Epilogue
The death of Tom Riddle didn't really change anything for Harry and company. The Ministry captured the remaining Death Eaters on Wednesday in several raids. Two Aurors were killed, but the Death Eaters were done. The dead weren't anyone Harry knew, which helped. Harry sat politely at their funerals, and at the various ceremonies held over the next month.
He visited Fay in the hospital wing several times that week before she was released. Justin wound up staying at St. Mungo's for most of the summer, but was eventually released halfway through August, and would have no long-term effects from the spell he'd taken. His relationship with Susan, however, didn't last past 1 September, as she didn't take hearing of his raping another student well, though she was kind enough to wait until he'd recuperated to break up with the boy.
When school let out, Harry returned with this trunk to Grimmauld Place, where Dudley joined them. Dudley, Sirius, and Harry had determined that Dudley would live with Sirius, so he'd have some support, though he was a frequent guest of Harry's and the two eventually became friends.
Harry ended up meeting with the Unspeakables in July so they could examine him, even if the horcrux no longer needed removal. It would be his last visit to the Department of Mysteries. He spent the rest of the month visiting Potter properties in Britain. He oversaw the reopening of Severnside in Gloucestershire, and visited Godric's Hollow, though he didn't attempt to reclaim the Potter cottage there from the Ministry. He did go through it and recovered some furniture and other objects that seemed to hold some family value.
The Ministry was much quicker with the Order of Merlins this go around, awarding them at the July Wizengamot meeting, and installing Neville and Ron as members, despite Neville not yet being seventeen.
August saw Harry and Katie vacation in America. It went much better than their trip to Majorca the previous summer. Part of that was their managed expectations, but mostly it was down to the interesting sights they saw.
When Harry returned, he learned that Lavender had broken up with Ron. Ron informed Harry that Lavender didn't have a problem with him, but with his mother, who he admitted had been overbearing and rude to her. It led to a minor schism within the Weasley household, with Arthur imploring Molly to tone down her involvement in her, now mostly grown, children's lives. She agreed, but it came too late to save Ron's relationship.
School returned for Harry, though, of course, he continued living at Potter House, along with Katie, who had begun practising with the Harpies during the day. Dudley returned to Smeltings, but promised to visit at Christmas.
The team welcomed third year Emma Vanity as the new reserve keeper, with Demelza moving up to starting chaser. The first real surprise with the team was that some couples had swapped. Jimmy was now dating Natalie, and Richie was now dating Demelza. According to the four of them, they all still liked each other, but the new couples just clicked better.
Fay and Harry helped Emma come to terms with the shock that was the changing rooms, and by mid-term, she had her own room at Potter House, and was masturbating along with Harry and Fay as they watched the three couples enjoy each other.
Harry, though given permission by Katie to shag Fay without her there, steadfastly refused, standing by their promise not to do anything without the other there. Once Katie returned from practice with the Harpies, Fay would often join them in bed. Millie, too, was a regular. And Dean and Ginny swung with them at least once a month. Tracey also finally got her shot with Harry, when she and Blaise swung with him and Katie following each of the three Gryffindor quidditch victories that year.
That Christmas, Harry got down on one knee and proposed at dinner that night in front of their friends. She accepted before he could finish the question. The couple disappeared for two days, not re-emerging until 27 December. They spent the next week visiting their friends and announcing the date of their impending nuptials.
That same Christmas, Neville finally finished building Longshire, with the acquisition of the final three trunks. His estate was now fifteen hundred square miles.
In February, Ron started dating Eloise Midgen, one of Ginny's classmates. It lasted until April, when he accidentally called out Lavender's name during sex. His next girlfriend was Lisa Turpin, a Ravenclaw in Ron's year. That relationship lasted from May to June, when the stress of the NEWTs caused Ron to break up with her.
May also saw the final quidditch match Harry would play at school. The Lions had again swept the Cup, including beating Ravenclaw by more than seven hundred points.
Harry and his friends all passed their NEWTs in June, though Ron skimmed through by the skin of his teeth, garnering acceptables in Defence, Charms, and Transfiguration, and fudging the rest, much to Hermione's aggravation. Hermione, of course, outscored everyone, with nothing less than an outstanding in every subject. Riding the high of her NEWT results, Neville proposed, and an elated Hermione quickly accepted.
Harry scored the highest result ever recorded on the Defence NEWT, and further outstandings in Charms, Transfiguration, Potions, and Ancient Runes. He scored exceeds expectations in Herbology, Arithmancy, and Muggle Studies, which he'd taken as a lark. He just passed Astronomy with a low acceptable, and just failed history with a high poor. All told, he was pleased with his results.
He was more pleased by the contract offer from the Tutshill Tornadoes, which unlike Katie's was for starting seeker. He happily accepted, but before he could start, he had one thing left to do: marry Katie.
The wedding, on 4 July 1998, was amazing, and the party was outstanding. The private after party was also one for the record books, but word of that party never made it to the papers.
