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Family and Friends

When Albus arrived at the portrait guarding his and Minerva's private quarters he quickly murmured their new password "little witch" before he entered his rooms two a scene that would forever make him happy.

He could just see little Hermione's brown hair through the lace of her basinet and his darling wife was fast asleep on the settee by her side he found that he could not help but smile at the scene. On the floor by the fire he could see five letters and quietly so as not to disturb his girls he crept over to pick them up and headed to his office where we wouldn't disturb them, but before he left he cast a quick ward to alert him when either of them woke.

In his office he sat behind his desk and reached for his letter opener before he broke the seal on all the letters. The first he looked at was from his brother:

Dear Albus and Minerva,

I send my deepest congratulations to you both and I am of course very thrilled at finally being an Uncle and I cannot wait to meet dearest Hermione. But with regret I am unsure as to when we will meet as our schedules do tend to clash, however I will endeavour to visit as soon as possible, and If I can't come to you maybe you will bring her to Hogsmeade to me. In the meantime I would appreciate a photo.

Love and Congratulations

Aberforth Dumbledore.

As Albus finished the letter he found it sad that his brother could not make the time to come meet his Niece, but he could appreciate the fact that he at least wanted to because at one time that wold not have been the case as it was not until he met and married Minerva that they even spoke, that they did know and saw each other was only down to her meddling. He also knew when they were free Aberforth was usually busy so he promised himself to take Hermione on the next Hogsmeade trip in order to meet her Uncle if he had not been up to see her before then. For now he thought a photo will have to do and quickly accioed the photo of Hermione lying wide awake in her hospital crib taken than morning and made quick copy and sent Fawkes to deliver it to his brother.

The next letter he opened was obviously written by a very thrilled Dorea Potter as the writing was in no way in her best hand and there were even a couple of tear marks on the parchment it read:

I am so happy for you both, I can hardly believe that you already have your baby and hear I thought we would have them the same time, but I guess she is like the both of you, rather impatient. I cannot wait to meet her and I and Charlus will be over when he gets home from work. Until then I wish you the deepest Congratulations and Minerva I want the truth on what childbirth is like and I'm sure Hope will feel the same so be prepared for a discussion.

Until later

Dorea Potter.

Albus could not help but laugh at her letter it was just classic Dorea, and he was not surprised in the slightest that he would be seeing his friends that night. She was of course right their children should have been born closer together but like she and he himself had said Hermione like her parents was just plain impatient to see the world.

The third letter was clearly sealed with the Black family seal so he knew this was Alphard's letter:

My dearest friends

I am so happy to receive your news a daughter is a true blessing from Merlin and I cannot wait to meet her and wish congratulations in person to you both, so I will be of course visiting tonight.

See you later

Alphard

Dumbledore smiled he knew Alphard as one of his oldest friends would be like and Uncle to Hermione and he could not wait for them to meet. He had no doubt they would get on especially well as Alphard was a big child at heart.

The letter from the Lupin's was written by the very sweet and old school friend of Minerva's Hope Lupin and I was very similar to Dorea but without the playfulness it read:

Oh this is wonderful news congratulations to you both. I take from your letter you all must be fine which I am very glad to hear especially as Hermione is a month early. I cannot wait to join you in motherhood Minerva just a couple more weeks and Hermione should have two playmates. We will visit tonight as I cannot wait to meet your daughter and see you both.

All my love

Hope

Albus was very touched by Hope's concern and thought it was so her as she was always so caring about everyone. It would be interesting he thought when she had her baby and Dorea had hers there would be three children In their group of friends then and they would all attend Hogwarts at the same time. He was sure he felt his hair go a little greyer with that mere thought as he could not begin to imaging the havoc they would cause together because if their children were like them in anyway, they would certainly be powerful and that combined with their other traits and could not help think Merlin save Hogwarts.

The last letter was very brief and to the point:

Congratulations. See you tonight.

Alastor.

Abus laughed at that it was just so Alastor the serious and over cautious head Auror that he was and always so brief and to the point. And he knew he would be another interesting Uncle figure for his daughter. They all would Hermione would have such an extended family that would all care and love her, and it would be the same for their children boys or girls and found he was very grateful.

It was that point his ward alerted him to someone waking up and if he listened closer he could hear the smallest of whimpers so he decided to return to his quarters as his family were clearly waking up.

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Minerva was having a lovely dream when she was woken by the cry of her sweet daughter.

"There, there my darling girl mummy's here" she whispered soothingly as she rose and picked up Hermione.

"What's wrong hmmm? Did you have a nice sleep?" Minerva asked her as she sat back down on the settee with Hermione now safely in her arms. "Are you hungry my darling?" she asked calmly as she undid her dress so she could feed her baby.

It was as Hermione began to feed that she realised Albus was across the room standing by his office door where he had clearly just come from. "How long have you been back and standing there? Minerva enquired in a soft voice so as not to disturb Hermione as she smiled at her husband.

"Not very long my dear, but the two of you were so peaceful and I did not wish to disturb you so I took our mail into my office" he explained as he walked to sit beside his wife.

"Oh and what is it our friends say?" Minerva enquired excitingly.

"Well it is as we thought we will have visitors tonight" he laughed as she smiled "by all except my brother that is"

"Oh no what did he say?" Minerva asked sadly.

"He wished us congratulations and is happy to have a niece but he is unable to come tonight but will try to visit as soon as possible and asks us to take her to him if he cannot" Albus explained.

"Well that is not that bad then just circumstances" Minerva smiled "and what did the others say" she inquired as she turned to watch Hermione.

"They just wished us congratulations, Dorea warned that she and Hope will want to talk about what labour is really like he laughed and Hope was Hope worried about how you and Hermione were considering she is nearly a month early, the letters are in my office I'll fetch them for you to read yourself later" he explained as he reached to take his daughter to burp her.

Minerva happily handed Hermione over to her husband and placed a cloth over his shoulder to protect his robes before she stood to get a glass of water "and what happened when you made the announcement to the school?" she queried as she walked back towards them with her glass of water.

"Well they were thrilled it was very touching, and Horace and Pomona asked how you both were of course" Albus replied as he smiled at his little witch as he lowered her from his shoulder after she let out a little burp.

"Your right it is very touching how much they care" replied Minerva as she watched Hermione begin to drift of in her daddy's arms.

Both parents just watch on as their little witches' sparkling blue eyes began to close. Before Albus learned back into the back of the couch and pulled Minerva into him so that her head was resting on his chest and they both soon joined their daughter in the land of nod.

So what did you think? Sorry for the long wait and for the fact that we didn't meet Alphard, Moody, the Lupins and Potters in this chapter as promised But when it came to writing this chapter I realised that what happened in this chapter needed to happen before the other characters entered which will now be next chapter. Thank you for all your support with this story so far and for all that have reviewed but I would love some more reviews because I really want your opinions and to know what you think good or bad. Plus I will shortly be putting up a poll on my page to do with this story so please go there and vote because I want to know what you all want. Thanks and until next time :)