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"Here goes nothing." She smiled before heading into the house.
Chapter 7
Hermione, Ginny, and Ron stepped into the entranceway. "Harry, you know I love you, but if you don't hurry up and tell us what's so great my stew is going to be ruined." They could hear Mrs. Weasley talking from inside the living room.
"This is worth it." Came Harry's response. The three in the hallway seemed to take that as their cue, and they boldly walked forward into the living room. When Hermione entered, she was immediately taken aback by the rush of red hair, dotted every so often with brown or blonde. When she entered, two glasses shattered to the floor, dropped by either Fred or George and Mr. Weasley.
"Hermione?" Bill, who was the closest to the door, whispered.
"Last time I checked." She replied. With those words, the whole room sprung to life. Mrs. Weasley ran the length of the room and enclosed Hermione in a huge hug. Charlie came and patted her several times on the back. The twins' faces cracked into identically evil smiles.
"Don't you dare give her anything." Ginny turned, very much like her mother, to Fred and George.
"Well keep them in check." A girl with Brown hair insured Ginny rounding on Fred. A second girl, Bearing red hair, rounded on George, nodding in agreement.
Hermione noticed through the arms and hugs, many of the renovations the burrow had been through. The old living room would not have been able to tolerate this many people, which looked to be at least 20. The walls were painted a soft yellow, and the fireplace had been redone, now baring tons of pictures of Babies and weddings, all the people waving at her as well, as if wanting to reach out and hug her too.
She was amazed by how different the Weasley family looked as well. Mrs. Weasley had gained some new worry lines around her eyes and her hair was streaked with lines of silver. Mr. Weasley's hair seemed as to threaten to come all off, and what hair he had left, was a light gray. His face also showed new worry lines and the definite aging of five years. Bill had cut his hair a bit, though still wore it back in a loose ponytail. He had lost his fang earring and His face looked much more fatherly. Charlie didn't look all that different, but he now sported a new shiny burn across his forehead, and a few laugh lines had formed around his mouth. Percy just appeared to have stressed himself out to the highest degree, and survived. He now sat smiling, his arm around Penelope Clearwater, who judging by the ring on her finger, was now Penelope Weasley. The Twins were still Identical to the last freckle. They seemed to have built some muscles and the once mischievous glint in their eyes, had now become slightly more parental, only slightly.
When she finally tore away from all the adults to make her way to the couch, she was bombarded by children. Being used to have children clinging to her legs from school, she expertly walked to the couch without hurting or losing a child. When she got to the couch, she scooped up one of the girls. She had flowing red hair and soft blue eyes.
"Are you our Aunt 'Mione?" she asked. Hermione nodded, and there was a ripple of smiles across all the kids' faces. "I'm Lindsay Marie Weasley. I'm 4 years old, and I'm sure to be your favorite niece." Her face broke into a wide smile, showing she had lost one of her baby teeth already.
"And who do you belong to?" Hermione asked.
"Mummy and Daddy." Lindsay replied. Behind her, Charlie and a brown haired woman Hermione didn't recognize raised their hands.
"I see" Hermione chuckled.
"This one's ours too." Charlie smiled, ruffling the red hair of a small boy. "He's Jon"
"I'm 2." Jon giggled, pushing his dads fingers out of his eyes.
"And this is my wife, Beth." Charlie replaced his arm around the brown haired woman.
"Please to meet you." Hermione extended her arm to shake hands with Beth.
"My turn, my turn" A small boy with Red hair and dark green eyes was struggling to pull himself onto the over stuffed couch. Hermione helped pull the boy up, and once he was firmly on the couch, he turned to Hermione. "I'm Jason. I'm three and my daddy tells me that I'm the smartest 3-year-old wizard to ever walk the earth. I can already," He leaned in as if to tell Hermione a secret, " times 5 by 5, in my head." He pointed to his forehead to emphasize his point.
"Would this be a Percy child?" Hermione asked the smiling group.
"No, our Dad is Percy." Hermione smiled at the two girls that had spoken. Their hair fell right to their shoulders and their eyes were such a crystal blue that it almost made Hermione's eyes hurt. Like the Weasley twins of the last Generation, they seem identical to the last freckle.
"I'm Cheryl." The girl on the right said, at the exact same time that the girl on the left said "I'm Sydney." Everyone laughed.
"Don't worry Hermione, They are the daughters of a head boy and girl. There much nicer than us." Fred smiled.
"So, who do you belong to?" Hermione turned back to Jason.
"Daddy's adult name is Bill, and Mum's name is Fleur, and then there's baby."
"Who is baby?" Hermione asked innocently.
"There's baby." Jason pointed over to a woman that Hermione hadn't seen when she entered the room. She now recognized the woman to be a very pregnant Fleur Delacour, who she assumed was now Fleur Weasley. Hermione smiled and waved to Fleur, who waved back.
"I see." Looking around, Hermione's eyes fell on the only two children left standing in next to the couch. They both had brown hair, with highlights of Red. One of them was very tan and the other was the classic Weasley pale with loads of freckles dotting his nose. They both had Hazel Green eyes. "I'm Benny," the darker skinned of the two spoke up, "And this is Harry."
"They are your worst nightmare." Said the brown haired girl that had rounded on Fred earlier.
"Angelina!" Hermione smiled.
"They learned from their fathers so watch out." Angelina smiled.
