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Star Wars Fun
Normally the Grangers wouldn't have approved of children basically spending an entire day in front of the telly, they should be out playing or doing something constructive, but their daughter and son in law's best mate had explained to them that a little boy's happiness hinged on the children in question having a working knowledge of at least the three original versions of the Star Wars movies. And since two of the children in question were their only grandchildren the Grangers had somewhat reluctantly agreed to host the event with the understanding that the kids would be given regular breaks and healthy snacks.
Aside from their grandchildren their guests included all three of Harry's children, the man's godson, and Albus Wimbledon who was Al's best friend and a lovely boy that reminded the Grangers of their daughter Hermione at that age.
So that was how it came to be that the Grangers hosted a Star Wars movie marathon for seven fairly well behaved children.
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Star Wars Episode IV: New Hope
"Those are the wickedest wands ever created! Dad! Why can't our wands have light beams that come out the top of them that you can use as swords?!" Completely jazzed, not to mention fairly oblivious to how outdated and old school the movie was compared to what was being turned out now, James thought this Star Wars thing was actually rather brilliant. And he most definitely wanted a lightsaber of his very own in Gryffindor red.
"You can ask Mr. Ollivander next time we see him." Was Harry's response to that, secretly thinking that it would be pretty cool if his wand could be used as a lightsaber too.
Rolling her eyes Hermione asked Rosie what she'd thought of the movie.
"That girl had cinnamon bun hair!"
"I liked Chewie." Lily announced. "Daddy, can I have a Wookie?"
As always Harry hated to disappoint his baby girl, so he neatly sidestepped the question by telling her that there would be little bear creatures in the third movie they were watching that were even better than Wookies.
While the other children asked questions about what the bear creatures were like Albus got up from the floor pillow he'd been lying on and walked over to Harry's side, crocking a finger to signal to his best friend's father that he wanted to ask him something in secret. When Harry complied and lowered his head Albus leaned in, cupped his hands around his mouth, and whispered into Harry's ear.
"Is Darth Vader Luke's father?"
Jerking upright Harry stared down at the kid in shock. "How did you know that?!"
"Know what? Know what?" Lily and Rosie both demanded to know, hating to be kept in the dark about anything, especially when it made Harry make such funny faces.
"I can't tell you, it will spoil the surprise later." And giving them the look that said he wouldn't be budged on that proclamation Harry told them to talk about something else while he lowered his head again and asked Albus to explain this to him.
Repeating his earlier actions to muffle his voice Albus shrugged and then explained that it was pretty obvious really, given that the Dutch word for father was 'vader', though it was enunciated differently than in the movie, while the German 'vater' was close in pronunciation and also meant father. Therefore it was only logical to assume that Darth Vader was someone's father and the most likely person would be the movie's hero given typical story narratives of this nature.
Lifting his head a little Harry stared into Albus's big blue eyes and thought for well over the millionth time that it was like looking and speaking to his former Headmaster. "Don't tell the others, okay?"
Nodding his head Albus went back to flop down beside Al, who was busy arguing with his brother as to who was the better hero, Luke or Solo. Not surprisingly James thought Han Solo was the coolest, while Al thought that yes he was cool, but also a real jerk to leave his friends hanging the way he had until the last minute.
No one was surprised that Lily thought Vader was cooler than both of them.
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Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Six children sat or lay sprawled out in dumbfounded silence, starring at the screen like they'd just learned that chocolate frogs were going to be outlawed and Slytherins were going to inherit the earth. The only one not shocked dumb was Albus, who frowned and then turned to look at Hermione and Harry, asking them for confirmation that Han Solo was going to be okay. The laws of storytelling meant he probably was, but he hadn't seen Landon's betrayal coming either. He was actually rather annoyed by that fact.
"Don't worry, Sweetie, Leia will get him out of the carbonite." Hermione assured him with a wink.
"Holy Hippogriffs I did not see that coming." The first of the others to recover Teddy gaped at his godfather in total shock. "Vader is Luke's father? Seriously? And he sliced off his friggin arm just because he wouldn't turn all Death Eater like too? It's like my Grandmother's family all over again!"
Harry's mind immediately turning to the task of imagining the Malfoys and Bellatrix Lestrange as Sith Lords, the image of Lucius as the Emperor made him smile. He would not mind a bit if the head of the Malfoy family ended up looking like that in the years to come.
"Vader needs a time out really, really badly." Lily announced, her hands on her hips. "Daddies don't do that."
"Dad would never do that." Hugo agreed with completely assurance, though a thoughtful look came on his face seconds later. "Not on purpose." His grandfather had tried to introduce his dad to Muggle power tools and that had not ended well. His daddy's hand had bled lots while Mum had yelled at him.
"And if he did he'd lose more than his hand." Hermione promised her son. "Did you like what happened with Han Solo and Leia, Rosie? I know you wanted them to get together."
