It's been ages since I updated this, swamped by coursework but here is the chapter, enjoy all


Expensive Tots

"And I want a sparkly pink flower dress with shoes that make noises when walk, erm I want a pony in the colour pink…" Pansy said as she sat on the floor, Hermione putting on her shrunken school shoes.

"Well I'm awfully sorry Miss Parkinson but you won't be getting all that, you will just have to wait and see what we get you," she told the raven haired girl pulling her to her feet.

"No fair," she wined.

It was half past 9 that Saturday morning, Harry and Hermione were going to Diagon Alley to purchase the three toddlers some clothes and toys. They were in desperate need as both Hermione and especially Harry were going to run out of clothes quickly if they continued to shrink down all of theirs.

"Draco have you had your medicine," Harry asked from across the room and the blonde nodded his head looking shiftily at Hermione. Harry also looked at Hermione, "have you given him it," she shook her head and he looked back at Draco. "C'mon you've got to take it to make you all better," Harry told him.

"Draco doesn't feel poorly," he said frowning placing the back of his hand on his forehead.

"I know you don't feel poorly but if you don't take it you'll be in big trouble when you become a big boy," Harry told the confused child. Sighing Draco followed Harry to take the tablet still confused.

"Blaise have you got everything you want before you go?" the Italian nodded and sat chewing on the other ear of his teddy bear. Smiling, she asked Pansy the same question who also nodded happily playing with sparkles. She waited for Harry to return with Draco before she rounded the three up and took them to Professor Snape's quarters.

He had agreed to take the three toddlers while Harry and Hermione went to Diagon Alley, Hermione wondered if he knew what he had put himself into but decided not to inform him of that.

"We're all ready to go," Harry announced with Draco in toe, his face scrunched up in discussed.

Hermione took hold of Blaise and Pansy's hand the three followed Harry and Draco down the corridor making sure they had left nothing behind. The three toddlers skipped down the corridor as Hermione caught up with Harry, they walked in silence casually guiding the three children in what direction to go. Once they reached the dungeons they stopped and waited for Harry and Hermione to catch up. Together the five walked down the stairs and towards Snape's classroom. Harry knocked on the door waiting for it to open or to be called inside. The door however was opened by Professor Snape who did not look happy; he moved a side to allow the three children in.

"So Miss Granger and Mr Potter how long are you going to be?" he snarled.

"A few hours Sir we need to get them enough clothes to fit them, thank you for keeping an eye on them," Snape huffed and stepped back to let them say good bye to the toddlers.

"Now the three of you behave, if I hear you've been naughty we'll take all your toys back," Hermione warned them before giving them a large hug each.

They left Professor Snape's quarters and then headed towards Professor Dumbledore's office so they could travel to Fred and George's flat above their shop by Floo Powder. Hermione said the password so the wall would slide away and they were able to head up the spiralled staircase to the Headmasters office.

"Good Morning Sir," Harry greeted as he opened the door to the office.

"Morning Miss Granger, Mr Potter is you ready to head on over to Diagon Alley?"

"We are Professor, we'll be arriving back from Fred and George's we won't be too long maybe a couple of hours,"

"Are very good, I wouldn't expect Severus to last too long with the three toddlers," Harry and Hermione laughed but silently agreed. They bid farewell to the Professor and both said Weasley Twin's flat, separately they vanished from the Headmasters office.

They arrived in the twins flat and made their way down the staircase into the shop, the business was booming with adults all around, seeing as all students were at Hogwarts they were rather surprised with how busy it was.

"Well good morning you two, now why you aloud out of Hogwarts in school time, what have you been up too,"

"Hello George and we've got permission from the headmaster to go buy some items." Hermione told him smirking when she saw his shocked face.

"You Granger and one of the only people that know which twin is which, how do you know?" He said flabbergasted and confused.

"That is my secret George so where is Fred?"

"I'll find out one day," he mumbled. "And Fred is on the shop floor. So what are you buying?"

"Can you keep a secret?" Harry asked him looking around to see if anyone was nearby.

"If I can tell Fred then yes,"

"Well if Fred can keep it I'll tell you," George thought for a second before nodding. "There was a potions accident in Potions yesterday and Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini and Pansy Parkinson were hit by the potion and have been transformed in to toddlers and we have been told to look after them but they need clothes toys and other stuff,"

George stood still and silent for a few moments before bursting out in to laughter. "Well I say that is unlucky, how's life with Slytherin toddlers?"

