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 flashed back into his room at Hogwarts in the future. Quickly downing a headache potion, he looked at the calendar and chuckled. "Oh Godiva, look, today is our one thousandth anniversary." Before his wife could even think about a reply, he continued, "I'm sorry, I just wanted to be back in the future and a familiar place, before I flash us to a destination that I have never been to. Apart from that, it'll be winter where we're going, and I thought it might be wise to change our robes into warm Muggle clothes before we go."
"That was a good idea, Harry," Godiva agreed, giving Harry a sharp look. "Are you well enough to flash again so soon?"
"I'm not until you kiss me here in the future and then I will be," Harry replied, chuckling, and pulled his wife into a long kiss. "Of course we can flash right away. Are you ready?" Seeing Godiva nod, he transformed and concentrated on the information Severus had given him earlier.
"Wow," he heard Godiva exclaim in amazement as he changed back into his human form.
It was lightly snowing, and they were standing on a square in front of an enormous building with two tall towers. To their left, a few people were feverishly brushing off the snow from the ground, while others were finishing paintings on the parchment they had been working on, while groups of people had gathered around them and were watching their efforts. To their right side was what seemed to be a Christmas market with small wooden booths, and it was beautifully decorated with every kind of ornaments one could imagine.
"Oh Harry, this is amazing," Godiva breathed. "Where are we?"
Harry chuckled. "I'm glad you like it. We're in Cologne in Germany, and the huge building in front of us is the cathedral. Do you want to look at the Christmas market, or shall we check in to the hotel first?" He turned around, pointing at a building that seemed very small compared to the cathedral they had been looking at. "This must be the hotel."
"I'd love to see the market. The Christmas decorations are absolutely beautiful," Godiva replied as she grabbed Harry's hand and pulled him with her.
The two newlyweds spent the following three days exploring the three Christmas markets of the city centre, the cathedral and the huge pedestrian area. Harry even managed to buy tickets for the Cologne philharmonics, an enormous concert hall that was situated between the cathedral and the river Rhine.
"Is it true that where we're sitting is below the level of the Rhine?" Godiva asked in disbelief, showing Harry a pamphlet she had received at the entrance.
"Yes, Severus told me about it," Harry replied, smiling at his wife's amazed and happy expression.
"Harry, music here in the future is absolutely wonderful," Godiva sighed contentedly as they returned to the cathedral. "I love this cathedral and all the decorations, it's just beautiful. Thank you so much for bringing me here."
"You have to thank Severus. I didn't know about this place. Now, from where do you want to flash back to Hogwarts?"
Godiva chuckled. "I get to choose? Hmm, that's difficult. Perhaps from inside the cathedral?" she suggested, causing Harry to nod.
"All right." Five minutes later, they stood next to the large nativity scene in the church, and Harry transformed and flashed them back to Hogwarts on their one thousandth anniversary.
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Godiva and Harry spent the rest of the holidays in the past. Harry was very busy flashing all his colleagues back to the future, and just when he had returned Severus back, who was the one who stayed longest in the past in order to brew together with Salazar, Helga reminded him that he slowly had to begin flashing them into the future for their wedding party.
"Would it be possible," Harry began hesitantly, "to take Lily with me to the future? She's my favourite sister, and she is the oldest of all my siblings, and..." He slowly trailed off, throwing his parents an anxious glance.
"I don't mind you taking Lily with you, if you promise to flash her alone and bring her back the morning after your party," Rowena said quietly, knowing that her oldest daughter had been pleading with Harry to take her with him for ages.
"I promise, Mum," Harry replied, laughing when his sister pulled him in a bear hug.
They had decided to hold their wedding party on the first Saturday in September to give the students the opportunity to attend the party if they wanted to.
"Of course they will want to participate," Godiva chuckled when Harry explained the reason for the timing to his parents. "You're the favourite teacher of ninety-five percent of the girls and eighty-five percent of your male students."
"And you should know that best," Helga said knowingly, smiling as she patted the young woman's shoulder, "considering that the students will tell you things, which they won't admit to anyone else."
"So who is holding the other five and fifteen percent respectively?" Salazar queried, quirking an eyebrow.
