Chapter Nine
When Harry awoke, his head hurt really bad, he felt thirsty and as if he hadn't eaten in days, but he felt happier then he could remember feeling as well. He laughed and hugged his puppy, who seemed tired. "I lof you Fonny!" He said. "I lof everyone!" He laughed and kissed his puppy, who licked his face, Harry grinned and turned to his Daddy, who was sound asleep. "Daddy?" Harry asked and shook him gently, then harder, until James woke up.
"Hello Harry, how did we get back here?"
"I don' know, Sef came to help me with my owwie and gave me somfin to drink in a dark room, I was on this weird steel table, but I feel so good now. So Sef must haf made my owwie all better."
"You got an owwie?" James asked and Harry nodded.
"It is hewe, but it don't huwt no more." Harry replied and James stared at the protection pentagram on his son's forehead. It was a very old spell, used to protect wizards from those that would do them harm, it had last been used in the fourteenth century, do to the fact that it left a somewhat large scar on the person it was protecting.
"Severus gave you a scar Harry, I need to talk to him." James said, furious.
"Eat some happy fudge fiwst, I like hafing two daddies." Harry said and James laughed suddenly.
"I'm sorry I scared you Harry, its just my hormones, I'm a mess." He said and sighed, pulling at his hair.
"It okay Daddy." Harry said and jumped off the bed, before taking out a chunk of fudge and handing it to James, who ate it.
"That was very good, thank you Harry, but we need to find Severus now, Finxy?" James demanded and the house elf appeared.
"James is calling Finxy?'
"Where is Severus."
"Finxy is taking good care of Severus, he is being magically exhausted, he is doing...he is calling it a soul healing." Finxy shrugged. "Whatever it is being, it is taking lots out of him."
"He preformed a soul healing, I need to talk to him."
"He is needing to be resting." Finxy said.
"I need to see my mate, right now." James demanded.
"As James is wishing, Finxy is fallowing Jameses orders, but Severus is needing to be sleepsing." The house elf said, clearly distressed.
"I just need my mate." James said and Finxy nodded.
"Then you is fallowings me." Finxy said and walked with Harry and James to one of the spare bedrooms, Severus was laid out upon it, covered in sweat and moaning.
"What is wrong with him?"
"I is telling you." Finxy replied. "He is sleepsing, but he is not likings it."
"Severus?" James demanded and shook Severus, who didn't stir, Harry climbed to the foot of the bed and tickled Severus' feet, until the moaning stopped.
"Harry?" Severus croaked. "I can't play right now...Got to rest, got an owwie." He trailed off.
"You need to take dreamless sleep Severus." James said gently. "You're having bad nightmares."
Severus cracked open his eyes and attempted to glare at James. "I know that, that tends to happen when you reject the person you have ties to. Harry was a Horcrunx and I need to rest. I'm sorry James, but I can't be civil, everything hurts and my dreams are very bad."
"I gets bad dreams too Papa." Harry said and both men stared at Harry in surprise. "Can I call you that? I wanna call you Papa, cause you protected me from the bad man." He said.
"Oh Harry, come up here." Severus said and he climbed up the bed and stroked Severus' hair.
"Do you feel yucky like I did Papa?" He asked and Severus nodded before wincing. "I feel so good Papa, you did good, you want me to wead you a stowy? I like it when you weads to me." Harry said and Severus smiled.
"That would be nice, but Papa needs to rest for a while, Papa is tired." He explained and Harry nodded.
"Okay Papa, you sleep, Daddy and I will keep you company, do you want my Dwagon, his name is Dwaggles and he's a good dwagon."
"That would be lovely." Severus said. "Why don't you get him."
"Okay!" Harry said and ran out of the room, to fetch his dragon.
"Voldemort was in our baby?" James demanded and Severus nodded. "Dam that bastard, he might have more of these things out there, he was twisted enough to make more than one. Sorry Sev, you must be tired, accio dreamless sleep." He said and and a vial flew to his hand, he uncorked it as Harry came back into the room dragging his dragon.
"I bwoght Dwaggles Papa." Harry said and handed Severus the dragon. "Do you want me to snuggle wif you, it makes me feel bettew when I'm sick." He said and Severus smiled.
"If you want to Harry, but Papa will be taking a potion that will make him sleep deeply, I can read you a story if you want."
"Yes please." Harry said. "I lof stowies." He added and James smiled.
"Alright, now get settled." He instructed Harry, who climbed into the bed next to Severus and wrapped one tiny arm around the man's chest.
"I lof you Papa Sef." He said and kissed Severus' cheek, and then settled his head on Severus' chest, as James gave him the potion.
"Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved dragons, one day he found a baby dragon in the woods and decided to take it home with him. His Daddy became alarmed when he saw the dragon and wanted to have it go back to the woods. The little boy wanted to keep his dragon, so he went to a nearby cave, he told the dragon, which was his famillar to stay in the cave and he would bring it food. And so time passed, the dragon became a young adult and so did the young man. "You can come out of the cave now, no one can take you away from me, because your too big now. We can go on adventures together and I brought a harness." The dragon didn't like the idea of the harness but went along with it..." James paused as Severus started to snore and smiled at Harry who grinned at him.
"What happened to the dragon and the boy Daddy?"
"They had many adventures, but I'll have to tell you about those later, because I'm really hungry."
"Me too Daddy." Harry said and smiled. "Can we eat in bed though? I wanna stay with Papa."
"I want to stay with him too, so yes, we can eat in bed." James said and called for the house elf. "We'll be having dinner in here tonight."
"Finxy is thinking that you is wanting that, what is you wanting to eat?"
"A pickles and peanut butter sandwich sounds great, with anchovies and bacon."
"That's yucky." Harry said and James laughed.
"Blame your little brother, when you were in my tummy, you loved anchovies and apple sauce.
"Eww." Harry said and James laughed. "I don't wanna have your sandwich."
"Then what is you wanting?"
"Can I have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?" Harry asked and the house elf smiled and nodded.
"Anythings you is wanting." The house elf said and vanished, he came back a minute later with a tray full of food, Harry sat up and ate with James who smiled at him and gently wiped his face with a napkin.
"I could read to you, out of tales of beedle the bard, if you like." James offered and Harry grinned.
"Yes please Daddy." He said and smiled, laying back down and snuggling against Severus. "I want a stowy about fa wizahd and the hopping pot."
"Good try but its wizard, like a dragon's roar, rah rah rah." James said and Harry smiled.
"wha, erar, rah." Harry struggled for a moment and then grinned. "I want to hearah about fa wizrad and the hopping pot."
"Very good Harry." James said. "Do you want to practice some more, or listen to a story?
"Prahactice, I wanna speak like Daddy and Papa." Harry said and James beamed at him.
"Alright then, so put your tongue on the roof of your mouth and go rah like a dragon." He said and Harry and James practiced speaking the letter R correctly for a few hours, taking breaks to tickle each other and read from the book on James' lap.