"I'm Martha, by the way." The Red haired woman who had rounded on George earlier, using one arm to support a girl sitting on her hip, offer her other hand to Hermione. Shaking hands with Martha, Hermione smiled at the young girl, whose ears properly went pink and she hid her face behind her mothers back, so all Hermione could see was red hair. "This is Brooke." Martha smiled pouncing her hip a little trying to get the girl to reveal her face, "She's only one and a little shy."
"But that's okay." Harry spoke up, "Cause she's my little sister and she'll be just like me in no time."
"That's what we are afraid of son." George scooped Harry into his arms.
"Hermione Dear, you must simply must tell us what you have been doing over the past few years." Mrs. Weasley smiled. Hermione breathed in, and began to speak about the last five years of her life.
Hermione smiled at the people around her. The Entire family had piled into the gardens, which had been trimmed up a bit, but were nowhere near perfect, for dinner a couple of hours ago. The adults were still sitting around the table, some eating, but mostly just talking. The children were running around chasing gnomes that were appearing in the garden. Hermione turned back to Mr. Weasley and resumed trying to explain how a CD Player worked.
"Simply Ingenious." Mr. Weasley smiled, "So these lasers read the music that's written on the bottom of the DC."
"CD, and not quite." Harry laughed from the other side of Mr. Weasley. Hermione let Harry take over the explanation. Now Charlie and Fred had left the table and were taking turns throwing the kids softly in the air a catching them. Hermione rose from the table and headed back inside the house.
Almost the second she stepped into the house, she was barreled down by children running in behind her.
"She went in! She went in! Movie Time!" The children where cheering.
"Now look what you've done." Ron teased coming into the kitchen and helping Hermione up.
"What did I do?" Hermione looked confused.
"The kids always want to watch a movie after dinner, and used to annoy the heck out of us until we caved and started a movie. We finally had to set up a rule that once an adult went inside they could watch a movie. Not your fault you didn't know." Ron smiled; absent-mindedly dust the dirt off Hermione's shoulders and back.
"What kind of movies?" Hermione asked.
"Oh, you'll see." Ron led Hermione into the living room where Harry had magically produced a screen.
"Okay guys, ready to see the movie." Harry smiled, bringing the group to attention. Hermione and Ron sat on the couch as the lights went out and on the screen show a white light. Seconds later, that light turned into a picture, a girl in the middle with two boys on either side of her, Harry, Ron, and Hermione. They were all smiling and waving as the picture panned out to show Hogwarts. In Green, cursive letters wrote across the center of the screen "Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets." Hermione watched as her 12-year-old self acted out the important scenes of the second year. Just as the rocks collapsed in the passageway to the chamber, a scream came from the kitchen. Hermione, Ron, Harry, and Ginny, who had all been watching the movie with the kids, ran into the kitchen to see what was the matter. "Ron!" Mrs. Weasley called before they had even reached the door. "Floo St. Mungo's. Fleur's gone into Labor, this child might have to be born right here. Don't let the children come in here." Ron turned on his heel and headed straight to the fireplace. Hermione also turned, but this time scooped Jason in to her arms.
"Mummy!" Jason called trying to fight out of Hermione's hands to reach the kitchen. Harry and Ginny were collecting the other kids.
"Upstairs, now, into Aunt Ginny's room, come on now." Harry was rounding the children up the stairs. Hermione followed behind, a screaming Jason now in her arms, crying and kicking.
"It'll be okay, It's just that its not pretty to see a baby being born, they want you to see the baby all sparkly and clean when you first see it, so they'll have to wash it first." Hermione was whispering to Jason as she carried him up the stairs. When they were all inside Ginny's old room. Harry reformed the screen and started the movie where they had left off. When the movie had started again, Jason began to settle down. Hermione placed him back down on the ground as he started pacing the length of the room, back and forth. About an hour later, the other kids had moved on to a thrilling show of Ron's first official Quidditch match with the Cannons, Jason finally decided to sit down. Sitting next to Hermione, he sighed, looking very much older than a three year old. Hermione patted her lap and Jason rested his head on her lap, his face turned toward the Quidditch match. Hermione ran her hand through his hair, gently combing out the knots. A few minutes later, Jason's breathing evened out, and Hermione knew he had fallen asleep.
After Jason had been a sleep for about an hour and a half, the door to Ginny's room opened and a very tired looking Bill stepped into the room, smiling. He scanned the room and found Jason asleep on Hermione's lap. Giving Hermione the thumbs up, he bent over and shook Jason softly.
"Wanna come meet you new baby sister?" Bill smiled. Jason shook his head and stood up, taking his fathers hand. Hermione followed them down and stood next to Ron went the entered the kitchen. "Here we go." Bill lifted Jason onto the kitchen table that had been made into a bed for Fleur, Blankets, pillows, and everything. Hermione smiled as Jason hovered over the little girl with light blonde fuzz covering her little head. "Meet you're lovely sister. Jennifer Hermione Weasley." Bill looked up from his family and met eyes with Hermione, who smiled back, looking at the scene with tears in her eyes.
"September 30," Mrs. Weasley smiled, "The day both Hermione's entered our lives for good."
Okay, So, I know that it's a bit shorter than what I usually write, but I thought this was a good stopping point and didn't want to get in on a new topic, yet. But a new chapter will be coming soon so…Happy faces :-)
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