5 years later...

"Papa, guess what!" Teddy said.

"What is it, Ted?" Harry asked, looking up from the letter he'd received.

"Dray took me flying on his broomstick!" Harry raised an eyebrow at Draco, who had just walked in.

"Hey, don't look at me. It was his idea," the blond said, putting his hands up in surrender. Harry rolled his eyes, before going back to reading his letter. "Who's that from?" Draco asked, peering over his shoulder.

"McGonagall. She wants to see me, not sure what for."

"Maybe she just realized how horrible your N.E.W.T. scores were, and she wants you to repeat your seventh year...again." Harry shoved his shoulder, though he was laughing.

"Hey! My N.E.W.T. scores weren't even that bad, I had mostly E's."

"Whatever you say. Come on Teddy, let's go make lunch."

"Kay, Dray. I want sandwiches," the five year old said, grabbing the ferret's hand.

"Sandwiches it is then," he said laughing as they walked into the kitchen. The two came back out a few minutes later with a plate of sandwiches. Harry eyed them hungrily, but stopped when he saw Teddy.

"Excuse me, why is his hair blond? Teddy, what did Draco give you this time?" The child opened his hands, revealing a small chocolate bar. Harry sighed, giving Draco an exasperated look. "Alright, you can have the chocolate after you've finished your lunch. And Draco, don't forget Pansy and Hermione are coming over for dinner." Draco looked up from his food.

"Oh, are they?" he said nervously, making Harry sigh.

"What did you do this time?"

"Well, Blaise seemed really set on me coming over tonight, said it was important."

"Just have him come here, if he wants. You know what, I'll invite Ginny and Luna as well. Remember the last time we forgot to invite the two." Both boys shuddered.

"That was the most impressive and scary thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Ginny can be quite frightening when she wants to be."

"She's always frightening." Draco nodded in agreement, and the two went back to their lunch.

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Harry stepped out of the floo, using his wand to clean up the mess he'd made.

"You wanted to see me, Headmaster?" McGonagall turned around.

"Yes, take a seat." Harry walked over to the spare chair and sat, feeling awkward sitting there like he had so many times before. "How are you?"

"Uhhh...good?"

"I couldn't help but notice you're currently unemployed. Is there any reason?"

"Well, I tried a few things. Auror wasn't for me, so Charlie invited me to Romania to see if I'd like working with dragons any better. I was there a few months, but I didn't like it any better, maybe even worse. So then I looked into being a healer, but at the time I was looking into adopting my godson, and I didn't have the time. So, once Teddy was adopted, I just decided to focus my life on raising him."

"I see. And, if I'm not mistaken, your fiancè works here as well?" Harry nodded, confused as to where this was going.

"He does, yes. Why?" She sighed, putting a hand on her forehead and shaking her head.

"I'm offering you a job here, Mr. Potter. There's an opening for the Defense Against the Dark Arts position, and you would be the preferable option."

"Preferable? Who else are you considering?" At this, her face formed something of a scowl, though it was hard to tell.

"Mr. McLaggen applied, as well as Romilda Vane, but I'd rather not give the position to either of them." Harry thought it over.

"Neither would I, but what would I do about Teddy?"

"He is welcome to stay in the castle, as long as you can keep him under control. He could sit in with you or Mr. Malfoy during classes, or I suppose Filch can always take care of him."

"No no, that wouldn't be necessary." McGonagall raised an eyebrow, but didn't comment. "Um...I actually have to get home soon, and I should probably talk to Draco about this thing, so..."

"Just give me your decision sometime this week."

"Right, thanks. See you, Professor." And with A handful of floo powder, and a call of his destination, he was gone. A small smile was on McGonagall's lips as she watched him leave.

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"I hate travelling by floo," Harry muttered, using his glasses to fix his glasses that had broken when he fell out of the chimney.

"Papa! Aunt Hermione and Aunt Pansy are here!" Teddy leaned in closer to whisper in Harry's ear. "Auntie Pansy gave me three whole chocolate frogs, but I'm not s'posed to tell anybody."

"Alright, I'll keep it a secret for you. Now why don't you go find Rose and play with her, I'm sure she'll be very happy to see you." Teddy's face scrunched up.

