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Chapter One: Assigned to the Job and Seeing Madam Pomfrey

Once Professor McGonagall had charmed the Slytherin school uniform and robes down from a teenage size to a young child's size, and she helped the Professor get Draco dressed with a wave of her wand, Luna Lovegood tried walking at a good pace to follow the professors and headmaster without dropping the infant-toddler in her arms. Now the little Malfoy tot that was no longer a grown teenage boy wasn't as easy to carry as she had first thought when she picked him up. Luna, however, didn't complain about the child's weight, continuing to hold him, and kept on following the elder witch and wizards through the second floors to the Headmaster's main office.

Some students who were in the halls watched on as a calm McGonagall, Flitwick, and Dumbledore passed them by. But the students quickly lost eye contact with the Potions Master once Snape sent scowls their way.

Professor Snape, as Luna noticed, did not look happy or to be in good spirits.

'Maybe he's upset with whoever pulled this unknown stunt on Malfoy,' the girl thought.

Little Draco now thought of the unknown girl who was holding him as 'the pretty yellow-haired girl who saved him from the bad ketchup-haired boy.''

Malfoy kept looking around the hallways, seeing the moving pictures and ghosts around that made him squeal and coo with excitement at seeing the things.

The yellow-haired girl, as he stared at her, smiled back at him friendly, and that made him smile. Then the little happy tike's eyes looked on with a bit of curiosity as he noticed that the big people with him and the girl stopped at a scary-looking stone that looked like a scary monster. Draco at once thought of his mummy then hiccupped as tears were trying to let loose from his gray-blue eyes.

He let out a small whimper just as he got the girl's attention.

"Don't cry. It's okay, Mal…Draco. That stone gargoyle isn't going to hurt you. See look," Luna said, trying to calm the boy down as he did as she said to.

Sure enough, the stoned monster moved out of the way as the man with the long and funny beard had said something to make it move. The next thing little Draco knew was that they went up some stairs and into a big room. His eyes lit up again as he squirmed in Luna's arms as he caught the sight of something interesting to him. The thing that had caught his interest was Dumbledore's pet phoenix, Fawkes, who was sitting on his perch calmly. Draco tugged quietly on Luna's robe sleeves just as she had taken a seat next to the professors when Dumbledore had told them all to.

Luna looked at him with a friendly smile.

"Can I play with the firebird?" he asked, perfectly polite, smiling wide.

"Hm? You do? Uh, Excuse me Headmaster Sir, I think that he wants to play with Fawkes," Luna said looking away from Draco to Dumbledore.

"He does? Well, I see no harm in allowing him to be entertained by Fawkes", Albus smiled with that mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

"What?! Albus doesn't even think about it! I as the boy's Godfather and Head of his House will not be the one responsible to have to deal with telling the boy's housemates, his family, especially his Mother of how that blasted bird yours injures or harms him," Snape said, looking sharply at the elderly wizard.

Severus was certainly not agreeing to anything of the child, his Godson playing with the magical, yet dangerous bird...because of all the people that Severus Snape had personally feared, it was Narcissa Black-Malfoy, the one witch as a mother who was deadly protective of her only child.

"Fawkes is harmless and completely safe, Severus. After all, he's fine with all of us and even Mr. Potter when we touch him," Flitwick said as the deputy headmistress Minerva nodded in agreement.

"I don't see any harm in letting the boy play with him, either, Severus. You worry too much. Why not let Fawkes play with young Malfoy, Albus," Minerva said with calmness and smiled a bit, seeing that Snape was not the least bit amused.

"I see both your points, Minerva, Filius. He'll be fine playing with Fawkes a bit, Severus, there's nothing to worry about. Miss Lovegood, could you please help Fawkes entertain young Mr. Malfoy while the head of your house, Professor Snape and McGonagall discuss some things first over a spot of tea before we speak with you about this whole incident?" the old bearded wizard asked her.

"No problem, Sir. Come on, Draco; let's go play with the headmaster's birdy, as you call him. His actual and proper name is Fawkes," Luna said, carrying Draco over to where the phoenix was, much to Draco's delight.

"Yes!" Draco laughed out loud as the bird flew down from his perch, sitting next to the little child and his student minder on the carpeted floor of the Headmaster's office.

