Chapter seventeen

Sirius, Dan and Harry returned after dealing with the last horcrux. They explained how the house was completely destroyed and how Sirius and Harry modified the muggles memories so they would just believe the house had been gone for years. Sirius decided to keep all the books from the Black library, mainly because he wasn't sure if they might come in handy. He might not like the dark arts, but he also knew that if you were ever faced with dark wizards, it's best to know what they will use so you would know how to fight them. They didn't believe they would have any problems once they left England, but they wanted to make sure they had what they needed, if it was needed. So keeping all the dark arts books that the Blacks had accumulated over the centuries just might help.

After dinner, Harry and Hermione set up their ritual circle. They placed the orb with Voldemort's soul in the centre, then they began to speak the dark curse that would send his soul on. They had no idea if there was a hell, they didn't really care. They just wanted Voldemort completely gone from the world of the living. The curse took a lot out of Harry and Hermione, so much so that Dan and Sirius had to carry them up to their bed the moment the soul was gone.

When Harry and Hermione were asleep, Dan, Emma and Sirius began talking about their plans to move. They would be going on their holiday first, it would give them time to relax but also study up on the few countries they were interested in making their home.

Dinner that night was just Dan, Emma and Sirius. Hermione and Harry stayed asleep. Dobby who has already be filled in on what he had to do, snuck away from the house and went to finish off the last of his families plans. It took a while for Harry to get Dobby to understand that Dobby was family, Harry thought of Dobby as a little brother. Now Dobby did believe he was part of the Potter, Granger, and Black family. He planned to ask Harry if he could be Dobby Potter. But that could wait until all the dangerous people were taken care of.

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Even though Hermione and Harry were having a great time visiting Greece, they did get Dobby to bring them copies of the Daily Prophet. The first one he brought had the story of Umbridge being found dead in her office, the aurors were investigating. The following day saw the story of the three Malfoys being found dead at the dinner table. After Dobby had made sure the three Malfoys had drunk the poisoned wine, he made sure they were dead before he replaced the wine with a bottle that had not be poisoned. He also made sure that Tilly, the young elf who worked for the Malfoy's knew she had a good family waiting for her. So after the Malfoy's were dead, the two house elves made sure there were a lot of dark artifacts left in places easy to find. They also made sure that the death eater mask and robes that belonged to Lucius was found. Harry wanted to make sure that the Malfoy name would be ruined even if they were dead and there would be no more Malfoy's.

So even though Harry and Hermione were enjoying their holiday, they wanted to keep up with the news from England. The more they can help by getting rid of really dark wizards, the more it would help the people still living there.

Hermione and Harry may not want to stay in England, mainly because of Dumbledore, but also because they knew there were just too many bigoted purebloods that would always believe Hermione was a second class citizen.

It was during one of their talks with Dan, Emma and Sirius about which country would end up being their new home that things like purebloods was brought up. Sirius was able to find out that Australia didn't have any type of blood class. Australia was a young country, and began as a colony of convicts sent from England. The witches and wizards in Australia were either halfbloods or muggleborns, but they were all treated the same. They were just magical people. It was because of this discovery that they decided to visit Australia and stay for sixth months. It would give them time to see the country and find out if Australia would be the country for them. They still planned on visiting other countries, like America and Canada, but so far it seems all five of them were leaning towards the land down under.

With the help of Dobby and Tilly, the contents of the Granger's home was packed up, shrunk and placed in trunks. Most of the trunks were going to be stored until they decided where they wanted to live. For now, they wanted the house sold and they wanted out of England before anyone tried to interfere. Sirius explained that with Dumbledore's reputation, he just might try to find a way to keep Harry in England. But if they left, it would make it difficult for Dumbledore or anyone else to find them.

They left England two weeks before the students were due to return to Hogwarts. Sirius, Emma and Dan had the letters ready for Dobby to take to Minerva. The letters explained that they were pulling Harry and Hermione out of Hogwarts and were planning on moving to another country. They would be long gone before anyone in England would know. Harry and Hermione had made a quick visit to Neville, to explain why they weren't returning but they wanted to stay in contact with their friend. They made sure they would organise a visit during holidays, they just hoped Neville would understand why they couldn't remain. Luckily, Neville did understand.

Even though Dan, Emma, Sirius, Harry and Hermione had been in Australia for two weeks, all five of them believed this would be their new home. They still planned to visit other countries, but they decided it was worth buying a property and having their homes built since they would visit a lot even if they decided another country would be their home. They all believed they would end up living in Australia, but they wanted to see what other countries offered before they made any more permanent plans. Having a home in Australia meant they always had a place to stay if they decided to have a holiday in Australia.

