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!
With a flash of fire, Fawkes appeared in Harry's room, causing Harry and Godric to sigh in relief. Godric quickly explained what had happened and asked for his familiar's advice.
#Oh, that's very difficult. The Headmaster in this time is an absolute git, so you better not enter the former Gryffindor, now Potter quarters. The Slytherin quarters are all right, because no one is living there anymore.#
"Are you the headmaster's familiar, Fawkes?"
#No, of course not. After being your familiar and that of your nestling Lily, I returned to the land of the phoenixes for a few egg turns. I'll only come back to Hogwarts to become the familiar of Albus Dumbledore, a few hundred years into the future, with the exception of checking in on the castle from time to time.#
"Thank you, Fawkes; I'll see you again in the future," Godric replied gratefully.
"Thank you, Fawkes," Harry echoed, sitting up.
"I will brew the headache potion for you," Poppy said sternly, pushing him back. "I'll be back shortly."
"Let me accompany you just in case," Godric offered and hesitantly opened the door to Salazar's and Helga's quarters.
Harry finally drifted into a restless slumber, only able to relax when he felt his headache recede an hour later as Poppy spelled the freshly brewed potion into his system. A few hours later, he woke up, feeling completely refreshed.
"I'm sorry for making you wait. I'm ready to leave now. Shall I flash both of you to the past, or do you want me to take you back to the future first, Madam Pomfrey?"
"If it's not too strenuous for you to flash two people at once, I'd love to accompany you to the past. I'm very eager to get to know Helga Hufflepuff as well as the other Founders, of course that is if I am welcome to accompany you," Poppy replied thoughtfully, throwing Godric a hesitant glance.
"Of course, you're very welcome to join us in my time."
"Great; please grab my tail feathers," Harry said and transformed into his phoenix form.
This time, he managed to flash them to the first of September, 995.
"Well done, Leo," Godric commended him. "It's time for breakfast. Let's head to the Great Hall."
"Here, Harry." Poppy handed him a small phial with a light green liquid, which Harry recognized as a headache potion.
"Thank you so much, Madam Pomfrey," he said gratefully, quickly gulping down the cool liquid.
Only Rowena, Helga, Salazar, Godiva, and Harry's younger siblings were eating breakfast in the Great Hall. 'Oh right, the students won't return until tonight,' Harry mused as he allowed his parents and his girlfriend to pull him into bear hugs. In the meantime, Godric introduced Poppy to his colleagues.
"I am so happy you could come and visit us here," Godiva said gently. She liked the future's healer a lot.
"It was only an accident, although I was already planning to ask Harry to bring me back with him sometime," Poppy confessed and explained how she had ended up flashing with Godric and Harry, causing Helga to throw Harry a glare that made him cringe.
Knowing that even if Godiva had seen Harry the previous evening, right before he flashed to the future, Harry himself hadn't seen his girlfriend for a few months, Helga gave her student assistant the day off, and Poppy immediately offered to help with the last preparations that were needed for the new school year.
"Thank you so much, Mum Helga, Madam Pomfrey," Harry said gratefully and turned to his girlfriend. "What would you like to do, beautiful?"
Godiva remained pensive for a short while, before he hesitantly replied, "It's such a wonderful autumn day. I'd love to go horseback-riding if you don't mind."
Harry agreed immediately. They asked the house-elves for a picnic lunch and spent the whole day riding over the beautiful early autumn landscape. While they sat on the shore of a small lake eating their lunch, Harry told Godiva everything that had happened in the future since the beginning of his fifth year.
"Oh, that was brilliant," Godiva cheered as he told her about how the castle had handled Umbridge and Fudge. "I just love this castle. I hope I'll always be able to live in it."
"We will," Harry replied, giving her a loving smile. "At least, I intend for us to."
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When Harry slid into bed that night, he mused, 'What am I going to do now? I only intended to bring Dad Godric back, but since I brought Madam Pomfrey here, she'll want to stay for a while. On the other hand, I'll be happy to spend some time with Godiva, although she'll be very busy now in her fifth year with her additional tasks in the hospital room, but on the other hand, I'd like to continue my studies for the OWLs and get them over with, so I can concentrate on my Potions Mastery.'