"I fink I got it now Daddy, the right thing for a little wizard to do, is to not do magic wifout his parents." He said and James beamed at him.
"Very good little man, you've made Daddy so proud of you and you came up with that all on your own." He said and Harry grinned.
"You taught me Daddy, you are a good teacher." He said and James hugged his son.
"Its pretty late though, we should try to sleep some."
"But I was asleep for most of the day, can't we play some more?" He asked and James sighed.
"I need to rest Harry, but you can try to read this to me, if you like." He said and Harry smiled.
"Okay." He said and turned to his favorite story, sounding out the words carefully he started to read aloud to his Daddy, but stopped in the middle of the story, when James started to snore. Harry laughed and continued to read, sometimes sounding out his letters, but most of the time reading silently, he finished the story and read another, before he grew tired and put the book away. He snuggled against his Papa and grabbed one of his Daddy's hands, placing it over his shoulders before closing his eyes and falling asleep.
He fell into a pool of darkness and when he came up, he was trapped in a wooden crib, Severus standing over him. He stared up at Severus, holding out his hands. "Papa pick me up." He said, but something was clearly wrong, Severus was frightened and then standing in the doorway was an old man, his hands drenched in blood, Harry stared at the man wide eyed and cried out. "Papa please help me, that man is bad he's gonna get me." Severus turned his back to Harry
"You can't have him."
"Step aside boy, this doesn't concern you."
"He's my Son, of course it concerns me and you're not getting near him. I won't let you harm him."
"Papa NO!" Harry shouted as like before with the woman, a green light hit his Papa and his Papa fell to the floor, his eyes wide open and unseeing. Harry screamed and sat bolt upright in bed, sobbing uncontrollably. He didn't know what that light was, but he didn't like it, it was scary. He looked around frantically and saw his Papa, fast asleep, but in his panic he thought that his Papa was like the Papa in the dream and screamed again.
"Harry, Harry what's wrong."
"Papa...Bad man... Green light... Now Papa isn't awake, I'm scared Daddy." Harry admitted and James wrapped his arms around his son.
"Your Papa is fine, we're all fine son, its alright, it was just a really bad dream. I'll tell you all about it once your older."
"Okay Daddy, but I don't fink I can sleep again, I don't want to see the bad man again." He said and James stared at his son.
"The bad man can't harm you here Harry, we're protected by wards and your Papa and I are strong wizards." James said. "You're fine here and there's nothing to worry about, would you like some warm milk and honey? That always helped me feel better, after a nightmare when I was a boy."
"Yes please Daddy." Harry said.
"Finxy?" James called and waited for five minutes before the house elf appeared.
"What is it James?" The house elf asked and yawned. "It is being four in the morning, I is sorry that I is not coming sooner, but I is not waking up until five and I is not wearing my smock when I is sleepsing."
"That's alright Finxy, you know I don't mind it if your a bit late to a summons, but I was wondering if you could get Harry and me some warm milk and honey?" He asked, before his face paled slightly and he ran out of the bed and to the bathroom.
"Daddy!" Harry said and raced after him, watching upset as his Daddy emptied his stomach. After his Daddy had finished, Harry wrapped his arms around him. "Daddy Sev makes potion to make you feel better." He reminded his Daddy.
"Thank you Harry, accio, anti nausea potion." He said and a vial flew to his hand, he downed it and smiled at Harry. "Now lets get back into bed, its too cold to be up right now."
"Okay Daddy." Harry said and took James' hand, together they walked to the bed and got under the blankets, Harry snuggled up against James and James smiled at his son.
"Your a good boy Harry." James said. "A very good boy." He added, as the house elf came back, holding two mugs. "Thank you Finxy." James said, handing the smaller of the mugs to Harry and keeping one himself. He drank the milk with Harry, who's eyes drifted shut and open after he finished half the glass, he finished drinking it and handed the cup to the houself, smiling sleepily at the creature.
"That was good Finxy." Harry said and snuggled up against Severus. "I'm sleepy now." He added and closed his eyes, soon he was fast asleep.
"You put something in these don't you?" James asked and the houself smiled.
"It is being a potion, it is being passed down in my family and it is making the child who needs it sleepy and they is having good dreams afterward. I is taking care of my family, I is a good elf?"
"You are a very good elf and it explains a lot about my childhood, what does it do to the baby?"
"It affects you, not the baby, but once you is an adult, the effect is just a feeling of contentment and laziness." The houself replied. "You should be sleepsing too James, you is giving your magical energy to another."
"I don't remember it being this bad with Harry." James said and sighed, before settling against the blankets and closing his eyes, he fell asleep almost instantly.
"You is not carrying two babies then, now you is, so it be harder. I is not wanting to ruin the surprise though, I is going to have a lot of fun with your children" He said and smiled at the family, before starting to go about his daily chores.
Harry awoke four hours later and got off the bed, wriggling away from his parents and headed to the other room, he found his clothing and pulled out one of his plain blue shirts and pants, as well as some of the weird undergarments that his Daddy had bought for him. He then went into the smaller bathroom a moment, before he pulled out the taps and let the bath fill with water. He stopped the water tub when the bath filled to his chest, because he didn't know how to swim yet and pulled off his clothing, before stepping inside the water. He dunked his hair first and then started scrubbing at it, washing it in the water and dunking his hair in after, he then did the same with the rest of his body, once he was clean, he started to step out, but realized that he'd have to drain the bath and run another to get the soap off of his body and hair. He pulled the stopper and ran another bath. This time he washed the soap off his body and pulled the plug. He took out a towel and dried off, before putting on his clothes and finding a brush. He brushed out his hair and winced at the snarls, as he finished brushing it and went back to his Daddies. He found them both fast asleep and curled against each other, he smiled and snuggled up against his Papa's back. He then took out the book and continued to read. His Daddy awoke after he'd finished for of the stories in the book and he smiled at his Daddy. "Good Morning Daddy." He said. "You slept a really long time, I finished four of my stories while you were sleeping and took a bath."
"You shouldn't take a bath by yourself, you're too little." James said.
"But I was dirty and I wanted to be clean, I did a good job!" Harry said and James smiled at him.
"You did do well little man, but you don't know how to swim yet, do you?"
"I don't, but I made the water touch my chest and you can teach me how to swim." He replied and James smiled.
"I can try and Severus could help, he's better at swimming then I am." James added and moved to the side, Harry scrambled over Severus and hugged his Daddy.
"Lof you Daddy." Harry said and James smiled.
"I love you too Harry." James replied and kissed his forehead. "Now lets let Severus get some more sleep and head to breakfast."
"Okay." Harry said and climbed out of bed after James. Together they went downstairs and sat at the breakfast table.
"This looks wonderful Finxy." James called to the air, before snapping out two napkins and filling one plate with two scoops of eggs and toast, the other with eggs and pancakes, piling black current jam and sausage on top of the pancakes and filled both glasses with pumpkin juice. "You can have something sweet later."
