CHAPTER 4—PREGNANCV AND CANDY

"Well, because my uncle became pregnant," Harry responded, blushing as red as can be.
"You SLEPT with him-I mean her as in SLEPT with her?" Aimee was horrified.
"Well, you have to remember the spell we were under. We had completely different memories behind us, ones of the 'new' lives as Harold and Virginia, and no memory whatsoever of Vernon or Harry. And, well, according to our memories, this wasn't the first time, and there was a little baby there to prove these new memories. Fred and George leave nothing out when they make their candies."
"O god, Heaven save me," Aimee replied.
"Please continue," Tricia asked, "This story is hilarious!"
"Well," Harry said, "There's really no point."
"Yes there is!" Ron cried and began to continue. "Fred and George began to watch Harry and Vernon like hawks...


That night after Dudley was let in and Petunia was feed was such a night that the poor dog got up during the night and went over to the baby's room to sleep. The couple in the bed was making to much noise!

The next morning, Petunia woke them up by crying again. Virginia quietly got up, got the wailing child and returned to the bed. As she began to feed the child, Harold sat there, cradling her in his arms.

Fred and George had been watching the two of them almost all night. They stopped when privacy was called for. Not knowing what to do, they ach ate one of their disaperogummies and quickly went to the house where the new little family lived. They had to find out if she was pregnant. After each of them had thrown pregnancy test spells at her stomach, they realized that she was. It was the moment they dreaded.

After a little while, Virginia and Harold came downstairs. Fred and George ate another of their disapearogummies and quietly waited for the couple to sit down with drinks in front of them. After a few minutes, the twins got their chance. Each of them dropped a candy into a glass and left.

The story was interrupted yet again as the little group got up and left the restaurant. Harry paid for the meal and quickly ran outside to catch up with the group. It was quickly decided that everyone was going to Ron and Hermione's house.

About an hour later everyone was back together, except the four kids who had lost interest in the story.
"Are you going to continue to tell us this story?" Tricia wanted to know.
This time, to everyone's surprise, Harry responded positively.
"Yes, we should. Aimee, I would like you to hear this. Such secrets don't help a relationship."
"Uhmm. Right, Harry."
The poor lady was distraught. How could Harry have done this?
"Of course, at the time, we didn't know they put the candies in our drinks," Harry started the story back up, "but, you would never believe the speed at which things happened for the next handful of days....


Harold and Virginia ate their breakfast in a comfortable quiet. Petunia sat in her 'mother's' lap and cooed gently at Dudley, who was sitting by Harold on the floor.

Later, things got scary.

Both of them knew that what had happened the night before had only happened the night before, but they also didn't know of the twin's candies that were adding to the mix-up.
By the end of the day, Virginia was showing. In fact, she appeared to be a month pregnant! Harold called the Witches' Midwife Office at the Wizarding Hospital and a witch came to check on Virginia. She quickly acknowledged that Virginia was a month pregnant. Harold and Virginia were both quite surprised.

"Hahaha! George! It's working!" Fred called from the magic mirror. "Virginia is a month along in less than twenty four hours!"
"That fast? Wow!"
Somehow, the twins thought it quite amusing, but they weren't thinking about the complications of WHO was pregnant...


"A month in a day?" Tricia was amazed. "Boy, she must be the luckiest woman in the world!"
"No, dear," Fred corrected. "HE is the most unlucky man in the world!"
"Why? He's a woman at the moment."
"Yes, he is, at this moment in our story."
"What do you mean by that?"
Harry started laughing. "You'll see, Tricia!"
Harry shook his head, remembering the midwife's expression, but he knew that they weren't at that part of the story yet!