Feeling too tired to make a decision he resolved that he would ask Poppy how long she wanted to stay in the past first. 'I could just flash a few weeks into the future to pick her up,' he thought as he drifted off to sleep.
"Harry, I don't mind returning to the future right away," Poppy replied gently. "I enjoyed my day with Helga immensely, and I'd like to ask you to bring me here again, for example over the summer holidays, but when we left, I was just in the middle of dealing with the beginning of a wizard's measles epidemic, and I'd like to get that over with before getting too much of a distance away from the problem. Do you understand what I mean?"
"I understand completely, and I can bring you back here with me next summer," Harry promised.
"Harry, I just need you to do me a favour, before we leave," Poppy told him in an apologizing tone, causing Harry to throw her a curious look.
"I believe it would be good if you could brew the potion for the measles and the immunization potion. I don't think any of us caught the measles, but theoretically you, your father, or I could have brought it here, and it's contagious even before you know you're ill."
Harry did as he was told and afterwards took a short nap until dinner, which he ate together with Godiva at the Ravenclaw table. Finally, he motioned Poppy to follow him into his room, from where he flashed them back to the first of November, 1995.
'Thank Merlin, I managed to arrive at the right date and even just about the time we left,' he realized, glancing at his calendar.
The healer thanked him profusely and hurried to the hospital wing that was full with sick students. Glad that Madam Pomfrey had excused him from his morning classes before their trip to the past, so he had some free time for himself, Harry took a short nap, before he headed to the Great Hall in time for lunch, horrified to see the Gryffindor table was completely empty.
"The whole House is quarantined because of the outbreak of the wizard's measles. Although most of the magically raised students can't get it, because normally magical parents have their kids immunized against it when they're small, they could still give it to others. Nearly all of the muggle raised students in Gryffindor have taken ill. I don't envy Madam Pomfrey looking after so many patients," McGonagall explained with a sad expression on her face.
"Oh no! How can she handle that alone? Professor, I'll go and fetch Mum Helga and Godiva so they can help her."
"Are you sure, Harry, they won't mind?"
"Of course not; I'll be back shortly," Harry replied and hurried back into his room. 'It wouldn't be nice to pull Godiva out of her studies for her OWLs; maybe I better flash to the beginning of the summer holidays next year,' he mused, before he transformed and flashed away.
To his surprise, Helga and Godiva were already waiting for him in his room. Seeing his astonished look, Helga smirked. "You already told us about this operation at Christmas, Leofost."
"I see," Harry said and gulped down the headache potion his mother held out for him, surprised that she didn't insist he took a nap before flashing back. 'Well, better to get over this as soon as possible,' he mused, concentrating hard on the proper date and flashed his mother and his girlfriend to the future.
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During the next few days, Harry hardly saw Godiva, since Helga, Poppy, and their apprentice were extremely busy looking after forty sick students.
"Thank Merlin they're only in Gryffindor and in the hospital wing," Godiva told Harry one evening after Helga had dismissed her for the night and ordered her to rest. "And Poppy said if anyone else caught it before the immunization potion was administered, they'd get ill by tomorrow at the latest. So we probably we already got the epidemic under control."
"That's good," Harry replied, smiling, as he laid his arm around the girl's back and tiredly rested his head on her shoulder.
Godiva frowned, noticing that he radiated an abnormal heat. Gently laying a hand on his forehead, she told him, "I'm afraid you're getting sick too. Lie down on your bed and let me check on you please."
Feeling too tired to protest, Harry obeyed and observed the professional manner in which Godiva performed her diagnostic spells in amazement.
"I'm sorry, sweetie, but you have caught the wizard's measles. I'll go and fetch your potions. Do you want me to get your Mum for you?"
"No, don't go. Just stay with me and let me sleep. I'll be fine," Harry mumbled, reaching for her cool hand.
Sighing, Godiva sat on the edge of his bed and wiped his flushed face with a cloth after casting a cooling charm on it, watching as her boyfriend slowly drifted off to sleep. Only then, she went to the hospital wing to fetch his mother to confirm her diagnosis and spell the necessary potions into his system, a spell she wasn't allowed to perform yet.