"Okay Daddy." Harry said and started in on his breakfast as James did the same. They finished eating their breakfast together and Harry stood up. "We need to get somfin for Papa, you gave me broth when I was sick, can we give that to him too?"
"That's a good idea Harry, but Severus gets cross when he's ill, just remember that he doesn't actually mean what he says."
"Okay Daddy." Harry said. "I'll do it, cause you say things you don't mean too and I don't want you to get angry at each other."
"Oh Harry, thank you sweetheart." James said and Harry smiled.
"You're welcome Daddy." Harry said. "Finxy, can I have some broth brought to the bedroom we were in and a washcloth?"
"Of course young Harry." Finxy said and Harry smiled, before going upstairs and to Severus. He managed to wake him up and he grimaced.
"What is it Harry?" Severus demanded. "Surely the house isn't burning down."
"The house is fine, but you need to eat." Harry replied and felt his forehead. "You need yucky potions too." He said and Severus laughed.
"So you're taking care of me now, little one?" He asked and Harry shrugged.
"I'm used to people who hate me, a bad mood isn't scary, cause I know you would nefer hurt me." He said and hugged his Papa, as Severus started to cry.
"I'm so sorry about what happened to you, little one."
"Its okay, I gots you and Daddy now and you made me feel better and now I need to make you feel better."
"You need to do nothing of the sort, you're the son, not me."
"Families take care of each other." Harry replied stubbornly. "And you are my Papa, so I take care of you too, when you don't feel good." Harry said and Finxy brought the soup. "Thanks Finxy, can you get potions to help Papa feel better?"
"Of course, what is you needing Severus?"
"Fever reducer and pain potions I suppose." Severus said and sighed. "I wish I wasn't so weak."
"Its okay Daddy." Harry said and grabbed the two pillows. "Sit up for a moment." He said and Severus sat up trembling slightly, as Harry positioned the pillows and he sprawled back against them. Harry held out the mug of soup to Severus' lips and he gulped down the broth and then the potions and pumpkin juice.
"Thank you Harry." Severus said and his eyes closed, Harry smiled at his Papa and kissed his forehead.
"Sit up for a minute Papa." Harry said and quickly removed the pillows, Severus settled back down in the bed. Harry drew the covers over him and wiped off his face with cool water and the wash cloth. "You should rest Papa." He said and left the room, he looked for his Daddy and found him curled on the couch asleep. There wasn't much for him to do here and so he decided to go out to Diagon Ally. He found the powder in the fireplace and grabbed some, before stuffing his pockets with more of it. He threw it into the fire and called out "Diaggonally." The fire whisked him away, but not to the city streets and shops, but to a strange black room filled with cool things that were also frightening. He couldn't resist exploring around the shop, until he found a small book that called to him strangely. He picked it up and looked at the blank pages and the only words TOM RIDDLE written on it. Harry knew that stealing was bad, but he had to have the dairy, everything in his little being was drawn towards it. He grabbed it and stuffed it under his shirt, before walking out of the shop and onto the street.
The people all around him were scary, but Harry was a brave little boy and he knew that his Daddies would hurt anyone that would hurt him. He walked through head held high, as though he belonged there, he strode through the streets as though he owned them and the people tried to sell him interesting things, but he ignored them, or told them that he didn't have any money on him. He finally found his way out and grinned when he saw the shops of Diagon Ally. He walked down the street and saw the little redheaded boy.
"Ello." The boy said and Harry smiled.
"Hi, where's your brofers?"
"Don't know, I was looking at this really cool ball, but then they and Mummy were gone. I'm Ron Weasley and you are?"
"I'm Harry." Harry replied and smiled. "We should go to the toystore and play on the playground."
"Nah, I gots to stay here, cause Mummy always says that when you're losted, you need to stay where you are and not talk to strangers. You're the same age as me though and I met you before, so you're not a stranger."
"That makes sense, I found this cool book, its blank but I'm going to color in it soon." He said and pulled out the book.
"Its blank." Ron said and Harry shrugged.
"Its still cool, I like it." Harry said and smiled. "You should go to one of the stores, or we could walk the streets, as long as you act like you own them, no one will bother you." He said and grinned.
"Okay." Ron said and took Harry's hand, Ron's hand was a bit dirty, but it was nice to hold hands with someone his age and together they strode through the streets for a while. He grinned when he saw Draco and his father and waved.
"Hi Draco, I found a friend, lets play!" He said and Lucius and Draco both stared at him in surprise.
"Where's Severus Harry?"
"He's sleepin, soes my Daddy, I got bored so I went to Diagon Ally, but I said it wrong and wound up in this cool creepy shop and then I walked through several streets with these creepy people who tried to sell me things to hurt my enemies, but I don't have any enemies cause I'm only this many." He said and held up four fingers. "It was so cool."
"Sounds wike fun." Draco said. "Who's youwe friend?"
"This is Ron, he losted his family, but he's got loads of brothers."
"Ah so you must be a Weasley, I can't believe that you're associating with that level of filth."
"I ain't filthy, I might be a bit dirty, but I ain't filthy." Ron said and Harry laughed.
"He's funny and I like him, just like I like Draco, why can't we all be friends."
"Cause he's a weaswe, his weaswe germs will get on me." Draco said. "You're fine cause you're a Prince, but people need to be around the right sort of people."
"How do you know the right sort?" Harry asked confused. "I think he's alright, so what's your problem Draco?"
"Our families are in a blood feud." Ron said. "I don't know what that means, but Mummy says to go near them."
"That's the basics of a blood feud." Lucius said. "However you are young and I'm scarcely the type to hurt a four year old boy, it wouldn't be sporting, but you may fight with him if you wish Draco."
"You ain't hurting my friends." Harry said and stepped in between Ron and Draco.
"Step out of the way Harry, this is our fight." Ron said and rolled up his sleeves.
"No!" Harry said. "Its not nice to hurt someone."
"He's a Malfoy Harry, I gots to fight him."
"Why? Can't we be friends?"
"No." Both boys said at the same time.
"You have to choose, my side or his." Draco said.
"Mine!" Harry replied. "I choose my side and you can do what you want with that. If you want to be my friend, you'll stop being mean."
"You don't understand Harry, its a blood feud, our families have been against each other for years." Lucius said.
"Why?" Harry demanded.
"Because that's just the way it is, they betrayed us, they were our vassels and they betrayed my ancestor and the muggles burnt him alive at the stake. My ancestors cursed them with proliferation and they cursed us to only ever have one child."
"That sucks, so Draco can't have a brofer?"
"Draco can never have a sibling, as long as the curse lasts."
"What stops it then?"
"...I don't know." Lucius admitted. "That was never explained to me, I never thought of it."
"Maybe its cause you're mean to each other." Harry suggested. "You want that curse to stay on them, don't you?"