"To understand what is going on in our story, ladies, you have to realize the chemistry of two candy spells are affecting each other. For both Harold and Virginia, the first candy has a timer on it. The way it is set up is to wear off either at the end of three months or at the closest most convenient time. In other words, things can make it take longer if it is in the best interest of the affected person. The new candy, the timespeed drop, which speeds up time for the person who eats it...just inside them, not anywhere else. When it hits the previous spell, it speeds it up, all of it." George told them.
"Ok, that is understandable," Tricia replied.
Aimee just nodded. Why did Harry want to tell her this? He's right. Secrets like this aren't good for relationships, but she was being to wish she had never heard any of this.
Harry looked at her with a look of concern, then continued his story, "The next day was much the same, but....


Virginia was definitely getting along with her pregnancy. By the end of the day, she was showing even more! Harold, concerned, called the Hospital again and asked for them to send a midwife to stay at the house until the baby was born. They agreed.

Soon, the midwife arrived. She quickly acknowledged the situation.
"Yesterday when I was here, I swear this poor woman was a month pregnant!" she told him, "But she must either be a very unique person with a unique child in her womb or some enchantment is affecting her."
Harold thought about the situation, but he couldn't come up with a reason for the unexpected speed of Virginia's development.

Each day, that week, Virginia was another month along. By the time they got back around to Monday, she was in labor. That night, the midwife called the hospital and requested that a doctor come to the house the following day.
"I have a feeling that this child will be born tomorrow. And I have a feeling there will be complications."
It had been eight days so far, Virginia was as round could be. The next morning must have been the craziest morning the doctor and the midwife had ever seen. In fact, the on looking Weasley twins quickly worked up another pair of candies, specially made for Harold and Virginia, set up to wear out within a month. But judging by their knowledge of their own candies, there was going to be trouble if they didn't get there soon.

The doctor setup a room for Virginia to be in when the child was born, and all too soon, the midwife's prediction proved true. But so did the twins. They just weren't done in time!

"Come on, PUSH these guys out! The doctor was telling Virginia. You see, she was pregnant with twins! The doctor had just realized it a few minutes ago. The first child was halfway out when the timer finally struck. Harold was sitting there, holding Virginia's hand, and then, suddenly, it was Vernon's hand. He looked up and saw the doctor's and the midwife's surprised faces when they realized that there were a pair of twins emerging into the world from the womb of a MAN! Then, they had to start paying attention to the birthing again. The first child came free and there was yet another one.
"PUSH...uhm, sir. Push the child out."
That's about the time that Fred and George arrived on the scene. "Harry, eat this."
Harry only nodded, while the doctor looked at the newcomers suspiciously.
"Don't worry, Doc."
After Vernon had eaten his new candy as well, he again became Virginia and the poor befuddled doctor helped the other child into the world.

During the next hour, the babies were washed and fed. Luckily by this time, Petunia could use a bottle! The poor doctor chose to ignore the complications. Both he and the midwife decided quietly to themselves that they had imagined it. If they had asked each other, they would have realized that they were right, but it was probably better this way. After Harry paid the bills, (2 galleons to be exact) the two of them left.
The problem at hand was now the two new children. You see, now Virginia and Harold remembered who they really were!
Each of them sat on the couch, holding an infant while Fred and George shifted uncomfortably. Petunia was crawling around the floor under the watchful eye of Dudley.
"So," Fred said, breaking the silence, "What are you going to call them?"
Harry looked at Virginia, the woman who was really his uncle, as she sat feeding one of the two newborns. She had had girls. Vernon looked up at Harold. He wasn't sure what to think. He, a respectable man, had just given birth to two beautiful baby girls. With his nephew. The uncomfortable silence resumed.
After a little bit, Harold and Virginia switched which kid they were holding and she began to feed the other one.
"How about Cassandra and Miranda?" Virginia finally suggested.
"Sure," Harold said, smiling. Then he looked at the other twins in the room. "So, what do the new candies do?"
"Well, uhmm, they turn you back into Harold and Virginia Evans for now, but uhmm, they should wear off the same day as Dudley's and Petunia's," George said, uncomfortably.
"Will we forget who we are again?"
"Uhmm, we don't know. You see, that, erm, wasn't supposed to happen."
"So, therefore, probably."


