A Life Time - Story Two
By: Lauren Freeman
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from Harry Potter. However, any new characters introduced are mine. :)
Thank you to my wonderful Beta Reader: Smudged
A/N: As explained in the last story, this story is separated into different stories, this one dose not have much to do with Voldemort, however up-coming stories do. This is also the longest fic I have ever written; if you like this story then you will be happy to know that I have stories three and four written, but they need to be edited. I will post these a chapter at a time, only if I get reviews! NO FLAMES please. :)
Summery: The teens now have a lot more then they thought they could handle.
CHAPTER SEVEN: Day's of Our Lives
It had finally happened, they had all had their babies. Now every year on July thirty-first six people will celebrate their birthdays. It was the day after they had all given birth, and they were all still exhausted, lying in their separate beds. Draco, barley said a word, but would come over to Lily's bassinet and smile down at her. They all new he was getting ready to say goodbye. Draco had already signed the papers stating that he was giving Harry the baby, so Harry was not worried about him changing his mind. The Weasley's and Grangers all stayed with the new parents and babies. Hermione breastfed her two and Pomfrey helped the boy's learn how to feed, using a special bottle. They were all going to be released tomorrow, and were planning on spending the rest of the summer with there own families. Harry and Ron at The Burrow, Hermione at her home, and Draco would return home having finished his school project. Dumbledore held each baby separately casting a protection spell upon them all. He smiled, and placed the small bundles in their cradles. McGonagall, who had also decided to stay over the summer with the plan to go to her home after everyone left, watched the new parents sleep with a smile. The first phase of parenthood was finished, the second one, and most challenging had commenced.
Harry and Ron pushed their strollers into The Burrow. Dumbledore had come by and had magically added a completely new section to the house. Now, Harry, and Ron had their own, nice size rooms, a massive bathroom, that was child protected, and they had a nice large nursery. Although for now the babies were sleeping in cradles next to their beds. Dumbledore had also placed the protection charms that had been on the Dursley's house for so long, onto the Weasley's. The Nursery was a large room, painted in bright colors. Three cribs could be found on separate walls, a changing table was found in the middle with shelves under it holding hundreds of diapers, powder, and wipes. All with there own specific, type of magic. The diapers would give off a beep when they were soiled. When you poured the powder on it would turn different colors, depending on why it is being used. For the normal keep the baby from getting a rash, the powder is white, but if the baby already has a rash, the powder would turn pink. The wipes would wipe themselves. The teens loved this feature the most. Harry and Ron walked into the Nursery for the first time, their eyes almost popped out of their heads.
"Wow!" Ron stated, as he picked John up and placed him across his chest.
He then placed John in the blue crib that had his baby's full name written in silver on it. Harry picked up Lily, out of the front seat of his crib and placed her in her yellow crib, then placed Daniel in the green crib. Both cribs had their names on them. They studied the changing table, and noticed the other features of the room. Two rocking chairs that rocked on their own when you sat in them were on both sides of the large window at the far wall. A small kitchenette was placed in the corner of the front of the room, it held a small refrigerator, that would fill up on it's own. A stove that would heat up immediately, so that the boys could make there babies milk warm. Cabinets were filled with bottles, baby cups, and regular cups of all kinds. A closet revealed baby toy's separated in sections of when they could start playing with them. One week, two weeks, one month...one year...etc. Pacifiers, that would pop back in to the baby's mouth if he or she accidentally dropped it and if they got dirty, it would clean itself. The boy's stood in amazement; they were really not expecting this. Today would be there first day without any real help from the adults, and the boy's were a bit nervous. A loud cry broke the boy's out of there meandering, they both rushed to the cribs to find out who was crying, Harry picked up the screeching Lily, and held her against him, while whispering softly in her ear. He looked at Ron who smiled and nodded, understanding. Ron walked over to the kitchenette and made three bottle of milk, and handed one to Harry who gave it to his daughter, placed another on the small table by Daniels bed. He then walked over to John's bed, who was just starting to cry, and picked him up to be fed also. Harry had only been feeding Lily for a minute when Daniel started screaming at the top of his lungs, Harry looked down at Lily then at Daniel, not sure what to do. He only had two hands, how was he to feed both at the sometime, with Ron feeding his own baby? For the first time it really hit Harry, and Ron too, who kept glancing at Harry then to Daniel's crib, not sure how to help, that this was going to be a lot harder then they had originally thought. Mrs. Weasley came to their rescue, and swiftly took Lily out of Harry's hands so that he could get Daniel.