"I drive immense satisfaction from their suffering, yes." Lucius said and Harry smiled and cast a wave of his magic towards Lucius, Lucius instantly crumpled snoring.
"Come on guys, your Daddy will be fine Draco, but we gots to fix this."
"You think we can fix it?" Draco asked and Harry shrugged.
"Maybe, its worth a shot." He replied and yawned widely. "Lets go to the bookstore, too bad I don't have Percival to help us, but we can do it alone. They walked through the snowy streets and Harry found the bookstore. "I need a book on intent curses." He said haughtily when the store clerk was attending his papers and felt puzzled suddenly, how did he know that?
"Alright, stack four, middle of the stack sir." The store clerk said and Harry went with the boys to the stack, he pulled down the book and hid under a table with the boys. He read through the book slowly, until he came to right page, as Ron and Draco grew bored. "Kay this is what we do." He said. "Do either of you have a dagger?"
"My Daddy gave me an eating knife, I always carry it in public." Draco said.
"That will work." Harry said and smiled. "You need to prick each other's fingers and swear that you will never harm each other knowingly on your magic."
"Why?" Draco asked.
"Cause I said so, you need to swear to it." Harry said. "And I gots to watch."
"Okay." Draco said.
"Mate, you're bossy." Ron said and took the dagger, stabbing his finger and Draco did the same.
"I swear upon my magic not to knowingly harm Ron Weasley."
"I swear upon my magic, not to knowingly harm Draco Malfoy." Ron said and touched palms together,there was a brillant flash of light that encircled the young wizards, pink and blue magic surrounding them as the vow was formed, all three stared at each other.
"What did you do Harry?"
"I don't knows, but it says in the book that's how you stop a intent curse."
"And how do you know it was an intent curse?"
"I don't know, it just came to me." Harry replied and shrugged. "It seemed to do something, didn't it?" He asked as the store clerk furiously came over to them and stared down at the three small children.
"What on earth did you do in my store?"
"Um swore an Unbwakable vow?" Harry said and Draco stared wide eyed at Harry.
"That was what you were doing?" Draco demanded. "Now if I ever hurt him, even on accsident I'll lose my magic, dam you Harry."
"Sowwy." Harry said. "I'll fix it." He added and grabbed the knife, before anyone could stop him, he cut himself. "I swear upon my magic, never to knowingly harm Draco Malfoy or Ron Weasley." He said and grinned. "There now its all better."
"You fool!" Draco said. "Now I gots to do it again! To make it even!"
"Stop." The store clerk said, Harry used a burst of magic and forced it towards the store clerk, the clerk colapsed but Harry felt tired.
"I swear upon my magic not to knowingly hurt Harry..What's your last name?"
"Potter."
"I swear never to knowingly harm Harry Potter." Draco said and passed Ron the knife. "Now you swear."
"Okay, I swear upon my magic never to knowingly harm Harry Potter." Ron said and smiled. "Now can we get something to eat, I'm hungry."
"Me too, but we don't gots money."
"We should go back to Daddy, is there anything else we need to do?"
"Place our palms together." Harry said and they all did so, there was another blinding flash of magic, this time, blue, pink and gold magic mixed and mingled. "That's pretty." Harry said and yawned. "I'm sleepy." He admitted.
"Me too." Both boys said at the same time and laughed.
"We should eat somfin first though." Harry added and they all stood up, rather shakily and moved to the door, they supported each other, leaning against one another and everyone stared at the three exhausted boys, as they went into the street.
"What on earth happened in there?" A wizard asked and Harry grinned.
"I gots two bestest friends, who never can knowingly hurt any of us." He said and Draco and Ron stared at him, before laughing. Harry felt overjoyed and very hungry, as well as thirsty.
"You swore unbreakable vows didn't you?"
"Yep." Harry said.
"How old are you, young man?" Another demanded.
"I'm four and my friends are too."
"Who are your friends and who are you, we need to contact your parents."
"I'm Ron Weasley, I want my Mummy and brothers." Ron replied.
"And I'm Draco Malfoy and I want my Father now."
"I'm Harry Potter and I want to play with my friends." He said and yawned.
"Yeah!" Ron said. "I want to play too."
"Me too, but I want my Father to know where I am."
"Who witnessed?"
"I did, I suppose Ron and Draco watched me after." He replied.
"And none of you have any idea of what you did?"
"I know, but I onwy knew water, Father only said never to swear an Unbreakabwe Vow, he didn't expwain what it was and now he'll be mad at me for a while, but he'll get over it." Draco said happily.
"I didn't know what it was and I don't think Harry did, he just wanted to help us." Ron said and yawned as well. "Harry's magic was really cool though."
"What color was it?" Someone else demanded and Ron grinned.
"It was Gryffindor." He said and smiled. "My older brother is in that house."
"Slytherin colors would have been cooler, but I really hope that my magic isn't pink, that's a girly color." Draco said.
"Pink magic is fairly strong, what was the other color?" A man asked.
"We aren't telling." Ron said. "Mummy said you shouldn't talk to strangers."
"RON!" A woman rushed towards Ron and hugged him tightly to her. "What on earth have you done now?"
"We swore an unbreakable vow, it was fun." Harry said and grinned. "We want to play now."
"An unbreakable vow, you three boys swore an unbreakable vow?" She demanded.
"Yes." All three said.
"HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING SO STUPID?" She demanded. "WHAT DID YOU SWEAR, YOU THREATENED YOUR MAGIC AND YOU SWORE A VOW WITH TWO BOYS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE TODAY?"
"I met Harry before, a few days ago and I like Draco, he talks funny."
"You're the one that talks funny, proper ewwocution is a vital aspect to good breeding, do I get a brother now?"
"I don't know, it did somfin." Harry said.
"YOU TRIED TO BREAK A CURSE?" Molly demanded and Harry felt something snap in him, this woman had no right to yell at him, he was filled with indignation.
"I WAS HELPING MY FRIENDS, THAT'S WHAT YOU DO WITH FRIENDS, YOU HELP EM. HAVING TO CHOOSE FRIENDS IS STUPID AND I LIKE DRACO AND RON, THEY ARE BOTH REALLY COOL. YOU GOTS NO RIGHT TO YELL AT ME LADY, I AIN'T YOUR SON." He then stood to his full height. "I HELPED YOU AND YOU YELL AT ME, YOU AIN'T NICE, RON'S MUMMY OR NOT."
"YOU THINK YOU HELPED ME, YOU ENDANGERED MY SON, YOU SHOULDN'T TRY TO PREFORM MAGIC WHEN IT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IT DOES, HAVEN'T YOUR GUARDIANS TOLD YOU THAT?"
"GUARDIANS?" Harry asked demanded.
"THE PEOPLE YOU WERE LEFT WITH!" Molly said and Harry felt himself grow even more angry.
