Chapter 3: The Girl with the Long Name
"What do you mean?" Hermione asked curiously.
"What indeed. I'm sure now we know what to do yes?" Hermes asked.
Albus jumped up with his wife and glared at the ceiling. "Don't do that you children," Albus said in a warning voice, "They have little ones you can't expect them to drop everything and come here!"
"Oh little ones? OH that sounds fun. Let's bring them all!" Artemis cackled as smoked filled the air.
Everything became hard to see and several started coughing; but just as soon as it started the smoke cleared and in the same spot everyone else had arrived in were now six people.
Four of the six were tiny children no more than three years of age. Two were boys that looked just alike and the other two were girls that also looked just alike.
The girls had bright twinkling eyes and long black hair they wore in two plaits. One wore a blue dress with a cream sash while the other wore a cream dress with a blue sash. One had green eyes and one had blue.
The boys both had twinkling green eyes with short spiky auburn hair. One was wearing black slacks with a red shirt and black sweater vest while the other wore black slacks with a black shirt and red sweater vest.
The man holding onto two of the children was a tall and thin man with a slight muscular tone. He had a scruffy three week old beard with messy shoulder length auburn hair he had tied back with a brown ribbon. His features were slightly rugged and his eyes were a brilliant midnight blue. His nose was crooked like it had been broken at least twice. He was dressed in dark blue jeans with brown combat boots, a brown buttoned down shirt tucked into the jeans, and a blue tie. He was quite handsome.
The woman was also holding onto two of the children. She was tall and pleasantly slim but curvy. Her hair was blacker than night and fell to her middle back in spiraling curls. Her features were delicate and her skin was like porcelain. Her eyes were a deep emerald green. Her black hair was kept out of her face by a pair of large white sunglasses. She was wearing a black and red plaid pleated skirt that fell just two inches above her knee. She was wearing black pointy high heels and a red cardigan that was low-cut and tight fitting. She had diamond studs in her ears, a diamond heart around her neck, a platinum wedding band and a platinum ring with a square emerald on her ring finger.
"Dorothy I don't think we're in Kansas anymore," the man laughed.
"I think your right Toto," she laughed and her eyes fell on Albus and Clara.
"Dumbles!!" the woman squealed and ran to the old headmaster launching onto him happily.
"She calls him Dumbles?" Hermione whispered to Harry. The three shrugged to her watching the display.
"It's good to see you as well Jessica," Albus laughed kissing the girl's cheek.
"Oh Mother Clara how are you?" Jessica asked changing parents with her husband.
"Fine dear. Although I think your own parents would like a greeting," Clara smiled stepping to the side to show the McGonagalls.
"Mummy!" Jessica squealed again as she climbed onto Minerva's lap. Obviously neither one of the two women was very heavy. "And daddy!" Jessica exclaimed kissing her father repeatedly on the cheek.
"Don't you love how child like she is?" the young man grinned to his father.
"She always was rather strange," Severus frowned.
"So this is the infamous Siren?" Horace asked standing and looking at the girl as if she were a prize collectable.
"Siren? As in Siren and the Rocks?" Ginny asked.
"The one and only. You didn't honestly think she'd use her real name as her stage name," the man chuckled, "You'd never get it on the album cover!"
"Merlin isn't it the truth," Jessica sighed as she got off of her parents lap and shook Horace's hand. "Yes I would be Siren."
"Wonderful to meet you dear!" Horace grinned brightly, "Yes your music is very entertaining."
"Why thank you sir," Jessica nodded and turned to the younger adults. Her eyes widen and she dashed to her husband pulling him in front of the four.
"AJ…AJ look at its…it's the girl…its Hermione Granger!" Jessica stated.
"No…really? She's the girl that so embodies Minerva?" he asked.
Hermione looked down feeling her cheeks growing hot and were sure they were the color of Ron's hair.
"Yes dear just look at her! She just looks like mother did when she was younger…well expect for the eyes of course. It's quite extraordinary considering she's a mudblood," Jessica stated.
At those words Hermione's head snapped up and all four of the young Gryffindors looked ready to fight.
"Uh Jessie dear I'm not to sure this generation appreciates the word the same way you do. After all…you and your father are the only ones that are actually teasing when you use the word. So let's all sit and continue the questions," Clara sighed.
The young couple put their children at the arts and crafts table to keep them busy before taking seats with everyone. The girl sat at her parents' feet and the man sat at his parents' feet.
"You know you two really do look like younger versions of the professors," Ginny stated.
"Yeah. It happens once every few years in a family that you get someone that's your Minnie Me," the man shrugged.
"So what are your actual names?" Hermione asked.
"Albus Percival Wulfiric Brian Dumbledore Jr. but I prefer AJ," AJ stated.
"I would firstly like to make it perfectly clear that I have despised my name since I learned how exactly long it is. So if you insist on being my friends you will respect that and call me Jessie or Jessica is that understood?" Jessica asked sounding a lot like her mother.
The others nodded.
"Fine," she sighed and closed her eyes putting a French manicured hand to her head, "My full name if you can believe it is longer than Albus'. My full name is Jessica Katherine Anastasia Isabella Minerva Raphael McGonagall-Dumbledore."
There was silence after this as everyone stared at her and then her parents. Again to her and then her parents.
"Why on earth would you name her that!?" Ron asked.
"They didn't name me that. My grandmothers named me. Oh what cursed fate left me alone in a room with my grandmothers and a nurse!?" Jessica sighed dramatically.
"Well you did nearly kill your mother in delivery. Your father was rightly upset about her," Clara stated.