"Go sit on the couch down stairs both of you." She told them. Harry started to feed Daniel as he nodded, and followed Ron to the living room, Mrs. Weasley right behind them. She smiled as she called George, who was sitting at the dinning room table. "George, come here and bring that large pillow that looks like a moon here." George hopped up, and ran up-stairs to grab the pillow, by the time he came back the two teens were sitting down on the couch confused. "Okay Harry, lift Daniel up whilst George places the pillow on your lap. George, make sure it's kind of wrapped around Harry, not the other way around." George nodded as he put the pillow on Harry. Harry really looked confused now. "Good, now Harry, carefully place Daniel so that he leaning against the pillow. Harry carefully followed her instructions. "Good, now I am going to place Lily down beside him." She carefully put Lily into Harry Lap, and soon Harry was feeding both of the babies at the same time. "See there, you learn something new everyday. I learned this trick after having Fred and George, it was a nightmare at first." She grinned. "I want you two to ask for help at any time. For the next couple of weeks you are going to get little to no sleep. Let me tell you now, when the babies go down for a nap, so do you. If they look at all tired, get them to sleep. As you learned in parenting classes, the babies will want to eat around every three hours, day AND night." The boy's nodded. "I wonder how Hermione is getting along on her first day."
Hermione looked down at the two babies she was now carefully breast-feeding. She could not believe she was a mother, her parents were all being very supportive, but she refused to make these babies their responsibilities. She had only been home two hours and it felt like days. Dumbledore had come by and turned their empty basement into her new home. She had her own room, a large carpeted floor and all the essentials for babies. Dumbledore thought the room seemed a little too gloomy, and made a magic window, that would show whatever was happening outside, even though she was underground. The babies stopped eating, and her mom came in and took Soroush, and put her over her shoulder that held a spit-up cloth and started to burp him. Hermione did the same with Julie. Hermione slowly rocked her twins back and forth to sleep, and fell asleep herself in mid rock. Ten minutes later she awoke with a start to a loud cry.
"Wahhhhhhhhhhh!"
Harry shot up from his spot in the rocking chair where he had sat, after putting his babies in there cribs, when he had finally gotten them to sleep only two hours ago. Groaning he got up and went of to there cradles, grabbing pacifiers on his way. Carefully he lifted Daniel up and placed him on the changing board, and gave him a pacifier, then put a pacifier in Lily's mouth as he placed her on the table next to Daniel. Small beeps were beeping from both diapers, and it was time for him to do the one duty he dreading, no matter how much the wipes helped him, it was time to change the diapers. This would be the baby's first wet diaper, and Pomfrey had told them that this one would be particularly nasty because it would have the Vernix and stuff in it. Harry started with Lily, whose diaper was beeping louder. He carefully untapped the diaper, and moved the top of the diaper down, he grabbed a new diaper made sure it was open fully and placed it beside her. He then took out a wipe, and let it do its nasty duty, when it was done it jumped into the waiting dirty diaper. Harry carefully made sure the baby was clean, then placed the new diaper under her, as he rolled up the old one and through it into the diapers bin, that would immediately dispose of it. He grabbed the powder, and sighed, as it stayed white when he poured it on the baby's hinny. Harry quickly finished putting on the diaper, which gave an audible sigh when he was finished, causing Harry to jump slightly. He was startled when a loud chorus of claps surrounded him, and for the first time, he noticed the entire Weasley family standing around him watching. Harry smiled and shook his head moving on to the very unhappy Daniel. Ron smiled as he picked up Lily and took her to the rocking chair and started to rock her back to sleep, by the time Harry had finished changing Daniel both Ron and Lily were out like lights. Harry smiled and did the same with Daniel.
"Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Hermione shot up out of bed. She looked at the two tiny but very loud infants on both sides of her bed.
"One hour...one hour, and there already up again, didn't Pomfrey say something about three?!?" Hermione was not in a good mood. All she wanted to do is sleep. Sighing she got out of bed, and took the babies out of there's, pulling out her breast, she was startled when they refused. "Okay, what did we learn in parenting, babies will cry for seven reasons, go down the list to find out what it is, and soon you will be able to figure it out. Okay, one. Are they hungry? No. Their diapers are not beeping so that's out, are they to cold? She shivered, maybe let's see..." She grabbed two new blankets from a drawer, and placed them around the babies, the started to rock them. The babies were asleep again in moments. "Okay, so they were either to cold or wanted to be held." She smiled, and fell asleep too.
