Brief scenarios (this may or may not continue into another chapter(s).

The Naming of Albus Severus Potter:

"No." The plain, yet stern, voice stated.

"Aw, c'mon Gin! It's the perfect name!" Harry James Potter, Boy-Who-Lived and Man-Who-Conquered, whined.

Ginny glared harshly at her husband and father of their two children, one of which was still growing in her belly, and with all the grace of a pregnant mother she marched up to Harry and, reaching out to grab him by his lapel, yanked him down so she could stare angrily into his eyes. She had to fight the fluttering in her chest at seeing those marvelous green...'No!'

"You listen here, Harry James Potter! I will not allow you to name our son, or any our children that we may have in the future, after two men that made your childhood and time at Hogwarts hell! Do you understand me!?" Her voice, surprisingly, had not raised whatsoever, instead, she had almost been whispering and that had put the fear of his wife in him.

Still, he was confused about something.

"What are you talking about Ginny? I mean, I acknowledge Albus putting me with the Dursleys but I understand why he had to do it. And Severus...well, he had his reasons t..."

Slap!

Harry was wide-eyed, his face slightly turned from the right handed slap that had been delivered by his darling wife. By now, Ginny's entire frame was heaving with barely-restrained wrath.

Hermione Weasley nee Granger stood idly to the side, leaning against the wall with her arms crossed in front of her. She hadn't reacted on bit to the slap.

"You. Will. Listen. To. Me. Dear husband! I conceded to your wishes when you wanted to forgive the Malfoys of all their wrongdoings from before you were even born to their good-for-nothing piece-of-shite son! Or did you forget it was their family that hosted you, Hermione and Ron and stood by while Hermione was tortured in their very own home!?' Hermione looked away briefly as phantom pains surfaced but she pushed them away. Harry on the other hand had gone white at the reminder. 'Still! I conceded that you had forgiven them because that's who you are!."

Ginny grit her teeth as her next words came out.

"I conceded when you forgave those animals you think of as relatives for everything they ever done to you, and still do whenever we have to visit! But you just had to forgive the Dursleys. 'It's what Dumbledore would've wanted'you said.' Ginny sneered at those remembered words. 'However, I will not concede to allowing a child of mine sharing a name with either of those two bastards!"

Harry could only stare in shock at his wife and just as he made to try to refute his wife's words, he found himself on his back with a suddenly sore jaw.

'Still has the right hook, I see'

Ginny stood, with one foot on either side of her husband's sides, and simply looked down at him plainly.

"Do you remember, Harry? Do you remember all those times you complained about wanting to be just a normal wizard? Do you?!" She raised her voice at the end, the anger boiling just below the surface as years of suppressed annoyance come to the fore. Harry nodded slowly, it was true after all, he just wanted to be normal and he had always hated his fame.

"You know' Ginny suddenly spoke, a thoughtful look on her face. 'Had you taken to politics like I suggested you should all those years back, there would be a very easy thing you could say right now that would cause me to give in to you without a fight. Too bad for you, you wanted to be normal." The sneer was back.

Hermione chuckled from the side, it was she after all that had thought of that angle Harry could've taken to get his way. It was also her that had told Ginny that Harry wouldn't do it because he didn't know about it. Ron hadn't been able to do it either when Hermione had suggested they name their first-born son after their best friend and the person that had made it possible for two such different people to ever find each other, much less fall in love. Ron, of course, had thrown a fit in jealousy for some reason and had suggested, instead, 'Hugo'. Hermione had put her foot down and that had been the end of that. Harry Weasley was born to the family much to Ron's consternation and Harry's embarrassment.

"But! You didn't want to do that, you wanted to be normal. You could've at least read up on our society's endless sea of rules and traditions but that wasn't for you either. So now, we are going to have our second son and his name will not be 'Albus' or "Severus', nor will it be 'Remus' or anything of the like. In fact, 'Fabian' or 'Gideon'. Pick one, because that will be the first name. I'll let you know when I've chosen the middle name."

And with that, Ginny left. As she did, Hermione walked over to help her friend back to his feet and when she saw the look on his face she decided to nip this in the bud.

"Harry, think of our first year. Can you tell me how many different students share a name with the Headmaster?" She looked on expectantly while Harry wracked his brain before coming up short. She nodded and continued.

"Now, from second year to sixth, tell me how many students share your name." Again, he could answer with nothing.

"No one really does that kind of thing Harry. Sure, maybe now there are a few 'Harrys' out there, my own son included' Harry flushed in remembered embarrassment and Hermione rolled her eyes. 'It's not a normal thing, Harry. George did it with his son but I think that can be chalked up to a twin thing. Don't repeat this but, Ginny didn't even want to agree with the names you chose for your first-born."

Harry looked shocked by this revelation and before his usual depression, or anger, could enter the scene Hermione soldiered on.

"Harry James! You named your first-born after two men that barely had any impact on your life that you can recall! You never knew your father and that's a tragedy but even if he gave his life for you and your mum, you knew practically nothing about him until far after graduation. It's the same for Padfoot, you only knew him briefly and whenever we were at headquarters you were always too busy moping about or being angry about something Dumbledore had done to truly get to know your Godfather. I'm guessing you wanting to honor him by naming your first-born after him, even as a middle name, is out of grief and guilt rather than a honest wish to honor him."

At his quick move into defense, Hermione smacked him lightly on the arm.

"You know it's true! That's the way you are Harry, it's always been like that. Back to what I was saying though, no one names their children after their heroes, hardly anyone even names their children after a relative either. You say you want to be normal yet you're going against the norm. Think about that Harry."

With that, she walked out to follow after Ginny leaving a thoroughly confused and defeated Harry Potter.