Chapter One; Charms Class

It was an early Monday morning, and unusually sunny and warm for the middle of autumn. Ron rolled his eyes while he watched his daughter snogging her boyfriend Jeremy instead of eating her breakfast. Hermione quickly turned over to look at him as he pushed his plate away. "That's the first time in my life I saw you refusing to eat." She commented.

"Sorry, but I suddenly lost my appetite." He told her as he folded his arms and shook his head. "I feel sorry for Harry," he began. "in another few years Lilly and Lucy will be old enough to have boyfriends themselves, and after that they won't get much oxygen to their brains." He told her with another shake of his head and a roll of his eyes.

"Oh Ronald," Hermione began while taking a deep breath and then letting it out before resting her head upon her hands.

"Well one thing's for sure, we definitely picked the right name for our daughter, because she's a frisky little sheela for sure." He said when all of a sudden a thought came to Hermione's mind that hadn't come to her for years ever since her eldest daughter was born.

"Ron, can I ask you something?" she questioned.

"You just did, but go ahead if you want to." He told her.

"Do you remember where Sheela got her name from?" she asked him as he paused and stopped to think it over for a few moments.

"Oh yeah, I forgot all about that." He admitted. "It was that ant we met after Ginny accidentally shrunk us wasn't it? He called all of the girls that." He realized before he turned back to look at his wife who was continuing to stare at him with a rather cross look on her face. "Now what did I do!?" he exclaimed before she shook her head and turned to look away from him.

"It's almost been twenty years since he died and I can't believe we never mentioned him before, not once!" she cried.

"Hermione, need I remind you that we were only this big." He began as he held his thumb and index finger a short distance apart from each other. "We probably forgot about it because it was a rather traumatic experience for us." He pointed out.

"Well I think that it's finally time to set our kids and tell them about it. Sheela should know more about her own name than she already does. I mean Chase, Richie, and Mia all know about theirs, it isn't fair to leave her out of it." She said.

"Alright fine, if it makes you happy about it we'll tell her. But it's going to be until after classes are over." Ron said before he turned to look back over at his daughter who was continuing to smile at Jeremy after every few quick and tender kisses. "Hey lovebirds, get a room!" Ron called through his hands at them as they both gasped and looked up at him while Hermione smacked him upside the head. "Ouch, hey!" he shrieked while beginning to rub the back of his head.

Later that morning Lilly and Lucy realized that they had charms class together, which meant that Brianna and DJ would also be joining them since they were also in the Slytherin house. Their first match was coming up against Gryffindor at the end of the week. Lilly and Lucy sat down next to each other while Brianna sat down a crossed from them. That's when all of a sudden Professor Flitwick stood up at his desk and started tapping his wand against it.

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, as you know we have been recently working on the freezing spell. Well today I am introducing the cheering charm to you. You'll be breaking up into pairs," he began as both of the Potter twins immediately clung to each other. "and then you'll try to make the other person by reciting sparlata until you are convinced that they are happy enough. Make sure you don't overdo it though or you'll find that you'll burst out into uncontrollable laughter." He explained.

"Then after you are finished you will read pages 345 and 346 to find out all about the different ways that this spell is useful and copy them down. Then for homework, I want you to write me an essay about what kind of charms that you want to learn about and why. Any questions?" he wondered and when nobody's hand shot up he instructed them to begin. Lilly and Lucy found that they had done extremely well with the cheering charms, (although Lucy did overdue hers a bit) but DJ and Brianna seemed to be struggling with theirs.

Still, everyone received good marks for their effort and after the bell rang they were off to defense against the dark arts. Casey taught them all about boggarts and they each took turns defeating them. When it was Lucy's turn she (ironically) had thought of a snake as her worst fear, and then she used the riddikulus spell to turn it into an enormous hotdog, rolling back and forth in the same manner as the snake did.

At the same time this class had been going on, Lilly was up in the divination tower learning all about palm reading. After those classes were over (the Gryffindors and Slytherins) they started learning about animagus in transfiguration, and the memory potion in potions class. They were surprised when they met for lunch that the only homework they had received so far that day was Flitwick's essay, and collecting the ingredients for Professor Dodger. They had no idea what they were going to choose for the essay though, that was until their aunt Hermione walked over to their table.