H P Boy who Lives 7th year
Chapter 26
Valentines Day Night
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Valentines Day continues will it get better or worse read on...Oh and Hermione cooks ;;
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4 Hours later
Alex sat in a corner sketching beside a small conjured lantern.
"Seamus, don't you have a date tonight?" She glanced over at him.
He had been keeping Pendragon occupied. The baby dragon liked shoes, his robes, or just clothing in general. It had tuckered the little guy out and he was snoozing near Seamus' feet.
"With some homework maybe, but Susan and I broke up in January." He was trying to read his Advanced Transfiguration book, but she was so beautiful, sitting there by lantern light, that he couldn't think.
"Je vous demande pardon," Lexi got up and sat next to him. "Merci, mon ami for watching over me."
"Think nothin of it. That's what friends do." Seamus smiled at her. "As for Susan and me, well, the two of us are still friends, just not a couple anymore. She's with Anthony or was it Justin, anyway I'm happy to sit here with you."
Pendragon woke up on unsteady legs and went to lay his head across Seamus and Lexi's feet.
"He's so adorable and he likes you." Lexi cooed at the baby dragon.
"I guess or he just likes what I'm wearing." Seamus stared down at baby Pendragon, once again teething on his boot.
Lexi laid her head on Seamus' shoulder. "He's just curious. Look, he's going back over to sleep by his Mere."
"You draw bonnie works of art." He eyed her drawing of Pendragon.
"Rory and Dromi are teaching me, but I'm not a master artist like they are." Lexi sighed. "Do you know why Hermione doesn't like me? Did I do something wrong?"
"Hermione's pregnant. She doesn't like anyone at the moment. Besides, you're shining in her usual spotlight. She's never had a real academic female rival and now she does." Seamus thought over how to answer her question. "She's miffed, because Harry aced his N.E.W.T'S in November. Got 100 right, while she missed 20 questions or something like that."
"She only got twenty wrong! Out of over a thousand, and she's miffed! I thought that I was bad." Lexi was determined to befriend her. "I really wish to be friends with her. We're family and there's so much that we have in common. How can I befriend her?"
"That's a tough one...You could sit down with her and have a chat. Raise the white flag." Seamus didn't wish to see her in St. Mungo's, so he thought of something else. "Ask her to, uh, teach you how to knit. It's her passion."
Lexi hugged him and kissed him on both cheeks. "Très bien, mon ami! I will do just that! You are indeed my best friend at Hogwarts."
"Uh, well, like I said that's what best friends are for. I'll talk to Hermione myself first if you'd like." Seamus was really feeling brave and put his arm around her shoulders.
"Oh, you are such a prince, but I would not want you to risk your own friendship...Drat, Daddy's home. We've been here for hours." Lexi sensed her fathers temper nearby. :Thank you, for letting us stay for awhile. Blessed be to you and your clan.: Lexi packed up their stuff and left the lair.
:You are welcome anytime. Our young one likes the two of you.: Brim answered her. :Safe travel to the castle to both of you.:
"Alexandra Amelia Minerva Minuette Quinn-Dumbledore!!" Max shouted into the clearing.
The storm was now over, but it was dark out now, even with the moon.
"She's fine, son. Young Mister Finnigan is with her and the dragons are content with the two of them. Harry, Charlie, and Logan would never have let them stay had that not been so." Albus was calm.
"That was four hours ago! They missed dinner, Dad! They were told two hours not four!" Max was not happy. "Logan and Harry had plans, so of course they were all for them staying in the Dark Forest!"
"Calm down, Daddy!" Alex glared at him. "I was sketching the dragons, lost track of time, and Seamus was keeping me company!" She stalked out of the lair and growled up at her father.
Max narrowed his eyes at Seamus. "It's late! You should have been paying attention to the time!"
Albus ignored his sons temper and went to chat with the dragons.
"Daddy! You are being soooo paranoid! Seamus is my friend! Nothing like that happened! I don't have time for boyfriends! I have N.E.W.T'S coming up! I do have time for a friend, so back off!" Lexi wasn't about to have Seamus in hot water with her dad.
Albus returned to the three of them. "It seems as though Empress's son, baby Pendragon, fell asleep on their feet, so they waited out his nap."
"Well, Alexandra Amelia, introduce me to your friend." Max growled.
"Daddy, this is Seamus Finnigan. Mon ami and protector. Seamus, this grouchy bear is my father Maxwell Dumbledore. You already know my Grandpa." Lexi calmed down her temper.
"Sorry Professor Dumbledore, I should have watched the time. Uh, it's a honor to meet you, sir." Seamus eyed Max warily. "I mean sorry about us being late."
"I founds them!" Grawp shouted at Hagrid.
"Good evening Grawp, as you can see Alexandra and Seamus are fine." Albus smiled up at him.
"Dagons are my's friends." Grawp's answer boomed around them. "They no hurt."
"Easy baby brother, they know that." Hagrid caught up with him.
"That we do Rubeus; now let us go back to the castle." Albus suggested.
Max produced a large bale of something like hay with his wand. "I will be right back." He walked into the dragon colony.
"Daddy studied dragons, during the times when we were babies, and he was taking a break from being a Hit wizard/ Auror." Lexi explained. "They really like him, just like they do Harry."
"Lexi pretty," Grawp smiled down at her. "Like Hermi, Ginny, and Luna."
Lexi looked up at him and smiled. "Why thank you Grawp that was lovely of you to say."
"You befriended him already?" Seamus frowned.
"I come here to the forest at night or on my free time to chat with the Centaurs, see the Unicorns, or visit with him. I met Grawp my first day here." Lexi nodded. "Why are you frowning at me like that?"
"Oh nothing," Seamus shrugged his shoulders. "The forest is usually out of bounds that's all."
"Alexandra can more than protect herself, Mister Finnigan. All of my kids can, besides she's been doing that all her life. The animals and creatures will not harm her." Max was back with them again. "The two of you can eat dinner in the Camelot Wing, as it is nearly eight and dinner is finished in the Great hall."
"Blessed be Grawp, sweet dreams." Lexi blew him a kiss.
Grawp blushed. "Bye Lexi, good sleep."
