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Category: Post-DH/AB Characters:Harry/Ginny, Hermione Granger, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Nymphadora Tonks, Ron Weasley Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, General, Romance Warnings: Death, Intimate Sexual Situations, Violence Story is Complete Rating: R Reviews: 59 Summary: Third in the Almost Happily Ever After series, starting at the end of the hunt for the remaining supporters of Tom Riddle and the end of Ginny's Quidditch career. Hitcount: Story Total: 123100; Chapter Total: 4221 Author's Notes: I want to thank my faithful beta FriendofMolly for helping with this chapter, especially with Ginny’s announcement to her family |
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Harry and Ginny could hardly believe it. James Sirius was almost a year old! Where had the year gone? Although his birthday was on Monday they were going to celebrate it on Sunday the 16th. The family had taken to celebrating only grandchildren’s birthdays, and those on the closest Sunday. Since there were now 8 grandchildren (with another one on the way) there were a lot of birthdays, and the children really enjoyed it. The family had agreed that at all the birthday celebrations every one would get something, even if it was only a pack of chocolate frog cards. Harry had wanted to give James a toy broom, like the one he had been given as a one year old. Ginny was ready to stop nursing James. Ginny told James that he was a big boy, big enough to have a toy broom but also big enough to stop nursing. James loved the toy broom, and all the other children became jealous. Hermione was 7 months pregnant, and had finally accepted the fact that she was going to have a baby. Monday October 31 was one of those very busy days. Harry had to work late, and did not get back home until almost 12:00 PM. Ginny was already in bed, and she hardly woke up when Harry got into bed. Tuesday November 1 started out as a normal day. The family had breakfast together as usual. Harry told Ginny, “You look especially beautiful today, love. I hope tonight I can make up to you for getting in so late last night.” Ginny felt rather sexy, for some reason, gave Harry a huge kiss and hug, and said, “I would really like that!” Ginny hugged and rubbed up against Harry in that particularly sexy way that indicates that there is more coming later, and Harry thought of Ginny’s eagerness on and off during the day. Ginny spent a good portion of the day with the family at the New Burrow, although she did spend about three hours on her Quidditch column. Louis and James played together or parallel to each other, and Ginny and Molly and Fleur took turns watching them and working on vocabulary and other skills. They spent some time in play with the older children. At 5:00 PM Ginny went back home to talk to Mabel about dinner, and by the time Harry got back at 6:00 PM dinner was almost ready. Teddy was at dinner, but proudly took the Floo home all by himself right after dinner. Harry played with James after dinner, and by 9:00 PM James was in bed, Harry having read him a story and put him down. As Harry came out of James bedroom Ginny said, “Want to take a shower together?” Taking a shower together was always pleasant, and after washing each other and some play in the shower they were almost always ready for more play in bed. Lovemaking was very pleasant, and afterwards, as Harry quickly drifted off to sleep, Ginny just lay on her back enjoying, leaving a little bit of Harry inside her. Ginny woke up in the morning still horny, and before James was up they made love again. Tuesday night Harry got back at the normal time, and again Ginny indicated that she was in the mood for more lovemaking, and again after Teddy was back home and James was down in bed Harry eagerly helped Ginny satisfy her need. Harry always thought Ginny was beautiful, but she seemed even prettier and sexier than usual. By the middle of November Ginny started to feel a little different. Her breasts were starting to grow a little, and her food tasted just a little different. Her stomach was not exactly upset, but it was not exactly the same either. It certainly was not like the changes her body went through when she was in San Francisco, but something was a little different. She had not gone on birth control potions after stopping the potions you took when you were nursing and did not want to become pregnant, and she knew that she and Harry wanted another child or two, but it had just been a month since she had stopped nursing James. By Friday November 25 Ginny knew that something was happening. She was determined not to be like she