A/N I know last chapter was a cliffie but the cliffie was in order to set the scene for this chapter. I ended up with a bit of a battle with a staff member over a character that will be actually introduced in this chapter. Specifically in the name for the character.
Chapter 2 Harry or James
"Grandma what do you mean I should get home right away. Also by home you mean Hogsmeade of the Burrow?"
"Hogsmeade," Molly indicated.
"OK Let me just leave a quick note."
Amy left a real quick note for Lynda's mom and then she threw some Floo powder in the fireplace. She came out in her own living room.
"Did Shiki come with you?" Sadia wondered. Amy could see one of Sadia's twin daughters in the dining room.
"No I was the only one awake. What's up?"
"The baby is coming," Katrina said.
"You mom had the nurse at school come handle things."
Half an hour later Lynda's mom popped into being.
"Amy, why did you have to rush home suddenly?"
"My mom is in labor," Amy said.
"Does Shiki have to rush home?"
"I doubt it. Things are pretty busy as it is."
"Any more Diagon Alley trips planned?" Sadia inquired when Amy finished.
"Not right away Sadia but you never know. At least this year I can get by without having to undergo waivers and so forth to visit Hogsmeade. Heck Who knows I might be able to sneak home most weekends I don't have Quidditch games. I know they have special Hogsmeade weekends but being a resident I might be able to go home on non Hogsmeade Weekends."
Amy slipped away for a minute to go upstairs where her parents bedroom was located. Madame Pomfrey tried to keep her out.
"Hi Amy, I didn't think I would see you today?"
"Well Grandma called me at Tate's. How long does something like this take?"
"It can take a long time. I'm just glad I'm safely at home this time and not in the North Tower."
"Why is that mom?"
"When I was pregnant with you I was all the way in the North Tower when I went into labor," Ginny told her. The classroom where Divination takes place is at the top of a ladder. Madame Pomfrey and Dumbledore made Professor Trelawney move her entire class to the Staff Room. As it is Myrtle had the job of carrying you from there to the Hospital Wing. IT was always interesting how she was a part of your life even then."
"I have no intention of returning to Tate Plato until after the baby is born."
"That's nice Amy. You might want to wait downstairs."
"OK Mom," Amy replied before she went downstairs where she was whirled around only to find wetness on her lips. "Hi Marcus."
"I was surprised when your grandmother called me. My dad almost went ballistic over her calling me to begin with. For one thing he hates the idea of a family like your mom's family associating themselves with a family like ours. He especially was mad when I told him that the caller was my girlfriend's grandmother."
"What did you tell him?"
"Not too much just that his chances of grandkids depended on how my relationship goes."
Amy noticed Katrina about to slip a dungbomb down Marcus's waist.
"Katrina, no," Sadia reprimanded the eight year old terror.
"Mom, he is a Slimy Slytherin. I thought you were supposed to ruin Slimy Slytherins. And he's kissing my cousin."
"From what I've heard from George and other family members HE is very respectable and courteous towards Amy and the whole family. Also Amy isn't exactly your cousin and she won't be anytime soon. George and I are merely friends slightly intimate friends but just friends. HE may or may not end up your stepfather."
"Do you intend to have kids with him?" Katrina wondered.
"That's not the point Katrina you don't for any reason put dungbombs down someone's waist. Now if you don't behave like a respectable child I will take you home and you will A spend the rest of the Day in your room and will be sent back to India when school starts up to live with my brother."
Katrina went out in the back garden to pout as she noticed a couple of garden gnomes lurking in the flower beds. She couldn't resist grabbing them and throwing them toward a neighbors house. After she threw the second one she saw Amy and Marcus walk outside.
"You ok Katrina?" Amy inquired.
"My mom is mad at me for trying to dungbomb your friend there."
"I heard. Looks like you missed a couple of gnomes." Amy told her.
"I was just angry so I was pelting a neighbor's house with them. So far no glass has broken."
"Here let me show you," Amy said as she twirled one of them in a circle a few times before letting it fly. Katrina gave it a try. Before too long the flower beds were gnome free. Marcus also had Katrina laughing at a few jokes. Amy made note to ask Professor Sprout about gnome repellants.
