Chapter 8
The Potters and their group of friends finished their much required month long holiday and then turned their attention to Dumbledore. It did not take long to discover that Dumbledore still had his hard core followers who wanted a return to the days before Voldemort when they were able to get away with anything they wanted to, and they were willing to do anything to get their way of life back to how it was before. all of them were sad that the old man still retained his job at Hogwarts, and quite a fair amount of support from the pureblood Wizengamot.
Harry, Hermione and their team were sitting around the living room of the house in Barmouth discussing a new group they had heard about. Dobby, Winky and several of their other elves were out seeing what they could discover about the group calling them selves 'Phoenix Revenge'. Every one in the room was worried it was some sort of revival of Dumbledore's order, possibly made up of ex-members who were not willing to go down without some form of retaliation against Harry and his friends.
Just as everyone was deciding it was time to call it a day and go to bed, they were disturbed by the arrival of both Dobby and Winky. "Harry Potter sir, we has news about the new enemy. They is not our enemy, they is whisker face enemy. They is people who is angry about what whisker face done to you and many others. They is fighting to get rid of the Order of the Phoenix, and all them purebloods who has supported snake face with money or with the ministry." Winky said as Dobby rapidly nodded his head in agreement of her words.
"They has the dog man, and the two cruel Weasel look-a-likes, what tells them what to do. They be many more than whisker face has, but the elves is telling us they is not very good, they is not knowing how to fights like you and the mistress do." Dobby tacked onto the end of what Winky had to tell them.
Sirius Black having failed in all his attempts to contact or find his godson Harry began his own little campaign against Dumbledore and was aided by several of the former members of the order. Those that had resigned when they had discovered what was going on were questioned about whether they still wanted to help and protect Harry Potter before they were allowed to join the 'Phoenix Revenge' volunteer organisation to surreptitiously help the Unspeakables of the British ministry of magic while they searched out and eliminated those who had hurt Harry Potter and still remained loyal to the dark lord that was Albus Dumbledore.
Having heard they had nothing to worry about with the new Para-military group, the tired but relieved group of Remus, Tonks, Filius, Minerva and Septima left the house to return to Potter Valley, while Richard, Helen and the rest of the teens settled down for the night. Harry and Hermione said goodnight to Dean and Neville as the two boys set up their camp beds in the living room, before they made their way upstairs to their own room. They were closely followed by Luna and Ginny who were sharing the small bedroom next to the Grangers. A quick good night to the two girls and Harry and Hermione closed the door to their own bedroom.
As they undressed for bed Hermione decided it was time to ask Harry about something she had been thinking about for several months. "Harry Love, what do you think of starting a family? I mean I think… no I know I'm ready, and I know we no longer have to worry about Voldemort. Dumbledore… well he's just a pain in the butt and I am quite certain he won't be around for much longer." She then held her breath as Harry thought over what she had said.
Harry continued undressing and as he dropped his boxers in the clothes basket he smiled at her with his lopsided smile. "I don't know if I'm ready to be a dad yet," he said but continued before she had time to be upset with him. "But then again, does any bloke know for sure when they will be ready to be a dad? What say we start tonight, maybe in the shower?" he had a huge grin on his face as he wrapped a towel around himself and winked at her before opening the door and stepping out of the room.
It took just a few seconds for Hermione to digest and understand what Harry had said, she was so excited she almost followed him out into the hallway before she had wrapped her towel around her. Having cast a spell to reverse the contraception spell she had been using she quickly joined him in the shower cubicle for what turned into a very good night.
One week later, Spinners end.
Severus Snape walked stealthily from the apparition point near his rundown town house, looking like a man who knew he was being hunted. He let out a sigh of relief as he once again reached his front door without being arrested, accosted or attacked on his return home from Dumbledore's latest Order meeting. Slipping his key in the lock, he quickly began to turn it when he heard the unknown voice of a woman asking where the nearest local pub was. Carefully turning to look who was speaking he was surprised to see a woman who resembled one of his ex students. Even before he placed the face he found himself staring down the barrel of a rather lethal looking gun.
