Chapter 4
"Albus, can you do me a favor?" Minerva asked, giving Albus that look she knew he couldn't resist.
"Anything for you Tabby, What do you want me to go get for you?" Albus asked with a playful smile across his face.
"How do you know for sure that I want you to go get me something?" Minerva said, returning Albus' playful smile.
"How do I know you want me to go get something for you.....Well, let's see it's almost lunch time, you are five months pregnant with quads.....although Rolanda thinks differently, the bell is going to ring in less than five minutes, students are going to be storming out of classes going all over the place, and it will take you a very long time to waddle down to the Great Hall, get your lunch, and get back to you classroom with enough time to eat before your next class. That's how I know." Albus said finishing up his explanation.
"You are too good, Albus." Minerva said as she just realizing that Albus was making fun of the way she was walking. "Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, I for one do not waddle around the school, I walk just like everyone else does." Minerva said playfully. "Could you please go get me some chocolate covered lemon drops?" Minerva asked.
"Since when do you like lemon drops let alone chocolate covered lemon drops." Albus asked shocked. He thought about getting a camera when he went to bring her food so he could get proof that she did actually like sweets.
"Can you also bring me some ginger newts...oh...and some mustard on the side to dip the in as well. And also I want some firewhisky as well." Minerva asked hoping he would bring her all of the things she wanted.
"Minerva!!!.......please don't tell me you are planning to drink FIREWHISKY when you are pregnant...I didn't even know you liked it. This could harm the babies.....Minerva, this is serious." Albus said shocked at what his wife just asked for.
"No Albus, I do not plan on drinking the firewhisky, however, I do plan on sniffing it though. I've really been liking the smell of it lately." Minerva said explaining herself.
"Also bring me some pumpkin juice to drink would you." Minerva added.
"Is that all Madame?" Albus said hoping she wouldn't ask him to go get anymore gross combinations of food. Albus then leaves Minerva's class room.
"Chocolate cover lemon drops, ginger newts with mustard on the side, firewhisky to sniff, what next." Albus mumbled to himself not knowing that someone was coming down the hall.
"What's next, geez old man, everyone should know that, peanut butter and pickles." Said a familiar voice.
This voice belonged to none other than Rolanda Hooch, One of Minerva's best friends.
"What are you doing around here anyways?" Albus asked knowing she was up to something.
"What... I have to get permission to talk to my friend." Rolanda said joking with the headmaster.
"Okay...but Rolanda, Whatever you do DON'T make her mad, the smallest things could set her off due to her condition, and you remember what happened last time." Albus said laughing at the thought of that happening again.
"I try to forget that...Why you had to bring that up." Rolanda said as she looked at the scars on her arms which resembled slashes. The sad part is that wasn't even all of the scars she had much more. Minerva had Hooch landed in the hospital wing for days. "She's dangerous when she is mad and in her animagus form. I'm glad she gave me an apology though." Rolanda said as her and Albus parted ways, Albus going to the Great Hall, Rolanda going to Minerva's office.
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By the time Albus got to the Great Hall it was very crowded. He got what his wife had asked for very quickly, so no one would see the food and make a face at him and tell him that's gross. just as he was leaving the Great Hall, he runs into Harry and Athena. He was hoping they would be willing to do them a favor. He pretty much knew what the answer would be, but he thought he would ask anyways.
"Can you two bring this to my Minerva for me? I have errands to run and a few things to do." Albus asked knowing that the two knew what those errands and things were.
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"Rolanda, don't you have a class you should be teaching right now." Minerva said wondering why her best friend was in her office.
"No, I actually don't have a class at the moment, so that's why I come to talk with you." Rolanda said trying to hold back a laugh. Rolanda, the whole staff and all of the Gryffindors, knew something that Minerva didn't.
"What kind of trouble have you gotten yourself into this time, Ro." Minerva said rolling her eyes, remembering how much trouble she got into as a student, compared to Poppy and herself.
"What makes you think I did something bad, Minerva McGonagall? Oh....You are not McGonagall anymore.....Minerva McGonagall Dumbledore." Rolanda said really emphasizing Minerva's last name. "You were just as bad as I was sneaking out and going about the castle past hours, and you just happened to be in Professor Dumbledore's private quarters." Rolanda said with a mischievous smirk.
"How did you know all of that?" Minerva said shocked that her friend knew that she never told anyone about that.
"Min, you've got to be kidding me, it was pretty obvious that you liked him. It was all very obvious, the way you looked at him, the way you talked to him, always answering every question in Transfiguration class. It was really obvious after we graduated. How do you explain Athena?" Roland said with a victorious smile across her face because she made Minerva blush for the first time in years.
"We were married before Athena was born," Minerva said defending herself. She couldn't argue with the rest of what her friend said because it was true.
She also knew that Rolanda was coming up with a comeback at the moment.
"You so weren't married when she was conceived. Min, I'd like to see you try to get out of this one." Rolanda said trying to ignore the fact that her friend was getting angrier by the second. Roland stepped backed a little closer to the door in case she needed to make a break for it. To her surprise Minerva gave her a mischievous smile because she knew something.
"For your information, we were engaged, and I really don't care. All that really matters is that Albus and I love each other and that we had a healthy baby girl on our wedding day." Minerva said. "Hey Ro, You have no room to talk." Minerva said with a grin across her face.
"Oh yeah and why is that?" Rolanda said.
"Did you tell Severus about the future addition to the Snape family?" Minerva asked knowing Rolanda couldn't get out of that one.
"Damn, how did you know that, and how did you know it was Severus?" Rolanda asked finally being the one to blush. "I swear he had me under the Imperius curse." Rolanda said hoping Minerva would fall for that one, which she didn't.
"Oh Yeah....Sure I'll believe that one..." Minerva said with an amused sarcastic tone. "But I did overhear Severus say that he has feelings for you." Minerva said looking up to see the look on Hooch's face.
"When did you hear this?" Rolanda asked wanting to know how on earth did Minerva overhear what she heard.
"Well, I was watching for people out past hour in the hallways, I was in my animagus form, and Snape was walking down one of the corridors, so I followed him. What...I had nothing better to do. I managed to get into his office without him noticing me. I could hear him talking to himself." Minerva said explaining the story to her friend, bending the truth some. Of all the people that know about Minerva being able to read minds, Rolanda wasn't one of them, and for a good reason.
"So Sevy does love me." Rolanda said cheerfully.
"Obviously!" Minerva said under her breath remembering what she told her friend earlier. "Sevy!" Minerva said trying to hold back a laugh and failing at it. Rolanda was speechless, because Minerva made her blush once again. And as if on cue Harry and Athena walked in and that ended the conversation that Minerva and Roland were having.
"Here, Dad said to bring this up to you." Athena said handing her mother the plate with odd combinations of food on it. "Please don't tell me you are going to drink that firewhisky...it might...." Athena was cut off mid sentence when her mother explained that she only wanted to smell the firewhisky. Both harry and Athena gave Minerva a wired look. She ate all of the food so fast they didn't notice she had finished until now. Minerva noticed the weird looks right away.
"What....I'm eating for five." Minerva said with a chuckle defending herself.
"Oh and I forgot to mention something, you are needed in the room of requirement." Rolanda said giving Athena and Harry as wink as she told Minerva where to go. Rolanda, Harry and Athena they leave McGonagall's office. Minerva then set off for the room of requirements a few minutes after Rolanda Harry and Athena leave.