"If two children were born, where are they now?" Aimee asked Harry.
"At the moment, they're with their 'mother'!"
"Oh."
"But they live with me."
Aimee looked surprised. "O my! Those two little girls? Candi and Mira?"
"Yes. Those two."
Aimee was so surprised she fell off her chair.

"How far into the summer is it by now?" Tricia wanted to know.
"Actually, it was only the second week. We had gotten off the Hogwarts Express on the first of July and the twins were born on the fourteenth."
"O boy. So there's more trouble brewing."
"Yes ma'am!"
"Would you like to meet the twins?"
"Sure!"
"ok."
Harry got up to call the girls and invite them over.

Shortly after he called them, Mira and Candi appeared through the fireplace. The twins were now ten, and they looked totally different from their father. Mira had long, brown hair that she had pulled back into two braids. Candy looked something like her 'mother' well, like Virginia, anyway, with long blonde hair, also in braids.
They ran to Harry and hugged him, "Daddy!"
"Hello, you two. How are you?"
"Good. You?"
"Excellent. Hey, come and meet Tricia and Aimee."
The twins took an instant liking to Aimee. Harry was pleased. The two girls soon joined the other children, who were playing Quidditch at a lower level then normal, outside.

While the adults watched the game, Tricia brought back up the story.
"Well," Harry started up again, "we discussed with Fred and George the complications of their spells, but the two of them quickly left...


After Fred and George left, Harry and Vernon actually began to talk civilly together. Well, Harold and Virginia anyway.
"Harry," Virginia said, "What if their spell isn't reversible?"
Harold looked at her very uncomfortably, "Then I guess we have a very new life to live with three little girls, Uncle Vernon."
"And if it is reversed? What are we going to do with Cassandra and Miranda?"
"What so you mean?"
"Two infants in a family that appear from nowhere? Might look strange."
"Oh well, it can look strange. Our daughters can live here for now and in two or three years when I move out on my own, they can live with me."
"Alright."
Later that night, however, more trouble occurred.

Dudley may be a dog now, bur that didn't stop him from always wanting food; it only made him forget who he was. He finally found the candy sack that Fred and George had left with Harry; Dudley ate several pieces before Harold got up to make dinner and caught him. "O no. Get out of there, Dudley!"
Dudley backed away from the bag, tail tucked between his legs.
"O lord, what kinds of things are going to happen to you now?" Harold muttered, shaking his head.

The first problems they found with Dudley were during dinner. A winged puppy flew into the kitchen.
"Dudley!" Virginia cried out. The puppy flew over too her and began licking her face.
But later another problem arose. Dudley started to go right through things like a ghost!
"O no! Harry! He's not dead is he?" Virginia asked in a shrilly voice.
"I don't know, Uncle Vernon," Harold responded.
The two of them were trying so hard to hold onto their memories. They quickly ascertained that Dudley was still alive because he still kept eating. Ghosts, they decided, can't eat.
Their attempts to remember themselves were lost though because before the night was over, they were back to addressing each other as Virginia and Harold. They didn't remember. Harold and Virginia sat together that night feeding the three little girls. Harold had Petunia in his arms with a bottle. While Virginia was feeding Cassandra, Miranda was in the playpen. After Petunia finished her bottle, Harold set her into the playpen and picked up Miranda. Virginia shortly handed him Cassandra though and started to feed Miranda. Later they put the three girls to bed and went to bed themselves.

"The next morning, however was quite amusing," Harry told the people listening to the story.
"O, no, you can skip this part, Harry," Fred said quickly.
"What happened?"
Harry looked at Tricia, who had asked, "Your dear Fred and his brother got themselves into trouble," Harry answered, laughing. "You see, the next morning, they came over again to figure out what happened to Dudley and Virginia found a sack of candy."



Trying to be hospital, Virginia put the candies into a bowl and set them on the table. Fred and George quickly ate a piece each.

