This story is based on Harry Potter written by J.K Rowling.

There is more p.o.v switching and some fluff. Hope you like it.

Enjoy :)

Right after we finished eating i heard the tell tale sound of wizards aparating onto my property, i look at tom and he is sending a confused look towards the door so i spare him and say, "thats just the sound that happens when someone arrives via aparation, you know the unpleasant thing we did to get here."

He gets a brooding look, "why does it have to feel so awful?"

"Probably something about equivalent exchange, can't have a good thing without there being something bad also, so you get to transport places fast, but it feels awful, and you can only use it a certain amounts of time. Its like that for all magic." I shrug, something you learn to live with, he'll get it eventually.

He sighs, "well aren't we going to greet them?" He says exasperated as if i'm the child in this equation, to him i probably am, him being so serious all the time, well most of the time, he is still a kid after all and my silliness does give off vibes of Imaturity, not that i don't turn that off obviously.

"Well" i start, "i have to give you a quick background on how to greet goblins, they have certain customs they use in greeting, a lot of wizards ignore it because they see goblins as inferior just like other magical creatures, but it pays off to be polite, so ready?"

He just looks at me and says, "you will tell me about these other magical creatures you haven't mentioned yet right? Later i guess, right now goblin greetings, don't want to keep them waiting."

I smile and nod, "of course it will even be in one of the books i give you, now lets get started." I tell him then show him everything about the grining and such.

I stand up, "you are ready, if your grin isn't nesasarily that good it won't matter too much, the goblins are much more lenient with kids about these things, they will be glad that you bother to try. And it helps that you're so adorable." I grin and ruffle his hair.

He just pouts, "fine lets go."

I walk over, open the door and walk out with tom trailing behind, i walk to them until i get a certain distance to them, and the wizards, thinking i will greet them first, take steps forward. Obviously me and the goblin they sent are both on the same page and he grins, followed by me, then i look down at tom and nudge him forward, once he successfully grins, the goblin chuckles and does the whole bowing over our hands thing. The whole time this is happening the two wizards are stund into silence, guess them being ignored is not common.

"Hello i am Hermione Featherwood, this is my son tom. When can you get started on the wards?" I smile at all of them.

I look down and tom has a dazed look in his face again, like he is trying to process something, oh well i'll find out later maybe, so i turn back to the goblin and wizards to listen to their plan.

After hermione introduced us both i didn't pay much attention to the rest of the conversation, something about one of them going to the edge and the other on the roof of our house will the goblin supervised, i had more important things to think about, those five inoccent words said without a second thought from hermione.

This is my son tom...

I didn't think it was possible for me to ever hear that, and said without a thought like it didn't matter, like it was nothing but unconditional truth, and she only just got me this morning, but it was just as sincere and i don't know what to do, could she really be my mother, in the true sense of the word, she certainly seems like she wants to be, i will be cautious for now, till she proves to me that she is more then just words, and that her sincerity isn't just skin deep.

But enough of that hermione is getting my attention and we are going inside to look at the library while they set the wards, i've never been in a library before, even a small one.

She talks as we walk, "the library is also my office so there will be a desk in there, and if you want one i can put a second desk in there for you to use for work."

I nod, that would be nice to be right where the books are, read and do whatever kind of work she will be assigning me, not the traditional type of homework i don't think.

We walk into a room filled wall to wall with books, almost none i recognize, the only one being a chapter book i read in school once, the rest look like they are from the wizarding world.

I stand their awe struck and hermione just stands there chuckling while i look around, i look at her and ask, "can i read all of these?"

She smiles and says, "no, not yet, the ones i will give you to read are going to be the subjects you take once you get to first year, maybe some additional things, but also some books to tell you more background on the world of wizards and witches, it can be confusing to read about if you don't understand the lingo, don't worry we will get those books and more once we get to the book store later."

I just nod and look around some more, she did decorate this room like she said she did, and that reminded me that she said i was going to decorate the rest, like it was my house, one i shared with hermione, like a family. Dang getting emotional again, i will think about this later, first decorateing, i will never admit my excitement but decorateing the house like this is like marking something as mine, which i have never really had before, things that were mine.

I look at her and say, "shouldn't we start painting the walls in the rest of the house?" Trying and failing to hide my obvious excitement.

She just laughs and says, "alright lets start in the kitchen and work our way back up the stairs, but first do we want to keep the hardwood floors and the carpet the same? If you want to keep the stairs as hardwood then i will put a rug on the steps in case you fall, it should be plush enough to prevent most damage."

I nod, "yea i like the hardwood, is it carpet in all the bedrooms?"

She nods, "yes, we can change the color on that but carpet in bedrooms is a good idea, touching cold wood in the morning is not pleasant." She scrunches her nose at this.

I give a smile and start down stairs, "i guess i can start a list of things for my bedroom?"

She agrees, "yep, let me get you paper and pen, it is your room after all, its not like i am sleeping in there, want to see what i have in my bedroom for reference points when we get there?"

"Yea" i take the pen and paper she hands me.

"Ok you right down everything else also after we decide on a color first" she walks into the kitchen. "What do you think about green in here?"

