Chapter One
This is my second fanfiction. The idea came to me in a dream last night (no lie) and I just had to write it down straight away. I hope you enjoy! Please rate and comment. All right belong to JK Rowling.
It was a cold evening in September 1979, and a little girl of 8 years old was sitting on her bed, looking out of her window. She was excited. Her mummy was going to have a baby soon, she was getting very big. She was going to be a big sister. The girl couldn't wait to help her mummy, and play with new baby. Her Daddy was a muggle relations officer in the ministry of magic. He loved his job. But nothing he loved more was coming home to 'his girls'. She smiled when she thought of her Daddy. He was the bravest, coolest man she knew. Her Mummy was a newspaper columnist, and wrote a weekly Colum for witch weekly. Her mummy said that she writes mostly about wizarding mothers, and give tips on keeping a nice home, and holding parties. Her mummy also told her that she loves it because she got to do what she loved and gets to stay at home with her, and the soon to be born baby.
"Dora!" her mother called to her, breaking her from her train of thoughts. "Dora! Can you come down here please?" Dora hopped off her bed yelling, "Coming Mummy!" Smiling to herself, she skipped out into the hallway and down the stairs to the kitchen where her mummy was cooking something on the stove. She turned and smiled at her daughter, who was wearing her favourite shade a bubble-gum pink hair, "Ah! Dora. Can you please grab Daddy from the shed? Dinner's nearly ready" Dora nodded, and walked through to the back garden. Her Daddy uses the garden shed to do his paperwork in peace and quiet, so that he didn't have to stay at the office at all hours, 'being next in line for department head is hard work', he always told her with a smile. As she got up to the shed door, she knocked. "Come in!" he called after a couple of seconds. He looked up and smiled at her as she walked through the door, "Hello sweetie! To what do I owe this pleasure?" Dora stepped into shed, looking round quickly before focusing on her Daddy saying, "Mummy says dinners nearly ready!"
Ted smiled down at his daughter, before standing and then picking her up, making her giggle. "Well then, we mustn't keep her waiting!" Still carrying his daughter, he stepped out of the shed, closed the door, and tapped the lock with his wand before starting his walk up to the house.
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The family sat down to have their dinner, which was Spaghetti Bolognese. Dora smiled when she first saw that on her plate. It was her favourite meal. She loved it when it made her a big mess. It was just funny, and it always made her parents laugh. They rarely ever laughed now-a-days. It was because there was a war on. It was way Dora wasn't allowed to go to the local muggle primary school, like so many of the neighbours did. Her Daddy told her it was because Mummy has an evil sister who was on the other side, who didn't like us very much, and would do anything to hurt us. She thought it was a shame that she wasn't able to know any of her mummy's family because she married for love, but that was the way it is. She guessed she wouldn't understand till she was older.
Suddenly, her mummy dropped her knife and fork, and placed her hand on her round tummy. Dora was scared. Ted was immediately at her side. "Dromeda? Love? Are you okay? Is it time?" Andromeda, her mother, nodded. When the pained expression on her mummy's face left she turned to her husband. "Ted, can you grab my overnight bag, and send a patronus to Molly and Arthur to pick up Dora?" Ted nodded, lifted his wand and something silver came out of his wand, before running up stairs. Andromeda looked at her daughter's scared expression. "Dora darling. I'll be fine. You're going to be a big sister soon!" Her expression suddenly changed to one of joy and happiness as Ted ran down the stairs. "Daddy! Daddy! Mummies have the baby!" As Ted got to the kitchen, and started to lift his wife out of hair chair and towards the fireplace. "I know sweetie" At that moment, I man came through the fire; he was a tall man with red hair. He looked at the family and smiled. "It's time I see. Shall I take Dora to mine to stay the night?" Ted nodded as he and Andromeda walked towards the fire. "Dora, go pack an overnight bag, you're going to stay at Uncle Arthur's tonight, and I'll pick you up tomorrow, okay?" Dora nodded as her parents disappeared in flames. After a moment she turned to Arthur. "I'll be back down in a minute." With that, she ran up the stairs.
