Chapter twenty
Harry and Sirius went out to buy all the ingredients needed for the heritage potion. Hermione stayed at the house to begin with the ingredients she already had. She also had to work out how much she needed since she was making it for three people instead of one. One for her, one for Harry and one for Sirius.
They got word that Kingsley was working on the golems for Sirius to be spotted in America, and for Harry and Hermione to be killed in a fight with four escaped death eaters. The golems would die but they would die in England. Anyone would believe Harry and Hermione snuck back to speak with the order. So while they were there they decided to visit the Potter graves.
It was a month later that Kingsley sent word that Harry and Hermione Potter were killed. There would be a private funeral in an undisclosed location and not at Godric's Hollow. They knew the death eaters would attack the few friends that were going to be invited. The fake Sirius was seen in America within days of the deaths of the Potters. They planned to kill off the Sirius golem in a few weeks so it wouldn't look suspicious.
Some of their spies sent word that Albus looked furious before he seemed to sag. They realised he would need to take care of Voldemort himself which meant putting himself in danger, something he had been hoping to avoid. With the death of Harry Potter, he was the only one that was powerful enough to end Voldemort once and for all, then he could rule the world.
Tonks had let Hermione and Harry know that Molly, Ginny and Ron looked happy when they heard about Harry and Hermione's death. That is until the will reading done by the goblins, only Remus, Tonks, Minerva, Hagrid, Kingsley, Arthur, Fred and George Weasley were named in the will. If Molly thought she could get the money Harry had left Arthur then she found out she was mistaken. It were hundreds of pounds worth of vouchers to muggle electronic shops, along with a few expensive bottles of wine. Tonks said she could hardly stop laughing when Molly, Ginny and Ron found out that they got nothing. Ron even blurted out about the invisibility cloak, saying Harry would want him to have it. They had already worked that so Remus received the cloak, but the one that was passed over was one of Mad-eye Moody's, it was just charmed to resemble Harry's.
A few weeks later when Hermione woke through the night, she saw Harry standing at the window, staring out in the darkness.
'What is it, sweetheart?'
Harry turned then sat on the edge of the bed, 'Muggle weapons and magical laws. Do you know if us, magicals can use a muggle weapon against a witch or wizard, in self-defence or say against Voldy?'
'I don't know Harry, it's not something I've ever read about, or thought about. Are you considering this?'
'I had this dream, it was mum, she was talking to me. I think it was real Hermione.'
Hermione took Harry's hands in hers, 'Tell me.'
'She said the power he knows not is a muggle method. It makes sense she would think of it as she was a muggleborn. I saw enough television at the Dursley's to know how dangerous guns are. What if this power is just a muggle gun which Voldy would never use or even think about?'
'Then if you are concerned about some law that prevents us using a gun I would speak with Steven and Kingsley. So far a lot of the laws here are the same as England, but not all of them are the same. We also know that Australia has adapted muggle things so they have their own versions, like pens. Some even wear muggle style clothes they are just made by magicals. Then think of this, it might be illegal in England but not here, so once you shot him you would return home, to Australia.'
'Then I'll go see him tomorrow, even if the prophecy is fulfilled then not just me, but a few of us could aim at him at once. We would just need to draw him out, and what would bring him out of hiding, or who?'
'You,' Hermione sighed, 'It's dangerous, but if we had enough people then we might be able to take out as many as possible. If we did this maybe Steven would assist as well, have all his aurors join us in England.'
'I think he would if it meant the end of Voldy. He knows the death eaters keep arriving to check out what the magical community here is like and how hard it would be to take over the ministry. But I want to take Dumby out as well, I want him to die for what he planned for me.'
'If Dumbledore found out you were there then he would turn up in the hope Voldy would kill you, then his plans were still in affect, he could kill Voldy after you died. If there are a few of us with things like guns, then I'm sure we could get him as well. People would believe he was caught in the cross fire.'
'I'll talk to Sirius in the morning then Steven. We'll need to make a lot of plans to make sure we're as safe as possible. Right now we are, they think we're dead, but the moment there is a rumour we're alive we'll have not only Voldy and his death eaters after us, but Dumby and Snivellus. We might even have Molly, Ron and Ginny, they would go after you.'
