Disclaimer: see first chapter
A/N Oops. I noticed that when calculating Lily's Birthday to see where I was in the story a problem occurred. Therefore the scene where Harry finds out about Cho being pregnant takes place in mid September. Sorry if that threw you off that makes the current month may and towards the end of the month at that. If anyone has a date they want Lily's birthday to be on (in may) please tell me. Thanks and sorry for the mistake.
Chapter 8: The End of an Interesting year (part 1)
Thing's were starting to become a routine for Harry and Cho now. Although Lily still insisted on sleeping on her Daddy's chest, Harry was no longer sleep deprived and was back to teaching his classes. Cho often helped different teachers with their classes except of coarse Snape (who still had not gotten the DADA job and hadn't been to happy when Hermione and Sirius got the job instead of him.
Ron had moved the major part of his shop from Diagon Alley to Hogsmade so that he could see Hermione more without missing too much work. Hope was thrilled at this idea and spent a great deal of time with playing at Hogwarts with the twins and Lily under Cho's watchful eye.
Exams were coming quickly and many of the students in Harry's class were becoming a bit stressed. "Sir, will we have an exam in this class?" one such student asked.
"Of course we will. This is not extra credit. You get a grade for this class so of course you will have one. It won't be that difficult though you seekers just have to beat me at getting the snitch or you fail the class but that's not that difficult. Right?" he looked at the two seekers who had paled considerably. "I'm joking. It will be something like Quidditch tryouts. I will have Professor Black and my wife helping me. She is a pretty good chaser though she was an even better seeker. And Mr. Weasley will probably help for the keeper job. We will just test how much progress you've made. Unless you don't practice you shouldn't fail."
**Dinner that day**
"Before we begin to eat today I must announce that we will be having an end of the year ball. Dress robes are optional. It will be held the Saturday after exams finish. Last Hogsmade weekend is the Saturday before exams. All ages are allowed to attend." Dumbledore announced as the food appeared.
As the students ate and talked excitedly about the upcoming event, the teachers were trying to keep straight faces as Lily, who was being held by Professor McGonagal, found something that was quite fun to play with. She was cooing and blowing bubbles as she pulled on Dumbledore's long silver beard. He just grinned down at her and reached in his pocket for his wand. With a wave of his wand a rattle appeared in front of him. He handed it to Lily who looked at the toy for a few seconds. Dumbledore chuckled as she threw the toy aside and grabbed onto his beard once more.
He finally gave in and put the little girl on his lap as he ate dinner. Hagrid was telling Harry about the new creatures he was thinking of training. Sirius and Ron(who was visiting) were having a conversation about who knows what while Hermione and Cho were busy figuring out what to do for the ball. They wanted to go but the children would be a problem.
Dinner progressed and the students actually seemed at ease. The final Quidditch game of the season Griffindor vs. Ravenclaw would prove to be quite interesting as both teams had insisted that all their team members take the Quidditch class. The topics in conversation continued to change at random when an owl came flying through the door. Everyone watched as it flew towards Dumbledore. He quickly read the note and passed it to Harry and Cho. Their faces broke out into smiles as they showed it to Sirius, Hagrid, Ron, and Hermione.
The letter read: Dear friends at Hogwarts, It has been quite a while since I have been by to visit so I decided to come by. Hope you are all doing all right. I want to hear about everything that has gone on at Hogwarts since we last spoke. Hope the children are alright. I will arrive early tomorrow morning. See you then. Take care, Remus Lupin.
** The next morning.**
"Cho time to get up. Remus will be here in a little while. You do want to see him right?" Harry said as he shook her gently. He began getting Lily ready as he did most mornings.
"I'm up. I'm up." She responded groggily.
