(Disclaimer: The world of Harry Potter does not belong to me. It is all the creation of the wonderful J.K. Rowling and I take no credit for inventing these characters.)
Four months later, Harry and Ginny were planning a trip to London to visit St. Mungo's. They had it planned that they would drop the kids off at Grandma's house, then proceed to London.
Harry thought this trip to St. Mungo's was very necessary; Ginny looked kind of big for only being four months in. He wasn't panicking though…he simply thought the baby might be bigger than usual or that Ginny was a little off on her due date.
Together, they walked through St. Mungo's to the front desk to check in.
"Your Healer will see you in a minute," the receptionist said in a bored voice.
Harry and Ginny had barely sat down in the reception area when someone called their name.
"Ginerva Potter?" the voice cried out.
With Harry's help, Ginny rose again and the followed the Healer to the maternity wing. Once there, Harry ushered Ginny into a big, over-stuffed chair that Ginny was sure she wasn't going to be able to get back out of.
"So," said the Healer, grabbing a clipboard. "About how far along are you?"
"Just over four months," said Ginny. The Healer looked at her as she didn't believe Ginny.
"OK. Well, have you been here before? Have you been through the process before?"
"Many a time," Ginny responded.
"So then you know the procedure here at St. Mungo's?" the Healer said, taking notes on her clipboard.
"Yes," said Ginny, who did indeed know exactly how this worked. The Healer just performs a few simple charms to make sure that the baby is healthy. Having gone through this procedure four times before, both Harry and Ginny were ready for the tests.
The Healer quickly busied herself performing the charms while Harry and Ginny waited. "The results should come in a few minutes," the Healer said reassuringly. And, sure, enough, no more than two minutes later, a long piece of parchment appeared out of thin air with a faint popping noise. The Healer grabbed the paper and started to review it. "Oh my," she said.
"What is it?" Ginny asked a bit anxiously.
"Is the baby alright?" asked Harry, squeezing his wife's hand just a little tighter.
"No, no. I'm sorry; I didn't mean to alarm you. The babies are just fine."
Both Harry and Ginny let out a sigh of relief then stopped. "Did…did you just say 'babies'?" Ginny asked, her voice shaking a little.
"Why, yes, I did. Congratulations. You are having twins," the Healer said, handing the report to Ginny. Harry read it over her shoulder. "That's why it's so long. Two reports, for two babies."
Ginny looked on the verge of tears. "I'm…I'm having twins," she said, with a faint smile. She still wasn't sure whether or not this was a dream. But she knew it wasn't. She was expecting twins.
Harry turned and hugged her tight. "Everything's going to be just fine," he said, reading her face. "There's nothing to worry about. Twins just means double the love."
"Or double the trouble," Ginny said, thinking of Fred and George. They thanked the Healer and left to go pick up their children.
When they Apparated back to the Burrow, they heard little feet running to greet them. To both Harry and Ginny's surprise, little Hailey turned the corner and ran up to them. Apparently, she had come running at the sound of her parents' Apparation and Molly had to come running after her.
"Oh good, you're back. How did it go?"
"Oh, everything is fine," Harry said.
"That's great. I thought something might have been wrong. You look as big as I did when I was pregnant with Fred and…" she trailed off, a look of realization coming over her face. She gave Ginny a questioning looks and Ginny just nodded her head.
"Well, the reason I look that big is because I am having twins." It felt so weird to her to say that.
Molly has an awed look on her face as a silent tear rolled down her cheek. She just grabbed hold of Ginny as if she never wanted to let go of her.
"Mummy! Daddy! You're bak!" Zoey said, running up to her parents as though she had never seen them before. Harry grabbed her and started to tickle her. Zoey started to giggle and squeal uncontrollably.
"Where are your brothers?" Ginny asked her.
"Dey're in dere," she said, pointing to the sitting room.
"Come on. Your mummy and I have something to tell you all." They all walked into the sitting room where Brad and Scott were building a card house out of Exploding Snap cards. When they walked in, the card house went up in flames and Brad and Scott let out sighs of disappointment (Harry could have sworn he heard Brad utter an offensive word). Then they turned toward the threshold.
"Oh you're back!" Brad said. "We didn't here you Apparate."
"Too immersed in your card game, huh?" Ginny said gesturing toward what was now a pile of smoldering ash.
"How'd it go at St. Mungo's?" Scott asked his parents, sitting in a big arm chair. Brad went and sat on the plush rug in front of the arm chair and Zoey ran up to sit in his lap. Molly walked into the room, holding Hailey.
"Well," started Harry. Why was he nervous about this? "You know how we told you your mum was pregnant? Well, it turns out she's having twins."
"Ooh! You mean lik Uncle Fwed and Uncle Gorge?" Zoey squealed out.
"Yes. Just like Fred and George." Ginny said, placing a hand gracefully on her stomach.
"Are they going to look alike, like Uncle Fred and Uncle George do?" Brad asked.
"Well, we don't know," Harry said. They seemed to be taking this very well. "We'd have to wait until they were born to find out."
"Do you know if they're going to be girls or boys…or both?" Scott asked the question this time.
"Well, your mum and I decided to let it be a surprise. Besides, it's a little too early to tell." Harry said.
"Ginny turned around to look at the grandfather clock just as it chimed three. "Goodness! Is that the time already? Where did the day go? Well, we'd better get home. Thanks for all your help today, mum."
"Oh, it was nothing. Do you need any help getting back?"
"Sure, mum. That'd be great."
Molly handed Hailey to Ginny and told Zoey to grab hold of her arm. Zoey leapt up and grabbed her grandmother's arm. Molly turned gracefully on the spot and Disapparated with Zoey. Harry took Scott and Brad home and Ginny left last, Disapparating with Hailey in her arms.
