A/N: This chapter is really short, but it's necessary in order to set up the next chapter, which will be much longer and uploaded soon!

Nine weeks after the shower, Lily Luna Potter was born at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries on January 30th, 2008 at 12:01 AM. Despite not having inherited her namesake's vivid green eyes, the general consensus among those present was that the newborn was almost an exact replica of her paternal grandmother. The comparisons were furthered by the fact that Lily, born two weeks early, shared her grandmother's birthday. Hermione wasn't able to be there for the birth because Lily was born during her shift. She found time to see her new goddaughter a few hours later during her break. The Weasley clan had all gone home to catch some sleep with promises to return the next day. A reluctant Harry had been sent home with them, and so Ginny and Lily were alone in the private room when Hermione peeked in on them. Ginny was fast asleep, snoring up a storm, and Hermione saw no need to wake her since she'd just given birth and needed to rest, and Hermione was mostly there to see the baby anyway.

Based on what she knew from her reading, Hermione expected for Lily to be fast asleep. She was startled when she peeked into the crib to find bright green eyes staring right at her. Definitely Harry's, she thought.

"Hey there Lily," she whispered. "I'm Hermione, your godmother. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Lily gurgled back in reply to Hermione's greeting. Smiling, Hermione stuck a finger into the crib for Lily to grab with her tiny hand. As soon as they touched, Hermione felt a familiar swell of emotion. Meeting one of her nieces and nephews for the first time always made Hermione feel sentimental. Neither of Hermione's parents had siblings, so it had just been the three of them when she was growing up. It had only taken three weeks for her to locate her parents and successfully restore their memories after the War ended, but it had taken almost four years for their relationship to get back to the way it was before. In that time period, she'd come to rely heavily on Ron, Harry, and Ginny for support and came to realize just how important having a large family really was. While she herself wasn't ready for kids, she loved each and every one of the Weasley grandchildren as if they were her blood relatives and Lily was going to be no different.

A buzzing sound coming from Hermione's pocket alerted her to the fact that her break, and bonding time with Lily, were over. She whispered a quick "Finite" to still the vibrating wand and tiptoed out of the room, gently closing the door behind her. She never even noticed that Ginny's snoring had stopped, nor was she aware that her best friend was watching her interaction with Lily and scheming of ways to get Hermione a baby of her own.

Five months later…

"Of course she wants this. She just doesn't know it yet," Ginny matter of factly told her husband and brother.

"I dunno, Gin." Ron was playing with his niece on the floor of Harry and Ginny's living room while Ginny tried to convince the men to go along with her plan to set Hermione up with Lily's pediatrician. She was calling it "Operation McDreamy" after a guy from some Muggle tv show that Hermione had introduced her to. Ron knew for a fact that Hermione hated Healer Stanton and would never consider dating him. Ginny called it "unresolved sexual tension" but he didn't know anyone who wanted to have sex with someone they regularly referred to as a "pompous half-wit who barely passed his N.E.W.T.s and shouldn't have even been allowed into Healer training in the first place and only got anywhere in life due to his family connections." Even Lavender, who would've loved to see Hermione with anyone in the world that wasn't Ron, thought trying to set her up with Stanton was dumb when Ginny first mentioned the idea.

"Isn't there anyone else?" Harry asked. "You know how Hermione feels about Stanton. She'd kill him as soon as he said something she didn't like. Remember the Christmas party?"

Stanton's date to the previous year's Christmas party had been Harry's new secretary, and the two had been seated at the same table as Hermione, Ron, Lavender, Ginny, and Harry. Hermione tried to make peace with him for the sake of everyone else at the table, until his date had made the mistake of asking Hermione about the empty seat next to her. Stratton had taken the liberty of explaining to Mackenzie, and the rest of the table, that Hermione was "doomed to remain single and dateless to these parties for quite a while because she's too afraid to let loose and embrace the fact that she's a woman. No man wants to be with someone as controlling and successful and she is, you see. It's too much of a challenge to a bloke's masculinity." Ron had to confiscate her wand while Harry gently but firmly led her away from their table before she reached across it and throttled her co-worker.

Ginny scoffed and waved her hand, dismissing her husband's and brother's concerns. "That was half a year ago. Hermione really wants a baby, guys. I know she does. And I think that her desire for a kid could override her dislike of Stanton. Besides, he's the only one who I know of who'll give her a chance after McLaggen stopped asking her out two years ago. The list of Wizards in Britain is too small for her to have many options, and he was right. She intimidates most guys."

"Why not a Muggle?" Harry offered.

Ginny let out an exasperated sigh. "No, Ron. She doesn't like getting involved with Muggles anymore after what happened with her parents. Besides, it'll be a blind date. Hermione won't know it's him until she gets to the restaurant and by then she won't leave because she won't want to make a scene."

"Oh. Right."

"Great!" Ginny clapped her hands together to signal that the discussion was over. "I'm going to give Stanton a Floo call tomorrow to see if he's interested."