With her wand, Luna charmed up a toy ball and rolled it over to Fawkes. She then did a hand motion to him, explaining what to do with the ball and how to play with the child to not hurt him. Fawkes seemed to understand what the Ravenclaw student was getting at. Fawkes nudged the ball over to Luna and tiny Draco with his beak.

Soon, the game of catch went on as the professors watched on for a few minutes.

Albus smiled with that knowing twinkle in his eyes as he then turned his attention to the professors in the office, motioning them to join him at his main desk, as they all began to sit down in their chairs.

"Now, we still will have to find who was responsible for this little accident to young Mr. Malfoy," Albus began addressing while waving his wand, as a House Elf suddenly appeared with a tray of tea, Scottish baked cookies, and teacups for the four of them to have before the House Elf dressed in a burlap flour sack took off with a magical pop.

"Headmaster, I know it had to be a Gryffindor. I honestly think that it was Weasley, along with Potter. You know, of course, about their ongoing feud with Draco." Severus grumbled and suspected the two infamous Gryffindor Seventh Years without any hesitation.

"Severus, we can't jump to conclusions. We'll figure out that matter later. For now, what will we do with Mr. Malfoy at the moment?" Albus asked them, changing the subject, while passing Severus, Minerva, and Filius a cup and saucer of hot tea each calmly.

"Fine then. For one, we know that we can't possibly leave Draco by himself in the Slytherin house. My students wouldn't have the faintest idea what to do with him being de-aged as a child. Crabbe and Goyle, his closest friends are too dunderheaded to look after or out for him," Severus answered, looking already stressed and upset in his eyes, refusing to drink his tea.

"Severus has a point there, Albus, Severus, could you possibly look after young Mr. Malfoy? And what about the boy's family?" Minerva asked, seemingly clearly concerned, as she sipped her cuppa tea, looking over to where Lovegood and Fawkes were both keeping the young Malfoy boy entertained across the office.

"I may be the boy's Godfather with how his Father Lucius and I had been long-time old friends back during our time spent here within the school...However, I cannot look after him or keep him living within my quarters or with me during my classes or time spent brewing potions nonstop in my lab. It's too much risk," Severus sighed, deciding then to just down his teacup of tea to drink something for his now slight headache. (He felt it was a pity that he wasn't drinking a shot of fire whiskey or a glass of his favorite wizarding brandy.)

"What about the boy's Mother? Couldn't Lady Malfoy take him back to their home for the time being until whatever caused his de-aging to be reversed back to normal?" Filius suggested.

"Unfortunately, Draco's Mother Narcissa is currently overseas. Narcissa had informed me before the school term started, during a visit at my residence elsewhere in England, about going to be out of the country and magical communities both here in Scotland and England for a while. Said she had to take care of some important business," Severus started to explain as he watched Albus's eyes twinkle again much to his annoyance.

"Yes, How is Narcissa doing since her lawyers assisted her with getting her that complete divorce and taking care of all that mess she had to deal with concerning Lucius in the courts during the summer?" Albus nodded, remembering everything that had happened earlier in the last couple of months after and during the war of the previous year.

"Narcissa had said despite what was written in the Daily Prophet and other reports about it that the courts and Ministry sided politely with her, and she had to do a little financial bribing with her lawyers help to ensure she got the divorce that she wanted from Lucius, won custody of Draco, along with the majority of the assets concerning the Malfoy bank vaults, property and all homes including Malfoy Manor going directly to both her and Draco. Lucius tried to argue but as stated in the family wills of the Black and Malfoy documents, if he was ever disgraced and locked up besides stray unfaithful to his and Narcissa's marriage or have an illegitimate heir of any child outside their marriage and marriage bed...he knew what would happen. His lawyers advised him to agree to everything to avoid trouble. He's still locked up for life without any chance of parole from prior deals he made with the Wizengamot to plead guilty to all charges against him to avoid receiving the Dementor's Kiss," Severus explained calmly in his usual tone.

"Narcissa said she would be gone for a few weeks to possibly a month or two. She wasn't sure how long it would take her. She had spoken to me about needing a vacation for a while along with needing to check with her lawyers overseas if Lucius possibly could have had hidden assets and bank accounts in other magical banks across Europe or the North Americas not known to herself or Draco." Severus added in continuing.