Minerva had been shocked to read the letters from the Granger's and Sirius Black about Harry and Hermione leaving not only Hogwarts, but the country. She always had a feeling that her two students would not be pushed, yet Albus kept trying by having Harry followed and watched. Now they were gone and there was nothing anyone could do about it. She could not inform Albus that Harry Potter had left, not when he was having meetings with the ICW and the wizengamot. With the death of the Malfoy's, the discovery of a lot of dark objects and death eater mask, then the death of the minister's undersecretary, meant a lot of work. They had to try to find out how these people died, but also make sure people didn't panic, if they believed someone was killing off prominent members of their society, there would be a panic.

When Albus found out Harry would not return to Hogwarts, the first thing he did was visit the Longbottom's. Neither Neville nor Augusta could give him any information on where Harry went. He would not give up, he knew Harry would be needed when Voldemort returned. He had to find Harry and he had to do it before he got any older.

After six months, Dan, Emma, Sirius, Hermione and Harry left Australia and visited some other countries. America was their first stop. They loved the country, but found that they were similar to England when it came to blood status. So they had a holiday, but knew that America wasn't the country for them.

They continued visiting other countries over the next few months, but none of them felt right to the family. It was a year to the day that they left England that the family returned to Australia where they would need to work on becoming officially Australians. In the magical world, it was easy. It took a lot longer in the muggle world.

Harry and Hermione didn't bother to enrol in magical school or muggle school. They had Sirius to help them with certain subjects they wanted to learn, but they also hired tutors for the other subjects. They also hired tutors for their muggle education.

Dan and Emma bought a dental clinic, they expanded it and hired a lot more staff. Sirius who still was a Marauder ended up setting up his own joke shop. It might not be a big money earner, but it made enough and it kept Sirius from being bored.

Over the years Albus tried to find Harry Potter. He never did. He may be respected in many countries, but some just treated him like anyone else. They would not allow him to go against their laws and he would need to always register his visit. Many magical countries like to know when someone from another country visited, they also wanted to know the purpose of the visit. When Albus visited Australia, most had never heard of him so he wasn't given any special treatment. But he was allowed to go through records that would show the names of people who moved to Australia that came from England. Little did Albus know, nor anyone that worked in that office know, Dobby had already worked some magic so the name Harry Potter, Hermione, Dan and Emma Granger, and Sirius Black would not be revealed.

The group had discussed changing their names, but none of them really wanted to. It was thanks to Dobby and using elf magic that would keep their names hidden if anyone wanted to find them. So Harry knew he would not have to use another name, he wanted to keep Potter for his parent's who died to save him. He wasn't going to dishonour them by giving up their name.

A week after Harry's sixteenth birthday, he married Hermione in a simple ceremony. Dan and Emma were there, along with Sirius and his girlfriend, Marcy, a witch he had met two years previous and now worked alongside him in the joke shop.

Harry and Hermione had a month long holiday before they moved into the newly built house that was not far from their family's homes.

Dan and Emma had surprised everyone when they revealed they were having another baby. And even though it was a shock to Hermione to know she would have a young brother or sister, it wasn't the biggest shock. The biggest shock was when Sirius proposed to Marcy who it turned was also pregnant. Something Sirius didn't believe was possible after his long stay in Azkaban.

The Potter, Granger, Black family were expanding, but they were happy. They knew leaving England would be the best decision they ever made. Now they had new homes, new businesses and a family that was growing.

In years to come there would be another couple of children for Dan and Emma, along with Sirius and Marcy. What didn't surprise anyone was ten years after Harry and Hermione married, their first child was born. A daughter they named Lily, after Harry's mother. A year later their son was born. Since Sirius had called his son James, Harry and Hermione decided to call their son Orion. Sirius ended up speechless when Harry placed Orion into Sirius arms. Then Hermione shocked him again when she told him that Sirius would be Orion's godfather. Lily's godparents were her parent's, Dan and Emma. Sirius was Harry's godfather and now he would be Orion's godfather, Marcy was Orion's godmother.

Harry and Hermione would have two more children, Sirius and Marcy ended up with six children and Dan and Emma had four children including Hermione. Dobby and Tilly ended up as Potters and they ended up having five children. The Potter, Granger and Black families had grown a lot since they left England. They believed they had the best life and the best family. But the one thing they all agreed on was it was the best decision of their lives when they left England and made their home in the land down under.

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