"I told you it was a bad idea," Hermione said, struggling to keep a squirming Ron from climbing out of her arms.
"Let me hold him, then," Harry offered, taking Ron from her, "Jesus…maybe I shouldn't have given you sugar."
"Dada!" Lavender cried, "Want tandy, too!"
"We didn't get you any," Seamus said patiently, "And I don't think your mother would approve."
"Tandy now!"
"No."
"Want tandy!"
Harry watched them arguing. Already Lavender was able to carry on a conversation…an argument, no less. Hermione noticed the look on Harry's face an offered him a smile. He smiled emptily back.
"Would you stop wiggling so much?" he asked Ron, who replied moments later, saying,
"No."
"Fine, you can walk, then," Harry said.
"Does he know how to walk?" Parvati asked in shock.
"No," Harry said.
"No," Ron repeated, laughing.
Harry set Ron down on the ground.
"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed.
"What?" Harry asked, "He's on grass…it won't hurt him."
Ron looked stunned. But then he laughed again and began to crawl back over to Harry, who backed away.
"Maybe we should take a small break," Hermione said, sitting down on the grass, "Just play with him a while…all the time at school we're just working!"
"Don't even say the word 'work'!" Seamus exclaimed, falling back onto the grass, "Seventh year is so hard, especially with a baby topping it all off."
"Yeah, and they don't have to work at all!" added Harry.
"But imagine all the make-up work they'll have to do," pointed out Hermione.
"Oh, wow," Parvati said with a laugh, setting Lavender on the ground, "That's going to be a lot."
Hermione nodded, setting out some toys on the ground. Ron and Lavender both crawled after the toys. All the teens sat and watched Ron and Lavender play, listening to them talk in their language that the older one couldn't understand, but the babies seemed to.
"Isn't it weird?" Hermione suddenly asked, startling them all.
"What weird?" Seamus asked.
"That you used to talk like that. You don't understand it now, but you understood it when you were a baby," said Hermione.
"Yeah," Harry said, "It is weird."
Parvati nodded, looking like she had no idea what anyone just said. Harry began listening to Ron and Lavender closer. They were talking quietly and it was slightly hard to tell what they were saying.
Gry bah tally by by.
Ja my toll prah.
"Whoa," Harry said, blinking.
"What?" Hermione asked.
"I sort of just felt like I understood what they said!" exclaimed Harry, making Ron and Lavender give him "you're crazy" looks.
"Sure," Seamus said, laughing, "What'd they say?"
"I don't know," Harry said, "I just remember those words…."
Then he laughed at how crazy that sounded. Seamus, Hermione, and Parvati laughed, too.
They returned to the castle two hours later. They ate dinner and then went to the common room, where they found a sign posted, saying:
Next Extra Credits class this coming Wednesday!
yes, science, ew.