As months passed, the school went on regularly. The time for the exams arrived sooner then any of the students wished.
Liv was in the library reading her charms book and Evan's notes from the previous year in order to study for the exam. Victoire, Annie and Jason were also there revising the things they learned that year.
"Can anyone tell me who had the idea of creating exams?" Jason asked.
"I don't know, but it is not my favourite person at the time," Victoire murmured.
"Come on, don't be babies! Exams are needed to know if we understood what we were taught," Annie said, receiving looks from her friend. "Oh, who am I kidding? Exams suck."
"Amen to that," Liv said. She closed her books. "I'm done with studying today!"
"Quiet, Miss Black," the librarian said.
"Sorry Madame Pince," Liv whispered.
"Let's get out of here," Victoire suggested and they all agreed.
When they left the library, they ran into Teddy Lupin.
"Hey, weren't you studying?" he asked.
"We needed to leave the library," Annie told him. "Freaky place."
"It was a lot worse before. I think Madame Pince turned a lot softer after she got married to Filch last year. Still, they make a scary couple," Teddy told them.
"Scary is being soft. I'd hate to be their kid," Jason said. "That would surely traumatize anyone."
"A complete nightmare. Well, I'm going to borrow a book. See you later," Teddy mentioned before leaving.
The group proceeded to their respective dormitories in order to leave their things in there and agreed to meet in the entrance hall for a walk around the grounds.
Izzy was in her house, reading a magazine when she heard a noise coming from upstairs. She immediately got up and went there.
She opened the twin's bedroom door and found them playing with the construction blocks that they had received from Arthur in the previous Christmas.
"What did you blow up this time?" she asked them in a bored tone.
"We didn't blow anything up!" Fred said, faking an offended expression.
"So what noise was that?" she asked.
"We dunno," Danny told her. "Maybe it was Roxy."
"Roxy?" Izzy asked confused. Her daughter was supposed to be taking a nap in her bed. "Okay, I'm going to check."
She walked to the opposite door and the twins, who were curious to see what happened, followed her.
They got in the room to find something really odd going on.
"What on earth?" Izzy said.
"Cool!" chorused the twins.
The room was filled with toys that seemed to be flying. Roxy was sitting in her bed, giggling.
"Mummy, look! Flying toys!" the little girl told her mother, pointing at a flying doll right above her. Her bright blue eyes, her father's eyes, were shinning even more than normal.
"How did you do it, sis?" Danny asked his sister excited.
"Yeah, we want to do it too!" Fred supplied.
"Honey, it is your first sign of magic!" Izzy told her daughter with a huge smile in her face.
"Magic!" Roxy chorused.
"Come play with us, Rox," Fred said and Danny nodded.
"Oh, so now you are not too advanced to play with your little sister," Izzy told them.
"We did not know she was this cool," Danny stated. "Come on Rox, let's go!"
She jumped out of her bed and followed her big brothers to their room. Her long brown hair was all messy because of the pillow but Izzy thought Roxy was too happy to be disturbed by that. She followed the children in order to suggest they took their toys downstairs and played in there. That little display of accidental magic just made her day.
Days later, the exams had passed and all the school was relieved.
Mandy and Darcy were in their dorm. Darcy was packing as they were leaving for their summer break in the following day, while Mandy was laying in the bed, talking to her.
"You should really find a guy, Darcy, live your life while you are young," Mandy told her friend. "Do you know Walter Harris from Hufflepuff? He's kind of cute, you know? Not that I care, because a have a boyfriend, a very good boyfriend."
"I know Walter Harris is cute," Darcy said. "And I am sure his girlfriend agrees."
"Wait, he has a girlfriend?" Mandy asked.
"Yeah, Nora Hennessey," she told her.
"Wait, our house's Quidditch captain?" Darcy nodded. "Oh, I didn't know. She and Alex knew each other very well, if you understand me."
"She was doing him. Poor girl…" she said.
Mandy ignored Darcy's last comment. "Hogwarts is a big sea. It's plenty of fish for you to catch."
"I'm not interested in dating, Mandy," Darcy stated.
