Chapter One: Potions Go Boom
Their fourth year had gotten off to a good start so far, all of the students were excited and talking almost nonstop about the upcoming Triwizard tournament it was this topic of conversation that had distracted the students and caused the wrong ingredients to go into several students' potions.
A series of loud BOOMS echoed around the classroom as the contents of many cauldrons flew up into the air and covered the entire class including Professor Snape in multicoloured potions. A silence fell over the class for a short moment before they all began to huddle over in pain, moans and yells echoed around the classroom, many of the students passed out.
Severus had not passed out straight away and of course had the sense to send for help before he too succumbed to unconsciousness.
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When Harry came too he found himself lying in one of the beds in the hospital wing, they were by now very familiar to the fourteen year old who had spent quite a bit of time confined to these beds over the three years he had been a student here.
Looking around he noted that he was not the only one in the hospital wing this time round, in fact it looked like the entire potions class, including Professor Snape also inhabited the many white sheeted beds.
The others seemed to be waking up now too, Madame Pompfry was bustling up and down the aisles checking on all of her patients with a few quick flicks of her wand, once she was satisfied that none of them was in any immediate danger she turned to face her large group of patients.
Harry had a funny, sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach, he knew something was off but he couldn't place it. He pulled himself into a seated position on the rather comfortable bed, his head propped up on the soft pillows.
Once all of her patients were awake, sitting up and alert, Madame Pompfry said a quick spell to magnify her voice and spoke over the noise of the ward's confused occupants "If I could have your attention for a moment please" her voice echoed clearly around the room.
It took a few seconds for the request to register but the noise soon faded and the medi-witch addressed them once more "there is no easy way to tell you all this" she stared, then continued "although you are all in good physical health at the moment there was one side effect of the accident" she said and then paused once again to allow this to sink in, before going on to say.
"The mix of all the potions caused what we call in the magical-medical community, spontaneous pregnancy" there was a stunned quite that lasted for only a moment before the choruses of "what?" and "you're kidding!" filled the room.
Calling for quiet once again, Madame Pompfry continued to speak "no I am not kidding" she assured them "now spontaneous pregnancy is for the most part the same as other pregnancies, although conception happens during the third week of normal pregnancies, with spontaneous pregnancy you start off at conception...you are currently at three weeks gestation" she informed the group of teens and one professor.
"Now all of your pregnancies are high risk as you are all either young, male or both in the case of most of you" she continued to explain.
"You will all need regular checkups to check on both the health of yourselves and the health of your unborn children" she said to the still shocked faces.
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The news of the fourth year Gryffindor and Slytherin students' pregnancies had spread around the castle like wildfire, for the sixteen pregnant fourteen and fifteen year olds the news still had not truly sunk in.
But Harry had the feeling it was going to sink in at least a little soon as from what the pregnancy books morning sickness was likely to set in anytime now and Harry and the others were not at all looking forward to it.
Harry felt wary for the most part, he didn't know what he was supposed to do with himself and in the not all that distant future as baby. He would have to return to the Dursley's at the start of the summer as usual but this time he would have a newborn infant with him, something he felt quite sure his Aunt and Uncle would be far from pleased about.
The school was going to do everything they could to provide the students with the care and supplies they would need through-out their pregnancies and the continued care of the resulting children until such a time as they leave or graduate from Hogwarts. The students would also be attending a prenatal and parenting class that would help them to understand the changes they were going through and the care their children will require.
Stroking his still flat stomach, Harry found himself wondering who was growing inside of him right now. What would their name be? What would they look like? What would they sound like? Would they like Qudditch? Would they have his eyes or his hair? There were so many unanswered questions that only time would really be able to answer.
It was beyond strange to think that growing inside of him right now was his baby, a child that was a part of him, a tiny human being who would one day breathe and cry and smile and love and live in this strange and wonderful world. Harry just hoped that it would be a safe world that his little one was born into.
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Draco Malfoy felt a single tear of shame trickle down his left cheek as he read and reread the harsh words of disappointment his father had written to him upon hear the news of his sudden and unexpected pregnancy. Although he knew it was not his fault and was out of his control, he still felt pain at the things his father had to say on the topic.
It also didn't help that the constant waves of nausea had began to hit him the night before, morning sickness it was supposedly called although all day sickness would be more accurate. The teen felt an almost irrational anger at his unborn child. The little leech as he had come to think of it, was making him ill, cranky and had truly pissed his father off.
"I hate you!" Draco moaned to his belly as he hunched over the cold porcelain bowl and tossed his cookies once more, leaving a sour and bitter taste behind in his mouth that perfectly matched his current mood.
A/N: I started this ages ago on one of my other accounts but decided to move it to this one, re-write this chapter a bit and keep going with it! Hope you all enjoy and please let me know what you want to see next and who you would like me to focus on. I have some future pairings that are set in stone but I'd like to know if you have any ideas oh and any guesses on the parentage of any of the children =)