Advent's Calendar 2023 - Fate's Fairy Tale
by 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.

Warnings: Completely AU! Partly OOC, time travel, soul bonds

During the following months, Voldemort and his Death Eaters began to offensively attack muggles and even the parents of muggleborn students all over the country.

Harry, Sirius and their Unspeakables' colleagues did their best to research ways of how to beat the evil wizard; however, his actions remained completely unpredictable, and by the time their seventh Hogwarts year came to its end, Harry had not managed to meet the dark wizard as much as once.

HP

When the group of time travellers and their friends graduated from Hogwarts, among them Amelia as head girl and Remus as head boy, Dumbledore decided to keep most of them at the school.

"Their knowledge of the future is extremely invaluable," he explained to his deputy, who agreed full-heartedly.

Hermione and Severus shared the positions of Potions master and mistress, Potions professor and heads of Slytherin in spite of the fact that they had been Gryffindors.

Harry became the professor for Defence Against the Dark Arts and head of Gryffindor together with Minerva.

Amelia decided to teach History of Magic, and Lily became the professor for Muggle Studies as well as the second head of Ravenclaw together with Professor Flitwick.

Remus was the new teacher for Care of Magical Creatures and together with Professor Sprout headed Hufflepuff house. Luna was going to teach Ancient Runes and James Arithmancy.

Sirius, who had spent the last couple of years studying Alchemy under Nicholas Flamel at the Unspeakables' office, became the professor for the newly invented subject of Alchemy.

Ginny was accepted as Poppy's apprentice and would undergo healer's training with the older witch.

The friends were extremely happy by the solution the meddling headmaster had offered to them. Although each of them was eager to begin working on lesson plans and prepare for their first year as professors, they decided to spend the first month of the summer holidays at Potter manor as usual. Only on the day after Harry's birthday, they were going to return to Hogwarts.

"That way, we'll have enough time to prepare our classrooms, our lesson plans and whatever," Hermione said, and, as usual, everyone agreed, knowing that she was the best if it came to making plans. Needless to say, it had been her idea to have one female and one male head for each of the four houses, and everyone including the older professors had happily agreed.

HP

Two weeks before the beginning of their first year as teachers, the headmaster wed Lily and James, Amelia and Sirius, Luna and Remus we well as Hermione and Severus in a combined wedding on the Hogwarts grounds.

Petunia and Edgar together with the other Hogwarts professors presented the newlyweds with a voucher for a magical resort, where they could spend a week of honeymoon – near each other but still in separate, small houses. To Harry's and Ginny's surprise, they received the same gift as the others.

"We did not just marry?" Harry stated, looking from Petunia to Minerva in bewilderment.

"Yes, while that may be, you did not have a proper wedding at all, let alone a honeymoon," their former head of house replied, smirking. "Just go and enjoy yourselves."

HP

Each of them thoroughly enjoyed their honeymoon. While they mostly spent the days as husband and wife, they always met for dinner only to play Quidditch during the evenings or roam the coast in their Animagus forms.

'They all look so cute together,' Ginny thought to Harry, as they observed Luna and Remus in their bear forms try to catch some small fish in the shallow water, while Hermione and Severus roamed the beach far from the shore in their feline forms.

"Come on, let's have a proper dog fight," Sirius suddenly called out, and swiftly transformed to pull Harry, Ginny and Amelia into a mock fight, much to everyone's entertainment.

Much too soon, their honeymoon ended, and it was time to return to Hogwarts for a new beginning as adults.

HP

During the first Order Meeting that took place after the beginning of the school year, something happened that shocked them all to the core.

One of the Aurors, who were members of the Order of the Phoenix, just presented information about recent Death Eater activities, when Luna suddenly spoke up.

"The one with the knowledge to vanquish the Dark Lord would have to be born in two years' time, as the seventh month dies. He has the knowledge the Dark Lord knows not, and he shall shift the axis and remedy the wrong. He would have to be born in two years' time..."

"Well, it's obvious what that means I suppose," Harry said, once they were back in the privacy of Dumbledore's office at Hogwarts, letting out a deep sigh.

"It could still apply to you or Neville," Ginny spoke up, giving him a questioning look.

Harry shook his head. "No, Gin. Neville will be born at that time, but I won't. The prophecy says that I was supposed to be born; so, it's me. Again." Turning to the headmaster, he enquired, "Albus, are you sure that we don't have a spy in the Order, who might tell Voldemort about the prophecy?"

Dumbledore pensively scratched his beard. "I do trust all of them, my boy, but of course, I can't be one hundred percent certain. I'm sorry, Harry. I should have made them all swear an oath, and had I known about Mrs. Lupin's prophecy in advance, I'd have surely done so, but the prophecy came completely unexpected."

"I'm sorry," Luna apologized, airily, giving Harry a small smile. "Don't worry, Harry, you'll be well able to kill him at that time."

Dumbledore sighed, deeply. "Lily and James, I suggest that you either move to a safe house or have Potter manor placed under the Fidelius charm."

"We shall do that," James decided after a glance at his wife. "Harry, would you be willing to be our secret keeper?"

"Of course," Harry promised, smiling. "Although," he suddenly recalled, "if he goes after you on that Halloween, you won't be at home but at Hogwarts in any case. Do you think he'll come here to kill a baby with lots of adults nearby?"

"I believe that the Longbottoms are in much more danger than you'll be here at Hogwarts," Dumbledore replied. "I will speak with them, once they'll know that they're going to have a baby at the time mentioned in the prophecy. Unfortunately, Augusta Longbottom is so stubborn that I won't manage to convince her to hide under the Fidelius."

"Lily, James and all of you, listen!" Everyone looked at Severus in obvious surprise, only to nod their agreement, when he laid out his plan.

'And still it's up to me,' Harry thought, letting out a deep sigh.

tbc tomorrow...

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