Harry looked away from the strange mirror and handed the large crystal like stone to his older alternate self, "How long do you think it will take for Dumbledore to realize that it's gone?"

He took the sorcerer's stone, tapped his wand on it and duplicated it. The duplicate wouldn't have the same magical properties but should pass a casual inspection. He carefully put the real stone into his pocket. "Anywhere from a few minutes to the end of the year when he checks on it depending on how his warding scheme is set up... Hermione is working on a bit of a distraction to keep the headmaster busy."

Harry gulped, "Maybe we should get out of here then."

Hermione nodded, "Before we're caught and expelled."

Harry looked at his Hermione's alt, "Did I ever tell you what we were doing the last time I heard the other you say that?"

Hermione chuckled, "No... but I'm curious."

"I'll explain over ice cream." He thought that everyone deserved a bit of a reward for getting the stone.

Harry looked at the stone, "What are you going to do with the fake?"

"I'm going to have some fun." He transfigured part of the floor into a pedestal and placed the stone on it. "I'd rather stick the stone back in the mirror but I never did figure out how Dumbledore managed it... I'll have to ask him at some point." The pedestal was in front of the mirror so that the mirror still looked to be part of the challenge. He wove a ward against the dark mark over the stone. That would keep Snape from being able to collect the stone without getting shocked. "All done, let's get out of here."

Hermione frowned, "Are the flames still frozen?"

Harry glanced at the entrance they had come through, "They should be. I hit them rather hard with a freezing charm."

"Good."


Sirius scowled as he studied the jail from the boat. "I still can't believe that you warded a boat with the fidelius charm."

Hermione shrugged, "How else did you expect to sneak up to Azkaban without someone noticing?" She would have preferred to use something better than the barge they were using but they hadn't wanted to spend a great deal of money to get a boat that they were just going to ditch after the mission. The fact was that they hadn't spent any money on the barge. They had stolen it from one of the criminals off Harry's list. They planned to unhide it after they were done and leave it for the authorities to find.

"I wasn't expecting to ever come back..."

"Yeah well, deal with it unless you have a better idea."

Sirius sighed as he held up the laser pointer, "Not particularly..." A part of him didn't think it was very sporting to use muggle weapons to kill his cousin but he knew that there was a horcrux in her vault and that sneaking into the bank to get it would be harder than just killing Bellatrix. Besides, he was looking for a bit of payback considering she had gotten him killed the last time around. The contents of her vault would then transfer to Narcissa. While not perfect they could at least have Tonks pretend to be Narcissa without the goblins being overly suspicious because Bellatrix was supposed to be locked up for life. Tonks had changed to look like someone else then bribed a couple of ministry employees to find out which cell his cousin was in. He had used that and his own memories of the place to figure out which window was hers.

O'Malley rolled his eyes, "Look, it's not that hard... you point the laser pointer at the place you want hit then we shoot a rocket at it." He had six rockets ready to make sure that the three targets died. He was a muggle born so the idea of ridding the world of death eaters amused him. It was more honest work than most of his jobs for the IRA. It also paid well which was a plus.

Sirius moved the powerful laser around the window and circled it for the mercenary. He hoped that Hermione knew what she was doing hiring the guy. He would have rather not had to contract outside help but Hermione had apparently used the guy's services before or at least had in the later timeline. So if she said he was solid as long as they paid him he was going to make sure that they paid him well and on time.

O'Malley smiled as he pulled the trigger and sent a rocket at the window that his employer was painting with the laser. He felt a certain amount of job satisfaction as his second rocket went through the opening the first rocket had blown in the wall to make sure that no one survived. He ignored the sounds of alarm barely audible as he picked up the next rocket launcher.


Hermione slipped into the warm water with a giggle, "This is way nicer than our dorm. What else can it create?"

Harry smiled as he leaned back and enjoyed the warmth of the water. "This is great."

The older Harry turned a handle on the edge of the hot tub and the water started to bubble as the air jets turned on. It was a nice duplication of a hot tub even if everything was done by magic. "Other than food it can create most things that aren't alive. I wouldn't have thought about asking for a hot tub until Raven asked if it could make a swimming pool..."

