Chapter 4

It the weeks that followed it took Hermione and Harry several days' worth of work to explain what had happened. They did not reveal everything, the fact that Ron had gone nuts and now thought himself the Leader of a band of exploding monsters was need to know only. That still, was not easy. Hermione and himself, while not having aged, were now in close relationship, Hermione was six to seven months pregnant, and it had only been a little over two weeks since anyone had last seen them. The time laps being mostly due to in game days being fast that real time days.

Harry was able to tell the truth only to a few people, and of those very few he trusted them to keep their secret. Kingsley Shackbolt, the currently head of the Ministry of Magic trusted Harry greatly, and accepted his explanation without too much difficulty. And only asked that Harry make sure that nothing else was able to escaped from the game.

As for the Weasley's, Harry and Hermione were on bad terms with part of them now currently. Only Mr. Weasley seemed to understand that they had tried to help all they could. And that the breaking way with Ron had not been something they had at first wanted. Mrs. Weasley however was furious with them for letting her little Ron get stuck behind in some game.

As for their children, Percy Weasley was rather indifferent towards them, being as stiff as ever. Though he always glared at Harry, whenever they saw each other at work at the Ministry of Magic. Of Charlie, Bill, and Fleur; they were all sadden but seemed confused as to how to react past that. George just shook his head and said it was likely to happen, and Ron was always a little wrong in the head.

Ginny, though, was mad at both of them. Harry and Ginny had not gotten back together after the battle of Hogwarts. Their relationship had taken a crazy tumble from when they had basically broke up before the battle. Then Ron had left Hermione and Harry and drawn extra close, and when Ron finally returned, well neither Hermione nor Harry were quite happy to see him.

Then after the battle of Hogwarts, things had been rough for Ron and Hermione. While for Harry, he had been too busy with things that had to be done to spend time with Ginny. Then Harry, Hermione, and Ron were dragged into the game world, and it became unfixable.

However, even if Ginny was angry at the pair, she was furious at Ron. Harry was quite willing to bet that anything that came out of the computer, that faced Ginny, would flee on sight. As for Ron, he might make it past her alive, might.

Once the explanations were done, even to Hermione's own parents who were not entire thrilled about the turn events, Harry and Hermione decided to work on buying or building a house. The place they decided on was a large house some ways from any town. It was a large home, with plenty of space for a large family of six or seven at least. Harry doubted they would need that much room, but he felt better to be ready.

Once they had gained ownership and had moved in, Harry had set about building a gaming bunker bellow the house itself. The bunker, was several feet below even the basement of the building and magical protected and reinforced. In one of the most strongly warded rooms was placed the computer in which, Ron still lived. In one of the other room was placed items Harry and Hermione had gained from the Minecraft world.

Hermione, and Harry both wished, after they worked on the spell a little to return to the gaming world. What the next game they would visit would be, neither of them knew for sure. However they only knew one thing, they would take a lot better care to be able to return home easier again. Till then though, Hermione worked on rebuilding the castle from their first time in the Minecraft world, from the safety of her armchair, in creative mood.

"Hay Harry," Hermione asked one night as they cuddled together in their large bed.

"Yes?" Harry asked.

"What should we name the child? If it is a girl or boy?" Hermione asked.

"Rose I think," Harry said, "Any child of us will be smart and dangerous, and no doubt lovely. As for a boy, I think Remus."

"I am not sure on that name for a boy, maybe Fred," Hermione said with a small chuckle.

"Fred," Harry said, before laughing, "Oh Great, we shall never live to be fifty."

"Oh, we will," Hermione assured Harry before adding, "We survived a Dark Lord, how hard will it be for us to survive our own kids."

If they only knew what awaited them, they might not be so sure. But one thing was for sure, they would enjoy nearly every second of it. And as they left later that night, for the hospital, where their first kid, Rose Lily Potter, was born and they saw her for the first time. They could not have been happier.