"Oh thank you mudblood just what I need. Now the guilt returns!" Jessica sobbed mournfully.
"Oh come on mum did you have to bring that up? Do you realize how long it took me to get her out of that black stage last time!?" AJ exclaimed.
"Something tells me this happens a lot," Harry whispered to Ginny. She nodded and looked sadly at the woman's shaking form.
"Jessica that's enough of that now. Don't make me give you that lecture again," Marshall stated.
"Why do you love mummy more?" Jessica pouted looking up at him.
"Because she is the sexiest woman alive," Marshall answered kissing his wife neck. She giggled and turned toward him as they started snogging.
Again the younger couples were looking a little disturbed, the Snapes were looking shocked, Slughorn was rolling his eyes heavenward, and the two Dumbledore couples were uncaring. In fact Jessica had moved over to where AJ was and was now sitting in between his legs and they were quietly speaking with each other with Clara and Albus Sr. joining in now and then.
"Wait this doesn't bother you?" Harry asked turning to the others.
"You walk in on them once and you're immune to anything they do," Jessica stated nonchalantly.
"You walked in on your parents doing…doing it?" Ron exclaimed in horror.
"If you mean having sex yes," Jessica nodded. She quirked a perfectly shaped eyebrow at his green coloring.
"Mr. Weasley I suggest you get over the fear of seeing your parents having sex. It's really not the worst thing you could see. Of course had seeing that resulted in me having a little sibling I might have been disturbed," Jessica stated the last part more to herself than Ron.
"Ouch! Mummy!" The little girl in the cream dress and blue sash with blue eyes cried running to Jessica holding her finger. It was bleeding lightly and the girl was in hysterics.
"Oh Bella what happened little one?" Jessica asked holding the child.
"Branon stab me wid siccir," the three year old cried.
"Brandon three minutes in the corner!" AJ snapped angrily.
"Yes daddy," one of the little boys sighed and headed to the nearest corner sticking his nose in it.
"Kiss make bedder mummy," the girl cried.
Jessica smiled and pressed her lips to the finger. The four Gryffindors watched in silent amazement as the girl's finger glowed a soft golden color and the small cut healed completely.
"All better," Jessica smiled wiping the child's eyes. Isabella sniffed and hugged her mother tightly.
"Thank you mummy," she sniffed.
"You're welcome baby," Jessica smiled as the girl hurried off back to her other siblings.
"How'd you do that?" Hermione asked.
"Natural Healer," AJ stated, "just like her great-grandmother she can heal people with a simple touch."
"Then why are you a singer?" Ginny asked.
"It's more fun," Jessica shrugged.
"So what happened that you would get such a long name?" Harry asked.
"Daddy would you care to tell the story?" Jessica asked looking up at Marshall.
The man looked up from nibbling his wife's neck and nodded. "Oh all right then. Minerva and I had four children. Jessica is the youngest of them. She was born three weeks late on the same day AJ was born. So Min and Clara were both at St. Mungo's. Jessica took twice as long to have as AJ. She was reportedly too big to have but Minerva refused to have a c-section. Her head was stuck in the birth canal for about half an hour and once she was finally out we couldn't get Minerva to stop hemorrhaging," he told.
"Oh how awful," Hermione gasped.
"Marshall was so upset he'd lose his beautiful wife the silly fool allowed the incompetent training nurse to take the baby girl out of the room and into the waiting room to see the grandparents. When in fact she should have been brought to Albus and myself," Clara butted in.
"Why you two?" Horace frowned.
"We're the godparents of course…..and Minerva's mother was very picky about names. You do remember Minerva's brothers do you not?" Clara asked.
Horace moved to speak and thought better of it.
"So there I was just a few minutes old in a room with a nurse just barely into her training sessions, Aradia McConnell, Melanie McGonagall, and Gordon McConnell. Three purebloods that were obsessed with the fact none of mum and dad's previous kids; nor any of their other children had correctly named their children," Jessica sighed.
"What do you mean correctly?" Ron asked.
"Oh you mean they were supposed to name the children after dead ancestors," Lorna stated.
"Yes that's right," Albus nodded.
"So because none of the other McConnells or McGonagalls correctly named their children I being the current youngest of the brood am there for condemned to have a name with six of the most important names," Jessica exclaimed.
"Who are you named after then?" Lorna asked curiously.
"Jessica for Grandpa Gordon's mother, Katherine for Grandma Aradia's mother, Anastasia for Grandma Aradia, Isabella for Isabella Harris that started the McConnell line with David McConnell, Minerva for my mother, and Raphael is for Raphael Conson the witch who tamed a dragon and was Dad's great-great something or other grandmother," Jessica answered.
"That's a lot to live up to," Severus stated sourly.
"She lived up to it though as I recall," Clara smiled brightly, "Didn't she Minerva dear?"
Minerva smiled a grand caring smile at Jessica who smiled brightly at her mother. "She was the best keeper and head girl we ever had," Minerva nodded.
"You were on the Quidditch team?" Ron asked interestedly.
"Aye she was. She dated your brother Charlie for a long time. I thought she'd marry him…but I won," AJ grinned kissing his wife's cheek.
"They went to school with Charlie you know," Minerva stated.
"So you graduated just a year before we started?" Hermione asked. The two young lovers nodded.
"And you were head girl. Wasn't Charlie head boy?" Hermione asked.
"Yeppers," Jessica nodded, "AJ wasn't very worried about his academic standing."
"Oi I got all Os in my subjects' thank you very much," AJ frowned.
"Yeah…with my help," Jessica laughed.
"True," AJ laughed.