Hermione giggled, "Still, it's very impressive..."

He turned to look at Harry, "How are classes going?"

"History and Potions suck... the teacher glares at me a lot in defense... but other than that it's not so bad..."

Harry frowned, "Snape giving you problems?"

"Not particularly, mostly he just ignores my existence other than the occasional disparaging remark about my potion making skills."

Harry shrugged, "Let him complain, he's a bitter wizard with more skill at potion making than he'll ever have as a teacher." He looked over at Hermione, "Are you enjoying your classes?"

Hermione chuckled, "Much the same other than the defense teacher doesn't glare."

"I'm glad to hear that... how is Rose doing?"

She blushed as she thought back to the night before where a couple of the girls had watched Pansy lick Rose's crotch until she melted. All in the interest of science... yeah she was going to keep telling herself that, maybe she would even believe it if she said it enough. "She's having way too much fun with Pansy but other than that she's keeping me on my toes for schoolwork. It's nice to have someone else to bounce ideas off of."

Harry chuckled, "She's a bit warped."

Harry laughed at his younger self, "Are you sure you're supposed to say that about your niece?"

"Probably not..."

"Still, I'm glad that she's enjoying Hogwarts. I was a bit scared that she wouldn't."

Harry grinned, "Oh, I forgot to mention that I got on the house Quidditch team."

Harry was surprised that Harry had managed such a thing without Draco around to provoke the flying that had shown off Harry's ability the last time around. Still almost a month of practice had helped Harry's talent a lot. "How did you manage that?"

"Hooch told McGonagall that I was good. I think she was a bit desperate otherwise I don't think she would have picked a first year. We also picked up a couple of alternates that rock."

Harry smiled as he thought about the girls that had traveled back in time with them. Half their quidditch team had way more skill than they should. He figured they had a good chance to win the house cup this year. "That's great news. I'll see what I can do about getting you a proper broom."

"Thanks."

Hermione sighed, "We should probably get going before we're missed."

Harry sighed, "Sadly, any other strange and interesting places in the castle that you want to show us?"

Harry smirked, "Maybe another day. I should get back to check on how Hermione's day went. I promised her and Ginny that I would shag them silly tonight in celebration."

Hermione sighed, "It's still weird to hear that I end up slightly bent."

Harry laughed, "You're more than slightly bent or at least my Hermione is."

"That's her, not me..."

"So you weren't looking at Rose and Raven like they were ice cream cones at the party before Hogwarts?"

Hermione blushed. "No comment..."

Harry chuckled, "Exactly."


October 1st

Ginny was a bit amused as she checked over Narcissa, "You're obviously not progressing as fast as a real cat but still faster than a human. It's sort of interesting. I'm guessing that you'll have at least a couple of children by Christmas."

Narcissa's cat ears twitched as she scowled at Ginny, "I hate you."

"Yes, yes I know... hiss, hiss and claw, claw..." Ginny gestured around the building that she was keeping Narcissa in. "You have a decent sized bathroom, a stove, lots of food, there is even a television to keep you entertained."

Narcissa scowled, "I would rather be able to return home or see Draco."

"A deal is a deal. I want you safe and eating well. After the pregnancy you can go home and do whatever you want. You'll probably see Draco at Christmas. Nice touching family reunion and all of that."

Narcissa's tail wrapped itself around her leg, "That's if I don't explode from having too many babies at once."

Ginny shrugged, "I'm fairly sure that we can keep the children alive if that happens as long as it happens late in your term so no worries."

"Have I said how much I hate you lately?"

Ginny smiled at Narcissa, "Yeah, a number of times."

"Fine, just so long as I said it." It wasn't like Narcissa could do much with the number of magical contracts she had signed that kept her from either harming herself, hurting the babies or trying to attack her captors. One of the more annoying things was that she wasn't allowed to wear clothes because Ginny didn't think that cat girls needed them.


Hermione smiled as Ginny walked into the living room where she had a giggling, naked and squirming Raven across her lap on the couch, "How are the potential kittens doing?"