The next day, the babies were two and a half days old, and Harry, Ron and Hermione all looked like they had not slept in weeks. They felt like it too. Before leaving Hogwarts they had all decided to give there babies baths on a nightly basis, to get them used to it. They had forgotten about it the day before, being it was there first time at home with the babies, but they were not worried, because Infants did not NEED to be bathed but every two to three days anyway. Setting up their baby bathtubs in the large bathroom, they undressed their babies and strapped them into their tubs. Mrs. Weasley sat in a corner, to watch and instruct them on their first time not using a doll, but a real baby. Twenty miles away, Hermione was doing the something, her mom standing beside her, smiling. They carefully took out the babies' washcloths, and soaped them up. Lily started to scream the minute she was placed in the tub that only had a little bit of water in it. Harry started to talk to the babies, trying to keep, Daniel and John calm, and get Lily to calm down, but Lily kept on screaming.
"Try singing." Mrs. Weasley spoke out loud, causing both Ron and Harry to look at her with alarm.
"Sing? Are you kidding me?" Ron stated, with a look of horror.
"I can't sing! I sound horrible." Harry added with a squeak. Mrs. Weasley smiled.
"That doesn't matter to the babies, they will like it." The boys looked at each other with unease.
"Okay, how about row, row, row your boat." Harry suggested. Ron looked confused.
"What is that?"
"It's a kid song, I remember hearing the kids sing when I went to public school. It's easy it goes...Row, Row, Row your boat, gently down the stream, merely, merely, merely, merely, life is but a dream." Ron nodded, and Harry started again slightly louder, Ron chirped in for different words, and soon had the whole thing down. The boys got louder, and Lily started to quite down a little. Harry and Ron hurried to wash their babies, being careful around the umbilical stumps. Finally, they had finished, and Lily had stopped crying for the last two minutes of it. They quickly covered the babies in towels and brought them over to the changing table. Ron was just about to put a new diaper on when the unthinkable happened; John went and peed, straight into Ron's face. Ron screamed in horror, and ran back to the bathroom at full speed. Mrs. Weasley fell into a rocking chair laughing hard, Harry decided to learn from Ron's mistake, and quickly put the diapers on all of the babies. Harry smiled when he heard the shower turn on in the bathroom.
Meanwhile, Hermione was telling her babies all about Hogwarts, and all the neat things they would get to do, while they were there. The babies, although they did not quite understand, still lay there silently while getting their bath, giving their mom their full attention. Hermione smiled at this, and kept her story going even after she had dried the babies off, and helped get them into their diapers and warm clothing. She then sat down on her rocking chair and let the babies eat. Soon, both Julie, and Soroush, were sound asleep again, and Hermione was almost also. She carefully took the babies back to her room and placed them in their bassinets, and was out on her bed before she hit the pillow. Her mom stood in the doorway with a smile.
"Welcome to parenthood, sweetie." She whispered, and left the room.
The babies were ten days old, Ron walked over to where Harry was and made a grossed out face. Daniel's umbilical cord had shrunk and fallen off. The cord was lying beside the sleeping Daniel. Harry walked over to the kitchen area and grabbed a plastic bag, and wrote in permanent ink-
'Daniel 8-9-2003'
He then walked back over to Daniels crib, picked the cord up making a grossed out face, and placed it in the bag. He sealed the bag then put it in the memory box under the crib with Daniels name on it. He washed his hands right away afterward.
"Gross, your going to keep it?" Ron asked, looking slightly green.
"Of course, what if Daniel wants it or needs it for a spell some day?" Harry shrugged, and walked over to Lily to see where her cord stood. It was still there, though it had already dried up a lot. Ron just shook his head and walked over to the small couch they had moved into the room, and sat down on one side, he was out like a light. Harry smiled, for once not tired, he noticed Lily start to wake up, and Harry placed his face over hers so that she could see him, and made funny faces. Harry stuck out his tongue, and watched as Lily opened her mouth and tried to do the same. Harry laughed, and did it again. After ten tries, Lily finally managed to get her tongue out of her mouth. "Well, your just ahead of the game now aren't you Lily, you should not be able to do that until one or two months, way to go!" Harry spoke softly, and gave her tiny had a high five. Harry lifted her up, from her crib and placed her in a sling around his stomach, then grabbed Daniel who was also starting to wake up and placed him in another sling. He had had enough of this room, and wanted out for a while. He made sure both babies had enough blankets, before grabbing a baby bag and stuffing it with diapers, wipes, and a bottle of powder. He grabbed some toys and made a be-line over to John's crib, he was surprised to see him also awake and being quiet. Almost as if he sensed that his dad was asleep, and he needed some rest. Harry wrote a note to Ron, even though he was only going to the front yard, and taped it gently to Ron's forehead. He then grabbed John, and left the room. He walked down the stairs, of The Burrow for the first time since his first day at his new home. There were loud squeaks from the others as they ran up to see the babies.
