NUMBER 12 GRIMMAULD PLACE 19 YEARS LATER: A First Monthsary Special Feature by H. Granger

In anticipation of the first month anniversary of the founding of Number 12 Grimmauld Place, which will be on the 28th of December 2010, I am featuring a visionary article detailing the destiny of the five primary Secret-Keepers-- H. Granger, G. Potter, Ridane Prongs Skye Phoenix, Silver Doe, and Hedwig-- as foretold by the infallible Seeing Eye of Sibyll Trelawney, Hogwarts Divination professor, who foretold the fates of Harry James Potter and Lord Voldemort.

We are counting down starting today, seven days to our First Monthsary. Let this be an invitation to the other Secret-Keepers of Number 12 to also contribute a feature story to celebrate our first month in this House. Advance happy first monthsary everyone!

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It is hereby foretold by Sibyll Trelawney, that the fates of the primary Secret-Keepers of Number 12 Grimmauld Place are as follows...

RIDANE PRONGS SKYE PHOENIX and GINEVRA POTTER-PHOENIX

Ridane Prongs Skye Phoenix now heads the Auror Office at the Ministry of Magic and is teaching part-time as Defense Against the dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy, besides being Deputy Headmaster of Wicca Academy of Magic and Sorcery. He and his gifted wife, Ginevra Potter-Phoenix, have five lovely children together: Harry James Ridane, Kristianna Ginevra, Belle Amour, Christian Andrie, and Skye Felix-- all studying at Hogwarts, except Christian Andrie, who opted for a singing career in the Muggle world and enrolled at the Ateneo Conservatory of Music. Prongs, apart from being a proud father of five and husband of a very gifted Muggle-born witch, also owns the most successful Quidditch team of the century, the Phoenix Blazers.

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GINEVRA POTTER-PHOENIX


Having settled down with Ridane Prongs, the gifted Ginevra Potter left the teaching post she had been holding at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as professor of Ancient Runes and Grammatica, to become a full-time homemaker and mother to her five children. Recently, the Minister for Magic offered her a post at the Department of Mysteries, which she gladly accepted, seeing that her youngest, Skye Felix, has recently started schooling at Hogwarts. Apart from her fine achievement in bringing up five brilliant achievers, G. Potter-Phoenix is also credited for compiling the latest Ancient Runes Translator and for revolutionizing the teaching of Grammatica, improving the Hogwarts students' N.E.W.T. Level scores. 

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Hedwig is now in her 10th year at Hogwarts as Transfiguration professor and has recently published her 10th book on Advanced Transfiguration. Hedwig recently married a Muggle-born Quidditch Chaser whose name she requested to be withheld, as she is very particular with her private life. The only information known about her husband is that he is also a former resident of Number Twelve Grimmauld Place. She and her husband are expecting their first child this coming spring.

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THE ENIGMATIC SILVER DOE

Silver Doe, has remained a mystery for over two decades. No Secret-Keeper of Number 12 has ever unraveled his true identity, although it is rumored that he revealed himself to H. Granger during a chance encounter at the Three Broomsticks a year after he became Number 12 Secret-Keeper. Presumably, he is a pureblood directly descended from the Black wizarding clan, but opted to live in the Muggle world and become a teacher of literature and a fiction writer. It was rumored, too, that the chance meeting between Silver Doe and H. Granger resulted in a brief dalliance which almost ended in marriage, except that H. Granger declined the proposal for reasons she refuses to reveal.

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H. GRANGER


 Nothing much is known of H. Granger in the past nineteen years, except for the fact that she kept Number 12 Grimmauld Place alive and thriving for the past two decades because, according to her published journal, "Memoirs of a Secret-Keeper,"  "Number 12 is the only side of this universe where I did not have to suspend disbelief to make magic happen."  However, according to Secret-Keepers close to her, the main reason why she stayed at Number 12 that long is to keep connected to Silver Doe (a rumour she vehemently denies). H. Granger is noted for her fierce advocacy for the welfare and empowerment of house elves and for the perpetuation of the Harry Potter tradition. It is not known whether she has ever been married nor if she ever had a child.

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Long live, Number 12!!!!