"She's a girl, and girl's have cooties. I don't want cooties, Papa." Harry laughed, and picked the small boy up, placing him on top of his shoulders. Teddy shrieked, and grabbed fistfuls of Harry's hair to steady himself. Harry walked into the living room, and found Hermione and Pansy sitting on the couch, Rose in between them, sitting upside down blowing hair out of her face. Her face brightened when she saw the boy atop Harry's shoulders.

"Teddy!" the girl shrieked, hopping off the couch. "Hey, come down here and play with me!"

"Rose Granger-Parkinson, Teddy is perfectly capable of making his own decisions! And I don't recall hearing you use your inside voice," Hermione scolded, making Rose blush and look down at her toes.

"Yeah Rose, you're not the boss of me," Teddy said, sticking his tongue. Rose returned the action, and Harry set Teddy back down on the ground. The two proceeded to run around the house, screaming and chasing each other.

"I'm going to help with dinner. You can let the others in when they arrive." The two nodded, and Harry went into the kitchen, finding Draco tossing a salad. He stopped and looked up when Harry walked in.

"Hey you. What'd McGonagall want?"

"To offer me a job." Draco raised an eyebrow at this.

"Defense Against the Dark Arts, I presume." Harry nodded. "Are you going to take it?"

"I don't know, should I?" The blond looked at him like he was insane.

"Should you take it? Of course, it's perfectly up to you, but I say yes."

"Yeah, I mean, I want to, but Teddy-"

"-would think it was the coolest thing ever to live in a castle." Harry laughed.

"He probably would. I don't know what I was worried about."

"Great. Professor Potter, would you mind helping take dinner out to the dining room?" Harry rolled his eyes, but helped anyway. When they had finished with that, the pair went into the living room, finding Ginny and Luna there as well.

"Oh look, the lovebirds showed up. And where is Blaise, he's fifteen minutes late! I'm starving, and you do not want to see me hangry!" Pansy groaned.

"Think she already is," Draco muttered into Harry's ear, but Pansy heard, and gave him the nastiest glare Harry had ever seen.

"Finally," Pansy cried when a knock was heard. Harry opened it, but was shocked when it was George instead of Blaise who answered.

"Blaise is just freaking out, he'll be here soon," George said, smirking. Harry nodded, inviting him in. Just seconds later, Blaise had apparated there, and Harry let him in as well.

After the kids had been found and calmed down, everyone sat down and began digging in. Teddy scowled at his vegetables, and didn't touch them until Harry practically forced them down his throat. On the bright side, he got to eat two of the three chocolate frogs Auntie Pansy gave him.

"Everyone, I have an announcement to make," Harry said, standing up. "I'm going to be the new DADA professor starting next year."

"Oh Harry, that's wonderful! Finally you'll be getting out of your house more often," Hermione said, a bright smile on her face.

"Hey, I get out of the house plenty!"

"Oh really?" Ginny said, raising an eyebrow. "When was the last time then?"

"Just last week, when I took Teddy with me to the supermarket."

"You haven't been out of the house in a week! Merlin Harry, how are you not going insane," Pansy sighed, giving him a weird look. Harry muttered something under his breath, folding his arms and pouting like a child.

"Aren't you all going to congratulate the new couple?" Luna asked, looking around at each of them.

"New couple? What are you talking about?" Blaise shrunk down in his seat slightly, avoiding eye contact with everyone.

"Why, Blaise and George of course. I thought it was fairly obvious, the nargles are swarming them."

"WHAT!" everyone besides the three said, turning to look at the two.

"Surprise," Blaise said, clearing his throat a bit.

"Yes, I had this whole thing planned out, I even made you all Canary Creams. They were essential, trust me. But alas, I have no need for them any longer. Here Teddy, would you like one?"

"Uhhhh..."

"Say no, Teddy."

"No?"

"Good."

"I want it, give it to me!" Rose said, reaching for the treat. She took a big bite out of it, just as her parents tried to stop her. When she turned into a canary, Hermione glared at George.

"Not this prank again. You did the same thing to Neville in fourth year."

"In my defense, that was unintentional." Harry smiled as the two continued bickering, while Pansy tried to make her daughter human again. Yeah, his life was weird, and a bit messed up. That had been decided for him the night Voldemort killed his parents. But Harry liked his weird, and a bit messed up life.

He liked it a lot.

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