was for James when it took her 2 months to figure out she was pregnant. So right after lunch, while the children were down for a nap, Ginny took Fleur aside and asked, “Fleur, could you examine me, medically?” Fleur waved her wand over Ginny starting at her head and going down to the start of her legs. “I wondered when you would ask,” said Fleur. “Three to four weeks. You know when?” “I kind of jumped on Harry November 1 & 2. Could that have done it?” asked Ginny. “Oui, ees very sexy, body ees saying now, Arry and Genny making baby,” said Fleur, smiling as she piled on the French accent. “I am pregnant, then,” said Ginny. “I thought so. Two weeks! I went two weeks between nursing James and getting pregnant.” “I will tell no one until you tell Arry, but women will guess quickly,” said Fleur. Ginny pondered how to tell Harry. Finally she though she had just the right way. Ginny was in the kitchen at 6:00 PM as Harry came thru the Floo. Ginny had put on a bra that pushed up and out her breasts, and had on a low cut top that was also tight around the bottom of the bust. There were spells you could use to make your husband look at you, and Ginny used all the ones she knew. Harry looked at her, his eyes drawn down to her already slightly expanding bust, and Ginny said quietly, “Quit looking at my breasts, Harry. They are big and are going to get bigger.” Ginny had an almost guilty smile on her face as she quietly said, “I’m going to get all big and fat and ugly, and it’s all your fault.” Harry listened to Ginny and thought, is she trying to tell me what I think she is? Is she pregnant again? He had the biggest smile on his face. He thought that would be wonderful. Can I touch her? Her breasts look so inviting and she is almost asking me to touch her. He gently put his hands on the side of her breasts, felt down to the bottom of the breasts, and then felt the top of them. They did feel a little fuller than they had earlier, although with her bra on he could not really tell. He went around her a couple of times, just because it felt good and he knew it drove her crazy. Ginny just smiled, a big smile that said ‘I’m enjoying what you’re doing to me.’ Harry pulled Ginny into him and said, “You’re really pregnant?” Ginny nodded yes. “Fantastic!” said Harry. “That’s just the best news.” “We probably did it the first of the month,” said Ginny. “You were very eager that Tuesday and Wednesday,” said Harry. “I will have to say that making a baby is lots of fun.” “You don’t have to carry it for the next 8 months, and then push a quaffle out your bottom,” said Ginny. “But it was fun!” “Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy,” came a little voice from the floor. “UP!” James pulled on Harry’s pants leg “Up. Hug.” Harry picked up James and kissed him and gave him a big hug. “I love you, James,” said Harry, “almost as much as I love your beautiful mother.” “All my dreams are coming true, Harry,” said Ginny, as she squeezed him tightly, James squeezed in between them as part of the hug, “Just one at a time not all at once.” Harry said, “There is a passage from the Old Testament that says ‘for everything there is a time,’ and I guess this is our time to have babies. I’m going to enjoy it.” “I’m going to do my best to enjoy it, too,” said Ginny. “Even when I’m as big as a house and have a baby kicking at my bladder. I have a few months before that.” “You are very sexy when you’re pregnant,” said Harry. “Sexy?” asked James eagerly. “What sexy?” “Get your broom, James,” said Harry, trying to change the subject. For the next hour, before dinner was ready, Harry was chasing James on the broom and roughhousing with him. They came to dinner tired and happy. When they had put James down to bed Harry and Ginny took advantage of James sleeping through the night and not having anything scheduled in the morning. Sunday November 27 Harry and Ginny were at the New Burrow with the rest of the family. Ginny turned to Molly and asked, “How did you tell Bill that he was going to be a big brother?” Molly caught on real quickly, and asked, “Is James going to be a big brother soon?” “Not soon, but next August, or the end of July,” Ginny said, ending with a huge grin. Molly was delighted. “Ten grandchildren! Two more and I’ll have a dozen!” She looked around the room for volunteers, but Angelina and Audrey just sat there not saying anything. “Bill and I have given you three already,” Fleur said, indicating that she felt she had contributed at least her fair share to the number of grandchildren. Hermione did a little quick calculating, and said, “James is going to be at Hogwarts a year before Rose and your baby, but Rose and this baby will be at Hogwarts