Disclaimer: Do not own Harry Potter belongs to J.K.R. . Wish I did but hey don't we all.
Harry Potter and the Year of the Baby
Chapter 7
"Come on little man open up." I feel absolutely ridiculous sitting here trying to get Adrian to eat his dinner, while he's just staring at me like I'm a complete loon with those big blue eyes. "Just eat the food, please." I don't even have to turn around to know that the laughter coming from someone is Ron.
"Harry mate you look so funny talking to the little brat." As Ron says this, Adrian just sticks out his tongue. "Isn't that cute he can do something besides spit and poop."
"Why do you dislike Adrian so much?"
"I don't really dislike him Harry it's just that he has a tendency to keep me wake at unholy hours of the night, and he does smell a lot." Does Adrian really keep us wake that much? Ok so maybe he does.
"What can you expect though, its not like he can take care of himself."
"Things would be so much easier if he could though. I mean no more changing diapers, feeding him, staying up all night…."
"Yeah that would be nice but it's not gonna happen." I love the little guy to death but he can be a handful at times.
"You want to know something I have decided about kids?" Oh great what will it be now that their snotty, dirty, smelly, the list is really endless.
"Sure." I say with an exasperated tone.
"The reason that kids are so cute is so that we don't want to kill them when they annoy the crud out of us." That's pretty true if you think about it.
"Too true Ron too true." We just sit there for awhile grinning like idiots before I go back to trying to feed Adrian. There goes Ron laughing at me again.
"You think you can do better here." I say as I hand him the bowl and the spoon to try his luck with Adrian.
"Ok then I will." He says to me then he turns to Adrian and starts to say things like, 'The Brat wants to eat doesn't he', 'Open wide for Ron', and 'Eat the food you dang little Brat!' Unluckily for him Hermione walked in when he said that last one.
"Ronald! How dare you treat a young child that way you could traumatize him for life!" She walks up to him and smacks him on the head and then pushes him aside to feed Adrian.
"Ok little guy open wide for the Food Airlines." The she starts making sounds like a plane, and finally Adrian will eat the food!
"Hey Harry, what's a plane?" Sometimes wizards not knowing about stuff like this just frustrates me to no end I don't know why it just does.
"It's a muggle use of transportation, and it flies like a broom but it's big and made of a hard substance called metal." Thank you Hermione I am so bad at explaining stuff like that.
"Oh I guess that makes sense." I can tell he doesn't really mean that. I'm glad Hermione is so busy with Adrian otherwise we'd both know a lot more about the plane then either of us would ever care to know.
"All done." Hermione says as she beams at Adrian, "Someone was such a good little boy, weren't they?" He just giggles then yells 'Daddy'. I'll be so much happier when he starts to learn other words, because all he ever says is daddy and he says it at all hours of the night.
"Ok then here you go, here's daddy." Before I know it I have Adrian in my lap trying to steel my glasses.
"No little guy these are Daddy's he can't see without them." I have no idea why but he has the biggest fascination with my glasses, it's kind of odd if you ask me.
"He just wants to be a big boy like his daddy doesn't he? That's why he wants to wear them to be a big strong boy." I never thought I'd see the day when Hermione would be talking in a baby voice.
"I swear this kid has made you both turn nutters!"
"You mean we weren't nutters before! How could you? You just ruined my life by telling me that the one purpose in life has all been a lie." I say over dramatically and I hug Adrian closer to me and pretend to cry on him.
"Ron how could you!" Hermione yells then puts her arm around me for fake comfort. I have to try so hard not to laugh at the look on Ron's face.
"This just proves my point you've both lost it." He just gets up and walks away from us as if were really that crazy. When he walks through the door Hermione and I burst out in hysterical laughter and Ron can't help but join in too.
"But life would be way more boring if we were sane." Wow, I guess I'm in a really good mood lately. I think Adrian has done me some good.
"I take that back Harry you were never sane but why did you have to go and corrupt Hermione?" I love this silly banter we have both been doing lately.
"Boys." Hermione says in a huffy tone.
"You know you love us." But probably only ever as friends, sadly enough.
"Yeah just think without us you'd still be a rule abiding bookworm." That's probably true.
"Yes I would be Ron, and that's why I won't let you corrupt young Adrian's mind." I guess Hermione is taking lessons from Mrs. Weasley. She's become all motherly and overprotective of the little guy.
"You can't protect him from me forever, because at night he'll be in the dorm with us and I'll have free reign to corrupt him how I see fit." The Weasley boys must have a thing for digging themselves deeper and deeper into trouble.
