The Love of Your Life

Nineteen year old Harry Potter was going to be getting married in a month to Ginny.

That was a fact, an irreversible fact, nothing would change such a destiny, he reasoned.

Yet a part of him still wondered what life would be like if he chose someone else.

Chapter 1: Hermione

It began on a seemingly ordinary day beginning at work as luck would have it.

He had been appointed the Head of the Auror force by the current Minister of Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, bu many seemed to feel that he was far too young for it.

In truth he didn't even have a full Hogwarts Education having skipped his last year of school to fight Voldemort so he could see why they might be concerned, yet Shacklebolt had seen first hand his capabilities and knew that he would get the job done.

While he had felt totally unqualified he had fortunately received plenty of help as the Wizarding world was eager to capture the remaining death eaters and stomp out crime altogether.

It had been difficult at first, as while Voldemort was now gone, many of his followers were not and either were not at the Battle of Hogwarts or managed to escape it. There had still been quite a few more casualties on both sides, but they seemed to be reaching an end to the violence.

By now there were only a couple of known former death eaters still at large: the brother and sister duo who had once taught at Hogwarts, Amycus and Alecto Carrow and he had high hopes that today would be the day they finally caught them.

Indeed as he came inside his office this was proven to be correct.

"Mr. Potter," Amanda Fawcett said.

Amanda Fawcett was now his second in command, one of the very few aurors still left alive from before the death eater take over at the ministry.

She had been a bit upset at first when he had taken the position as her new boss feeling that he was too young, but she hadn't let such an opinion affect her from doing her job and over time she had grown to have a great deal of respect for him.

He in turn valued her opinion highly as he knew that he couldn't have accomplished nearly as much without her experience to guide him.

"What is the latest news?" Harry asked, sitting down in his chair.

"I've just received word that we may have a possible location on the Carrows," she admitted.

"Where?" Harry asked anxiously.

"A source informed me that they may entered a Muggle bank," she informed him.

This did not sound good. As wizards it would be much easier to rob a Muggle bank as magic could easily overpower any alarms, security cameras, or even open the vault should they wish.

However such a move seemed to be rather risky as it would certainly draw attention to themselves.

"All right send two teams over and tell them that I'll be leading them, I want them killed or captured without any casualties," Harry told her.

"We still need confirmation and then a warrant first," Amanda answered.

He groaned. One of the things he disliked most about his job was the bureaucracy. He preferred to head off after criminals as soon as possible and ask questions later.

The ministry however was accustomed to proceeding much more slowly as there had to first be confirmation of a suspected criminal, then get a search warrant, then prep the team going in...

It was an ugly mess and had served to allow more than one criminal to get away by the time they got there, and also put them at risk of a leak letting the criminal know that they would be coming.

His efforts to proceed much more quickly were perceived as too rash even after his methods led to many captures or kills. It had been a long tedious process in making them see reason.

Yet as it was still a muggle public and private building he realized that he couldn't yet proceed without greater confirmation and then a warrant. He had yet to get a law passed that allowed for it.

"We don't know if the Carrows are already hitting the bank, I'll go get confirmation myself and see what they are doing and you can get the team ready in the meantime," Harry said.

"We simply can't risk..." Amanda tried to say.

"I'll be invisible the whole time and check out what's happening, I won't engage them unless its necessary," he promised.

Perhaps it was a bit reckless but he was simply tired of sitting around while everyone else saw all the action. Amanda would only send another auror to do the exact same thing he was going to.

With the lack of trained aurors, she would probably have to send some newbie without much experience in. If the Carrows really were hitting the bank already, he wanted to be the one there so that he could apparate back more quickly and get the team together.

This was an important capture, perhaps his last one and he wasn't about to see it get screwed up.

Quickly putting on his invisibility cloak so that he wouldn't be seen he then apparated out to the bank.

When he got there, he noticed that it was pretty evident that the Carrows were already there.

As he had apparated just outside the bank vault, the fact that the vault door was currently lying open and a couple of guards lay dead on the ground made it pretty obvious.

Cautiously looking inside the vault itself, he found Alecto Carrow putting a small orb into a bag.

"The Orb of Destiny, at long last," she declared sounding extremely happy.

Her brother Amycus knocked some stacks of cash and jewels onto the ground meaning that they hadn't come for that as well, but apparently just the orb.

"We've got it, let's go," she declared as she grabbed up the bag.

He couldn't simply let them escape so he quickly cast a stunner at her, knocking her out.

"NO!" Amycus yelled, not rushing to save his sister but the bag she had been holding.