together.” Hermione was due December 9, and she was ready to have the baby at any time. All the other women encouraged her, but she was not exactly happy. “I don’t see how we are going to keep the department running if I am out too long with this baby,” she said. “Harriet should be capable of running the department,” said Harry. “Yes, but she is pregnant and due a couple of weeks after I am,” said Hermione. Tuesday November 29 one of the wizards from DPW Ltd. wanted to take a couple of elves and a couple of goblins with him to China to see a factory and maybe recruit a wizard and a couple of goblins. In order to travel with house elves you needed a supervisor with documentation, and both of the witches that were familiar with the documentation were on other assignments. There was a house elf, Jenna P/W, one of the expanding numbers of Potter/Weasley house elves that was very familiar with the documentation. She had been very active all over Europe, and had even gone to North America with documentation. So it was natural for Hermione and Harriet to send her to China. When Jenna got to China and presented the documentation the official in charge immediately became belligerent. He said “House elves do not have the authority to carry this documentation around! Only witches and wizards can do this! I need to see your supervisor immediately!” There was much argumentation back and forth, but in the end the official send a Howler to the British Ministry of Magic insisting that Jenna’s immediate supervisor come to China immediately to explain the situation. Even with Howlers taking a little time to get from China to Britain, and the group was delayed a couple of hours waiting for a reply. Hermione and Harriet got the Howler about noon. Hermione looked down at her huge stomach and said, “There is no way I am going to China. My midwife would never let me travel when I could deliver any time, and after losing one baby I am not about to lose another!” “I can still travel for a couple more weeks,” said Harriet. “I will go.” When Harriet got to China she asked to see the officials in charge of customs and immigration. She was let up to offices where the groups from Britain were detained. “I Jenna’s supervisor,” she announced. “What is the problem?” The official looked at Harriet and everyone there thought the official would have a heart attack on the spot. “House elves are not supposed to be in charge of this type of documentation,” he said. “House elves are not supposed to be in charge of other house elves! House elves are not supposed to work for the ministry! All of this is irregular.” “House elves do this work in Europe and North America,” said Harriet. “Not at my office in China!” said the official. He sent another Howler to the British ministry. Hermione got it about 3:00 PM. She went into see Harry with the Howler, and he took the Howler and Hermione into see Kingsley Shacklebolt. Harry and Kingsley sent Patronus to WW Chang, the Chinese Minister of Magic. Harry called Ginny and let her know what was going on. Then Harry and Kingsley left for China. It was 5:00 PM British time, but early morning Chinese time, when Harry and Kingsley finally arrived in China at the immigration station. There to meet them was WW Chang. It only took an hour or so to get the original group released, but Harry, Kingsley, Harriet and WW Chang took another day to change the standards that the immigration officials would use in letting in beings and to get the right Chinese standard documents so a house elf could accompany other beings with documentation. This was another area where the International Council of Witches and Wizards was going to have to get involved and change some laws, and suggest different standards for different Ministries of Magic. Harry and WW Chang did tell Harriet not to try this in the Mid-East or some other countries in Asia, as the house elf could be confiscated or executed for presuming to have authority they were not suppose to have in those countries. Harry came back very frustrated. As he told Ginny the story of what had happened he told her that Jenna was a P/W house elf, and Ginny asked, “How many P/W house elves are there?” Harry looked at Ginny and said, “I have no idea.” He called for Kreacher and asked him, “How many P/W house elves are there, Kreacher?” Kreacher looked a little embarrassed, but said “Over 100 and growing.” The then showed Harry a list of all the P/W house elves, where they were living, and what they were doing. The area above the New Burrow was filling up, all the other attics that had P/W house elves were getting full, and there were some house elves at the DPW Ltd. Factory living in the same general