Always There Chapter 11: Practice, a harry potter fanfic

Author's Note: Sorry for the delay, but I was camping again last weekend, I had no idea what should happen this chapter, and I only got 1 review. :( (Thanks Aurora-16 :) )

Chapter 11: Practice

Monday, 16 April, 2018 (week 16)

"Jenna! Ella!" Victoire exclaimed, rushing to the breakfast table on morning a week after returning to Hogwarts. "Guess what I found out?"

"What?" Jenna asked with just as much enthusiasm as Victoire, causing Ella to laugh.

"I was looking through the pregnancy book my Aunt Hermione gave me this morning, and I discovered that in the sixteenth week of pregnancy – which is where I'm at now – the baby can hear us talking! Isn't that exciting?"

The girls were just as excited as Victoire about this, and they talked to the baby during all of breakfast, which earned them strange looks from those sitting around them. Finally, Ella asked curiously, "When can you feel the baby kick?"

"It depends." Victoire replied. "It could be any day now, or because this is my first pregnancy, it could be not until I'm twenty-two weeks, or somewhere in between. As for when you lot can feel him, that's not going to be until I'm twenty to thirty weeks."

Breakfast passed by quickly, but classed went by more slowly. Finally, classes for the day ending, and Victoire was making her way to the library with Jenna and Ella when she suddenly saw Dominique farther ahead walking with a group of her friends. "Dom!" Victoire called after her, but there was no reply. " Hey, Dom! Dominique Weasley!"

Huh, that was weird. Why didn't Dominique respond? "Is she still mad at me?" Victoire wondered out loud.

"Maybe she didn't hear you?" Jenna suggested, but Victoire didn't think so. Dominique had the sharpest hearing out of anyone she knew, except maybe Grandma Molly, who seemed to catch everything. So the only other option was that Dom was still mad at her, and Victoire had no idea how to fix it.

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Tuesday, 17 April, 2018 (week 16)

Teddy had been in the Auror Training program under his godfather for a little more than a year and a half, and in Harry's opinion, he was doing quite well. After winning the fourth duel with Harry in a row – although Teddy was sure his godfather could have easily won all four if he wanted too - Harry suggested they take a break.

"So, how has your birthday been going so far?" Harry asked. That was another thing. It was the seventeenth of April, Teddy's twentieth birthday, so maybe Harry was going easy on him today, no matter how much he protested that he didn't.

"Pretty good." Teddy replied. "I really miss Vic, though, and my birthday chocolate. Did you know that I have to wait until the third week of May to receive my birthday bear and chocolate because the next Hogsmeade second weekend of May? And Victoire was the one to plan the weekends, too!"

Harry chuckled. "No, I didn't, but didn't you get enough chocolate for your birthday, yet?"

Teddy's eyes grew wide. "Of course not! You can never have too much chocolate!"

Harry smiled. His godson had a very strong addiction to chocolate, and he was sure that although most of the Weasley family had given him some for his birthday, he was probably out. "Your father would have said the same." Suddenly, Harry was reminded of something. "Oh, Teddy, would you mind watching Lily Friday night? Ginny wanted to go to The Scarlet Thestrals concert that night."

"Sure," Teddy said. He loved Harry's nine-year-old daughter like a sister, and besides, this would be good practice for when the baby was born, although comparing an infant and a nine-year-old was like comparing hippogriffs and unicorns.

"Great!" Harry said with a smile. "Now, we should probably get back to work, don't you think?"

"Right," Teddy agreed, although really, he'd be fine with sitting right where he was.

Friday, 20 April, 2018 (week 16)

Teddy knocked on the door of Potter Palace, which was obviously the home of the Potters, and heard the sound of feet running to the door. Harry had the house built in the fall of 1998, because he couldn't bear to live in either Grimmauld Place or Godric's Hollow. After she had graduated Hogwarts, Ginny had moved in with him, and had named the house, "Potter Palace" because of its large size.

Soon, the door was open by Lily, who gave Teddy a big hug. "Teddy!" she cried.

Teddy smiled. "Hey, Lil. Are you going to let me in?"

Lily laughed. "Maybe, maybe not."

Just then Harry appeared in the doorway. "Alright, Tiger Lily, let Teddy in."

"Okay," Lily sighed, and let Teddy go so he could enter the house.

A few minutes later, Harry and Ginny left for the concert, and Teddy and Lily were left alone. "So are you excited for the baby to come, Teddy?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, I am, but I'm a little nervous." Teddy admitted. Wait, why was he even telling this to a nine-year-old?

"Why?" Lily asked. "It's not hard. I'll show you."

Lily ran upstairs and brought back the baby doll that Aunt Hermione had gotten her for her sixth birthday. The two of them played with the doll for an hour, with Lily showing Teddy everything from how to hold it to feeding it a bottle, which Teddy already knew of course, but he didn't have the heart to tell Lily. Soon, Lily got bored and wanted to play hide and seek, which they played until it was Lily's bedtime. Teddy then read Lily a story from The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Afterwards, Teddy relaxed. Of course, there was a big difference between Lily and a baby, but if Teddy could handle rambunctious Lily, he could certainly handle a baby.

Author's note: Sorry it's so short, but like a said, writer's block. Longer chapter next time. I'll update Friday if I get at least 3 reviews. Otherwise, see you next week (probably Monday). So, you choose. Friday or Monday?