A/N: I don't own Harry Potter or any related characters

This is for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Assignment #4 Survival Skills - Task #13:Baby Supplies: If you have a baby, make sure you keep supplies ready for them! Just as you need to keep food on hand for yourself, keep some baby food and bottles ready for the little one, as well as clothing, diapers, etc.

Write about someone looking after a baby.

Word Count: 797

Charlie stared at the chubby cheeked, bright eyed baby.

"You want me to do what?" he asked, looking back at his sister

"Watch her for half an hour, please?" Ginny asked.

"I know nothing about babies."

"It's not that hard, also, Luna left a list of everything in the diaper bag... or it's a list of magical creatures, I'm not quite sure with her handwriting. Either way, you'll do fine," Ginny stated, handing Charlie the pale pink diaper bag.

"I'll be back as soon as I can, I promise," she added, giving her daughter a kiss on the forehead before apparating leaving Charlie with his niece.

"Hey, Pandi, your mums will be back soon. I'm Uncle Charlie," he said, looking at the baby. Pandi looked up at him, opened her mouth, and started screeching. Charlie blinked and gingerly scooped the baby up. He tried rocking her gently, but she continued her screeching.

"No, no, none of that, um, let's see, Ginny said there might be notes in here?" he asked, rifling through the diaper bag. He pulled out several sheets of parchment and sighed.

"Notes about thestrals, a list of groceries and a love note Ginny apparently wrote Luna, none of that is helpful, is it, Pandi?" Charlie asked. Pandi blinked, watching him as she stopped screaming for a moment.

"That's better, now, let's see. What else do we have in here? Here's your bottle, with a note about not using a warming charm. That's helpful at least. He figured it must be like heating up a bottle for an abandoned baby dragon. A warming charm would spoil the milk.

"Are you hungry, Pandi?" he asked. Pandi reached out and started playing with Charlie's hair. He smiled.

"It's the same color as your mum's isn't it. That's because I'm her brother. Oh, look, there's some toys in here. We've got a stuffed thestral, a ring with plastic keys on it?"

Pandi grabbed the key ring and immediately stuck one of the large key tips into her mouth.

"Oh, it's for teething. Dragons teethe too, they lose their baby fangs and get adult ones in. They're both with a set of teeth though." Charlie noticed Pandi was watching him, her blue eyes seeming to be interested in what he was saying. He wasn't sure she understood the words, maybe she just liked his voice?

"You want to know more about dragons?" he asked. Pandi squealed.

"There are actually four basic types, they each take after one of the four elements," Charlie explained, summoning a book. He opened it and started pointing out the different dragons. After they had covered Earth dragons and sky dragons, Charlie noticed Pandi had a very unpleasant smell.

"Okay, nappies, they're in here somewhere, right?" he asked, looking through the diaper bag again. He finally found a nappie. He looked at Pandi.

"Alright, I've never done this before, at least not with a human baby. We get baby dragons sometimes that have been abandoned, we put them in nappies to help prevent tail rot. Let's see, take the soiled one off, put it aside, clean and powder... Oh, here's the powder, and new nappie on. There we go!" he announced happily as Pandi wiggled. Charlie smiled, redressing Pandi.

"Right, now where were we?" he asked, picking up the dragon book again. Pandi nestled against him, as he continued to read about the different types of dragons. Pandi fell asleep after about three pages. Charlie smiled, watching her. Since she was sleeping against him, he decided against moving. That's where Ginny and Luna found him about an hour later, sitting on the floor, Pandi nestled in his arms sound asleep.

"See, you did fine, Charlie," Ginny laughed. She gently lifted Pandi into her own arms.

"It was a piece of cake. Once I started reading to her, she loved me."

"She does love her creatures," Luna agreed, picking up Pandi's diaper bag. "Thank you, Charlie."

"It was nothing, and if you need me watch her again, I wouldn't mind," he stated, walking the two witches to the door. Pandi blinked her blue eyes open.

"Hey, Pandi, see, Mummy's back," Ginny stated. Pandi yawned.

"Dwa in," she murmured before curling back up and falling back asleep. Ginny looked at Charlie, shook her head, while Luna laughed.

"Her first word," Ginny muttered, "just had to be dragon. Really, Charlie?"

"Guess I'm her favorite uncle now, right?" Charlie asked, laughing.

"See you Sunday, Charlie, and hopefully she'll have said 'mummy' by then," Ginny said, as she and Luna left leaving a smiling Charlie behind. He was already planning on getting Pandi a stuffed dragon, dragon books, and maybe seeing if he could arrange a tour of his reserve when she was older. He rather liked having a niece.