AN: Hello! I feel I should warn readers that this story, for me, is a bit of a game. I have found that my biggest weakness in my writing is that I am intimidated by writing dialog. This story is my attempt at ending that. So it might end up being really really bad. I am hoping that my readers will help me with this. Constructive criticism would be an enormous blessing. Especially as this is not betaed. And yes I know this chapter had no dialog in it. The next might not either. Also yes this is a crossover. I just need to punt Harry across universes. That will probably not happen until chapter three or four depending. Also, the chapters probably won't be this long every time. I will also be playing fast and freely with Harry's childhood, future, and everything that goes on in death note. So if something or someone seems different and if some things happen or don't and of NOTHING happens as it did in canon or is just changed my excuse is ... um... magic. So there. I never understand how people can do these crossovers and almost nothing changes. It makes no sense The romance will be slash this will not change. I am thinking Harry/L but that could change. So thank you all in advance for your understanding. : D

In which Harry is moving on and Ronald is a dick.

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Things after the war had gone quite well for Harry Potter. He had returned the elder wand to Dumbledore's tomb, adding half a dozen wards to the damn thing, cheerfully forgot where he had dumped the resurrection stone in the forest, and wandered off to help with the wounded.

The cloak he kept, it was his after all.

Reconstruction of the school was both better and worse than expected. Except for the room of requirement on the seventh floor, which strangely seemed to be fixing itself, only the first three floors of the school had sustained significant damage. The significant damage, however, was significant. Only the magic imbued into every inch of the school was keeping the castle from falling down on their heads due to the lack of walls.

Not certain how they were going to fix this sort of mass destruction Harry had naively volunteered to scout out whatever passed for wizarding builders. After being laughed at Harry found out that there was no such thing as contractors in the wizarding world. Even Hogwarts was built by muggles. Right before the founders kicked them out and enchanted the place.

The answer, it turned out, was the goblins. They were capable and, for a few minor boons, willing to rebuild the school. Harry spent a good deal of that summer at Gringotts tied up in negotiations. The goblins had been surprisingly understanding when it came to the break in. Harry spent a rather lot of time walking the guards through how they had managed to pull off what was thought to be impossible to prevent a repeat performance but it could have been much worse. He had been sort of expecting an execution attempt.

It probably would have come to that if it had not been for two things. One: Voldemort had killed a rather lot of goblins. The goblins declared war on the dark lord five and a half minutes before Harry had broken into the Lestrange vault. Two: Harry was destroying a Horcrux made by the dark lord they were at war with which made Harry an ally. Harry not knowing this meant nothing.

The goblin army had not gone to the battlefield solely because they had not known of the battle until it was too late.

They were more than happy to rebuild Hogwarts in return for a boatload of gold, all of which was donated by affluent citizens. Harry had personally commissioned and paid for a large golden memorial to sit on the lawn at the front of the castle etched with the names of everybody regardless of side or race that had been killed in what was coming to be known as the two blood wars. Right at the bottom was the name Harry James Potter. Harry refused to speak of it.

Harry, Hermione, and Neville had joined Luna and Ginny for their seventh year when the doors had opened again in November. From there, for Harry, it was NEWTS and then Auror training. While he never became truly comfortable in his own skin and continued hiding behind ugly clothing and hideous glasses as a defense mechanism and shield and despite his final, though friendly, break up with Ginny at the end of the year he was mostly happy.

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Ronald had chosen not to return to Hogwarts. He had instead moved back in with his parents. He spent the year "mourning" the loss of his brother and "recovering" from the war.

After her graduation, Hermione had allowed him to move in with her while he found a job. When he had found out that being a "war hero", much to his indignation, was not a substitute for test scores to get into Auror training he tried out for the keeper position for the Chudley Cannons. Unfortunately, his uneven keeping ability caused the managers to choose someone else.

Meanwhile, his problems at home were growing. Hermione was both pregnant and sick of Ron mooching off of her meager entry level paychecks. Sure she was on a fast track career with the department of international magical cooperation but even she had to start on the bottom. She gave him a choice: a job within two weeks or he could leave. And no as things stood she would absolutely not be marrying him.

He left. Lavender Brown was happy to buy his sob story about his broken heart at first. She was thrilled to have him around for dates and in her bed. She expected very little of him. Until she too became pregnant. Then she and her parents demanded that he man up and pay up. It was only when she was two months along and he moved back in with his parents that she found out that Hermione was four months pregnant with a girl.

Mrs. Wealsey was furious. She forced George to give Ronald a job and spent all the time that she wasn't doting on the girls lecturing him on becoming a man.

Goerge was less than pleased with his unwanted and very lazy employee and used him as a product tester.

Ronald, in desperation, turned his attention back toward his old Auror aspirations and finally took his NEWTS. Sadly despite managing to get an exceeds expectations in Defense and Charms he failed Potions, History, and Astronomy with dreadfuls and barely scraped an acceptable in Transfiguration. Maybe he should have studied.

He wiled away the next several years miserably. He hardly saw his children, he was broke, and despite his litany of excuses, everybody snubbed him. Even Harry and Ginny had taken Hermione's side. Lavender had been thrilled to be absorbed into such a tight-knit group of friends. Her son Gerald was happily raised, and spoiled, alongside Hermione's daughter Evanora.

He needed a plan.

After a lot of considering and even more planning he decided to use the only trump card that he could think of.

He knew where all of the deathly hallows were and nobody would keep the master of death out of Auror training. Hell, they would be begging him to join. He just had to gather them first.

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