Godiva chuckled. "Well, with the girls it's Severus and with the boys it's Luna."
"Well, Severus is handsome indeed," Helga mumbled, smirking at Salazar, before she added in a soft voice, "Here in this time it's you of course."
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The wedding party in the future was as much fun as the ceremony in the past had been, although many of the students were disappointed to hear that the original ceremony had already taken place.
"Harry," Minerva approached him in the evening, "I promised the students they could watch the ceremony tomorrow morning in your classroom. Will you please be so kind as to charm the window accordingly?"
Harry groaned in annoyance but grudgingly agreed, before he informed his colleague, "In the morning, I have to flash my sister back to the past, and then Godiva and I are going to take her mother to London tomorrow for a sightseeing trip."
"That's a good idea, Harry," Minerva said warmly. "Don't worry; I'll keep an eye on the students while they are in your classroom."
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Harry enjoyed the following months very much. Not only Godiva's mother, but also his own parents decided to spend a few weeks in the future and finally ended up remaining until the beginning of the winter holidays, from where Harry took them back to the summer of their wedding. Only with Lily Rowena had been adamant that Harry had to take her daughter back right after the wedding party, because at her age being a few months older than her classmates would be a big deal.
'No one ever noticed that I was older because of spending weeks in the past and then in the future,' Harry mused but did not voice his thoughts and obliged.
After taking his parents and Godiva's mother back to the past, Harry flashed to his parents' time along with Godiva to spend Christmas with their families in the past. "My parents invited your mother to stay at Hogwarts over Christmas and she agreed," Harry informed his wife as they were getting ready to leave.
However, when Harry flashed them back on the last day of the holidays, their quarters seemed awfully quiet now that their parents were back in their own time after staying with them for more than three months. "As much as I enjoy having some private time just for ourselves, it's very quiet, isn't it?" he asked, pulling her close.
Godiva nestled deeper into his embrace and let out a small laugh. "Let me tell you something, Harry. The next six months will be the last bit of quiet time we get for many years." She gently reached for his hand and moved it until it came to rest on her stomach. "They seem to have a very strong magic. I'm only in my fifteenth week, but I can already feel them. Just leave your hand there for a while, and you might be able to feel them as well."
"Them?" Harry blurted out, only slowly understanding what his wife was telling him. "You're pregnant? With twins?"
"Yes Harry. I've known that I was pregnant for a few weeks. Poppy and Helga both noticed long before I realised it, and they have been checking on me once a week to make sure everything is progressing normally. I'm sorry for not telling you earlier, but I wanted to wait until I could feel the child, because I thought it would be a better surprise if you could sense it as well. They didn't tell me that it was twins though. They only said that I would be in for a surprise, but Poppy took an ultrasound this afternoon when we came back, and I saw that there were two small ones. I'll show you the photo Poppy gave me later."
"Uh, what are they doing?" Harry asked, terrified as he felt something like a huge wave run from the left to the right of Godiva's stomach.
"They're obviously having fun," Godiva replied, chuckling. "Their magic must be extremely strong; otherwise we wouldn't be able to feel them at all yet. Here, place your hand here; I think that's a foot."
"Do you know if they're girls or boys yet?" Harry asked, gently moving his hand over his wife's stomach in amazement.
"Poppy and Helga know, but I asked them not to tell me, because I thought they should tell us together," Godiva said softly, as she slowly drifted off to sleep in Harry's arms.
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During the following months, Harry accompanied Godiva to each of her check-ups with Poppy and watched in amazement how the twins developed. With a wave of her wand, Poppy connected Godiva to a magical ultrasound device with a huge monitor that displayed the babies without their surroundings.
"Look, they're both girls," Godiva pointed out excitedly. "The last time I couldn't see it clearly, but..." She slowly trailed off as she noticed Poppy's amused expression.
"Of course you couldn't because I charmed that part after you told me you didn't want to know," the healer explained, chuckling, before her expression became stern. "Godiva, I don't want you to use any magical transportation methods for the remainder of your pregnancy. Unfortunately, this also includes flashing. Your babies have such a strong magic that it might be dangerous for all four of you if you flashed together."
