Harry Potter One-Shots

Ice Cream Man

Fortescue didn't make it through the war. His ice cream parlor closed down. Harry wouldn't let anyone touch it, as he bought the entire chain.

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And then Harry quit the Aurors and opened Fortescue's Ice Cream shop back up. He put a memorial plaque on the wall next to the ice cream counter.

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And then Harry was standing right behind the counter with a sad grin on his face, happily serving ice cream to visitors and giving lone children free coned scoops. He'd help muggleborn and muggle raised Hogwarts kids with whatever homework they were in a rush to finish.

He'd sit with them on his breaks and teach them what he knows and remembers. He started to buy himself the books for any new subject the children were learning.

He was there for them, like Fortescue was for him.

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And then Ron quit the Aurors, working part time with George and Harry. He practically ran back and forth some days. But he didn't care and didn't stop.
This was his family and he'll be dammed if he doesn't help the kids they took in.

He worked happily between both of his brothers, giving them much needed breaks for the kids they took in.

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And then the pureblood kids hesitantly entered. The Slytherins the most nervous and scared.

Harry blinked at their green and silver uniforms before a grin graced his face and he sat down next to the kids and engaged them in conversation.

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And then Hermione passed the "Magical Child Protection Program". MCPP got passing votes from the houses of Longbottom, Malfoy, Black, Potter, and Bones.

The first case to go through was a first year Slytherin that Harry had scooped away from his father before the despicable man could smack the child for showing a smile.

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And then more than half the cases were Slytherins speaking up about their situations with Harry right behind them, smiling sadly once again.

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And then Draco was employed at the Ice cream shop.

He was ridiculed at first. No one wanted a death eater serving them anything at all.

But Harry wasn't having any of it. If an adult was rude or mean to Draco, Harry told them off and banned them from the shop. Ron did exactly the same. The rest of the Weasleys jumped on it too until it spread as a whole anti-anti-slytherin rally.

Harry served half off on all green or silver ice cream that whole week, pinning a monthly day on the magic calendar for the seventeenth of every month as Slytherin appreciation day.

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And then Ginny broke Harry's heart.

It wasn't a break up. No, it was the opposite.

She wanted Harry's heart and tried to dose him with Amortentia. But a lot of potions and spells stopped working on Harry after he turned seventeen, the mature age of magic in a core.

Harry was appalled when Ginny confessed that she tried to drug him for love. He had only ever loved her as a sister and it broke his heart that she would ever try something like that, much less on him.

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And then Ginny blabbed about Harry's previous home life during her trial for an illegal potion.

It set off a whole chain of upset that Harry never wanted to deal with again. Dudley even rooted against his parents.

It was found later that the reason Dudley did so was because they were hurting his daughter, who was a magical child herself.

Her name was Violet and Dudley loved her with everything his body had, given that he was a single parent taking care of her.

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And then Harry got up to stuff.

He got into a relationship with Draco. A very platonic but romantic relationship. It was slightly founded on shared trauma, slightly on the fact that they worked well and understood each other. They loved each other and the Weasleys supported it.

He had also invited every single missing Black right back into the family, reinstating them onto the tree. Andromeda and Narcissa were overjoyed to see each other again and Harry got to finally live with Teddy in his house. Both Draco and Harry loved Teddy, who was seven by then.

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Harry never had children besides Teddy, who was blood adopted by the man, but he had a large family and a massive fortune. He shared it all with the world when he passed.

They made him a memorial right in the center square of Hogsmeade. It was a thestral with emerald eyes set in a stance like a rearing horse but with a powerful flare of his wings. Harry had always said it was his favorite animal besides his familiar Hedwig, who got her own owl statue that rode on the back of Harry's thestral one.

Fortescue's ice cream was passed to an excited Teddy, who often shifted his features into a cross between Harry's and Draco's, unruly ebony hair and stormy eyes. He continued every tradition Harry set. Yule warm waffles, Samhain trouble scoops, Easter egg cones, Slytherin, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff appreciation discounts, and birthday bash balloons. And the most important tradition of being there for the kids.

The Wizarding World was at peace. Finally.

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And Harry continued to watch over them all from his place next to Death, Tom right next to him and the rest of the Peverells clustered around bubbling with happiness. (Bad Peverells were typically dismissed from the watching pool until they learned their lessons. Tom was not an exception.)

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