"Very surprising actually, Blaise Zabini is nothing like he is older, he is such a cutie, Draco has his moments but is relatively alright and Pansy is a bossy and prissy but has her sweet moments. She's easy to dress too just buy pretty pink things." Hermione told him laughing a little.

"If it's alright with you two Fred and I will come over sometime we'll let you know in advance and that," George told them.

"Sure thing but don't leave anything that can hurt them I don't fancy having to face an angry Lucius Malfoy." Harry warned him cringing slightly.

"Yeah don't worry we won't bring owt dangerous." he told them but they were still a little cautious.

"Well George we best get off got a lot of shopping to do, we'll be back in a few hours and thank you for allowing us to use your floo network," Hermione said.

"No trouble at all," he said smiling walking down the stairs with them. They waved at Fred who was with a customer before leaving the store.

"So where first?" Harry asked Hermione.

"Well first things first we need things such as nappies and baby stuff, so Eleanor Ridgley's Baby Occasions near the Gringotts bank," she suggested, Harry agreed and the two Gryffindors walked past the apothecary and straight to the shop, walking in they were greeted with screaming babies on either side of the shop. Eleanor Ridgley was an old woman who had, had 17 children in her 60 years of life and was an expert when it came to raising them. They headed straight to the magical nappy section where there were nappies with different pictures on them that moved.

"How many should we purchase?"

"Well Blaise is nearly off them altogether but I have a feeling the other two will need an awful lot." Hermione told him collecting a pack of 12 for Blaise with a teddy bear picnic on them. For Draco they took 5 packs of 12 with Dragons roaring on them and same amount for Pansy but unicorns galloping around them. They purchased a few other belongings before taking them to the till.

The lady looked at them both strangely but took the nappies off them to pay. Hermione and Harry could tell she knew who they were but didn't understand why she was looking at them strangely. Paying for the products they thanked the lady before they left the store not seeing her write a quick note and placing it on an owl that flew out of the window.

They then headed towards the clothes shop two shops down and decided to start with the boys. They headed to the boy section and were greeted with greens blues and reds in many different shades and styles.

"Right pick up 10 different pairs of pants for Draco and Blaise and then ten tops, they'll then need 20 pairs of socks two pairs of pyjamas 10 vests to keep them warm. We'll say 20 pairs of underwear in case they've wet themselves throughout the day. Three different pairs of shoes; a pair of trainers they can play around in, something comfortable and then a pair of slippers. Finally they'll need a dressing gown some jumpers and two coats one for cold weather and one for warmer weather."

"I didn't know children needed so many clothes" Harry wined picking up a buttoned shirt. "What do you think to this?"

"I like it is there any more but in a different colour I think it'll be easier to get 10 tops but have them in two different colours." Hermione said as she picked up packs of underwear smirking as she could see the teenage Draco Malfoy in them before the smirk turned to alarm when the vision changed to him smirking with a large bulge in them. Shaking her head with a small blush on her face she checked to see if a Harry had noticed and turned to socks which she decided were much safer.

"This would have been so much easier if they were here to try them on," Harry groaned as he looked at top debating whether it was too big or the right size.

"It would but we can't risk bringing them out for people to notice can you imagine the stir that would bring and do you really want Pansy in a clothes shop with you?" Harry thought before shaking his head glad she wasn't there to demand everything in the store.

They continued to look for boys clothes, Harry had 18 out of 20 t-shirts that they were going to purchase and a pair of pyjamas. It was then when he spotted the duck slippers on the bottom shelf bending down he smirked as he saw them.

"Oi Mione. What about these for Blaise?" she looked at the slippers in Harry's hand and almost burst out laughing, she could imagine Blaise wearing those.

"I think so. What have you got so far I've got 20 pairs of underwear each, same with socks, I've got all the vest, coats, and two dressing gowns."

"I've one pair of pyjamas, 18 tops and now a pair of slippers. All we need are trousers another 3 pairs of pyjamas and a pair of slippers and then the other pairs of shoes and then we're done for the boys."

"Okay, once we've got all these sorted we'll pay for the boys and send them back to Hogwarts and then start on Pansy's stuff." Hermione said as she looked at a pair of black trainers. After leaving the baby occasions store Hermione had used magic to send the belongings back to their dorm in Hogwarts.

