Dumbledore and McGonagall walked into the Thundercloud house common room arm in arm. The sight before their eyes was something that they had not thought to believe could happen for a very long time. Dumbledore's faith in Harry remained steadfast, the prophecy had been met, the outcome... would be written in history as it unfolded. Pipsqueak arrived on the top of Thundercloud tower five minutes after everyone was ready to travel. Severus was going to stay at the castle and take charge of the clean up. Dumbledore and McGonagall were staying in Britain for a while longer. There was much to do for them as well and it did not have anything to do with a war.
Author's Note:... Big F'n Spoiler ahead kinda
HBP was a done deal by 7:34 a.m. Saturday July 16th, 2005, ( I started reading it before I even got home.. good thing I was driving slow.
Only God and JKR herself knows why she did what she did... ( you-know-what-she-did-don'tcha? ) Guess our Harry's group knows what they're going to do. Hey this is a fantasy and it would be a lot of bother for her to write so much and then give it to Harry up the arse. It's gotta end better than this one dunnit? I think I might have a difficult time watching the movies knowing that someone is going to have to direct that scene...Oh well fans of HPFanFiction, we've got two years to speculate, write, let our imaginations run wild... I think I know who R.A.B. is... do you? Anyhoo... enjoy,
The Rescue
Harry and Draco dried and dressed just as if Adam wasn't in the room with them. Not a single wasted step in dressing in their finest muggle western wear, complete with royal cloaks for traveling. The gifts that they had sent along to their babies didn't touch the things that they had conjured after a few very inspired dreams. The gifts for every elder they knew and all of their friends were richly wrapped and tied. The weapon that Harry used to ... insure that he had a future was in the box in which it was given to him, rewrapped and signed. All of the gifts and half of their wardrobes were shrunken with a few sweeps of their wands ( use your imagination this time ) and stowed in the pockets of their traveling cloaks.
The Thunderbirds totaled 13 and with the addition of Arthur, Molly, Bill and Charley Weasley, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Alice, Frank and Augusta Longbottom which is usually the largest group of passengers that Pipsqueak carried on her back. Adam wanted to bring along Frankie and Benny to America and with Dumbledore's blessing, the two young wizards were allowed to accompany the Thunderbirds to America and the Magical Navajo Nation. The battlefield was no place for young people to have to look at through any window around the castle. The trip was a blessing in disguise... Pipsqueak always flew steadier when she had a full load of passengers. Frankie and Benny were ballast to her physically but precious cargo to her heart.
Narcissa Black Malfoy ordered the deportation of the disarmed and petrified Death Eaters to the new wizards prison in the far southwestern edge of the MNN. When muggles got within fifty miles of it, the abundance of rattlesnakes was quite evident. It was not uncommon to not see any vegetation or signs of shade for miles at a time, it was quite uninviting. If they were foolish or brave enough and got closer, the magical wards began to work and they suddenly felt the desire to leave and go home, never to return.
Ten elite, efficient, talented portkey makers had been working night and day since Fred and George mentioned in America, that they were going to see if they couldn't make mass transit portkeys by tweaking the Portus spell just a little bit. As it were, it was a new idea and the elite were willing to experiment with another Weasley idea. It worked, and over the last three months, there were enough special portkeys made to send the vanquished Death Eaters to their new home, smack dab in the middle of nowhere, MNN, USA.
Draco and Adam let Frankie and Benny sit on their laps for the short ride west. They wanted them to be able to see the sights from atop the magical bird as it swooped towards the North American coastline and points beyond. The spell keeping them safe on the bird meant that they could stand up and look over Pipsqueak's back. Draco was the first after Adam to board the huge bird from on top of Thundercloud House Tower Armory No. 3.