"Awe, ain't that's sweet. He's crushing on you, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna." Hagrid waved good night to Grawp, as he went to sleep near the dragons.
"He's a sweetheart." Lexi smiled. "Just like Seamus is for braving the dragons to watch over me." She kissed Seamus on the cheek. Then set off walking down the path through the forest towards the castle.
"Hey, Lexi wait up!" Seamus chased after her.
"The lad is smitten with our Lexi." Hagrid grinned at Albus and Max.
"I can see that, Hagrid. The only problem is that my daughter is clueless when it comes to suitors trying to court her. Although, it doesn't seem that Seamus is going to give up pursing her, so we shall see." Max and the others slowly walked the path towards the castle.
"Seamus is as stubborn as they come, but a gentleman with the ladies. He'll bide his time. They're friends now and that's a big step." Hagrid grinned.
"She'll not focus on Seamus, until she befriends Hermione. That's her current goal, to be friends with her cousin's wife, and friend of most of the girls in seventh year." Albus sighed.
"Hermione's jealous. That's gonna be tough for Lexi ta do. I mean Lexi is another Hermione in a matter of speakin." Hagrid frowned.
"Hermione's bored out of her mind, now that she's taken her N.E.W.T'S, and gotten O's on all of them. My baby is the new star pupil in the teacher's eyes and it ruffles Hermione's fur as it were. That and Harry helped her catch up with the other students, by tutoring her, and being a good cousin, friend, and teacher. That in itself is keeping her from befriending Lexi." Max sighed.
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Hermione was dressed in her paint the town red dress with matching cloak. "Harry! Dan will be at the gates in ten minutes! Get a move on!"
"Where are we going any..." Harry came out of the bathroom dressed for their date, took one look at her, and all thoughts of leaving the room vanished from his mind. "Baby, you look good enough to eat in that."
"Down, Wolfe. We are going and that is final." She gave him a look.
"You're wearing the charm bracelet." He brought her hand to his lips kissed it and then trailed kisses up her bare arm.
"Yes and you're wearing your medallion." She stepped away from him, so she could reach up to fix the collar of his dress shirt, and saw the heavy gold chain.
"I love my bling, as the muggles love to say. It suits the inner wolf inside me." He pulled her into his arms. "I love my wife even more." He kissed her.
"I told you that they were snogging. I mean can you blame him? She's dressed like Red Riding hood." Daniel growled at Emma.
"Daniel, we should have waited downstairs!" Emma hissed.
"We're getting to watch a private screening of Episode III and then have dinner with its director and all he wants to do is snog!" Daniel grumbled.
"Episode three, as in Star Wars?" Harry's eyes lit up. He loved that director and all his movies.
Hermione nodded. "It was meant to be a surprise."
"Don't mind Daniel, his brain has fried studying for his GCSE'S. That and the whole cemetery scene freaked him out for days. You see he's been cooped up studying for days; he even missed taking me to the BAFTA awards. Our movie won the Orange Award; it was number one in the eyes of the fans." Emma kissed Daniel on the cheek.
"Let's just say that Voldemort is being played by a very convincing actor and leave it at that. My Em was brilliant and braved accepting the award all by herself in front millions of viewers." Daniel kissed her on the nose.
"Wolfe, you and Daniel go downstairs. Em and I will be with you in a minute." Hermione smiled. "I want to show her that new dessert line of beauty products."
"Oh, she has that already. I love the... What was it... Yeah, Dreamy lip gloss." Daniel grinned.
"Yes, well, it's fun to wear." Emma blushed.
"Let's go Romeo." Harry grabbed him by the neck and they vanished.
"What's up Hermione and I know it isn't about beauty products. I thought you and Harry kept the promise until December?" She stepped back and eyed Hermione's profile.
"We did...Am I showing?!" Hermione raced into the bathroom and looked at her profile in the mirror. She sighed in relief. "Well, it's not obvious, so he won't notice. Not when he has that movie to look forward to."
"So, I take it that Harry's special blood makes this a special pregnancy?" Emma bit down on her lip.
"I should be two months along, but it's more like three and a half. I can't tell Harry, because he'll go mental about it. Now let's change the subject. There's something that I want you to see." She opened her purse. "Ginny came across it on a website." She took out a glossy print of something and handed it to Emma.
Emma stared wide-eyed at it and blushed clear to her toes. "That's...but how? I mean it was a closed set. Can I keep this?"
"I cropped the picture, so it's decent..."
Emma glared at Hermione.
"No, it wasn't that far, but close enough." Hermione smirked. "I just hope that I remembered to close it out on the computer. You see Harry was coming into the study and I hastily shut it down."
"They need to remove that picture of him. It's just not right." Emma frowned. "I mean, he'll be upset, if he finds out that someone leaked a picture from that day of shooting. He tried to do it sky clad, but that isn't Daniel. So they had him in skin colored Speedo instead." Emma saw the look that Hermione was giving her. "I mean or so I was told...I wasn't there or anything, it was closed off to all of us." She blushed.
"HERMIONE ANNE DIANA! GET YOUR PRETTY TAIL DOWN HERE AND EXPLAIN!" Harry roared from his place on the stairs.
"I must have hit standby instead of the power button." Hermione gulped.
"NOW!!"
"They know what you gave me? This is soooo not good." Emma stashed the picture in her bra. "Sorry, but I'm keeping this."
The girls innocently walked down the stairs. "You bellowed your highness."
"Oh, I bellowed all right!" Harry glowered at them.
"Yeah! Where did it come from?! So I can have the site removed and sue their sorry asses!" Daniel snarled.
"I'll ask, um, Gin..." Hermione answered softly. "She found it."
"Did you give Emma a snap of it?" Daniel narrowed his eyes at her.
"Snap of what? Let me see what you're going postal about...Oh wow! Can I have that?" Emma blushed down to her toes; her eyes were glued to the original picture on the screen. "I mean how dare they invade your privacy like this! We will have them dealt with at once."
