Chapter 23: Changes
The week progressed quickly until Thursday came around. The potter twins had potions. It was a class to remember.
The Slytherins had informed the Dark Lord of the new development and received instructions to either kill one or both of the boys or bring one or both to him. The Slytherins had made a plan. It was too difficult to do anything to either of them if they were fully aware and always surrounded by teachers and aurors so they had thought of a plan.
"Potter! Pay attention to what you are doing! It is a miracle that you managed to get an O for potions when you can't even manage a simple mind clearing potion. 10 points from Gryffindor." Snape yelled at Harry who rolled his eyes when Snape turned his back.
Snape continued to prowl as the Slytherins snickered. Draco, Ron, and Harry were the only Gryffindors stupid enough to get into potions. There was one Hufflepuff, Ernie, and one or two Ravenclaws. The rest of the class was made up of Slytherins.
Snape was furious that not only did he have one potter in his class but both. This made for an even crankier Snape (which was not good for the Gryffindors).
No one seemed to notice one of the Slytherins slipping a chocolate frog into each of the twins' pockets. Class ended with Gryffindor only loosing thirty points (a miracle in itself). The three boys headed towards dinner.
Ron told them he was going to meet Hermione and ran off.
"I'm so hungry." Draco mumbled as he searched his pockets for anything to snack on. Harry began searching his pockets as well to see if he had anything to give Draco.
Draco and Harry pulled out the chocolate frogs and began munching on them on the way to the Great Hall.
They sat to eat next to Dean, Semus, and Neville while they ate. (Ron and Hermione were still missing). They chatted about how their classes for the day went and were soon joined by Ron and Hermione. Draco stood to leave, claiming to have work to research, and paused.
"What's wrong Draco?" Hermione asked.
"I don't know, I just feel weird all of a sudden." Draco mumbled struggling to refind his seat. Harry was now looking noticibly pale as well.
"I don't feel good either. Maybe it was those chocolate frogs on an empty stomach. I'm going to go to the hospital wing. Coming with me Draco?" Harry asked as he stood and stumbled towards the door.
Just then both Potters were encompassed in a bright light. Then a scream was heard.
"What the-?"
"Where did they go?"
"What happened to them?"
(You don't know how tempting it was to end it here)
Whaaaaa!!!!
The cry broke through one of the piles of robes. "Mama?" came the call from the other.
McGonagall went over to investigate what had happened. Just as she reached the pile of robes, a head popped up. It was Harry without a doubt, just smaller and scared.
"Hi there little one." She greeted kindly gesturing for the Gryffindors to retrieve Draco.
Hermione put a shrinking charm on Draco's robes so they would fit him and picked him up.
"Where mama?" he asked her as she picked him up.
Hermione was speechless. She couldn't tell him the truth. "Mama's not here Draco. We are going to take care of you for a bit. Is that Ok?" she asked the small boy.
Draco seemed to think a bit. "Can I have candy?" he asked simply.
"If you're good." Hermione replied easily.
"Ok then." Draco grinned at the prospect of sweets.
Harry on the other hand wasn't as easy to convince. "Harry, if you will just come out from under the table I'll let you play with some toys."
"I not allowed." Harry stated looking at the lady in the weird clothes then around to see if the Dursleys would pop out and throw him in the cupboard for wandering off.
"Your aunt and uncle aren't here little one. I'll let you play with toys and you don't ever have to go back to them." McGonagall was shocked at the boys response but continued to try and convince the boy to come out from where he was hiding under Gryffindor table.
The boy seemed to think about it. "Scawy." He stated past the hand he had taken to chewing on in fright.
"No one will hurt you little one. I will make sure of it." Draco seemed to be studying the other boy.
Soon he began to struggle to get down. "Down." He told the bushy haired girl.
Hermione complied and Draco went to look under the table.
"Hi." He cheerily greeted Harry.
Harry looked at the boy for a bit. "Who you?" he asked taking his hand out of his mouth.
