The Unexpected Task
"Potter, Black, pay attention," screamed Professor McGonagall getting really annoyed at them, "now as I was saying, you and your partner will be getting a baby to look after for 2 months, the baby will look like you and your partner and will have the same gene pool and you and your partner, you will live in cottages near the Quidditch pitch, these cottagers will have one living area, one study, one bathroom and two bedrooms, one with two beds and the other will be the nursery"
Lily sat tensely between her 3 best friends, Bec, Bree and Grace. Bec was a short teen with dark brown hair, nobody but her 3 best friends knew that she was ½ a veela, but with her friends help they were able to change her hair colour and make her shorter than the other veela's in her family. Bree, was tall and had dark blond hair and crooked teeth. Grace was a tall girl but was shorter than Bree and taller than Lily and Bec; she had light brown hair which had dark red highlights through. Both Grace and Bree were cousins and were metamorphaphasis's.
"I will be calling out the partners in a moment, Professor Dumbledore put a spell on the list so that the partners were randomly chosen, so don't complain, or risk losing privileges, or get detention, for the time that we have left of Baby Life," said Professor McGonagall warningly, "once I call your name come into this room with your partner, Black and Anderton (Sirius and Bec went and sat down in the next room), Lupin and Weasley (Remus, Bree and Grace stood up) Bree (Grace sat down), Snape and Wright, Malfoy and Simpson, Pettigrew and Weasley, Potter and Evans, and because there wasn't enough girls I'll have to put Crabbe and Goyle together"
Crabbe and Goyle went into the next room but didn't go quietly, they were muttering under there breaths. The next room had 15 chairs, had what looked like a huge scale but with 2 places to step, 7 cribs, lots of bags of blue and pink baby clothing, 7 pram, baby blankets, nappies and a bag of keys. Lily and James were sitting nervously in complete silence next to each other Lily didn't know if she should complain or not and James didn't know if he should ask Lily out or say something to break the silence. For some strange reason Bec and Sirius were pleased to be with each other.
"As you can see we have all that you need for your new baby," said Professor McGonagall, "now I will give you and your partner 5min to decide what sex your baby's going to be, now if you and your partner don't come up with a name then I will chose, now your 5min starts now"
"Potter, I hate you, but we work together, if I like it or not, so if you stop annoying me then I'll stop screaming at you, deal?" said Lily looking very pissed off
"Deal, but we only have 2min to chose the sex of our new baby," said James with his cocky grin
"Fine I think this baby should be a girl,"
"No it should be a boy,"
"Girl"
"Boy"
"GIRL!"
"BOY!"
"Ok were not going to chose the sex like this, so how about we let McGonagall chose the sex, but if it's a girl then you chose the name, and if it's a boy I chose the name," Lily said in a trying to be nice voice
"Fine but if it's a girl I can call it any thing, right," said James looking hopeful
"As long as it's reasonable, lets chose the names now,"
"If it's a girl I will call her James Jr,"
"You can't call her that, that's a boy's name,"
"Fine ok, if it's a girl she will be called Emma,"
"That a pretty name, any way, if the baby's a boy then it will be called, Harry,"
"I like that name, it's-"
"Time up, now when you and your partner are called go onto the scale, if you've decided on the sex of your baby then call it out, then a baby will appear in one of arms, then go collect a bag of clothes, a pram, crib, blankets, nappies, and a key to your new living space, take all your stuff and got to your cottage, in the cottage you will chose a name for your baby. Ok first up us have, Black and Anderton"
Everyone's names were called until James and Lilys; a baby boy appeared in Lily's arms, and James went and put a bag of blue clothes, blankets, bag of nappies in the pram, and put a key to cottage 7 in his pocket. Lily went over and put the baby Harry in the crib and wheeled him to the cottage with James walking the loaded pram right next to her.
When they reached the cottage they had decided on whom the godparents were (Sirius and Bec), the name of the cottage (Harrys Home) and how they were going to lock the door so no one can come in unwelcomed, so they decided to have the key and a password that would change every week.
The cottage was small and had light pink bricks. The cottage was next to Sirius and Becs, Remus and Brees, Peter and Graces and far, far away from the Slytherins. On the door hung a small portrait of Lily and James.
"What's the password James and when will you change it," asked James's portrait
"We'll change it once a week and the password came be um…" said the real James
"How about Harrys Home," suggested Lily, when James nodded
"Harrys Home it is then Lils," said Lilys portrait
Lily and James walked in to there new home and walked through the rooms, it was exactly how Professor McGonagall said it would be like. On the lounge was a note, it read;
Dear Miss Evans and Mr. Potter,
In your new living space you have all that you need; your trunks have been brought up and have all the baby things that you need in the nursery. It seems that you have already chosen the password. If you have any problems get Professor McGonagall to help you out. With this task for 2 months you will not be having any classes, until this 2 month period is up.
Good Luck
Professor McGonagall
P.S
If you would like to renovate the cottage then you may
"No classes YES," said James loudly
In the nursery Harry started screaming, Lily went to nurse him as James said "Silencio" which made Harry stop crying and be happy.
