Chapter Thirty-One: Guess Who's Four?
To answer Sakura Liesel's questions; if you've gotten this far (pretty much at the end since there's only a few more chapters) then you already know what happens to Fluffy lol as for how everybody found out about Harry and Lily surviving so quickly? Idk, I guess news travels quickly in the wizarding world since it did in canon as well,.. and I sort of think that you're just overthinking it. XD!
Severus managed to talk to Dumbledore into only suspending his niece on the condition that she wouldn't perform underage magic again in which she happily obliged. A couple of months later Lily had her bridal shower and a couple of months after that Severus had his bachelor's party. Before they knew it Harry was now four years old and Sarah was two.
Stevie was now nearing her seventeenth birthday and Chase was currently teaching her how to drive as she now also had her temporary license. Nugget was getting bigger and older as well since he was now two years old and had exchanged his golden coloring for silver and his horn was just starting to grow into the center of his forehead. He was also eating hay and oats now instead of drinking milk from a bottle.
One day while Lily decided to go give Sarah her first haircut, Severus took Harry to the store to get him his first pair of underwear since he was completely potty trained during the day now. He was even using the regular toilet now. "When am I going to learn how to stand up and go pee-pee like you Daddy?" Harry questioned him while glancing up at him and continuing to hold his hand as they walked through the store together.
"Well, if you think you're ready I can start teaching you how to aim. It won't be long now until your sister starts her potty training too." He told him with a grin.
"Will she learn how to stand up too?" He questioned him.
"No. Girls always go pee-pee sitting down." Severus replied with a shake of his head.
"Weely? Why?" Harry asked him.
"It's just because that's how God intended it. Now what kind of underwear do you want Harry?" His father questioned him back.
"Blue and wed to match my outfit." Harry replied as Severus chuckled.
"Alright but it's r-ed not wed. Now that you're four years old you really should start working on your speech a bit more." He told him. "Speaking of wed though, are you excited about the wedding?" Severus asked him but Harry just simply shrugged.
"I don't know. I've never been to one before." He told him.
"I know you haven't, but you're going to have a wonderful time. Sarah is going to be the flower girl, and you're going to be the ring bearer." Severus told him.
"What's that?" Harry wondered.
"It means that you will give us our wedding rings. Then after the wedding there will be a reception where you get to dance and eat some cake." Severus told him.
"Sounds like a kid's paradise." Harry replied as Severus laughed and then went on ahead and bought the underwear that Harry had picked out. "As long as we're here is there anything else that you would like?" He asked him.
"A puppy!" Harry exclaimed excitedly as Severus rolled his eyes.
"You're just never going to give that up are you?" He questioned.
"Nope!" Harry cried.
"Well this isn't a pet store and I meant would you like any other new clothes or toys." Severus said.
"Yes please." Harry replied with a nod as his father smiled rather warmly and lovingly at him.
"Alright then let's go ahead and see what you would like. Maybe once you learn how to tie your shoes we can get you some shoes with laces on them." He told him as he started leading him away and continued to smile down at him.
"That's going to be a varwee long time fwom now though." Harry said.
"You said the same thing about learning to undress and dress yourself, drinking from a cup, not having to take naps anymore, and getting underwear and look how quickly that all happened. You're growing up faster than you realize it." Severus told him as they continued walking away together.
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Meanwhile, little Sarah wasn't taking too well to having her haircut. She kept fidgeting around and fussing. She also wound up hitting and biting her mother since she had to hold her down which Lily made sure to let her know that she wasn't happy with her behavior in the slightest bit.
In the end Sarah finally had managed to have her hair cut to shoulder length but she didn't get a lollipop and as soon as they got home, she went straight into timeout. Unfortunately, Severus and Harry returned home a few moments later and Sarah was still in the process of having her temper tantrum. For the first time ever she displayed that she was in fact a witch as books started falling off the shelf as she screamed and cried.
"Harry, why don't you go back to your room and try on your new underwear?" Severus questioned him while turning to look over at him over his shoulder.
"Okay but what's wong with Sawah?" He wondered.
"Mind your own business and go to your room please." Severus told him as Harry grabbed his underwear and nodded before turning to run back into his bedroom and shut the door behind him.
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The night before the wedding Severus gave Harry a bath and then he read him his favorite story about Stormy The Dragon before putting him to bed. (He was now wearing pull-ups to bed instead of diapers.) The next morning he woke up and used the bathroom and put on his underwear before heading over to the breakfast table.
"Well there you are big boy." Lily began while smiling lovingly at her son. "So have you thought about what you wanted to have for breakfast yet?" she questioned him.
"Chocolate chip pancakes and orange juice please." He told her.
"Alright coming right up and after you've finished eating you need to put on your dress clothes." She told him while he pulled out a chair and then sat down next to his little sister.