"Not a bad job you three," Molly commented as Amy gave Katrina the honor of throwing the last gnome.. "Far as I'm concerned you can de-gnome my garden anytime you want Katrina."
"I don't get it," Katrina said.
"Those things we were throwing are garden gnomes and are a type of pest so you want to throw them out. It helps to disorient them though first. Grandma tends to use degnoming as a punishment for when you really irritate her. We had fun though just doing it didn't we."
"Yeah we did I've never done this before today," Katrina commented. "We used to have a garden in India but I never saw those in them and well we live in an apartment over the Shop in Diagon Alley and don't even have a garden."
They then went in to wash up. Just as Amy was getting the last bit of dirt off her nails She heard some groaning from upstairs. She couldn't resist sneaking upstairs.
"Now Now Mrs. Potter it shouldn't be too much longer. I can just see the head," Amy heard a voice say as she got close to the room. She crouched down low outside the door. What I wouldn't give for an invisibility cloak about now.
"I hope not," Ginny muttered.
Amy continued listening eventually Katrina and her twin sister Kaylee joined her just as a piercing wail was heard.
"Is it a Banshee?" Kaylee wondered being afraid of them.
"No I think it's a baby," Amy commented. Just then Madame Pomfrey stuck her head out.
"You haven't been out here the whole time since you left earlier were you?"
"Of course not Madame Pomfrey. Just since we got done de-gnoming a few flower beds."
"Well you can inform the others that there is a very vocal 3 ¾ kilo baby boy up here. That's lighter then you were Miss Potter."
"Why how heavy was I?" Amy wondered.
"You were a whole kilo heavier then your brother. Which is heavy."
They then went back downstairs.
"How is everything upstairs," Angelina wondered as she was nursing Tyler.
"It's a boy and he is only one kilo lighter then I was at birth. Apparently I weighed 4 ¾ kilos at birth.
She then slipped back upstairs and into her parents bedroom. Ginny was sitting up holding the baby. Harry was leaning up in one corner.
"He looks so cute. Any idea yet what you will name him?"
"Well your father wants to name him after himself only well The only reason you ended up with Amy as your name is Myrtle referred to you as Amy when I was pregnant with you otherwise you might have gotten named something like Lillian Mollinda Potter after your Grandmothers."
"So are you thinking of naming him James Arthur or Arthur James?" Amy joked.
"Not Arthur James. I'm trying to talk your father into naming him James after his father. Whether my dad's name is included probably won't be an issue."
"Couldn't you formally name him Harry James Potter Jr. but actually refer to him as James or Jamie. Or what about James Harry Potter. Another Crazy idea what about if we don't give him a true first name like Just leave an H."
"H. James Potter. Hum it might just work Amy. After all a naming scheme like that is sometimes used in the non-magical world. Take the Great Muggle General Norman Schwarzkopf his full name was H. Norman Schwarzkopf. I don't know how many wizard kids are named that way but I think it's an acceptable name."
"Why I don't know but I kind of like it myself," Ginny commented. "Not a bad idea Amy."
By this time Madame Pomfrey was playing traffic cop keeping the family from crowding in at one time to see the baby. The first non household visitors were Archers. After a couple minutes they left and Fred and his bunch including George went through. Amy slipped a note to George. Ron and Ashley were next. Then Percy and Penny, it basically went on. Only Bill's and Charlie's families didn't make an appearance.
After about two hours of carefully trafficked visitors Amy and Marcus went to sit in the back garden.
"Today has just been crazy. About the only peace we really got was teaching Katrina how to de-gnome the garden."
"Yeah Sadia could hardly believe how calm Katrina was towards me when we came in after that bit of fun."
"Scary thing is Marcus two days from now you wouldn't even know it had been done. I think that's part of the reason Grandma uses it as a punishment."
"Could be. You know Amy today has really made me think about the kids I might father someday. Of course at fifteen I'm not at the point that I feel ready to father children but someday after I've worked for a few years."
"Yeah sometimes I wonder what my first kid would look like."
"Amy, Jamie isn't her first kid."
