Life moved along for the next few years. Teddy was 14, James 8, Al 7 and Lily 5. All were thriving. Harry continued at the MOM. The department had modernized and updated. Ron had rose to be the top agent. The only change, except for the gray in their hair was Harry didn't get in to the field as often as he liked and Ron was getting more and more serious about the job. Harry privately told Ginny that Ron was becoming more and more like Moody, even reminding the younger aurors to have "constant vigilance"!
Ginny continued her breakneck career. The only time she slowed down was the couple of months a year when quidditch was done.
Kreacher was still going strong, just not as fast as he had been. Olga had taken on teaching all the Potter and Weasley children who were not old enough for Hogwarts. George and Angie had bought some property just outside of London and opened a world headquarters for WWW. On the site they had put up a classroom building for Olga to use. She had various witches and wizards come in to help. Neville dropped by once a month to teach beginning herbology, Hannah taught the basics of cooking. Fleur taught French.
Ginny made time each week to organize a quidditch game. Harry spent Wednesday afternoons teaching math. Hermione would come by on Thursdays to read with the children. Ron had taught them all wizard's chess and he had a monthly tournament.
Fed and James continued to wreak havoc. Angie spent almost as much time disciplining them during the day as she did working. St. Mungo's had inch thick files on both of them. They were on first name basis with all the med witches in the emergency area.
All the parents had gotten together and decided that the amount of money they all were bringing in would not be allowed to make their children in to brats. Just as who famous the family was from the war was kept from the children to keep their heads from swelling, they were determined to make sure each child learned to earn a living and to give back.
Bill and Fleur had set up a miniature Gringots for the children. Every week their parents gave allowances out on Thursdays. Friday mornings Bill would be at the classroom for them to make deposits in to their accounts, which he would then deposit in to their real accounts at Gringots for them. The older children studied interest and George even set up a stock plan where they could by partial bits of stock in WWW.
The children had decided on a set of rules and fines for breaking them. The money from the fines were used to fund donations to local charities. Once a year Ginny's quidditch charity had a thank you dinner for retired quidditch players. The children made the decorations and a gift for each of the players. As mad as they all were for quidditch the children looked forward to the dinner all year long. They saw their parents acting as waiters and waitresses that night. Yes the Weasley's and Potters lead by example too.
Harry had bought back the shrieking shack after the war and had it torn down. There were too many bad memories there. Arthur and Molly had built a snug little cottage on the grounds that the grandchildren had named love cottage.
Molly adored working part-time at the Hogsmede WWW. She also had a successful line of 'Mrs. Weasley's " products for parents that WWW and Fleur's boutiques sold.
Arthur was every student's grandpa. He was at every quidditch match and Hogsmede weekends found love cottage full of Teddy and Victoire's friends.
Teddy loved quidditch, but was just too clumsy to play for the school. Victoire made the Gryffindor team her second year as a seeker. Teddy was the teams biggest supporter.
Harry and Ginny's friends were thriving too. Luna, Rolf and their two boys were constantly traveling the world studying magical creatures. Rolf had updated his grandfathers book and Luna had written a series of children's books.
Neville had taken over as headmaster at Hogwarts. He had installed a portal in the headmaster's office that allowed him to step through and be in his own home over the pub in London. After trying for years, Hannah was expecting twins, any day.
Lee had made buckets of money with cable-less. He happily contributed to multiple charities and had a wife and 4 lovely children.
Charlie was the head of the dragon reserve and loved being Uncle Charlie. Andromeda had begun a second career as an author. Her histories were highly successful.
Neville's grandmother had been adopted by all the Weasley and potter children as "aunt Birdy", (what Teddy had started calling her as a baby, because of the vulture on her hat.) She lived near Andromeda and visited the classroom at WWW often.
Hagrid and Gwarp still lived and worked at Hogwarts. Gwarp was loved by most of the students and returned their love. He was gentle with the animals and helped his brother a lot.
Minerva had retired to a small cottage in Hogsmede. Poppy still worked as the nurse at Hogwarts.
Yes, Ginny thought, life was good.