"Dwaco. Lady said I cowd have candy. Want?"
"I not allowed. I bad." Harry edged closer to Draco nonetheless.
"Lady said Mama not here. Where you Mama?" Draco was confused about where they were and why the little boy was so afraid.
"She no want me. I wiv with Aunty, Unky, and Dudy. Aunty says I a bad boy. That why mommy and daddy no want me and no candy and no toys."
McGonagall was watching quietly now as the two boys talked.
In fact, everyone was.
Hermione now knelt down to look at the two boys. She held out her hand to Harry and Draco. Draco looked at Harry and grabbed his hand. "Come." He said as he took Hermione's hand.
Hermione picked up both boy and carried them to the headmaster. Harry started clinging to her when he saw all the students around, all staring at him.
"Well what are we going to do with you two? This won't do at all." Dumbledore offered both boys a lollipop. Draco greedily accepted but Harry just buried his face in Hermione's chest.
McGonagall looked at the students in the Great Hall. "If you are through eating you may proceed to your dormitories." She stated taking action.
The students grumbled and headed off with the exception of the Ron who went to see the two infants. By now, Remus and Tonks had joined them.
Harry was staring at Remus in concentration for a minute or two before yelling, "Moony!" and jumping towards the man.
"Its amazing that he remembers you." Dumbledore commented at the werewolf who was now holding the bouncing toddler.
Tonks was trying to keep from laughing as the boy clung tightly to the only person he knew. "Where Pafud?" he asked quietly wanting to play with the man.
Tears filled Remus' eyes at the mention of Sirius. "He's not here Harry. He's not here."
The boy looked at him. "Did Pafud go 'way cause I bad too? Will you go 'way?" Harry looked at the man.
Remus sat Harry on the floor and sat in front of him. "You aren't a bad boy Harry. You are a good boy. Padfoot isn't here because he can't be."
"Why mommy and daddy gone if I not bad?"
"Mommy and Daddy loved you very much. They didn't leave because you were bad, they left because bad people hurt them so much. They went somewhere where they wouldn't hurt anymore. They wanted to stay with you but they couldn't. You are a good boy, Harry." Remus hugged the boy.
"Will you go 'way too?" Harry asked clinging to the man.
"No Harry. I won't. I will be there for you." Harry Smiled at this and snuggled into the man's arms trustingly.
Dumbledore looked at Remus. "I guess you can watch them while they are small." He addressed the main issue.
"I'm sorry sir, but I can't. It's a full moon tonight and that will leave me weak for a few days. I will be in no shape to watch one much less two toddlers." Remus looked sad at the fact but he refused to endanger the two boys.
"Ok then who will volunteer to watch them?" Dumbledore asked the group.
"I will watch them when I'm not in class professor. They could stay with me in Gryffindor tower where its harder for them to run off, but I don't know what I would do with them when I was in class."
They debated for a while on who would watch the two kids. Eventually it was decided that Hermione and Ron would watch them during the evenings and at meal times (whenever they weren't in class) and the staff would take turns watching them during class. Dumbledore would take the boys for at least one class a day so that everyone could have a break.
With that Dumbledore conjured up some baby stuff and vanished it into Gryffindor Tower. They would decide where to keep the boys in the dormitories.
Ron took Harry from Remus. Harry immediately began to cry. Remus put his finger on his mouth to quiet the boy. "Harry you are going to go with Ron. I'll see you in the morning, I promise. He won't hurt you. He has toys you can play with."
Harry looked at the man with a sad face. "Pwomise?" he asked still trying to reach the man.
"I promise. I will see you tomorrow. Now be good." Remus kissed the boy on the forehead before heading to his office where his last dose of wolfsbane waited as well as a lonely night.
"So you guys want to go play?" Herrmione asked the two boys.
A/N: You can tell what kind of stories I'm reading too many of. Oh well you can deal with the new twist. Now then what the Slytherins are going to do, I'm not sure you can handle that, because I'm not too sure what it will be anyway.