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Chapter 14: Tales of the Future
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"Um, are you lost? This is exile part of the common room. Unless you want to ruin how your peers think of you, you'd better leave ASAP," Julia said once Ron and Harry reached the table, her voice dripping with sarcasm. Harry sighed.
"Julia, how long do you know me in the future?"
"All my life."
"Then you would know that I don't give a damn about what other people think of me. People have been doing it for years, and I'm used to it."
"Yes, but I didn't know that, I only know the thirty-six year old Harry Potter, the one in my time, I don't know the seventeen year old one."
"Anyways, Lily, Blake, I need to ask you something."
"What?" Lily and Blake said at the same time.
"Has Voldemort been defeated by time you're seventeen?" Lily and Blake nodded. It was strange to see three people who didn't flinch at the sound of Voldemort's name.
"Was it before or after you were born?"
"After," They said in unison again.
"How old were you when he was defeated?"
"Eight," They said, again in unison.
"You were eight?" They nodded again.
"I remember that day like it was yesterday," Lily said. "I remember trying so hard to figure out why Daddy had to leave, and why he might not come back. But you didn't go by yourself, Mum went with, and so did Ron. We stayed with Luna for two weeks, waiting for news and dreading what the news would be. But thankfully, all three of you came back. You never talked about it, no one ever spoke of it; no one but the people who were there knew what had happened."
"So there's ten more years of all this?" Lily nodded.
"It can't wait that long, mate," Ron said to Harry.
"What can't wait?" Julia asked.
"Nothing."
"I want you to do something for me, Lily," Harry said.
"And that is?"
"Explain these dreams Hermione's been having."
"I've pretty much told you everything. Anything else you want to know, you have to talk to her about. I've told you all I know."
"But she must have told you in the future."
"Yes, she told me that she used to have them, but not too much about them. I mean, how else do you tell your daughter that stuff? She told you, but that's understandable, since you are her husband."
"I see."
"Tell me this, this is going to sound like a totally random question but I am going somewhere with it, ok, Lily, you're obviously named after Harry's mother. Blake, are you any way named after his dad?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, my middle name is James."
"Blake James Potter, and Lily…"
"Anne."
"Anne Potter. And Julia…?"
"Hope."
"Hope?"
"Yeah. For my mother's aunt that died a month before I was born, her name was Hope."
"Julia Hope Weasley."
"Yes."
"All those names have an interesting ring to them, don't they? Especially Lily and Blake's." Ron said pointedly at Harry who gave him an annoyed look.
"And how are you tying that in that I should go out with Hermione?"
"Only Hermione would name her son with you Blake and give her daughter with you the middle name Anne."
"Why would only Hermione do that?"
"Those are her parents' names. When Hermione said that they were your kids, it made sense, I figured that Blake's middle name was James and Lily's was Anne, because then they'd be named after both sets of parents. So they live on through their grandchildren since they're gone. Admit it, Harry, that would be a very Hermione thing to do, wouldn't it?" Without giving Harry a chance to reply, Ron was launching more questions to the trio.
"What do we do in the future? Like what are our jobs?"
"You're all Aurors."
"Really?"
"Really. But Harry and Hermione are also teachers. They teach Defense Against the Dark Arts."
"Along with Auror duties?"
"Yep, that's why you both teach, just in case one of you can't be there for classes."
"How long have we been there?"
"Since the year before we started school, so going on eight years."
"What Auror duties do we have if Voldemort is gone?"
"Death Eaters trying to avenge their master's death. To take their anger out on the man who killed him."
Ron dropped his voice to barely above a whisper and said, "Are we part of the Order?"
"Think about it, Ron, do you even have to ask that, would Harry Potter and his best friends be in the Order of the Phoenix?"
"Ok, stupid question." Ron and Harry pulled up chairs for themselves and sat down.
"So, do the three of us still stay close friends after we get out of school?"
"Yeah. Harry and Hermione are my godparents, and you and Luna are Lily and Blake's godparents."
"And you're one of the people we consider uncles, and Luna's like an aunt to us, since we don't have any blood aunts and uncles."
"Who else do you consider aunts and uncles?"
"Well, let's see, Fred, George, Bill, Charlie, Angelina, Alicia, Fleur, um…Ginny, Draco…" Lily trailed off, and clapped a hand over her mouth. Julia, Blake and Harry all gave her wide-eyed looks because she had spilled who Ginny's secret boyfriend was.
"What? Malfoy is considered an uncle to you?" Ron said. Lily didn't answer, nor nod or shake her head.
"Why?" Ron said slowly.
"Um…I can't tell you."
"You'd better, you just said that the foulest, evil, student in this school is considered part of your family. And your implying that he's married to Ginny." The trio didn't make eye contact with Ron. But Harry figured out what he thought was true.
"Oh my God, Ginny ends up with Draco Malfoy? I thought it'd just be a fling or something."
"You know about this?" Ron said, rounding on Harry.
"Yeah, that's who she left me for."
"Why the hell would he marry my sister, he hates our family."
"He changes. It's all a thing leading up to the defeat of Voldemort. It starts this year. He reformed almost ten years before the battle, denied the Dark Mark against his father's wishes, and I think even ended up killing Lucius in the end."
"No way, Draco Malfoy? The same Malfoy that lives in his father's image, that can't wait to receive the Dark Mark?"
"That's the same Malfoy."
"That's impossible."
"Nothing's impossible. And believe me, he does change. Just give him a chance when the opportunity comes up," Lily said.
"Speaking of opportunity…" Ron said, looking pointedly at Harry.
"Just shut up Ron."
"He's right though, you know," Julia said.
"I know he is, and I hate it when he's right." Ron grinned.
"Does that mean you're going to go for it?"
"Can we drop the subject please?" The five of them talked a little longer, all the while Harry was thinking. The more he talked with Lily and Blake, the more he liked them and the more he realized how much they were like himself and Hermione. At times it was almost like talking to himself and Hermione. Then he thought about Hermione in the library. He did love her, but didn't want her to be hurt. Then he thought of what Blake had said to him before, "Have you ever heard that if you love someone you should say it, not hold it in? Because if you do, you never know when it might be too late, and you can't tell them, and they'll never know."
Harry said to Lily, Julia, Blake and Ron, "I have an idea, and I need all of your help."
A/n: Here's chapter 14 peoples! Hope you enjoyed, please review!!
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