The first two weeks passed in mostly silence. Harry was mostly watching for signs of illness. He had also called Hermione he was going out of town for two months for his job. She had said okay and be safe. Harry was lying of course, but thankfully Hermione had gotten less nosy as she got older, as she had learned to be completely aggravated with Mrs Weasley tendency to want to know everything and anything she and Ron were doing, and when they were getting married. Ginny had written him a letter saying she would miss him, but that she was loving being a Holyhead harpie so she knew he would like travelling. Harry had smiled at the letter. He knew he would always love Ginny. He was a Weasley and he loved them all, but she was also his first romantic love as well. Harry quit the Auror department had gone less than fantastic as everyone wanted to know what Harry was doing, Harry had given them the death glare which worked. He hated that it worked. But a lot of people he worked with actually found him scary as Harry was quick to anger with the people they chased earning a reputation as a hardass.

The next week went better. Harry and Arushi 's went to a muggle store and he had let her buy some toys. He had stocked the fridge with foods the kid liked. As well as buying himself a large thing of ice cream.

They had aperated back home, turns out she actually liked side along apparition much of Harry's confusion.

Arushi seemed confused by everything he was doing. She had nightmares neer every night. Harry would sit next to her, but he never touched her as that made things worse. She had actually walked into his room one night when he was having a particularly egregious nightmare of finding Hermione and Ron dead with Voldemort standing over them. Arushi had sat next to him and held his hand.

The next month passed quickly, Harry taught Arushi chess and she made him dance. Harry bought her a computer game which she loved. They read a lot harry helping her learn many. Harry had acquired a new love of reading after the war which Hermione loved. Harry enjoyed sharing the new love with Arushi. Arushi seemed to love reading. She had a lot of difficulties but learning the words made her happy.

Harry also showed her quidditch she had known of the sport but never played. He even bought her a training broom under a glamour. She was not a big fan originally but after Harry allowed the broom to fly at higher levels she loved it. He and Harry would toss the ball back and forth. He figured she would be an excellent Quidditch player.

At the end of their two months, Harry sat next to her on the floor where she was colouring with magic colour changing crayons, a harry original invention.

"Hey, Arushi?" He said quietly.

"Yeah?" She said turning to him her dark eyes looking worried.

"Do you want to stay with me longer?"

"Don't send me away!" She yelled looking terrified.

"No, I want to know if it would be okay with you. If I made it so you could stay here forever?" He asked.

"My parents are dead. I can't be with them I don't want to be with anyone else but you." She said. Rocking back

"Then I'll try and keep you here forever." He said smiling at her.

She smiled back. She did something for the first time. She crawled on his lap and hugged him. Nuzzling her face on his shoulder.

Harry went to the ministry of magic after the two months were up. Harry walked into the department of child welfare. Whose main job was tracking underage wizard, this disgusted Harry as he thought their main job should be actual child wellfair.

He asked if he could petition to adopt Arushi. They shrugged checked for relatives, turned out that her mother had been muggle born something that made Harry wonder why they were on a blood purist watch list something Kingsley had set up. But on the semi-bright side, her mom was an only child and her parents were dead. On her father's side she had a long line of wizards, he too was an only child. His parents were dead, but his parents had five siblings. They flooded their homes, all scoffed and asked why they would want a child of dirty blood. This answered Harry's question of them being on the blood purist watch list. At that point, there were no barriers to harry petitioning to adopt the child. They informed him they needed no character witness and he was harry potter they knew he was fine and good. They just had him sign some papers.

Harry left with a signed adoption certificate. He rode up on one of the elevators and aprarted in the elevator when it reached the top. He arrived in his bedroom. He walked out into the living room to see Arushi making the books, chess set, pictures and another junk float around. Harry suppress a laugh. This was one the happiest time he had seen the girl. Harry knocked on the door, knowing the girl hated being snuck up on. She looked at him and the object fell to the ground.

He sat next to her. He gave her the papers.

"Adoption?" She asked obviously not understanding.

"It means you can stay with me forever." He Explained.

She smiled brightly and danced around to the music coming out the radio looking so happy. Harry could swear a glow was coming from her, but he knew that couldn't be true