This is the story I put up the info for a while ago. I know I said it would be ages for it to be up but I was thinking about it all day and it's in my head now. Thank you Savannah for soo much help in this story. It is basically hers too as we came up with the original idea together and about half of the ideas are hers. At the beginning of each chapter I will state who the main characters in the chapter are so it isn't confusing. There are a lot of surprise twists in this story. I hope you like it.

Chapter 1: The last funeral

Harry & Ginny, Ron & Hermione

It was the day of Fred's funeral. It had been kept to the end of the summer because there were so many at the beginning and the Weasley's didn't want everyone to be sick of funerals during it. Harry started to reflect on the other funerals he had been to at the beginning of the summer. First there had been Colin Creevey's.


All of the students that had been at Hogwarts during the year that Harry, Ron and Hermione were hunting horcruxes were there, except the Slytherins. They had all become close and everyone had known the boy that had followed Harry round for an autograph during his second year. Colin Creevey had helped Luna and Neville restart the Order during the year and everyone felt they owed their life to those three.

Harry had tuned out what was happening at that funeral. He didn't know what had been said about Colin. The whole funeral was a bit of a blur. He didn't want to remember it.

As most of the students were Hogwarts students, pretty much everyone was swarmed round Harry, questioning him.

"How do did you defeat him?"

"Why did you pretend to die?"

"Did you have to let our friends die?"

Then there was the occasional thank you or compliment.

"You saved so many people."

"You're my hero. I'm so glad you did it."

"You were so brave, facing him like that."

Of course, none of them knew what had actually happened. The Weasley's and Hermione knew. And Luna and Neville, of course. And McGonagall had been told.


Ginny came to find Harry with Teddy Lupin in her arms. "Are you coming?" she asked. It wasn't a question. She was telling him that he had to get up and come down to the funeral.

"Yes," Harry agreed. "Why do you have Teddy?" he asked.

"Andromeda couldn't stay but she brought Teddy round," Ginny said handing him to Harry. "Not that I don't love him as much as you do but Andromeda did sate that she brought him for you to look after for the day since you're his godfather," Ginny laughed. Teddy didn't have a godmother but Ginny acted as if she was. She loved him like Harry did.

Harry took Teddy and gave him a hug. He reminded Harry so much of his parents.


"We are gathered here today to pay our respects to the late Remus and Nymphadora Lupin."

Harry resisted the urge to jump at and yell. "Don't call her Nymphadora!" It was what she would be yelling if she was listening. And why had they got a boring vicar that spoke in a monotone? It didn't reflect Remus and Tonks at all.

When the vicar had finished talking a load of nonsense about Remus and Tonks's life, both separate and together, everyone stood up and held their wands towards the joint coffin and a beam of light came out of each on and carved the owners initials into the coffin. Harry saw Andromeda put her wand in Teddy's hand and wave it so that his initials would go on. All the parents were doing that with their children.

Then the coffin floated up and went into a grave itself. It covered itself in soil and everyone was free to mingle, talk and reminisce.

"Can I speak to you for a minute?" Andromeda said to Harry. He flashed an apology look at Ron, Hermione and Ginny and went to talk to Andromeda.

"I understand that Lupin asked you to be Teddy's godfather," Andromeda said. "If you don't want the responsibility then you don't have to but I would really appreciate it if Teddy had someone who knew his dad and was close to his mum as well."

"Oh no, I want to," Harry said. "I'll tell him about his parents and together we can help him to live up to his name."

"Thank you," Andromeda whispered.


"Harry!" Ginny shouted. "Where were you?"

"I was remembering Remus and Tonks's funeral. Teddy reminds me of them so much," Harry said.

"Oh Harry," Ginny said caressing his cheek.

Harry put the half asleep Teddy on the bed and focused on Ginny's eyes. They were so beautiful but they were threatening to tear up at any moment.

"Fred?" Harry asked.

Ginny nodded but refused to let the tears come yet. She looked at Harry and saw the exact same thing she had seen when she first saw the lost eleven year old at Kings Cross Station nearly eight years ago. She saw a vulnerable little boy that needed love and she knew that she would be the one to give it to him. She leaned in and kissed him.

"You two need to-," Hermione said opening the door. "Oops. Sorry," she then said. Then she scanned the room and saw Teddy on the bed. "In front of Teddy? I can't believe you two," she exclaimed.

"He was asleep," Ginny said. "Why don't you go and kiss Ron and stop annoying us."

"Maybe later but you need to come downstairs," Hermione said. As Harry and Ginny started towards the door she shouted "Not without Teddy!"

