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A World in Which He Could Live a Happier Life
Hermione Granger and Pansy Parkinson had three children. Lou, Paul and Alice Granger. They had decided to not torture their children with second names.
Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy had four children. Lily Christine, Conrad Regulus, Scorpius Andromé and Ava Helena Potter-Malfoy. They believed they could as well “double down” on the double names.
Ron and Freddie Weasley had two children, on accident and as the very last ones of the friend group. Henry and Harriet Weasley. The twins delighted in their similar names while everybody else, except George, couldn’t ever tell them apart.
Bill and Fleur Weasley had children first. Victoire and Jules. Nobody believed that the Veela gene didn’t reach to the third generation.
Charlie and Drahe Weasley had two children, Aiden and Katla Weasley, after quite complicated circumstances of birth due to Drahes half dragon anatomy working a little differently.
Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood had a daughter. Frida Lovegood, who nearly got herself burned by Drahes children on multiple occasions due to her curiosity.
Blaise Zabini and Patrick Creevey had two children. Emma and Matthew Zabini. Patrick won the bet on how many times Molley Weasley would cry when Harry and Draco got married, so Zabini it was.
Percy and Martin Fortescue had a son called James Fortescue. They asked Harry if the name would be alright, even though they didn’t name their son after his father. James turned out nothing like the Potter one.
George Weasley never had children. Not that he didn’t want to, but he was “just so much cooler as an uncle”.
Here there has to be an intermission, apologies. Seventeen children are too much to keep track of completely, especially since this story is not about these children, but their children. Mostly. The filter might seem random at first, but it will all make sense once we go on a tangent. The tangent that was first, that will be much, much later.
The first focus will be laid upon Aiden Weasley. An easy choice perhaps, with such a memorable background. His father Charlie, from a family of extraordinary people, took his space to be unique by going far away to work with dragons. His mother Drahe was born out of an egg under the careless supervision of an American madman who, for some reason, had made it his life’s mission to “humanate” dragons just to spend most of his life in a prison cell. Drahe spend her life going from reserve to reserve, learning from dragons and humans alike until she found Charlie, becoming his co-worker, which she was, his co-worker, not his dragon to look after. Drahe and her 34 half-dragon sibling produced quite an uproar in wizarding society, a topic on which Pansy Parkinson won the Remus Lupin Award.
Aiden Weasley was born in December out of an artificial egg, laying in the roaring fire. They found out quite early that he and his Weasley red hair were resistant to fire, even though he was lacking his mother’s scales, and that he could breathe fire it, if provoked. Aiden did not get wings like his sister, who wouldn’t have made it out of the egg without them, two years later. It was a blessing he only saw as one once his sister started going to Hogwarts and he found himself regularly in detention for defending her. A feat which she was quite capable of performing herself. Of course the two fire breathing siblings were Gryffindors.
Other than in detention, class and bed, Aiden spend, probably, most of his time in Hogwarts on his broom. When he wasn’t playing catch with Katla or showing off dangerous tricks, he was training for a spot as keeper. Which he got in his third year, quite early in comparison, but what to expect of a creature that was literally missing his wings. In sixth year he was crowned Gryffindor captain, something especially uncle Harry was most proud of him for. Aiden got a passable amount of NEWTs with a focus on Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology, Potions and Ancient Runes.
He returned home to the Bulgarian Dragon Reserve that now belonged to his parents. It didn’t quite go to plan for him when he realized that working at home with his friends was quite a bit more difficult than he had anticipated. On recommendation of his uncle Bill he started working in Gringotts communications. A work better suited to him, especially as he wasn’t the only one not fully human in every room he walked into, but also because he worked around powerful magic wards with all kinds of different people.
He started coming to monthly tea with Fleur, Bill and his parents, mostly spending time with Jules. He was content. Until he met Martha Greene. A friend of Jules, invited to the young man’s twenty-eighth birthday party. Jules was already engaged to Rosalie at that point, an outspoken woman who led the boutique Jules designed in. Martha worked for them, a seamstress with striking, modern ideas who started getting credit when she made the dress Victoire wore in the film “Scones and Scorches”, in which she played a young healer who took care of a wizard who had lost control of his magic after a terrible accident. A love story of course.
They only really got to know each other when Katla started complaining to her how she couldn’t wear pretty dresses out of fear to burn them right off her skin. Of course Martha was up for the challenge and a few month later the boutique had started selling fire resistant fabrics. Katla arrived to Jules wedding in beautiful orange. The dress made her look like a flame herself. Aiden brought his sister to Martha, shortly before the three of them were supposed to set off to the wedding, in a standard black suit with a cold blue tie. Martha took one look at him before shoving a bag into his hands and then ushering Katla into her massive closet. Aiden wore the green suit, which miraculously fit perfectly, and he never felt more beautiful in his life.