Still reeling from the fact that she'd missed the fact that Vader was Luke's father, she just knew that was the secret Albus and Uncle Harry had been whispering about before, Rosie scowled and forced herself to concentrate on her mother's question. "It was nice…but he should have said he loved her too. He's such a dumb boy."
"Girls and your mushy stuff." James made a disgusted sound and face. "Men don't say that crap less they have to."
"I tell Gellert I love him." Albus admitted shyly, his cheeks getting redder by the second.
"He does." Al agreed, having heard his best friend do that. Whenever Albus said that Gellert got all stuttery and it was really funny to watch. Though naturally he was too afraid of what Gellert would do to him if he were to tease the sometimes scary blond to actually do so.
"Yeah well Albus is special." James liked Albus too much to say the kid was weird, especially since a lot of people already said that because his brother's friend was the smartest kid he'd ever met. "You're like Yoda only taller and easier to understand. And your voice isn't weird."
"Thanks!" Albus beamed at James. He'd really liked Yoda.
Shooting a superior look in James's direction Rosie smirked. "You just proved my point, James. He's not a dumb boy like the rest of you. He's both smart AND brave. He's like Yoda or Ben Kenobi, only prettier."
"You should see Ben when Ewan McGregor is playing him." And on that note Hermione announced that they should take a break and order in some dinner before they started on the last of the movies.
As she'd hoped the mention of food made all the children forget the possibility of a battle of the sexes fight.
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Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
At the first sight of Jabba the Hutt all the kids made 'gross' and disgusted noises, especially when he tried to lick Leia which they all thought was one of the grossest things ever. Their need to very loudly express their thoughts on the crime lord was such that Hermione actually had to pause the movie so that they could take a moment to all properly say just what they thought of Jabba.
Rosie. "He's the ugliest, most yuckiest thing I've ever seen! Even worse than the boys in my class who eat their bogies."
Hugo. "He makes my tummy hurt!"
Teddy. "That is so wrong on so many levels."
Albus. "He's absolutely vile. And he looks like he's the result of a toad and slug being spliced together and then enlarged to giant size. For his treatment of Princess Leia alone I hope he ends up in that carbonite stuff!"
James. "To me he looks like something that came out the bum of a troll."
"EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! JAMES!" They'd only just finished dinner a little while ago and everyone gave James dark looks for putting that thought in their head. Jabba the Hutt was disgusting enough without imagining him as a talking pile of poo.
And then of course Al had to voice his own opinion on James's theory. "He's too big for that. Out a dragon's bum maybe but-"
Everyone but Al and James gave the boy a look. "AL!"
"What, I'm just saying."
"Enough of that." Harry announced for all their sakes, restarting the movie. As expected a number of the kids blushed and covered their faces when it came to Leia's slave girl outfit, though Teddy seemed to appreciate the view, and then there was a great deal of cheering when Jabba was strangled to death. The toad/slug/poo monster was dead.
Lily and Hugo barely made it through the whole film, all the action that took place in the end making enough noise that every time they nearly fell asleep they were jolted awake by the sound of explosions or lightsabers. Naturally as soon as Lily had caught sight of the first Ewok she'd joined Rosie in squealing over how absolutely adorable they were, and even the boys were willing to admit that they were pretty bad-arse considering they were actually overgrown teddy bears.
They also all cheered when Vader started being a good dad too and picked up the other ugly bad guy and threw him down that long tunnel thingie so that he couldn't hurt Luke anymore. That's what dads were supposed to do. And they were sorta sad that Vader had to die after that, but the good guys had won and the Ewoks were still really cute so they liked that too.
Since his barely conscious daughter had crawled into his lap part way through the movie Harry lifted her as he got to his feet once the movie was done, expertly settling her against his shoulder as he reminded his still mostly conscious boys to put the floor pillows back to the side. Hermione's parents had turned in a little while ago and he wanted them to come down to a clean den in the morning.
"Okay, Dad." Yawning and knuckling his eyes Al dragged his floor pillow over to its shelf with Albus doing the same.
James, however, went over to his dad with a questioning look on his face. "Dad?"
"Yeah?"
"Why did Vader do all those bad things? Why wasn't he a good dad all the time?"
"Hate can be a very poisonous thing, James. He let all the bad things that happened in his life make him a bad person." It was the best Harry could come up with as he'd never been a big Star Wars fan and had been too busy to see the other three when they'd come out. Thankfully he'd looked into the franchise enough to have some idea what he was talking about.
"Like Voldemort?"
Okay, now he was picturing Voldemort in Vader's black suit. It was more than a little disturbing.
"A little. But Luke's father did the right thing in the end, remember? He still had good in him, love in him. Voldemort didn't know how to do that, or have any compassion left in him."
James considered this. "Still…I'm glad you're my dad and not Vader. Even if his lightsaber is cooler than your wand."