"I see. Well then, without her still in England and continuing to travel through the floo and Appariting nonstop, It may be hard to contact her by sending letters through owls if she is currently quite preoccupied. Do you think you could try to owl or contact one of her most trusted House Elves at their Manor to try getting a hold of Narcissa or to give her a letter from you to inform her about Draco?" Albus suggested.

"Yes, that seems the best thing to do concerning it. I will send a letter for her eyes only and a note to her House Elves at the manor to get a hold of her. For now, what shall we do with Draco? We all are staff are busy with classes, grading assignments and tests to look after him twenty-four seven. I honestly don't trust anyone on staff to watch after him, they wouldn't survive Draco at this age he is now as a toddler. To be perfectly honest Albus, when he was this age range previously in his childhood, only his Mother was able to tame him and his childish wildness when Lucius himself and the Elves could barely handle surviving him...myself included whenever I would visit time to time," Severus sighed, feeling that stressful annoying headache and want for something stronger than tea to drink again.

" Very true Severus. And none of the other houses are worth the risk with a two-year-old child of any sort. I can't possibly look after him with my duties of teaching and everything else. As you said, We as staff are unfortunately too busy to care for him," Minerva said as Severus and Filius both nodded in agreement.

"Well, there is only one thing that will work that I have in mind," Albus said, smiling with that twinkle in his eyes again.

"Oh no, you're not suggesting that…She looks after him!" Severus said suddenly, looking very unhappy and horrified with what the man was cooking up.

"Severus, we've already seen how Draco's reacted to others holding him. She's the only one that can handle him it seems," Albus said arguing gently.

"Yes, he's right, Severus. You saw how he practically threw a fit when you and Miss Granger and Mr. Weasley held him," Minerva added.

"Don't worry about a thing, Severus old boy. Luna can take care of him perfectly. She's one of the top students in my house in her year. She's very capable of handling children younger than her, and she is the only one, as Albus and Minerva pointed out, that Draco will accept handling him."

"Filius are you insane! What about the boy's mother? Narcissa is his only legal guardian now that Lucius is locked up in Azkaban, need I remind you. She won't be happy in the least bit of knowledge of what happened to the heir of the Malfoy family name and Lovegood taking care of him," Severus said, shaking his head, still not liking the idea at all.

"Narcissa is currently possibly either somewhere in Europe or America right now. As for any other family he may have, Tonks with Remus and her Mother are both too busy having their hands all full with young Theodore "Ted" their son. They can't possibly look after two children who are hyperactive and quite strong. I know you would never want Draco to be looked after by Molly and Arthur Weasley." Albus tried to argue keeping calm as he always did with a smile and twinkle.

"But, but!" Severus hissed.

"Let me remind you, Severus, that despite her dislike for half-born wizarding folk or Muggles, she was a key undercover spy, like yourself, who helped in the war against Voldemort and her ex-husband in the very beginning when she had come to you and myself early on before the war had started, after the loss we all suffered along with Harry over Sirius's death. Narcissa has been a part of the light side for us since then, and she'll not mind the girl taking care of her son." Albus tried to make the grumpy and stubborn potions master and spies see the reasoning.

"And if I may also add to those facts that we will try to find a cure for young Mr. Malfoy while he is in Luna's hands," Minerva added, with her cat-like smile.

"Minerva, you have a point, but how is she going to watch Draco when she has her classes to attend during the week?" Snape grumbled.

"Well, she'll just have to take him to classes then, or else we will arrange for someone else to watch over him when in specific classes she cannot take him with her. Everything will be taken care of and it will be fine, so don't fret, Severus," Albus finished as Severus finally nodded, knowing that the matter was done being discussed.

"I suppose you are right. But if anything happens to him, the girl will be to blame," Snape mumbled as usual in an unhappy tone.

"Miss Lovegood, could you please bring young Mr. Malfoy over here for a moment with you?" Filius called as the girl nodded, picking up Draco as he was pouting a bit from being taken away from the phoenix.

"The professors and I have discussed what we are going to do with Mr. Malfoy. Until there is a cure or anything of the sort that we can find and change him back, I am going to have you be his substitute guardian for the time being," Albus said as Luna nodded, holding the child still who was looking at them, completely puzzled at what was happening.