"THEY DIDN'T KNOW MAGIC AND THEY HURT ME, MY DADDIES RESCUED ME AND I WAS HELPING YOUR SON, IF THIS IS THE THANKS I GET FOR BEING GOOD, I MIGHT AS WELL BE LIKE THE BAD MAN." He said furious. "I CAN'T HURT YOU, CAUSE THAT WOULD HURT RON, BUT I CAN TELL PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE A MEANIE PANTS!"
"MY MUMMY ISN'T MEAN, SHE'S SCARED, SHE YELLS WHEN SHE'S SCARED, THAT'S WHAT BILLY TOLD ME." Ron said and Harry instantly turned to his friend, what was wrong with him, he didn't talk to grown ups like that.
"I'm sorry." Harry's eyes filled up with tears. "I'm sorry Ron, I don't know what's happening to me."
"Did you get your book in that spooky place you told me about?" Ron asked and Harry nodded.
"I stole it, I didn't mean to be bad, but I had to have it, it likes me."
"Ditch it Harry and rip out its pages, you aren't like this." Ron pointed out.
"Its cursed." Draco said. "Must be, for you to have stowen it, I know you aren't a thief." He added and Harry took out the book and trusting his friends started to try to rip the pages, but they wouldn't rip.
"I can't rip out the pages." Harry said frightened. "I don't want it anymore." He tried to toss it to the floor, but the moment he thought of doing that, he clutched it tightly to him. "I can't get rid of it, I must have it, I must bond with it."
"Sominus." Mrs. Weasley said and caught Harry as he fell, the book gripped tightly to him, she pried his fingers away and stared at the cover. "Its Voldemorts, someone contact Dumbledore." She said and a woman in a tartan hat raced off.
"Will Harry be okay Mummy?" Ron asked and Mrs. Weasley smiled.
"He'll be fine dear, just as soon as Dumbledore comes and takes this nasty book away." Mrs. Weasley replied.
"Is it a bad book?" Draco asked and Mrs. Weasley nodded.
"Very bad and it's trying to bond with Harry, which means that You-Know-Who might be able to possess him." Mrs. Weasley said. "I need some gloves." She added and was given a pair, she put them on and pried the book from Harry's lax fingers, she tossed it onto the ground, as a wizard with a sparkling blue cloak appeared and took the book into his hands, starting to chant.
"I'll cast the protection ward." Mcgonnigal said and Mrs. Weasley nodded, stepping back, still holding Harry to her, as the casting got further along, Harry started to moan, his eyes flickering behind closed lids, but he was unable to rose himself and get to the book. It took twenty minutes but felt like days to the two small boys that watched their new friend in pain. Finally it was over and a black spirit rose up from the book and was swallowed by the beautiful bird that the Wizard had brought along. Molly canceled the sleeping spell and Harry awoke and started to cry.
"I want my Daddies." He said. "Put me down strange lady."
"She's my Mummy, its okay Harry." Ron said and instantly Harry relaxed.
"I want to be set down still." He said and Mrs. Weasley set Harry on the ground, he rushed towards his friends and hugged them both. "I sorry." He said and they both smiled.
"Just tell me not to make you mad." Draco said and Harry laughed, slinging an arm around both boys.
"Yeah you scary when you angry." Ron said and grinned. "It wasn't you was it Mummy? It wasn't Harry that said those mean things."
"It wasn't sweetie, he was starting to be possessed." Mrs. Weasley said.
"That's bad right?" Ron asked.
"Very bad sweetie." Mrs. Weasley said and kissed the top of Ron's head. "But he should be fine now."
"I'm glad." Ron said and hugged his Mum, he then turned to the other two. "Mummy my friends and I are hungry."
"I only brought enough food for you Ronny, we'll find your friends parents and then you all can eat."
"I don't wanna be away from Ron and Draco." Harry said and the other two nodded.
"We want to be together."
"I could get something from my shop, free of charge, it would be an honor to serve Harry Potter and his friends." A man offered and Harry smiled.
"Thanks Mr. but don't you need money?"
"Not from you, you saved all of us." He replied and Harry frowned.
"I did?" He asked.
"By surviving and somehow giving You Know Who magical backlash."
"Is You Know Who the bad man in my dreams?" Harry asked.
"I don't know, I don't know what your dreams are son." The man said.
"They are scary, filled with green light, but Daddy and Papa always make me feel better after, I had one last night and Daddy gave me warm milk." Harry said and smiled at the man.
"I can pay for it, my Father gives me money sometimes and I think I have enough. I wouwd not have me or my friends behowden to you. A galleon ought to cover it, but can someone please wake up my Daddy."
"I've already tried, but whatever made him sleep was strong and there still is magical residue."
"Um that was me, I sort of threw my magic at him." Harry said and blushed. "He didn't want Ron and Draco to play together and I wanted to play with my friends. I'm sorry Draco, but I need to eat somfin first, it made me tired."
"You threw out your magic and forced him to sleep?" The blue robed wizard demanded and Harry nodded.
"I sorry, I bad." Harry said.
"Simply amazing."
"He's got a gold magical core Headmaster."
"Then you are more powerful then even I am." Dumbledore said and smiled at Harry. "All you need is training."
"I shouldn't talk with strangers." Harry said, the man was scaring him and he had a feeling that the old man didn't want to just be his friend for no reason. "I'm too little for training."
"You could do small spells already."
"No, I'm not gonna be trained by you, my Daddies will train me." He said flatly. "Ron's Mummy said not to trust strangers and she was right."
"You should take the training Harry." Mrs. Weasley said and Harry shook his head.
"I'm small, but I won't be, behoden to him like Draco said."
"You tell him Harry!" Draco said and Harry grinned at his friend. "Now lets get some food, so you can wake up my Daddy and the store clerk."
"Okay." Harry said and the three boys walked to Fortiscues, Harry smiled and sat down at one of the tables. They ordered from the kids menu and had enough left over to split some ice cream. "That was good thanks Draco, I think I'm ready to try now." He said and stood. "Um Miss lady, where's Draco's Father?"
"Come with me." She said and Harry fallowed her with his friends and Mrs. Weasley to a flat, Harry felt the magic and pulled at it, calling it to him and felt greatly relieved when it left Lucius' body and entered his own, he felt well rested and grinned.
"That was fun." He said and Lucius stirred and stared at the boys.
"What, how did I get here?" He demanded.
"Um, I sort of made you sleep, I sorry, but people keep doing it to me so it can't be bad." Harry said and Mrs. Weasley laughed.
"Sweetheart, you're a child and we're adults."
"So if I don't wanna sleep, I shouldn't be made to, it isn't fair." Harry said and Lucius laughed as well.
"I'm sorry Father, I swore a vow not to hurt Ron, but he's really cool and I like em, so I wouldn't want to hurt him anyway." Draco said and Lucius stared at his son.
"You swore an Unbreakable Vow?" He asked and all four boys nodded.
"Not to hurt each other knowingly, but we're the bestest of friends so we wouldn't hurt each other anyway." Harry said. "If you don't like it, tough titties."
