Be careful what you wish for

Title: Be careful what you wish for

Pairing: HarryxDraco; mentions of past HarryxGinny and past DracoxBlaise, RonxHermione

Fandom: Harry Potter

Notes: Non-Epilogue compliant post-Battle of Hogwarts fic. What sort of Future does Harry create by fighting for justice for Slytherins after he survives defeating Voldy?

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Chapter 28

With permission from Fred’s grandparents and the shop a week from reopening, Hermione and Fred where sent via portkey to Scamander to be bonded.

Since Giselle and Millie Bulstrode still had affairs to wrap up in Australia, the witch couple had offered to let them stay as a favor to Harry who helped get the Ministry off their backs.

Harry was sad that he would miss Hermione’s wedding but promised to have Draco throw her a massive reception. Giselle who was a hopeless romantic had promised faithfully to help Hermione locate her parents and that they’d gladly be witnesses at their Scamander bonding which was exempt from International Wizarding law regarding bondings.

Only in Scamander, to Harry’s knowledge anyway, could you get married under the age of twenty-one without parental consent and under twenty-five without the consent of your Head of House if you were descended from a pureblood House. You also had to be at least fourteen if you were a witch and sixteen if you were a wizard to be legally bounded according to Scamander customs...

He also planned to have their apartment above to shop turned into more of a house if he could as a wedding present.

The Monday following Fred’s dinner party, Bill finally acquired the agreement of the owners of Zonko’s for Weasley Enterprises to purchase the location as well as the current stock for the offered amount.

Provided of course that they sold and marketed the similar products like Zonkos’ fanged frisbees as WWW’s fanged flyers so not to violate copyright even if they were essentially identical products...

Both Harry and George signed as partners to the purchase agreement and took over the lease that the owners of Zonkos’ were close to defaulting on. Harry of course used his share of the profits since the Diagon shop opened to pay a large portion of the interest and late fees on the loan while Septimus in a show of familial support invested what would be Fred’s bride price into the loan to help bring it back into.

Fred of course didn’t bother with that sort of detail and Hermione would have protested so it was best to have that sort of this just dealt with.

With the Death Eater trials drawing to a close aside from the retrials like Greg’s and the thwarted trial against Millie and Giselle Bulstrode, the Wizengamot as a whole was on recess until January.

Which left Harry and Draco free of most of their shared political responsibilities aside from the monthly Board of Governors Meetings.

They were busy of course with all sorts of product creation following the exact recipes that the twins had in the work journals they had been given.

They; George, Seamus, Harry, Draco and Blaise were waiting for Hermione and Fred to return from Australia with ‘Mione’s parents as well as being married.

Harry was already letting Draco plan their reception that would invite their mutual friends like Neville and Luna as well as Seamus who was obviously coming with George.

There was something missing in Hermione since he’d seen her just before Bill’s wedding, her parents had always been important to her and very supportive. The very opposite of Harry’s own Muggle family, while Harry might not write Dudley off completly, he had no intention of ever seeing his aunt and uncle again.

Between Andromeda’s forceful bullying to work on dealing with his physical health issues, Harry had been not quite guilted into but he’d ended up slowly opening up to his fiances about his childhood. It had taken his begging for them to just hold him to reassure him that they still wanted him to keep them from going out searching for his Muggle relations to hex them to death.

Harry didn’t care about the Dursleys, he wanted to forget them and build a real family...

He wanted to pretend that Andromeda was his family, that Teddy was his son and that both Draco and Blaise truly loved him.

Harry wanted nothing more than to build as close to a normal family as he could...

He liked waking up in their arms and realising that being loved wasn’t a dream...

He liked having them help take care of Teddy, seeing those two holding his godson made Harry ache to give them a child. Not that he could possibly love Teddy less but he wanted to give him siblings and have the large family he hoped that he could have had if his parents hadn’t been murdered.

He wanted to raise healthy happy children who knew that their fathers loved them, that they would never lack proper food, clothes or even beds.

He wanted to carry their child beneath his heart, nourished by his body and he wanted to cradle it like he saw Hermione doing.

Harry wanted the world, well his little piece of heaven anyway...

A baby giggle reached his ears and he opened his eyes...

Draco and Blaise were playing with Teddy while Andromeda crochetted.

Harry smiled, was this what having family felt like?

If it was, Harry could relive this scene in a pensive forever...

 

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What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds Expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?