Harry ended up playing for the Tornadoes for ten seasons. They led the league nine of those seasons, coming in second in 2001. He also played for England twice in the World Cup, winning once. Katie played for the Harpies for nine seasons, but her career was spread over eleven years, as she took two off because of pregnancy. She, Alicia, and Angelina joined Harry on the winning English World Cup team, and became the talk of Britain.
When they retired from quidditch, the couple focused on business and politics, but spent most of their time relaxing at all of their various houses. They also doted on their two boys: James Henry, known as Jamie, and Charlus Samuel, known as Charlie.
Neville and Hermione were both heavily involved in politics and government. Neville split his time between farming and the Wizengamot. At the request of his wife, he put forward several important bill that brought magical Britain into the 21st century. Harry happily backed every one of his friend's ideas. Hermione worked as an unspeakable for six years before accepting a position as the Hogwarts Transfiguration professor. Remus wanted to retire to 'pursue other opportunities'. Neville and Hermione had a boy, Max, and a girl, Sam, who were great friends of Jamie and Charlie.
Ron managed to convince Lavender to take him back after they reunited at Harry and Katie's wedding after party. He promising that his mother wouldn't be overbearing. She tentatively agreed, and three years later, she accepted his proposal, and they married. She ended up bearing him four children, all of them redheaded boys. He got a job as an assistant manager for the Chudley Cannons which he happily did for six decades. She worked at Weasley Wizarding Wheezes as a shop assistant for six years, but the Weasleyshire farming business grew steadily, especially after she encouraged Ron to invest in it, buying more elves. Eventually, managing the farm became her fulltime occupation. Of the two of them, she made the couple the most money by far, something Ron eventually made his peace with, since he was doing something he loved.
Ron's twin brothers married their girlfriends as well, and were wildly successful running their joke shop. They each had one son, which they both agreed was a manageable number considering how much trouble their children were likely to get in.
Though he'd seen her around before, Lee Jordan became acquainted with Millie after she graduated and also got a job at the Weasleys' store. Lee and Leanne hadn't been able to overcome their disagreement about how she treated Harry. In the end Lee and Millie married, and Lee went on to sit her Wizengamot seat as her proxy. They had two children, and enjoyed swinging with Harry and Katie on several occasions.
Ginny and Dean also married. Dean got a job as a shop manager, whilst Ginny flew for the Falmouth Falcons. She helped elevate them from the bottom of the league to the middle, and retired after twenty seasons. She and Dean had two children also, and like Lee and Millie, were also frequent visitors to Harry and Katie's bed.
Fay joined the Aurors after graduation, and rose steadily through the ranks. She began dating another Auror, who had been a classmate of Percy Weasley. They married on her twenty-first birthday. Fay would eventually replace Amelia Bones as Director of Magical Law Enforcement. She had one daughter.
Susan and Hannah both married Hufflepuff boys from their class, and settled down. Susan married Wayne Hopkins, who took her name, while Hannah married Ernie Macmillan. They were eventually reintegrated into Harry's circle of friends, and were frequent visitors to Pottershire. Wayne and Ernie could usually be found on one of Harry's golf courses, whilst the girls were more likely to be found on the beach.
Tracey and Blaise, despite their protestations, married two years after graduating, and it took almost no time before Tracey was pregnant. They eventually had three children, and Tracey enjoyed being a stay at home mother, whilst Blaise became a successful Auror, frequently partnering with Fay.
Daphne remained single for several years after graduation. She moved to France after a year, and returned to Britain in 2001 with a French fiancé. Upon her return, she rekindled her friendships, and attended several of Harry's parties. She shocked everyone when she and her fiancé engaged in public sex during the first party they attended. Like Neville and Hermione, they never swung, but they weren't above a little public fun.
Jimmy, Natalie, Richie, and Demelza jointly founded the first quidditch team in Middleshire in 2002. It started as an amateur league team, but quickly was recruited to join the British and Irish Quidditch League, playing their home games in Hogsmeade.
Jimmy and Natalie married after graduation and settled in Middleshire. When they retired from quidditch, they opened a print shop in Middleshire, and became successful publishers. They had a son and a daughter.
Richie and Demelza never married, but they did have two sons and a daughter together. They both worked in Middleshire at different shops after retiring from quidditch.
Sirius and Amelia also never married, primarily so Amelia could maintain her own name and seeming independence from Sirius, who was a Wizengamot member. Amelia did eventually move in with Sirius permanently after Susan's graduation. They had no children, and upon his death, Harry inherited Blackshire.
Harry remained involved with Middleshire throughout his life, and it grew both from the prosperous nature of the inhabitants as well as the addition of a hundred new muggleborn families over Harry's lifetime. By the time Harry passed, it had a population of over three thousand, and had been expanded twice. By then, none of the shops were run by elves, and there were two pro quidditch teams.
When he died, aged 127, he left Pottershire and the Potter legacy to Jamie, who was himself a great-great-great-grandfather, and Blackshire and the Black legacy to Charlie, only a great-great-grandfather by then. Katie followed him a year later, having passed her last year at the Refuge d'Ile, in her favourite room, gazing out over the sea, and waiting to be reunited with her love.
The End