"I know Marcus but well he might as well be since She had to wait thirteen years between kids."
"This will make things interesting. Today is what?"
"July 29th my dad's birthday is day after tomorrow. We usually hold a small celebration en famalia not like the big celebrations we do at school for my birthday. I have no idea how we will handle it when Jamie gets older probably try and celebrate both on the day in the middle."
"What just recently became one of the Biggest Holidays in the Wizarding World and you all keep the celebration small."
"Well my dad was against his birthday being a holiday as it is. Unfortunately the one person who he thought would be his biggest ally in putting a stop to it was the very person trying to do it."
"Ouch," Marcus said. "Well What's on your plans the rest of the summer."
"Well when I spoke to Aunt Angelina since my birthday she told me how the tickets she gave me where for Any Puddlemere United game I wanted to attend. I checked and there is game Monday against the Falmouth Falcons. I sent word to Angelina and she is arranging for a Portkey from Tate Plato."
"You going alone?"
"Why if I have two tickets would I attend a Quidditch Game alone?"
"Well then you could attend two different games."
"Sunday Afternoon by 5 in the afternoon Tate Plato," Amy told him. "Bring Muggle Clothing just in case."
"OK but you Amy better bring your very best Scarlet and Gold Robes."
"My what?"
"Well it is a Quidditch Game so why not wear your Quidditch Robes I'm going to pack mine."
Angelina happened to walk out right then.
"Angelina, should we bring Muggle clothes to the game?"
"For this it's not real necessary after all it's two British Teams playing. Just try and dress appropriately."
"Marcus was thinking we could wear our Quidditch Robes from School."
"That would be a site to see."
Amy slipped back to Lynda's mom's place. She immediately passed out Chocolate Stooges with a very familiar looking triple W logo on them.
"So how did things go?"
"H. James Potter," Amy reported.
"Do I even want to know how he ended up with a name like that?" Edgar wondered.
Sunday Amy was waiting in her Quidditch Robes her Thunderstick in hand when Marcus came running in his Green and Silver Robes his nimbus 2006 in hand. Just then a huge Eagle Owl dropped a very faded book out of the Sky. Both Amy and Marcus flew up and grabbed it in Mid Air which was a challenge since both had loaded backpacks on their backs.
"Very nice entrance you two," Angelina said as they popped into being. "You couldn't resist bringing your brooms huh."
"Well it made it interesting."
"You two will be the talk of the Game. Emily and Tyler are back home with Fred this time around. Come on I arranged hopefully appropriate Accommodations for you two."
Angelina then lead them to her old Apartment near the stadium. It had three bedrooms. One was obviously Emily's old room. The other wasn't decorated very fancy.
"Amy you can probably guess which room is yours?"
"Most likely Emily's. Meanwhile Marcus gets the guest room."
Amy changed out of her Quidditch Robes into a more comfortable outfit of a reddish colored pair of pants and her most recent Weasley Sweater despite it being August of course they were in Britain. She walked out to see that Marcus was still in his Quidditch Robes."
"I didn't think to bring much basic clothing since your aunt said we didn't need it. I basically brought just robes."
Angelina had made a very big dinner that night but Amy managed to pack it away. Breakfast the Next morning was equally Huge.
"I tend to bulk up pretty heavy before a match."
"I just hope it doesn't go on for a long time." Marcus said.
Shortly before they had to leave Amy changed into her robes.
Amy's tickets were good enough for box seats. In fact the box they were in had a small bar with it.
"I'll just have a goblet of Pumpkin Juice thanks," She told the witch tending bar.
"Come on Amy I'd think you would have chosen a butterbeer or something."
"It's early Marcus the game hasn't started yet."
Before too long They heard a magically amplified voice call out.
"Welcome everyone to todays Quidditch Action as the Puddlemere United take on the Falcons of Falmouth. First up the players for the United. I give you Andrauck, Benson, Collon, Johnson, Nelligan, Paulson, and Whitney. Now for the Falcons of Falmouth. I give you Andrews, Bennett, Clawson, Dennett, Heroldon, Osgrove, and Talyer. The Referee is Gustove Cremyre."
Amy noticed the Balls being released.