"Excuse me! Can you repeat that?" There she goes looking all cute again. I'd stop the argument but she's just too cute like this.
"You heard me you can't be around all the time."
"I will find a way to make it so that you can't corrupt that innocent little boys mind." Ok she's still cute but now she's also so angry that it's scary.
What a sight Adrian and I must make looking back and forth between the two as they argue. At first it was kind of entertaining but now it's just boring and annoying. I can't decide whose more bored Adrian or I.
"Hey guys Adrian and I are going to bed because we're tired." I wasn't expecting a response so I was quite shocked when I got one.
"Night Harry, night Brat." Adrian just sticks his tongue out at Ron.
"Goodnight Harry, night Adrian don't let the bed bugs bite." She grabs his feet and pretends like she's going to bite him, and at that Adrian just gives a tired giggle. "Oh and Harry remember to have all your things packed because we're going back to school tomorrow."
"Don't worry I will, she you guys in the morning."
"Night." They both mumble then they get back to whatever in the world they were arguing about.
So I take Adrian up to get ready for bed. Its funny really that at first I had so much trouble doing all the things that are needed to take care of a child but now I could practically do it in my sleep. I just hope Adrian will sleep the whole night through because I just know tomorrow will be an exhausting day for the both of us.
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"Hurry up boys come get in the car or we'll be late." Easy for you to say Mrs. Weasley you don't have a baby to carry down the stairs plus all of the baby stuff, let alone my trunk. Believe me it's not an easy task.
"We're coming its just that it's hard carrying all this baby stuff too." I try to not sound too angry and disgusted but it's kind of hard.
"Oh dear I forgot." We hear her talking to someone then yelling up, "Don't worry boys the twins are coming up to help." And that is confirmed by the loud laughing voices coming up the stairs.
"Hey Harry, Ron Prankster Jr…" Wow that's a really dumb nickname.
"What can we big men help you…"
"Weak little boys with?"
"For one we're not weak these things are just heavy. Can you please just help us carry some of the baby stuff." Let them carry the heavy stuff after that weak comment they just made.
"Sure we can." Hey sound like there up to something and I have a feeling that I'm not going to like what it is.
So after what seems like a lifetime we finally get all the stuff out and into the borrowed Ministry car. I guess its there way of apologizing about the whole not believing me when Voldemort returned thing.
"Is everything in the car dears." Why else would we have shut the trunk and gotten in the car. I guess I'm not in a very good mood right now. I think that it might be because I'm nervous about how everyone will take to Adrian and how he will take to them.
"Yes Mrs. Weasley." Hermione look at me and gives me a charming smile, "Harry, can I hold Adrian till we at least get to the station?" How could I say no to that face?
"Sure here, you go." Ginny just gives Adrian a dirty look. I have no idea what her problem with Adrian is, but whatever it is it's starting to tick me off.
"How can you stand holding him?" Se there she goes again.
"Don't be jealous Ginny just…"
"Because he likes Hermione…"
"Better than you, or is it because he's the…"
"Reason you can't spend as much time with Harry?" That sounds so stupid.
"I think you might be on to something Gred."
"I know I am Forge, its so obvious to everyone except our dear Harry because..."
"When it comes to things such as this he can be dense at times." Ok how come everything always turns around to making fun of me in some way or another.
"Boys you'll both leave your sister and Harry alone for the rest of this ride, you hear me?" How can she be so kind and sweet one minute then all don't mess with me the next? Is it a mother thing or something.
"Yes mum." I wonder how they talk at the same time, its like they practice talking in unison or something.
The rest of the ride is peaceful, ok as peaceful as a ride with both the twins in the car, but all things considered it was nice. We mostly just talked about how the teachers are going to react to having a kid around. We all agreed that Hagrid would be overjoyed and that Snape would be absolutely infuriated.
"Ok you all be safe this year. And Harry dear if you have any questions about how to take care of Adrian please don't hesitate to owl me."
"Thank you so much Mrs. Weasley for everything." I say this and give her a hug.
"No need to thank me Harry your like one of my own." Oh great she's getting emotional and I don't handle emotional women good, so I just give her another hug tell her bye and leave her with the twins.
We didn't have any trouble finding a compartment this year because believe it or not we're actually here with time to spare. It did take a while to get all the baby stuff put up and secured so it wouldn't fall on us. After all that was done Hermione and Ron both had to leave for the prefects meeting.