Ginny was helping her mum wrap Christmas presents. Christmas 2016 should be an interesting one. The burrow would be packed. There would be her 5 brothers, 4 sister-in-laws, her, Harry, Teddy, 6 nieces, 3 nephews, James, Al, Lily, Andromeda, Molly and Arthur.
Kreacher had been cooking for a week and was looking forward to helping "Mistress Hermione" put on a spectacular spread.
They just had Bill's family's presents to wrap. Dominique had been sorted in to Ravenclaw, the first Weasley ever not to be sorted in to Gryffindor. Molly had knitted her a blue and bronze jumper with a raven on the front. So that the other children would not feel left out there were Red and Gold jumpers with Lions on them for Teddy, Victoire and Freddy.
Her mum had knitted all the smaller children jumpers with their initials on the front. Her mum had, naturally, not allowed her to wrap her gifts, but if the sweaters she had made for the rest of the adult females were any indication she would be happy indeed.
She was wrapping Fleur's and it was a soft silky confection in a sapphire blue that would show off her hair and eyes. Audrey had gotten one just like it in emerald green. Angie's had been a topaz shade. Hermione's had been the color of rich dark chocolate. The yarn was a silk and wool combination that Harry had found on a trip for the MOM to Canada. He would not tell her what color her mum had asked for her jumper.
The guy's jumpers were all a warm natural shade of wool done in a fisherman pattern. Ginny knew that Hermione had been knitting hats and scarves for everyone in the same yarns. So she had decided to get everyone matching fleece gloves.
As she wrapped the last of her mum's presents she marveled at how it was the simple things, made or bought with love, that made every one so happy.
Molly would not insult Kreacher by making him clothing but he loved the washcloths she crocheted so she made him a box full every year. Ginny suspected that if she would check his room there would be a hundred of them lovingly put away until they were needed.
Harry had been very secretive this year as to what he was getting everyone. The only thing she knew for sure was what they had gotten Molly, Arthur and Andromeda.
For Molly the whole family had gone together and gotten her practically a yarn store's worth of yarns. Hermione had taken the girls to a muggle yarn store to let them see what kinds of yarns there were. Then they had gone back to the classroom to show the boys the skeins they had chosen. Olga made a lesson of it and they set it up for a vote. All the parents, Victoire, Teddy, Dominique and Freddy had dutifully perused the choices and Ranked them from favorite to Ick.
They then ordered the yarns by how well they had done in the voting. The colors they let the youngest choose by vote. The boxes they had wrapped last week held a wonderland of colors and textures.
For Arthur they had gone together and bought him two season tickets for the Puddlemere United, his favorite professional team. With the second ticket he could take someone different to each game.
Andromeda loved history, magical and muggle. Harry had bought books on his travels and so had Ginny.
This should be a fun Christmas. All the children were big enough that they had participated in the buying and making of the gifts and Ginny knew that when that happened the fun of Christmas doubled.
It had been a wonderful Christmas! Harry's surprise was actually Harry, Ron, Bill and George's surprise. They had made a true quidditch pitch on the WWW land. Since it was unplotable and when muggles looked at it all they saw was thick forest, covered in brambles and thorns, it was a perfect place for a pitch.
Now they could have family games without being confined to the small orchard. The children were already planning a family and friends league.
Harry had gotten her a simple and beautiful pearl necklace. She had gotten him some of the quidditch books he loved so.
Freddy, who had been restrained and good the first half of his first year at Hogwarts had busted out during the second half. He had been beaten by the whomping willow when he had taken a dare to try and touch it. Had fallen off the balcony on to the entrance hall floor trying to walk the banister. Had kissed a girl, who had immediately hexed him and had to have warts removed from his face and the crowing touch was when he had gotten stuck in a window trying to sneak back in after curfew.
James, who had been out of sorts when his best mate and fellow troublemaker had gone off to Hogwarts, had been acting up since Christmas too. Mainly just teasing his brother and sister.
Summer would be here soon and with it James and Freddy would be together again. Either they would both settle down or, heaven help us all, they would make up for lost time.
Ginny hoped it would be settle down. In September James would head for his first year at Hogwarts and she wanted to spend a summer having fun with him, not having to discipline him.