"What are you doing?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"Where is Ron?" Fred asked.
"These three and I are going to go sit under a tree outside for a change of scenery, and Ron is sound asleep upstairs in the nursery." Harry smiled. Mrs. Weasley took John from Harry with a smile and led the way out of the door, and into the front yard. They found a nice shady spot under a giant tree and, Mrs. Weasley took a very large quilt out from the baby bag and laid it out for them. She then placed John on his back on the quilt and helped Harry take Lily and Daniel out and place them on their backs on the quilt.
"Do you mind if I sit out here with you for awhile?" Mrs. Weasley asked, while helping the exhausted Harry sit down himself, up against a tree, with the babies all within hands reach. Harry smiled and shook his head. Mrs. Weasley smiled back and sat down. "So, I know with newborns, you have to stay stuck in the same place all the time, this is a good idea, taking them outside for awhile, it healthy for all of you. I used to do this when all of my kids were about their age, we made it a daily ritual, and as they got older, and they could start to walk, I would take them a little farther out. They loved the change, as much as I did." Mrs. Weasley explained. Harry nodded, with a smile, his eyes starting to droop. He was asleep in minutes, and Mrs. Weasley smile and got up, from her spot, and left to go make dinner. Harry woke up only fifteen minutes later to something licking his face.
"Oh, yuck, what?" Harry moaned opening his eyes to see a massive brown and very furry dog. "Sirius?!?" Harry whispered loudly, not believing what he was seeing. The dog looked around and with a pop, where the dog once was, a man sat in his place. Sirius smiled.
"Hey there! I have been trying to find you all summer, you never went to the Dursley's, I got worried, so I came here. A long walk this place is from the Dursley's." Sirius smiled. "So how are you, and how did you end up baby-sitting three babies?" Sirius asked smiling down at the babies, and letting them play with his fingers, Harry smiled.
"Well, I'm fine, exhausted but fine, and well I am only baby-sitting one of these babied, the other two are mine." Harry spoke softly. Sirius snapped up.
"Oh, Harry, you never got the talk did you? That was a failure on my part. Who's the mom, and who had the other baby?" Harry looked like he was going to explode with laughter, his face was beat red.
"Ah, well, there is no mother, and the other baby belongs to Ron." Sirius looked confused.
"Oh, here I go..." Harry then went on to tell Sirius about how they had ended up pregnant in the first place. "...The four of us had our babies on July thirty-first ironically enough. So now I am living here, and I have adopted Draco's baby. It was a deal I made that as long as he did not get an abortion, I would adopted his baby so that his parents never found out, and Hermione is at her home. So without further ado, I would like you to meet Lily Guinevere Potter, John Alfred Weasley, and Daniel James Potter. Hermione, had twins, and there names are Julie Elizabeth Granger, and Soroush Ambros Granger." Harry smiled at the open mouthed Sirius. "Your a grandfather." Harry was grinning from ear to ear. For years to come Harry would swear he saw a tear run down Sirius cheek, no matter how much it was denied.
"So, well, wow. Looks like you have been through a lot this past year, no wonder you didn't get in to it with Voldemort as usual, you had more important things to take care of, like my grandchildren." Sirius's voice cracked at the word grandchildren.
"Would you like to hold them?" Ron surprised them both as he walked up and sat down on the blanket.
"Can-can I?" Sirius asked, with a small smile. Harry nodded and instructed Sirius to sit down properly, then pulled out the moon pillow from the bag which by the way has no bottom and could fit anything in it if you wanted it to. Harry placed the pillow around Sirius and carefully placed all three babies on top of him. Daniel started to cry immediately at being placed on a stranger's lap, the other two started to whimper. "Wow."
Harry grabbed three bottles with milk already in them, and handed one to Sirius. Then gave one to Ron, and they all started to feed a separate baby, while they remained in Sirius lap. The three of them smiled, and talked quietly to each other about everything while they waited for the babies to finish eating. After burping the babies, they all cradled the babies until they fell asleep, then placed them on their stomachs on the blanket, and covered them up. Harry yawed, and leaned back onto the tree again.
"Well, I guess I have to be going now, can't stay anywhere for to long. I'm not sure how you're going to get through school, but bring these babies to see me on your first Hogsmead weekend." Sirius smiled, and Harry and Ron nodded back. There was a pop, and Sirius was a dog again, he licked Harry and Ron's cheek, smiled down at the babies, and left. Harry and Ron smiled at each other, then pulled out parchment and pens, they had not written Hermione at all, and they were anxious to find out how she was doing.