"What did you just say to me?" He demanded.
"Um tough titties?"
"You shouldn't say titties dear, its not nice." Mrs. Weasley said and laughed. "Though I do believe we'd be fighting a loosing battle if we tried to stop them from seeing each other."
"I do believe you are right in that at least, but I refuse to have your hoard coming over to my manor." Lucius said.
"Father!" Draco said. "Be nice." Which caused all the adults to laugh.
"Apparently now your the parent Draco." Lucius said and Draco smiled at his Father.
"I'm going to need help getting home." Harry admitted. "I don't want to wind up in some creepy place again, it was fun but scary too."
"And where did you go young man?" Lucius enquired and Harry shrugged.
"To this creepy shop, there was a human hand there and all kinds of cool things and I found the diary there too."
"What diary?"
"The bad man's diary, but an old wizard did somfin to it and now I don't wanna have it no more." Harry said and smiled at Draco.
"And why were you using floo powder unsupervised?"
"Cause Daddy and Papa were sleeping. Daddy is going to have my brother so he's tired and Papa did somfin, that made me feel a lot happier, but he gots tired afterwards and grumpy. I didn't wanna wake em up and I was bored, so I used floo powder, I was gonna go to the toystore, but I messed up." He said and pouted.
"Look young man, you can't just take floo powder."
"Why not, its there and Daddy uses it all the time."
"Because its dangerous, you could wind up anywhere." Lucius said.
"Why would I want to go to Anywhere? I wanted to go to Diagon Ally." He said and all the adults laughed. "What do you think they think is so funny."
"Grown ups are weird." Ron said and shrugged.
"Yes they are strange, aren't they?" Draco asked and the three of them grinned at each other.
"Lets go play, tag your it." He said and touched Draco, both boys then raced out of the flat and around the streets of Diagon Ally, as people stared at them playing a game of tag.
"Can I join?" A little boy asked and Harry grinned.
"Sure, tag is more fun with lots of people." Harry replied and touched the boy, soon twenty children were all playing tag in the street, as adults tried to stop them, or get out of their way. Harry laughed, his hair blowing about him in the breeze, as he chased his new found friends and ran from them. It never occured to him that pants and a long sleeve shirt weren't really proper attire for a cold day, he was used to being cold and all the running warmed him up. An hour after the game started, it ended, as the children were all picked up by their parents, Harry found Ron and Draco, grinning at them both, before scooping up a ball of the snow and chucking it at Draco. Draco laughed and made his own snowball, lobbing it back at Harry and Harry fell down, a moment later, his cheek scraped.
"I'm sorry Harry, I didn't mean to do it." Draco said and Harry who was trying not to cry, his lip trembling turned to Draco and nodded.
"I know Draco, but I'm cold, lets go into the bookstore and I can help the store clerk." He said and Draco nodded, together the three boys went into the bookstore. Harry went back and called his magic back from the man, who stared at the three of them. "Run for it mates!" Harry said and Draco and Ron ran out of the store.
"Hold hands, then people will think we're together." Ron said.
"Let me try somfin." Harry said and crunched up his face for a moment, instantly his skin changed to alabaster and he turned to his friends, Draco had brown hair and brown eyes, his face was rounder and Ron looked exactly the same as the other two "It worked, now they will think you're my brothers." Harry said and grinned.
"Brillant mate, but does this wear off?" Draco asked and Harry shrugged.
"Not sure, but I can most probably reverse it eventually." He replied and grabbed Ron and Draco's hands.
"Our clothes are the same though." Draco pointed out and a moment later and a much more tired Harry, they all had the same purple shirt and pants, as well as a blue coat.
"That was hard." Harry complained and yawned.
"Lets go to the toystore." Draco said and Harry nodded, together they walked to the toystore and went to the playground. "We need names." Draco said.
"Um, you can be George and I'll be Jimmy."
"I'll be Josh." Ron said and Harry smiled.
"Great, last name, um Moorwod?" He asked and the other two nodded, together they went onto the play equipment and started to play, but soon all three of them had fallen asleep, on the play equipment.
Draco was woken by a litte girl, who poked him in the stomach. "Ow that hurts, go away." He said.
"You shouldn't be sleeping on playground equipment, I'm Cho, I'm five and you're a lot younger, so you have to obey me."
"Jimmy, Josh, a strange girl poked me." Draco cried out and both boys woke up, going over to Draco.
"You don't poke people, it not nice."
"Well you shouldn't be sleeping on the playground where's your Mummy and Daddy?"
"We losted them, when those kids started playing and we came inside to get warm." Harry lied and Draco and Ron grinned at him.
"Well then, I'll get my Mummy to help you find em."
"Nah, its more fun to play together, then with them, they tell us not to do all sorts of things and its not fun." Harry said.
"That's the job of parents." The girl said and Harry stuck his tongue out at her.
"You're annoying, leave us alone." He said clearly.
"You need help." The girl said and he shook his head.
"No we don't, we're fine." Harry said stubbornly. "Now go away." He added clearly.
"Alright, you don't need to be mean." She said and left.
"Maybe she's right, maybe we should go." Ron said and Harry considered a moment.
"Alright, but lets go back to one of our houses so we can play some more, as long as we don't act like ourselves, we can stay together." Harry said and Draco nodded.
"You have the floo powder, so we should go back to your house."
"Okay." Harry said and smiled, before going down the slide and using the fireplace to go to his house, he grabbed his friends hands and they stepped through the flames together, spilling out and coming face to face with a frantic James.
"Daddy!" All three called and smiled at him, James stared at the three boys.
"Who are the other two Harry and how on earth did you manage this?"
"One of us is Ron, one is Harry and one is Draco, remember we can't tawk with L's or say FA right."
"We have trouble with T H?" One boy asked.
"Yes we do." Another replied. "Time to play chase!" He added and ran away, the other two fallowing behind them, as James attempted to fallow as well.
"Finxy!" James called and the houself appeared. "Harry has transfigured himself and two other boys to look exactly alike, go get them, I can't chase after them."
"Finxy is happy to help." Finxy said and vanished, reappearing a moment later. "Boys its nap time."
"We don't wanna nap." All three said together, Harry remembering to be petulent just in time.
"I could get James to read you a story."
"We like stories." They said together and grinned.
"Hey guys, it hurts us to stop playing right?" Harry asked and the other two laughed.
"Yes it will." The other two agreed and Harry hugged the other two boys.
"I wike having brofers my age." Harry said and they grinned at each other.
"We do too." The other two boys agreed.
"Lets go find some place to play." Draco suggested.
"Okay, this castle is cool!" Harry said.
"It is." Ron agreed and they walked together to the toy room, which also had a lot of soft things and a lot of the more delicate toys had been removed.
"Lets play with these." Harry said and took out three sets of gobstones. "Getting clothes yucky is fun."
"It is!" Draco agreed and they started to play together, the house elf looking puzzled at the boys, as they yelled shouts of delight, if they won or lost, mainly do to the slime getting on their clothes.