He just managed to grab it before it hit the ground and hastily pulled it out of the bag to see if it was okay.

Before he could get a chance however, he hit him with another stunner knocking him out.

This is what happens when you don't wait around for all the red tape, he thought. The Carrows would have been long gone had he waited that long. Stupid bureaucracy.

He went over to pick up the orb, which had rolled onto the ground undamaged as Amycus had been keeping it only a couple of inches above the ground when he had been stunned.

As he gazed into it, he first thought that it was just a simple glass sphere, yet on closer inspection it appeared to have a small red dot in the middle.

It could still be dangerous, although the Carrows had handled it with their bare hand so he figured it couldn't be too be too dangerous.

He was about to set it back down when the red dot in the middle began to grow bigger, and bigger until it filled the whole sphere, making it a totally red sphere.

At that moment, a great flash of light erupted and he blinked.

When he opened his eyes again he was no longer in the bank vault but somewhere else entirely.

Instead he was now surrounded by brilliant white light and standing directly in front of him was a woman with long blonde hair and wearing a white robe.

"Hello Harry," she said warmly.

She seemed to already know who he was, but he couldn't recall ever seeing her before.

Yet as he looked around at the light, he couldn't help but ask:

"Am I in heaven?" He asked.

She laughed and said, "No, I'm afraid not. This is more of a limbo, neither live nor dead. You see I am destiny and you activated my orb."

"What does that mean?" He asked.

"I'm sure that you didn't intend to do it, but you activated it nonetheless. The orb allows us to find out what might have happened had we chosen a different path. The Carrows were planning to go to a world where Voldemort was never defeated and took over the earth.

I would have been forced to grant that desire and for that I am entirely grateful. You on the other hand having activated my orb were somewhat wondering what life might be like if you had chosen to marry someone else besides Ginny."

"I love Ginny though, it wasn't a particularly strong desire. I know that she is the one for me," he declared.

"While you probably do indeed love her," Destiny replied, "she actually isn't the only one that you could be happy with and fall in love with though. Had just one thing changed at multiple times in your life you would actually be getting married to someone entirely different."

"I don't care about that though, I love Ginny, I don't need to know what life would be like without her," Harry answered.

"You say that now but I'll bet you'll feel differently after you go through the different futures," Destiny told him.

"Futures?" Harry asked.

"Once the orb has been activated, what your desire was at the time has to be gone through.

In this case finding out what life would be like with different girls and your future with them. I'll be sending you to live out these futures so you can get to know the girl and decide if you would actually be happier with them instead. Once you finish exploring these many different possibilities, you can then choose to decide if you really do want to still be with Ginny or decide to pursue someone else."

"Won't they realize that I don't really know them?" Harry wondered.

"You'll be fed information so you aren't left completely in the dark," she explained, "I'll also be giving you information before each time you travel. For each trip you'll be traveling 15 years into the future and stay however long you need to."

"Who would my first future be with?" Harry asked.

"Hermione," Destiny said simply.

"Hermione!" Harry exclaimed in alarm, "but Hermione is my best friend and I think of her as a sister, I can't be married to her."

"Actually Harry, you could have been, but you never really saw her that way or noticed just how much she loves you. She only ended up with Ron because she thought you would never love her back that way," Destiny confessed, "the future that I send you to, you end up getting together with Hermione while you two were alone in the tent while hiding from Voldemort. You finally noticed her and how beautiful she really was and how she had always been there for you.

After kissing for the first time and with no one else around you got into a pretty serious relationship and fell in love with her. When Ron finally came back, he found out that you two were together and was so angry at the two of you that he left and never came back. Neither of you ever found out what happened to him."

"So I lose my best friend if I choose Hermione?" Harry exclaimed.

"It's not as bad as you think Harry, you'll find out," Destiny said, "just be willing to give Hermione and all the girls afterwards a chance."

Without further ado, there was another flash of light and when he opened his eyes again, he found that he was lying in a bed.

"Good you're awake," someone said on the other side of the bed.

As he rolled over he saw that it was Hermione!

She looked older but it was still Hermione.

To his surprise, she moved in and kissed him gently on the lips before he could stop her.

"I love you Harry," she said.

He didn't answer, not capable of speech just yet as he wondered if this was really happening.

She gave him a weird look and then said, "Well I suppose you just aren't fully awake yet not that I blame you. That was a great night by the way Harry, I think I'm going to be sore all morning after that."

She got up and he couldn't help but notice that she was naked.