That woke said Teddy up and he started to wail. "Now look what you've done," Harry and Ginny said at the same time." Harry scooped Teddy up and bounced him until he stopped crying. It didn't take long as Teddy and Harry had always had some sort of special bond and it seemed to calm both of them. Maybe that was why Andromeda had brought Teddy over.

Ron was standing at the bottom of the stairs waiting for them when they got down. "Let's get this show on the road," he said with a smirk.

"Oh yeah. You're mean plan that you roped me into," Hermione scorned.

"Of course," Harry said.

"It'll be fun," Ginny continued.

"You know its funny," Ron added.

"And you know Fred would have wanted it," all three said together.

"Well yes but…"

No one could be bothered to keep arguing there side as Hermione was pretty much there herself and she wouldn't have helped if she definitely didn't think it was a good idea.

During the ceremony the vicar told everyone of how much energy and life Fred and had and how it was unfair for a life to be cut so short. As if we didn't all know that, Harry thought.

The vicar finished speaking and no one was crying. The plan wouldn't work until George cried.

Everyone raised their wands and carved their initials into the coffin. This time Harry was the one to put the wand in Teddy's hand. It felt so special. Never mind George, Harry felt like he was going to cry.

The coffin floated into the air and went into the hole. The difference from Remus and Tonks's funeral was that at this time it was the guests that floated the soil into the whole.

Once everyone had contributed and the coffin was completely buried the plan came into action. George began to cry. Then there was a hissing from under his chair and the firework exploded into life, hitting George from underneath and spiralling round everyone else.

The firework had been programmed to tap into Georges mind –by Hermione- and it was set to explode when he cried. Fred wouldn't have wanted his funeral to be filled with tears. He would have wanted us to celebrate him by being stupid.

The firework stopped in front of everyone and unravelled into a message.

Fred would not want sadness. Be happy and cause a riot!

Everyone realised that it was true and got stuck in. There were food fights and duels and there were even a few things that exploded.

After the funeral finished, everyone stayed to help clean up. It didn't take long because, after all, they had magic and the Weasley women up their sleeves.

Harry didn't have to do any clearing up because he had gone to put Teddy to sleep.

When he came out Ron, Hermione and Ginny were talking to Neville and Luna.

"Harry!" Neville shouted as he came over.

"The firework thing was ingenious, all of you," Luna said. "It certainly cheered us up and apparently everyone else too," Luna said looking up at Neville.

Hermione recognized the look. "Did you two get together?" she asked.

Neville and Luna nodded.

"We have to go now, my gran needs to be back at the house," Neville said.

"Bye then. Thanks for coming," Ginny said.

"George," Ron said, going up to George, followed by Harry, Hermione and Ginny. "Have you noticed that Katie Bell has been watching you all day?"

"She has?" George asked, shocked.

"Of course she has you twat. She's liked you for ages. Go and ask her out," Ginny ordered. Anyone else would have been the victim of some sort of not good spell if they called George a twat but not his sister.

George went over to Katei and the others watched as they talked. They couldn't make out what they were saying but they were both smiling when George came back.

"She said 'yes'," he swooned.

"Oh George. You overreact to everything," Ginny complained. "You must have known she would say yes."

George didn't say anything but they all knew Ginny was right because George blushed and turned away.

"Well that's Neville and Luna together and George and Katie. Plus, the funeral wasn't depressing. I would say that today was very productive, don't you think?" Hermione said.

Everyone agreed.

Harry and Ginny went upstairs to check on Teddy. He was still asleep so they went downstairs to talk to the rest of the family.

"The letters should be coming tomorrow," Molly said when they came in.

"What letters?" Ron asked.

"Well Ginny needs to complete her seventh year of Hogwarts and since you three skipped your seventh year you are also going back. Don't look at me like that boys. It won't only be you. Your whole year will be there as it has been decided that no one got a good enough education last year," she answered.

"The seventh year classes, and the whole school actually, will be so crowded," Ginny complained.

"It doesn't matter," Hermione said. "You would be going back anyway and Harry, Ron and I need to achieve our NEWTS."

Ron opened his mouth to protest but he was silenced by looks from the whole family. Even Percy had come. Since Fred had died he had become a much bigger part of the family. Charlie had managed to come back from Romania and Bill and Fleur hadn't been in their house in France for a long time. They and Charlie were going home the next week. Percy was staying in the Burrow again.

"I'm tired," Harry stated and left to go to bed. It had been a long day.

The last funeral


I hope you liked the first chapter. Review and tell me what you think.

The next chapter will be called Hogwarts letters.