area as the goblins. “Much subversives” said Kreacher. “House elves not suppose to be in big group like this.” Within the week Kreacher, Harriet, Harry, Bill, Hermione, Kingsley and several other members of the ministry has a couple of discussions about the P/W house elves, elves working for the Ministry, and its implications. Early in December, Hermione, Ginny and James went to Diagon Alley to pick up some more supplies for Hermione. Hermione was due in about week and felt as big as a house, the baby not having dropped but sticking way out in front. Rose was not a small baby, and Hermione was not carrying her in a way that minimized how much she had grown. As they were walking in the store that carried baby supplies they saw Astoria Malfoy. It was obvious that she was pregnant. She not only had quite a bump in front but she had also put on a little weight on her hips, and she had a very modest but noticeable bust line. Ginny knew from her discussions with the midwife in San Francisco that you were suppose to put on a weight when you got pregnant, more if you were very thin. “I see someone else has gotten fat,” said Hermione. Astoria looked at Hermione in shock. She quickly gained her composure and said, “I see the Mudblood is having a half breed baby.” Ginny could see how much Hermione and Astoria loathed each other, and she quickly pulled Hermione away and said, “She is not worth getting into a fight. She is a particularly unpleasant person, though.” “I’m sorry for Narcissa having to live with her,” said Hermione. “Draco does not deserve anything better than that BITCH, but Narcissa tried to be nice to me the few times we met.” “You’re not fond of the Malfoys?” asked Ginny, knowing full well how Hermione felt. “I was tortured in their house!” said Hermione. “I loath Draco, and I think the feeling is mutual. Astoria’s family is almost as bad. The only one in the whole family who has ever done anything nice or said she was sorry is Narcissa. I never thought I would feel sorry for Narcissa Malfoy, but I do.” Hermione did not tell Ginny or anyone that Narcissa had indicated that she had been abused when Riddle was at the house. She could not be sure but from what she said and how she said it Hermione was reasonably sure Narcissa had been raped. (Many years later Hermione did find out just how often and brutally Narcissa had been raped, one of the things that turned Narcissa against Riddle and the Death Eaters and that caused her to lie for Harry Potter.) December 9 Rose Weasley was born. After all her fears Hermione’s labor was not too bad. Rose was an easy baby. She took to nursing without any problem, and was easy for Hermione to take to work from the earliest days. Jean Granger was living with Ron and Hermione, and was delighted to help with Rose. Harry was still going to church about every other Sunday, sometimes three or four Sundays in a row, sometimes missing three or four if something else interfered. Christmas was of course originally a Christian holiday and Ginny thought that she probably ought to go to Church with Harry the Sunday before Christmas. Saturday December 17 Harry and Ginny accompanied Hermione and Jean Granger to church, Hermione carrying Rose. Ron said he would come Christmas Eve if he could get away from WWW, but as it was just before Christmas he needed to work at the store. The Gospel reading was about pregnant Mary visiting Elizabeth and John the Baptist jumping in Elizabeth’s womb when Mary approached because he ‘recognized the mother of my Lord.” Ginny felt real funny in the stomach when she heard this, but thought ‘This is stupid! It’s way too early to feel the baby moving.’ When they were done one of the witches came over to Ginny, touched her, and said “You too are going to have a holy child.” “I’m sure not a virgin!” Ginny exclaimed, rather flustered and upset. She turned to Harry who just shrugged and looked confused. “Neither was Elizabeth,” the witch sweetly said. They went to church again Christmas Eve. Ron joined them at the last minute, coming right from WWW with his store robes still on. After church the same witch smiled at Ginny, who tried to smile back but failed. Looking at the little diorama set up with a sanitized stable and immaculately dressed figures Ginny said, “Doesn’t look like any stable I’ve seen. Harry, I’ve read one of your books about Christmas, and the stable was full of shit and nobody was all this pretty.” Harry nodded in agreement but didn’t say anything, not quite sure what Ginny was getting at. Finally Ginny said “It’s a strange way to save a world, having a savior born in a bunch of shit.” Ginny’s stomach felt upset again. ‘If I keep feeling this way I’m going to