The next thing Severus saw was a large display of coloured stars just before he lost consciousness from a blow to the back of his head. As he fell to the ground a head appeared at the side of where the potion master had stood. "I'll be glad when Fawkes has delivered this greasy git," Richard granger said as he removed Harry's invisibility cloak.
Helen nodded and then silently called for her phoenix. Fawkes appeared and grabbed the robes of Severus Snape and in a flash of fire they both vanished. "Won't be long lover boy," Helen said as she leaned in for a quick kiss from her husband. "All this cloak and dagger stuff makes me feel real randy, you know." she said grinning at how her husbands eyes lit up.
Ministry of Magic holding cells.
Amelia Bones sat waiting patiently for her expected prisoner to arrive. She had no doubt that he would do so shortly, now that the Potters had gone on the offensive against Dumbledore's order of the phoenix. She was broken out of her thoughts by a flash of fire and the body of Severus Snape falling at her feet. Amelia was a firm believer in justice for all and had been waiting for a long time to get her hands on Snape. She hated the fact he had not even been tried for his crimes simply because Dumbledore had vouched for him. She hated how the slimy git had treated his students for years, again getting away with it all thanks to Dumbledore, and now she had him in one of her cells she intended to find out all there was to know about the worst teacher Hogwarts had ever seen. Severus Snape was about to regret ever hearing the name Potter.
Ottery St Catchpole.
As Arthur Weasley pottered about his shed, every so often he glanced out of the window and scanned the foot path leading up from the village. His glances out of the shed became more frequent as the time stretched on, his nerves were slowly getting the better of him and he wished he had brought out some whiskey with him when he left the house. Just as he took what he intended to be his last look out of the window he saw what he had been waiting for. Feeling relieved he watched as the shadowy figure made its way up the path and into the garden. Moments later Arthur opened the door and welcomed the large black dog that had just entered. "You're late Padfoot."
Arthur was a member of the Phoenix Revenge acting as a spy in the Order of the Phoenix. His wife and two of his sons' Percy and Ron were also members and faithful followers of Dumbledore and firmly believed that as purebloods they were entitled to do practically as they pleased when it concerned muggles and muggle borns.
Ron had even based his choosing of Hermione Granger on the belief that she being a muggle born would simply bow down to his wishes and accept him and not Potter as her boyfriend. The fact that Hermione had refused outright to even think about dating him had completely confused both Ron and his mother, who had chosen the mudblood to be her youngest son's wife. They both thought she would be happy that a pureblood would offer her such a lofty position.
Arthur's news about Dumbledore and his bird club was short, Severus was missing and Dumbledore was furious because their potion master had not finished his work on a potion that was meant to destroy Potters woman. No one in the order knew what the potion was supposed to do or how it was to be administered, not one of them was capable of completing it either.
Sirius could see the anger boiling just below the surface as Arthur spoke and he knew the man was thinking of his own daughter who had been potioned by the same evil greasy haired monster. To cheer Arthur up some he informed him that Snape was now quite safely locked away somewhere Dumbledore would not find him, and was being interrogated by an expert even as they spoke.
Leaky Cauldron London
Dedalus Diggle was enjoying a quiet drink in the run down pub that looked a hundred years out of date. He was quite surprised when a pretty young blond haired woman sat down next to him. His surprise turned to pleasure as she smiled at him and licked her lips. His pleasure however vanished far quicker than it had arrived when he felt her wand press rather firmly into his groin.
"I would like you to accompany me outside," Luna said as she pressed her wand hard into the mans flesh.
Dedalus had little choice but to do as she said, he had no wish to see if he could get some help before the young woman could emasculate him, so he followed her out into the muggle side of the pub. His world went black as he stepped out of the door and a left hook put him to sleep.
Luna chuckled "Oh well done love," to Neville he was waiting for her. With a quick move she placed a portkey on the falling body and before anyone noticed Dedalus Diggle vanished from sight.
Members of the Order of the Phoenix were beginning to vanish from various sites around Britain and Albus Dumbledore was convinced they were all dead, murdered by Harry Potter. He spent hours day after day complaining to the DMLE and the minister but he was getting nowhere without proof. Try as he might he could find no witnesses to any of the disappearances and not one single body had turned up. Not one single clue to confirm that his order members were dead.