"I is getting your other parents, who is you being?"
"We towd you awready, we're Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, or Draco Malfoy." Draco said, though it killed him to put his name last.
"I'm Draco Malfoy!" Ron said haughtily and giggled.
"I'm Ron Weasley." Harry said.
"I'm Harry Potter." Draco said and all three boys started to laugh.
"I is getting your parents, they is knowing their children, you is staying here?"
"We might, we might not." Ron said. "It aww depends on what we want."
"Yes, so tough titties." Draco said and the other two laughed.
"You said a bad word Harry." Harry said.
"I know, Mummy Weasley told me that." Draco said and all three laughed.
"I like having two Daddies, it is fun." Ron said and the other two nodded.
"Potions are fun." Harry said.
"You could try to make something." The house elf said.
"No, we don't want to." Draco said. "We gots lots of toys to play with and we don't know how good some of us are at potions, its better to not play with them."
"This is being confusing." Finxy said and disapperated.
"Finxy never calls anyone master." Harry said and Draco nodded.
"I'm sleepy, lets go to our room."
"Lets go to the nearest room, its easy." Draco said and Ron nodded.
"I wanna play more." Harry protested.
"If we sleep, we can play more."Ron pointed out and Draco nodded.
"That is smart, lets be smart." Draco said and together the three boys went into the other room and fell asleep. That was where the five parents found them an hour later, curled against each other and still looking exactly alike.
"How do we tell the difference?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"They breath differently." Mrs. Malfoy pointed out.
"Yeah, but they all snore and one snores louder then the others, so its hard to tell the difference." James pointed out.
"We should be able to tell how our children sleep at least. Where is Severus by the way?"
"He preformed a soul healing and removed a horcrunx from Harry, he's got magical exhaustion." James said and sighed, pulling at his hair.
"Ron sucks his thumb sometimes, when he sleeps." Mrs. Weasley said and James sighed.
"They are four year olds, I think most of them suck their thumbs when they sleep." James pointed out.
"Wake up guys." Draco said when he woke up from the people not speaking very quietly around him and shook both boys, who snapped awake and smiled at Draco.
"That's Draco he's a light sleeper."
"Are you sure about that wady?" Draco asked and Harry laughed. "You weren't being very quiet." He told James and yawned, as Ron laughed.
"Come on lets play!" Ron said and climbed out of bed, Harry and Draco did the same, running away from their parents laughing, as they darted back and forth.
"We need to eat everything they give us, like good boys." Harry pointed out.
"Act like everything is gross." Draco added and the three boys nodded.
"We don't draw or read, or do potions." Ron said and the others laughed.
"This is fun!" Draco said and Harry smiled.
"Yeah it is, it would hurt us to stop playing wouldn't it?"
"We already agreed that it would." Draco said.
"But they don't know that." Harry said.
"Okay." Ron said.
"When will I see my brothers?" Draco asked Mrs. Weasley who stared at him in shock.
"I miss them too." Harry agreed.
"I want to see them." Ron said.
"I miss Billy." Harry added and the other two laughed.
"Good one, Draco." Draco said.
"Thanks Ron." Harry replied. "Lets go plan!" Harry added and grabbed the hands of his two friends running away from their parents, laughing.
"We can't cast sleeping spells on them, they might get hurt." Mrs. Weasley said.
"I'm not chasing after them, its too undignified."
"Its past that Lucius, we're being outsmarted by four year olds." Mr. Weasley pointed out.
"Hey its not our fault that our children are smart." James pointed out.
"Ron is more brave then cleaver, they clearly want to play this game, so we'll give them food that no child likes."
"Like what?" Lucius asked.
"Brussle sprouts and lots of vegitables, though we'd have to eat them too."
"As long as there's desert." James said. "I need something sweet for the baby."
"Then give into your pregnancy cravings and make the most disgusting desert possible." Mrs. Weasley said and all of them laughed, while their children found an empty room and hashed out their own plans.
"Remember, its Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ginny and me." Ron said and the other two repeated the the names, until they got them right.
"My houself name is Finxy." Harry said and the other two nodded.
"I gots one named Dobby." Draco said and the three went back out of the bedroom and back to their parents.
"Your brothers and sister will be coming soon Ron." Mrs. Weasley said.
"Cool, I look forward to seeing Fred and George." Ron said and the other two laughed.
"Yes, I think that they would be good fun." Harry added.
"We could learn tricks from them." Draco grinned and everyone groaned.
"You don't need to learn anymore tricks." Lucius said. "If you don't come home at once, no money for a month."
"I can't come home Father, I've promised my friends." Harry reminded Draco.
"I think he means it." Draco pointed out.
"So two of us don't get spending money." Harry pointed out. "If two of us can go without it, the third can too for a while."
"I'll take back the toys to the shop." James threatened.
"You promised!" Draco said. "This is my first christmas without the Dursleys and with a family!" He then blinked furiously and dashed at his eyes.
"You don't get to lick the batter, when I make cakes Ron and you get the wooden spoon."
"Hitting people isn't nice." Harry said.
"You woudn't like it if I hit you." Draco pointed out.
"Ron doesn't like it when you hit him with the spoon." Ron added.
"I'll give you all candy." James said suddenly. "If you tell us which one is which."
"We don't want a bunch of hyper four year olds on our hands." Lucius said.
"That could be fun." Draco said and the other two laughed, he tugged on Lucius' robes. "Pick me up Father."
"Why on earth do you want me to pick you up?"
"Because I wof you." Draco said and hugged his Father, Lucius' eyes grew wide.
"This is clearly not my son, Draco knows better then to display himself like this in a public situation." Lucius said and Harry straitened, giving that haughty look that Draco used sometimes. "That's my son."
"Mummy don't wet him take me away!" Harry said. "Stranger danger." He added and ran to Mrs Weasley, the other two laughed, as Draco released his Father.
"Nice one Draco." Ron said.
"That was brillant, did you see the look on Fafer Wucius' face when I hugged him?" Draco asked and laughed.
"We just need to give him lots of hugs." Harry said and all three boys rounded on Lucius running towards him and trying to hug him.
"Unhand me urchins, I am a Malfoy, this is undignified."
"We wof you Father." All the boys said and laughed.
"Boys, I don't think that Mr Malfoy likes that." Mrs. Weasley said sharply.
"Call him Wucius, we want you to be friends too." Ron said.
"That's Harry."
"He not Harry, I Harry." Draco said.
"No, I'm Harry." Harry said and grinned at Draco and Ron.
"Merlin, this is giving me the vapors." Narcissia said and pulled out a fan, fanning herself. "You don't want to make Mother sick, now do you Draco?"
"I wanna pway and you just pretend to be sick." Harry said.
"I most certainly do not, Draco would never address me like that, so you clearly aren't my boy."
"Mofer, you do haf your vapors at good times." Ron said and the other two boys giggled.