What angered him most was that he couldn’t figure her out, Martha that was. She seemed interested in him but didn’t right out say anything and it took them until the reopening of the Fortescues Ice Cream Shop, that James invited the whole family to. Aiden needed a plus one, Martha wanted to go. They got married exactly five years later.
The second dive into detail shall be on Frida Lovegood. Her mother Ginny had gladly left the spreading of the Weasley name to her brothers and happily gave the Lovegood name new life. Most Frida delighted in sitting in Ginnys lap being pushed around in the wheelchair and the gifts her grandfather Xenophilius brought her, as often as they ended up tangled in her pale blond strands of hair, and was the child in the bunch the most often picked up with magic so she wouldn’t do something to hurt herself. A bit younger than Katla, she was most fascinated by her cousin.
Luna kept up the Quibler while Ginny worked in the Lily Potter foundation and Frida was the sun of all their co-workers. When she was eight years old, her most favourite person in the world became Hermione. Paul and her joined Hogwarts together and immediately became best friends. Often they spend evening together near the fireplace in the Ravenclaw common room. Over the holidays she often held in depth conversation with Hermione about her school work or other matters that interested her. She wrote excellent NEWTs with a focus on Transfiguration, Magical Theory, Arithmancy and History of Magic. Yes, the teacher of that subject ha finally changed.
Frida could never talk about what she did at work, especially sad was the fact that there wasn’t even an exception or the minister for magic. The department of mysteries had laid an enchantment of secrecy on her and she could never tell anyone specifics. Not under torture, not even under verita serum. She still loved her job and when she found a man who didn’t ask too many questions she was enthralled. Jason was an easy wizard who prided himself on his being sorted into Ravenclaw. He had no family and near to no friends, only a low lever job at the ministry and a lot of free time that he let Frida take up. It took him a few years to acclimatize in the relationship, only feeling truly secure once Frida carried their first child. During her second pregnancy directly after the first delivery she threw him out. Out of the house, out of her life, her rage and hurt set up wards so powerful, he could never enter the area again. Her mothers helped her with the messy divorce, Hermione couldn’t even though she deeply wanted to. When Jason saw her uncle Harry, Hermione and the rest of her extended family pick her up after the last court meeting he fled the country. A wise decision.
The last person in of interest in this run up marks the exception of the rule about importance of their own children. Ava Helena Potter-Malfoy had not had children by the time this story will go off on a tangent.
As the youngest of four children, Ava was never alone. Only when all her siblings were in Hogwarts had she one year of blissful calm. Her oldest sister Christy, re Lily Christine, was already in fifth year by that point, a brand new Hufflepuff prefect. Conrad, re Conrad Regulus, was in third year, having made Gryffindor chaser for the first time and Scorp, re Scorpius Andromé, had just been sorted into Ravenclaw. Harry was surprised when Ava got sorted into Slytherin the next summer, but Draco seemed strangely knowing and Pansy had had an article about ‘The Potter-Malfoys Collecting Houses’ out suspiciously fast. When asked, they answered that Slytherins knew themselves, whatever that meant. Christy became a prefect and Conrad got chaser again and their dads were incredibly proud of them.
Ava was sort of overlooked in Hogwarts. Her siblings had already conquered the castle by storm and everyone had gotten used to their last names. Some people were mad that the daughter of their saviour was a Slytherin and other simply forgot her existence. Not even when it turned out that Dumbledor had gone all Rumpelstiltskin and had left his title to Harrys first born heir was Ava of importance. Of course, Dumbledore hadn’t accounted for Harry loving long enough to have children, so the gruesome ending of the tale applied here too, but Christy was made heiress of Dumbledore and then Lady Dumbledore upon her seventeenth birthday another year later. When Harry and Draco saw this as the opportunity to divide their titles between the rest of their children, not even then was Ava looked at properly. Heiress of Black. Of course nobody was interested in that. Conrad Regulus Potter-Malfoy heir of Potter was way more interesting.
When she was able to finish her NEWTs in peace, her focused on subjects were History of Magic, Wizarding Politics and Economics, called WizPoliNomics, and Arithmancy, she was glad for it. After three years of extensive studies and traveling with a master of Arithmancy she was positively depighted nobody had looked into her inheritance. Neither her dads nor her late uncle Sirius had ever spend any of the money and the Blacks had collected an outstanding amount of warding magics next to all the curses and the gold and Ava was very adamant on letting everyone tap in the dark about the true extends of her vaults. At twenty-four she became the youngest Hogwarts Professor in the last onehundred years. She was called Professor Black, as she didn’t want her students to have an aneurysm or an acute case of twisted tongue after every question. She also didn’t want to decide between her dads names.
Two years later, after Professor Greengrass finally retired, she was put in place as the Slytherin Head of house.
Aiden and Martha Weasley had two children. Mallory and Hazel Weasley.
Frida Lovegood and Jason had two children as well. Imanda and Atticus Lovegood.
Now, every character is in place, right where they are supposed to be.