Pure Chance
by Healer Pomfrey

All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.

By the time Harry and his family returned to Hogwarts shortly before the beginning of Harry's seventh year, the Potions Master was back to his usual menacing self, who hated all Potters with a passion.

In a huge fight between Professor Snape and Draco, during which Draco retired from the post as Quidditch captain and Chaser, Snape gave the Seeker position to a second year student, after all possible older candidates refused to take over the position from Harry.

"He's totally nuts," Draco complained to Blaise and Harry later on. "With you as the Seeker, we won every single match, but his personal grudges are more important than his duties towards his own house."

"Yes, it's absolutely ridiculous," Blaise agreed, immediately.

To Harry's surprise, his two friends along with a group of other housemates even went to see the headmaster about the matter, however, Dumbledore informed them that he was not going to interfere in what was a house internal problem.

'Typically Dumbledore,' Harry thought in annoyance. 'Snape is allow to behave like he wants, and Dumbledore never does anything against it. One is worse than the other.'

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Harry knew better than to care about the professor's moods. He only attended the Quidditch matches in order to openly cheer for his sister and his best friends but could not care less that Slytherin lost all Quidditch matches of the year.

Even during the house meetings, he did not bother to listen to his head of house anymore but busied himself with his own thoughts, which mostly revolved around two topics - how and when he should ask Hermione to become his wife and whom exactly they should invite to participate in the project that he was planning together with his family.

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For the first matter, he chose Christmas day. At the same time as Neville proposed to Carol, Harry asked Hermione to marry him after their NEWTs, and as expected, both girls agreed immediately.

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On the day after their last NEWT exam, the four friends for once spent an evening in their respective common rooms. They had prepared parchments, magically copied them and equipped the copies with charms that would see to it that those in the hands of students who were not interested would vanish into thin air after being read and that those students would not be able to do as much as speak about the topic.

Beginning of letter

Invitation to the new School of Magic

Dear students, due to several reasons, we have decided to found a new School of Magic, to which we wish to invite you.

The School of Magic will be a boarding school, open to all students from the age of eleven onwards. It is situated at Potter Manor, and the method to travel to and from the school will be Portkeys. The following professors are going to teach these subjects:

Carol Potter - Charms
Neville Longbottom - Herbology
Remus Lupin - Defence Against the Dark Arts
Draco Malfoy - Dark Arts
Harry Potter - Potions
Hermione Granger - Transfiguration
Rolanda Hooch - Flying
Lily Evans-Potter - Healing (elective)
James Potter - Ancient Runes (elective)
Frank Longbottom - Arithmancy (elective)
Blaise Zabini - Latin (elective)
Sirius Black - Care of Magical Creatures (elective)
Alice Longbottom - History of Magic (elective)
Fred and George Weasley - Magic for Fun (elective)
Lily Evans-Potter will be the healer
Minerva McGonagall will be the headmistress

There will be no houses at the School of Magic, so that you will be able to freely choose your friends.

We are looking forward to having you at our new school. Please send your application to Professor McGonagall by owl before the 31st of July.

End of letter

After answering many questions about the new school, Harry noticed, contentedly, that about eighty percent of the students were still having their parchments in their hands, when he decided to return to his bedroom shortly before curfew.

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If Harry and his huge family had expected to have a quiet first school year at their new school, they noticed soon that they were completely mistaken. By the end of their last school year at Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall had already received applications from seventy percent of the current Hogwarts students.

"And I haven't even written to the new first-years," she informed the others, when they met thirty minutes before the leaving feast in order to go to Dumbledore's office and present him with their collective resignations.

The End

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