Daniel was not pleased with her at all. "NO! YOU CANNOT CARRY IT AROUND IN YOUR WALLET, BLACKBERRY, IPOD, OR SIDEKICK! IT'S NOT RIGHT! THAT WAS A CLOSED SET!" He was livid. "IT LOOKS LIKE I'M...I WAS WEARING A SPEEDO DURING THAT SCENE! SKY CLAD IS NOT MY THING!"
"What if we crop it just so, then can I have it?" Emma pouted.
"NO EMMA!! YOU BLOODY WELL CANNOT! NOW LET'S GO! I NEED TO FOCUS ON SOMETHING, BESIDES THAT BEING ON THE INTERNET FOR ALL TO SEE!" Daniel stalked out of the Common room and onto the stairway.
"Please." Emma followed him.
"NO!"
"Let's go angel and don't think that I don't know that Em doesn't have a picture of that stashed on her person somewhere." Harry knew her all to well.
"No comment, besides even if I did, it would have been cropped and harmless." Hermione left the Honeymoon Flat.
"Please Danny!" Emma whined from inside the Pendragon Wing.
"NO EMMA! SO STOP ASKING!" Daniel was talking to Ginny. "GIVE ME THE GODDAMNED URL OF THAT FRICKIN SITE, SO THAT I CAN FORCE THEM TO TAKE IT DOWN!"
"Um, sure here it is." Ginny walked into the library/Study and called the site up on the computer. "See first click the letter of your first name, then go to your name, and there you are."
"Ginevra Molly Elizabeth! The computer is not to be abused like this! Daniel did not give them permission to put that on that site." Lily saw what they were looking at and was not pleased.
"What the hell! You should sue or demand that it be taken down!" Draco snarled. "Now as for you Ginevra Molly Elizabeth! What the hell are you doing surfing for guy pics like that anyway?!"
"I know and I'm sorry, but I needed my fix. I like eye candy once in awhile." She pouted.
Draco simply glared at her.
James glanced at the screen and lost it. "Is there nothing sacred to Muggle girls? That's bad form! He's a minor!"
"Em is nearly fifteen! She did not need to see that!" Daniel fumed.
"Hermione Anne! Did you print that out for Emma?" James pinned her with a look.
"She's like a baby sister to me. So no I did not. We are late for our date." Hermione shot him her most innocent look.
"Don't forget to tell Junior all about your appointment with Lucy." James reminded her, took Lily into his arms, and vanished.
"I will, but first we have to go on our date." Hermione promised.
"Let's go! I've got the site name, their server, and e-mail address. I'll make a call on our way there." Daniel grumbled.
"I think there's nothing to be embarrassed about. You look hot in that picture. I saw just as much when I walked in, while you were adjusting your wet suit. And you know that I saw you." She winked at him, as they exited the Pendragon Wing and made their way down the stairs.
Daniel flushed crimson. "Let's drop the subject! I had an atomic wedgie at the time!"
Hermione winked at Em. "See, Daniel. Even Harry gets surprised sometimes." She focused on Harry, who was now dressed only in a swimming Speedo.
Emma drank in the sight before her and sighed dreamily. "Wow!"
"Hermione Anne Diana! Knock it off!" Harry flushed crimson all the way to his toes and changed back to his previous outfit. He caught sight of whom was down at the bottom stairs Max, Seamus, and Lexi.
"It was only fair! Now let's go see your precious movie." Hermione took Emma by the arm and vanished.
"I have got to start working out more by the looks of it. The movie is wrapped up or nearly, so I have until January 2006 to work on it. I guess martial arts would do it." Daniel frowned at Harry.
Harry rolled his eyes in exasperation. "I trained my ass off with everyone sixth year. I play Quidditch, where yes we do work out, and I trained under Master Teacher this year. So, the Abs of steel, six pack, or whatever the muggles say...Now can we go join the girls." Harry took him by the wrist and they vanished.
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"That was Daniel Radcliffe with Harry and Emma Watson with Hermione..." Lexi, eyes as big as saucers, stared up at the stairs.
"That it was. They know them personally." Seamus nodded. "They know Rupert, Tom, and JK as well."
"Now that more than explains the Pendragon Foundation and the press conference last Christmas." Lexi was a big fan of anything muggle.
"Yeah, when it comes to dealing with the press, Harry's become the master of spin." Seamus grinned.
"I don't think he had much of a choice, with Wills blurting out facts right and left." Max opened the one of the doors of the Pendragon Wing.
"Lexi, you missed dinner...well hello Seamus." Ginny winked at the two of them.
"How was dragon sitting? I see that you're both in one piece." Draco grinned knowingly at his friend.
"Pendragon's harmless and the dragons are really fascinating to watch." Seamus was curious, about why Harry had been put in next to nothing by Hermione. "So what did he do this time?"
"Yes Draco. Why did Hermione Anne change him from being dressed to a pair of Speedo's?" Max also wished to know.
"Ginny and Hermione have been up to mischief. They found a site with a snap of Daniel on it; caught au naturel you might say...not that the snap goes that far, but its close enough. She sent it to the computer upstairs by e-mail. Hermione gave it to Emma, tastefully cropped of course, and Harry and Daniel are pissed off about it." Draco explained.
"So, in this case turnabout is fair play. She did that on the stairs to make Daniel and Harry even, so he would be less embarrassed." Lexi surmised.
"Bull's-eye Lex, you got it right on the nose. Ron and Luna are off on Prefect patrol. We're sort of still grounded you might say, but not as harshly." Ginny sighed.
"Lexi, sweetie, there you are. Did you enjoy your date with young Mister Finnigan?" Harley came out of the media room.
Lexi blushed. "Mother, it was not a date. He was sitting with me, while I watched the baby dragon."
"Young man bravely watches over beautiful young girl. Sounds like a date to me." Harley winked at Seamus. "Hello, I'm Angelica Harley Quinn Dumbledore, but everyone calls me Harley. So, all that you two did for four hours alone, except for the dragons, was stare at them and sketch?" She arched one brow at Seamus.
"Alexandra is my friend, Mrs. Dumbledore. I watched over her as a true friend would and would never take advantage of the situation." Seamus looked her and then Max in the eyes.
"Well then, the two of you must be starving. Dinner is on the table. I'm going to look at my baby's lovely sketches of our new arrival." Harley took Lexi's sketchpad and went over to the couch. "Darling, we shall look at it together."