"We should know more in a couple of weeks. She'll probably have them by Christmas, so longer than if she was a cat but not as long as if she was human."

Raven waved to her mother, "Can you tell the crazy lady to stop tickling me."

Hermione ran her fingers over Raven's ear, "But I thought you liked it..."

"I do but not when you keep pushing me to the edge then stopping." She pouted at Ginny, "She's evil mum, I swear."

Ginny laughed as she walked over and sat in her chair, "Yeah, I know. So, where are the girls?"

"Playing on the computer in the other room. Raven was squealing with laughter too much for them to enjoy the movie."

Raven giggled a touch when Hermione ran her fingers down her sides. "Not fair..."

Ginny asked, "So where is Harry?"

"Dad's off with Loony trying to pick up some magical rabbits for a breeding program."

Ginny sighed, "Has anyone told Thea or Megan that we're going to be eating the rabbits?"

Hermione shook her head, "No, I don't think they really understand that meat comes from animals..."

Raven giggled, "Can I tell them?"

Hermione swatted Raven lightly on her behind. "No."

"Meany."

Hermione swatted Raven's behind harder, "That better?"

Raven giggled, "Yes."

Ginny rolled her eyes, "You two are very weird."

Hermione chuckled, "You started it by playing with my daughter."

Raven stuck her tongue out at Ginny, "We felt left out Mum."

Hermione smiled as she trailed her fingers lightly down Raven's back. "How's that feel?"

Raven giggled, "Good."

Ginny chuckled, "So how long until Harry can take out Voldemort?"

"We've destroyed his horcruxes, now we're just waiting until a good time."

Raven squirmed against her mother's hand on her bottom, "Halloween."

"Yes, Harry thought it was poetic justice and all that." Hermione slipped her hand between Raven's legs.

Ginny grinned as she watched Raven's squirming increase. "I guess I can see that." She would have asked other questions but didn't want to ask any of her other questions in front of her daughter. She didn't want her to know about eating people or that some of the hearts she had eaten were people's hearts. It was bad enough that she knew about the animal and house elf hearts.


October 31st

Hermione walked up the stairs into her dorm and looked around the dorm room, "Should I be worried about the water...?"

Rose didn't bother looking away from watching Parvati Patil and Lavender as they rolled around in bed together naked. "It's spreading..."

"Yeah, last night it was Fay and Lily Moon, now it's these two."

Pansy was on her bed on her hands and knees with her hand between her legs playing with herself as she watched her dorm mates having fun. "Let them have fun."

It wasn't that Hermione didn't like watching two naked girls wrestling, she did. She just had to admit that it was odd, while she could almost understand her dorm mates wanting to watch the first time Rose and Pansy had messed around out of morbid curiosity if nothing else, she would have thought that they would have quickly lost interest after the first time. The statistical probably of her dorm mates all being lesbian or at least bi-sexual was almost nil so there was something else going on. Either someone had slipped everyone lust potions or enchanted inhibition lowering sweets or maybe one of the girls had some type of area effect Veela power because honestly she wasn't sure what else made sense. It wasn't like she couldn't have seen Parvati and Lavender together ever, it was just unlikely, so maybe it was a form of reality alteration or probably control. She glanced over at her Halloween costume. "We should get changed for the feast."

"Sure..." Rose watched for a few minutes then pulled her gaze away from the girls so that she could grab her costume.


Harry adjusted his mask as he headed down the hallways toward the defense teacher's office. He was just happy that his daughter and friends had been able to convince enough people to dress up so that he didn't stand out in his mask. He was even happier that the professor hadn't left his office yet. "Excuse me professor but I have a question for you."

Professor Quirrell turned to look at the masked man, "If... this is about the... homework assignment... that I gave..."

Harry smirked, "Not really."

"I should be in the great hall..." He wanted the student to leave so that he could bring in his troll so that he could make a run at the stone.

