Happy Wednesday :) So I had a snow day on Monday AND Tuesday :) but I was back at school today :( but you guys don't want me complaining about lack of snow, on with the story:
disclaimer: everything you recognise is not mine, it belongs to JKR.
Back at the burrow
'Waaaa'
Teddy's screaming was the first thing to greet Harry and Ginny on their return to the burrow.
"Oh, Ginny dear, go and sort the dinner out for me please." Mrs Weasley asked, patting Teddy on the back trying desperately to stop him crying.
"Mum." Ginny whined "You know I can't cook, just give me Teddy; me and Harry will calm him down."
"Oh… Very well." Mrs Weasley sighed.
"Thanks for looking after him Molly." Harry said, taking Teddy from her.
"Oh it was nothing; I raised Fred and George, remember." She replied, then went quiet as she realised what she'd just said.
"I'm sorry." Harry said
"It's fine dear." She replied then quickly made her way back to the kitchen.
Ginny was looking at the ground, clearly trying to keep from crying
"Hey." Harry said, lightly punching her arm awkwardly with his free hand, "Don't be sad…" He stopped; unable to think of any comforting words. He'd ruled out saying 'they would have wanted you to be happy' or 'it's what they would have wanted' because in all fairness, those sorts of things never made anyone feel better.
"No… I know… I'm being stupid…" Ginny replied, sniffling.
"No you're not." Harry replied softly. They carried on up the stairs in silence and Harry put his arms around Ginny as soon as he had put a sleeping Teddy down into his crib.
"I'm being silly." Ginny insisted with another sniff.
"You're really not… we've all lost people…" Harry said, trying to avoid saying Fred; in fear of pushing her over the edge and making her cry.
"I know." She replied.
Harry kissed her forehead and then the two sat down to examine the things they had taken from Harry's vault.
"What are those glasses like?" Ginny asked
"Great, I can't remember a time when my vision had been so clear!" Harry replied
"You can… you can control when you see through things, right?" Ginny asked
Harry blushed, understanding what she meant. "Yes." He said, "And don't worry… I'll be… mature… with them." Ginny let out a breath she didn't realise she'd been holding in.
"That necklace suits you." Harry complemented, Ginny blushed.
Teddy's hair turned bright pink in his sleep, Harry knew that as a sign he was dreaming about his mother and was surely about to start crying, he went over to the crib and lifted him out.
"Hey, little man." He said Teddy looked at Harry, confused for a bit. Then he smiled and made to grab his glasses. "Oi!" Harry exclaimed, Ginny giggled
"Your hairs all pink Ted'!" Ginny said, ruffling his hair, Teddy giggled
"Come on Teddy, you wanna go to sleep or you want some food?" Harry asked
Teddy squirmed about, clearly not sleepy anymore, his hair turned back to its usual bright blue so Harry took that as he wanted food.
"Shall we?" Ginny asked opening the door.
"We shall." Harry replied, holding Teddy in an easier way so he could carry him down the stairs.
After the hour long battle to get Teddy to swallow the pureed mush known as baby food and covering the Weasley's kitchen in orange mush Teddy was full and very messy.
"Someone needs a bath." Ginny commented, brushing some baby food from her hair.
"Who, teddy or you?" Harry asked jokingly, Ginny gently whacked him with the brush.
"Oww!" Harry complained, at least she thought it had been gentle. "Let's just go put him in the bath before the bat bogey hex comes out." Harry said, taking Teddy and speed walking up the stairs before Ginny could hit him again.
"Agua..." Harry started to say the water spell when Hermione burst through the door.
"Wait!" she said, Harry and Ginny looked at her, confused. "You can't just summon water like that to wash a baby!" She explained, "They need a specific temperature.
"The bath is temperature regulated, Hermione, like my mum had enough time to regulate water temperature with 7 kids!" Ginny replied. Ron appeared behind Hermione.
"I tried to tell you…" He said
"Shut up, Ronald." She said, and then stormed off.
Harry shrugged and said "Augmente." Water flowed from his wand and into the bath tub.
By the time all the food was washed from teddy the whole bathroom was close to flooded, Both Harry and Ginny looked as if they'd got into the tub along with Teddy just with their clothes on. Harry cast a quick drying spell on all 3 of them and put Teddy into some clean clothes.