"In other words, Luna, Mr. Malfoy here has taken an attached liking to you, dear. As an example, as you know all offspring when they are brought into this world have, on impulse, an instinct to bond with the first thing they come into interaction with," Filius started to explain until Luna cut him off.

"In other words, like how newborn kittens behave when they find their mother…you mean that when…Draco…he…." Luna trailed off, not believing what she was hearing.

"Yes, Mr. Malfoy, from his young toddler instincts has assumed that till this very moment that you are his mother. A substitute mother or guardian of sorts," Minerva added, to explain it more clearly to the girl as she nodded.

"It's a natural thing, though, in this case, after all, you were the first thing that he saw when he opened his eyes," Albus said as well.

"We are entrusting you to watch him responsibly, Miss Lovegood, so take it seriously," Snape warned her as she looked away from his gaze since the man still gave her somewhat of the chills.

"Of course Professor Snape, Sir. Will he be staying with me in my house dormitories?" Luna asked, changing the subject.

"Yes. I will be announcing this incident to the rest of the school. You will have to take the child with you to classes, but except for Defense Against the Dark Arts, Divination, Potions, and Care of Magical Creatures. Those classes are too much of a risk to bring him into." Filius answered for her kindness.

"I understand, Professor Flitwick. I take it he'll be with me during meals, too? I don't mind at all, nor am I complaining, professors."

"We know, Miss Lovegood. Now, before we do anything else or discuss anything, we had better take Mr. Malfoy to see Madam Pomfrey do some check-ups on him. We have to make sure he is in good health before you take on your duties of having him as your little ward," Albus brought up as they all nodded and exited the office.

"Poppy is going to have a bloody fit when she sees Draco. I hate it when that woman goes off her rockers getting fits with students getting them injured or in messes like these," Snape sighed, shaking his head.

"Pops! Pops! Pops! Pops!" Draco laughed and shouted while smiling in delight.

"Yes, that's right, Draco. We're going to go see Madam Pomfrey. You want to ask her when we see her if she can get you a lollipop or a piece of chocolate, or maybe even a chocolate frog or two? What do you think about that?" Luna asked him while smiling with an adventurous look on her face.

"YEAS! POPS! CHOCOLATE FROGGIES! FROGGIES LOONS!" Draco screamed out loud in excitement.

Luna's eyes widened in surprise from hearing the little boy's name for her.

'Loons, eh? It sounds cute. Maybe this job won't be so bad. He looks perfectly fine for any child his age currently,' Luna thought to herself.

Snape looked at the Headmaster as if questioning, 'Are you sure this is a good idea?'

Dumbledore didn't say a word. He just smiled, giving the twinkle of a look back to the professor.

No one knew what would happen once Draco and Luna were alone on their own for the rest of the year of the babysitting task.

Could Luna handle watching the little pint-sized Draco Malfoy and handle the rest of her Sixth Year?

Those questions kept swimming through the professors' heads and as well as in Luna's mind.

For now, they had to worry about how the little bugger, Draco, would handle and react to his check-up with Madam Pomfrey.

Upon arriving inside the Hospital Wing, little Draco had a look around the infirmary while being still held within Luna's arms. To a little child, it was a gigantic place in contrast to an adult's viewpoint. A few students from different houses were resting in beds for some…injuries or illness…or for other reasons of the sort. The medical witch herself, Madam Poppy Pomfrey had just finished charming some medical bandage wraps upon a third-year girl from the Hufflepuff house on her right arm. The healer then took notice of the group waiting patiently for her attention.

Finished with her task she turned to the girl, handing her a cup of medical potion as she moved over to the group to see what was going on. The middle-aged nurse was surprised to see the small gray-eyed boy with messy dirty blonde strands looking straight at her with innocent eyes. (The second thing that surprised her was seeing him in the arms of one Luna Lovegood.) Pomfrey didn't say anything about this; she looked at the quartet of professors for an answer. The Headmaster looked at her with a look that said simply, 'I will explain later.'

"I do certainly hope that you'll explain every detail to me, Albus. Now, let me take a look at this boy and examine him to make sure he's alright," Poppy said calmly as she went to take a hold of the child.