'It's you that Dumbledore and Voldy want dead, I can stay disguised Harry, then I will deal with those three Weasley's.'
'I was going to suggest you use polyjuice or the rings, I wasn't sure you would agree to it.'
'I know you would become reckless if you thought I was in danger, which would put you in more danger. I don't mind using a glamour, and when they die and the Weasley's are disarmed, I will show myself. We might not be able to make Ron, Ginny and Molly legally pay for what they did but they will know we want nothing to do with them.'
'Alright, we'll work on some plans with Steven and Sirius. If we go back to do this then I want both taken care of at the same time so we can return home and finally be a normal young couple. Let's hope that Kingsley and the others can find the stone after his dead. It's not like Voldy where his immortal, Dumbledork has to keep drinking the elixir. Do you think he created gold with it as well?'
'He would need money and a lot of it for his plans. Once he was in power he could bribe anyone he wants. The goblins will stop Dumbledore and Voldy from taking over people's vaults. Only a family member can petition Gringotts, so they will need to have their own money. We know Voldy uses his death eaters money, most of them are very wealthy, we have no idea if Dumbledore is?'
'Do you know what happens to orphans funds if they die?'
'No, I would say it goes to the ministry.'
'I heard the odd story of a student dying, I'm just curious if they were orphans. Look at my situation, if I did die when I was eleven then Dumbledore would have been able to take control of my vaults. I'm probably seeing more evil than what is really there, I just can't seem to put anything past him, not anymore.'
'I don't blame you, but it's late, come back to bed then tomorrow we'll see what the laws are.'
Harry climbed into bed beside his wife, but he pulled her to him until her head rested on his shoulder. He knew the dream he had was real, somehow his mother found a way to appear to him, to give him the way to finish off the ones that killed her and James.
Harry stepped into the kitchen to see Sirius sitting with a cup of coffee, 'I'll have one of those then I need to talk to you about something.'
'Then grab a cup, because I need to talk to you as well. Now why are you in here before your wife?'
'I woke through the night, we got talking, so I snuck out to let her sleep,' Harry grabbed a cup of coffee then sat beside his godfather, 'I had a dream, but I think it was real.'
Sirius's eyes widened, 'Lily?'
'Yes, how did you know?'
'I had a dream of her as well, muggle weapons?'
'Yes,' Harry grinned, 'It was real, I knew it was, but how did she do it?'
'I have no idea, I've heard mothers that have died have appeared to a child through dreams, but I'm not related to Lily.'
'No, but you are my godfather, you're also the closest to a real father that I have. I might be an adult Sirius but I do think of you as a parent. Mum and dad named you my godfather so they wanted us to be close.'
'Yeah, maybe you're right, it has to have something to do with me being your godfather.'
'Yeah, so do you know the laws about using a muggle weapon against a wizard?'
'It's never became a law since most of the purebloods believe muggles still use bows and arrows, or swords, which we use as well. I'm going to have Kingsley check the laws just to make sure but I don't remember anything about a law about using a muggle weapon. Okay, say we do this, where?'
'There, if he hears I'm alive and seen he will come at me, they both will. Hermione and I thought we could have a heap of us with guns. Not just to aim at Voldy, but at his death eaters and if Dumby and the bat turns up then we deal with them as well. With Dumby though, we make it look like he was just caught in the cross fire.'
'Then we'll talk it over with Kingsley and Steven, if we can get enough people armed with muggle guns then we can work on a plan to draw out Voldy, Dumby and Snivellus.'
Harry grinned, Hermione was right, they had nicknames for everyone, but he liked it. It was hard to imagine that those three were really dangerous when they had ridiculous names, names that just make you laugh, and they don't make you afraid.
Chapter twenty one
Harry went to speak with Steven while Sirius used the mirror to speak with Kingsley. He explained about the dream that both he and Harry had.
'So Lily found a way to tell you how to finish this. It's not unheard of for the dead to talk to us in our dreams. Has Harry even mentioned if this has happened before?'