Minister Fudge despite Dumbledore's protests and pleas to have the Potters arrested for the crimes against so many pure bloods finally began to ignore Dumbledore and started to listen to people who were actually intelligent, and changes to how things in magical Britain were run soon began to take affect. After six months Muggle borns were no longer legally looked down on and laws were passed and in place against discrimination. In hoping to save them selves from the wrath of the Potters the remaining purebloods began to listen to the advice of the muggle born and implemented the recommended changes as quick as they could. One of the main changes was to elevate the Goblins to the same level as wizards. Dozens of pure blood laws that allowed bigotry to rule were rescinded, laws against other sentient beings were replaced by fair laws that gave all magical beings equal rights. That one bomb at Malfoy manor and the revenge against the order had far reaching and permanent affects in the magical world of Britain and yet it had gone completely un-noticed in the muggle world.
No one at the ministry knew that there was a large castle built out on the Mongolian tundra that was guarded by giants and contained a large number of British purebloods who would spend the rest of their lives washing the clothes of the largest group of giants on earth.
Harry was happy with the way things were going but he had things still to do and getting the old man out of the picture for good was a major one of those things, but that was proving to be a little difficult. Dumbledore would have been easy to find if he had not been fired from Hogwarts for refusing to implement the changes that the ministry was trying to bring forward. It had taken a whole squad of Aurors to oust the old man from the castle. His remaining followers were quick to rally around him and to go into hiding with him. They only turned up when they robbed someone or destroyed property owned by muggle borns.
Somewhere on Salisbury plain
When nineteen year old Hermione gave birth to her first baby, a boy, Harry decided it was now time to visit some justice on the bearded fool who had ruined his younger years. Thanks to Arthur Harry now knew where the old man was hiding; it was time for the old man to pay for using people like they were his own personal slaves to do with as he wished. Time for him to pay for the secrets he kept so he could control the world of magic. Time to pay for all the needless deaths he had caused.
Albus Dumbledore sat in his office secure in his little house, sure of his own safety because he was the great Albus Dumbledore. Because of his vanity he refused to see that the entire Wizarding world was changing, leaving him behind as an old has been dark lord.
A quiet knock on his door had him call "Enter," taking a look at who had walked into his office the colour fell from his face. Following a look of fear a huge false smile broke out on his wrinkled face. He was confident that he could talk to the boy and get him to see that his way of ruling the Wizarding world was the right one; it was after all 'for the greater good'. "Harry my boy, to what do I owe this visit, I suppose you finally realised you need my help eh?"
"No Dumbledore you delusional old fool, I'm here to repay you for all you did for me." His visitor answered.
People had long memories and tales of Dumbledore's treatment of Harry Potter were now well known in the Wizarding world, so it was not a great surprise when he was found dead, a neat little hole in his forehead and the majority of his brains decorating the wall behind him. His death was investigated just enough to prove he was dead, and then he was buried in a small grave yard not far from Hogwarts. No name was left on his grave stone. Albus Dumbledore was only remembered as an evil old man who had used his position as headmaster of Hogwarts to inflict his form of evil on the magical world. It was well known that the world that the dark lord Dumbledore had tried to create would have become a slave ridden society, where even some of their now best teachers and politicians would have become nothing more than second class citizens to a ruling elite. All free speech would have been eliminated, muggle borns subjugated to be used as seen fit by the Dumbledore version of the pure blood elite. The day that Dumbledore died the rest of his order members all seemed to vanish from the face of the earth. They included Molly, Percy and Ron Weasley.
As eleven year old Robert James Potter entered Hogwarts for the first time, he looked forward to his first classes in the now reformed and yet still famous school. Although he was just a little disappointed when he was warned about pulling any pranks by the headmaster, his uncle Remus, he had his dads cloak and he had the marauders map so he was not too worried.