"There's really no need for that mother...they aren't very good." Lexi protested. She had sketched Seamus for two hours, as well as the dragons.
"Nonsense, you two eat. While your mother and I view your latest works." Max sat down on the couch next to Harley.
"You and Lexi can join us for a game when you're finished eating." Draco and Ginny went into the Media room.
"So Lexi, do you like, uh, Muggle video games?" Seamus was sitting across from her.
"I like most anything muggle. They fascinate me." Lexi smiled shyly at him.
"My Dad's a muggle and me Mam's a witch. So I get the best of both worlds, you might say." Seamus smiled at her.
"My Daddy's most obviously a wizard, but my Mère is Fay and Veela, so she's not really a witch. I've been lucky that my parents embrace both worlds equally." Lexi wasn't all that hungry; her stomach had butterflies in it for some reason. "So have you read the books on Harry?"
"Aye yes, the books that paints me in an interesting light." Seamus smirked. "Yes, Alexandra, I've read them and watched the three movies. I'm with Ginny, although the bloke that plays me does it well enough, they missed what I actually look like by a mile. It's the same with Dean too."
"Nevertheless, they do weave you into a fascinating character." She winked at him. "Did you ever figure out how to safely make water into rum?"
"I'll never tell. Lets just say, I'm glad that me eyebrows and hair all grew back." He chuckled.
"Oh, I see. If you don't confess then you can't get into trouble." She giggled.
"Something like that. So you can charm any creature or animal?" He changed the subject.
"I can talk to them in my mind. I've been able to since I was a baby." Lexi nodded.
"Well, there you have it then. I have a talent for changing water into any drink I wish and you can talk to animals." He tapped his wand on the goblets of water, thought of the spell in his mind, and turned it into hot chocolate.
"Bravo, Seamus. I'm very impressed." Lexi took a sip of her hot chocolate. "Yum, just the way I like it, lots of chocolate with a hint of peppermint."
"I know, it's my favorite as well, it gives it just the right taste." Seamus sipped his own.
Ferria appeared on Lexi's shoulder. "Hello Ferria, can I help you."
Ferria cooed and spoke to her in bird language.
"Ruby likes out of her cage and the cats are not going to have her for dinner...Oh my, well, of course I will tell Ginny and Draco." Lexi stroked her wing. "The pups had an accident and need to go out." She translated for Seamus.
Uh, well, just a sec." Seamus got up and poked his head into the Media Room. "The pups need to go out. Ferria just reported that they had a little accident upstairs as well."
Draco and Ginny raced out of the Media Room and out the doors. "Thanks Lexi, we forgot to walk them."
"They will take care of it, I promise." Lexi frowned when Ferria squawked back. "I am sure the smell will go away as well. They didn't do it on purpose. They are just babies like you are."
Ferria puffed up her feathers, as if insulted, and flew over to sit on Max's head.
"Well you are." Lexi sighed in defeat.
"So how do you like Hogwarts so far?" Seamus changed the subject and the two of them got to know each other.
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Max stared down at the sketch of Seamus playing fire extinguisher with Pendragon. "He's a nice young man." He flipped the page.
Seamus was reading his homework assignment for Advanced Transfiguration. She had captured every detail in his face perfectly.
"Lex has it just as bad for him." He sighed.
"Look at it this way. He's one of Harry's trusted friends, so we can trust him with her. He earned Order of Merlin Second Class as well, so he's no coward." Harley flipped the page.
Seamus was petting a sleeping baby dragon.
"She sees him as a best friend for now. We shall see where it goes from there."
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Astronomy Tower
Ron and Luna sat up in the tower on a blanket eating dessert by candlelight.
"This is so romantic and to think I thought patrol would be all for us tonight." Luna smiled at him.
"I have something to ask you officially and I want it to be tonight." Ron opened a velvet ring box. "Lunette Serena Diana Lovegood-Pendragon, will you marry me?"
Luna stared down at the tanzanite and pink diamond engagement ring. "Oh Ronald, it's beautiful, of course I'll marry you." She let him slide the ring on her left hand ring finger. "I love you, so much."
The two kissed.
James waited in the shadows, until Ron had popped the question then made himself known. "Congratulations, sweetie, now pack it up and head to the Pendragon Wing. The two of you are still semi-grounded and this is not patrol. Oh and Ron, welcome to the family... No wait you already are family." He winked at the two startled teens. "Junior isn't the only one who can blend into the shadows. Now move."
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Hogwarts grounds
Draco had the ring in his pocket, but had yet to pop the question to Ginny. "Some Valentines Day we had." Draco sighed, as they walked the pups outside on the moonlit lawn. "Sorry, it all went sour."
Ginny laid her head on his shoulder. "I love the locket and the charms. Most of all I don't need fireworks, candles, or romance. I just need you and I'm happy."
"I love my medallion, but there is one more thing that I need to ask you tonight." Draco stopped walking.
Ginny stared up into his gray eyes. :So are you going to ask me or not?:
:So you have been wandering around in my head.: He chuckled. "Ginevra Molly Elizabeth Weasley, will you marry me and be my princess?" He took the ring out of his pocket and slipped it onto her left hand ring finger.
Ginny threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. "Yes, I'll marry you! I love it, just like I love you!" She laughed, as he twirled her around in his arms.
"Excellent job, nephew, now back to the Pendragon Wing with the both of you. I'll watch the pups. I know. It's not fair, but you're still semi-grounded, and life ain't fair now move your arses." He grinned when Draco and Ginny vanished while still lip locked.
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Later that evening Harry and Hermione's floor
Harry went about his nightly routine without speaking to Hermione.
"You have to talk to me eventually. I know that this hasn't been a great day for you, but I thought a night with Daniel and Em would be a nice change. The movie was depressing. It made me feel gypped about the rest of the saga. The director cannot take constructive criticism and dinner was an experience. Where did you disappear for nearly two hours? What did the two directors hand you when we were leaving? I'm sorry about the picture of Daniel and the whole Speedo incident. No one saw except Daniel and Em." She babbled on, as she also, got ready for bed.