By: Lauren Freeman
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from Harry Potter. However, any new characters introduced are mine. :)
Thank you to my wonderful Beta Reader: Smudged
A/N: As explained in the last story, this story is separated into different stories, this one dose not have much to do with Voldemort, however up-coming stories do. This is also the longest fic I have ever written; if you like this story then you will be happy to know that I have stories three and four written, but they need to be edited. I will post these a chapter at a time, only if I get reviews! NO FLAMES please. :)
Summery: The teens now have a lot more then they thought they could handle.
CHAPTER SEVEN: Day's of Our Lives
It had finally happened, they had all had their babies. Now every year on July thirty-first six people will celebrate their birthdays. It was the day after they had all given birth, and they were all still exhausted, lying in their separate beds. Draco, barley said a word, but would come over to Lily's bassinet and smile down at her. They all new he was getting ready to say goodbye. Draco had already signed the papers stating that he was giving Harry the baby, so Harry was not worried about him changing his mind. The Weasley's and Grangers all stayed with the new parents and babies. Hermione breastfed her two and Pomfrey helped the boy's learn how to feed, using a special bottle. They were all going to be released tomorrow, and were planning on spending the rest of the summer with there own families. Harry and Ron at The Burrow, Hermione at her home, and Draco would return home having finished his school project. Dumbledore held each baby separately casting a protection spell upon them all. He smiled, and placed the small bundles in their cradles. McGonagall, who had also decided to stay over the summer with the plan to go to her home after everyone left, watched the new parents sleep with a smile. The first phase of parenthood was finished, the second one, and most challenging had commenced.
Harry and Ron pushed their strollers into The Burrow. Dumbledore had come by and had magically added a completely new section to the house. Now, Harry, and Ron had their own, nice size rooms, a massive bathroom, that was child protected, and they had a nice large nursery. Although for now the babies were sleeping in cradles next to their beds. Dumbledore had also placed the protection charms that had been on the Dursley's house for so long, onto the Weasley's. The Nursery was a large room, painted in bright colors. Three cribs could be found on separate walls, a changing table was found in the middle with shelves under it holding hundreds of diapers, powder, and wipes. All with there own specific, type of magic. The diapers would give off a beep when they were soiled. When you poured the powder on it would turn different colors, depending on why it is being used. For the normal keep the baby from getting a rash, the powder is white, but if the baby already has a rash, the powder would turn pink. The wipes would wipe themselves. The teens loved this feature the most. Harry and Ron walked into the Nursery for the first time, their eyes almost popped out of their heads.
"Wow!" Ron stated, as he picked John up and placed him across his chest.
He then placed John in the blue crib that had his baby's full name written in silver on it. Harry picked up Lily, out of the front seat of his crib and placed her in her yellow crib, then placed Daniel in the green crib. Both cribs had their names on them. They studied the changing table, and noticed the other features of the room. Two rocking chairs that rocked on their own when you sat in them were on both sides of the large window at the far wall. A small kitchenette was placed in the corner of the front of the room, it held a small refrigerator, that would fill up on it's own. A stove that would heat up immediately, so that the boys could make there babies milk warm. Cabinets were filled with bottles, baby cups, and regular cups of all kinds. A closet revealed baby toy's separated in sections of when they could start playing with them. One week, two weeks, one month...one year...etc. Pacifiers, that would pop back in to the baby's mouth if he or she accidentally dropped it and if they got dirty, it would clean itself. The boy's stood in amazement; they were really not expecting this. Today would be there first day without any real help from the adults, and the boy's were a bit nervous. A loud cry broke the boy's out of there meandering, they both rushed to the cribs to find out who was crying, Harry picked up the screeching Lily, and held her against him, while whispering softly in her ear. He looked at Ron who smiled and nodded, understanding. Ron walked over to the kitchenette and made three bottle of milk, and handed one to Harry who gave it to his daughter, placed another on the small table by Daniels bed. He then walked over to John's bed, who was just starting to cry, and picked him up to be fed also. Harry had only been feeding Lily for a minute when Daniel started screaming at the top of his lungs, Harry looked down at Lily then at Daniel, not sure what to do. He only had two hands, how was he to feed both at the sometime, with Ron feeding his own baby? For the first time it really hit Harry, and Ron too, who kept glancing at Harry then to Daniel's crib, not sure how to help, that this was going to be a lot harder then they had originally thought. Mrs. Weasley came to their rescue, and swiftly took Lily out of Harry's hands so that he could get Daniel.
