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Harry Potter and the Year of the Baby
Chapter 3
Uncle Vernon and Dudley have been their same cruel selves. Aunt Petunia, however, has been very nice and not at all like her old self. It's very strange but it's also nice. Just the other day when she went out to the store again she bought more diapers and she even bought baby food for little Adrian. I couldn't believe it she was actually being kind. Also ever since Adrian has arrived I've had less chores than I used to, and think it has something to do with Adrian. I keep catching Aunt Petunia looking at Dudley with a weird look then the next minute she's looking at Adrian with a look of envy, its very weird.
Adrian has discovered that he can just get up and crawl away any time he pleases. Its very frustrating because now that he's mobile I have to spend even more time watching him and making sure that he doesn't hurt himself or get to close to Dudley. Dudley is always talking about how he's gonna hurt Adrian, so I don't trust him around him at all. Hedwig seems to really like Adrian. She'll fly right up to him and let him poke, pull, and pet her as much as he wants to, but if he gets to rough she'll just tap him on the hand very lightly.
"Hey little guy, you hungry?" I have no idea why I ask him questions, he can't even speak and yet I still do it. Oh well.
"Goo!"
"Oh really? I had no idea." He likes it when I pretend to know what he says so I just play along and try to sound as if he's the smartest little guy. The only reason I'm so good at it is that sometimes I don't have the energy to listen to Hermione go on and on about something but I still have to sound like I'm paying attention to her.
So I take Adrian down to the kitchen to get something to eat. Thank goodness no ones home right now, their all out visiting Aunt Marge till the morning. I look at what I have to choose for Adrian and I see that he can either have; gross looking peas, applesauce, mushed up bananas, or carrots. I pick the applesauce because it's the only thing that truly looks edible.
"Ok little guy open up." Why wont he open up?
"Come on its not that bad please eat it."
"Thank you." He lets me feed him at last. Babies are so hard to feed, they keep spitting the food back at you and in the end you just have to give them a really long bath to get all the food off of them. No matter how much trouble Adrian can be I could never give him up he's just way too cute. And when he gets about ready to cry his bright blue eyes get really wide and he just looks so sad that I'd do just about anything to make him feel better. I love him like he is my won child. Its been two weeks since I've found him and I cant imagine life without him.
I go back up to my room to see that Hedwig has a letter for me. I wonder who its from. I hope its Professor Dumbledore because I still haven't heard from him and whether I can take Adrian to school with me. Why would Dumbledore use Hedwig though? I look at the writing on the letter and recognize it as Ron's.
Harry,
How are you mate? Dumbledore has finally said that you
can come to headquarters! Your so lucky we just got
finished cleaning the place up, so this summer you wont
have to do any cleaning at all while you're here. Actually
I blame you for having to clean so much because Mum
said that we can't have a baby in such a dirty house with
creatures around so thanks. Oh yeah like I was saying you
get to leave those Muggles! We'll be picking you up tomorrow
around noon.
See you soon,
Ron
P.S. Hermione is standing behind me telling me I better tell
you she says hi.
"Adrian we get to leave here!"
"You'll get to see real magic, you know the stuff I told you about!" I'm so excited! I can't believe we can leave here. It's gonna be awesome. Plus now I'll have Mrs. Weasley and Hermione to help me take care of Adrian.
After sitting down with Adrian for a couple of hours and telling him all about Hogwarts, magic, and all the people he might meet in the Order. He laughed when I told him to watch out for Snape because he's a big greasy bat. I just keep liking the little guy more and more. I finally get Adrian to sleep after boring him to death by reading to him out of my Potions book. I think I know more about Potions then even Hermione now because sometimes the only thing that will put him to sleep is for me to read the Potions book to him out loud. Lets just hope that if he's magical, which I have a funny feeling he is, that when he takes Potions he wont fall asleep during the class. Even though I must admit it would be funny to see Snape's face if that happened.
I lay down to go asleep picturing Snape's face as he's lecturing the class on some kind of potion then he turns around to see a curly blonde haired boy asleep on top of his potions book. That's a great thing to go to sleep to.
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I think Adrian must have realized that today would be a very tiring day because he's still asleep and its 8:13. It's just weird because normally he can't stay asleep past 7. Not that I'm complaining. I mean I love the little guy but its still nice to have some peace and quiet sometimes. I hope thinking that doesn't make me a bad guardian. That's another thing I've been wondering about, should I let Adrian call me dad or Harry? Part of me really wants to let him call me dad, but would that be a bad thing.
I just sit in the silence contemplating the whole dad thing till Adrian wakes up so that I can go downstairs and feed him, then tell the Dursley's that we'll be leaving today and that they won't be seeing us again till next summer.
"Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon my friends are coming here to pick me up toady at noon, just to let you know." I say this right when their all sitting down and just begriming to eat.
"And why didn't you tell us sooner boy?" Uncle Vernon says in a deadly calm voice.
"Because I just figured out about it last night."
"I hope none of the neighbors saw that bird of yours."