have to see the Healers again,” she thought, but the sensation never came back. In addition to the Christmas scene there was a statue of the Madonna holding a small child, and Ron, who seldom went to church with Hermione and her mother, was especially touched by the statue and the story of the little baby. There could not have been more of a contrast between the Christmas of 2004 and the Christmas of 2005 for Hermione. Oh you could see that she still grieved for her father, and she did mention it a couple of times. Generally she was very content. Although she tried to be a little more discrete nursing than some she was way more at ease than anyone had expected. Ron was very protective of his new daughter. All the children knew of James' broom, so every one of the children except the babies wanted a broom of their own. This was the broom Christmas, and Harry and Ginny were the ones giving the brooms, a new one for Teddy, 7 , and brooms for Fred, 6 , little Molly, 5 , Victoire, 5 , Roxanne, 4 , Lucy, 4, Dominique, 3, and Louis, 1 . The only infant, the only one not getting a broom, was Rose. There was a covered space between the two wings of the house, and Harry charmed the space, so the children could not break anything and let the older children fly on their brooms. Teddy and Freddy immediately tried to outdo each other on the brooms. Victoire was not far behind. Roxanne was enough younger that her broom had been charmed not to fly very high, but as much as she could she tried to keep up with the older children. Little Molly and Lucy were much more timid, but they did fly. Dominique stayed with Molly and Lucy. Louis was confined to the floor, and he flew along with his cousin James. It was hard to get the children off the brooms, but the brooms had been charmed so an adult could call them and the brooms would come, bringing their riders with them. The children concluded that this was a glorious Christmas! There was a birth December 25 of a witch that was going to have as much influence in her own way as Albus, the great granddaughter of the Pirate Witch Queen of the Caribbean. There were powerful but disturbing omens concerning the great granddaughter. Always before when they were disturbing omens the wicked witches that controlled that part of the world had taken care of it, killing any potential good people and rescuing their offspring from anything good and wholesome, or else killing them and anointing someone else as successor. This witch had killed so many of her decedents that she was running out of people to kill. The great grandmother celebrated the way she always celebrated; by taking the glass knife that the Aztecs had used to slaughter so many thousands of people, that the witches of the Caribbean had used to sacrifice thousands. She took a family that had gotten lost at sea, cut the heart out of the 3 year old daughter in front of her 6 year old sister and parents, and offered it up to the powers of evil. She then did the same to the older sister in front of her parents, then the wife in front of her husband. By the time she was ready for him the husband had nothing left to live for. To the witches' great disgust both the parents died praying, robbing Hell of souls. This was not a good omen. It was always better when her sacrifices died cursing, or at least afraid. Harry was happy in his job the beginning of 2006. He was training Mary Lou Creevey, and she was learning from other people, including Gawain, what she needed to do to help Harry manage the department. Harry’s life was as fractured as ever, but he realized that that was going to be his life for many years. Meanwhile he had a wife and child at home, and when he was not traveling they were there every morning before he left and every evening when he came back home. This was a normal he had never known, and it was fantastic, besides Ginny seemed to be happy, and that made Harry happy. Ginny was happy. This pregnancy seemed to be going well. Ginny did not really get sick during her pregnancies, and knowing what she was going through this time made the first weeks more pleasant. Harry and Ginny did go to the Caribbean for a week in January, to still another island for more map-making and vacation. Being there with a baby and a pregnant wife was different than when they were there before children, but it was still a pleasant break from the bleak British weather. Molly had continued to meet with Narcissa Malfoy. Narcissa confided to Molly that she was worried about Astoria’s approach to being a mother. She announced that she was going to nurse the baby, but that someone else was going to have to do some of the caregiving. Her mother had house elf help and