A/N: Hello! There is going to be a time skip, Harry and Lydia are now four. Just really quick, or long, I ramble, anyways this might be a short chapter. I am wondering do you guys want me to make Harry and Lydia's childhood into seven chapters or three? Just answer below. Basically there are some important things that happen in their childhood that is really important to the story, some of the years aren't as important. When they are eleven, if I do three chapters for their childhood, I will go back to one year per chapter or more than one chapter, depending. Anyways please answer below and I hope you enjoy. Plus this chapter is early so hope you enjoy!
Lydia woke up to the pitter-patter of rain lightly tapping on her window. She rubbed her eyes and looked around the dark blurred room swatting around for her glasses. She had really adjusted to a loving family. She loved that she could talk to her fathers and they wouldn't judge her, she loved that Moomy (that's what she jokingly called Remus) gave her free range of the book shop, she loved that she had Harry as a friend, she loved having a family. She went to muggle school along with Harry. Muggles called it nursery school but they just called it muggle school.
Lydia jogged down the stairs and grabbed her book. "Bye dads, I'm going down to the shop before school." Lydia said and jogged down another flight of stairs. "Oh wait I'll come with you I need to give Merida her book for the week." Remus quickly kissed Sirius and went with Lydia.
Merida was an old woman. She had a cane and she wasn't afraid to use it, especially on Sirius. She always came by once a week and got a romance novel that Remus randomly picked for her. She was very kind, she maybe old but she knew what she was talking about. The first week that Wolfstar Books was open she came in, she lived a block away, Sirius came rushing downstairs with the news that him and Remus had been approved for adoption and Sirius kissed Remus. Merida told Remus after Sirius left, "was that your husband?" "Yes," "don't mess it up. Don't lose the love that you two have for each other. I might be old but there isn't anything I wouldn't do for my daughter and grandson. Don't mess this up." She smiled paid and made it a weekly tradition to come in and buy a book.
Today, when Merida came in she wasn't alone. There was a little boy of the age of five with her. "Hello Merida, is this Kai?" Remus had a smile on his face like always when he was in the shop. "Yes, this is the little troublemaker that is my life." Merida smiled. Merida's daughter, Amanda, got pregnant when she was sixteen and it was a hard financial situation for Amanda and Kai so Merida insisted that they stay with her, forever…, and loves both of them limitlessly. "He's adorable, this is Lydia, my daughter." Remus smiled, again, proud to be a father. "Oh looks like they already like each other." Lydia and Kai were down on the floor playing, "down by the banks" Merida and Remus smiled at the two and started talking and Remus gave her, her book.
Lily showed up to pick up Lydia for school. "Hey your carpool is here." Lily walked in with her same badass strut, a messy bun, a white t-shirt, and faded, ripped, skinny jeans. "Oh hello Lily. Merida this is Lily, Lily this is Merida." Remus introduced. "Hello, nice to meet you, I'm Lily Potter, and that rat nest with a human under it, yeah, that's my kid Harry." "Oh hello, Lily, I'm Merida Dames and that's my grandson, Kai." Merida smiled as she pointed at Kai. "He's adorable. I'm taking the kids to school do you want me to take Kai as well?" Lily offered. "Oh, no it's okay, Kai doesn't got to the same school as Lydia. Thank you so much though." Merida smiled. "Anytime. Alright, hate to say it but let's go to school." Lily gave a final wave before leaving. "Have a good day at school, beast." Remus said.
"Beast" was one of the, many, many, many, nicknames Lydia earned over the past year. Sirius mainly called her "pumpkin fluff" or "cub" while Remus just stuck with the nickname "beast". Now there are reasons, Sirius says the reason for "pumpkin fluff" is because her hair looked orange when they first got her and so the name stuck, "cub" was for, well, she was being raised by a wolf and a dog so it was natural, Remus' reasoning for calling her "beast" was because when she was three if they called her princess she would yell at them, mainly because she hated the word, so instead of being called "beauty" she said just call her "beast" when she got tired of explaining it to her fathers.
On their way to school Harry and Lydia would talk about what they dreamt about. It was funny they spent almost every waking second together and sometimes they had sleepovers and would spend all day together. Lydia loved learning, it was really cute actually. Once she thought that sitting around all day was "too easy" and she had read up on some maths things that she saw in her father's shop, her teacher, as a joke, gave her a grade five worksheet in maths and she completed it within five minutes and it was correct, her teacher was shocked, but did nothing certain that she cheated.
A group of boys would always chase Harry and beat him up, they called it "Harry Hunting", once Lydia kicked the boy who would beat up Harry in the balls and she got made fun of and Harry was mad at her for making him seem "weak" this was when she took her first feminist stand stating that she could beat up every guy in the room and that girls were just as strong as boys. When Harry said that wasn't true and Lydia then proceeded to push Harry's face into the ground and he admitted that she was right.