Rummaging through more shelves and rails of clothes they collected three more pairs of pyjamas all of the trousers and the jumpers that had forgotten earlier."

"Harry I don't know what shoes to get them, do you think I should get them these they're similar to the pumps we have in the Muggle world?"

"Yeah why not, get a bit of Muggle in them," he joked as he took hold of the grey and black pumps. "Do we have everything now?"

"Yeah I think we have enough," she said as Harry took all the boys clothes to the cashier. While Harry paid for the boy's things she started on Pansy's clothing. She picked out the underwear first, which included knickers, socks, tights and vests. Happy with the amount she picked three dresses and then Harry returned.

"I've sorted the underwear and the dresses. I need you to get me some cardigans and some colourful tops in; pink, purple or yellow." She told him.

Harry nodded and Hermione picked up two coats and a pair of denim dungarees, which she could imagine Pansy liking with a pink top underneath. Five minutes later they had chosen everything but the slippers.

"Well I think she'll like the pink ones with flowers on," Harry said sighing as Hermione pulled a face at them.

"I'm not sure I think they look a little daft," she admitted.

"Hermione she will not fit in them for ever it doesn't matter."

"I still don't know," she looked at them for another minute before sighing and taking them to the till with all the other clothes.

When all the clothes were bought Hermione and Harry left the shop leaving a happy worker behind as they had spent a fortune.

"I can now see why many of the Weasley's had hand-me-downs have you seen how much we both spent in that shop."

"I daren't even think I'm just glad it is not our money. Silly question Mione but do we still have enough for the other stuff?"

"Yeah we have plenty but I'm still a little surprised we probably picked the most expensive children's clothes store going in Diagon Alley."

The next shop on their travels was the toy store, it rivalled Fred and George's store but the toys in it were much more suited for children. They shopped in their for 20 minutes eventually leaving with board games, few more teddies some dolls and some cars. That Harry would teach the boys about and play with them. There were a few other toys like a jack-in-the-box and a spinning top. The final stop was the book store, were Harry was certain that he should have not let Hermione go into.

"Where getting children's books and then we are out, do you understand Hermione?" she rolled her eyes ignoring how he talked.

"I want a mixture of Muggle and Wizarding books to read to them." Harry rolled his eyes and went to the Muggle section while Hermione went to Wizarding side. They scrolled the shelves and when they left the store they had double the amount of Muggle books than Wizarding.

They arrived back at the twins joke shop at quarter to 2 with much lighter pockets. The shop was much quieter than when they had left and the twins were stood whispering at the counter. They walked on over to them as Fred looked at them surprised.

"So is it true Malfoy, Zabini and Parkinson are little tots at the moment,"

"Yep, expensive ones as well," Harry said tired, "don't ever let me have children they're way too expensive."

"Speaking of having children, Bill sent us a letter about an hour ago and I'm assuming he sent one to Ron and Ginny, but he has announced that Fleur is expecting. I daren't go over to the burrow mum will be off her rocker." He said shaking his head.

"Fred that is brilliant news, you're going to be an Uncle I bet Bill can't wait now," said Hermione happily.

"Good job Fleur's rich it'll cost them a fortune," Harry said shaking his head.

"And knowing what Fleur is like she'll want nearly everything for the baby god bless Bill that is all I say," George said chuckling as Hermione rolled her eyes at them all.

"I think it is excellent news and I can't wait to meet him or her," she told them.

"Well you're a girl of course you'll be excited it's what girls do when they hear about babies," George said in a know it all tone of voice.

"Well speaking of children we have three children we have to get back too and I dread to think how Snape is coping right now," Harry said shaking his head imagining his Potions teacher dead on the floor, crime being death by hyper toddlers.

"Snape, you didn't leave them with the old bat did you, it's your fault if they turn into mini vampires trying to suck your blood when you are asleep." Fred told them enthusing the point.

"Oh do be quite," Hermione told them heading towards the door that lead to the stairs.

"Well nice seeing you, we'll be around sometime see you later," the twins cried together.

"See you later,"

"Bye,"

They headed into the flat and stood in the floo reappearing in the Headmaster's office.

"Welcome back children, did you get everything you wished for?"

"We did Sir; it is all in our quarters. I think it'd be a good idea if we go and rescue Professor Snape now though."

"I believe that would be a good idea my child,"


The chapter plot I think is alright but I'm not sure on how it has been written but oh well hope you enjoyed and please review :)