tutors for her and her younger brother and sister, and she was not going to teach little Scorpius. Narcissa had home schooled Draco, and she was preparing to home school her grandson as well. “I don’t trust the type of people Astoria would hire to home school my grandson” said Narcissa. “There are too many unemployed pure blood fanatics, not nice people.” Molly told Narcissa about all the things Hermione and the rest of the people at the New Burrow were doing to provide a more up to date curriculum for home schooling young witches and wizards, and Narcissa said she would get the material and probably use it. In February Dan VanLente gave Harry one of his regular updates on the Caribbean. “We have an undercover person on the Unplottable island about a third of the time, young men and occasionally a young woman of exceptional bravery. We lose almost half of them, and not one had gotten away uninjured in the last 200 years,” said Dan. “We had another one escape the end of December. He got over the curses in six weeks, exceptionally fast, although he is going to live with some side effects. He is also crippled, having lost part of his right arm. None of the rest of his limbs works quite properly, but he will learn how to live with that. He will be able to function with a very responsible office job. Considering the dangers of the job he got off lightly.” Dan then filled Harry in about his report, including the birth of the heir apparent to the head of the island. At about five months, during a regular appointment with her midwife, Ginny learned that she was having another boy. When Harry came home he asked, “How are you, and how the appointment with the midwife was?” “Your wife is just fantastic,” said Ginny, “healthy as I can be. Our new son is also as healthy as can be.” “Another boy,” said Harry. We picked a boy’s and a girl’s name last time, but I guess we are not naming our second son Lily Luna.” “I don’t think so!” said Ginny. “I think I would like to name this son after Hogwarts headmasters,” said Harry. “Albus.” “Albus,” said Ginny. “I like that name. Do we have a middle name?” Harry thought. The longer he had worked as an Auror and the more he had learned about all the good things that Severus Snape had done the more he admired the wizard. Harry had helped get Severus Snape’s portrait in the headmaster’s office, and was doing all he could to rehabilitate his reputation. Snape had also loved Harry’s mother all his life. “I said I wanted to name him after headmasters, the last two headmasters,” said Harry. “Minerva?” asked Ginny with a concerned look on her face. “No, Severus, Albus Severus,” said Harry. “After Snape?” asked Ginny. “I know you have been finding out more that he did, but he hated you!” “He hated the memory of my father,” said Harry, “and from what I have been able to find out, my father could be an arrogant bastard when it came to people he did not like. But despite me looking like a clone of my father, Snape always tried to do what was best for me, even in giving me a very hard time. He was a very conflicted man, but in the end a good one who gave his life for the good of our world.” “Albus Severus,” said Ginny. “Give me a while to think about that name.” About a week later when Harry came home Ginny said, “Albus Severus has been busy today.” And that was the way Ginny told Harry that the name was acceptable to her. Ginny never told Harry that she liked Albus’ middle name, but she accepted it. “Is Albus being a wild man like James was?” asked Harry. “No,” said Ginny. “He seems to be pushing as much as James did, but much more cautiously.” That night as Harry and Ginny were going to bed Ginny said, “See, Al is moving now.” Harry loved this, watching the bump on Ginny move. When James got going he could see there was a riot going on inside Ginny, and when he gently put his hand on Ginny’s bump he could feel it. Ginny was always reluctant to let Harry feel her much with James because of the riot it could cause. But tonight Ginny put Harry’s hand on her moving bump, and Harry gently felt the moving bump. At one point he thought he could feel where the feet were and where the head was, and he gave Ginny’s stomach a push. Harry thought he could feel a tentative push back. He gave another little push, and again there was a push back. Over the few weeks Harry and Albus began to get acquainted with each other with the pushes. At one time Harry tried two pushes, and eventually they got to the point where Al would give one push for one push, and two for two. For quite a while three pushes was way too confusing, but by 8 months Al could handle 1, 2, or 3 pushes. |
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