"All right; I won't flash them anywhere," Harry promised and quickly distracted his wife by pointing to the monitor. "Look, one of them has your brown hair and the other has black hair like me. By the way, have you thought about any names for our little princesses?"
Godiva shook her head. "Until today, I didn't even know if they were girls or boys. However, I thought we could name all our children after your parents. I'd name the one with the brown hair Helga, and the dark haired one Rowena."
"I'd love that," Harry breathed, totally overwhelmed by Godiva's suggestion. "However, shouldn't we name one of them after your mother?"
"No Harry. If we get a third girl sometime, we can still name her after Mum, but remember that your mother Rowena was my Head of House for seven years, and your mother Helga was my mentor over numerous years, so they're both very important people in my life as well."
"Thank you Godiva; this means a lot to me," Harry said gratefully, gently stroking his wife's stomach. "Hey Rowena, Helga, do you like your names?" Startled, he pulled his hand away when one of the babies kicked his hand in reply.
"Well, as I told you, they're extremely powerful," Poppy explained, laughing. "Godiva, everything seems to be all right with them." She pointed her wand to the monitor, and Harry observed in amazement as a colour photo emerged from the tip of her wand. Smiling, the healer handed Harry the photo.
"Thank you," he replied, looking happily at the photo of the two small babies that kept sucking their thumbs and kicking each other with their tiny feet.
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It was on a Friday afternoon just a week before the beginning of the summer holidays when Löwi stormed into Harry's classroom shortly before the end of his last morning class. 'Harry, Poppy sent me to bring you to the hospital wing immediately. Godiva is going to have the twins,' he thought to Harry very excitedly, who quickly dismissed the class and stuck a parchment to the classroom door to cancel classes for the rest of the day. "Please tell them I'll be there as soon as I can," he instructed Löwi and transformed into his phoenix form. Concentrating on the past, he flashed into his own room and hurried to search for Helga.
"What's wrong, Leofost?" Helga queried in concern, noticing his tense expression.
"Godiva is in labour and about to have the babies, and I want you and her mother to come to the future," Harry quickly explained. "Can you fetch her mother or tell me where or how..."
"Calm down, Leofost. You're in the past and time doesn't matter," Helga said quietly. "I'll apparate to St. Mungo's and fetch her, if she wants to come. Stay here; I'll be back as soon as possible."
Harry paced the empty hospital room, waiting impatiently for his mother to return. Twenty minutes later, the two women were standing in front of him.
"Thank you so much for thinking of me and taking me to the future to be there when my grandbabies are born," Godiva's mother said gratefully.
"Of course," Harry replied and hurriedly transformed back into his phoenix form. As soon as he heard Helga's "All right," he concentrated on the correct time and flashed. When they arrived in the hospital wing and found their way into the small teachers' room where Godiva was waiting for him, he was rewarded by his wife's grateful expression.
"Thank you so much for fetching them," she whispered, "and you're just in time."
With the help of a few well placed spells from Poppy, the twins were born within minutes, and Harry looked happily at his little daughters when Poppy placed Rowena and Helga into his arms, while she and Helga looked after Godiva. "Look Rowena, this is your Granny Edina," he said softly, handing the dark haired baby to his mother-in-law.
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A few hours later, when Godiva and the babies were fast asleep, Harry stood up and stepped in front of the window, startled when he saw Godiva's mother sitting near to the lake with her back leaned against his favourite tree. 'What is she doing there?' he mused when he observed a tall black figure take a seat next to the woman and obviously pull her into a conversation. 'Now this is interesting,' Harry thought and waved his wand to unobtrusively cast a spell that would allow him to listen in on the conversation that was taking place on the grounds.
"Now, there is no need to cry, Mrs. O'Connor," Severus just said in his soft, silky voice, gently wiping a few tears from the woman's face. "Please tell me what's wrong, and I'll try to help you."
'Oh no, maybe I shouldn't have brought her here,' Harry thought, terrified. 'I thought she would be happy to see her grandchildren.'
"Uahhh," a baby's wail brought him out of his reverie and he turned to the crib to pick his daughter up. "You just had dinner, didn't you Helga? Now, let's see what's wrong with your granny," he whispered soothingly and stepped back to the window, glad that the baby calmed down instantly after being held.