"Go sit on the couch down stairs both of you." She told them. Harry started to feed Daniel as he nodded, and followed Ron to the living room, Mrs. Weasley right behind them. She smiled as she called George, who was sitting at the dinning room table. "George, come here and bring that large pillow that looks like a moon here." George hopped up, and ran up-stairs to grab the pillow, by the time he came back the two teens were sitting down on the couch confused. "Okay Harry, lift Daniel up whilst George places the pillow on your lap. George, make sure it's kind of wrapped around Harry, not the other way around." George nodded as he put the pillow on Harry. Harry really looked confused now. "Good, now Harry, carefully place Daniel so that he leaning against the pillow. Harry carefully followed her instructions. "Good, now I am going to place Lily down beside him." She carefully put Lily into Harry Lap, and soon Harry was feeding both of the babies at the same time. "See there, you learn something new everyday. I learned this trick after having Fred and George, it was a nightmare at first." She grinned. "I want you two to ask for help at any time. For the next couple of weeks you are going to get little to no sleep. Let me tell you now, when the babies go down for a nap, so do you. If they look at all tired, get them to sleep. As you learned in parenting classes, the babies will want to eat around every three hours, day AND night." The boy's nodded. "I wonder how Hermione is getting along on her first day."
Hermione looked down at the two babies she was now carefully breast-feeding. She could not believe she was a mother, her parents were all being very supportive, but she refused to make these babies their responsibilities. She had only been home two hours and it felt like days. Dumbledore had come by and turned their empty basement into her new home. She had her own room, a large carpeted floor and all the essentials for babies. Dumbledore thought the room seemed a little too gloomy, and made a magic window, that would show whatever was happening outside, even though she was underground. The babies stopped eating, and her mom came in and took Soroush, and put her over her shoulder that held a spit-up cloth and started to burp him. Hermione did the same with Julie. Hermione slowly rocked her twins back and forth to sleep, and fell asleep herself in mid rock. Ten minutes later she awoke with a start to a loud cry.
"Wahhhhhhhhhhh!"
Harry shot up from his spot in the rocking chair where he had sat, after putting his babies in there cribs, when he had finally gotten them to sleep only two hours ago. Groaning he got up and went of to there cradles, grabbing pacifiers on his way. Carefully he lifted Daniel up and placed him on the changing board, and gave him a pacifier, then put a pacifier in Lily's mouth as he placed her on the table next to Daniel. Small beeps were beeping from both diapers, and it was time for him to do the one duty he dreading, no matter how much the wipes helped him, it was time to change the diapers. This would be the baby's first wet diaper, and Pomfrey had told them that this one would be particularly nasty because it would have the Vernix and stuff in it. Harry started with Lily, whose diaper was beeping louder. He carefully untapped the diaper, and moved the top of the diaper down, he grabbed a new diaper made sure it was open fully and placed it beside her. He then took out a wipe, and let it do its nasty duty, when it was done it jumped into the waiting dirty diaper. Harry carefully made sure the baby was clean, then placed the new diaper under her, as he rolled up the old one and through it into the diapers bin, that would immediately dispose of it. He grabbed the powder, and sighed, as it stayed white when he poured it on the baby's hinny. Harry quickly finished putting on the diaper, which gave an audible sigh when he was finished, causing Harry to jump slightly. He was startled when a loud chorus of claps surrounded him, and for the first time, he noticed the entire Weasley family standing around him watching. Harry smiled and shook his head moving on to the very unhappy Daniel. Ron smiled as he picked up Lily and took her to the rocking chair and started to rock her back to sleep, by the time Harry had finished changing Daniel both Ron and Lily were out like lights. Harry smiled and did the same with Daniel.
"Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Hermione shot up out of bed. She looked at the two tiny but very loud infants on both sides of her bed.
"One hour...one hour, and there already up again, didn't Pomfrey say something about three?!?" Hermione was not in a good mood. All she wanted to do is sleep. Sighing she got out of bed, and took the babies out of there's, pulling out her breast, she was startled when they refused. "Okay, what did we learn in parenting, babies will cry for seven reasons, go down the list to find out what it is, and soon you will be able to figure it out. Okay, one. Are they hungry? No. Their diapers are not beeping so that's out, are they to cold? She shivered, maybe let's see..." She grabbed two new blankets from a drawer, and placed them around the babies, the started to rock them. The babies were asleep again in moments. "Okay, so they were either to cold or wanted to be held." She smiled, and fell asleep too.
