Chapter Two; It's Tough To Be A Kid

All that day Harry was driving Eve crazy. At the pool he was always fixing her bathing suit, and when they went to a museum she was being too loud, at the gardens she kept getting in the way of people and picking flowers when she wasn't supposed to, and finally at the Eiffel tower she kept getting in the way of pictures being taken. Lunch and dinner wasn't much better because he had told her that she kept interrupting him.

"That's it! I've had it! All day long Harry was like Eve don't do this and don't do that. Or stop shouting or speak up we can't hear you!" she exclaimed. "Harry is the bossiest brother in the world!" she cried before flopping down on top of her bed beside Tobey and growled. "He drives me crazy!" she told him but he just simply chuckled at her.

"Don't you think that maybe sometimes you're the one driving him crazy?" he asked her.

"No, I'm not the one who's bossing him around. I mean give me a break I'm just a kid!" she exclaimed when suddenly Harry entered the room.

"Eve, have you started getting ready for bed yet? You have to recite a Bible verse for me before you go to sleep." He told her as she let out a great big horrified scream and fell back onto the bed. "Be quiet! There's other people staying in this hotel you know!" he snapped at her.

"Oh go easy on her Harry, you've been giving her a tough time all day." Tobey told him.

"Well if she learned how to be obedient and behaved better like a young lady there wouldn't be such an issue." Harry said.

"I wish you would stop acting like a preacher and start acting like my brother!" Eve yelled at him before she quickly leapt up from the bed and burst into tears.

"Uh oh, I went too far didn't I?" Harry wondered as he sat down beside Tobey.

"I think you did." He told him.

"I don't mean to come down so hard on her, it's just that I love her and so much and I want what's best for her. I guess it's been so long since I've be a kid that I've forgotten what it was like to be one." He said as Tobey grinned at him. "What's that look for?" he wondered.

"Sounds what you need is Dad's Youth Potion." He told him.

"Youth Potion? What Youth Potion?" Harry questioned him with uncertainty.

"Eve told him how much she missed having a kitten around, so he invented a potion that will make the drinker young again for twenty-four hours. Sort of like the Fountain of Youth." He explained.

"No thanks, I wouldn't want that. I mean don't get me wrong, I enjoyed being a kid. I loved my childhood very much, but I would never want to go back. I'm too busy with my adult life." Harry told him.

"I don't know, I think it sounds rather interesting. I mean it only lasts for one day anyway. What wouldn't I give just to have my sight back for one day and be able to play in the park one last time or go trick-or-treating, or sit on Santa's lap." He said. "I mean I can deal with the cards that I've been dealt in life, but I missing seeing the world so much and all the beautiful colors that it has to offer." He said.

"Well you'll be able to see all that in Heaven." Harry told him.

"I know but sometimes I get impatient. I mean Aaron's about to have a baby and I will never be able to see what he or she looks like. Or my own child if I ever become a father myself someday." He said when suddenly a moment of silence fell between them. "I don't want to make it seem like I'm complaining, it's just that sometimes I wish I could be like everyone else." He said as he stood up and Angel led him out into the living room while Harry turned his head to watch him.

Eve was on top of her father's lap sobbing inside his chest. "Are you alright?" Tobey asked as he stood in front of her while Eve turned her head and looked back at him through her teary eyes.

"No! I love Harry but I don't think he loves me!" she sobbed.

"Of course he does, he just told me that he did and he want's what's best for you." He told her.

"Then why does he try and act like my mum?" she asked him with a sniff.

"Maybe it's because he knows that you don't have one anymore and he wants to try and make the best out of a bad situation. Just like I've had to do ever since I lost my sight." He told her.

"You're lucky that you can't see anymore, Harry's never bossing you around. You have an excuse." She told him but he just simply laughed at her.

"Actually ever since I've gone blind, he's been bossing me around lot more and always trying to help me even when I tell him that I don't need it. You're the lucky one. At least one day when you meet the boy you like you'll be able to see how beautiful they really look." He told her.

"Are you talking about Jessie?" Ginny asked him as Tobey heaved a heavy sigh.

"Yes, I just didn't want to admit it because I'm not allowed to date yet and she already has a boyfriend. Besides she's way too old for me anyway." He said.

"No she's not. Just give it some time, if you really like her you'll wait for her. I mean I waited for the one I love and let me tell you something, it was definitely worth the wait." Ginny told him with a nod and a grin when suddenly Harry entered the room.

"You better be talking about me." He told her smiling warmly at her as she nodded again.

"Oh believe me I was." She told him when suddenly he turned over to look at Eve.

"Eve listen to me, I'm sorry I was so hard on you today." He told her.

"That's okay." She said with another sniff.

"And if you promise to get pajamas on I'll let you stay up an hour past your bedtime watching TV." He told her as she quickly slid off her father's lap.

"Alright!" she cried before she ran back into the bedroom.

"And make sure that you brush your teeth as well!" he called after her before turning his attention to his father. "So Tobey told me that you've invented a youth potion." He said as he sat down on the bed beside him.

"Really?" Snape began as he raised one of his eyebrows at him for this. "I thought I told you not to mention anything about it to anyone." He told him as he turned his head to look at his second eldest son.

"I know Dad, I'm sorry but Harry told me that he forgot what it was like to be a kid and I suggested the potion to him so he could find out." He said. "Besides, he was going to find out anyway when you used it on Precious." He pointed out.

"You just don't get it do you?" Snape inquired before removing a small liquid bottle with a green substance inside of it. "If you start telling too many people about it then they're all going to want it. Everyone in both the muggle world and wizarding world would love the chance to become young again." He said.

"Not me, I'm perfectly happy at the age I am." Harry said with a quick shake of his head.

"Me neither, I'm planning on getting married and starting a family of my own in a few years." Ron said.

"Listen boys, it's still a very dangerous thing to let the word get out about this potion." Snape told them.

"Why? What's so dangerous about it?" Ginny asked him. "All it does it turn adults into children." She said.

"Uh let us think. Adults have jobs and families to run. That's not going to happen when you're as small as Teddy and Heather are." Ron told her slowly glancing over in their direction.

"Hey!" Teddy exclaimed.

"Sorry mate." He told him.

"Listen, I want you all to swear to me you won't let it slip about this potion." Snape said. "Alright?" he wondered as Harry and Ron both nodded.

"I promise." Tobey said.

"Me too." Hermione assured him before he turned over to look at Ginny and stared at him.

"Alright, alright I promise." She told him reluctantly before slowly turning her head away from him.

"Good." Snape said before putting the bottle back inside his coat unaware that Eve was still in the bathroom getting ready for bed and she was the only one hadn't heard him and had been in on the conversation.