PLAYFUL TIMES AND PROMISES

A/N: I do not own anything harry potter.

Hello again, this is kind of a filler chapter, but its really interesting. So enjoy :D

Friday night was a small and lovable affair in the Potter family. Harry had directly gone home after the meeting and spent time with Lily, chasing her in the whole house, tickling her and playing games with her. Ginny too had joined them in the fun later and now all three of them were fast asleep in the living room. Lily was on the couch, Harry was half falling from the couch with his glasses still in place and mouth agape, only thing preventing him from falling was Lily's grip on his waist. Ginny was already on the floor. Lily's grip loosened and Harry fell face down on the floor, just opposite Lily, suddenly startled.

As soon as he woke up, he jumped to his feet thinking about how HE could have fallen asleep. It was already midnight and he had to move early to the ministry tomorrow. It was Saturday and their mission was just about to take a new turn. He slowly and gently shook Ginny so that she would wake up, she did.

"Come love, let's get to bed", he mumbled.

"Yeah, when did we sleep here ?"

"Oh, I don't know!"

"Will you drop Lily to her room?"

"Of course, this is not the thing to say !"

Lily moved a bit when he picked her up, but otherwise relaxed and snuggled deeper into his shoulder searching for the warmth.

When they were in their own bedroom, Harry waited for Ginny to settle down in the bed. H then sat next to her, closed the distance between them and took her hand into his. He was already nervous as it is. Ginny looked up. "What happened ?"

Gin, we have got a big hint as to where the death eaters would be."

"Well, that's some really good news, isn't it ?"

"Yeah."

Both of them remained silent for a moment. He knew she would not take the news nicely, so he waited patiently and nervously. After a little more of the comfortable silence, Ginny asked,

"You have to go on a mission, don't you ?"

"Yes."

"You know I am always so afraid for kind of a job is this ? I know that you now have experience and that it's about time I understand. It has been years since you became an auror. But then too, I always feel that there is something wrong. There is."

"Don't worry Gin. Nothing has happened to me till now."

"What do you mean by that? Do you want something to HAPPEN ?"

"Well...I don't know, you all are the love of my life, I don't think I can stay away from you for longer than a year anyway", he joked.

"A YEAR ?"

"Yes."

"Shut up, you stupid prat."

Harry started laughing. After glaring at him for what felt like an eternity, Ginny too started laughing. Then, on a more serious note, she said, "Be careful, alright ? Remember, we all love you and want you back in one piece".

"Yeah, yeah ! Relax Gin. Its just a one day mission".

"No, seriously Harry, if you come back injured, be ready for my multiple bat- bogey curses".

"BLOODY HELL !"

Harry moved closer than ever to her, Ginny allowed him to. They both saw the extreme love in each other's eyes. Ginny was lost in the emarald green ones, while Harry was swimming in the chocolate brown might have passed, but there love was still as strong as it could ever , they kissed, deeply. It was filled with compassion and the need for each other to understand. They both totally knew each other's minds as their own. It was a reminder of the love they possessed. Harry breathed in his wife's flowery scent and lost himself in was a wonderful moment which he never wanted to end. His all problems were forgotten when he was with Ginny, she just made him feel so happy.

They did not even realize when they fell asleep, arm in arm, hand in hand. It was a really peaceful sleep.

Meanwhile at Hogwarts school of Withcraft and Wizadry, Albus Severus Potter was dumbstruck. Although it had been only two weeks since the school had started, he was still in awe of the castle. And here he was, sitting in the Great Hall eating dinner with his friend Seb. Seb was Sabastian Finnegan, a boy from his dorm who was muttering about the first class tomorrow being Transfiguration and how he had not even started his homework of changing beetles into buttons. Alongside, Seb was eating his dinner.

While Al had his spoon and fork in each hand, but was too busy glaring at his elder brother to care about the delicious food in front of him. James Sirius Potter was sitting at a six feet distance from him and was eating as well as laughing with his friends.

Apparently, James had decided to play a serious prank at dinner and Al had been pleading with James not to do so. Although, he knew that his brother was one hell of a prankster. Albus knew that the invisibility cloak and the Marauders Map that dad had given James was for both of them and even Lily when she came to Hogwarts. But, James had decided that he would rather not share those with his siblings. Al was very angry about this too.