The next day, the babies were two and a half days old, and Harry, Ron and Hermione all looked like they had not slept in weeks. They felt like it too. Before leaving Hogwarts they had all decided to give there babies baths on a nightly basis, to get them used to it. They had forgotten about it the day before, being it was there first time at home with the babies, but they were not worried, because Infants did not NEED to be bathed but every two to three days anyway. Setting up their baby bathtubs in the large bathroom, they undressed their babies and strapped them into their tubs. Mrs. Weasley sat in a corner, to watch and instruct them on their first time not using a doll, but a real baby. Twenty miles away, Hermione was doing the something, her mom standing beside her, smiling. They carefully took out the babies' washcloths, and soaped them up. Lily started to scream the minute she was placed in the tub that only had a little bit of water in it. Harry started to talk to the babies, trying to keep, Daniel and John calm, and get Lily to calm down, but Lily kept on screaming.
"Try singing." Mrs. Weasley spoke out loud, causing both Ron and Harry to look at her with alarm.
"Sing? Are you kidding me?" Ron stated, with a look of horror.
"I can't sing! I sound horrible." Harry added with a squeak. Mrs. Weasley smiled.
"That doesn't matter to the babies, they will like it." The boys looked at each other with unease.
"Okay, how about row, row, row your boat." Harry suggested. Ron looked confused.
"What is that?"
"It's a kid song, I remember hearing the kids sing when I went to public school. It's easy it goes...Row, Row, Row your boat, gently down the stream, merely, merely, merely, merely, life is but a dream." Ron nodded, and Harry started again slightly louder, Ron chirped in for different words, and soon had the whole thing down. The boys got louder, and Lily started to quite down a little. Harry and Ron hurried to wash their babies, being careful around the umbilical stumps. Finally, they had finished, and Lily had stopped crying for the last two minutes of it. They quickly covered the babies in towels and brought them over to the changing table. Ron was just about to put a new diaper on when the unthinkable happened; John went and peed, straight into Ron's face. Ron screamed in horror, and ran back to the bathroom at full speed. Mrs. Weasley fell into a rocking chair laughing hard, Harry decided to learn from Ron's mistake, and quickly put the diapers on all of the babies. Harry smiled when he heard the shower turn on in the bathroom.
Meanwhile, Hermione was telling her babies all about Hogwarts, and all the neat things they would get to do, while they were there. The babies, although they did not quite understand, still lay there silently while getting their bath, giving their mom their full attention. Hermione smiled at this, and kept her story going even after she had dried the babies off, and helped get them into their diapers and warm clothing. She then sat down on her rocking chair and let the babies eat. Soon, both Julie, and Soroush, were sound asleep again, and Hermione was almost also. She carefully took the babies back to her room and placed them in their bassinets, and was out on her bed before she hit the pillow. Her mom stood in the doorway with a smile.
"Welcome to parenthood, sweetie." She whispered, and left the room.
The babies were ten days old, Ron walked over to where Harry was and made a grossed out face. Daniel's umbilical cord had shrunk and fallen off. The cord was lying beside the sleeping Daniel. Harry walked over to the kitchen area and grabbed a plastic bag, and wrote in permanent ink-
'Daniel 8-9-2003'
He then walked back over to Daniels crib, picked the cord up making a grossed out face, and placed it in the bag. He sealed the bag then put it in the memory box under the crib with Daniels name on it. He washed his hands right away afterward.
"Gross, your going to keep it?" Ron asked, looking slightly green.
"Of course, what if Daniel wants it or needs it for a spell some day?" Harry shrugged, and walked over to Lily to see where her cord stood. It was still there, though it had already dried up a lot. Ron just shook his head and walked over to the small couch they had moved into the room, and sat down on one side, he was out like a light. Harry smiled, for once not tired, he noticed Lily start to wake up, and Harry placed his face over hers so that she could see him, and made funny faces. Harry stuck out his tongue, and watched as Lily opened her mouth and tried to do the same. Harry laughed, and did it again. After ten tries, Lily finally managed to get her tongue out of her mouth. "Well, your just ahead of the game now aren't you Lily, you should not be able to do that until one or two months, way to go!" Harry spoke softly, and gave her tiny had a high five. Harry lifted her up, from her crib and placed her in a sling around his stomach, then grabbed Daniel who was also starting to wake up and placed him in another sling. He had had enough of this room, and wanted out for a while. He made sure both babies had enough blankets, before grabbing a baby bag and stuffing it with diapers, wipes, and a bottle of powder. He grabbed some toys and made a be-line over to John's crib, he was surprised to see him also awake and being quiet. Almost as if he sensed that his dad was asleep, and he needed some rest. Harry wrote a note to Ron, even though he was only going to the front yard, and taped it gently to Ron's forehead. He then grabbed John, and left the room. He walked down the stairs, of The Burrow for the first time since his first day at his new home. There were loud squeaks from the others as they ran up to see the babies.