They had forgotten the sack of candies they had left with Harry, even though they were trying to figure out what had happened to the poor dog.
Now that they had unwittingly eaten some of there own candies, the trouble was on them!
Within minutes, in the places of Fred and George were two new figures; a miniscule person with green skin was in Fred's place and a huge pink rabbit that filled up much of the room was in George's place.
"O no!" the little green Fred cried out, "The candies from that sack! We ate them! And they're ALL set to wear of on the last day of August!"
Fred was frantic, and quickly afterwards, so was the giant rabbit. Fred quickly went to the candy bowl and dug through it. After finding what he wanted, he unwrapped it. "Hey, George!" he called up and threw the candy, "catch!"
The rabbit caught the candy in his mouth and ate it. He quickly became a very tiny rabbit; one so small that tiny green Fred could hold him in his arms.

"George became a teensy weensy pink rabbit?"
Tricia and Aimee began laughing hard.
"Fred, dear," Tricia blurted out, "you must have been very Christmassy with red hair and being green, like one of Santa's elves!"
Fred and George turned bright red as everyone else laughed.
"We were able to fix it, to some extent!"
"Sure you were, Fred! You may have changed your colors again, and even yourselves, but you didn't fix yourselves!"


The two tiny figures stood on the table for a few minutes, and then Fred again jumped into the candy bowl. Regrettably, being smaller than the candies makes it difficult to find specific types. He was looking for a purple candy. After a little while, he found one.
"Aha! I found the candy to make me my own size!"
He ripped at the paper and then broke two pieces off. He ate one and fed the other to George.



"Unfortunately, it wasn't the candy he thought it was!"

"What happened?" Tricia asked.
"You don't need to know that, Tricia," Fred said, blushing.
"Well," Harry continued, "the candies made them turn into something quite unexpected."



At first the candies didn't seem to do anything, but the, the two of them began to turn brown and shrink! Their forms quickly began to look like that of flower seeds. Harold looked at them for a minute, trying to figure out what the candies did; did they really turn into seeds?
They actually had, and the spell was still working. Suddenly the two seeds started to sprout and Virginia quickly grabbed a flowerpot off the windowsill and put the two seeds into the dirt. They just watched in silence as the two plants began to emerge from the dirt.
The bad thing was that Virginia put them into the same pot, so the two plants merged together. Suddenly, a large purple flower burst out into the open and blossomed. That's when Fred and George reappeared. The problem was that now they were merged together. They were already identical twins. Now they were Siamese twins! Connected by their sides! They had become a three legged, two headed being. To add to that, the candy had turned them into a flower fairy; therefore they had a pair of wings sprouting from their back. But they still weren't any bigger than the green Fred had been!
"Argh! We've become one!" George's head cried.
"O my, I'm afraid to look," Fred replied. He had his eyes shut quite tightly.
"You two have finally fallen into your own traps, I believe," Harold said, laughing.

"So, you fixed it, did you?" Tricia replied. "I don't think so! However did you two get back to normal?"
"I don't think they ever were normal, Tricia!" Ron exclaimed.
"True. So what happened next?"
"We feed the poor flower fairy some dinner!"
"That is a smart idea."

Just then there was a knocking at the door. Harry got up to answer it.
"Why, Hello, Uncle Vernon!"

"Hello, Harry. Where are the twins? Are they ready to come home? They leave for camp tomorrow."
"O, sure. Candi! Mira! Time to go!"
"Thanks."
"You're welcome."
Vernon took a bag out of his pocket and ate a piece of candy from the bag. Instantly, in his place stood Virginia.
"Mommy!" cried the two girls as they came charging down the stairs. After a few minutes, Virginia and the girls left.
"He became Virginia, knowingly," Aimee stated, astonished.
"Yes he did," George said. "Once a week, Petunia leaves for her Aunts house and that's when the twins stay over. Vernon pays us a galleon per bag of 15 specially made candies. They work for exactly 24 ours. He decided that the girls needed their mom, and he really is their mother!"
The room filled with laughter, but Harry didn't join in. In fact, he was privately glad that his uncle did that.
"So, what's next?" Aimee asked.