The problem with leaving a boy wrapped in a blanket on someone's doorstep that you don't know is the fact that it is unknown when they will return. Luckily, or unluckily for Harry a man drunkenly opened the front gate, stumbled up the weed infested walkway and almost tread on the tiny infant. In a drunken haze he took in the tiny boy and picked him up. Cradling him to his chest he fumbled with his keys, unlocking the door to the decrepit house and walked inside. Walking inside the corridor he slammed the door shut and stumbled in, yelling out for his wife to attend to him. A woman appeared at the top of the stairs, rubbing sleep from her eyes and in her sleep clothes. She quickly walked forwards, her husband shoving the baby in her hands and stumbled up the stairs, content in only finding his bed. The wife looked down to the baby and just thought to herself, "What has my husband gotten himself into this time?"
At midday the husband woke up and stumbled down to find his wife. He found her cradling the baby to her chest, he cleared his throat and asked, "I found him on our doorstep, you have always wanted a child and I thought we might keep him?"
"Hmm, alright, I found this note with him, it just says to treat him well, and I don't even know his name."
"Well we have to go register him at the authorities, what should we call him?"
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(At the local hospital)(Ok, I have no idea where you register babies)
The husband and wife walked hand in hand into the hospital counter. The man cleared his throat and caught the nurse's attention. "Excuse me, but we would like to register our son in your database, could you point us to where we have to go?" The man had a quiet charm to him, incredibly handsome but had a hard edge, the kind of man you don't want to anger.
"If you go up two floors to the maternity ward, turn left as you get out of the elevator and keep walking until you reach the counter, someone there should be able to help you," the nurse replied.
The man waved and walked off with his wife on his arm. They reached the floor and walked up to the counter, the nurse immediately cooing to the baby, who was awake now.
"Ooh, he is just a cute boy isn't he? How old is he and what's his name?"
"He is 13 months old and we would like to register him with the local authorities."
"O.K, just let me get you the paperwork, however shouldn't you have registered him when he was born?"
" Yes well," the man laughs awkwardly while rubbing the back of his head, "It was a home birth, a quick and easy birth, and I was able to deliver her myself, quite luck actually, first time for both my wife and I"
The nurse handed over the paperwork and pointed to the chairs. The man and wife walked over there sat down and started filling out the forms.
Name: Anthony Thaddeus Landa
Mother: Emily Samantha Landa
Father: Markus Anthony Richard Landa
Date of Birth: 10th July 2001 at 10:12 am
Signed
Emily Samantha Landa
Markus Anthony Richard Landa
They handed the paperwork back to the nurse and registered their home address so that they could forward the birth certificate to them.
Author's Note
See if you can guess where I got Harry's new name from. Hint, the first name is from an actor, the second from a book and the last from a movie character.