He was anxious to see the library after hearing so many tales about it from his mum. Robert sad to be away from home and yet still excited to be going to the same school his parents went to, enjoyed the welcoming feast and was placed in Gryffindor. His bed in the dormitory was the very same bed his dad had slept in while he was a student. Just as he drifted off to sleep that first night in the Gryffindor dorm he wondered if he would have as many adventures as his parents had had in the ancient building.
Hermione sat in their joint study/office and wiped a small tear from her cheek. She was missing her eldest son; she had missed his goodnight kiss and small cuddle. She tried to smile through her sadness pleased with the fact that Hogwarts was now a near modern school, the classes were more in keeping with the lessons that she and Harry had had once they had hired Remus and some proper tutors. She also reminded herself that her son also had his uncle Remus and Aunt Dora to make sure he was alright.
Leaving her work on the desk she made her way down to the kitchen for dinner, on entering the kitchen she came to a sudden stop as her waters broke, her forth child had chosen that evening to make an entrance into the world. Winky with the help of her son Dinky who was sent off to find his dad Dobby and Harry, placed Hermione in her bed and then sent for the Potter private healer.
In a quiet study one floor above the kitchen Harry, Dobby, Neville, Ginny and Luna, along with help from Bill Weasley were just putting together plans to end the life of Tom Riddle who was now in Egypt and calling himself the Black Pharaoh. Their plans were put on hold as they all rushed up to the master bedroom where Helen was just getting Hermione comfortable in her bed. Harry prayed that this labour was over quickly, he could almost feel the pains he had suffered the last two times Hermione had been in labour. He would swear his fingers would never be the correct shape ever again after Jade and Persephone were born.
In a dingy hovel near to the great pyramids the Black Pharaoh was making his mind up it was time to revisit Britain, the Potter brat now had a son at Hogwarts…
Chapter 9.
Near to the great pyramids. Egypt
While running from Harry Potter, Tom Marvolo Riddle had discovered that there were very few countries around the world where the wizard population was even slightly interested in his pureblood philosophy, and even fewer who would be interested in forming a pureblood elite that would rule the world. He did find a few wizards who had ambitions of ruling the world but oddly he thought them all slightly, if not completely mad. It never entered his mind that he may be suffering from the same madness as he eliminated each one of the potential dark lords. The irony of what he was doing as he disposed of future headaches for the law enforcement agencies never entered his mind.
After wandering North Africa for some time he had found a wizard who he was able to posses and control enough to allow him to gather some followers. They were not exactly the type of followers he had envisioned when he had begun his decent into the dark but they were willing to listen to him and carry out his orders.
Having acquired a very recent copy of the British news paper the Prophet, he eagerly read of the Potter brats eldest wanting to try the school his parents had attended and had been enrolled to start at Hogwarts that year. Taking this as a sign that his fortunes were about to change he called his minions together for a meeting.
Sitting at the head of a battered and scuffed table the tall thin man possessed by the spirit of Tom Riddle A.K.A lord Voldemort, A.K.A the Black Pharaoh, looked at the collection of criminals he had managed to gather around him over the past few years. There were just eight of them and as Tom was trying to keep a fairly low profile they had restricted their crimes to robbery, burglary and the occasional assassination.
'What a bunch of rubbish' Tom thought before he began to speak. "I have news for you all… We are leaving for England at the weekend where I will once again take up my true mantle. That of being the greatest dark lord ever… together we will rule the magical world. Power and riches will be ours for the taking. I want you all to prepare your selves for the journey; we leave the day after tomorrow."
One of the men at the other end of the table coughed and then said "Sorry boss, but there is no way my wife will allow me to go off to some foreign land, you best count me out. Besides I don't want to rule the world, especially from a place as cold as England."
Tom stared at the man in disbelief "WHAT?" he screamed "You dare defy me…" even before the men at the table had turned their heads to look back at him Tom cast the killing curse at the offender who had dared defy him. unlike the wizards of Britain who simply stood their ground when duelling, their brain bereft of the idea of dodging, these men around the table were habitual criminals who had over the years honed their self preservation levels and as the man ducked under the curse the other seven all hit Tom with stunners.
"He's bloody lost it, gone off the deep end." One of the men said as he stood up "I'm out of here. There is no way I'm sticking around with some nut who throws that curse at his mates." He left the building with all his associates following him.