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When Dora and her Uncle stepped through the fire, they walked into a house she very much loved and admired, the Burrow. "Give me your bag Dora and I'll go and put it up in the room we've set up for you. Why don't you go and find everyone?" Dora nodded and started to walk towards the kitchen, where she found her Auntie Molly doing the washing up. "Hello Aunty Molly!" Molly turned, and smiled. "Good evening sweetheart. I hear your Mummies having your baby brother or sister. Are you excited?" Dora nodded. "Where are Charlie and everyone?" At that moment, a boy of her age came bounding down the stairs, and when he saw his friend he yelled, "Dora!" She smiled and turned to her best friend, "Charlie!" They hugged and then ran off into the sitting room. She smiled at them. Those two where the best of friends. She hoped that they would marry one day. It's hard to be best friend with someone of the opposite gender without falling for them.
She heard a chuckle behind her. She turned towards her grinning husband. "What?" He shook his head. He walked up and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. "I know what you're thinking. Don't try and marry our children off before they start school" Molly smiled. "You know me too well." She paused. "In all this excitement, I need to tell you something. I found out today. It's certain. I'm pregnant again. We're due our 6th child at the start of March" Arthur smiled before giving her an even deeper kiss.
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Meanwhile, Dora and Charlie were playing exploding snap in the other room. "Charlie?" He looked up. "Yeah".
"What's it like to be an older sibling?" He smiled. "Amazing. You get trusted a lot more, and not as babied. Plus! You get to play with them like all the time!" She smiled. "All what I hoped it would be" She then put her card down shouting snap, before the card blow up in her face. She always had trouble remembering the difference between the muggle and wizards games. Charlie just laughed.
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The next morning, everyone at the Burrow was sitting at the table having breakfast. As usual, it was complete chaos. Molly was attempting to get both 18months old Fred and George to put the fruit they were supposed to be eating in their mouths, as opposed to throwing it at crying 3 year old Percy. While Arthur was trying to calm him down, and read his paper at the same time. An almost 10 year old Bill, Charlie and Dora were just laughing their heads off. All this was just starting to drive Molly up the wall. Dora, of cause, had grown used to the mad environment that was the burrow. It was crazier than her own and it was what she liked about it.
As they were finishing, the fireplace fired up, and a beaming Ted walked through. Dora jumped up ran to her father, and giggled when he picked her up, "Have a nice night here princess?" Dora smiled "Yes Daddy! Where's Mummy? Has she had the baby yet?" Ted looked round at everyone and beamed. "Andromeda gave birth to a baby girl this morning. Her name's Hermione Annabella Tonks, after my Mother" Everyone at the table expressed their congratulations. Molly came up and hugged Ted, while Arthur came and shook his hand, and patted him on the back. The twins exchanged toothy, sticky grins, giggling, Percy was also giggling, his tears now gone. Bill and Charlie high fived, expressing how they were going have a 'little sister' to spoil. Ted just beamed and said his thanks. "Dora sweetie, why don't you go and grab your things, we really must get back to Mummy and your new baby sister" he put her down, and she ran upstairs. He turned to Molly and Arthur, "Thankyou for looking after her last night. We owe you one" The couple exchanged a smirk, "Don't worry about it Ted. Although, you may have to soon" Molly said, winking. Ted smiled, knowingly "And we will" winking back his congratulations. The children at the table were simply confused.
At this point, Dora came bounding downstairs. "Ready Daddy!" Ted nodded "Okay, bye everyone and thanks. We should get together soon. Dora why don't you say goodbye to everyone" Dora smiled at everyone "Bye everyone. Bye Charlie" running over and hugging the boy, who blushed. With that, father and daughter walked to the fireplace and walked through, after being engulfed in flames.
They stepped out into their living room, where Andromeda was currently sitting with a pink bundle in her arms. "Mummy!" Dora exclaimed, running over. "Morning Dora", as her daughter kneeled on the sofa next to her, looking down at the bundle with care that she didn't know she possessed. "Is this her Mummy?" Andromeda smiled. "Yes sweetie, this is your new baby sister. Hermione."
Dora looked down at the bundle. The baby had brown hair, just a couple shades lighter than her mothers, and her own natural brown, and her eyes were a darker shade of blue, unknown to her, means that her eyes were likely to change to be a chocolate brown. Dora moved hair hand, and started stroking the babies face tenderly, she felt soft. Dora smiled and murmured, "Hermione…" She vowed that she was going to look after her, no matter what happened.