They reached the Great Hall to find it almost empty. Cho groaned figuring she could have slept longer. As they sat down for breakfast Dumbledore came over to talk to them. "My friend contacted me yesterday and told me he would bring the pensive back as soon as he was finished with the meeting he is at. Most likely we can see Lily's dreams by tomorrow afternoon." Harry was about to answer when Remus walked in the door. "Good Morning everyone." He said cheerily as he walked towards the Head Table. Harry hurried over to Remus. (Over the years they had developed a special bond, Remus was like Harry's uncle) "Look at what the cat dragged in." "More like dog." Remus muttered nodding his head back at Sirius. "So this is the beautiful Lily. She's got your mother's eye's just like you." Lily stared at him for a moment trying to decide if she liked him. She reached for him making different gurgling sounds and he smiled. "So this is how you charmed Padfoot into buying you all those gifts." He laughed as he took her in his arms. "You should see her with her favorite toy, Dumbledore's beard, she won't give it up very willingly." Harry smiled at the thought. "I don't mind. Now how about we eat a bit of breakfast." Dumbledore said coming up behind Harry. They made their way over to the table and Harry settled back into his usual seat passing Lily to Cho. Remus went around and hugged Hermione who was feeding the twins. "And how are the little trouble makers doing?" he asked her gesturing at the twins. "Good and don't you dare buy them prank stuff. Sirius, Fred and George already covered that. They are already enough trouble without more help." Remus laughed and messed up their hair. He was rewarded by a spoonful of oatmeal in the face. Ron handed him a napkin while trying to contain his laughter. Remus then turned his attention to Hope. "And how is the little Princess doing?" he asked her as he twirled her around. "Will you play with me Moony? Please?" she asked in a sweet pleading tone. "Of coarse I will but lets eat breakfast first." He sat her down next to him but she would have none of that. She crawled into his lap and began to eat her oatmeal. "Look Moony is loved by the little kids. I have to say I'm a little jealous. Hey why don't kids like me like that?" Sirius asked quite confused. "That dear Padfoot is because I am nice to them I don't get a thrill from scaring them. So how are you doing Cho?" Remus said turning his attention from Sirius. "Good, but I think this little one has inherited her Grandfather's troublemaking genes. Honestly waking Harry up all the time." She shook her head and turned back to Remus. "And you?" "Quite good actually. Oh before I forget I brought some souvenirs from my trip." He took out his bag and began rummaging through it. "For the princess." He handed a little tiara to Hope. "For little Isiah and Cassandra I bought baby broomsticks, don't worry they have mats that follow them everywhere." He handed the packages to a exited Ron. "For Sirius actually I just decided you should have it back" he handed Sirius a set of keys. "They go to your motorcycle. I found it after all these years. Hermione I was going to buy you a book but you have enough of those so I bought you a music box. See if you open it, it starts playing music to comfort and make you happy if you are depressed or lonely. It also does a wonderful little light show where these little lights form into people and they dance around the music box. It's really neat." He handed her a little glass box that was tinted in different colors and all together quite beautiful. "Cho I heard about the ball and I know that with the baby you haven't been able to go shopping so I bought you a dress. There is a spell on it that enables the owner to change its color for a unique appearance. Ron here it's a transport tile so that you can ship things from store to store without difficulty. Albus, I brought you random crazy styles of socks. Hagrid a book about dragons and a little model dragon as you can't own real one. And Harry. I brought you a snitch so you can play with it when you are bored like your father used to do." As he released the snitch and Harry started to grab it, it was suddenly grabbed by someone else. Remus burst out in laughter as he realized that Lily was clinging tightly to the golden snitch. He distinctly heard Cho mutter under her breath, "Just like her father." Which made him laugh even harder.
**The next morning**
"Now to extract her dreams from her mind we need her to be completely relaxed. Harry as you seem to be the one who can get her to relax easily please hold her while I find her dreams." Dumbledore instructed as he took out his wand. The silver thoughts were put inside the basin and Dumbledore tapped the basin with his wand. A scene appeared. It was dark and frightening and a little figure lay on the ground bawling. Harry stood in front of the figure throwing curses at some unseen enemy. The figure began bawling louder distracting Harry and a curse hit him in the chest. He fell backwards and it was apparent that he was unconscious. A figure began to creep out of the shadows toward Lily. Harry opened his eyes and saw the figure and muttered another curse. "Stay away from my daughter. I won't let you hurt her," the dream Harry shouted. The shadow lifted his wand and the dream ended.
A/N ah the suspense. I don't know when the next chapter will be up because my editor will probably post it so sadly I cant tell you when to expect it. Thanks for all the reviews. You almost had me in tears. And for those of you who are concerned about my characters I take that as a compliment that they are lifelike enough for you to worry about them. If you have idea's for the story or just feel like talking to me my e-mail is thethirdtroll@yahoo.com please do put in the subject that it is about Life after Graduation. Until next time!