The possessed body Tom Riddle resided in woke up four hours later with a huge headache. "Perhaps I am a little out of practice," he said as he dragged himself onto a chair, "no matter… I shall return to England alone and gather my former followers to me, and then I shall have my revenge."
Back to England
It took the Black Pharaoh two months of dodging both the Wizarding and muggle law enforcers to reach England, and when he arrived he discovered a completely different society to the one he had known. The magical people of Britain were no longer ruled by the pureblood elite, they were no longer willing to be cowed by up and coming dark lords. They even used things like paper and pens, listened to radio and TV. He could not believe the changes he was seeing having taken over the whole of the British Wizarding world after only a few short years.
It took Tom several weeks of searching to discover there were none of his former followers alive. They had all been sentenced to death for their crimes. Those that had not fallen to the death sentence at the ministry had been handed over to the Goblins to work in their caves, or on their dragon training grounds and not one of them had survived the ordeal for too long a time.
With just one thing left on his mind Tom headed north toward Hogsmeade where he would destroy the Potter brat by kidnapping his child and forcing the pain in his side to surrender to him. Several times on his journey he came close to being caught, not that he was worried about the fool that he possessed, he was after all immortal. So even if this body were caught he would be safe because no one knew about his failsafe method of ensuring he could not die, of that he was quite certain.
At the Potter home
Harry Potter left the room where Hermione had just given birth shaking his hand and trying hard to get the blood flow to return. His fingers were aching as he told his friends, "It's a boy, he's a big lad too, just over eight pounds Poppy says."
Harry was quickly swamped by his friends Neville, Dean, Remus, and Dobby while Richard, Ginny, Luna and Winky all rushed past him and entered the room to visit Hermione.
The two nine year old identical twins with their black curly locks and vivid green eyes, Jade and Persephone hugged their father tightly before they went to take a look at their new brother and to see if their mum was alright.
Poppy Pomfrey sat in a chair next to Hermione's bed and let loose a quiet chuckle. "What's so funny Poppy?" Ginny asked looking at the chuckling healer.
"Oh nothing really, I was just thinking of the contortions Harry would need to perform to carry out Hermione's orders about where he was to shove his… erm… yes that… and what she has threatened to do to him if he even so much as thinks of anything even remotely connected to sex ever again." Poppy answered and then let out another chuckle that was joined by those who had just entered the room.
"Yeah most of them were painful to even imagine," Harry said as he walked back into the room.
Hogwarts School
Tom Riddle stood and rubbed his hands in glee as his quarry neared him. Soon he would have the young Potter boy and make his escape through the tunnel that led to the shrieking shack, where he would send a letter to the boys' father with his demands for Potter to surrender himself. Unfortunately for Tom he had not counted on the huge Grim that had leapt on his back as he made a grab for the boy. Making him miss altogether, as the dark lord fell face first into the grass.
Robert who had been trained by both his mum and dad in what he should do if some fool were stupid enough to try and grab him, bravely leaned over the fallen man and pressed a square of muggle sticky paper on to him just as he had been told to do. A second later Tom Riddle slammed butt first into a wall inside a magic suppressing room. It was the one cell in the Potter home where no magic of any kind would work; even Fawkes could not enter this room except via the single narrow door. It would be four days before anyone would bother to take a look at who they had caught. Four long days for Tom Riddle because no matter how he tried he could not sit comfortably at all, he could not sleep properly because when he turned over the pain would wake him up.
Robert looked at the large dog as it growled at the spot where some stupid dark fool had tried to grab his godsons' son. "Hello Padfoot." He said quietly.
Knowing that the young boy with the brown hair and green eyes recognised him Sirius changed back from his animagus form to his human form. "Hello Robert, did that fool hurt you at all? How the heck did he manage to escape so quick? Wonder who it was?" he asked no one in particular.
"Well I don't know who it was but he's not going to like where ever it is that mum sent him, that you can be quite sure of," Robert said with a huge grin on his face.
"Hermione? Where?" Sirius asked as he looked around.