The big wizarding gun on top of the tower was the only reminder in sight of what had been going on just hours earlier. Harry followed Draco hands tight together as they stepped lightly on the great beast. The Thunderbirds and the Weasleys, The Malfoy's and the Longbottom's were certainly elite wizarding class now. You could almost see a difference in the look on Molly Weasley's face as she sat down on Pipsqueak's wonderful soft back Harry was staring off into the dark blue sky when his eyes came down and looked at Molly straight in the face. Molly looked back and Harry could not resist himself, he accidentally pranced around in Molly's head modifying her memory almost everywhere he thought to look. The whole thing was over in less than two seconds and Harry looked for Draco's face.
Draco turned to see Harry's guilt.
'What did you do? You only look like that when you have done something totally Gryffindor and you killed Voldemort. This has got to be big for you to look like that.' Draco thought as he looked at the embarrassed face of his hubby.
'I sort of knocked out a few really horrible memories for her' Harry thought back.
'What kind of memories?'
'Draco, she killed twenty people and hurt seriously another three dozen. She doesn't need to remember that.'
'She seems to have a look of relief on her face. Moreover, she is glowing. Arthur never changes, he's always pleasantly stoic. I wouldn't look around in his head if you paid me.'
'I have something like 25 billion galleons. How much do you want?'
'Well, like the song goes, "I want some hugging' and some squeezing' and some mugging' and some pleasing and some stuff like that there." I think if you paid me well, you could keep your money...'
'Oh, Draco you are so going to be laid later' Harry finished the conversation mentally with his stunned horny husband.
Draco's eyes had been ogling Harry during their little chat and he was having a difficult time keeping Frankie from jumping up and down on his lap. The muggle jeans were tight in all the right places and right now, Draco's package was filling to capacity leaving his testicles nowhere to go if they got squished by a bouncing 13-year-old gay boy. Frankie's naiveté to his sexuality could suddenly get a huge education. Draco was quick to think of a way out of his problem.
"Frankie, stand up and look over the edge. That is North America on the horizon. It's still early evening here, should be daylight by the time we land on the Magical Navajo Nation." Draco urged.
Frankie did stand and Draco wrapped his arm around the boy's legs to prevent him from sitting on his bone. Harry was amused to no end and he was silently chuckling very happily to himself. If everybody's view weren't blocked from where they were sitting by Frankie, Draco's problem would be glaring everyone in the face.
"Oh man is this bird flying fast or what?" Frankie exclaimed still not paying attention to Draco's wood on the back of his leg.
'Did I give you that boner Draco? I'm sorry' Frankie thought to Draco but he still blabbed to the Thunderbirds.
They were all laughing now at Draco, save the non-Thunderbirds who only wondered what was so funny.
"Thanks for that Frankie. Hope I get to do the same for you someday." Draco said aloud finally earning another round of laughs to his expense.
"Oh man! I did it again didn't I?" Frankie said.
"Yup lil dude, you sure did." Adam said with a wink to his young friend.
'You are going to give them pegasi then? How will they care for them? You haven't thought that through have you?'
'They can own them fine and still leave them at home. Don't be silly Draco. Until they have a place to keep them, they can stay where they are.'
'Alright then not another word.'
'Or two either Draco.'
'You drive a hard bargain you Black Thundercloud. I'm sure that my sons and daughters will need their own pegasi as well.'
'That was twenty-two words and I am sure that Mama will give them all one when the time is right.'
'I can't wait to tell them. I'll save the memory for them in a pensieve.'
'You do that. Look there are the Teton's on the right coming up. We head south from here. Be home in thirty seconds. Is little Draco a little less...'
'It went down thank Merlin.'
'Thank Frankie. He should probably sit now.'
'Oh right' Draco finished.
"Time to sit Frankie" Draco said pulling the young wizard into his lap for the swoop through the Window Rock entrance to the MNN.
"You're alright now. I'm sorry I made your friends laugh at you." Frankie whispered.
"They were laughing with me Frankie. There's a difference you know." Draco whispered back.
