Title: Hermione's Helping Hand

Hermione's Surprise

When Hermione returned to the hospital wing, Madam Pomfrey at once saw her. She waved her wand over and at once told her that she was pregnant. Hermione felt a wave of joy passing over her. Soon Godric, Cornelia, and Raven would have siblings to play with and harass. Madam Pomfrey ordered her to put her skirt down and then gave her the usual set if directions.

" Just follow them and everything will be all right."

" Thanks!" Hermione said.

And she left.

Severus was busy having dinner with the rest of the staff when Hermione walked up and handed him a note. He at once opened it and read what she had written. Suddenly he had her in his arms, twirling her around. The students all stared, but he didn't care, he was finally happy.

" So having more brutes?" Pansy asked, the next morning.

Hermione looked at her.

" I heard from the students," Pansy clarified. " And I don't think its right."

Hermione glared at her. Pansy loved to take wonderful moments and turn them into something else.

" Well I don't care what you say," Hermione said. " I'm going to continue to have children until I can't have them anymore."

Pansy grinned.

" Well I'm sure that your husband will really love them," she said.

And before Hermione could figure out what she was saying, she was gone.

Hermione didn't tell Severus what Pansy had said to her. She knew that Pansy would do anything to make her life miserable because she had what the witch wanted, magical children. When May started, Hermione spent so much time working on her homework and studying for her N.E.W.T's that soon she forgot what the Professor had told her. One day, after she had finished with her notes for Ancient Runes, Ginny cornered her. She looked happy and excited.

" I just found out from Madam Pomfrey that I'm pregnant," Ginny said.

" That's great!" Hermione said.

Ginny beamed. Hermione knew that Ginny would be a good mother.

When Hermione cornered Severus, she told him what Ginny had told her. Unlike Hermione, he wasn't exactly happy about the idea that a Potter was coming into the world. Hermione knew that he and Harry had overcome a lot of things that had been there since the moment that Harry had walked into Hogwarts, starting with the living conditions that Harry had been forced into. But there was always be the desire for the Potter line to die, a line that had caused him nothing but pain.

" Look, I'm sure that his son or daughter won't cause you any problems."

Severus huffed at that.

" I doubt that!"

Hermione gave him a stern look, and in the end he agreed that he would be supportive.

" Good!" Hermione said. " Because he's going to be our children's godfather."

Severus fainted.

" I swear that man has fainted through most of my marriage," Hermione said to Ginny, leaving the hospital wing. " I'm surprised that he didn't faint when the children were born."

"Me too!" Ginny said. " So why did he faint like that in the first place?"

Hermione grinned.

" Because I told him that I was making Harry, his children's godfather."

Ginny shook her head.

" That figures!"