"Harry," Seamus said suddenly, "Try-outs are still today, right?"

"Try-outs?"

"For quidditch. Quidditch keeper, because…" Seamus indicated Ron.

"Oh, yeah. Yeah! Try-outs are today!"

"Oh, okay. Then I'll see you there."

"Alright. Great!"

Harry decided it was safe to let Ron back down again. He opened the diaper bag and got out a few toys, he set them on the ground and Ron immediately began to play with them.

"Good idea," Seamus said, following Harry's suit.

He set Lavender down and Ron looked at her with a quizzical expression, then began playing again.

"I guess they're alright," Harry sighed, "This is so stressful."

"Sometimes," Seamus agreed.

They looked down and watched the two for a bit. Ron and Lavender ignored eachother for a minute or two. Then they merged their toys (blocks) and began to help stack them.

"And just a few months ago Lavender wouldn't even look at Ron," Seamus said with a laugh.

"They probably don't remember anything."

"Well, duh."

Harry shrugged and they went back to work, gazing into the crystal ball. Eventually they got bored and went back to watching their babies stack the blocks. Once the blocks were gone Lavender knocked it over.

Both of them laughed.

"Boys, please get back to work!" Professor Trelawny barked.

Seamus and Harry went back to looking into the crystal ball. Finally professor Trelawny announce the end of class.

Seamus and Harry gathered up the blocks and Neville helped them get the babies to the bottom of the ladder.

"Thanks, Neville," Harry said, taking Ron back.

"No problem. Maybe I'll stop by tonight to watch try-outs."

"Alright. See you there."

Harry headed to his next class (Potions) when he met up with Hermione.

"How was the test?" He asked.

"Fabulous. I think I may have gotten number eleven 'C' wrong, though."

"Right."

"Harry!" someone called down the hall, "Harry, wait!"

Harry stopped walking and Parvati Patil ran up to him.

"What is it?" he asked in surprise.

"I was wondering if Ron was alright. I saw the accident," Parvati said.

"What accident?" Hermione asked.

"It was nothing," Harry assured both of them, "He's okay."

Hermione immediately took Ron from Harry and asked,

"What happened?"

"It's okay!" Harry exclaimed, "He's fine!"

The irritable cackling of Peeves was heard over head. The three teens and Ron looked up.

"What have we here?" Peeves cackled, "A pair of squabbling parents?"

"Go away, Peeves!" Harry shouted.

"But it's so entertaining," Peeves laughed.

"Go away!" Harry repeated angrily.

"Now that's not the kind of behavior you want your child to be watching, now is it?" Peeves asked.

Harry rolled his eyes and said to Hermione,

"Come on. We have to get to Potions."

Hermione followed him to the dungeons while Parvati headed down a different hallway. They could hear Peeves still laughing.

"What did happen, Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Lavender unbalanced the crystal ball and it rolled off the table, but I moved Ron out of the way. He's fine."

They arrived to Potions late, but Professor Slughorn said he would excuse them.

"Today we are working on a very difficult potion," he was saying, "We will be attempting to make the Polyjuice Potion, which takes a month. So it will be an elongated project."

He waved his wand and the instructions for that day appeared on the blackboard.

The door opened again and Seamus walked in, carrying Lavender.

"You are excused, Mr. Finnegan," Slughorn said passively.

"Thank's, Professor," Seamus said, walking over to Neville's table, which was next to Harry and Hermione's.

"So you may begin," Slughorn finished.

"I'll get the ingredients," Hermione said, handing Ron over to Harry.

"You're Mum's a bit uptight today," Harry said quietly to Ron, "Just because of that almost-accident. But you aren't hurt, are you? No you aren't."

"No?" Ron repeated.

Harry blinked.

"No," said Ron again, "No."

"Oh, great," Harry said, "Your first word had to be something that makes it easier for you to refuse."

Ron laughed.

"What's so funny?" Hermione asked, setting the ingredients down on the table.

Harry sat Ron down on the table and said,

"Nothing."

"Oh, okay," Hermione said, "So let's get started."

"Wait," Harry said, "We better occupy him or he'll get bored."

"Alright."

Next to them, Seamus had set Lavender on the floor with several toys. Harry did the same with Ron.

"Go play with your friend," Harry said to Ron, who just blinked as Harry set toys down on the ground.

When Harry straightened, Ron crawled over to Lavender, who was stacking blocks.

"Looks like he has a friend," Hermione commented.

"They were playing together in Divination."

"I see," Hermione said.

Harry and Hermione started their potions in silence. Occasionally glancing over to check on Ron, who was busily stacking then demolishing blocks with Lavender.

And suddenly they heard him start to cry. Hermione immediately rushed over and picked him up.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

Like he's gonna answer, Harry thought, rolling his eyes.

"Harry…" Hermione said, her voice shaking, "Harry, he's bleeding."

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Their fight is coming up soon. I promise.