Pipsqueak had gained the entrance to the MNN and was slowing to land on the lawn in front of Casa Thundercloud giving everyone a good look at the beauty of the winter desert before she landed and stopped moving.
Empress Little Bird Thundercloud herself was standing on the lawn with her six harpy aunties and they all were holding little black haired and blond haired babies. Everyone on the big bird stayed where they sat as Draco pulled Harry off the transportation and onto a lawn full of their babies. Little Bird held Prince Sirius in her arms and that was a good start for Draco who wanted nothing more than to be covered in babies. This was Christmas indeed.
Before you knew it, Pipsqueak was empty of passengers and the greeting of old friends was going along as if there were never a day that had passed since any of them had set eyes on each other. Adam of course greeted his mama with a kiss and a hug and he couldn't wait to introduce his two young friends to his mother. He was going to save Charley for last. He had forgot that Charley had met his mother many, many years ago. He'd changed and that was all Adam cared about. He had found his life's love and he was very proud of him. Charley was wearing his best dragon hide pants and boots and he was wearing a plain crisp white shirt under his traveling robes. Since it was Yule, he was wearing a turquoise blue bow tie with Navajo emblems all over it. In a word, he looked... cute.
Draco and Harry had finally kissed each of their children and held two babies each. That left three babies for the godparents to coo and make kissy faces at. Greg and Vince were the absolute most comical examples of godfathers you had ever seen and if you knew George or Fred, the two of them had serious competition in the make a fool out of yourself department. Draco couldn't keep from sniffing the babies in his arms. To him, the scent of his children was pure ambrosia and he couldn't get enough of it as rich as he was. Harry wasn't as bad as his husband was but when it came to any of his babies, they all smelled just wonderful to him and holding them while they were this size was something that he was glad that he would cherish forever. What had transpired not two hours ago was the farthest thing on his mind.
Little Bird Thundercloud waited for a few minutes for her guests and her family to enter the ancestral Thundercloud home before she took Adam aside and told him that he was going to be caring for the wards protecting their home for a couple of hours, no more than that because she wanted to go somewhere special and it was not in the MNN. Adam was of course curious to his mother's insistance that she leave just as they got there, but there were activities, food and a number of other things that THE powerhouses of all natural wizarding magic on the planet in her house could do for a few hours and not miss her.
"Adam, I'm going to be leaving the country and I need to transfer the wards to you. You think you're up to it?" Little Bird asked of her baby boy.
"Of course mama. Where ya goin'? We just did get here and I haven't seen you in months." Adam replied to his mother.
"It's a secret, and when I come back home, there will be a surprise with me. Don't worry a bit. You and Charlie can be my hosts until I return. I'll tell Bee and Molly to keep an eye on everything else. There is lots to do before we have supper and I have to get going." Birdy said as she waved her staff over her head changing into House of Thundercloud Royal Robes.
"I'm sure with all the babies here that there will be plenty for everyone of us to keep ourselves busy with. Boy they did some growing didn't they?..." Adam carried on talking as his mother faded out of sight on her way to the doorway.
"I don't think your mother heard you Adam." Charlie said to his beau.
"Sure she did, she just musta run outta time or somethin'." Adam said looking at his mama's flowing robes behind her sparkle and shine.
"We have all the time in the world now love, I think that once your mother trusts you to hold wards, then all is right with the world. Now why don't you and me go play host like she told us to." Charlie said.
"Never at a loss for words are you my sweet babboo?" Adam said with a mischeivious look in his eye.
"Sweet babboo? Muggle Charley Green comic character. Hmmmm. You know just what to say to a bloke now, don't you?" Charley said in playful return.
The two wizards walked serenly towards what was the most brilliantly decorated home in such a magnificently grand scale just behind the newly assembled family and for the first time in oh so very long, a world without the threat of a madman called Voldemort.