"Harry James, I know that I can make it up to you." She chose to wear a gown of sheer white silk chiffon lace and powdered herself with the creamy kissable body shimmer.
"Harry?" He had left their bathroom.
Harry was not dressed for bed, but in his Puddlemere United sweats. He wanted to workout in the sparing/gym area. "Night!" He stalked out of the bedroom.
"Harry?" She went after him. "It's late. Where are going? We are not going to end the day with a fight. We promised each other that would never happen." She stood in the doorway of the sparing room.
Harry ignored her and took his frustration out on the heavy bag hanging from the ceiling. He and Logan had created a weight room, sparing room, and workout room.
"I HATE VALENTINES DAY! NOTHING EVER GOES RIGHT! DID I FIX HER DINNER FOR TWO?! NO! INSTEAD HERMIONE HATED THE MOVIE AND SNARLED IN MY HEAD THE WHOLE TIME!" He slammed kicks and punches into the heavy bag.
Hermione jumped when the chain almost broke.
"DID I ENJOY THE DINNER AFTER THE MOVIE?! NO! HERMIONE BITCHED OUT THE DIRECTOR FOR DESTROYING THE ROMANCE IN HIS MOVIE OR FOR RUINING THE WHOLE ILLUSION THAT HE HAD WEAVED IN RETURN OF THE JEDI! I GOT A BREATHER FOR TWO HOURS WATCHING THE FIRST CUT OF GOF, THAT WAS A PLUS, MINUS, AND SURPRISE..."
Harry tried to rein in his temper and not roar at the top of his lungs, but he was beyond furious with her.
"SURPRISE, SURPRISE, IT TURNS OUT THAT BOTH OF THE DIRECTORS WERE MUGGLE BORN WIZARDS, WHO KNEW EXACTLY WHO THE TWO OF US WERE! DANIEL, GROWLING AT EMMA ABOUT THE PICTURE MOST OF THE NIGHT WASN'T MUCH FUN EITHER! THEY WERE FINE BY THEN END OF THE NIGHT! SHE CHOSE TO BURY HER FACE IN DANIEL'S SHOULDER DURING THE PARTS OF THE MOVIE THAT SHE DIDN'T LIKE AND HE COMFORTED HER!"
The poor defenseless bag was just being pummeled by Harry venting his frustration on it.
"FLASHING ALEXANDRA WAS JUST BAD FORM ON HERMIONE'S PART! ABOVE ALL, I DID NOT GET TO GO WITH HERMIONE TO HER FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH LUCY! YEAH! VALENTINES AS USUAL SUCKED FOR ME!" The bag went flying off its chain. "REPARO!" He continued to take his fury and frustration out on the heavy bag.
"I know that you didn't have a good day, but I can make it up to you." Hermione tried to get his attention by showing off her sheer gown. "If you'll let me,"
Harry narrowed his eyes at her. She looked spectacular in that gown, but he was too furious with her to care. "ANNIE, GO TO BED! I NEED MY SPACE! YOU WERE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING YOURSELF TONIGHT AND AS FOR THAT, WELL, NOT EVEN SKY-CLAD WOULD ALTER MY MOOD RIGHT NOW!" He was now doing chin-ups on the bar.
"We'll be lonely all by ourselves." Hermione pouted and was near tears.
Harry glared coldly at her. "NOT EVEN THAT WORD WILL ALTER MY MOOD RIGHT NOW! CUDDLE UP TO THE CATS OR PUPS, THEY CAN WATCH OVER YOU!"
"But..." She burst into tears.
"SORRY, BUT I HAVE A MIGRAINE! BROUGHT ON THE SECOND YOU GAVE EMMA THAT SNAP!"
Hermione was bawling now, but he wasn't even the least bit affected by her tears. "Harry..."
"SAVE IT, HERMIONE! NO AMOUNT OF TEARS WILL WORK ON ME RIGHT NOW! THIS WHOLE BEING A FAMILY WAS ABOUT US SHARING EVERY STEP! THAT WOULD INCLUDE ME SITTING IN LUCY'S OFFICE HEARING ALL THE GOOD NEWS WITH YOU ABOUT OUR GIRLS. THAT'S WHAT'S REALLY MAKING ME UNHAPPY RIGHT NOW!"
Hermione had never seen him look at her the way he was looking at her now and it was tearing her apart. He was hurt, because she had left him out of her first appointment with Lucy. The truth was her appointment had taken forever. They had run a battery of tests on her and she wasn't all that sure how Harry was going to react to the results of those tests.
"I didn't mean..."
"OBVIOUSLY, SHE TOLD YOU SOMETHING IMPORTANT, BECAUSE DAD REMINDED YOU TONIGHT, BUT YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO SHARE IT WITH ME!"
"It's not that I..." Hermione tried to get a word in edgewise, but Harry wasn't having any of it.
"I HAVE BEEN LEFT OUT OF THINGS MOST OF MY LIFE! IT'S NEVER HAPPENING AGAIN! I DON'T CARE IF YOU DON'T WANT ME THERE WITH YOU, BECAUSE FROM NOW ON THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING TO BE!" Hurt rang in his voice. "NOW GO TO BED! I DON'T REALLY FEEL LIKE IT MYSELF, BUT YOU AND OUR GIRLS NEED REST! PUSH ME ON THIS AND I TAKE YOU OVER MY KNEE AND PADDLE YOUR BEHIND FOR WHAT YOU PULLED TONIGHT. THEN I'LL CARRY YOU UP THERE, TUCK YOU IN, AND CRASH IN MY OLD ROOM FOR A FEW DAYS!" Harry had never been this mad at her in his life. "I LOVE YOU. I JUST CAN'T BE WITH YOU RIGHT NOW! I WILL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING!" He vanished.
Hermione had never really had his full temper unleashed on her before. It was like getting slapped and stabbed at the same time. "Your Daddy is beyond angry with me, but he'll cool off and join us in awhile." She rubbed her slightly rounding middle.
"Mummy wasn't her usual Miss Manners to our hosts this evening. Your Daddy loves us so much, that he's willing to spend hours in an office or waiting room, bored out of his mind. I honestly thought the cropped snap was fine for Em. Now as for flashing Alexandra, well, that wasn't meant and she only has eyes for Seamus. It just irks me that they asked Harry to catch her up on everything and not me." Hermione slowly made her way to the stairs.
