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Summary: In an alternate universe, alternate JK Rowling breaks down and fixes her worst mistake. After disowning The Cursed Child as a wretched piece of fanfiction, she pens a proper sequel...

Harry Potter and the Overly Anticipated Sequel
Chapter One: Seven Months Later

For some reason, Harry's scar was itching—burning again. In a panic, Harry scrambled through the rubble looking for Voldemort, wondering how he could possibly still be alive, but seeing nothing except the bodies of those he had lost: Fred, deathly pale, Lupin and Tonks, parents of a son who would never know them, Colin Creevey, far too young to die... and so many others whose lives had been cut short.
Heart pounding, chest heaving in short rapid breaths, Harry clambered over a pile of stone and peered through the gaping hole in the wall into the courtyard. But there were only more corpses. Where was everyone? McGonagall, Flitwick, Mrs Weasley, Shacklebolt—anyone—where were all the survivors? Where were Ron and Hermione?
A scream of terror pierced Harry's eardrums, and he bolted upright in bed.
Hands shaking slightly, Harry reached for his glasses and put them on, turning to peer at his wife in concern, who appeared to be trembling badly. She looked even more terrified than Harry had felt, as his nightmare was so frequent he always knew he was dreaming.
"Are… are you alright?" he asked.
"N…nightmare!" she gasped. "It… it was awful! I… I dreamed it was 19 years later, and… and I was married to Ron, and… and you were married to Ginny…"
Harry almost rolled his eyes, but restrained himself, seeing Hermione looking so shaken.
"That's what you get for snogging Ron in the middle of the battle. Why did you do that, anyway?"
"I… I was afraid we were all going to die," Hermione replied, turning pink. "I would have snogged you too, but you said, 'Oi… there's a war going on here…' It rather spoiled the mood."
Hermione frowned, another thought occurring to her. "By the way, in the nightmare, one of your and Ginny's children was called Albus Severus. Promise me you won't name any of our children anything that ridiculous. Promise me!"
This time it was Harry who turned a bit pink; he didn't say anything. Hermione narrowed her eyes.
"Harry James Potter, if you even dare… Dumbledore, I can understand, even if he did keep you in the dark and manipulate you. At least he cared about you! And he had a pretty good idea that you'd survive to finish Voldemort properly. But Snape—after how abysmally he treated you all those years? …and how he treated Neville? Really?"
Harry swallowed nervously. An image forced its way into his mind—a scene, a memory. Hermione crying her eyes out after she had been hit with a teeth growing hex and Snape sneering "I see no difference…"
Harry felt a sudden surge of anger towards Snape which he hadn't felt since the man had died in his arms as Nagini's venom coursed through his veins. And now that the floodgates had been opened, Harry couldn't shut them again—another scene followed: Snape calling Hermione an "Insufferable Know-it-All" in front of the entire class…
"No, I would never do that to you," said Harry quietly. "I promise!"
Hermione's features softened. She lay back down and snuggled closer to Harry, curling an arm around his waist.
"Thank you Harry," she murmured. "Thank you... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to sound so cross."
"No need to apologise. I'm the one who's sorry..." Harry pressed his lips to Hermione's forehead, gently stroking her messy coils of hair.
"I love you, Hermione," Harry whispered, feeling his wife of three months calming in his embrace...

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AU Rowling interview in which she reveals how she retconned everything for the new sequel:
Harry told Ron "She's like a sister to me," just so Ron wouldn't feel bad after what he'd seen in Slytherin's Locket, and because Harry was also trying to convince himself, even though by that point he was finally starting to realise deep inside how much Hermione meant to him. And at the end of the final battle, Harry realised that there really wasn't anything but a stupid "chest monster" between him and Ginny when he found that he couldn't even talk to her, and that Hermione was really the one who had always been there for him.
After the whole locket ordeal, Hermione still had some feelings for Ron, but she knew that they were too incompatible to ever have a chance of building a real future together, and she knew that she and Harry were much better together. She and Harry had a quiet sit down after the final battle, and they finally admitted to each other and themselves that they loved each other.
They hoofed it to Australia to bring back Hermione's parents, then four months later, Harry and Hermione eloped, having no desire for the massive wedding that Mrs Weasley and Fleur were planning to throw for them.
They both assisted in the rebuilding of Hogwarts, and they resume their schooling to complete their last year when it finally reopens. Harry, feeling rather off the Ministry, eventually starts a pro bono Private Auror and Legal Aid firm with Hermione. They both occasionally guest lecture at Hogwarts, and Harry assists Hermione in her magical science research, and she assists him on their many adventures together chasing down Dark wizards.
Ginny, being much more mature and smarter than Ron, had already started to see the writing on the wall when Harry departed the burrow with Hermione and Ron. She was mildly upset, but unsurprised when Harry never got back together with her after the final battle. Ginny resumes schooling when Hogwarts reopens and moves on with her life, eventually becoming a Chaser for the Holyhead Harpies.
When Ron found out after the battle, he had jealous snit and sulked for three months, but managed to get over the worst of his feelings after a while and patched up things with Harry and Hermione shortly after they got married. He joined George in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes and hit on Verity the shop clerk. Verity and Ron dated for a bit, then broke up. Ron still tried to hook up with girls, but his relationships never seemed to last more than a few months.
Finally, Ron just gives up trying for a long term relationship after eventually becoming a Keeper for the Chudley Cannons, as he finds that he's happy enough hooking up with fangirls for flings and one-night-stands.
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