'Not to me, and not to anyone that I know of, but I can ask him, or Hermione when she wakes.'
'I'll go check the laws, make sure nothing new has cropped up. I will speak with Ted Tonks, he's a muggleborn, he may know about guns, or at least he might know who we can speak with. I'll contact you again tonight, your time.'
'I'll be here,' Sirius put the mirror down then saw Hermione standing at the doorway, 'I had the same dream as Harry, Lily telling us to use a muggle method to deal with them.'
'So it was real, where is Harry?'
'He went to speak with Steven, he wanted to know if maybe some of the aurors here might learn how to shoot then head to England with us. We will need a few so we can take out as many as possible.'
'My dad could shoot, he used to go to this club.'
'You never wanted to have them gain their memories back.'
'No, not with the danger. They would want to stay with me, they might even want to go home, it's not worth it. I'm sure someone in the Australian ministry have muggleborn friends.'
'Harry will find out, but how did he seem when he told you about the dream?'
'Excited, it was like he really interacted with his mother. He told me what happened in the graveyard. Do you think that time and this dream is caused by something Lily did to protect Harry from the killing curse?'
'It could be all connected, but Lily was brilliant and she did read more than ever when they went into hiding. The Potters are an old family, they did have a lot of old books that were hundreds of years old.'
'But wouldn't James tell you if his wife found something?'
'No, not unless they knew for certain it would work. They knew I sometimes talked when I had too much to drink, so I wasn't the most reliable when it came to keeping my mouth shut. You see Hermione, Lily wanted to leave the country, she almost talked James into leaving when Albus came to them and offered to be the secret keeper. He also explained that since old snake-face knew of the boy from the prophecy, he would search the world and he had a lot of supporters back then. I doubt it would have been long before James, Lily and Harry was found. Lily still wanted to leave, but I never found out why they decided to stay and use the fidelius charm. After finding out what Albus was up to, I have a feeling he fed them some story so they wouldn't disappear.'
'Do you think he set them up?'
'I'm positive he did, it was his suggestion to use someone other than me, I could play decoy which I did. They would go after me to get me to give them the secret, but it would not have worked and if I had to die to protect them I would have.'
'So he didn't actually suggest Peter?'
'No, but at the time we were suspicious of everyone, Remus was at the top of the list because of his problem. So you see, there was only two choices, Albus or Peter. The reason James thought Peter would be perfect more than anyone else was his rat form. They are small and fast, he could escape easily enough if he was caught. It's harder to hit a small rat with a spell than a large dog.'
'I see the logic in that, do you think Dumbledore knew Peter was the spy?'
'Now I do, then no, we trusted him.'
'That was part of his plan, have everyone trust him so no one would find out what he was really up to,' Harry said as he joined his wife and godfather, 'The Aussies are in, they use guns here, but only when muggles might be involved. There have been many crimes where a muggle family had a witch or wizard family member that they decided to commit crimes, like theft. It's easy for one of us to apparate directly into a bank vault, or even where they keep the gold. There is no law here that prevents a magical using a muggle weapon on another magical, so that's covered, at least for the people here. Since they gave us our dual citizenship we're also covered, especially since we will be returning here afterwards. Did you speak with Kingsley?'
'He's going to get back to us tonight, but there is no law the last time he worked in the ministry. He just doesn't know if one has been made since he went into hiding.'
'When we do this, you get the rat.'
Sirius nodded, 'I want to take care of him.'
'You deserve to, I want Voldy, but all of us will keep taking them out and hopefully there won't be enough to cause a problem. We need to get the old man to appear at the same time, we need shooters further out so if he does turn up but stays back, our spotters will see him. We need somewhere that won't offer them much protection, even if they can conjure something, they won't do that straight away which gives us the advantage.'
'I'm sure with a few stories we work out he will turn up. Hogsmeade is a good place but it puts students and the owners of the shops in danger.'
'I had an idea but I really don't want to suggest it,' Hermione said.
'It could mean they are finally finished Hermione,' Harry said.
'I know,' Hermione sighed, 'Godric's Hollow, at the graveyard.'
