Disclaimer: Do not own Harry Potter belongs to J.K.R. . Wish I did but hey don't we all.
A/N: 'blah' Harry's Thoughts
"blah" normal talking.
Harry Potter and the Year of the Baby
Chapter One
"Ugh." Harry sighed. "Why can't my life just go the right way for once." Harry has been ticked all day, because it's only his first week at the Dursley's and he knows he's gonna have to stay a couple more weeks at the most, and that's just pure torture.
'I wonder when Dumbledor and the Order are gonna get me out of this house.' Harry thinks while looking out the window as if his problem will be solved by something out there. But no such luck.
Put out Harry sulks down to the kitchen to make breakfast. Even though the Order threatened his relatives, that still didn't change the fact that they make him do all the work while they sit on their dumb butts and did nothing all day. While Harry is making breakfast he is thinking about Sirius and how it all seemed to be his fault that he died.
"Hurry up boy, I have to get to work soon!" Vernon snarls.
"And don't forget to make it good for my Dudders!" As Petunia says this she pinches Dudley's cheeks, which is really gross as he is eating and food comes squirting out all over the table.
"Ah, my son is too good to have to wear those school uniforms anyway, so give him any food he wants! Do I make myself clear, boy?" As Vernon says this Harry looks up.
"Yes Uncle Vernon." But he is still trying to control his laughter over the thought of Dudley being too good for anything, so it comes out sounding funny.
"You think that's funny, do you boy?" Vernon's face looks kind of like a radish, he's that mad.
"No sir."
"Good! You better not cause your Aunt any trouble today."
"No sir I won't." Harry really hates having to act like this towards his Uncle but he'd rather do that then be locked up in his room for days on end, without food. Not that they give him much food to begin with. Considering that it's a good thing that Mrs. Weasley always tries to send food so he doesn't starve. All Harry can think about is leaving Privet Drive and rejoing the Wizard World.
After everyone is done eating his Aunt snootily hands him a list of things he is expected to do before his uncle gets home. He hasn't had chores for a long time, but his relatives somehow found out about his Godfather dying so they aren't afraid of him coming. This is a bad thing for Harry, because now he has to work like a house elf. Sometime's he actually thinks he works harder than a house elf. He would never ever tell Hermione that though, because then she'd go on and on about SPEW, and on how he needs to help the house elves rebel. But how is he supposed to do that when his time is taken up by a Dark Lord trying to kill him and with everything else in his life, he'll never know.
Harry gets all of his chores done in what would seem like record timing to anyone else, but to him it seemed to take hours longer than it did. 'Wow, I wish it would have taken longer. Just so this day could be over with already.' Since he was done with his chores he decided to head to the park.
As he was passing Magnolia Crescent he heard a whimper come from an alley. He went to investigate I guess it had something to do with his saving people thing. He gets closer and he sees a basket and the whimpering seems to be coming from it. He walks up to it all the while thinking, 'What in the world could be in a basket that whimpers and who would put something that whimpers in a basket.'
"Oh my gosh!" Harry has a look of being hit in the head with a dumb stick. "It's a baby." He says this with amazement. 'Who would leave a baby in an alley?'
After Harry just stands their for a couple of minutes staring at the baby that's practically screaming its head off, he decides to pick it up to try and calm it down, he sees a letter of some kind on top of the baby, It says:
To whoever has found my baby,
I can't take care of my baby, because I don't have the money
to take care of him and I want him to have a better life then
the one that I would be able to give him. If you have found
him and decide to keep him which I would really like for you
to do then please name him Adrian. But I must ask you to
have the right kind of means to take care of my sweet baby.
Also I would like you to always tell him that his mother
loves him and she always will. Again I beg of you to take
care of him as if he were one of your own.
'Woah, this can't be happening, I found a baby who now has no family!" Harry is very shocked and doesn't now how to take what is happening. A part of him wants to see if he can take care of the baby because he wants it to have what he never had, a loving family. And another part of him wants to give it to the orphanage so a good loving family can take good care of it.
He wants to see what the kid looks like though so he pulls back the blue blanket that is covering it, and he sees that it has sandy blonde hair and blue eyes. 'Oh, look at his cute chubby checks, little hands, and how he looks so innocent and adorable.' In that moment he decides that he needs to take care of this child and give it what he never had. 'I wonder if Dumbledor will let me take him to school, but if not I might be able to get Mrs. Weasley to look after him for me while I'm at school.