Idle chatter could be heard from all directions of the massive Thundercloud family foyer, each wondering where the presents were or where the food was. Considering the number of men in attendance that had just undergone one of the most fierce wizarding battles ever in all of magical history, food was everywhere to be smelled but nowhere to be found. Excursions to the kitchens found nothing but the scent of food kept getting stronger and more scrumptious with every passing minute. The elder adults were congregating in front of a massive fire on really comfortable pieces of the grandest furniture any of them had seen in many many years.
Harry and Draco were in oblivious heaven holding and cuddling each of their children left alone finally by the cooing and jovial god parents and the harpie aunties. Draco looked to Harry with a tear in his eye and said,
"Harry Potter, I love you."
"Draco Malfoy, I love you too."
"Of course I mean that Scarhead, I mean for all of this, for everything, the joy of giving birth and being with you while you're going to do the same thing and, and..." "Shut it and kiss me my Prince."
Draco was silenced by a very deep and passionate kiss from Harry who just at that moment knew what Draco meant when he said what he said.
Almost an hour and fifteen minutes to the second after Little Bird Thundercloud disappeared in a bolt of lightening followed by her ever faithful Pipsqueak and Longstockings, the two natural Thunderbirds who instinctively guard their queen when she travels, began to make their presence known in the distance. Two very large sonic booms could be heard out of a clear crisp night in the Arizona wilderness. This alone brought every occupant of the house except for the babies and their harpie guardians rushing outside wands drawn prepared to do battle once again to defend the home of the Magical Navajo Nation. There were two hundred warrior wizards in the courtyard of Casa de Thundercloud in less than 15 seconds also ready to do battle. The night sky was once again light as bright as day with the colors of the MNN and the governments of Magical Britain and Hogwarts sparkling behind them. The two big magical birds were making a very showy entrance and the empress was flying ahead of the both of them with a rider behind her.
The giant birds landed first discharging their passengers, Dumbledore, Severus, Minerva McGonagall and the remaining students from Hogwarts, 5. The rest had been shuttled home by apparition by their parents or portkeys provided by the ministry and of course the extra special magical floo powder that Fred and George had been mass producing for the last months. All seemed well when in a flair of sparkling fire, the broom that Empress Little Bird Thundercloud was riding with a passenger landed in front of and in between her two giant friends. She dismounted and then turned to pull the shroud hiding the identity of her passenger.
Before she did, she called Harry and Draco and Adam to come close because there was something the three of them needed to see and only at one time would it be considered fair. In the back ground Albus and Minerva and Snape were spreading the news quietly amongst the others that were assembled to see the surprise,
"Harry, come here and pull the shroud off of this person. Draco, you stand behind Harry." Little Bird commanded.
When all had complied, Little Bird pulled the shroud off of the surprise guest. Fifty voices drew in a breath when they saw standing before them Sirius Black. He looked the same as he did when he fell through when Bellatrix LeStrange stunned him into the Veil but there he was, complete and in one piece, sound of mind,( as sound as he'd ever been) looking at all the important people in his life.
Harry stood there stunned with Draco holding him up but Adam, Adam Black Thundercloud just stood before the man he knew be his father and began to weep letting go of Charley's hand and reaching up to stroke the face of the man he'd never known but knew all about for all of his life. He was standing finally in front of his father. HIS father. Adam embraced Sirius with the most sincere grasp he could muster until he was tapped a little roughly on his own shoulder with Harry standing next in line for a bone crushing hug. Sirius was back. He could now with good conscience give back to Sirius what was rightfully his.
The Christmas that year was going to be one that was going to be talked about and written about for hundreds and thousands of years to come.
Happy Christmas everyone.
A/N I hope you will all forgive me for the huge delay in finishing this story.
JKR herself was the one that shot this one in the butt by killing off y-k-w and turning the story oh, way so dark. Personally, I can t wait for 2 years to find out but in the mean time, I'll have to start a canon fic so it ends up the way I want it to! Thanks for reading, Scorpion