To Infinity... And Beyond [Sequel to ILYONA]

Chapter 16

*TARDIS Noise* (Time skip.)

Everything was happening so quickly. A couple of months ago, Hermione gave birth to a girl they named Rose, and Ginny was due in a few weeks.

Kat had a couple of months left, but the child - they found out - was a boy. They had lots of names already, and Kat kept on shipping whichever name she like most with Rose. At the moment it was PinocchiRose. Yes, she wanted to name her child Pinocchio.

Thankfully, the male Malfoy wasn't as keen on the name. Otherwise the poor kid would get bullied something dreadful.

Rose had a lot of cousins already - James, Molly, Lucy, Roxanne, Fred, Dom, Vic, and two on the way. Ted too, if you counted adopted people.

She had blue eyes, and hair that - despite being the colour of her father's - was already very similar to Hermione's.

I had also heard from Dudley recently. Their child - a boy named Henry - was just younger than James. Today we were going to their house for a play date, to let the children get to know their second cousins.

"Daddy! Daddy!"

"Yes James?"

"Look!" I looked at where he was pointing, which was a hovering toy.

"Well done! Clever James!"

"Amazing James." He corrected. "Daddy get it wrong."

"Okay, amazing James. Are you nearly ready to go?"

"All ready."

"Good boy. Come on then. Lets go."

I picked him up and - after calling a "Goodbye" - apperated away. We landed in an alleyway, which once exited lead to the most Dursley-ish street possible. It was like Vernon and Petunia had came by to turn every house identical. Each one had the same tall, steep roof, which contrasted the rather wide width. All of them were made to form the same pattern, which was mostly red, but with a large dark grey/blue diamond pattern repeated on the sides. Each house had a different coloured door, yet still followed a pattern; red, white, blue, red with stained glass, white with stained glass, brown. Every garden exhibited a topiary trimmed to perfection, with a bed of flowers to match the house's front door.

Every house held these features. Every house but one...

I instantly recognised the house belonging to my cousin, as the flowers looked like instead of being neatly planted, they had been dumped onto the soil; instead of a red/blue/white door, it looked like a rainbow had been bottled up and thrown onto it.

I took James over to it, knocked on the door, and was immediately greeted by Duddley Dursley.

We were invited in, and went through to the living room. Inside sat Cho and Henry. Everyone was introduced (by which I mean that Henry and James were introduced), and soon enough Dudley, Cho and I sat down, drinking tea and watching our children interact.

James and Henry were currently swordfighting with pretend swords (obviously), with the occasional burst of accidental magic causing the other to have their 'weapon' flying out of their hand.

Henry, it seemed, would also be attending Hogwarts. I realised with a jolt that Dudley's son would most likely be placed in Ravenclaw (due to his mother being in that house, and his father not being put in any), the house of intelligence and wit. If you told me that twelve years ago I would have laughed in your face.

Firstly because of the fact that he wasn't exactly the sharpest tool on the shed, and secondly because he had a fear of magic that was so strong there could have been no way for him to have a kid with someone of magical ability.