"I guess its just you and me little guy."
"Daddy." I need to teach him some new words. Hey why not right now its not like I don't have the time.
"Adrian can you say owl." I say pointing at Hedwig.
"Daddy!"
"No not daddy, say it owl." Come on just please say something else.
"Ow!"
"No, not ow its owl." Please just say it.
"Owl." Thank goodness now at least he knows another word.
"Good boy, I'm so proud of my little boy." I had no idea I could ever be proud of someone just because they could say the word owl. It's amazing how a kid can change you.
"Daddy! Owl! Daddy!" Oh great maybe teaching him a different word would have been better.
"Um Harry?" I turn to the door to see Neville standing there with his stuff looking nervous.
"Yeah."
"Can I sit with you and um…"
"His name is Adrian and of course you can, you're always welcome." We really need to try and build this kids confidence.
"Thanks." I help him put his stuff up and we just sit and talk about our summers while also playing stupid games with Adrian, like peek a boo. Surprisingly Neville is really good with kids and not at all nervous or klutzy like he normally is.
"Hey Harry, do you think that Adrian could possibly be magical?" Woah, that kind of freaked me out cause I zoned out there.
"Maybe, why?" That's an odd question to ask.
"Because I'm not doing that and I'm pretty sure you're not doing it either."
"What are you talking about?" I turn to look at them to see Adrian clapping and giggling but I also see his stuffed wolf floating in the air, "How in the world?"
"See I told you. I bet he is magical." At least this will hopefully make it easier for him to be in an all magical school like he will.
"I never even thought that he could be magical." I really didn't its kind of shocking.
"How come?" That's actually a really good question.
"I guess it's because I found him in what I thought was an all muggle neighborhood, and I just didn't really care." Even if he was a muggle he'd still be my little guy.
The rest of the ride to Hogwarts was fairly uneventful, Malfoy didn't even come in and give us crap. The one thing that I can already tell will annoy the crap out of me this year is how all the girls just keep coming in and are getting loud and talking in baby voices and it's about enough to drive anyone insane. Adrian just seems to be eating up all the attention and is loving it.
"He has more luck with girls then I do and he's not even two." I hate to think this but that's true.
"You'd have more luck if you weren't so nervous, so all we need to do is to make you less nervous." That may be harder to do then I thought it would be.
"But how?" Neville says like its not at all possible. Now I just have to find a way to help him, I can't let one of my friends be this miserable.
"I don't know but we'll think of something, and if we can't I'm sure Hermione can help." Dang it! Why won't she get out of my head. Ok I know why she won't get out of my head but that doesn't make it any better.
"Oh I might have an idea." I don't really know if my idea will work or if its even a good one I just want to give him hope.
"What is it?" I hate hearing him so hopeless.
"Well how about we get someone to pretend to be a girl or even a real girl and you can practice what you want to say to a girl you might like." Wow, dumb idea.
"I don't know I mean I'd know it was just a practice so I wouldn't have any problems with it because it would be a fake situation."
"What could it hurt?"
"Nothing I guess. I just know that I'll mess up when I talk to a girl in person anyways though." We could make it easier for him at least I hope.
"Well then we'll do it, I'd just like to wait a while to do it and maybe get some other opinions before we do it, if that's ok with you?"
"Sure, thanks for trying to help me." I just give him a smile and he gives me one in return. We're almost to Hogwarts anyway so we decide that we need to get changed, plus I want to put Adrian into one of the little robes that the girls got him. What I'd really like to do is put him in one of the quidditch robes, but I think Hermione would be ticked off, but she can't stop me from corrupting him with quidditch for long. I personally love being a victim of corruption from quidditch.
"Hey Neville do you think he should wear a red or black robe?" Never thought I'd have to deal with asking people cloths advice. I don't want the little guy to have to suffer from my sense of style. When it's me dressing myself badly its ok but I just can't dress another badly.
"Let's put him in the red one to show our Gryffindor pride."
"Excellent idea!" Thinking about cloths just gave me an odd thought and that thought is where is he going to sit during meals because he sure can't sit on the bench. I really hope Dumbledore has thought out a lot of important things that I haven't thought of till now like where is he going to sleep, and what I'll do with him during classes?
A/N: Wow that was a long chapter for me. Any ways please review I'd really appreciate it. And thank you: sonya13, LegalAlien1, trinity17c, Soccerbaby21, hypa4evr, and WhiteTiger1992, for reviewing you have no idea how much your reviews mean, so thank you.