Chapter Two; Timeout

"Hey Harry." Jessie said as he walked into the building.

"Hey Jessie have you seen David?" he asked her.

"Yeah, he's out back. He brought his daughter Roberta along and he's showing her all of the dragons. I can't believe how big she's gotten. She's already crawling and she's just started to teethe. She looks just like him too with the long dark hair that she has." She told him as Harry smiled at her.

"Thanks Jessie, since I'm going out there anyway I'll go see him. I have to ask him a big favor." He said before he disapparated.

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Teddy and Heather walked inside Fred and George's joke shop while Ron, Lottie, and Johnny walked in behind them. Ron held his nephew by the hand and walked him inside before he hoisted him up inside his arms and carried him over to the counter where Fred and George were waiting for them. "There's our favorite little nephew." Fred began as George grinned and waved at him. Johnny grinned back at them but then shyly hid his face inside Ron's chest.

"What's the matter with you squirt? It's just Uncle Fred and Uncle George. I told you that we were going to stop here after lunch." Ron told him as Fred reached out his arms and took the little boy into his own.

"Oh I'm sure he's just being difficult. You remember me don't you Johnny?" he questioned him as he raised him up into the air by his ribs and planted a kiss on his cheek. Johnny smiled back at him and giggled before Fred placed him right up against his hip. "So what brings you and the twin tornadoes here?" he asked looking back over at Ron.

"Teddy and Heather were interested in buying some of your merchandise." He told them.

"Well then we never turn down an eager customer." Fred said with a mischievous sly grin as he started leading the twins away.

"I have to go potty." Lottie announced.

"I guess it's my job to handle that then. C'mon Lottie." George said as he offered her his hand but she just simply stomped her foot.

"No! I'm a big girl! I'll go by myself!" she snapped before she stormed away as Ron rolled his eyes.

"Wow, it's Eve all over again. Thank God she doesn't really act like that anymore." He told him as George laughed while meanwhile Fred showed Teddy and Heather all of their gag gifts that they had for kids. He showed them fake wands, dungbombs, fanged Frisbees and screaming yo-yo's. He also showed them muggle magic tricks and whoopie cushions.

"Harry can do muggle magic tricks." Heather said as she pointed at them but Teddy simply rolled his eyes at her and pretended to yawn.

"Boring!" he exclaimed. "I want to buy some of those dungbombs!" he cried excitedly while he pointed at them. Fred laughed before he set Johnny back down on the ground.

"That's one of our hottest items, I sure hope that it'll be alright with your dad though." He said before he picked them up as Heather slowly shook her head.

"Daddy's not the one that I'm worried about." She began before Fred turned around and walked away. That's when she raised her hand and whispered inside her brother's ear. "Harry will kill you when he finds out that you've come home with dungbombs." She told him.

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Harry, Ginny, and Eve walked through the front door. Eve was still in a dreamy state from having just seen and gone riding with Jerry while Hermione walked over to greet them. "Johnny's asleep and Lottie's playing in Heather's room." She explained.

"I sure hope that they're getting along." Harry said.

"Oh I don't think you have to worry about them. Tobey's in there with them keeping an ear out for them. It's Teddy that I'm worried about." She told him.

"Why? What's wrong with him?" Harry wondered with uncertainty since he knew that Teddy had always been a very well behaved little boy.

"He's in Ron's room. They're looking at all the things that they bought at Fred and George's joke shop.

"Oh good Lord help us all." Ginny said with a roll of her eyes.

"You mean that you left them alone unsupervised!?" Harry exclaimed with pure astonishment and disbelief before she placed a finger to her lips and hushed him.

"Johnny's asleep!" she snapped when suddenly they heard him start to cry through the baby monitor.

"Well not for long." Ginny said before all four of them turned and walked down the hallway.

"Hey Johnny, what's up buddy?" Harry questioned him as he opened the door and turned on the light and all four of them entered the room. Ginny quickly wrinkled her nose and sniffed the air before she covered it with the collar of her shirt.

"Whoa, somebody better change him before the smoke alarm goes off in here." She said.

"I'll go ahead and do it since I'm the one who accidentally woke him up." Harry told them as he lifted the baby up out of his crib and placed him onto the changing table. Then he unbuttoned and unzipped his pants before he tore into the diaper and folded it up before tossing it into the trashcan and wiping his bottom with a baby wipe and then shaking a bit of baby powder onto it and then diapering him up again.

"Alright Johnny, are you ready for your snack?" Harry asked him as he started sliding his pants back on him.

"Yeah." He replied with a nod when all of a sudden Heather and Lottie raced out of the bedroom.

"Give me back the doll!" Heather shouted at her angrily.

"No! She's mine!" Lottie screamed back when suddenly Snape stepped in-between them and stopped them.

"Alright girls, what's going on?" he questioned them reluctantly while taking a deep breath and sighing heavily.

"Lottie stole my Barbie and she won't give it back!" Heather yelled while pointing an angry finger at her as Snape squatted down in front of the four year old little girl.

"Lottie, is that true?" he questioned her as she simply just nodded. "Why did you do that?" he asked her.

"Because Heather didn't want me to play with any of them." She told him as he glanced back over at his daughter.

"Heather, I don't like what I'm hearing." He told her as she glanced down at the carpet guiltily and kicked a bit of dirt with her foot. "Now you girls have to learn to get along with each other and you're going to have to learn to share. But for now I'm afraid that you both are going to need to go into the corner for timeout. So Heather you go over there to where your chair is and Lottie you go over there to the other side of the room. And you're going to stay there until I come to get you.

Do you understand?" he questioned them.

"Yes Daddy." Heather replied before she turned around and walked over to her timeout chair.

"Yes Mister Snape." Lottie said with a sad and miserable sigh before she walked to her own corner as Harry carried Johnny down the hallway and started strapping him inside his booster chair.