Harry, who had not left the flat, appeared behind her. He scooped her up into his arms, carried her up to their bedroom, tucked her in, and gave her a chaste kiss on her forehead.
"Make peace with Alexandra. She's lost in her world of books. You know those objects with pages that you love so much. Now as for the other, I have no issues with my cousin, so I got her caught up with everyone. Alex could be a trusted friend who you can talk to about anything. She's not a boy crazy girl. She's an innocent, who spends her free time talking to animals, and visiting Grawp. If you make peace with her, it may just appease a little of my unhappiness with you right now. Night Hermione and my girls," He vanished.
"Make peace? A little of his unhappiness, this sounds more like a week than a few days to me." Hermione went to cuddle Pepper and Crooks in her arms.
Pepper stayed, but Crooks jumped off the bed and left the room in a huff.
"Okay! I will make it right again! I promise!" She shouted after the cat.
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Pendragon Wing- Common Room
Harry used the shower in his old room, before appearing in the Common Room of the Pendragon Wing. "Good. Everyone is asleep, so I'll be able to watch these in peace." He headed for the Media Room.
"Trouble in Paradise?" James asked from the couch.
"More like Hermione's on the couch, on time-out, or whatever." Harry told his father all about his Valentines Day night from hell. "They had pity on me and let me have these." He held up two DVD cases.
"Well, then you didn't leave empty-handed, so it wasn't a total loss. Let's go watch these and I promise not to bitch about the lack of romance." James and Harry got settled on the couch in the Media Room with Butterbeer, a huge bowl of popcorn, and watched the movies.
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Lily walked down the steps to check on James. It was six in the morning. Usually, he was snuggled in bed by now with her using his chest as a pillow.
"James?" She saw that he wasn't on the couch and frowned. There was noise coming from the Media Room, so she went to investigate.
"So that's where you are." She picked up the Wizarding camera and took some snaps of two of the main men in her life. With their feet propped up on the table, empty Butterbeer bottles littering the table, as well as an empty bowl of popcorn. They were both fast asleep. Harry had his head on James shoulder and they were both sawing logs. The Telly was still on, so she shut it off, and then closed the door.
"Morning Mum," Draco kissed her cheek.
"Good morning, sweetie, you seem chipper this morning. I take it morning training went well." She hugged him.
"Did it? I hardly noticed. I asked Gin to marry me last night and she said yes."
"Of course she said yes, she loves you." Lily hugged him.
"Ron and Luna got engaged as well, so our Valentines Day turned out smashing. I hope, Harry and Hermione's did too." Draco saw his mother frown and sighed. "Or not... So his night went from bad to worse?"
"Take a look in there." She pointed to the closed door of the Media Room.
Draco opened the door, looked inside, and then carefully closed the door. "I knew that Dad was on the couch, but Harry? He and Hermione have a pact. No one goes to bed angry."
"It doesn't always work that way, sweetie, especially if she's the one at fault. That's my guess in this case, because he's down here and not upstairs on his couch. I'm going to check on Hermione. You wake the others." Lily vanished.
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Honeymoon Flat
Hermione was up fixing or trying to fix Harry breakfast, using his domestic wand. "Let's see, I need to make eggs, bacon, toast, sausage, and hotcakes." She had pans sitting on the stove, bowls on the counter, and a book.
If only it were that easy. The egg mixture shot out of the wand, before she even had a chance to get a bowl ready. Next the bacon went splat on the counter and on the wall. Toast meant bread, so a loaf of it landed on the counter. Sausage patties went flying in all directions. Lastly, hotcake batter just missed a bowl. The kitchen was in shambles.
"Oh frazzle! This can't be happening!" She burst into tears. "I should be able to do this!"
Lily surveyed the mess. "This takes me back to when James and I had our first big row as a married couple."
Hermione whirled around to face her. "Mum! I was...um... Just trying to cook breakfast. Harry is...uh... Upstairs."
Lily used Scourgify to clean the mess. "Couples row, baby girl. It's okay." Lilly hugged her.
"He hates me! I was awful! I embarrassed the family with my actions at the private party last night! I ruined Valentines Day! He thinks me awful for not making peace with Alexandra! Who he flashed because of me! I didn't know how badly he wanted to be at my first visit to Lucy! He thinks I don't want him to be there with me and I do! They frightened me with all of those tests and I wanted him there with me! Mum, he detests me!" She sobbed against Lily's shoulder.
"Lexi is a lovely girl. You should give her a chance. She's family." She stroked her head, as she spoke soothingly to her. "No sweetie. He doesn't hate you. He isn't happy with you right now, but he loves you more than anything."
"I wanted to make him a peace offering." She sniffled.
"I'm a terrible cook. You see the men in our family cook, whereas we tend to burn things, or cause food poisoning, which ends them in St. Mungo's for a week." Lily sighed. "Who knows, maybe it will be different with you. First things first, you have to think of one dish at a time."
Hermione pointed the wand into a pan. "I need some pads of butter." Several pads of butter dropped into the pan and began to sizzle. "Now for some ham, cheese, and egg mixture..." It poured out of the tip of the wand and into the pan.
"Very good, now have a spoon stir that and start with your next thing." Lily coached.
Hermione sent a spoon to tend to the eggs. "Bacon and sausage," That made it into a pan and began to sizzle.
"Toast is easy, even I can do toast." She placed toast in a toaster of sorts. "What's next?"
"Hotcakes," Hermione watched as perfect circles of batter poured from the wand. "I'm doing it." She was all smiles.
"Splendid, Hermione, it looks like you may have broken the curse of the noncooks." The eggs were nearly charred. "Oh dear... the eggs…"
"They don't look burned, just well done." She scooped them up and put them on a plate.
"The hotcakes, bacon, and sausage look well done as well." They appeared charred in spots and the hotcakes were very dark brown.
"I did it." She arranged all of her creations on a plate. "Let's see some butter for the hotcakes." She lathered them generously with butter. "Then some maple syrup." She smiled when just the right amount of syrup glazed the hotcakes and sausage. Lastly, she added the strawberry jam toast and his morning tea.