"Bullshit, you're afraid of getting attached," Mandy declared.
"Don't worry about me, Mandy. By the way, shouldn't you be packing?"
"I can do it tomorrow morning," she said.
"Someday, your low organizational skilsl will bite you in the ass," Darcy warned her.
"Oh, did Darcy Finnigan just used a vulgar expression?" Mandy asked, amazed.
"Shut up."
"We're rubbing it in you!"
"You're dreaming it," Darcy told her.
"You are becoming a simple mortal being," she sang.
"Dreamer!" Darcy called her, before leaving the dorm frustrated.
Next morning, like Darcy predicted, Mandy's lack o organization caused problems.
When Darcy left the dorm by half past six in the morning to do her last chores of the year, Mandy was still sleeping. It would be cruel to wake her up that early. But when she returned to the room minutes before ten in the morning and found her friend still sleeping, she panicked.
"Amanda Margaret Black! Wake up right now! You have one hour to pack everything!" Darcy shouted.
Mandy jumped out of her bed. "What?"
"It is almost ten! Go pack!" Darcy ordered her.
Mandy opened her trunk and started to throw things in there. "Why didn't you wake me earlier?"
"I thought you had set the alarm clock!" Darcy answered. "This is the part when I say 'I told you so!'"
"Shut up and help me!"
In the middle of June, one month and a half after the school year finished in Hogwarts, George Weasley arrived home to find the magical locks changed.
"What the hell?" he murmured. He knocked on the door, but nobody answered. "Izzy? Izzy? Are you there?"
He heard noises in the house and a window opened.
"Leave now, before I hex you!" she yelled through the window.
"What's wrong? Where are the kids?" he asked.
"The kids are with your mother, now piss off!" she told him.
"Why are you so mad?" he insisted.
"I am mad because you do not know the meaning of 'last'!" she told him.
"What?!"
"Remember when I told you that Roxy would be our last kid? Guess what? You knocked me up again!" she shouted.
"Really? We are going to have another baby?" he asked smiling.
"Yes, now leave! You always manage to get me pregnant when you're around," Izzy said.
"I recall you also being in there when the kid was conceived. Please, let me in, I'll change the diapers at night in the first six months! I promise!"
She shut the window and closed the curtains. George waited for a while, until she finally opened the door.
"Make it a year and we have a deal," she told him.
"Whatever you want, honey," he agreed.
He approached her and she hit him playfully in the chest. "Hyper-fertile jackass."
"You love it," he said. "I know you do."
"Get in, before I kick you out again."
He followed her inside.
"So, with the twins you threw plates at me, with Roxy you petrified me and left me like that for hours, now, you lock me outside. What will you do next time I get you pregnant?" he asked her.
"There won't be a next time," she stated. "But if there is, one of your favourite body parts will be moved to a jar."
He gulped. "You would not do that," he stated.
"Never underestimate the mind of a hormonal pregnant woman."
A/N: Here it is, another chapter of "The Ties that bind us". In the next one, I will skip several months, so get ready. I'd like to state how desapointed I am! I only received two reviews in the last chapter (by the way, thank you, reviewers)! Please, it is not that difficult to leave a review. Give me your feedback.
Several readers said that with all the kids, the story might get confusing, so here is a list of the names and ages in the first chapter of this fiction(some of them did not appear yet.)
By Sirius and Mia:
Izzy 29
Alex 16
Mandy 16
Evan 12
Liv 11
By Bill and Fleur:
Victoire 11
Dominique 7 (PS: Dominique is a girl, someone asked me the gender before)
Louis 1
By Charlie and Valera:
Nicholas (Nicky) 10
Helen 5
By Percy and Audrey:
Molly 8
By George and Izzy:
Fred 7
Daniel (Danny) 7
Roxanne (Roxy) 3
By Ron and Hermione:
Rose 5
Hugo 3
By Harry and Ginny:
James 7
Albus 5
Lily 3
By Neville and Hannah:
Frank 8
Alice (Ali) 7
Helga 1
By Monica and Derek:
Adam 5
David 3
By Lee and Verity:
Angela (Angie) 6