And now, any minute, James would startle the whole school with his antiques.

Sure enough, as if to properly justify Al's thoughts and give them an appreciation, suddenly, the whole Great Hall was very still, everyone sat in a stunned silence-

And then all hell broke loose. There was total chaos and shouting everywhere. All the slytherins were supporting purple skin with horns and snake like tongues were rolling out of their mouths! All the Ravenclaws were supporting beaks and brown feathers so that when they spoke, their voices came as a bird squeak and when they moved their feathered arms around, they actually flew two feet in the air. Also, the Hufflepuffs had suddenly gone all yellow and while some were bouncing up and down about four or five feet in the air, others were crawling on the floor supporting rabbit ears and teeth. So as to not raise any suspicion for Gryffindors, James had bewithched his own house had turned into cats while others into rats, all red! This was the first time that no cat was chasing any rat. But from all their mouths, lion like roars were coming out which would make anyone afraid.

Though, they were red with anger or due to his trick, he was himself was sporting red colour and a cat look. If he used such skills in his studies, his parents and siblings would have been proud. But, only he knew how much hard work he had done to achieve this. To any outsider, who suddenly comes inside, it would be an incredible sight.

James saw his elder brother Al, literally roaring ferociously at him from across the table, and it was a scary sight. But the hardwork was worth the effect. If no one else, then his uncle George and hopefully uncle Fred in heaven would have been bursting with pride.

Even the teachers had gone all barbaric. Up at the staff table, Professor Longbottom's face had turned into a balloon which was inflaming and shrinking. He didn't seem to know where he was going as he bumped into the teachers, table and children. It was funny to see his uncle like that.

Professor McGonagall was in total fury, she looked ready to kill, her nostrils were flaring in anger. No one would have been surprised if fire came out of them. Unfortunately, she, along with several others had not started their food yet, so they remained as normal as they could while watching the Great Hall in such a state.

Professor Theia, their DADA teacher, who was once an auror was besides herself with laughter. She was really amused by the tricks children played at hogwarts. Professor Slughorn looked like he had a tickling charm on him and his whole body was shaking with laughter. He was sitting in weird angles while mumbling for help to stop the tickling. Filch was bursting with anger. He had eaten something due to which his arms, legs and nose were all increasing in length at an alarming rate. Mrs. Norris was nowhere to be found.

Transfiguration teacher along with Minevra and Professor Thiea were charging towards the crawling, flying, roaring and hissing students and were trying to bring things back to normal.

It was almost half past eleven, long after the curfew, when the unharmed teachers and others were finally to bring everything back to normal. Al was in total fury. He would definately complain about his charming brother to Mum and Dad. How could James do THAT! Here he was, trying to make a good impression on his teachers, and James had already become the biggest was his elder brother, he should use his so called elder brain at least sometimes!

Al had gone and told Professor McGonagall that it was James who created all the chaos in the Great Hall and James and James had received a month worth of detentions with Filch. He had also received a big lecture from her about how anything could have gone wrong with his charms and transfigurations and what all major effects it could have on humans. James silently agreed to this. He thanked heavens that nothing had gone too wrong. It was honestly his first time to play a dangerous prank at such a huge level, and he was seriously planned on not doing so again for a very long time. He was in third year for Merlin's sake! James had protest against detentions to the deaf ears of his headmistress and had reluctantly agreed that his detentions would start from next Monday.

He was furious with Al. But then, he was too much pleased with himself to care and thought that the detentions were worth it. Al was new at Hogwarts and would understand that his elder brother would never change, no matter he is at school or at home. The only thing he feared was his mother's wrath, when she would come to know about it. Dad would shrug it off, he thought, apparently amused, but this time, he was a bit doubtful.

He went to bed late that night thinking about how stupid it was of him to forget about the potions essay he had to do when, it was potions class, first thing on Monday. And after tickling all the breath out of Professor Slughorn, he would surely kill him. He sighed. Tomorrow was going to be a long day.

A/N: I am really sorry. I know I have been too late to update. But don't worry, I am writing this story and I am in no mood of abandoning it. But, the updates can be late. Particularly till Octobar as my first term exams are on the way :( So, sorry about that. Next chapter is pretty serious. Please comment and tell me what you think.

Thank you :)