Thank you to Jenna Kathleen for reading this over.
This story takes place a month after "Reunion," Neville flooed Harry one day, "Harry, are you doing anything this afternoon?"
"No, Neville, what's up?"
"Well.. could you watch Andrew for me? Leah is out of town with Frankie. And Ron and Luna are both busy... could you mate? I know you need some practice..."
"Sure... how old is this one?"
"Fifth-teen months, He's a really sweet baby, never stops smiling."
"Okay... I'll do it."
"I'm not imposing am I?" Neville asked after he flooed in a half hour later with Andrew and a diaper bag in tow.
"Andy, this is Harry, do you remember Harry?" They'd met a few weeks previous.
"be be gre be," Andy replied.
Neville handed over Andy who gave Harry his perma grin.
"There's diapers, wipes, bottles, changes of clothes, and some snacks in the diaper bag, Harry."
"Bye bye, Andy," Neville waved.
Andy waved back, "da da."
And Neville flooed away.
Harry turned on the television, he and Hermione had recently acquired and sat down with Andy on his lap, whom immediately climbed off and started to walk around... Harry watched as he walked toward the fireplace, "NO ANDY!"
And he raced toward the little boy and scooped him up, taking him back to the couch with him.
"Whoa Andy, do you want a cookie?" Harry asked as Andy was giving him an evil glare as Harry ate an Oreo in his prescense.
"You want one?" Harry held out one of the cookies for the child.
Whom promptly took it and devoured it. Chocolate...everywhere! On the childs face, hands, arms and all over Harry. Andy looked up expectently.
"Do you want another one?"
"a re re a da da ba ga da, ha ha ha ha ha ha."
"I'll take that as a yes."
"Cheese."
"Cheese?"
"Do you want some cheese?"
"Cheese."
"I thought you wanted a cookie?"
"Cheese," and he took the cookie Harry offered.
"da da."
"I'm not your da da."
"Gah, da ba ma, ga fa."
"Okay."
"Do you like the cookie?"
"ba da ma sha."
A half hour and four more cookies later, Harry said, "Okay Andrew, no more cookies."
"hi hi." Andrew said to the phone reciever next to the couch, picking it up and talking to it before throwing it on the floor. Next the child climbed off the couch and started toddling toward the stairs.
"You want to go upstairs pal?" Harry asked as he followed the baby, whom was climbling the stairs..
"ight, ight," Andy said after Harry scooped him up and held him, as he clapped and Harry brought him downstairs and set him on the floor in front of the stairs. As soon as Harry set him down Andrew was off to climb the stairs again... and for the next half hour that's what Harry and Andrew did, Andrew would climb the stairs, higher and higher.. before Harry scooped him up and it would start all over again, back and forth the two went, Andy having a blast and laughing at Harry.
"HARRY?" Neville called from downstairs.
"Coming Neville."
"Oh my! What did you give him?"
Neville asked at the state of his son, his son's and Harry's clothes, and Andrew's face, hands and hair.
"Oreos."
Neville laughed.
"Come here Andrew."
"Da da," Andrew clapped as his father took him.
"Harry where's the diaper bag?"
"On the couch."
"Will you get out the wipes."
"Ga be go, ahhhh!" Andrew said as his Daddy cleaned him up and scorgified Harry.
"There you go Harry, now how many cookies did you feed my son?"
"Five," Harry replied sheepishly.
Neville laughed, "I'm glad he's had them before or you could've made him sick."
"Sorry Neville."
"That's okay. You'll learn after your baby comes, and this will be a great story to tell Hermione."
"No, it'll freak her out... how bad I am at watching kids."
"It's fine, Harry, you'll do fine. Hell, I am."
"Okay."
"Well, I gotta go give this little guy a proper bath and start on dinner, see you Harry."
"Bye, Neville, bye Andrew."
"You've just won his heart, Harry."
"Bye." Harry laughed.
And Neville and Andrew flooed away.
"Harry, how was your day?" Hermione asked him that evening at dinner.
"Uh... fine... I watched Andrew.. Neville's youngest son."
"Really! How did that go?"
"Um.. fine.. he climbed the stairs and wanted to get into everything! We're going to have to child proof this place! Ah!"
Hermione laughed, "Harry, our child won't be as big as Andrew for quite awhile, it'll be okay."
"But, but I fed him cookies!"
"Harry! How did Neville respond to that?"
"He said it was okay and that I could have made him sick," Harry moaned.
She laughed again, "Harry, what do you expect, it'll be trail and error for us as well, what do we know about raising a child?"
"Uh..."
"Exactly! At least you know to follow them around when there on the move."
"Yeah. I guess."
"We'll be fine, besides we still have seven months to figure out how."
"So a trip to the book store is required then?"
"If you want to, but I was thinking we pick my parents and Ron and Luna, and Neville and Leah and anyone else we know with kid's brains."
"Good idea, first hand knowledge!"
"Exactly."
"So, we'll be okay... just no cookies till it has teeth?"
Again she laughed, "Yeah, no cookies till he or she has teeth."
That last part I added at the suggestion of a wrap up, by Jenna Kathleen, thanks.
Hope you all enjoyed that, Please review!