For the first time, he realized that Hermione had an incredible body or at least she would 15 years from now.

Her butt was huge yet looked somewhat firm. He had to admit that it was the most succulent, most magnificent bum he had ever seen, and the fact that she was naked made it all the more desirable.

Her bushy brown hair went all the way down to just above it.

When she turned around, she displayed her breasts, which were definitely larger than she used to have.

Somehow he knew that she had DD cup breasts now due to her 3 pregnancies, but they still looked to be in really good shape.

Wait a minute, he had 3 children with her, how did he know that?

She turned and looked at him and noticed him staring at her.

"Harry you have an expression on your face like you haven't seen me naked before?" She observed.

"Sorry," he apologized.

"Could you get up and get the kids ready for school while I take a shower? Unless you want to take a shower with me?" She asked grinning.

A mental image of doing just that came unbidden to his mind.

He shook his head again, this was Hermione, his best friend and the girl he had always thought of as a sister, he could not be thinking such things.

"I'd better go get Becky ready," Harry announced.

He got up, only to find that he was still naked himself, and he was not exactly what you would call clean either. Evidently he and Hermione really did have a magical night.

Cleaning himself up as best he could with magic, he got dressed quickly, embarrassed to have Hermione there watching him.

Finally, he got out and left the bedroom.

The rest of the house looked somewhat modest. Not too expensive looking or too small.

All in all it appeared to be your typical home.

He guessed that they were trying to live modestly, as he knew that unless something else had changed, he was quite wealthy even if he and Hermione didn't work in this future.

When he got inside the kitchen, he found a little girl there about 5 years old with bushy brown hair and his own green eyes as she looked up at him.

"Daddy, can you make me some breakfast?" She asked in an adorable little voice.

"Sure Becky," He said, guessing her name as he tried looking through the cupboards.

Where might some cereal be? He wondered.

Unbidden, he somehow knew that she kept it just above the fridge.

Looking on top of it, however, all the cereal appeared to be super healthy stuff.

"Where's all the junk food cereal?" He asked aloud.

"Mommy says I'm not allowed to eat junk because it isn't good for me," Becky reminded him.

"Right of course," he admitted, "so what do you want for breakfast then?"

"Pancakes!" she said happily.

He grinned and managed to find the pancake mix. It was super healthy too but he figured that with enough syrup on it, it wouldn't taste too bad.

After making the pancakes, he put a couple small ones on Becky's plate and then poured a ridiculous amount of syrup and butter on them.

She happily began eating and he started making the rest of them.

Before long, another child of around 10 came into the kitchen, which he knew to be his son Leo.

He had his same green eyes, but messy brown hair.

"Ooh good pancakes," Leo said as he got himself a plate.

Right after another girl who looked to be about 12 came in.

Evidently all 3 of his children had inherited his green eyes because she had them too, along with long black bushy hair.

"Morning dad," she said as she went and got a plate as well.

It seemed that it was apparently during the summer months if she was here and not at Hogwarts.

While he finished with the pancakes and watched his children eat, Hermione finally came in.

As she looked at the kids and then at Becky however she frowned.

"Becky, that's way too much syrup," Hermione argued.

"Daddy poured it for me," Becky said innocently.

She turned on him, looking somewhat angry. Since he was used to Hermione's occasional anger, especially as she had often disapproved of his and Ron's eating habits, he supposed that this should come as no surprise.

"She's just a kid, she should be fine," He insisted.

"I thought we already agreed that we would make sure the kids all ate healthy," she said.

"Well I've got just as much," he pointed out.

Apparently this was the wrong thing to say, because she said, "Are you not concerned about your health Harry? You're not as young as you used to be and your metabolism isn't that good. Do you know what would happen if I were to eat that? It would go straight to my hips and butt."

Becky giggled at her mom's use of the word butt.

He couldn't resist grinning at her laugh, but Hermione didn't seem to think it was funny.

"I'm sure that you think that would be great but it wouldn't be great if I swelled up like a balloon and had health problems," Hermione told him, "I love you and I want to keep you around for a very long time."

He supposed that Hermione did in fact have a point. They no longer had the bodies of teenagers, and he had heard that older people did tend to put on more weight more easily. Hermione might also just be a little extra concerned for him.

"I'm sorry honey," He said apologetically, "I guess I was just in a childlike mood this morning."

She actually gave him another weird look, but seemed to accept his apology.

"Well thank you for making breakfast anyway," she told him as she went and began putting pancakes on her plate but she also went and got herself a health shake.