"Hey lets see how our friends are going with there baby's, we can invite them over tonight if you want," James asked
"Yea that's a good idea James," said Lily
"So you're calling me James now, ha Lily," said James
"And you're calling me Lily, ha James,"
"So lets get to work on making some invitations for the get together hey,"
"Sure, let's see we need 4, I'll make 2 you make 2,"
"KK"
By lunch time they had finished and took Harry to the Great Hall for lunch. At lunch everyone had there baby's and James and Lily handed out the invitations for the party. When James and Lily went to give Sirius and Becs invite they were already preoccupied with each other. They were trying to what looked like trying to suck each others tongues out. James and Lily were able to get them away from each other for 20sec so that James and Lily could give them there invite.
Lunch in the Great Hall was different, there was screaming babies everywhere. After lunch the 7th years were told to stay. When all the golden plates had disappeared at least 30 bottles appeared for the partners to feed there babies. Lily was going to feed Harry today and James was going to feed him tonight.
After Lily had finished feeding Harry, he fell asleep in Lily's arms. James and Lily walked back to the cottage to put Harry into his crib.
"Hey while Harrys asleep we should start renovating the house," Lily suggested
"Ok but you do the inside and I'll do the outside, we can make it look how ever we like as long as it looks presentable" said James
"Ok, so get out your wand and get ready, lets try to finish by tonight so we can surprise the others," said Lily
James and Lily both got to work. By the time Harry woke up Lily had painted the nursery baby blue with a strip of ABC wallpaper in the middle of the wall. The lounge was filled with dark, warm colours; the bedroom had a cartoonie theme, Lilys bed had Tweedy Bird bed sheets and James's bed had power Puff Girls bed sheets. The floor had a mat on it that had Pokémon on it. The bathroom had an Ocean theme, the bath was blue and had rubber sea animals in the bottom of the bath, and the shower curtain was blue and had fish on it. And in the study, Lily wanted to make sure that James liked it so she filled it with a theme of Quidditch. Lily went into James trunk and got his broom and every thing that relating to Quidditch for the study. Lily had finally finished as she went outside to see how James was going, at the bottom of all the windows there was a flower bed full of lilies, in the front of the house, on one side there was a baby swing, and for the door bell, when it was pressed it would say 'Harrys Home'. At the time that Lily walked out James was putting a white peg fence up around the house. Lily was watching him, when he finished he noticed that she was watching.
'Like what I did with the outside?" James asked
"It looks great, come see what I did on the inside," Lily said sweetly
Lily took James inside and showed him all through the cottage.
"Impressive, very impressive," said James
"Which was your favourite room, I think I know?" Lily asked
"The study, I love what you did with my Quidditch stuff," James said
"Thanks,"
"But I've got a surprise for you, did you know that I've got my own house elf, her name is Elly, and so I thought that we should get her to clean Harrys Home for us since Sirius and I heard McGonagall say that the house elf's wont be cleaning we would be and she will do surprise inspections."
"That's a lovely idea,"
"Elly,"
With a slight pop a house elf appeared, she was wearing a pillow case for a dress.
"Master called Elly, sir,"
"Yes I need you to help clean this house, but not be seen by anyone but Sirius, Remus, Peter, Bec, Grace, Bree, Lily and I, understand,"
"Yes master, sir"
"And most importantly you must treat Lily like she's your master too, ok"
"Certainly, sir"
"With another pop Elly disappeared
Lily lent into hug James for his wonderful idea, he in braced her hug as he pulled away she went to kiss him, this kiss lasted about 2min when Lily pulled away, in her experience that was the best kiss that she had ever had. Lily rushed out the door to the Great Hall with Harry in her arms. Questions flooded through her mind, why did she kiss him, why did she enjoy it and why did she pull away? She needed to talk to someone about her feelings towards James, maybe Bec since she's like a sister to me.
In the Great Hall Lily found Bec
"Hey Bec I need your advice on something,"
"Hey it's me you can talk to me any day,"
"Well in our cottage I kissed James and then when I pulled away I came here,"
"Well how was it?"
"Wonderful but weird, but he's the best kisser ever!"
"Um"
"Say something"
"Um I think that you love him,"
"No way, I mean I can't love James Potter, I just can't,"
"Well if you're trying to convince your self that you don't then you must,"
"I do,"
"Told you so,"
"So what's going on with you and Sirius, at lunch we could hardly give you to your invite?"
"Well we are together now as you might of guessed, we were talking and he told me something that he did in his 4th year, he had his own fan club and when he found out about it he told the girls that they had to curse Snivels to get in the club,"
"Snivels?"
"Snape"
"Oh" said Lily trying not to laugh
They ate dinner and went to get ready for the party, Lily walked back to Harrys Home so that she could put up some balloons, when she got inside she found James already set up for the party. They stood there in complete silence.
10min later
'Harrys Home, Harrys Home, Harrys Home , Harrys Home, Harrys Home, Harrys Home Harrys Home!
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