The Founding of Happiness
by Healer Teddylonglong
All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.
COMPLETELY AU! Partly OOC! Time travel!
It is my story, and I intend to write it the way I want it. If you don't like it, don't read it.
Reviews are very welcome, as they inspire my muse. Thank you very much for the kind reviews for the previous chapter!
Harry and Godiva remained in the future until the end of the holidays, before Harry flashed them back into his parents' time, where they enjoyed Christmas for the second time within a fortnight.
The day before he flashed back to the future, Harry spoke with his parents about the ministry's newest attempt to interfere with the school and his concern as to whether or not the castle would be able to prevent a ministry employee from teaching.
"The castle should well be able to defend the school from such kind of intervention," Salazar said firmly, raising an eyebrow at his oldest son.
"Harry, if it will reassure you, I'll accompany you to the future again when you go back at the end of the summer holidays," Godric suggested, causing Harry to cast his father a hopeful look.
"Thanks a lot, Dad," he sighed in relief. "In that case, should I tell Dumbledore the truth about me before the summer holidays, so you don't have to play the hide and seek game like you did last year?"
Godric smirked. "Well, the hide and seek game as you call it wasn't so bad. Fawkes and I had a lot of fun. However, I suggest that you finally tell the poor old man the truth. I don't think you're in danger of being sent to the Dursleys, especially as it would merely take you an Animagus transformation and a flash to get away from them."
"I wouldn't even have to transform," Harry mumbled dryly, recalling how he had flashed Severus and Löwi back to the past in his human form.
ハリーと幸せの願い
Harry arrived in the future early the morning of the last day of the winter holidays. Knowing that in contrary to the other years all his friends were in the castle, he trailed down to the Great Hall for breakfast, sitting down at the still mostly empty Gryffindor table between Hermione and Blaise on one side and the Weasley twins on the other side. Groaning inwardly as he realized that he had forgotten to take a headache potion he forced down a few bites of his breakfast and played with the remaining food on his plate, unconsciously listening to the twins' conversation.
"McGonagall will complain to Mum if we fail the test, Fred, and she's going to send us a Howler that there is no possible way we could forget to study for it."
"We could fake being sick, but I'm not sure how," Fred replied thoughtfully, causing George to snort.
"If we were both sick when we were supposed to be taking a test, she'd send us to Pomfrey, and you can't fool her."
Harry leaned over to the twins. "Come to my room in a few minutes. I have something that'll help you." Smirking at the twins' delighted looks he explained about his potion, which he had brewed for Draco before the Yule Ball, causing the twins to throw him frightened looks. "I'll call Draco, so he can explain what it was like," he promised as he stood up and walked by the Slytherin table, whispering to Draco. "Could you come to my room when you're done here please? I need your advice."
"Of course," Draco agreed and stood up to follow Harry out of the Great Hall.
Back in his room, he asked Draco to advise the twins about the potion, causing Draco to blush slightly. However, when the twins arrived he told them about his sick day, and Fred and George immediately agreed to try the potion out as well.
"The only problem is," Harry threw in, "that the potion lasts a day, so you can either wait until tonight or take the double amount of it and hope that it'll last two days. If you take the normal amount right now, it could be that Pomfrey releases you in time for classes."
The twins decided to take two phials each and gulped down the potions just as Hermione and Blaise entered the room, shaking their heads as understanding set in. Together the four friends brought the twins to the hospital wing as soon as they sported the first green pustules. Hermione and Blaise called Madam Pomfrey while Harry and Draco helped the twins into beds.
"Strange," the Mediwitch said, "you got it much worse than Mr. Malfoy the other day, although it seems to be the same illness and you obviously caught it from him." She threw a worried look at Hermione, Blaise, and Harry, lingering at Harry's face a little longer as he was extremely pale. "Mr. Malfoy, you may stay if you wish, everyone else out immediately," she finally shooed the children out.
"Harry, I think she suspects you. Did you see the strange look she gave you?" Hermione said worriedly when they were back in Harry's room.
"I noticed that," Blaise agreed. "Maybe you should wait a few hours and take the potion as well."
"No, I have enough of a headache as it is. I forgot to take my headache potion, which I always need after flashing," Harry mumbled painfully, absentmindedly taking a phial from the shelf and gulping it down. 'That tasted strange,' he mused in confusion, noticing that the headache didn't recede but intensified. "Oh no!" he groaned as realization set in. "I took the wrong potion. That wasn't a headache potion; it was the potion I gave to the twins."