'That would definitely get their attention, Harry fakes his death now he wants to visit his parent's graves. The cemetery is out of the way, we can set a few muggle repelling charms to keep the muggles away,' Sirius turned to Harry, 'I'm sure your parent's and the others that are buried there would understand if their gravesites ended up damaged. When it's all done, then we pay to have them fixed.'
'They are just headstones and stuff, they can be fixed or replaced,' Harry looked at his wife, 'It's a good idea and one they would believe.'
'There are a lot of trees, there are large tombstones to hide people. There are bushes down the back, buildings across the street and those have windows facing the graveyard.'
'It sounds perfect, I have one concern. If there is a rumour that I'm alive, Dumb-as-a-door will turn up, he won't be able to resist. But old Tommy boy might just send his death wiener's to make sure I'm disarmed or unconscious, he may not be there.'
'It's a risk Harry but I believe he would turn up, like Dumby, he wouldn't be able to resist. He will feel that he can finally deal with you.'
'He will Harry, Tom will want it over, he will want to kill you as soon as he can.'
'Yeah, he probably will. Okay, we let it out that I'm really alive, not Hermione, whether they believe it or not, I have no idea. At the cemetery Hermione is glamoured but also using my cloak, Remus can lend you the one he has. It will give you two protection but also give you a chance to take some out before anyone figures out you're both there or that two other people are there. The three of us will need to learn how to shoot, some from a distance. We will have to take in things like the wind, storms, rain, all that as we won't know if the weather turns once we're there. I remember Dudley watching this movie once, about a sniper and how he had to adjust his scope because of a slight breeze. Do you think if Voldy turns up that he will have the snake with him?'
'From what we've been hearing, the snake is always with him. But if he doesn't take Nagini then one of the spies can take care of her after everyone else has left. Once that job is done he can get out of there for good, leave the others to listen out in case something happens to stop old Voldy from turning up, which I don't think will happen.'
'So we have a lot of plans to work on and we need to learn how to shoot. Let's hope there is no law preventing magicals from using muggle weapons against other magicals. We don't want to finish this just to get arrested.'
'I'm sure Steven will work on something to protect his aurors along with us. He knows what will happen with an immortal Voldy and the old man who can keep drinking the elixir.'
'Yeah, all countries would be in danger, from both of them. Okay, but we work on emergency port key's, just in case. We don't take the chance of being taken, in anyway. We do the job then get back home.' Harry said.
'And when the job is done then we'll talk about children.'
Sirius watched Harry's eyes light up, he knew his godson always seemed older than what he was. But he really did want a family, he wanted to be a father even when he wasn't twenty yet.
Chapter twenty two
Kingsley found out that no new law was passed so anyone magical can use a muggle weapon. He also found out that some suggested the law be changed but many argued that swords were originally invented by a muggle, so were daggers, and things like crossbows. If they made it illegal to use muggle weapons then they would have to ban all the others as well, like swords.
Steven wanted a meeting with his aurors, but he wanted Harry, Hermione, and Sirius to as well. He also wanted Kingsley to join using the mirror. Since they wanted to keep this meeting as secret as they could, they found an empty muggle building. A few charms placed on and around it make it perfect for their secret meeting.
'Okay, two of the aurors here have family members that know how to shoot, they have agreed to train all of us. One has an uncle that is in the military, who is a sniper, he has agreed to teach just a few. Two weeks of training, from eight in the morning until six, they said that would give us enough training to have us ready, some more than others. Now, Greg here checked the laws again, there is no law against any muggle weapon, so he suggested using a few other things, like grenades and rocket launchers, mainly for their homes.'
'So if a few death eaters or even old snake-face decides to stay at their headquarters one of our people can blow it up,' Kingsley said, 'A good plan, I like it.'
'So do we, we're going to need you to have a few of your people show the ones that are trained with these other muggle weapons where the places are. Now we did a quick test, our strongest shields could not stop the grenade.'
'We did the same with a gun, the only thing that stopped the bullet reaching the training wizard was a conjured item like a large stone. Some things shattered but they needed a lot of bullets. For this to work on as many as possible then the first few shots can't miss,' Kingsley said.
