Chapter 5: The Ancient and Noble House of Potter
"Lady Potter was, at the time, clearly the most sought after position in the wizarding world. People tried everything to secure the title of Lady Potter, contracts written to trick Harry, love potions, and all kinds of seduction. It was absurd. Absolutely absurd. And it started with Ginny Weasley."
"Harry and Ginny had a relationship of sorts in his sixth year, but it ended before it got started. Harry hadn't seen her in almost a year, then he goes to bed and sleeps for about 24 hours after defeating Voldemort and he wakes up the next morning and find Ginny Weasley giving him a blowjob and she didn't stop there. Harry didn't really know how to react. He was a seventeen year old boy so he wasn't unhappy with the situation, but at the same time he was uncomfortable with how it happened so abruptly and too socially awkward to do anything about it.
"It took exactly two days to figure out why Jimmy Peakes, a fellow Gryffindor quidditch player, was unhappy with Harry. It wasn't exactly a secret that Harry woke up with Jimmy's girlfriend in his bed. That was a big red flag that turned Harry off of Ginny. If she wasn't faithful to Jimmy, he didn't trust her to be faithful to him. And when we later learned that she had been with Wayne Hopkins and her ex-boyfriend Michael Corner on the side as well, Harry all but ran from her.
"Ginny wasn't having it. She rallied her family, who Harry had always been close to, to put pressure on Harry to make her Lady Potter. She twice attempted to dose him with love potions. She also wrote a letter to the Flamel family on Harry's behalf asking to purchase their property in Axminster, just down the road from her family home, The Burrow, so they could build a house close to her family home.
"To save her family's reputation, Harry bought the property anyway and turned it into a business center. The first business he opened was a daycare and he hired Molly Weasley to work there, though Andromeda Tonks was in charge, because of how much she loved children. It was the birth of Axminster Square, which turned into a massive money maker for our family.
"Eventually Harry had to invoke the life debt that Ginny Weasley owed him to make her leave him alone. This didn't sit well with the other younger, immature Weasley either. Ginny Weasley, to this day, believes that she is entitled to the position of Lady Potter and has refused to date anybody else, though if the rumors are true she hasn't refused to sleep with anybody who comes calling. Ron Weasley, and by extension his wife Hermione, was furious that his perfect family image was ruined by a friend who had the audacity to reject his sister. Their friendship never recovered. Hermione and Harry managed a tense but not unfriendly relationship for several years before finally they both just gave up. Molly was sad, but she understood. The four older brothers and Arthur all realized that Ginny was seriously crazy and completely at fault and held no ill will towards Harry.
"The future Lady Potter had actually known Harry since his first year at Hogwarts. Katie Bell had been one of the Gryffindor Flying Foxes, three talented and attractive chasers on the quidditch team. She had, like Susan, followed Harry's lead at Hogwarts during his last few years. Even though she had already graduated, she answered the call the night of the final battle, the scar on her right cheek proves it.
"Katie's father is a muggleborn named Bernard Bell. When Bernard was at Hogwarts he had two close friends, Daniel Cogg, and Graeme McMaster, of the House of McMaster. Bernard and Daniel would go on to open Cogg & Bell Clockmakers in Horizont Alley with the financial backing of Graeme and the House of McMaster.
Graeme also has an older sister named Isla. Isla was born a squib. It was not uncommon at that point in time for squibs to be cast out of their family and that's what the head of House McMaster, Graeme and Isla's uncle Brodric, did. Her father Ciaran, however, refused to kick her out of his home. Isla would go on to marry Bernard and they had a single child, Katherine.
"Katie getting a Hogwarts letter went a long way towards having Brodric reinstate her into the family. Everybody seems to think he was waiting to see who she would marry. He died, allegedly in a potions accident, during Voldemort's reign. Ciaran then became the Head of House and reinstated the line, magical ability be damned.
"The Potters have previously operated a dockyard in Cornwall that imported a whole lot of magical goods and supplies for Southwestern England. It was destroyed during the first blood war and never rebuilt. When Harry learned he had the property he set about to make it functional again and so hee sought out the McMasters who ran the Highlands Shipyard in Eastern Scotland.
"Harry liked and trusted Katie already, but they gave a relationship a shot because of how close their families became and it worked out beautifully for them. I have grace, but it's accompanied by an aura of arrogance, while Susan is exactly the opposite, approachable and more blue collar, if you will. Katie is the perfect mixture of both, blonde hair, blue eyes, loads of charm, and a constant, welcoming smile.
"Lady Katherine Annette Potter née Bell ended up getting a mastery in broomology as has been consulting with the Comet Trading Company on their brooms for decades. She retired a few years ago as the Chief of Design for the company. Both of her kids were named after Harry's parents. James Goddard Potter II is the reigning British and Irish Duelling Champion and his little sister Lily Elizabeth is the editor of The Ink & The Quill, which recently overtook the Daily Prophet as the largest daily newspaper in magical Britain and Ireland."