Harry raised his hand and blasted a hole the size of a softball through Quirrell's chest. "Was dying fun?" He grinned as he conjured purple flame to burn the professor's corpse away. "Good riddance Riddle, may you rot in hell." He turned and headed toward the secret passage that would take him to Honeydukes. He had promised the girls that he would pick up some chocolate.


Hermione frowned as she read through the letter from her alternate. She tried to think back through some of the things that Rose had eaten to figure out if any of the creatures could have caused the lust effect. She didn't think so but guessed that it was possible. It could also just have been that Rose was a delightfully bad influence. She picked up her pen and wrote out a quick message, "It's probably just coincidence but I wouldn't worry about it as long as you're having fun. I can check for charms and such at Christmas so just relax and have fun until then." She grinned as she rolled up her letter and sent it off with Hedwig.


Remus frowned, "I'm telling you, there is something very wrong about this."

Sirius raised an eyebrow, "About what? Voldemort is dead, the position isn't cursed anymore..."

"I don't mean the job, I mean why are we staying? How long does it take to make the dust?"

Sirius shrugged, "As long as it takes. We'll get back when we get back. If we clean up the world before we go back then we're leaving this world a better place."

Remus sighed, "I guess, it just seems excessive."

"They rained death on our world for years. They terrorized Britain, it was so bad the birthrate went down for years. I'm not all that inclined to care that the Death Eaters are being picked off one by one."

Remus sighed, "I remember Harry saying that we shouldn't kill Peter because James wouldn't want us to be murderers..."

Sirius snorted, "Oh please, James would have killed Peter if he had known. Lily was a vengeful redhead, she would have done worse to him especially if she had known that Harry would end up at her sister's place."

Remus smiled slightly, "I guess I'm just sad that Harry had to grow up."

Sirius said, "Speaking of being a grown up, he's planning to ask the younger Nympadora out..."

Remus sputtered, "What?"

"They're about the same age, she's rather cute, so..." He started laughing at the look on his friend's face.

"You're messing with me aren't you?"

"Yeah, pretty much." Sirius grinned, "I mean Harry might, but he thought that he should give you a chance to catch both of them, next best thing to twins and all of that."

Remus sputtered, "Dora wouldn't go for it..."

"You never know until you ask."

Remus sighed, "I can't see that going over well..."

"Hey if you don't ask then there is nothing stopping Ginny from going after her, it's either that or I ask her for you."

Remus growled, "Fine..."

Sirius smirked, "See I knew we could make this work."


December 5th

Snape was not amused, his house was getting slaughtered in points, in quidditch and in random injuries. Marcus Flint had tripped and broken his ankle right before the game with Hufflepuff. The fact that they weren't playing Gryffindor was the only thing that kept him from wondering if it was premeditated. Twenty five of his Slytherins had ended up in the hospital over the last two weeks. Duels gone wrong and such things. He was confused about a couple of cases. Seven third years had ended up in the hospital with grievous wounds because they had hexed a Ravenclaw first year. The girl had torn them apart in less than five seconds like they were tissue paper after the surprise attack. The worst part was that it had happened in front of Remus Lupin so the girl hadn't even gotten in trouble for it. He had had to do a lot of fast talking to keep them from getting expelled. The worst part was that he hadn't been able to give out any detentions because no one had any proof. They were also getting hexed between classes but when wands were checked nothing would show up. It felt like the whole rest of the school was gunning for his house. "I'm telling you that there is a conspiracy."

Remus Lupin snorted, "You're just crying because the Slytherins that have been hexing people right left and center are getting some of their own medicine back."

"They're getting attacked in the halls just for walking to class."

Remus snorted, "So the last couple of years of insults aren't reason enough to curse them into the ground?"

Albus looked across his office desk at his two professors, "I asked around Severus. The Slytherins that were injured should have been more polite to people, every single one of them has had multiple complaints against them."

Snape scowled, "Liars..."

Remus scowled, "I've met most of the people that turned in the complaints. Most of them are rather upstanding young people. The fact that you can't see that is why you suck as a teacher. Well that and your dark mark."

Snape scowled at Remus.

Albus sighed, "This isn't helping."

"You're right because he's too dense to understand that people are tired of his crap. I would say run back to your master but he's dead."