'So the first targets will be Voldy, Dumbledore, Snape and the Lestrange's,' Harry said.
'Yes, they are the most dangerous. Do you have any plans for those red heads you mentioned?' Steven asked.
'Hermione is going to disarm them, even if she has to shatter their hands to do it. She's fast enough that she will get two before they realise anything is going on. But Hermione has agreed to be glamoured and using my invisibility cloak.'
'Remus has another invisibility cloak, he is going to stay close to Hermione, that way he can disarm the third one. We can't do more than that since they haven't done anything illegal. Talking about taking care of someone won't hold up in court. People get frustrated and say things they don't mean. We just need them out of the way so Hermione and Harry are safe. Remus wants to be involved but because of his furry little problem he won't kill, he said the temptation is too great. He has been fighting that side of himself since he was a child,' Sirius said.
The group spoke for a few more minutes, they organised when they would begin their lessons before heading home, or like the aurors, back to their jobs.
It was an intense two weeks of training, Sirius and Harry actually liked learning to shot. Sirius was really surprised how much damage one tiny bullet did to a training wizard. Their instructor allowed them to just shoot, just to get the hang of holding a gun, the noise, how it feels. After splattering the walls will hundreds of bullets, he began to teach them how to shot straight and how to take it the environment around them. Harry had been amazed at how far he could be and still hit the target. He knew he would never use this skill again, but right now he knew it would not only give him, Hermione and Sirius a safe life, but everyone they cared about would be safe as well. That's all Harry wanted, for them to have a good life, one without having to worry about Voldemort, his death eaters or Dumbledore.
Harry, along with Sirius and three Australian aurors were lying on the roof of the building opposite the graveyard at Godric's Hollow. Tonks was going to play Harry, then quickly use Mad-eye's invisibility cloak to disappear until she can reappear as herself. Tonks had been practicing changing into Harry, but also to move like him. Hermione would tell her if she needed to change something or move differently. Since she watched Harry a lot over the years, she knew all of Harry's little habits. He would sometimes relax by bending one knee, or lean against a wall. He always folded his arms the same way but when he was worried he had a habit of tilting his head to the right. These were what Tonks had to practice so anyone that had ever studied Harry would believe Tonks was really Harry Potter.
There were several other aurors were scattered around the graveyard, hidden by cloaks, spells or just behind large tombstones. Kingsley and few others were sitting up in the large trees, they worked on charms to keep themselves stable while they shoot, but also to make sure they could not fall out.
The both ends of the street had muggle repelling charms around it to keep the muggles away. They just hoped no magicals decided to turn up and got caught in the crossfire. A few spells had anyone in the church leave, including the priest. Since they were muggles it was easy to make them leave.
They got the signal from the twins who was making sure Dumbledore and Snape would hear that Harry Potter was still alive and in disguise. He was visiting his parent's graves. They knew Snape had to hurry to tell Voldemort but Albus would head straight to Godric's Hollow. He might be in disguise, he might be using polyjuice potion or even another invisibility cloak. No one was sure how he would look.
Within minutes they heard the tell-tale sounds of people apparating. Death eaters were the first to arrive, with Voldemort in front of them, his snake wrapped around his shoulders.
The ones on the roof were going to wait until they got closer, but also for aurors and the couple of order members to turn up. As they got within a few feet of having a clear shot of the graveyard more pops were heard. The anti-apparition wards went up and the fighting was ready to begin.
'Go,' the auror next to Harry said.
They took aim, Steven aimed at the snake, which had to die first. Harry aimed at Voldemort, Sirius aimed at Peter, the aurors aiming at the Lestrange's. Once they were done Harry would aim for Dumbledore and Sirius would aim at Snape.
They got the nod, then one by one they opened fire. The snake was blasted, splattering blood everywhere, most of it went over Voldemort. Seconds later, Harry got Voldemort directly between his shocked eyes then turned to find Dumbledore. Sirius had Peter down with a bullet to his head, but everyone was taking out their targets, along with all the other death eaters. The remaining death eaters began to panicked, they had no idea what was going on or how their lord ended up dead. None of them saw anyone, there was no sign of their enemy.