Laughing Harry agreed that he was glad that was the case too.
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A Few Days Later
Finn Dursely was having a bad day. Unfortunately this was generally the norm as opposed to the exception, but the fact that he was used to being miserable meant that in general it didn't bother the now six year old boy as much as it might have otherwise. But the fact that this was his birthday, his SIXTH birthday, and no one would be coming to his party was depressing. He'd had a family party of course, the night before with his grandparents, parents and sister, but they had had to come and even all the presents he'd been given couldn't overshadow the fact that the two school friends he had were both away on holidays, and no one else his mum had tried to invite for a kid's party had said yes. Part of that was him, Finn knew, well aware of his geeky weirdness, but he supposed he could take some comfort in the fact that the majority of his classmates and young neighbors had said they couldn't come because they were afraid of his sister. Brittany had beaten up or scared the hell out of just about every kid in their neighborhood under the age of ten at one time or another. She'd beaten up plenty of kids at school too, and there she had a gang of friends who were either as mean as she was or too scared not to do her bidding.
It was rough being the only brother of someone who was half Hutt, half Sith Lord.
So here he was, wearing his new, authentic Luke Skywalker costume from Star Wars IV: New Hope, and he had no one to show it off to but his mum.
Splaying tummy first on his bed, surrounded by his countless action figures, comic books, video games and X-men wallpaper, Finn lay facedown on his covers, resigned to spending the rest of his birthday wallowing in his misery.
When the knock came at his door Finn wanted to ignore it, but his sister gave their mum such a hard time that he dragged himself off the bed and over to the door, opening it up to see his mum giving him the sort of smile that probably meant she'd done something to try and make it up to him that he wasn't having a real party. Which, in his experience, could be a good or really bad thing.
"Come on, Sweetie. I have a surprise for you in the backyard."
Briefly Finn allowed himself to believe that maybe he was finally getting the puppy he'd secretly been hoping for forever, but no, his parents weren't complete idiots. Brittany didn't like dogs, which meant any puppy he might get wouldn't be around for long.
So confused but curious enough to play along, Finn followed his mother out of his bedroom, down the hallway and through the kitchen to the patio doors that led out to the backyard. Because he was looking down mostly he didn't see his surprise at first, but when the patio door was slid open he glanced up, his green eyes going huge as he took in what was waiting for him.
Kids. There were other kids there. Two that he-OH MY GOD CHEWBACCA HAD COME TO HIS HOUSE!
Running out the door and down the stairs and past all the other kids Finn came to a gridding halt, tipping his head back as he stared up at the huge, furry creature that looked EXACTLY like Chewbacca from Star Wars. He couldn't even see zippers or where the head piece was and he looked just like a REAL WOOKIE!
And then the Wookie bent down and ruffled his pale blond hair with his great paw. "Happy Birthday, Finn."
Recognizing that voice immediately, it belonged to one of his favorite people in the world after all, Finn gasped. "TEDDY!"
"Well who else could turn into a Wookie for your birthday?" James pointed out with a laugh, coming over to lightly elbow his second cousin in the side, looking very cool in his Han Solo costume.
"James! You came to my birthday too! And-and Al's here too!" Remembering the other familiar face he'd spotted before he'd been distracted by Teddy Finn looked around until he saw Al again, who was dressed in a neat looking R2D2 getup. Trying and failing to spot the youngest Potter Finn was genuinely disappointed that she wasn't there, Lily weird enough to make him feel normal. "Lily couldn't come?"
"Of course I came." Came a hoarse, sorta mechanized voice, Finn's jaw dropping when the little Darth Vader pushed up its face mask to reveal Lily's smirking face. "Daddy says you have a piñata!"
"I have a piñata?" Finn repeated, this being news to him.
"It's in the tree over there." A girl dressed as Leia informed him, the cinnamon bun hair very neat looking. "I'm Rosie by the way. My little brother Hugo is the one dressed as C-3PO. Happy Birthday, and thank you for having us."
Waving shyly at the boy covered in strange gold clothes Finn knew who these two were. They were his Potter cousins' first cousins on their mum's side. "Thanks for coming to my party." Though he hadn't known he was going to have a party. And he did indeed have a piñata, one that looked like the Death Star which was just too brilliant for words.
There was someone dressed as Yoda too, who came over to wish him a happy birthday too. "Happy Birthday, I wish you. I'm Albus."
"Hi! Thanks for coming!"
Glancing back towards the patio he saw that his mum was beaming at him, happy that he was happy, Finn realized. Beside her was his Uncle Harry, and instinctively Finn knew that he probably had the man whose eyes were identical to his own to thank for all these other kids coming even though they didn't know him.
"THANKS, UNCLE HARRY!"
"You're welcome."
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For those who are confused Finn Dursley, son of Dudley Dursley, is my original character who appears in my fanfic 'After Class'. He was fairly popular and I love him to bits.