"Well done, sweetie." Lily cleaned the kitchen with Scourgify.
"I did it." She was beaming with pride. "I can cook."
"Hey! Something smells good." Harry, now awake had come to check on his wife. "Angel, are you cooking breakfast as a peace offering?"
"Good luck." Lily vanished.
Hermione came out of the kitchen with a tray loaded with her creations. "I'm sorry about last night. It's just that lately I want happily ever-after or it triggers a mood in me."
Harry stared down at the food on the tray. It looked very interesting to say the least. "Wow angel. This...uh... Looks delicious." He lied, it looked charred, but she'd put her heart and soul into it. So, he said a silent prayer and forced himself to smile at her.
They sat down at the table and she waited for him to take his first bite. "Well?"
He took a bite of eggs. It was like chewing rubber and it tasted interesting. He forced himself to swallow. "Yum angel, this is so good." Lying through his teeth, he ate the eggs.
"Try the hotcakes next." She smiled.
"Okay." He washed down the first course with the tea. "These look even better." He took a bite, his eyes instantly watering, for they were extremely salty.
"Needs syrup, but tastes good... Uh, Accio domestic wand," He used it to drown the cakes and then ate them.
"It's very good, angel," He washed that down with tea.
I'm gonna end up in St. Mungo's or worse, I just know it. He ate the bacon, which was edible, but the sausage nearly chipped his tooth.
"No more, angel. I'm full." He passed on eating the toast. "That was delicious, Hermione." He was on his fourth cup of tea.
"I knew that you would like it. I'm going to cook from now on." She was glowing with happiness.
"No! You can't do that!" Harry tried not to act panicked at the thought of facing more of her creations. "I mean Dobby and Winky would be crushed." He added hastily.
"Once in awhile then..." Hermione munched on the toast.
"How are you and our girls doing this morning?" Harry drank some more tea.
"Lonely, all of us missed you." She sniffled.
"Hermione, I needed space last night. You more than disappointed me and I needed to clear my head." He sent the tray back into the kitchen. "You were monstrous in your behavior."
"It was the movie that caused my mood of monumental unhappiness." She sipped her tea. "Did you really flash Alex or was it a ploy for me to make nice with her?"
"Yes Hermione, I really flashed Alex." He growled. "And yes you are going to make peace with her." His temper or why he was toasted at her was back on slow boil.
Logan, a digital video camera in hand, stopped recording from his place on the stairs, and stowed it away in his Wizarding robe pocket. "Something smells good."
"Morning Logan, I cooked Harry breakfast." Hermione smiled.
"That was very thoughtful of you, princess. I'm sure that he enjoyed your wonderful cooking." Logan grinned at Harry.
"Oh, I did. It's too bad you missed tasting it." Harry faked a smiled.
"Yes, well, my loss, so breakfast in the Great Hall will have to do." Logan sighed. "Oh and Prince, I'm teaching all week. Thea thinks I can't do it, so the challenge is on. I see being stuck in bed or the bathroom in your future, since that will probably have you glued to the loo for a few days." Logan spoke his mind then vanished, before she could jinx him.
"Is he insinuating that I poisoned you with my cooking?" Hermione narrowed her eyes at Harry. "Don't you lie to me, Harry James Merlin? Was it good or were you just humoring me by eating it?"
Harry sighed in defeat, "Honestly? It was the worst breakfast that I have ever tasted, but I didn't wish to hurt..." He felt seriously sick to his stomach. "Bathroom!" He vanished.
"Harry?! Oh no, my cooking made him sick." She burst into tears.
"Shit, I'm too late!! He ate the food!!" James raced into the Common Room with Sirius on his heels.
"I'll get him! He needs St. Mungo's, ASAP!" Sirius ran up the stairs.
"I can't believe that Lily actually left him to that fate!" James snarled.
Logan appeared. "I've got the video, if they need to know what he ate. The princess is beside herself with grief at the moment."
"I killed, my Wolfe!" Hermione raced into Logan's arms and just bawled away.
"No princess, you made him really sick...I don't think ya killed him. He can withstand AK, so odds are he can survive food poisoning." Logan tried to calm her.
"I didn't think that he was going to get sick! It looked better than my first try!" Lily appeared beside James, as Sirius carried him down the stairs.
"I am so not talking to you right now! That is partially your fault! You knew the odds that he would end up sick!" James snarled.
"I'm dying! I just know it and Mum knew! You traitor! You could have stopped her!" Harry moaned.
"Go! I'll watch over these two." Logan had both Lily and Hermione crying in his arms.
"I'm sorry!" Lily and Hermione wailed in misery.
"Not listening!" James, Sirius, and Harry vanished.
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For four days, Harry felt like he was gonna die. He was so sick that he couldn't keep down water and it was coming out both ends.
Hermione was beside herself with guilt.
"I'm gonna be fine, angel. The worst is past. I can even keep down broth now." Harry lay as weak as a kitten against the pillows. "I was only in St. Mungo's for three days. Dad was there for a week, when Mum did it to him. He still isn't talking to her by the way. He's bunking in my old room. I have never seen him that angry with Mum."
"I went and got some fresh peppermint and spearmint to make tea for him." Alexandra and Hermione had bonded over the past few days.
"Lexi, that's so sweet of you." Hermione turned to smile at her. "He should be able to drink tea now."
"Brimstone flew me to where medicinal herbs were that he and Priss are positive should help him." Alex had Pepper on her shoulder.
"The dragons are concerned." Harry croaked in a weak voice. "Empress has flown up here twice, as has Brimstone."
"Seamus went with me on Brim. He thinks that he has to watch over me constantly now." Alex rolled her eyes. "It's a wonder that he gets any of his homework done."
Hermione and Harry exchanged knowing looks. "Well, he's very protective of his friends."
"I'll make that tea for you, but then I need to go finish my DADA essay. Big brother wants three feet of parchment on the six most dangerous creatures and how to counter them. He really is going all out with teaching DADA." Alex turned to leave the room.
"What do you expect when there's a wager between him and Thea over it?" Harry grinned.