Sirius got Snape in the back as he ran towards the end of the street, that's when Harry saw Dumbledore. Dumbledore was turning as if to apparate not realising there were anti-apparition wards. Harry hit him in the heart, as he fell Harry hit him again, this time in the head. Sirius hit Snape again, as he was still alive even though he couldn't move, he didn't want to take the chance that Snape would survive.
Hermione who had been standing under a tree, hidden under Harry's invisibility cloak. She had Molly and Ginny's hands shattered when a spell from Ron just missed her. Remus shattered Ron's hand as well. Every one of their plans seemed to work flawlessly, it went so good that none of the Australian, or the ones with Harry were put in danger at all. They all knew there could have been deaths or injuries, but it went perfectly, much to everyone's relief.
Chapter twenty three
When every death eater was dead, only then did the shooting stop. Remus moved closer to Hermione but removed the cloak. Tonks appeared from behind a tombstone, but she moved towards a hidden Hermione. Kingsley and the aurors with him levitated themselves out of the tree, they also stood beside Hermione, who finally pulled off the cloak. Harry, along with Sirius, Steven, the order and aurors appeared beside Hermione. Harry pulled her into his arms while Mad-eye and Arthur went to Molly, Ginny and Ron.
'Why did they hurt my family?' Arthur asked as he tried to stop the bleeding.
'They fired at Hermione so she decided to take care of them,' Mad-eye said.
'But they didn't know it was Hermione.'
'They would have tried to kill her anyway Arthur,' Kingsley said, 'We had a spy listening in on your wife and two youngest children. They had been slipping Harry and Hermione love potions for years. When they found out about their marriage, they planned to kill Hermione in the hope Harry would return home to Remus.'
'We could have killed them Arthur and we could have gotten away with it, but Harry and Hermione didn't want any unnecessary deaths. Hermione believed shattering their hands which can be regrown would be enough to stop them,' Tonks said.
'I personally, would have killed them,' Sirius snarled, 'Oh Arthur, they got the idea from the old man. Dumb-as-a-door wanted to kill off everyone, just like Voldemort did, then rule the world. But he wanted the Potter money, which would help fund his new world. Ginny was to make Harry marry her, then he would die, she would split the money with Dumbledork. They didn't know that the old fool planned to kill them, kill all of you.'
'Sirius, it's over, let's go home,' Harry sighed.
'Yes, then you and your wife can start making little Potters and I get to be Grampa Paddy.'
'You three and Remus head home, we'll help Kingsley clean up here.'
'I want to go too,' Tonks said running towards Remus then threw her arms around him.
'It seems Remus is getting some, my godson is, but I'm not, I have to fix that.'
'Now you can Sirius, go find some woman to shag,' Tonks said.
Harry looked at the dead bodies, but he felt Steven and Kingsley push him towards his godfather. He nodded then Hermione held out the port key, the five disappeared from sight.
'He doesn't like killing, but this time there was no choice,' Kingsley said.
'It was the only way he will have peace, but now we all can,' Steven said.
'Since those three never actually did anything Arthur, we're allowing them to go home with you. But it will be known what they planned and what they did. The twins have already decided they do not want anything to do with them. When word gets out that Harry killed Voldemort they won't be very popular,' Kingsley said.
Arthur nodded but glared at his wife, son and daughter before he made them move away. The English aurors and the Australian aurors began the rest of their work.
When Harry, Hermione, Tonks, Remus and Sirius arrived back at the house in Australia, Sirius poured all of them a glass of Fire whiskey.
'I think we all need this,' Sirius never hesitated, he just knocked back the drink, then Harry followed him, coughing and spluttering which made Sirius chuckle.
'It's over, really over,' Hermione said.
'Yes, it is. I never thought it would ever be over,' Remus said.
'I doubt any of us believed it would,' Tonks said.
'Are you okay Harry?' Hermione asked.
'I will be, he needed to die, they all did. I never meant to kill Quirrell but I did kill him, this time I did mean it,' Harry sighed, 'I don't like killing, but it had to be done,' Harry looked at Remus, 'People will find out about the real Albus Dumbledore, won't they?'