After breakfast, Hermione helped the kids clean up while she had him take a shower.

As he took off his clothes, he noted that he still had a rather decent body for someone his age, perhaps as a result of Hermione's health consciousness.

When he got out of the shower and gotten dressed, he went back inside the kitchen.

"I just got back from taking the kids to school," she informed him.

"I thought it was during the summer time," he said.

"You already agreed with me that the kids should go to muggle summer school during the summer so that they can have an understanding of the muggle world as well where we grew up," she said.

"Oh right, sorry," he said, "you're right of course."

She gave him another curious look.

He mentally cursed himself as in spite of his ability to still know a lot of stuff, he kept digging himself into a hole. As smart as Hermione was, she just might guess that he wasn't really the same Harry she had married and he wasn't really sure what to say to her then.

At least when she asked him if he was ready for work yet, he knew at least what type of work he was supposed to be doing.

He and Hermione were evidently magical researchers who developed various new spells at the Ministry.

They both apparated there and Hermione went to try and take his hand as they walked to where they worked.

He had never held Hermione's hand before, so it felt kind of weird but he knew that he was supposed to in order to keep his cover so he did so anyway.

As they walked, various people nodded respectfully at them. Evidently they were quite well known, not only for him being the great Harry Potter and his wife, but for their work in their field as well.

"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Potter," a man who appeared to be a guard said.

"Hello Jim," Hermione said.

Jim let them walk through and into what appeared to be their lab.

At first he really had no idea just what he was supposed to be doing after that, but knowledge seemed to hit him as he realized that he needed to be looking over his notes.

Throughout the day, he continued, somehow knowing what he was supposed to be doing.

When he looked over at Hermione nearby however she was actually frowning.

"Am I doing something wrong?" He asked.

"No you're doing just fine," Hermione said in a sad tone.

Not sure just what was the matter, he continued with his work.

They ate a quick lunch and then at three, Hermione asked him to leave to go pick up the children from school.

He somehow knew where the school was and found his children just in front of it.

"Daddy!" Becky exclaimed happily as she rushed into his arms, "I drew you a picture, see!"

She held up a picture of what appeared to be their house and then their family standing next to it.

"That's great Becky," Harry said, trying to sound happy for her.

He checked to make sure no one else was around watching. and then apparated them all back to the house.

The rest of the day he spent playing with the kids.

He had never of course had kids before, but he had always wanted some and he rather enjoyed spending time with the ones he now had.

They really were great kids, and he could see elements of himself and Hermione in each of them. All smart yet energetic.

He made them all dinner but Hermione did not get home until late and when she did she ate quietly and alone as he watched the kids.

As soon as the kids were in bed however, he went inside his bedroom to find Hermione instantly launch herself at him as she began to kiss him.

She placed her hand onto his bum, but after he did not respond, she got off him looking very disappointed.

"Sorry, I guess I'm just tired," he tried to say, as if to prove this to be the reason why he had not kissed back.

"It's all right Harry, I understand," Hermione said sullenly.

Not entirely able to come up with an answer that wouldn't involve the "I'm a time traveler and I have no idea where your real husband went" excuse, he left it at that.

They both got into bed and said nothing to each other.

The next day, however, he felt that he at least managed to avoid saying anything too obvious or that he should have known.

Hermione however seemed to be upset for some reason and wouldn't tell him why.

Since she wouldn't tell him, he just spent the time playing with the kids.

Yet as they got into bed once again, Hermione finally decided to let it all out on what had been bothering her.

"Do you no longer find me attractive Harry?" She asked.

"Of course I do," He answered.

"Then how come you've been avoiding staring at me, or kissing me these last few days? When you saw me yesterday morning it was like you were seeing my body for the first time, and when I noticed you staring, you shook your head and haven't looked at me since," she admitted.

"I guess I was just focused on work and thinking about the kids," he said.

"You've also been spending plenty of time with them, just not with me, why is that? Yesterday morning and then last night I invited you to have sex, but you acted like such activity was to be shunned. Am I fat? Is my butt too big for you now?"

"No, you're beautiful Hermione," He tried to say unconvincingly.

"Can I at least hear you say that you love me?" She asked, "As long as I know you still love me I know things are still okay between us."

"I love you," He said.

He looked right at her as he said it, as he really did love her, just not in the same way that she did.

However this wasn't enough for her as she seemed to be able to tell the difference and she began crying.

He finally decided to come out with it and tell her the truth.

"Look Hermione, the truth is, I'm not really your Harry, I time traveled here," He admitted.