"Puddlemere possession, Johnson to Collon, to Whitney, uh that's gotta hurt as Whitney takes a Bludger but Benson quickly sends it at the Falcon's beater. In the process Whitney loses it to Andrews, Falmouth possession Andrews passes it to Clawson, to Heroldon who scores off of United Keeper Geoffrey Paulson. Falmouth leads Puddlemere 10-0.
As the game went on one of the Falmouth chasers was holding the Quaffle towards the box Amy and Marcus were in when he took a Bludger sent his way by Puddlemere beater Harvey Andrauck. When the chaser lost the quaffle it went right at the box but Amy grabbed it and threw it towards the Referee.
"Quaffle was thrown out of bounds but was intercepted by a spectator in what looks like the colors of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Puddlemere Possession."
"Do you in fact attend Hogwarts?" One of the others in the box asked Amy.
"Yes I do I'm the keeper for Gryffindor. My buddy here is the keeper for Slytherin."
"I don't remember Gryffindor and Slytherin being quite this friendly towards each other. In my days the two houses were extremely fierce rivals."
"They still are. In fact a couple years ago Slytherin intentionally caused injury to Amy here in the hopes she wouldn't be able to play. Not only that but last year a couple of my teammates were expelled for building a bonfire and then placing the Gryffindor players brooms on the fire. Six brooms were lost," Marcus told the others.
"I read about that. How good a keeper is Amy?"
"Of the four keepers currently she is the best. She is almost impossible to score off of. The only reason Slytherin did as good as they did against Gryffindor last year is our seeker caught the Snitch after Gryffindor has already made 15 goals."
"What year are you going into?"
"It might not look like it but I'll be a third year. Our captain originally had me pinch hit during tryouts my first year but I was impressive enough that he convinced the Headmistress and her assistant into letting me play. Of course I had to use a school broom because of the first year broom policy. Oh well when I finally got a broom I received a better broom then I had expected."
"Why what do you use?"
"Thunderstick," Amy replied.
"Very impressive. How hard are they to Control?"
"They are Controllable once you get used to them."
"Who is your favorite player?"
"The player I known the longest is Angelina Johnson-Weasley."
"Is She any relation to the Weasleys who own Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes?"
"By marriage to Fred Weasley. Angelina's daughter Emily is in my house at school."
"Isn't Harry Potter married to one of the Weasley kids I thought I heard that somewhere?"
Just as Amy was about to answer the bartender's question she saw a small glint of gold right outside the box. Fraunk Talyer the Falcon's seeker tried to grab it but missed.
"Uh that's not good folks the current score is Puddlemere 40, Falmouth sixty."
"Actually Harry Potter is married to Ginny Weasley the youngest of that bunch," Amy said. "In fact they just had another kid a few days ago."
Amy was starting to nod off when she saw Pauline Nelligan in the distance close her two hands around something.
Final Score Puddlemere 400 points, Falmouth 300. Puddlemere Wins.
Amy after Marcus used a caffeine charm on her zoomed out to hug Angelina. She had her best quill and a clean piece of parchment in her hand. Pretty soon the names Harvey Andrauck, Colin Benson, Stephan Collon, Pauline Nelligan, and Constance Whitney. She then attempted to get autographs from a few Falmouth players but they ignored her.
"Amy, come on," Constance called out.
Fairly soon Amy was standing between Constance and Stephan with the Quaffle in hand for a few souvenir photos.
"You did a good job Angie giving her those tickets," Pauline commented later.
"I wanted her to get a chance to see a professional game Pauline. It's almost too bad Emily and Fred decided to skip this one."
The next day Amy spent flying around with the Puddlemere players since they had a day off. Before Amy and Marcus went to return by Portkey Pauline called Amy over.
"Amy, we had numerous copies of the picture made and we autographed a bunch. Soon as you know the Gryffindor Schedule let me know."
"I will Pauline," Amy commented.
Closing notes. I placed a reference to my hold College dorm in here. Now I know some fic writers place review responses in their fics. I don't. For one thing I like to send personal responses to reviewers when possible. Another reason is I get so few reviews that It just wouldn't be practical.