“I can tell you’re confused so I’ll explain it. As you know, Snape made the Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa. Draco’s job was to kill me, and if he failed, Snape would have to kill me. As you saw Draco could not kill me, he just did not have it in him. Therefore, when Snape showed up he had no choice to do it. You heard Snape and I had an argument earlier last year. I was making him promise to me that he would kill me if it came to that.
“So that was my sacrifice, I would die instead of Snape. At the funeral, Fawkes sacrificed her life to save mine by flying into the coffin and giving me her soul. I was able to Apparate out of the coffin to a safe place no one knew where I was. I had to let you face Voldemort alone, it was the only way you could succeed.”
Harry sat there for a minute taking in all Dumbledore was telling him. Then it hit him, “Sir, why did Wormtail sacrifice his life for mine?”
Dumbledore smiled at Harry, “Wormtail is your uncle. To be more exact your fathers brother, well adopted brother. Your father’s parents adopted Wormtail when he was young and that is why he was always around him. Wormtail, I am guessing, never meant for Voldemort to kill your parents. He perhaps expected him to turn them to his side. When Voldemort tried killing you he couldn’t let you just die so he sacrificed his life to save yours. Perhaps he wanted to undo what he had done some how.”
Dumbledore sat to await Harry’s next question. “When I touched Voldemort my skin seemed to burn him. I thought he was immune to my touch now?” Harry asked him.
Dumbledore shook his head, “No Harry he was immune to your mothers love and sacrifice for you, but not Wormtail’s. When He jumped in front of you, that set another powerful protection on you. That is why you were able to touch him again. Now I shall go speak to the minister and Minerva. Yes, she is still headmistress of the school. I think I shall apply for the minister of magic position and get Stan Shunpike out of jail. You are ready for the real world and I shall watch over you.”
Dumbledore got up to leave but Harry had almost forgotten, “Sir one more thing. The snake is still out there.”
Harry told him. Dumbledore turned to him, “Actually Gwarp can be thanked for not letting the snake away. This morning when we searched the grounds for any death eaters left over we came across a smashed snake in the middle of a giant foot print.”
Dumbledore turned and left which let the others come back in. “So what happened after left last night?” Harry asked them.
Ginny was the one who spoke up first. “Well after you left we fought the death eaters and Snape joined us. All the death eaters were grouped together against the swarm of people coming down on them. A few of them died before the rest gave up after we injured them a lot. We had some injuries but nothing major although Slughorn will be retiring for good. I killed Greyback for attacking my brother and Hermione knocked out Bellatrix after she hit Ron with the Crucio curse. But all in all we did great.”
Madam Pomfrey came in and gave Harry a dose of the sleeping potion and he fell asleep felling warm all over. Harry was released the next day for the end of the year feast and awarding on the school trophy, which Gryffindor won again. Yearbooks were handed out to all the seventh years as they boarded the train to head home. Everyone spent the entire time getting signatures and it seemed everyone wanted Harry’s. After being aloud through the barrier, Harry saw Mr. and Mrs. Weasley standing there but no aunt and uncle. Harry was relieved he did not have to go back there and they were probably glad of the same. Harry was planning to stay with the Weasleys until he could find a place to stay. Harry approached them, said his hellos and just came out with it.
“Can I stay with you until I find a place to stay?” Harry asked he.
Molly just looked at him with a straight face, “I’m sorry Harry but we just don’t have the room. I’m pregnant again so the twin’s room is being turned into a nursery.”
Harry had a disappointed look on his face.
Molly continued though, “But, if you will remember you own your own house and we shall take you to it. They all piled into the ministry car, which the new minister Dumbledore arranged. Moreover, they drove for about and hour, Harry did not want to go back to Grimmuald place but he had no choice. He needed a place to live. The car pulled to a stop and Harry looked out of his window. Harry was not outside of his godfather’s house but he was outside of a place he never expected.
A New Beginning
Harry got out of the car and walked up to the house. He was standing at Godrics Hallow staring up at his parents’ house. Harry turned to look at the Weasleys with a look of shock on his face.
“I was rebuilt this year for you. We all knew you needed a place to stay after school ended so all of your friends chipped in and built this for you. It’s an exact replica of your parents’ house.” Mr. Weasley told him but there was only one thing on his mind right now.
“Where are my parents buried?” Harry asked them and they al took a trip about a block away to a cemetery.
Mr. Weasley walked him to two headstones. “Here lies James Potter, beloved father, brother, friend and husband. “We shall overcome all evil” next to his father was his mother’s tombstone, “Here lies Lily Potter loving mother, sister, friend and wife. “Love will conquer all.”
Harry read them and started getting teary eyed. He knelt down on his knees and whispered, “I did it, I got revenge for your and everyone else’s death. I just wish you were still alive but it had to turn out this way and I know that. Well I am going to be a father now and between you and me, Mrs. Wesley’s baby is probably mine to. I am going to go look at my new house and I will be back to visit you from time to time.”
Harry got up and looked around and Ron, Ginny and Hermione were the only ones left. Harry walked over to them asking where their parents went, “They went home leaving us here to keep you company.” Ginny had told him.
They all headed back to the house and through a marvelous remake of the front door. The inside was exactly as Harry had seen it inside the pensive, although without his parents.
The house had three bedrooms and Harry had an idea, “Why don’t you three move in with me?”
Everyone loved the idea. A few months went by and Ginny gave birth on July the fourth to a healthy baby girl. She looked like Ginny with the red hair except for her eyes, as green as Harry’s and his mother’s. A month later on the eighth Molly gave birth to yet another boy who, thankfully, looked just like his Arthur. Hermione had never gotten pregnant so they went to see a doctor and found out that she could not get pregnant. When school started the baby, named lily, would stay with her grandparents while Ginny finished her last year of school and Ron and Harry had auror training. Hermione decided on becoming a teacher.
Life was great for everyone now that Voldemort was defeated and all of his death eaters were rounded up. Giants were corralled back into the mountains to live while Dementors, under strict supervisee, went back to guarding Azkaban.
Over the next few years, Harry and Ginny had a few more babies, an average of one a year. By the time Ginny was finished with her auror training they had 5 kids running around. Lily, Albus, Serious, James and Lupin along with the four adults were out growing the house so they built on to it. Even though Ron and Hermione never had kids Harry’s would call them mom and dad.
Life had turned out as good as Harry could have expected and loved it. He would visit his parents grave and talk to them at least once a month to tell them how everything was going. Harry took them flowers each time and laid it upon their graves. Harry never wanted to leave but he knew each time that he had a family of his own and his parents were proud of the way he turned out.
THE END?
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