I look around, maybe a spring green, the bright flower stem type green, "a light spring green."

She snaps her fingers, "perfect choice." She pulls out a stick and waves it around, all of a sudden the walls were the green i had imagined. She smiles at me and says, "these are wands, every witch and wizard has them, they are how we do our magic, it can be done without wands, but it makes it easier to do magic this way."

That makes sense, i guess, "what if you loose your wand?"

She smiles a proud smile like i just asked a question that has an answer to solve all of the universe's problems, "thats why you learn wandless magic anyway. Never can be too safe. I'll teach you some day soon, i can't do much, but i think it is enough."

I nod, of course, and if it will make those smiles show up more, i will do my best to learn what she teaches.

She looks around, "alright how dark should we stain the cabinets? And the color for the counter tops, i think the tile floor should be fine the way it is."

Studying the room i say, "how about a golden brown for the cabinets, and make the table and chairs match, and the counter top can be brown black and white, can it be that?"

She nods and changes the cabinets and furniture, and looks at the counters next, "yes i can make it a type of marble." She changes the counter to a dark slab of stone, and it looks like a brown background with white and black dots scattered in no particular order over the surface. I like the room.

She nods in satisfaction, "alright onto the living room, there is no furniture in here so lets do wall color first and then write down furniture to buy,"

We decide on a baby blue with white trimming, a black leather corner u shaped couch, two arm chairs for reading or for extra company, she said something about those chairs being lazyboys, whatever that means, a coffe table that matches the kitchen table, and a corner table for a lamp or candle whatever wizards use, the room has plenty of lighting from the windows during the day.

Moving on to the dinning room we decide this will be for special occasions when we have alot of people over so we decide on the neutral color of tan for walls and a ten person table that matches the kitchen table also. And a small chandelier that is more for show then light, and its no bigger then my head anyway.

We head up stairs to the hallway bathroom, the one i will be useing since she already has a bathroom attached to her bedroom, i decide that it will be sunset theme, since that is the kind of orange i like, the walls are a sunset orange the towels will be orange red and the counter is a neutral white and everything else stays the same.

We go to one of two guest bedrooms, and decide that they will be the same, and they will be a combination of our favorite colors blue, green, and purple with white trimming, hermione doesn't like orange but i'm fine with purple, each guest room will have a queen sized bed, a night stand, dresser, mirror on the wall, and a chair. The room's walls will be a neutral off white, the colors will be in the decorations.

And finally my bedroom, she right away says that i will get a king sized bed just like hers, when asked why she says so that i don't ever have to go up a size later. Weird thought but ok, along with that one night stand, dresser, mirror, and book cases for the books i will be getting at the book store later, and can't forget the second desk that hermione is going to add to her office for me. This is so unreal but i am finally wraping a head around it. I have a home and a mom.

She said we are also going to have a green house or two off to the side of the house, and a bench near the cliff so we can sit and watch the waves instead of taking the risk and standing near the edge, that will be a nice spot to sit.

Right when we finish the wizards complete the wards over the property, they come over to us, accept payment and leave, well looks like it is shopping time.

After me and tom finish furniture shoping, its time to start clothes shopping, i lead the way to a muggle clothing store, and we start on small things like sweat pants to see his size range.

After haveing him try on different sizes we decide he is a medium in both sweats and t-shirts. We move onto jeans which we need help with and i ask a worker to take his measurements for the pants, and finds pairs that fit, i get him at least three of everything including tank tops, t-shirts, sweat pants, jeans, dress pants, button up shirts, and one blazer jacket and one sweat shirt jacket and one umbrella, because sometimes magic isn't enough. And finally a pair of fancy shoes and a pair of sneakers.

I look at him, "think this is fine for now? Don't want different colors in anything?" The shirts were all different colors but the pants were consistently black.

He just nods his head, probably not knowing what to say, oh well. We pay and head out to find an alley where we can aparate home and unpack what we have, then head over to diagon alley to finish shopping, he needs robes for certain occasions and i need to buy work robes, and maybe a replacement wand, get rid of this temporary one i have. And if tom is attracted to a wand also, then i guess i can get him one early to help him learn the spells in the first year books.

Once we get to an alley i stop and hold out my hand and tom takes it looking nauseous, remembering the last time they did this probably, "hold on tight." I say gentally.

We arrive home with a crack, and once we are inside i hand him the huge bag with all of his stuff from the clothing store, and get out the bag that has the furniture for his room in it.

I set up the furniture upstairs and look at tom, he looks so excited to have a room, "why don't you unpack your other stuff while i set up the furniture and other things in the other rooms"

He nods and i walk to the guest rooms to get started, by the time i'm finished with all the rooms he is coming out of his room, i call him over, "tom come look at your desk" he follows me to the office and looks at the desk, it is an exact replica of my desk but while mine is a light golden brown, his is dark brown, almost black.

He looks at me with a smile, the first real one since i got him this morning, and i know that whatever happens to the future from this point forward, everything will be ok and tom will always be my son, even if i don't actually change anything at all.