"Please Harry, you don't need to tell lies to make me feel better. Yesterday I was starting to think the same thing but at work you seemed to have no problems doing it. If you were a time traveler you would have no way of knowing that."

"I don't know I just do, its part of the time travel. I just know a lot of stuff that I shouldn't know, I was sent here 15 years into the future."

"We were already together then though," Hermione pointed out.

"Well yes, but it was another time line as well. In the time line I was in, we never got together while we were hiding from Voldemort and Ron came back and helped us. I then ended up dating Ginny again and we got engaged."

"Why would you have gone forward into time to be with me if you were already with Ginny?" Hermione asked.

"It was an accident," he confessed, "destiny or whoever sent me back to find out what life would be like if I had chosen you instead."

"Destiny isn't a real person Harry," she said.

"Evidently she is, although I don't really know if she is really human, a god, or something else," he said.

"I want to believe you Harry, I really do," she said, "it just seems kind of crazy."

"It does to me too, but all I know is that had I chosen you I probably would have been quite happy with you. This Harry seems to have a pretty good life. We have 3 beautiful and smart children. A nice house, and evidently a much better relationship than I've been able to give you these past couple of days. I suppose I'm just used to the fact that I always thought of you as a sister, only to wake up to find that I'm married to you as a beautiful woman that I'm terrified that I'm attracted to so much."

She laughed and said, "When you and I got together, you were much the same way you were now. You saw me naked once while I was getting dressed and you looked absolutely scandalized. It took you a few days to get over it, but eventually you started looking at me differently and I caught you staring at me more than once. Then one day we were talking to one another lying on one of the beds and you leaned in and kissed me. I ended up kissing you back and the rest is history. I'd always loved you, but it just took awhile for you to realize that you loved me too."

"How were things just before I came?" He asked.

She grinned and said, "they were wonderful, they really were, I simply couldn't be happier. Harry and I love each other more now than ever."

He felt guilty, as he knew that he had taken that Harry from her.

"I'm sorry," he said.

"It's okay," she said, "it's not your fault, I just already miss the real Harry. The one who really loves me."

With that stage out of the way however, Hermione adopted her always curious attitude and asked:

"So how does this all work then?"

"I'm not sure," he confessed, "I'm not sure just how long I end up staying, just that I'm supposed to experience what life would be like if I chose you. Destiny also mentioned the same thing happening with other girls after wards but I'm not exactly sure just how many, how long, or what I'm supposed to do."

"So did you manage to stop Voldemort in that life?" She asked.

"I did," he confirmed, "there was just a lot of deaths, and after wards I got made the head of the auror office to catch all the rest of them. That's actually the reason why I'm in this mess."

He explained briefly about the bank and the orb.

"I'd imagine that the Carrows only just found out about the orb, otherwise they would have come after it earlier, although I can't imagine why it would be in a muggle bank," she concluded, "in this timeline things seem to have worked out a lot better. Me and you began working on a protean charm to use on Voldemort's dark mark. When we killed Voldemort, all the death eaters that had been marked ended up dying too. With all of them gone, the auror force didn't really need you and so you decided to become a researcher and inventor with me. Instead of making spells that kill people however, we decided to make spells that improved the quality of life. We discovered a cure for cancer for example last year, and we made it into muggle pill form to help muggles as well."

"That's great!" Harry said excitedly.

He had enjoyed being an auror but he had hated having to deal with criminals who he had to kill or capture just to keep everyone else safe. The idea that he could actually save millions of lives instead was rather appealing to him.

"So what about everyone else? What about Ginny?" Harry asked, hoping that Ginny had married someone else and was happy.

"Well Ron I haven't seen since he caught us having sex in the tent, but his father, the last time I talked to him said that he had sent a letter saying he was alright but Ron wouldn't say where he was or much more than that. Ginny however seems to be okay, although she was definitely upset when she found out that we were together. She's married to Neville now but I haven't really seen her in over 10 years. She moved out of the country."

He supposed that it could be a lot worse than Ginny marrying Neville.

"What about Tonks and Lupin? Did they survive the final battle?" He asked.

"We never had a battle in this timeline. Instead when Voldemort was trying to get inside your head again, we had sex, and he couldn't handle that, so you were actually able to break into his mind and learn stuff from him, such as where his horcruxes were. Once we found and destroyed them, you got Snape to kill him for you, as he could get close to him. Snape died in the process, but he killed Voldemort and all the death eaters using the spell we created. To answer your original question, Tonks and Lupin are fine, they have two children now."

