CHAPTER 9: -- DUMBLEDORE'S CANDY

Almost everyone stared at their piece of candy for a few seconds, filled with distrust, but Dudley had no qualms against eating that piece of candy and his was quickly gone. Everyone else followed suit. Silence again filled the room, but everyone quickly discovered their hunger, so they began to eat.

Shortly after dinner, if you were to have entered that kitchen, you would have found people sleeping everywhere; almost like a modernized scene from "Sleeping Beauty"©. Everyone was sleeping! Everyone, that is, except Molly and Dumbledore, the infant twins, Dobby, and the baby snidget.

"What's going to happen to them, Albus?" Molly asked him, while holding one of the twins in her lap with a bottle for the poor child.

Dumbledore, who was giving the other baby a bottle as well, looked up. "They'll slowly become themselves again, for the most part. Some of the changes will be permanent, regrettably, but hopefully they won't be bad things, like possibly Dudley still having wings. However, Hermione and Ron will more then likely be able to become the creatures they are now again, whether on purpose, like Ron did earlier without intending, or without warning, like what happened to Hermione even before that. It more than likely will be much the same for Dudley, as well…he won't be a werewolf…but he'll be able to become that dog again, although I don't think it'll be the more recent version."

"What of Fred and George? Will they be separated? What about these two? And their…well, uh, mother?"

"I only wish I knew. Sorry, Molly."

"What was the baby snidget's name, Daddy?" Beryl wanted to know.

Ron blushed, but before he could answer, Shirley interrupted.

"What happened next, Uncle Harry?"

Hermione noticed that Ron breathed a sigh of relief as Harry started up again.

Slowly, during the night, after even Dumbledore and Molly fell asleep, changes began to occur in those sleeping in the kitchen.

The changes didn't seem to go in any particular order, however.  Dudley had lost all his fur before anything else, then his wings. Then he began to grow and reform into a boy.

For Harry, it was less ridiculous, but for a while he looked like a large, blonde Harry Potter!

Vernon's changes were quite funny, too. First he regained all his weight, but was still a woman. Then he lost his feminine aspects; losing lady parts and regaining male parts last of all.

Fred and George were also a unique sight. They changed back to their normal selves rather quickly, but they were still connected. Yet, the slowly began to separate from each other. Gradually, two young men formed from the two headed being, yet for a long time each was missing an arm and a leg on opposite sides. But, those also, gradually returned.

Petunia was just as amusing. She quickly lost the teddy bear features and became once again the human baby; but as with everyone else, she slowly began to become herself again. First she grew in size, till she was a giant baby, Then she began to lose all the baby ness.

Ron and Hermy changed back the quickest. Ron became himself again in a little poof! of light and Hermy just swiftly melted back into Hermione.

Luckily for the people in the kitchen, Dumbledore woke up quite early and covered them with blankets, for all of them were nude. He quickly conjured clothes for each of them and laid them beside them. 

Because the candy spells that Dumbledore produced were spell-related, only a wake up charm would get them out of their slumbers. He walked quietly thru the sleeping bodies, looking for the ones who seemed fully reverted to normal. He time he found someone who was completely reverted, he levitated them and sent them to one of the bedrooms upstairs. Then, he cast the "enervate" spell on them, to wake them up. After about ten or fifteen minutes, everyone was awake and in the kitchen, once again eating. Of course, it was a very strained and quiet breakfast. No one was too happy with the Weasley twins, and the Dursley's were disgusted that there were wizards in their home. Of course Petunia didn't know where the Evans twins came from yet, and Vernon hoped she never found out!

Later that day, after Dumbledore had separated several feuds, he sent everyone home. Everyone, that is, except the Weasleys and Hermione. Calling Harry, Vernon, Molly, Fred and George and Hermione into the living room, Dumbledore shooed a very disgruntled Petunia out to the dining room, where she couldn't hear them. Dudley was in his room, playing with his dead video games. The infant twins were brought to the uncomfortable meeting.

"Now, then," Dumbledore started, "Due to some unexplainable behavior, we have a pair of little dears here, and they need somewhere to live. What does everyone propose?"

"They are not staying here," Vernon said quite quickly.

"They can live with me at Grimwald place," Harry said.

"That's a good idea, dear, except you have no rights to living there for another year. You can't move in until after graduation," Molly pointed out, sensibly.

"Maybe they can stay with me?" Hermione offered.

"No, dear, What about your parents?"

"O, yea.."

"Then,  I guess they're coming with me."

"But!" Fred and George said in unison.

"No BUTS about it. If not for you're immaturity, there wouldn't be any problems to discus."

Molly glared into their eyes and they quickly stepped back.

"Next, then, since that's settled," Dumbledore said, "what about Beryl?"

"Is that me, Daddy?" Beryl interrupted.

Ron blushed quite red, as he nodded.

"WOW!" Beryl exclaimed, "I'm a snidget!"

"Yes, you are."

"Wow…"

"He'll live with me, of course!"

"O?" Molly asked, "At the school?"

"Why not?" Ron asked.

In the end, however, the baby snidget was to stay in his mother's care for the year. Then, when they graduated, Ron would get his son back into his care.

No one expected the baby bird to materialize into a baby boy while they were standing there, but he did.

Shortly, thereafter, Harry went with the Weaslys and Hermione to the Burrow, Where they were going to stay for the next three days before school started.

"Is that the end, Uncle Harry?" Mackenzie asked.

"I'm afraid so," was Garry's response, "but maybe later I'll tell you what the next story was, what happened after that."

"Ok!" her face lit up with a smile.

"But now it is bed time, Children!" Hermione called out."

A chorus of "Nooo"s penetrated the room, but she wouldn't give in. with in minutes only the adults were in the room.

"Well, I gues it's time for us to hit the sack, to," Aimee stated, quietly.

"Wait, Aimee. I-" Harry stopped mid sentence.

"Yes?"

"Well, now you know my secrets, the darkest of them all, but I hope you still care for me."

Aimee looked at his blushing figure, head bent down, shoulders hunched.

"Of course I do, she said without a moment's hesitation."

"Really?" Harry's expression was incredulous.

"Honestly," came the reply.

"Well, then, uhm," he said, with an air of nervousness about him, "I want you to know that, Well, I love you with all my heart," he said quickly, grabbing her hand, as though he had to say his piece before his nerve fell, "and I would love to show you the depth of my love, If-"

His nerve faltered again  as he reached into his pocket.

Harry looked around the room at everyone watching him, but turned his face back to Aimee, who was showing him an expression of bewilderment.

Revealing the contents of his hand, he asked, "Will you marry me?" In his hand was and intricately carved ring, cut from a precious blue stone, set with a diamond, and decorated with silver in the engravings.

Aimee face turned into a radiant smile as she leaped into his arms, "Of course I will, I love you too!"

Everyone in the room applauded as they kissed, bonding their promises to each other, forever.