"Oh mum's not here, I stuck one of mums special portkeys on his butt. Mums portkeys pull from where they are stuck, not from your tummy like the normal ones." The young boy laughed. "Mum told my sisters they should stick it on the front of some ones trousers if they ever try to grab them."
Robert was joined in his laughter by Sirius when the older man pictured just how uncomfortable one of those portkeys could be and the damage it could cause.
Back at the Potter home
Harry sat nervously on the bed as Hermione breast fed their recent arrival, she looked up at him and said. "Well whatever it is get it over with, I promise not to kill you until after I have finished feeding Dylan."
Harry looked at his wife and shuffled forward a little so that he could quickly move out of her reach before he spoke, "Well you know those portkeys you gave to Robert when he left for Hogwarts. I just found one, it was stuck on Voldemort. He's down in our secure room right now wishing he had never tangled with our son."
Hermione's eyes went wide "Robert sent Voldemort here, how is Robert is he ok, is he hurt. Well don't just sit there do something." She said starting to panic a little.
"Hermione love Robert is fine, though I can't say the same for Riddle, and from all the swearing he is doing sounds as if he has decided that if he never sees another Potter it will still be too soon. That could have something to do with where Robert stuck the portkey though." Harry said as he relaxed and let out a short chuckle.
"What? Harry what are you talking about?" Hermione asked, her look freezing the chuckle in his throat.
"Robert stuck the portkey to Riddle's butt; the bastard has been down there for four days and has not been able to sit at all since he arrived." Harry said another chuckle trying to escape.
Hermione huffed a little and then a grin appeared on her face as she said "I swear that son of ours gets more like you every day Harry. How the hell did he manage to stick one on the dark prat's butt?"
Harry chuckled "I look forward to hearing that little 'tale' when Robert comes home, oh by the way he says he wants to return home and go back to Potter academy, seems the lessons are still a bit useless. He's now studying spells they learned in the primary classes at the academy." Harry said rather quietly. He knew that his wife had never wanted Robert to go to Hogwarts in the first place. It had been Harry's tales of their adventures that had enticed his son to try out his parents' school and he hoped his penance was not to severe. Not like when he had bought the one year old Robert a broom and had to spend a whole week sleeping on the couch in the study as punishment.
"Anyway I've sent for Amelia to help transport the evil git to the ministry, I'm going to shove the evil git through the veil, see if the snake can come back from that." Harry said turning very serious. "What ever it is that keeps him around won't be able to help him once he's dropped into hell."
Hermione smiled at Harry as she lay Dylan down for his nap, "Come on husband of mine, we have waited quite long enough since Dylan made his appearance. Take me to bed and we can celebrate properly."
Harry however never even made it off the bed before Jade and her sister ran into the room and called "Dad we want to use our brooms, can you come with us. We need you to supervise now mums a little busy."
Harry chuckled at the look on his wifes face and taking a small hand in each of his hands he led the twins out of the room. "Come on then my little princesses," he then winked at Hermione as he walked out of the door and then mouthed 'later sexy'
Later would be much later as Harry stayed with the girls for the next two hours until Amelia arrived and they went down to collect Voldemort.
Chapter 10
A short epilogue…?
Harry and Amelia stood outside the cell and watched the wizard known to them as Voldemort try to get comfortable. "Harry, I can't help feeling that we might never get that tricky bastard to the ministry. Lord knows what he has done to keep coming back in these different guises but some how he keeps doing it." She said a worried look on her face.
Harry had already had similar thoughts, but had not truly given thought to Voldemort escaping while in transit. There was always a possibility that the evil so and so knew of someway to alter a portkey, and if he was apparated there the most that would be with him would be two people. This deserved just a little more thought.
An hour later Harry and Amelia entered the cell and after a brief fight quickly had Voldemort subdued and tied with ropes, a set of magic suppressing handcuffs on his wrists. As they dragged Voldemort kicking and screaming out of the cell between them the completely evil dark lord was hit by a spell from Dobby, a spell that bound both body, mind, and soul, as well as the wizards magic. Voldemort would no longer be able to leave the body he was in to possess another.