Perhaps this future wasn't too bad, he thought. It seemed that the only downsidex were the fact that he was married to Hermione and not Ginny and evidently Ron was no longer his best friend.

Yet he wasn't really this Harry, he tried to tell himself, even though this Harry was incredibly lucky.

Still he was lucky too, as he still loved Ginny and he was still looking forward to a life with her.

They talked a bit longer as he found out the differences between the two lives before they both fell asleep.

He found himself however as he dreamed back where Destiny had been, the only difference however was that Hermione seemed to now be with him.

"Is this a dream?" She asked him.

"If it is we're having the same dream," He commented.

Destiny appeared right in front of them.

"Hello Hermione, I am destiny, nice to meet you, and hello again Harry," she said.

"What do you want?" He asked.

"I'm here to help you understand something," she admitted, "you both seem to think that Hermione's Harry and you are two different people when in reality you are the same, just at different periods of your life and having made one different choice. In order for Harry to move on, you must learn to understand this and Hermione to find that you are still the Harry she loves and for you Harry to realize that you really do love Hermione as your wife. You may even come to find Harry that you would prefer this life instead in the end and choose her instead of Ginny or any of the other girls."

"How are we supposed to do that?" Harry asked.

"Get to know one another and find out for yourself," Destiny told them.

Before they could say anything else, the dream ended and they both woke up at the same time.

"Did you just?" She asked.

"Yep," he agreed.

After a minute of thought, she suggested, "Well I suppose we should try as destiny suggested."

"What do you have in mind?" He asked.

"How about a date tonight?" She recommended.

"I guess we could do that," He announced.

All during the day, they kept up appearances, and then at night they dropped the kids off at Tonks and Lupin's house.

It was really good to see them both still alive, and they both seemed quite happy.

He had had to look away from them in order to hide his tears from them.

For the actual date, things actually went remarkably well. He would have never guessed that he had such chemistry with Hermione, but it actually proved to be the case and they had a really good time at the muggle restaurant that they went to, with each other learning about the differences in their parallel universes or discussing various other things.

At the end of the date, she decided to risk kissing him, and this time he did not resist and kissed her back.

It was a small gesture but it was a start.

As time passed and he got to know Hermione better and this life he had with her he began to enjoy it more and more.

He loved his children, and more and more he was growing to love her as well, not as friend or a sister, but as his lover and wife.

At first that had actually scared him, but he finally came to conclusion that he still loved Ginny, but in case he never went back to his old life he could definitely find it in him to be happy here as well.

Finally several weeks in, as he kissed her good night, it led to something more and they ended up consummating the new found love he now had for her.

She had an incredible body, and showed him plenty of things he had never known before in his times with Ginny, as a result of her having studied numerous sex books.

Most of all that he loved about Hermione's body was her incredible bum. He simply couldn't keep his hands off it, and one of her favorite things was for him to do her up it, which was made way easier due to a spell she had developed that made her hole big enough for him without lube.

In addition she had a rack to die for, only slightly drooping from pregnancy, giving her the title of busty bookworm, a title he had apparently given to her years earlier.

Two months went by and things had settled down into a wonderful routine. He loved Hermione and she loved him, and that was all that mattered.

Unfortunately all good things apparently did come to an end because one day after a night of passion with Hermione, he fell asleep to find Destiny waiting for him.

"It's time to go Harry," she informed him.

"It's all right, I'm perfectly happy here, you don't have to change anything," he said.

"You think that now, but remember you felt the same way about Ginny," Destiny reminded him.

He thought about it, and decided that while he did love Hermione now, he still did love Ginny.

"What would happen to Ginny if I were to choose Hermione instead," he asked.

"That future would cease to exist," Destiny informed him.

His heart sank. So this would mean that if he did not choose Ginny, that she would not find happiness with him. However he still felt good enough about his decision as she had married Neville.

"Is Ginny happy here in this future?" He asked.

Destiny nodded, "not as happy as she would be with you, but Neville is still a good husband. The problem about this future that you should know about is actually Ron. When you and Hermione's relationship drove him away he went to romania to live with his brother Charlie and got involved in the dark arts. In that future he helped create a dark arts group like the death eaters, and they end up killing thousands of people."

"How could he allow that to happen to Ron, who he had driven to do such terrible things or the lives of thousands of people? Was his happiness with Hermione really worth it?" He wondered.

"There are still plenty more choices to choose from before you can make a final decision however," Destiny said.

"Who am I going to be with now?" He asked.