Choices

Choice fifty: Lily

Nine months isn't as long as it seems, when I was in Hogwarts I thought that the terms were long but in actual fact they weren't. Time has a way of dragging at points and speeding by at others. I thought that the nine months of pregnancy went fast, James doesn't agree. I think the labour was very long, James doesn't. But it doesn't matter now that we have our son.

I have a son and he's so gorgeous, but he's still baby Potter at the moment, we have no name for him. We have been thinking we weren't ideal during the pregnancy but everyone has something to say about the names.

I liked Tom but then I found out that is Voldemorts real name so that one went, Edward, James' dad likes Ben but that reminds me of that muggle bear so that's a no. Then James wanted to call him James junior but that one was quickly shot down.

Then Peter thought that maybe we should call him Godric, since we were Gryffindors in school and we live in Godrics hollow but neither James nor I liked it. Sirius thought maybe he could be Sirius the second but can you imagine two Sirius' that will not be happening.

Remus thought maybe we should call him either Edward or Ryan after his grandfathers but I don't want to name him after my father because that would be a connection to Lily Evans' and she's gone with all her bad ways. Then Scarlett thought maybe William.

There were so many names flying around I didn't know what we should call him, it's a real pain. But then it came to us, or I should say me. You see I was in the muggle world when I went into labour and got taken to Hastings hospital.

Well I thought about it while I was there and the battle of Hastings came to mind, don't ask me why because it's a muggle thing, maybe its because I was reading a book on it in the hospital when Sirius and James were playing with the baby.

Harold was killed at the battle and the name Harold is quite sweet I rather liked it and told James I wanted to call our son Harold. He didn't like it and refused to agree to the name so still baby Potter.

Well I carried on calling the baby Harold and James was calling him James, and of course Sirius was calling the baby Sirius. I swear we really couldn't come up with a name and then it was about two weeks after we'd had the baby and we at home and Sirius walked in and for the first time didn't call the baby Sirius, but Harry.

When he said it the baby looked at him and waved I couldn't believe it the baby was responding to the name Harry. James wasn't happy and asked why he had called the baby that and Sirius just looked at us smiling and said it was short for Harold.

Well the more we thought of it the more it grew on us, Harry Potter, no Harry James Potter. Yes that was what we finally named our son, I know it's a weird way to do it but we wanted everyone's input and it was a good choice otherwise Merlin knows what we would have called him.

Okay so just thought I'd let you know some good news; I'm only in Uni for six hours a week, yeah that serious. So for the time being the posting is going to be on Mondays and Thursdays but I haven't had my new rotas for work yet, so that might still change since it looks like I'm going to be working at least two weekdays.