While Voldemort yelled and screamed obscenities at Harry while all the time trying to break loose Harry slapped a portkey to Voldemort's forehead. A quick flash and the dark lord vanished. Harry being one of the only two remaining in the basement he grabbed Amelia and also vanished as he apparated them to the ministry.
Together with Amelia he made his way through the ministry from the apparation point down to the veil room. On arriving he found Dobby sitting on one of the stone benches staring intently at the veil. "So how did it go my little friend?" he asked Dobby.
Dobby had a huge grin as he stood up, "Just as Mistress Potter said, Harry Potter sir. Nasty Snake face hit hanging cloth face first and disappeared inside. Dobby has been sitting watching to see if Snaky one comes back but Dobby think he be gone forever now."
Around the country in various hidden and previously safe locations several hidden soul fragments, left with nothing to anchor them to this world simply faded into nothing. The valuable artefacts they had occupied were free of the evil that had been Tom Marvolo Riddle. Voldemort was well beyond ever being able to return.
Eleven year old Robert left Hogwarts on Halloween and returned home to discover that he had emulated his father by banishing Voldemort from Hogwarts in his first year. Robert, though he had not had to do any fighting like his dad did, still felt quite proud of how he had carried out his mums instructions without hesitation. He returned home in the company of a large black dog, and explained to his parents how Padfoot had stopped Voldemort grabbing him. Harry who had as a young man lost all faith in his godfather thanked Sirius and agreed to allow the man a chance to get to know the new Potter family.
Very slowly over the following months Sirius got to know the whole family, very quickly realising that upsetting Hermione Potter with his pranks could have dire consequences. She was the smartest woman he had ever met, even putting Harry's mother Lily in a far off second place. One year later, though still feeling that he was not fully trusted by Hermione he was asked to help out at the school, and much as he wanted to share his pranking abilities he decided against it. Hermione Potter was after all one scary witch, and she did not think to kindly of people who pulled pranks, she called them bullies and threatened any bullies in their school would suffer the correct punishment.
Sirius settled down into his teaching job, standing in for the various teachers when they took their breaks, helping as an assistant teacher in some of the classes and finally settling down into teaching potions. After several months he had started to date the math teacher and everyone could see that it was getting serious. The old Sirius/Padfoot was gone, he had finally grown up and settled down into a more normal life.
Robert's tales of Hogwarts put his siblings and all his friends off ever trying the ancient old school, instead they all elected to remain as they were, and they were all quite happy with their school and their friends.
Harry and Hermione were far happier knowing that there was no longer any threat to either them their children or their way of life from the two evil wizards that had practically ruined their early lives, and could finally fully relax and settle down to truly enjoying their lives with their family.
Life at Potter academy settled back into its normal routine, all talk of leaving to try Hogwarts was soon forgotten, and with hard work on the part of everyone the school continued to be the school that every magical being wanted their offspring to attend.
The house in Barmouth was still used as the Potter family spent two weeks there every year as they took a summer break. Their four children never got tired of visiting the small town and found it both a relaxing and interesting place to visit. Even when the town was filled with visitors they always found some sort of mischief they could get up to.
Ginny and Dean were married a month after Ginny's twentieth birthday, and everyone had been invited. Theirs was the first wedding that was held in the assembly hall of the new school and as the school term was underway all the students were invited as well, which made the wedding a rather large one.
Neville standing with Luna as members of the wedding party watched and saw how happy Ginny and Dean looked saying their vows, asked her to pick a date for their wedding, telling her he now felt ready to become the head of the Longbottom family, and to be a father. Luna picked new years day as the best day for them to begin a new life together.
On the day that Robert graduated there were fourteen in the close group of students that lived with their parents on the grounds of Potter valley. Four Potters, two boys and two girls, six Thomas's three boys and three girls, and four Longbottom's, all boys. The loud cheer that came from the close nit families for the first of them to graduate would be repeated each year that another of the group became fully qualified witches and wizards. Some of them went on to university in the muggle world, but it was a group that remained close for their entire lives.
The loyalty and friendship that Harry and Hermione Potter seemed to acquire from those who got to know them would last for quite a few generations.
The end