A/N Oops. I noticed that when calculating Lily's Birthday to see where I was in the story a problem occurred. Therefore the scene where Harry finds out about Cho being pregnant takes place in mid September. Sorry if that threw you off that makes the current month may and towards the end of the month at that. If anyone has a date they want Lily's birthday to be on (in may) please tell me. Thanks and sorry for the mistake.
Chapter 8: The End of an Interesting year (part 1)
Thing's were starting to become a routine for Harry and Cho now. Although Lily still insisted on sleeping on her Daddy's chest, Harry was no longer sleep deprived and was back to teaching his classes. Cho often helped different teachers with their classes except of coarse Snape (who still had not gotten the DADA job and hadn't been to happy when Hermione and Sirius got the job instead of him.
Ron had moved the major part of his shop from Diagon Alley to Hogsmade so that he could see Hermione more without missing too much work. Hope was thrilled at this idea and spent a great deal of time with playing at Hogwarts with the twins and Lily under Cho's watchful eye.
Exams were coming quickly and many of the students in Harry's class were becoming a bit stressed. "Sir, will we have an exam in this class?" one such student asked.
"Of course we will. This is not extra credit. You get a grade for this class so of course you will have one. It won't be that difficult though you seekers just have to beat me at getting the snitch or you fail the class but that's not that difficult. Right?" he looked at the two seekers who had paled considerably. "I'm joking. It will be something like Quidditch tryouts. I will have Professor Black and my wife helping me. She is a pretty good chaser though she was an even better seeker. And Mr. Weasley will probably help for the keeper job. We will just test how much progress you've made. Unless you don't practice you shouldn't fail."
**Dinner that day**
"Before we begin to eat today I must announce that we will be having an end of the year ball. Dress robes are optional. It will be held the Saturday after exams finish. Last Hogsmade weekend is the Saturday before exams. All ages are allowed to attend." Dumbledore announced as the food appeared.
As the students ate and talked excitedly about the upcoming event, the teachers were trying to keep straight faces as Lily, who was being held by Professor McGonagal, found something that was quite fun to play with. She was cooing and blowing bubbles as she pulled on Dumbledore's long silver beard. He just grinned down at her and reached in his pocket for his wand. With a wave of his wand a rattle appeared in front of him. He handed it to Lily who looked at the toy for a few seconds. Dumbledore chuckled as she threw the toy aside and grabbed onto his beard once more.
He finally gave in and put the little girl on his lap as he ate dinner. Hagrid was telling Harry about the new creatures he was thinking of training. Sirius and Ron(who was visiting) were having a conversation about who knows what while Hermione and Cho were busy figuring out what to do for the ball. They wanted to go but the children would be a problem.
Dinner progressed and the students actually seemed at ease. The final Quidditch game of the season Griffindor vs. Ravenclaw would prove to be quite interesting as both teams had insisted that all their team members take the Quidditch class. The topics in conversation continued to change at random when an owl came flying through the door. Everyone watched as it flew towards Dumbledore. He quickly read the note and passed it to Harry and Cho. Their faces broke out into smiles as they showed it to Sirius, Hagrid, Ron, and Hermione.
The letter read: Dear friends at Hogwarts, It has been quite a while since I have been by to visit so I decided to come by. Hope you are all doing all right. I want to hear about everything that has gone on at Hogwarts since we last spoke. Hope the children are alright. I will arrive early tomorrow morning. See you then. Take care, Remus Lupin.
** The next morning.**
"Cho time to get up. Remus will be here in a little while. You do want to see him right?" Harry said as he shook her gently. He began getting Lily ready as he did most mornings.
"I'm up. I'm up." She responded groggily.