"I think I'm getting the hang of this godfather thing!" Harry smiled
"I told you you'd be a good godfather, didn't I!" Ginny said, smiling just as much
"Well, I've still got to get him to sleep again…" Harry cringed remembering last night and how Teddy had woke him up every half hour or so. He'd put a silencing charm on the room so as not to disturb the rest of the house but that night had been worse than the nights he's had nightmares about Voldemort.
"Why don't you get flame or…" Ginny began to suggest that he should get one of the house elves from potter mansion to help him out, since Molly wouldn't let her in the same room as Harry for the night, even to help him out, when Harry sensed someone's presence nearby, thanks to his heightened senses and for some reason he didn't want anyone to know about Potter mansion yet, so He's quieted Ginny.
"Shh… Someone's listening in." He whispered. They walked out to find Ron sat at the door with a Weasleys wizard wheezes spy ear with him.
"Ron, what are you doing?" Ginny asked
"Uh… umm…" Ron stuttered
"Better question, Why are you spying on us?" she asked, Ron flinched as he noticed Ginny had her wand in her hand
"Uh… no reason… I… I mean… I wasn't spying…" Harry looked at the ear questioningly, "I… I found this… on… on the floor and I was picking it up." Ron stuttered.
Ginny raised her wand ready to cast the bat bogey hex but Harry grabbed her right wrist, her wand arm and dragged her off into his bedroom.
"Why didn't you let me hex him?" Ginny asked disappointedly, "He was spying on us!" Harry smiled, winked then said:
"Because Ginny, That would have taken time and I can't stand to be away from you any longer…"
"What… but Teddy…" Ginny said then she cottoned on that Ron was still spying on them for whatever reason.
"Teddy won't understand…" Harry said
"Good point."
Harry put Teddy down in the crib and kissed Ginny as noisily as possible.
"I won't object if you hex him now…" Harry whispered, Ginny smirked and opened the door to find Ron red faced, stuck between anger and embarrassment.
"You are spying on us!" Ginny said
"I knew it!" Ron exclaimed, "You two are sick, I mean without Teddy there is one thing but with a baby in the same room, that's just disgusting!"
"Ron, we just kissed." Harry said, calmly rocking Teddy in his arms
"But… but you weren't going to leave it there, if… If you didn't…. if you didn't open the door you would have…"
"Shut up Ron, we were pranking you." Ginny said then blasted him with the bat bogey hex. Just then George arrived at the top of the stairs looking a small smile playing around the corners of his mouth for the first time since the battle of Hogwarts.
"That was the worst prank I've ever seen." He said; his voice croaky from crying and not talking for so long.
"Well, maybe you wanna help us get better?" Ginny asked hopefully.
George considered this for a while, "Yeah… Maybe we can find some inspiration in my room…" He turned toward his room next door to Ginny's on the next floor, followed by a dumbfounded Harry and Ginny.
"Is George back?" Ron asked Hermione, hopefully; once George, Harry and Ginny had disappeared up the stairs and the bat bogey hex had wore off.
"It's a start I suppose…" Hermione agreed. Just then Harry appeared at the top of the stairs.
"You couldn't keep an eye on Teddy for me please, Hermione?" he asked, "Just whilst I'm with George."
"Sure." Hermione sighed. Ron and Hermione sat on Harry's bed watching Teddy when they heard faint giggling- not the full out belly laughs that used to be so common in the Weasley household- it was the first laughing to be heard in a long while then it was followed by a large bang.
"I suppose George is on the mend." Ron said, a worried look on his face, but his eyes told Hermione that he couldn't have been happier.
"That or someone tripped over an unfinished prank." Hermione laughed.
That's it :) hope you enjoyed it, I really liked writing Teddy eating and going in the bath, it's fun. Sorry this chapter started on a downer but you have to admit it got better and I think future chapters will be a lot happier too :) tell me your thoughts in a review :p
thank you to:
Scarlet-Rose333: Thanks for reviewing, Gald you like it! keep reading xoxo
anthony37: yeah, Harry is still shocked about all this but he's getting better at it, with the help of Ginny :) keep reading
