When they arrived at the Leaky Cauldron, James and Albus were used to the immediate attention that came to them, since they had come to Diagon Ally with their father before, but Lily was not, as she completely freaked out at the all the attention and clung to her father's side for dear life.

"Calm down Lily." Harry said, picking his daughter up into his arms.

"Back off all of you." Ginny said, for while James and Albus had been nervous about all the attention, they hadn't freaked out like Lily was now.

"Just answer us a few questions please." One of the wizards asked.

"I swear to Merlin if you don't leave us alone, I'll show you all how I earned the rank of head of the Auror office." Harry bellowed, the arm that didn't have his daughter in it reaching for his wand.

Immediately the crowd dispersed, but Lily appeared to still be freaking out.

"You okay Lil?" Albus asked his little sister.

"Why were those people coming up to us?" Lily asked nervously, looking at her father.

"I don't think you're old enough to know that yet. All I'll tell you now is that I'm famous for something that happened years ago and these parasites feel the need to ambush me with questions every time I leave the house or work. I should've warned you about that though." Harry said, kissing his daughter's temple.

"After we get our gold, why don't we go and get you a treat from Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream parlor to calm you down." Ginny said.

"Why don't we get ice cream?" Albus asked, just to have James elbow him and give him a look that clearly read Shut up now before you get us grounded.

Ginny glared at her sons and said "Because you 2 aren't shaking in your father's arms like your sister. Lily wasn't prepared for all the press your father got, so she's getting a little treat to calm her down. Besides, might I remind you that unlike Lily, you 2 have brooms?"

Albus gulped, since while James was used to his mum's glare already (he received it at least once a month due to him doing something that his mother could only describe as Fred and George like), Albus had never received it before, since he was usually the good boy.


"Lily, I'm just going to go in with the boys and get our gold, you can wait out here with your mother." Harry said, since Ginny had a severe disliking of the carts and the speed they used.

"No. I want to stay with you daddy." Lily said, point blank refusing to be separated from her father at this point.

"Fine, but the goblins are creepy and the carts will give you motion sickness." Harry warned her.

"I'll stay with mummy." Lily said as she allowed Harry to put her on the ground, where she immediately ran to her mummy, who just rolled her eyes.


When Harry and the boys came out the bank, James and Albus each had a loaded money bag in their hands and Harry had 2, one for himself and one for Ginny.

"Boys, why don't you go on ahead to Uncle George and Uncle Ron's shop while we go get Lily her ice cream?" Harry suggested, for while Lily had calmed down a little bit, she was still shaking and wouldn't let Ginny put her down.

The boys nodded as they ran off towards the joke shop, since they had been here to many times before.


When James and Albus entered Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes, the shop appeared to be as busy and as exciting as usual. Explosions and fireworks burst into the air.

"James, Albus, good to see you 2 again." Ron said, coming out to see his 2 favorite nephews.

"Hey Uncle Ron." James said, hugging his uncle and Albus followed him.

"Where are your parents?" Ron asked, knowing at that Harry and Ginny were far too overprotective to let their sons come to Diagon Ally alone.

"It's Lily's first trip to Diagon Ally and mum and dad forgot to warn her about all the attention we'd get, so when we got here, she freaked out, so mum and dad promised to get her an ice cream to calm her down. Told us to come ahead and they'd meet us here." James said.

"Ice cream, probably the most wondrous form of magic in the world." Ron said, right as 2 kids, both the signature red hair, came running up to Albus and James. A boy and a girl.

The girl was Albus's age and looked a bit like their aunt Hermione and the boy was Lily's age and looked a mini Uncle Ron.

"Rose, Hugo, good to see you again." Albus said as he and James hugged their cousins.

"You to." Rose said, hugging, them back.

"Well, look who dropped by." George said as he noticed their new customers.

"Hey James, still causing trouble?" George asked.

"Of course. Mum has actually started to describe my behavior as Fred and George like." James said.

"Excellent, it looks like I've taught you well." George said, for honestly, training his nephew to be a prankster was the next best thing for him to getting his twin brother back.

"Dad is also pretty proud, says James is growing into a junior Marauder, whatever that means." Albus said.

"That is the highest praise a prankster can get. The marauders were the greatest pranksters to ever come to Hogwarts before George and Fred did." Ron said.

"Sweet." James said, right as his father, mother and sister entered the shop, Lily with an ice cream cone in her hand and chocolate dripping down her face.

"Harry, how are you?" Ron asked, shaking hands with his best friend and brother-in-law.

"I'm good. How are you and Hermione?" Harry asked.

"We're good. Hermione has been kind of swamped at work lately, but she still gets home before the kids go to bed." Ron said.

"Just imagine how busy you guys will be when the next school term gets out. Students will want to replenish their joke supply fairly quickly after school gets out." Ginny said as she hugged her brothers.

"Yep, though the back to school rush is always our best one. Especially for the students who are taking History of Magic." George said.

Harry nodded, knowing how boring that class was.

"That class is an excellent nap time thought." Ron said, just to have Ginny slap him.

"Ron, don't give James any ideas." Ginny said.

"The class is so boring that James would probably fall asleep anyway." Harry said.

"Good point." Ginny said.

"How come he doesn't get hit?" Ron asked.

"Because he made a good point and he's my husband and you just gave my son an idiotic idea and you're my brother. Do the math." Ginny said as all the kids laughed.