"What are you doing?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"Where is Ron?" Fred asked.
"These three and I are going to go sit under a tree outside for a change of scenery, and Ron is sound asleep upstairs in the nursery." Harry smiled. Mrs. Weasley took John from Harry with a smile and led the way out of the door, and into the front yard. They found a nice shady spot under a giant tree and, Mrs. Weasley took a very large quilt out from the baby bag and laid it out for them. She then placed John on his back on the quilt and helped Harry take Lily and Daniel out and place them on their backs on the quilt.
"Do you mind if I sit out here with you for awhile?" Mrs. Weasley asked, while helping the exhausted Harry sit down himself, up against a tree, with the babies all within hands reach. Harry smiled and shook his head. Mrs. Weasley smiled back and sat down. "So, I know with newborns, you have to stay stuck in the same place all the time, this is a good idea, taking them outside for awhile, it healthy for all of you. I used to do this when all of my kids were about their age, we made it a daily ritual, and as they got older, and they could start to walk, I would take them a little farther out. They loved the change, as much as I did." Mrs. Weasley explained. Harry nodded, with a smile, his eyes starting to droop. He was asleep in minutes, and Mrs. Weasley smile and got up, from her spot, and left to go make dinner. Harry woke up only fifteen minutes later to something licking his face.
"Oh, yuck, what?" Harry moaned opening his eyes to see a massive brown and very furry dog. "Sirius?!?" Harry whispered loudly, not believing what he was seeing. The dog looked around and with a pop, where the dog once was, a man sat in his place. Sirius smiled.
"Hey there! I have been trying to find you all summer, you never went to the Dursley's, I got worried, so I came here. A long walk this place is from the Dursley's." Sirius smiled. "So how are you, and how did you end up baby-sitting three babies?" Sirius asked smiling down at the babies, and letting them play with his fingers, Harry smiled.
"Well, I'm fine, exhausted but fine, and well I am only baby-sitting one of these babied, the other two are mine." Harry spoke softly. Sirius snapped up.
"Oh, Harry, you never got the talk did you? That was a failure on my part. Who's the mom, and who had the other baby?" Harry looked like he was going to explode with laughter, his face was beat red.
"Ah, well, there is no mother, and the other baby belongs to Ron." Sirius looked confused.
"Oh, here I go..." Harry then went on to tell Sirius about how they had ended up pregnant in the first place. "...The four of us had our babies on July thirty-first ironically enough. So now I am living here, and I have adopted Draco's baby. It was a deal I made that as long as he did not get an abortion, I would adopted his baby so that his parents never found out, and Hermione is at her home. So without further ado, I would like you to meet Lily Guinevere Potter, John Alfred Weasley, and Daniel James Potter. Hermione, had twins, and there names are Julie Elizabeth Granger, and Soroush Ambros Granger." Harry smiled at the open mouthed Sirius. "Your a grandfather." Harry was grinning from ear to ear. For years to come Harry would swear he saw a tear run down Sirius cheek, no matter how much it was denied.
"So, well, wow. Looks like you have been through a lot this past year, no wonder you didn't get in to it with Voldemort as usual, you had more important things to take care of, like my grandchildren." Sirius's voice cracked at the word grandchildren.
"Would you like to hold them?" Ron surprised them both as he walked up and sat down on the blanket.
"Can-can I?" Sirius asked, with a small smile. Harry nodded and instructed Sirius to sit down properly, then pulled out the moon pillow from the bag which by the way has no bottom and could fit anything in it if you wanted it to. Harry placed the pillow around Sirius and carefully placed all three babies on top of him. Daniel started to cry immediately at being placed on a stranger's lap, the other two started to whimper. "Wow."
Harry grabbed three bottles with milk already in them, and handed one to Sirius. Then gave one to Ron, and they all started to feed a separate baby, while they remained in Sirius lap. The three of them smiled, and talked quietly to each other about everything while they waited for the babies to finish eating. After burping the babies, they all cradled the babies until they fell asleep, then placed them on their stomachs on the blanket, and covered them up. Harry yawed, and leaned back onto the tree again.
"Well, I guess I have to be going now, can't stay anywhere for to long. I'm not sure how you're going to get through school, but bring these babies to see me on your first Hogsmead weekend." Sirius smiled, and Harry and Ron nodded back. There was a pop, and Sirius was a dog again, he licked Harry and Ron's cheek, smiled down at the babies, and left. Harry and Ron smiled at each other, then pulled out parchment and pens, they had not written Hermione at all, and they were anxious to find out how she was doing.