Chapter one

A couple of months after The Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter bought his first home, a house in Godric's Hollow, which surprised no one, they all knew that is where Harry would live when the war was over and now he does. He still spent a lot of time at the Burrow with Hermione and Ron, and he had started to date Ginny again, not something he was sure about but something Ginny wanted, so he thought he would see how they would go.

The Order of The Phoenix along with people they trusted were getting the ministry of magic clean out, but they realised it wasn't going to be an easy job and it could take years to find everyone that had supported Voldemort. Kingsley Shacklebolt, the new Minister for Magic had organised different order members to take control of each department then to start with trying to work out who was on their side and who had been on Voldemort's side.

One department which they needed was the auror department, as there was not one auror left. Kingsley did know a few good people from the hit wizards squad, so he had them acting as temporary aurors until Kingsley could work out about finding some people and training them to become aurors. Of course he hoped he could talk Harry Potter and some of his friends into becoming aurors, they have proved capable against dark witches and wizards and weren't afraid of a fight.

When three months passed, Arthur Weasley went back to the ministry with his son Percy, Arthur was advisor and assistance to Kingsley, while Percy would work for both of them. Charlie Weasley decided to spend more time in England and ended up helping everyone, from the staff at Hogwarts, to shop keepers even the Minister at the Ministry of Magic. After losing Fred, he said he had missed out on so much time, he was determined to be with his family for a while yet.

Bill Weasley had gone back to Gringotts, but he was beside himself with happiness because his wife is expecting their first child. George Weasley, with the help of Ron Weasley and two of his friends, Lee Jordon and Angelina Johnson, they had started to get the shop Weasley wizard wheezes fixed and ready to open again, but they knew it was still going to take a while before it could finally open the doors to the public.

Lots of shops in Diagon Alley needed repairs and restocking, but everyone seemed to want to help. Strangers would just turn up and offer their assistance, so every shop was slowly coming back. Mr. Ollivander took a long while to get over everything Voldemort put him through, but even while he recuperated, he was slowly getting his shop ready as well and like the others, people stopped by to help. One person that turned up to help in the wand shop was Luna Lovegood who spent her days in the shop helping the old man that had become her friend when they were both prisoners.

The death eaters that were captured all awaited trials, but some they weren't sure if they were forced or cursed were kept in the dungeon cells at the ministry until the minister could get people to form a new Wizengamot. The ones they knew were full death eaters and supporters of Voldemort and had the dark mark were sent straight to Azkaban without a trial. They had found out that to become a death eater and take the mark, you had to do it willingly then torture and kill and innocent, usually a muggle or muggleborn. So everyone knew they were guilty if they had the dark mark on their arm which is why none of them were given a trial.

Two people in the cells at the ministry were Narcissa and Draco Malfoy, they were there and not Azkaban due to a statement Harry had given the minister in regards to their assistance during the war. So even though Kingsley knew they had helped, they still needed to face the court and Harry would be one of their main witnesses in that trial. Narcissa Malfoy did not have the dark mark and when questioned under veritaserum she told them at the time that the dark lord did not need the wife to take the mark, the husband would control the family in all ways. Draco had the mark but it wasn't like the original death eaters, he did not have to torture or kill, he did not even want the mark which again was proven under the truth potion. But as he was still underage, his father forced him to take the dark mark and join the death eaters. Again because he was underage at the time they knew he would not do any time in Azkaban.

All the funeral were finally over, after weeks of still finding bodies, the people they lost were sixty seven, and considering he had hundreds of followers including giants, werewolves and dementors, everyone knew they came out of the war better than they hoped. The sixty seven people were all fighting for the light, the numbers for the dark was a lot higher, well over two hundred.

The new Headmistress of Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall, with the help of her staff had started to get the repairs to the castle underway. Just like the shops, people kept turning up to help because all of them said they wanted their school back and they all had good memories of the old castle. So during the day, there were sometimes a couple of hundred people, all ages working around Hogwarts.

During this time, Hermione and Ron had made a trip to Australia and restored Hermione's parent's memories. The Grangers had decided they liked Australia and wanted to stay. So Hermione decided that even though she would miss them, she wanted to live in and work in England. So they worked out for Hermione and her parents would each make one or two trips every year back and forth to see each other. The Weasley's wanted Hermione to stay with them, which she agreed as she wanted to be with Ron, but of course the two friends spent a lot of time at Harry's place.

All Harry did after he finished furnishing his home, was rest. He never really did anything, just sat outside in the sun, thinking about everything that had happened over the last seventeen years. Because Harry liked to spend time at home and not go out anywhere that had caused a loud argument between him and Ginny who wanted to go out with her boyfriend, especially now she was of age, she just couldn't understand that Harry wasn't one to go out to pubs or clubs, he was content to stay home.

One thing Harry was happy about, he never had to see the Dursley's again, but he did check in with Hestia Jones and Dedilus Diggle to make sure they were alright. Vernon and Petunia were still the same and the two order members told Harry there were times they wanted to curse them, but didn't. Dudley always talked to the witch and wizard and always about his cousin Harry. So they finally told the boy exactly how Harry was treated and respected by their world. During their time away, they did listen to Potter-watch, and Dudley got to hear about his cousin quite a bit and realised the two magical people were right, Harry was loved and respected, by everyone. Dedilus and Hestia past on a message from Dudley to Harry, so Harry decided he would see his cousin, not a lot, but they would keep in touch through Mrs. Figg. She had agreed to pass on letters to both young men.

During this time, Harry and Ginny spent time together, not a lot, in Ginny's opinion, and even with her always asking Harry to go out he kept the relationship casual. At first Ginny wanted a full on serious relationship, where Harry wanted to take things slow because they got together in the worst time possible, a war. They had a big argument with both shouting at each other but Harry never backed down and Ginny realised if she wanted Harry, she would have no choice but to agree to his terms, again. She never gave up and tried everything with Harry, even to get them to have sex now Ginny was of age, but again Harry refused, he was determined to take things slow.

Harry had said they were only going to see each other a couple of days a week, either at his home or the Burrow. Ginny had yelled and almost hex Harry at this news until her father stepped between them. Harry explained that he just wanted time to himself for the first time in his life and the last thing he wanted was anything serious, he just didn't tell Ginny that he wasn't sure this relationship was right for him. But he was truthful about wanting to relax and just take time to enjoy the fact that Voldemort was dead and will never come after him again. So that's what Harry Potter did, he relaxed at his home, his home in Godric's Hollow, where he had his last home with his parents.