Snape snorted, "As much as I wish you were right, he'll be back."

Remus laughed, "No, he really won't. We destroyed his horcruxes and then got rid of him."

Albus stared at Remus in surprise.

Snape's eyes widened as he realized that Remus wasn't joking, "What did you do?"

"We broke his toys and killed him again."

"But the prophecy..."

"Not nearly as important as people would like to believe. I just had Harry pay me two knuts by his hand, prophecy done."

Albus could tell that Remus wasn't telling the full truth about the two knuts part but he was willing to overlook that for now as he was sure that Remus thought he was telling the truth about Riddle being dead. "How many Horcruxes?"

"Let's see, Harry's scar, we dealt with that by the way, Malfoy's diary, the Gaunt family ring, Ravenclaw's diadem, Hufflepuff's cup, Slytherin's necklace and the bit that was in Quirrell. Officially I have no idea what happened to Quirell... Unofficially Voldemort was possessing him. The long and short of it is that Tom Riddle was a moron. If he had just used common objects and placed them in places not connected to him, we might never have found them. His arrogance and his insanity was his undoing."

Snape frowned, "Did you kill Lucius?"

Remus snorted, "Of course not. Officially I have no idea what happened, unofficially his house elf beat him to death for abusing him, one should be careful where one puts clothes if you're a complete bastard to your help."

Severus scowled, "How?"

"Ten years, did you think I was just running around doing nothing?"

Albus frowned as he tried to figure out how the prophecy tied into things, "What part did Harry play in this?"

Remus laughed, "Why would I let a child fight Voldemort? Because some prophecy said that he was supposed to be the chosen one? A prophecy created by a hack."

Albus looked down his glasses at Remus as he tried to figure out what part Harry played in everything, "It was a prophecy."

Snape scowled as he was once again reminded of the day he caused Lily's death.

"Do you have any idea how stupid that whole mess was? All you had to do was lie and say that you showed up and killed Voldemort or that the Potter wards killed him or any number of things rather than actually telling people about the killing curse backfiring or Harry's scar. You set a fifteen month old child up as some great hero, you screwed him out of the first ten years of his life when you placed him with his bitch of an aunt. So no, I have to say I'm not telling you how Harry was tied into things."

Severus snorted, "Arrogant bastard."

Remus turned to look at Snape, "Put your house in order or we will."

Severus scowled at Remus, "How dare you."

"Remus." Said Albus in disapproval.

Remus ignored Snape to look back at Albus, "If you want me to leave as a teacher then I will but I refuse to allow Snape to play favorites. I noticed a disturbing trend where the points that I took were returned the next day or two, I checked and lo and behold I found that it tied in with Snape's class. I asked around, several dozen students were helpful enough to do a comparison on points given and points lost between the various teachers. Guess what? Snape has abused the system for years. If the Slytherins are winning for points the deductions are on the harsh side of fair when Slytherin is behind the point deductions are harsh and excessive."

Snape snorted, "Whiners."

Albus sighed, "Severus has needed to be the bad guy to play the spy..."

"I'm going to ignore the part where you're willing to ignore the mental health, physical wellbeing and education standards for your personal war against Riddle and just say that I looked into the attacks on the Slytherins."

Albus raised an eyebrow at the attack on his character but didn't say anything because in a way it was true he had let his long term goals damage the school. "You know who is doing it?"

"Officially no, unofficially? Basically a good number of the students don't see the house points as valid anymore so they've decided to deal with Slytherin themselves, every time one of your snakes tosses a hex, the rest of the students are going to put him in the hospital. If you bully a student then they'll likely pick a random student in Slytherin and make his life miserable." He knew that it had started with the students that had come back with them. Children that's magical abilities were beyond their years. He didn't blame them for wanting to deal with the unfairness of the system.

Snape scowled, "You can't sanction that."

Remus raised an eyebrow, "Of course I can't sanction that officially. Unofficially I can see the frustration. If people come to me and ask about creative hexes, I'll of course tell them if they're not Slytherin. If they are Slytherin I'll suggest they read their text book."