They reached the Great Hall to find it almost empty. Cho groaned figuring she could have slept longer. As they sat down for breakfast Dumbledore came over to talk to them. "My friend contacted me yesterday and told me he would bring the pensive back as soon as he was finished with the meeting he is at. Most likely we can see Lily's dreams by tomorrow afternoon." Harry was about to answer when Remus walked in the door. "Good Morning everyone." He said cheerily as he walked towards the Head Table. Harry hurried over to Remus. (Over the years they had developed a special bond, Remus was like Harry's uncle) "Look at what the cat dragged in." "More like dog." Remus muttered nodding his head back at Sirius. "So this is the beautiful Lily. She's got your mother's eye's just like you." Lily stared at him for a moment trying to decide if she liked him. She reached for him making different gurgling sounds and he smiled. "So this is how you charmed Padfoot into buying you all those gifts." He laughed as he took her in his arms. "You should see her with her favorite toy, Dumbledore's beard, she won't give it up very willingly." Harry smiled at the thought. "I don't mind. Now how about we eat a bit of breakfast." Dumbledore said coming up behind Harry. They made their way over to the table and Harry settled back into his usual seat passing Lily to Cho. Remus went around and hugged Hermione who was feeding the twins. "And how are the little trouble makers doing?" he asked her gesturing at the twins. "Good and don't you dare buy them prank stuff. Sirius, Fred and George already covered that. They are already enough trouble without more help." Remus laughed and messed up their hair. He was rewarded by a spoonful of oatmeal in the face. Ron handed him a napkin while trying to contain his laughter. Remus then turned his attention to Hope. "And how is the little Princess doing?" he asked her as he twirled her around. "Will you play with me Moony? Please?" she asked in a sweet pleading tone. "Of coarse I will but lets eat breakfast first." He sat her down next to him but she would have none of that. She crawled into his lap and began to eat her oatmeal. "Look Moony is loved by the little kids. I have to say I'm a little jealous. Hey why don't kids like me like that?" Sirius asked quite confused. "That dear Padfoot is because I am nice to them I don't get a thrill from scaring them. So how are you doing Cho?" Remus said turning his attention from Sirius. "Good, but I think this little one has inherited her Grandfather's troublemaking genes. Honestly waking Harry up all the time." She shook her head and turned back to Remus. "And you?" "Quite good actually. Oh before I forget I brought some souvenirs from my trip." He took out his bag and began rummaging through it. "For the princess." He handed a little tiara to Hope. "For little Isiah and Cassandra I bought baby broomsticks, don't worry they have mats that follow them everywhere." He handed the packages to a exited Ron. "For Sirius actually I just decided you should have it back" he handed Sirius a set of keys. "They go to your motorcycle. I found it after all these years. Hermione I was going to buy you a book but you have enough of those so I bought you a music box. See if you open it, it starts playing music to comfort and make you happy if you are depressed or lonely. It also does a wonderful little light show where these little lights form into people and they dance around the music box. It's really neat." He handed her a little glass box that was tinted in different colors and all together quite beautiful. "Cho I heard about the ball and I know that with the baby you haven't been able to go shopping so I bought you a dress. There is a spell on it that enables the owner to change its color for a unique appearance. Ron here it's a transport tile so that you can ship things from store to store without difficulty. Albus, I brought you random crazy styles of socks. Hagrid a book about dragons and a little model dragon as you can't own real one. And Harry. I brought you a snitch so you can play with it when you are bored like your father used to do." As he released the snitch and Harry started to grab it, it was suddenly grabbed by someone else. Remus burst out in laughter as he realized that Lily was clinging tightly to the golden snitch. He distinctly heard Cho mutter under her breath, "Just like her father." Which made him laugh even harder.
**The next morning**
"Now to extract her dreams from her mind we need her to be completely relaxed. Harry as you seem to be the one who can get her to relax easily please hold her while I find her dreams." Dumbledore instructed as he took out his wand. The silver thoughts were put inside the basin and Dumbledore tapped the basin with his wand. A scene appeared. It was dark and frightening and a little figure lay on the ground bawling. Harry stood in front of the figure throwing curses at some unseen enemy. The figure began bawling louder distracting Harry and a curse hit him in the chest. He fell backwards and it was apparent that he was unconscious. A figure began to creep out of the shadows toward Lily. Harry opened his eyes and saw the figure and muttered another curse. "Stay away from my daughter. I won't let you hurt her," the dream Harry shouted. The shadow lifted his wand and the dream ended.
A/N ah the suspense. I don't know when the next chapter will be up because my editor will probably post it so sadly I cant tell you when to expect it. Thanks for all the reviews. You almost had me in tears. And for those of you who are concerned about my characters I take that as a compliment that they are lifelike enough for you to worry about them. If you have idea's for the story or just feel like talking to me my e-mail is thethirdtroll@yahoo.com please do put in the subject that it is about Life after Graduation. Until next time!