A/N: Please R&R. Finally got a chance to write! Thank you to everyone who came over from 'Belladonna and Bluebells' I look forward to hearing what you think!? Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Blessed Be J.K!

Platform 9 ¾

September

Day of Return

to Hogwarts

Harry Potter awoke abruptly with his scar prickling to find Ron Weasley already dressed, holding, their son James who was fussing.

". . . better hurry up, Mum's going ballistic, she says we're going to miss the train. . . ." Harry flung back the covers and jumped out of bed. There was a lot of commotion in the house. The horrible portrait of Mrs Black was screaming at the top of her lungs. They could hear Ron's sister, Ginny singing, trying to help one of their best friends, Hermione Granger's twin boys ready, one was crying loudly down the hall. Mrs Weasley was yelling at the twins for wreak-less use of their magic, now they were seventeen and could use Magic outside of Hogwarts. The rest of the summer that Harry had spent at twelve Grimmauld Place, the headquarters for the secret Order of the Phoenix, had been an eventful one. The comings and goings of the Order, interested the students greatly. He was so please to be back among his best friends, his young family, his Godfather Sirius Black and the Wealseys, whom had always treated him like one of the group. Harry's daughter Eileen was kicking her legs against the bars of her crib, making them rattle and their son, Fabian was fast asleep wrapped up and surrounded by pillows in the centre of Ron's bed.

Harry quickly dressed into jeans and a t-shirt and lifted his daughter out of her crib.

"Hello, my darling girl" He cooed as he rocked her. He carried her over to his bed and pulled out a change of clothes and a fresh nappy from his trunk. Ron was dressing James, he rarely handed Eileen, she was the daughter Harry and Severus Snape, their potions Professor at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Whereas James and Fabian were both Ron and Harry's sons, Ron had not fully accepted the responsibility of caring for the most hated Professor at Hogwarts daughter. While Snape had carried and delivered Eileen, as well as her twin sister whom he had named Minerva, she had passed away before birth; Snape had given Harry the parental rights to his surviving daughter, in an attempt to keep her safe from Lord Voldemort. Severus was working for Albus Dumbledore as a spy in Voldemort's ranks.

When all their belongings were packed into their trunks and everyone was assembled in the entrance hall, trying their best to ignore the screeches from Mrs Black, they prepared to leave the house.

"Leave your trunks, brooms and pets, Alastor will deal with the luggage. . . . Oh, for heaven's sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!" Mrs Weasley boomed over Sirius' mother's voice. A bearlike black dog had appeared in their company, while they clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to exit. "Oh honestly . . ." said Mrs. Weasley despairingly, "well, on your own head be it!" he scolded the dog. With babies packed tightly into their slings and everyone dressed, feed and lined up at the door, Mrs Weasley wrenched open the front door and they all filed out into the weak September sunlight. As they company made their way swiftly in single file down the road a bit to where they meet up with the Auror Tonks. The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing his own tail. Harry couldn't help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.

It took them twenty minutes to reach King's Cross station by foot and nothing more eventful happened during that time than Sirius scaring a couple of cats for their entertainment. Once inside the station they lingered casually beside the barrier between platforms nine and ten until the coast was clear, then each of them leaned against it in turn and fell easily through onto platform nine and three quarters, where the Hogwarts Express stood belching sooty steam over a platform packed with departing students and their families.

Fellow fifth years and new parents, Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil and Neville Longbottom joined them, just before they boarded the long red stream train, each carrying a set of twins in cloth slings that hung across each side of their chests. The summer had felt like forever and they were extremely glad to all be together again.

"I hope the others make it in time," said Mrs. Weasley anxiously, staring behind her at the wrought-iron arch spanning the platform, through which new arrivals would come. And just as she said this, Remus Lupin and Mr Weasley followed by Alastor Moody stepped there the barrier with trollies full of trunks, pet cages and nappy bags. They grabbed the baby bags they would be needing the and the rest was promptly loaded onto the train.

"Well, look after yourselves," said Lupin, shaking hands all round. He reached Harry last and gave him a clap on the shoulder. "You too, Harry. Be careful and look care of those babies" Harry, grinned. He would miss having 'uncle' Lupin around.

"Yeah, keep your head down and your eyes peeled" said Moody ordered.

"It's been great meeting all of you" said Tonks, hugging Hermione and Ginny and kissing each the babies' goodbye. A warning whistle sounded; the students still on the platform started hurrying onto the train.

"Oh…Quickly, now!" Mrs Weasley hurried them. She hugged everyone and kissed her grandbabies repeatedly then pushed them onto the train. "Write. . . . Be good. . . . If you've forgotten anything we'll send it on. . . . Onto the train, now, hurry. . . ." Harry hugged the giant black dog and scratched behind his ear. Sirius used his large pink tongue to give him and Eileen in her sling, big sloppy dog kisses, before Harry was pushed onto the train by Mr Weasley, who gave him a reassuring look.

The large group found two empty compartments next to one another and crammed into the windows to wave goodbye, as the train started to move. The figures of Tonks, Lupin, Moody, and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley shrank rapidly but the black dog was bounding alongside the window, wagging his tail; blurred people on the platform were laughing to see it chasing the train, and then they turned the first corner and they were off. The group got settled, found bottles and nappies and whatever else they were going to need. The train was gathering still more speed, so that the houses outside the window flashed past. Harry sat with Lavender and Parvati and caught up with news of the summer, while Ron and Hermione had to head off to the find the other Prefects. The two had received their badges, with their books lists. They were required to go receive their instructions from the Head Boy and Girl and then patrol the corridors of the train from time to time.

Ron left their boys would Harry and his brother's Fred and George and Hermione agreed to leave her twin boys with Ginny and her good friend Luna Lovegood. The train rattled onward, speeding them out into open country. It was an odd, unsettled sort of day; one moment the carriage was full of sunlight and the next they were passing beneath ominously grey clouds. The rest of the day went on without concern, apart from an unwelcome visit from Draco Malfoy and his sidekicks. Draco had been made Slytherin Prefect along with Pansy Parkinson and he seemed be enjoying the power it gave him. No doubt he would cause trouble, throughout the year. The prospect made Harry, wary. The weather remained undecided as they travelled farther and farther north. Rain spattered the windows in a half-hearted way, then the sun put in a feeble appearance before clouds drifted over it once more.

When darkness fell and lamps came on inside the carriages and at last the train began to slow down and they heard the usual racket up and down it as everybody scrambled to get their luggage and pets assembled, ready for departure. Ron and Hermione came by again to collect the four boys in their slings and went to assist with the empting of the train. The group had changed into their uniforms and given the babies once last nappy change before the ride up to Hogwarts. They stepped onto the platform, packed with students and exited the station to climb into the black carriages waiting to take years two to seven up to the school. Soon they would be home again at last.

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