During the next two weeks, Harry was very ill, but he didn't really mind, because he slept through most of the day, and every time he was awake for a short while, either Godiva or his mother was sitting on the edge of his bed, trying to make him feel better. Only in his third week of being sick Harry felt much better and could really enjoy having his girlfriend and his mother with him. Fortunately, by then the first students that had become ill had already recovered, so Helga and Godiva had time enough to take turns keeping Harry company.
Afraid to aggravate her son's condition by making him flash with two passengers so soon after his recovery and eager to learn more about Healing in the future, Helga decided to remain in the future with Godiva until the beginning of the Christmas holidays a month later.
On the first day of the holidays, Harry flashed the two witches back to their summer holidays, before he flashed six months back in time to have Christmas together with his family, remembering to advise Helga and Godiva to be ready for a six-week visit to the future at the beginning of the summer holidays. 'They have to wait in my room and make me flash back immediately. If I go look for them just a few days before coming down with the wizard's measles, they'll have an epidemic here too.'
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The next few months flew by. The fifth years were busy studying for their OWLs, and Harry even put the studies for his Potions Mastery on ice, eager to get through his exams with the best scores that he possibly could. 'I still have the whole summer holidays for my Potions studies, and if I'm not ready then I can just take the Mastery exam next year,' he decided, and Minerva and Severus, with whom he spoke to about his decision, agreed immediately, encouraging him to concentrate on his OWLs.
'That was really easy,' Harry mused on the last day of the OWLs. 'Somehow, I had imagined the OWLs to be much more difficult than in the past, but in fact they weren't. Thank Merlin. Now I can really concentrate on the Potions Mastery.'
After the leaving feast, Harry was just packing his trunk for the summer holidays, pondering when he should buy the books for the coming school year, when Minerva entered his room.
"Harry, I'm sorry to disturb you, but I have something to speak with you about. In fact, I'd like to suggest something to you, but I can only do that after receiving the results of your OWLs, which will probably be at the end of July. Do you think you could flash back on your birthday instead of the beginning of the new school year?"
Harry remained pensive for a moment, before he replied, "Of course, Minerva. I have to study for my Potions Mastery, and if possible I'd like to take the exam this summer. Afterwards, I can come back here. Would you mind if I brought Godiva with me?"
"Of course not, Harry," Minerva said softly. "Are you going to take Madam Pomfrey with you tomorrow?"
"Oh right, I nearly forgot. Oh well, then I'll have to bring her back at the end of July anyway. She'll have to prepare everything for the new school year. Maybe Godiva can help her."
"That's a good idea, Harry," Minerva said warmly. "Madam Pomfrey spoke of her in the highest regards when she came to help with the epidemic last year."
'It would be great if she could work here together with Madam Pomfrey after taking her NEWTs. Otherwise, I'd have to live in the past with her, considering that Mum Helga already promised to keep her at Hogwarts as a Mediwitch,' he mused as he finished his packing.
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Harry spent the whole summer studying for his Potions Mastery, glad that Salazar had enough time to devote to teaching or supervising him. However, just like in the previous years, his parents made sure Harry did not study the whole day and took enough time to play with his siblings or spend undisturbed hours with Godiva, who had remained at Hogwarts to officially begin her apprenticeship in the hospital room.
During the last week of August, the Potions Mastery was to take place. Harry had five theoretical tests in the mornings, followed by five practical tests in the afternoons.
"A Potions Master from the Ministry is going to come to Hogwarts on Monday morning, and he'll stay until Friday afternoon, Thunderbolt. I have been approved as a second witness in spite of being your father," Salazar explained. "I'm sure you'll do fine," he reassured Harry, calmingly placing both hands on his shoulders.
"I hope so, Dad. Thank you," Harry replied, feeling slightly consoled, knowing that his father would never say such a thing if he didn't believe it.
However, the first day of his exams to him was a disaster, so Harry was not looking forward to what the rest of what his testing week might possibly bring.