Snape scowled, "I'll tell people that you're a werewolf. You'll be done."

Albus frowned at Severus. "Severus..."

Remus shrugged, "You're a Death Eater or an ex-death eater. All things considered, I'd rather be a werewolf." He looked at Albus, "I guess I should ask now? Are you going to fire me because I don't like your spy?"

Albus sighed as he realized that he couldn't fire Remus over something as minor as not telling him information about something that wasn't related to Hogwarts. Mostly because he knew that Sirius would rip into him politically if he did. "No."

"Then I think we're done." Remus smiled as he walked out of the headmaster's office.

Snape scowled after the door shut on Remus, "You can't let this continue."

"What do you expect Severus? You play the part of a mean spirited bastard well. You've allowed the Slytherins to get away with a lot, it's understandable that people are going to have problems, the thing is, if three quarters of the school refuses to testify against anyone that hexes a Slytherin, you're going to have problems.


December 24th

Ginny smiled at the six cribs, "Six is way better than I thought we would get the first time..."

Hermione smiled at the cute cat type babies. "True, so how long before we can get the next batch cooking?"

"Even with healing potions I think we should wait for a couple of months to give her body time to stabilize either that or we restore her to her normal self and cut her loose until we're ready to leave."

Hermione smiled, "By that time the kittens should be ready to eat meat."

Ginny ran her hand over Hermione's behind, "Exactly."

Hermione grinned, "In that case I guess we will have to keep Kreacher around for a while."

"What are we going to do with him?"

"We can put him to work cleaning up the abandoned manor house I found down the way... I checked the records. It was vacant ten years ago."

"Why?"

"It's been sold quite a few times in the last hundred years because it's supposedly haunted."

"Is it?"

"Probably but if we can get the spirit to leave while we do the ritual to send us back then the house that is there goes here and the one that is here goes there with us thus no ghost. Plus if it's changed hands as much as indicted then it's got to be cheap."

Ginny rolled her eyes, "Sounds like it's worth looking into."

Hermione sighed as she looked at the cribs again, "You do know that she's going to be ticked that Draco isn't still alive..."

Ginny shrugged, "We could always have Tonks pretend to be Draco for the Christmas holiday and try to rope her into having another litter of kittens." She personally doubted that they could talk Narcissa into it let alone in the time scale that they wanted.

Hermione shrugged, "Or we could just give her health potions for two months then obliviate her of the last two months and repeat the experiment..."

Ginny chuckled, "That sounds rather underhanded."

Hermione rolled her eyes, "We're going to roast her over a fire within a year does it really matter?"

"It does to me, I mean I sort of want to keep my word."

"Then we cut her free and worry about picking her up before we leave."

"I can live with that."

Hermione hugged Ginny with one arm, "Have you figured out what to get the girls?"

"Six cat girl house elves, six children. It might take a while before they're trained up completely."

"Just as long as we have Dobby train them so that they aren't slaves."

Ginny was glad that Hermione couldn't see her roll her eyes. "We're not sure how elf like they'll be, we'll just have to see."

Hermione nodded, "Yeah..."


Harry shook his head, "I don't care if it is Christmas." He glanced toward the hallway that led to the computer room where the rest of the family were playing video games. He lowered his voice so that no one could overhear, "You can't just kidnap Arthur..."

Ginny scowled, "Why not? We let him go last time, this time we'll let mom go so we don't mess ourselves up or maybe we'll just..." She had been looking forward to having a nice roast for Christmas.

Harry sighed, "You mean other than the ethical questions? We've changed enough stuff that some of the stuff that turned them twisted will never happen. Harry isn't Ron's best friend so he'll likely never get close enough that Ron's mother could get hair samples. Ron tried to be Harry's best friend but Harry already had friends and Ron ticked him off by trying too hard not to mention that Ron had gotten bitchy because Harry wanted to spend time with Hermione to study rather than play chess with him. I never really realized how much of an ass he was."

Ginny snorted, "Yeah..."