'Yes, Kingsley, Minerva and many others are going to make sure all his plans will be heard.'
'Good, hopefully people will finally stop being sheep and following people without finding out what they are truly like. It's like what Minerva said, she never questioned Albus, from now on she will question people if she feels something is not right,' Sirius turned to Remus, 'So, have you made up your mind?'
'I'm moving to Australia and taking the job in the ministry.'
'I spoke with Steven, I'm going to transfer to the Australian auror squad. I just have to familiarise myself with the Australian laws.'
'And I'm staying, they gave me my freedom, plus I want to stay close to Harry,' Sirius turned to his godson who was smiling, 'I'll work on finding my own place, but it will be close. I will tell you the charm that Lily used to tell me not to enter the house when they wanted to shag.'
Harry chuckled, 'Please do or you might see us do things you really don't want to. But I like the idea you'll be close, and that all three of you are going to be here with Hermione and me.'
'The three of us are going out for dinner, we'll be gone for a few hours,' Sirius said seriously but he gave Hermione a look as if to say look after Harry, he got a nod in response.
'How about you and I share a bath and relax?' Hermione stood and held out her hand to Harry who smiled as he took her hand.
Remus, Tonks and Sirius headed out to one of the magical towns to find a restaurant ready to give the Potters some time alone.
'So did Steven mention the Grangers?'
'Yes, the unspeakables are going to work on their memories the moment they finished up in England, and if everything went the way it was supposed to. Which it did.'
'I get why Hermione did what she did, dad has been in hiding since Voldy returned. Mum had to be careful since she knows what her sisters would do if they saw her. The Grangers are muggles, they would not have stood a chance against the death eaters.'
'Should Hermione be told?' Sirius asked.
'No, the unspeakables are not sure they can remove those memory charms Hermione did on them. This way she has no idea. Steven is also going to talk to them so they know exactly how much danger they would have been in if Hermione didn't cast those charms on them. They might be angry but it's better than them dying. What about Harry, will he be able to live with this?'
'He will, he knew it had to happen and he didn't kill anyone that was innocent. They were all killers, they tortured and killed, he knows that. I think Hermione will help him if he needs it, but I don't think he will, he just needs some time.'
'Has he said what he wants to do if this was every over?' Tonks asked.
'Become an auror, he said it just feels right, he also said he got this feeling whenever he thought of being an auror. He believes his parents were telling him he made the right choice.'
'He will make a great auror,' Remus said.
'He will, at first I wasn't sure. Because of his life and what happened at Hogwarts, and how he ran the DA. I thought he would find it too difficult to allow others to be in charge. But seeing him interact with Steven and how he followed the instructions from Steven and his aurors told me he could do this. He has the power to be great at anything, yet he's going to use that to keep the magical world protected.' Sirius said.
'He has the right attitude to be an auror. I am surprised Hermione has agreed to have kids now when she could do anything,' Tonks said.
'I believe she will continue her studies while she has young children. When they get older she will begin work part time until they go on to their magical education when they are eleven. I know Hermione is ambitious, but I also noticed she changed over the years and it came down to how close she came to dying. It was also how close Harry came to dying and how close it came to her parent's dying. She will have her family now with Harry and then go on to do some great things, like Lily always wanted to do,' Remus said.
'They are so alike, apart from how Hermione would badger Harry and Ron to do their work. Lily said to us many times in our last year, if we don't want to work then it will be our own fault if we fail,' Sirius smiled, 'They can rest in peace now, just like all the other victims of Voldemort, Albus, Snape, and the other death eaters.'
Sirius lifted his glass, Remus and Tonks did the same, 'Rest in peace,' the three said together, clinking their glasses then taking a sip.
Harry and Hermione knew now the world was a much safer place, they knew all the victims of Voldemort and Dumbledore's violence can finally rest in pace. But the happy couple also knew they could bring children into this world and know they had the best chance they would ever have at a peaceful, and normal life. So the young couple worked the charms so hopefully in nine months' time, the first Potter child would be born, born into a world with no more dark wizards.
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