"No Aunt Petunia. Hedwig is good about not being seen when she needs to be."
"Well she better have been." Wow, she sounds angrier then I've heard her sound in a long time.
"I hope you've packed boy I don't want to have those freaks here any longer then they must, do you hear me." He tries to give me a threatening look but really it just looks like his eyes are gonna pop right out of his head.
"I've already packed."
"Good, well make sure you haven't left any of your freakish things. I don't want them to hurt my Dudders." Just shoot me if I ever say something like that about little Adrian or if I come up with that bad of a name for any of my children, ever.
"I'll make sure, don't worry. Oh and Aunt Petunia thanks for everything." The look on her face is one of pure shock, but she just nods her head to show that she herd me.
I sit up in my room, if you could even call it that, with Adrian waiting for those two very long hours for the Order to come pick me up. To waste time I got out my COMC (Care of Magical Creatures) book out and read some of it to Adrian. That has to be his favorite book of all of my school ones. Hagrid will be proud that he's a magical creature lover in the making. He just better not get Adrian any really dangerous creatures! I don't want my little guy to get hurt and I'll have to tell Hagrid that no really dangerous creatures can be given to him. I really do hope that Adrian is magical. I'll have to ask Professor McGonagal if he's on the list to start Hogwarts in ten years.
The other day I owled the Ministry to ask for adoption papers for little Adrian and they actually gave them to me. I know the only reason that they let me adopt Adrian was because they felt bad that they didn't believe me about Voldemorts return and this is their way of saying I'm sorry. For once I'm actually glad that I'm famous it helped me get Adrian as my own child and now on one can take him away from me, no matter how hard they try.
My thoughts are interrupted by my uncle yelling, "Boy get down here, those freakish friends of yours will be here in ten minutes and I want you and all your stuff down here now."
I just roll my eyes and yell back, "Yes, Uncle I'll be down right away." I look over at Adrian, roll my eyes, which makes him giggle.
I get all my stuff down the stairs after about three trips no thanks to my Uncle. If he wants me gone so bad he could at least help me get all my stuff down the stairs, but if I asked for help he would have just called me ungrateful.
Right when I get settled down on the stairs the doorbell rings. Can't I have a moment of peace? So I get up and open the door, and Professor Moody, Professor Lupin I mean Remus, and Tonks are there.
"Wotcher Harry." Why does Tonks always say that any ways
"Hello Harry." Remus looks like he wants to come up and hug me or something but he also looks like he's not so sure, so I walk up to him and give him a one armed hug.
"Potter, I see that this must be the little Potter."
"Yes Professor."
"I never was your teacher call me Moody. None of you kids can seem to get that."
"Harry did you know that the Daily Prophet somehow got a hold of the information that you adopted Adrian, and are now calling you a kind hearted young lad. And all the girls are writing in saying how sweet it is."
"Oh no." Why does Tonks have to tell me this right now.
"Oh yes you are the wizarding worlds young heartthrob."
"Ughh." Why oh why does this stuff always have to happen to me. How can the wizarding world love me one day, think I'm crazy and off my rocker the next, then I'm evil and turning into the next dark lord, and then they think I'm just Mr. Wonderful. Their all crazy! They just need to make up their minds already and pick one thing and stick with it.
"It's not that bad Harry. Just think at least you'll have your pick of the girls."
"That's not helping Tonks." As I say this I start to bang my head on the door frame..
"Don't listen to Tonks Harry she's just trying to get you worked up and its working."
"Potter we need to be going."
"Ok, Pro... Moody. How are we getting there?"
"By car."
"You know how to drive." He just gives me a look that says, 'What do you expect.' "I'll just take that as a yes," I mumble only loud enough for Remus to hear. We both have to try to contain our laughter which is really hard.
We all get buckled up and are in the car about ready to go. I really don't think this is just some kind of muggle car. It seems like its been messed up with magic. I wonder why there's a car seat in here for Adrian.
"Hey Remus?"
"Yeah."
"Why is there a car seat in here."
"Oh yes that. Do you remember how Mrs. Weasley asked to borrow your key for those couple of days to buy stuff for Adrian?"
"Yes." I wonder where this is going.
"Well let's just say that she bought everything she thinks that Adrian will need even cloths. However, she did tell me to tell you not to worry and that you still have a fair amount of money, because Sirius left you money in his will." Remus got really choked up at this point. At the beginning of the summer I would have gotten choked up too, but having Adrian around helped me come to terms with Sirius's death.
"You really miss him don't you Remus?"
"Yes I do. He was all that I had left."
"Don't worry you have me and Adrian now. We'll be here for you." As I say this I lean over and hug him. He's got a really tight grip on me.
"Thank you Harry."
"No problem." I can't believe he thought no one cared, he won't ever have to think that again if I have my way.
I tell them all about Adrian for a while. They all think that Adrian falls asleep by listening to me read my Potions book is really funny. After a while I get kinda tired and start to drift off to sleep.
TBC
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