Harry and Lydia mainly stayed to themselves. They really didn't like any of the other kids. Their teacher would tell them they had to play with other kids and that they wouldn't always have each other. Lydia and Harry shared a look and said, "nah," they would always be friends, both of them knew that.
"Lydia, there is a group of girls over there playing fairy princess, don't you want to play with them?" Their teacher, mrs. Goodwrinkle, asked Lydia. Lydia, still deep in her book, simply said no without even looking up. "Harry there is a group of boys over there playing knights, why don't you join them?" Mrs. Goodwrinkle asked again. "Alright, here's the thing, we want to stay here and read and play by ourselves. By the way I hate fairy princesses and knights suck! It's really sexist that you would think we would want to play those just because he has a penis and I have a vagina." Lydia knew how to make people uncomfortable and talking about human anatomy was one of her favorite ways to do so, it was often how she got people to leave her alone. "Lasanderia! We do not use such language here! Go to the corner for the rest of the day!" "What we can't talk about science here? It's nature. It's no different than saying deers give birth. Seriously I know babies don't come from storks. I mean really we should be allowed to talk about human anatomy." Lydia folded her arms and cocked an eyebrow. "Do you want me to call your mother and father?" "Well I don't have a mother so good luck." "Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize she died. Well your father then?" "Which one?" "What?" "Yeah, I have two fathers and no mother." Lydia had a smirk on her four year old face. "Well I'll just call your house, then." "Okay." Lydia turned back to Harry. "Aren't both your dads at work?" Harry asked. "No remember our dads have the day off." James and Sirius both work as aurors and they had they day off. "Oh yeah… have fun." Harry chuckled. None of their parents cared that they got in trouble depending. Lily was strict when it came to pranks, but if it came to standing up for yourself she applauded you.
Twenty minutes later James and Sirius came through the door. "Dad, what are you doing here?" Harry asked. "Well they called Sirius because Lydia got in trouble, we figured it was a two-for-one deal." James explained. "Where is Lyd?" Sirius asked. "Oh good you're here. Are you aware that your daughter knows far too much for her age?" Lydia's teacher asked Sirius. "I don't think she knows too much but she knows a lot, yes I know this." Lydia's teacher jestered for Lydia to come over to where they were. Lydia walked over and hugged her father and godfather. "Hey, pumpkin fluff, what did you do?" "Why do you always assume I said something?"
"Because you're my daughter and I know better than to trust you."
"I talked about science." Lydia said simply. "Tell them exactly what you said." Mrs. Goodwrinkle said with a stern face. "I said, and I quote, 'Alright, here's the thing, we want to stay here and read and play by ourselves. By the way I hate fairy princesses and knights suck! It's really sexist that you would think we would want to play those just because he has a penis and I have a vagina.' Then she said, 'Lasanderia! We do not use such language here! Go to the corner for the rest of the day!' Then I said with my usual knowledge and snarkiness, 'What we can't talk about science here? It's nature. It's no different than saying deers give birth. Seriously I know babies don't come from storks. I mean really we should be allowed to talk about human anatomy.' So, long story short we are in Kentu-" Sirius cut her off, "don't finish that sentence, Lyd." Sirius put his hand over her mouth.
"So what was the problem? She was being a smart-as-I mean smart-alec? Sorry to break it to you but kids will always be like that no matter what, some are just more verbal about it than others." Sirius explained. "She said naughty words." The teacher said. "No she said penis and vagina, they are body parts. It's no different than saying arm and leg. The only difference is that you don't see them being waved around in public." Sirius explained.
"Well how does she know where 'babies come from' then? She's four."
"She reads,"
"maybe she shouldn't."
"Yeah I would like to see you try to take away reading from her, but reality is you can't keep kids in the closet forever."
"Now it makes sense."
"What makes sense?"
"Why she acts like this."
"Acts like what? A child."
"Well she says she has two fathers. Obviously there is lack of a mother figure."
"Actually there isn't you see she actually has two female role models, Harry's mum, her godmother, Lily, and someone I see as a mother figure, who Lydia sees as a grandmother. So please don't blame this on lack of mother figure. We take good care of her. Don't blame her for having her own mind and being a child."
"Mr. Black,"
"Lupin-Black, actually."
"Mr. Black, Lydia probably should be more social and so should Harry they just stay with each other all day."
"Probably for a reason. They have always been together since they were three not a day apart. Maybe they should be more social but you can't force them to be someone else to be friends with people."
The bell rang signaling it was time to leave for the day. "Good-bye." Sirius, James, Harry, and Lydia all walked out of the room and went home.
A/N: Alright please answer if you want their childhood in seven chapters or in three. I really need to know this in order to be able to work on the next chapter.