"Well, let me take you to Madam Pomfrey," Hermione said dryly, pointing at the faint green spots that had quickly appeared on his hands.
"No, I'll just stay in bed here; no one needs to know since I have no intentions of missing classes anyway," Harry mumbled and proceeded to spend the day in bed, feeling absolutely dreadful. He only noticed faintly that Hermione sat on the edge of his bed, wiping his flushed face with a wet towel, before he drifted off to sleep. The next thing he registered was an icy cold hand on his forehead. When he groggily opened his eyes, only to quickly close them again right away, since the light in the room was so bright, he saw Minerva looking at him in concern, and a few minutes later Madam Pomfrey's voice penetrated his ears.
"Yes, he caught the same illness the twins have. He needs a day of bed rest, but I don't mind if he stays here."
ハリーと幸せの願い
For the rest of the school year, the whole school's attention was drawn to the Triwizard Tournament, especially when Cedric won the second task as well, and everyone had high hopes that Hogwarts would win the tournament. Thinking of the third task, Harry suddenly had an idea. In fact, he had been feeling fairly lonely missing Godiva over the last few months, especially as he saw all of his friends together with their partners. Even if Harry spent all his evenings together with Severus either brewing the Wolvescure potion or studying for his Potions Mastery, he still did his homework together with his friends, thinking about Godiva when he watched his friends kissing and cuddling.
'Her birthday is on the twenty-fifth of May, and that's about the time of the third task,' he mused, deciding to fetch her to watch the event on her birthday.
When Harry informed his friends about his plan, Hermione warmly replied, "I believe that's a very good idea."
"Harry, I think it's a good idea too, but if I were you, I'd tell Dumbledore the truth about yourself and Godiva, before you bring her here again," Blaise replied thoughtfully, causing Harry to think about the matter.
"Yes, you're probably right," he admitted. "I'll go and speak with him right away."
"Harry, it's already near curfew," Hermione tried to reason. "We have to leave by the way."
Everyone hurried out of the room, while Harry transformed into his phoenix form and flashed straight into the Headmaster's office, landing next to Fawkes on his perch.
#Oh Sandyboy, what a surprise this is# Fawkes trilled happily, causing Dumbledore to throw them a confused look.
#I came to tell the Headmaster the truth. Do you think he'll be angry about the intrusion?#
#Are you angry at my nestling for coming in without knocking, old man?# Fawkes queried, causing Dumbledore to shake his head in confusion.
"Maybe you could introduce your friend to me, Fawkes."
Harry flew down onto the floor and transformed into his human form. "I'm sorry, Professor, for flashing straight into your office, but I didn't want to spend half the night guessing the gargoyle's password," he apologized, sighing.
"Don't worry about that, my boy. It's a pleasant surprise to see you visit Fawkes and me," Dumbledore replied gently, obviously confused enough to offer Harry a lemon drop. 'That must be a first,' Harry mused, grinning inwardly as he took the offered seat.
"Professor, I came to tell you some things about me that I have been keeping secret," Harry began hesitantly, smiling as Fawkes jumped down onto his left arm, turning his back in the direction of his right hand in order to get his head feathers stroked. He continued as he saw the headmaster was listening, "I'm a sand phoenix and as such able to flash through the sands of time. When I was two years old, completely neglected and unloved by the Dursleys, I flashed myself one thousand years back in time to the Founders with accidental magic. I grew up with them until I was eleven and began to attend Hogwarts here in this time. I have already completed my OWLs and NEWTs in the past and am currently studying for my Potions Mastery. I always flash back to my parents' time, and Godiva, my girlfriend, is not from Australia but from the past. I'm sorry for lying to you, Headmaster."
"That explains many things, for example why you're so familiar with Fawkes," Dumbledore mused aloud.
"Yes, he is Dad Godric's familiar," Harry replied, gently petting the bird.
"If you don't mind me asking, Harry, who here in Hogwarts knows about your ability to flash through time?" the headmaster enquired, looking at Harry with clear curiosity.
Harry sighed. "Professor McGonagall has known since I came here. I told her because I needed an adult to turn to, especially as I don't have a head of house. Madam Pomfrey found out by chance, and Professor Snape found out the hard way when I flashed him to the past, so that Dad Salazar could give him a piece of his mind because of his behaviour towards me. My friends have only known for a few months. In fact I told them just before I brought Godiva here for the Yule Ball."
"Thank you, Harry, for telling me the truth," Dumbledore replied thoughtfully, recalling how protective Minerva was of the child.