"What are vapors?" Draco asked.
"Stuff that old people get." Harry said and shrugged.
"I'm not old!" Narcissia said. "Its not my fault I'm delicate." She said and started fanning herself.
"Grown ups are all old." Draco said.
"Yeah!" Both boys added.
"Just for that, I'm not bringing the boys and Ginny to see you, Mr. Mal- Lucius' houself is watching them."
"Poor Dobby." Draco said. "I feew sorry for the bwoke."
"Why he's just a houself, we're clearly better then them." Harry said.
"I like houselves, Finxy is nice to me." Ron said.
"Merlin, acting lessons can be crossed off the list." Lucius said. "You my boy, clearly don't need them."
"Its fun to play pretend." Harry said.
"This is a game to all of you?" Lucius asked and they all nodded. "Well if you don't produce my son, you'll never play together again."
"Scrunch up your face like me." Draco said and a moment later there were three Dracos.
"We gave em to you." Harry said and Draco yawned widely, before scratching his arse.
"I'm sleepy." Ron complained. "That's hard."
"It is, but fun."
"You got ink all over your clothes."
"Sorry Daddy." All three boys said.
"But it was fun, we're tired now."
"Merlin, well at least one of you boys will be in Slytherin, perhaps two?"
"I'm gonna be a Gryffindor!" Draco said proudly. "Everyone in my house was one."
"You pretending too well Harry." Ron chided.
"Sorry Ron." Draco said and smiled.
"I wanna be a Slytherdor." Ron added. "Or a Grifferin."
"That's not how the houses work." Harry said. "Though that would be so cool."
"You don't belong quite in Gryffindor or Slytherin Harry, you belong in both of them." Draco said and smiled. "Time to switch." He added and the three boys started to race around the adults, laughing as their parents made grabs for them. Harry allowed himself to be caught by Mr Malfoy and smiled at him.
"Hi Father, this is a fun game."
"You need to stop this at once!" Lucius said and Harry smiled.
"Why? Its a slytherin game, we have to help Ron a lot, cause he's not as good at it." Harry added and lied.
"Am too!" Draco protested.
"I think he's good at it." Ron said and smiled at Draco reassuringly. "You are doing really good."
"Thanks Harry."
"So you admit that your my son?"
"I don't say yes, I don't say no." Harry said and all three children giggled.
"So you can neither confirm, or deny that you are my son?"
"That's how the game is played, we can't tell anyone who we are and none of us want to stop playing." Ron said. "Its a fun game."
"Well will it still be fun if I told you, your just getting vegetables for dinner."
"That's yucky." All three boys said.
"I don't wanna eat vegetables." Harry said.
"You need to grow big and strong Ron, like your brother Bill and this way you get plenty of vegetables to be disgusted by."
"We gots to like somfin." Draco said.
"We get to try new food!" Harry said.
"Food isn't supposed to be green, it disturbs me." Ron said and all three laughed.
"Put me down Fafer, I wanna play with my friends."
"No." Lucius said flatly, as Ron and Draco curled up on the floor and closed their eyes.
"I want down now!" Harry said.
"Don't have a temper tantrum Draco." Draco said. "Remember your Fafer doesn't like that."
"That's Harry."
"I'm not Harry, he's Harry." Draco said and pointed at Harry.
"I'm not Harry, he's Harry." Harry pointed at Ron. "I'm Ron." He added and was promptly released, he dropped a few feet, fell onto his arse, his foot bending at a slight angle under his butt, the other leg outstretched and glared up at Mr. Malfoy. "You dropped me!" He said and his eyes filled with tears, he started to cry giving into his emotions.
"There now dear its alright, you must be tired."
"It hurts." Harry wailed.
"If you just admit who you are, I'll make you a nice cup of tea, just the way you like it."
"He's not Ron." Ron said and yawned.
"Then who is?"
"I'm not Ron and neither is Harry." Ron said and pointed at Draco. "You're mean Father, you dropped Draco." He lied and Harry dashed angrily at his eyes.
"I'm not Draco and he's not Draco." He said and pointed at Draco.
"I'm really not Draco." Ron said. "I don't want to live in a spooky manor filled with dangerous things."
"Its cool Harry." Harry said and wiped at his face. "Remember, you saw it?"
"Yeah, now I remember, is it like that shop, in the rooms that aren't safe?"
"No, I've been trying to catalog my Father's collection, he left me a book full of what is inside the rooms, but I have to go in covered in protective spells and its no place for a little boy."
"We're not little." All three pouted. "We big!"
"Well at least they have one thing in common, ah four year olds the world over must say that daily to their parents." Arthur said and smiled. Harry started to stand and cried out, his foot hurt much worse when he stood on it. His eyes promptly filled with tears and he started to cry.
"What's wrong dear?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"My foot really hurts." Harry said.
"Don't move it then dear." She said and took out her wand, she made a quick movement and Harry's foot suddenly felt a lot better. "I healed it, I've needed it, considering how often my boys hurt themselves."
"Thanks Mummy." Harry said and went over to the other two.
"Is your owwie all better?" Draco asked and Harry nodded.
"Yes, it is, much better."
"Sorry you were dropped." Ron said.
"Its not your guyses fault." Harry said and hugged both his friends.
"We're blood brothers now right?" Draco asked and Harry nodded.
"Yes, we are and God Brothers too." Harry said. "Because your Papa is my Godfather."
"That's Draco." Lucius said and Harry smiled at Draco.
"You clearly don't know your son all that well." Draco said and grinned at Harry. "Maybe you should get the houself, Draco said that the elf watches him mostly."
"That sounded like you dear." Narcissia said.
"I know." Lucius said puzzled.
"The fact of the matter is, that neither of us seem to know our children all that well."
"Its not your fault Daddy, you saved me from the Dursleys." Draco said and Harry frowned.
"I don't want to hear about those muggles, muggles are disgusting." Harry said.
"Muggles can be nice, my Daddy helps em." Ron said.
"That's Ron, its got to be."
"It most probably isn't." James said.
"Switch!" Harry called out and they raced around the room again.
"Stop doing that."
"We wanna make it harder, by the way last time it was Harry that you thought was Draco." Harry said and smiled.
"I shouldn't have dropped you, I'm sorry."
"I don't like that you'd drop any of us." Ron said.
"We're bestest friends in the whole world." Draco said and both laughed.
"You're good at this game Draco." Harry said.
"Thank you." Ron and Draco said at the same time.
"That's Harry, now someone get my son before they switch again." Six pairs of hands reached out for Harry and he ran out the door, Ron and Draco fallowing close behind, they weaved around each other as they ran, before coming to one of the chambers and opening a door to a bedroom.
"I'm not tired but you can sleep if you want."
"You're never tired." Harry said and Harry and Ron laughed, they settled on the bed and Ron fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillows, he started to snore loudly. Harry and Draco giggled and Harry closed his eyes and fell asleep.