"Thanks, now it makes sense, here I thought he was finally growing up." Alex shaking her head in disappointment left the room.
"Harry, that wasn't nice. Logan loves teaching and he's excellent at it." Hermione fluffed his pillows for him.
"I know, angel. It's just that he's better at it than I am and it irks me." Harry pouted.
"Well now, we can't be great at everything now can we?" She sat on her new LuvSac.
(A new type of beanbag chair built for two, that Wills had Logan bring from Highgrove. He'd a dozen of the line of furniture delivered for the Family Wing.)
"I love these new chairs. They are so comfortable." She began knitting a sweater for one of the babies. The babies had grown, so she was beginning to show, and her jeans barely fit her.
"Lucy and I had a fascinating chat about your routine check up, while I was in St. Mungo's." Harry decided to change the subject towards her and the babies. "When were you gonna tell me that you are actually three and a half months along or the girls seem to have their own time table?"
"I was waiting for you to get better before breaking that bit of news to you. You see, I was there for two hours. After she finished the first part of my checkup, I went through a battery of tests. It seems as though, your special Fay blood is allowing our girls to grow a little faster, um, than is usually seen in a normal pregnancy. You did the same to your mother when she was carrying you. The diagnosis is the girls get to be born a month or so early." Hermione waited for him to react.
"So, our girls are deciding when they make their appearance." Harry felt sick again, so he got out of bed, and stumbled to the bathroom.
"Now see what telling you has done? It's gotten you upset. This is exactly why I didn't want to say anything about it yet." Hermione got up to go tend to him.
"This is like when you say we." He moaned.
"Now girls... Your Daddy has been sick for nearly a week. He does not need PMS right now." She rubbed her middle.
"PMS?" Harry gasped.
"Prenatal Male Syndrome or Pregnancy Male Syndrome..." Hermione bathed his face with a cool cloth.
"Ha, Ha, very funny..." Harry got sick again. "So, you think they reacted to you getting flustered at me and then triggered my sympathetic reaction? By, making me pay homage to the loo and munch on crackers?" He closed his eyes and leaned back in her arms.
"From what First-Grams, Aunt Celestra, and Chloe tell me yes, that is exactly what happens, particularly when one is carrying girls. Logan doesn't get nearly half as sick as you do, because I'm willing to bet that Thea is having a boy." Hermione continued to bathe his face with the cloth.
He turned in her arms and placed his hands over her rounding middle. "You'll be really showing soon, especially if these three have another growth spurt. I love your Mummy and all of you very much. I'm sorry if I upset her. Please try to let me get back on my feet, before you have me living on crackers again." He focused on the tiny lives with in her. "Oh well, it was worth a try, or this is still my getting over the severe food poisoning." He got sick again.
"It's just instinct to protect me...When they're bigger then maybe they will understand." Hermione glanced at the doorway. "Come in Lexi, maybe the tea will settle his stomach down again."
Lexi had a potion, as well as the tea. "Uncle Severus, wants him to try the potion as well."
He took the potion and drank it dry. "I'll try anything to stop from being sick again."
"If it is the girls causing this, then that should abate your nausea." Hermione put the cup of tea to his lips. "This should help too."
"Well, I have an essay to finish and then Seamus is going with me to check on Pendragon." Alex went to leave. "I hope you feel better."
"Alex, its Friday. You have all weekend to do the essay." Harry was feeling better and managed a week smile. "Just try to enjoy your date with Seamus."
"It's not a date. We're just friends. I like Seamus very much, but school is important to me, more than boys right now." Lexi blushed. "N.E.W.T'S are only three months away. I can't understand why everyone is all cuddly and not focusing on them." Alex frowned in confusion.
"Don't worry, Alex. They'll start panicking around Easter and dating will be the last thing on their minds. Enjoy your evening." Harry saw so much of Hermione in his cousin. He knew all too well that Seamus was going to have to wait awhile, before she truly noticed him as a boy.
"Alex, there is nothing wrong with having fun or thinking of Seamus as more than a friend. I got Harry and O's on my N.E.W.T'S." She got up and hugged her. "So it is possible to focus on a guy and still pass them with flying colors."
"That's true... I guess I'll have to think about it." Alex left their quarters.
Harry got to his feet, so he could brush his teeth, before going back to bed. "Poor baby," He yawned, as he crawled back into bed. "She's so confused."
"I know, but she'll find her way to Seamus around April Fools." Hermione handed him his tea.
"April Fools is gonna be a busy day." Harry finished his tea and then settled back to sleep again.
"It's my turn to watch over you." Hermione got in next to him and he snuggled against her. "You sleep, while I watch over all of us." She kissed his warm forehead. He still had days of recuperating ahead of him, but she knew that he would be fine.
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James and Lily cuddled on the Luv Sac in the Common Room of the Pendragon Wing.
"I'm sorry that Harry got sick. You know that I would never intentionally hurt our son. I really thought that it looked ten times better than when I made you breakfast all those years ago. I didn't cook. She did all the cooking; I made the toast..." She snuggled closer to him.
"I know that, Red. It's just that he was really sick there for awhile and it scared the hell out of me. I took it out on you, because you were there when she was cooking it." James kissed the top of her head.
"Well, he's better now and that's all that really matters in the end." She sighed.
"Actually Red, all that matters, is that she never cooks again, at least until he can teach her. Although, I did try to teach you... It's just that you and cooking don't mix. Now on the other hand, I did like the cookies and cakes that you created. You aren't that bad at dessert, just main meals." James had missed holding her in his arms.
"I missed you. Let's not quarrel like that again." She sighed.
"I missed you. It's just that those dark memories creep up and this triggered them." James cuddled her closer.
"You should have told me. My poor handsome pirate, there is no need to brood about it, lean on me that's what I'm here for. I love you." Lily turned in his arms and kissed him.
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Chapter 27
It's only Magic
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I do not claim any of JKR's characters only that I love being able to create my own kind of mischief with her beloved characters. I do not claim any other things that are owned by other companies that I may mention once and a while in the stories...Although the original characters and ideas are mine and I loved creating them. So please review if you wish but try not to flame me too badly.
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Cindra 2004-2008