However, Draco being his stubborn self cringed and buried himself into Luna's robes as his hands held tightly onto her. He sniffled and murmured unknown words into her clothes.

Luna patted his head while trying to keep him relaxed.

"Madam Pomfrey, Draco said he doesn't want you to touch him. He's scared," Luna explained.

"I can tell, Miss Lovegood. So this is or was Mr. Malfoy. Well, I don't care how he ended up as a child, but I must check his health for good reasons to ensure he is alright," the medi-witch replied.

"Perhaps you can run some check-up tests on him with Miss Lovegood holding him. It would make things easier for you Poppy."

"That's an excellent idea, Filius. Now dear, can you please sit down here on this bed and keep young Mr. Malfoy calmly in your lap as I perform some health charms on him," Poppy instructed.

Luna nodded, walking over to the nearest bed and plopping herself down with Draco. Little Draco had completely shell-shocked the professors…especially Snape...when he sat through Poppy's entire check-up with being a very good little boy. The arrogant and spoiled whining brat had sat through the entire ordeal as silent as a mouse in Luna's lap. Once finished, Poppy smiled at him as she patted Draco's head as it was seen she was impressed with his good behavior. Draco smiled back as he looked at Luna.

The girl smiled, proud of his good behavior.

" My, what a good little boy. This young man seems to have excellent manners. I must say, Headmaster, Professors. And I believe that a reward is for him." Poppy said with a kind smile as she charmed up a little goody bag that held some Chocoballs, a Chocolate Frog, and a few Licorice Wands inside it.

Draco's little eyes of gray widened in amazement, excitement, and happiness. He let out a cry of delight and jumped out of his teenage guardian's lap to grab the bag of sweets before hugging the old nurse's leg.

"Thank you, Pops-Pops!" he squealed smilingly.

" You're welcome. Now, don't get yourself a tummy ache with those candies or I'm sure I'll be seeing you back in here sooner or later young man. Why don't you go with Miss Lovegood to show her your treats while I talk with the other grown-ups."

Draco nodded to the medi-witch as he tugged on Luna's robes to show her his treasure treats, shouting..."Look! Lollies the Pops Pops Gaves Me!"

" How is he, Poppy?" Albus asked the head medinurse, while the child was busy showing the teenage witch his candy.

"Little Mr. Malfoy is in excellent health, Headmaster. There wasn't anything wrong with him. He's completely a normal child at toddler age. Will Miss Lovegood, I presume will be taking care of him until we all can figure out how to turn him back to his regular and normal self?" the woman asked.

"That is the plan while I try to find out if a de-aging potion or anything else potion or magical had been used on him," Snape replied.

" I see, I'll be happy to assist in the search. However, I hope that Miss Lovegood can handle him... After all, these Malfoys tend to act differently than they are known to be. And, I believe this younger version of him was more wild and hyper." Poppy smirked suddenly.

" What makes you believe that theory Poppy?" Snape asked, raising an eye at her.

"Because Severus, in all of my life, never once have I seen a two-year-old like that boy finish eating such a large amount of sweets in just a few minutes." Poppy laughed as she motioned with a hand gesture for him to turn around.

Doing so, the professor had a stunned yet annoyed look on his face at what he saw.

Draco's face was sticky with chocolate and other goodies. And so was Luna, who had chocolate and bits of Licorice Wands in her hair. The two were laughing as it looked like they were having a good time with one another. Minerva smiled, amused at the sight before them, as did Filius and Albus.

" Until lunch starts later on this day, I think it would be best if Luna takes little Malfoy on a tour of the Ravenclaw dormitories while her fellow housemates are attending their classes..." Albus said as his colleagues nodded in agreement.

" I think it would be wise if she went and bathed the child or clean him up. He's covered in that mess of addictive candy…. she had better stop giving him that stuff or else we have to deal with a hyperactive wild monkey of the sorts about this school madly." Snape grumbled.

To Be Continued...

Author's Ending Notes:

And that is chapter one. I'll be posting the next two chapters ASAP within two weeks. I'll be working on trying to revise, re-writing the next chapters of two, three, and four during that time. (As well as working on other chapters to write/re-write for other Harry Potter fan fiction stories I have in the works.)

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