So he picks up little Adrian and makes his way back to Number 4 Privet Dr. He has no clue how to take care of a baby, so he also decides that he needs to send Hedwig out to Mrs. Weasley, to ask what he needs to take care of a baby, and how to take care of one. Harry is actually excited that he's gonna take care of Adrian. He also decides right then and there that he is gonna raise him as if he was his own child. Now he just hopes that the Dursley's won't mess up his plans to take care of him or treat him like he was treated. ' No I won't let them treat this sweet baby the way that they did me.'
Right as he gets through the front door Adrian starts to whimper. "I don't like it here either little buddy but don't worry we'll get out of here sooner or later, hopefully sooner." Adrian looks up and does that happy baby look and coo's. Right then Harry fell in love with the little guy.
"Why do you have a baby? You didn't get some girl pregnant did you?" Petunia says with the utmost disgust.
"No, I found him with a note and I'm gonna keep him!" He says with such determination that it's scary.
"Oh let me see him, we might keep him instead." This ticks Harry off a lot but before he can stop her she yanks Adrian out of his arms. Adrian doesn't seem to like her very much after this thing so he starts to cry as loudly as possible. "Oh, take the brat! I bet he's one of your kind. That's the only reason that he wouldn't like someone like me." Harry has to try his hardest to not laugh, but the funny thing is that Adrian starts to giggle at that exact moment. Petunia seems highly offended and sticks her nose up in the air and walks away.
"I think were gonna get along just fine." Harry says as he walks up to his room. "Where to put you?" He looks around the room till his eyes land on his dresser." Ah Ha, I remember I heard people talking about how they used to have to put baby's in dressers, because they didn't have cribs." So he gathers a lot of his cloths that he won't wear to make a nice comfy bed in his dressers. As he takes little Adrian out he finds more papers. He realizes that they are his birth certificate and other such things. He looks at it for awhile and realizes that his first birthday was a couple days ago, July 29. This makes him wonder about how in the world a parent could give up a baby after having it for a year.
He just sits there awhile until he hears the baby start to cry. "Oh I bet your hungry. What do you feed a baby that's a year old. I could try oatmeal." He realizes at that moment that he really needs to send a letter to Mrs. Weasley and Dumbledor for that matter. But he can't do that because Hedwig is out catching mice and he doesn't now when she'll be back.
So he takes Adrian downstairs to get the oatmeal made. Harry figured out that it's very hard to try and take care of a baby and make oatmeal for said baby at the exact time. He aslo realizes that babies like to spit food back at you when they eat and that you should always have a towel handy or you and the baby will be a royal mess. Harry had to clean this up very fast because he was afraid his Aunt would come down and yell at him and say that he couldn't keep the baby, which he would hate.
Harry is back upstairs and is trying to get Adrian to sleep but he just won't. This whole thing is making Harry very agitated and frustrated beyond belief. 'How could Mrs. Weasley take care of so many kids, especially when two of those kids were Fred and George.' Just then Hedwig flies into the window, so he gets started on writing the letters to Professor Dumbledor and Mrs. Weasley. His letter to Dumbledor said this;
Dear Headmaster,
First off I would like to apologize for wrecking you're
office at the end of last year, I should not have acted like
that and I hope you can forgive me. But the reason that
I'm writing is that I found this baby in a alley and I don't
know why but I just know that I was meant to find it and
take care of it as if it was my own. I was wondering if
I could bring Adrian (which is his name) to Hogwarts with
me when this term starts. I would really appreciate it if
I could. Again I'm sorry for what I did to you're office.
Yours Truly,
Harry Potter
p.s. I hope you're enjoying you're summer.
The letter to Mrs. Weasley said:
Mrs. Weasley,
I need you're help real bad. You see I found this
baby in an alley and have decided to keep it and
give it a good life, but the thing is I have no idea
how to take care of a baby or what I need to take
care of one and I would really appreciate it if you
could tell me these things. Thank you and I hope
you're enjoying you're summer.
Yours Truly,
Harry Potter
p.s. Tell everyone I said hello.
After Harry told Hedwig where to go and let her out the window he checked on Adrian to see that he was asleep. Harry laid in bed for a couple hours but it just seemed like sleep would not come to him, but finally he fell into the first dreamless sleep he's had all summer.
TBC
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