Daddy Harry

Chapter 27: Graduation

As the graduates filed into the Great Hall to graduate from Hogwart's, the Head Girl, Ginny Potter Weasley looked over the crowd of her friends and family. She was contemplating what has happened over the last seven years of her life, from being the puppet of Tom Riddle in her first year when she opened the Chamber of Secrets, to when she helped her husband Harry Potter defeat that same person, in the personage of Lord Voldemort at the end of the summer before her 6th year, from the birth of her beautiful twins Alex and Nichole, to the birth of her sister-in-laws baby girl not quite 4 months ago. She was happy to know that she lived through it all, and had a happy family. She was happy that when this was all over and done with, that she had a job to go to next school year as the co-professor of DADA with her husband. While she looked over the crowd, she noticed her family in the front row, Harry and Ron carrying the twins, and Hermoine carrying her daughter. Next to them were the proud Grand Parents, James and Lily Potter, Molly and Arthur Weasley, and Mr and Mrs. Granger, then came all the Weasley clan sitting next to them lined up by age. Ginny had to smile at the site of the group that took up all of the front row, and she was glad that they could all make it.

When Ginny stepped up to the podium to get her graduation certificate she didn't shake the Headmasters hand, for he was more than that to her, he was more of a grand fatherly figure to both her and Harry, so instead of a simple handshake, she gave him a hug and said, " thank you Professor, you don't know how much you mean to Harry and I, but you do mean a lot to us." After the headmaster, she also gave a hug and thank you to each of her Professors in turn, including to everyone surprise, Professor Snape saying to him where only he could hear, "thank you Severus, I know that you didn't really like us in the beginning, but you showed us both the respect and friendship that we knew you had in the end. You will always be someone special in mine and Harry's hearts for what you have done for us and our family." Then smiling she added, "don't worry, your secret is safe with us."

Snape for his part kept his cool, and dry demeanor during the hole scene with her, but gave her a slight nod and smile where only she could see it, and said, "your quite welcome Mrs. Potter, it was a pleasure to teach you all these years, and it will also be a pleasure to work with you and Mr. Potter next year as a fellow Professor." Severus gave Ginny a hug and said, "now I think that it is time for your Valedictorian speech, go give it your best shot. You will do good."

Ginny took a deep breath and walked up to the podium in front of all the students, staff, and guests and cleared her throat. "Friends, family, honored guests, we came here 7 years ago to start our odyssey into the unknown. We were frightened 11 year olds, that didn't know what was going on, and when we walked in, we weren't sure what was going to happen, but we knew that we were meant to be here. I came here knowing what was going to happen at the school, because as most of you know, my family is well known around this school as friends, scholars and for two of them, pranksters, but if anything else you know about us, we are known as loyal to the cause of right. 7 years ago, I was forced to do things that I deffinettly didn't want to do, but because of Voldemort's reign of terror, and his youthful use of a magic diary that was given to me, I was possessed and made to open the Chamber of Secrets. I am happy to say that I was helped by no other than Harry Potter, and at the time, I didn't know that I would one day be his wife, but I did know that I had loved him from the first time I met him, a lonely kid that needed help to get on platform 9 3/4 for the first time. I thank you all for being there for us, and tho some of us didn't make it through all of the school years, most of us did, and I am thankful for my friends. Let us have a minute of silence for those that we lost during the last war please. ............................................................................................. Thank you. I'm sure that all the family that have lost friends and loved ones, are quite well aware of our thoughts and prayers. Some of us are going to be going out to become Aurors, some have come to be going into the Healing Field, while even some of us will be going on to teach. I myself will be joining my husband next year as a co professor of DADA here, and I will let you know, we will be doing this for the long run, so you can guarentee that your students will have adequate and proper teaching in it. I also would like to thank all our teachers and the ones that came before us for teaching us in the different ways that we have. I thank you for listening, and hope you will be happy with what your students hae done. Thank you." Ginny stepped down to applause of the hole hall.

"Thank you Mrs. Potter for your inspiring speech, you all will be missed as students of this school. I give you the class of graduates. Thank you again."

There was a big celebration after the graduation that lasted long into the night. There was the good byes of friends and loved ones.

A/N: Ok that is the end of the story and I would like to thank you all for reading my story. Thank you and have a great Christmas. I want to thank you all for reading my story, the sequal will cover the twins and other kids first years through Hogwarts, I have decided to stop this story right here, because I can't do what I was going to do with any kind of good writing. I will review what happened since this chapter in the first chapter of the sequal. Thank you. —Donald

A/N 2: Hey all my faithful readers, I give you the finality to this story as a Christmas present for you. Thank you all and happy holidays. —Donald