I didn't tell anyone or ask for help. You guys, everyone I mean, has been fighting Voldemort for at least 50 years and you hadn't got that close to defeating him. I went in and within two years, I had him defeated and with no way back." Exclaimed Harry.
"What exactly did you planned to do afterwords, tell everyone what you just said? No one is going to exactly believe everything is all humpty-dorey." Said James.
"Well, that was the reason I made that potion that can cure everyone. I was going use their thanks to elect me as minister of magic and make it so the death eaters got mild sentencing or something so they could go back to their normal lives. That's kind of the reason they all went along with my plan." Said Harry.
"What do you mean was?" asked James.
"Well, Ginny doesn't want me to be minister. I don't really and truly understand why but I'll respect that. So, now I'm going to try and get the job as Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor. I'll also get to work beside Ginny." Said Harry.
"YES!" shouted Sirius jumping up. "Hear that James, you owe me 5 galleons."
"Fine," James growled, "I'll give it to you later."
"Am I missing something?" asked Harry.
"Nevermind." Said James.
"So basically that's my plan." Said Harry while rubbing the back of his neck.
"Fine. I guess there's nothing else for us to do but try and help you." Said James
"Really?" asked Harry.
" Yeah Really."
"Harry James Potter, to the charges of using the cruciticas curse on more than half the wizarding population, how do you plea?" Called out the voice of Minister Snartsman.
"Guilty but I fixed that as you well know, seeing as how your son was one of them." Responded Harry, "therefore I don't think it counts seeing as how I fixed more than I broke."
"And you don't think we should give you punishment for hurting more than half the population and giving their families grievances." Asked Minister Snartsman.
"You give me punishment for those things I did in the past and see how I take." Said Harry.
"Are you threating me Mr. Potter?" snarled Minister Snartsman.
"Hmm, No I'm not, I'm warning you. I got rid of Voldemort and the threat of having a new one. Try giving me any punishment and keeping from Ginny and I'll show you just how much like the dark lord I Am." snarled a very pissed looking Harry.
"Fine! Seeing as how nobody wants a new dark lord after this little bit freedom was shown to us. You won't go to Azkaban but, I don't the wizarding world wants to let you go scot-free. Therefore, once a month a ministry official will randomly pop in and check on you." Said Minister Snartsman.
"Randomly! Like when because if they pop in on me in the middle of the night, I will definitely NOT like that. I don't plan on just sleeping you know." Said Harry.
"Hmmph.." snorted the Minister. "I assure you that they will not pop in on you during the middle of the night."
"Oh then that's fine with me." Said Harry looking very much like a satisfied cat.
"Leave now please." Growled the Minister.
As Harry was led out the door by two aurors Ginny came up to him and gave him a look.
"Well, he was nice. I think that went very well, don't you?" said a grinning Harry.
Ginny just gave him another look.
about eight years later
"Alright class, that be all for today. Please write for homework 12-inch parchment on Vampire communities." Said Harry to his class of 3rd years.
As his class stood up and began to gather all their books and papers two young identical faces came running in to the classroom.
"DADDY! DADDY! LOOK WHAT WE FOUND. MOMMY SAID WE CAN KEEP SINCE IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY NEXT WEEK."
"Alright, alright, no need to yell. I get that you excited. Now, what did you want to show… UGGGH, that is the ugliest looking sneazel I have ever seen. It uglier that Hermione's cat. Are you sure your mother said that you could have that for birthday?" said Harry.
"Uh huh, mom said we could have because we're going to be six next week." Said the young boy on the left.
"Six! Now that is a big number. I suppose I could live with it. After all you're going to be such big boys now." Said Harry.
"YEAH!" screamed the boys.
"Now Sirius," said Harry to the boy on the right, "I do not like getting told by other members of the staff, namely one with an over sized nose, that they saw you change the color of his robes to pink."
"I'm sorry daddy." Said Sirius.
"That alright,"said Harry upon seeing his son's fallen look, "Please, next time don't get caught."
"ALRIGHT, I won't, I promise." Said Sirius exitedly.
"Good, now Jamie," said Harry to the boy on the left, "next time your grandfather teaches you words like dick-less prat, please do not say them to the person he's talking about because I again do not like getting complaints from that oversized nosed prat."
"Yes daddy." Said James
"Good, now take your new friend and get something to eat. By the way, where's Maggie?" asked Harry.
"She's with mommy." Said both of the boys.
"Oh good, I could use a couple kisses right now from your mommy." Said Harry heading for the door.
"EWwww." Said James and Sirius as their dad laughed his way out of the Defense against the dark arts room.
at the hospital wing
"Ginny, my classes are done for the day." Called Harry while looking for his wife.
"Daaaadddddy," came a screaming little girl running at Harry.
"Maggie," giggled Harry as he caught his four-year old daughter and swung her around in the air. "Did you have fun day?"
"Uh huh, I colored." Giggled the little curly red head girl.
"That's great and I bet your real hungry now too."
"Uh huh, I'm hungwy."
"Well your brothers are going to get something to eat at the Great Hall." Said Harry
"Here," said Madame Pompfrey (sp?) coming around the corner, "I'm headed that way anyway myself, I'll take her there."
"Oh thank you very much Poppy." Said Harry as Poppy took Maggie's hand gently.
"You know," said Ginny finally speaking after watching her husband and daughter lovingly, "a wife could jealous of her daughter watching you two."
"Oh, so you feel left out do you? Well here let me just fix that," said Harry pulling Ginny close to him and bringing her into a soul shattering kiss.
When the kiss finally ended Harry looked at Ginny and said, "I'm glad you waited for me Ginny."
Ginny looked up and said, "Me too Harry, me too."
The End… of the story.