Chapter 17

Lilian woke up and tossed her Snow White comforter off of her bed. Today was her 5th birthday, and she wanted to go see how many presents were in her birthday basket. (A 'brilliant' idea of Ginny's, according to Lilian) There was a note at the foot of the stairs that said, "You keep your clothes here."
Then after she'd figured out it was talking about her closet, she ran up to her pink and blue room to her little closet. On the inside of the door, there was another piece of paper. It said, "Where the crows land." She found the spot in the garden where the crows always landed. (In the cabbage patch) She then became fed up with the whole game and sat down in the dirt, seething. This basket thing was stupid! She sat there, her anger steadily growing until something hit her softly in the back of the head. She turned around ready to scream at the thing, only to find that the basket was behind her. How had that gotten there? Oh well! She began counting the presents and opening them happily. About 30 minutes later, she heard her Daddy calling for her.
"I'm in the garden, Daddy!"

"Lilian!" Ginny said very upset, "Where did you find that basket?"
"Right here in the garden, Mommy."
"Wha-" Harry began giving Ginny a very strange look.
"But... It was supposed to be in our room! Where's the clue from here?" Ginny interrupted.
"There wasn't any clue, Momma." Lilian said starting to cry.
"It was right here an hour ago!" Ginny said upset as well.
"I was getting weal angwy cuz I couldn't find the cwue and the basket tapped me in the back of my head. So I opened all my presents. Thank you, Mommy and Daddy." Lilian said fighting back tears. She recited the last sentence trying to get her parents happy.
"LILIAN! YOU OPENED ALL OF YOUR PRESENTS?" Ginny yelled, her face taking on a red hue.
"You didn't wait for your Mommy and Daddy? That's very greedy of you."
Lilian looked at the ground and began drawing her name.
"Lilian?" Harry said in a stiff voice.
"Sowwy, Daddy. I just had to know what was in the pwetty boxes! And it was awesome fun opening them." Lilian said looking up to his face with puppy dog eyes.
Ginny and Harry were trying their hardest to stay firm, but she was just too cute in her little pink nightgown, with her freckles and light brown curly hair. They were only baby curls and would probably be gone by the time she was 12, but they were just so cute on her.

Later that day, Hermione and Ron stopped by. When the doorbell rang, little Lilian took off down the hall as fast as she could.
"Uncle Wonnickins (Harry had convinced her that that was his name, much to Ron's dislike)! Aunt Herm-E-Oh-NEE(she couldn't say her name right)!"Lilian said as best as she could.
"Mommy! Daddy! My Fwiends are HEWRE!" she yelled towards the kitchen where her parents were fixing lunch.
The four old friends chuckled at this. To Lilian, everyone who knocked on the front door was her friend, including, the mailman, the paper boy, any of Harry's coworkers, and even the squirrel who slept on the doormat.

"Guess what, you naughty little girl," Hermione joked.
Lilian, completely ignoring the naughty part quickly jumped on this, "What! What is it? Is it exciting and fun?"
"We brought you a present! And so did Davie." Davie was their 4 year old son.
"Whewre is Davie? I want to show him my other pwesents."
"He's on his way in. Just give it a minute."

"Hi, Lilian..." 4 1/2 yr old Davie said shyly.

"Hi, Davie!" Lilian yelled excitedly.
"Guess what!"
"What did you get me?"
"Mommy won't tell me cuz she thinks I'll tell you!"
"But you'd nevewr do that! Would you?" Lilian said as sincerely as she could. She was hoping that Davie would be able to convince his Mommy to tell him so he could tell her. She'd known from the start that she could convince him to do anything for her. That was one of the main reasons she hung around him.

"If she were sorted right now, I'm willing to bet that she'd be put in Slytherin." Ginny said watching the two little trouble makers from the door. She could see Lilian working her charms.
"That's why they don't sort them until they're 11." Hermione said.
"Yeah, the whole lot of 'em'd end up in Slytherin," Ron said.
"What would we do? I personally think I'd die if my Lilian ended up in Slytherin."
"Davie would be switching schools in a heartbeat." Ron said with a disgusted look on his face.

"What'd you get me? I can not beawr to wait anothewr moment!" Lilian said putting a hand to her forehead in a very dramatic motion.
"Well... If it's alright with your mum, since you simply can not bear to wait another moment... you can open your present."
"I'll warn you it's a very bad present! It's a book of some kind if Hermione bought it," Ron joked.
"I'm not that bad of a bookworm... although it is about time these two moved up from nursery rhymes." Hermione answered defensively.
"You may open them, Lilian," Ginny said still laughing.
"Yay!" Davie said, "Can I help her?"
"Sorry hun. Not this time."
"Darn!" said Ron in a fakely sympathetic tone.
Lilian tore the paper off and found a fire truck from Davie. She opened her mouth to say something to Davie, but she got a glimpse of her mum's face and decided against it. The second one was a broomstick, which she'd only ever seen the one time she'd gone to see her father play Quidditch. She thought they were pretty cool though.

A few weeks later

"Harry and I have been talking and we think we should move." Ginny said to Ron and Hermione.
"Uh huh? Where to?" Hermione answered calmly.
"Somewhere that Lilian can grow up as a basically normal witch, but maybe attend Muggle school as well." Harry said.
"Is there such a place. Hermione and I must have been over this a million times in the last month. Davie's gotten very difficult to keep from doing things in public. I'm afraid he'll be found out." Ron said, revealing the talks Hermione had asked him to keep to himself until they were sure that that was what they wanted to do. But she didn't seem to be angry with him. Maybe she agreed that this was the time to bring it up.
"There's a small village outside London. It's all non- muggle, but it's very close to a muggle town. The address would be a difficult thing to work out, but I believe the Ministry would be willing to help us there. And we could have her around both muggles and non- muggles." Harry said showing them a sketch he'd made with a map and his wand and his laptop.

So they went on like this for a few hours until they'd decided they wanted to move. A couple of months later and they'd made a complete move and successfully enrolled Lilian and Davie into Kindergarten. They also got the duo in some social things in the village with some fellow witches and wizards.