"Professor, I'd like to bring Godiva here to watch the third task," Harry said hesitantly. "Will that be possible?"
"Where is she going to stay?" Dumbledore queried gently.
"In my parents' quarters' guestroom like when she was here in the winter holidays. I'm staying in my old room from the past, which is connected to Mum Rowena's and Dad Godric's quarters as well as to Mum Helga's and Dad Salazar's quarters," Harry admitted hesitantly, making a mental note to instruct his portrait to never let the headmaster into his rooms.
"You may bring her here, but be careful, Harry, it must be very strenuous to flash over such a distance with a passenger," the Headmaster replied, causing Harry to chuckle.
"No Professor, I'm used to it. I already flashed several times with Professors Snape and McGonagall, and I even brought Dad Godric here. Do you remember the phoenix I brought, who was good friends with Fawkes?"
"That was Godric Gryffindor?" Dumbledore asked incredulously, rolling his eyes as Harry nodded.
"Oh yes, by the way, Dad Godric promised to come here with me after the summer holidays to help us in case the castle won't react on the ministry's interference when the new teacher comes to Hogwarts," Harry informed the headmaster, before the excused himself, leaving the old wizard to mull over what he had just learned.
ハリーと幸せの願い
The morning of the third task, Harry flashed to the past and managed to arrive the morning of the twenty-fifth of May, Godiva's fifteenth birthday. Seeing that he arrived on the correct day and that breakfast was just about to begin, Harry left his room and headed straight to the Great Hall, where he made a short detour to the head table to greet his parents, before he crossed the hall towards the Ravenclaw house table, standing behind Godiva.
"Happy Birthday, beautiful," he whispered into her ear, unobtrusively sliding a small box into her robe pocket.
"Harry!" Godiva exclaimed in happy surprise. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I heard it was my girlfriend's birthday," Harry replied dryly, pulling the girl into a light hug.
"Let's head out onto the grounds for a few minutes," Godiva suggested, causing Harry to put his arm around her shoulders and gently lead her towards the lake.
"Are you going to attend classes with me?" Godiva queried.
Harry shook his head, capturing her mouth in a passionate kiss. "I'm going to spend some time with my siblings and to get some rest, so I can take you with me for a short trip into the future tonight. Today, the third task of the Triwizard Tournament will take place and I thought you might want to watch together with me."
"Oh, I'd love to go with you," Godiva replied, looking happily into Harry's green eyes.
HP
Harry and Godiva found the third task a bit disappointing since it took place in a labyrinth that could not been seen into from outside. Nevertheless, they enjoyed themselves and spent a lot of time with Harry's friends in the quiet of his parents' quarters. With Minerva's approval, Godiva stayed in the future for the three weeks until the beginning of the summer holidays when Harry flashed her back to the evening of her birthday.
"Harry, you know that I love having you here, but don't you need to flash back to finish the school year?" Helga asked curiously, knowing that even in the future the holidays wouldn't begin at the end of May.
"Godiva stayed in the future with me for three weeks," Harry explained happily, "so I'm already on summer holidays."
ハリーと幸せの願い
Exactly three months later, Harry flashed back to the future with his father in tow. Knowing that the headmaster would want a word with Godric before the welcoming feast, Harry flashed them to the early morning of the first of September and sent Löwi out with a short note to inform Professor McGonagall that he was back and that his father had come along as well.
A few minutes later, Minerva entered Harry's room, and after an excited welcome between the two professors, Minerva queried curiously, "Godric, our whole staff is already present. Do you wish them to know about your identity, or should I perhaps introduce you as Milton McGonagall, a distant cousin of mine?"
Harry chuckled, aware of the fact that he was the only one who really knew Milton. Godric would only get to know him in a few years' time, and Minerva only had heard about him from Harry.
"That's a good idea, cousin," Godric chuckled as well, and the three made their way to the Great Hall.
Godric, Albus, and Minerva spent the whole day in a meeting, causing Harry to wonder what they might be talking about.
"Ah, we talked about the new professor from the Ministry of Magic," Godric said, sighing. "It's a woman, and she's going to teach Magical Education. I wonder how the castle will take this act of interference from the Ministry."
"I hope the castle will react," Harry replied sharply. "We have enough brilliant teachers here and don't need anyone from the Ministry here to make things difficult."
An hour later, he was sitting at the Slytherin table, while the students filed into the Great Hall, when he noticed a middle aged woman dressed completely in pink take a seat at the Head table. He quickly averted his eyes in disgust.