"Face it, it would be a logistical nightmare. Remus is already having issues with the fact that we've killed a number of Slytherins that didn't die the first time around. If we make Arthur vanish then we might as well paint a large red flag on us. It's just not workable. Not to mention we're going over to Hermione's parents' house for dinner tonight. They're coming over here for dinner tomorrow. If you still want to do something like that right before we leave then I'm okay with that but for now we have way too many people coming for Christmas dinner. It would be almost impossible to make sure people didn't get poisoned..."

She sighed, "You're right..."

Harry smiled as he pulled her into his lap, "Besides, Hermione already has a couple nice ham roasts picked out."

"I guess that will have to do until we leave."

Harry smiled as he slipped a hand down her pants, "It's nice to have the children back, I never really looked at it from the other side of the coin. It's weird having Rose at school."

"Yeah, just wait until next year when Raven goes off to school..." She giggled as Harry's middle finger slid inside of her. "It's all downhill from there."

He chuckled as he used his other hand to undo the buttons on her pants, "I guess you're right."

Ginny wiggled around as she worked on slipping out of her pants as Harry played with her. She figured they had at least twenty minutes before Sirius and Remus were done shopping for last minute items.


Loony giggled as she walked back into the computer room carrying a couple of sodas, she sang, "Mommy did something bad."

Hermione raised an eyebrow, "Why do you say that?"

"Daddy was spanking her in the living room..."

Megan Potter was glad that she wasn't getting spanked. She had only gotten spanked once and it had hurt. She had used a crayon to draw in one of her aunt's books. She wasn't going to do that again. "Ouchie..."

Hermione rolled her eyes as she accepted a root beer from Loony, "Probably."

Jessica chuckled slightly as she went back to playing her video game. Her parents were weird, it wasn't anything new. "Any guesses on what we're getting for Christmas this year?"

Raven giggled, "I have everything I need right here though chocolate is nice."

Hermione smiled as she leaned closer to Raven and whispered in her ear, "Chocolate and whipped cream for my favorite girl."

Raven laughed as she pulled up the menu of games and started looking through it. "Looking forward to it."

Thea looked down from the ceiling where she was sitting like Spiderman who had become her favorite comic book character after finding out that she could walk on walls. "You're keeping secrets aren't you?"

Raven snickered, "Always..."

Thea stuck out her tongue at her sister.

Hermione opened her soda and took a drink as she relaxed with family.


Narcissa sighed as she looked around the lonely Malfoy family manor. It sucked not having Lucius and Draco around. Mostly she missed Draco. Getting returned to her normal form then finding out that her son was presumed dead hadn't helped her mood. Even cracking a bottle of expensive wine hadn't helped her mood even though it was the first time she had gotten alcohol in months. It was looking like it was going to be a long painfully lonely Christmas. She sighed as she refilled her wine glass then drank it down.


Winky was happy to have a family after both Mr. Crouches were sent to prison. Taking care of six cute children was helping her keep it together. Having someone care enough to make her part of a family again was great. Harry Potter's family had a lot of work to do because there were so many teenage girls around. She wasn't really a fan of the strange cat like house elf Kreacher but she didn't have to deal with him much so it wasn't that big a deal. The other Winky creeped her out a little because she looked a lot like her. That wasn't too bad though as she was a lot of help with keeping track of some of Dobby's wilder ideas. Still, there was always something to do when she had six babies and a small army of teenagers to take care of. She was even helping the other Winky with the Christmas feast so that everything would be perfect for Christmas.


December 25th

Harry smiled as he lay on his bed with his arms around Hermione, "Did you have a good Christmas?"

Hermione smiled, "Yeah, friends and family, good food and good entertainment. I can't really ask for much else."

"A couple of books..."

Hermione chuckled, "I like books."

"See..." He ran his hand over her stomach. "I'm glad that you're here with us."

Hermione snorted, "Best Christmas I've had in a while."

Harry ran his fingers over her breasts, "Just don't break her heart."

"I've no intention of breaking Raven's heart or the other me's heart."

"Good, I love you, you know that right?"

Hermione relaxed into Harry as he ran his fingers lightly over her body, "I know..."